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Let Democrats be Democrats

Posted by Steve on Monday, November 20, 2006 7:56:26 PM
Rush Limbaugh is quoted as saying that we need to allow Democrats to be what they are. We all know what Democrats are. Their corruption has no bounds. They even wear their corruption on their sleeve as a badge of honor. One prime example is Alcee Hastings. He is a congressman from Florida. Some time ago, he was a Federal Judge. He was so corrupt as a Federal Judge that even the Democrats (all but 3) voted to impeach him. There have only been 10 judges impeached in over 200 years. That took some corruption to be one of the 10 impeached judges. The Democrats are going to put this person in as Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee. He will be able to have access to the most secret documents in the government. He is a demonstrated corrupt individual. How long before US secrets start showing up in China and Iran and any other country willing to pay Alcee Hastings for the information? The Democrats would never investigate him for corruption. Democrats never do such things.

Rep. Murtha was caught in the Abscam net years ago. He is caught on tape discussing how to accept a bribe to make it look like he is not accepting a bribe. He was seriously considered for the #2 position in the Democrat leadership. He was endorsed by Nancy Pelosi, the new Speaker of the House. She wanted him for the position. She wanted the corrupt congressman to be in a leadership position.

Republicans do get caught taking bribes. They are always expelled from congress when found out. Democrats are re-elected numerous times after they are found with their fingers in the till. Rep. Jefferson from LA is an example. He was found to have taken a $100,000 bribe. He put $90,000 in his office freezer and spent $10,000. Even with that hanging over him, the voters in his district returned him to office. JD Hayworth lost his re-election bid because he received a couple of thousand dollars from Jack Abramoff in 1998 and 1999. Jack Abramoff was not discovered to be a problem until 2006. Let's compare how each party treats those that are suspected of corruption: Republicans, $2-3,000 out; Democrats, $100,000, in.

When a Democrat gets caught in a sexual scandal, they stand up and say it is their right. They defy anyone from doing anything. Their voters then, like sheep, return them to congress for as long as they want.  Republicans at least have the decency to resign from congress when caught messing around. Mark Foley did not even touch the under age individuals. The Democrat accused of this actually had sexual relations with the underage individual.

For the next two years, we just have to allow Democrats to be Democrats. We have to make sure that everyone knows exactly what the Democrats are up to at all times. If we make sure that all their missteps are known by all, their time in the sun will be short. In fact, some of the "conservative" Democrats they recruited and elected may get disgusted with all the hijinks. Some could actually switch to the Republican ranks and we could pick up those seats.

We cannot rely on Democrats self-destructing. We must come up with our core values. We need to articulate those core values. We need to stand firm on those core values. We cannot play defense. Defense may win championships, but the best defense is a good offense. If your offense is on the field 3/4 of the time, your defense will look great. We need to play offense as much as possible for the next two years. That will keep the Democrats on the defensive and make picking up the House, Senate and White House that much easier.

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The Sky is NOT Falling

Posted by Steve on Saturday, November 18, 2006 12:13:56 PM
With the debacle on November 7 and the leadership elections in the last week, one thing is clear, the sky is not falling. Things looked bleak on November 8 and for a few days. But, things are definitely looking up. Are they the best they could be according to me, no. Should they be set up exactly the way I want it? No, things will fall how they will according to the needs of the day.

For example, Mitch McConnell is making sounds like he is exactly the person needed for the Republican leadership position in the Senate. He made comments that lead me to believe that he will lstand tall when looking at judges. He will not bend to the whim of Democrat desires. John McCain is trying to paper over his huge mistake of the Gang of 14. That alliance got some judges through with a minimum of opposition. But, it left the filibuster option still on the table and not decided. That was a monumental mistake. It is one that John McCain will have to own up to before he will be seriously considered for the Republican nomination for President.

Having Trent Lott in the number two position in the Senate is not looking good. He took the opportunity of interviews after his election to bash the Bush administration. That is not the way to show you are a team player. You do not dump on the team leader and then say you are a team player. A team player works to build up the team.

Nancy Pelosi is showing a tin ear for leadership. That looks good for the next two years. If she continues to exhibit the tin ear she is showing now, the House will be Republican in 2008. I doubt that the Democrats will allow her to display the tin ear too much. If it becomes a problem, they will cut her off at the knees and replace her. Democrats are ruthless when it comes time to play the game of politics. Republicans sometimes are not sure that they should get their hands dirty playing politics.

