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Former New York Gov. George Pataki has endorsed Conservative Party candidate Doug Hoffman over GOP candidate Dierdre Scozzafava in the race for New York’s 23rd Congressional District.  Principle over party is now the cry!

As Hoffman narrowly moves into first place in a three way race, we are fast seeing who is willing to take a stand:

• George Pataki
• Sarah Palin
• Tim Pawlenty
• Sen. Jim DeMint
• Fred Thompson
• Steve Forbes
• Dick Armey
• Tom Cole (former RNCC chair)
• Ed Meese
• David Keene
• Al Regnery
• David McIntosh
• Brent Bozell
• Jim Miller
• Richard Viguerie
• Tony Perkins
• Tom Winter
• Ken Blackwell
• Craig Shirley

Who is supporting Scozzafava?

• Michael Steele
• Newt Gingrich
• The RNCC

Gingrich has ceded all ties to the conservative movement with this move.  Steele never had any.  Their support of liberal Wayne Gilchrest merely made them look foolish.  However, this race has the potential to be as meaningful to conservatives as the 1976 GOP presidential primaries.  Assuming Hoffman pulls off a victory, Steele’s resignation should be demanded immediately.  Those on the RNC who voted for Steele over Ken Blackwell should be ashamed!  As for the RNCC, no conservative should donate a dime as long as the House GOP caucus is led by the likes of Boehner and Cantor (see below).

Worst of all – Who is standing on the sidelines?

• John Boehner
• Eric Cantor
• Mike Huckabee
• Mitt Romney

This is merely a warm-up for next year.  We are witnessing the GOP elite support statist candidates over true conservatives.  We need to support people like Marco Rubio in Florida and Chuck DeVore in California.  As Neil Stevens recently reminded us, there are two kinds of Republicans.  We know which kind our country needs.

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Sarah Palin in 2012?

Over the last few days much has been made of Alaska governor Sarah Palin’s decision to step down at the end of the month.  Was it the pressure?  Is there an impending scandal?  Who knows.

Driving back from Baltimore on Friday I listened to the coverage and thought a potentially brilliant political career was over … until I got back to my office and was able to hear GOV. PALIN speak instead of listening to media filtered versions of the event.

Did Palin do the politically smart thing?  Maybe not.  Did she do the RIGHT thing?  Absolutely; and that is why she is so popular.

Given that Palin is popular enough to give a strong Barack Obama (much less the Barack Obama we will see in 2012) a run for his money, the media doesn’t want the public to dwell on why she actually made her decision.  Instead, they prefer to imply all sorts of foolishness.  Unfortunately for them, and Obama, former Gov. Sarah Palin will have three years to communicate her message to the American people.

Whether she decides to run for the White House in 2012 or not, I admire her decision and the conviction behind it.

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Sarah Palin and Margaret Thatcher

The media, along with some nominally conservative elitists, want Sarah Palin’s head on a plate.  Why?  Simply because a politically and intellectually more mature Sarah Palin could ring the death knell of both the new faux moderate left AND so many Reagan wannabes.  They believe it’s better to murder her now.

John O’Sullivan provides an interesting comparison between Palin and a true conservative giant – Margaret Thatcher.  O’Sullivan is dead on.  However, if Palin is to emerge as “the next Ronald Reagan” she needs to start working NOW.  She can start by reading a few books.

I realize that anti-intellectual populism is in vogue right now among many on the fringes of the conservative movement.  Unfortunately, these people tend to forget one very important fact – we are about core principles and the IDEAS to apply those principles to our current state of affairs.

The George W. Bush’s and the Tom DeLay’s of the world have put us in our current position by pandering, looking for short cuts, and outright abandonment of those core conservative principles.  Neither Ronald Reagan, nor Margaret Thatcher, did that.  Reagan not only adhered to core principles, he knew WHY he believed in those principles.  Reagan was a voracious reader.  Reagan had Heritage.  Thatcher had Keith Joseph and was one of the founders of the Centre for Policy Studies.  Thatcher had actually read Hayek’s Constitution of Liberty, and understood it.

Palin needs to prepare herself intellectually for the fight ahead.  Do not misinterpret what I am saying.  I am not claiming that Palin is stupid.  Quite the opposite.  Palin has almost the entire package.  She’s bright, charasmatic, and attractive.  Her public speaking and debating skills could stand some polish; but not at  the expense of her inherent charm.  There is no doubt that she is conservative.  However, until she develops her own intellectual framework for WHY she believes what she does Palin will be unable to defend her ideas.  This could make her look foolish.  It could also allow her to wind up taking the dark path of “big government conservatism”, an oxymoron if ever there was one.

