Obama Makes Conservative’s Case Even Better that Conservative Do

“The Obama administration is doing a far better job making the case for
conservatism than Mitt Romney, Mitch McConnell, or John Boehner ever did.
Showing is always better than telling, and when the government overreaches in so
many ways it gives support to the conservative argument about the inherently
rapacious nature of government.”

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2013/05/barack_obama_irs_and_associated_press_scandals_the_president_s_administration.html

WOW, and that’s from Slate

Jim DeMint: My Plan Has Been 2 Terms and Go Home to My Porch! (But Aides say 2016 May Still be on the Table)

If all goes according to plan, Jim DeMint has run his last race

By: Conn Carroll | Senior Editorial Writer Follow Him @conncarroll | 07/29/11 9:29 AM

Sen. Jim DeMint, R-S.C., tells National Journal that his current term will be his last:

NJ Any regrets about not getting into the presidential race?

DeMINT No; it’s just not an ambition of mine.

NJ What is your ambition?

DeMINT My hope is to elect five or 10 more solid conservatives and go home and rock on my front porch.

NJ This is your last term?

DeMINT Yeah. It was not a campaign promise; but that is my plan, that the election last year was my last one. It has always been my plan not to serve more than two terms.

DeMint was just reelected in 2010 so his current term does run all the way through 2016. But even then, it is hard to imagine him disappearing entirely. In his six short years in the Senate so far, he has already moved the Republican caucus visibly to the right. Sens. Mike Lee, R-Utah, Rand Paul, R-Ky., and Marco Rubio, R-Fla., all were helped by DeMint endorsements. When 2017 does roll around, conservatives will miss him dearly.

UPDATE: DeMint aide emails to say DeMint “plan” has been for 2010 to be his last race. But DeMint “hasn’t ruled out” a 2016 run either.

Read more at the Washington Examiner: http://washingtonexaminer.com/blogs/beltway-confidential/2011/07/jim-demint-has-run-his-last-race?utm_source=feedburner+BeltwayConfidential&utm_medium=feed+Beltway+Confidential&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+BeltwayConfidential+%28Beltway+Confidential%29feed&utm_content=feed&utm_term=feed#ixzz1TVyGW6gd

Florida’s Senate Race is One Being Closely Watched: Gov. Crist Loses “Key” Supporter over Education Reform Veto; 2008 Payback- Romney, Like Guiliani, Endorses Rubio over Crist

from USAToday:

It’s a political earthquake in one of the most-watched GOP contests of the year: Gov. Charlie Crist, once considered the odds-on favorite to become Florida’s next senator but now facing fierce Tea Party opposition and lagging in the polls, just lost his campaign chairman.

Former senator Connie Mack, a close friend of Crist’s who was chairing his Senate campaign, resigned his post yesterday. According to the Associated Press, Mack did so to protest Crist’s Thursday veto of a bill that would have tied teacher pay and job security to student test scores.

In a letter to Crist, Mack recounted a friendship of “many years” and said “I prize our relationship.” But the former senator said he considers Crist’s veto “unsupportable and wrong.”

“I can no longer serve as chair of your campaign for the United States Senate,” Mack wrote. “This letter serves as my resignation.”

USA TODAY attempted to contact Mack, but we have been told he is traveling and unavailable for comment. A response from Crist also was pending.

Crist is now running behind former state representative Marco Rubio in a GOP nominating contest that has been targeted by Tea Party organizations. Both the Tea Party Express and FreedomWorks, a Washington-based think tank that has provided some of the organizing muscle behind Tea Party Patriots, are supporting Rubio as the true conservative in the race.

Primary day is Aug. 24. Lately, Crist has been trying to tamp down speculation that he might skip the primary and run as an independent.

