Anita Moncrief Takes on Eric Holder on Race, ACORN and Voter Fraud

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Anita Moncrief

From J. Christian Adams’ Rule of Law Blog at Pjmedia:

(Legal Editor Note: Not long ago, the Left had a monopoly on rallies and protests. Republicans and conservatives, more enamored with scholars instead of brawlers, shunned displays of political muscle in the streets. That’s all changed. A few months ago, Attorney General Eric Holder went to the LBJ Presidential Library in Austin, Texas, to announce an aggressive attack on state election integrity measures like Voter ID. This election-year strategy is designed to stoke the leftist base but risks alienating everyone else. To greet Holder that day were hundreds of citizens at a rally sponsored by True the Vote.

I will never forget the disoriented look on Holder’s face as he emerged from the black SUV to the large crowd of people who came out to confront him. “Signs? Bullhorns? Multitudes? And they aren’t here to support me?” — that was the look.

ACORN whistleblower Anita Moncrief delivered a powerful speech that day, and PJ Media has finally been able to obtain it and publish it.)

Read Anita Moncrief’s speech at Pjmedia.

Worst Outbreak of Whooping Cough in Washington State Since the 1940s

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The New York Times does its best to blame it on budget cuts, as this headline foretells:

Cutbacks Hurt a State’s Response to Whooping Cough

Whooping cough, or pertussis, a highly infectious respiratory disease once considered doomed by science, has struck Washington State this spring with a severity that health officials say could surpass the toll of any year since the 1940s, before a vaccine went into wide use.

Although no deaths have been reported so far this year, the state has declared an epidemic and public health officials say the numbers are staggering: 1,284 cases through early May, the most in at least three decades and 10 times last year’s total at this time, 128.

 

Here’s the spin:

The response to the epidemic has been hampered by the recession, which has left state and local health departments on the front lines of defense weakened by years of sustained budget cuts.

But 2/3 into the story we get the real reason — nutjob parents who refuse to have their children vaccinated:

The pertussis vaccine is commonly given in childhood, and many states require it for children of school age. But Washington State, according to a federal study last year of kindergarten-age children, had the highest percentage of parents in the nation who voluntarily exempted their children from one or more vaccines, out of fear of side effects or for philosophical reasons.

Another example of the need to have a wall of separation between politics and science.  Also, between idiots and children.

Uncommon Knowledge With Thomas Sowell

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Would you watch a 52-minute video on your computer? Well, why not? And if you will, this is one that will make that 52-minutes seem too short. It’s absorbing. You probably know who Peter Robinson is, he’s the speech writer for Ronald Reagan who wrote the line, “Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall.” Robinson gets credit for writing it but no one but Reagan could have delivered as effectively.

But now, get a cup of coffee and bask in the wisdom of Thomas Sowell and Peter Robinson’s exceptional interviewing skills.

Richard Mourdock Handles Soledad O’Brien With Aplomb

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Richard Mourdock appeared on CNN this morning [see video below] for an interview with Soledad O’Brien on his big win in Indiana last night where he defeated 6-term Senator Richard Lugar in the Republican primary race.

Republican pols should pay close attention to Richard Mourdock — he can teach them how to handle liberal cable news hosts like Soledad O’Brien. Try as she might to bait Mourdock and get him to put his foot in his mouth, he handles her like a professional public relations expert. That’s easy for him because he’s not a squishy flake like so many in the Republican establishment. He is a man of core principles, a principled conservative who understands that political compromise is for details and not for the abandonment of one’s fundamental beliefs, or for selling out the promises made to voters who put you in office. He has said that it isn’t bipartisanship that should guide Republicans but conservative principles.

His answers to O’Brien’s snarky questions (which she reserves exclusively for Republicans) are brilliant and they just get better as she flails away at him.

Tea Party Candidate Wins Big In Indiana Republican Senate Primary

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Indiana sent RINO Republican Senator Richard Lugar back to his home in Washington DC last night and nominated Tea Party candidate Richard Mourdock to be the Republican candidate for U.S. Senate in November.  Lugar has been in the Senate representing Indiana since 1977, even though he has not lived in that state for decades.  This is a great victory for the Tea Party over the Republican establishment which pulled out all the stops for Lugar.  It was a blowout with Mourdock beating Lugar by 20 points.

Some people think the Tea Party has gone away because it hasn’t been holding public rallies and protests.  Nothing could be further from the truth, which is that the Tea Party has evolved from a protest group to a grass roots political organization to support the election of principled conservative candidates in Congress.  That means they will mostly be working for Republicans but Democrats can also get Tea Party backing if they support limited government, reduced government spending and conservative principles in general.  It’s just that right now and for the last 50 years there haven’t been any Democrats who fit that description.  John F. Kennedy may have been the last and he came close, but barely.  The Tea Party studiously avoids social issues in order to include in its ranks all voters who support a limited government agenda including fiscal sanity, individual liberty, Constitutional originalism, and American exceptionalism.

Mourdock spent $2 million on the race to Lugar’s $6.7 million.  Money talks but this time the Tea Party had the loudest voice.  The Tea Party won a similar victory in 2010 when it ousted 3-term Republican Senator Bob Bennett from Utah in favor of Mike Lee, who went on to win that Senate seat in the general election.

The Washington Examiner’s Philip Klein assess Mourdock’s victory:

Mourdock’s victory not only means that this particular Senate seat is likely to be more conservative (assuming he goes on to win the general election in this traditionally red state), but it also puts Republican Senators everywhere on notice that no seat is safe anywhere in the country. Any elected Republican that doesn’t pursue a small government agenda once in office risks suffering the same fate as Lugar. Had Lugar hung on, then a lot of people would have dismissed the Tea Party as a passing fad from 2010. But now it’s clear that the movement has been underestimated once again. Tea Partiers have a lot more staying power than skeptics expected.

With the Republican presidential nomination going to the ideologically malleable Mitt Romney, supporters of limited government have recognized that their best hope for advancing the conservative agenda rests on the ability to elect as many principled conservatives to Congress as possible. That is, lawmakers who will be willing to fight for smaller government even if it means standing up to a president of their own party. The more victories the Tea Party racks up, the greater the chance that Romney will be forced to govern as a limited government conservative if elected, even if his natural inclination is to migrate to the left.

Are you watching and listening Mitt Romney?  Do you understand what this means for you? Conservatism works every time it’s tried.  Some politicians know it, others are having to learn it.

In other election news tonight Republican Governor Scott Walker beat his primary challenger getting 97% of the vote in the special Republican primary and more total votes than Milwaukee mayor Tom Barrett and his challenger Kathleen Falk combined got in the special Democrat primary. Walker received 626,538 votes and the combined total for Barrett and Falk was 619,049.  The recall election is June 8.

North Carolina voters gave 60% approval to a state constitutional amendment defining marriage as between one man and one woman.  Sad this sort of thing is necessary, sad that some people want the sacred institution of marriage to be redefined as something other than a hallowed bond between one man and one woman.  These sorts of state constitutional amendments are in place in at least 31 states now.  The minority of radicals and rouge judges that want to change marriage to something never before known in all of human history on earth are losing.  Thank God.

Finally, a felon inmate in prison has won 40% of West Virginia’s Democrat delegates for the presidency, to Obama’s loss.   Well, Democrats have always courted the criminal vote.

More People Not Working And Not Looking For Work Helps Obama

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Since only those actively looking for a job are counted as unemployed, the more people give up looking the lower the unemployment rate. Obama will actually get unemployment to zero if he can persuade everyone who has lost their job to drop out of the labor force, i.e., don’t look for another job, and go on welfare and food stamps.

The best way to discourage displaced workers from looking for another job is destroy as many jobs as possible with Obamanomics. Hope and change, you know.

Here’s some change. I’ve noticed that a lot more people lately are starting to question the Bureau of Labor Statistics calculation of unemployment and suspect that there is a phony effort to help Obama by making sure unemployment is below 8% by November, even if they have to fake the data. They will get the rate below 8%, you can count on it. But will anyone except those already in the tank for Obama believe it?

It’s Not Bipartisanship We Need — It’s Principle

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About 18 months ago I wrote a post titled, “What is Bipartisanship and Why Does Anyone Want It?”, in which I questioned whether bipartisanship in politics is the wonderful elixir a lot of people think it is. I now have some support for the ideas expressed in that post from Indiana Senate candidate Richard Mourdock. He is the Tea Party supported candidate seeking to unseat liberal-pandering-RINO Republican Richard Lugar. Lugar no longer even lives in Indiana but through some questionable political maneuvering has kept his residency qualification for the office. He lost a court challenge but it’s on appeal. He is about to lose the most important challenge though, the one with Indiana voters. He is currently trying to fend off Mourdock’s primary challenge, which if he prevails, will have him running for a 7th term in the Senate.

In this story from the Boston Herald, In Indiana, tea party rattles a career of political pragmatism, Mourdock is quoted saying:

“Honestly, as I look at our nation’s capital, I feel more frustrated with Republicans than Democrats,” says Mourdock, the Indiana state treasurer. But “bipartisanship has taken us to the brink of bankruptcy. It is not bipartisanship we need, it is principle.”

My kind of guy.  Read the whole thing.

If you are inclined to help Richard Mourdock, you can do so at electmourdock.org.  The primary is tomorrow, Tuesday, May 8th.

Liberal Democrats cannot hurt the conservative movement.  The more they try the stronger we get. But liberal Republicans can gravely hurt the conservative movement, or even stop it altogether. That’s why I believe RINOs like Richard Lugar are more harmful to conservatism than liberal Democrats.

I was once a huge fan of Massachusetts Senator Scott Brown.  When in 2010 Brown defeated the execrable and downright loathsome Marsha Coakley to fill out the remainder of Ted Kennedy’s term I was ecstatic.  But in the two years he has been in the Senate he has shown that he cannot be trusted on any conservative issue or question of principle, not even fiscal issues.  For that reason, I won’t be disappointed if the 1/32 Cherokee nutbag Elizabeth Warren defeats Brown in November. Because she would have less power to derail conservatism, she presents less danger than Brown to conservatives getting supply side—free market victories in Congress in the future.

Establishment Republicans disagree strongly with this position because it is not conservative principles they care about.  It is committee chairmanships in Congress they care about, because those chairmanships enable them to control all the money the Federal government spends.  To understand politics, always follow the money.  The Tea Party is the first bright light on the horizon that holds the promise of changing the game.