State Republican parties should concentrate on finding candidates to promote in each congressional district that they lost in 2006. If they field strong candidates in all races in 2008, they have an excellent shot at returning to power. Many seats the Democrats took in 2006 were Republican seats. They will be Republican seats again, if the Republicans field credible candidates. Right there, that should just about eliminate the Democrat majority in the House. In the Senate it will be much more difficult to return to the majority until these disasters elected in 2006 are up for reelection. It looks like a divided Senate with one party ruling with a 51-49 advantage will be the order of the day for the next six years.

Long term the Republicans can return to power by 2008, if they get their act together and return to being Republicans. People want to elect Republicans. They do not want to elect Republicans that are trying to be Democrats. Democrats make better Democrats. Republicans make better Republicans. When one tries to be the other, it never works well for long. Voters in districts and states that elected "conservative" Democrats will find that out real soon. They may wish for a do-over of the 2006 elections before too much time has elapsed. That may make it that much easier to recapture the House and the Senate.
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Republican Leadership

Posted by Steve on Friday, November 17, 2006 3:59:46 PM
Well, both the Republicans and Democrats took the time this week to pick their leaders for the new congress that starts in January. Republicans kept Boehner and Blunt in the House. Democrats chose Pelosi and Steyner. Republicans chose McConnell and Lott in the Senate with Kyl as third (good choice). The Democrats stuck with Dingy Harry Reid.

What does it all mean? That remains to be seen. Pelosi wanted Murtha as her second in command. She was defeated in that wish. As a Republican, Murtha would have been great. He is obviously corrupt. It would have made a great group to campaign against. The current group will be more difficult, but not impossible. They seem to be tone deaf and love to wash their dirty laundry in public.

Boehner and Blunt in the Republican House is no real change from the old leadership. They both just moved up one seat. Their advantage is that nobody knows them. Their disadvantage is that the Republicans don't really know them either. Are they the right ones for the job? We will not know that for some time to come. Mary Katherine Ham says that she believes that they will be good. I would have liked to have seen a more radical change. A bigger change would signal a greater indication that they intend to make the changes necessary to get back into the majority.

In the Senate, the Democrat leadership is being implicated by Jack Abramoff. That is great. We can paint them as corrupt and probably successfully pull it off. Dingy Harry likes to rely on the lie as his greatest weapon. That will also work for the Republicans. This is not the time for lies. This is the time for the truth. The more truth, the more chance of success.

The Republicans selected Mitch McConnell. He is a tell it like it is kind of guy. I think he can be articulate and successful. I am concerned with Trent Lott. Lott was sent off in disgrace in the last congress for having a tin ear. He may be a great vote counter, which post he now holds, but I do have concerns. Selecting Jon Kyl as third is a great move. Jon Kyl is one of the great men who happens to be a Senator. I would love to see Jon Kyl move up in the leadership. He has the gift for getting his message across. I have great thoughts in what Jon Kyl brings to the table.

Boiling all that down to what does it mean is relatively simple. The Democrats in the Senate will be inarticulate and combative. They will not get things done and then poorly. In the House, Democrats have a leader with a tin ear. She does not have the great feel that a good majority leader needs to have to be successful. Newt Gingrich had the gift and was supremely successful. He just had his downfall with his ex-wife. All in all, it looks good for the GOP in 2008. We will be running candidates in districts that are really Republican districts. We will be running against a Democrat congress that will be more of a circular firing squad than a successful congress. All we will need to really pull off the big turn around is a good leader at the top of the ticket to defeat the Democrat nominee.  
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Leadership

Posted by Steve on Wednesday, November 15, 2006 7:08:23 PM
Leadership is something that you have to earn. Just because you call yourself a leader doesn't make you a leader. Many an officer in charge of a group of men in combat learned that they may have been in "charge", but they were not the leader. The leader is someone who everyone looks up to and will follow. A leader leads by example. Old style leaders led from the front. It has become fashionable for leaders to lead from behind.

Leading from behind can work. But, it takes a truly great leader to get the most out of those he/she leads. Leading from the front puts you out in front for all to see. They can see you and your example. It inspires those to put forth maximum effort. As long as they can see you putting forth your maximum effort, they will put forth their maximum effort. The problem with this method is when the leader gets struck down, the group tends to disintegrate.

