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POLITICS: Did Charlie Crist’s veto of SB 6 signal an idependent candidacy?

bobsikes — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 15:42:49 +0000

No one knows for sure. Take a look at these numbers posted in and editorial from the Panama City News Herald are clues:

In the contest for the Republican nomination for a U.S. Senate seat, public opinion polls show Crist trailing Marco Rubio by more than 20 points. However, a Quinnipiac University poll released Thursday indicated that in a three-way general election race with Rubio as the GOP candidate, U.S. Rep. Kendrick Meek as the Democratic nominee and Crist as an independent, the governor holds a slight advantage (32 percent for Crist, 30 for Rubio and 24 for Meek).

Cynics – especailly those whom are blindly partisan Republicans – are saying that Crist vetoed the bill for political expediency. However if Crist were a politician who takes such options, he would have not taken the stimulus money. He would have jumped on the Sarah Palin bandwagon. A early lurch to the right as Govenor would have marginalized Marco Rubio and we would never had witnessed his remarkable rise.

I’m starting to believe that Crist will be going the independent route and is holding fire for now to allow the SB 6 storm to subside. Crist may be wise to do so, too. Speculation is beginning that involves an endorsement by the state’s teachers.

This one’s a bridge too far as the FEA’s representation are AFL-CIO loyalists. They cannot let that happen, but they won’t actively go after Crist either. A Senator Charlie Crist wouldn’t necessarily be an automatics vote against something the NEA and AFT wants. Plus the FEA bosses are realists and know that 30% of it’s 130,000 membership are Republicans. Even more so, they know that Kendrick Meek cannot defeat either Crist or Rubio or win in a three-way race.

At any rate, Crist has earned my vote and Rubio has lost it. Voters will need to consider whether it’s better to consider Crist’s independent streak or the fact that Rubio doesn’t have one.

UPDATE (12:09 CDT) Here’s excellent look at some potential problems that Crist will face with both his supporters and major fund raisers.

POLITICS: Democrat thugs beat GOP staffer and boyfriend in Nola

bobsikes — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 10:55:11 +0000

Unlike in the mythical Tea Party racist taunts at John Lewis, video and audio evidence exists of protestors acting badly. One of the victims was a member of Govenor Bobby Jindal’s staff.

As you won’t see any MSM coverage of the assault and you will on FOX, the incident will be further evidence that the former is little more than a propoganda arm of the Democrat Party.

Human Events is reporting that the couple were not wearing Sarah Palin pins as had been previously reported.

Does that make me a white-hooded racist wannabe?

bobsikes — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 19:18:12 +0000

I guess so if we apply Rachael Maddow’s rules. . And yes, I wish that I had been able to attent the Tea Party Convention in Nashville.

I wonder whom Maddow believed she is influencing. Does she feel that she’s converting mainstream Americans who just happen to tune in? Does she believe that by calling Tea Party or Sarah Palin supporters They were Obama voters and Democrats anyhow. Maddow is likliest to only steady the resolve of those she loathes so much.

There’s something about Sarah

bobsikes — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 18:01:11 +0000

Sarah Palin didn’t use a teleprompter last night in her 40 minute keynote address at the Tea Party convention in Nashville. She doesn’t need one even in a speech she knows is televised nationally on C-Span.

A always lively exchange can be found at Just One Minute. I posted these comments earlier with respect to Palin:

I believe that it’s time we started to put an end to the idea that Palin is inexperienced.

Closer to the truth is the idea that she was more experienced than was McCain, Obama and Biden. She was the only one who had executive experience as govenor of a state. She’d run a large state agency. She’d been a successful local public servant as a school board member and mayor. An unlike any of the others she really does know what it’s like to run a small business – the family fishing business.

Much was made of the Obama judgement. Bill Bradley ran that up the flag pole when he endorsed him. Clearly his judgement is faulty unless it’s taking actions that have anything to do with his own dangerous ideologies. Judgement – which comes after wisdom – is gained through experience. This our president had very, very little.

Aside that is from associations with anti-American leftists, stuffy Harvard faculty types and organizing a corrupt agency. No, Obama has lived a life – as Krauthammer insightfully pointed out – a life of simple adulation.

Not only is his ideology a danger to America, but so is his lack of experience in making decisions. It should be of greatest concern to the nation that he surrounds himself with sycophants in the inner circle.

Palin is the antithesis to everything that is Obama and the extreme left wing of his party. While attempts to demonize her in some of the most disgustingly unacceptable ways imaginable, she’s evolving in a way those whom demonize her fear most. More than being an effective contrarian voice, she’s becoming a figure – even a symbol- of significance.

