Church Goers in Michigan Attacked

This post has me pretty upset.  I will admit my feelings initially lean towards those of the author, but I will (and I suggest all of us) take the example of the Pastor in this post.

(From our conservative brothers and sisters in Michigan)

Michigan liberals attack Lansing congregation in the middle of Sunday worship

By Nick, Section News
Posted on Mon Nov 10, 2008 at 01:33:05 PM EST
This is what we’re up against.

On Sunday morning, amidst worshiping congregants and following unifying prayers that our President-elect be granted wisdom as he prepares to lead our nation through difficult global, social and economic challenges, the Michigan left declared open war on peaceful church goers.

They did it with banners, chants, blasphemy, by storming the pulpit, by vandalizing the church facility, by potentially defiling the building with lude, public, sex acts and by intentionally forcing physical confrontations with worshipers.

This didn’t take place in some dystopian, post modern work of fiction and it didn’t take place in San Francisco or Berkley. This was the scene at a Bible believing church in Lansing, Michigan.

Read on…

Question for the Readers

Many conservatives have had their issues with John Boehner and his ability to be a leader for the GOP while in the minority in the U.S. House.  With a new session and a new President to work with coming in January, and presuming Eric Cantor wins the role of Minority Whip and Mike Pence wins the role of Conference Chair, will this foundation of conservative leadership to back Boehner make him a better/stronger minority leader?

Discuss!

Obama Ready to “Rule” on Day One

I’m willing to give Valerie Jarrett the benefit of the doubt and argue this is more of a “Biden like gaffe” than forgetting that President’s “lead” and not “rule”.  Someone may want to pass that note along to Ms. Jarrett before she does another interview.

*Update* - The video appears to no longer be available.  Potential conspiracy theories (as to why) aside here is was Ms. Jarrett told Tom Brokaw on Meet the Press.

Jarret told Brokaw that “given the daunting challenges that we face, it’s important that president elect Obama is prepared to really take power and begin to rule day one.”

(Oddly, the video still works in the Newsbusters link)

Discuss!

(H/T - Newsbusters)

A Lot of Red To Challenge So Little Blue

Looking at this breakdown, Indiana would appear to be a strong and vibrant red state.  But what went against us in this last election was just how poorly John McCain did in the blue counties.  Of Indiana’s 92 counties, McCain won 77 and still lost 49.9% to 49%.  Just think, there is enough GOP voting population in those 77 counties to come close to matching the DEM voting population of the 15 counties that Obama won.

Now take into consideration how many in those red counties who voted Republican in 2004, voted for Obama this year or voted third party out of distaste for either John McCain or Barack Obama (we’re looking at the Bob Barr and Chuck Baldwin voters - Note to 3rd party voters, I’m not pinning McCain’s loss of Indiana on you).

By contrast, consider the breakdown for Governor Daniels.

(Read more after the leap)

Herman Cain: If I Were CEO of the GOP

Syndicated columnist Herman Cain wrote this column today:

“It is frustrating and pathetic to watch the mainstream media and some Republicans try to explain John McCain’s loss for the presidency. Even worse, some McCain staffers are reportedly trying to blame the choice of Governor Sarah Palin as the reason for their loss, so they can position themselves for their next campaign job.

I do not know any of the McCain top staffers and I do not intend to insult them, but they need a wake-up call before they staff-infect another Republican’s run for high political office. What I am about to say may be hard medicine, but that’s how you recover from a serious illness.

I would not hire any of them for even a dog-catcher campaign, because collectively they resemble the same team that ran the 1996 Dole-Kemp campaign, with the same problem.”

Ouch!

Sarah Palin, social conservatives and the Republican Party

Leftists in the Democratic Party and “moderates” in the Republican Party are pointing to Sarah Palin as the reason John McCain lost, and both groups are arguing that the Republican Party needs to jettison or marginalize social conservatives if the GOP hopes to be successful in future elections. The argument lacks factual basis and ignores recent political history, including the election results of last week. Republicans will do great damage to their chances of victory in 2010 and 2012 by pushing social conservatives aside in favor of a more “big tent” party.

When Palin was announced as McCain’s choice for Vice President, she immediately closed the “enthusiasm gap” between the Republican and Democratic activist bases. Palin’s life story, especially regarding Trig Palin, resonated with social conservatives and provided a significant contrast with Barack Obama’s aggressive advocacy of abortion “rights”. Had it not been for Palin, McCain’s margin of loss would probably have been larger than it was. Had McCain picked abortion “rights” advocate Joe Lieberman as his Vice Presidential nominee, it would have been a disaster.

Are social conservatives hurting the Republican Party? How quickly we forget 2004, when “values voters” pulled President Bush out of the fire and were a major reason why he was re-elected. How quickly we forget 2006, when Democrats recruited a number of anti-abortion candidates to run for Congress, including Brad Ellsworth and Joe Donnelly in Indiana. Ellsworth and Donnelly unseated Republican incumbents John Hostettler and Chris Chocola two years ago, and both won re-election by comfortable margins this year. If social conservatives are harming the Republican Party, why were Democrats openly recruiting anti-abortion candidates to run for Congress?

