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Tuesday, December 20th, 2011A Conservative Approach to Antitrust
Monday, December 19th, 2011Today, Sen. Herb Kohl (D-WI) and Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT), respectively the chair and ranking member of the Senate Subcommittee on Antitrust, Competition Policy and Consumer Rights, sent a joint letter to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) voicing measured, pragmatic and – yes! – even conservative concern about Google’s failure to explain itself in the face of antitrust allegations.
Google’s repeated legal violations—of privacy, health, consumer protection and intellectual property laws—should concern every citizen and lawmaker across the political spectrum. And there is ample ideological and historical reason for conservatives to support Senator Lee’s antitrust scrutiny of this serial lawbreaker.
First, it is critical to remember that U.S. antitrust laws were developed to promote free enterprise, protect consumers and prevent the abuse of market power. John Sherman, the primary writer of the Sherman Antitrust Act (1890), was a Republican Senator from Ohio. Presidents Roosevelt and Taft—both Republicans—were early champions of antitrust enforcement.
A century of antitrust jurisprudence underscores the scope and limit of our nation’s competition laws: companies cannot—nor should they be—punished for their success. At the same time, action is warranted when free enterprise is stymied by a single entity and market failure results. As the founder of a small Competitive Local Exchange Carrier and a consultant to software giant Microsoft, I recognize that antitrust enforcement needs to be balanced.
When applied appropriately, measured antitrust enforcement succeeds in promoting the traditional, conservative value of the free market. It’s worth remembering that the final chapter of the break-up of the original AT&T—which unleashed enormous competition, price reductions and innovation in telecommunications—was written during the Reagan Administration.
It is in this spirit of conservative antitrust enforcement that Senator Mike Lee (R-UT) has urged FTC action. As Lee noted earlier this year, antitrust enforcement would be better than creating a new system of regulation that “will inevitably be more costly and less efficient than a free market unencumbered by anticompetitive restrictions.” Though some conservatives have criticized Lee for supporting regulatory enforcement, he is in fact advocating for a balanced and conservative approach to antitrust.
There is no doubt that Google is an innovative company and fierce competitor. But because it is a dominant provider of search, search advertising and mobile search, it is legally obligated not to leverage this dominance to gain share unfairly in adjacent markets. If Google prevents other companies from competing, consumers will inevitably have fewer choices and see innovation slow; advertisers will pay higher search advertising prices and pass at least part of the cost on to consumers.
Google has also treaded lightly over other laws to advance its competitive position. For instance, in March, a federal judge rejected a deal Google had cut with publishers and authors, writing that the proposed settlement was “not fair, adequate, and reasonable”; that it gave Google a “de facto monopoly over unclaimed works”; and that Google had “engaged in the copying of books en masse without copyright permission.”
Google has also already run afoul of the Federal Trade Commission and the Food and Drug Administration. The company reached a 20-year settlement with the FTC over violations associated with the launch of its Google Buzz service. In August, Google forfeited $500 million to settle a criminal investigation that it knowingly sold illegal pharmacy advertising that jeopardized consumer safety.
In the Heritage Foundation’s adaptation of their First Principles Essays, they summarized Friedrich Hayek’s insights in the Road to Serfdom which “made it clear he was not advocating a system of pure lasses-faire, but one with a general system of rules that would enable individuals to carry out their own plans. Hayek’s contribution was to stress the importance of institutions – a market system, in a democratic polity, with a system of well-defined, enforced, and exchangeable property right, protected by a strong constitution, and operation under the rule of law, in which laws are stable, predictable, and equally applied.”
While antitrust enforcement has threatened marketplace competition in the past, it’s worth remembering that antitrust laws were developed by Republicans—and refined under the Rehnquist Court—to protect free enterprise. The telecommunications revolution began when Ronald Reagan enforced antitrust law and took the final step in dismantling AT&T’s government-sanctioned monopoly—and deregulating the industry. There is precedence for the conservative application of antitrust against companies that have benefited from growing too close to government protectors.
