Kerry selected convicted child molester as godfather to daughter
This is from world net daily. The more I know about Kerry, the more I understand why he takes the positions he takes.
The godfather to Kerry's daughter is also a musician who has been stomping for Kerry. He is still friends with a convicted child molester and even uses him on the campaign trail. Unbelievable! Here is part of the wnd story
The folksinger pleaded guilty to taking "immoral and improper liberties" with a 14-year-old girl back in 1970.
As reported at the time, the girl and her 17-year-old sister went to Yarrow's hotel room seeking an autograph. Yarrow answered the door naked and made sexual advances that stopped short of intercourse. The 14-year-old resisted his advances but did not call for help. Yarrow served three months of a one- to three-year prison sentence and was pardoned by Carter in 1981.
.....Yarrow's efforts on behalf of Kerry have never been addressed. So close are Kerry and Yarrow that the singer even played at his 1995 wedding to Teresa Heinz.
"He is in touch with his emotions," Yarrow said of Kerry in an NPR interview recently. "He is in touch with his joy at something beautiful. He has enough of the artist in him to know that there is that side of the human being." There you have it folks. Show me your friends and I can tell what type of a person you are.
Polls, Polls, Polls
.......Okay, this is my take on all the polling data out there...they are all off the mark! I strongly feel that the result on election day will be very, very different from the polls. I don't think it will be this close at all. Call it a hunch or what ever, but I know all or most of the poll result will be off on that day.
It could be because the voter of today is more informed than ever before. Sure there are some people out there who still are not aware of the issues, but the vast majority of voters are much more educated on the issues than ever before. Due to this fact, most people are not responding to the polling questions like they would have done pre 9/11. I do believe that most of the responses the pollsters are getting are not accurate responses from the voters. Since the voters are more informed than ever before, I get the feel that if they think a poll question is a trick question, they will deliberately give a wrong answer.
It also seems like each pollster is polling to get the result they want, not necessarily the right result. This is part of my explanation for huge difference in the poll result. How do you explain 5 pollsters polling Ohio for example and coming up with 5 very different results?
The best poll analysis of the election can be found at
The Horserace Blog in my opinion.
A Nuisance
We saw Osama Bin Laden on TV the other day and we were once again reminded how high the stakes are at this election. Our national security is not something we should play around with that is why we have to re-elect President Bush. I am not really going to mince words here. The vast majority of Americans agree that Bush is the best man for the job.
Do you remember John Kerry's interview with the New York Times where he told the reporter that 9/11 had not changed him at all? In that interview, he said he was going to reduce terrorism to something we just learn to live with like prostitution and gambling. How naive! This guy has no idea what we are up against here. Intact, the whole of the left and their heroes like Michael Moore have no idea what we are up against. Do you guys remember when Michael Moore said there was nothing like terrorism, that we were being misled?
Michael Moore, one of the leading icons of the Democratic party who was given a seat in the presidential box next Carter at their convention said the following:
"There is no terrorist threat in this country. This is a lie. This is the biggest lie we've been told." -- Michael Moore, October 2003
If someone did this [9/11] to get back at Bush, then they did so by killing thousands of people who DID NOT VOTE for him! Boston, New York, DC, and the planes' destination of California - these were places that voted AGAINST Bush! -- Michael Moore, September 12, 2001
If I may step in here Mr Michael Moore, remember the WTC was first bombed under Clinton in 1993? Remember our Embassy in Kenya was also bombed under Clinton? Remember the USS Cole was also bombed under Clinton and we lost a lot of finest service men? Who were the terrorists trying to get back at?
If Clinton had done his job of protecting America by going after them, we would not have been in this mess today, Mr Moore.
You can read the rest to his stupid quotes at
here.
I couldn't agree more with
David Brooks of the NY Times. He had this to say
Here was this monster who killed 3,000 of our fellows showing up on our TV screens, trying to insert himself into our election, trying to lecture us on who is lying and who is telling the truth. Here was this villain traipsing through his own propaganda spiel with copycat Michael Moore rhetoric about George Bush in the schoolroom, and Jeb Bush and the 2000 Florida election.
Here was this deranged killer spreading absurd theories about the American monarchy and threatening to murder more of us unless we do what he says.
One felt all the old emotions. Who does he think he is, and who does he think we are?
One of the crucial issues of this election is, Which candidate fundamentally gets the evil represented by this man? Which of these two guys understands it deep in his gut - not just in his brain or in his policy statements, but who feels it so deep in his soul that it consumes him?
It's quite clear from the polls that most Americans fundamentally think Bush does get this. Last March, Americans preferred Bush over Kerry in fighting terrorism by 60 percent to 33 percent, according to the Gallup Poll. Now, after a furious campaign and months of criticism, that number is unchanged. Bush is untouched on this issue.The stakes at this election are just too high for people to go into the polling booth with the anyone but Bush mentality. Your future and the future of children depends on it. On Tuesday Nov.2 go vote and Vote Bush.
Real Leader
I have been saying this for sometime, and will continue to say it, the world intelligence was not wrong when they said Saddam had WMDs. I still believe that for a fact. Whenever people say things like "...we know Saddam was a bad person, but he didn't have WMDs". My response to such people is that "can you bet your life on that?". I have always contested that he moved the WMDs before we got there, I believe this with every fiber of my being.
The latest news, just goes to prove that.
