McCain, Clinton Win Florida Primaries

Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) pulled out a five point victory over former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney in Tuesday’s Florida GOP primary. While there is still no clear victor for the GOP nomination, this win was particularly important victory for McCain. After McCains victory in the South Carolina primary, pundits repeatedly made the point that McCain had yet to win a closed GOP primary. The New Hampshire and South Carolina primaries are open primaries allowing any registered voter to cast a ballot. Closed primaries, like Florida’s, only allow registered Republicans to vote.

Florida GOP Primary Results
John McCain	36%
Mitt Romney	31%
Rudy Giuliani	15%
Mike Huckabee	13%
Ron Paul	3%

Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-NY) managed to beat Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) with 50% of the Democrat vote compared to Obama’s 33%, with 14% going to former Sen. John Edwards of North Carolina. This should not be viewed as a particular victory for Clinton. Given that the DNC forced candidates to pledge not to campaign in Florida after Clinton had already built an organization in the state gave her a huge advantage. Despite this huge advantage, Obama still pulled within 17 points, far less than his victory over Clinton in South Carolina.

cross posted at the Campaign Edge

Technorati Tags: 2008, GOP, Democrat, primary, John McCain, Mitt Romney, Rudy Giuliani, Mike Huckabee, Ron Paul, Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, John Edwards, politics, Florida, Florida politics

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Daily Times Supports Drivers’ Licenses for Illegals

The Daily Times doesn’t want you to wait in line for your drivers’ license. Isn’t that sweet. The bottom line is that the Real ID act is a minor inconvenience and worth the price of helping to protect the sovereignty of our nation.

Do we want illegal aliens voting in Maryland elections? Without Real ID, that is exactly what we are getting. Go to your county Elections Board. If you present a valid Maryland license or ID, that is all you need. Yet, illegals are permitted those under the current law. The requirements to vote are clear, yet no proof of citizens is necessary.

The Daily Times argues that being forced to obtain a copy of your birth certificate (at a cost of $15) in order to obtain a drivers’ license is simply too onerous. Of course, a tax increase on Salisbury residents (as the “Tilghman Times” refused to critically examine) that amounts to hundreds of dollars per person is perfectly OK.

I am honestly perplexed at the arguments made by our local newspaper. While it is no secret that I am no fan of their editorial policy, I never would have accused them of supporting illegal immigration or of being anti-American, until today. The paper will of course argue that this was not their argument. Perhaps … but it is surely the result.

cross posted at Salisbury News 

Technorati Tags: immigration, media, Tilghman Times, Gannett, national sovereignty

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Shanie Shields Supports Study to Aid Gentrification of West Side

When large numbers of residents on Salisbury’s West Side are forced to leave their homes thanks to proposed “rehabilitation” of the area along the North Prong of the Wicomico River they should ask Councilwoman Shanie Shields if they can move in with her (in her non-city home on Jersey Road). Monday night the Salisbury City Council voted (with Shields in the majority) to fund a “strategic plan for the revitalization of the North Prong”

There is no secret that the Tilghman administration wants to turn the North Prong (and adjacent areas) into “condo city”. Personally, I don’t think it’s such a bad idea. Of course I don’t live there and I won’t be displaced. Who will benefit? The slumlords, who will see the values of their property rise ten fold (or more).

Where will these people go? I guess that’s not Shields’ problem. It appears that Mrs. Shields won’t be on council much longer anyway, due to her impending exodus from the city.

Technorati Tags: Maryland, Salisbury, politics, Salisbury politics, Shanie Shields, development

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Today is the Florida Primary

Voters of both parties will have an opportunity to vote in the January 29th Florida Primary.

Technorati Tags: 2008, Democrat, GOP, campaign, Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, John Edwards, John McCain, Mike Huckabee, Mitt Romney, Fred Thompson, Rudy Giuliania, Ron Paul

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Virginia Democrats Truly Respect Our 2nd Amendment Rights

Virginia Senate Majority Leader, Richard Saslaw (D-Fairfax) gave Virginians a hint as to how the Democrat elite feels about those of us who hold our constitutional rights dear. Saslaw suffered his first legislative defeat when he was unable to ram through Gov. Tim Kaine’s bill to restrict gun rights in the Commonwealth.

On the morning of the the committee hearing he was heard in an elevator to say:

“I see we’re debating the gun bill. Half the cast of ‘Deliverance’ is in town.”

It’s pretty simple. Democrats want to take away our gun rights. They realize that they have to pander to honest, gun owning Virginians in order to keep their seats of office. But when they think that no one is listening, their true views come out.