Leading from the back is more difficult. People cannot see you actually leading. They have to have faith that you are actually leading. This method can be effective. It helps if the group sees you have one success after another. After awhile, they do not need to see you lead, they just need to  know you had a hand in the planning to have faith in the plan. This method works until you meet stiff opposition.

In the political arena, leading from the front is a good plan. It is impractical in the long term, but is useful in spurts. It is important for your people to see you fighting the foe and defeating them in combat. It is best to do this without taking too many hits. Once your leadership is established, then you can start leading from the rear. You may still need an occassional foray out in front, but for the most part the group will follow your lead.

Right now, in the Republican party, we do not have anyone that can lead from the front. We do not have anybody who can lead from the rear either. We need someone to step up to the plate and strike down the evil Democrats. The person needs to be articulate and knowledgeable of the facts. They need to be able to state Republican principles clearly and with feeling. He then needs to be able to beat down the predictable Democrat opposition to doing anything important. Democrats are afraid to do anything important. They are only going to tackle and try to solve problems that are already mostly solved. Or they will take on the unsolvable problem that nobody can solve. That is why they take on mundane small issues or big issues like global warming. They refuse to acknowledge that regular issues are really problems. They just like to blame white men for creating the problems.

In the Republican party, we need to identify leaders soon. We have maybe six months until we have to have leaders in place. The leaders have to be able to take on the Democrats and defeat their hate speech with class. In the past, we just caved when the Democrats started calling us names. We cannot do that in the next two years. In the next two years, we have to stand up for principles and ideas. We have to stand and be counted. The principles and ideas are there. Everyone generally agrees on what they are. We just have to find someone with the intestinal fortitude to actually stand up and be counted.
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Aftermath III

Posted by Steve on Saturday, November 11, 2006 12:46:47 PM
Election workers in Maricopa County are diligently counting votes from last Tuesday's election. JD Hayworth was losing by about 8,000 votes on election day. As of this morning, it is down to about 5700 votes. It is closing, but probably not fast enough for him to pull out a victory.

In my State House district, the Republican, Nichols now holds a 335 vote lead over the Democrat. That is a great improvement over election day where the Democrat held an 8 vote lead. My district is heavily Republican and to have a Democrat in office would have been awful. My district would not have been represented in the state. The two representatives would have canceled each other out. I believe that was the goal of the Arizona Republic when they endorsed the Democrat for the House seat. It is good to see that justice prevailed, finally. There may have to be a recount as the vote is so close, I am not sure. It may also hinge on whether the Democrat is honest and will concede before a recount may be needed.

As Republicans, we got away from what most of us became Republicans for. I became a Republican for lower taxes, smaller government, strong defense, controlling the borders, judges that rule on the law not make law and respect for others within the law. If all Republicans had kept to those principles, we would have had a landslide for Republican rule. Unfortunately, when our elected representatives got to Washington, they thought they were supposed to make government bigger. The drug entitlement is a boondoggle. It is going to cost way more than anyone thought. It is way more difficult to administer than anyone thought. Those are both typical of government and government programs.

My fear is that President Bush will try to get along with Democrats during the next two years. That will mean signing Democrat laws into law and undermining the Constitution. I just hope he has enough backbone to veto any bill that tries to repeal the tax cuts. Of course, they only have to do nothing to repeal the tax cuts. That was a glaring error at the time the bill was passed. It has come back to haunt those that wrote that provision into the law. President Bush should veto any Democrat bill that goes against the Constitution. I have my doubts that he will. He signed McCain/Feingold even when he said it was unconstitutional.

We now have to look to 2008. There are articles that McCain has plans to be on the 2008 ticket. He is despised by the conservative base of the party. The only ones that really think he has a chance are those in the main stream media. The conservative base will follow anyone but McCain. McCain is unreliable as a conservative. He can talk a good game. But, when the chips are down, he goes and pulls a Democrat on us. McCain just does not have the intestinal fortitude to be a conservative. He will buckle under to any Democrat pressure. That is how we got that gang of 14 that stopped the constitutional option from being played for judges. Now that chance is gone for a long time to come.

My early bet is on Mitt Romney to get the Republican nomination for President. He is everything you want in a Presidential nominee. He is smart, articulate and good looking. He has good conservative credentials. He has seen success everywhere he has been. He got a Democratic legislature to pass Republican laws in the most Democratic state in the country. That is quite an achievement.