Then comes the news that ABC had a terror
video tape . Listening to the words on the tape, you know without a doubt the George W Bush is the right man for the job. Although I must confess that the words sound like those of Michael Moore or Terry Mculiff or one of the Kerry croonies. No wonder ABC news wanted to withhold airing the tape until after the elections, they know that it will prove to the American people who the real commander in chief is and should be for the next four years.
They claim they wanted to "authenticate" the video, this is all a pack of lies. Even if they were not sure if the video was authentic, they should have still given it to the CIA and FBI. We are talking about the protection of the American people here! The MSM and the Terry campaign have nothing but give aid and comfort to our enemies with their actions. The words on the video tape sounds like something out of a moveon.org commercial or a "60 mins" piece.
We should stand with our President to defeat the terrorists. On Nov 2nd go out and vote for a real leader, George W Bush.
The Terminator Is Coming to Ohio
So Arnold is coming to Ohio the last weekend before the elections. Is this going to make any impact at all? Well, I think so. Am I one of those people who believe that there are people out there who choose a candidate over another just because a Hollywood celebrity told them to, well, not really. It depends in my opinion on the substance of the message.
Let me explain. I personally do not think that anyone is going to change their vote from Bush to Kerry just because Rosie O’Donnel or Cher told them to, anyone who would go to listen to Cher or Rosie talk politics is already in the Kerry camp. Trust me.
Cher had a Kerry rally this past weekend were thousands of people were supposed to show up, but only a couple hundred showed up.
Rosie also had a Kerry rally where thousands were supposed to show up but only about 38 people showed. See what I mean?
However, in the case of Arnold, I think he is really going to make a difference. The reason is because Arnold is not just motivated by hatred for Kerry or the democrats
(in case you don’t know, his wife is a democrat. Not just any democrat, a Kennedy. You don’t get anymore liberal than that. Well, not unless you are John Kerry) like most democrats are, but I believe he is trying to spread values that he really and truly believes, in. There are a lot of immigrants (I know because I am one also) who identify with conservative ideas but who support the democratic party because they have fallen for lie of class warfare put out there by the democrats. These immigrants really and truly are conservative by nature, but end up supporting democrats and the democratic agenda because they think they really have no choice. Arnold reaches out to these immigrants.
His speech at the Republican National convention explaining why he is republican just about says it all. For those who have forgotten, here is part of the speech
My fellow immigrants, my fellow Americans, how do you know if you are a Republican? Well, I tell you how. If you believe that government should be accountable to the people, not the people to the government, then you are a Republican.
If you believe a person should be treated as an individual, not as a member of an interest group, then you are a Republican.
If you believe your family knows how to spend your money better than the government does, then you are a Republican.
If you believe our educational system should be held accountable for the progress of our children, then you are a Republican.
If you believe this country, not the United Nations, is the best hope for democracy, then you are a Republican.
And, ladies and gentlemen, if you believe that we must be fierce and relentless and terminate terrorism, then you are a Republican.
Now, there's another way you can tell you're a Republican. You have faith in free enterprise, faith in the resourcefulness of the American people and faith in the U.S. economy. And to those critics who are so pessimistic about our economy, I say: Don't be economic girlie-men.
Wow! That just about says it all. Ohio has a large immigrant population, if nothing else, I know those who have been at the political crossroads until now are definitely going to be listening closely to Arnold.
An Open Letter to "Momma T" ("Real Job" issue just won't go away)
This is really interesting.
Here ia an open letter to "Momma Teresa" Heinz. This is really good.
Dear Ms. Heinz-Kerry:
At first, I thought you were nothing more than an interesting side note to the Kerry campaign. A bit of comic relief, if you will. Heaven knows, the country could use it after watching the painful machinations of your husband as he desperately tries to explain his ever-shifting positions on every policy issue imaginable.
It is time, however, for you to put down the gin-soaked raisins and smell the coffee. Let me say this as clearly as I know how: Motherhood IS a full time job. Despite you and your fellow feminists' best efforts to belittle stay-at-home moms, we manage more in an hour than many folks do in an entire day.
Multi-tasking? We invented it, sister. We are managers, psychologists, physicians, chefs, teachers, pastors, physical therapists, personal shoppers, nutritionists, interior decorators, chauffeurs, cruise directors, financial advisors, housekeepers and seamstresses - and that's before lunch.
It may surprise you to know that there are stay-at-home moms who have PhDs, J.D.'s, MBAs and other advanced degrees. But this is a choice that we have made. We recognize that our self-worth is not inexorably linked to our careers. In fact, we made the discovery long ago that our legacy is our children. My tombstone is not going to read "She wrote really great press releases" - it will say "Wife and Mother" and that is an awful lot more to live up to......read on
Who Reads the NY Times Anyway?
The Times is an American Icon. It used to be the most read newspaper in America and frankly one of the most respected. Lately, it has been plagued with murky reporting and outright lies (remember the Jason Blair incident?).
After the bogus weapons story yesterday, I started to wonder who actually still reads the NY Times and frankly who even believes it anymore. Well I did not have to look too far for my information
Polipundit already did an article on it. Here it is:
Check this out:
Avg. Weekly Circulation of the New York Times (M-F, Sun.) = 1,207,636
On the other hand, here’s a list of the circulation figures for some of the Grey Lady’s “real sophisticated” competitors for the public’s attention:
People = 3,730,287
Sports Illustrated = 3,314,174
Playboy = 3,176,215
Maxim = 2,531,768
Seventeen = 2,150,952
ESPN The Magazine = 1,790,078
Field & Stream = 1,511,796
American Rifleman = 1,386,781
Car and Driver = 1,363,911
Popular Mechanics = 1,240,763
Ahem.
