She likes to travel with her kids to state functions! Burn her at the stake!
Category: Politics
Money for Votes
Ward leaders in Philadelphia, and our illustrious Governor, are worried they won’t have enough “street money” to pay volunteers. I should note that in suburban wards, our volunteers are volunteers. They do the job because of a sense of civic duty, so that an important function of our republic can be carried out.
ACORN is a shining example of what happens when you pay people to achieve a certain result, and the practice of paying “street money” is an idea who’s time should have gone. I will actually have a lot more respect for Barack Obama if he doesn’t pay up, even if it means he loses Pennsylvania. If people don’t care enough about their candidate, or care enough about running elections without having to be paid, they can stay the hell home. Ed Rendell is worried that could mean the Democrats lose. There are things that are more important than that.
Conference Call with Missouri Governor Matt Blunt
Governor Blunt hosted a conference call a few minutes ago with several gun bloggers. Mostly it was to talk about the upcoming election. Not much in the way of news to me, since I’m already pretty familiar with the campaign’s talking points on guns. Several bloggers expressed concern with John McCain’s record on guns, and indicated they didn’t trust him. Blunt’s response was basically that you can trust McCain a hell of a lot more than you can trust Barack Obama. This might surprise you, but I actually trust Barack Obama on the gun issue. I trust that he’s going to screw gun owners every chance he gets. Either way, hopefully other bloggers took better notes than I did, and I’ll be able to update this post with some more detailed coverage.
The one question I asked was what kind of activity the Governor saw from ACORN in Missouri. He indicated it was substantial and worrisome. He doesn’t agree with those who suggest that registration fraud is not worrisome, since that invariably is done in order to commit fraud at the ballot box. Missouri indicted 12 ACORN employees from 2006 and 2007, before this current fiasco got started. ACORN’s activities are a serious concern to me. With several states already saying they can’t ensure a fair election, this is going to seriously affect people’s confidence in this election. We’ve already had too many elections where that’s been an issue, and I worry another doubtful election will rip the country apart. With Obama hiring $800 grand worth of ACORN services for this election, if this is the kind of change he’s selling, he can keep it.
Trouble Back Home
Looks like ACORN has gotten into some hot water back home in Delaware County. ACORN is saying it’s just one bad apple. There seem to be an awfully lot of bad apples then.
A Lie Repeated Often Enough
Once again, the local radio rag started out a story on McCain’s appearance in Bensalem with “Despite a double digit lead by the Obama campaign …” Well, I’ve already been telling folks that McCain’s internal polling shows it within 2 points. Now we also know that Obama’s internal polling is showing the same thing. No wonder Ed Rendell is nervous.
This is psychological warfare — meant to disillusion McCain supporters, and supress turnout for McCain. If it’s a double digit race, why bother right? Except it’s not. If I know what the internal polling says, you can bet the media does too. But reporting that wouldn’t help Obama.
More Clubs Need To Do This
The Citizens’ Rifle & Revolver Club has managed to get a piece in the Trenton Times highlighting, in a positive way, their shooting sports program:
If you have been thinking of looking into the shooting sports, there is no better time to do it than on Sundays Oct. 26 and Nov. 2 when Citizens’ Rifle & Revolver Club will be holding its annual open house/fun shoot. Citizens’ has been a fixture at Route 571 in Plainsboro for close to 80 years. Carol Katona, who has been president of the club for 15 years and just won another term as president in the club’s recent elections, told me the basic premise of the club is and has always been to promote safety and enjoyment of the shooting sports.
This is probably the best public relations type program shooting clubs can do. Even if you don’t make a new shooter out of someone, people at least can come in, and see people enjoying the shooting sports safely, and be relieved of some of their ignorance about firearms, and the people who use them. If clubs are pulling off successful programs in New Jersey, and getting the media to help promote it, it can be successful anywhere.
Article from August 2001 on Ayers
This is an article written more than seven years ago about William Ayers. I don’t find Obama and his supporter’s deflections on this issue comforting. If McCain, it turned out, had worked closely with David Duke, and launched his political campaign from his home, would that not be some cause for concern? If one of my neighbors did the kind of crap Ayers is responsible for, do you think I’d ever set foot in his home, or talk to him? The fact that Bill Ayers isn’t a pariah says a lot about Chicago high society and academia today, and is the main reason I won’t elect a president who rose through that system, no matter how much he claims his hands are clean.
Hat tip Instapundit
Prepare Your Heart to Fill With Hope
Apparently the Obamatons are rewording Christian rock tunes for the Obama campaign. Why am I reminded of this?
Quote of the Day
[…] Palin is the only candidate in either ticket that seems even mildly conscious of her own ignorance. When foundering in ignorance, Obama reverts to platitudes, Biden makes stuff up, McCain suspends his campaign, and Palin asks for clarification.
Hat tip to The VC. I think I’d much prefer Governor Palin on the top rather than the Bottom of the ticket, but hey, it’s what we got this election.
Getting in Their Faces
I’m not sure this is what Obama meant by getting in their faces, but a couple of protesters apparently narrowly avoided being run down by the Straight Talk Express:
Smith said officers saved the protesters from injury because “the motorcade likely would not have stopped†for them. He said “we don’t know what their intentions were†in trying to block Palin’s motorcade.
Even if they had stopped, they would likely have been swarmed by Secret Service agents with submachine guns. It would have been ugly. And they better damn well hope that Governor Sarah left the moose rifle back home.