Not afraid to be an independent voice among her own party, she has endorsed and will campaign for John McCain against the popular conservative J.D. Hayworth. She’s thrown her support behind Rhan Paul in the Kentucky GOP senate primary against the establishment and Mitch McConnel supported candidate. She will also campaign for Texas Govenor Rick Perry going against the power of the Bush family and Dick Cheney.

She’s also grown and become more polished. In today’s interview with Chris Wallace, she gained the upper hand even when Wallace attempted to dismiss some of her statements. Any attempt by Wallace to get his Katie Couric moment was swatted aside by Palin.

And they sure loved her last night in Nashville.

Cythia Tucker plays the Palin card to support Sotomayor

bobsikes — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 18:50:12 +0000

And what a stretch it was indeed. But somehow Tucker continues to display a need to play her brand of racial greivances to make innuendos against republicans:

They would oppose any judge nominated by a Democratic president who favors reproductive rights and supports civil unions for gay couples.

However, there is also a less articulated but equally intense reaction to Sotomayor on the right that has nothing to do with issues and everything to do with ethnicity.

There are still some conservatives who deeply resent the social and demographic changes that have swept the country during the past four decades, leading to the election of the nation’s first black president.

Democrats have to keep the illusion going that republicans are racists and Tucker dutifully carries the water. Yes, of course the GOPs concerns are all about race. And lets also use this opportunity to take a whack at Sarah Palin.

Tucker uses a column by Pat Buchanan as her ammo. Yet she takes a throw away line by Buchanan about Palin to use it in a context that suits her preconceived racism. Tucker provides no link nor does she include Buchanan’s words in their entirity.

In a recent column, Buchanan railed that “pundits here get hoots of appreciation for doing to a white Christian woman what would constitute a hate crime if done to a ‘wise Latina woman.’” (Note the designation of Sarah Palin as “Christian” as if Sotomayor, who grew up Catholic, is pagan.) Buchanan advised his fellow Republicans to “expose Sotomayor … as a political activist whose career bespeaks a lifelong resolve to discriminate against white males.”

Here is a more inclussive record of Buchanan’s column:

The chutzpah of this Beltway crowd does not cease to amaze.

They archly demand that conservatives accord a self-described “affirmative action baby” from Princeton a respect they never for a moment accorded a pro-life conservative mother of five from Idaho State, Sarah Palin.

Pundits here gets hoots of appreciation for doing to a white Christian woman what would constitute a hate crime if done to a “wise Latina woman.” But, as no Republican who followed the script of the mainstream media ever won a national election, why should the party pay them mind?

That beltway crowd includes the race baiter, Tucker. she finishes this way.

Still, among some on the right, Buchanan’s views represent the gospel truth. They explain a world in which white men no longer control all the levers of power — in which an “uppity” black man could become president and a woman with a strange-sounding name could end up on the Supreme Court.

It’s no accident that Buchanan dragged Palin into the debate. Resentment of high-achievers like Barack Obama and Sotomayor runs deepest among Palinites, who see in John McCain’s running mate a perfect spokeswoman for their long list of grievances.

For them, Palin represents “authentic” America.

There’s just one problem: That vision of America — a country run by and for God-fearing white people of small-town heritage — is losing its appeal in a country that grows more diverse and more urban every day.

As long as the Republican Party is held hostage by a group of voters who refuse to let go of that image of America, it cannot hope to be a national party. Sonia Sotomayor represents the future, not Sarah Palin.

Tucker’s disturbing simple-mindedness and racists taunt against conservative voters “Resentment of high-achievers like Barack Obama and Sotomayor runs deepest among Palinites” is a remarkable assertion. Her use of the the term “upity” archaic and sophmoric.

Perhaps it is Tucker and those who think like her the ones with hate issues.

Peggy Noonan is no longer in touch with conservative America

bobsikes — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 16:35:16 +0000

A once gifted and inspired voice of conservative principles, Peggy Noonan’s rambling and condescending column on Sarah Palin is clear indication that she has joined the arrogant elitism of her Manhattan diggs. Today’s takedown of Noonan’s transformation to her upper west side sensibilities by Doctor Zero at Hot Air is a worth read.

Of the idea that Palin made the Republican Party look inclusive, Noonan snarls, “She makes the party look stupid, a party of the easy manipulated.” Well, that’s what they say at the high-toned Washington cocktail parties, where the elite liberals keep Peggy Noonan as a pet, so it must be true. The vast number of Palin admirers will be thrilled to know that Peggy Noonan thinks they’re stupid. I’m sure that will make them rush right into the waiting arms of Noonan and her weak-tea wing of the GOP.

Essentially, Noonan is saying that she thinks a significant part of the republican electorate are stupid. Her slide to a haughtiness that only is found in a handful of area codes is astonsihing in ways that are hard to even contemplate.

