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Minority Leadership
2008-11-07 15:52:00
We’ve endorsed Michele Bachmann for higher positions in our recent posting about the future of the GOP congress, but it seems the only whispers of a challenge to Boner would come from the up-and-coming Republican from the state of Wisconsin, Paul Ryan. In the event that this be the only challenge to Boner, we obviously support it. Politico Link
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Michele for Minority Leader
2008-11-07 04:08:00
(image: washingtontimes) Take a long hard look at this photo and decide which face you’d prefer representing the revival of the Republican message during the first crucial years of the Obama Administration. Boner must go. Bachmann must lead (unless another worthy contender arises). The GOP leadership in the House has failed us. It is time for new leadership. Today, Roy Blunt was honorable enough to know this, as he stepped down from his position as Minority Whip. His seat will no doubt be replaced by a fresh face in Rep. Eric Cantor of the important state of Virginia. Boner has decided that he does not want to leave, so it is up to us to tell him to. It is also up to us to realize that the future of the GOP depends on the vibrant inclusion of people other than white males, and mainly women (who make up 51% of the voting public) into positions of leadership. Make two phone calls right now. Call Michele Bachmann’s office, encouraging her to turn an impressive reelection in...
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The Obama Hangover: Reasons We Suck Today
2008-11-05 14:56:00
Congratulations America! You were all just collectively duped by the most elaborate marketing charade in modern history. Excusing myself this morning from a lengthy statement on how utterly retarded it is that Barack Obama will be our 44th President of the United States, I’d rather prefer to catalog a short list of grievances and notes I’ve thought of instead. 1. John McCain’s only real accomplishment in this election was his selection of a fresh-faced, charismatic, executive-minded, and core principle-lead woman in Governor Sarah Palin for his vice presidential running mate. If anything is to be said about 2008, I thank the senator for advancing the opportunity of a rising star at 44 years. Women are the key to the GOP’s future success now, and it’s time we start placing more of them in positions of power. 2. In good news… Barack Obama barely won Indiana and North Carolina. In bad news, a guy like Barack Obama has no business winning the states ...
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A Side Note…
2008-11-05 10:07:00
As disappointing as this election was, I can’t help but add an extra side note to my comments this morning, a bit of encouragement to the history of the moment. Quiet plainly however, I can’t help but deny my thought that it’s a dear shame that the man who was selected in history to be our first black president was Senator Barack Obama, someone whose roots and motivations I’ve questioned from the beginning. But, history is history, and all things happen for a reason. For the sake of America, and not necessarily one man, electing our first black president, indeed considering his roots, is a testament to how tolerant and open American society is. There should be no doubt from this day forward over the decency in motives of the average man or woman living her. When I hear the celebrations this morning, talking of the history, I can’t help but think “see, I told you so” in my own mind to those who would have never believed we’d see this da...
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The Eve Of Obama and Why I Voted McCain
2008-11-03 23:24:00
I have no illusions about what’s to happen this evening. Reasonable sense suggests that Barack Obama will become the 44th President-Elect of the United States of America. Polling aside… politics is a cyclical art form and the inevitable defeat of Republicanism is heavy in the air. But I like to think of my vote for John McCain today, however irrelevant, in terms of how Charles Krauthammer described his support in a recent column; I’m proudly going down with the McCain ship. Thinking about my vote in those terms, there’s something honorable in pulling that lever for whom I did today, for several reasons. John McCain is a bipartisan man. For all our talk of yearning as a society for leaders that “bring us together” and who “work with others to get things done”, is there a man in Washington whose record better embodies that stable image than John McCain’s? Time and time again, on major issues, this is a man who has reached out to D...

The Comedy of Joe Biden
2008-10-21 16:21:00
Why isn’t Joe Biden being viewed as one of the worst vice presidential picks in modern history? He’s certainly warranted it. Sarah Palin, by contrast, has been attacked almost daily for trivial matters we’d normally excuse in a millisecond. But after all the Tina Fey skits, should we really assume that it’s Palin, not Biden, who warrants the label of “bad pick” this year? I’d like to tally the list of vice presidential gaffes, then you decide: Sarah Palin: 1. We learned weeks after her joining the McCain campaign that her 17-year old daughter was pregnant. This made her a bad parent. 2. While speaking at church (privately and before her selection as McCain’s running mate) on a random Sunday morning months ago, just after she learned her son was being sent to Iraq, she prayed to her congregation that when decisions are made by our leaders with regard to war and peace, that she hoped those decisions were somehow part of God’s plan ...
