The American Thinker sets the record straight on Michael J. Fox’s shameless, misleading ad designed to propel democrat candidates into the senate. While the drive-by media types attempt to make the story about Rush Limbaugh, they typically ignore the falsehoods and mistatments of Fox. Once again, Rush is right! So is the American Thinker. Read the Rush comments for yourself and see the distortions and maniplutations of the mainstream media.
The popular and appealing actor Michael J. Fox has taken to the airwaves in Senate battleground states Missouri, Maryland, and New Jersey with a highly misleading ad urging defeat of Republican Senatorial candidates opposing the use of taxpayer dollars to fund new embryonic stem cell line research. He states,
“Stem cell research offers hope to millions of Americans with diseases like diabetes, Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s…. But George Bush and Michael Steele would put limits on the most promising stem cell research.”
Mr. Fox and his ads’ sponsors are guilty of conflating embryonic stem cell research, which the GOP candidates and many Americans oppose for destroying a human life in the name of curing other people’s diseases, with stem cell research in general, which includes adult stem cell research and umbilical cord blood stem cell research.
The only limits in question are on federal funding of new embryonic stem cell lines, requiring the sacrifice of new embryos. Private and state-funded research (California voters are spending six billion dollars borrowing money to fund this) is ongoing. The implicit claim that research based on new embryos is “the most promising” is absurd, completely unsupported by the scientific literature, and an insult to voters, based as it is on the assumption that they are incapable of understanding the issue. Too stupid to tell the difference, is the elitist assumption underlying this campaign.
The New York Sun makes the case for the Republicans in a fair and deatailed manner today. All Ohio voters: remember to vote for Mike Dewine.
Two weeks from today, barring recount shenanigans a la Florida 2000, America will know whether the Republicans have retained their majority in the House and Senate. We certainly think they deserve to, even though the Republicans have been far from perfect. They failed, even with majorities in both houses, to enact two of President Bush’s signature domestic policy initiatives, private investment accounts as part of Social Security and an expansion of legal work visas for immigrants. Earmarked pork-barrel spending has soared. Republican congressmen such as Randall “Duke” Cunningham of California and Mark Foley of Florida resigned after being caught up in scandals over their behavior.
While the Republicans have not been perfect, neither are the Democrats all extreme leftists. Senator Schumer, who heads the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, has tried to recruit some centrists who can win elections by espousing views on some issues that sound more likely to come from Republicans. Instapundit.com points out that the Democratic candidate for Senate in Tennessee, Rep. Harold Ford Jr., “supports public display of the ten commandments, a ban on flag burning, and says he’s closer to Bush than McCain on military interrogations.” The Democratic candidate for Senate in Pennsylvania, Robert Casey Jr.,has said he favors a federal ban on abortions except in cases of rape, incest, or when the life of the mother is at stake. He also has said he favors a Pennsylvania state law that requires a 24-hour waiting period for abortions and requires minors to obtain parental consent for an abortion.
As we have been saying from some time, this election is not over. CNN, CBS, the NY Times want all voters to believe that there is a tidal wave for liberals. This was not ever, and is not now the case. Dick Morris has some statistics that support the case for a close election.
Tim Russert spent most of Meet The Press on Sunday creating the illusion with his baised panel of democrat inevitability. Let’s wait for the votes to come in on November 7.
By DICK MORRIS & EILEEN MCGANN
October 24, 2006 — The latest polls show something very strange and quite encouraging is happening: The Republican base seems to be coming back home. This trend, only vaguely and dimly emerging from a variety of polls, suggests that a trend may be afoot that would deny the Democrats control of the House and the Senate.
With two weeks to go, anything can happen, but it is beginning to look poss- ible that the Democratic surge in the midterm elections may fall short of control in either House.
Here’s the evidence:
* Pollsters Scott Rasmussen and John Zogby both show Republican Bob Corker gaining on Democratic Rep. Harold Ford Jr. in Tennessee, a must-win Senate seat for the Democrats. Zogby has Corker ahead by seven, while Rasmussen still shows a Ford edge of two points.
* Zogby reports a “turnaround” in New Jersey’s Senate race with the GOP candidate Tom Kean taking the lead, a conclusion shared by some other public polls.
* Even though Sen. Jim Talent in Missouri is still under the magic 50 percent threshold for an incumbent, Rasmussen has him one point ahead and Zogby puts him three up. But unless he crests 50 percent, he’ll probably still lose.
It was highly curious a week ago when John Kerry had the nerve to invoke the name of Roanld Reagan. The traitorious, treasonous actions of John Kerry, Jay Rockefeller, and Uncle Teddy Kennedy have reached the critical zone. The American Thnker brings it all into perspective.
We know that Senator Kerry while still a reserve officer, negotiated with the enemy during the Viet Nam War and that Senator Rockefeller traveled to Syria before the war in Iraq to tip off our enemies about our battle plans. Now we know that Senator Kennedy offered help to the Soviets. Quote:
In his book, which came out this week, Kengor focuses on a KGB letter written at the height of the Cold War that shows that Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.) offered to assist Soviet leaders in formulating a public relations strategy to counter President Reagan’s foreign policy and to complicate his re-election efforts.
The letter, dated May 14, 1983, was sent from the head of the KGB to Yuri Andropov, who was then General Secretary of the Soviet Union’s Communist Party.