Mack was enormously popular in Florida: He won his last statewide election, in 1994, with 70% of the vote. He’s the grandson of baseball’s famed Connie Mack, who for 50 years owned and managed the Philadelphia Athletics. The former senator’s son, Connie Mack IV, is a third-term Florida congressman.

http://content.usatoday.com/communities/onpolitics/post/2010/04/florida-gov-charlie-crist-loses-key-supporter-in-his-senate-race/1

Related: Gov. Crist asks teachers to switch to GOP to vote for him in Republican Primary (Fla. is a “closed” primary state, in that voters must vote their party affiliation, and independents do not get a primary vote) http://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/crists-campaign-asks-teachers-to-change-party-affiliation-578491.html

Gov. Mitt Romney endorses Rubio; a reversal from 2006, when Romney, as GOP Governor’s Chairman, he hand delivered a $1 million dollar check to the Governor’s campaign: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/18/us/politics/18florida.html

J.C. Watts Challenges GOP to Step Up to the Plate

Press Coverage of Marco Rubio’s CPAC Speech

 

Marco Rubio speech at CPAC conference brings conservatives to their feet 
“an impassioned defense of American exceptionalism”

RUBIO ROCKS THE HOUSE AT CPAC
“Receiving a thunderous applause, Rubio blasted the Obama administration’s decision to try some of the suspects linked to the 9/11 terrorist attacks in civilian court.”

Rubio vows to fight ‘every step of the way’ for conservative causes
“Rubio vowed to fight big government and “radical Islamic terrorists” while promising to lower the tax rate and prevent the United States from becoming a “submissive member of the international community.”

Rubio, Armey excite conservatives at conference
“He may not be a household name across the USA, but Marco Rubio was the hero of the morning at CPAC.”

Senate hopeful Rubio rises from unknown to darling
 “Rubio received several standing ovations from more than 3,000 people gathered for the American Conservative Union Foundation’s Conservative Political Action Conference as he criticized the country’s Democratic leadership and called for more policies that benefit free enterprise.”

In DC debut, Florida’s Rubio wows conservatives — CPAC shouts ‘amen’ to calls for less government
“He is already a giant slayer, a favorite of Tea Party activists, the guy who has toppled Florida Gov. Charlie Crist from his front-runner perch in the Republican primary for Senate. Thursday, in his debut on the national stage, Marco Rubio showed why. Turns out it wasn’t just that infamous photograph of Crist embracing President Obama and his $787-billion stimulus bill a year ago. At the Conservative Political Action Conference, the 38-year-old son of Cuban immigrants attacked Obama’s fiscal and foreign policies, drawing repeated standing ovations and shouts of “amen” from a crowd hungry for new conservative leadership.”

Washington Post: Marco Rubio hands out the red meat
“How big a deal was Marco Rubio’s speech to CPAC Thursday? If you are asking, as former president George W. Bush did jokingly the other day, “Who the hell is Marco Rubio?” you probably won’t be for long.”

Rubio delivers a bracing call to arms
“…brought attendees at the Conservative Political Action Conference to their feet when he declared: “The U.S. Senate has one Arlen Spector too many.” His opening speech was a bracing call-to-arms to conservatives and a sharp rebuke to the Obama administration, charging the president with “not trying to fix America, but trying to change America.”

A ‘Friendly Crowd’ for Marco Rubio
“But Rubio’s humor wasn’t the real highlight. It was his tough rhetoric on national security that electrified the attendees.”

Marco Rubio cheers ‘political pushback’
“Rubio, using the keynote speech kicking off the Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington, heralded the “greatest political pushback in American political history.”

Rubio Speech Draws Standing Ovations at CPAC
“…brought the house down with a powerful speech on American exceptionalism before thousands of conservatives”

Rubio: 2010 ‘referendum on the very identity of our nation’
“…opened the annual Conservative Political Action Conference with a series of harsh attacks on the Obama administration and a familiar-sounding ode to smaller government”

Here comes Rubio: Rising star, Crist challenger rallies the right
“The star of CPAC continued his rise in the Republican Party on Thursday with a story about his American Dream.”

American Spectator: Rubio Touts American Exceptionalism
“Rubio framed the issue around his own life story as the son of immigrants from Cuba who came to America with “no English, no money, and no friends.”  He recalled that an early age, he would sit on the porch with his grandfather, who instilled in him the idea that he was privileged to grow up in a country where anything was possible through hard work.”
 

Must Reads

• Los Angeles Times: In DC debut, Florida’s Rubio wows conservatives — CPAC shouts ‘amen’ to calls for less government
• ABC News: Rubio Says American Identity is on 2010 Ballot
• The Washington Post: Marco Rubio speech at CPAC conference brings conservatives to their feet
• USA Today: Rubio, Armey excite conservatives at conference
• The Washington Examiner: CPAC: Rubio delivers a bracing call to arms
• Newsweek: Rubio Hits the Mainstream With CPAC Opener

See speech at: http://www.marcorubio.com/watch-marcos-speech-at-cpac/

Could Sen. Schumer be “vulnerable” in November?

from Newsmax:

Fueled by Scott Brown’s stunning ‘Massachusetts Miracle,’ the New York political scene is buzzing with talk of a movement to draft Larry Kudlow to challenge liberal New York Sen. Chuck Schumer.