So, the NYT “sets the agenda,” huh?
Riiiiight. The circlulation of magazines like "Car and Driver" even beats that of the NY Times! Wow!
The Case of the Missing Weapons
Yesterday, the NY Times
cover story talked about missing weapons in Iraq. The news article made us believe that the weapons were lost due to the incompetence of not just this administration, but of our military. It turns out that this story is nothing but A BIG FAT LIE. It was another attempt by the liberal media to influence the outcome of the Presidential elections by making the President look bad through fraudulent means (since they can find no legitimate grounds to attack the President, they resort to lies, remember Dan Rather?) thereby helping Kerry. Unfortunately for them this time, the truth came out immediately.
I guess they NY Times had forgotten that there were reporters embedded with the troops when we went into Iraq. According to NBC News, the weapons were already gone before the fall of Bagdad.
This is how
The National Review reported the NBC story
NBC News: Miklaszewski: “April 10, 2003, only three weeks into the war, NBC News was embedded with troops from the Army's 101st Airborne as they temporarily take over the Al Qakaa weapons installation south of Baghdad. But these troops never found the nearly 380 tons of some of the most powerful conventional explosives, called HMX and RDX, which is now missing. The U.S. troops did find large stockpiles of more conventional weapons, but no HMX or RDX, so powerful less than a pound brought down Pan Am 103 in 1988, and can be used to trigger a nuclear weapon. In a letter this month, the Iraqi interim government told the International Atomic Energy Agency the high explosives were lost to theft and looting due to lack of security. Critics claim there were simply not enough U.S. troops to guard hundreds of weapons stockpiles, weapons now being used by insurgents and terrorists to wage a guerrilla war in Iraq.” (NBC’s “Nightly News,” 10/25/04)As would be expected, Kerry and Edwards jumped on this story like a Lion goes after game. They ripped the President and tried to make him look incompetent. I guess this was the October suprise the Kerry campaign wanted to come up with. It gets more interesting when we find out that CBS 60 minuites (yes the same CBS)
planned to run this story on the eve of the election. This is nothing but a concerted effort by the liberal media working hand in hand with the Kerry Campaign. They want this guy to win at all cost, even it means lying or even manufacturing documents.
For those of you who still think that the news media is just reporting the news and not working with the campaigns, how do you explain the fact the news broke yesterday, and the Kerry cmpaign already had a
TV ad based on the story.
Kerry talks about allowing the United Nations take charge of things and about us passing the "global test". Well the United Nations was supposed to be watching Saddam when the weapons were removed. Where was Hans Blix and UN whent he weapons were beign taken away?
I am telling you people, John Kerry is not fit to be Commander in Chief. Go out there and get the vote out for GWB. If Kerry has to rely on the liberal media who has to rely on lies and forged documents to prove Kerry case, then Senator Kerry is nothing but a shallow, self centered guy who wants to be President of United States for no ther reason but personal ambition.
Watch
STOLEN HONOR here.
Blacks and Bush
 | Star Parker one of my favorite African American conservative writers did a beautiful piece at townhall on the relationship between blacks and liberals. Recent polls have shown President Bush's support among blacks is at 18%, this double the support he received from blacks in 2000. I have always known that cultural issues and the liberal agenda was going to cost them votes among blacks.
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Here are parts of the story:
The gay marriage issue may very well be the tip of the iceberg of change among the black electorate. Gay marriage, and claims equating the gay movement to the civil rights movement, has been a wake-up call. Black pastors and their congregants are waking up to the fact that the liberal agenda that they have been supporting all these years does not liberate but denigrates, dehumanizes, and enslaves. They are beginning to see the liberal agenda, the welfare state agenda, as a moral problem, undermining the dignity and responsibility that makes men and women free.
This disrespect for personal dignity, the treatment of human beings as objects to manipulate that so characterizes the liberal left, is what was at work in John Kerry's comment about Vice President Dick Cheney's daughter in the last debate with Bush. Kerry's dragging Mary Cheney and her private life before tens of millions of viewers who tuned in to hear a debate between candidates for president, goes beyond being an isolated incident of poor taste. When examined carefully, the remark and Kerry's behavior tells us about this man and gives a sense why black Christians are so uncomfortable with him.
Although liberals are allegedly the sensitive ones, those who really care about people, once Kerry sensed that he could pick up political points by using Mary Cheney to advance his personal political interests, he didn't hesitate for a second. It reminds me of Bill Clinton's observation that he took advantage of Monica Lewinsky because he could. John Kerry took advantage of Mary Cheney because he could. The only thing that stood between his violation of this young woman's dignity and privacy was his own integrity, judgment, and respect for others. The "I feel your pain" liberals of the Kerry/ Clinton ilk are con-men of the worst sort, for whom others are simply means to their own ends.I couldn't have said it better.
Who wears the Pants
Well we know who wears the pants in this household, don't we?
One for the road.
Excuse me? Don't touch my beer!!
Click to Watch Stolen Honor Here
This documentary
Stolen Honor is a must see. You will never look at our men and women in uniform the same way again and most of all, you will never look at John Kerry the same way again.
Watch and judge for yourself.
(Requires Windows Media Player, Recommended view size: 200%)
I had tears in my eyes as I watched this documentary and I remember the chorus to the Song "Proud to be an American1".
I'm proud to be an American
where at least I know I'm free,
And I won't forget the men who died
who gave that right to me,
And I gladly stand up next to you
and defend her still today,
'Cause there ain't no doubt I love this land
God Bless the U.S.A.
Laura's Reply
I just love Laura Bush. She is a real classy lady. In response to Teresa Heinz's comments, here is what she has to say
"It doesn't matter to me," Mrs. Bush told reporters as she campaigned in the swing state of New Hampshire. "It was perfectly alright. She apologized and she didn't even really need to apologize," Mrs. Bush said. "I know how tough it is. Actually, I know those trick questions, too.."Money really doesn't by class. Still undecided about whome to vote for? Then check out the real difference between Laura and Teresa
here
Teresa Heinz's "Real Job"
Yesterday, Teresa Heinz (that's her legal name) said she did not think that Laura Bush, our first lady has ever held a "real job". Here is what she said :
Well, you know, I don't know Laura Bush. But she seems to be calm, and she has a sparkle in her eye, which is good. But I don't know that she's ever had a real job — I mean, since she's been grown up.Ouch! What a stupid, condescending and astonishing statement! Not only does Laura Bush have a Masters Degree in Education, she has worked as a School Teacher and a Librarian. Teresa obviously realized her blunder and issued an apology which reads:
I had forgotten that Mrs. Bush had worked as a school teacher and librarian, and there couldn't be a more important job than teaching our children. As someone who has been both a full-time mom and full-time in work force, I know we all have valuable experiences that shape who we are. I appreciate and honor Mrs. Bush's service to the country as first lady and am sincerely sorry I had not remembered her important work in the past.Another blunder for an apology. From her apology, Ms Heinz looks down and degrades mothers who stay home to raise their kids. In her mind and her world stay home moms do not have a "real job". It is even amazing to me that the wife of a Presidential candidate has no clue what the qualities of her country's first lady are. She is supposed to have a "real job"? What a snob!
As a lady writes to
Hugh Hewitt
So, Terry Kerry doesn't think that being a housewife is a real job, eh? Heavens, color me surprised...or at least I would be if that wasn't the standard liberal line............And now I have to go make dinner. FYI, Teresa, that's one of the duties of a typical housewife. And it's the third meal your servants feed you and your family each day.
Later,
Barbara_____" Well said Barbara. She is yet to apologize to the millions of stay home moms in America.
So much for John kerry being for the "working people". These pair paid taxes in the 12% income bracket last year, for those of you who are wondering what that means, it means that Teresa Heinz and John kerry paid taxes in the same income bracket as people who work at McDonalds. Middle income families in America pay taxes at 28% -35% tax bracket. Yes, they used all the legal loop holes to avoid paying their fair share of taxes.
"Why Black Voters will cost Kerry the Presidency"
This
article posted at "the horse race blog" is simply amazing, I will encourage you to read the whole piece. Here are my favorite portions of this blog
Black America has been voting solidly with the Democratic Party since the 1960s. They were part of the Roosevelt Coalition beginning in 1932, but a sizeable portion had remained with Republicans. Thanks to Kennedy’s support of and Goldwater’s opposition to the Civil Rights Act, Johnson’s Great Society, and Nixon’s divide-and-conquer strategy in 1968, blacks switched to the Democratic Party and have never left. After 1968, Republicans were lucky to score 15% of black voters on a presidential ticket. The average level of black support for Republicans has been about 12%.
While blacks have been reliable voters for the Democrats, almost every other sizeable demographic has not been. There has been an interesting phenomenon in the Democratic Party in the last 25 years. Its voting coalition has been slowly decaying. The first obvious sign of this were the Reagan and Blue Dog Democrats. After that the South fell away. After that union workers began voting increasingly for Republicans, and union workers began declining as an overall percentage of the American public. Abortion has pulled a good chunk of Catholics away. Issues surrounding homosexuality have amplified this problem. What largely remains of the original coalition is urbanites. Urban voters continue to vote solidly Democratic (this is why the 2000 county-by-county map looks so striking). But the cornerstone of Democratic hegemony among urban voters is the black portion of urban voters.
What does this mean for the Democrats nationally? Well, it basically means that for the Democrats to compete against Republicans, they have to pull an ever-larger proportion of their dwindling base. At this point this means black voters. They are only reliable and sizeable group of voters. Thus, the more the rest of the base decays, the better blacks must perform for the Democrats for the party to do well nationally.It gets more interesting
See, the Democrats have money. They have gobs and gobs of money. Wealthy white people are actually just as inclined to vote Democrat as they are to vote Republican. This is how Howard Dean got so much money and virtually no votes.
What they are lacking is a core voter base. You can see this all over the nation as the number of safe Democratic states have fallen away. Think about Minnesota. Think about the whole South. The entire South (including West Virginia) has, in the last 40 years, transitioned from being safe Democrat to safe Republican. Several perennial swing states are no longer in that condition – Missouri, Arizona, Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas, Louisiana. As a matter of fact, much of the Democrat’s electoral position has nothing to do with a solid base (as the Republican’s position does), but is due to Republican Party incompetence or corruption (or both), particularly in Illinois and California. That gives the Democrats a foundation of more than 70 Electoral Votes to add to their natural base in the urban Northeast, which is the only safe spot left for them. This puts a band-aid on their wound. But the wound remains. They lack a solid foundation of base voters.
As the Democrats base has diminished, their reliance upon black voters has increased dramatically.