Thatcher not only knew what she believed, but why.  This was why she was considered such a threat by the Tory wet’s (a British euphemism for squishes or RINO’s if you prefer).  A Sarah Palin who depends on “advisers” rather than her own intellectual discovery may one day be elected President; but would be a disasterous leader.  A Sarah Palin who continues to take her own path, by developing her own intellectual framework, may one day be worthy of legitimate comparison to Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher.

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Media Tries to Shield Obama from Terrorist Ties …

… and Myriad Other Sins.

Would we expect less?  The MSM is doing everything it can to shield “THE ONE” from his ties to domestic terrorists.

Bill Ayers participated in the bombings of a police memorial in Chicago, the New York City police HQ, the US Capitol and the Pentagon.  This is not supposition, or right wing propaganda.  Ayers proudly admits to these acts in his own memoir – Fugitive Days.

Barack Obama has “repudiated” the acts of someone “he barely knows”.  Unfortunately, this is another example of “THE ONE” not being very honest with the citizens he wants to lead.  He knew Jeremiah Wright for 20 years, but never heard him make the kinds of comments that caused Obama to distance himself from the radical preacher.

It’s similar with Ayers.  Obama claims to barely know Ayers, but it was Ayers who recruited Obama to serve on the board of the Chicago Annenberg Project.  Obama and Ayers served on another board together.  Ayers contributed to Obamas campaigns AND even hosted a campaign event for Obama during his first run for office.

What is the media’s spin?  An Associated Press article (parts of which are in today’s Daily Times) is typical:

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The Media and Sarah Palin

A recent article on the Huffington Post exemplifies the media’s attitude towards Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin – she’s just too “folksy” and isn’t smart enough for the liberal elite.  This also explains why a VP candidate has had such a huge impact on the presidential race.

The lead to Arianna Huffington’s post sets the stage:

I watched the vice presidential debate in a ballroom at the Four
Seasons hotel in Aviara, just north of San Diego, along with a couple
of hundred women attending Fortune’s Most Powerful Women Summit…

The average voter always hangs out at the Four Seasons – Aviara, at a SUMMIT, no less.

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The Media Are Getting Mad …

… So What?

Howard Kurtz of the Washington Post claims that the MSM is getting mad at John McCain and Sarah Palin.  Again, SO WHAT?  It’s not like we’re going to get a fair shake from these guys to begin with.

Maybe it’s a sense that this is crunch time, that the election is on
the line, that the press is being manipulated (not that there’s
anything new about that).

Typically, the arrogant press believes that a candidate’s message has to come through them before we – the great unwashed – deserve to hear it.  It’s not their job to worry that “the election is on the line”.  Supposedly, these folks are neutral reporters of the news.  I know.  I don’t believe it either.

If the McCain-Palin campaign is smart, they’ll keep these guys waiting.  Whether or not McCain and Palin make themselves available to every journalist in the country… or not, the MSM will soon be back drinking the Obama koolade.  Take their message DIRECTLY to the people and win an election.  Don’t worry about how a bunch of elitist reporters feel about them.

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Obama Supporters Vandalizing Sarah Palin’s Wikipedia Entry

According to Blog PI and Instapundit, Obama supporters appear to be vandalizing GOP V.P. nominee Sarah Palin’s entry on Wikipedia.

WAIT! I thought that Barack Obama was all about change … a kinder, gentler, politics. These disciples of the ONE aren’t following the true path … or are they?

WWOD?

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Sarah Palin, Like the Rest of Us, Isn’t Perfect

I’ve been a huge fan of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin. She’s honest. She’s tough. She’s not afraid to fight the good fight. Unfortunately, Palin obviously didn’t study much economics.

Palin and the Alaska legislature instituted a tax on oil companies very similar to the one being proposed by the man who would be Messiah – Barack Hussein Obama. The results – Conoco has delayed development of a refinery and BP-Alaska has delayed development in the western region region of the North Slope.

We can expect to hear from the left side of the aisle that this is merely “corporate greed”. Given that these folks believe that all industry should be state controlled (they just don’t have the guts to admit it publicly), they can’t grasp the concept that a company’s primary responsibility is to its shareholders, not some amorphous “public good”.

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