Single Issue Voters Will Decide November Presidential Election

The Us Versus Them Election

By David Hinz

The Presidential election in November will be decided by "Single-Issue" voters. Single issue voters -- those voters who are passionate about just one issue -- include 'Right to Life" and "Right to Choose" within the abortion debate, and Second Amendment concerns among hunters.

While each of these issues has played a part in past elections, it is a different Single Issue voter that will decide who takes the oath of office for President of the United States next January. That single issue is:

R versus D

That's right, the single most important issue in the November campaign will be whether the candidate has an R or a D after their name. Forget about the issues; the demographics; the race or sex. The next President of the United States will be elected by the party that turns out the most clones.

The American political landscape breaks down into roughly three groupings; The Democrat Base on the left, the Republican Base on the right, and the vacuous Center. The Democrat Base is unabashedly liberal -- unabashedly, except when it comes to labels. They prefer to be called Progressives or Moderates, but they are definitely liberals.

Liberals have fallen in love with the myth of Robin Hood. They seek to take from the rich and give to the poor. They see inequality of outcome, and look to government to rectify the situation. What they fail to remember in their zeal to level the playing field is that the original Robin Hood stole from the (rich) government, which was over-taxing the people, and gave to the people (who earned the money in the first place.) Liberals see the government as the answer. Conservatives see it as the problem.

The Republican Base is unabashedly conservative, and, for the most part, unafraid of being labeled as such. Large-C Conservatives believe in a strong national defense, a smaller, less intrusive federal government, lower taxes and fiscal responsibility in government. At least Conservatives go to Washington with those beliefs, where, after a few years they become almost indistinguishable from Liberals.

And, in the middle, we have the Independents and moderates. They can be distinguished by...well, something. The most obvious characteristic of a moderate is that neither side can count on them when it is absolutely necessary.

Conventional wisdom is that the center is what will elect the President. Conventional wisdom, as usual, is wrong. The Presidential election will hinge on whether more conservatives ignore the name and vote for the R, or more liberals simply vote for the D.

Most years this would be translated as GOTV (Get out the vote), as eager and energetic partisans canvas for voters to go to the polls to put their candidate over the top. This election could be interesting in that respect, as a significant segment of both party's base is disenchanted with their nominee. GOTV might well take on the aspect this November of a scavenger hunt, as each party scours their precincts for Ds and Rs willing to hold their nose and vote the Party ticket.

Will It Be Conscience or Compromise For Black Americans?

By Rose Pedenko and Tanya Simon

In a parade in Germany recently, the worldwide audience was treated to effigies of Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, where Obama was biting the New York senator on, shall we say, her derriere.

This was proof that the graphic and embarrassing divisiveness roiling within the Democratic Party is being mocked internationally through a prism the Democrats themselves have cut with very precise angles.

Case in Point: The capricious statement by someone in the Clinton camp that white people support her was altogether unnecessary and far more revealing than intended. Equally uncalled for was a parry from Obama’s camp, that Obama gained more than 90% of the black vote in the Indiana Primary.

It is Barack Obama who has enslaved himself to the party that never had his best interests at heart. The elitism displayed by Senator Obama before a group of wealthy San Francisco donors begs the question, is he really an elitist, or a wannabe? Neither is desirable for national leadership.

Recently, in an exchange between Donna (party of the white boys) Brazile and influential Democratic consultant, Paul Begala, Mr. Begala stated that “…the only way to win this in my party (we’re not the monochromatic Republican Party)…is to stitch together white folks, and African-Americans and Latinos and Asians....”

Was Mr. Begala suggesting that a stitch in time saves nine black votes? And wasn’t it the party of the Thought Police that initially created this horrid division between Americans in the first place when they insisted on thrusting a hyphen (-) between our past and our present?
No longer are we simply and proudly Americans; we are hyphenated racial designations.

But we digress.

For both candidates’ representatives to make such statements reveals they have a Toulouse Lautrec outlook of the intelligence of the American voters. Each camp has sunk to a “coloring” contest: Whose black or white voter count is bigger?

Black Democrats, whether inside or outside the political bullring (and we do mean bull), do not take into account that the majority of modern-day defining moments for black American men and women were the result of the numerous appointments to high office made by George W. Bush. But the response by Democrats to those appointments was, and continues to be, mean-spirited and a slur to those Americans, as well as to our blind-to-color President.

Dr. Condoleeza Rice, the most powerful female in the political arena today, has been smeared a servile black Aunt Jemima.

Also, House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer referred to former Maryland Attorney General Michael Steele as slavishly supporting the Republican Party. And lest anyone forget, has-been celebrity Harry Belafonte called General, and then Secretary of State, Colin Powell George Bush’s house slave.