I am unsure of who else the Republicans will have in the field. Sec. Rice would also be a strong candidate. But she has said she will not run. Giuliani is too liberal to be nominated in 2008 after the debacle of 2006. Sen. Frist fumbled the ball in the Senate these last couple of years. He will not be a viable candidate. There are no others that I am aware of at this time. Giuliani and McCain are the darlings of the MSM. But, they also have values closer to the MSM than Romney. We shall see how things shape up. Republicans are in need of a strong leader. I hope we find one soon.
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Aftermath II

Posted by Steve on Thursday, November 09, 2006 5:26:05 PM
We now are stuck with a Democrat House and Senate for the next two years. Having a Democrat House for two years is bad enough, you can vote them out after two years. But, a Democrat Senate is a bigger problem. You are stuck with the idiots you elected this election for six years. That is a long time for these new Democrat Senators to screw up everything in Washington and the country.

The State House of Representatives race is still listed as an eight vote margin. That is an impossibly close margin. There are still 200,000 ballots to be counted in Maricopa County as of last night. That margin is sure to change. I am unsure as to when the Secretary of State will update the counts for the various races. She is probably working on the major races still undecided like Congressional District 5 between JD Hayworth and Harry Mitchell. That is a few thousand votes apart. With the 200,000 figure to work from, that would make about 75,000 of them in that congressional district. That could still effect the outcome of that congressional race.

We will be stuck with the results of this election for a long time in the future. It is my hope that the next two years puts a crimp in the ability of Hillery to advance her candidacy. She would be a disaster for the country. She believes in the communist ideals. She would work to implement them if elected President. I can only hope that the Democrat Senate makes such fools of themselves that no Democrat Senator could possibly be elected President of the United States in the near future.

We need someone to stand out from the crowd and articulate conservative principles. He/she needs to give them full voice and not back down to Democrat slams that will come. It would be good if that person could give back as well or better than they receive. That would really energize the base. To have someone who can stand toe to toe with the Dims and give them the tongue lashing they so truly deserve.

Right now Mitt Romney looks like the best of the candidates. He is articulate and good looking. He has a successful record as leader of the Utah Olympics and as Governor of Massachusetts. He does have a religion problem, but if he can be articulate for conservative principles, nobody will care. John McCain would be a disaster for the Republican party in 2008. He could not be elected dog catcher. He may energize the Washington Post, but he does not energize the Republican base. We have to vote for President. The Washington Post and other MSM think they are the ones that should make the decision. We, the voters, make the decision on who the next President will be. That person will be the one who can articulate the conservative position best. Right now that position is open. Mitt Romney would be the front runner. John McCain stabbed us in the back for 2006. He cannot now take up the banner and say he is Mr. Conservative. He is not a conservative. He is a liberal that masquerades as a conservative.
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Aftermath

Posted by Steve on Wednesday, November 08, 2006 5:37:11 PM
What happened last night? Rush said it best that we stood for nothing. Over the last 6 years, we tried to be Democrats. There is nothing worse than a Republican trying to be a Democrat. We just cannot pull it off convincingly. The only thing that can even compare is a Democrat trying to be a Republican. They are not even very convincing at all. At least we can fool them longer when we are trying to be Democrats.

Who says your vote does not count. Just prior to my writing in this blog, I checked on my State House of Representatives race. There are 8 votes separating the Democrat and the Republican as of 10:25 this morning. That is the closest race I can remember in my lifetime of voting. The only closer one was the one vote margin in the Senior class President in my High School. Right now, Steve Nichols is 8 votes down to the Democrat. I sure hope he pulls it out. I would not like to have my representatives cancel each other out on all the votes.

The Republican party needs to get back to where we were in 1994. In 1994, we stood for smaller government and a strong defense. Right now, we do not really stand for much. We have two years to turn things around before the 2008 Presidential election kicks in. That should be enough time to get the soul searching done and get a coherent plan in place. We now need to find excellent, not just good, candidates to run against the Democrats that hold the seats we need to win in 2008. That will take some arm twisting and dedication. Here in Arizona, it should not be a problem. Nationally, I am not sure if there are enough good people to run. My experience in North Dakota tells me there could be problems of good candidates. North Dakota is a red state that has two Democrat Senators. That should not be the case, but good Republican candidates are hard to find to run against the incumbant senators. Michael steele needs to run for something else in 2 years. He was an excellent candidate that almost won.

