Un-be-leeeeevable!

When you think things can’t get any worse.  From our friends at Citizenlink.com:

Planned Parenthood Gift Certificates Cover Abortion

by Jennifer Mesko, editor

Life advocates say a better gift would be a donation to a pregnancy resource center.

For that person on your list who has everything, Planned Parenthood is offering — ahem — gift certificates.

For the first time, Planned Parenthood of Indiana is selling gift certificates, Indianapolis’ WISH-TV reported. The certificates come in $25 increments and can be used for birth control, breast exams — and abortions.

Curt Smith, president of the Indiana Family Institute, said he was appalled by the idea.

“If somebody wants to help a woman at a time of crisis, they can support the life centers throughout Indiana,” he told the TV station.

Sister Diane Carollo, director of the Office for Pro-Life Ministry for the Catholic Archdiocese of Indianapolis, called the gift certificates a “horrendous” idea.

“The fact that they would be offering gift certificates that could even pay for the destruction of innocent human life is blasphemous,” she told Family News in Focus.

Sister Carollo agreed with Smith that a better Christmas gift would be a donation to a pregnancy resource center.

“That’s the gift that keeps giving,” she said.

Part two of Gamecock’s election post-mortem shows GOP the way back to the majority

Originally published by Mike DeVine, Legal Editor for The Minority Report

[Part one of our Election 2008 post-mortem, rejected the notion of a “secular American majority”. I agree with Dave Sage that culture drives politics; that America has been growing more secular; and that America desperately needs a new Great Awakening outside of politics. However, Republicans are not yet Daniel in a pagan Lions Den. Part two builds on that theme, as well as how we can win back republicans that bolted the party or sat out this election; as well as win over conservative democrats and many secular voters.]

I knew McCain was going to lose when I received an “Obama saves the GOP” e-mail on the Saturday before Election Day from my friend Don Scoggins, the leader of the Frederick Douglass (pictured below) Society, and one of my personal conservative heroes. Don, a conservative black Republican, helped shape my post-2000 conversion to the GOP and has been an inspiration to me, especially as regards my efforts to reach out to minorities with the conservative message.

In explaining his decision to vote for the Democrat, Don expressed an understandable pride in Obama’s skills and symbolic value in affirming a culmination of the Civil Rights Movement. But primarily, Scoggins was voting against a McCain and a GOP that had lost their way.

At first I was shocked, but a week after the election I started to understand how Obama could save us.

Ironically, the saving will not be had by following Frederick Douglass’s “leave us alone” admonition to President Lincoln. Rather, a conservative resurrection can be built upon, now “all in” on the America Project, minority communities more receptive to the conservative message given conclusive proof that they can rise to any height in America, just like whites, on merit. We must take this message into every congressional district as well as State and Local races. We must recruit Blacks and Hispanics in districts where none immediately come forward, just as we do in majority white districts, and we must choose candidates that can win.

Obama’s third world-like crowds are dispersing back to the real world.

All Americans, too many of whom are ignorant of what disaster liberal government wrought in the 70s and the Reagan conservative anecdote of the 80s, are about to get re-educated in the looming recession born of Fannie Mae government distortion of the free market and Obama and the Democrats’ anti-Free wealth creation Market in favor of spreading your hard earned wealth to others agenda.

Republicans have been held accountable for happenings on their watch over the past decade as they became Democrat-lite. Now, Democrats will be held accountable like they haven’t been since 1994 and 1980.

Americans will be repelled by toys and peanut butter sandwich sharing before Kindergarten sex-ed. They will not confuse compulsion by government with the message of Jesus, like Obama has. They will not share Obama’s aversion to digging into the ground and ocean floor for coal and oil, as well as refinery nuclear power plant foundations for good wages. They will not be amused by energy “price lessons” from the chauffer-driven President, no matter his pigmentation. No, Americans want wealth creating jobs and they want to decide to whom they will spread it. They will not be content with Obama’s minimalist view. They will want to return to American exceptionalism.

The re-education in the failures of liberal economic policies is underway. Minds will be concentrated, and it is vital that we have energetic new leadership in place to put it all in perspective and be the alternative.

We have leaders that fit the bill like Michael Steele, Mike Pence, Mark Sanford, Jim DeMint, Sarah Palin and many others that have for too long been drowned out by “compassionate conservative” condescension or losing Mavericks, mimicking failed Democrats.

As stated in part one, the faith and conservative social views give us a foot in the door with many minorities. We should listen to Richard Land of the Southern Baptist Convention and return to first principles and reach out to those minorities.

But we can also reach out to more secular voters with one of the most basic of conservative principles: federalism. This concept can be the key to disabusing many of the Big Lie that social conservatives want to impose our views.

