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We watch the machinations of the press whittling down each GOP candidate like the rotating duck shoot at a carnival. We watch this when we know that ANY of the GOP candidates as president would be far above the current administration. Those who at this point in time cannot see this are hopelessly lost. I believe a true conservative platform is the Tea Party Platform. Our running candidates seem to gravitate toward the Tea Party at least in their speeches. But are they really conservative? My premise at the outset is that no matter who is ultimately chosen by the GOP to run, those who understand the gravity of another 4 years with Obama will vote for him/her.

The Tea Party Platform is as follows:

1. Eliminate Excessive Taxes – Excessively high taxes are a burden for those exercising their personal liberty to work hard and prosper as afforded by the Constitution. A fiscally responsible government protects the freedom of its citizens to enjoy the fruits of their own labor without interference from a government that has exceeded its necessary size, scope and reach into the lives of its citizens.
2. Eliminate the National Debt – By implementing fiscally conservative policies at all levels of government, progress can be made toward eliminating the U.S. National Debt. Massive increases in the National Debt have created and continue to create a huge burden for the next generation of Americans, thus imperiling the country’s short-term and long-term economic health and prosperity.
3. Eliminate Deficit Spending – All deficit spending must be eliminated immediately. We insist that government representatives at all levels maintain a fiscally responsible budget and balance the books as would be expected of any American business.
4. Protect Free Markets – America’s free enterprise system allows businesses to thrive as they compete in the open marketplace and strive toward ever better services and products. Allowing free markets to prosper unfettered by government interference is what propelled this country to greatness with an enduring belief in the industriousness and innovations of the populace.
5. Abide by the Constitution of the United States – The U.S. Constitution is the supreme law of the land and must be adhered to without exception at all levels of government. This includes the Bill of Rights and other Amendments to the U.S. Constitution and their provisions designed to protect states’ rights and individual liberties.
6. Promote Civic Responsibility – Citizen involvement at the grassroots level allows the voice of the American people to be heard and directs the political behaviors of our representatives at both the local and national level so they, in turn, may be most effective in working to preserve the life, liberty and pursuit of happiness of this country’s citizens.
7. Reduce the Overall Size of Government – A bloated bureaucracy creates wasteful spending that plagues our government. Reducing the overall size, scope and reach of government at both local and national levels will help to eliminate inefficiencies that result in deficit spending which adds to our country’s debt.
8. Believe in the People – The American people, given their guaranteed freedoms, will thrive in a democratic, capitalist environment which allows individuals to strive toward ever greater achievements, innovations and the efficient production of needed and valued goods and services.
9. Avoid the Pitfalls of Politics – American politics is burdened by big money from lobbyists and special interests with an undue influence on the peoples’ representatives. The Tea Party movement is seen as a threat to the entrenched political parties and thus is the continual target of smear campaigns and misrepresentation of its ideals. We choose not to respond to these attacks except to strongly and explicitly disavow any and all hate speech, any and all violence as well as insinuations of violence, and any and all extreme and fringe elements that bring discredit to the Tea Party Movement. We are a peaceful movement and respect other’s opinions and views even though they do not agree with our own. We stand by the Tea Party beliefs and goals and choose to focus our energies on ensuring that our government representatives do the same. 

Conservative issues with our candidates:

First–Herman Cain: Goodbye Herman. Many of us are sad to have lost what you stood for. We are sad you may not have been upfront about the skeletons in your closet whichever of them were true. And if true, had you been honest about them, most would have accepted your human failings and still supported you. As it stands, the present concern about a lack of transparency stands out far beyond any mistakes you may have made in your life.