This track record of violations shows that Google has failed on several occasions to adequately comply with the rule of law. Given the importance of technology to our nation’s economy and Google’s rocky legal history, conservatives are right to encourage an examination of whether or not we have a truly competitive digital marketplace.
Weekly Musing 12-18-11
Sunday, December 18th, 2011Weekly Musing 12-18-11
Saul Anuzis
MI: Republican National Committeeman
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
From our family to yours, wish we you a happy holiday season.
I’ll be taking a break from writing my newsletter until after the New Year. Enjoy the break from some of the politics…at least from me☺
Wow – Re-Elect at 43%!!! AP-GfK Poll: Obama re-election odds roughly 50-50
“WASHINGTON (AP) — Entering 2012, President Barack Obama’s re-election prospects are essentially a 50-50 proposition, according to a new Associated Press-GfK poll. It found that most Americans say the president deserves to be voted out of office even though they have concerns about the Republican alternatives.”
http://news.yahoo.com/ap-gfk-poll-obama-election-odds-roughly-50-084041066.html
Clark Durant for U.S. Senate
Yup, I’m a big fan. I think Clark is the strongest challenger to take on Debbie Stabenow next November. Clark is a “movement conservative” who is grounded in a sound philosophical & constitutional base that guarantees he’ll represent us!
Clark Durant will bring back the “American Way” of representing us versus the “Washington Way”…which we’ve had a bit too much of these days.
Find out more about Clark, check out his web site and consider joining me in supporting his candidacy! http://www.facebook.com/ClarkDurant
http://www.clarkdurant.com/home/
http://www.facebook.com/ClarkDurant
1,000 Days…Senate Democrats FAIL!!!
Another good reason to defeat Democrat Debbie Stabenow! Irresponsible at best.
The Senate Democrat’s Majority, Obama’s party and allies, have FAILED to produce a budget in nearly 1,000 days! This is an outrage! They are ignoring their constitutional duty, abusing the power as “our” representatives. It’s amazing how the main stream press has allowed the Senate Democrats get away with this.
One can ONLY imagine what the main stream media would have done to Republicans if they refused to pass a budget and take any responsibility for their actions for some 1,000 days?!? Where is the outrage?
Barack Obama, Harry Reid and the rest of the Democrats have decided to hold the government funding bill hostage without Republicans agreeing to job killing tax increases — potentially causing a government shutdown!
Their latest plan hopes to force Republicans to support a proposal backed by President Obama and Harry Reid.
However, somehow they will try and twist the truth in another attempt to convince the American people that Republicans are at fault. Make no mistake, Republicans are committed to our core principles — limited government and economic freedom. So, we’ll fight any Democrat proposals that will further hinder our economic recovery.
Romney Is GOP’s Best Choice – The only Republican who can beat Obama – I Agree!
“Romney has the misfortune of being an earnest man running in an ironic time, and the leitmotif of the Republican race so far has been the search for the “anti-Romney.” Party activists reached out to several men who declined to run, and then Republican voters lavished their affections on, successively, Michele Bachmann, Rick Perry, Herman Cain and now Newt Gingrich, all the while keeping Romney’s poll numbers hovering around 25 percent. They have been searching for a candidate who shared their conservative principles, who had strength of character, and who, above all, could beat Barack Obama. We believe this candidate has been hiding in plain sight. Mitt Romney is not “too perfect,” as some political analysts have argued, but he is perfect enough.”
http://campaign2012.washingtonexaminer.com/article/romney-gops-best-choice/256896
Christmas for Michigan’s Children
A bill to eliminate the cap on Charter Schools passed the state legislature last week, giving children across Michigan a better chance to get a good education!
See how your member voted below:
http://www.michiganvotes.org/RollCall.aspx?ID=595103
Karl Rove: Lets Get it Done!