Social conservatives came into the political arena because federal judges were stifling their free speech and imposing a world view on their children anathema to their views. Co-author of The Federalist Papers, Alexander Hamilton (pictured below), Thomas Jefferson and the most of the rest of the Founders’ vision for happiness pursuit maximization was for federalist dispersion of power to the like-minded in their communities and the power to vote with one’s feet. Moreover, most conservatives don’t want to proselytize in public schools. It’s the liberals that do that with their amorphous tolerance and diversity and their moral and cultural relativism.

All are better off and with a much better chance that their views won’t be categorized with obscenity in speech codes in their children’s schools under a federalist system rather than a one-size fits all whim of a federal judge.

What Gamecock dubs “Faith-based Conservative Federalism” is GOP’s ticket back to the majority.

Mike DeVine’s Charlotte Observer, Examiner.com and Minority Report columns

“One man with courage makes a majority.” - Andrew Jackson

The reason: No “secular American majority” exists. The vast majority of Americans still believe in God.

By Mike “gamecock” DeVine, Charlotte Law and Civil Rights Examiner for Examiner.com

In his brilliant A Republican Party for a Secular America, David Sage correctly cites the 2008 rejection of the GOP “in its current form” by the American people at the ballot box, but then attributes that rejection to Republican mimicking of Reagan’s social conservative agenda, while agreeing that “conservatism” sells.

David’s sagacity measures 67% on the Gamecock meter. Let me work backwards.

Given Americans’ aversion to granting three consecutive terms to the same party in the White House and their penchant for throwing out the party in said House during economic hard times, even unabashed and unapologetic marketing of conservatism might not have sold this year.

We will never know, because we didn’t even try to sell conservatism before Palin was chosen. And when McCain said me too to President Bush and Senator Obama to the very non-conservative Paulson panic prevention plan, conservative sales went down the drain.

But what of this supposed tipping point aversion to appeals to Judeo-Christian values and the current form of the Party of Lincoln?

The Democratic Party regained majority control of Congress mainly due to Rahm Emmanuel’s “blue dawg” democrat strategy that recruited pro-life and family values Democrats all over the county, not just in Dixie. Barack Obama campaigned as a Christian, opposed gay marriage, and even insisted that the party platform be changed for the first time since 1972 to acknowledge respect for pro-lifers. (I know: Rev. Wright, Minister Farrakhan and the Born Alive Infant Protection Act, but you see my point.)

Moreover, this year, California one of the most liberal states in the country, along with Florida and Arizona, joined 40+ other states in rejecting gay marriage. Polls show that Generations X, Y and the Millenials, are all more pro-life than Baby Boomers.

Now we get to the crux of the matter: Their may not be enough non-secular whites to win a majority, but why would we want to, especially when we don’t have to?

Yes, economic and national security conservatism sells, and it sells best to people of faith. They generally go hand in hand. The problem has been that Blacks have been held captive for 40 years by an exploitive Democratic Party whose Big Lie message has been that America is inherently racist.

Ironically, the election of a self-described African-American may be what finally un-clogs the ears and opens the eyes of many Blacks to the universal message of the GOP.

The Big Lie of the left is now exposed. Don’t listen to a Caucasian rooster. Listen to blacks on the left and the right:

Juan Williams:

There is no other nation in the world where a 75% majority electorate has elected as their supreme leader a man who identifies as one of that nation’s historically oppressed minorities.

Jason Whitlock (pictured above):

Barack Obama had just won the presidency, and the realization that America loved them back stampeded my parents’ emotions like a wedding proposal from the perfect lover you assumed would never settle down.

Donald E. Robinson:

Shortly after leaving the voting booth, [the] 70-year-old community activist…had a thought: “Why do I have to be listed as African-American? Why can’t I just be American?”

I especially like Whitlock’s “America loved them back”!

Fellow conservatives, we, like Whitlock and Williams, have long realized race was no longer a serious impediment to advancement in America and that it is the left’s fault that more haven’t realized same as Blacks have blindly voted 90+% for Democrats despite their failures to deliver on their promises.

That is now past, and maybe, human nature being what it is, it took the election of one of their own to bring home the “love back”. James Taranto echoes gamecock on the prospect that Blacks will now be freed of their Democratic past and cites the example of Catholics post-JFK and Deep South Southerners post-Carter.

It may be too optimistic to hope for major changes minority voting patterns in four years given that Obama will be running for re-election. But the work must begin in earnest now to recruit blacks and Hispanics to run as Republicans in 2010 to join these examples in elected office.

Blacks will now get to see one of their own as President as they live their lives with the realization that their lot in life is mainly determined by what they do, not who gets elected. They will also become more open to the fact that liberty, not government controls, is the best path to prosperity.

