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Morning Briefing for June 8, 2012

By: Erick Erickson (Diary)  |  June 8th, 2012 at 04:45 AM  | 

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RedState Morning Briefing

June 8, 2012

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1. The Greatest Conspiracy

Please stop and read this post at Hot Air right now.

Go on. I’ll wait for you to come back. It is required reading this morning.

Go on . . . . .

Welcome back.

As you can see, it is a flat out lie that the left was outspent 7 to 1 in Wisconsin. In fact, considering the money unions spent on things like “voter education”, which are not even tabulated as political activity, the unions probably outspent everyone. We don’t know because they don’t exactly have to disclose it all right now.

But the more important question is “why?” Why did the left immediately seize on this idea that they lost because they were outspent.

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2. Now Bleed Them Dry

This week, America saw what real hope and change actually looks like. The Wisconsin recall fight wasn’t about Republicans and Democrats. It wasn’t about Obama. It was about the power of the majority of taxpayers who stood up against being fleeced by the very public employee union bosses who have put them on the hook for trillions of debt. Beginning fifteen months ago and culminating with the recall victory, the conservative movement struck back in Wisconsin and redefined the national fight for America’s future. Now is not a time for celebration. It’s time to take the fight to the next level.

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3. Holder Stumbles Under Questioning About David Alexrod

Rep. Randy Forbes (R-VA) asked some tough questions today at a hearing of the House Judiciary Committee of Obama’s Attorney General Eric Holder. Holder could not directly answer questions about the nature of Obama Senior Advisor David Alexrod’s push to politically influence the Justice Department in 2009.

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4. Romney/RNC outraises Obama/DNC in May.

If you remember the 2008 elections, you might remember a somewhat cruel, if clever, tactic that the Obama campaign would use: their habit of deliberately delaying sometimes announcing just how much money they raised in a given month. You see, it was a truism that, if you chose to wait until the last minute to file the fundraising report, it meant that the numbers were bad, or not as good as they could have been. So Obama for America would not announce their numbers right away, causing speculation that said numbers were off – and then get more buzz when it turned out that they had done well anyway.

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5. Spokesman for Colorado Democrats Refuses to Say If He Voted in March Caucuses

Colorado Democratic Party spokesman Matt Inzeo refuses to answer whether he voted in the March party caucuses earlier this year despite repeated requests from Media Trackers via phone, e-mail, and Twitter.

As previously reported by Media Trackers Colorado, Inzeo waited nearly a year after being hired by the state party to register to vote in Colorado. More important, Inzeo registered to vote a mere five days before the party’s March caucuses. His outright refusal to answer whether he voted in the caucus raises serious questions about voter fraud since state law explicitly prohibits individuals who have been registered to vote for less than two months from voting in a party caucus.

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  • commonsenseobserver

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6jJOKpp_WY&feature=g-all-u

  • commonsenseobserver

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-PPfkDCyn8k&feature=g-all-u

  • acat

    Rand Paul, that is.

    http://www.politico.com/blogs/burns-haberman/2012/06/rand-paul-endorses-romney-125624.html

    I’ll be taking this as another indicator that the apple rolled a good distance from the tree…..

    Mew

  • westcoastpatriette

    Interesting. Rand said he will help Romney campaign.

  • tnfriendofcoal101368

    Paulbot dream of third party run by “Uncle Ronny” ain’t happening. Of course, most of us knew Uncle Ronny was going to put Rand’s career in the toilet.

  • The Anti-acat

    I?ll be taking this as another indicator that you secretly have a feline-crush on Rand Paul. So, again — this is who you want for V.P., right?

    Kitty, if your neuticles ever drop maybe your testosterone level will rise and you will be able to give other posters REAL answers and stop moving the goal posts mid-thread!

  • tnfriendofcoal101368

    It’s Stricia, Eye of Mitt, Anti-Gekst…Markos’ most persistent pest troll…does we are legion mean all the RedState personalities. Acat are there anti-stalking laws in Illinois?

  • acat

    Remember, no means no.

    Mew

  • acat

    I figure he’ll start blogging from the basement of Rand’s place in D.C.

