Don't Let Them Browbeat You Into Submission

Watch Jillian Michaels stand up to an entire CNN panel with facts. This is why the right is starting to win more and voters; they are not backing down from tough conversations:

Canadian voters are idiots

President Trump made himself the boogeyman in the last Canadian election.  What did voters do? Vote for the same party that has decimated our economy. Why? Fear. Actually fear combined with sheer stupidity. We have a long way to go to catch up with Americans as far as common sense goes.

Canada's conservatives: strong in numbers but still in the wilderness

From a Canadian conservative perspective, another far left Liberal government is not just bad for Canada, not just a potential death-blow to the country, it doesn't make sense. Someone make it make sense for the millions of common sense conservative Canadians...

Here we go:

Conservative vs. Liberal priorities on display

Canada is an advanced microcosm of what would happen in America under Kamala Harris.  Canadian voters have come back to their senses, nary a moment too soon.  I hope American voters do so before it's too late:

RFK Jr. still trying to steal Trump voters

In light of Roe v. Wade being overturned by the Supreme Court, isn't RFK's pronouncement during this interview, a moot point?  The ruling has basically returned the issue to a state level matter, which is why Trump's new position is exactly right - it's a state matter now.

Beyond that, I still contend he's trying to siphon votes away from Donald Trump, and not be a serious contender.  This position certain walks into pro-Trump territory and away from left leaning voters, and reinforces my belief of the RFK Jr. ultimate goal.

I'm not saying it will work well, but it only needs to work enough, in the right states to make a difference, and that should worry us.

Polling wow!

Republican identifying voters outnumber Democrats according to Gallup? Wow.

So many Trump indictments, they don't mean anything anymore

Voters: "Another attempt to frame president Trump on bogus charges? Surely you can't be serious."

Democrats: "We are serious, and don't call us Shirley, it's they/them."

We've lost interest in your shenanigans. Apparently so has...CNN?

What the hell is going on with Marco Rubio?

First Marco Rubio slam dunks on China apologists.  Then he blasts Big Tech.  Now he's saying that the shift in Hispanic voters towards the GOP is permanent as long as they continue on in president Trump's direction.

The man is on fire, nailing one topic after another. Why now?  He's very likely positioning himself for a 2024 run for president (as is Ted Cruz, in a different method).  I like this version of Marco Rubio.  The question is; is this the real Rubio now, or just a façade intended to attract conservative voters?

My skepticism is strong, but I am willing to continue listening.

Graham no longer a RINO? A sign of the liberalpocalypse?

Last week I mentioned that if the political left has gotten Lindsey Graham, previously an uber-RINO, upset to the point of fighting back, you know they have gone too far. Imagine what their frothing, clueless hatred has done to Republican voters and the independents who supported president Trump during the 2016 campaign.  If the fever pitch remains through October there will be no blue wave during these midterms.

As a refresher, here's Lindsey Graham explaining his position and he sounds anything but wishy-washy.

Obligatory Obama scaring off more voters post

Just sharing the obvious, yet shocking link of Obama scaring off what would appear to be Democratic voters, in a deep blue state. Watch as they walk out on him.

The cynical view of Obama's impending ISIS speech today

In light of the previous post, I'd expect president Obama's speech on ISIS today to sound fierce at first blush.  But it will actually be a hollow speech, as toothless as sanctions against a few guys in Russia. The speech though, is meant for domestic consumption.   It will be aimed at the casual political observer, delivered  with the intention of strengthening Obama's crashing foreign-affairs approval numbers. Keep in mind, this is a political president, and a political speech.  Don't expect the speech to have much in it that will deter ISIS or even give them pause for thought.

The thought process Obama will be trying to interrupt is not that of ISIS but rather the ever-increasing notion that he is a failure as a foreign policy president.  He's trying to stem the tide of a potential Republican wave in the Senate, in November. He's not really going to do much stem the tide of ISIS.  They aren't voters or even potential future voters, so their tide only matters insofar as it affects the opinions of voters at home.

Eric Holder plays the panic card

I'm Alright Jack.

I guess it could be classified as a sub-category of the race card.  Eric Holder is busy ginning up fear among African American pastors in order to gin up fear among African American voters that their right to vote is under attack by conservative boogymen.

Via Politico;

Attorney General Eric Holder told a council of African American church leaders Wednesday that the "sacred" right to vote is under assault nationwide, with federal lawsuits and at least a dozen state laws that could hinder - or block – minorities’ access to the ballot box this fall.

"In my travels across this country, I’ve heard a consistent drumbeat of concern from citizens, who – often for the first time in their lives – now have reason to believe that we are failing to live up to one of our nation’s most noble ideals,” Holder said in a speech before the Council of Black Churches. The threats of legal assaults and lingering discrimination, he added, means that “some of the achievements that defined the civil rights movement now hang in the balance.”

As if to underscore the point, however, a voting rights group is worried that Holder and the Justice Department aren’t acting quickly enough to stop Florida’s Republican governor from continuing a purge of registered voters from the state’s rolls because they lack proof of U.S. citizenship.

