Taking Back Washington

Yesterday, the continued feeling of anti-incumbency was certainly being felt in Pennsylvania, Arkansas, and in a sense, Kentucky.

The first big piece of news came from the Bluegrass State where Rand Paul trounced Trey Grayson, carrying just under 60% of the vote. An outsider, Paul's name certainly helped him defeat Grayson, the highly-favored of the GOP establishment both in Washington and Frankfort. Paul will face Jack Conway, who pulled off a win against Lt. Gov. Don Mongiardo for the Democrat nomination. Paul is carrying the early lead he enjoyed against Grayson going into the general race.

In the Keystone State, the big anticipated upset has happened. Five-term incumbent Arlen Specter lost the Democrat nomination to two-term Rep. Joe Sestak. Specter, who switched from Republican to Spectercrat early last year, played a role while he was with the GOP by voting for President Obama's stimulus package. He also enjoyed the support of the President and DSCC (you can add Specter to list of Deeds, Corzine, and Coakley which are on the list of the the fallen thanks to Obama's support).

And despite Blanche Lincoln's upbeat (and somewhat arrogant) speech this morning, she is certainly feeling the heat of anti-incumbency as she now goes to a run-off against Lt. Gov. Bill Halter. The winner of that race will face Rep. John Boozman, who won the Republican nomination handily, in November.

SUPER TUESDAY(ish) 2010

Today is a huge day for all of us who follow American politics. But this year's midterm Super Tuesday is going to be something of a preview of what to expect in anticipation of November. There are two particular Senate race that should be thrillers to watch. Let's look at them:

KENTUCKY-This race may just have started the anti-incumbent revolution with tea party champion Dr. Rand Paul (R) of Bowling Green poised to pull off an upset of Secretary of State Trey Grayson.

Grayson, who has been endorsed by such names as former Vice President Dick Cheney, Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell, former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, and former U.S. Senator Rick Santorum, has been trailing for the better part of the campaign to Paul, son of Texas congressman and 2008 GOP presidential candidate Ron Paul, who has been endorsed by former VP candidate Sarah Palin, Focus on the Family founder Dr. James Dobson, businessman Steve Forbes, conservative champion Sen. Jim DeMint (R-South Carolina), and the man whose seat Paul and Grayson are seeking, retiring Sen. Jim Buuning. Paul has also been endorsed by a number of pro-life and pro-second amendment organizations in Kentucky.

PENNSYLVANIA- Incumbent Sen. Arlen Specter, a Democrat-turned RINO-turned Spectercrat, is running a very tight race with Rep. Joe Sestak for the Democrat nomination. According to some polls, Sestak holds onto a tiny one-point lead over Specter. Whoever wins the nomination gets the chance to run against (or be the sacrificial lamb) to Club for Growth president and former Rep. Pat Toomey, who is poised to win the Republican nomination handily, in November. If he doesn't get the nomination, it should be interesting to see if Specter switches back to the Republican Party.

RINO on the loose

Florida Gov. and U.S. Senate candidate Charlie Crist (R), who was endorsed by Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and others in the national GOP establishment (and RINOs like Sens. John McCain and Lindsey Graham), is expected to announce that he will end his disastrous bid for the Republican nomination and will run as an independent.

Good riddance!

Crist, who was once considered the strong favorite in this race, has trailed his challenger, former FL Speaker of the House Marco Rubio, by double-digits. Rubio has become a national political sensation, especially among conservatives and big-name Republicans, after his endorsements by former FL Gov. Jeb Bush, former Vice President Dick Cheney, House Minority Whip Eric Cantor, former U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum, former MA Gov. and presidential candidate Mitt Romney, Rep. Paul Ryan, and the conservative Club for Growth, among countless others.

Charlie Crist's record of liberalism gives me a reason to rejoice at his departure from the Republican Party. Here are some of his positions on some of the issues:

RIGHT TO LIFE - Contrary to arguments that he is pro-life, he has described himself as "pro-choice" and as late as 2005, opposed counseling and waiting periods for women seeking abortions. He also supported embryonic-stem cell research and supports taxpayers to fund it. His impact on the Terri Schiavo case in his home state was so forceful, Terri's father, the late Robert Schindler, said "He had it within his authority to save her life, but he turned a blind eye to her suffering".

2nd AMENDMENT - Crist tried to kill an NRA "guns-at work" initiative and has publicly supported gun control.

MARRIAGE AND FAMILY - As a Senate candidate, Crist said that he is willing to lift the gay adoption ban in place in FL since 1977. He has also been critical of traditional marriage in the past.

But the most obvious fact is that Charlie Crist was one of the most enthusistic cheerleaders of the Obama stimulus and was one of the first to jump up and down to get stimulus.