    Mew

  • Viet71

    Whatever, congrats.

  • acat

    And thank you. I’d rather attract the dollars than the loonies, but .. c’est la guerre.

    Mew

  • lineholder

    All President Obama is offering is excuses, NOT solutions.

    Vote Romney 2012!

  • http://impudent.edublogs.org/ kyle8

    my hate list.

    Well, a lot of them don’t blog here anymore, but there are still several.

  • mikeymike143

    acat, stricia giving an opinion on your political posts is like me giving michael jordan my opinion of how he should shoot a basketball.

  • Bill S

    .

  • mikeymike143

    she is a friendless loser.

  • mikeymike143

    i think ted cruz and richard mourdock will make great additions to the senate.

  • tnfriendofcoal101368

    What can you expect, trapped in dark, dank, dirty basement with no light or human interaction other than the rabble Markos attracts over at DKos?

  • Melody Warbington (rwm52)

    Matt Barber, President of Liberty University, tells evangelicals to vote for Romney.

    From the washingtontimes:

    Jesus admonished: ?Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves: be ye therefore wise as serpents and harmless as doves.? (Matthew 10:16). It is through this biblical prism that I shine my multicolored analysis.

    President Obama is a wolf. Though he purports to be Christian, his policies are decidedly un-Christian. This man eagerly advances a culture of death. He is the most radically pro-abortion president in American history. He has dutifully signed off on – and implemented at each opportunity – every extremist demand of the radical pro-abortion and homosexual activist lobbies.

    Mr. Obama has shown utter disregard – if not total disdain – for the U.S. Constitution. Not the least of his indefensible infringements is his recent Health and Human Services mandate requiring, under penalty of law, that all Christian and Catholic organizations violate fundamental church tenets by providing abortifacients, sterilization and contraceptive services to employees. This may be the single most egregious breach of First Amendment freedom in our lifetimes. Thankfully, the church isn?t backing down, has refused to comply and is fighting tooth and nail in court to reinstate constitutional liberty.

    Scripture says that Christians are known by their fruit. Mr. Obama?s fruit is rotten to the core. He talks like a Christian while his actions scream secular-socialist. I intend to work with every fiber of my being to see that Mr. Obama is not re-elected. To the extent this benefits Mr. Romney, so be it.

    It took one word to convince me: judges. The next president likely will fill at least two Supreme Court vacancies in the next four to eight years. Appointing Supreme Court justices may be the single most significant thing any president can do. For better or for worse, it profoundly steers law, public policy and culture at large in perpetuity.

    More in the article before he closes with this gem:

    INSERT

    It?s simple: A Christian nonvote is a vote for Mr. Obama in that it fails to affirmatively cancel out an Obama vote. Furthermore, any Christian who votes for Mr. Obama will get to take that up with God.

    This leaves us with our third and final choice: Christians must vote for Mitt Romney. A second Obama term is simply unacceptable. We won?t survive it.

  • 10ab

    But Mr Barber’s diatribe is nauseating on so many levels. Politics mixed with tent revival ole time religion is toxic. There are glaring reasons Gov Romney outshines Mr. Obama …I for one don’t need the scorched earth theatrics of Mr Barber.

  • http://libertynews.com/ mbecker908

    in every city in the land.

    Let me know how that works out for you.

  • Melody Warbington (rwm52)

    wanting to elect a “pastor in chief” as you put it, and now you complain when Barber advises them to vote for Romney. There’s just no pleasing some people.

    Of course, this isn’t your first comment expressing your distaste for those of faith, is it?

  • Jack_Savage

    If you are able.

  • westcoastpatriette

    hiding his religious bigotry and seems to enjoy taking pot shots at us whenever he sees an opening to do so.

    Oh well. As I see it, that’s his problem.

  • 10ab

    It is a given that the majority of blacks will vote for Mr Obama just like it is a given that Evangelicals will untimely vote for NOT Obama. If you think Mr Barber’s message will resonate to moderate Republicans and Independants I think you are wrong. We need both demographic to win in 2012 and it wont be scorced earth sermons that get them to the voting booth. I think Obama’s dismal record speaks for itself .