Many pundits, Hugh Hewitt being the best, are saying this result is the worst thing for Hillery. She now has to run from a majority group that she will not lead. That will be difficult to tout your leadership, when you are not the leader. People will also get to see the damage 2 years of Democrat laws will do. The economy will really go into the tank within the next two years. She will try to put it on Bush, but everyone will know it was the Democrat tax increases that killed the golden goose.

Maybe this will all work out for the good. I am not feeling too good about things right now. I am not blaming the Democrats for our being stupid and fumbling away the ball. There was voter fraud committed by Democrats. That was documented prior to the start of election day. But that is not what caused this problem. Republicans running away from Republican principles caused this problem. We need to fix those problems and we cannot lose in 2008.
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Election Day

Posted by Steve on Tuesday, November 07, 2006 10:03:26 PM
Today is election day. I am apprehensive as to the outcome of the election. I get this way even if I know of a surety that my side will prevail big time everywhere. I am not so sure this year.

There are reports of heavy turnout everywhere. That bodes well for the Republicans. Republicans get out the vote better than Democrats. We use volunteers that believe in the cause. The Democrat party uses paid people to get out the vote. We have a more targeted approach to getting out the vote. They have a shotgun approach. We know who votes Republican and work to get that person to the polls. They have a demographic that they believe might vote Democratic and try to get them to the polls. They also use the dead voting block and the paid block of those they pick up in the streets of any city.

My Representative will be Jeff Flake. It would take a major upset for him to lose. My Senator will be Jon Kyl. He ran a smart campaign. He should easily defeat the defeatocrat Jim Pederson. I am sorry to say my governor will be a repeat of the disaster of the last four years. It is a wonder that people cannot see what damage she has done.

Nationally, I am unsure of how things are working out. I have faith that in the end the Republicans will hold the Senate and the House. I am reasonably sure that the Senate is secure. The House is less secure in my mind. All 435 House seats are up for election. When there are that many local elections at one time, it is almost impossible to tell what will happen overall. Will the Defeatocrats gain enough House seats to put a communist in charge? We will know in the morning. I still have faith. The polls do not look good. The exit polls did not come out looking good. Those were expected. It still does not help ones confidence to have all that go against you to still have confidence. Picking up Maryland's Senate seat would do wonders for my confidence. Time will be the judge of all.

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Campaign Commercials

Posted by Steve on Monday, November 06, 2006 3:15:15 PM
Today on the way in to the office, I heard a campaign commercial that was almost beyond belief. It was supposed to be for Jim Pederson. It said that he did not support amnesty. That is true if you use the word amnesty. He supports a program that does exactly what amnesty does, he just does not call it amnesty. So, I guess that person was telling the truth, even if it was stretched a long long way.

The second point is that Jim Pederson does not support illegal immigration. That is true that he does not support people coming here illegally. But, he does not believe that we should do anything to stop people from coming here illegally. He wants his cake and to be able to eat it too.

Jim Pederson is not for cutting and running in Iraq. He is for taking the soldiers in Iraq and redeploying them to Okinawa. That way they can respond faster to problems in the middle east. The last time I checked a map, Okinawa was in the Far East, not the Middle East. That is cutting and running, just calling it another name.

All three of those examples show that the Democrat position is exactly what the Republicans say it is. The Democrats just do not call it what the Republicans call it. They do that because the Republicans are using the words that describe what will happen and they are trying to hide what will happen.

The commercial I heard was supposed to be by a Sheriff from Pima County. He was supposed to be a Democrat. If it was the person that it said it was, the person is a Democrat kool-aid drinker. He would support a monkey if it had a "D" after its name. The person said he had been in law enforcement for 49 years, that would make him over 70 years old. The person would have to be senile and suffering from dementia to believe that Jim Pederson does not support amnesty. The last comment was unkind. But, I do not understand how a person that can read and write say that Jim Pederson does not support amnesty. That could only be true if you were looking for the word amnesty in Jim Pederson's statement. Of course he will not put it in there. To do so would validate everything the Republicans are saying about him. He just describes amnesty and calls it something else. He does that with all of his other positions as well. He describes exactly the same thing the Republicans describe, he just calls it something else. The problem is that some people actually believe that there is a difference between what the Republicans say his position is and what he says his position is. Those people should not be allowed to vote. They obviously are not smart enough to catch someone in a lie. The problem is their vote counts just as much as someone who can tell that Jim Pederson's positions are exactly what the Republicans say they are.