1.) Jon Huntsman:
Issues with Jon: He has a leftist record on the environment and global warming. He stood agains 70% of his state of Utah’s voters in his support of civil unions His quotes out of a spring 2011 campaign ad: “I think health care is a right” and “putting a value on carbon either suggests that you get a carbon tax or a cap-and-trade system underway.” . In addition, Huntsman supported…the most fiscally irresponsible bill in American history…the $800-billion Porkulus (also known as the ARRA). All House Republicans and all but three GOP Senators (Specter, Snowe, and Collins) opposed it, as did Gov. Palin, Gov. Perry, and many others…Huntsman thinks that the problem with the Porkulus is that it wasn’t large enough! On energy, President Obama and Nancy Pelosi tried to impose on America an unconstitutional cap-and-tax scheme. Jon Huntsman believes that it’s a fantastic idea. He also has singled {defense} out for massive reductions, even though it’s already at a historically low level of 3.50% of GDP and less than 15% of the total federal budget.
Read more: http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/07/john_huntsman_wasting_conservatives_time.html#ixzz1gTcAX45V(From American Thinker).

In the last debate, Huntsman argued for defense spending via strategy. He has more foreign policy experience than any other candidate though under a Democrat administration: Huntsman argued that defense spending should follow strategy. Terror will remain a challenge for decades, he forecast. It should guide spending, procurement and America’s alliances. Gingrich added another element—America’s heavy military presence in Europe which no longer serves its strategic interests. “The Russians aren’t coming anymore,” said Huntsman. That’s not isolationism, he added. It’s realism. His economy plan calls for major changes to the U.S. tax code and the passage of new free trade policies to improve job growth in the U.S. My issue with Jon is that he has worked for Obama and is a textbook definition of a RINO (Republican in Name Only). Like McCain, Collins and many others, we want to weed out these folks from our leadership, not place them in the presidency to do more damage to what our Founders had in mind for this country.

2.) Rick Santorum: He remains strong on social conservative issues and defense. Santorum laid out the socially conservative principles of his “Faith, Family and Freedom Tour” at his first tour stop in Iowa on Friday. He calls for: banning federal funding of embryonic stem cell research or any family planning or medical group that performs abortions; repealing a mandate that health insurance plans cover contraceptives; defending the Defense of Marriage Act in court and forbidding military chaplains from performing same-sex marriages on military bases. In addition, he has a concrete plan on Iran.

Santorum would call on Congress to abolish the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, which has drawn criticism for its liberal rulings; to reinstate the ban on military service by openly gay men and women; to allow prayer at school functions; and to pass a constitutional amendment defining marriage as between one man and one woman. Santorum also supports a “personhood” amendment to the Constitution, which would state that life begins at fertilization and would result in banning abortion, banning certain kinds of birth control, and potentially making in vitro fertilization more difficult.
He consistently defends defense. and is a proponent of a strong economy having presented his Made in America plan. While I like a lot of what Rick stands for, I worry that he could not gain re-election in his own state and am concerned about his ability to rise to the top and annihilate the Obama machine.
3.) Michele Bachmann:Like Rick, Michelle is a social conservative. She is strong on defense and has a plan for the economy called–American Jobs Right Now Repatriation, Cutting spending and government, Cutting taxes, Repealing Obamacare, Repealing the Jobs and Housing Destruciton Act )(Dodd-Frank), Legalizing American Energy Production and Natural Resources, Repealing any Job Killing Regulations, Increasing Exports, Enforcement of Immigration Laws, Paving an Innovation Pathway, and something called Unleasing American Investment. Michelle stands with Rick Perry and Santorum as one of three truly conservative candidates fighting for the nomination. A nomination the establishment of the GOP wants to avoid for fear of losing the precious “Independents.”

I like Michelle. I would like to see her as the GOP nominee. I know they see her as too much of a Tea Party supporter. That is a problem. For them and us–because of their Tea Party prejudice.
4.) Ron Paul: Ron Paul is a stanch Libertarian. Ron has a platform called: Plan to Restore America The synopsis of this plan is as follows:
SYNOPSIS:
America is the greatest nation in human history. Our respect for individual liberty, free markets, and limited constitutional government produced the strongest, most prosperous country in the world. But, we have drifted far from our founding principles, and America is in crisis. Ron Paul’s “Restore America” plan slams on the brakes and puts America on a return to constitutional government. It is bold but achievable. Through the bully pulpit of the presidency, the power of the Veto, and, most importantly, the united voice of freedom-loving Americans, we can implement fundamental reforms.

