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By Thomas Sowell - Townhall.com

A long-standing joke at election time is that if someone were to run under the name “None of the above,” that candidate would win. This year, the Democrats are running as “None of the above” and polls show that they may well win the House of Representatives and perhaps the Senate.

Can we afford to have Congress controlled by people who refuse to discuss their own record or agenda, at a time when a nuclear Iran and a nuclear North Korea loom over our future and over the future of our children and grandchildren?

Some clever people say that Democrats will have two years in which to discredit themselves in Congress before the 2008 elections. But clever people have led many nations into catastrophes. Is this the time to experiment with “None of the above”?

Who are the Democrats who will take over key Congressional committees affecting the destiny of this nation if their party wins the House of Representatives?

Do we really want Congressman Alcee L. Hastings, who was impeached as a federal judge and removed from the bench due to charges of accepting bribes, put in charge of a committee handling top secret national intelligence?

Do we really want far-left Congressman Dennis Kucinich to be chairman of the subcommittee on national security?

This is the same Dennis Kucinich who once introduced a bill “to abolish all nuclear weapons,” who has refused to condemn Hezbollah terrorists, calling instead for us to have a “recognition that connects us to a common humanity and from that draw a flicker of hope to enkindle the warm glow of peace.” Poetic but dumb.

Do we really want John Conyers to become chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, when he has already indicated that he wants to use that position to impeach the President — which is to say, to absorb endless hours of White House staff time answering his charges instead of spending those hours dealing with one of the most dangerous international situations ever faced by this nation?

Then there is Congressman Charles Rangel, who has favored tax increases time and again and bitterly denounced tax reductions equally as often and as loudly. He would become chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, in charge of tax legislation, if the Democrats win control of the House of Representatives.

On the Senate side, do we really want Senator Pat Leahy to become chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, where he and Ted Kennedy pioneered the techniques of character assassination of judicial nominees known as “Borking”?

The only judges who could get confirmed under Leahy’s chairmanship would be the kind of judges who will create new “rights” out of thin air for terrorists, as they have created new “rights” out of thin air for criminals, and who would impose gay marriage on the country, regardless of what the people or their elected representatives want.

Legendary House Speaker Tip O’Neill once said that all politics is local politics. Yes and no.

In one sense, there are hundreds of local elections for Congress, rather than a national election. But the consequences of these local elections will be national and lasting, especially as regards the confirmation of federal judges who will have lifetime appointments.

Even voting for a moderate Democrat like Harold Ford in Tennessee for the Senate can mean putting extremists like Ted Kennedy and Pat Leahy in charge of the Senate and liberal activist judges on the bench for decades to come.

Voting for a moderate Democrat for the House of Representatives can mean putting extremists like Nancy Pelosi, Dennis Kucinich, and Charles Rangel in charge of the House, where all spending bills and all impeachment bills originate.

Some people are justifiably angry at some of the Republicans in Washington. But voting to vent your emotions will have national and long-lasting consequences, both through lifetime judicial appointments and through the prospect of seeing the United States denied the resources needed to fight international terrorists at a time when our future and our children’s future are on the line as never before.

 

 …as a result of as many as 15,000 questionable voter registrations

The Kansas City Star reports:

A federal grand jury handed up indictments Wednesday against four people for allegedly submitting false voter registrations to the Kansas City election board.

The indictments — against Kwaim A. Stenson; Dale D. Franklin; Stephanie L. Davis, also known as Latisha Reed; and Brian Gardner — include two felony counts against each, the U.S. attorney’s office said.

“I think that our system is working because we caught these people,” Andrew Ginsberg, head organizer for Kansas City ACORN, said in an interview. “Sometimes people cheat, whether they make eight dollars an hour or eight million an hour.”

This is, by the way, part of a national investigation into the liberal ACORN’s fraudulent voter registration activities, which have been well documented.

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I know y’all are like “damm dude enough about Herman!”
Er Uh, no NO. Why? Because Kerry was the Democrats choice last election cycle to lead this nation. Therefore until the Democrats nominate another individual as the presidential nominee Herman is it.
So anything he says and does is representative of the Democratic Party, because we all know that tis how y’all think anywho.    

 By JOHN SOLOMON

WASHINGTON (AP) - During a Vietnam-era run for Congress three decades ago, John Kerry said he opposed a volunteer Army because it would be dominated by the underprivileged, be less accountable and be more prone to “the perpetuation of war crimes.”

Kerry, a decorated Vietnam veteran who turned against the war, made the observations in answers to a 1972 candidate questionnaire from a Massachusetts peace group.

After Kerry caused a firestorm this week with what he termed a botched campaign joke that Republicans said insulted current soldiers, The Associated Press was alerted to the historical comments by a former law enforcement official who monitored 1970s anti-war activities

Kerry apologized Wednesday for the 2006 campaign trail gaffe that some took as suggesting U.S. soldiers fighting in Iraq were undereducated. He contended the remark was aimed at Bush, not the soldiers.

In 1972, as he ran for the House, he was less apologetic in his comments about the merits of a volunteer army. He declared in the questionnaire that he opposed the draft but considered a volunteer army “a greater anathema.”

“I am convinced a volunteer army would be an army of the poor and the black and the brown,” Kerry wrote. “We must not repeat the travesty of the inequities present during Vietnam. I also fear having a professional army that views the perpetuation of war crimes as simply ‘doing its job.’

“Equally as important, a volunteer army with our present constitutional crisis takes accountability away from the president and put the people further from control over military activities,” he wrote.

Kerry’s spokesman, David Wade, said Wednesday the historical document needed to be viewed in the era in which it was written but that it nonetheless raised a “bedrock question in a time of war when sacrifice should be shared by all Americans.”

“These are the words 34 years ago of a 28-year-old veteran home from a war gone wrong, wondering who in America will bear the cost of battle and shoulder the responsibility of military service,” Wade said.

Kerry filled out the candidate questionnaire at the request of Massachusetts Political Action for Peace, an anti-war group that decades later turned over its historical documents to university researchers.

AP obtained the document from someone who gathered it from archives during Kerry’s unsuccessful 2004 presidential campaign against President Bush. Republicans in that election relentlessly assailed Kerry’s role in the anti-war movement decades earlier.

Kerry and Bush renewed their rivalry again this week, with the president accusing Kerry of offending troops. Kerry said he botched the text of a joke and didn’t mean to insult troops.

On Wednesday, Kerry canceled campaign appearance on behalf of Democratic congressional candidates and issued an apology.

By Mona Charen - Townhall.com  

I can understand why Democrats are jazzed about November’s election. The polls combined with the fawning media (”Oh, please, Sen. Obama, let us kiss the hem of your garment!”) are giving them goose bumps such as they have not experienced since “An Inconvenient Truth” debuted in theaters.

What I don’t understand is the seeming tepidness of so many Republicans. Yes, the war in Iraq is a long, hard slog. The world is not Topeka, Kansas (would that it were). A journalist pointed out to President Bush at his most recent press conference that the Iraq war has now been going on as long as World War II did for the United States. Well, yes, but we lost 407,316 men in World War II. On Iwo Jima alone, we lost 6,800. This is not to say that the deaths of our people in Iraq should be trivialized. But comparisons with World War II — in terms of sacrifice and terrible price paid — are ridiculous.

