Thursday, April 27, 2006

Election Day 2004 Tire Slashers Get Jail Time Tire slashing Democrat operatives actually going to jail.   Judge Michael B. Brennan exceeded the recommendation of prosecutors who asked for no jail time, but the judge saw voter suppression more serious than slashing tires.  Can't argue with that.    JAIL TIME FOR TIRE-SLASHERS. Remember those unhinged Dem operatives in Milwaukee who slashed the tires of GOP get out the vote vans on Election Day in 2004? Finally, some justice: Four Democratic presidential campaign workers were sentenced to jail time ranging from four months... [Michelle Malkin] 1:53:21 AM    comment [] trackback []

	Thursday, December 16, 2004

Kerry Campaign Still In Denial Mary Beth Cahill, campaign manager for Sen. John Kerry, says that she underestimated the effectiveness of the Swift Boat Veterans. This is her CYA move. The Swift Boat Vets' ads got a lot of attention. From the start, it was Mary Beth Cahill who first came out denouncing them and their ad. That was when the ad only ran in 3 states, with the $150,000 they had. She neglected to 'admit' that it was herself who called attention to this ad, which was then run over and over on the news networks. Well, not all the news networks, only the cable news networks. They were banished from the CBS, NBS, and ABS networks. Never saw the ads there. Maybe if she had not called attention to it like she did, the ad would not have received the national attention it got? Ms. Cahill would characterize it as her simply underestimating their effectiveness. What she didn't admit was that her strategy of isolating her candidate from them was her first and probably biggest mistake.  Kerry never once himself addressed the SBV's claims, nor was he ever asked about it by any media to whom he would speak.  Everybody, except Mary, wanted to hear Kerry's response.  You know, from the war hero who wanted to be Commander In Chief.  He was mute to their claims. His surrogates merely discounted them as a bunch of drunks and some such other form of low-life. Her second and probably next biggest mistake, was the way she never thought of her democrat constituency and what they might have thought of this strategy. Fact was, some of those vets were democrats. And Sen. Kerry and his 'band of brothers' weren't the only Vietnam Veterans in the country. She presumed, or subsumed, that democrats had no need to know anything more about the Swift Boat Vets, and even less about how the candidate himself feels about them. This write-off of what became an important issue in the campaign by the Kerry Campaign was IMHO a figurative slap in the face to every democrat who was to the right of moveon.org and the Soros gang, which was a large enough constituency to matter. You see that the arrogance in the campaign against her opponent was, in a way, spread equally over voters in her own party.  Great Job Mary Beth! Cahill Admits Underestimating Ads' Impact (AP). AP - The campaign manager for Sen. John Kerry's failed presidential bid said Wednesday she regrets underestimating the impact of an attack advertisement that questioned Kerry's Vietnam War record. [Yahoo! News: Politics] 2:27:14 AM    comment [] trackback []

	Friday, December 10, 2004

Never Ending Campaign The Presidential Election for 2004 may be over, but the campaign against the administration is not.  In October, when the job numbers for September came out, the press and other like-minded liberals did all they could to poo poo the economy.  (Two, Two, Two Stories in one!)  In November, with economic growth doing nothing but maintaining an upward trend, they continue to ignore the facts and distort the truth, ie, the Democrat playbook page 1.  It's not the economy stupid, it's the stupidity stupid.   When no news is bad news. The national news media's politically driven bashing of the economy didn't end on Election Day. It continues in the business news pages and much of the reporting from Wall Street, despite a bullish post-election rally in the financial markets and economic numbers that would make any of our trading partners proud. 8:38:58 AM    comment [] trackback []