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Hangin On
2008-10-10 02:17:00
Sure… it’s lookin bleak for the McCain campaign these days. The old strategy of holding on tightly to the close poll numbers and praying for a change of heart in the voting booth are over, given way to a national fear of economic recession (I suppose higher taxes, less capital, and more regulation make sense to people as the solution to the problem). But wait… is there a resurgence in the polling lately for John McCain, or simply a minor correction in just “how much” Obama will win this election by? Is it the Palin debate factor? The Ayers connection? Obama’s old ACORN organization being investigated in over 10 states for voter fraud? You decide, but we’ve been noticing it too. Today’s Rasmussen numbers have John McCain down by 5 points. By traditional standards of the previous months, this fall is far… far behind Barack Obama and would seem like a lock for the election. But considering the Obama +8 figures from just days ago,...

What You May Be Missing About Sarah Palin
2008-10-03 21:39:00
I’m not sure there has ever been a political candidate who has survived more campaign challenges than Governor Sarah Palin. Days after her selection to the McCain campaign, she faced the harsh (and unfairly personal) criticism of her role as a mother. How dare someone run for Vice President with the burden of caring for five children? How dare someone so conservative allow their seventeen year old daughter to get pregnant? Nevermind her opponent Joe Biden, who lost his wife to a horrible car accident upon his election to the senate, left his two young sons alone each day as he trekked off to Washington DC. She’s a mother, mother’s can’t work and raise children! Then we entered the cycle of personal attacks on her faith. Her church, it seems, actually prays for the armed forces, hoping that in some way, what unfolds around the world on a daily basis is part of God’s plan for us. Palin even spoke of God while giving a church discussion on Sunday. The nerv...
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It’s Official: I Hate This Election
2008-09-25 02:58:00
(image: sanfransentinel) I know it’s unpopular to think fondly of the president these days, but I seem to remember George W. Bush’s rise to power a bit differently in the year 2000. A year out of college, those were my idealistic days where my blood boiled red with political passion. Issues meant something then. Agree or not today, I was inspired back then by the thought of returning taxes to Americans who were being overcharged by an unnecessary government surplus, by the real potential of some day investing a portion of my own FICA tax into a personal retirement account, when I knew it was a good idea to let faith-based organizations do some of the government’s charity, and by arguing that schools needed accountability. Something hit me this evening. I hate this election, and once more, I’m growing to hate both of these candidates. Where’s the presidential stature? Where’s the serious debate about real issues? Where’s the relief from this ...
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Barack Obama is Andrew Sheppard
2008-09-17 01:36:00
There’s been something eerily familiar about Barack Obama ’s stump speech lately that I couldn’t put my finger on until this evening. Picture this for a minute… A presidential candidate, down and out lately, sagging in the polls, the public questioning his grit, he’s unresponsive to cheap negative attacks about his character and patriotism which are being spewed daily from his evil Republican opponent, helpless for now… Only to rise again in his glorious confrontation of his demons… he speaks up again, fights back… with statements against running character debates and charges that his opponent “just doesn’t get it”. Thinking of the narrative, it hit me folks. In it’s return back onto the scene, in it’s new “fighting back stage”, Barack Obama’s campaign has officially taken to mimicking the famous speech given by Michael Douglas in the movie American President to a tee. The style, the t...
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Five New Polls
2008-09-16 01:59:00
(image: daylife.com) John McCain is now tied or ahead in all five major battleground states according to Rasmussen’s statewide polling data just out. McCain now leads in the state of Colorado by two points, 48% to Obama’s 46%, a five point swing from last week where Obama lead McCain by three. Florida has gone from toss-up in the Ras poll, tied last week, to McCain plus five, 49% to Obama’s 44%. Most other Florida polls have McCain leading Obama by 5 points or more. And for the first time in months, John McCain is now tied in Pennsylvania, 47% to 47%. Obama has gained ground in two states however. Rasmussen’s Ohio numbers have McCain leading the state by a slim three-point margin, 48% to Obama’s 45%, a gain of a few points for Obama since last week. Likewise, Obama has tied McCain in the state of Virginia, 48% to 48%, where McCain lead by two points last week.
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Ras: McCain Breaks 50%, Seen Most Likely To Win
2008-09-14 20:56:00
(image: johnmccain.com) Maintaining a 3-point advantage in the new Rasmussen poll, John McCain has hit the 50% mark for the first time since Barack Obama wrapped up the Democratic nomination earlier this year. John McCain 50% Barack Obama 47% A separate poll from the same source shows that most people believe John McCain will win the election now. Who is most likely to win this year’s presidential election? John McCain 35% Barack Obama 34% Not Sure 30% McCain’s likely percentage on this question has raised 18 points over the last two weeks.
