63 posts tagged “leftists”
A lot of Conservative Political Action Committees (PAC) not affiliated with a political candidate love to take credit for their part in a candidate’s victory. When a candidate loses either try to spin their part as a success or are silent.
I start out this way because a Conservative candidate that was attempting to buck the Two-Party System in America gave a good shot but lost in New York district 23. That candidate was Conservative Party nominee for the House of Representatives Doug Hoffman.
I learned the reason for Hoffman’s loss. It was not because Hoffman polled third behind Democrats and Republicans. He actually polled second at 45% to %49%. Leftist Democrat Bill Owens won by a mere 4%. The travesty for Hoffman’s loss is the Republican candidate battling Hoffman and Owens realizing she was not going to win dropped out of the race and endorsed the Leftist Democrat Owens. That RINO Republican was Dede Scozzafava.
One may ask, “Why is a Republican supporting a Democrat for Office in this time of growing voter mistrust of Democrats and Leftists?”
Scozzafava was truly a Republican in Name Only. She supported the Democratic Party Leftist platform which included Pelosi favoritism for abortion and social transformation rendering the U.S. Constitution irrelevant. This is the very same thing President Barack Hussein Obama represents as well.
Hoffman has a remarkable amount of reputable Republicans endorse him over the Leftist Scozzafava. This I found a blessing for the Conservative base that is reemerging as the voice of Americans. I was a bit disheartened to hear that Republicans such as Newt Gingrich supported Scozzafava for no other reason than Republican Party loyalty. Newt should have realized that blind Party loyalty will not make significant wins as former Presidential candidate Senator John McCain proved. Senator McCain was a RINO that really had only a couple of attractions for a Conservative Republican; viz. his rough reputation as a maverick and his Vice Presidential nominee Sarah Palin. McCain banked on his maverick image of making his own decisions regardless of Conservatism or Leftism. McCain should have been wise enough to utilize Palin better bark at Obama’s Leftist credentials and past associations. This is especially so since the Obama campaign utilized the MSM to castigate Palin’s image with down right made up Leftist lies.
Thus goes Party loyalty! Down the proverbial drain!
If the Republican Party used the opportunity to get a Hoffman win with GOP financial resources, Hoffman would have definitely won that race. Sure Hoffman is NOT a Republican but does anyone believe he would caucus with Leftist Democrats? This was a non-Republican Conservative who would not support the Pelosi way as Scozzafava would have. You have to know that Owens is merely a rubber stamp for the Obama/Pelosi Leftist agenda for America.
I am on the Club for Growth mailing list. Club for Growth as any good PAC group would have gave a spin self-gratifying personal spin on Hoffman’s loss. Regardless of Chris Chocola of Club for Growth’s personal spin, the point made of why Doug Hoffman should have won is very relevant for future Conservative and Republican politics of the near future.
Here is the email Chocola sent to me:
JRH 11/6/09
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Hoffman Comes Up Short in NY-23
Chris Chocola
Sent: November 4, 2009 12:03:50 PM
Club For Growth
As you have probably heard by now, Club for Growth PAC-endorsed candidate Doug Hoffman lost his underdog bid in yesterday's special election in New York's 23rd congressional district. Nominee of the Conservative Party of New York, and the first third-party candidate the Club PAC has ever supported, Doug finished with 45 percent of the vote, but fell short to Democrat Bill Owens' 49 percent. The official Republican nominee, Dede Scozzafava, took 5.5 percent of the vote and played the spoiler after dropping out of the race and endorsing the liberal Democrat in the final days of the campaign.
Doug's loss is a disappointment, but our efforts shined a national spotlight on the campaign and sent an important message to Washington insiders. The day the Club for Growth PAC entered the race, Doug was polling at 17 percent - with our help, he gained 28 points in just 36 days, and came very close to pulling off an historic upset against both major parties. It's now clear that had the Republican Party supported Doug or any serious conservative from the beginning, he would have won going away.
Party labels aside, conservatives lost nothing last night, as Scozzafava and Owens are both avowed liberals in support of Nancy Pelosi's agenda in the House of Representatives. Doug Hoffman was our only chance to bring real change to Washington, and in little more than a month, we almost helped him pull it off.
As attention turns now to the 2010 election cycle, there are a few lessons to be learned from last night's results. First, the Club's PAC reaffirmed its unique ability to identify and promote economic-freedom candidates early on and to draw conservatives around the country to their cause. Second, the Republican establishment learned that in these difficult times, voters - especially center-right voters - are drawn to principles, not parties. And most importantly, conservatives learned that the principles of limited government and economic freedom are ascendant heading into next year's elections, and that the Club for Growth PAC stands ready to fight effectively for those principles wherever we can do the most good.
Thank you for all you did in the historic NY-23 race. I say "historic" not because we won this battle - we didn't - but because I have a good feeling that this battle will set a tone for and pay dividends in the coming battles against national health care, for limited government, and to mobilize grassroots free-market citizens to rise up in other election contests in 2010.
Best Regards,
Chris
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Hoffman Lost BUT Should Have Won
John R. Houk
© November 6, 2009
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Hoffman Comes Up Short in NY-23
Chris Chocola
President, Club for Growth
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Washington, DC 20036
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Yesterday I read a Liberty Council authored Christian Newswire article that validated Conservatism, Christian Family Values as well as Biblical moral values. The article basically was a ‘smack the red headed step-children’ of Leftism and the homosexual agenda in its hubris over President Barack Hussein Obama and the Leftist Dems “Change” mantra of the 2008 election.
In summary here is the summary of the Conservative/Family Value victory:
n Virginia voted in a Conservative Republican Governor, Lt. Governor and Attorney General while contrastingly showing the Virginia Dems the door.
n Incumbent Leftist Dem Governor John Corzine was defeated by Republican Chris Christie even though the Leftist darling President BHO campaigned for him and the MSM polls showed Corzine leading in the polls.
n In May 2009 the lawmakers of Maine produced a bill signed by the Governor legalizing same-sex marriage. On November 4, 2009 Maine voters chose Biblical Morality over lawmaker Secular Humanism by repealing the legislation. Leftists and homosexual ideologues made sure via the comment route to inform a State legalized same-sex marriage by law rather than judicial fiat.
To my joy I discovered slanted right political wit Ann Coulter wrote an article demonstrating the Conservative cause is alive and well. My fellow Conservatives read it for some mirth. Counter-culture Leftists and homosexuals read it and weep.
JRH 11/5/09
The mainstream media (MSM) and the Obama Administration are so absolutely Slanted Left (so MSM and definitely the President are more Left than slanted). Because of this fact I became a little irritated that President Barack Hussein Obama has been vilifying FOX News as a tool of the Republican’s Right Wing. The President has even tried to box FOX out of White House press meetings because of this public stand against FOX.
Now it is also evident that the Obama’s cadre MSM is becoming a tool of Obama’s Leftism by using the power of the press to also vilify FOX News as so far to the Right that they are not a legitimate unbiased journalistic media outlet.
Ironically FOX News often receives criticism from the more Slanted Right for not being Right enough. I personally am a huge supporter of FOX yet I also am unpleased sometimes with a position or lack of reporting on an issue. Even so I will not vilify the only media outlet that counters the obvious Leftism of the MSM.
Ron Radosh has written an excellent piece of the vile hypocrisy of Leftist MSM. Take a gander at it!
JRH 11/1/09 (Hat Tip: NewsReal)
Dr. Marc Lamont Hill was given the axe as a paid contributor to FOX News. Dr. Hill actually did an eloquent job defending the Leftist perception of occurrences that FOX News reported on. Nonetheless, Dr. Hill’s pedigree of activities out side of his paid contributor status has turned to be a bit heinous for respecters of American Constitutional Liberty and Justice. In fact Dr. Hill’s Leftist apologetics are down right subversive.
David Swindle writing for NewsReal has some thoughts on the matter.
JRH 10/18/09
I love Ann Coulter’s sarcastic wit especially when the Left, Obamanites, and anti-war morons looking for defeat. Coulter unleashes that wit in this column entitled, “Natural-Born Losers.”
Get ready for a good laugh at the expense of the Leftist Democratic Party that convinced America to vote for the greatest appeaser since Neville Chamberlain.
JRH 10/15/09
Michael Medved has a new article entitled, “The Only Way to Beat Obamanism: Elect More Republicans.” The article’s premise is self-explanatory: To stop the Leftist agenda of the Democrats and the Obama Administration, Republicans must be elected.
Medved goes on to criticize the thought that Third Parties are an answer to Leftist Democrats. The gravitation of some of the Slanted Right to Third Parties is the result of frustration with the Republican Party. He even effectively discredits the thought that the beginning of the Republican Party was that of a Third Party. Medved argues that the Republican Party did not compete with the Whig Party but rather replaced it. Hence Third Parties have never successfully operated in the USA.