	Tuesday, December 07, 2004

Exit Polls & Terry McAuliffe The election is over.  I'm not beating a dead donkey.  There's been a lot of talk about how wrong the exit polls taken on election day were.  And we've heard the pollsters being blamed for picking un-representative samples.   We haven't heard what I first suspected on November 2, that maybe what we saw was Terry McAuliffe's successful attempt to influence the polls and, in his mind, the election for John Kerry.  There was, you will recall, some un-representative sampling going on that the pollsters wouldn't discover until later that day when the votes began to be counted.  Early that day I recall McAuliffe being interviewed by a cable news reporter and he was looking happy like the cat that had just got the mouse.  He didn't act surprised that the exit polls were showing his man in a landslide.  Instead, he was just happy, basking in the 'I told you so' light of confidence.  Nothing wrong with being positive.  But looking back, it could have just as easily been just part of the plan; to spike the polls. There is a precedent of this sort of behavior from McAuliffe himself.   Harken back to the debate season.  For all three debates, McAuliffe's DNC mass emailed their lists of supporters asking them to participate in online polls, polls that would be used by all the media the following day. This time, there seems to be a connection between DNC operatives and the pollsters.  Enough of a connection to know which precincts were going to be visited by the national pollsters.  It just comes down to look as though McAuliffe had something to do with those un-representative samples.  Best thing the Democrat party can do is purge itself from that guy.  reference DNC letter 10/13/04 4:11:00 PM    comment [] trackback []

	Thursday, November 04, 2004

I tried to tell you . . . Democrats repel voters, who put faith in freedom By Sen. Zell Miller Published on: 11/04/04 America's faith in freedom has been reaffirmed. With the re-election of President Bush, America recommitted itself once again to expanding freedom and promoting liberty. Only the 1864 re-election of Abraham Lincoln, the 1944 re-election of Franklin Roosevelt and the 1980 election of Ronald Reagan rival this victory as milestones in the preservation of our security by the advancement of freedom. This election validated not just freedom, but also the faith our Founding Fathers placed in average folks to navigate the course of this great nation. By weighing the greatest issues at the gravest times and choosing our path, ordinary people have again accomplished extraordinary things. With courage and caution, rather than fear and timidity, the voters chose a path to ensure others would enjoy the same freedom to set their own path. This election outcome should have been implausible, if not impossible. With a litany of complaints — bad economy, bad deficit, bad foreign war, bad gas prices — amplified by a national media that discarded any pretense of neutrality, a national opposition party should have won this election. But the Democratic Party is no longer a national party. As difficult as the challenges are — both real and fabricated — Democrats offered no solution that was either believable or acceptable to vast regions of America. Tax increases to grow the economy are not a solution that is believable or acceptable. Democratic promises of fiscal responsibility are unbelievable in the face of massive new spending promises. A foreign policy based on the strength of "allies" such as France is unacceptable. A strong national defense policy is just not believable coming from a candidate who built a career as an anti-war veteran, an anti-military candidate and an anti-action senator. Democratic Party policies haven't sold in large sections of America in decades, and the only success of Democrats in presidential elections for 40 years was when they pitched themselves as pro-growth, low-tax, strong-defense, fiscally responsible, values-oriented candidates. Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton hummed the tune but never really sang the song, and that's why Democrat prospects have gone south in the South. In 1980, the South had 20 Democrats and just six Republicans in the Senate. As recently as 1994, the Senate had 17 Democrats and nine Republicans from the South. A decade later, the number had reversed to 17 Republicans and nine Democrats. With this election, it is 22 Republicans and just four Democrats from the South. When will national Democrats sober up and admit that that dog won't hunt? Secular socialism, heavy taxes, big spending, weak defense, limitless lawsuits and heavy regulation — that pack of beagles hasn't caught a rabbit in the South or Midwest in years. The most recent failed nominee for president stands as proof that the national Democratic Party will continue to dwindle. The South has gone from just one-fourth of the Electoral College in 1960 to almost a third today. To put this in perspective, that gain is equal to all the electoral votes in Ohio. Yet there was not a single Southern state where John Kerry had any real chance. Would anyone like to place bets on the electoral strength of the South by 2012? Maybe they should tax stupidity. When you write off centrist and conservative policies that reflect the will of people in the South and Midwest, you write off the South and Midwest. Democrats have never learned from the second or third or fifth kick of a mule. They continue to change only the makeup on, rather than makeup of, the Democrat Party. And so we have a realignment election. For the first time, in an "us vs. them" election and in the toughest of situations, Republicans have been re-elected to the White House, the Senate and the House of Representatives. Confronting an opposition that can win a divided electorate in the worst of times and that has a growing electoral base, the national Democratic Party has a choice: continue down this path toward irrelevance or reverse course. As the last Truman Democrat, I hope my party makes the right choice but know I will not be allowed to be part of it. Such is the price you pay when you love your nation more than your party. And so while I retire with little hope for the near-term viability of the party I've spent my life building, I retire with a quiet satisfaction that after witnessing the struggle of democracy over communism and fascism, the fear I once held that America might not rise to meet this new challenge of terrorism has vanished like a fog under the radiance of a new dawn. While the threat is still real, the shadow looming across a promising future is gone. And the credit for that goes to one man. Like the last lion of England, Winston Churchill, George W. Bush has stood alone and risked all to give the world a new, clearer path to the advancement of freedom. Abraham Lincoln, in his second annual message to Congress, stated: "In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom for the free — honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save or meanly lose the last, best hope of earth." George Bush has injected into a region of enslavement an incurable dose of freedom, and thus nobly saved that "last, best hope of earth" — free men. — Zell Miller is Georgia's Democratic U.S. senator. 11:54:12 PM    comment [] trackback []