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Obama’s Female Staff Only Gets 83 Cents To Every Male Dollar
2008-09-14 04:58:00
(image: flickr) Barack Obama doesn’t walk the walk on equal pay for women. Recently commenting on the Sarah Palin effect, Obama claimed Palin “seems like a very engaging person. But I’ve got to say, she’s opposed — like John McCain is — to equal pay for equal work. That doesn’t make much sense to me.” I suppose these comments would hold water, until you analyze the Obama staff. According to the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, female staffers who work for Barack Obama receive only $0.83 for every $1.00 their male counterparts make. Based on these calculations, Obama’s 28 male staffers divided among themselves total payroll expenditures of $1,523,120. Thus, Obama’s average male employee earned $54,397. Obama’s 30 female employees split $1,354,580 among themselves, or $45,152, on average. Again, on average, Obama’s female staffers earn just 83 cents for every dollar his male staffers make. This figure certainly exceeds...
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Florida = Bad News for Obama
2008-09-14 00:30:00
(image: fiu.edu) While Florida was certainly expected to lean McCain all along, reading stories like the one below must be… discouraging to say the least for the Obama campaign. Barack Obama could be on the verge of falling out of contention in Florida. Despite spending an estimated $8-million on campaign ads in America’s biggest battleground state and putting in place the largest Democratic campaign organization ever in Florida, Obama has lost ground over the summer. Florida has moved from a toss-up state to one that clearly leans toward John McCain, fueling speculation about how much longer the Democratic nominee will continue investing so heavily in the state. Obama can still win Florida despite the polling gains McCain has made since naming Sarah Palin his running mate, and there is no sign Obama is pulling back in Florida yet. Far from it. Obama allies say he has about 350 paid staffers in the state and about 50 field offices, including in places not known as ferti...
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South Dakota: McCain by 17
2008-09-13 18:58:00
Once thought to be part of Barack Obama’s 50-state strategy, South Dakota has swung massively in favor of John McCain. A new Rasmussen Poll out this morning has John McCain beating Obama in South Dakota by 17 points, 54% to 37%. Though we never predicted Obama would actually win SD, its recently tightened polls (as narrow as 4 points a month ago) were more an indicator for the broader potential for a once-believed Democratic landslide in November. That time has come and passed. What’s more, such recent increases in places like South/North Dakota, as well as Montana, New Mexico, and Nevada, with McCain pulling within 2 in Washington, may provide some insight into the upward potential the all-western McCain/Palin ticket could bring this fall.

How about we collectively bury this jackass next week?
2008-09-13 18:19:00
(image: cfnews) Barack Obama has just given Republicans a massive opening to collectively bury his candidacy this week, and it’s up to us to make that happen. In noticeable free fall, whether in demographics such as white women (who moved in a 20 point shift to McCain this week), or in state polling (where red states like Montana and South Dakota once thought to be Obama targets are getting redder, purple states like Ohio, Missouri, and Florida are now solid red, and blue states like Michigan, Washington, and Pennsylvania are within 2-point margins), there is noticeable blood in the water from a severely wounded Barack Obama. His change message? Completely evaporated. Obama conceded the change mantra to the McCain camp with a slow trickle of multiple switched positions from Iraq withdrawal strategy to postponing his tax increases, finally culminating the concession with his selection of Washington insider Joe Biden as his running mate (who admitted this week in public that he ...
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Weekend Recap: Dissecting the Polls
2008-09-13 06:37:00
(image: blackhavens.com) Lots of information to be dissected in the polls right now: Associated Press Poll The new AP poll which came out today shows John McCain leading Barack Obama 48% to 44%, a 4 point cushion which appears to be steady with all other national polls. But the hidden details which could make McCain happy are a little more interesting. While the good news of the week for McCain camp was the massive 20-point shift among white women voters towards McCain, a statistic confirmed by numerous polls out now (sorry Obama camp, who brushed these numbers aside earlier in the week), there appears to be more good news that could reach long term potential. 80% of Americans in the AP poll believe John McCain has the right experience to be president. Nothing new. However, only 46% of Americans now believe Barack Obama has the right experience to be president, a 34-point deficit from McCain. What’s more troubling for Obama, a staggering 47% believe he does “not” h...
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Obama’s New Ad Forgets One Crucial Point
2008-09-13 01:51:00
Thank you National Review for pointing out an obvious reality I hadn’t thought of today. In part of their new “sharper attacks” against McCain, Obama campaign has taken to a new television ad released today, criticizing the Arizona senator for his not “using a computer”. In the new Obama ad, McCain is mocked as out of touch: “Our economy wouldn’t survive without the Internet, and cyber-security continues to represent one our most serious national security threats,” [Obama spokesman Dan] Pfeiffer said. “It’s extraordinary that someone who wants to be our president and our commander in chief doesn’t know how to send an e-mail.” But umm… There’s just one problem the Obama campaign forgot to mention, McCain can’t use a computer! Boston Globe makes it clear: McCain gets emotional at the mention of military families needing food stamps or veterans lacking health care. The outrage comes from inside: ...
