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Moderates Are Losers

Not all moderates are losers, of course. But when I was reviewing some of my earliest blog posts from the dawn of Obama's presidency, I was reminded of an important fact:

McCain the moderate only got 39% of the moderate vote.

On the other hand, Obama the extreme liberal got a whopping 60% of the moderate vote.

I would submit that uncommitted moderate and independent voters aren't necessarily looking to vote for candidates who strike a photogenic pose at the middle of the ideological spectrum. In fact, a large number swing voters aren't looking at ideology at all. They look at confidence, charisma, and a candidate's ability to communicate clearly without prevarication.

This is what can happen when swing voters find those things in a politician:

Yes, 1984 was a long, long time ago, but it isn't ancient history.

A word to the wise...

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When RINOs Fail

There he goes again:

Mr. McCain mocked Tea Party-allied Republicans in the House for believing — wrongly, he said — that President Obama and Democrats will get the blame for a default if Republicans refuse to increase the nation’s debt ceiling.

By that flawed logic, “Democrats would have no choice but to pass a balanced budget amendment and reform entitlements and the Tea Party Hobbits could return to Middle Earth,” he said, quoting a Wall Street Journal editorial.

“This is the kind of crack political thinking that turned Sharron Angle and Christine O’Donnell into G.O.P. nominees,” he jeered, referring to two losing Tea Party candidates for the Senate in 2010.

Why is it that when RINOs fail, it's never their fault? Remember the "crack political thinking" that swept McCain into the White House?

Oh wait, I almost forgot! When the economy tanked, McCain panicked ― he suspended his campaign ― and then he went on to lose the White House.

More to the point, "blame" is not the key issue in this debt limit fight. (Although there will be plenty of blame to go around if Republicans in congress ultimately fail to prevent Democrats from spending us into bankruptcy and taxing us into abject poverty.)

Tea Party Republicans and Tea Party activists delivered a massive victory for the Republican Party in November. Those "Hobbits" were determined to clean up the tsunami of debt that has flooded this country.

As we hurtle toward Obama's fourth phony deadline for raising the debt limit, Tea Party Republicans in Congress are keeping their campaign promises by using the leverage of their debt limit vote to force Democrats to take some responsibility.

Shame on RINO ogre John McCain for joining the radical left in bashing the Tea Party with condescending, hateful and incendiary rhetoric.

Hat tip to The Other McCain for covering this story. I'm sorry your cousin is such an obnoxious troll, Robert.

Discussion: Memeorandum

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UPDATE I:


Rand Paul: 'I'd rather be a hobbit than a troll'


UPDATE II:

Sean Hannity Takes Sen. McCain To The Woodshed Over Anti-Tea Party Remarks...

UPDATE II:

A friendly reminder from Ed...

McCain’s thinking is pretty clear here — the One cannot be defeated, and so one must join forces with it. Had McCain actually read the books that he references, he’d have seen how well that worked out.

By the way, just in case in you don’t recall … the hobbits win in Lord of the Rings. They got a lot of ridicule from the elite and the powerful along the way, but they end up saving the West from ruinous destruction.

Primary Highlights

Exciting results from yesterday's Primary elections...

Biggest shocker of the night: In a huge surprise to all the pundits who are still struggling to appreciate the magnitude of America's opposition to the radical Obama agenda, Lisa Murkowski was trailing Joe Miller by 3.6 points with over three quarters of the precincts reporting. Murkowski was expected to use her incumbent RINO establi$hment advantage to easily overcome her pro-abortion, pro-ObamaCare handicaps, but this year is not a good one for liberals on either side of the isle, GOP or Dem.

There might be a very long wait for final results.

A good night for Marco Rubio: Out of 1,252,494 votes cast in the GOP Senate primary, 1,059,193 went to Rubio. On the Dems' side, Kendrick Meek took 57% of the total (522,982/909,307). These results are good news for conservatives for a number of reasons.

First, conservative Rubio got more votes than all of the Democrats combined. That bodes well for Rubio's strength in November. Second, a victory for Meek (as opposed to the other Democrat) makes it easier for Rubio to win in the general election vs. Crist and the Dem. Third, if a single GOP candidate can bring in more votes in his non-competitive primary election than two Democrats can draw in a hotly contested parallel battle, widespread concerns over the Dems' midterm apathy appear to be very well placed.

Another important election in Florida: A big ObamaCare foe, Rick Scott, upset an establishment Republican for the win in Florida's GOP gubernatorial primary. A health care executive who founded Conservatives for Patient's Rights, Rick Scott would be a formidable force for repeal of ObamaCare as governor of the "Medicare State," but he does carry some old baggage.

