Teleprompter-less

Author: Aaron

Great video from the other day when President Teleprompter, jumped the gun a little bit…

David Souter to Retire…This was Bound to Happen Sooner or Later

Author: Aaron

Supreme Court Justice David Souter will retire.  Giving Barack Obama his first chance to appoint someone (who I am going to assume will not be qualified) to rule the highest court.  Have you had enough change yet? Because I have, we have told you all along that change is not necessarily a good thing, it is a damn shame that Barack Obama will be appointing someone to the supreme court.

Remember?

more on this in the morning…

Right Message, Flawed Messenger

Author: Rory B. Bellows

What Republican could disagree with Steve Lonegan’s message? He wants local control, an end to onerous mandates like Council on Affordable Housing, a flat tax of less than 3%, an end to corporate taxes, less power for state unions and more economic freedom?

The problem is the messenger. Lonegan often devolves into shouting, high pitched denunciations of Chris Christie. The focus of his campaign has often been on keeping liberals like Chris Christie off the ballot and not electing solid conservatives like himself. You never win a campaign when your core message is the other guy sucks. Granted, Lonegan entered this campaign as a decided underdog. However, a no name conservative State Senator like Joe Pennacio got 40% of the vote in a Republican primary for Senate last summer. Libertarian conservative Murray Sabrin received 14%, and that was with a slash and burn kamikaze effort that was the worst run campaign since Pickett’s charge (For full disclosure I proudly voted for Prof. Sabrin’s ideals of limited government and freedom. Combined that is 54% of the primary electorate. There is a sizeable base in the New Jersey Republican primary electorate that is conservatives of some varying degree. A positive, message based campaign could have reached those people and elevated Lonegan to the status of serious contender.

I have often been critical of the state party establishment in this space. And they deserve it. They have put forth bad candidates, run awful campaigns and are 0 fer the last 8 years. The 54% of the primary electorate that identify with conservative candidates are not enough to win a general election. While you don’t have to compromise on your beliefs to reach the other 46%, you don’t have to antagonize. And antagonizing the party establishment means a fractured party in the fall. A fractured party in the fall is the only way the Republican Candidate can lose to a washed up stiff like Jon the Taxer. The public hates him and if he wasn’t paying Carla Katz Arod type money I’m sure she would hate him.

It may be too late but Lonegan needs to keep driving his message and let the chips from the Christie “scandals” fall where they may.

Boycott GM and Chrysler

Author: Rory B. Bellows

No freedom loving person should ever purchase a car from these companies again. Under the Obama regime’s new central planning scheme the government will now own 50% of GM with the UAW getting 39%. Under a new restructuring plan, the UAW will own 55% of Chrysler.

There aren’t two more failed entities in this country than unions and government, sometimes it’s hard to tell which has been the more destructive force in American life, and now they own the majority of two car companies. This is an insult to free markets and the American investor. In the GM deal unions now own nearly 40% of the company despite holding 10 million dollars in bonds. Investors own $27 million in bonds but now get only 10% of the company. Only in Chairman Obama’s warped world is that viewed as an acceptable solution.

Boycott GM and Chrysler.

Specter’s defection

Author: Rory B. Bellows

Following the coverage of Arlen Specter’s switch to the Democrats is leaving me a little baffled. Many are attributing this to a shift in the Republican Party to a southern based, culturally conservative outfit. That may be true. I do think the Republican Party needs to de-emphasize social issues. It’s not what wakes people up in the morning anymore.

Maine Republican Olympia Snowe penned an op-ed in the State Sponsored News Agency Paper The New York Times in which she wrote:

It is for this reason that we should heed the words of President Ronald Reagan, who urged, “We should emphasize the things that unite us and make these the only ‘litmus test’ of what constitutes a Republican: our belief in restraining government spending, pro-growth policies, tax reduction, sound national defense, and maximum individual liberty.” He continued, “As to the other issues that draw on the deep springs of morality and emotion, let us decide that we can disagree among ourselves as Republicans and tolerate the disagreement.”

But that is exactly why Specter faced a primary challenge. Pat Toomey only ran against Specter because of his vote on the stimulus package and its outrageous level of spending, borrowing and the tax increases both of those things would lead to. By Snowe’s own words, Specter deserved that primary.