As Obama supporter, John McWhorterstates, they will be able to have “an honest discussion about the role racism does not play in black communities’ problems.”

Add to the above the fact that a disproportionate number of minorities serve in a US armed force that liberal democrats loathe, and the general aversion to weakness abroad that most Americans share, and you have the makings of a Reaganite-like coalition.

Why?

The overwhelming majority of Blacks and Hispanics are Bible-believing Christians and part of a faith-based American majority.

Despite all the odds against the GOP generally; inherent non-conservative flaws of John McCain; inept McCain campaign; lower GOP base turnout; and October financial crisis surprise, we only lost by 5% in a still mostly 50/50 nation.

We could win in four years just by getting back to 2004 levels of support, but with the “change” wrought by Obama, we may finally have the opening to build the conservative majority in government.

The market for conservative sales may just have gotten a lot larger.

Mike DeVine’s Charlotte Observer, Examiner.com and Minority Report columns

“The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race.” – The Chief Justice of the United States, John Roberts

A new website was started called Rebuild the Party  dedicated to Conservative success in 2012 and rebuilding the Republican Party. It’s actually a pretty comprehensive plan that I endorse. One plank calls for a 435 seat strategy:

The 435 district strategy. By 2012, the Republican Party will field candidates in all 435 Congressional districts in America, from inner city Philadelphia to suburban Dallas, and our leaders must be held accountable for progress towards this goal. With an 80 plus vote margin separating Democrats from Republicans in the House, it’s time to widen the playing field, not narrow it. While our targeting has gotten narrower, honing in on a class of seats we feel entitled to because they lean Republican, Democrats have been stealing traditionally 60-40 Republican seats right and left. It’s time to return the favor.

What’s more, it won’t be good enough to run perfunctory races in safe seats. 2008 showed us that every seat — Republican or Democrat — is potentially a target. If you aren’t seriously challenged this time, chances are you’ll be challenged the next time, or the time after that. Incumbents who don’t prepare for this reality will find themselves scrambling to catch up when the inevitable happens. That means that our party needs to set a new standard that campaigns will be professional and fully staffed in each and every seat.
 

That’s a good strategy, but that will also mean that they have to make some accomdations on economic issues due to location. The Dems ran candidates that were more conservative in areas that leaned more Republican. If this group wants to run candidates everywhere, especially in districts that lean Democrat, then they need to run candidates that are far to the left on economics. We’re talking about people who believe in cradle to grave government intervention, large scale expansion of the government, welfare, environmentalism, gun control, and much bigger government overall. But it’s going to be necessary to nominate people who are economically liberal in order to win a lot of these seats in these districts.

If I ended my post there, a lot of libertarians would not be happy with my suggestion and it would hurt their opinion of the 435 seat plan. So, I have to ask why the heck did this blogger write?:

If this group wants to run candidates everywhere, especially in districts that lean Democrat, then they need to run candidates that are pro-choice and pro-gay rights to have a shot.

Reading that as a social conservative turnoff to the plan. That not every candidate in 435 districts will agree with me on social issues isn’t a problem. However, what becomes a problem is an overarching attitude by some that, “Social conservatism is disposable, irrelevant, and unnecessary.” Sadly the tone is taken by a lot of folks at the Rebuild the Party site in the idea board which appears to have been overrun by arch-Libertarians with such suggestions, “Step away from the religious right.” and the statement (completely unsupported by facts) that 18-30 years olds voted for Obama because of the religious right.

Of course, this is bunk. In Florida, the State’s Marriage Amendment ran 13 points ahead of John McCain. In California, it ran 15 points ahead. Also, in California, an initiative for Parental notification ran 11 point ahead.

In addition, for those who are concerned about reaching out to minority groups, it makes far more sense to begin outreach on an issue where common ground is shared, and African Americans and Hispanics tend to be even more conservative on issues like abortion and traditional marriage rather than saying, “By golly, let’s go and run on the flat tax.”

As for those folks who believe that our society can be cultural declining and decaying, while also having small government, you are out of touch with reality. Cultural decline has produced bigger government.

And for political perspective, I’d point out that while the rest of the nation was breaking for the Democrats, Evangelicals broke 76% for John McCain. There were 26 million Evangelicals who voted, many of these on Social Issues. That is a 12.24 million vote advantage among Evangelical voters for the Democrats. If you think there are so many people who believe in small government but vote Democrat out of their love for abortion that you can make up that 12.24 million votes, you are equally delusional.

Some people want to return to the days of Goldwater who said that any real Christian should kick Jerry Falwell in the rear end. Well, let me remind you: It was the American voter that kicked Goldwater in the rear end in 1964 in a real landslide defeat. Not only is Economic Conservatism practically unworkable without social conservatism, it is politically unable to win nationwide.

