Category Archives: Elections

by | July 8, 2014 · 3:37 pm

Obama’s COld Shoulder

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From my Fox News Update email:

OBAMA GETTING COLD SHOULDER IN COLORADO

If President Obama is as thin-skinned as his critics say then his ego is in for a bruising in Colorado today. Obama will be campaigning in the Centennial State – one of the key battlegrounds in his bid to hold the Senate for his party – but neither the incumbent senator he is trying to save nor other top-tier Democratic candidates will appear in public with the president.

Adding insult to injury, embattled incumbent Sen. Mark Udall, D-Colo., will appear in private with Obama tomorrow for the president to tap his extensive donor network in the state. Udall’s team cited scheduling problems that would keep the senator, locked in a toss-up race with challenger Rep. Cory Gardner, R-Colo., from appearing at a daytime campaign event where there will be reporters present. But Udall’s schedule will clear up just in time for the senator to arrive at a closed-door donor event in Denver.

Even more galling: Democratic Gov. John Hickenlooper, facing a tough re-election test, and Andrew Romanoff, the former state House speaker now running for a seat in Congress, will both be no shows for Obama.

Candidates ditching unpopular incumbents in public is nothing new, but the Colorado case is telling for Obama whose “Western strategy” to permanent Democratic majorities was doing well. His jaw-dropping 2008 convention, complete with Greek pillars, was held in Denver with Mayor Hickenlooper hosting. Obama won the previously reddish state by a stout 9-point margin.

In 2010, Democrats cruised to victory in Colorado where Obama’s support for Colorado Sen. Michael Bennet got him the current chairmanship of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee. In 2012, Obama easily won the state again, though by a smaller 5-point margin.

Now? Ahem. Obama’s latest job approval rating in Colorado was 38% and Udall, who rode Obama’s coattails in 2008, is looking like an increasingly bad bet for re-election. The president’s energy policies and overall economic concerns rank high on the list of voter concerns, but ObamaCare is proving truly toxic. Colorado embraced the health law but has struggled badly with implementation. The Denver Post reports today that the drop-out rate for the state’s ObamaCare program is now forecast to be twice as bad as first projected.

Obama once boasted of being a transformational political figure for his party. Well, yeah … but only if by “transformational” you mean “total disaster.”

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by | June 25, 2014 · 7:12 am

CONGRATULATIONS, SEN. COCHRAN

Posted by PP

Well,Senator,you did it. You overcame the opinion polls and managed to eke out a win over your Tea Party foe by having Haley Barbour,Karl Rove,et. al,give millions in cash to black preachers to spread around. It’s called “walking around money.” The party also fielded some of the most horrific robocalls to black democrats in recent memory. So your senile,pompous,pork-slinging ass is safe….for another 4 months,anyway. But what,exactly,did you accomplish? Mississippi is a deep red state and is considered safe for November. Now ponder this: you’re now running against former congressman Travis Childers. How many democrats that you paid to vote for you will do it again when it counts? Here’s a hint: ZERO! Democrat loyalty can’t be bought by a republican but it can be rented.

In the meantime,the party will now appeal for “unity” after they’ve spit in the faces of their base once again. They need our help,they’ll say,to get rid of Harry Reid. It boggles the mind how the party bosses don’t get it. We’re not democrats. We don’t shrug when we are lied to. We don’t accept corruption as ‘part of the game.’ The fact we are suffering under a megalomaniac is as much a part of the establishments shoving liberal republicans like McCain and Romney at us and expect us to vote for them no matter what as it is the usual massive democrat vote fraud. Four million republican voters felt otherwise in 2012.

When I stop and think of how many seats the insane “open primary” policy has cost the party I’m appalled. Don’t think for a minute Harry Reid and his filthy unions didn’t orchestrate Sharron Angle’s primary win because they felt she was by far the weakest of the three republicans running. Even at that,he had to have the SEIU rig the voting machines in Clark County to turn a 4 point deficit into a 6 point win in one day. Think:Christine O’Donnell, Richard Mourdoch, and Todd Akin who handed McCaskill a gift from God. It’s almost as if the GOP is inviting the democrats to pick the opponent they want.

Excerpted from WaPo:
In nearly every Mississippi county, voter turnout was up over the inconclusive June 3 primary. But precinct totals show it was substantially higher in heavily African American areas. In the 24 counties with a majority black population, turnout increased by 39.4 percent, giving Cochran a big edge.

For example, in densely populated Hinds County, which includes the capital of Jackson, turnout was up nearly 50 percent over the June 3 primary and Cochran beat McDaniel by nearly 11,000 votes.