Finally in Florida, Daniel Webster has been anointed to take on the #1 evil-monger in Congress, Alan Grayson.

Our primary roundup would not be complete without mentioning Feingold McCain. Unfortunately, after spending almost $100 billion to win the primary, McCain walked away with 56% of the vote. This ensures another 6 years of the Maverick, who will be 80 years old the next time Arizonans vote to force us to endure another 6 years of the uber-RINO.

Speaking of McCain, don't miss the analysis at The Other McCain's primary HQ.

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Democratic party spokesman can't name Alaska Democrat running for Senate

Tidbit: The National Republican Senatorial Committee advised Murkowski to attack her conservative opponent early. (This is why we have TBF.)

JammieWearingFool: The Palin effect

RightKlik circa November 2008: "Palin will be a tremendous asset to the conservative movement for many years to come... If there is anyone who can help turn out the conservative base, in a close race, in a red state, where conservative turnout is likely to tip the scales, Sarah Palin is the one."

Another Flashback (from Matthew Newman): Joe Miller, giant slayer.

Reader comments welcome...

ACLU Celebrates Mother's Day With an Assault on Motherhood: CEDAW

I recently came across a tweet from the ACLU that piqued my curiosity. Could the ACLU be promoting something worthwhile, for once?

"Urge your Senators to stand up for women and mothers in the U.S. and across the globe by ratifying CEDAW!"

Yeah! Let's do it...Sunday is Mother's Day! Let's stand up for Mom, apple pie, the Statue of Liberty and all that good stuff.

The ACLU tweet linked to this page:

Honor Mothers: Tell Your Senators to Ratify the Women’s Rights Treaty

This Mother's Day, let’s honor mothers across the United States by calling on the Senate to finally ratify the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), the international treaty dedicated to gender equality. Worldwide, 186 countries have ratified the treaty; the United States is one of only seven countries that have not. The U.S. signed the treaty in 1980, but it has never been ratified by the U.S. Senate.

Ratification of CEDAW would encourage the U.S. to take stronger action on issues such as gender-based and domestic violence, human trafficking, discrimination against women in housing and in the workplace, and could improve access to educational and employment opportunities for women and girls.

Can you believe it? The U.S. is one of only seven countries that hate women—especially moms! The only holdouts are three Islamic states (Iran, Sudan, and Somalia), a few Pacific islands, the Vatican, and . . . the United States.

Worldwide, 186 countries have signed up for CEDAW, a treaty dedicated to promoting prostitution, disparaging stay-at-home mothers, instituting abortion as a "demand right" with unrestricted access for teenagers, and criticizing the observance of Mother's Day. The evil U.S. on the other hand... Wait... What?!

The Heritage Foundation and the AEI provide some enlightening information on the CEDAW agenda:

• Under the auspices of the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights, many CEDAW committee reports urge countries to remove their prohibitions on prostitution and eventually legitimize it.

• The U.N. criticized the republic of Georgia, for example, for "the prevalence of stereotyped roles of women in Government policies, in the family, in public life based on patterns of behavior and attitudes that overemphasize the role of women as mothers." One country report even criticized the observance of Mother's Day.

• Under CEDAW, even private behavior—such as how couples divide household and childcare chores—is subject to government oversight and modification.

• A report to Croatia finds "the refusal, by some hospitals, to provide abortions on the basis of conscientious objection of doctors...[constitutes] an infringement of women's reproductive rights."

• CEDAW would give the activists and lawyers of NCRW, NOW, and the Feminist Majority the license to sue, reeducate, and resocialize their fellow citizens—opportunities that have eluded them under the Constitution.

CDAW is 30 years old now. The document was signed by the second-worst U.S. President of all time, Jimmy Carter, on July 17, 1980. Powerful legislators of both parties have favored it over the years. In 1993, sixty-eight senators, including Republicans Orrin Hatch and John McCain, urged Bill Clinton to secure ratification. Nine years later the Bush administration told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that CEDAW was “generally desirable” and “should be ratified."

Ratification would require 67 votes in the Senate. Senator Barbara Boxer is poised to act.

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AEI: The UN Women’s Treaty: The Case against Ratification

Examples of U.N. CEDAW Committee rulings reveal how dangerous the treaty would be to Americans.

The prospects for ratification of CEDAW have never been better

Reviving CEDAW

Beating the Odds, Defeating the Clowns

In a dramatic clip from the Mark Levin Show, Mark talks about the fight for conservatism in 2010...starting with the GOP primaries and culminating in the general elections in November:

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