Sorry Ron, I see Ron as too kooky and off the charts on his defense and foreign policy.
During the Ames debate in August, Paul said the following about Iran: “Even our own CIA gives me this information that they have no evidence that they are working on a weapon.”

Paul’s remarks aside, Iran under Ahmadinejad is armed and dangerous in all regards. ( From The Washington Times).

Paul takes his Libertarian views and walks over the edge with them. Many of us can’t follow.

5.) Mitt Romney: I think Mitt is the darling of the GOP because he comes off as “Steady Eddy.”
Romney’s plan for America’s economy woes is his Five Bills and Executive Orders for Day One Plan:
FIVE BILLS FOR DAY ONE

The American Competitiveness Act
• Reduces the corporate income tax rate

The Open Markets Act
• Implements Free Trade Agreements

The Domestic Energy Act
• Directs the Department of the Interior to undertake a comprehensive survey of American energy reserves

The Retraining Reform Act
• Consolidates the sprawl of federal retraining programs

The Down Payment on Fiscal Sanity Act
• Immediately cuts non-security discretionary spending

FIVE EXECUTIVE ORDERS FOR DAY ONE

The Tea Party conservatives don’t agree however because he has flip-flopped on several of their issues–abortion, environment, and immigration for starters. Then there is Romneycare…always a problem.
6.) Newt Gingrich: The big concern with Newt aside from his own flip flops (Pelosi commercial, Doug Hoffman issue, etc.), seems to be his “inability to govern himself.”
…elite conservative media are rolling their eyes, with National Review editorializing last week against the Gingrich candidacy.

“Gingrich has always said he wants to transform the country,” it concluded. “He appears unable to transform, or even govern, himself. He should be an adviser to the Republican party but not again its head.”
But even if a TV-loving and increasingly newspaper-averse public doesn’t quite get the insider aversion to Gingrich, would their publicly-voiced doubts persist if, say, he were to win and thus face President Obama in the fall? Would partisan pragmatism trump the seeming moral convictions being voiced by so many who know him so well? “McCain was seen as a hot-headed crazy guy but, once he got the nomination, the Republicans were less inclined to trumpet that,” said Dallek.
Newt’s plan for the economy is based on his Jobs and Prosperity Plan as follows:
Stop the 2013 tax increases
Make the United States the most desirable location for new business investment
Move toward an optional flat tax of 15%
Strengthen the dollar
Remove obstacles to job creation imposed by destructive and ineffective regulations, programs and bureaucracies.
Implement an American energy policy
Balance the budget
Repeal and replace Obamacare
Fundamental reform of entitlement programs  
Regarding his social conservatism, he has a Fidelity Pledge that some question.
It may be that the “extraordinary” tension between Gingrich’s rank-and-file support and elite-Republican disdain is starting to break down.

While I love hearing Newt expound on his brilliant historical analogy, I do worry about his off the edge commentary with seemingly little thought behind his statements regardless of context.
7.) Rick Perry: Perry believes: Government’s role is to create an environment ripe for growth, then get out of the way. Texas has gained more than one million jobs while the rest of the nation lost over two million jobs. Since June 2009, nearly 40% of all net new American jobs have been created in his home state. Perry’s plan is the Cut Balance and Grow Plan which reforms the tax code, adds a flat tax, eliminates some taxes and preserves deductions, etc. He stands as a social conservative and is strong on defense and foreign policy. His problem with public speaking is on the verge of ending his candidacy.

On Greta VanSustern’s Fox News Show, Rush Limbaugh stated that Rick Perry, Michelle Bachmann and Rick Santorum were the three truly conservative choices for presidential candidates.