Nationwide, Al Gore carried a whopping 91% of the black electorate, which constituted an impressive 10% of the entire electorate (proportional, by the way, to the black adult population, which constitutes 10% of the voting-age public). That means that of the 105 million of us who voted in 2000, 10.5 million blacks came to the polls. Black turnout in 2000 was low relative to white turnout, but it was high relative to previous levels of black turnout. Of the 22.0 million black Americans of voting age, 45% of them came to the polls. Gore carried roughly 9.4 million of them, Dubya only pulled in 937,000. That gave Gore a whopping 8.46 million vote net advantage over Bush. The trend was quite pronounced in key states.
In Florida, blacks constituted 15% of electorate on 11-07-00. This is more than the percentage they constitute of total eligible voters. They went for Gore by 93% to 7%, giving him a net advantage of 751,352 votes in a state decided by 537 votes.
In Ohio, blacks constituted 9% of the electorate on 11-07-00. Again, this is more than the percentage they constitute of total eligible voters. They went to Gore 89% to 9%, giving him an advantage of 355,471 votes in a state decided by 166,735 votes.
In Michigan, blacks constituted 11% of the electorate on 11-07-00. This is about the same percentage that blacks constitute of total eligible voters. They went to Gore 91% to 8%, giving him a net advantage of 335,214 votes in a state decided by 217,279 votes.
One can get a sense of just how necessary blacks are to the Democrats not just from these numbers, but from a consideration of the big picture in 2000. Bill Clinton was a popular President who presided over a time of peace and prosperity. His vice-president was considered approvingly, though without the same affection that Clinton enjoyed. And yet, he only won the popular vote by 500,000 votes. This is virtually unprecedented in American history.
Two weeks ago, the latest Pew Poll came out showing Kerry enjoying 70% support among blacks. Just today The Center for Policy and Economic Studies announced that in their poll, Kerry enjoyed 69% support among blacks compared to 18% for Bush. They conducted a similar poll at the same point in the 2000 race. It showed Gore 74%, Bush 9%. According to this poll, then, Kerry is underperforming among blacks by roughly 14% of the vote, a statistically significant difference. What would that mean if these numbers hold for the next month?
If there were a perfect replay of Florida, Kerry’s total would shrink by 122,312 votes.
If there were a perfect replay of Ohio, Kerry’s total would shrink by 62,207 votes (making Nader’s absence on the ballot this year wholly irrelevant).
If there were a perfect replay of Michigan, Kerry’s total would shrink by 56,542 votes.
If there were a perfect replay of the national vote, Kerry’s total would shrink by 1,459,966. In other words, Bush would win the popular vote by about 1 million votes!
John Kerry simply cannot win this election if he performs among blacks 14% worse than Gore did. There is no where else in America he can make up those votes. The Democrats have no other constituencies from which they can draw their voters.
Why Has This Happened?
There are two broad, fairly obvious, reasons that Bush has netted 14% among black voters. He has done a good job and Kerry has done a horrible job.
Bush Has Done a Good Job By:
Reaching out to black ministers. These men and women have great sway among black voters. They can convince them that Bush is worth voting for, and they can effectively exhort them to get to the voting booth.
Promoting measures that are popular among blacks. This includes school reform, the ban on gay marriage, promotion of faith-based charities, and immigration reform.
Eschewing hot-button Republican issues that alienate blacks. These include hate crimes legislation, amplifying welfare reform, racial profiling, affirmative action. Black Americans are very conservative in important respects. They are suspicious of Republican fiscal policies (not to mention they are suspicious of Republicans in general), but they frequently agree with Republicans on important social topics. Generally, Bush has emphasized the right issues and deemphasized the right issues.
Placing black Americans in important leadership roles in his cabinet. The most obvious examples are Condoleeza Rice and Colin Powell. But, in all honesty, the one who has probably done the most good is Rodney Paige, Secretary of Education. He has probably made a personal difference in his personal tours across the nation (which the press never reports).If you want to know where Kerry went wrong with blacks, then you have to read the whole piece to get the true picture and boy is he ever right!
Why Bush will win Ohio
I believe very strongly that George W Bush will win the state of Ohio come Nov 2. I have come to believe this by studying the last two Presidential elections. The one between Clinton and Dole in ’96 and Bush and Gore in 2000.
Here are the number of votes the three major candidates got in the ’96 elections
President Clinton - 2,148,222
Senator Bob Dole - 1,859,883
Ross Perot - 483,207
You can get the whole information
hereThere were three other minor candidates in the race which I am not going to mention here.
In 2000
President George W Bush - 2,351,209
Vice President Al Gore - 2,186,190
Ralph Nader – 117,857
Pat Buchanan - 26,724
You can also see the rest
hereLooking at how the counties voted, it was clear that Bob Dole would have won Ohio had Ross Perot not being in the picture. However in 2000, it seems like most of the votes that were cast for Ross Perot moved over to George Bush. Even if you add all the votes Nader got in 2000 to Al Gore’s votes, George W Bush would still have won the state of Ohio.
I don’t believe all the polls that show the election has a “dead heat” in Ohio, I live in this state and it is not. It is a “dead heat” in a few counties, but certainly not for the whole state.
There is saying out there that people usually “vote their pocket book” since Ohio has lost so many jobs, most people here will definitely want to replace George Bush. This is not entirely true. Looking at the way Ohioans voted in ’96 and 2000 tells us that this is not entirely true. If the theory of voting “their pocket book” held true for Ohio, then Both Bob Dole and Ross Perot would not have received the combined 2,343,090 votes they got. Since the economy was doing very well, Clinton should have won the state in a landslide, but he did not. Al Gore did not win the state either in 2000.