A great video about the upcoming elections.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NzcVxbk-txI
A VOTERS’ GUIDE TO REPUBLICANS
EVERYBODY knows that Republicans are EVIL! What kind of Evil? Greedy, Fascist, Racist evil — the worst kind! Bill Whittle unravels the facts behind this perfect storm of evil in a breezy fashion that provides a hurricane of historical data to lift the white robes of even the most stalwart Democrats.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=x-oS4WLui3Q
Harvard Poll: Young Voters Say Obama Will Lose
“A new national poll of America’s 18- to 29- year olds by Harvard’s Institute of Politics (IOP), located at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, finds more Millennials predict President Barack Obama will lose his bid for re-election (36%) than win (30%).”
MI GOP: Precinct Delegate Applications online!
For activists who want to become precinct delegate and play a greater role in our party…here is your first step! File locally and run for precinct delegate.
http://www.michigan.gov/documents/Aff-ID_Precnt_139901_7.pdf
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Merry Christmas & Happy New Year!
Thursday, December 15th, 2011From our family to yours…we wish you all a Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays and Happy New Year!!!
Weekly Musing 12-11-12
Sunday, December 11th, 2011Weekly Musing 12-11-11
Saul Anuzis
MI: Republican National Committeeman
Democrats Strategy: If you rob Peter to pay Paul, you can always count on Paul’s support!
Merry Christmas and Happy New Years!
As our families gather to celebrate this holiday season, let us remember the blessing Christ the Lord has bestowed upon us!
Congrats to Matas Anuzis, MSU Class of 2011
Our oldest son Matas, graduated this weekend from Michigan State University with a degree in Economics. Proud parents wish him all the best!!!
Charter School Cap – Help our Children!
This is a moment in time that does not come around often. We have the opportunity now to enact real reform in public education – to make a change that will impact lives in a positive way for generations to come.
The Republicans haven’t been sent to Lansing to defend the status quo and keep things exactly the way they are. They’ve been sent there to reform Michigan so that this state can once again achieve greatness, and greatness won’t happen without change.
Republicans have the chance here to make history, and history will judge them harshly if they don’t. Unfortunately not all Republicans believe that expanding competition in public schools will improve education and are siding with the status quo defenders.
Call your State Representative today and ask them to support Senate Bill 618. The time is now, and our future needs your help.
Carpe diem. Seize the day! Call NOW.
Click here for your Representatives contact information:
http://www.house.migov/mhrpublic/
The Rev. Horace L. Sheffield III and Clark Durant co-author an op-ed piece on raising the cap entitled “Be bold; raise charter school limits” – read it here:
MI GOP: Precinct Delegate Applications online!
For activists who want to become precinct delegate and play a greater role in our party…here is your first step! File locally and run for precinct delegate.
http://www.michigan.gov/documents/Aff-ID_Precnt_139901_7.pdf
Voters Flee Democratic Party in Key Swing States
“the centrist think-tank Third Way showed that more than 825,000 voters in eight key battleground states have fled the Democratic Party since Obama won election in 2008.”
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2011/12/voters-flee-democratic-party-in-key-swing-states/
Iowa’s Sioux City Journal Endorses Romney!
“Within this year’s Republican presidential field, Romney again stands out as the candidate who is best prepared through experience, skills and qualities to lead the country.”
I agree!
The Super Committee mirrors America – Democrats Still Want to Raise Taxes!
“Look at the last year of a federal surplus, FY 2001, when receipts were $1.99 trillion and outlays $1.86 trillion. In FY 2011, receipts were $2.3 trillion and outlays were $3.6 trillion.
Does this look like a spending problem to you?”
http://detnews.com/article/20111202/MIVIEW/112020387/The-Super-Committee-mirrors-America
The Welfare State’s Reckoning
“It’s ultimately a crisis of the welfare state, which has grown too large to be easily supported economically. People can’t live with it — and can’t live without it…The paradox is that the welfare state, designed to improve security and dampen social conflict, now looms as an engine for insecurity, conflict and disappointment. Facing the hard questions of finding a sustainable balance between individual protections and better economic growth, the Europeans have spent years dawdling.”
