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Our Disadvantage

Posted by RepublicanEvangelist on Tuesday, October 28, 2008 1:49:39 AM
I spoke with many if not most of the people in our caravan from Los Angeles to Vegas this past weekend.  Every single one of them has NEVER worked for a campaign in this way.  This was a bit evident when we were dropped off in the subdivisions of Henderson and spent a good bit of the time trying to figure out where we were and which house we needed to hit next.  One of the main reasons I am returning and I know my fellow traveller Dustin is returning is we feel we got it figured out by Sunday. It would be a waste to not go back where we could be more efficient this time.  I also know what to bring and not to bring : In the do not bring column- DVD player in the bring column- more energy bars and lots more of my instant green tea.   I also may consider a different pair of shoes as my heel was rubbed raw and a bloody sock was evidence of my effort upon return.  I have asked several of my friends who are equally committed to the cause if they wish to join me next weekend.  None of them can.  They have lives.  They have children. They have responsibilities as do I and the others on the bus.  This is our disadvantage.  I realized that much of Obama's canvasing is being done by college students.  They don't have lives with responsibilities yet.  They can afford to go door to door dropping off pamphlets and talking about hope and change and change and hope.  They obviously are receiving too many government college grants or government backed student loans or at the very least don't have enough homework. Here is IMAO's take http://www.imao.us/index.php/2008/10/the-problem-with-conservatives-and-politics/ . My idea about raising the voting age to 25 has met quite a bit of resistance.  Oddly enough, two college students in our group agreed it might be a good idea for the country.  I think you haven't lived a life at 18 yet.  You have very little wisdom.  You have very little perspective on life in general.  Come to think of it, it will never work, make it 30. 
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R.I.P. DEAN BARNETT

Posted by RepublicanEvangelist on Monday, October 27, 2008 6:13:24 PM
Dean Barnett has passed. He was 41. He had cystic fibrosis and was living on borrowed time.  I usually don't like the fill in hosts and usually can't stand the Boston accent, but always relished the times he filled in for Hugh Hewitt. He was funny, intelligent and always right on point. Chowdah you will be missed.

More on Dean Barnett's passing : http://townhall.com/blog/g/6b7b7be7-f95f-4f1f-9723-63c7dbf0a1de?comments=true&commentsSortDirection=Descending
and
http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/015/757cxgzw.asp

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McCain That's What I am Talking About

Posted by RepublicanEvangelist on Monday, October 27, 2008 5:41:42 PM
Latest IBD poll has the O Mighty One's lead to just 2.8% http://www.ibdeditorials.com/series13.aspx .  Consider the recent revelations that Barack has been "talkin' about" redistribution of wealth as recently as 2001 as shown in this radio interview http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iivL4c_3pck  and where Barack considers the Constitution deeply flawed because it only lists things the government can't do, but doesn't prescribe things the government should do http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=11OhmY1obS4 . This is not a flaw, it is by design and it has served us well and has helped make us the greatest country in the histroy of mankind.http://www.tidestemmer.org/?p=319

My new bud Dustin told me that Saturday night in Vegas when he was walking with his Sarah Palin T Shirt through Ceasar's Palace a large African American man grabbed his shoulder.  My friend was initially startled but was pleased to hear the gentleman yell, "McCain, that's what I am talkin' about!!!"

 

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TRIP CONTACTS

Posted by RepublicanEvangelist on Monday, October 27, 2008 2:43:37 PM
Thank you for posting on my blog who met me during the trip.  I am hoping to stay in touch with you via email but when you post here, I don't get your email address.  So please email me at : republicanevangelical@gmail.com. Please note the difference between the blog name : republicanevangelist and the email republicanevangelical.  I would like to say it was intentional but merely an oversight. If I gave you a different email via a business card, you can use that as well but that is my private email and don't post it here.  I am doing my best to make it next weekend and may have roped someone else into joining me.  Will keep you posted.
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Back from Vegas

