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A Personal Note from John O'Neill

A note received in email from fellow a Vietnam Vet Against John Kerry and SwiftBoat Veteran, John O'Neill about the Obamessiah.

A Personal Note from John O'Neill

Dear Friend,

Over the past couple of weeks, you may have received my letters, urging you to read The Case Against Barack Obama: The Unlikely Rise and Unexamined Agenda of the Media's Favorite Candidate by National Review Online political reporter David Freddoso. I am happy to say this book is now #5 on the New York Times bestseller list. But we cannot relax for a moment: Obama still leads in the polls, and this is the book every voter needs to read to learn the truth about his record.

As you may recall, I was privileged to play a role in helping prevent John Kerry from being elected president when my fellow Swift Boat Veterans and I released the book Unfit for Command. As liberal as Kerry was, America faces an even more liberal threat today: Barack Obama. And I fully believe The Case Against Barack Obama is the 2008 version of Unfit for Command and could keep Obama out of the White House.

In The Case Against Barack Obama , Freddoso uncovers the stories the mainstream media has neglected, revealing Obama for who he really is: the U.S. senator with the #1 most liberal voting record in the Senate. And a politician whose rhetoric of "change" does not match the reality of his corrupt, "Chicago-machine politics" background.

As American citizens, it is our right and duty to question the background, character, and proposals of any candidate who could be our next commander in chief. Democrats and the media are not holding Obama accountable, so conservatives must. I'm grateful to David Freddoso and my publisher, Regnery, for finally revealing the man behind the myth.

I urge you to read the New York Times bestseller The Case Against Barack Obama . I also recommend that you buy copies for your friends and relatives who may consider voting for Obama. They deserve to know the truth, too.

Please click on one of the links below to order your copy today.

Sincerely,

John O'Neill

McCain's Illegal Alien Constituents Kill Again

The Bush-McCain-Kennedy Illegal Alien Constituency is responsible for many thousands of deaths in the USA and THE POLITICIANS DO NOT GIVE A DAMN! To them this is just the price of giving freedom to their beloved illegals.

• Bush has the power right NOW to do something (as Eisenhower did with a microscopic budget and 1/10th the manpower, "Operation Wetback") and flat out refuses.

• McCain is promising to reward them with citizenship if he becomes president.

• Kennedy is a very long term panderer, probably since eating his first tequila worm.

From VDare.com, I cross post an article of 2 deaths that were 100% preventable, had our government been doing its job. Our politicians are only interested in the feeling of the rush of POWER they get from pandering to the illegal aliens. There are tens of thousands of these needless, senseless deaths every year, entirely attributable to politicians turning away from their oath of office and instead pandering to criminals.

Virginia Beach Teens Killed at Intersection

[Brenda Walker] @ 3:59 pm [Email author] [Email This Article]

Tessa Tranchant, 16, and Allison Kunhardt, 17, were killed late Friday.

According to grieving father Ray Tranchant, his daughter Tessa and her best friend Allison Kunhardt, “were just sitting at the light, strapped in their seat belts. They were just doing what they were supposed to be doing.”

But obeying the law is not enough protection any more, since drunk-driving illegal aliens are making the roads a far more hazardous place. The accused, illegal alien Alfredo Ramos, was apparently so blotto that he doesn’t even remember the accident.

Afterward, [Ramos] told him he had no memory of the crash. He learned from authorities that he had killed two people, his brother said.

Ramos, who was born in Mexico of Guatemalan parents, has been in the United States for about seven years.
[Suspect in crash that killed 2 had alcohol-related convictions , Hampton Roads Pilot 4/3/07]

Ramos had a prior DUI conviction in Chesapeake this year, so if Rep. Sue Myrick's Scott Gardner Act had been law, he would have been immediately deported for being a drunk-driving illegal alien. The legislation, originally written in 2005, has been resubmitted in this Congress as HR1355 .

The girls were very close friends, known to finish each other's sentences. Tessa's mom Colette called the two “inseparable.” They were outgoing, fun-loving and had many friends. It’s a terrible tragedy that their lives ended so young, and that the accident could have been prevented if Washington were doing its job of maintaining secure borders.

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McCain's not-so-secret plan to lose Michigan

Susan J. Demas: McCain's not-so-secret plan to lose Michigan
Column available online only
• MAY 9, 2008 • FROM LANSING STATE JOURINAL

Say you're running for president and dropping by the most economically ravaged state in the nation.

Your Democratic rivals are too busy butchering one another to campaign here, much less notice 7.2 percent unemployment, record foreclosures and skyrocketing demand at local food banks.

So naturally, you'd give a speech on child pornography and human trafficking around the world, right?

It's not that John McCain's 20-minute indictment of these heinous crimes at Oakland University in Rochester Hills on Wednesday wasn't admirable.

But it was a speech you deliver outside the United Nations, not a few miles from Delphi world headquarters, which just emerged from bankruptcy after shuttering factories and slashing wages in half for many autoworkers.

In Michigan, it's the economy, stupid.