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2011/12/05/the_welfare_states_reckoning_112273.html
Russel Kirk Ten Conservative Principles – A Classic
“Being neither a religion nor an ideology, the body of opinion termed conservatism possesses no Holy Writ and no Das Kapital to provide dogmata. So far as it is possible to determine what conservatives believe, the first principles of the conservative persuasion are derived from what leading conservative writers and public men have professed during the past two centuries. After some introductory remarks on this general theme, I will proceed to list ten such conservative principles.”
http://www.kirkcenter.org/index.php/detail/ten-conservative-principles/
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Weekly Musing 12-4-11
Sunday, December 4th, 2011Weekly Musing 12-4-11
Saul Anuzis
MI: Republican National Committeeman
Spartans v Wisconsin
Great season Spartans. Great game. Couldn’t go to the Rose Bowl this year anyways:)
Michigan Republican State Committee Meeting
We had a great meeting Friday and Saturday, as over 100 Republican leaders from around the state gathered to get updates and push the candidates of their choice.
I encouraged EVERYONE to get behind their favorite candidates now, make their case, BUT remember – the ultimate goal is to defeat the liberal Democrats.
I’m for Mitt Romney and will work for whomever the nominee is to defeat Barack Obama and his policies. I’m backing Clark Durant for the U.S. Senate, but will work to unite all of us behind our nominee to defeat Debbie Stabenow. Primaries can make us ALL stronger, build our base, develop our campaign themes and put together an organization necessary to win.
Respect EVERY Republicans right and choice for the various offices. Remember, we work hard to put our best candidate forward. We, the Republican primary voters make that decision and then HAVE to unite to defeat the liberal policies and candidates the Democrats put forward.
Republicans headed home from our meeting fired up and determined to win next November! Great meeting!
Herman Cain Drops Out of Presidential Race
Promising to endorse a candidate soon, Cain “suspended” his campaign saying that the allegations have cast a “cloud of doubt over me and this campaign.”
I’m glad to hear he plans on staying involved. I think he has a lot to offer. Good luck!
http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-pn-cain-announcement-20111203,0,889996.story
Liberty Dinner Wednesday
This Wednesday, December 14th at the Shenandoah Country Club, U.S. Senate candidates Clark Durant, Pete Hoekstra and other will be joining Republican activists from Oakland county. For more information, check out their webpage:
Awesome! Tribute to Michigan Farmers: A “Michigan” Thanksgiving – very cool!!!
Clark Durant and his family too their “Michigan” Thanksgiving VERY seriously…EVERYTHING on the table was grown/produced in Michigan! Clever and cute way to celebrate Michigan!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dScOc-5MS0c
Slice the Demographics Any Way You Want, But Obama Is In Trouble!
“Put simply: If Obama’s margins shrink among young people, Hispanics, and other key parts of his base while disappointment depresses their turnout, the falloff in Obama’s support will swamp the modest post-2008 demographic shifts in his favor.”
http://www.tnr.com/article/the-vital-center/97938/obama-demographics-2012-latinoshttp://www.tnr.com/article/the-vital-center/97938/obama-demographics-2012-latinos
Behind Romney’s change of heart on abortion
“It is helpful to know more about a person’s position than a carefully selected sound bite permits, but Romney’s attempts to explain himself have failed to gain traction. So how does a person change from one position to the polar opposite on such a core issue as abortion? Easy. Countless women have changed their minds, thanks to pregnancy and birth. Countless others have suffered the agony of revelation too late following an abortion. Men overjoyed by fatherhood, or crushed by the loss of a child through abortion, have also changed their minds.
Romney’s own change of heart evolved not from personal experience but rather from a purposeful course of study. I know this because I know the man who instructed him in 2005 on the basics of embryonic life during the stem-cell research debate then taking place in Massachusetts. As governor at the time, Romney was under intense pressure to help flip a state law that protected embryos from stem-cell research. Some of that pressure came from Harvard University, Romney’s alma mater, where scientists hoped to assume a leading role in stem-cell research.”
