http://www.redstate.com/azaeroprof Fri, 20 Nov 2009 01:23:35 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en While this poll has potential 2012 ramification, it also has significance for the current battles with Obama/Pelosi/Reid and the 2010 elections. The conventional wisdom is that Sarah Palin is a *polarizing* figure who has no appeal outside of the very limited radical right-wing base. But check out this paragraph from ... http://www.redstate.com/azaeroprof/2009/11/19/some-very-interesting-poll-results-re-palin/ The Obama administration continues to treat dissenters with disdain and put-downs. We've been called mobsters, right-wing extremists, domestic terrorists, and even silly. So now today, Baghdad Bob Gibbs likens us to Bluto and his buddies from Animal House for being concerned about Obama's school speech tomorrow. You would think by ... http://www.redstate.com/azaeroprof/2009/09/07/open-thread-pledge-delta-tau-chi/ One year ago today, August 29, 2008, political life in America (and my life) underwent a sea change.  On that day, in a basketball arena in Dayton, Ohio, John McCain announced that Sarah Palin would be his running mate for the 2008 Presidential election. Now, this is not a diary to ... http://www.redstate.com/azaeroprof/2009/08/29/one-year-ago-today/ I'm certain that Erick and others will have nice things to say about Ted Kennedy come the morning, but being a west coaster (time zone anyway), I'll throw out a late night open thread in his honor. First, I offer my condolences to the entire Kennedy family.  Cancer is a brutal ... http://www.redstate.com/azaeroprof/2009/08/26/greatest-political-speeches-ted-kennedy-memorial-open-thread/ ColdWarrior keeps pushing and pushing us RedState folks to become Precinct Committeepersons (PC's), continuing Martin Knight's drumbeat. Listen to him! That is how we will change and reinvigorate the Republican party. Here's my story: After Sarah Palin's selection last year, I got charged up and and finally submitted a ... http://www.redstate.com/azaeroprof/2009/08/15/help-win-the-new-cold-warlisten-to-coldwarrior/ Last year, Barack Obama's campaign brought literally millions into the political arena that were never activated before. Now, his disastrous policies are bringing millions of conservative-minded folks into the world of political activism that were never inclined to do so. This is a great thing!!! I would ... http://www.redstate.com/azaeroprof/2009/07/26/we-need-all-the-help-we-can-get-a-plea-for-a-kinder-and-gentler-redstate/ So 8 Vichy Republicans have turned coat on their party and their nation by providing the key votes to pass the cap and tradetax debacle. So we need to thank them for their treasonous behavior. So please go to Barnes and Noble or Amazon and order a copy of Jean ... http://www.redstate.com/azaeroprof/2009/06/27/send-a-special-thank-you-to-the-8-vichy-republicans/ Seems like a nice topic for a Friday afternoon. Over the last 8 years, the lefties (in AND out of the press) succeeded immensely in painting caricatures of the key members of the Bush administration. They did this often by associating certain characteristics (true or not!) with each person and ... http://www.redstate.com/azaeroprof/2009/05/01/conservative-name-calling-open-thread/ [This is a re-print of a Commentary I had published in the Virginia Tech Collegiate Times on December 3, 1993. It is a spoof of Hillarycare, which was being thrust on us at the time. Now, over 15 years later, we're about to get something similar shoved down ... http://www.redstate.com/azaeroprof/2009/04/24/if-grocery-shopping-were-just-like-health-care/ I had an epiphany today…OK, maybe it’s just end-of-the-semester sleep deprivation. Who knows? But I thought I’d share it for what it’s worth on a Friday night when there are fewer folks posting diaries. I teach engineering at a small campus of a rather unusual university. Our student ... http://www.redstate.com/azaeroprof/2009/04/18/a-conservative-rallying-cry/ A recent diary about Kay Bailey Hutchison dissing Sarah Palin in an advertisement brought out a number of negative comments regarding Gov. Rick Perry (R-Tx). I stayed quiet through these as most were from Texas conservatives, who I figured knew Perry better than I. I'm predisposed to liking ... http://www.redstate.com/azaeroprof/2009/04/14/texas-to-reaffirm-state-sovereignty/ Jeez, just heard this on Rush. Here's a part of the transcript from last night's (4/2) Larry King Live. Guests were Penn Jillette, James Carville, Terry Holt, and Stephanie Miller. KING: If [Obama's] programs, Penn, brought about health insurance that pleased all, taxes that pleased most, a better way ... http://www.redstate.com/azaeroprof/2009/04/03/larry-king-will-do-our-thinking-for-us-hoo-rah/ (Ok, if this is not really a diary-worthy topic, I apologize in advance.  But it made an impact on me, and if it helps even one of you feel the way I did, it will be worth getting scolded for posting as a diary! :-) ). If you're like me, and ... http://www.redstate.com/azaeroprof/2009/03/22/obama-survival-kit-disney-style/ I just started reading Russell Kirk's "Rights and Duties". Very early in the book (pages 6-7!), Kirk quotes a letter that Lord Thomas Babington Macaulay sent to Henry S. Randall in 1857. Randall was an American biographer of Thomas Jefferson. Macaulay was warning that Jeffersonianism would destroy ... http://www.redstate.com/azaeroprof/2009/03/12/lord-macaulay-predicted-obamanomic-disaster-in-1857/ According to Hannity's count, Obama used the words "crisis" or "catastrophe" no less than 24 times during his mortgage crisis speech today here in Arizona. And we've all heard "the worst economy since the Great Depression" enough times to go "postal" if we hear it one more time! (My ... http://www.redstate.com/azaeroprof/2009/02/18/obama-fearmongering-and-the-misery-index/ Lord President Obama just landed in Phoenix a couple hours ago and will be speaking at a school tomorrow.  KFYI radio personalities Bruce Jacobs and (former Congressman) J.D. Hayworth have organized a mock demonstration against the stimulus porkulus package in conjunction with Obama's appearance.  If you live in the Phoenix ... http://www.redstate.com/azaeroprof/2009/02/17/arizona-action-alert-218/ The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) says Obama's plan will hurt the economy in the long haul (like we didn't already know that!). President Obama's economic recovery package will actually hurt the economy more in the long run than if he were to do nothing, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office said ... http://www.redstate.com/azaeroprof/2009/02/06/cbo-says-obama-plan-will-hurt-the-economy/ Where are you when we need you? Your TRUE Hope and Optimism and Conservative message live on! http://www.redstate.com/azaeroprof/2009/02/06/open-thread-happy-98th-president-reagan/ HAVE YOU SEEN THIS MAN? Name: Rahm Emmanuel Born: 11/29/59 Date last seen: Approximately 12/20/08 Occupation: Named The One's Chief of Staff, report to duty 1/20/09 Former occupations: Congressman, Illinois 5th District Senior Advisor, President Bill Clinton Ballerina If anyone has seen or knows of his whereabouts, please post links below. Can include links to cell-phone video. ... http://www.redstate.com/azaeroprof/2009/01/15/open-thread-missing-person-report/ It has been posted previously that Gov. Janet Napolitano will be resigning once she is confirmed as The One's Secretary of Homeland Security, and that Republican Sec. of State Jan Brewer will take over as Governor. Soon-to-be Gov. Brewer has chosen former State Sen. Ken Bennett of Prescott to succeed her ... http://www.redstate.com/azaeroprof/2009/01/12/arizona-gop-update/