Goodbye, Charlie, don't let the door hit you on the way out. And tell your friends in Florida to support Marco Rubio for U.S. Senate!

As "One Republic", let's take our country back!

Can you hear the people sing, singing the songs of angry men?

Well, the people of Massachusetts have spoken. And the election of Sen.-elect Scott Brown (R) has sparked the fuse that will spark the second American Revolution. The fact that the people have taken the seat, occupied by both John and Ted Kennedy for over half a century, and entrusted it to Republican hands is proof that the people are fed up with this deceptive, irresponsible, over spending government and want a revolution. This revolution will not necessarily be fought with arms, but with the rights that our Founding Fathers, the original revolutionaries of our beloved Nation, and with those rights, we will fight the tyranny of big government and give it back to the people. The voices of the state where the first revolution was born has been hear loud and clear. Let's join them in their angry song! JOIN OR DIE!

Scott Brown for U.S. Senate

He was supposed to be Martha Coakley's sacrificial lamb, the one who the Massachusetts Republican Party would send to the lion's den to get devoured so they can move on. But Scott Brown is not giving up a fight, which is why I hope Brown, a 50-year old Massachusetts state senator, is only down by a mere TWO points according to the latest Rasmussen poll in the special election for the late Ted Kennedy's seat.

It makes you wonder how could the liberal Bay State's electorate could possibly be this close to electing a moderate-conservative Republican to represent them in the U.S. Senate? If elected, Brown would be the first Republican to represent Massachusetts since liberal Edward Brooke. But why? How can a Republican be this close to pick up, not just any seat, but Ted Kennedy's seat? Surprisingly enough, it's the health care debate. Apparently, even the libs in Massachusetts know when enough is enough and that this bill is more of a farce on Ted Kennedy.


The best thing about the whole thing is the way the Democrat Coakley campaign is reacting. Amidst the panic, the Coakley campaign hired the DNC's rapid response team's Hari Sevugan to try to manipulate voter responses towards the MA Attorney General. Instead, it has led to the revelation of the brilliancy of the Democrat Party. As Sevugan, a media insider, was harassing the Brown campaign to see if they would seek Sarah Palin's endorsement as a way to prove his theory that Brown was taking money from "the most radical elements of the national Republican Party".

Unfortunately for Sevugan, he was so busy bullying the Brown campaign that he didn't get the memo that Palin just got hired by Fox News to be an analyst. (Aren't you just wild about Hari?)

We are one week away from the special Massachusetts and nothing would shake up the world of American politics and the Obama administration than the election of a Republican to the U.S. Senate from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Voter turnout is expected to be low and Republicans are energized while Democrats are complacent. If you or someone you know lives in Massachusetts please get out the vote for Scott Brown for U.S. Senate!

The Doctor Is In!

It's been fun watching the Republican primary down in Kentucky to see who gets the chance at a shot at retiring Senator Jim Bunning's (R) seat. On one corner, you have Kentucky Secretary of State Trey Grayson, the favored one of the Republican establishment, and most notably, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R). On the other corner, you have an opthamologist from Bowling Green who is running for public office for the first time. He might be new to the political game, but his family sure isn't!

I'm speaking of course of Dr. Rand Paul. Dr. Paul is the son of Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) and the founder of the Kentucky Taxpayers Union. Since he filed to run for U.S. Senate on December 30, 2009, Paul has caught the attention of many in across the country in what appears to be a key battle in a year where Republicans are expected make strides and possibly take one house of Congress.

To date, Paul has raised over $1.7 million in campaign funds, which I'm sure must shock the National Republican Senatorial Committee who has their funds invested on Grayson. Dr. Paul has also received the endorsements of pro-life group Concerned Women for America, the Gun Owners of America and former Republican presidential candidate and financial expert Steve Forbes.

Why the hype about Rand Paul? Because the American people are getting fed up with the same old politics in Washington, whether it be Democrat or Republican. People are fed up with overspending, higher taxes, and unemployement. They are sick of us policing the world and fighting unconstitutional wars. Furthermore, they feel, no, THEY KNOW that their personal liberties are being violated.

Kentucky is no exception.

That is why Rand is up by 19 points over Trey Grayson. Rand, like his father, is staunchly pro-life, pro-gun, anti-war, opposes the bailouts, the USA PATRIOT Act, Obamacare, and our faulty foreign policy. Furthermore, Rand Paul is a champion of bringing about a demise to the Federal Reserve and reforming our tax code. Like father, like son I suppose)

Keep an eye on Kentucky, it's going to be a fun ride!