I have lived in this state for 8 years. I have come to realize that the majority of the people here vote their beliefs and their values, not their “pocket book”. Most of the people know that elected officials enact policies that could affect their lives and the lives of their children for the next 20 – 30 years, with this in mind, people tend to vote their beliefs and values.
Only 13 days left to Election day. Please go out and Vote your beliefs.
All Things to all People
We are in the final lap of the sprint to the white house and I cannot but look at the campaigns that both candidates have run. Yes I am a Bush supporter and I do support him for a lot of reasons, but the main reason I support Bush is because he is steadfast and resolute. He does not try to be all things to all people, neither does he try to please people at the expense of what he knows to be the truth. In a nutshell, he says what he means and means what he says.
I remember when the issue of gay marriage came up in 2000, I believe a reporter had asked him about the issue of gay marriage, I remember him saying "I believe marriage is between a man and woman, period. This is my belief and if it costs me the election, then so be it". I remember the last phrase very well ".....if it cost me the election, so be it". Those words told me volumes about him.
This is the year 2004 and George Bush in the incumbent and John Kerry is the challenger and the contrast could not be clearer. John Kerry tries to appease everyone. He has no deep convictions. In my opinion, he will say and do anything that will make him popular and liked. When the John Kerry first came on the scene, like most Americans, I did not know much about him. So when the Bush campaign defined him as a flip flopper, I honestly thought it was just campaign rhetoric, that such a label would probably not stick, but I was wrong, John kerry himself proved me wrong.
When he first uttered the now famous "....I actually did vote for $87b before I voted against it.....", I thought I heard him incorrectly. He first voted to authorize the use of force against Saddam, then went on to say he was mis-led when the war became unpopular. He claimed he voted to give the President the authority to use force, but the president "rushed" to war. He faulted the President for failing to find WMD in Iraq and the war was a mistake. He later told a reporter that knowing all he knows today, he would have still voted to go to war against Saddam. If this does not confuse anyone, nothing else will.
He criticizes the President's open display of his Christian faith saying he will not display his faith in public because he does not want to impose his religious views on anyone else. When he found out he was loosing support among Christians especially black evangelicals, he starts to quote scripture and never failed to remind us during the debates that he is Catholic and once served as an altar boy. He even quotes more scripture than Bush. So much for not wanting to display my religion in public.
I know that people tend to change their minds on certain issues, that is not what I am talking about here. What I am talking about in regards to Senator Kerry is that he allows opinion polls to decide what he will say, how he will act and what decisions he will make. While there may be benefits to trying to feel the pulse of the people before making certain decisions, the dangers of making decisions just because they are popular or will make you look good and liked far out weighs the benefits. If nothing else, 9/11 and the events that have followed have taught us that the right decisions are usually not the most popular decisions. In spite of the first WTC attacks, the embassy bombings and the attack on the USS Cole, former President Clinton did not go after Osama Bin Laden as aggressively as he should have, not because he did not love this country, but because he was more concerned about his image before the international community. If he had done the right thing instead of trying so hard to be liked, we may not have had a 9/11.
The primary job of the President is the protection of the homeland and the people, it is not a popularity contest. If you want a President you can depend on and trust to defend and protect you and your family no matter what it takes, then George W Bush is your man.
On the Gallup Poll
Powerline Blog has this to say about the latest gallup poll. While I believe he may be right, I don't believe the election is a "dead heat" either.
I guess we'll just have to wait and see.
Kerry Already Causing Havoc Abroad
Michelle Malkin is reporting that the BBC says the UN is blaming John Kerry for the death of 50 Haitians.
The commander of the UN peacekeepers in Haiti has linked a recent upsurge in violence there to comments made by the US presidential candidate, John Kerry.
Earlier this year Mr Kerry said that as president he would have sent American troops to protect Jean-Bertrand Aristide who was ousted from power in February.
The Brazilian UN general, Augusto Heleno, said Mr Kerry's comments had offered "hope" to Aristide supporters. Much of the recent unrest has centred on areas loyal to Mr Aristide.
More than 50 people have died over the past fortnight...Global Test in Action I would say!
DNC in Unlawful Ballot Pickup
Drudge is reporting that the Democratic National Committee is already advocating an apparent unlawful "BALLOT PICKUP" drive by campaign volunteers.
If it is not close, they can't cheat. BUT, they are in for a suprise this time around!
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New York Times endorses KerryI am really shocked?! Seriously people, is this is supposed to be news? Is there anyone on planet earth who does know that the New York Times is the official newspaper for the DNC and hard core liberals?
Give me a break!
Liberals Just don't get it.When John kerry took out time just before the first debate to get a tan, remeber his
("orange alert"), my first reaction was "this guy just doesn't get it". I knew he was going to win at least the first debate, let's face it, we all know he is a good debater, but I also knew that the American public was not foolish enough to jump on the Kerry bandwagon just because he looks good and well rested or just because he won a debate.
The latest Usatoday/CNN/Gallup poll just released by
drudge shows Bush with an 8 point lead among Likely voters.