Democrats’ defense of their own bigotry has been open-ended and shameless. At the same time, the liberal mainstream media have aided them by diverting attention away from their chauvinism with hyped propaganda against the Republican Party. This collusion has been going on for no less than three decades, and with such intensity that black children and young black adults, then and today, accepted these cants as truth and fact.

This narrow-mindedness has grown out of control from grade school all the way up to university. It has been aided through persistent inculcation by liberal pedagogues teaching that Democrats are the party of the disadvantaged. Children have been fed falsehoods for so long they only see hopelessness in their future. This surely has contributed to the unstoppable rise in the number of high school drop-outs.

Young persons’ sense of pride through achievement has been shifted and stifled so that their heroes are rap artists and athletes aided by the liberal media heaping praise on them with kudos and awards. This is what they now aspire to become.

Conversely, we watch silently while many young black Americans, as well as ill-informed young white liberals, sing the praises of black heroes such as Booker T. Washington, Harriet Tubman, and George Washington Carver, either not realizing or acknowledging that they were Republicans. How many of these kids know it was a black Republican that conceived the idea of Black History Month?

Now would be a good moment to remind Michelle Obama that it was a Republican woman, Ida B. Wells, who helped found the National Association of Colored Women, and who worked with her white Republican counterparts to establish the NAACP in 1909. Mrs. Obama should be further reminded that it was Democrats that blocked the Welfare Reform Bill which has since served to reduce the welfare rolls by 60 percent next time she goes on an empathetic tirade about her working class roots.

Were all Republicans steadfast and uncompromising with respect to civil rights? The short answer is no. There are bad apples in every cart, barrel, and Congressional district. It is the job of the People to root them out and cast them aside with the power of our vote. The foundation and ideals of true Republicanism has never changed; it has been misrepresented to suit the agenda of the left.

We bring these points up now – again – because it is time black Americans (specifically those who make an effort to vote their conscience, who care about the future of their children and the country where we all live in uninterrupted freedom) to take a very long hard look at the Democratic party they have chosen to be associated with for the last 30+ years.

The father of Black History, Carter G. Woodson, said, “Switch parties if you are not being represented.”

That said, it is time black Americans invested serious consideration towards re-registering with the Republican Party, the party of Abraham Lincoln and of Dr. Martin Luther King, which has sacrificed so many and so much to ensure their freedom and our country’s ongoing security.

http://www.lowdowncentral.com/feature-article/2008/5/12/will-it-be-conscience-or-compromise-for-black-americans.html

The 2008 Hatfields vs. McCoys Primaries

Irrelevant Feud or Determinative Uncivil War?

By
Mike DeVine, Legal Editor

The battle between The Clintons and The Obamas for the Democratic Party presidential nomination rages this week on the battlegrounds of the famous feud between The Hatfields (mostly of West Virginia) and McCoys (mostly of Kentucky).

The latter raged for 13 years from 1878-1891 and affected the course of American history not a whit. No one remembers who won it.

The former, now in its fifth month, finds the junior senator from Illinois and the world’s angriest millionaire spouse: ahead in delegates, declared the nominee by a fawning liberal press after conquering North Carolina, but without the required number of delegates to actually be what the press reports him to be.

Clinton supporter Paul “The Forehead” Begala describes Obama’s coalition of supporters as eggheads and African-Americans, whose numbers in the general election would allow only for a symbolic “Dukakis” strategy campaign that could only hope to carry up to ten states and certain defeat at the hands of Republican nominee, John “The Maverick” McCain.

But the real mavericks of 2008 will be the so-called Democratic “super delegates” who hold the balance of power to put either Obama or the junior senator for New York over the top to wrest the mantle last shorn by John Kerry (who fought in Vietnam).

History shows that neither of the bitter warring factions in the family feud were historical mavericks, but their home states were critical in bit more consequential feud known as The War between the States less than a score earlier.

West Virginia exists due to backcountry mavericks that refused to follow (East) Virginia’s decision to follow South Carolina’s lead in seceding from the Union. Kentucky also refused to secede.

History records both chose the winning side in that “Civil” war.

Bill Clinton has been leading the uncivil war in this week’s battlegrounds, hoping to convince the supermen and women that Obama is November kryptonite for the donkey.

NO DEMOCRAT HAS BEEN ELECTED PRESIDENT SINCE 1916 WITHOUT WINNING THE MOUNTAIN STATE!

One poll shows his wife with a 40 point lead over the man with the 20-years in a hate America, black separatist church, pew-parked butt who thinks blue collar whites vote for Hillary due to bitterness over the economy that causes them to “cling” to “antipathy to people that aren’t like them.” (God and guns got more publicity. Gamecock demands equal time for the bigotry charge.)

Most people read Barack’s above “bitterness” comment as deeming people “not like them” to refer to skin color. But let’s give the “Uniter” the benefit of the doubt and consider that he may have meant people that aren’t pompous elitists that indulge bigot pastors and unrepentant terrorist pals.


Feels Right.

Battles in Kentucky and West Virginia were crucial from 1860-1865. Whether this week’s 2008 battles will be looked back upon as the last gasps of an irrelevant feud or the decisive moment of the uncivil war could depend on Hillary’s margin of victory. A huge rout could convince enough delegates that Obama cannot win over the voters he described as bigoted, gun-toting clingers to God in their bitterness.

History makes the Hatfields and McCoys footnotes in American lore, but for the participants it was life and death.

It is likely that either The Clintons or The Obamas will not survive the wounds inflicted on this blood-stained soil to do battle in November, and it is also quite possible that even the survivor will lose too much blood to get control of the nukes in January.

Fighters from the backwoods country helped General Andrew Jackson win the 1814 Battle of New Orleans, and thus preserve the Revolution from a revenge seeking British Empire that had already sacked this nation’s capitol, just as warriors from these border states enabled the first Republican President to preserve the Union in 1865. Old Hickory, the hero of the War of the 1812, went on to be the first Democrat President of the World’s oldest political party.

Ironically, many republicans, and especially conservatives, are looking to the wife of the first Arkansan president, Mountaineers and Blue Grass trodders to save the Union again from an Obamanation!

[Concept and title inspired by Dali Llama]

Are Republicans Asleep ?

Hillary refuses to die away. Obama's inexperience and controversy continues to make headlines. The DNC is in a shambles trying to pick up the pieces while the candidates keep the heat on. Donations are beginning to dry up for candidates down the political line in tough races against strong GOP contenders.

So where in the world is the GOP while Democrats continue to implode ? In a political climate where Republican candidates have an opportunity to dominate headlines in a positive way the GOP is frustratingly quiet. Even in the Congress where Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid have taken a second seat to the heat for the Presidential nomination, Republicans who should be forcing issues and bills before a weak Congress are sitting back and doing NOTHING!

Even if GOP Representatives have no chance of getting legislation passed in the Pelosi/Reid Congress every GOP Representative and Senator should be hitting the airways and the floors of both Chambers of the Capitol pushing the Conservative/GOP agenda showing voters exactly WHO is to blame for the debacle that is taking place in Washington yet the GOP remains SILENT!

John McCain is riding the tide of Democrat implosion and because of the situation between Obama and Hillary he does not have to do anything except sit back and allow the Democrats to continue to shoot themselves in the foot. But at least he is making his presence known and talking about policy as well as challenging both Democrat candidates especially Obama who will be their nominee.There are more GOP Senate seats up for grabs this year then Democrat and of course every House seat is on the ballot and the GOP has a tremendous opportunity to capitalize on the shambles in the Democrat Party and they are doing NOTHING!

The Democrats are in such a mess now that reports surfaced last week that candidates who are running for hotly contested House seats are writing the DNC asking Howard Dean and company to end the strife for the Presidential nomination because donations are drying up and Democrat supporters are expressing their dissatisfaction with the top candidates and the party by NOT giving.

The GOP is allowing an opportunity to take advantage of the Democrat chaos slip right through their fingers and for this Conservative Republican it is frustrating to the point of anger at the weakness of the party and its leadership.

Even though Republican Representatives have little chance of getting legislation passed under the Pelosi/Reid Congress during an election year they can at least hit the floor of Congress and the media with the GOP agenda and show voters how Democrats are stalling on issues like funding the border fence which was passed and funded in 2006 by the GOP Majority Congress with the Democrats taking away that funding shortly after taking control.

With gas prices as they are now the GOP has an opportunity to expose the truth about years of liberal environmental policy that has brought us to $4.00 a gallon gas. Force the issue by demanding drilling in Anwar, as well as the new vein of oil found in Montana recently that can be exploited immediately and oil pulled from already existing wells only requiring horizontal drilling but being fought tooth and nail by liberal environmentalists backed by Democrats.

The battlefield in Iraq is continuing to be a success that Democrats and the media are avoiding BECAUSE of its success yet Republicans are keeping quiet and NOT telling the Nation the good news out of Iraq. Surrendering the media battle of the success by remaining quiet in an election year that Democrats had planned to exploit as a failure as little as six months ago.

General Petraeus and our tremendous men and women in uniform have hushed Democrats and the critics with success yet the GOP remains quiet when they should be shouting from the roof tops with, "I told you so!"

The havoc that is taking place for the Democrat nomination is giving the GOP an opportunity to push and gain seats in both Chambers of Congress as dissatisfaction with the DNC and the war between the top candidates continues. The Democrat disgust is strong enough that supporters of both candidates in large numbers are expressing that if their candidate does not get the nomination they will either sit at home or vote for John McCain in November.