Some grassroots activists in the Empire State have gone so far to establish a Draft Kudlow committee to encourage the top-rated CNBC talk host to join the political fray.

Lawrence “Larry” Kudlow is a well-known economist and former Reagan adviser.

Schumer’s Senate seat is up for grabs in November.

Conventional political wisdom has been that Schumer would be unbeatable this year, an incumbent as he is in one of the nation’s bluest states.
But Massachusetts has changed the political chessboard.

for full article: http://newsmax.com/InsideCover/kudlow-schumer-senate-obama/2010/01/20/id/347496

If the “Truck” is the key………..

     Pres. Barack Obama’s first anniversary in office is celebrated with a Republican winning the Massachusetts Senate seat held by the late Ted Kennedy. At his weekend appearance on behald of the MA. Democratic candidate Martha Coakley, Obama poked fun at the “TRUCK” that Sen.-elect Scott Brown touted in his campaign as the “Everyman” of the people.

     Brown says that in his phone call from the President last night after his win over Coakley, Brown has offered to bring the “TRUCK” by for the President to “check it out”.

     That made me think a bit, and I remember during the “Cash for Clunkers” program this summer, I received a “tweet” from Marco Rubio, the Republican candidate for the Senate for Florida, who is challenging Florida Gov. Charlie Crist in that state’s primary. It seems that Rubio was traversing the state to campaign and speaking engagements in his “TRUCK”….. a Ford F-150, if memory serves me correctly.

     I’m just sayin………………………….!!!

UPDATE: From the Marco Rubio Team:

Friend, Yesterday, Scott Brown pulled off a remarkable victory in Massachusetts, becoming the first Republican in almost forty years to be elected to the U.S. Senate from the Bay State. What seemed unthinkable just weeks ago is now a reality – Massachusetts is sending a Republican to the U.S. Senate.  And most importantly, he will be the 41st vote against the current health care bill and a voice for getting America back on a limited government track. I want to thank you for answering our call to support Scott with your financial support and for urging Massachusetts voters to elect him as the 41st Republican in the U.S. Senate. However, with this important victory behind us, we can’t stop at 41.  We need more principled leaders willing to stand as a check and balance against the radical Obama-Reid-Pelosi agenda. Senator-elect Brown’s remarkable campaign in the bluest of blue states has reinvigorated those who believe Washington’s endless spending and government growth are incompatible with America’s proven tradition of putting our faith in individuals and entrepreneurs to create jobs and lead us forward. And on the final day of President Obama’s first year in office, Massachusetts voters echoed what we have been witnessing in town halls, tea parties and voting booths across America, as engaged citizens have spoken in unison against Washington’s excesses.  Just a couple of months ago, New Jersey and Virginia spoke out.  Yesterday, it was Massachusetts. Soon, Floridians will get our chance at the ballot box. In just seven months, Florida Republicans will have a similar opportunity to elect a nominee who will fight for the limited government principles that ultimately prevailed in Massachusetts yesterday.  As I continue campaigning throughout Florida, I fully intend to earn your support and prove that ideas, issues and principles matter most in our political system.

MA Senate Race 01/16/10 Update #1: Polls showing Brown Momentum

Another Poll Gives Brown the Edge Over Coakley

A new American Research Group poll in Massachusetts finds Scott Brown (R) leading Martha Coakley (D) in the U.S. Senate race, 48% to 45%.

Look at how the market is betting, on the race in Massachusetts.  Brown 52, Coakley 48

 http://www.intrade.com/

Our Historic Year: A Tribute

     2009 is a very historic year. Not because Obama was sworn in as President, but because the sleeping giant has awakened, and the conservativism that is the foundation of Republic, is reclaiming our America.

Rush Limbaugh on Fox NEWS Sunday with Chris Wallace

     Watch Rush Limbaugh on Fox NEWS Sunday with Chris Wallace:

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2009/11/01/limbaugh_obama_is_a_threat_to_liberty.html