Now, I’m not really sure it is a good thing to be primarying Republican incumbents. It’s not good for the party and it hurts the cause of limited government because we end up with Democrats who go against us 100% of the time. I have no love for Arlen Specter. I think he is a big government liberal. I think Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins are big government Republicans. But 6 out of 10 times Snowe and Collins are going to vote with Republicans. If you live in New Jersey, you know the type of Northeastern liberal who would replace them. Northeastern liberals are eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeevil. They are no good to the core and have contributed nothing to human society. They are functionally useless people and we need to do whatever we can to keep them from the halls of power. If that means tolerating the Snowe’s and Collins’ of the world, so be it.

Specter Switches to the Dark Side

Author: Aaron

After being called a RINO, traitor and backstabber, Senator Arlen Specter proved all of those haters right today.  Specter is set to switch parties, giving the Democrats the 60 seat filibuster proof vote that they need.  If it were up to me, I would force Specter to resign.  He lied to the people of Pennsylvania, and lied to the Republican Party.  While our country hangs in the balance, and liberal agenda has run rampant in our society, Specter decided to be a coward and take the cheap ride to 2010.

Talk about special interests, Specter is pulling this political stunt in order to save his behind in a Republican Primary.  He has traded his soul, for chump change.  Upon hearing the “good” news, President Barack Obama called the Brutus-esque Senator and pledged his support.  Saying that he was “thrilled to have him on his side”.

Specter, good luck trying to convince the Democrats in PA that your really one of them, I hope they vote you out and you get what you are “couragiously” fighting for, an unemployemnt check.

Arlen Specter switches to the Dems

Author: Rory B. Bellows

Worried about being primaried out by former Congressmen Pat Toomey, Pennsylvania Senator Arlen Specter has taken the coward’s way out and switched to the Democrtas.

Whoever came up with this one should resign

Author: Rory B. Bellows

If you think having a 747 fly below building tops in New York City and have it trailed by military aircraft is a bad idea you are smarter than an Obama Administration official.

What might this remind poeple of?

Establishment worries

Author: Rory B. Bellows

Should Steve Lonegan win the Republican nomination for Governor in the June 2nd primary, there are reports that the establishment may not let him have the courtesey off choosing his own state party chairman to serve until the campaign is over.

This is foolish. In past elections, insurgent candidates have thrown the establishment a bone and nominated an acceptable party chair to serve the customary 6 month interim term. These days we have a new Lt. Governor position and Lonegan could choose a nominee to the laregly symbolic position as an effort to unite the party.

However, while Lonegan will make efforts to unite the party they must be returned. Having insiders, as opposed to the nominee, pick the party chair is a clear signal to Lonegan’s supporters that they have their place in the party but it is not at the head of the table. One of the reasons the New jersey Republican Party is do disspirited is because conservatives are constantly reminded that they are not welcomed guests. New Jersey conservatives get invited to the party because they kicked the door in, not because the host wants them there.

100 Days in Office 100 Mistakes

Author: Aaron

This is a great piece in the New York Post today, about the first 100 days in office for President Obama.

100 Days, 100 Mistakes

Socialized medicine is now a reality

Author: Rory B. Bellows

Say goodbye to America. The anti-American revolutionaries are going to get their way and the destruction of America, begining with socialized medicine, has begun.

I hope Texas secedes.

Union goons pack hearing

Author: Rory B. Bellows

Worried about losing their make work tax payer supported jobs, over 2,000 hacks from the CWA mobbed a Civil Service Commission hearing about Jon the Taxer’s proposed 12 day furlough.

Would we really miss any of these people? In all honestly we should probably fire 99% of our public employees. It’s not like the economy would suffer. They only get paid because the state steals money from the tax payers and gives it to them. Then in turn they go out and organize and vote for the Democrat Party every November. If we just fired them all the economy wouldn’t miss a beat. All the money they get would be returned to its rightful owners and they could spend it or save it how they see fit.

Lonegan Losing the Battle Against Christie

Author: Aaron

Things are looking grim for Steve Lonegan, with 6 weeks until the primary, and trailing in both name recognition and popularity to Chris Christie, it seems as if this true anti-establishment candidate might be at his end. I would love to see Steve Lonegan elected governor of New Jersey, but his campaign has not been able to garner the same type of support as Christie’s. The biggest problem I see in his campaign is the “we don’t need the establishment” approach. Sorry Mayor, but you do. It is great for him to bash Christie, and New Jersey republicans, but it won’t get him far. The latest Quinnipiac University Poll has Christie up 9-points on Lonegan with a little less than six weeks to the Primary. Lonegan’s campaign claims this is a victory, sorry Mayor it’s not.