And the GOP does NOTHING. House and Senate candidates running for election and/or re-election must NOW make their presence known to take advantage of the chaos and weakness with Democrats. Their is a real chance for gains in both the House and the Senate but not if the GOP continues to refuse to exploit the problems that are riping the Democrats apart.

Republicans have a bad habit of not exploiting an advantage when is is placed right before them and this year is following in that same trend. You can bet that if this same chaos was taking place in the Republican Party, Democrats would be playing it to the hilt. In 2006 they took advantage of anger toward the GOP Majority in Congress and turned that tide of disappointment into victory and took back the Majority status in both the House and Senate.

While Republicans most likely cannot retake that Majority this year there is a possibility of strong gains if they will but capitalize on the Democrat debacle but they are choosing to just sit back and watch it happen asleep at the political wheel.

While the Democrat chaos looks to be shaping a victory for John McCain in November and retaining the White House for the GOP this sit back and watch attitude that Republicans are taking with the Democrat implosion is an opportunity wasted and an advantage thrown away. WAKE UP GOP!!!

Ken Taylor The Liberal Lie, The Conservative Truth

John McCain Does Not "Deserve" To Be President

By David Hinz

Because he spent more than five years in a North Vietnamese Prison, tortured on an almost daily basis, John McCain deserves to be honored by the people of a grateful nation.

When offered an early release, because his father and grandfather were both high ranking Admirals, he refused. He knew that his early release would be used as a propaganda tool by our enemies, and so refused to be released before others who had been in captivity longer than he.

This act of courage alone warrants high praise and honors, to a man who still bears the scars and disfigurement inflicted by his brutal captors.

John McCain deserves to be honored for his many years of service to his country as a member of Congress. The people of Arizona, by dint of the election process, have seen fit to return him to Congress, by huge majorities, believing that he, better than anyone else, represents their state's interests in that body.

As a member of Congress he has passionately fought for those issues on which he is most deeply concerned; sometimes angering and engendering passions on both sides of the aisle.

As a Presidential Candidate, John McCain deserves his Party's nomination. Through a spirited primary season, he has defeated all challengers. His campaign appeared at one time to be stalled, and he was written off as dead as a candidate.

Instead of rolling over and giving up, he was able to garner support from moderates and independents in early states, accumulating momentum and delegates. In what has often become a bitter and sometimes ugly brawl among supporters of various candidates, he has steadfastly maintained a positive campaign, determined to discuss issues and not personalities.

And there is the issue. Based upon issues, John McCain does not deserve to be President. He must earn that position. No candidate, of either Party automatically deserved to become President, because they are next in line, or it is their Party's turn. No candidate of either Party deserves to become President, simply because the other Party is fielding a candidate who is unacceptable. The Presidency needs to be earned, based upon the merits of that candidate.

As a "maverick" John McCain has garnered the enmity of much of the Conservative Republican base with such issues as McCain-Feingold, McCain-Kennedy, and his new-found fealty to Manmade Global Warming. Members of that base hope he has seen the errors of those ways, and that he will change his mind as to the advisability of those issues.

McCain-Feingold, or Comprehensive Campaign Finance Reform, was designed to "take the money" out of politics. What it has instead done, is to camouflage that money behind a shell game of 527 organizations. Hundreds of millions of dollars are now funneled into these unaccountable interest groups, each dedicated to their own agenda, while the public has no awareness of where that groups funding is derived. A noble idea, derailed into political activism without accountability.

McCain-Kennedy, a bill pushed by the Bush Administration, would have provided for citizenship for tens of millions of illegal aliens already breaking American laws. Those lawbreakers would have offered a "cut in line" on the "path to citizenship" ahead of those immigrants willing to go through the legal process.

When the American people rose up in backlash against that legislation, Senator McCain offered hope that he has changed his mind, and now favors a "secure the border first" approach to the problem.

On the issue of Manmade Global Warming, Senator McCain has become a recent convert to the cause. In light of more recent research that points to the fact that the earth has not warmed since 1998, and the even more recent discovery of ocean currents that environmentalists now inform us will cause global cooling for the next decade or more, one would hope that the good senator would change his mind about implementing his Cap-and-Trade proposals, which many economists warn could destroy the American economy.

Senator McCain has demonstrated his dedication to smaller, less intrusive government in his opposition to the Bush Tax Cuts without corresponding cuts in spending. He has demonstrated his opposition to out-of-control government spending by refusing to partake in the "earmark" process of adding "pork barrel spending" measures to legislation. Most congress members use this process to buy votes back home, while bloating the Federal government spending.

Senator McCain has demonstrated his dedication to national defense through his support of the military throughout the war against Islamofascism. His belief in a change in policy in Iraq, put him in the forefront of the "Surge" strategy that now looks to have effectively changed the paradigm in that country, and could lead to reconciliation and peace for the people of Iraq.

On those two issues alone, Senator McCain might well earn the vote of Conservatives.