Nominate who you need to nominate, but enough throwing sand in the eyes of social conservatives.

Putting McCain first

Originally published by Mike “gamecock” DeVine as Legal Editor for The Minority Report

The maverick martyr mouthed his own losing recriminations in 2000. Putting country first in 2008 requires anonymous men mangle a mother for a mute McCain.

Moderate republicans don’t win national elections. President Ford was never elected, there never was a President Dole, and there never will be a President McCain.

Republicans win when they run to the right. They began winning when Nixon discovered the Silent Majority and Reagan made the GOP the Party of Life. The winning coalition was solidified when President Reagan won the Cold War with peace through strength and when his Milton Friedman monetary policy and supply-side fiscal policies produced a recovery that lasted for 25 years.

Many of the same Washington voices on the right, albeit slightly on the right, that now attack the Governor of Alaska as a scape goat for republican defeat, also despised The Gipper. Then, as now, there are men without chests that whisper personal attacks.

Reagan was called an “amiable dunce” for calling evil by its name. A towel-clad Palin is said not to know the parties to NAFTA after negotiating a natural gas treaty with one of its signatories.

Some facts: The polls the cocktail party conservatives worship showed McCain behind most of the year. The only time he moved ahead was after he chose Sarah Palin to be his running mate. In fact, while the McCain-Palin ticket rose in the polls after the convention, it was only after the vicious media attacks, including those from the beltway conservative elites, when the republicans actually led. Then came McCain’s refusals to address Obama’s alliances with extremists and lack of bold leadership after the financial crisis.

But before those machinations we heard from David Brooks of the New York Times, a McCain backer since 2000, that Palin was a “fatal cancer” on the GOP and that Obama was the “mountain” of strength that is always there. Former Reagan speech writer Peggy Noonan describes Palin as a “symptom and expression of a new vulgarism” in American politics. Former Bush 43 speech writer David Frum said that Palin’s appeal was to a “dwindling number of social conservative voters.”

Is Frum referring to the “dwindling numbers” in California, the most liberal state in the nation, that voter to ban gay marriage? Or Florida which also went for Obama but which also amended their Constitution to define marriage as exclusively between one man and one woman? Or the other 39 states that have done the same?

Brooks sees a mountain of vacuousness as Noonan hears vulgarity in g-dropping accents. Yet Brooks is blind to the tumors obscured by Mt. Barack and Noonan is deaf to the echos of The Gipper that conservatives hear oh so clearly from Sarah’s lips.

But when one adds pro-choicers Colin Powell and William Weld to the above, one begins to see what really animates the hate directed at the mother of five. One is reminded of the Rockefeller country clubbers that resented the need for those hick Evangelicals if they were to move past asking Speaker Tip O’Neil for washroom keys. The whispers from the husbands of those whose wives insist upon only pregnancies of convenience that produce flawless heirs.

It wasn’t good enough that Palin, like Reagan, didn’t wear religion on her sleeve. They just decided to go after the cost of her sleeves and the whole dress.

Let’s do the math on why the GOP clingers to Roe v. Wade are bitter at the Mother of Trig. The fact is that for these liberals, a woman that would knowingly bring a Down Syndrome baby to term just doesn’t add up.

These architects of republican defeat can count votes, but one wonders if they just aren’t down with winning unless its with their math, which divides and loses.

The facts refute any claim that Palin or conservatives are responsible for McCain’s latest defeat and their vitriol belies their claim that it is social conservatives that are angry and divisive.

Mike DeVine’s Examiner.com and Charlotte Observer columns.

“One man with courage makes a majority.” - Andrew Jackson

Reagan was called an “amiable dunce” for calling evil by its name. A towel-clad Palin is said not to know the parties to NAFTA after negotiating a natural gas treaty with one of its signatories.

Some facts: The polls the cocktail party conservatives worship showed McCain behind most of the year. The only time he moved ahead was after he chose Sarah Palin to be his running mate. In fact, while the McCain-Palin ticket rose in the polls after the convention, it was only after the vicious media attacks, including those from the beltway conservative elites, when the republicans actually led. Then came McCain’s refusals to address Obama’s alliances with extremists and lack of bold leadership after the financial crisis.

But before those machinations we heard from David Brooks of the New York Times, a McCain backer since 2000, that Palin was a “fatal cancer” on the GOP and that Obama was the “mountain” of strength that is always there. Former Reagan speech writer Peggy Noonan describes Palin as a “symptom and expression of a new vulgarism” in American politics. Former Bush 43 speech writer David Frum said that Palin’s appeal was to a “dwindling number of social conservative voters.”

