Campaign 2010

It's time to get government off our backs and pull our nation back from the brink of financial insolvency. It's time to fight to repeal the awful health care bill of Obama and the Democrats.

Follow this link to my new blog focused on the new campaign. Please spread the word.

The FIGHT is TODAY! (literally)

If you can take time off this afternoon...do it and flood Congress with phone calls, web site messages, e-mails, anything and everything you can. THIS MONSTROSITY OF A HEALTH CARE REFORM BILL MUST BE STOPPED!!

If the Dems somehow weasel this through against public opinion...we must do EVERYTHING POSSIBLE to make them pay DEARLY in November so we can get this disastrous legislation reversed.

But much more effective to stop it NOW. Today is the day. Tomorrow...Friday...may literally be too late.

OBAMA gaffe: 'UPS and FedEx are doing just fine. It's the Post Office having problems"

This is TOO good...and the government that can't even run the Post Office as well as the private sector is going to run health care better...why????

Thank You, Rabbi!

WE ALL ARE MORMONS....by Rabbi Shifren

We are living in an era of insanity! Witness the latest attempt to remake the nature of our country, founded and established on certain principles that have been the envy of the entire world. The latest assault on our country and its values comes in the form of vicious and criminal violence against the Mormon church in Westwood, California

Interesting how the selective self-righteous indignation on the part of the radical Gay activists is played out here: they bewail the blow to freedom and justice! But I thought we just had elections, where the majority of Californians expressed their views in a free and open manner. Are we not a nation of laws? Dare we relive the McCarthy era, where Americans were harassed and threatened with the loss of their jobs for believing in a certain way? If the Gay radicals should have their way, untold numbers of Americans would live under the threat of the Gay-Lesbian "thought police," where individuals that reject the Gay lifestyle would be sought out and have sanctions brought against them.

It's bad enough for those working in the entertainment industry here in Los Angeles, where a fog of political correctness and a bending over backwards to accommodate, even promote Gay lifestyle is in full gear. Let none dare say that this type of activity is anathema to our country, our morality, and the debauchery of our young people.

Let it be stated unequivocally: The radical Gay attack on the Mormons is the shot over the bow against the United States of America. There was a time when what a man did in his bedroom was sanctified between himself and G-d. Now we are being served an "in-your-face" smorgasbord of smut and licentiousness as being between people who only "want their civil rights."

Hogwash! We are dealing with the equivalent of a moral takeover of the country that has as its bedrock a belief in G-d and His promise for humanity. They don't want civil rights! What they desire is quasi Gay/Lesbian hegemony, where a huge "bookburning," reminiscent of the Nazis, will purge any remnants of the "Christian, White, mainstream America" that has given ALL AMERICANS the most profound scope of freedom, liberty, and justice that Mankind has yet to experience.

People have perhaps wondered: why the Mormons? Answer: they are a small, yet vocal Christian minority. They have been selected by the mobs as vulnerable, a group that might not have such massive support among America's Christians.

We who are friends of the Mormons, their patriotism, their family values, will not falter in our continued support of these dear Americans. Let us recall the Christian minister Niemoller, whose admonition during those dark years of Nazi Germany moved us to our core:

"When they came for the gypsies, I said nothing, because I wasn't a gypsy. When they came for the homosexuals, I said nothing, because I wasn't a homosexual. When they came for the Jews, I said nothing, because I wasn't a Jew. Then they came for the Catholics, and I said nothing, because I wasn't a Catholic......then they came for me, and there was no one left to defend me."

My fellow Americans, in the coming battle for the heart and soul of America and everything we cherish, may this call to arms be the mantra of every concerned patriot:

"WE ALL ARE MORMONS!"

Here's the link to the original.

As I've Been Saying...

From Mark Steyn recently: "The president-elect’s so-called tax cut,” Mark wrote soon after the election, “will absolve 48 percent of Americans from paying any federal tax at all. Just under half the population will be on the dole. By 2012 it will be more than half. This will be an electorate where the majority will be able to vote itself more lollipops from the minority still dumb enough to prioritize self-reliance, dynamism and innovation over the cocoon of the nanny state….That will be the death of the American idea.”

Romney's Good Sense

Good strong sense made in this op-ed article by my still-favorite former presidential candidate, Mitt Romney, about the dangers of a Washington bailout of Detroit's auto makers.  A good read. 

Support for Mormon Efforts Supporting Prop 8 from Fellow Christians

I haven't chronicled it here as I should have, but the opponents of Prop 8 (at least many of them) have been showing their true colors since the passage of the amendment in heaping abuse upon Mormons collectively and individually for efforts supporting the passage of 8.  Supposedly, tolerance and equality were the principled basis for opposition to 8.  Well.  Apparently it only applies in one direction.  

My inclination is to take it; certainly I'm not apologetic for taking what I consider a principled stand that benefits our society.  Of course, it's easy for me to talk since I haven't had to put up personally with the kinds of things some of my California friends have.  

In any case, this is a worthwhile and short read: follow the link here.  These and other supportive comments are much appreciated.  

Offer to Peasants?

We will appreciate the wonders of presidential transition, but simultaneously we still need to keep our eye on the political ball...perhaps know more than ever.  Does this cartoon nail it? 