Republican after Republican I talked to, including McCain's most diehard supporters, were floored by the misstep. He has a great shot at winning the Mitten State thanks to a botched Democratic primary, but his advisers seem intent on blowing it.

Most of the 700 attendees stared at McCain with slack-jawed politeness before the town hall portion, in which they hungrily fired off questions about jobs, the Iraq war, fuel-economy standards and even his temper (to which he drolly shot back, "How dare you ask me that question.")

My man McCain, whom I proudly voted for in the Jan. 15 primary, is not a born orator. He gives a tired, rambling speech with the same awkward punchlines ("The French now have a pro-American president, which shows that if you live long enough, anything can happen") he unfurled back in the start of primary season.

He also took a long layover in Panderville to appease a crowd more conservative than he, filled with party activists who voted for Mitt Romney and Mike Huckabee and cried for days when Mighty Mac crushed them. McCain's lines about trial lawyers, conservative judges, victory in Iraq and nuclear power won cheers; his straight talk on global warming was met with crickets.

Even the barebones traveling press corps seemed exhausted and cranky, perhaps knowing the A-Team was having a blast covering the Hillary Clinton-Barack Obama smackdown. During the heat of the Michigan primary, I wanted to break out the popcorn as Time magazine columnists Joe Klein and Ana Marie Cox sniped over who got to cover McCain in Howell.

In Rochester Hills, the only person who looked like he wanted to be there was Michigan Co-Chair Chuck Yob, who held court at the jumbled affair for more than an hour before McCain arrived.

McCain has a window to define himself in Michigan. Democratic hopefuls have barely stepped foot here since National Committeewoman Debbie Dingell hatched her harebrained primary scheme that cost the state every delegate, a mess they're still trying to mop up.

He failed this week. He failed when he turned down the keynote address at the influential Mackinac Policy Conference this month to do a fundraiser in Grand Rapids. McCain's not going to get that many more chances before the Dems (finally) get their act together.

If you want to know why the virtually nonexistent McCain Michigan campaign is wheezing, look no further than Yob, a knee-jerk reactionary who miraculously hung onto his job after spouting off that women make fine secretaries of state "because they like that sort of work."

Yob and his boy, John Patrick, launched a boneheaded West Michigan strategy (their only strategy) that handed McCain a 9-point primary loss. Keep in mind that McCain won a stunning upset here against George W. Bush in 2000, back when his campaign was headed by the brilliant former U.S. Rep. Joe Schwarz.

The Yobs are completely tone-deaf when it comes to Oakland County, which will be the key to a McCain victory in November. Where was iconic County Executive L. Brooks Patterson on Wednesday? Senate Majority Leader Mike Bishop couldn't even make it back to his district because the event was scheduled at the exact same time as session.

That's who you want on stage, not state Rep. Jack Hoogendyk, R-Kalamazoo, the sacrificial right-wing lamb praying to break 40 percent against U.S. Sen. Carl Levin this fall.

What's best for McCain would be turning the Yobs loose to pursue their true passion, polarizing the party and making state Chair Saul Anuzis' life miserable (sorry, Saul, I'm rootin' for you).

When Chuckie was making noises about running for party chair in 2004, Attorney General Mike Cox adeptly surmised it would be disastrous because "he's more concerned with party elections than with beating Democrats." Cox went on to be McCain's state chair, only to quit last summer after chafing with the Yob West Michigan mafia.

What McCain should do now is aggressively court powerbrokers like Patterson, Bishop and U.S. Rep. Candice Miller to be his ambassadors in Southeast Michigan. And he should give his old friend Joe Schwarz a call and beg him to run the show again, since he's about the only credible moderate voice left here who could woo votes away from Obama.

That's just good politics if you're serious about winning Michigan. Your move, McCain.

Susan J. Demas is a political analyst for Michigan Information & Research Service.

She can be reached at sjdemas@gmail.com or http://susanjdemas.blogspot.com.

Run, Cole, Run

This guest editorial was received in email!

[ed: The moderate Republican wing tries to portray the refusal of conservatives to support Liberal John McCain as suicide, when it is really moderates playing russian roulette with a revolver with one cylinder empty.]

In this article:

• Republicans finally realize they're in big trouble (duh!)...
• So they're talking about getting new leaders, replacing ones like Rep. Tom Cole (well, that's a start)...
• But they seem to be as clueless as ever about what they really need to do...
• It's going to take more than shuffling the deck chairs on the G.O.P. Titanic

Run, Cole, Run

By Richard A. Viguerie

Rep. Tom Cole (R-OK) is chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC)-the core GOP committee responsible for getting Republicans elected to the House, with majority control always as the ultimate goal.

Well, Cole and his NRCC haven't been doing so well lately, as you know if you've been watching the news at all. The Republicans have lost three straight special House elections this year-in Illinois, Louisiana, and most recently Mississippi-in three of the most conservative House districts in the nation.

That portends disaster in November. Predictably, a lot of House Republicans are calling for Cole's head. They want him replaced as chairman of the NRCC.