Is Frum referring to the “dwindling numbers” in California, the most liberal state in the nation, that voter to ban gay marriage? Or Florida which also went for Obama but which also amended their Constitution to define marriage as exclusively between one man and one woman? Or the other 39 states that have done the same?

Brooks sees a mountain of vacuousness as Noonan hears vulgarity in g-dropping accents. Yet Brooks is blind to the tumors obscured by Mt. Barack and Noonan is deaf to the echos of The Gipper that conservatives hear oh so clearly from Sarah’s lips.

But when one adds pro-choicers Colin Powell and William Weld to the above, one begins to see what really animates the hate directed at the mother of five. One is reminded of the Rockefeller country clubbers that resented the need for those hick Evangelicals if they were to move past asking Speaker Tip O’Neil for washroom keys. The whispers from the husbands of those whose wives insist upon only pregnancies of convenience that produce flawless heirs.

It wasn’t good enough that Palin, like Reagan, didn’t wear religion on her sleeve. They just decided to go after the cost of her sleeves and the whole dress.

Let’s do the math on why the GOP clingers to Roe v. Wade are bitter at the Mother of Trig. The fact is that for these liberals, a woman that would knowingly bring a Down Syndrome baby to term just doesn’t add up.

These architects of republican defeat can count votes, but one wonders if they just aren’t down with winning unless its with their math, which divides and loses.

The facts refute any claim that Palin or conservatives are responsible for McCain’s latest defeat and their vitriol belies their claim that it is social conservatives that are angry and divisive.

Mike DeVine’s Charlotte Observer, Examiner.com and Minority Report columns

“One man with courage makes a majority.” - Andrew Jackson

Podcast Show Notes

Sarah Palin identifies the most fearsome crisis facing the Obama campaign.

Be careful when hoping for change.

Bankers see no end to the bailout.

Noah Webster and the truth of our times.

St. Louis Catholic Bishop lays it on the line.  (Hat Tip: The Corner.)

Opponents of traditional marriage target Mormon supporters of Proposition 8. (Hat Tip: The Corner.)

A Pro-Life pharmacy opens in Virginia. (Hat Tip: Jill Stanek.)

Are you smarter than a Daily Show viewer? (Hat Tip: Newsbusters.)

Click here to listen, click here to download.

I support and have always supported passage of a constitutional amendment to protect the right to life. My convictions regarding the sanctity of life have always been clear and consistent, without equivocation or wavering. I believe that Roe v. Wade should be over-turned.

I know there are millions of Americans who believe as I do. All are concerned about the negative impact an Obama presidency and a Democrat controlled Congress will have on the Courts and the fight to overturn Roe v. Wade if they should win this Election Day.  We cannot let that happen.

If you are as concerned about this issue as I am, I urge you to sign our “I Support The Sanctity of Life” petition today. Our goal is to identify 100,000 pro-Life voters by Election Day and have them sign the petition.

I hope you will be one of the first to sign the petition and then forward it to friends and family. We will track our progress on the front page of our website.

With less than 20 days to go, time is of the essence so please contact your co-workers, friends at church, family and whoever else you can think of who is willing to sign this petition.

During the presidential campaign we relied on networks of friends to turn out the vote and distribute information. Our Bloggers, Meetups, Huck’s Army, Facebook and MySpace groups led the way online. We accomplished great things working together. Time after time, I have read the comments on our blog asking for the next assignment. This is it.

Blog about it, post a message on twitter, post a message to your social networking profile or just pick up the phone and make some calls to friends and family. However you can spread the word and encourage voters to sign our petition.

To me, life doesn’t begin at conception and end at birth. Every child deserves a quality education, first-rate health care, decent housing in a safe neighborhood, and clean air and drinking water. Every child deserves the opportunity to discover and use his God-given gifts and talents.

I know you agree. Let’s remind the Barack Obama and the Democrats that the constituency of pro-life voters is alive and well.  Sign our petition today!

With deep gratitude,

Mike Huckabee

Originally published by Mike DeVine as Legal Editor for The Minority Report

Following the 1994 Republican takeover of the House of Representatives for the first time in 40 years, network anchors explained the historic event as one of “angry white males” having a childish temper tantrum. This election season, an overtly in the tank for liberal Democrats media is raising the spectre of anger incitement pre-emptively to thwart a Gov. Sarah Palin(R-AK) and Joe the Plumber inspired Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) energized base that threatens to overwhelm another leftist Democrat presidential nominee at the ballot box, or inspire an assassination.

