Conservative Rumblings

Honestly, it wasn’t even close. It was a solid debate overall for these two, and the divide between the haves and have nots tonight couldn’t be bigger.

Tim Pawlenty came out of the gate very strong, absolutely hammering Obama on the Boeing debacle (”preposterous” decision and “outrageous” line that the admin has crossed) and then very eloquently thrashing Obamacare being rammed down our throats (”The answer to our healthcare problem is not to drag it into D.C. and create a top-down, federal run system.”)

Pawlenty was also subject to some of the harder grilling by FNC personalities, including Juan Williams coming after him on intelligent design and Chris Wallace bringing up Pawlenty’s toe-dip into cap and trade (which he has repeatedly called a mistake) and questioned his budget credentials (which Pawlenty quickly and succinctly defended).

In a word: presidential. In the interest of fairness, I should point out I have been a T-Paw supporter for a LONG time, so I was waiting for him to come out with some fire in his belly and show some spirit. He did tonight.

Herman Cain, the businessman with no political experience, had some of the best one liners of the night, and was definitely a lightning rod. He certainly has the fire, and he has the tea party following, but honestly I am still not a believer that he can win the general election. He’s going to go a long way toward keeping everyone else on stage honest, though. One of his better lines was his response to if Obama had a shoe-in for re-election due to Osama killing:

Rick Santorum was his usual bombastic self, hammering away with some great-sounding quotes on foreign policy, attacking Obama over spending and really harping away at a lot of social issues that repeatedly got asked to him. Someone must have given him the memo that he needed to answer everything through gritted teeth, though. Very angry dude tonight.

Gary Johnson, well, I’ll let someone more attractive than me describe his debate participation:

You have a guy coming out to a Republican debate who advocates legal abortion “until a fetus is viable” (what does that even mean?), pushes for legalized pot and generally takes a myriad of other positions usually reserved for hemp-wearing hippies and 87 year old former KKK members residing in the Democratic Party. He honestly would have been the comic relief of the night if not for…

Ron Paul. All over the map as usual, the libertarian doctor continued to build upon his legend of absurd comments & insanely rude supporters. From rants on “nation building” within 10 seconds of his first opening statement, to tirades on gold & militarism and a fantastically awkward exchange with Chris Wallace where he advocated for “heroin” and “prostitutes,” Ron Paul was at his absolute best tonight.

And by “best” I of course mean completely and utterly out of his mind, but you know, it’s good TV.

Can’t wait for the next debate. Maybe Romney will show up so the GOP candidates can actually mock him in person.

Yes, it’s early and yes, I don’t believe in polls for the most part. But it’s still amazing to see, only 6 months into his reign of terror, the public already souring to Obama.

If the 2012 presidential election were held today, President Obama and possible Republican nominee Mitt Romney would be all tied up at 45% each, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey.

As expected, when you throw ex-AK governor Sarah Palin in the mix, bad things happen:

If Romney secured the GOP nomination and Palin chose to run as an independent candidate, Obama would win the resulting three-way race with 44% of the vote. Romney is the choice of 33% of the voters under that scenario, with Palin a distant third with 16% support. Three percent (3%) like some other candidate, and four percent (4%) are undecided.

Last November, Obama defeated Republican presidential nominee John McCain by a 53% to 46% margin.

When Romney is the Republican nominee, he beats Obama among unaffiliated voters 48% to 41%. But when Palin is the GOP candidate, unaffiliated voters prefer Obama by a 47% to 41% margin.

I maintain that Palin should NOT run. She is damaged goods. As much as she does espouse a number of conservative values, she will not win a national election. The media and the left wing attack dogs will slaughter her as they did during the last election cycle. The Left simply cannot take a woman who is not on their side; they refuse to believe that anyone outside of old, angry white guys could be conservative.

It’s funny, because the Democrats sit around calling our party sexists and racists, and then they attack both “minority” Republicans we put in positions of power (Palin and RNC Chairman Michael Steele).

To get back on topic; I think this poll of Romney and Obama shows one thing: people are starting to wake up.

This is a stunning story that is receiving little to no mainstream media coverage outside of Fox News. Obama has moved the operations for the U.S. Census into the White House, and essentially handed the reigns of the project to none other than his Chief of Staff, Chicago insider Rahm Emanuel.

If this had happened under Bush’s watch, the equivalent would have been putting Karl Rove in charge of redistricting. I’m sure the media would have had a field day on that; it would have been the lead story for weeks. But, since it’s King Obama and he’s giving it to his corrupt little minions, it’s all OK.

Dear Leader would never lead us wrong, the media will say. It’s just fine if his cronies redistrict every state into absurd zigzags in order to take over an uncountable number of battleground districts by moving Democratic-voting population centers within their boundaries.

After all, it’s all part of Comrade Obama’s plan for America. It’s Change We Can Believe In.

The GOP wants to use exact headcounts of districts. The Democrats want to use some convoluted process of sampling and estimating. The Constitution mandates exact headcounts.

How hard is this to understand?

The Census Bureau does not need to be politically affiliated. It needs to be have an unbiased look at the population, and should not be wielded as a tool to affect future elections.

GOP Minority Leader John Boehner agrees with me:

“I am disturbed by reports that control of the traditionally nonpartisan Census Bureau is being stripped from the Commerce Department and placed with the White House staff. This action appears to be motivated by politics, rather than the interests of our country, and the burden will be on the new administration to prove otherwise during Senator Gregg’s confirmation hearings. The United States Census should remain independent of politics; it should not be directed by political operatives working out of the White House.”

A lifetime Chicago politician who sends dead fish in the mail to his political enemies, now in charge of shaping how hundreds of millions of American citizens are represented in Congress? What could POSSIBLY go wrong?

Gee, why would this be such a priority? I don’t know, maybe the fact that the Census will have a MONSTROUS impact on voting results? Redistricting could enable the Democrats to massacre the current district setup and steal innumerable districts from the Republicans.

After The Obamessiah appointed Gregg to the Commerce Secretary post in an attempt to ruin the GOP Senate count and it didn’t work, he needed to find some way to gain political power out of the situation. Enter the Obamacensus, which, under the watchful eye of Rahm Emanuel, should provide the Democrats with a rather large chance to increase their seats in 2010 without having to fire a single shot.

WASHINGTON – President-elect Barack Obama’s proposed tax cuts ran into opposition Thursday from senators in his own party who said they wouldn’t do much to stimulate the economy or create jobs. Senators from both parties agreed that Congress should do something to stimulate the economy. But Democratic senators emerging from a private meeting of the Senate Finance Committee criticized business and individual tax cuts in Obama’s stimulus plan.

The only part of this story that matters is in the headline: “Democrats criticize Obama.”

Oh, this is going to be a fun four years; we get to watch the liberal hate machine gobble this ’savior’ up and then we’ll have a front-row seat to see the party collapse in on itself.

2012, baby. 2012.