I have no problem with that. For over two years I've called for the wholesale replacement of Republican leaders in the Senate, the House, and the various GOP committees from the Republican National Committee on down. Cole is definitely on my "X" list.

But it's not enough to just shuffle the deck chairs on the G.O.P. Titanic. Yes, the current pilots of the ship headed the Republican Party directly toward the iceberg with their welfare-warfare policies, but it does no good to simply replace them with another set of navigators following the same charts.

The current Republican leadership must be replaced by principled small-government conservatives who will recreate the GOP as the Conservative Party. Only that will get the conservative base out of the lifeboats and back on board.

Make no mistake about it, Democrats didn't win in those three special House elections this year because their districts had suddenly turned liberal. The Republicans lost because the base of the GOP-conservatives-is so discouraged and angry over the big government policies of the national party.

And Rep. Tom Cole just doesn't get that.

Asked a year ago why the Republicans lost the House in 2006, Cole responded: "Oh, I don't think the problem was spending. People who argue that we lost because we weren't true to our base, that's just wrong."

He pooh-poohed the idea that the GOP was hurt by appropriating federal money for bridges to nowhere in Alaska.

Well, Congressman, how are you doing without your base?

"I think we've hit our floor," Cole said a year ago. "For us to lose more seats, it's going to take a catastrophic presidential election."

Well, Congressman, it looks like you're headed right for that perfect storm-a catastrophic presidential election and, according to current estimates, a loss of 20 more GOP seats in the House and equally disastrous results in the Senate.

By all means, fire Cole and all the rest of the Republican leadership. But if the Republicans are taking their "Change you deserve" antidepressant pills, and are no longer suicidal, they must replace the Coles with leaders who understand one simple axiom:

You lose by rejecting your conservative base and trying to buy elections with liberal big-government bribes. You win by energizing your conservative base and then reaching out to like-minded independents.

--30--

NOTE TO EDITORS: Richard A. Viguerie pioneered political direct mail and has been called "one of the creators of the modern conservative movement" (The Nation magazine) and one of the "conservatives of the century" (The Washington Times). His latest book is Conservatives Betrayed: How George W. Bush and Other Big-Government Republicans Hijacked the Conservative Cause (Bonus Books), which Jerome Corsi wrote in WorldNetDaily, is "destined to become a classic of conservative thinking" and "may be the most important conservative book written in the last quarter century."

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You dont need a weatherman

You dont need a weatherman

by Ann Coulter

http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=26201

The key problem for Hillary's campaign is that normal people reel back in horror at her association with the Clinton administration. (Which is why, as her supporter, I refer to her as simply "Hillary.")

If Hillary could run exclusively on her record since becoming a senator from New York, she'd be a relatively moderate Democrat who hates the loony left -- as we found out this week when a tape of Hillary denouncing Moveon.org surfaced. Think Joe Biden in a pantsuit.

But because of her unfortunate marriage, Hillary comes with a cast of undesirables like James Carville, Paul Begala, Terry McAuliffe, Joe Conason -- and of course Bill Clinton, along with his trusted impeachment manager Larry Flynt. Buy one, get the entire dirt-bag collection free!

continue

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The 'Isms' That Bedevil Bush, particularly PATRIOTISM

Bush belittles patriots calling them 'nativists' while he pursues a policy of 'jingoism' overseas.

It is the PATRIOTISM of citizens that is keeping him from the keystone of his legacy, amnesty/citizenship for illegal aliens here in the USA.

Cross posted from the HumanEvents article of Patrick J. Buchanan:

The 'Isms' That Bedevil Bush

by Patrick J. Buchanan

Posted: 03/25/2008

On reading George Bush's discourse to the New York Economic Club last week, Cicero's insight came to mind: "To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child."

With Iraq entering its sixth year, the dollar sinking to peso levels, the economy careening into recession, and 12 million to 20 million illegal aliens roosting here, Bush alerted us to what really worries him:

"I'm troubled by isolationism and protectionism ... (and) another 'ism,' and that's nativism. And that's what happened throughout our history. And probably the most grim reminder of what can happen to America during periods of isolationism and protectionism is what happened in the late -- in the '30s, when we had this America First policy and Smoot-Hawley. And look where it got us."

[ed: It really keeps him awake nights trying to dream up a scheme to legalize all those illegal aliens he has employed and promised citizenship back at the Bush ranch in Crawford, Texas. So he has to belittle patriotic citizens for wanting to remove the hoard of invaders that are occupying US territory and taking jobs that citizens would do in factories making skids and other industrial work that are currently occupied by illegal workers. McCain has taken over the Bush dream and wants to make amnesty HIS legacy. McCain also wants to continue to beat down the push for a full acounting of the MIAs of Vietnam. John Kerry destroyed the documents of live sightings that were in government hands and McCain approved.]

Let us try to sort out this dog's breakfast.

First, America was never isolationist. From its birth, the republic was a great trading nation with ties to the world. True, in 1935, 1936 and 1937, a Democratic Congress passed and FDR signed neutrality acts to keep us out of the Italo-Abyssinian and Spanish civil wars. And FDR did say, "We are not isolationist except insofar as we seek to isolate ourselves completely from war." But how did staying out of Abyssinia and Spain hurt America?