Republicans have abundant reasons to reserve a spot at their polling places on Election Day:

1) The economy. More than 6.6 million new jobs have been created since August 2003. Our 4.1 annual growth rate is superior to all other major industrialized nations. The Dow has set record highs multiple times in the past several weeks. Productivity is up, and the deficit is down. Real, after-tax income has grown by 15 percent since 2001. Inflation has remained low. As Vice President Cheney summed it up at a recent meeting with journalists, “What more do you want?” The tax cuts proposed by President Bush and passed by a Republican Congress can take a bow.

2) The Patriot Act. Democrats and liberals mourn this law as a gross infringement upon civil liberties. Yet the much-discussed abuses simply haven’t materialized. The law has, on the other hand, permitted the CIA and FBI to cooperate and share information about terrorist threats — at least so long as The New York Times isn’t publishing the details of our counterterrorism efforts on the front page.

3) The Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty, to which liberals clung with passionate intensity, has been cancelled, permitting us to work on missile defense. In the age of Kim Jong Il and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, is anyone (except Nancy Pelosi) sorry?

4) Immigration. Republicans in Congress insisted upon and got the first serious immigration restriction in decades. On Oct. 26, the president signed a law that will build a 700-mile fence along our southern border and, what is more important, does not offer amnesty.

5) There has not been another terrorist attack on American soil since 9/11. Who would have predicted that on 9/12?

6) Libya has surrendered its nuclear program.

7) A.Q. Khan’s nuclear smuggling network has been rolled up.

8) John Roberts and Samuel Alito sit on the U.S. Supreme Court.

9) Those Democrats who do not want to close Guantanamo Bay altogether want to give all of its inmates the full panoply of rights Americans enjoy in criminal procedures.

10) Democrats believe in immediate withdrawal from Iraq. If they succeed in forcing us to leave under these circumstances, the United States will suffer a stinging defeat in the war on terror. The terrorists already believe that they drove the Russians from Afghanistan and Israel from Lebanon and Gaza. They are convinced they chased us out of Lebanon in 1983 and from Somalia in 1993. According to Osama bin Laden and those who share his views, we are militarily strong but psychologically and spiritually weak. Like it or not — and no one likes it — we cannot leave Iraq now without utterly and decisively validating this analysis. We might as well run a white flag up the flagpole at the Capitol.

11) Democrats would like to eliminate the terrorist surveillance program.

12) If Democrats achieve a majority in the House, Barney Frank will chair the Financial Services Committee, Henry Waxman will head the Government Reform Committee, and Alcee Hastings will chair the Intelligence Committee.

13) Democrats believe that the proper response to Kim Jong Il’s nuclear test is “face to face talks.” That’s what the Clinton administration did for years.

It worked out well, didn’t it?

SNOOP NOTE: Just FYI, I first posted this on October 10 0853a From the Democrats can’t shut up file.

This is why personally I’m not that concerned about the upcoming elections. Because Democrats are not bright enough to take a good situation, as they have now and run with it. The only thing they need to do is “shut the hell up”, don’t say anything.
Allow the media, Chris Matthews, Olbermann, Couric, to do the dirty work and just hang out until election day. But Noooooo!, Kerry and Clinton had to open their mouths and say the most predictable and partisan statements they could make.
Democrats are incapable of keeping their mouths shut. I swear most of them are not that damm bright, which is why I simply can’t take most Democrats seriously.
Just watch in the days leading up to the election how many ignorant ass Democrats will say something completely stupid and meaningless in the grand scheme of wining in November.
Tag Mr. Dean, your turn.

 (NEWSMAX) -Democrats seized on North Korea’s brazen act to criticize President Bush’s record in confronting the communist regime, contending the administration’s focus on Iraq ignored legitimate threats.
Democratic Sen. John Kerry, the president’s rival in 2004 and a potential 2008 candidate, assailed Bush’s policy as a “shocking failure,” and said, “While we’ve been bogged down in Iraq where there were no weapons of mass destruction, a madman has apparently tested the ultimate weapon of mass destruction.”
One month before midterm elections, North Korea’s reported nuclear test provided Republicans an opportunity to shift the focus from their embarrassing - and politically explosive - congressional page scandal to national security, an issue the GOP considers its strength.
Sen. Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, the Senate’s second-ranking Republican, accused Democrats of playing partisan politics with a nuclear weapons threat. “Listening to some Democrats, you’d think the enemy was George Bush, not Kim Jong Il,” he said.
Seizing on North Korea’s actions to argue Republicans are stronger on security than Democrats is riddled with pitfalls and leaves the GOP’s standard-bearer - Bush - as well as his rank-and-file vulnerable to criticism.
The president long has faced complaints that he has failed to sufficiently address North Korea and the threat has festered on his watch.
In the nearly five years since Bush labeled North Korea part of an “axis of evil” with Iran and Iraq, Kim Jong Il’s government has withdrawn from the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, announced it has nuclear weapons, refused to return to six-nation talks and launched seven missiles into the Sea of Japan, including a long-range Taepodong-2.

SNOOP NOTE: From the Democrats can’t shut up file, this was posted October 13 also 

I told you these idiot Democrats can’t shut the hell up, man this is too easy!

 

 By Randy Hall
CNSNews.com Staff Writer/Editor - Link
(CNSNews.com) - “Screw them,” Rep. John Murtha said of Republicans in an email sent to the liberal political group MoveOn.org on Wednesday. The Pennsylvania Democrat, who is urging a U.S. military withdrawal from Iraq, added that he needs its members’ help to throw GOP congressmen “out of power — as many of them as possible.”

“A year ago when I presented my plan for Iraq, I did it to provide leadership and protect our troops,” Murtha stated in his email. “The Republicans have spent their time name-calling while the situation for our troops in Iraq gets worse. They’ve tried to smear me, other veterans, Democrats, you and anybody who stands up to them.

“Well, let me say one thing right now: screw them,” the 16-term congressman declared. “Those gravestones at Arlington cemetery don’t say Democrat or Republican on them. We are all patriots.

“As long as Republicans are in charge,” Murtha added in his email, “they’re just going to keep playing politics instead of doing what needs to be done for the American people.

“And that’s why we need to throw them out of power — as many of them as possible,” he stated.

“I’ve never been one to go out front and lead the charge in the elections — but I learned that these Republicans in charge right now couldn’t care less about getting out of Iraq,” Murtha alleged. “Only a switch of power will change things.

“I’m working hard to turn the mess in Iraq around — but I need more good people in Congress with me,” Murtha stated. He referred to “outstanding” candidates that he would like to see elected, such as fellow Pennsylvania Democrats Lois Murphy in the 6th District and Chris Carney in the 10th District, as well as Zack Space, a candidate in Ohio’s 18th District race.

“The three candidates who need your support today will fight side-by-side with me in Congress when the time comes to hold George W. Bush’s feet to the fire,” Murtha stated. “Can I count on you to chip in $25 or more?” he asked.

As Cybercast News Service previously reported, MoveOn.org announced in mid-August that it was coming to the defense of Murtha and other Democrats who oppose the war in Iraq.

At that time, MoveOn’s Political Action Team accused “Republican operatives” of attacking Murtha and stated in an email there was “no damn way we’re going to let them get away with it.” The group pledged to “go on offense” against the GOP in the mid-term elections with “a hard-hitting new TV ad about Iraq.”