Not only is that a spurious argument regarding voter disenfranchisement, both Holder and the Politico piece completely ignore the questionable tactic of getting churches to preach politics.  As Rush Limbaugh points out, they are doing an end run around IRS rules:

Representative Emanuel Cleaver (Democrat-Missouri), said, quote, "We will have representatives from nine denominations who actually pastor somewhere in the neighborhood of about 10 million people, and we’re going to first of all equip them with the information they need to know about what they can say and what they cannot say in the church that would violate their 501(c)(3) status with the IRS. In fact, we’re going to have the IRS administrator there, we’re going to have the Attorney General Eric Holder there, we’re going to have the lawyers’ organization from around the country, the ACLU -- all giving ministers guidance about what they can and cannot do."

They're gonna tell 'em just how close they can get to the line. They're probably gonna tell 'em how they can jump over the line a couple times. What's funny about this is Bill Clinton, Jesse Jackson. These guys fund-raise from the pulpit! They pass the plate for campaign donations from the pulpit. It's been reported, but nobody does anything about it because nobody's got the guts to. Who wants to criticize black churches for being engaged in politics?

Indeed.

Churches get involved in politics fairly regularly.  Some churches do at least - remember Jeremiah Wright?  There's certainly a line there somewhere that is not supposed to be crossed, but note that some leeway is intentionally allowed for whatever reason.  That's not the real issue.  The real issue is that the Attorney General of the United States is out there trying to smudge whatever that line already is by pressing it as much as he can, for purely partisan political reasons.  You don't think he's blurring it?  Forget for a second about how far away from this a responsible Attorney General would stay from this sort of activity.  Go instead back to the intention of Holder being there in the first place.

Via the Conservative Review:

Representative Emanuel Cleaver, whose Congressional Black Caucus, says quite plainly what his little project is all about.

Cleaver said they would not tell pastors which candidate to support. They will let them know who to regard as the bad guys, though (hint: not Democrats).

“President Obama is going to get 95 percent of the [African American] vote,” and wants to keep that turnout high.

And using the Attorney General of the United States and the IRS to directly do that constitutes multiple violations of the Hatch Act. The most obvious one is this:

May not knowingly solicit or discourage the participation in any political activity of anyone who has business pending before their employing office.

Every one of these churches (and the churches not getting the special “advice,” for that matter), by virtue of their tax exempt status, perpetually has business pending before the IRS. That’s what makes this particular and blatant partisan encouragement of black churches to pontificate on policy so egregious.

Never heard of the Hatch Act? It would seem not only are those pastors at risk, under the Hatch Act, Holder himself may be crossing that line.  Don't worry though liberals, everyone seems to be afraid to raise concerns about it.  No complaint, no foul.  With it looking lately like Mitt Romney has some electoral momentum, conservatives may not care as much about this as they otherwise would, but they should.  Eric Holder has consistently displayed a preference for liberal agenda over legal scrutability in his decisions.  Either we stand on principle, or we just allow the notion of the rule of law to slowly evaporate bit by painful bit.  Personally, I prefer the former course of action.  That means Holder must be taken to task for these actions, as well as others like his role in the Fast and Furious scandal.  The same goes for those ministers who would simply do his bidding.

Winning Latino Voters: Another Poll Buries The Lead

Latina conservatives do exist.

There's a way to deliver bad news.  There's also a way to deliver good news. The way Moore Information delivered it's news about it's polling in Latino voters and the GOP in California is not a good example of either.  It is however an example of burying the lead.

Military Ballots Matter

The state of corruption in Illinois (or IS Illinois) calls into question the suspicious nature of the fact that in that state, where a very close Senate race is being contested, the Democratic machine could be somehow pulling the strings to ensure that military voters are disenfranchised this cycle.  A slap on the wrist and a 'oops, my bad' after  a close Democrat victory does nothing to ensure that every vote counts.  Remember that one Democrats?

From WLS-AM 890,

The U.S. Justice Department is investigating whether the state of Illinois missed the deadline for mailing absentee ballots to members of the military and other overseas American voters as part of a new federal overseas voting law.

Cris Cray, Director of Legislation at the Illinois State Board of Elections, says not all of Illinois' 110 jurisdictions were compliant with the 2009 Military and Overseas Voter Empowerment Act (MOVE).

The law requires every state to mail their absentee ballots 45 days prior to Election Day to overseas troops, government employees and other Americans who want to vote from abroad.

Cray says she is currently compiling data from each of Illinois' jurisdictions to determine which were compliant and which were delinquent. Cray said it's possible the ballots may not be counted because the state was tardy in sending them out...

Overseas ballots could be a deciding factor in Illinois' mid-term elections where recent polls show a tight U.S. Senate race between Republican Mark Kirk and Democrat Alexi Giannoulias. Republican Bill Brady has an edge over Democratic incumbent Pat Quinn for governor.

A post-electoral apology does not counter disenfranchisement of voters. This isn't about hanging chads. This about non-compliance and an apparent lack of effort to make sure that citizens of the state get to actually, you know, vote. Or worse, this is about circumventing democracy and trying to make it seem accidental. Surely this runs counter to democracy. It would seem a possibility that it is deliberately so.

Harry Reid, racist

See how easy it is to throw out invectives?  Liberals do it all the time.  If you are a conservative you are apparently fair game.  But liberals are quite often usually more guilty of racism than conservatives. The problem is that there are different kinds of racism, and when it's politically correct, the media doesn't take the offender to task.  Politically correct, meaning liberal.  That doesn't mean it doesn't exist on a significant scale. In Harry Reid's case though, where there's smoke, there's fire.