I still stand by my prediction that the Republicans will hold onto the Senate and the House. I believe they have a good shot at picking up a seat in the Senate. The House will be much closer, maybe staying close to the current levels.
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Kerry Fallout II

Posted by Steve on Friday, November 03, 2006 5:03:23 PM
Here is the picture that doomed John Kerry to the non-apology.

I love the message the picture gives. It is simple and straight forward. There is humor and thought. It is the perfect answer to the original message given by John Kerry in California. This picture probably doomed John Kerry's presidential hopes for 2008 as well.

I have heard many in the MSM (main stream media) claim that this blow-up over John Kerry's remarks will blow over and not be important in the election next Tuesday. I think they are wrong. Too many people have had their eyes opened for that to be true. Too many people now see the Democrat party for what it IS, not what it says it is. This cannot be good for the Democrat party. They have to hide what they are and what they believe to win.

Nancy Pelosi has not been seen for almost two weeks now. She is supposed to be the next Speaker of the House. As the next Speaker of the House and third in line to be President of the United States, you would think she would be visible for all to see. No, she is silent as a church mouse. Why, because when she speaks, the Democrat approval rating goes down. The more she talks, the lower the Democrat party gets.

Other Democrats are saying that they believe in true Republican principles. They say they are better Republicans than their Republican opponents. They believe in smaller goverenment, lower taxes, strong military and so on. How much do I believe of that mush, none. They are just saying it to get elected. When they are elected, watch out. They will come and take your income and squeeze every penny out that they can. They will take money from constitutionally mandated programs like national defense and spend it on programs that are not constitutional.

Are Republicans perfect? No. But, they are so much better than the alternative. We need to work to get better candidates. The problem is that good people do not want to be a candidate. They see all that good people go through to get elected and stay elected. They say that they can make more money in private business and without all the hassles. They are right. They need to have a higher sense of civil responsibility. We will not get better candidates until we get the gotcha campaign out of campaigning. That will not happen any time soon. The Democrats have only that as their weapon to win.

Our goal should be to elect the best we can now. In the next election, we should try to improve the people that serve us by electing better people. If we do that for a few election cycles, we might actually have enough good people in goverenment service to make a difference. I am not holding my breath. The Democrat destruction machine is too effective at keeping them out of politics.
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Kerry Fallout

Posted by Steve on Thursday, November 02, 2006 5:20:52 PM
Karl Rove has to be chuckling to himself these days. He could hardly have scripted a better last week than the one John Kerry gave him a few days ago. Even the apology was really a non-apology. This has energized people that I know. They have gone from indifferent to the election to excited about the election. Democrats claim that the comment will have no impact on the election (survey on iwon.com). I beg to differ. It will have a big impact.

As I heard on the Michael Medved show today, Republicans will turn out like it is a Presidential year. Democrats and Independents will turn out like it was an off year election. That will make a huge difference in the outcome of the election. It is reported that early ballots are unusually heavy in their return. Early ballots are usually Republican. They are being reported as Republican in the news at this time. The biggest impact will be on military families and their relatives and friends. That will expand the military vote way beyond the usual impact it has in any individual race.

What impact will this have on the outcome of the election. First, elections are now polling closer than they have in a long time. Polls regularly lean toward the Democrat party. If a Democrat is leading by a small margin, they are probably tied or even behind. If it shows they are behind, the election is lost. The main thing to pick up in the polls is the trends. In the vast majority of the races, the Republican candidate is on a roll. It may not show them ahead, but they are catching up quickly.

In the Senate, it now looks like the Republicans will hold all their current seats except for Rhode Island. They look like they will pick up Maryland, Michigan and one other state I cannot remember. That would give them an increase of two seats. In the House it looks like a similar scenario. They should keep almost all their seats and may pick up five to eight seats. That would be an almost unprecedented victory. Democrats would have to spend a long time licking their wounds. One of the best things is that the Clinton spin machine is running this election cycle. Losing on that scale would not be good for the Clinton's. It may even open things up to allow someone else to be the Democrat standard bearer in 2008.