Medved half-heartedly criticizes the public rallies carrying anti-Obama signs specifically referencing Tea Party protesters. I say half-heartedly for Medved wrote that the rallies do nothing to influence current Congressional or Administrative members. Yet Medved does say the Tea Parties could become a tool to focus on electing Republicans to counteract the Leftist Democrats.
Instead of becoming frustrated with the GOP and supporting the Slanted Right platforms of Third Parties (and there are many out there with good intentions), it is time to focus on the only reality which is dislodging Democrats. That reality is a Slanted Right move of Republicans in which the various agendas unite with one purpose – DEFEAT DEMOCRATS.
Pro-Life Republicans do not necessarily have the same agenda as Less Government Republicans. Social Issue Republicans do not necessarily have the same agenda as Free Market Republicans. Many Conservatives view Neoconservatives in a negative light. I am sure you could add some other scenarios. The point is though that all these agendas need to unite again to end the Leftist agenda that is rendering the U.S. Constitution into a useless “living organ” mystically able to be interpreted as seen fit rather than by intent.
JRH 10/7/09 (Hat Tip: Member only Blind Conservative List)
Remember the Slanted Right concern over a manipulative Leftist organization like ACORN being involved in America’s 2010 census? The concern is obvious: The Census oft times determines the amount of House of Representative State representation in Congress. A Leftist skewed Census could potentially wreak havoc against the voice of the politically Conservative.
Here is the good news: The Census Bureau has severed ties with ACORN. Couple this with a Senate vote of 83 to 7 to end Federal Funding to ACORN with the House expected to follow suit soon, ACORN is reeling.
A couple of independent film journalists by the name of James O’Keefe and Hannah Giles spoofed ACORN into believing they were a pimp and a prostitute respectively. The spoof was to travel to ACORN branches across America and get aid from ACORN officials in bringing in illegal immigrants for the purpose of prostitution in exchange for a – should we say – donation.
O’Keefe and Giles’ film exposés have exposed ACORN for the criminal organization that it is. Hmm … Didn’t Obama do training seminars for ACORN?
You may not have heard or read this in the Mainstream Media (MSM); they have been so silent you could hear a pin drop concerning the authentic meaning of news to report.
Read the Washington Times for details of ACORN heinous activities.
JRH 9/18/09
Here are Parts 1 and 2 to Mark Alexander’s essay on The Rule of Law. The essays are an indictment on the Left turning the U.S. Constitution into a “living” document rather than a framework for the Rule of Law in America.
JRH 9/14/09
American Jews tend to support Israel’s continued existence. Ironically a significant amount of American Jews are also hooked up to the President Barack Hussein Obama contention to force Israel into the so-called Two-State Solution which is the creation of an Arab State called Palestine within Israel’s Judea and Samaria (West Bank) and the Gaza cesspool under Hamas hegemony.
The explanation for this American Jewish support for a Two-State Solution appears to lay in the Jewish political spectrum in America. This is to say that American Jews are overwhelmingly Leftist Democrats.
Norman Podhoretz senses that American Jews think Leftist politics before they think Jewish religion. Indeed over 70% of American Jews voted for President Barack Hussein Obama. American Jews still widely support the existence of Israel; however being good Leftists they are duped into the thought that a Palestinian State will bring peace to the Middle Eastern region.
Evidently Leftists do not believe the various Palestinian terrorist charters calling for the eradication of Israel to make room for an all encompassing Muslim-Palestinian State is not a serious threat. OR possibly Leftists just simple will look the other way as Middle Eastern Arabs and Muslims rise up yet again to join a newly formed Palestinian State in driving the Jews into the sea. OR possibly Leftists who support Israel’s existence believe the USA would not let an Arab invasion get that far.
The first two thoughts are delusional thinking. The last thought is based on a history of the U.S. supporting Israel at least since 1967. Unfortunately many Democrats and a significant amount of Arabiphiles among Republicans believe supporting Israel at all costs is unrealistic and no longer in America’s National Interest. Hence self-imposed politics may deter a Democratic Party Presidential Administration to provide aid to Israel in such an invasion with a weak public denunciation to cover a Democratic Party’s politically correct butt.
As you can surmise, I believe a Two-State Solution for the creation of a sovereign Palestinian State is a formula for an Arab invasion of Israel.
Read Podhoretz’s thoughts on why America’s Left Wing Jews are prepared to unwittingly throw Israel under the Muslim bus.
JRH 9/12/09
But NO Outcry to Prosecute the Scoundrels
John R. Houk
© August 29, 2009
Here is an alert from ACT! For America concerning the hypocrisy of the Left toward America’s National Security.