Obama Abandons the Working Class
“There’s a message here for Republicans for 2012. Ironically, it may have been outlined best by two Democratic strategists in a publication for the left-leaning Center for American Progress. In “The Path to 270: Demographics versus Economics in the 2012 Presidential Election,” Ruy Teixeira and John Halpin made headlines for making official what everyone has known unofficially for some time: The Democratic Party is abandoning the white working class.” …AND I would argue the ENTIRE working class…too many NOT working!
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203802204577066640654042360.html
Obama’s 2012 Chances and Democratic Demographic Dreaming
“To be clear, if Republicans win total control of the government in 2012, they’ll have to make similar tough choices. Holding together a party composed of semi-secular soccer moms in Loudoun County, Va., evangelical attorneys in Edmond, Okla., and Catholic auto workers in Youngstown, Ohio, is almost as difficult as holding together a coalition of blacks, Latinos, working-class whites, suburbanites and urban liberals. These types of difficulties run throughout history, and they help explain why parties almost never win the popular vote more than three times in a row.
But for now, Obama is the president. The state of the economy, as well as policy choices made early in his term, are forcing him to pick winners and losers among his 2008 electoral coalition. Republicans will craft their 2012 message based in large part around the choices he makes. Barring a gift from the Republicans in the form of their nominee — and this is something we absolutely should not rule out — the president will likely have a very difficult time holding it together.”
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Weekly Musing 11-27-11
Sunday, November 27th, 2011Weekly Musing 11-27-11
Saul Anuzis
MI: Republican National Committeeman
R.I.P. Lola Peterson
Lola was a wonderful woman who ALWAYS did her best to make a difference. I had a chance to work with Lola on a number of campaigns. She was a very special woman who had an effect on many lives and will be missed. Our thoughts and prayers go out to her family and friends.
http://www.mlive.com/news/jackson/index.ssf/2011/11/local_gop_activist_lola_peters.html
Ouch! A Failure of Leadership – To the Point!
Democrats are frustrated…Independent & Swing voters are disappointed!
http://youtu.be/aYLzOlr5K6U
Presidential Leadership?
It’s his 30th time golfing this year and the 88th golf outing of his presidency.
http://www.whitehousedossier.com/2011/11/25/obama-plays-golf-30th-time-year/
MI #13 – The Hotline’s Senate Race Rankings
MICHIGAN (D, Sen. Debbie Stabenow)
No state has been mired in economic recession as long as Michigan. And even after the Obama administration moved to bail out automakers, the president’s approval ratings have suffered. Obama will have to work hard to keep this usually-Democratic state in the fold, and Stabenow’s own low approval ratings show she’s not completely safe either. A competitive Republican primary will slow her eventual opponent’s fundraising, and Stabenow has a history of defining her opponent early. Still, if any Republican can take advantage of an anti-incumbent wave, it might be in a state where voters are sick of the status quo.
(See Clark Durant!)
http://nationaljournal.com/hotline/the-hotline-s-senate-race-rankings-20111121
The “Famous” Romney Ad That Has Obama’s Folks Fuming:) – and the press isn’t happy either-:) “Believe in America”
The fact that Obama and the Democrats are all upset because this ad focuses the debate on the economy…and the press doesn’t like it either! A little too close for comfort!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3a7FC0Jkv8&feature=player_embedded
OWS: Occupying Seven Deadly Sins
“The Occupy Wall Street (OWS) movement amounts to nothing more than making excuses. Excuses that legitimize a platform of laziness and entitlements, excuses to act in a lawless manner, and excuses for snubbing basic principles of civil discourse.”
http://biggovernment.com/rweiss/2011/11/26/occupying-seven-deadly-sins/
CNN Poll: Blue collar Democrats’ support for Obama drops
President Barack Obama’s overall approval rating remains steady, his standing among Democrats, and in particular among blue-collar Democrats, appears to have dropped, according to a new national survey.
The Presidential Horse Race – Clever & Interesting
The “animation, each horse is a candidate, with its horizontal position representing that candidate’s standing in the polls. Our starting line is March 2010, when the major polling firms began releasing national polls of likely Republican voters on a consistent basis. The horse’s position is the determined by the average of the last five polls, to smooth out the margins of error. The data is gathered from Real Clear Politics’ aggregation of major polls.”
