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Does history repeat itself? I fervently hope not. Ok, I have grudgingly thrown my support behind Mitt Romney. It’s not that I am excited about Romney as a candidate, but I am genuinely excited about the need to get Obama out of office before he does irreversible damage to this country. But, here is where [...]

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Yay, there’s another Sarah Palin in American politics. Mia B. Love – mayor of Saratoga Springs, Utah. Those of you that have read my posts and comments (whether you agree or disagree) know that I am a huge Sarah Palin fan. Frankly, there is a certain breed of all-American women that I hugely admire in [...]

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Thoughts during a busy day: Idle thought 1:  I want to have Mewt Gingney for my candidate.  Newt Gingrich is a completely principled conservative with, in his past at least, an unprincipled private life.  Mitt Romney is an unprincipled conservative with, from the past to the present, what appears to be a completely principled private [...]

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The Obama administration is headed for a big showdown with judicial accountability next year. Let’s look at the dance list thus far: 1. The “Fast and Furious” gunwalker scandal, involving potential collusion from the top of our government to funnel automatic weapons and explosives to drug cartels operating within and actively undermining a friendly government. [...]

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Apparently the passions that burned in voters’ breasts in 2010 have yet to burn themselves out in 2011.  In a very Jewish district (Jews!  The Democrat stalwarts!) Republican Bob Turner took over Anthony Weiner’s seat (although I hope he disinfects it well before he sits down on it). This election bodes well for 2012, to [...]

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Ace has an excellent post up today about the way in which the media invariably frames Democratic and Republican victories:  when Democrats win, Americans are intelligently embracing the Democrat agenda; when Republicans win, Americans are acting irrationally, operating from fear, or failing to understand the virtues of the Democrat agenda.  As Ace says: I’d be [...]

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 We’ve skirted this topic before in Bookworm Room, but never really plunged into it: If you could plan the GOP’s 2012 campaign against Obama, what themes and visuals would you bring into it? This assumes you have a big war chest and carte blanche regarding the many embarrassing and critical things you can bring [...]

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Get a room full of conservatives together, and one of the things that they’ll talk about is potential Republican candidates.  I can tell you that, last night, many were enthused about the thought of Rick Perry jumping in.  Others dreamed of a Jeb Bush candidacy.  The current “frontrunners” — Mitt, Mitch, Tim, etc. — did [...]

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Since I’m in California, which has always been a late primary state, and since California is now switching to open primaries anyway, it’s always hard for me to get very excited about primaries.  The fact is that I never feel I really have any say in them, since the front runners are already decided by [...]

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Jack Davis put himself on the ballot in the New York-26 special election as the Tea Party election.  If you are in that district, please beware the he is a fraud.  He is either trying to capitalize on Tea Party popularity, or he is an imposter deliberately trying to destroy the Tea Party brand.  As [...]

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The GOP has recognized that, as much as anything, the next election starts on the new media.  In order to get House GOP members on board with new media, they’ve instituted a contest by which GOP representatives compete for the most YouTube links, twitter friends, etc.  In other words, to win the contest, GOP reps [...]

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Background: I live in a building inhabited by a lot of seniors. When they moved in they were younger mid 50′s Democrats. Now, they’re aging Democrats and fear and wincing registers across their faces as if they were wearing — not a yellow Star of David, but something worse, much worse. They’re suffering the humiliation [...]

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Since warnings labels seem to be dominating the news (that cigarette thing), Doug Ross has some suggestions for political warning labels.

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You’ve no doubt heard that, with redistricting on the table, the Republican victories in local elections are incredibly important.  (Poor California….)  Zombie, in a pair of lucid, entertaining posts, explains why.

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Democrats are wondering how the pendulum could have swung so quickly in two years.  The premise underlying this wonderment is wrong.  They perceived a pendulum swing to the Left, only because they managed to run an election that hid from the voters the fact that they were electing an exceptionally left leaning government.  As Rich [...]

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Bob Etheridge is demanding a recount against Renee Elmer.  Apparently he understood what I said yesterday, which is that a candidate shouldn’t concede before the last vote is counted.  He seems to think that he shouldn’t concede even long after the last vote is counted.  But still, a recount is his right. Recounts, though, mean [...]

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I feel as if I should say something profound, but I don’t really have that much that is profound to say.  I do have a few observations, and then I’ll start compiling a running list of good post-election posts (so check back often): I’ll repeat what I said yesterday:  it irks me when elections are [...]

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American Digest is getting lots of hits for this list, and deservedly so.  It surely explains what’s happening in California, New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts, etc. UPDATE:  And if you want something that will make you laugh, this will.  I need to laugh.  I’m bummed, although not surprised, about California. UPDATE II:  SGT Dave said [...]

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If you’re in California, it’s easy to figure out which people should get your vote:  Fiorina over Boxer, Whitman over Brown (and yes, that’s something of a nose-holder), anyone over Pelosi, etc. It gets much more confusing when you get to the numbered items on the ballot.  Prop. 23 is easy:  Vote for that unless [...]

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My friend Sally Zelikovsky says it in the clearest words possible:  Unless conservatives in California vote for the Republicans, we will have a Sacramento government made up entirely of San Francisco Democrats.  If that horrible outcome sounds painfully obvious to you, you don’t know California. There are two dynamics in California that are a problem.  [...]

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Mike Pence asked me for money today. He seems like a good guy. I hope he wins. Life, liberty and limited government, he wrote, these are the cherished ideals of our nation, and they are ideals from which we must never stray. Indeed they are. Truly American ideals. As David Mamet, writes, as American as [...]

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Funny, funny David Zucker video challenging Boxer’s arrogance and cavalier approach to American money: Call Me Senator from RightChange on Vimeo. If you’re in California, this year you have a real choice: vote for Carly Fiorina. She’s a true conservative and a dynamic, effective individual. My mom, who can’t quite let the MSM go, has [...]

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Across the conservative blogosphere, a single cry for help is going out:  Please donate money to Pat Toomey, who is running against Joe Sestak in Pennsylvania.  Not only is Toomey the real deal on small government (less spending, lower taxes), Sestak is awful.  He’s an Obama rubber stamp, and a staunch, but dissimulating, foe of [...]

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I wrote earlier this week that I was going to vote in person, rather than by mail, which is what I usually do.  There’s just too much risk that my absentee ballot will “accidentally” get lost in liberal Marin.  Meanwhile, at the polling place, they scan it instantly.  Better odds for a fair outcome. In [...]

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