The ACLU took clandestine photos of covert CIA agents involved with extracting information from Gitmo Islamic terrorists. The Washington Post reported on the now public photos. It is interesting there are no cries to prosecute the ACLU for endangering the identities of covert CIA agents.
Let’s preface this alert with a little memory lane.
First there is the Plamegate scandal in which the Left was calling for Presidential impeachment and/or the clearing of the unpopular Bush Administration staffers. The Left MSM accused a leak coming directly from the White House divulging that Valerie Plame the wife of State Department hack Joe Wilson worked for the CIA.
Can you remember the LEFTIST OMG that the Bush Administration would leak information about the existence of a “covert” CIA operative out of vengeance for Joe Wilson’s hack report about Niger yellow cake and Saddam Hussein?
There was even screaming for a Special Prosecutor. That turned out to be Leftist bloodhound Patrick Fitzgerald. Fitzgerald went after everyone until he latched onto the rumor that Vice President Dick Cheney’s Chief of Staff Scooter Libby allegedly divulged Plame’s information to the public.
After millions of dollars of taxpayer money Fitzgerald came up with bupkis. Evidently Fitzgerald needed some kind of justification for his license to the Leftist bidding of disrupting the Bush Administration.
So Fitzgerald’s million dollar staff poured over the ‘under oath’ statements provided to the Special Persecutor.
There was STILL no smoking gun linking anyone in the Bush/Cheney staff to outing not really so-covert Valerie Plame. Who knows how many times the statements taken received scouring until a new strategy to persecute someone among the Bush/Cheney staff?
Here is the confirmation that Fitzgerald ALREADY KNEW who released Plame’s name to the press? It was an anti-Bush Republican then working in the Defense Department, specifically Richard Armitage.
I guess it was not worth going after an anti-Bush Republican for Armitage never received a public “We gotcha” from Fitzgerald.
The new strategy entailed looking for statements that did not match from each individual under oath. Apparently Scooter Libby was the only person high enough for Fitzgerald to destroy. Libby was indicted for perjury.
Evidently it was more of a Federal crime to not remember recollections than it was for a sitting President to specifically get lying via DNA. Libby was indicted and convicted. Go figure! President Clinton perjured himself about sex with a White House intern and was impeached, but was found innocent by the then dominated Democratic Party Senate. Equal justice definitely was not spread out between the Left and the Right.
O yes, one other thing. Special Persecutor Patrick Fitzgerald spent millions of taxpayer dollars and did not convict one person for his Special Prosecutor mandate to find and prosecute anyone placing CIA operatives in mortal danger for revealing their cover. Fitzgerald’s lone conviction was a lame perjury verdict over memories that had to do with meetings and little to do with insignificant Valerie Plame.
Here is the ACT! For America email alert sent to me on 08/28/2009 01:56 PM :
Political Correctness Can Be Deadly
Political correctness can be annoying, frustrating, even exasperating.
But sometimes it can be deadly.
The commentary below [Editor: Michelle Malkin commentary link] exposes what can only be described as an infuriating excess of political correctness that will not only compromise our war against Islamist terrorism — it may cost people their lives.
The ACLU, in its obsession to put the “rights” of alleged terrorists ahead of law-abiding citizens and CIA agents, has been caught surreptitiously photographing CIA agents in order to show their pictures to alleged terrorists the ACLU is defending.
By doing so the ACLU has put these agents’ lives at risk in what appears to us to be an obvious violation of federal law, such as The Intelligence Identities Protection Act of 1982.
Will the Justice Department properly investigate the ACLU? We hope so.
But given Attorney General Eric Holder’s recent wrong-headed decision to appoint a special prosecutor to investigate interrogation actions by CIA interrogators, it’s difficult not to conclude that Holder’s sympathies lie more with the ACLU than they do with safeguarding the lives of Americans and CIA agents.
Many experts and observers are concluding that the direction the Justice Department is going will ultimately undermine our intelligence gathering as interrogators, fearful they may eventually be prosecuted, will choose to avoid any tactic that even remotely could be interpreted as “excessive.” How many terrorist plots will thus not be foiled, and how many people will die as a result? Only time will tell.
One of the interrogation practices that is being questioned is the blowing of cigar smoke in the face of an alleged terrorist. Can anyone outside of the anti-American left, the ACLU, and Eric Holder honestly believe that blowing cigar smoke in the face of a terrorist is “excessive,” or worse than the ACLU photographing CIA agents to show their pictures to terrorists?
This goes beyond absurd. This goes beyond political correctness run amok.
America, we must rise up against this insanity.
JRH 8/29/09