A Blueprint for Winning the White House in 2012
“The Path to 270, the two correctly lay out, I believe, the critical dynamics that will likely tip the balance in both the Electoral College and popular vote next year. President Obama’s biggest headwind, they argue, will be disappointment in his handling of the economy; his biggest tailwind will be ongoing demographic change that continues to bend the electorate in his direction.”
The Path to 270 – Demographics Versus Economics in the 2012 Presidential Election
“Even with these long-term demographic strengths, Democratic weaknesses are manifest. Continuing economic distress among large segments of the American public, coupled with the perceived inability of the Obama administration’s policies to spark real recovery, has coalesced into serious doubts about Democratic stewardship of the economy. In August 2011, Gallup reported record low public approval of President Obama’s handling of the economy, with barely one-quarter (26 percent) approving of the president’s performance on this key indicator. No president in the past 50 years has been re-elected with unemployment as high as it is today.”
http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2011/11/path_to_270.html
FINAL: Detroit News CyberSurvey On U.S. Senate Race
Here are the FINAL results of an un-scientific but interesting grassroots poll for the Republican nomination in context of Tea Party Efforts to unite behind the strongest conservative:
Clark Durant 39.14%
Congressman Pete Hoekstra 27.22%
Peter Konetchy 9.9%
Gary Glenn 5.04%
Scotty Boman 3.6%
Randy Heckman 2.22%
Unknown 12.8%
A rogue convention? How GOP party rules may surprise in 2012
“Given the rebellious spirit within the Republican Party embodied by a tea party movement that demands respect for the Constitution, party leaders can’t just wish away departures from the rules. Indeed, the national convention in Tampa just might take us back to a different political era: one in which delegates act on their power to choose the nominee that they think best represents the Republican Party — even if that is someone other than the apparent winner through state primaries and caucuses.”
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1111/69048.html#ixzz1ejHfua6w
Tea Party Fraud! – There Should Be Jail Time!!!
Sentencing Set for December 7th – Justice Served
“Democratic Party, were accused of fraudulently entering the names of three people as candidates for a group calling itself The Tea Party for county commission or state Senate seats to appear on the November 2010 ballot.”
http://www.dailytribune.com/articles/2011/10/19/news/srv0000014669433.txt
NOTICE: Leadership Institute Campaign School December 3rd in Novi
The Leadership Institute is putting on a Campaign School for potential campaign staffers, college & high school students and others on Saturday, December 3rd. I’ve had the pleasure of both attending and teaching at these seminars in the past.
Please go to the link below to register. Students get an additions $15 discount…in other words, only $10 to help cover lunch in order to attend!
http://www.leadershipinstitute.org/Training/school.cfm?schoolID=19688
Drowning in numbers – Digital data will flood the planet—and help us understand it better
Very interesting video on data…and what’s next.
http://www.economist.com/blogs/dailychart/2011/11/big-data-0?fsrc=rss
What’s the Matter with Campus?
Young conservative and libertarian activists from across the Great Lakes state will discuss issues pertaining to twenty-somethings, the Millennial generation writ large. Ron Paul and Barack Obama know, as did Ronald Reagan, that the coveted youth approval is an essential part of any modern political movement. This panel discussion will be a must-see for aspiring movers-and-shakers! The panelists are Amy Hawkins of Citizens for Traditional Values, Brian Koss, Dennis Lennox, and Matt Needham of Students for Liberty.
Tuesday, November 29 at 7 p.m.
Case Hall Room 339
Michigan State University
East Lansing, Michigan
http://www.facebook.com/events/230024090394712/
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Happy Thanksgiving – And The Rest of the Story!
Thursday, November 24th, 2011Another Great source for a historical perspective:
The Great Thanksgiving Hoax
Weekly Musing for 11-20-11
Sunday, November 20th, 2011Weekly Musing 11-20-11
Saul Anuzis
MI: Republican National Committeeman
Obama’s 2012 New Campaign Logo?
A $50 Lesson: I recently asked my neighbors’ little girl what she wanted to be when she grows up. She said she wanted to be President some day. Both of her parents, liberal Democrats, were standing there, so I asked her, ‘If you were President what would be the first thing you would do? She replied, ‘I’d give food and… houses to all the homeless people.’ Her parents
beamed with pride. ‘Wow, what a worthy goal.’ I told her, ‘But you don’t have to wait until you’re President to do that? You can come over to my house and mow the lawn, pull weeds, and trim my hedge, and I’ll pay you $50. Then I’ll take you over to the grocery store where the homeless guy hangs out, and you can give him the $50 to use toward food and a new house.’
She thought that over for a few seconds, then she looked me straight in the eye and asked, ‘Why doesn’t the homeless guy come over and do the work, and you can just pay him the $50? ‘ I said, ‘Welcome to the Republican Party.’ Her parents still aren’t speaking to me.
Great News! “Stabenow hasn’t cracked the 50% threshold considered important for an incumbent.”
Still Early for Challengers!!! With minimal name i.d. and virtually NO campaigning…Debbie Stabenow is having a problem as the incumbent to break 50%. This is encouraging news. As the campaign develops and candidates get know…expect this race to tighten. Watch Clark Durant, the conservative alternative who can raise the money to put on a credible campaign.
Obama – Dear Average American: It’s All Your Fault
Obama believes “Being the root cause of our dire national predicament puts you in some very august company indeed. You are joining the ranks of George W. Bush, the Japanese tsunami, the Arab Spring, Wall Street fat cats, and other luminaries, both living and merely anthropomorphized… But, yes, by all means, let’s blame our lack of competitiveness on the American people.”
If Not Romney, Who? If Not Now, When
“Instead of sitting on our thumbs, wishing Ronald Reagan were around, or chasing the latest mechanical rabbit flashed by the media, conservatives ought to start rallying around Romney as the only Republican who has a shot at beating Obama.”
http://townhall.com/columnists/anncoulter/2011/11/16/if_not_romney,_who_if_not_now,_when/page/full/
Mitt Romney gets Michigan voters’ backing ahead of GOP primary
“With clear support across all age and income brackets, Romney, a former Massachusetts governor who grew up in Michigan, had the support of 34% of likely voters, who said they were backing him or were likely to vote for him next year.
He led former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, who had 20%, and former Godfather’s Pizza CEO Herman Cain, who had 13%. U.S. Rep. Ron Paul of Texas was next, with 8%. No one else in the field of eight had more than 5% support. Thirteen percent were undecided.”
$15 Trillion – Irresponsible?
I Agree with Obama!!!
A Must See: Steve Colbert on OWS!!!
“As the host of The Colbert Report on Comedy Central, Stephen Colbert lampoons conservatives nightly. No surprise then that the Pew Research Center reports that his audience skews wildly liberal. But a video mocking left-leaning Occupy Wall Street protesters that aired on his show Halloween night is turning more conservatives into fans, judging from their online reaction…In the video, Colbert, dressed as Che Guevara in order to “blend in,” hits New York’s Zuccotti Park to earn the trust of protesters and interview some of them.”
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/stephen-colbert-occupy-wall-street-256087
Detroit News CyberSurvey On U.S. Senate Race
As of late last night, here are the results of an un-scientific but interesting grassroots poll for the Republican nomination in context of Tea Party Efforts to unite behind the strongest conservative:
Clark Durant 36.71%
Congressman Pete Hoekstra 33.47%
Peter Konetchy 7.48%
Gary Glenn 4.73%
Scotty Bowman 1.99%
Randy Heckman 0.58%
Unknown 15.03%
http://apps.detnews.com/apps/forums/newstalk/lettersindex.php?topic=tea_111711
Michigan Republicans for U.S. Senate FEC Filings
Incumbent liberal Democrat Debbie Stabenow is raising record amounts of money to get re-elected. We will need a candidate on the Republican side who can raise the funds necessary to compete in the fall. The first set of federal filings are all in. You can find the candidates filing at the FEC web site for the last quarter here:
http://www.fec.gov/disclosurehs/HSCandList.do
Summary below…
Congressman Pete Hoekstra
Raised: $1,017,797
Cash on Hand: $947,631
Clark Durant (my choice for U.S. Senate!)
