• Nicolle Wallace,  Sarah Palin

    Sarah Palin is a Naked Airhead Shopaholic – According to Nicolle Wallace

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    The McCain staffer whose fingerprints and DNA have been found on the knife in Sarah Palin’s back is former CBS political analyst Nicolle Wallace.

    It has now been made public that Nicolle Wallace is one of the sources behind the Palin smears.  Wallace, a former Bush aid has been receiving protection and direction throughout this smear campaign from Rick Davis, John McCain 2008 Campaign Manager.  On November 4th, Nicolle Wallace contacted Fox News and Newsweek and falsely accused Governor Palin of purchasing additional wardrobe accessories, even after the $150,000 shopping spree revelation was made public.  Ms. Wallace has also been quoted on the record as saying, â€this campaign may do me in,”.  No wonder. 

    It has also been confirmed that the Palin smear campaign began before November 4th.  At least two weeks prior to election day, Wallace and close friend Rick Davis, decided that John McCain would not become elected President of the United States.  Fearful that the poorly managed campaign would prohibit them from obtaining any future high paying lobbyist or political positions (Davis resigned from his firm earlier this year at the request of Senator McCain), Wallace and Davis created an elaborate scheme to direct blame for the failed campaign towards Governor Palin, hoping to take attention away from their strategic errors.  Davis and Wallace were behind the decisions to hide Palin from the press, Palin’s make-over, the â€you can see Russia from Alaska” foreign policy argument and the over coaching Palin received prior to interviews.  The clothing purchases and coaching Palin received from Wallace and other campaign staff had all been approved by Mr. Davis. 

    Wallace and Davis are currently unemployed, although it has been reported that Davis has been receiving payments from Fannie and Freddie, acting as his single source of income.  Earlier this year John McCain demanded that Davis resign from his position as one of DC’s top lobbyists.  Many political observers believe that Davis permanently damaged his political career through his inability to successfully run a national campaign, which then forced Senator McCain to re-assign most of Mr. Davis’s duties as Campaign Manager to Steve Schmidt.  Davis was left with one single responsibility, support and direct the Vice Presidential nominee.

    Read the entire piece.

    Flap would like Carl Cameron to interview Ms. Wallace about the substance of these charges and allow Governor Palin an opportunity to refute them.

    Hell, either of them or their surrogates are welcome to come here and respond.

    Chances of THAT happening?

    Nihil…….

    Stay tuned…….


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  • Gavin Newsom,  Gay Marriage

    San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom – The Biggest Loser in California’s Gay Marriage Fight?

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    San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom became the “poster boy” for the Yes on 8 Campaign to restore traditional marriage in California

    Flap asked the question prior to Tuesday’s California election: Will San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom Deserve The Blame When California Proposition 8 Passes?

    The answer is apparently yes – both in San Francisco and statewide (Newsom will run for California Governor in 2010).

    Election night was not kind to Gavin Newsom, who may end up one of the biggest losers after suffering a potentially crushing loss with Proposition 8 and at best breaking even in the local contests he had a stake in.

    Political analysts have long argued that Newsom has short coattails in local politics – a theory in play with the Board of Supervisors races, in which at least three of the seven seats up for grabs seem likely to go to candidates he did not endorse.

    With the local ballot measures, voters for the most part sided with Newsom’s choices, but two propositions that were of particular interest to the mayor – one supporting his special court to prosecute quality-of-life crimes and the other changing the makeup of the San Francisco Transportation Authority – failed spectacularly.

    And, pandering to the homosexual lobby has not helped Newsom with other key California Democrat constituencies, African-American and Latino voters.

    “The Latino and black voters really turned out in this election. They helped get Proposition 8 voted in, and that portends badly for Gavin Newsom if he’s intending to run for governor,” Boushey said. “He’s going to have to appeal to those voters. They’re socially moderate, and they don’t recognize Gavin Newsom as being socially moderate.”

    Paradoxically, the mayor is seen as too liberal for much of the state and too conservative compared to the city’s legislators.

    Look to California Attorney General, Jerry Brown, to demagogue the legal challenge to Proposition 8 and pick-up key homosexual lobby support for HIS run for California Governor. Gavin Newsom rolled the dice in 2004 by setting up the California gay marriage flap and will go down to defeat with its proponents.

    Here is the video featuring Gavin Newsom – “whether you like it or not:”


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  • Arnold Schwarzenegger,  California,  California Republican Party

    Tax Generator Arnold Schwarzenegger Calls for Special Session of California Legislature To Bailout State Budget

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    California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger today called for a special legislative session to address California budget shortfalls

    The California GOP will NEVER support/vote for this proposal.

    Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger called today for a temporary 1.5-cent increase in the state sales tax to help close an $11.2 billion deficit in the state budget, as well as new taxes on liquor and oil production.

    Schwarzenegger also proposed one-day-a-month unpaid furloughs for state workers for the next 17 months, as well as rescinding two of the workers’ 13 paid holidays

    In calling the Legislature into special session to deal with the deficit, Schwarzenegger said it was vital for legislators to act swiftly.

    Flap has been harping on Schwarzenegger for years to cut the bloated California budget and time after time shortfalls come home to roost.

    Other elements of the Governor’s plan:

    • Cutting spending on programs in the current budget by $4.5 billion, $2.5 billion of it from elementary and high schools.
    • Revamping the state’s cash-strapped unemployment insurance system by gradually increasing the rates charged to employers and lowering benefits while tightening eligibility requirements.
    • Relaxing some state labor regulations dealing with meal and rest periods, overtime exemptions and work schedules.
    • Speeding up public works projects, especially hospital construction, to inject life into the state economy. That would require modifying some environmental regulations.

    The California GOP must resist all tax increases and force the Democrats to cut the budget and take responsibility for their profligate spending habits.

    Think it will happen?

    Nahhhh some spineless GOP legislator will sell out the Republican Caucus and Flap will be paying more and more in taxes.

    Won’t help the very poor California economy much.


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  • Fairness Doctrine

    The Fairness Doctrine – Technology Has Passed it By

    Democrats Senator Ben Cardin and Congressman Chris Van Hollen of Maryland talk to CNS News about the Fairness Doctrine

    Flap, frankly, is not worried if some of the left-minded Democrats in Congress, emboldened by a non-veto likely Obama Presidency attempt to restore the Fairness Doctrine that was repealed over twenty years ago during the Reagan Administration.

    Why?

    Tehcnology has passed broadcast AM radio by.

    Today, there are many more opportunities for the RIGHT to communicate – the internet, and satellite video and audio – both of which avoid ANY federal government regulation whatsoever.

    How long do you think it would take Rush Limbaugh to move over to privately owned Satellite radio should the federal government require his broadcast network to balance his programming?

    Some on the looney left may make the attempt to reimpose the Fairness Doctrine but Flap agrees with Ed Morrissey. The move would only precipitate the financial collapse of broadcast AM radio with the concomitant short-term loss of jobs. The RIGHT talk radio industry would then migrate to the internet and satellite broadcast.

    Sure, there would be some business dislocations with Clear Channel and Salem Communications. but, who is to say that these corporations are not already poised to make the move.

    Who is manufacturing the new internet/satellite radios anyway?

    Stay tuned as the Democrats decide whether to go forward with their brand of censorship called “fairness.”


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  • Sarah Palin

    Sarah Palin is a Naked Airhead Shopaholic

    Carl Cameron dishes the Palin dirt on Bill O’Reilly’s show – Fox News last night

    Sorry for the shameless headline but that is what the “WEASELS” at Team McCain are dishing out on Sarah Palin.

    Michelle has a round-up on all of the rumors and crapola about Sarah Palin, her staff and the relationship she had with Steve Schmidt, Randy Scheunemann, Nicolle Wallace, et. al..

    But, really, who the FRAK cares?

    This is typical McCain though and one of the reasons Flap did NOT support him in the GOP primary elections and why he has always looked at him as a self-serving, short-fused old man. Unlike Rudy Giuliani who has always supported the GOP in a classy manner, McCain shows his lack of class by allowing this shit to continue after the election.

    Thank God, McCain and his band of WEASELS will not control the GOP – EVER again.

    Flap loves Sarah Palin’s response when she arrived back home in Alaska yesterday:

    Palin arrives in Anchorage after a long trip home from Alaska. She holds a press conference. Refuses to comment on gossip spread by unnamed sources and “small, bitter” people saying “foolish things”…on relationship with McCain: No tension. “I love him…I honor him.”

    Responding to a question on whether she has any “hurt feelings,” Palin laughs cheerfully. “This is politics! Of course not. It’s rough and tumble and you’ve got to have a thick skin just like I’ve got.”

    Palin expresses “disappointment in the media — don’t take it personally.”

    Flap wonders who on Team McCain will write the first book?


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  • Gay Marriage

    California Proposition 8 – Protect Traditional Marriage – The Final Winning Totals: 52.5% – 47.5%

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    With 100 per cent of the precincts reporting (at least on the California Secretary of State website) the winning tally for California Porposition 8 which restores the traditional definition of marriage to the California Constitution is:

    • Yes – 5,387,939 – 52.5%
    • No – 4,883,460 – 47.5%

    In Ventura County (where Flap lives):

    • Yes – 127,124 – 53.3%
    • No – 111,465 – 46.7%

    The interactive map from the California Secretary of State continues to be down but here is a screen cap from yesterday.

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    The exact totals are a little different on this map but the trends are definite. Support for Proposition 8 is widespread and concentrated in southern and northern-inland, central-inland California.

    Remember the last internal polling from the Yes on 8 Campaign had the race tied and they counted on a homosexual type of Bradley effect in polling to predict the race.

    The history of polling on this issue suggests there is a percentage of people who do not accurately report they support traditional marriage. They do not want to say something that may be perceived as not politically correct. Historically, that polling percentage has averaged about 7 % if you look at all of the states where marriage has been on the ballot. “I don’t think it will be 7 per cent this time, more like 4 or 5 per cent bump that we will get…”

    Looks like a 5 percentage point victory and Frank Schubert who ran the Yes on 8 campaign was correct.

    Now, Proposition 8 moves to the courts.

    Stay tuned………


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  • Day By Day

    Day By Day by Chris Muir November 6, 2008 – You and What Army?

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    Day By Day by Chris Muir

    On the bright side, Zed, it appears that after the new census, Texas will be adding Congressional districts and hence more Electoral College votes.

    More 2012 votes for Texas and less for Ohio and New York.

    Maybe more folks should move to “Red States?”

    With the high taxation in very blue New York, who could blame anyone?

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    links for 2008-11-06

    • As the vote counting continued this morning, opponents of Prop. 8 filed a lawsuit directly with the state Supreme Court – whose May 15 ruling legalized same-sex marriage – asking the justices to overturn the measure.

      The suit argued that Prop. 8 would change the California Constitution in such fundamental ways – taking important rights away from a minority group – that it amounted to a constitutional revision, which requires approval by the Legislature before being submitted to the voters. The case was filed by the American Civil Liberties Union, Lamda Legal and the National Center for Lesbian Rights.

      The same groups asked the court before the election to remove Prop. 8 from the ballot on those grounds. The justices refused, but left the door open for a post-election challenge.
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      If the California Supreme Court overturns the second vote of the California people might there be an insurrection against the court?

      (tags: gaymarriage)
    • Despite the Democratic tide, California Republicans appear to have staved off major losses in Congress in the Golden State.

      GOP incumbents beat strong challengers across the state. The only vulnerable Democrat, freshman Rep. Jerry McNerney, cruised to victory.

      One race remains too close to call: the Tom McClintock-Charlie Brown showdown, where the GOPer McClintock leads by less than 500 votes. Provisional and some vote-by-mail ballots remain to be counted in the only seat Democrats could still pick up.
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      McClintock will hold up.

    • Civil rights groups moved quickly today to challenge Proposition 8, asking the California Supreme Court to strike down the latest attempt to ban same-sex marriage across the state.

      While refusing to concede that the ballot measure has passed, gay marriage supporters nevertheless filed a petition with the state's high court in the event the current vote holds and Proposition 8 amends the California constitution to once again outlaw marriage for gay and lesbian couples.
      The legal challenge maintains that Proposition 8 is invalid and takes away a "fundamental right'' from "just one group — lesbian and gay Californians.'' The petition argues that the state constitution cannot be amended if it violates other constitutional rights.
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      If the California Supreme Court throws out a vote of the California people Flap would be surprised.

      (tags: gaymarriage)
    • A group of prominent conservatives will meet tomorrow at the Virginia weekend home of Brent Bozell to discuss the future of the movement and the GOP.
      In addition to Mueller and Bozell, other conservatives attending the private session will be: Leonard Leo, executive vice preident of the conservative Federalist Society, and a leading figure in the movement on judicial and Catholic issues; Grover Norquist, the anti-tax crusader who heads Americans for Tax Reform; and Tony Perkins, head of the Family Research Center and one of the most high-profile social conservatives.

      The meeting is just the first of a handful of other sessions among Republicans to diagnose what went wrong and how to reestablish a party that has now been routed in two consecutive election cycles.
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      Rebuilding the conservative base and Congressional leadership will be the hot topics.

    • Russia will deploy missiles near NATO member Poland in response to U.S. missile defense plans, President Dmitry Medvedev said Wednesday in his first state of the nation speech.

      Medvedev also singled out the United States for criticism, casting Russia's war with Georgia in August and the global financial turmoil as consequences of aggressive, selfish U.S. policies.

      He said he hoped the next U.S. administration would act to improve relations. In a separate telegram, he congratulated Barack Obama on his election victory and said he was hoping for "constructive dialogue" with the incoming U.S. president.
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      Russia is testing Obama already….

    • In an election otherwise full of liberal triumphs, the gay rights movement suffered a stunning defeat as California voters approved a ban on same-sex marriages that overrides a recent court decision legalizing them.

      The constitutional amendment _ widely seen as the most momentous of the nation's 153 ballot measures _ will limit marriage to heterosexual couples, the first time such a vote has taken place in a state where gay unions are legal.

      Gay-rights activists had a rough election elsewhere as well. Ban-gay-marriage amendments were approved in Arizona and Florida, and Arkansas voters approved a measure banning unmarried couples from serving as adoptive or foster parents. Supporters made clear that gays and lesbians were their main target.
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      Yes on 8 ran a spectacularly good campaign.

      (tags: gaymarriage)
    • Rob Collins, chief of staff to Rep. Eric Cantor (R-VA) says on the record that his boss is making calls to request support for an election to the position of House Minority Whip — the job held by Rep. Roy Blunt.
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      Boehner should go as well……

      Cantor will probably get what he wants.

    • # 56 percent of voters opposed the Bailout. A smart Republican comments, "McCain should have made that his issue."
      # Bush voters broke 81-18 for McCain. The 2008 nominee effectively lost 1 in 5 Bush voters.
      # 16 percent of Hillary voters backed McCain. The PUMAs exist, but not in numbers large enough to have made a difference, it seems.
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      McCain lost the race when he suspended his campaign and then did not oppose the financial bailout. Mac had an opportunity and blew it.
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    • Voters approve Proposition 8 banning same-sex marriages. With more than 95% of the vote counted, the measure leads 52.1% to 47.9%.
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      Now, the No on 8 folks go to court to throw the election out.
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    • A few readers have asked whether I think Sarah Palin will run for the Senate in the future. I think that would be a mistake, for several reasons, not the least of which is that, if successful, the decision would take an unique and popular outside-the-beltway executive and put her inside the Beltway as one of 100 legislators voting on every bill that comes down the pike.
      (tags: sarah_palin)
    • Tens of thousands of ballots are left to be counted in Ventura County.
      Tracy Saucedo, Ventura County assistant registrar of voters and manager of the elections division, said late absentee and provisional ballots are still being counted and it is unknown how many were cast.
      By Thursday at 5 p.m. the county elections office must report to the California Secretary of State exactly how many ballots are in and how many must still be counted.
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      Tony Strickland is now losing his California State Senate race by a little over 100 votes. His strength is in Ventura County and if there are sufficient uncounted votes for him he could win this race.
    • In the 19th Senate District, Republican Tony Strickland went up against Democrat Hannah-Beth Jackson, but with all the precincts counted but not late absentee and provisional ballots, Jackson holds a slim lead 153,106 votes to Strickland's 152,998.
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      108 vote difference. Wow!