The most amazing fact of the poll is that people think John Kerry is just too liberal. Wow! I thought the liberal idea was supposed to be the view of "the majority"? The poll has this to say
For one thing, the charge that Kerry is too liberal, which Bush emphasized mostly in the third and last debate on Wednesday night, seems to be sticking. Nearly half say Kerry's political views are too liberal. (Four in ten say Bush is too conservative.) But didn't Kerry win the debate? Yes, as with the first two debates, the public thinks Kerry did the better job on Wednesday night. But as Al Gore learned in 2000, winning a debate on points does not necessarily translate into votes or make a candidate more popular. As in 2000, Bush's favorable ratings -- Americans view of him as a person -- went up after a debate that he lost. Kerry's favorable rating has remained flat. Republicans seem more enthusiastic about the election, and thus more likely to vote, as reflected in the Gallup likely voter model.
CNN/USA TODAY/GALLUP POLL
October 14-16
Likely Voters'
Choice for President
Now Oct. 9-10
Bush 52% 48%
Kerry 44 49
Nader 1 1
Sampling error: +/-4% pts
QUESTION: Next, we'd like to get your overall opinion of some people in the news. As I read each name, please say if you have a favorable or unfavorable opinion of these people -- or if you have never heard of them. A. George W. Bush B. John Kerry
CNN/USA TODAY/GALLUP POLL
October 14-16
Kerry's Political Views
Too liberal 47%
About right 38
Too conservative 9
Sampling error: +/-3% pts
CNN/USA TODAY/GALLUP POLL
October 14-16
Bush's Political Views
Too liberal 14%
About right 41
Too conservative 40
end
The American people are not blind, neither are we stupid. We are electing the President of the United States, not the President of the college debating club.
Senator Kerry and Mary CheneyThis story just would not go away. Anyone who watched the last debate saw how Senator Kerry threw a low blow at the Vice President by trying to use the Vice President's daughter's sexual orientation to make the Republican base uncomfortable. Boy does he regret that now.
Of all the articles and op-ed written on the story,
this one by Zev Chafets of the New York Daily News hits the nail right on the head. Here is some of it:
Why Cheney's daughter? Kerry knows lots of famous people who believe - as he says Mary Cheney believes - that they were born gay. He could have cited Massachusetts Rep. Barney Frank or New Jersey Gov. Jim McGreevey. Both are public men who could offer personal testimony about the inborn nature of homosexuality.
But that wasn't the point Kerry wanted to make. He was crying Mary to send a message to presumably homophobic Christian voters: Just in case you hadn't heard, the vice president harbors a practicing lesbian in the bosom of his family. ........
Since the debate, the Christian right has been rallying to the side of Mary Cheney. Well-known political preachers like Jerry Falwell and James Dobson have gone out of their way to defend her right to privacy. Conservative radio talk shows and Web sites have been flooded with denunciations of Kerry and support for Mary.
This reaction doesn't mean that the evangelical community has changed its doctrine, or its mind, on the sinful nature of homosexuality. It does reveal, however, that most born-again Protestants are not nearly as extreme - or as politically one-dimensional - as Kerry evidently imagined them to be. Very well said! emphasis mine.
On stem Cell ReasearchThe
Jewish World Review has an excellent piece in response to the Kerry/Edwards claims on stem research. You should read the rest of it. Here is just a piece of it
This is John Edwards on Monday at a rally in Newton, Iowa: "If we do the work that we can do in this country, the work that we will do when John Kerry is president, people like Christopher Reeve are going to walk, get up out of that wheelchair and walk again."
In my 25 years in Washington, I have never seen a more loathsome display of demagoguery. Hope is good. False hope is bad. Deliberately, for personal gain, raising false hope in the catastrophically afflicted is despicable.
Where does one begin to deconstruct this outrage?
First, the inability of the human spinal cord to regenerate is one of the great mysteries of biology. The answer is not remotely around the corner. It could take a generation to unravel. To imply, as Edwards did, that it is imminent if only you elect the right politicians is scandalous.
Second, if the cure for spinal cord injury comes, we have no idea where it will come from. There are many lines of inquiry. Stem cell research is just one of many possibilities, and a very speculative one at that. For 30 years I have heard promises of miracle cures for paralysis (including my own, suffered as a medical student). The last fad, fetal tissue transplants, was thought to be a sure thing. Nothing came of it.
As a doctor by training, I've known better than to believe the hype — and have tried in my own counseling of people with new spinal cord injuries to place the possibility of cure in abeyance. I advise instead to concentrate on making a life (and a very good life it can be) with the hand one is dealt. The greatest enemies of this advice have been the snake-oil salesmen promising a miracle around the corner. I never expected a candidate for vice president to be one of them.
Third,the implication that Christopher Reeve was prevented from getting out of his wheelchair by the Bush stem cell policies is a travesty.
George Bush is the first president to approve federal funding for stem cell research. There are 22 lines of stem cells now available, up from one just two years ago. As Leon Kass, head of the President's Council on Bioethics, has written, there are 3,500 shipments of stem cells waiting for anybody who wants them.
Edwards and Kerry constantly talk of a Bush "ban" on stem cell research. This is false. There is no ban. You want to study stem cells? You get them from the companies that have the cells and apply to the National Institutes of Health for the federal funding.
Who do Service Men and their Families trust to be Commander in Chief?For those who do not know, the US Military is overwhelmingly conservative and they always tend to vote Republican. It is a known fact that the Republicans can always count on the Military vote in any Presidential election. For those of you who do not know, Republicans and their children and the most likely to join the Military than Democrats and Independents. Now I am not claiming that Democrats and their Independents do not love this country (far be it from me to make such a suggestion), but statistics have always shown that the majority of those in the Military and those who continue to sign up to join the military are Republicans.