As for Smoot-Hawley, it was a tariff enacted in June 1930, nine months after the Crash of 1929, which occurred, as Milton Friedman won a Nobel Prize for proving, when the stock market bubble, caused by the Fed's easy money policy, burst. Smoot-Hawley had nothing to do with a Depression that began in 1929 and lasted through FDR's first two terms. This is a liberal myth, probably taught to Mr. Bush by New Deal Democrats at the Milton Academy.

America First was an organization of 800,000 anti-interventionists formed at Yale in 1940 by patriots like Gerald Ford, Potter Stewart and Sargent Shriver, backed by John F. Kennedy, to check FDR's drive to war. Herbert Hoover supported it, and its greatest spokesman was the Lone Eagle, Charles Lindbergh.

But America First did not make policy. FDR did. And it was FDR who, by cutting off Japan's oil in July 1941, rebuffing Prince Konoye's offer to meet him in the Pacific or Alaska and issuing a virtual ultimatum on Nov. 26, 1941 -- to get out of China -- that propelled Japan to its fatal decision to attack Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7.

Isolationist is an epithet used to smear those patriots... [more]

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Easter Question: Which Church Is The Top Treason Lobbyist?

Cross posted at "No Amnesty - GOT IT?"

Cross posted from:

VDare.com

Easter Question: Which Church Is The Top Treason Lobbyist?

By Joe Guzzardi

No matter which church you may attend on Easter Sunday, you stand a high probability of hearing a plea for "justice for immigrants"that’s a given. And you’ll also be called upon from the pulpit to, against all logic, embrace more immigration.

[ed: My parish has a Vietnamese priest. During our Easter services, he never once said a word that could be misinterpreted towards immigration. He was a LEGAL immigrant before he entered the seminary here in the USA.]

Accordingly, earlier this week I set out to determine which major religious denomination, pound for pound, has the worst pro-immigration record-members of the Treason Lobby, as we call it here at VDARE.COM. I limited my search to Roman Catholic as well as the Lutheran and Methodist Churches.

My secondary task was to find an official who represents one of those religions but who is also an immigration realist.

The Roman Catholic Church

For pro-alien lobbying, the Catholic church (in which I was raised) is by far the most the most visible and notorious of the three. And well it should be, with a flock of 68 million members. That total represents nearly 25 percent of the world’s Catholic population.

From the Pacific Ocean to the Atlantic, Catholic immigration pandering has been non-stop for years. Even the relatively recent pedophilia scandals have barely slowed down Catholic immigration enthusiasm.

Over the last five years, Catholic Cardinals-most prominently Roger Cardinal Mahony, the Archbishop of Los Angeles-have urged support for amnesty and have argued passionately against immigration enforcement legislation.

Going one-step further to prove that no statement or action endorsing immigration is too outrageous, Mahony advocates violating federal law when and if enforcement measures are ever passed.

VDARE.COM writers have criticized Mahony with increasing disgust as his advocacy for illegal immigrants has intensified and his involvement in the pedophilia cover-ups have become more obvious.

But Mahony is far from the only Catholic Cardinal voice for aliens.

On the opposite coast, New York’s Cardinal Edward M Egan was out front and center (speaking Spanish, no less) at the Immigrant Workers’ Freedom Ride, an even orchestrated five years ago and organized by dozens of open borders subversives who predicted—100 percent incorrectly—that it would pressure Congress into passing an amnesty.

Other urgent issues like the New York diocese’s financial crisis have not distracted Egan, 75, from his illegal alien fanaticism.[ At 75, A Battle Tested but Unwavering Cardinal, By Michael Powell, New York Times, April 23, 2007]

The Methodists

Numbering about 15 million, about a quarter of the Catholic flock, they’re fewer but equally determined.

In 2006, VDARE.COM contributor W. James Antle, III exposed the Methodists and their "Open Hearts, Open Minds, Open Doors" policy, a transparent, feel-good slogan that can be condensed to "Open Borders."

Including their "Global Ministries ", "Justice for Our Neighbors " and "Hope for Newcomers " programs, the Methodists’ commitment to mass immigration is impressive to many-but not to us.

The Lutherans

They don’t have as much muscle (only 8 million members) as either the Catholics or the Methodists, but they’re tireless fighters, especially on behalf of “refugees”. Our Thomas Allen has written extensively about the refugee racket here.

The Lutherans always have a new wrinkle. The latest is its New Sanctuary Movement described as "a national immigrants' rights initiative by conscientious congregations responding to unjust deportations…" and a force that "…addresses the legal liabilities of providing sanctuary to undocumented immigrants."

"Troubling" state and local laws aimed at immigration enforcement concern the Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service. To assist in law breaking, the LIRS has prepared a backgrounder, acknowledging and thanking "the National Immigration Forum, the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund, the National Council of La Raza, the American Civil Liberties Union, and the National Immigration Law Center for sharing their resources."