If we look at all of the candidates, we see similarities and differences:

Three important legs of the conservative platform are economic freedom, social issues and a strong defense/foreign policy. We know that with Obama, our country’s demise is rooted in his lack of action and opposing action in all three. But we also have conservative candidates that are less than strong in their commitment to our conservative values. But all of the concerns mentioned pale in comparison to the consideration that Obama may get a second term–a second chance to bring this country to total degradation.The decision seems to be a no brainer: Any of the candidates are BETTER THAN OBAMA.

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Tags: HermanCain, JonHuntsman, MichelleBachmann, MittRomney, NewtGingrich, Obama, RickPerry, RonPaul, TeaParty

Tonight I joined our local 9/12 Project meeting in Aurora, IL and heard spokesperson for Defend the Vote Sharon Meroni speak. Ms. Meroni is a woman dynamo fighting voter fraud in our state. We can learn a lot from her. What I heard tonight was both depressing and inspiring. Growing up in Chicago, we always knew there was voter fraud. In fact the voter fraud in our state of Illinois is widely known. We remain a laughing stock in this area and we also remain a blue state. It is my premise that the last election for governor was rigged. The Chicago Machine was involved and my guess is that Brady, though winning every county except Cook (and one small other county), threw in the towel rather than fight the crime moguls who run Chicago and the rest of the state. But many of us knew the DFF (Democrat Fraud Factor) was in full swing for this important election to replace Rod Blogojevich.

During the election cycle leading up to the 2010 General elections, Sharon Meroni, Executive Director of Defend the Vote (DTV), began researching how Illinois screens for the citizenship of candidates running for office. What she learned is that while both the US and Illinois Constitutions require candidates for office to be US Citizens, Illinois does not enforce the Constitutional mandates in their election laws.

From the Defend the Vote website:

What she and her colleagues has found will astound you. Some highlights:
–Presently, in Illinois, we do not challenge anyone’s eligibility who runs for office.
–Illinois (and many other states) does not and has never audited early voting–the fraud in this area is unbridled.
–Illinois has never reconciled the printed voting records with the reported voting records.
–We have never audited our software systems (Quinn just passed a law–in part based on Meroni’s recent investigation–requiring a 5% equipment test for Early Voting–which is 18% in IL) (this is a shameful amount to audit as we consider the rampant fraud in this area) and there still remains no required auditing of the actual vote.
–The 2010 Census demonstrated that IL has 14 counties with more adults registered to vote than are eligible to vote. DTV will be working with the election Law Center and the US Justice Foundation to compel Illinois to clean up its voter registration rolls.
–DTV conducted a surprise audit of security procedures at Chicago polling places. It was shown that 239 precincts were scored for compliance with mandated ballot security protocols. A full 90% of the polls failed in 1 or more of 11 key security procedures. Some 59% of the ballot boxes were not even sealed!
–Whereas many of our suburbs use election judges to run the early voting, Chicago uses employees. This is a huge difference as these employees have supervisors who are in charge of them and decide whether or not they keep their jobs and their $6K a year for running this part of all elections. On the documentation that is needed for approval to hold one of these positions, DTV found that 25% of those people did not identify their “right to work” status yet subsequently had their applications approved by Board Electors . Research showed that only 25% (100/400) of these employees were “legal.” One example given was of an application that showed a VISA that had expired in 2006.
–There is evidence to show that the software code for recording votes electronically can be easily tampered with:
Proprietary Software Code: You would think that the political parties would employ someone to check the software code that’s programmed to go into the electronic ballot machines; you know the ones that are never audited for accuracy counting… Surely political parties have exercised their rights to assure the code is accurate by having it reviewed…They must have…{but there was no} evidence of any political party or independent group checking the software code….This means that not only is Illinois not reconciling to make sure what they record as the vote is the same as what was cast on the paper copy, but there is no independent review process to make sure that software that’s recording and counting that vote—is accurate.

As with everything in this arena, no one has been minding the store for a very long time.