The occasions for the present incarnation of evil right wingers have been isolated shoutings of “terrorist”, “muslim” and/or “Arab” by hecklers at Palin rallies. (The Secret Service, after a review of campaign rallu audio tapes, debunked Obama’s debate lie that someone shouted “kill him”, which Palin heard but refused to denounce.) The media and Democrats have variously alleged that McCain campaign recitations of Sen. Barack Obama’s (D-IL) past alliances with Weather Underground Marxist terrorist William Ayers, Black Muslim Louis Farrakhan and Kenyan Arab Odinga cousin Marxists are incitements, but has chosen not to feature the vile hecklers of Palin wearing obscenity words on T-Shirts and shouts of “warmonger” at McCain to suggest their lives are in danger.

But lets consider the drive-by media’s “coverage” of angry words from angry white people directly associated with the Democratic Party leadership and the Obama campaign, shall we? (Obama and other authentically black definers frequently refer to the old Jim Crow “one drop rule” that classified any person as “Black” for legal purposes if they had at least 1/17th “negro blood” coursing through their veins. I apply that standard here for purposes of identifying angry whites.)

Consider how many of the following non-Secret Service refuted quotes could be considered incitements to violence; how many would not be known but for talk radio and the alternative media and how many have been credibly denounced, if denounced at all, by the Obama campaign:

1) Don’t get snippy - Albert Gore

2) Selected not elected - all Democrats but Sen. Joe Lieberman and former Sen. Zell Miller, 24/7 for seven years and counting

3) [On 911] America’s chickens coming home to roost - Rev. Jeremiah Wright

4) [On 911] I wish we (Weather Underground terrorist bombers) had done more - Ayers

5) Bushlied! (or cricket chirping silence) - all Democrats but Lieberman and Zell, 24/7 for five years and counting

6) He [President Bush] betrayed this country! He played on our fears! - Gore

7) Death of a President [movie depicting the assassination of President Bush]

America must stop air raiding villages and killing civilians in Afghanistan - Obama

9) Dropped bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki and never batted an eye - Wright

10) Compares American soldiers at Guantanamo Bay to Nazis, Soviets in their gulags, or some mad regime — Pol Pot - Sen. Dick Durbin

11) Marines guilty of murder in Iraq - Rep. Jack Murtha (D-PA)

12) American soldiers terrorize families in the dark of night - Sen. John Kerry (D-MA)

13) Abu Ghraib opened under new management - Sen. Ted Kennedy (D-MA)

14) Hitler was a great man. Jews have a gutter religion. Obama is The Messiah - Louis Farrakhan (honored by Obama’s church and always referred to with the honorific of “Minister” by Obama)

15) Israel will be wiped off the map - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

16) I would sit down with Ahmadinejad without preconditions - Obama

17) America is a down right mean country - Michelle Obama (may be an exception to the one drop rule, but we believe in affirmative action when identifying dangerous angry words that could incite violence)

18) Whites vote for Hillary in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Kentucky and West Virginia because they are bitter clingers to antipathy towards people that aren’t not like them - Obama

19) God damned America. America invented AIDS to kill blacks in a world ruled by greedy white people. - Wright (to standing ovations at Obama’s church)

20) Never been proud of America until 2008 - Michelle Obama

21) We need fundamental change in America. – Obama

Think any of the above could incite violence? The drive-bys aren’t interested.

Think Obama “clearly” doesn’t share the extremist views of his allies, as beltway conservative pundits George Will and Charles Krauthammer conclude? Clearly Obama does share the obvious conclusion of their anger, i.e. “fundamental change”, even if his rhetoric is delivered in a temperamentally calm manner.

And speaking of beltway conservatives:

22) Obama is a Mountain of strength that can’t be moved - Brooks

23) Palin is a cancer on the GOP – Brooks

24) Problem that Republicans will have is that they will have a very angry base in 2009 and 2010, which isn’t the best way to attract [moderates]. – DaveG at race42008.com

25) I still don’t know what [Palin] stands for. - Peggy Noonan

26) Sarah Palin is out of her league and should step down [as Republican Vice-Presidential nominee]. - Kathleen Parker

And finally, this gem from Ross Douthat, who, along with Brooks, Kristol and other beltway conservatives, advocated a McCain nomination for eight years, yet now are a part of the defeatist chorus:

27) And if I were Hanson or Levin or Steyn I’d be devoting a little less time to ritual denunciations of heretics and RINOs, and at least a little more time to figuring out how to build the sort of ship that will make the rats of the DC/NY corridor want to scramble back on board, however much it makes you sick to have them back. Who knows? It might just be the sort of ship that swing-state voters will want to climb on board as well.

It seems that while the leftist whites plus Michelle are angry at all things American, conservative and Palin, many beltway moderate-conservative pundits see a Reaganite conservative Palin as cancerous, but not a “heretic”? Go figure.