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Obama and Lipstick Politics
2008-09-10 18:03:00
(image: tysto) I don’t really know what Barack Obama meant to imply yesterday when he said “you can put lipstick on a pig, but it’s still a pig”. Clearly, when the statement is put into context, the comment was designed to address Obama’s viewpoint that John McCain is not an agent of change (the pig being the non-change). But equally as notable, the use of the term “lipstick”, as has now been used in political statements this week not just by Obama, but by Joe Biden and Obama’s own press secretary, points to a calculated undercut, a tagline jab towards Sarah Palin’s recent popularity (through referencing the now famous lipstick comment in her acceptance speech). But here we are today. Having made the lipstick comment, Barack Obama is being barraged in the news with questions of “what did it mean?” and “was that a jab at Sarah Palin?”. Whether or not it was, misses the point. Observe Obama’s take on t...
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Are You A Typical White Person?
2008-03-20 23:29:00
I have two objectives in writing this post. The first is to inform people of a terribly offensive comment which was made by Barack Obama this morning on our local Philadelphia sports station 610WIP (something I just learned was broken by the Huffington Post), and to place this comment into context with a recent controversy ...
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McCain gave an excellent speech tonight?
2008-02-20 04:40:00
(image: thestate) Is anyone else really coming around to John McCain’s speeches lately? Once a broad exercise in non-specifics, McCain has now launched into full-on attack mode towards his future Democratic rivals on political philosophy, substance, and ability to lead. Clinching the state of Wisconsin this evening, McCain addressed the crowd and gave perhaps the most honest ...
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Cheney vs Edwards: The Asswhoopin?
2008-02-16 04:35:00
Never in the history of politics has their been an asswhoopin’ like the 2004 vice presidential candidates debate between Vice President Dick Cheney and Senator John Edwards . If you recall the wet doll with nice hair to your right, Edwards, you’ll remember him being mentally tossed around the stage like a child being schooled by ...
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Pssst? They Can?t Attack HIM
2008-02-16 04:13:00
(image: CNN) Notice any attacks on John McCain lately by Democratic frontrunner Barack Obama? I’ll give you some: “Bush-McCain Republicans” (recent term being used in stump speeches). “A vote for John McCain is a vote for a third Bush term on everything from Iraq to the economy.” Senator Obama may be shocked to learn that President Bush isn’t running ...
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What?s Lame About McCain
2008-02-02 20:07:00
(image: observer) John McCain “lashed out” at potential opponent Barack Obama Friday, responding to statements made by the Illinois senator about their differences over the war. When comparing his war positions to Obama, McCain starts off strong: (His policies) “will be the difference between victory and surrender.” Then in typical McCain fashion, the niceties begin: “Without in any way ...
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Flashback: Barack Obama: The New Stephen Douglas
2008-01-31 19:51:00
On February 16, 2007, I wrote my first statement at PostPolitical. An examination into the newly established Barack Obama craze, it questioned whether his invoking Abraham Lincoln during a candidacy announcement at the Old State Capitol in Springfield, Illinois was plausible. Charging the senator as hardly Lincolnesque, supporting the status quo over a bold vision ...
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The Politics of Annoyance: My Thoughts on the California Debate
2008-01-31 05:09:00
(images: msnbc) All is fair in love and war, and especially in politics. But what I’m finding increasingly unfair is John McCain’s unwillingness to confront the issues we conservatives reserve skepticism towards him over. During the hour and a half debate at the Reagan Presidential Library this evening, not once would Senator McCain answer the question, in ...
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Sigh? I Support Romney
2008-01-29 21:49:00
(image: arianiekeeney) What I’m about to say reflects a familiar feeling we’ve all experienced. Similar to gazing into your kitchen pantry at 3am, weary and hungry, only to find a stale granola bar and a box of Uncle Ben’s minute rice to choose from. The choice isn’t a good one, but you must eat. I’ve thought long ...
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Reasons I Want Romney to Lose: #1 Having Hugh Hewitt Shutup
2008-01-20 20:16:00
(image: flickr) Does it get any more annoying than “conservative” talk show host Hugh Hewitt’s affection for Mitt Romney ? Bordering on being gay at this point, Hewitt races towards the bloglines every chance he gets in order to spin the latest upside for slick Mitt. Today’s spin after a 4th place finish in the all-important South ...
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McCain gave an excellent speech last night
2008-01-20 14:08:00
In case you missed it, Senator McCain’s South Carolina victory speech last night was one of the better I’ve seen him give. McCain seemed rejuvenated, full of vigor, and gave an inspiring message filled with themes of patriotism and smaller government.
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Faded Dreams
2008-01-20 13:26:00
No… I’m certainly not picking on Fred today. This is no time for shots. This is a time however for FredHeads across the land to admit the truth, as I had months ago, that Senator Thompson as president was fools gold from the very beginning. It was painful to watch Fred’s speech last night, having followed ...
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