New for 2012, the VAP (Voter Audit Pollwatching Program) is being established to create a citizen-driven security assessment of ballot security. Results from these assessments will be used to score each election jurisdiction and Illinois as a whole to bring greater security to elections in Illinois. These results will be published statewide to give a snapshot of the ballot security procedures in Illinois. This is a first and a step in the right direction. Opportunities to be VAPers or Citizen Voter Auditors are on the DTV website.

If we do not secure the vote nationwide, we may as well hand it over to the left who has been on a decades long fraud mission to secure power and control of America. Taking back this power must happen locally. There is no systemic way to stop voter fraud. Defend the Vote works locally and is requesting local volunteers. 100% of the time, the ballot procedures were inadequate in Chicago. This organization is doing something about it! Volunteer! Donate!

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Tags: Brady, chicagovoterfraud, defendthevote, democratfraudfactor, DFF, Illinois, merconi, voterfraud

From Teacher Retirement System Illinois

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Martin Luther King must have been spinning in his grave when Mr. Obama tried to use the Washington DC dedication for MLK’s memorial as a campaign feather to gain votes. Again, our disingenuous leader spewed out another speech to further an agenda he has never acted upon.

From American Thinker:
When Barack Obama was elected as the president of the United States, black liberals dreamily believed that the numerous maladies in the black community would cease to exist…..{yet}Obama has failed to enact the economic policies that would provide the necessary environment for blacks to fend for themselves independent of government — despite the fact that he presented himself during his campaign as someone who was inimitably skilled and uniquely well-positioned to do so.

What the left has kept as a carefully hidden secret is that they’ve systematically kept their big fat political thumb pushing down on the black population in this country. They’ve done it to increase their power by keeping the downtrodden-downtrodden and keeping the votes rolling in. Democrats NEED poor Blacks and Latinos–not the other way around. As Tito “The Builder” Munoz states: “I was born in Colombia, but I was made in the USA.”

Every Democrat loving American, should watch this video and realize who is taking advantage of them and who is not and wake up to the reality that the road to conservatism is the only way to save this country from the radical left and their destructive policies.

Frances Rice, Chairman of the National Black Republican Association (NBRA) wrote a fascinating piece entitled: The Democratic Party Owes Blacks An Apology. She states:
As author Michael Scheuer stated, the Democratic Party is the party of the four S’s: slavery, secession, segregation and now socialism. Clearly, then, it is the Democratic Party that owes black Americans an apology – not the Republican Party, nor the United States of America.

The time is long overdue for the Democratic Party to apologize for that party’s 150-year history of racism and cease hiding behind the curtain of Congress, issuing unwarranted apologies on behalf of America, while simultaneously using racial politics for partisan political gain. Only then can we finally end the racial divisiveness that has torn our nation asunder.

Dr. Alveda C. King, niece of Dr. King, states in an NBRA newsletter:

Slavery – Democrats fought to expand it, Republicans fought to ban it

Democrats formed the Confederacy, seceded from the Union and fought a Civil War (1861 to 1865) – a war where over 600,000 citizens were killed, including many thousands of blacks – in order to keep blacks in slavery because the Democrats had built their economic base on the backs of black slaves…..The anti-Civil War chant of the Democrats, as reported by one Pennsylvania newspaper, was: “Willing to fight for Uncle Sam” but not “for Uncle Sambo.” These anti-Civil War Democrats verbally attacked Republican President Abraham Lincoln because he fought to free blacks from slavery and make his Emancipation Proclamation a reality – a Proclamation that became the source of the Juneteenth celebrations that occur in black communities today.

Reconstruction – Democrats fought to end Reconstruction started by Republicans

Democrats started the Ku Klux Klan in 1866 to lynch and terrorize Republicans -black and white and drive Republicans out of the South.

Segregation – Democrats enacted the discriminatory Black Codes and Jim Crow laws

Democrats fought to prevent the passage of every piece of civil rights legislation from the 1860’s to the 1960′s. Democrats wanted to keep blacks in virtual slavery and deny blacks the promised “40 acres and a mule.”