Here in Arizona, it looks good for the Republicans. One of the worst is that JD Hayworth is complaining about coordination between the DNC and the Pederson campaign to produce a commercial. The DNC could only have obtained pictures of Pederson with his permission and cooperation. That is illegal under campaign laws. Everything else looks good for the Republican congressional delegation. There is not much change in the Governor's race. It still looks like our reigning moonbeam will continue. It may be a lot closer than she imagines. In the State House and Senate races, there is talk of the Republicans gaining a veto-proof majority. That would mean an increase of two seats in each house. That is possible and a possibility.
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Kerry's Comments

Posted by Steve on Wednesday, November 01, 2006 8:09:46 PM
John Kerry did for the Republican party something it was afraid to do for itself, win the election. With his foot in the mouth comment that students should study hard or they would end up stuck in Iraq, he showed remarkable bad taste. John Kerry has never been known for tact. He out did himself this time.

With the comments, the military is outraged. They should be outraged. It takes an education to get into the military. An officer is required to have a college degree, or have at least sixty hours of college credits and OCS. To become an enlisted person, you are required to be a high school graduate or have a GED. As a result, the military is more highly educated than the general population.

The Democrats still think of the military the way it was in Vietnam and WWII. That military was primarily drafted. There were enlistments, but the bulk of people joining the military were there because of being drafted. Drafted soldiers tended to have a slightly lower academic standing than the general public. This is because deferments were given for people attending college. I took advantage of this during the Vietnam war, until I flunked the physical during an enlistment attempt.

Kerry's comments have changed the dynamics of the election. People that were blase about the election are now fired up at keeping Democrats out of power. I believe that the turnout from people in the military and their families, will be close to 100%. Those votes will now go almost exclusively to Republicans. People who support the military, even in a small way, will also vote now and vote Republican. The Democrats lose big time on this one. They energize the Republican base and bring in people that were not going to vote. Republican turnout will be much greater than anyone in any polling company is predicting. Republicans may even pick up a couple of Senate seats and 5-10 House seats. That would send the Democrats into a big funk. It would be a wonderful thing to behold.
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Napolitano's Watergate?

Posted by Steve on Saturday, October 28, 2006 1:56:55 PM
Governor Napolitano has a problem on her hands. Her campaign applied for matching funds for a flyer that the Arizona Republican Party printed, but did not mail. In their application they claimed that the flyer had been mailed. Oops!

In Arizona, it is a felony to knowingly apply for matching funds using false or stolen documents. The Republican party is claiming that the document in question was stolen from their headquarters. The news is reporting that there was no sign of a breakin and the lock and the case where the flyers are being kept are intact, with no damage. That would tend to rule out a thief breaking into the Republican headquarters, breaking into the box where the flyers are stored and making off with one or more documents.

It does not rule out two other scenarios that would enable the Democrat party to obtain the document. The first is that there is a mole in the Republican headquarters. The mole removed one or more documents prior to locking them up in the box. I would tend to doubt this scenario. The mole would undoubtedly be questioned. Any guilty party can only maintain lies for a short time. It would hold through the election, but not much longer. Napolitano could not risk that happening.

Scenario two is more likely. It is that when the flyer was printed, the printer printed one or more extra copies and gave them to the Democrats. Printers routinely print a test copy to determine if the settings are correct. The test copy is usually put in with the print order and nobody ever knows about this. I used to run a printer for a time and this was common practice. It would be easy to take one or more copies at the printer and give them to the Democrats. The printer would not have the loyality that the Republican party would have. They may have a contract to deliver so many copies and they would do that. I am not suggesting that they would deliver a smaller number of pages. The owners of the print company would most likely not do something like this. It most likely was an employee of the company that strongly supports the Democrat positions. This person could easily remove the papers without anyone knowing about the removal. The employee is also not likely to be questioned about the removal. It may not even be known that the person was even in the general area of the printer at the time of the printing. This scenario is much more likely.

The Democrat party claims that the flyer showed up anonymously. That still does not absolve them of the responsibility to make sure that the flyer actually was mailed. The note with the flyer probably mentioned that it was to be mailed on such and such date. The Democrats did not check. They were caught in a lie. They had to know it was a lie. They were trying to scam $50,000 out of the Clean Elections fund. This needs to be shouted from the rooftops. Democrats trying to cheat. They are claimiing that it was an innocent mistake. We all know that if the shoe was on the other foot, Republican heads would roll and people would see jail time. I am not even asking for jail time for participants. I am just asking that everyone know that Democrats cheat. They knowingly cheat. They try to cheat. Everyone should be informed of that fact. I hold no faith in the MSM in Arizona carrying the ball on this one. The best would be small articles on back pages.