Posted by RepublicanEvangelist on Monday, October 27, 2008 11:13:55 AM
I don't know how many people we affected by our trip but according to the Nevada Republicans, their get out the vote effort last weekend reached about 30,000 homes.  Nearly everyone on the bus committed to being back next weekend.  I realized why the Democrats and Obama in particular have us at such a disadvantage.  We have lives, jobs, homes, children, etc.  Generally his supporters are often young college students who obviously have lots of free time away from ethnic studies classes to campaign.  Further, I had the best time. It was like a Republican Woodstock for me.  All these people aboard were committed and were never active in campaigns previously but like me see so much on the line in this election.  I brought my DVD player for the ride up and never took it out of the case. I had so many great conversations with people throughout the trip including the people we met door to door, volunteers at the headquarters and Rafael a cab driver originally from Cuba who knew more about what is going on than probably the average academic and surely people committed to only hope and change.  Despite my huge blisters on both feet, I hope to return next weekend.  Too much is at stake but I slept like a baby last night and the night before.  Probably much from the fatigue of walking in the heat but also from the realization that I am doing all I can and the rest is the voters and ultimately God's hands.
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Henderson Baby Henderson

Posted by RepublicanEvangelist on Sunday, October 26, 2008 12:16:25 AM
So here I am in Nevada.  We took a bus out this morning from the Republican Headquarters in Burbank to help out the Nevada people walk the streets and get out our Hope you don't take my Change message.  We were only seeing Republicans or people that indicated they may consider voting for McCain at some point.  We were paired up and went out into the wilderness where we spent much of the time trying to read a map to a subdivision.  We were encouraged just to talk to McCain people and encourage them to early vote something that I am not convinced is a good idea.  Making it easier to vote generally has lead to a worsening of candidates who only pander to the voters promising them more and more goodies.  The two may not be connected but I can't help but think they are.  Dustin from my bus ride suggested that voters should be slapped in the face as they vote and if they are still motivated to vote, so be it. Not sure if that would sit well with the ACLU or most of the voters for that matter.  Consider this however that this election is about economics, namely the economics of wealth redistribution or as I would like to call it theft.  This is legal theft but it is theft nonetheless.  It is voting for the candidate who will take your neighbors stuff and give it to you.  The group I am with are very motivated.  The like McCain, love Sarah, and are fearful of Obama and what Obama stands for.  Most people here think he is full of s-word and wonder why no one else gets it.  I can't figure it out either and think Obama is promising things he cannot deliver upon.  We in our way are trying to stop the wedding by screaming when the minister says, "Is there anyone here who have any reasons why these two should not be married?"  Yeah, we do. Let's hope America doesn't get to the wedding night.   Off to bed, my feet really really hurt and got a lot walking to do tomorrow.
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Barack Obama and George W. Bush

Posted by RepublicanEvangelist on Thursday, October 23, 2008 11:38:36 PM
I come to you tonight from the belly of the beast of Obamaland, Chicago.  My father and I were talking about Greenspan before congress being blamed for everything and GW Bush.  Everyone loved Greenspan when he was called Maestro by Bob Woodward when he was able to keep the economy in an extended growth period with little or no inflation.  What have you done for me lately?  Which brings me to President George W. Bush.  He has been under constant attack from the left since the very close 2000 election.  Would anyone have predicted after 9/11 that we would have gone over 7 years without an attack on our soil?  Sure we had many problems in Iraq but no one has answered the following question: would it have been better to have waited to remove Saddam until after he HAD nuclear weapons?  No one disputes that he way TRYING to get them. It would have been a matter of time before he acquired them either through Pakistan or North Korea or through his own development.  The reason we are forced to play negotiation games with North Korea is because they HAVE NUCLEAR WEAPONS ALREADY.  Once they have them, it is too late.  I don't fault George Bush for removing Saddam before he got them.  You can fault him on his loyalty to Rumsfeld and not adopting a surge strategy sooner.  Which brings me to another point.  Let's just say in a hypothetical universe that we had not fought in Iraq and only focussed on Afghanistan.  I would bet everything I own, Barack and the Democrats and Daily Kos would be screaming about that war.  They only love Afghanistan because we are fighting in Iraq.  This brings me to the point of the title of this post.  George W. Bush is a great man.  Great men make decisions and live by them. Sometimes they turn out well. Sometimes they don't. That is what great men do.  Barack Obama voted present 132 times.  He has never shown any time any courage in decision making.  He certainly never went against his party. Even his "decision" to oppose the Iraq war took no courage considering the neighborhood he was representing.  It reminds me of a joke they used to tell during the cold war days. An American tells a Soviet citizen that he as an American can criticize the President any time he wants.  The Soviet citizen says "same here. I can criticize the American President any time I want." Courage is a trait of great men. Barack has not shown us anything that has any courage or will be a great man and greatness is required of our President, particularly in these times.
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The Case for Barack Obama