Democrat Senator Robert Byrd was a former “Exalted Cyclops” and “Keagle” (Recruiter) in the Ku Klux Klan. Byrd remained a Democrat until he died in 2010. He was a prominent leader in the Democrat-controlled Congress where he was honored by his fellow Democrats as the “conscience of the Senate.” The relentless disparagement of Dr. King by Democrats led to his being physically assaulted and ultimately to his tragic death.

Little known by many today is the fact that it was Republican Senator Everett Dirksen from Illinois, not Democrat President Lyndon Johnson, who pushed through the 1964 Civil Rights Act. In fact, Dirksen was instrumental to the passage of civil rights legislation in 1957, 1960, 1964, 1965 and 1968. Dirksen wrote the language for the 1965 Voting Rights Act. Dirksen also crafted the language for the Civil Rights Act of 1968 which prohibited discrimination in housing.

There is so much more to learn in this newsletter written by Dr. Alveda King. The Democrat left and its media stenographers have worked a good part of the last century to keep this information from our fellow Black Americans who voted enforce to elect a man directly opposed to the Dream Dr. King stood for. The time has come to enlighten all those who would continue the lie that is Barack Obama and his party. Dr. Martin Luther King was a deeply religious Christian man with deeply held conservative principles.He did not embrace socialism or the secular tenets of the Democrat party. Dr. King would be a Conservative Republican today and he would oppose everything Obama stands for.

Posted in Campaigning, From the Heart, On the Home Front, Opportunity to barf
Tags: Dedication to MLK, Democrats, Left, MartinLutherKingMemorial, MLKMemorial, Obama, Socialism

…To many top Democrats the OWS {Occupy Wall Street} crew looks like a winning candidate as the answer to the Tea Party. Except that it isn’t. The Tea Party is comprised of working Americans who want the government to get out of their faces. They are advocates for smaller governments with less spending and more mindful of the Constitution.

OWS, on the other hand, is largely comprised of neutered, over-educated and useless losers, many of whom don’t even know why they’re demonstrating, except that it might wind up somehow providing them with free stuff. Those few “intellectuals” in the OWS crowd who have bothered to articulate some end results can generously be deemed an embarrassment, because their ideas consist largely of warmed over Marxist pap that’s gone out of vogue around the globe, except in places like Venezuela and North Korea…And the White House. (From Canada Free Press)

From interviews, however vapid, we learn that the young fleas would like no more than continuance of the same Obama handouts…and an Obama lifestyle free from responsibility or accountability.

It is true the Occupy Wall Street crowd has the media on their side as do all leftist agenda types.

Contemplate this: The Occupy Wall Street folks drew more broadcast network stories in the first nine days of coverage (with 24 stories) than the Tea Party drew in the first nine months(with 19 stories). The protests were like a stumbling little fawn trying to find its legs. They’d been in existence for about two weeks, and NBC was already suggesting the “potential” for what the Tea Party achieved in 2010 — a massive Democratic wave election in 2012. Journalists are either easily impressed or very energetic practitioners of wishful thinking. (From Townhall.com)

Reminds me of a song…”Wishin’ and hopin’ and plannin’ and dreamin’” but for Obama and the Democrat party, it is not to be. The Flea Party veneer is starting to crack. First of all, they are in the wrong place. It’s Washington DC that owns this debacle of a problem.

An Atlantic.com article shares 5 reasons why the OWS crowd will not work:
1.) Its goals are unclear: At this time, all the protest really appears to stand for is a general dislike of Wall Street. But what does that mean?
2.) Wallstreet doesn’t care: These protesters are not Wall Street’s customers. In many cases they aren’t even their customers’ customers.
3.) Protesters can’t sway Congress: The message of Occupy Wall Street isn’t likely to catch on and affect any change in more center-right regions like the Tea Party did.
4.) Their timing is off: There are times when Washington just needs to be practical. When unemployment is stuck above 9% is such a time.
5.) Banking is vitally needed by the US: Congress knows better than to risk the U.S. losing its competitive edge in such an important sector.