Yet, they calmly insult the social conservatives and neo-cons with which Reagan, Newt and Dubya fashioned a winning three-legged stool, and so avoid the “angry” label?

Not here they don’t. They presume unto themselves immunity from being labeled divisive within their echo chamber and yell foul when anyone defends the cancer.

What do these admittedly diverse pundit critics have in common, Douthat asks elsewhere seeking to establish credibility in diverse numbers? All of the right leaning critics are harsh critics of at least one aspect of Reaganism, whether its Brooks’ social liberalism; Bruce Bartlett’s foreign policy “realism” or Douthat’s fiscal liberalism.

They find in Palin, Reagan re-born, and truth be known, the blue-blood country-clubber Rockefeller’s never liked Reagan, resented the infusion of the yahoo Christians, and were content as a minority eating scraps from former Speaker Tip O’Neil’s table.

So, we see double-barreled, unprompted, real anger by those on the right and the left that announce the Reagan Era over, against conservatives, and especially its most authentic vessel, the Governor of Alaska.

We see dour faces on the conservative beltway pundits except when they allow themselves to climb the Obama-Mountain and get carried away with the America needs fundamental change chanter/worshippers of Farrakhan’s Messiah.

What do we see in Palin, and increasingly in McCain?

Optimism and Joy at what America has been, is and can be. We see a love for a God blessed America that, when given the opportunity to elect an unabashed, unapologetic conservative, does so every time with conservative Democrat votes, to boot, producing large majorities as the lukewarm independent rats the beltway pundits want to capture remain wallowing in the spew from God’s and America’s mouth.

Mike DeVine’s Charlotte Observer columns

“The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race.” - The Chief Justice

Race 4 2008

“One man with courage makes a majority.” - Andrew Jackson

My brilliant conservative, non-columnist friend in the banking industry desires, and rightfully so, that Obama and the Democrats be hit again and again – at least by McCain and his ads! – on a number of issues. My most recent economics column introduced Boata’s desire that liberals be defeated by references to facts and refuted by logic to the point they are shut up or relegated to filibustering incoherently (which they are very good at). This is an event gamecock has often achieved under the nomenclature of placing liberals in the corner in the fetal position, and so don’t we all wish they would stay in that position!

They don’t, but Rush sees great benefits in having a few libs around spouting liberal drivel so we are reminded of the decrepitude of their ideas and proven failed policy proposals. What we must do is defeat them at the polls.

Boata’s debut at Redstate dealt with the economy.

Now GC is directed to deal with the following, which I will deal with in the context of “innocent life vs. evil”:

(1) The detonation of a nuclear device (most probably multiple devices) in the next administration. Most likely will be delivered via shipping to the US and set off in harbors likely in conjunction with at least one trucked to Israel. No one will talk about this - not PC and heads in the sand - but it is going to happen. I know the differences in Obama and McCain’s handling of crisis situations has been mentioned, but this backdrop is stark and sobering – if anyone will take it seriously.and

(2) Obama’s view on abortion. This is a topic most are afraid to approach, but it is a topic that has seen a turnaround in views the last couple of decades. No longer is pro-choice in the majority. Obama’s ‘pay grade’ needs to be hammered home, and the fact that when life begins really has only 5 possibilities 1) At birth 2) At viability (which shrinks practically every year) 3) At start of brain activity 4) At start of heartbeat 5) At conception. If Obama does not know when life begins, then the logical and moral stance is to play it safe.

At the Saddleback Church debate, Pastor Risk Warren asked Obama and McCain about what we should do about evil in the world and at what point a baby gets human rights.

Facts:

Obama responded by calling on America to confront evil in Darfur and on our streets. Obama identified no time before birth that a baby gets human rights. Rather, he changed the question to when life begins and also refused to answer his own question.

Looking at Obama’s record and statements pre-Saddleback, one can’t determine when a born alive infant human baby gets human rights either given that he was instrumental in preventing the enactment of a bill, while serving in the Illinois legislature requiring that physicians give life-saving medical care to babies they fail to kill via abortion.

Obama claimed that the bill would jeopardize abortion rights granted by the US Supreme Court and that babies were already protected by current state law.

He lied.

Witnesses from Illinois abortion clinics and hospitals have confirmed on live television/radio and in print media that babies born alive after botched abortions are left to die on the abortionist table or out of sight in soiled utility rooms. We searched in vain for any prosecutions of “doctors” allowed these out of the womb deaths, some of which suffering lasted for hours.