	Tuesday, November 02, 2004

Winning The Peace We know that when Kerry fights a war that he also has a plan to win the peace.  Should Kerry lose this election tonight, emphasis on tonight, what is his plan to win the peace with the rest of the country and our soldiers overseas?  Echoing what Bush said today, whoever wins tonight, no matter how small the margin, let the winner win and the loser conceed.  Don't do what happened last time by taking everything to court. How will John Kerry win the peace with Bush?  Think he'll apologize for any of the wild accusations Kerry has made these last months, weeks, and days?  Will Kerry tell his supporters that Bush won, without reservation or qualification, and ask his supporters to get behind the President and support him for his next term?  You know, together we can make it happen.  It's a golden opportunity to begin to end the animosity and divisiveness that has been hampering our war on terror.  It is his last chance to go out gracefully without slamming the American psyche with another punch in the stomach.  He'll be more respected if he were to do something like that, then what he'll do tonight.  Please John Kerry, prove me wrong. 3:25:42 PM    comment [] trackback []

Hi Ho, Hi Ho, It's Off To Court We Go Poor Tom Daschle seems to be losing it, taking his opponent to court over intimidating American Indian voters.   Seems Al Gore set the precident on fighting elections in court and has simply become SOP for the left.  Having an election without allowing fraudlent voters has just got these people all jacked up.   Then they claim the Republicans are disenfranchising Democrat voters.  It's easy, that's what they do. Daschle Takes Republican Opponent to Court (AP). AP - Democratic Sen. Tom Daschle took his Republican opponent, the South Dakota Republican Party and GOP election observers to court late Monday, alleging intimidation of American Indian voters. [Yahoo! News: Politics] 12:47:03 AM    comment [] trackback []

	Saturday, October 30, 2004

Kerry's Afghan Amnesia In one fell swoop, Charles Krauthammer reminds us just how the candidate feels about the war in Afghanistan, and, just what went on there.  Great piece.  Draws a distinction between the candidates about as large as the Grand Canyon in a way that makes you feel safer with Bush.  I'll take safer over surrender anyday.  An excerpt: "Within days of Sept. 11, the clueless airhead president that inhabits Michael Moore's films and Tina Brown's dinner parties had done this: forced Pakistan into alliance with us, isolated the Taliban, secured military cooperation from Afghanistan's northern neighbors, and authorized a radical war plan involving just a handful of Americans on the ground, using high technology and local militias to utterly rout the Taliban." Kerry's Afghan Amnesia. In the 1990s, Afghanistan was allowed to fall to the Taliban and become the global center for the training, indoctrination and seeding of jihadists around the world -- including the mass murderers of Sept. 11, 2001. This week, just three years after a two-month war that destroyed the Taliban, Afghanistan completed its first free election, choosing as president a pro-American democrat enjoying legitimacy and wide popular support. By Charles Krauthammer. [washingtonpost.com - Charles Krauthammer] 2:18:11 AM    comment [] trackback []

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