But on Thursday, Bill Pascoe, a spokesman for Murtha’s opponent, Republican Diana Irey told Cybercast News Service that “Jack Murtha’s recent fundraising solicitation on behalf of the radical leftwing group MoveOn.org shows voters of Pennsylvania’s 12th District again just how far out of touch with their mainstream conservative values he’s willing to go to curry favor from his new liberal buddies.”

“Just as important, his two-word screed about those who would dare disagree with him politically — ’screw them’ — is evidence of his hatred for political dissent and his rejection of the notion of honest and fair debate,” Pascoe added.

“This email just goes to prove what Diana Irey has been saying for months — if you thought the Jack Murtha of 2006 was the same guy you’d been voting for, for years you don’t know Jack — and you can find out more by visiting YouDontKnowJack.org and seeing for yourself.”

Also on Thursday, Larry Bailey, president of Vets for the Truth (VFTT) — an organization working to “boot Murtha” from Congress on Nov. 7 — agreed that the congressman’s attitude in his email is something voters should consider.

Bailey told Cybercast News Service: “‘Screw them’ is what John Murtha has said for 32 years to:

“Iraq War veterans, who have tried unsuccessfully to discuss that conflict with Murtha;

“Honest citizens, who are berated, cursed and threatened by Murtha goons;

“Taxpayers, who have to come up with the money for Murtha’s self-serving appropriations ‘earmarks;’

“Troops in Iraq, who are unjustly characterized by Murtha for having ‘killed innocent civilians in cold blood;’

“Honest politicians, who object to the ‘bully-boy’ tactics employed by Murtha in getting his way; and

“Anyone who dares to disagree with or vote against John Murtha.
“‘Screw them’ might well be the epitaph inscribed on Murtha’s tombstone,” Bailey stated.

“‘Screw you, Murtha!’ might well be the verdict rendered by the voters of the 12th District of Pennsylvania on Nov. 7,” he added. “That will be what those voters will be saying to MoveOn.org as well.”

SNOOP NOTE: More from the Democrats can’t shut up file. This was first posted October 13.

By KATHLEEN HENNESSEY
ASSOCIATED PRESS  - Link

LAS VEGAS (AP) - The nation has been “jammed into an ideological corner” by conservative Republicans and is primed for a power shift in the November elections, former President Bill Clinton said Thursday.

“This is an election unlike any other I have ever participated in,” Clinton told Democratic supporters at a fundraiser in Las Vegas. “For six years this country has been totally dominated - not by the Republican Party, this is not fair to the Republican Party - by a narrow sliver of the Republican Party, its more right-wing and its most ideological element.”

“When the chips are down, this country has been jammed to the right, jammed into an ideological corner, alienated from its allies, and we’re in a lot of trouble,” he said.

Clinton addressed a group of about 50 top-level donors to the Jack Carter for Senate campaign. Carter, the son of former President Jimmy Carter, is running to unseat Republican Sen. John Ensign.

Clinton also attended a fundraiser for Democratic congressional candidates Jill Derby and Tessa Hafen at which the minimum contribution was $3,000.

He appeared onstage with Hafen, Derby, Carter and Rep. Shelley Berkley, D-Nev., but did not take questions from the media or comment on recent criticism of his administration’s policy on nuclear nonproliferation in North Korea.

The former president largely stuck to politics.

“The Democratic Party has become the liberal and conservative party in America. If you want to be fiscally conservative, you’ve got to be for us. If you want to conserve natural resources, you’ve got to be for us,” he said. “If you want a change of course in Iraq … you’ve got to be for us.”

Clinton also attacked Republican tax cuts, describing a repeal of the estate tax as the GOP’s top legislative priority.

“They may think I should be able to give Chelsea every nickel, but I don’t,” Clinton said.

Tucker Bounds, spokesman for the Republican National Committee, returned the criticism.

“It’s going to take more than a Bill Clinton stopover to change the minds of the majority of Nevadans,” he said.

“Republicans have solid candidates on the ballot that are going to keep taxes low and continue to fight terrorism,” Bounds said. He said the party had not fallen out of step with voters.

“Keeping taxes low and the economy healthy is not a fringe belief. It is a popular belief in Nevada and a popular belief in most every other state.”

Clinton did not mention Rep. Jon Porter, Hafen’s opponent, or Nevada Secretary of State Dean Heller, Derby’s opponent, by name. He dismissed Ensign as “a sort of a likable fellow” with “good relations with most of the powers-that-be here in the state,” perhaps a reference to Ensign’s working relationship with Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev.

Clinton, who recently made fundraising stops for Democrats in Minnesota and New Jersey, also said he was embarrassed by the recent immigration debate.

He noted that Mexico had become one of the U.S.’s top 10 creditors.

“These people are our bankers,” Clinton said. “Doesn’t it embarrass you that these poor people are trying to sneak over the Rio Grande River to find a living in this country and we want to stop that? But we’re only too happy to turn around and say, ‘Don’t spend your own money on those poor illegal immigrants to give them an education and get a job in Mexico. Loan it to us.’”

Remember in this post I said idiot Democrats will continue to say stupid shit and HURT their chances in November. Democrats are incapable of shutting the hell up and allowing a good situation to just evolve. Everything is in the Democrats favor if they just don’t screw it up. Fortunately for the GOP they will, prominent Democrats will continue to speak in tired sound bites reminding voters, particularly independents, how silly and simplistic they are. 

You know I have to say this, I don’t know what is going to happen next week, well I’ll predict that that Republicans will hold court next week.
Even if the Republican lose control, people like John Kerry, Patty Murray, Dick Turbin, Ted Kennedy, Nancy Pelosi and just about all other Democrats is reason enough for me to repeat what I have said many times. I THANK GOD; I’m not a Democrat, nor a liberal.
I have never been more serious.
If I were an individual who looked up to, admired, supported and Lord help me voted for   the likes of the people mentioned above I would have to have some serious issues goin on upstairs.
While watching John Kerry implode yesterday all I could do was smile because this piece of crap anti-American thug now has NO CHANCE of running this country and that tis something to be thankful for.

 

Kerry insults the troops
Kennedy and the KGB *Part 2
Durbin smears the troops
Murray praises Osama

 

 

 

 

 WATCH VENT HERE

 

 IN CASE YOU FORGOT… 

Murray’s remarks on bin Laden draw GOP ire

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

WASHINGTON — Sen. Patty Murray intended to be provocative when she told a group of high school students terrorist leader Osama bin Laden is popular in poor countries because he helped pay for schools, roads and even day care centers.

“We haven’t done that,” Murray said. “How would they look at us today if we had been there helping them with some of that rather than just being the people who are going to bomb in Iraq and go to Afghanistan?”

Murray’s remarks, to a group of students in Vancouver, Wash., started even more discussion than she expected after they were published Thursday in The Columbian newspaper of Vancouver and then picked up by The Associated Press.

By Friday, the Murray story was the lead item on the “Drudge Report” Web site and a main topic for talk show host Sean Hannity and other conservative pundits.

Murray’s comments sparked national debate on talk radio and prompted readers to bombard the Web site of The Columbian, the Vancouver newspaper that first printed Murray’s remarks.

“Between (Murray) and Baghdad Jim (McDermott) I’m surprised the rest of the country even lets Washington send reps to DC anymore,” wrote one e-mailer, identified only as robertb.