A new Strategic Vision Poll has Chris Christie ahead of Lonegan by 25-points, if that is the case, Lonegan may as well bow out now, and save his money. I am a Lonegan supporter, but have seen the Lonegan Campaign run, well a terrible campaign. It is quite unfortunate to, especially because Steve Lonegan is in large part, the man that New Jersey needs running the state. In what may be the easiest election year Republicans ever face in New Jersey, we had a chance to put a real, strong conservative in the State House, and prove that there is in fact a place for conservatives in New Jersey. But that will not be the case, Chris Christie will win the primary.

For New Jersey’s sake, I hope Lonegan wins, he will bring true fiscal responsibly, and a fresh conservative approach to a state that has not seen a Republican in the State House since 2000. While Barack Obama and Liberal American are of trying to run our country into the ground, New Jersey can become a safe haven for responsible conservative thinkers. New Jersey can become the epicenter of Reagan era policy. Yet, Lonegan has not taken that extra step to really challenge Christie. He hasn’t made that statewide approach, to not only get his name out, but to relate to the voters he is trying to win over.

When Dick Zimmer was trying to beat Frank Lautenberg in the election back in November he faced the same problem with name recognition that Lonegan faces now. Just because republicans will vote for you doesn’t mean the state will, Lonegan must take that into consideration and weigh his options. He can either step up his game these last six weeks, or really push a statewide, not just republican wide effort to get his name out there. Or face defeat.

Lonegan’s politics are what will work for New Jersey, but the people don’t know that, they don’t know you Mayor. Many Republican officials have said, “If only everyone in America could have a beer with President Bush, they would all understand him”. Mayor, you can sit down and talk with every New Jerseyan, you can branch out to moderates and Democrats. Relating to all the people of New Jersey, not just staunch conservatives, that is what will win you this Primary.

And please Mayor, stop hating on New Jersey Republicans, they may not be the most conservative but they are far better than the alternative. The State Party will undoubtedly back you, should you win the Primary, don’t question that for a minute. The real question is will you back the state party? Just remember it is never good to bash your own party establishment, because those are the people that will elect you in the primary. Just remember it is the “establishment” that votes in the primary, if you distance yourself from “moderate republicans” come June 3rd, you’ll be looking forward to 2013.

National takes on NJ Governor’s race

Author: Rory B. Bellows

National folks are weighing in on the New Jersey Gubernatorial election. Not surprisingly, Republicans who have become accustomed to losing are already trying to damper expectations by laying the excuse of money and the “blue” nature of New Jersey as to why they can’t win. Hogwash. Jon the Taxer is has over half the public against him right now. They have made up their mind to fire him in November.

I suppose the only upside to this is national Republicans, who completely butchered the special election in NY-20, will keep the political geniuses that “masterminded” the 2006 and 2008 election debacles out of New Jersey. That can only increase our chances.

New Quinnipiac Poll

Author: Rory B. Bellows

Bad News for Jon Corzine. Good News for Steve Lonegan.

The latest Quinnipiac Poll shows Jon Corzine with a 54% disapproval rating. 60% of New Jerseyans disapprove of his handling of the economy and 53% say he does not deserve a second term.

On the Republican side, Steve Lonegan has slashed Chris Christie’s lead. The last poll showed Christie with a 40-19 lead in the polls. This poll, including leaners, has Christie only up 46-37. Christies still leads Corzine 45-38 but Steve Lonegan has pulled into a deadheat, 41-41, with Corzine in this poll.

I have said it many times on this site: Chris Christie is not the only Republican who can win in November. The public has made up their mind that Jon Corzine deserves to be fired in November. Lonegan has a chance to win this primary, Christie is still polling under 50% so he is not a shoe-in to win. Conservatives can make their voices heard and nominate Lonegan for the November election. If that happens the party establishment needs to unite behind Lonegan with no sour grapes- they would demand the same thing of grass roots conservatives if Christie won- and realize that gop undercutting of Lonegan is a killer. The only way the Republicans can lose in November is if the party nominee is not seen as a credible candidate. If the party establishment doesn’t treat Lonegan as a credible candidate the electorate will not.