Sarah Palin: Remarkable American Woman that Democrats will never be able to understand

bobsikes — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 04:09:04 +0000

Jay Newton-Small of TIME puts Sarah Palin real time as no other journalist ever attempted to do. Those whom loved her were right. Those whom doubted or hated her were…and still are…wrong.

Yes, we were right about her. She is the real deal. She was hated beacuse she is America and is so much more than any public figure in history. We craved her wisdom. Her real life and real world experience thats beltway types – both of the left and right – was what our country still aches for. Yet they taunt. They redicule. Its clear to us now through this wonderous women that it is they who have lost touch with America.

Sarah, I want you to be there for America. But after knowing what it is that you find as love and family, I want you to stay in Alaska. And go fishing with Todd and Piper and Trig.

Republicans: stop the circular firing squad

bobsikes — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 02:19:58 +0000

My rant as published on Just One Minute:

Republicans and conservatives have to stop the circular firing squad that takes out pols who share our values that we do like Sarah Palin and Marco Rubio. Stop trying to impress everyone with a self absorbed opinion of your own intelligence by finding a reason to do Democrats bidding for them. People like Palin and Rubio have guts to represent values we clutch to. Stop giving Dems ammunition to take American for themselves

Marco Rubio scores another key GOP endorsement in Florida

bobsikes — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 01:57:46 +0000

The remarkable senatorial candidate whom dared to take in the Republican estanblishment has received another key endorsement from a GOP pol in Rep. Jeff Miller on the crucuial Fla CD #1 in the panhandle of Florida. Miller, a solid conservative in a key Forida district, gives Rubio another key endorsement from a key GOP stronghold. Charlie Crist is not popular with Panhandle voters as his negative comments aboit Sarah Palin caused outrage within one of the nations most conservative bases.

Rubio’s candidacy continues to be ridiculed by the Democrat leaning Buzz Florida Politics blog of the St. Petersburg Times who hid the key endorsement in a post. Today it scoffed at Rubio’s funraising and attempted to slander his personal finances while giving glowing reviews of both Democrat senate candidate Kendrick Meeks and centrist govenor Charlie Crist.

Why Obamacare will be a disaster for America

bobsikes — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 20:06:52 +0000

Dems hate Rep. Michele Bachmann. She’s smart, beautiful, communicates, and she’s a Republican. Dems just can’t have that combination. Say, doesn’t thank description remind of Sarah Palin? Maybe there’s some sort of pattern in their curious stereotyping. Yes, Bachmann and Palin were both on that disgusting rape list. Anyway, Bachmann has posting priveledges at Townhall and pens and excellent compare and contrast:

Today, the House of Representatives returns to work after a week of district work – outside of the beltway – and the next challenge facing the body will be making crucial reforms to our health care system. As the American people struggle to make ends meet, too many also live with the challenge of affording basic health care for themselves and their families. Any time a child or a parent goes without the care they need, it is a personal crisis for that family. However, there are two very different views emerging from the Democrats and Republicans as to the appropriate and most effective course to take in making these essential reforms.

Democrats are pushing for a government takeover of health care that sounds nice but would have devastating consequences for families and small businesses. A government takeover of health care will raise taxes, ration care, and let government bureaucrats make decisions that should be made by families and their doctors.

Republicans want to make quality health care coverage affordable and accessible for every American, and let those who like their current health care coverage keep it. Republicans support health care reform that puts patients and their health first, and protects the important doctor-patient relationship.

The Democrats’ government-takeover of health care will deny access to medical care and life-saving treatments. An estimated 100-million-plus Americans would lose their current health care under the Democrats’ government-run plan. Government mandates in health care already encourage waste, fraud and abuse that result in higher costs and more families without care. We cannot allow politicians and special interests to stand between patients and the care they need. The American people deserve the freedom to choose the health care that is best for their families.

Last month when speaking to the American Medical Association, President Obama praised countries that “spend less” than the U.S. on health care. For instance, the British system is often touted as spending half as much per capita on health care as here in the U.S. But as the Wall Street Journal explained today, you get what you pay for. The very real consequence in the U.K. is the rationing of specific drugs, tests, and treatments dictated by a government-regulatory body known as the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE).

As the WSJ notes:

“Mr. Obama and Democrats claim they can expand subsidies for tens of millions of Americans, while saving money and improving the quality of care. It can’t possibly be done. The inevitable result of their plan will be some version of a NICE board that will tell millions of Americans that they are too young, or too old, or too sick to be worth paying to care for.”

Clearly, this isn’t the path to effective reform we should be choosing.

Americans have already woken up to Democrat plans the nation in the stimulus plan, the Auto buyouts, and cap and tax. Like they did to get elected, they lied about these bills. What makes you believe they can be trusted with your health care? The only thing that’s resulted from these bills has been to empower the Dem party.