Vote "NO" on Ballot Question 1

It's bad enough that New Jersey doesn't have any money and are in serious debt. Which makes me wonder why Governor Corzine wants $400 million for fund "green acres"? I mean, with unemployment, debt, and out of control spending becoming a huge problem in the state, why would you insult us and expect us to lend the government $400 million that we don't have?

Another thing is that the money doesn't go to where it's supposed to go. The last time we had a green acres initiative that passed, it didn't go to preserving trees, or forests, or streams. Where did it go? To parking lots, outdoor adult excersize facilities, and artificial turf football fields. This is an insult to the voters and taxpayers of New Jeresey which is why I urge a resounding NO on Ballot Question 1.

Change for NJ?

Well, it's election day in New Jersey and the voters of New Jersey have the choice of whether they want to bring their state in the right direction. After eight years under the McGreevey-Corzine regime, New Jersey has a conservative candidate in Chris Christie who will stablize the state which has one of the highest unemployment rates in the country and whose taxes and cost of living is far off the charts that people are finding relief in neighboring Pennsylvania, Delaware, and New York.

New Jersey, if you want to change Trenton, then start by changing governors. Vote for the Christie/Guadagno ticket.

Do I have a choice?

Let me make it clear: yes I'm a conservative, yes I'm a registered Republican, and yes I would like to see the Republicans back in the majority again in Congress (and God willing, the White House in 2012). That being said, I don't see how the Republican Party can prove to me that they are the viable option to oppose the ruling statist Democrat majority that controls both houses of Congress, the White House, and if we don't do anything about it, our lives.

In the twelve years that the GOP held Congress (six of which complemented a Republican White House), the Republicans in Congress and the Bush White House focused too much on two unconstitutional wars and not enough on the costs that Iraq and Afghanistan, as well as friendships with rogue nations, leaving them wide open for attacks from Democrats who accused them of not caring about the economy and workers. The Democrats were right when they accused the GOP of this: that the party of restricted spending and small government began spending like socialists. However, the Democrats weren't the option because their solution to socialism-lite, was hardline socialism.

So here we are in 2009. The Democratic controlled Congress has a 66% disapproval rating. But do the Republicans have to offer besides saying that they're not Democrats? The GOP needs to take a lesson from one of their own: Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX). Rep. Paul is a conservative in its purest definition: anti-war, anti-state, pro-liberty. Talk about reducing spending, talk about cutting costs, but also start talking about eliminating unnecessary government programs, sharply reducing the size of government, which are harming our economy. Talk economic sense, and then get the job done.

Then, I will place my complete trust with the Republican Party again. (Well, maybe not. But it'll make me feel better about them.)

Money talks

Earlier today, it was reported that so far Governor Jon Corzine has outspent Chris Christie by $11.4 million. And the number will keep growing. Of the $16.8 million that Corzine has spent on radio and TV ads, newspaper ads, etc., $15.6 million were from his own pocket.

With that kind of cash, you would wonder if Mr. Corzine would force himself to pay for the same higher taxes he wants for the rest of the upper class that he belongs to. HMMM...

The New Jersey Electorate: the October Guinea Pig

When I got up this morning, I do what I always do after saying my prayers: I check the news. News hasn't been great lately, so why should today be any different? Well, when I looked at my emails, I got a message saying that according to the latest Farleigh Dickinson poll, Jon Corzine has taken a one point lead over Chris Christie, 38%-37%.

As someone who endorsed Americans for Prosperity NJ Senior Policy Director and former Bogota Mayor Steve Lonegan, I have come to support Christie, a former U.S. attorney, not because I know his positions as clearly as I did Mayor Lonegan, but I'm fed up with New Jersey politics and want it shaken up, via the dethronement of Jon Corzine.

I didn't put my hope in Chris Christie, I know better than that. Rather, I put my faith in the people of New Jersey. I honestly believe that the people of New Jersey are good and honest citizens that want the best for each other. However, I find that the ballot box seems to be the kryptonite to the Superman-like goodness of the people of New Jersey. People are fed up with Trenton, I know. And yet, we keep putting the same clowns back in office. Why? I understand that there isn't much of a choice this year. Corzine is still a lying thief who wants to destroy our economy and drive more people out of the state. However, Christie has yet to offer a clear solution to our problems.

My thing is, we know what kind of baggage Jon Corzine carries with him. Why risk it again when you can get a candidate who is, face it, more conservative than him. We need change, and that means changing governors. With the election less than a month away, we will see if the people of New Jersey are willing to bring reform to Trenton or fall into the same trap that got them into this predicament in the first place.

The choice is yours.

UPDATE: According to a recent poll by Rasmussen, Christie leads 47%-44%.