January 19, 2014: Former Navy SEAL Ben Smith at SC Tea Party Coalition Convention [3:22]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hq0zBNS7q8c
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Cantor defeat: Mythbuster edition
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.
Filed under David Brat, Democrats, Elections, Eric Cantor, Immigration, Mythbusting, Republicans, Tea Party
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.
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.”
Even Blabbermouth put down her mayonnaise to chime in:
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:
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.
Filed under David Brat, Democrats, Elections, Eric Cantor, Lindsey Graham, Media Bias, Republicans, Tea Party
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!!!]
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.
JOHN BOEHNER’S REACTION:
THERE WILL BE MUCH MORE SAID ABOUT THIS,I’M SURE.
Filed under David Brat, Elections, Eric Cantor, Tea Party
Bubble bath your window has a churning wombat skillet
and other things that make total sense only inside the Obamacrat Reality Bubble.
Tweet replies to Donna “Churning Wombat” Brazile’s whining about all us meanie pants who don’t like President Boyfriend’s law breaking:
- The most powerful man on earth is the victim of bullying? Sweet fancy Moses.
- The guy who’s pushing his way past congress to do whatever he wants is a victim of bullying? #backwards
- If I could dumb myself down enough to actually compare going to prom with bypassing Congress, I’d probably be a Democrat too.
- Bipartisanship? The Dem led Senate has held nothing but partisan votes. More than any time in the last 5 decades — a record.
- Hey, Donna. Care to help us out with bullies too? Thanks! ~ Conservatives targeted and harassed by Obama’s IRS
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Filed under Barack Obama, Democrats, Donna Brazile, Tea Party
Tax lawyer testifies to Congress re IRS scandal
You need to watch this.
Feb 6, 2014: Tax lawyer Cleta Mitchell told Congress today the IRS is still targeting conservative groups. Mitchell also said the “ongoing” DOJ investigation is a complete sham.
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Filed under Government Corruption, IRS, Taxes, Tea Party, U.S. Congress
Media Bias and the New Nixon
The IRS has apologized for targeting conservative political groups during the 2012 election in order to hinder their ability to raise campaign money and support challengers to Democrat candidates.
Now it’s coming out that IRS agents were targeting Tea Party groups in 2011 as well. Color me shocked. Okay. Not so much. Certainly the Palins aren’t surprised.
You know what OTHER administration misused the power of the IRS to target political enemies?
What’s the difference? The media. Nixon was a Republican. Obama is a Democrat.
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Filed under Democrats, IRS, Media Bias, Republicans, Richard Nixon, Sarah Palin, Tea Party
THE CONTINUING SAGA OF MELISSA VERY-SCARY
Posted by Pistol Pete
This is a feeble attempt by yours truly to try to do a post like CtH could do it.
If you haven’t been paying attention,this is MHP:
For their year-end show they had a bunch of unfunny leftist “comedians” on to mock…what else? Republicans. They showed a picture of Mitt Romney’s family with their newly-adopted black grandchild on Romney’s lap. All these ‘tolerant’ slugs saw was a shiny black face in a sea of white. They thought it was really funny joking about the little ‘token.’
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2aOzv0xHWRE
Afterwards,a storm of outrage exploded all over the twitterverse about the crass insensitivity of this no-talent hack.
Fearing for her job,she offered this heartfelt “apology.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFLu-2sr3nU
At least she didn’t wear her trademark tampon earrings.
Right after her phony apology,Slate bitch Katrina Van Den Hateful sniffed:
“But I do think the right-wing populism of the tea party not only became so obsessed with an anti-government meme, but let’s be honest. There is a race … racism threaded through the right-wing populism, I mean which is not unusual to American right-wing populism, that has not allowed for coalitions that could be built on behalf of working people in this country against the most powerful interests.”
Phallic Baldtwerp tweeted:
If I cry, will I be forgiven all of my transgressions?
— ABFoundation (@ABFalecbaldwin) January 5, 2014
Even Keith Olberpuke piled on:
Any adults in charge over there? RT @politico Melissa Harris-Perry apologizes to Romney family for using their black adopted grandson in a comedy segment http://politi.co/1hSfI8u
Alec Baldwin Subtweets MSNBC And Melissa Harris-Perry, Wondering If Crying Would Have Helped Him
From HotAir.com:
Yeah, the interesting thing about this is that they put the photo on the air even though they obviously didn’t have anything to say about it. Ostensibly it’s comic fodder for Harris-Perry’s panel of comedians to riff, but all they can muster is (1) hey, one of them looks different, (2) a Kardashian joke from MHP herself, and (3) a predictable dig at the GOP — which would have worked just as well as a dig at Obama’s 2012 campaign team, actually. It’s not that the photo’s inherently funny or that a white family adopting a black child is wrong — imagine them reacting to a photo of Tom Cruise with his adopted son — it’s that, I think, they felt they couldn’t let it go unremarked upon that the GOP’s last nominee seems happy to have a black child in his family. On MSNBC, racism is the only reason to become a Republican. They’ve got to mock, even if they’re not exactly sure what they’re mocking, to delegitimize the inconvenient possibility that Romney isn’t prejudiced. Or maybe I’m giving them too much credit; maybe they do have a problem with interracial adoptions, a controversial subject in family law for ages. A lot of people who’d normally insist that race is nothing more than a social construct tend to get fidgety when a black child goes to live with a white family because it risks depriving him of his “authenticity.” Maybe that’s happening here, although I lean towards the “look at this Republican with a black kid!” gawk theory.
In other “all conservative thoughts spring from prejudice” news, apparently making fun of a grown man for wearing pajamas that a three-year-old would wear is proof of anti-Semitism.
THOSE MSLSD FOLKS SURE ARE A GRACEFUL BUNCH,AREN’T THEY?
MHP has a white mother and her dad is bi-racial. Except for a few nightmares like Sheila Jackass-Lee,name another famous black woman who isn’t partially white. I’m not trying to be racist,I just want to know.
Joyless Reid looks black,but could she be Ol’ Harry’s love Chile?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yR7rLUaZs4k
Class act,ain’t she?
Howard Kurtz has a theory. He’s kind of enjoyable since he left CNN.
Howard Kurtz wonders if MSNBC is being deliberately crude. When your ratings have hit rock bottom, the easy way for a TV network to revive your fortunes is to have your hosts deliberately create controversy, which generates social media buzz, which drives viewers to your network.
Is it possible all of these controversies at MSNBC over the last few months have been the result of company policy which encourages MSNBC personalities to be rude and crude?
Mitt Romney was on Fox News Sunday yesterday. As expected,he handled it with class.
I know this post lacks the artistic style of others contributors,but I do the best I can with what I have.
Filed under Media Bias, Mitt Romney, Race Relations, Republicans, Tea Party
Media bias (again and again and again)
EVERY time there’s a violent crime in the headlines, the Left Stream Media immediately starts screaming RIGHT WINGNUT, TEA PARTY and DAMN THE NRA.
A day or two later, after somebody who is an actual journalist finds out who the perp actually was, the Left Stream Media is suddenly Oh-So-Uninterested in what always turns out to be that person’s LEFT WINGNUT political affiliations.
It happened again this week with the LAX shooter. I saw lefties tweeting anti-right slogans even as the shooter was still unknown and at large. But, as per usual, the LAX shooter (aka, Paul Anthony Ciancia) was a registered Democrat.
“Liberals With Guns!” by Wild Bill for America [1:57]
Source:
http://freepatriot.org/2013/11/07/bombshell-guess-the-political-party-of-the-lax-shooter/
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Filed under Democrats, George Zimmerman, Kermit Gosnell, Media Bias, Tea Party
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