Another e-mailer, identified as Truthspeaker, said that if Murray “does not like the way President Bush is running the government, then by all means, she is free to leave.”

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Boston Herald:
Hometown Paper Boos Kerry

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A Few Liberal Bloggers Not Happy With Kerry
By Susan Jones - CNSNews.com Senior Editor

(CNSNews.com) - Radio talk-show host Don Imus on Wednesday morning urged Sen. John F. Kerry to disappear for a while: “Please, stop it. Stop talking. (Kerry laughs.) Go home. Get on the bike. Go windsurfing. Anything. Stop it. Don’t. You’re going to ruin this.”

Kerry said he’s “not going to let these guys distort something completely out of its context solely for the purpose of avoiding responsibility.” He said “everybody knows” he “botched a joke” on Monday, when — in the course of a speech — he appeared to insult young Americans fighting in Iraq.

“Education, if you make the most of it, you study hard, and you do your homework and you make an effort to be smart, you can do well,” Kerry told students in Pasadena while campaigning for California gubernatorial candidate Phil Angelides. “If you don’t, you get stuck in Iraq,” he added.

Democratic blogs on Tuesday and Wednesday were strongly supportive of Kerry, with many liberals praising him for finally “fighting back.” That’s why the very few comments criticizing Kerry’s “botched joke” on U.S. troops) stood out.

A blogger on the Democratic National Committee website wrote that Kerry “cost us us the 2004 election. I don’t think we should allow him to cost us again. I wish he would just shut up and go away.”

And a blogger on the Democratic Underground website opined, We would all be better served if those candidates gunning for 2008 would please shut up and stay quietly on the sidelines until after Nov. 7.” This blogger called Kerry’s remarks “stupid…off the cuff at a time when Dems can’t afford” to mess up, especially so close to an election.

And a blogger on Kerry’s own website wrote that “John Kerry is a bitter, bitter man. Maybe he slipped in his speech. I’d like to give him a pass. But his response at his press conference later in the day, attacking President Bush and Rush Limbaugh. Shameful. Very shameful.”

Another blogger on Kerry’s website wrote that Kerry’s comments “came across the wrong way to many people.” This blogger said the “misinterpretation may hurt some of the Democratic candidates that Sen. Kerry has worked so hard to promote and I think he should apologize for the way this comment came across and try to do as much damage control as possible at this critical time before next Tuesday’s election.”

And then there’s this - again, from the blog on Kerry’s website: “He just doesn’t get it. His views about the war in Iraq are not the issue. He showed poor judgment at best, great disrespect at worst…I’m a Democrat and I’m concerned about this war, but I don’t like John Kerry. He’s an arrogant man.”

While some Democrats are upset with Kerry’s foot-in-mouth comments, others may be secretly rejoicing that the 2004 presidential candidate appears to be knocking himself out of the running in 2008.

Those rejoicing would be the Democrats with presidential ambitions of their own. But with the exception of Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), who demanded an apology from Kerry, none of the 2008 presidential hopefuls on the Democratic side are saying anything publicly at the moment.

Horrorfest 2006:
House Intel Cmte Chair Hastings?
House Judic. Cmte Chair Conyers?
Sen. Educ&Labor Chair Kennedy?
House Taxat’n Chair Rangel?
Speaker of the House Pelosi?

WATCH HERE

IN CASE YOU FORGOT - Link
In 1989, Hastings was impeached by the U.S. House of Representatives for corruption and perjury. The Democratic-controlled Senate convicted Judge Hastings of accepting a $150,000 bribe in 1981 in exchange for a lenient sentence. He became only the sixth Judge in the history of impeachment in the United States to be removed from office by the United States Senate.

His impeachment was remanded back to the Senate by Judge Stanley Sporkin for procedural reasons, but the Supreme Court ruled in a similar case, regarding Judge Walter Nixon, who had also been impeached and removed, that the courts had no jurisdiction to review Senate impeachment procedures. Hastings’ case was dismissed, and his impeachment and removal remained valid.

The Senate had the option to forbid Hastings from ever seeking federal office again when it removed him, but did not do so.

OH NOW WE’RE THE NUTS! Man I need to send Kerry a gift, the Democrats must be having a collective meltdown. 

By Nathan Burchfiel - CNSNews.com Staff Writer - Link
October 31, 2006

(1st Add: Includes additional comments from White House Press Secretary Tony Snow.)

(CNSNews.com) - Raising eyebrows and infuriating conservatives, Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) in a speech Monday encouraged young people to get an education or “get stuck in Iraq.”

“Education, if you make the most of it, you study hard, and you do your homework and you make an effort to be smart, you can do well,” Kerry told students in Pasadena while campaigning for California gubernatorial candidate Phil Angelides.

“If you don’t, you get stuck in Iraq,” he added.

The comment set off a firestorm on conservative websites, with some commentators accusing him of “elitism,” and of “smearing” the troops by implying that they are uneducated.

Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz) called on Kerry to apologize Tuesday.

In a statement posted on his political action committee’s website, McCain said Kerry “owes an apology to the many thousands of Americans serving in Iraq, who answered their country’s call because they are patriots and not because of any deficiencies in their education.”

“The suggestion that only the least educated Americans would agree to serve in the military and fight in Iraq, is an insult to every soldier serving in combat,” McCain said.

In a statement released Tuesday, Kerry accused White House Press Secretary Tony Snow and “assorted right-wing nut-jobs” of distorting the comments “to divert attention from their disastrous record.”

Snow told a press briefing Tuesday Kerry “not only owes an apology to those who are serving, but also to the families of those who’ve given their lives in this.”

“This is an absolute insult, and I’m a little astonished that he didn’t figure it out already.” Snow added.

“If anyone thinks a veteran would criticize more than 140,000 heroes serving in Iraq and not the president who got us stuck there, they’re crazy,” Kerry said.

“I’m sick and tired of these despicable Republican attacks that always seem to come from those who never can be found to serve in war, but love to attack those who did.”

DUDE SOUNDS PISSED….I WONDER WHY?  LOL!

From Wizbang 

Hot Air has the audio. 

Michelle Malkin has a lot of seething reaction.

This is why I believe that the Democrats won’t win next week.
These people lead by the likes of John Kerry, these people are the biggest bunch of moronic dolts I have ever seen.
You Democrats had this election won, it was yours for the taking, all you had to do was run a clean quiet campaign, but NOOOOOOO!
You continue to put your foot in your mouths.
I’m praying Republicans will wake up and not allow these crazy bastards to take over.

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Sister Toldjah - And this man could have been president, part 2: How John Kerry “supports the troops”

Murdoc Online - This man was close to being our President

 

                                                                                                                                                       

Hugh Hewitt has a few words about the dishonorable Senator Kerry:

has a few words about the dishonorable Senator Kerry:

has a few words about the dishonorable Senator Kerry: The Kerry sneer is part and parcel of the Pelosi Democrats, just as the attempt to suppress the votes of military serving overseas in the Florida recount is part of the Democratic Party legacy.There is a reason why an overwhelming majority of the military supports the president and votes GOP. They know the contempt most of the left feels for them and their mission, and they won’t be fooled by appearances at Veteran’s Day parades.

Any vote for any Democrat is not only a vote against victory and a vote for vulnerability. It is also a vote against the military. “End up in Iraq” if you don’t study hard and do your homework? Simply disgusting. What a miserable man.

 

UPDATE - Just a little curious, so I went to the following blogs as of (Noon central), these are the ones I read often and NONE had anything about the John Kerry flap.
This tells me everything I need to know about what the liberal Democrats think of this.
“OH SHIT, HE SAID WHAT!?”  
Fire Dog Lake
Huffington Post
America Blog
Kos
The News Blog
JABBS
Media Matters
My DD
Liberal Oaisis
Pandagon
Oliver Willis
Eschaton
Talk Left
Dem Bloggers
Crooks and Liars

UPDATE II -  I finally found a liberal blog that posted something 

While I disagree with Kerry on the troops’ IQ levels, I agree that they are generally uneducated, and that is the problem. They don’t go to college because they can’t afford to, apparently poverty is a concept that does not factor in Kerry’s political calculations.

Let Snoop be real clear here. This is not about woo hoo, Black Democrats are supporting a Republican. This is about black folks waking up and leveraging their vote.
Democrats have been screwing over black folks for years. The tide seems to be turning blacks are not buying into the Democrat bullshit and are finally taking action.
Democrats, liberals, the liberal media and liberal bloggers can continue to ignore the significance of the black vote if they want.
If this trend continues the Democratic Party is toast.

By S.A. Miller and Jon Ward
THE WASHINGTON TIMES 

Former Prince George’s County Executive Wayne K. Curry and five fellow black Democrats on the county council excoriated their party yesterday and endorsed Lt. Gov. Michael S. Steele, a Republican, for U.S. Senate.

“The [Democratic] Party acts as though when they want our opinion, they’ll give it to us. It’s not going to be like that anymore,” said Mr. Curry, who in 1994 became the county’s first black executive and remains influential in the mostly black and heavily Democratic county.

Mr. Curry and the lawmakers said Democratic leaders repeatedly have snubbed the black community and their county, noting the lack of party support for the Senate campaign of former National Association for the Advancement of Colored People chief Kweisi Mfume, who lost the Democratic primary to Rep. Benjamin L. Cardin.

The Democratic ticket lacks black candidates, they said, and candidates from Prince George’s County, which is home to more than 320,000 registered Democrats – the most of any jurisdiction in Maryland.
“We’re not puppets. We’re not gullible,” Mr. Curry said during a press conference at the Infusion Tea Cafe in Largo. “This ain’t the first time we’ve charged up a hill.”
He was joined by fellow black Democrats David Harrington of Bladensburg, Samuel H. Dean of Bowie, Camille A. Exum of Capitol Heights, Tony Knotts of Temple Hills and Marilyn Bland of Clinton — all officials on the nine-member county council.

Other black Democratic leaders endorsing Mr. Steele yesterday included Major Riddick, former chief of staff for former Gov. Parris N. Glendening; Ron Lipscomb, a major fundraiser and trustee of the state party; and businessmen Clayton Duhaney and M.A. “Mike” Little.
“There’s a revolution going on here,” said Jerry McLaurin, a county developer and Steele supporter who attended the announcement. “This is going to radiate throughout the county like an explosion.”
Mr. Steele, who lives in the county and is the first black to be elected to statewide office in Maryland, said he was “humbled.”

“As I started this campaign, I said to myself I didn’t want this to be so much about party as about people, and these individuals seem to understand and appreciate that as well,” he said.
The endorsements were issued as Democratic officials are scrambling to secure their most loyal bloc — black voters.

Mr. Curry said the Steele endorsements are “the continuation of a long civil rights struggle.”
Mr. Dean, a former council chairman who was elected in 2002 with 93 percent of the vote, said blacks have had a one-sided relationship with the Democratic Party since they shifted allegiance from the Republican Party in 1932.
“We were in the Democratic Party while they were lynching black folks. We were in the Democratic Party while they were segregating folks,” Mr. Dean said. “We have been loyal Democrats, [but] when the party has an opportunity to do something to show that their base is recognized, appreciated and acknowledged, they don’t.”

“The issue is what we want not only from the state party but from the national party,” he said. “Give us respect. We cannot continue to be in the room but not allowed to come to the table. What we are doing now is saying, ‘Forget it. We are not going to wait for you to bring us to the table. We are going to not only get to the table, we are going to take it.’ “

Other Maryland Democratic leaders — such as U.S. House Minority Whip Steny H. Hoyer, Prince George’s County Executive Jack B. Johnson and Delegate Anthony G. Brown of Prince George’s County, who is running for lieutenant governor — declined to comment.

A Cardin campaign spokesman did not return calls.
Mr. Cardin, a white 10-term congressman from Baltimore, said this weekend that his “message to the African-American community and to all communities is that we’ve got to change the priorities in Washington.”
“You’re twice as likely to be without health insurance if you’re African-American. So, yes, [black voters are] concerned about a senator who’s going to stand up for universal health coverage. I will. Michael Steele won’t. He supports George Bush’s policies,” Mr. Cardin said.

Mr. Curry said that Mr. Steele is a “good man with a good plan,” and although he differs with some of Mr. Steele’s views, he also differs with some of the Democratic Party’s platform.
He said the lieutenant governor is “most responsive to the things that will make our futures brighter.”

 Mac Johnson - Human Events - Link
Although the basic philosophy of conservatism is optimistic (a belief in the individual’s ability to succeed if left alone by government is at the core of the movement, after all), conservatives tend to be chronically depressed when it comes to politics and elections.

Not only does government seem to grow ad nauseum with each passing year (especially under Democrats or George Bush), but a healthy touch of pessimism is a natural consequence of responsibility. Imagining what can go wrong is how responsible adults plan for the future. And conservatives are, disproportionately, among the responsible part of the population—responsible for paying the taxes, fighting the wars, raising the children, and running the businesses.  

So it is not surprising that conservatives have a tendency to see the worst in every political event. This means that oftentimes conservatives completely overlook when they have actually won a major victory—concentrating instead on spotting the next potential defeat. This is what has occurred regarding the battle over illegal immigration and amnesty this past year.

At the beginning of 2006, the constellations were in perfect alignment for the forces of open borders and amnesty. Ready to push for amnesty—and the next flood of illegal alien interlopers it would bring- was the mainstream media, nearly all Congressional Democrats, President Bush and Karl Rove, John McCain and much of the Senate leadership of the GOP, the Wall Street Journal Editorial Page and its disciples, sellout union “leaders,” corrupt corporations, every ethnic grievance group in the country, a number of imbecile bishops, academia, the rabid moonbat left, 20 million street-storming illegal aliens, and every weenie in America afraid of being called a racist.

All amnesty opponents had going for them was the wishes of a majority of the American people and the rank-and-file Republicans in Congress. And yet amnesty was defeated in a spectacular fashion. Many conservatives, who were angry that the victory had to be achieved over the political carcasses of our own President and Senate leaders, did not appreciate the scale and significance of this victory at the time. An army that has to mutiny just to be able to fight the enemy is inherently demoralized by that fact.

Given such circumstances, it’s easy to resort to jaded and safe clichés such as “there’s no difference between the two parties.”  But the simple fact is there’s a huge difference between the parties on the amnesty issue: Republicans are divided over it, with most opposing amnesty. For Democrats there is no such division—they wholeheartedly support amnesty.

H.R. 4437, the bill establishing increased border security efforts and rejecting amnesty, was supported by 203 of 231 (88%) Republicans in the House—only 17 voted against it. By contrast, only 36 Democrats (18%) voted for the bill, 164 voted against it, hoping to pass an amnesty instead. In the Senate, the only opposition to amnesty came from Republicans—60% of them opposed it. 93% of Senate Democrats supported amnesty.

That’s the choice this election presents for opponents of open borders: support the Republicans that rose up against their leadership to oppose amnesty, or support the Democrats who will gleefully pass an amnesty just as soon as they are sworn in and able.

And here’s the real kicker: booting Republicans from control of the House to punish George Bush and John McCain for their ludicrous border policies will have the ironic effect of ensuring they finally get the amnesty they want. If Democrats win big next week, the Senate will resurrect their amnesty bill, a Democrat controlled House will pass it, and there can be no doubt that President George W. Bush will sign it with far more fanfare and enthusiasm than he displayed when he signed the bill initiating construction of 700 miles of border fence—a bill that Republican Congressman forced on him in response to voter pressure.

In short, voting Democrat, or not voting at all, merely amounts to cutting off our Tancredo to spite our Bush. It would be throwing away the tremendous victory we have won this year and, worse, set in motion a tsunami of increased illegal immigration.

Today’s illegal immigration problem is a direct result of the 1986 amnesty. Far from “solving” the relatively small illegal alien problem America had then (3 million), it made the problem far, far worse by sending the message out to all the world that the secret to a better life in America was to just get here: sneak in, lie your way in, buy your way in, but just get here and we will let you stay, forgive you, and eventually make you a citizen.

And the world heard the message. Today the population of immigration criminals hiding in America waiting for the next amnesty is 12 million to 20 million. We cannot afford another such amnesty solution. The only way to undo the damage of the 1986 amnesty is to put aside talk of new amnesties or guest worker scams and begin to vigorously enforce the laws on immigration.

In the long term, illegal immigration may be the biggest threat facing the United States. Americans are only 5% of the world’s population. If the borders are thrown completely open by another amnesty, we face the very real prospect of being made a minority in what used to be our country.

If, as a voter, you are concerned about illegal immigration and border security, then a Republican Congress is currently the best insurance policy you can buy—not just against Democrats in Congress, but against the Republican in the White House as well.

The next battle for our borders occurs Tuesday, November 7, at a polling place near you. Vote. Or you can spend the day in Spanish class.

By Halimah Abdullah - Link

The rocky marriage of religion and politics was tested again last weekend when Democratic Senate candidate Harold Ford Jr. criticized the GOP’s approach to faith.
During a stop Saturday in Paris, Tenn., Ford said one of the hallmarks of the Democratic Party is that members don’t “use the Bible to judge people.”

He then quoted from the Bible about “the spirit of fear,” and living in the spirit of love, and he paraphrased U.S. Rep. Lincoln Davis, D-Tenn.
“My friend Lincoln Davis, who chairs this campaign, says there is one big difference between us and … Republicans when it comes to our faith,” Ford said. “He said ‘Republicans fear the Lord. Democrats fear and love the Lord.’”

After Saturday night’s debate in Nashville, Ford told reporters that the comment wasn’t directed at Corker.

“I just made the point … people who go around and try to judge other people are to be real careful,” Ford said.

However, Republican opponent Bob Corker’s campaign and supporters said the comments crossed the line.

“If Harold Ford believes what he said about our relationship with God is true, then it’s incredibly disturbing,” Rep. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., said in a prepared statement. “It’s outrageous for Harold Ford to say that someone’s love for the Lord depends on their political views — and it is offensive to all Tennesseans who want their next senator to bring people together, not divide them.”

Religious rehetoric has “been used fairly effectively by Ford to insulate himself against personal attacks,” said Bruce Oppenheimer, a political science professor at Vanderbilt University. “Clearly the turning point of this was the ad in the church.”

Ford’s ad, filmed inside Mt. Moriah East Baptist Church in Orange Mound, was widely hailed by pundits as successful and criticized by some civil liberty and interfaith groups as questionable.

“The recent rush of candidates-political parties — and their often aggressive tactics — to reach out to ‘people of faith’ lures religious organizations and religious leaders into dangerous legal territory,” C. Welton Gaddy, president of the 185,000-member Interfaith Alliance, wrote in a letter last month to the national chairmen of the Republican and Democratic parties.

“We didn’t mix religion and politics,” Ford told an interfaith gathering at a prayer breakfast in Chattanooga earlier this month after quoting from Ephesians. “I am who I am. I can’t step out of who I am when I go to work.”

The National Republican Senatorial Committee released a commercial that borrowed heavily from Ford’s church ad and questioned his God-focused image in light of his attendance at a Playboy-sponsored party last year.

Behind the back-and-forth is a battle over religious voters, a demographic that in previous election years has helped turn out the Republican vote. This month, a Gallup poll found white religious voters “equally as likely to say they will vote Democratic as Republican,” a dramatic shift from their strong Republican leanings expressed in surveys conducted earlier in the year.

“One of the things the Republicans have done very well over the last 20 years or so is make religion one of their cornerstones,” said John Geer, a political science professor at Vanderbilt University. “The Democrats don’t want to give that ground up. Religion isn’t Democratic or Republican.”

 From Michelle Malkin

Remember how pathetic it was when the Left tried to make scandals out of books written by Lynne Cheney and Scooter Libby?

Cheney wrote a pulpy novel, “Sisters,” about a frontier woman that included graphic sexual passages and lesbian lovers. (A conservative-bashing site reprinted excerpts here.)

Libby wrote a pulpy novel, “The Apprentice,” a “story of innocence and temptation” set in turn-of-the-century Japan that included graphic sexual passages–including bestiality and a scene in which the brothers of a dead samurai have sex with his daughter.

Both were works of fiction. You know, stuff that’s made up.

Now, the George Allen campaign has detonated its October surprise using the same tactics as Cheney’s and Libby’s critics–attacking the fiction of his Democrat opponent, James Webb via an official “press release” sent to the Drudge Report last night. Are the passages in Webb’s “Lost Soldiers” bizarre and perverted? Yes. But they are no more proof of Webb’s immorality and unfitness for office than the passages in “Sisters” are proof that Lynne Cheney hates men or that the passages in “The Apprentice” are proof that Scooter Libby endorses sex between children and bears.

John Hawkins, who first highlighted Webb’s fictional work here and here, does make a good point about media double standards:

It goes without saying that any Republican who wrote this sort of thing and ran for office would be absolutely ripped into a thousand pieces by the mainstream media.

Of course, John’s right.

Allah does him one better:

If George Allen had written this book, not only would the left be going berserk, they’d be circulating lists of characters in his other books whom they suspect of being gay.

Heh.

I don’t think, however, that the Allen campaign–couldn’t they leave this to surrogates?–should be trafficking in this late October muck. It is beneath them and there’s plenty else about Webb that is damning.

Like Webb’s lying about leading the “fight” to include an African-American soldier in the Vietnam War soldier’s memorial.

Or his non-fiction writing about women in the military.

And what happened to focusing on Webb’s stance on taxes, as fiscal conservatives in Virginia have been urging?

Political strategists in the Beltway are exulting that “Webb is toast” as a result of this Drudge/Allen bomb. But if this what Republican Senate candidates need to do to win elections, I don’t think any of us should be cheering.

 Michael J. Fox tells ABC he has not read Missouri’s Cloning/Stem Cell Amendment…

Fox: Well, I don’t think that’s true. You know, I campaigned for Claire McCaskill. And so I have to qualify it by saying I’m not qualified to speak on the page-to-page content of the initiative. Although, I am quite sure that I’ll agree with it in spirit, I don’t know, I— On full disclosure, I haven’t read it, and that’s why I didn’t put myself up for it distinctly.

 The best example of when you hear people bitching and complaining about how corrupt the members of Congress are, you know they are just blowing smoke out of their asses.
People say they want tighter controls on gubment spending, and more “fiscal responsibility” you know they are lying.
Politics are all about how much can you get for your people.
Who cares that Byrd is a senile, racist crazy old bastard, “he gets us stuff, lots of stuff.” 

Leaning on two canes, Sen. Robert C. Byrd hardly looks like a billion-dollar industry - or “Big Daddy,” as the 88-year-old Democrat calls himself.

No matter: Voters once again are looking beyond Byrd’s age to his political guile - and the truckloads of federal dollars he’s steered to West Virginia - as they consider whether to give him a record ninth term in the Senate.

“It’s not that we deserve more money than other states, but if he wasn’t there, we probably wouldn’t get as much as we should,” said Ally Hagsett, a Marshall University sophomore and Republican. “While he’s alive, we’d better get as much as we can.”

With Byrd, the getting’s often good: In the last decade alone, he’s brought home more than $2.2 billion to West Virginia. Today, it’s difficult to travel more than a few miles without coming across something plastered with his name - a building, a road, even a giant radio telescope.

This summer, the longest-serving senator in U.S. history played up that role when he dedicated the Robert C. Byrd Biotechnology Science Center at Marshall.

“I rolled up my sleeves to do the work in Congress, to secure the federal funding,” Byrd told the crowd. “Yeah, man, you’re looking at Big Daddy!”

Democrats and Republicans alike see the powerful member of the Senate Appropriations Committee as the state’s Santa Claus. And they shrug off any suggestion that Byrd’s age is a handicap: Byrd’s longevity puts him in line to become committee chairman, if Democrats win control of the Senate.

“It’s like he’s been in there 100 years, but that’s all right by me. (more…)

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Let ole Snoop be clear on something. There are some folks that have been peeping my blog ever since my old one “The Snoop Zone”. So they have heard the following rant  from me countless numbers of times. To those people, sorry for repeating.
So to those of you who don’t know, in regards to my politics I am a conservative and a Republican.
I have said to anyone who will listen, this blog is not about me trying to convince black folks that they should vote Republican just too simply dis Democrats.
All I have ever said is, since black people have voted 90% Democrat for the last 35 plus years you have to ask yourself what the fuck has Democrats done for blacks?
No other ethnic group votes exclusively for one party or another, not whites, not Muslims, not Mexicans, Chinese, Japanese, Indian whoever. It simply is not logical.
Democrats don’t nor will they ever care about black folks or put black folks in positions of power because they believe that “those niggas will vote for us no matter what we do.”
How else do you explain the flunkie status of Jackson, Sharpton, Belefonte, Glover, Whoppi and so on. These people get paid to keep Negors, dumb, ignorant and dependent.   
That pattern must change. I think it is slowly, but surely.
To those black folks that happen to peep this, I read tons of liberal content every day and none of them even address the importance of the black vote.
Other than the occasional good word for Obama they don’t give a shit about what Negros think.
The same second class status blacks are given in the media, the nation’s newsrooms, in Washington and even in liberal blogsphere the Democratic Party perpetuates that second class status.
This article in not pointing out anything new, but you sure as hell won’t see stories like this on MSM sources.
Let liberals and Democrats ignore this at their own peril.     

(Article/ By By Deborah Simmons - Washington Times) Blacks aren’t necessarily mad as hell, but they certainly aren’t taking it anymore. Times, they are a’changin’ — at last.
Shackled to the Democratic Party ever since the “Great Society” ushered in Head Start, the War on Poverty and historic civil rights legislation, black Americans — particlarly those who most benefitted from those heady days of the 1960s — are asking party leaders a profound question: “What have you done for me lately?”

Perhaps nowhere is the unshackling more prevalent than in Maryland’s Senate race, where a black Catholic Republican, Michael Steele, and a white Jewish Democrat, Ben Cardin, are head-to-head. While the historic significance of the race is lost on neither party — only Illinois and Massachusetts have elected black senators in modern-day America — the fact that blacks are crossing the partyline to support a Republican is being lost on the Democratic Party.

Indeed, both state and national party leaders were forewarned: Shun Kweisi Mfume’s Senate run and we’ll vote black. Well, guess what happened after Mr. Cardin got his way? The Democrats began unshackling themselves.
Black Democrats voiced their discontent. In fact, many former stalwarts endorsed Mr. Steele the week after Mr. Cardin defeated Mr. Mfume in the Demcratic primary. Said Judge Billy Murphy, an adviser to Maryland’s Republican governor: “Like so many people, who have come out today, I’m sick and tired of being taken for granted.” Another Democrat, lawyer A. Dwight Pettit, stood with Mr. Steele, too. Mr. Pettit pointed out, as other Democrats have, the lack of support from Maryland’s bluer-than-blue Democratic “bosses.” Mr. Pettit’s case is especially insightful. Not only did Democratic leaders ignore his candidacy for Baltimore state’s attorney in 1978, but they shunned his 1976 nomination for U.S. attorney by President Carter.

Who did they support instead? White candidates. Said Mr. Pettit: “We are on a national stage right now in Maryland to show that if the Republican Party reaches out to African-American communities, they are not foreclosed on immediately. The question is: What has the Democratic Party done for the African-American community.”
(As I wrote this column yesterday, Mr. Cardin, the white candidate, had turned down an offer from the NAACP to debate Michael Steele. Isn’t that a slap in the face? I can still remember well the names President Bush was called for not meeting with the NAACP.)

But not all “Steele Democrats” come from Baltimore, which is Mr. Cardin’s neck of the woods. They are all over Maryland — and you can find out who they are if you pay attention to what they are not saying. Maryland black caucus Democrats — i.e., those who already are members of the Congressional Black Caucus — are not attacking their Republican brother and it’s fairly obvious why. But for the benefit of those of who don’t, listen to my congresswoman. Eleanor Holmes Norton put it this way: “I think it is a tactical decision. If [Mr. Steele] has a large or fairly large black vote, why or how could you alienate that vote by going after him doing personal attacks? There’s just no way.”

It seems most of Mr. Steele’s fellow blacks fully grasped that strategic position. Then there’s “Brother Elijah Cummings” of Baltimore, who’s not even looking for the keys to the shackles. Unenlightened Democrats and other liberal souls call people like Mr. Steele all sorts of names. “Sellout.” “Bush Republican.”

Hmm. I wonder if those were “sellouts” who rejected Rep. Harold Ford Jr., a black Democrat, when he wanted to be House majority leader. (A white woman, Nancy Peolsi, bears that title instead.) I wonder if Mr. Cummings, who spent 16 years in the Maryland General Assembly with the good ol’ blue boys, was being forthright to Maryland voters in general and black Marylanders in particular about Mr. Steele. In September, Mr. Cummings said this about Mr. Steele: “We do not know who Michael Steele is, and we do not know what he stands for.” But in October, Mr. Cummings said this about his brother: “All you have to do is ask him where he is on issues … and Bush policies.” Mr. Mfume, for whom I have much respect for his candor about Democrats and their bigoted ways, lost his Maryland Senate bid because the Democrats who run the state and national party machines had decided long ago that they wanted a Paul Sarbanes clone, and Mr. Mfume failed the litmus test.

The Senate race in Maryland is exposing dirty little Democratic secrets. And alarms should be ringing from Maryland’s most southern tip straight through to Baltimore, the heart and soul of the Free State.
Mr. Steele is an anomaly, and Maryland voters, regardless of party affiliation, should be proud.
Besides, if Michael Steele is a Bush Republican, what does that make Ben Cardin?

I’m in no position to tell Maryland voters what to do, since I don’t live in Maryland. But I do offer this advice. If a politician asking you to vote for him is afraid to meet you face-to-face to ask for that vote — especially a Maryland politician, since Maryland has the largest constiuency in the NAACP — then what’s that politician going to do as your senator on an issue of vital importance to black America? Ask Harry Reid?
“Senator Cardin” is a very frightening prospect.

By Nathan Burchfiel CNSNews.com Staff Writer - Link
(CNSNews.com) - In an interview on Washington Post Radio Friday morning, Jim Webb, the Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate in Virginia, said excerpts of his novels are “a little bit inappropriate” to be read on news radio.

“I don’t know why you’re reading that on WTOP,” Webb told host Mark Plotkin. “I think it’s a little bit inappropriate.”

Plotkin was reading an excerpt from Webb’s novel “Something to Die For,” in which Webb describes a female stripper performing sexual acts with a banana.

“I don’t think that’s appropriate for you to read on WTOP,” Webb said again as Plotkin finished the excerpt. (Washington Post Radio is WTOP’s sister station.)

The campaign of Republican Sen. George Allen on Thursday released excerpts from some of the war novels Webb wrote between 1978 and 2002. The books include some graphic sexual passages, as well as frequent uses of a racial slur for blacks and descriptions of Vietnamese women as “monkey-faced.”

Among the excerpts is a scene from the 2002 novel “Lost Soldiers,” in which a man embraces his four-year-old son and places the boy’s penis in his mouth.

This ain’t a big deal to Democrats, hell Barney Frank I bet reads all of his material.
No, the lib Democrats will say, “those uptight, God loving idiot Republicans will blow this out of proportion.”
This is why liberal atheists are trying to make more noise than normal.
I can hear them now, “if we can get those conservatives to stop paying attention to that mythical god dude we can get more sexually deviant Senators in office!

Webb said the release of the excerpts was “a Karl Rove campaign tactic” and a “classic example of the way this campaign has worked. It’s smear after smear.”

What a pathetic bastard. The libs only comeback is to blame Karl Rove?
Are you Democrats that retarded? I swear it amazing that Rove is still the Democrats biggest boogeyman.

He defended his fiction as “illuminative.”

“It’s not a sexual act,”

NAW! A little boy sticking his dick in someone’s mouth, how the hell can that be sexual, silly me. 

 Webb told Plotkin regarding the “Lost Soldiers” excerpt. “I actually saw this happen in a slum in Bangkok when I was there as a journalist.”

“The duty of a writer is to illuminate his surroundings,” he added.

Coincidentally, a Cambodian woman in Las Vegas is facing sexual assault charges for performing a similar act on her young son, according to an Oct. 14 report in the Las Vegas Review-Journal.

The article quotes an office manager for the Cambodian Association of America, who described the act as a sign of respect or love.

“It’s an exception,” Thira Srey told the Review-Journal of the practice. According to the report, the act is usually performed by a mother or caretaker on a child who is one year old or younger. In Webb’s novel, the child is four years old.

Webb criticized the Allen campaign for focusing on excerpts from his novels.

“The most important issue facing the country, he hasn’t got a statement to make on it,” Webb said of the Iraq war. “This country’s been breaking into pieces economically … they’ve got no position on that.

From Drudge: , excuse my while I laugh my ass er uh butt er uh…

Sen. George Allen, R-VA, unleashed a press release late Thursday that exposed his rival’s fiction writing, which includes graphic underage sex scenes.

The press release, as provided by the Allen Campaign:

The Author’s Disturbing Writings Show a Continued Pattern of Demeaning Women

· Some of Webb’s writings are very disturbing for a candidate hoping to represent the families of Virginians in the U.S. Senate.

· Many excellent books about the United States military and wartime service accomplish their purposes, and even win awards, without systematically demeaning women, and without dehumanizing women, men and even children.

· Webb’s novels disturbingly and consistently – indeed, almost uniformly – portray women as servile, subordinate, inept, incompetent, promiscuous, perverted, or some combination of these. In novel after novel, Webb assigns his female characters base, negative characteristics. In thousands of pages of fiction penned by Webb, there are few if any strong, admirable women or positive female role models.

Why does Jim Webb refuse to portray women in a respectful, positive light, whether in his non-fiction concerning their role in the military, or in his provocative novels? How can women trust him to represent their views in the Senate when chauvinistic attitudes and sexually exploitive references run throughout his fiction and non-fiction writings?

· Most Virginians and Americans would find passages such as those below shocking, especially coming from the pen of someone who seeks the privilege of serving in the United States Senate, one of the highest offices in the land:

 

– Lost Soldiers: “A shirtless man walked toward them along a mud pathway. His muscles were young and hard, but his face was devastated with wrinkles. His eyes were so red that they appeared to be burned by fire. A naked boy ran happily toward him from a little plot of dirt. The man grabbed his young son in his arms, turned him upside down, and put the boy’s penis in his mouth.”

Bantam Books, NY, 1st Edition, 2001, (hard cover), page 333.
Quote is from para. 10,.Chap. 34.

– Something to Die For: “Fogarty . . . watch[ed] a naked young stripper do the splits over a banana. She stood back up, her face smiling proudly and her round breasts glistening from a spotlight in the dim bar, and left the banana on the bar, cut in four equal sections by the muscles of her vagina.”

William Morrow and Company, Inc., NY 1991, 1st Ed. (hardcover), p. 36.
Avon Books, New York, 1992 (Mass-Market paperback edition), p. 35
Quote is from para. 29, Chap. 2 “The South China Sea,”, Section 2

– A Country Such as This: “[He] could see Jawbone and Ashley Asthmatic [two guards at a Vietnamese prison camp] napping together in the grass. They faced inward, their arms entwined. It looked like they were masturbating each other. It didn’t surprise him. … It was common to see men holding hands, embracing, playing with each other. Some of them [the guards] had wanted him. He could tell in those evanescent moments between his bao cao bow, the obligatory deference when a guard entered his cell, and the first word or blow that followed it… Quick, grinding voices, turgid with repressed passion. An exploratory reaching of the hand near his groin…”

Doubleday & Co., Garden City, NY, 1983 (hardcover); page 396.
Bluejacket Books, 2001 (Trade paperback edition), page 396
Page numbers are the same in the Naval Institute Press (paperback) edition, 1983.
Quote is from fifth para, Part 5 “A Country Such As This,” Chap. 24, Section 1

– A Sense of Honor: “Nurse Goodbody, dark and voluptuous (Lena