(Read more after the leap)

Poll Books Tossed Into Dumpster At Dem HQ in Muncie.

Just saw the blurb about it on Fox 59. The Muncie Star-Press has this:

“Dozens of election poll books used in Tuesday’s general election were thrown out by local Democratic Party workers, left in a Dumpster behind the party’s downtown headquarters.

The books have names, addresses, dates of birth, and a copy of signatures for voters who cast ballots in Tuesday’s election. While some of the copied signatures are illegible, others are not and could be reproduced.

Bob Wolf was tossing campaign yard signs into the Dumpster on Wednesday when he found the poll books. Wolf is the husband of Delaware Circuit Court 3 Judge-elect Linda Ralu Wolf.

“This is reprehensible,” Bob Wolf told a reporter, pointing to names and dates of birth.”

My question is what are election poll books doing at Dem HQ anyway and not turned into the County Election Board or County Clerk’s office? Something fishy about this scenario ….

UPDATE by Me: (after the leap)

Something To Make Us Feel A Little Better

A US Map of Red and Blue at the County Level. While it is difficult to see the borders - You can tell major metropolitan areas in Red States - Marion County for example, and the swath of blue that runs along the industrialized south lakeshore of the Great Lakes from roughly Buffalo to Detroit, along I-94 to Benton Harbor and along the south lakeshore of Lake Michigan to Chicago. Large swaths of rural areas are still quite Republican, however the turnout wasn’t enough to counteract the more liberal metropolitan areas.

BTW, look at that blue tip of Southern Texas. Isn’t that Congressman Ron Paul’s home district?

H/T Hoosier Illuminati

Porter County - Where do we go from here?

On our local site Porter County Politics the comments and debates have actually increased in this week of dismal election results.  Here’s the rundown:

• We lost two more seats on the County Council to Democrats running “against” practically everything
• We once again lost any chance of controlling the County Commissioners, returning our most moderate Republican and losing the south county seat
• We didn’t even touch the sitting Democrat judge
• Mitch Daniels lost Porter County, even though winning the entire state by 18 points, and Greg Zoeller actually got more votes in Porter County than Mitch did
• Obviously from the red-blue county maps all over the web today, Porter County went to Obama, and thus we find ourselves stuck in the NW Indiana Region mentality.
• The unions privately backed MItch Daniels for Major Moves jobs, but publicly campaigned for straight ticket Democrat voting, with the results being 3,500 more D straight tickets than R
• In the week prior to the election the Regional Development Authority (RDA) which was established by the legislature for NW Indiana, was supplied tax dollars from Lake and Porter County, announced that a South Shore Extension could go to Lowell (in Lake County) but that Valparaiso (Porter County) was off the table.  This got little coverage due to election news … but
• The day after the election our County GOP chair announced that Porter County’s membership in the RDA should be reviewed.  His rational?  That the voters obviously voted for Democrats, who’s campaign was based on being “against” RDA, new taxes, South Shore Extension, Illiana Expressway, and a whole host of other growth initiatives.  He said the voters have spoken.  This won’t play well in Indianapolis.
• There is now a brewing undercurrent of dissension in the ranks, with those outside Valparaiso feeling that the rest of the county has not been represented well by the power brokers in Valparaiso.
• Oh yeah, and the Ron Paul people are still out there trying to pick up enough precinct chairs that they can “reorganize” the party at the local and state level

That’s proabably a good start for now.  We have some rebuilding to do, we lost big.  We made mistakes locally just like nationally.  We need to learn from Mitch and his team, and give taxpayers a sense of protection from local and state government largess.  We need more grass roots involvement and less top-down orders.  We need to raise money in $100 increments instead of going to the power brokers for $10,000 and allowing them too much access in return.

IndyStar Finally Catches Up To Hoosier Access

Ok not directly, but from this article by Erika D. Smith she’s discussing Twitter similar to a new invention. Hate to break the news to the MSM but we’ve been Tweeting for quite some time. How does IndyStar plan to use Twitter? Not to send you headlines or things of any importance. No, they are going to inform readers of lines at the stores on Black Friday (day after Thanksgiving).

If you recall Twitter and bloggers broke the news of “Dontgo” when US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi prematurely shut down Congress, turned off the lights and the C-SPAN cameras to avoid discussion of energy policy and drilling in ANWR.

Those of you who do Twitter you can follow us at “HoosierAccess” to find out the latest in the conservative movement happenings in the State of Indiana.

Hurricane Paloma

This is nasty stuff. Hurricane Paloma has slammed into Cuba as a category 4 storm. Granted we’ll never know the true loss there because - well Fidel and Raul Castro are in charge there. You know the socialist “Truth is Propaganda” and all that.

Anyone who listened to AM radios in cars back when that was your only option (you know - the 70’s - bell bottoms days) has likely heard this song. Or fans of Rush Limbaugh because this used to be the theme music for his “Peace Updates”

Consider this an open thread.

Palin Calls Anonymous GOP Critics Cowards and Jerks