I got a close look at the LIRS’s influence when I researched my column on the Somali Bantu invasion of tiny Cayce, South Carolina.

The local Lutheran coordinator for the Somalis, Rev. Richard Robinson, called the Bantus’ arrival "a blessing," even though few Cayce non-Lutherans agreed with him.

How much of a "blessing" LIRS-sponsored immigration may be depends on who you ask.

In 2004, James Fulford in his column linked the Lutherans, claiming to be "glorifying God’s name" and that "the love of God is in our hearts," to slavery and rape .[James Fulford writes: The actual acts of slavery and rape were, of course, committed by Albanian Gypsies -Lutherans aren't into that sort of thing .]

Comparing their relatively small numbers versus their influence on immigration policy in general and refugees in particular, I therefore announce my "pound for pound" top Treason Lobbyist...

THE LUTHERANS!

Battling individuals and organizations that allegedly follow the Bible’s word while doing "God’s work" is challenging. They purport to be on the high road while we the "nativists ," according to them, reject the Lord’s message.

But the Catholics, Methodists and Lutherans have distorted the truth to serve their own specific agenda—mainly money and more people in the pews.

The religious arguments center on how people of faith should treat the "sojourner," the catchall word they incorrectly use to represent today’s immigrants.

To learn more about their imprecise use of the Bible and its language—"the sojourner"—to beat back immigration reform patriots, I contacted Ed Childress, an ordained United Methodist elder and director of the Homeless Programs of Fauquier County, Virginia. I had worked with Childress when he was Deputy Director of NumbersUSA.

Childress (e-mail him) told me:

"I would emphasize again and again that ‘sojourner’ was a specific word for temporary wanderer, not meant to include immigrants. And the context of Biblical times, when ‘sojourner’ was used, was very different than today’s context. It’s appropriate that the citizens of a nation exercise oversight and stewardship of their national resources—and that includes their border."

Several years ago, Childress wrote an article for the Social Contract that included a five-point program on how to faithfully follow the Bible’s "true prescriptions" as they may relate to immigration. [The Sojourner Argument—Churches and Immigration, By Ed Childress, Social Contract, Spring 2001]

They are:

• Foreigners in this country should be accorded the respect and decency we owe to all people.

• People who are genuine refugees and cannot be cared for in proximity to their homes might be temporarily relocated to other countries. The U.S. would accept its fair share until they can safely return. Their temporary stay makes it possible for other refugees to "sojourn" here when necessary.

• Our ethic of caring requires we do what is necessary to help legal immigrants and legal residents to assimilate and function in U.S. society.

• Our ethic of caring requires that we not accept such a large number of annual immigrants that 1) Undermines the ability of workers to earn a decent living, 2) Harms the sustainability of the environment, and 3) Drains the best and brightest from their own nations where they can do the most good.

• We move away from an "America the Best" attitude and respect the future aspirations and identity of other nations.

The willingness—even eagerness—of the major religions to twist the Bible’s meaning shows that they, and not we, are the true immigration extremists.

Joe Guzzardi [ e-mail him] is the Editor of VDARE.COM Letters to the Editor. In addition, he is an English teacher at the Lodi Adult School and has been writing a weekly newspaper column since 1988. This column is exclusive to VDARE.COM.

[ed: Cross posted by permission from Joe Guzzardi. What Joe writes of is also known as the Marxist Christian Heresy that has crept into Big Religion.]

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This has been and will be Mexico - Alberto Lozano

Cross posted from VDare.com

http://blog.vdare.com/ archives/ 2008/03/ 15/this-has-been-and-will-be-mexico/

15 March 2008

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Conservatives to McCain: Long past wake up time...

...and almost time to "check out".

We are not waiting for you. If you want us, you will have to come calling with more than a pretty mouth. You are going to have to do a lot more than talking the talk since we have witnessed you mincing along with the socialist side of the aisle. Up to now, your dance card has always been filled with your socialist suitors.

To those party weenies that are totally party-first, being a conservative means holding principles that are not compromised for the sake of party unity. It means that a conservative may NOT necessarily be a Republican since the Republican party has abandoned conservatism for pragmatic centrism.

Conservatism is what took back control of Congress after decades of near-hereditary Imperial Democrat rule.

Conservatism is what put "Ronaldus Magnus Maximus" Reagan in the White House with landslide victories.

To McCain: Are you ready to go down in flames once again?

Received in email:

Richard A. Viguerie

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FOR RELEASE March 13, 2008

Richard Viguerie: Loss of Hastert Seat is Proof Conservatives

Are Prepared to Sit Out This Year's Elections

...It's a wakeup call for John McCain...

   (Manassas, Virginia) - Republicans' loss of the House seat held for two decades by former Speaker Dennis Hastert is "proof that conservatives are prepared to sit out the 2008 elections," Richard A. Viguerie, Chairman of ConservativeHQ.com, said. 

   "Instead of contributing and volunteering, conservatives are closing their checkbooks and staying home.  Liberals and Democrats are enthusiastic to a degree not seen in decades, and grassroots conservatives are sitting on their hands," Viguerie said.