Welcome to the world of Arizona politics. Democrats cheat here, just like they do back east. It just turns out that we have more Republicans to counter their cheating here in Arizona. We can usually overcome their cheating. Napolitano wants illegals to vote, that way she can insure that Democrats will always win. We have to stop her before she manages to give illegals the vote.
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Wimp over Curmudgeon?

Posted by Steve on Friday, October 27, 2006 8:20:53 PM
Today, in the Arizona Republic, they endorsed Democrat Harry Mitchell over Republican JD Hayworth. Harry Mitchell was Mayor of Tempe, then a State Senator from Tempe. He was involved in some scandals out of the Harry Reid mold about 15-20 years ago. He managed to get out of the indictment by influence with the courts. They couldn't indict or convict a powerful politician like Harry Mitchell. So, the entire investigation fizzled.

JD Hayworth is brash and willing to call a spade a spade. He has made enemies within the Democrat ranks. The endorsement of Harry Mitchell is the payback for the enemies JD made over the years. JD is an effective legislator. He is a fresh face on TV. He is willing to dust it up with anyone over just about anything. Harry Mitchell has tried to paint JD with all sorts of corruption brushes. All of them ring true when applied to Harry Mitchell, but ring false when applied to JD Hayworth. JD may be a lot of things, but corrupt, he is not.

The campaign between the two has disintegrated from positions to one of he is corrupt, no, he is corrupt. As someone not in their district, it is a little disgusting. But, Harry Mitchell is accusing JD of doing things that Harry Mitchell actually did years ago. It just follows that Democrats accuse Republicans of doing things they do. They accuse them of doing them because they are doing them. So, Republicans must be doing them also. The best way to deflect criticism from you is to accuse your opponent of corruption first. The only problem is that you have to be clean of corruption in your past to get away with this ruse. Democrats rarely are clean of corruption. Harry Mitchell is neck deep in corruption. The Arizona Republic chooses to ignore Harry Mitchell's real brushes with the law for JD's phantom brushes with phantom laws.

It is my opinion that JD will win this election going away. Harry Mitchell may be powerful in Tempe, but no place else in the congressional district. Most of the congressional district sees Harry Mitchell for what he is, a sleazy opportunist. The judges in New Jersey may have dealt the death toll for Harry Mitchell's campaign. Republicans are becoming energized. They were going to vote, but were not excited. The judges should get the base excited about voting and you should see wide margins. That is good news for everyone, especially Democrats.
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Republican Backlash

Posted by Steve on Thursday, October 26, 2006 5:48:48 PM
With Democrat ads telling lies and liberal judges telling us what to do, many people are thinking twice about their commitment to this election. Where they might have said that they would sit this one out, that is no more. They can see that there is an urgency to what they say with their votes.

If Republicans sit this election out, Democrat politicians will be elected. If they get elected, lots of things most Republicans would like will be taken away. Taxes will go up. Judges will have to be more liberal to be confirmed. Gay marriage will be commonplace throughout the country. Most US citizens do not want those things to happen They like taxes low. They want judges that will interpret the law, not make law. They want marriage to be between a man and a woman. They do not want marriage between a man and a man or a woman and a woman.

As a result of this realization, many Republicans are now deciding to go to the polls on November 7. That bodes well for Republican candidates. Republicans will win more elections. They should take a lesson from this election. The public is unhappy. They need to spend the next two years giving the public the things it wants. If Republicans return to being Republicans, then 2008 will be a sterling year for Republican candidates. There may even be a veto proof congress. Of course, they would not need one with the Republican President.

Another fallout from a Republican victory this year would be terrorists losing heart. They would know that they would have a minimum of two more years before they could make changes in the US. It may even allow us to actuallly have some real success in the war on terror. I would be naive to think that the war on terror would be solved. But, we could have some highly successful years ahead of us if we actually follow what is right and elect Republicans.

Some of the preceding may be wishful thinking. I still believe that the Republicans will hold the House and Senate. It may be razor thin of a margin, but they will prevail. Any Republican victory that stops the Democrat party from taking over will have enormous impacts within the country. The Democrat leadership will be in disarray. They have been declaring victory for weeks now. To have defeat handed to them instead of victory, heads will have to roll. It will be fun to watch. I would love to see who comes out on top. The implications will be felt in 2008 and beyond. Good!
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