Moreover, Obama claimed that he would have voted for the bill had it contained the same supposed “Roe v. Wade abortion right preserving language” of a federal law that passed before his recent election to same by an overwhelming majority with the backing of many abortion rights groups and even California’s junior Senator Barbara Boxer, often referred to as the Senator from planned parenthood given her (and most democrats in Congress for that matter) support for partial birth abortion (baby is partially delivered with its feet outside the womb reaching to touch Earth while an abortionist rams its womb encased skull with scissors and then sucks its brains out so one can’t call it murder under state law) and opposition to a federal law outlawing same.

The fact is that the second version of the Illinois law that Obama opposed was fashioned after and contained the EXACT same language as the federal law.

Obama never mentioned the evil of the perpetrators of 911 at Saddleback. He has mentioned that he would sit down without pre-conditions with Iran’s genocide against Israel seeking President and has often spoken of America’s military actions against Islamist terrorists as morally equivalent to the acts of the terrorists themselves.

Lastly, with respect to the democrat, we got a glimpse of Obama’s view on the worth or “intrinsic value” of human life, when, speaking in favor of grammar school sex education; contraception distribution at schools and abortion rights when he expressed his wish that neither of his daughters not be “punished” with an unwanted pregnancy.

John McCain, on the other hand, stated to pastor Warren that life begins at conception and that we must defeat evil, and especially the innocent life threatening Islamist terrorists that perpetrated 911 and who are trying to defeat the desires of freedom loving people in Iraq and around the world.

With respect to homeland security, McCain has supported, and Obama has opposed, most all efforts to strengthen the hand of the executive branch under the Commander in Chief to identify foreign and domestic threats, whether it be with respect to surveillance of telephone calls by and to suspected terrorists and immunity for telecom companies for post-911 assistance.

Could the choice be more stark?

I think not.

[On a side note with respect to prospect of a WMD attack by terrorists inside the United States, I think we owe President Bush and the GOP a great debt of gratitude for keeping us safe since 911.

The combination of the roundup of 900+ muslin nation visa overstays immediately after 911; breakup of numerous terror cells thanks to aggressive interrogation of captured terrorists and CIA and FBI changed missions and tactics; the killing of tens of thousands of terrorists diverted from the Lower 48 to prevent a free Iraq; and aggressive domestic surveillance has kept us safe.

But, I think it is inevitable that we will suffer WMD losses on our soil and that the real choice is how often we will suffer. The choice is best encapsulated that we fight them over there so that we don't have to fight them AS MUCH over here.]

Mike DeVine’s Charlotte Observer columns

“One man with courage makes a majority.” - Andrew Jackson

Podcast Show Notes

A $700 billion bail out for the troubled financial industry, but will it work?

Mitch McConnell is naive if he thinks the bill won’t be loaded down with pet projects.

Plus Obama’s misleading response to an Independent group’s abortion ad and their response to him.

Did Obama turn down a plush wall-street opportunity? His former colleagues tell all. (Hat Tip: Michelle Malkin.)

Plus, Obama’s defense of horse and buggy industries?

And isn’t Universal Voluntary National Service an oxymoron? (Hat Tip: Obama Watch.)

Plus, hope in Barack Obama’s gun-free Chicago: Kids’ greatest fear: being shot. (Hat Tip: Idaho Values Alliance.)

Why is the media only concerned with the privacy of terrorists whileblaming the victim in the case of Sarah Palin’s e-mail being hacked.  (Hat Tip: Instapundit and Wizbang)

Unhinged liberals get angry because a TV reporter looks like Sarah Palin.

A college investigates a professor who handed out an anti-Palin assignment. (Hat Tip: Right Wing News.)

Democrats threaten the tax exempt status of an Iranian organization in order to get them to disinvite Palin. (Hat Tip: Wizbang.)

Suspected voter fraud by ACORN in North Carolina.  (Hat Tip: Instapundit.)

ACORN goes to school. (Hat Tip: Michelle Malkin.)

1,100 fraudulent voter registration cards show up in New Mexico’s largest county.  (Hat Tip: Malkin.)

A Vermont Attorney General’s Platform: Prosecute President Bush for murder! (Hat Tip: Jules Crittenden.)

While our Congress is in fiscal crisis, Harry Reid works to preserve earmarks. (Hat Tip: Instapundit.)

Why the House energy bill won’t work according to one member of Congress.

Our second Amendment update: Americans using the right to keep and bear arms to defend their property and their lives.

A Florida Democratic Congressman’s son charged with human trafficking.

Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal’s superb leadership through hurricane seasons. (Hat Tip: The Corner.)

While consecreting homosexual bishops the U.S. Episcopal Church defrocks a traditionalist.

Southern Baptist provided vital relief work including half a million meals per day in the aftermath of Hurricane Ike.

Plus, think secularism will make us more rational? Non-Religious folks are more superstitious than Christians according to a new study. (Hat Tip: The Corner.)

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