   "This is a wakeup call for John McCain.  Since securing the nomination, he has done nothing significant to reach out to the conservatives who provide the vast majority of the volunteers for the Republican Party in every election.  Senator McCain, and all the candidates on the ballot with him, will pay the price in November."

[ed: What has McCain done? He has reserved a small patch of skin on the left cheek of his ass that he expects conservatives to come crawling to kiss. It wont work that way this time Little Johnny. You want us, not the other way around. ]

   In fact, Viguerie said, "The farther we go down this road, the longer it will take to repair the relationship between conservatives and the Republican Party.  The damage that's being done now will affect the party for years to come."

   In the race for the Hastert seat, the Republican nominee, Jim Oberweis - the handpicked choice of the GOP Establishment - reportedly had difficulty getting enough volunteers.  The Chicago Tribune reported that, when the primary runner-up, conservative State Senator Chris Lauzen, declined to endorse Oberweis, "his decision not to endorse Oberweis sidelined a potent grassroots organization that could have helped the Republican candidate." 

   So strapped for volunteers was the Oberweis campaign that, according to the newspaper The Hill, Republicans turned to congressional interns in Washington to make calls for Oberweis. 

   The defeat shows that the Republican Party's current political strategy is fundamentally flawed.  Said Viguerie: "Rather than running on the issues, Republican leaders continue to try to buy elections by earmarking and pork-barreling and special-interest spending, by using taxpayers' own money to try to buy elections."

   Viguerie noted a Hastert aide's comment regarding the billions of taxpayers' dollars he was willing to spend to save the seat of Representative Clay Shaw in 2000. "We knew" the control of the House "could come down to two seats," a Hastert aide recalled, "and if that meant we had to spend $8 billion for Mr. Shaw, that's what we were going to do."

   "The more earmarks, the angrier conservatives get.  They see Republican leaders corruptly, immorally spending our children's and grandchildren's inheritance, trying to buy elections.  And they're fed up.

   "Pork barrel spending," Viguerie said, "has turned to ashes in the mouths of the Republican leadership."

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Granholm and Cherry - Tax Dodgers according to the Feds

Thanks to Nick at RightMichigan.com

BREAKING: Granholm and Cherry busted by Feds for failure to pay taxes!!! By Nick

So after all that talk about the importance of new revenues the woman didn't even pay her own taxes?  Shocking details are emerging today that indicate Michigan's most prominent tax-hike advocates, Governor Jennifer Granholm and John Cherry, are in trouble with the federal government for, get this... refusing to pay their taxes!  The kind of trouble you don't get in for a minor offense.  The kind of trouble that only comes after repeated notifications from the federal government. A couple of sources indicate that Lansing's Channel 10 News will lead tonight's broadcast with the news that the United States Department of Treasury has slapped a $19,500 lien on the executive team's inaugural committee for failure to pay taxes.  That means that the same Governor and Lieutenant Governor of the State of Michigan who last year told working moms and dads that they had to fork over an extra $1.5 billion currently refuse to pay nearly twenty-thousand dollars in federal taxes.   A lien, boys and girls, is a big deal.  It means that the federal government can seize assets and come to collect the cash themselves, by force.   No wonder Granholm and Cherry thought the government needed additional revenue.  They knew there was a gaping hole in the budget created by their own chronic and ongoing delinquency.  Though delinquency might be the wrong word.  That implies that they're going to eventually pay their back taxes.  The Granholm Cherry Inaugural Committee hasn't really had any parties to plan for the last few years.  If they couldn't be bothered to pay their taxes to this point why on earth would they start now?  (Though something tells me this story might provide just the kick in the pants the feds need to collect what the duo owes.) This is the same Gov and LG who rammed a record shattering tax hike through the legislature last year, whose taxpayer funded budgets have increased by billions of dollars since 2002 and who are currently entrusted with the responsibility to budget and spend forty-three billion dollars this year alone.  Tax dollars.  Tax dollars normal folks paid to the government.  On time.  Apparently Granholm and Cherry have taken taxpayer funded paychecks so long they think that only the little people pay taxes. Can't blame this one of John Engler, or the Chinese, or the Republicans, or President Bush, or NAFTA, CAFTA, the SHAFTA, the Cookie Monster, Big Foot... I'm sorry Madame Governor... Sasquatch... But then again, this is the level of incompetence we've come to expect from the Granholm administration.  Well, ok, so maybe it's a few feet deeper into the incompetence pool than most of their typical mismanagement. The biggest tax hikers in the history of the State... tax cheats.  Sorta sets a whole new standard for liberal hypocrisy doesn't it?

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Keep The Faith—McCain (and Amnesty) Will Fail

Cross posted from Vdare.com - cross posted to "No Amnesty - GOT IT?"

http://www.vdare.com/guzzardi/080206_amnesty.htm

 

Keep The Faith—McCain (and Amnesty) Will Fail

By Joe Guzzardi

Let’s start with the good news. John McCain, the likely (but not absolutely certain) Republican nominee, will never be president.

