While I do think that we have a long way to go to get rid of Congressman Allen Boyd, we can make it happen. We have a couple of Republican contenders who are raising money feverishly and need even more to compete with Congressman Boyd’s considerable war chest.

But at this moment, we have a long way to go to move Boyd from a safe Democrat seat to a Republican seat

None of the current crop of candidates have made any recent updates on their web sites or are consistently using Twitter. To be fair, Charlie Ransom has added a pretty good intro video on his site.

Kennedy indicates that a few of the candidates are having some success raising money. The primary will be key though as with so many entered, individual name recognition among candidates is key. It may be that the candidate whom raises the most money wins. Still, the candidates need to be ramping up their alternative media resources.

UPDATE: Panama City businessman Steve Southerland leads in raising money. Southerland has an advantage in that he’s the only Republican drawing from the Panama City area. The majority of the rest are attempting to raise money around Tallahassee and are going against a popular Tea Party candidate in Paul McKain. Santa Rosa Beach attorney Barbara Olschner is a dark horse in the race and can initially be the only one receiving potential finacial support in affluent south Walton County.

“I’m against the health care bill and always have been. You would have to live in a cave not to know that. I opposed it even with the FMAP language in it. I am glad the health care bill is dead. We can have honest debates about the issues and honest disagreements. I thought the health care bill was awful. Some members of Congress disagreed with my position and voted for it. That’s OK. The bottom line is that we are all going to have to work together and across party lines to fix the faulty FMAP formula that unfairly penalizes the health care needs of the poorest people in our state. That is an effort that can stand on its own merits,” he said.

Landrieu’s being a little too cute with the e-mail sent from Jindal’s cheif of staff. It signal’s that she is in big trouble at home. She have noticed President Obama publically telling Arkansas Senator Blanche Lincoln that there will be no move that protects Democrats interests.

The public under the bus toss of Lincoln’s political career further reveals Obama’s disturbing philosophy. He’s not a partisan democrat and any illusion of him being a pragmatist can be thrown out. He indeed wants to fundamentally change America in ways that his long time personal associates have always wanted.

UPDATE: Landrieu also tells Republicans to “shut their mouths”

I don’t know how Newsweek even went with the piece by Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, daughter of the late Robert F. Kennedy. But here’s a bit of one of the most outrageous comments ever made:

In truth, though, Obama’s pragmatic approach to divisive policy (his notion that we should acknowledge the good faith underlying opposing viewpoints) and his social-justice agenda reflect the views of American Catholic laity much more closely than those vocal bishops and pro-life activists. When Obama meets the pope tomorrow, they’ll politely disagree about reproductive freedoms and homosexuality, but Catholics back home won’t care, because they know Obama’s on their side. In fact, Obama’s agenda is closer to their views than even the pope’s.

Deal W. Hudson responds in insidectholic.com:

I very rarely used the word “offensive,” because it is thrown around so casually by the Left all the time. In this case, however, I have to say Townsend’s column offends me for both its arrogance and its ignorance of the “American Catholics” she presumes to know so well.

Maybe there’s good news in all this as Democrats are be coming off their messianic thing with Obama and have down graded him to just above the Pope status.

Under the current draft of the Democrat health care legislation, members of Congress are curiously exempt from the government-run health care option, keeping their existing health plans and services on Capitol Hill. If Members of Congress believe so strongly that government-run health care is the best solution for hard working American families, I think it only fitting that Americans see them lead the way. Public servants should always be accountable and responsible for what they are advocating, and I challenge the American people to demand this from their representatives.

You really didn’t think that they were going to play by the rules they assert on you, did you?

Fiorina’s emmergence as a potential candidate demonstrate just how behind the GOP is in recruiting. It seems easier to get them for open seats like in Florida (Crist and Rubio) and in Ohio (Portman) But to my knowledge, Fiorina is the only high powered GOP figure willing to take on a sitting Democrat.

Why Boyd who represents a very conservative district would support Nancy Pelosi’s bill is a mystery. Boyd is the leader of the Democrat Bliue Dog conference. Perhaps he was strong armed by Pelosi as he needs funding. His son was arrested last year on immigration smuggling charges. Panhandle voters won’t tolerate a Democrat more loyal to Nancy Pelosi than they are to their interests.

The liberal economic experiment to use the government to stimulate job creation is an utter and complete failure. Obama and the Dems may have inherited a problem, but their answers to the problems were all wrong. And that realization will come to hit the American public as this unemployment debacle runs through out the summer of 2009

I wonder what will happen when some of the fall-out begins from the closing of auto dealerships. These will be felt in more rural area, and Democrats and Obama really don’t care about those areas.

Its time for local grassroots efforts by Republicans in those districts to go on the offensive to defeat Democrat congressional candidates. The Ron Paul voters whom voted for Obama will not be voting for Democrats next fall.

Eisen’s direct refusal to answer questions of fact indicate he’s protecting Obama whom badly wants to keep Americorps as Democrat field operatives.