In spite of all the liberal media has been doing in this time of war to undermine the current President and make the Iraq war “the wrong war at the wrong place at the wrong time”, the Military is still overwhelming in favor of the war and the President.
A recent survey in
USA shows that the troops overwhelmingly support Bush over Kerry 4-1. This is what the survey says:
In the survey of more than 4,000 full-time and part-time troops, 73% said they would vote for Bush if the election were held today; 18% said they would vote for Kerry. Of the respondents, 59% identified themselves as Republicans, 20% as independents and 13% as Democrats.
The survey was conducted Sept. 15-28 by the Army Times Publishing Co., which distributes the weekly newspapers Army Times, Navy Times, Air Force Times and Marine Corps Times. (Army Times Publishing is owned by Gannett, which also publishes USA TODAY.)
Another survey today by the
Associated Press also shows that those in active duty and their families trust Bush more as commander in chief..
Here is part of the story:
WASHINGTON (AP) - When asked who they would trust as commander in chief, people in military service and their families chose President Bush over Sen. John Kerry, a decorated Vietnam veteran, by almost a 3-to-1 margin.
Bush, who served in the Texas Air National Guard, was more trusted by 69 percent while 24 percent said they trusted Kerry more, according to the National Annenberg Election Survey released Friday.
Among all Americans, Bush has a more narrow advantage on trust to be commander in chief, 50-41.
The military sample was far more likely to be Republican than Democratic, which could help explain the more favorable view of the president. Four in 10, 43 percent, of the military sample said they were Republicans, while 19 percent said Democrats and 27 percent independents.
Those in the military and their families have a more favorable view of Bush than Americans generally, and they take a more optimistic view about Iraq, the economy and the nation's direction.
A majority in the military sample, 64 percent, said the country is on the right track. Among Americans generally, 55 percent said the country is headed in the wrong direction.
The National Annenberg Election Survey found that seven in 10, 69 percent, had a favorable view of Bush. Only three in 10, 29 percent, had a favorable view of Kerry.
Wow! I find it very interesting that the people in the service and those fighting in Iraq have a more optimistic view about Iraq, the economy than those at home. This goes to show that the media has really been reporting more lies that truth about the situation in Iraq. If the people who are in the fore front of the war have a more favorable view of the war than those who get their information about the war from the news, then something is wrong.
DNC Voter Fraud Lies!!Drudge is reporting that the DNC is circulating a 66 page mobilization plan to their members to claim voter fraud even where there is none. Do you think the main stream mdia will report this? Your guess is as good as mine.
Over at Last!The debates are over at last. In my view, President Bush won the last two debates. In spite of the low blow Kerry tried to inflict by bringing up Cheneys daughter, Bush still won the debates in my book.
Red State has interesting article on the obsession by Kerry and Edwards with Dick Cheney's daughter.
The questions put forward by Scheifer were the most stupid questions I have heard in a Presidential debate. He even asked a question about the shortage of the flu vaccine. The flu vaccine?! For the most part he kept pandering to Kerry. Some of the "questions" were opinions and democratic talking points i.e. "the back door draft", blah,blah.
Powerline Blog has this review.
High Hewitt also has an interesting take on the debate.
If you are interested in the polls, you can check
Polipundit or
Real Clear PoliticsThe Swift Boat Vets. Remember them? They are back.
Red State has a great article on their new TV ad. You can also read their article on why Bush will win this election
here
Kerry compares terrorism to prostitution?!!This is unbelievable! In a recent
article in NY Times, the reporter asked Senator Kerry what it would take to make America safe again, here was Senator Kerry's response:
When I asked Kerry what it would take for Americans to feel safe again, he displayed a much less apocalyptic worldview. ''We have to get back to the place we were, where terrorists are not the focus of our lives, but they're a nuisance,'' Kerry said. ''As a former law-enforcement person, I know we're never going to end prostitution. We're never going to end illegal gambling. But we're going to reduce it, organized crime, to a level where it isn't on the rise. It isn't threatening people's lives every day, and fundamentally, it's something that you continue to fight, but it's not threatening the fabric of your life.''
Terrorism is like prostitution?!! Tell that to the Israelis who have their homes and loved ones blown apart everyday. He even dares to suggest that the war on terror should be a law enforcement issue. Unbelievable!! Why don't we just slap a pair of hand cuffs on members of alqaida and read them their rights.
This is just beyond ignorance. I have no adjectives to qualify this sort reasoning. If this does not show that Senator John Kerry is unfit to be commander in chief of the US Armed Forces, then I don't what else will.
A Part of HistoryThose of us alive, were a part of history yesterday when the Afghan people went to the polls for the first time in history. Wow!!! AS if this great victory was not enough, one of our strongest allies in the war on terror, the prime minister of Australia also won his re-election. Prime Minister John Howard has thanked the Australian people for his historic fourth federal election victory.
The guys at powerlineblog.com chronicled the
day in pictures. Take note of the special thanks the Afghan people are saying to President Bush.
Why we have the largest military presence in Iraq.I linked to this
article from powerlineblog.com and it really makes an excellent read.
The National Review does a great analysis of the Newsweek Poll
here.
It really does make you wonder.
The era of main stream media is fast coming to an end the guys just can't take it. Tom Brokaw and Peter Jennings in trying to rally support for Dan Rather act like it was the bloggers that made Dan Rather use fraudulent material for his story on Bush National Guard. I know they angry that Rather got caught.
Tom Brokaw is indeed a
girlie man!