(What are my credentials for such a bold statement? Wait until the last paragraph of this article!)

Coming after eight years of the disastrous George W. Bush administration and its legacy of war, lunatic immigration enthusiasm, indifference to the middle class and the crushing mortgage crisis, McCain would have a tough climb even if he were the ideal GOP candidate.

But in most ways, McCain is the worst possible candidate. He’s Bush all over again—maybe worse. Open those borders! Let’s stay a hundred more years in Iraq! (See McCain’s speech on YouTube here).

Good luck to McCain campaigning on a platform that echoes Bush and his 30 percent favorable poll rating.

Now for the bad news. If McCain doesn’t become president, then a Democrat will—most likely Hillary Clinton but there’s still plenty of time for Barack Obama to maneuver his way to the nomination.

Both are proud of their amnesty stances. And each insists, wrongly and hurtfully, that more non-immigrant worker visas are essential for the American economy to thrive.

To be sure, it’s a bummer that Republicans don’t have a solid patriotic immigration reform candidate that we can count on at the forefront of the race.

But have faith! Don’t panic! Amnesty will not come automatically regardless of who is elected. History and momentum are on our side.

Have readers totally forgotten how far we’ve come and the magnitude of our 2007 victories?

Here’s an example of what I mean.

Throughout Clinton and Obama’s campaigning and especially since McCain’s resurgence, my in-box has filled up with the direst messages—“ It’s all over now,” “This is the end!” and “Amnesty is inevitable!”

Rightly outraged correspondents are aghast that Obama endorses driver’s licenses for illegal aliens. To them, it is beyond the pale.

And I agree that, after watching N.Y. governor Eliot Spitzer get put through the sausage grinder on alien licensing, it is astonishing that any candidate would touch the subject, especially when it is so easily dodged by merely saying that states—not the federal government—regulate driving.

But that’s my point: who really cares what Obama thinks about licenses? He has no control over it. Any at his own risk.

And the same can be said about presidential opinions on amnesty: that issue is determined in Congress, not the White House.

To better understand the strength of our position, let’s review what’s happened in the amnesty wars since Bush took office.

Bush, at the outset, blindsided many (not all) of us. We didn’t foresee his fanatical devotion to open borders.

As hard as this still may be for some Republicans to swallow, it is impossible—as a practical matter—to be a bigger open borders advocate than Bush.

Remember that Bush’s first out-of-the country trip was to Mexico and the first foreign leader he invited to the White House was Vicente Fox. And Bush had barely survived the dangling chad vote count before he floated an amnesty trial balloon in the spring of 2001.

Then, after his 2004 re-election, Bush vowed to use what he perceived as his accumulated “political capital” to push for amnesty. Result: nothing!

And yet again after the 2006 mid-term election and as Bush worked non-stop with the pro-open border Democrats who controlled Congress, he still couldn’t push through an amnesty despite a series of passionate pleas he made in Arizona and during a rare (for a president) personal visit to Capitol Hill.

In short, for eight years Bush was repeatedly embarrassed on the immigration issue by both Republican- and Democratic-controlled Congresses.

Since Senators Clinton, Obama and McCain were all present and close-up witnesses to the series of beatings Bush took, is it realistic to expect that the first matter of business for whoever is elected will be amnesty?

Not very likely…and that’s not just my opinion either.

During a trip to Washington D.C. in December I attended separate meetings with immigration reform leaders that included NumbersUSA Executive Director Roy Beck, Mark Krikorian and Steve Camarota of Center for Immigration Studies, Hudson Institute Senior Fellow John Fonte and the Federation for American Immigration Reform. The overwhelming consensus is that amnesty is “too toxic” a subject and that it will not rear its ugly head until 2010 at the earliest.

This is a huge change. Remember that in January 2007, when the 110^th U.S. Congress was sworn in, nearly every immigration reform advocate on Capitol Hill assumed that the Senate would pass an amnesty again after a tough fight (as it did in 2006), and that we would ultimately have to stop it in the House of Representatives.

Beating it back in the Senate was seen as requiring something of a political miracle, given the odds against us.

For a solid six months, newspaper editorial boards, the majority of columnists and reporters as well as the leadership of businesses, unions, civil rights groups, universities, religions (most visibly the Roman Catholic Church) and ethnocentric lobbyists predicted that “comprehensive immigration” legislation was inevitable.

They were all wrong. Instead, the bill was stopped in the Senate without ever getting to the House.

Here’s what happened instead:

The Senate defeated amnesty and a green card increase in May…and again in June!

A smaller amnesty, the Dream Act, also considered inevitable because of its impact on “the children ” went down in October.

As a result of three consecutive defeats and despite a massive assault by the print media and the Chambers of Commerce nationwide predicting bushels of unpicked rotting fruit, an AgJobs amnesty never surfaced.

The new Democratic leadership in the House headed by illegal immigration fanatic Nancy Pelosi did not even attempt to move an amnesty bill through a subcommittee—let alone the floor.