And recently, unions have gotten involved, hoping desperately that this movement will turn into a Liberal version of the Tea Party, so desperate are they for something, anything grassroots.

So media, unions, Hollywood, Democrats and old hippies all supporting the Humpty Dumpty of the Flea Party movement won’t save it from eventual self-destruction far in advance of the 2012 elections. Even Bloomberg has recently trounced on their plans to occupy until “change” (whatever that is) happens.
“The last three weeks have created unsanitary conditions and considerable wear and tear on the park,” a statement from Deputy Mayor Cas Holloway said. “The situation is not in the best interests of the protesters, residents or the city.”
Protestors issued a statement Thursday stating plans to lock arms in defiance of the police and in defense of First Amendment rights. The demonstrators plan to resist and encourage protestors to join the coalition at 6 a.m. Friday morning.

According to Ayatollah Khamenei, OWS will topple the American capitalist system. Ah, but this seems to be yet more wishful thinking…with unclear goals and lack of realistic or substantive actions it would appear the Flea Party may exterminate itself.

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Tags: Bloomberg, Democrats, FleaParty, Obama, OccupyWallStreet, OWS, TeaParty, Unions

We need to take note of Herman Cain–could it be the liberal radicals are getting a little nervous about him? Yes they’re just a little nervous–but it is noteworthy–MSNBC–whom Rush Limbaugh likes to call “PMS-NBC”–posted an article called, “Why Herman Cain is Angry” highlighting how upset he is in his “lack of support.” Another liberal Hollywood celebrity, Morgan Freeman, has come out in a story posted on several liberal news programs with the ragged and worn liberal byline of “Tea Party folks are racist” in spite of the fact that Cain–a consistent Tea Party candidate–is more black than Obama could ever be.

Now that can mean one of only two things–either the liberal media think he can’t win so they are promoting him hoping to split the vote or they think he CAN win and they are getting a wee bit scared he may grow more popular so they need to promote something with a negative ring to it. The RINO John Huntsman was a liberal favorite a few months ago and any self-respecting conservative understands Romney and Perry–the current frontrunners–as both being RINO candidates supporting either Romneycare or lack of crackdown on illegal immigrants. Any of these candidates may appear to be riding a moderate horse to pull in those desired but often phantom independents or special interest groups, but as far as a GOP candidate being a true conservative, Herman Cain is the poster child.

Cain is leaping forward and conservatives are taking note:

Jim Broussard, a Pennsylvania tea party leader, says: “He has charisma, charm, and can project a message to people that: ‘Hey, I worked my way up just like your average guy out there.’”

What Cain seems to lack is experience in foreign policy. This is something which definitely needs remedy, no doubt. Obama also lacks foreign policy expertise–did and still does. In fact, we can point to every flaw in every current GOP candidate and Obama has them all–Obamacare, border control and backdoor amnesty, foreign policy, the economy…the list goes on. Something he DOES have, however, that no one else running has, is consistent media coverup.

But on another note, Dick Morris ran an interview with Cain. In it, Cain showed that he understands far more about foreign affairs than his detractors give him credit for. That’s because Cain understands what his detractors do not: namely how foreign, energy, and domestic policies depend on—or sometimes interfere with—one another. (Mentioned in a Conservative News and Views article.)

In fact, Herman Cain has as much or more experience than most candidates running for office–most certainly the kind of experience the last several years have shown us America desperately needs:

Herman Cain (from Wikipedia)
• Former chairman and CEO of Godfather’s Pizza. Within 14 months, Cain had taken Godfather’s Pizza from 911 stores down to 420 stores and reduced costs significantly. As a result of his efforts Godfather’s Pizza finally became profitable.
• Cain became a member of the board of directors to the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City in 1992 and served as its chairman from January 1995 to August 1996, when he resigned to become active in national politics.
• Before his business career he worked as a mathematician in ballistics as a civilian employee of the United States Navy.
• He serves as a minister at Antioch Baptist Church North.
• Cain worked for The Coca-Cola Company as a business analyst.
• In 1977, he joined Pillsbury where he rose to the position of Vice President by the early 1980s.
• He left his executive post to work for Burger King – a Pillsbury subsidiary at the time – managing 400 stores in the Philadelphia area. Under Cain’s leadership, his region went from the least profitable for Burger King to the most profitable in three years.
• Later Cain became CEO of the National Restaurant Association – a trade group and lobby organization for the restaurant industry – where he had previously been chairman concurrently with his role at Godfather’s.
• Cain was on the board of directors of Aquila, Inc. from 1992 to 2008, and also served as a board member for Nabisco, Whirlpool, Reader’s Digest, and AGCO, Inc.

Today’s news gives us Herman Cain as the leading straw poll winner in Florida winning far ahead of the other candidates with 37 percent of the vote and a third place win in the Michigan straw poll. From Conservative News and Views:
The previous three winners {of this same poll} have all won the Republican nomination for President. They were Ronald Reagan, George H. W. Bush (“the Elder”), and Bob Dole. Florida’s Republicans have not run a straw poll since….To win 37 percent of the vote against seven competitors is amazing in itself. It is doubly amazing because his two closest competitors had been the acknowledged front-runners. Cain might possibly have done better than this, by winning with fifty percent of the vote. Still, he outclassed the two strongest candidates {Romney and Perry} by a margin of better than two-and-a-half to one.

Cain’s 9-9-9 plan is unabashedly simple.

He also supports the Fairtax concept.

His positions are consistently conservative.

From DickMorris.com:

Now, as Perry fades and Romney rises, Herman Cain is on the cusp of front tier status in the Republican nominating contest. Cain has a grip on the Tea Party grassroots. No matter how diligently the establishment tries to ignore him, he keeps popping up, impelled by his charisma, oratory, issue positions, and broad based appeal.

Herman Cain is the one to watch in the GOP political race to the White House.

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We were complacent: Happy in an America that provided us with more than any other country in the world. As children, when we said our prayers, we thanked God we were born in this country. We grew up with parents telling us, “Eat your supper, the children in Europe are starving!” As we grew up, we became accustomed to owning two or more cars, several TV’s, a cell phone, a nice home, etc. Our kids were involved in two sports; we went on vacations at least once a year. Like heart disease, liberalism is a slow and silent killer. Like a termite, it has slowly eaten through the fabric and foundation of our values, our liberty, and our country. To those of us who have awakened, we know that the far left liberal Barack Hussein Obama was a gift–an alarm clock that hasn’t stopped ringing since he was nominated over 4 years ago. And by many accounts, he was elected by fraudulent means, has ruled by fraudulent events and has many fraudulent plans to further change this country into a shadow of what it once was.

Henry Wallace, Roosevelt’s VP from 1941 to 1945, wrote that he had observed the beginning of a slide into Despotism and Socialism within the attitudes of Washington’s elite. According to Wallace, well-intended leaders with personal agendas would precipitate the loss of individual freedoms:

“So enlisted, men may rightfully feel they are serving a function as high as that of any minister of the Gospel. They will not be Socialists, Communists, or Fascists, but plain men trying to gain by democratic methods the professed objectives of the Communists, Socialists, and Fascists…”

Likewise, in 1944 Norman Mattoon Thomas espoused Wallace’s theory with his prophesy of the fall of American democracy—and the mechanism that would be used:

“The American people will never knowingly adopt socialism. But under the name of ‘liberalism,’ they will adopt every fragment of the socialist program, until one day America will be a socialist nation, without knowing how it happened. I need no longer run as a Presidential Candidate for the Socialist Party. The Democratic Party has adopted our platform.” (From The Corson Archives)

Many great civilizations have not made it much longer than about 200 years. These events have been predicted by history. From a piece by Loren Collins:
In a quotation attributed to the French author, Alexis de Tocqueville, the dangers of loose fiscal policy were stated as follows: