Watching the Dollars, the Millions take care of Themselves

I recently blogged about a Peggy Noonan article, “the Presidential Wheel is Turning”.  I blogged about all the evidence that is becoming clearer to people that the promises of Hope and Change made by President Barack Obama was a sham.  Although the President has made drastic Change, that change was not in line with the hopes of the public who voted for him.  Up and down the line people are beginning to understand that the person whom they voted for because he offered Hope and Change, provided none of the later and they are running out of Hope he ever will.  They voted for him in the first place because their hope was that he could change government and make it work.  He hasn't, Americans are still angry with government and want something done and they are still looking for someone who will.

I have seen how hope and change can really happen.  I've seen it come from the bottom up.  I have seen how a small group of people can make a change not befitting their size.  In our state of Michigan I have seen what used to be a minority overtake the majority by doing the simple things; those things they learned from their friends and family.  I have helped local candidates win elections and go to the state capital where they followed through and practiced what they preached.  They made a difference and I’m not too humble to say from the bottom up I had a part, albeit a small part.

The acts were small but consistent to start with and they all shared the common goal of doing more with less, of actually rolling up their sleeves and doing the work themselves when possible instead of looking to spend more money to do less.  It is called living within your means.  Americans outside of politics practice that every day when we decide to eat meatloaf instead of borrowing money to buy standing rib.  The smartest of us learn from this kind of experience.  We learn that we grow as individuals by the doing, (there are ways to make a great tasting meatloaf), not to mention how wonderful that standing rib tastes when you have a month or more to look forward to it.

 

Well excuse my getting carried away about food, it’s way past lunch time.

We in Michigan are starting to turn this state around.  The people we have helped get elected are taking those lessens to the state capital and putting them into practice.  This was done not in the best of times but the Budget has been balanced and on time for 3 years now during the worst of times.  Not three plentiful years, but three years that have seen shrinking population and income with high unemployment.  Because of this and other belt tightening measures our state’s credit rating has been upgraded, Detroit’s mayor is in jail, we have an actual rainy day fund and people have started to move back to Michigan along with business.  Our population which had been dwindling for the past decade has finally started to show a net increase. Unemployment has started to go down.

Regulations are being reigned in.  Individuals on all fronts are starting to gain back their rights to do and decide things on their own, freer of the encumbrances of government.  We again are getting the chance to make our own mistakes and learn from them.  The government better beware, that freedom is addictive.  We may have a long way to go but as we learn to enjoy the journey in our personal lives, but we are learning to enjoy that sense of contentment I think we could all use more of.

This type of talk used to be laughed at by the bureaucrats but read the following link.

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http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2013/04/24/boehner-millions-house-savings-budget/2106435/
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Although this is led by Speaker John Boehner in the House, I take pride that it is a Republican from Michigan, Candice Miller that is taking the lead.  I give credit to them both.  Republicans seem to be willing to practice what they preach and do the work themselves when they can.  Below is a quote from the article.

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"Believe me, I am totally aware that there is no sympathy for members of Congress. However, I think we should lead by example," said Rep. Candice Miller, R-Mich., a Detroit-area congresswoman who chairs the committee that oversees internal budget cuts.”
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The next quote seems to point out the disdain Democrats have for such things.  They seem to think that it is for their staff to do the thinking and working and not themselves.  Think about it, if they don't trust themselves to make decisions what chance do you think they will give the ordinary people that chance?

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{Leading Democrats have chafed at the belt tightening, arguing it undermines adequate personnel resources for research and oversight. "We are past the point of cutting what we want, and we are now into cutting what we need — our ability to attract and retain expert staff," said Rep. Robert Brady, D-Pa., in opposition to further committee cuts approved in March.}
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I just read an article that says Michigan is having a hard time recruiting a strong Republican Candidate for the US Senate seat that will be vacated by the retiring Carl Levin.  What about Candice Miller?  From the article linked above the Senate could use a dose of Michigan Wisdom.

Regards, Live Dangerously Be a Conservative

Ever the Optimist

Ever the Optimist.

I just read Peggy Noonan’s article from the Wall Street Journal, I pulled it from the Drudge Report.

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I’ve always loved the way she writes, and the common sense she weaves through her pieces.  Her ability to show how the “The Presidential wheel turns” and is turning on President Barack Obama was clear and to the point.  So is most of her writing.

Amid the recent backdrop of 5 living Presidents together on one stage for President George W’s Presidential Library, there was one who stood out.  While the rest evoked positive passions for, as Peggy said “the way we were”, like I said one didn’t.  Instead that one stood out as he likes to do but from the wrong emotions.  Those emotions were the ones we feel when we are being used cheaply and taken for granted by someone who is manipulative and self-serving.  Again better said by Noonan.
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“President Obama was more formal than the other speakers and less confident than usual, as if he knew he was surrounded by people who have something he doesn't. "No matter how much you think you're ready to assume the office of the president, it's impossible to understand the nature of the job until it's yours." This is a way of seeming to laud others when you're lauding yourself. He veered into current policy disputes, using Mr. Bush's failed comprehensive immigration reform to buttress his own effort. That was manipulative, graceless and typical.”
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The wheel does seem to be turning when noted and respected journalist Tom Brokow turns down an invite to the White House Correspondents dinner because of the way the expense and foppery of the event must appear to outsiders, those not in the Beltway.  As he said the televised affair must look to the average person as if ‘We’re Versailles. The rest of you eat cake.’” Not to mention how as I try to write with Peggy’s style, the old look of two competing sides trying to be civil to one another from the past has changed to one of obvious suck-uppyness.  This article about Brokow came from Politico which normally has a slight left slant.  Again some “Wheel” turnage?

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http://www.politico.com/story/2013/04/tom-brokaw-white-house-correspondents-dinner-90427_Page2.html#ixzz2Rbm5shlq
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Then I ran across this “wheel turning” article again in Politico, by Keith Koffler, titled “Obama’s hubris problem”.

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http://www.politico.com/story/2013/04/obamas-hubris-problem-90650.html?hp=l13

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Koffler’s critique of Obama’s seemingly reckless race to turn Noonan’s “wheel” faster is well stated.  Koffler chronicles a few examples of the President’s “high handedness and self-absorption”.  By the time the reader has read the few it seems more like many and by the time the second page is read the many have become a picture of a manipulative, self-aggrandizing leader much more worried about the word I than We.

Further into the article Koffler brings up the idea of  and that Obama is giving off that vibe more and more by legislating from the Executive through executive order and picking which laws he and his justice department will enforce and which ones they won’t.  The saying “L’etat, c’est moi” is attributed to Napoleon and means “I am the State”.  Is it just me or doesn't it seem ironic that the sayings above "Let them eat cake" and  “L’etat, c’est moi” are French words describing an American President?

The “Presidential wheel turns” indeed and it is becoming so blatant that even what talk show host Rush Limbaugh calls the “Low information voter” is picking up on it.

The list of evidence for the turning wheel is all around us and it is coming in ever increasing cascades as an avalanche gathers coming down a mountain -- well ever an optimist I hope and work for change instead of morning about loss.  One thing seems certain, from all of the above to the arrogance and Nixonian style cover up of Ben Gazzi, to the petulance of recent press conferences when he hasn’t gotten his way, to homeland security trying to get the corner on the ammunition market to stifle gun sales without legislation, Obama is coming off the rails.  Speaking of which is the coming "train wreck" that is coming with the costs of Obama Care.  The list of his growing abuses of executive power is long and much too obvious and denials are too often and wordy to be believed anymore by most, except the most entranced.

The proof is becoming clear to more and more people, the proof indeed will be in the pudding or the "cake" as it were.

This “Obama Fatigue” that Peggy Noonan talks about let us hope not be replaced by the ”Hillary Clinton fatigue”, we all remember.  If it is, then we will have forgotten.  Forgotten about the fatigue we had with her that nearly cost her husband the election. Forgotten about her Hillary Care, and about her peevishness and pettiness.  I'm hopeful however that once she starts talking, even with Bill by her side we will remember the emotions she evoked in us, while different than those of the current President they are just as “emotionless” with that same lack of conscience or empathy that in others of lesser personage we describe as psychopathic.

Ever the optimist I think the people are saying they want more from their leaders than $500,000 hotel bills from the Vice President.  They want more than to be allowed to eat the left over cake crumbs.  They want to be exempted from Obama Care just like everyone within the Beltway seems to be doing.  They are starting to demand that laws be applied equally to Congress and Presidents and then themselves.  That our leaders should lead by example not by "do as I say not as I do".  That even a President who won two elections and is a “Lame Duck Wearing a Crown” isn’t above the law.

The final proof of the wheel turning is that Donna Brazile just wrote an article for CNN saying that Bush came through on Katrina.  The upshot of which was that beyond the talk that all politicians use to assuage the masses, the Bushes (W. and his wife) actually followed through and made more trips to the Katrina site than the Obamas and Biden’s took vacation trips and that is saying a lot.  Donna if you remember was Gore-Lieberman’s campaign manager. 

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http://www.cnn.com/2013/04/25/opinion/brazile-katrina-bush
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To her credit she gave credit where credit was due and some of us on the other side should also practice that a little more, and a little less preaching or the “Wheel” will quit turning.

Regards Live Dangerously be a Conservative

 

Who is This Guy ???

What is bottom up politics? (Please take note of the quotes – although I would love to claim the quoted material as mine - it is not)  Here's a hint the smoke is clearing.

Who is the guy who said the following ??? What right wing Waco is he ???

Was it J.S. Mill, or F.A. Hayek, or Edmund Burke, or Milton Friedman or George Will or Ronald Reagan or Maggie Thatcher?

None of the above.

“You asked and now you will listen, my son. The social assistance state leads to a loss of human energies and an inordinate increase of public agencies, which are dominated more by bureaucratic thinking than by real concern for helping people. Needs are best understood and satisfied by people who are closest to them who act as neighbors and parish members to those in need. It should be added that certain kinds of demands often call for a response which is not simply material but which is capable of perceiving the deeper human need. This is not to mention the welfare states excesses and abuses.”

Who is this guy ???

(ME) - Yup bureaucracy is a self fulfilling evil by definition. It is put in place initially to take care of an evil such as poverty, or mental health, and then it quickly starts to expand the definition of poverty or mental health to include those things we used to think as normal that are not evil. In effect their efforts broaden the number of people included (or stigmatized) in its base. The whole concept of helping people becomes a concept of helping the bureaucracy first and then the people. The energy and wealth of the people is therefore wasted on the bureaucracy and not on actually helping people. As the quote above alluded to, helping people is best done one on one from the bottom up. From the top down the idea of helping people gets lost, and it becomes the government’s job and not their neighbors. Now back to the burning question,

Who is this guy ??? 

“In Europe first and now in America, elected men have taken it upon themselves to indebt their people to create an atmosphere of dependency.And why? For their own selfish need to increase their own personal power. I’ve been a keen observer of the effect this has on the people, especially the poor. They are very good at creating poverty where there is no reason to explain it. My job is try to alleviate poverty….”

Who is this guy ??? (The quoted material is all from an interview conducted by Chris Matthews, who is he interviewing?)

Reporter’s question: “But you refuse to blame corporations for their role?”

Answer. “Okay, they also told me you have a degree in economics. No buyer, or seller either, enters into any exchange against his will. It is the nature of the economy. Man is frail, and he makes mistakes and sometimes is greedy and they enter into exchanges that don’t help them. Sometimes they become poor, but they made choices. There is nothing the Church can do except try to educate people to become good consumers. Chiefly, for me, it is an education solution on that side. And the Church has more schools around the globe than any other faith. I say teach the people to save their souls, and also teach them how not to become poor. And how not to allow the government to trick them into poverty.”

REPORTER: “ And you blame government?

Answer: “No, I blame the self-serving politicians!

REPORTER: “So your solution to poverty is to change the nature of politics?

Answer: “Please feel free to broadcast this; I don’t want to be pope. Friend, you are a socialist and your friends are socialists. And you are the reason for 70 years of misery in Russia and Europe now is seizing in pain from your policies. You believe in the redistribution of wealth and it makes entire populations poor. You want to nationalize everything and bring every human endeavor under your control. You destroy a man's incentive to take care of his very own family, a crime against nature and nature’s God. You want social control over populations and incrementally you are making everything against the law. Together this ideology creates more poverty today than all the corporations you vilify have in the history of man.”

REPORTER: “I’ve never heard such from a Cardinal. I’m not sure if you are here to help yourself or disqualify yourself?”

Answer: “Please air this interview. People being dominated by socialists need to know we don’t all have to be poor. Some poverty is part of our being cast out of the Garden of Eden. But look at the empire of dependency created by Hugo Chavez. Promising them, tricking them into worship of government and his very own person. Giving them fish but not allowing them to fish. If a fisherman does develop a talent today in Latin America; he is castigated and his catch stolen by the socialists. He stops?”

REPORTER: “Feedom isn’t punished anywhere, is it?”

Answer: “Certainly it is!”

REPORTER: “In Latin America?”

Answer: “I’m afraid Latin America is lost. The people of the entire area are controlled by a bloc of militant socialist regimes in the region, most prominently Venezuela, Ecuador, Bolivia and Nicaragua. They have a gun pointed at their head. So their heart is now captured. Who will save them at this point?”

REPORTER: So the game is over. Checkmate?”

Answer: “Friend, I’ve been studying America this month before the Pope chose to resign. You must not have fear at speaking the truth. It is for the salvation of souls and the recovery of Thomas Jefferson’s people. America must not fall to the new painted communism. Even the low information voters don’t want America to be sold into slavery. I pray they cast out the money changers in their government! What manner of government is there that condones sin? Abomination upon abomination--giving monies for the murder of children, giving monies for the murder of the elderly! You are an American. Your government, My child, has been infiltrated by men of sin.”

Who is this Guy?

Was the interview ever published?

Do you think Chris Matthews “…felt a thrill going up his leg” on this interview?

REPORTER: “I think we are done?”

Answer: “Wait. If I speak on the ordination of women, on celibacy, on divorce, will you air this interview and my message?”

REPORTER: “No, we are done.”

Answer: “Partially what irritates me to the core is the media’s inability to look at anything without looking into the cause of the various problems. People are made poor so they will vote for the very candidates that made them poor.”

REPORTER: “Have a nice day and thanks for your time.”

CAMERA OFF / END TRANSCRIPT

Wow. Who is this guy ???  He is the new Pope.

No, this interview wasn’t published.

No, Chris didn’t get that tingle up his leg.

This new Pope’s name is Pope Francis I.

The white smoke has cleared, this guy is indeed a "God Send".

The whole interview is really great.  http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/3000243/posts

Simple Truths

Simple Truths

 

The common saying we hear is that “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it”.

Well -- Government is broke and needs fixing.

The Republican Party for the most part is simply happy to proclaim that far and wide. They simply forget to say how they’ll fix it or make any substantial effort to fix what broke it.

In 2007 at a Republican Congressional District Roundup to Rally the troops for our Congressman at the time in which he asked the assembled faithful why people were not behind the Republicans as evidenced by the sweeping Democrat victories in the 2006 off year elections. He seemed genuinely perplexed. I rose and said something to this effect.

“If you had a car whose transmission was broke and took it to a garage and they gave it back to you after claiming to fix it and -- it didn’t work, it cost twice what it should have as if it was fixed and they continued to claim it did work and that their charge was reasonable, and then because you were unwilling to pay you were somehow unfaithful to the cause; would you seriously take your car back to that same garage to get it running?”

I told him that I wouldn’t nor would any sane person. I then said the Republicans were given all the reigns of power and didn’t do what they claimed they would. What did they expect the voters to do.

Well history tells us the Republicans didn’t change much and a Democrat promising change won the Presidency to match the House with a filibuster proof Senate in the 2008 elections. The only redeeming occurrence for Republicans that history tells us is that the Democrats also charged twice as much to fix it, claimed it was fixed and like Republicans left it worse off than they found it.

So again the voters picked the only option there was in the two party system in the 2010 off year election and gave the House back to the Republicans and took away the filibuster Senate from the Democrats.

This article is supposed to be about “simple truths” so the simple truth I’ve seen in all of this is that the voters when faced with incompetence voted for anyone promising change. The other “simple truth” is that once elected the party promising change didn’t come through. The car remained broke.

The other truth was that the Tea Party provided the face of change for the Republican Party in the 2010 election. The truth was that the Republican Party didn’t change their message until pushed by the Tea Party. Whether the change offered by the New Republicans will be substantive remains to be seen. Whether the Tea Party offers “concrete” change as Peggy Noonan in the article by her refers to below remains also to be seen.

I think Demagoguery, is just an excuse for lazy minds, provides something to say for those incapable of thinking for themselves on the right and left.

The other “simple truth” that is above all the others; voters want their government to work. For all the money and power we as voters convey upon our legislators and the $trillions we pay in taxes, we expect solutions to our problems. What we get is unbridled bureaucracy which instead of fixing the problems convinces us that what they need is an ever-increasing budget to help them fix an ever-expanding group of newly defined problems.

It has been often quoted that the “War on Poverty” has been lost. We still however, continue to spend an ever-increasing amount fighting it.

Peggy Noonan in her Blog article, “Two Thoughts and a Question Answered” states another “simple truth” -- “nobody trusts Congress”. Rather than trying to paraphrase her thoughts, here is the full quote.

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http://blogs.wsj.com/peggynoonan/2013/03/27/two-thoughts-and-a-question-answered/
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“Nobody trusts Congress. We all know this. Approval of Congress is at 13% in the polls. Part of this is the general decline in respect that Americans feel for their institutions. But part of it also is that Congress the past few years has taken to passing 1,000- or 2,000-page bills that nobody has read, and nobody knows what’s in them, and, as Nancy Pelosi famously said, we have to pass it to find out what’s in it. Administrators and bureaucrats get to define the meaning of page 873, paragraph 8, subsection 5, line 12. Their definitions often agitate the public. Everyone winds up feeling jerked around.”

The classic Noonan expression that “Everyone winds up feeling jerked around” is really the driving force today between the voters and all politicians and the government they are supposed to be running. That feeling is what formed the Tea Party, and has defined the word “Change” in a political setting. It has become apparent that it is now the bureaucrats and administrators running Congress not the other way around. The purpose of elected officials should be to guard the public’s interests from the bureaucracy’s and not to give free license to the bureaucracy fulfilling their interests over the public’s.

The other simple truth is that if our elected officials cannot do that, then they are redundant and we could have a less costly more simple bureaucratic despotism. For make no mistake it is a Bureaucratic Despotism that we are saddled with. Too pay all we do for the Congress just to give us the appearance of freedom without the substance is a waste of our money.

AND

The Car Remains Broken

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Regards, Live Dangerously Be A Conservative

Who's Right?

Sure sometimes I pretend to understand the last election.


But I really don’t.

Some of the best and brightest minds have in the last few days admitted as much, putting me at least in some pretty great company. Take for example Newt Gingrich saying this on Nov 12th six days after the election.

“But if you had said to me three weeks ago that Mitt Romney would get fewer votes than John McCain [in 2008] — and it looks like he will be 2 million fewer — I would have been dumbfounded.”
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/election-2012/wp/2012/11/12/newt-gingrich-dumbfounded-by-election-results/
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Then there is George Will saying the following about some things conservatives need to do, about immigration, same sex marriage and legalized marijuana.

“And one who tilts toward the libertarian side of the Republican Party’s fusion of social and laissez-faire conservatism. Most voters already favor less punitive immigration policies than the ones angrily advocated by clenched-fist Republicans unwilling to acknowledge that immigrating — risking uncertainty for personal and family betterment — is an entrepreneurial act. The speed with which civil unions and same-sex marriage have become debatable topics and even mainstream policies is astonishing. As is conservatives’ failure to recognize this: They need not endorse such policies but neither need they despise those, such as young people, who favor them. And it is strange for conservatives to turn a stony face toward any reconsideration of drug policies, particularly concerning marijuana, which confirm conservatism’s warnings about government persistence in the teeth of evidence.”

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http://www.beloitdailynews.com/opinion/george-will-for-the-gop-start-all-over-again/article_4bbf876c-2ceb-11e2-a9ee-001a4bcf887a.html
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Even Dick Morris admitted his mistakes this way.

The key reason for my bum prediction is that I mistakenly believed that the 2008 surge in black, Latino, and young voter turnout would recede in 2012 to “normal” levels. Didn’t happen. These high levels of minority and young voter participation are here to stay; and, with them, a permanent reshaping of our nation’s politics.

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http://www.dickmorris.com/why-i-was-wrong/
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The list goes on of the respected prognosticators on the Right who predicted a Republican/Conservative landslide. They were mistaken, so was I.

What then are we to do? Simply put we need to convince people to vote for our candidate. If you read the above closely and read the links, one thing should be clear. We need to be more accepting of those who believe differently than we do. If you really want to study up on the real difference between Liberals and Conservatives read Thomas Sowell’s book A Conflict of Visions.

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http://www.amazon.com/dp/0465002056/?tag=googhydr-20&hvadid=15193224570&hvpos=1t1&hvexid=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=3812343221989195374&hvpone=
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If we think our beliefs are true and because of that we will not bend on the ways in which we implement them then we are no different in the liberal idea that man is born perfect and we only have to pass the right laws to attain perfection. Mr. Sowell says a Conservative believes in the imperfection of man/woman and passes laws to protect the majority and minority from abuses of unlimited power enshrined in a government run by imperfect humans.

We need good candidates of course who understand this along with ourselves, the lowly and unwashed masses of Republican/Conservatives at the grass roots level. With that in mind, with that as our controlling adjuster for our attitude we will have better luck trying to convince other voters that we have the best answers to their problems. The best way to do this is as always through our actions. Let our deeds be fair and honest and they will do the talking for us -- one person at a time. Then when the time draws nearer we can find a candidate that echoes what we say, not one that we have to “bring along”. If we are lucky we will find a candidate that is a real standard bearer, a real leader that will bring us along. Someone that through their actions teaches the right of our values, and not just by demagoguery but by their actions, persuades others of the justness and common sense of our cause.

If our beliefs are just then we need not belittle anyone, but uplift them.

People will understand this on their own.

So to answer the question in the title of who's right -- yup you guessed it -- We The People.

Regards, Live Dangerously Be A Conservative.

Another Shot Over the Bow for Obama ???

Remember Anthony Weiner, the disgraced US Rep. from New York’s 9th Congressional District? Weiner was forced out of office at the time and a special election was called for Sept. 11th, 2011.

A Democrat David Weprin was set up to take his Weiner’s place in that seat which had been held for 80 years by a Democrat.

At the time I got wind of a Conservative Republican who was thinking of entering the race to challenge him. His name was Bob Turner. I called up a # I found and reached his brother who was in the process of setting up a campaign HQ. They were operating on a shoestring and yet he was happy to talk with me.

He talked about the obstacles his brother had to overcome in this race. Of course the main one was the polling data which had Turner in the 30’s and Weprin in the 60's. Then there was the religious issue. Bob Turner is a Roman Catholic and Weprin is a Jew. The Jewish vote in the district made up 24% of the vote. The other thing was that the Republicans of NY were out of money and not willing to spend much to help Turner.

After talking with his brother, I came away knowing that Turner was a Conservative and willing to take the battle to Obama. Mayor Ed Koch started the ripple on the pond that turned into a tsunami for the support of Bob Turner. The Mayor was Jewish and his endorsement helped sway that crucial vote. (Imagine a famous Jewish Mayor telling his people to vote against a Jew in favor of a Roman Catholic) That took some guts on Koch’s part.

Mayor Koch did this because he could no longer live with the “anti-Israel” appearing agenda of Obama. This race turned into a referendum of the Obama administration. From the Israely thing to the huge debt, unemployement and Obamacare.

Bob Turner ran against the policies of Obama. He labled Weprin as a rubber stamp for the leftist policies of Obama. Obama’s policies on Obama care and the national debt were the grist for Turner’s miraculous upset of David Weprin come election day.
There were a lot of other factors and famous New Yorkers coming down on Turner’s side but the point was a district that defeated Turner by a wide margin in the past, turned a district that had voted solid Democrat for 80 years into a Republican Seat, due to the terribly unpopular policies of newly elected President Obama .
After the call I made to his brother, and some research, I sent him a $25.00 donation and started blogging about this newcomer. I was overwhelmed by this upset come election day.

Well guess what, NY is run by Democrats and they after that upset set about redistricting out the 9th District. Bob Turner now had no district!!!

I got the email below from the campaign a few days ago. Bob Turner is running for US. Senate. There will be a primary fight on the Republican side to see who will run against the Democrat incumbent Kirsten Gillibrand.

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Statement from U.S. Representative Bob Turner
March 13, 2012

"I will travel to the Republican State Convention in Rochester later this week and humbly ask for the Republican nomination for the United States Senate. I will respectfully ask for the Conservative nomination a few days later at that Party's convention. I have made my intentions known to the other Republican candidates in this race.

"I ran for the House six months ago as a private citizen fed up with what is happening in Washington. I could not sit and watch career politicians sink my nation deeper into economic crisis. Brooklyn and Queens voters, of all political parties, graciously responded by sending me to Congress. It now appears that their district has been eliminated.

"There is serious work to be done to get this economy back on track, and I will not walk away from that work now. I will run for the Senate, and I will run to win."

Paid for by Bob Turner for Congress
PO Box 140016, Howard Beach, NY 11414
www.BobTurnerForCongress.com
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Here is what Bob Turner said about the US Senator from NY.

“Senator Kirsten Gillibrand does not deserve re-election. She defrauded the voters of this state with promises that she would act as a moderate,” he said. “Instead she has governed from the far left, and is now ranked the most liberal senator in America. That is a firing offense.”

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http://foresthills.patch.com/articles/turner-secures-gop-senate-nomination
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Well in Mi. we know about Liberal Senators. Debbie Stabenow used to be the most liberal, so now it’s Debbie and Kirsten sharing that dubious distinction. I would love to not see either in the Senate next year.

One thing is certain however, the Democrat Machine in NY will not be taken by surprise this time. Kirsten already has started bashing Turner. Just a couple days ago she put our an email fundraising letter trying to link Turner and Rush Limbaugh together. If this Senate seat is taken by Turner from Gillibrand then the Republicans will most assuredly win back the Senate. But what a battle it might be.

Turner is biting off a huge fight in this effort. First he has to win the nomination, and spend scant resources to do that. He has two so far to beat and at least one of them calls herself a Conservative. I have yet to research them.
Next he’ll have to fight an incumbent Senator that has not been disgraced and is willing to fight back using the same tactics Turner used in his previous upset. She also, if the election appears close will get the full support of the NY and DNC political machines. Democrat Mayor Koch who was so instrumental before for Turner is on the side of Gillibrand. In the article below you'll see also that the NY Conservative group is backing Wendy Long for the primary. But the Manhatten GOP have just endorsed Turner. I’m hoping the big guns like Cuomo and Guliani will still help out Turner.

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http://www.nydailynews.com/blogs/dailypolitics/2012/03/manhattan-gop-endorses-bob-turner-for-senate
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But the fact that is so surprising is that we are even talking about the possibility. The more votes Turner can win here will be less votes for Obama in this Dark Blue State.

Regards, Live Dangerously Be a Conservative

Here is the Wikipedia link for Bob Turner.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Turner_(politician)
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PS. I usually pick one out of state race to put $25.00 of my money on and I think this Turner guy will get it again.

Another Day another State

Same story different state.

This time it’s Illinois. According to the link below Romney is putting $4 million into the state’s primary and Santorum less than ½ a million.
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http://www.newsmax.com/Headline/Pressure-Mounts-Romney-Illinois/2012/03/16/id/432858?s=al&promo_code=E735-1
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Money can’t buy love, but maybe it can buy elections, at least that’s what political machines and all the people that get paid by them think. Also the media where all the money is spent would probably agree. Therefore it is easy for me to understand the slant the media puts on things. Hey doesn’t everybody say, follow the money.

Can you imagine the hue and cry if Santorum would win the admittedly more liberal state of Illinois? Do I think he can? Probably not, I think it is a question of timing. If Michigan and Ohio for example were holding their primary now after the Mississippi and Alabama primaries which Santorum won I believe Santorum would have won both of those. It’s a momentum thing at least partially.

The other thing in Santorum’s favor besides momentum is that people, I think are getting tired of Romney’s seeming aloofness and how he throws around money. How he thinks that money can buy an election. However, in a state like Illinois that is used to “Play to Play” and their leaders being jailed maybe that isn’t so important. Maybe I’m thinking wrong. Then again maybe there is even in Illinois a tipping point where voter backlash kicks in against this slick kind of political condescension.

Well I’m here blatantly hoping it does.

After Romney keeps putting his foot in his elitist mouth such as the repeated remarks about not knowing the participants only the owners of NASCAR, and the other thing about boasting about knowing football team owners and not much about Peyton Manning, I’m thinking wow what a smuck.

Once ok, but repeatedly? I know Obama thinks we are stupid, but then why vote for someone else who thinks we are? I can understand the political machine of Illinois flocking to the $4 million Romney is throwing around vs. the ½ million of Santorum’s but the people? But I ask, are we not finally fed up with the BS of political money machines? Didn’t Lincoln come from there. Are we all not aware that in the voting booth no amount of money or pressure can change our vote? If we don’t know that then all of Romney’s money compared to The Democrat machine and the vaunted $Billion dollars of Obama the Unions and the like of Soros will surely give us another 4 years of Obama and an eternity of Socialism.

Well I don’t have millions – just 2 cents – and you’ve just heard it.

My vote ain’t for sale.

Regards, Live Dangerously Be A Conservative