In the meantime,

Rep. John Gingrey (R-GA) introduced H.R. 938, the Nuclear Family Priority Act that will reduce the numbers of family sponsored immigrants (chain migration) and limit them to spouses and minor children.  The bill currently has 31 co-sponsors.

Rep. Robert Goodlatte (R-VA) has added 58 co-signers to his H.R. 1430, the Security and Enhancement Fairness for America Act that would eliminate the 50,000-diversity visa lottery. This is a significant move forward in reducing legal immigration.

And, most significantly, Congressional Democrats proposed tough enforcement legislation

Rep. Heath Shuler (D-NC) introduced the SAVE Act (Secure America Through Verification and Enforcement) that bulks up the E-verify system to identify legal U.S. workers. The bill has been co-signed by 142 representatives—50 Democrats and 92 Republicans.

Mark Pryor (D-ARK) and David Vitter (R-LA) forwarded legislation similar to Shuler’s in the U.S. Senate.

Use 2007—widely but incorrectly predicted to be a disastrous year for patriotic immigration reform—as a guideline.

And, big difference, in 2008, we are forewarned and forearmed.

Not the slightest clue exists that Americans are more receptive to amnesty than they were in 2007. In fact, the reverse is true.

Judge for yourself where we standing by asking this simple question: would you rather be on our side, winning the battles as we fight them, or on La Raza’s team, consistently losing while its captain, Janet Murguia, becomes more frighteningly unhinged with each defeat?

Sure, it would be nice not to have to go to the mat again and again. I’m at a point in my life where I’d like to write fewer columns so I could spend more time upgrading my butterfly collection.

But I’m confident that no matter who wins the November election—the bad, the worse or the worst—we’ll beat back our opponents as consistently and as thoroughly as we have for the last several years.

We have brought immigration into the limelight of presidential politics—a huge triumph in itself—and we’ve won on the playing field.

So don’t fall victim to negativity. Based on our recent record, there’s no real reason for it.

And my credentials for saying this? I don’t like to blow my horn. But I predicted that the McCain-Bush-Kennedy Immigration Surge/ Amnesty bill would fail and when it was exhumed, I predicted it would be reburied. I predicted that front-runner Giuliani would flame out. I said that Mitt Romney should stop Hispandering and run against illegal immigration—without which, as Steve Sailer has pointed out, Romney “would have been tarred and feathered and run out of California on a rail”.  And I warned New York’s Spitzer that his driver licence plan would end in Gray Davis-type humilation.

So I repeat: McCain won’t be President. Amnesty will not pass.

Joe Guzzardi [ e-mail him] is the Editor of VDARE.COM Letters to the Editor.

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Get out the Clinton "IS" Parser and apply it to McCain's CPAC2008 speech. He tried to build up on what could conceivably be positives and just blows off the numerous negatives. This is where he says he will consult us. He wont change anything as he pushes amnesty but he will consult us. I do not believe him.

I think that Joe Guzzardi has it right. The Democrats and liberals that assisted McCain in getting as far as he has now will be abandoning him in the general election to vote for Clinton or Obama. McCain is already feeling the cold draft out there on that lonely limb and finally decided that he needs the conservatives after all. Sorry John, we dont need you. Here is a big "TOLD YA SO!"

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Slit a Vein or Vote for McCain?

Cross posted from The Loft at gopusa.com

http://www.gopusa.com/theloft/?p=657

Slit a Vein or Vote for McCain?

Posted by Chuck Muth

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A Plea to Republicans: Vote Conservative

Cross posted from gopbloggers.org

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A Plea to Republicans: Vote Conservative

by Jon Roth

If the first 3 GOP primary contests were not one odd-format caucus (IA) and 2 elections in which independents get to vote in the party primaries (NH, MI), would the leading GOP candidates still be the least conservative ones (nobody pays attention to WY)? Perhaps this is not the best way to run a nominating race under the new, compressed schedule, because now Huckabee and McCain are considered to be the front-runners for the nomination.

It is by now well known that Huckabee is a religious Democrat: anti-free trade, anti-big business, pro-tax hike, and weak on defense, but his Christian populism is winning supporters (Huckabee is sort of the evangelical version of John Edwards).

But McCain, who appears to now have the inside track is also a liberal on some key issues. While he is a stalwart on national defense, he is a

Some critics will point out that Giuliani is not a social conservative and Romney is only a recent convert. But at least both are making efforts to build bridges to the evangelical wing of the party, while McCain and Huckabee have made no efforts at all, other than to snub economic conservatives and tax-cutters. Between Giuliani's repeated pledges on judges (with Ted Olson's seal of approval) and Romney's constant cultivation of social conservative support, they have both done the most to appeal to all wings of the party. Fred is well situated on policy but we'll see how he does in South Carolina.

So there you have it: the 2 leading Republican candidates are also the most liberal. A McCain candidacy would tear up the tax-cutting bona fides of the party and risk reversal of President Bush's solid record of judicial appointments. A Huckabee candidacy would thoroughly rend the