National Republicans were watching the Mississippi race nervously, fearing McDaniel’s far-right positions and history of insensitive comments on matters of gender and race could give Democrat Travis Childers an advantage in this solidly Republican state and weigh down GOP candidates elsewhere.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/in-hard-fought-mississippi-primary-cochran-fights-to-hold-off-tea-party-challenger/2014/06/24/a7262c08-fbcc-11e3-b1f4-8e77c632c07b_story.html

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ADDRESS THIS SHIPMENT TO RNC HEADQUARTERS…FROM THEIR BASE

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I’ll happily donate to the party.Right after this happens:

Hell-freezes

A few parting comments from a defeated but unbowed Chris McDaniel:

I am now torn between grabbing a rod and heading to the banks of the Rock River to do some catfishing or turning the channel to the Encore Western Channel and losing the remote.
At any rate,I’m outta here.

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by | June 11, 2014 · 3:20 pm

Cantor defeat: Mythbuster edition

2012 Cantor Brat

Pistol Pete’s summary of the primary election is @ https://polination.wordpress.com/2014/06/11/petes-pagewhat-just-happened/.

The following is excerpted from my Fox News Update email:

Eric Cantor lost his primary to Dave Brat, a small college economics professor. Cantor is House Majority Leader and 13-year incumbent Representative for Virginia’s 7th congressional district. This is the first time ever that a sitting House majority leader lost a primary.

  • Myth #1: Cantor was upended in a low-turnout election by a small number of Tea Party “radicals.”
  • Reality #1: Voter turnout for the primary was 28% HIGHER than it was for the presidential year primary of 2012. As Pistol Pete said, “This was what I call a ‘broken glass election. That’s one where you would crawl on your hands and knees over broken glass to get to the voting booth.”
  • Myth #2: Immigration outrage among downscale voters overwhelmed Cantor’s upscale electoral base.
  • Reality #2: Turnout was up fairly uniformly across the district, including in Cantor’s affluent home county which he lost.
  • Myth #3: Democrats crossed over in Virginia’s non-partisan primary to sabotage the stronger Republican candidate to improve their chances in the fall.
  • Reality #3: There is no evidence for this. For one thing, voter turn-out in the most Democratic neighborhoods lagged far behind turn-out in the most Republican areas. Second, Brat had a 10-point margin of victory, something mischievous Democrats couldn’t achieve.
  • Myth #4: The race was another battle in the national civil war between the national Tea Party and the national Republican establishment.
  • Reality #4: Brat did get a big boost from talk radio heavy hitters like Mark Levin, but he had zero backing from any of the national groups. Brat said, “I had wonderful people in the Tea Party grass roots helping me out, and they’re clearly responsible for the win, but I ran on the Republican principles.”

So what did happen?

Brat ran as Cantor’s “term limit.” Folks are deeply fed up with the corrupt status quo in Washington. Also, Cantor has made himself part of the anti-Tea Party effort to shift the Republican party back toward more conservative principles. Cantor also flip-flopped on immigration, which just deepened voter outrage about the business as usual cess pool that is Washington, D.C. politics.

And next fall?

Brat’s Democrat opponent, is a professor at the same college. He had little support from the Democrat machine while they assumed he’d be running against the incumbent. Since Brat’s win, they’re helping him; but the national Tea Party groups are coming in for Brat as well. This should be fun. Plus awkward at college staff meetings.

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by | June 11, 2014 · 8:26 am

PETE’S PAGE; WHAT JUST HAPPENED?

Posted by Pistol Pete

The original plan was to make today an open thread because yours truly was getting pretty tired of all the crap. It is so rare that there is anything for us to truly feel good about I couldn’t pass the opportunity up. The full effect of what happened last night has not been fully manifested yet. I feel a pretty good rant coming on,so grab a refreshment and get comfortable.

For the last six long,agonizing years we have been forced to stand by helplessly while a deranged Kenyan dickweed has run roughshod over the legislative and judicial branches of the government. We keep waiting,in vain,for the republican party to show some political courage and stand up to him. They stand there with their thumbs hooked in their vest pockets and huff that they’ll have to pass a resolution if he keeps breaking the law. Then they turn around and tell the base “we will destroy you!”

They had a suspicion that the base wasn’t happy but they figured we were as ignorant and unprincipled as those on the liberal plantation. We’d still vote for whoever the party put up. Guess again. They don’t understand if it takes years to establish a party loyal to our founding principles then so be it.

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Megyn Kelly and Sean Hannity were,as expected,all over this last night. Among other guests,Megyn had Carl Cameron and Brit Hume. I like both of them,but they seem to have spent too long in DC. Cameron posits that Brat won because it was raining yesterday. Fox News Channel’s Washington-based chief political correspondent Carl Cameron blamed the rain for Eric Cantor’s loss to Dave Brat.

“It’s worth noting that the weather was foul here yesterday and today as well. So some of it may have been nature helping out David Brat.”

What he didn’t appreciate was that this was what I call a “broken glass” election. That’s one where you would crawl on your hands and knees over broken glass to get to the voting booth.

Brit Hume insisted that without ‘immigration reform’ to tout that the republicans have no chance of winning the White House in 2016. He is loathe to call it amnesty but that is precisely what it is. The so-called “pathway to citizenship” is as phony as Obama’s birth certificate. These illegals have no desire to become citizens. They want the jobs,the free housing,medical,food stamps and welfare. If Brit ever sojourned near a Latin neighborhood he’d see the sign in every storefront window announcing wire service to Mexico.

The FOX News hosts are fuming over Dave Bratt’s upset tonight over House Majority Leader Eric Cantor. Brit Hume led the charge tonight:

“The margin is amazing… The conventional wisdom on this Megyn is already begun to form. It goes this way. That this is bad news long term for the Republicans and great news for Democrats. It is argued by some that immigration reform now will never pass with Republicans who were very much chastened by what happened to Eric Cantor.”

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Even Blabbermouth put down her mayonnaise to chime in:
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The left had to chirp about Linda Grahamnesty winning his primary last night and bragged about he won because he supports amnesty. Truth is,he ran against 6 candidates. The Tea Party in South Carolina is very territorial and the four could not agree on one candidate to endorse so they split the vote. Grahamnesty also actively solicited democrats to cross over and vote for him. About 20% of his total was from democrat switchovers who will now switch back. Truth is, Linda is just damn lucky. In 2010 the dems ran a convicted drug dealer against him and now he managed to avoid a runoff thanks to democrat shenanigans.

However,there was another primary in the Palmetto State yesterday. Tim Scott… you know,the one the NAALCP accused of being a puppet with the racist white slavemasters pulling his strings? Yeah,that one. He got 90% of the vote in his primary. He garnered more than 60,000 more votes than McCain’s butt boy.
http://weaselzippers.us/189350-tim-scott-running-in-his-own-primary-in-south-carolina-outperformed-lindsey-graham-by-nearly-60000-votes/

BEEN WAITING TO USE THIS ONE:

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The thing that terrifies me now is what will happen between November and January. If the democrats do,indeed,lose their majority in the Senate expect them to try to shove some parting gifts through before they go to work as lobbyists. This is what happened here in Illinois. On the very last day of the lame duck the dems passed a 67% income tax increase. They got no republican votes. The single vote it passed by was bought from an outgoing dem who got a cushy advisory job making mid-six figures to do basically nothing. That’s how they do it here in the land of the undead voter.

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by | June 10, 2014 · 9:29 pm

CONGRATS,TING!!! CANTOR DEFEATED!!!!!

Posted by Pistol Pete

Reports of the demise of the Tea Party are greatly exaggerated. The hard work Ting and her friends put in leads to one of the most stunning upsets in recent memory.

House Majority Leader Eric Cantor has suffered a shocking defeat to a Tea Party challenger in Virginia’s Republican primary.  Cantor, the No. 2 Republican in the House of Representatives, had faced what was considered to be a long-shot challenge Dave Brat, a Tea Party-backed professor. T he Associated Press called the race for Brat shortly after 8 p.m.

[Insert by CtH: “Just saw this on my Facebook and HAD to add it to this with my own congrats to TING!!!]

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Cantor’s loss stunned much of the political world. There was no polling to suggest the majority leader was in trouble, nor did anyone think Brat posed a serious challenge. His internal polling put him up 34 points just a few days ago. Cantor had outspent Brat by a 5-to-1 margin, according to the latest campaign disclosure reports.

In remarks shortly after the race was called, Cantor said serving in the district was “one of the highest honors” of his life.

“We want to create a Virginia and an America that works for everyone, and we need to focus our efforts as conservative representatives on putting forth our conservative solutions so that they can help solve the problems for so many middle class families,” Cantor said.

“I know there are a lot of long faces here tonight, and it’s disappointing, sure. But I believe in this country. I believe there’s opportunity around the next corner for all of us, so I look forward to continuing to fight with all of you for the things that we believe in for the conservative cause.”

Tea Party-aligned members of the House immediately said it served as a “wake-up call” to House leadership.

Cantor, who was once popular with Tea Party types, had come under fire from Brat and other conservatives for his support to reform federal immigration laws, one of the thorniest issues among the Republican base. Brat had branded Cantor as a Beltway insider who was not conservative enough. Cantor was considered a candidate for House Speaker after John Boehner.

Democrats said it was clear Cantor’s loss proved the Tea Party had won its battle with establishment Republicans.

“Tonight’s result in Virginia settles the debate once and for all — the Tea Party has taken control of the Republican Party. Period,” Democratic National Committee Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz said in a statement.

“When Eric Cantor, who time and again has blocked common sense legislation to grow the middle class, can’t earn the Republican nomination, it’s clear the GOP has redefined ‘far right.’ Democrats on the other hand have nominated a mainstream candidate who will proudly represent this district and I look forward to his victory in November.”

Cantor may have dismissed Brat too easily as he was pushing amnesty as late as yesterday.

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JOHN BOEHNER’S REACTION:
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THERE WILL BE MUCH MORE SAID ABOUT THIS,I’M SURE.

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by | May 31, 2014 · 3:00 pm

Sandra Fluke is absurd

Sadly, she’s running in San Freakingcisco, so she’ll probably win. And she’ll fit right in with the other Leftie Whiners in the State Senate of Nuts, Berries and Bankruptcy. Her campaign has featured a picture of her with boxing gloves and a big claim to have “won her fight with Rush Limbaugh.”  Yesterday, she claimed, “My fight with Limbaugh clearly show you the kind of leader that I am.”

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Sandra Fluke’s ONE public “accomplishment” has been to demand Congress force other people to pay for her birth control. Her “fight” with Limbaugh was over him calling her a “slut” after she told Congress that she was a 30-year-old college student who couldn’t afford the $3000 she’d spent on birth control. Her big “fight” with Rush Limbaugh started with him calling her a slut and ended with him apologizing. Yeah. “Leadership.” Uh huh. Riiiiiiiiight.

Tweeters had fun:

  • Yes, actually it DOES define you. It’s the only reason anyone knows you. The only thing that gave you any measure of fame.
  • You defined yourself when you went before Congress demanding that we pay for your contraception.
  • I don’t think “leader” means what you think it means.
  • “Pitiful” is the word you’re looking for.
  • That she still references Limbaugh speaks volumes.
  • Rush lives rent-free in her head.
  • Wanting Americans to pay for your your contraception is being a leader? Yep you’re a Democrat all right.
  • It shows you can play the victim and get on talk shows. What kind of leadership is that?
  • It shows she’s the kind of leader who wants other people to assume the costs of her decisions.
  • I didn’t know great leaders acted like victims.
  • She learned everything she knows about leadership from Barack Obama.
  • She showed what kind of a “leader” she was when she held a rally in a parking space.

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Her claim to have spent more than $3000 on “birth control” always struck me as deeply fraudulent. Nothing but ABORTION costs that much and abortion was allegedly not part of the whole “free birth control” thing. Except tax-payers funding abortion has ALWAYS been what Obamacare and the HHS mandate have been about.  The only people who don’t get that are the Christian Democrats who still have their heads stuck up where the sun don’t shine. I pity them when they get to judgment.

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by | May 25, 2014 · 6:21 am

This makes me sad

It’s crap like this that makes people like me lose faith in the system.

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The judge was appointed by President Obama last year. What a shock. Not. Clearly, rules are for the peasants and by “peasants” I mean “Conservatives.”

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by | May 15, 2014 · 7:05 pm

Hypocrite thy name is Democrat

Martha Robertson Jailhouse Crock

Robertson is running for Congress is my district against the Republican incumbent, Tom Reed, who is a PROVEN CONSERVATIVE with a real heart for listening and representing ALL his constituents.

One time, I wrote to him about a vote I thought I disagreed with, but his response convinced me he’d done his homework and voted correctly. He agreed with me in principle, but said the text of the specific bill was seriously problematic.

Dearest has also met him personally a number of times in small sessions with local Republican leaders and watched him manage larger townhall style meetings where tempers can get hot. He said he’s a good man and an excellent representative.

Dearest has also met Robertson and seen her operate. She’s a female Chuck Schumer. Neither of us would vote for her if she was running unopposed. I read her blog for a while, but it made my head spin so I stopped. One time, she went on about how she really does not get at all why Republicans make such a big deal about the American flag. Another time, she preened about going to the trouble to visit a new polling space that had been volunteered by a church to make sure no voter would have to see a cross or other religious symbol!