Raised: $758,679
Cash on Hand: $701,734
Randy Hekman
Raised: $89,450
Cash on Hand: $26,677
Gary Glenn
Raised: $24,057
Cash on Hand: $10,115
Peter Konetchy
Raised: $9,415
Cash on Hand: $70
Fred Wilson
Raised: $4,557
Cash on Hand: $4,207
Scott Bowman, Michael Dewey & Chuck Marino
Raised: $0.00
Cash on Hand: $0.00
Like it or not my friends, it takes TWO things to win an election; money and everything else! As we make our decision over the next few months as to who will be the strongest challenger to Debbie Stabenow, we MUST consider who will have the capability to raise the funds necessary to compete in the fall.
I believe Clark Durant is the right conservative to mount that challenge! You don’t have to have a trade off between a Constitutional conservative and a successful/effective fundraiser. In Clark Durant, we have both!!!
Some have called it the “Snyder Effect”, where the “more” conservative candidates split their votes and the “most” moderate candidate wins. With all due respect for our Governor, this is a political reality and not meant as anything other than a political observation.
Tea Party Fraud! – Jail Time!!! Outrageous.
Sentencing Set for December 7th – Justice Served
“Democratic Party, were accused of fraudulently entering the names of three people as candidates for a group calling itself The Tea Party for county commission or state Senate seats to appear on the November 2010 ballot.”
http://www.dailytribune.com/articles/2011/10/19/news/srv0000014669433.txt
There Are No Longer Any Excuses For Obamanomics
“Unemployment has been stuck at 9% or above for the longest period since the Great Depression. Unemployment for blacks has remained over 15% for over 2 years, with Hispanic unemployment stuck well into double digits over that time as well. Teenage unemployment has persisted at nearly 25%, with black teenage unemployment still nearly 40%.”
http://www.forbes.com/sites/peterferrara/2011/11/17/there-are-no-longer-any-excuses-for-obamanomics/
NOTICE: Leadership Institute Campaign School December 3rd in Novi
The Leadership Institute is putting on a Campaign School for potential campaign staffers, college & high school students and others on Saturday, December 3rd. I’ve had the pleasure of both attending and teaching at these seminars in the past.
Please go to the link below to register. Students get an additions $15 discount…in other words, only $10 to help cover lunch in order to attend!
http://www.leadershipinstitute.org/Training/school.cfm?schoolID=19688
Citizens for Traditional Values Leadership Academy Coming Dec. 9-10 in Lansing –
A Great Program
Few organizations have done a better job, more consistently in our state than CTV and their training programs for our youth. Please check out this opportunity for your high school & college aged kids.
http://www.ctvmichigan.org/PLA/PLA%20Poster%20Updated.pdf
To Increase Jobs, Increase Economic Freedom
“America became the wealthiest country because for most of our history we have followed the basic principles of economic freedom: property rights, freedom to trade internationally, minimal governmental regulation of business, sound money, relatively low taxes, the rule of law, entrepreneurship, freedom to fail, and voluntary exchange.”
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204358004577032442153911170.html
The Invincible Mrs. Thatcher
A conservative revolutionary, she prefigured, then partnered with, Ronald Reagan, worshipping “real men” as she went where no woman had, never losing a national election (or a war), and defining an era. Twenty years after Thatcher’s retirement, her biographer Charles Moore re-assesses the most powerful British prime minister since Churchill, one who forged a legacy that will long survive her.
http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2011/12/margaret-thatcher-201112
Great Graphic: FACEBOOK VS TWITTER
An excellent and very interesting statistical graphic on the reach of facebook vs twitter.
http://techmemore.com/facebook-vs-twitter-infographic/
Obama Speaks…America Should Listen!!!
For once, I have to agree with the President.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3MJj4lDmxUw
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