• Sarah Palin,  Saxby Chambliss

    Saxby Chambliss Re-Elected to United States Senate from Georgia

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    Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, at podium, campaigns for Sen. Saxby Chambliss, R-Ga., right, in Atlanta on Monday, Dec. 1, 2008. Palin urged Georgia voters to back Chambliss in Tuesday’s runoff in an election eve appeal that underscored her popularity within the Republican Party and the GOP’s efforts to stave off erosion of its shrinking Senate numbers.

    The GOP saved a filibuster-proof minority when incumbent Senator Saxby Chambliss crushed Jim Martin in tonight’s U.S. Senate electon run-off.

    NBC News declares Republican incumbent Sen. Saxby Chambliss the projected winner in his Georgia runoff election contest against Democrat Jim Martin.

    The runoff between Martin and Chambliss, triggered when neither candidate garnered over 50% of the vote on November 4th, pointed a month-long national spotlight at the state.  High-wattage surrogates like Rudy Giuliani, John McCain, and Sarah Palin appeared in the hopes of mobilizing Republican voters for Chambliss.  Barack Obama did not campaign in person for underdog Martin, choosing to throw a lower dosage of his political capital into the race by recording a radio ad and robocalls for the Democrat; surrogates for Martin did include former president Bill Clinton and former vice president Al Gore.

    Another winner tonight is Alaska governor Sarah Palin who made four campaign appearances for Chambliss yesterday.

    Palin drew large crowds and Chambliss remarked, “She — she truly is a rock star,” Chambliss said on FOX. “I mean, she came into town to help us electrify our base, make sure that these folks get fired up and turn out tomorrow, and she did exactly that.”

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    Alaska Governor Sarah Palin (R-AK) works the crowd during a rally to re-elect incumbent U.S. Senator Saxby Chambliss (R-GA) in Duluth, Georgia December 1, 2008. Chambliss is in a runoff with Democrat Jim Martin

    The GOP will have to earn its way back into majority status in the Congress and regain the Presidency.

    But, the Republican Party started tonight.


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  • Jeb Bush

    Jeb Bush for Florida Senate in 2010? YES We Can

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    President Geroge W. and former Florida Governor Jeb Bush

    Flap posted earlier today that Jeb Bush WOULD be interested in the soon to be vacant Mel Martinez Florida United States Senate seat.

    And, lo and behold Jeb is IN.

    Two sources close to Jeb Bush, including one who has spoken to the former Florida governor within the past few hours, say he is seriously considering a run for Senate now that incumbent Republican Mel Martinez has retired.

    “He is receiving a lot of encouragement from both in and out of the state,” an longtime Bush adviser said tonight. “He is going to take his time and approach this very methodically.”  Bush will weigh, according to this adviser, how a run would impact his family, his business, and whether the Senate would be the best platform for the causes he’d advocate — education, immigration, GOP solutions to health care and energy.

    The sounds you hear are from the GOP field clearing and the sighs from the Democrats who thought they could capture the seat. Jeb Bush is very popular in Florida and should have an easy race to replace Mel Martinez.

    Then, there is 2012 or 2016.


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  • Barack Obama,  Iran,  Iran Nuclear Watch

    Obama MUST Talk to Iran to Avert Nuclear Crisis

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    This prescription for appeasement of Iran by new President Barack Obama is a disaster waiting to happen.

    Iran poses the greatest foreign policy challenge to the new president with Tehran on course to produce a nuclear bomb in the first year of an Obama administration, an unprecedented coalition of top think tanks warned yesterday.

    Barack Obama must follow through on his promises of direct talks with Tehran and engage the Middle East region as a whole if he is to halt a looming crisis that could be revisited on the United States, the experts warned.

    “Diplomacy is not guaranteed to work: it is not,” Richard Hass, one of the authors said. “But the other options – military action or living with an Iranian weapon are sufficiently unattractive for it to warrant serious commitment.”

    The warnings came in a report called “Restoring the Balance,” a Middle East strategy for the incoming president drafted by the Council for Foreign Relations and the Brookings Institution. Gary Samore, one of the authors, said the level of alarm over the “hornet’s nest” facing the new president in the Middle East, and the need for the swift adoption of previously untested approach, had inspired the unprecedented decision to write policy for him. “New administrations can choose new policies but they can’t choose next contexts,” Mr. Samore said. “This is what they inherit.”

    Direct talks with Iran by the American President as Iran reaches BREAKOUT CAPABILITY will DARE the new President to either bow down to the Mullahs or take military action. A force your hand scenario.

    Remind anyone of the BAY OF PIGS?

    Peace through WEAKNESS.

    Some experts (The Council on Foregin Relations – BARF)? – not as if Flap has not been warning about this day for like over two years.

    Want to bet that Israel ends up doing the dirty work with bombing raids on Iranian nuclear facilities?


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  • Lisa Murkowski,  Sarah Palin

    Sarah Palin to Challenge Lisa Murkowski for Alaska Senate Seat in 2010?

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    Alaska’s Governor Sarah Palin, left, stands in the main foyer of the governor’s mansion with U.S. Senator Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, right, in Juneau, Alaska on Tuesday, March 18, 2008.

    More drama against Sarah Palin by the pro-Romney Politico. There is absolutely NO advantage for Palin to challenge an incumbent Senator from her own party with an easy re-election as Alaska’s Governor facing Palin.

    Sarah Palin will NOT challenge “LIBERAL LISA.”

    Bet the Moose stew recipe.


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  • Gay Marriage

    California Proposition 8 Aftermath – An UGLY Attack Against Mormons

    Courage Campaign’s television ad: “Home Invasion”: Vote NO on Prop 8

    Jonah Goldberg has a piece today up at the Los Angeles Times decrying the anti-Mormon tone of California Proposition 8 protesters.

    It’s often lost on gay-rights groups that they and their allies are the aggressors in the culture war. Indeed, they admit to being the “forces of change” and the “agents of progress.” They proudly want to rewrite tradition and overturn laws. But whenever they’re challenged democratically and peaceably, they instantly complain of being victims of entrenched bigots, even as they adopt the very tactics they abhor.

    My own view is that gay marriage is likely inevitable, and won’t be nearly the disaster many of my fellow conservatives fear it will be. But the scorched-earth campaign to victory pushed by gay-marriage advocates may well be disastrous, and “liberals” should be ashamed for countenancing it.

    What Goldberg fails to acknowledge is that the homosexual lobby will NOT stop with legalizing same sex marriage.They will demand complete societal acceptance of homosexuality – “whether you like it or not.”

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    Catholics Condemn Gay Marriage Ad for Religious Biogtry and Intolerance of the Mormon Faith


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  • Harry Reid

    Harry Reid Won’t Have to Smell the Tourists’ Body Odor Anymore Or Will He?

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    Political cartoon by Michael Ramirez

    But, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada was wrong before – on the Surge and the Iraq War.

    The Capitol Visitors Center, which opened this morning, may have tripled its original budget and fallen years behind schedule, but Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid found a silver lining for members of Congress: tourists won’t offend them with their B.O. anymore.

    “My staff tells me not to say this, but I’m going to say it anyway,” said Reid in his remarks. “In the summer because of the heat and high humidity, you could literally smell the tourists coming into the Capitol. It may be descriptive but it’s true.”

    But it’s no longer going to be true, noted Reid, thanks to the air conditioned, indoor space.

    And that’s not all. “We have many bathrooms here, as you can see,” Reid continued. “Souvenirs are available.”

    Exit Question: Will this $621 million appropriation be enough?


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  • Gay Marriage

    Gay People Should NOT Worry Too Much About California Proposition 8

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    “I don’t want to be married. I’m very happy with a civil partnership. If gay people want to get married, or get together, they should have a civil partnership,” said Elton John, who cemented his relationship with David Furnish in 2005. “The word marriage, I think, puts a lot of people off. ”

    Mark Simson who is gay and from Britain makes the case that gay marriage is NOT the same as gay EQUALITY.

    Gay marriage is being presented by many gay people and liberals on both sides of the Atlantic as the touchstone of gay equality. Settling for anything less is a form of Jim Crow style gay segregation and second-class citizenship.

    But not all gay people agree. This one sees gay marriage so much as a touchstone as a fetish. A largely symbolic and emotional issue that in the US threatens to undermine real, non-symbolic same-sex couple protection: civil unions bestow in effect the same legal status as marriage in several US states – including California. As a result of the religious right’s mobilisation against gay marriage, civil unions have been rolled back in several US states.

    Living as I do in the UK, where civil partnerships have been nationally recognised since 2004, perhaps I shouldn’t carp. But part of the reason that civil partnerships were successfully introduced here was because they are not “marriages”. At this point I’d like to hide behind the formidable figure of Sir Elton John, who also expressed doubts recently about the fixation of US gay campaigners on “gay marriage”, and declared he was happy to be in a civil partnership with the American David Furnish and did not want to get married.

    Amidst all the gay gnashing of teeth about the inequality of Proposition 8, it’s worth asking: when did marriage have anything to do with equality? Respectability, certainly. Normality, possibly. Stability, hopefully. Very hopefully. But equality?

    First of all, there’s something gay people and their friends need to admit to the world: gay and straight long-term relationships are generally not the same. How many heterosexual marriages are open, for example? In my experience, many if not most long term male-male relationships are very open indeed. Similarly, sex is not quite so likely to be turned into reproduction when your genitals are the same shape. Yes, some gay couples may want to have children, by adoption or other means, and that’s fine and dandy of course, but children are not a consequence of gay conjugation. Which has always been part of the appeal for some.

    More fundamentally who is the “man” and who is the “wife” in a gay marriage? Unlike cross-sex couples, same-sex partnerships are partnerships between nominal equals without any biologically, divinely or even culturally determined reproductive/domestic roles. Who is to be “given away”? Or as Elton John, put it: “I don’t wanna be anyone’s wife”.

    Read the entire piece.

    The homosexual community is hurting themselve with ordinary California voters with their insistence of redefining marriage – “whether you like it or not.”

    The American voters have spoken loudly with thirty states now banning gay marriage and several having reversed civil unions.

    In California when the California Supreme Court likely upholds Proposition 8, the gay community will have to decide whether they wish to force another election in 2010 (which they will lose) or change direction for more gay equality with civil unions in other states (California already has domestic partnerships which confer all of the legal rights of marriage).

    Exit question: Will the gay marriage rage against Proposition 8 be redirected or will it be all consuming?


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  • Tom McClintock

    Tom McClintock Declares Victory in California’s 4th Congressional District

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    Former California State Senator and Congressman-elect Tom McClintock and wife Lori, December 1, 2008

    Former California State Senator (R-Thousand Oaks) Tom McClintock (he left office yesterday when his former aide Tony Strickland was sworn into the Senate) declared victory in his race for Congress.

    In front by almost 1,800 votes with all but El Dorado County certifying Nov. 4 election results, 4th congressional district Republican candidate Tom McClintock held a victory press conference Monday.

    Democratic Party candidate Charlie Brown has polled 183,840 votes to the GOP candidate’s 185,615 – a 1,775- vote difference.

    “The liberal wave that swept over American lapped at the edges of this district but it was here in the 4th District of California that the wave was turned back,” McClintock said. “When the final votes were counted, the people of the 4th congressional district made a decision to stand on the traditional American principles of individual freedom and limited government – and it will be my distinct honor to carry that message to the 111th Congress of the United States.”

    Brown issued a statement Monday saying he “remains committed to ensuring a fair and accurate count where every voice is heard and will be evaluating the results over the next 24 to 48 hours to determine if any additional action is warranted on the part of our campaign.”

    The difference between the two candidates is just less than half of a percentage point. A recount is possible, although McClintock used two state elections as benchmarks against extending the count – where candidates were separated by fewer votes and fewer percentage points that the 4th District election but were not moving forward with recounts.

    Speaking at Roseville campaign headquarters to an audience of supporters flanked by regional media representatives, McClintock made a formal statement of victory. Counts over the past three weeks have increased his lead by more than 1,000 votes over election-night totals..

    Looks like this race is over, despite Charlie Brown’s reluctance to concede.

    Watch the video of McClintock’s victory declaration.

    Here is the text:

    Many years ago a wise friend of mine, Larry Arnn – now President of Hillsdale College — told me that if you stand on principle, you’re going to lose some elections and those that you win, you’re not going to win by much.  But those elections that you do win are going to mean something.

    And that is certainly true of this election.  The liberal wave that swept over America last month lapped at the edges of this district, but it literally was in the 4th Congressional district of California where that wave was turned back.

    When the final votes were counted, it was the people of the 4th Congressional District who made the decision to stand by our traditional American principles of individual freedom and limited government, and it will be my distinct honor to carry that message to the 111th Congress of the United States.

    The long election count has required that we compress the transition period into just a few weeks.  I had the opportunity to meet with John Doolittle in Washington the week before last.  I want to thank him and his staff for their extraordinary cooperation in making this a smooth transition.

    I want again to congratulate Charlie Brown and his supporters on waging one of the most hard-fought campaigns I have ever faced.  As I said last Wednesday, there can be no doubt of the sincerity of their views or the dedication with which they pursued them.  No one knows better than I do how difficult it is to lose a close race, and I hope it is a consolation for them to know that they made a truly superb effort.

    I’ve asked my wife, Lori, to join us for this press conference.  She is the one who kept our family going during a brutal primary and general election.  At least I got to fight back – she had to take it and then have to put up with me when I got home each night.

    And I want to thank all those who made this victory possible – those who so selflessly donated so much of their time; those who so generously contributed the resources to get our message out; and our campaign staff who worked impossibly long and difficult hours.  It is the close elections in which EVERY effort becomes decisive – and it is those elections that make a candidate acutely aware of the trust and confidence that has been placed in his hands.  It is a lot to live up to, and I will do everything in my power to be worthy of it.

    But most of all I want to thank the voters of the 4th Congressional District who have stood with me in this election.  Thank you for the stand that you have taken.

    You have been heard around the country: that there are many communities throughout our nation where Americans will NOT abandon the founding principles of our nation.  And it is from these communities that we will now begin the fight in Congress to restore them as the foundation of our national policy.

    I am honored – deeply honored – to have your charter to deliver this message to the Congress of the United States – and I will do everything within my power to see that your voices are heard and that our freedoms are restored.

    Congrats Tom!

    By the way, Nacny Pelosi is just going to love Tom………


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