Posted by RepublicanEvangelist on Wednesday, October 22, 2008 10:48:11 PM
It looks like Barack Obama has picked up another endorsement namely the leaders of Iran http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3611840,00.html and apparently is Hamas' choice as well http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/128028 .  Most of the world wants Obama to win (except Israel who prefer McCain-Palin 2-1.  So the "citizen of the world" Obama is doing quite well and is even already making plans for a big bash in Chicago to celebrate his victory election night http://cbs2chicago.com/local/obama.event.grant.2.846677.html.  We still get to vote so I thought in the issue of fairness and since the Fairness Doctrine http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=78833 will return because Democrats are not happy with all the major newspapers, every major network, CNN and MSNBC on their side http://www.ldsmag.com/ideas/081017light.html http://voices.washingtonpost.com/the-trail/2008/10/22/study_coverage_of_mccain_much.html, I thought I'd give some reasons to vote for Obama as articulated or implied by his supporters. 

1.) He stands for Hope and Change and Progress. McCain apparently has come out against all three
2.) He went to Harvard Law and was the head of the Law Review
3.) He was a community organizer just like ACORN.
4.) He is black and yet articulate (implied and I think completely racist.  I know tons of articulate black people who are even qualified but aren't running for President)
5.) He is not George Bush
6.) He is not a Republican
7.) He took a stance against the Iraq war in the Illinois State Legislature which carried no legal weight. It also took moral courage as he represented part of Chicago that at best could be described as a Berkeley suburb and who were vehemently against the war, any war that the US is or may fight in the future. This is a neighborhood when a 60's radical terrorist like Ayers can seem like a respectable member of the community.  
8.) He is young and looks good on camera.
9.) He can really deliver a speech off a teleprompter http://iowahawk.typepad.com/iowahawk/2008/09/index.html
10.) He has the ability to sit down and work with people who completely agree with him.  He voted with his party over 95% of the time.

Did I miss anything? I am very interested in your input.  I would hate to slight O Mighty One. Please send me your suggestions.


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A Tale of Two Joes

Posted by RepublicanEvangelist on Wednesday, October 22, 2008 5:49:28 PM
This is back to being a horse race.AP http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D93VM4PO0&show_article=1 and IBD http://www.ibdeditorials.com/Polls.aspx?id=309546869309178 . If John McCain is able to pull this out, he will largely have to thank two guys named Joe: Joe the Plumber and Joe the Biden.  Joe the Plumber exposed one of Barack's key weaknesses, namely he is a leftist socialist who wants redistribute wealth.  Joe the Biden exposed the other, Barack's inexperience and naivite puts the nation under threat of an attack to test President Obama.  Biden even cedes that President Obama will fail the test as Biden says that "you" may not agree with President Obama's response to the crisis. Maybe Joe was thinking about something like this : http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1030279.html . Consider that story with what Jesse Jackson had this to say last week : http://www.nypost.com/seven/10142008/postopinion/opedcolumnists/the_o_jesse_knows_133450.htm?page=0 .