SERIOUSLY?  Are Leftists really so far out of touch with reality that they can simultaneously freak out about a voter seeing a cross on a wall, but not understand the flag?

Oh wait … yes, they can. In fact, they do it ALL THE TIME!

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by | May 3, 2014 · 12:06 pm

Random Saturday Stuff

Things I picked up at Facebook or got sent in email.  Usually, I’d add these to Pete’s post, but he doesn’t usually put anything up on Saturday.

This is a VERY interesting article about a Pro-Life program that really works. I think the author’s points about how to dialogue successfully with left-wingers can be applied successfully to any political issue and are worth studying.

http://www.lifenews.com/2014/05/02/how-i-got-a-pro-abortion-biology-professor-to-consider-the-pro-life-perspective/

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Ten year old Willie Myrick was kidnapped from his front yard in Atlanta. The kidnapper told him, “I don’t want to hear a word from you.”

That’s when Myrick began to sing a gospel song called “Every Praise.” The kidnapper started cursing and repeatedly told Myrick to shut up, but he wouldn’t. He sang the song for about three hours until the kidnapper let him out of the car. The little boy ran to a nearby home and asked the resident to call his guardian.

Myrick recently got to meet “Every Praise” gospel singer Hezekiah Walker, and they sang the song together. Police don’t have any leads on the suspect, but are hoping a sketch they released will generate tips.

http://foxnewsinsider.com/2014/04/22/%E2%80%98every-praise%E2%80%99-kidnapper-releases-10-year-old-who-won%E2%80%99t-stop-singing-gospel-song

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A Portland alternative newspaper called The Willamette Week hosted Republican primary candidates for U.S. Senate to, in the paper’s words, “explore questions that we think matter most to our readers.”

As one of the other candidates was answering a question, candidate Mark Callahan noticed a reporter writing “blah blah blah blah blah” on his notepad.

He confronted the man, wanting to know why he was being so disrespectful. The moderator broke in, saying he wanted to move on to another question and advised CALLAHAN to answer respectfully.

Callahan shot back: “You have to give respect in order to get respect. Right now on that side of the table, you’re not giving very much respect to the five of us and our time here.”

Their verbal tussle continued briefly, then Callahan was asked whether he believed climate change is a myth or reality.

“Myth,” he fired back.

Jaquiss, the blah-blah-blah reporter, sarcastically asked, “Where are you on the Easter bunny?”

“Are these really the questions I was called here to answer?” demanded Callahan. “I called you out for putting ‘blah blah blah blah blah’ on your notepad and now you’re asking me questions like this? Really? Are we talking about this now?”

The committee leader suggested Callahan leave and Callahan laughed at him.

Someone said, “There’s the door,” and Callahan left.

The Willamette Week posted a one-hour-42-minute video of the entire candidate-endorsement meeting online. The 2 minute volatile exchange with Callahan went viral, which is helping Callahan’s campaign.

Oregon’s primary election is May 20.

http://www.wnd.com/2014/05/republican-calls-out-reporter-gets-booted-from-meeting/

 

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by | April 24, 2014 · 5:40 am

Hysterical GOP candidate response to Dumbocrat attack

The following is from an article at Catholic Vote:

Democrat Rep. Gary Peters of suburban Detroit is normally a very strong campaigner. But he’s having a tougher time than expected as he tries to win the Senate seat of retiring Democrat Carl Levin.

To help him sagging poll numbers, Peters thought he would bring back the “war on women” campaign tactic that proved very successful for Democrats in 2012.

Surely you remember the faux “war or women.” This is where feminists and Democratic candidates went before tv cameras and aired commercials asserting that if Republicans like Mitt Romney won women would somehow be unable to purchase contraception anymore.

What?!?

The Pill has been readily available at every corner drug store for over 50 years. Contraception has even been subsidized by state and federal governments for decades.

No political candidate has suggested making the Pill illegal.

We expect politicians to lie, but the “war on women” attack has got to be the most disingenuous political attack of the last 50 years.

If you don’t favor forcing businesses to offer contraception as a free benefit to employees, then somehow you are “anti-woman” and you want to make contraception illegal.

It’s a total lie. But it worked in 2012. So Gary Peters went for this attack and called his opponent “anti-woman.”

The only problem? Gary Peters’ opponent is a woman.

And Terri Lynn Land refused to let this garbage attack go unanswered. She pounced on Peters’ nonsense talk with a very clever ad of her own.

Terri Lynn Land’s reply to Gary Peters’ attack < FUNNY!

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H/t Pistol Pete

This Democrat called his opponent anti-woman. You have to watch the response.

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