Marriage Defended

The pro-marriage voting in Florida and Arizona appears to have been solid, and it appears Prop 8 in California is likely to pass though we're awaiting final word. 

This, to me, is very, very good news.  

Here is a terrific statement from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on the passage of Proposition 8.

President Obama

We're still awaiting final numbers, but it's official that Barack Obama will be our next President.

More to come, but congratulations to him.  I want him to do well for our nation.  We will debate policy going forward...plenty of time for that.  

First in Line!

OK I know it's bragging, it's just it's never happened to me before! I was the first person in my district to vote today! 'Course I had to show up at 6 am and they put me to work setting up signs. It was crazy, though. By 7 when the polls opened there was a line snaking back and forth across the entire school gym and then extending outside. And this even though supposedly almost a third of registered voters in Utah have already voted with early and absentee/mail-in voting! Wow.

It'll be an interesting day regardless. But let nothing keep you from voting...no matter what it takes.

Let's All Agree to Ignore the Always Faulty Exit Polls

From NRO: "So remember: In about 15 hours or so the rumors and leaks are going to start – It’s an Obama landslide! Exit polls show him winning North Carolina by 15 points! In Vermont, McCain will be the first major party candidate not to break into double digits…

It’s all rubbish. Exit polls skew Dem. In 2004, they overstated Kerry’s support by 5.5 points. Which doesn’t sound a lot. But, given that there were only ten states where the margin of victory was less than 5%, that was enough to make Kerry briefly appear the winner. The point of all the afternoon leakage is to depress turnout in the Florida panhandle and points west. Don’t fall for it."

Doesn't matter how it turns out, when was the last time the early exit polls really told us anything useful? Just vote.

Go Prop 8!

Go Prop 8!

Click on this link: it'll warm your heart (if you're in favor of defending traditional marriage and family, that is!)  ;-)

Addendum: some of you can't link direct to YouTube so I direct embedded it above...

Now It's All About Turnout

The arguments have been made (not that we won't have a final bit of back-and-forth), and now it's up to us.  It's primarily a matter of whose supporters turn out to vote.

My philosophy is this: I can't worry about getting all McCain's supporters to the polls.  The only thing I can do is make sure I get to the polls, plus encourage my friends and family to do the same.

We will see how this whole thing shakes out.  If we've learned anything in recent elections, it's not to pre-judge what will happen.  Just do your part and let it play out.  

That said, here's your reminder must-read article for today on the dangers in Obama's tax and spend plans.  

Memo from the McCain Campaign

Interesting to read and see where McCain's focus is.  Read it here.  If you can do anything to help in Nevada, Colorado, Iowa, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Arizona, and though they didn't mention them by name, Florida and North Carolina (and I'll add my own little list of Montana, Georgia, Minnesota, Wisconsin)...please do so tomorrow.  And again...everybody vote! 

Your Must Read Article of the Day

Click on link here. By Victor Davis Hanson.

Sample: "We’ve known for a long time — from various polling, and records of political donations of journalists themselves, as well as surveys of public perceptions — that the vast majority of journalists identify themselves as Democratic, and liberal in particular.

Yet we have never quite seen anything like the current media infatuation with Barack Obama, and its collective desire not to raise key issues of concern to the American people. Here [are] four areas of national interest that [have been] largely ignored." 

Dear Mr. Obama: Iraqi Vet to Obama

Watch; spread the word.

Polls Show Narrowing Race

It's down to the wire, but McCain has been closing the gap. Everybody be sure to vote.

Also, watch this video as Palin hits Obama back...wink, wink...good stuff!

And, you perhaps heard Obama was only going to raise taxes for incomes over $250,000, then it changed to $200,000 then $150,000, and some Democrats have suggested perhaps $120,000 would be more like it.  Sounds like a trend.  

Communism vs. Sharing - Believe It or Not There's a Difference!

From John Hood on NRO:

"Obama threw off a humorous line about John McCain's accusation that the Obama tax plan is redistributionist: "McCain has “called me a socialist for wanting to roll back the Bush tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans so we can finally give tax relief to the middle class,” Obama said. “I don’t know what’s next. By the end of the week he'll be accusing me of being a secret communist because I shared my toys in kindergarten.”

Ha ha.

Only, in this passage Obama revealed precisely why he is vulnerable to such charges: he can't seem to tell the difference between a gift and a theft. There is nothing remotely socialistic or communistic about sharing. If you have a toy that someone else wants, you have three choices in a free society. You can offer to trade it for something you value that is owned by the other. You can give the toy freely, as a sign of friendship or compassion. Or you can choose to do neither.

Collectivism in all its forms is about taking away your choice. Whether you wish to or not, the government compels you to surrender the toy, which it then redistributes to someone that government officials deem to be a more worthy owner. It won't even be someone you could ever know, in most cases. That's what makes the political philosophy unjust (by stripping you of control over yourself and the fruits of your labor) as well as counterproductive (by failing to give the recipient sufficient incentive to learn and work hard so he can earn his own toys in the future).

Government is not charity. It is not persuasion, or cooperation, or sharing. Government is a fist, a shove, a gun. Obama either doesn't understand this, or doesn't want voters to understand it."

Here's the link to the post.