This race is still on so I am going to Vegas Baby this weekend as part of Team McCain's get out the vote effort there.  Nevada is close.  California is not. McCain can and needs to win Nevada.  California is already a foregone conclusion for Obama.  If I see another "hope" sticker I may scream.  I do picture in my head a new slogan "Another Moron for Obama." I feel this election is really a referendum on where America is headed in profoundly different directions toward socialism or toward a society of self reliance. I am going because at the end of the day, I want to be able to tell myself and one day my kids that I did all I could in this fight and I may take in a show.

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Our Future

Posted by RepublicanEvangelist on Wednesday, October 22, 2008 12:10:05 AM
Ultimately this scares me most about Barack Obama is the devotion of his followers.  Sure his leftist economic polices will turn a recession into a deep one or worse. Sure his naivete will result in many Americans getting killed and probably millions slaughtered as a result of a premature withdrawl from Iraq.  Sure this will be Carter 2.0 but much worse.  Carter's main legacy was Iran.  Sure he was a terrible President with 20% interest rates and inflation.  Sure his solution to the energy crisis of the day was to tell Americans to put n a sweater.  Sure we face Islamic Jihad as the main existential threat to the planet which was born by a revolutionary Iran. Carter thought the Shah to be not a nice guy and thought the students would be better. See what happens when you let students take over?  That stuff is bad but what is scarier is the devotion of his followers.  Even Carter's supporters knew in their hearts he was a f**k up as President. I support candidates that I think are most qualified or even the lesser of two evils.  I am not looking for a messiah. Those on the left and who are voting for Barack, at least 1/2 of the American public think they are electing someone to give them "hope."  It is a dangerous thing to give your mortal leaders the job of the divine.  Barack wants to create "Heaven on Earth."  The problem is when people have tried that in the past, they have created hell instead.  Maybe this doesn't scare you, it terrifies me http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=NmZkY2I3ZDI3N2RjZTZlZTE0OTVlNmRhYzE5NGYxMzg= . Even Bill Clinton was loved because of his humanity, not his divinity.  No one called him the Messiah like Farrakhan has of Obama http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/5560 or Oprah's "the One."  Our future is scary.  But on a lighter note, check out Iowahawks take on Biden's admission of the coming "test" on Barack http://iowahawk.typepad.com/iowahawk/2008/10/biden-obama-wil.html 
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Trying to Maintain a Positive Outlook

Posted by RepublicanEvangelist on Tuesday, October 21, 2008 10:43:34 PM
but it is hard. I know the polls may be off but they are drifting in Obama's direction. I fear that people have had that long second look and like Obama. http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2008/president/us/general_election_mccain_vs_obama-225.html Zogby says he has opened up a 10 point lead.  It really amazes me the American people have really bought into the hype and are about the hand over our country to not only to the people who caused the economic crisis but to people who will put our lives in danger.  Biden says Barack will be tested. He will be tested because he is perceived to be weak. For the country's sake I hope he passes but know in my heart he will fail and the country will suffer. He will fail because he has shown poor judgement in his choice of friends and associates.  He has shown zero moral courage in any decision he has made. I love how he says being against the war shows moral courage.  He is from Hyde Park Chicago. Moral courage would have been to come out for the war.  He votes present 132 times in Illinois Senate. He is a radical leftist that is going to do serious damage to the country and I don't know how we can stop him. I am going on Saturday to cold call independents in California to get them out to vote.  I know it is a fools errand but I need to know for myself, for my children, that I have done everything I could including sending my hard earned money to defeat these people.


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Naive, Liar or Just Plain Stupid

Posted by RepublicanEvangelist on Monday, October 20, 2008 9:52:21 PM
C.S. Lewis, Christian apologist, would use Lewis' Trilemma of Lunatic, Liar or Lord to make the case for Christianity.  My friend Ken thought up naive, liar or just plain stupid to explain Barack's explanation of his associations with radical leftists like Ayers, nutburger America haters like his reverend for twenty years Pastor Wright, and crooked Chicago businessmen like Tony Rezko as he just didn't know.  It seems to me he must be either naive, a liar or just plain stupid.  If he is just naive, that poses a very dangerous threat to our nation and the world if he is "willing to meet separately, without precondition, during the first year of your administration, in Washington or anywhere else, with the leaders of Iran, Syria, Venezuela, Cuba and North Korea, in order to bridge the gap that divides our countries."  As Dennis Prager says,"Democrats are naive about evil, Republicans are naive about Democrats."  If he is a liar then all his promises about the economy, tax cuts for the middle class, everything is worthless.  If he is stupid......no wait....only Republican's like Palin or Bush can be stupid so it must be Naive or Liar.  
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Read this Instead of Morning Coffee