I’m quite confident that Kaine, and Senate candidate Mark Warner feel the same way as Saslaw. Warner just won’t tip his hand until after the November election.

cross posted at Bloggers 4 Jim Gilmore

Technorati Tags: Virginia, politics, Virginia politics, Mark Warner, Richard Saslaw, Tim Kaine,

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Another Exciting Monday in Salisbury

Tonight, the most irrelevant body in government, the Salisbury City Council will meet again. What will Louise Smith and her buddies do?

Will they finally get around to the audit of the city’s finances (which is only three months late)? No. Barrie Tilghman and company are still negotiating with the auditors to keep embarrassment in the management letter to a minimum.

Will they hold a serious discussion as to why the old Salisbury Mall project developers are receiving a triple subsidy? How about demanding answers as to why the Tilghman administration deliberately mislead the city council (along with the public and the press) regarding the marketing of the TIF bond? Of course not.

No, the Barrie Tilghman rubber stamp is meeting to spend some more of your hard earned tax money. As we all learned during the last budget deliberations, any discussion of saving taxpayer money needs to be gaveled down quickly. Spending, however …

cross posted at Salisbury News

Technorati Tags: Maryland, Salisbury, politics, Salisbury politics, Barrie Tilghman, Louise Smith, taxation, fiscal policy

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The False Apostles

I love to hear radio pundits like Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity wail about John McCain and pontificate as to their bona fides in securing the legacy of Ronald Reagan. Limbaugh sits back, puffs on his cigar and hints that he may not support the GOP nominee in 2008 because preserving conservative ideals are what’s at stake.

That sounds great. I’ve always been a Limbaugh fan (though I haven’t had much use for Hannity). I just wonder … where were Rush and Sean in 1976? How about 1980? When Limbaugh went national in 1988 he had nothing but love for then Vice President George H. W. Bush, a man worthy of great respect but never a leader of the movement. He dived right in with Bob Dole in 1996, and his criticism of George W. Bush has been pretty rare, until enough listeners pointed out that President Bush is no more a movement conservative than is Rudy Giuliani. Where was the grave concern over a GOP Congressional majority that simply sold our principles down a muddy river? Do we want a Speaker Pelosi? Of course not, but a Speaker Boehner would only be marginally better. Read more

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Warner or Gilmore? Tax and Spend … or Not

The choice in Virginia’s next Senator is pretty clear. Do we want someone who’s admitted philosophy is to tax the citizens and spend their money? Or do we want a Senator who will help to slow down the Federal Fiscal Express; which is on a collision that we simply cannot afford.

Mark Warner is so proud of his record of increasing taxes and spending while Governor of Virginia that he doesn’t make much of an attempt to hide it on his own website. Sure he uses euphemisms like “investment” when talking about spending the hard earned money of Virginians, but he seems convinced that the good people of the Commonwealth want their state and federal governments to raise their taxes and spend more of their money.

Jim Gilmore, on the other hand, understands that the money government spends rightfully belongs to its citizens. Jim Gilmore knows that “lower taxes promote economic vitality“. Jim Gilmore’s record as Attorney General and as Governor is one of putting Virginians first, and delivering vital services with the greatest bang for the buck.

cross posted at Bloggers 4 Jim Gilmore

Technorati Tags: 2008, GOP, Democrat, Jim Gilmore, Mark Warner, fiscal policy, taxation

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DeLay Rants Against McCain

FORMER House Majority Leader Tom DeLay claims that Sen. John McCain is responsible for the demise of the Republican Party. In all fairness to DeLay, 90% of the charges leveled against him by Democrats were false. However, the last time I checked it wasn’t John McCain who permitted a complete retreat from fiscal discipline. It wasn’t John McCain who not only enabled, but encourage the prostituting of our party. It sure wasn’t John McCain who exhibited unbelievable arrogance by using federal resources to track down wayward Texas legislators or who PUBLICLY ramrodded the now infamous “K Street Project”.

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The man who was the personification of why the GOP lost control of both houses of Congress isn’t fit to shine McCain’s shoes. If he was serious about doing his party a service, he would hide every time the media rang him up on the phone.

Technorati Tags: 2008, campaign, politics, John McCain, Tom DeLay, corruption, video, conservatism

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The First State Response

Delaware House GOP Leader Rep. Richard Cathcart and Senate GOP Leader Charles Copeland deliver the Republican response to Gov. Ruth Ann Minner’s State of the State address.

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I apologize for not posting this earlier. Thanks again to Dave Burris and First State Politics for the great video coverage of Delaware politics.

Technorati Tags: Delaware, politics, Delaware politics, GOP, video

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