In his letter, KGB head Viktor Chebrikov offered Andropov his interpretation of Kennedy’s offer. Former U.S. Sen. John Tunney (D-Calif.) had traveled to Moscow on behalf of Kennedy to seek out a partnership with Andropov and other Soviet officials, Kengor claims in his book.
At one point after President Reagan left office, Tunney acknowledged that he had played the role of intermediary, not only for Kennedy but for other U.S. senators, Kengor said. Moreover, Tunney told the London Times that he had made 15 separate trips to Moscow.
The revelation adds new meaning to the term opposition party.
In my lifetime, the American people, as represented by the citizens who take the time to cast votes, have demonstrated great wisdom and fairness. Despite the elitist liberal drivel foist upon them each and every day in subtle and overt ways, the voters have extraordinary autonomy and justice in expressing their liberty every two years.
With frustration reaching peak levels within the liberal establishment, the media has developed a defective template very early in this election cycle. Each every tale that they spin is laced with Bush/Cheney/Rove bashing on every conceivable level. The way that the news is determined, the words that are chosen, the stories that get endless play as compared with stories that are never told, and the entire schematics of news sharing are manipulated to fit paradigms that are crafted and understood only in the inner sanctums of eastern elitism.
We are calling all voters who believe in a conservative philosophy that supported President Bush in 2004: be sure to vote in all the races for the House of Representatives and the Senate this year. If you feel you must, hold your nose, but vote for the conservative. All we have to do is turn out and vote.
The democrats and the media have done everything possible to depress our turn out. They have played the story as if hurricane Nancy Pelosi is going to hit us whether we like it or not. They want us to think that many voters have changed their mind since the 2004 election. Nothing could be further from the truth! The flawed models used by pollsters are being manipulated by the media to create the aura of inevitability for democrat victory.
The media is totally disingenuous. It does not fit their motive to tell the story in depth. Watch out for this story: as Election Day draws closer, the polls will tighten greatly as the pollsters attempt to gain some credibility in the end. Also, watch as the networks, CNN, and MSNBC begin to play the story as their template of a total democrat blow-out comes unhinged in the next two weeks. They may begin to back-peddle, or they may wait until election night to re-write history as they have told it.
In short, let’s create a blogburst to remind all conservatives to get out and vote. Vote for a strong national defense, vote for the Patriot Act, and vote against the stupid media.
Amidst all of the manufactured anti-conservative hysteria generated by the liberal media establishment comes this article that factually indicates the strength of the economy on average families. Faux media hysteria makes people think that their needs are much greater than a quality life demands. In 1960’s America many families lived on one income, and lived a much simpler life.
The abject failure of the media to report on the great economic status of our people and our nation reflects the agenda of the media to magnify anti-conservative mania while ignoring positive news.
As the U.S. population crossed the 300 million mark sometime around 7:46 a.m. Tuesday (according to the U.S. Census Bureau), the typical family is doing a whole lot better than their grandparents were in 1967, the year the population first surpassed 200 million.
Mr. and Mrs. Median’s $46,326 in annual income is 32% more than their mid-’60s counterparts, even when adjusted for inflation, and 13% more than those at the median in the economic boom year of 1985. And thanks to ballooning real estate values, average household net worth has increased even faster. The typical American household has a net worth of $465,970, up 83% from 1965, 60% from 1985 and 35% from 1995.
Several area senior citizens are featured in Mike Dewine’s latest TV Ad. These ladies do a great job, and check out the familiar faces and voices. Way to go Phyllis Nickoson! She calls out Sherrod Brown for the fool that he is.
The current conventional wisdon is ridden with many faulty assumptions. According to the Washington Times, the Murtha democrats aren’t even sure who their leader will be if they win the house. Apprently, there are several democrats who realize that Nancy Pelosi and her views frighten mainstream Americans.
While the liberal drive-by media are always fixated on any dissention at all in the Republican party, the factionalized democrats have fissures of epic proportion in their liberal conclave:
Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi’s prospects for becoming the nation’s first female House speaker depend not only on a Democratic victory in November but also on her ability to prevent any Democrats from voting against her — primarily centrists opposed to her liberal stances.
At least one Democratic House candidate has pledged not to support Mrs. Pelosi, and others in conservative districts have refused to commit their support — potentially leaving Mrs. Pelosi shy of the 218 votes required for the chamber’s top post.
Democrat Charlie Stuart, who hopes to unseat Republican Rep. Ric Keller in Florida, already has said he opposes Mrs. Pelosi and would prefer Rep. Steny H. Hoyer, the more conservative No. 2 Democrat in the House whose strained relations with Mrs. Pelosi have been well-chronicled on Capitol Hill.
“He’s a centrist,” Stuart spokeswoman Sultana Ali said of the Florida Democrat. “His values really are more in line with Steny Hoyer than Nancy Pelosi.”
At least three other Democrats contacted by The Washington Times refused to commit their support to Mrs. Pelosi, whose San Francisco district is far more liberal than the districts that are up for grabs in this election.
Ordinarily, a party’s leadership structure is set by the caucus in advance, and all members are expected go along with the decision. In the eight years Rep. J. Dennis Hastert, Illinois Republican, has been speaker, he’s never had a protest vote cast against him.
Mrs. Pelosi, whose voting record is considerably more liberal than many of her fellow Democrats, has never enjoyed that luxury. In last year’s election for speaker, one Democrat opposed her for the top post. Four Democrats opposed her in 2003, with three of them simply voting “present” as a protest.
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Ronald Reagan
Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free.