Posted by RepublicanEvangelist on Monday, October 20, 2008 11:00:44 AM
This should do the trick : http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalradar/2008/10/biden-to-suppor.html where Biden thinks O Mighty One (courtesy of Mark Steyn) will be tested in the first six months.  Any bets on the test? Pass or fail? Will the clock run out before he can make a decision? This is not a decisive person. All you need to know about a President Obama is the number 132. It is the number of times he voted "Present" in the Illinois Senate.  Not "yes" not "no" but "present."  Need more proof of indecision by Obama? Consider this answer to the question as to who he is rooting for to win the World Series http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1008/14750.html This is why executive experience is so important, they make decisions. Senators talk.  The top two places we have chosen Presidents from are governors and then generals.  Both have to make decisions and live with them.  As Borat would say, Senators, not so much.  Here is powerlineblog's take on it : http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2008/10/021829.php .  The famous 3 am ad by Hillary illustrates the danger in an Obama presidency and BO has basically said that he picked Biden for all that stuff and BO needs to focus on hope and change. Do you think there will be cabinet posts for Secretary of Hope and Change or will they be separate posts?  What I love about Biden's comment is he is asking us to help Obama with an impending international crisis that will inevitably happen within the next six months.  Why ask us Joe? I thought he picked you for that?
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Movie Suggestions

Posted by RepublicanEvangelist on Monday, October 20, 2008 10:31:33 AM
My friend reminded me of the movie Being There http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078841/, "To some extent O'Bama's rise to power is reminiscent of one Chauncy Gardner as played by Peter Sellers in "Being There." He says nothing of substance yet people read into it giving far more depth and meaning to what was said than was ever contemplated or intended by the speaker."  Which got me thinking about movies and about A Distinguished Gentleman, an Eddie Murphy film from 1992 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104114/ . For those of you unaware, the movie is about a con man who pretends to be someone he is not and gets elected to Congress but is basically an empty suit.  Sound familiar?  If life does imitate art, check out this "Change for the future," speech he gives in the movie http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5nu5GRDzog . Any other movie suggestions?
 
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Obama 1.0 Depression 2.0

Posted by RepublicanEvangelist on Monday, October 20, 2008 2:23:38 AM
Times are serious and the economy is clearly on some sort of brink.  These are the headlines for tomorrow : http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/232eb4de-9e20-11dd-bdde-000077b07658.html?nclick_check=1 stating the US is facing worst recession in 26 years. Doing the math that would put it in Reagan's second year. Reagan had a problem with runaway inflation during the Carter years (the first term of the Obama Presidency) where inflation was not only double digits, it was close to 20%.  Reagan and the Fed had to tighten the money supply and force the nation into a recession to bring inflation under control.  What is interesting is how we came out of it. Reagan lowered the top rate of 70% down to a low of 28% when he left office. During that time the country had seen one of the greatest economic expansions in history. This article by the Heritage Foundation shows how lowering taxes increases economic growth and thereby increasing government receipts and how conversely raising taxes achieves the opposite http://www.heritage.org/Research/Taxes/BG1086.cfm.  Considering a President Obama would mean higher taxes, higher regulation and more trade restrictions which were precisely the actions done by Hoover and FDR that made  the Depression the Great Depression.  Amity Shlaes http://www.amityshlaes.com/ in her book about the Great Depression called the Forgotten Man details how Hoover and Roosevelt made the Depression much worse and longer by their meddling in the economy.  How under a President Obama would we grow our way out everything he proposes will not only limit growth but in all likelihood reverse growth which is the definition of recession.
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