  • Tbone

    Cripes, it’s not like anyone is shoving it down your throat. In that you are obviously a heathen of some type why don’t you just revel in your unbelief and STFU.

  • 10ab

    Then you would know I am “of faith”. I am NOT however a TP and I will admit I can fall into the compasionate conservative category (I have to work on that). I just get a little miffed when evangelicals think they speak for the MAJORITY of the party…they do not.

  • Melody Warbington (rwm52)

    The opportunity is there to bring a good number of black voters into the fold, so to speak. I attended the Stand Up for Religious Freedom (Stop Obamacare & the HHS Mandate) rally at Kelly Ingram Park (civil rights park) in downtown Birmingham today. The first speaker was a black minister who spoke very eloquently about religious freedom. There were others on the stage. About 350-400 in attendance and I’d guess at least 1/3 were black.

    I’ve started a diary about it and will provide more details and hopefully some pictures, but I can assure you each and every speaker were enthusiastically received.

    One other point. If you think there’s no point in trying to reach the black community, you’d better tell K. Carl Smith, founder of Frederick Douglass Republicans, Lloyd Marcus, tea partier, Darius Foster, founder of Alabama Minority GOP, Anita Moncrief, Acorn whistleblower, Michael Thomas, founder of Harriet Tubman Republicans, all black and all have spoken at our local tea party meetings and/or events. Tell it to young people like Kendyll C., the young black teen recently elected as an officer in the newly formed Teenage Republicans of Shelby County. Granted it’s an uphill battle, but I’m not about to take them for granted.

  • 10ab

    And stand by that statement…

  • Melody Warbington (rwm52)

    I think I like this one better.

  • civil truth

    If the arguments of Mr. Barber don’t appeal to you, nobody is insisting that you accept them as gospel. It’s find if you find other conservative grounds for choosing Mr. Romney – and to propagate them, as others may likewise find them convincing.

    Similarly, Mr. Barber is speaking in the language he understands and employing his criteria, which he finds in Scripture and the Constitution. And there are many others who find that more convincing. There’s no problem if you just let them roll off your back if they’re not your cup of tea.

    Mutual forbearance is what’ going to keep the tent from ripping apart. Referring to Mr. Barber as having given a nauseating diatribe does not all under that description. Like any very large family, we’re all going to find ourselves more comfortable with some family members than with others. That’s just the way it is.

  • http://libertynews.com/ mbecker908

    no text necessary

  • kipling

    Dr. Barber spoke with boldness and clarity. I have only seen a handful of Christian leaders do so. Christian leadership must remember that the purpose of a shepherd is to protect the flock as well as shepherd the sheep.

    Thanks for sharing Melody.

  • kipling

    Your post here gives me hope along those lines.

    Keep up the good work.

  • lineholder

    This is encouraging news! Looking forward to the diary.

    The predetermined outlook of failure that a lot of Conservatives have about the black community really grates on my nerves sometimes. They’re actually hindering more than they are helping right now.

    Thanks for setting the record straight.

  • checkmate2012

    and proves he’s lost a big part of his base.

    “Faith ?Heart-Broken? Black Pastors Plea for Obama to Meet With Them & Change His Mind on Gay Marriage” from 6/4/2012,
    http://www.theblaze.com/stories/heart-broken-black-pastors-plea-for-obama-to-meet-with-them-change-his-mind-on-gay-marriage/)

    ?President Obama is the fulfillment of our dreams for our sons ? and he has broken our hearts by using his power and position to endorse as a civil right something that is simply wrong,? wrote the Rev. William Owens, the founder and president of the Coalition of African American Pastors (CAAP). ?I would pray you have enough residual respect for this group of clergy, to agree to meet with us and other national leaders to discuss our concerns over your and President Obama?s endorsement of gay marriage as a civil right.?

    [...]This letter, which was delivered on Thursday, didn?t come from a random group of powerless leaders in the faith community. Quite the opposite, many of these black pastors and preachers played prominent roles in the Civil Rights movement

  • checkmate2012

    n/t

  • Melody Warbington (rwm52)

    no text

  • checkmate2012

    tho’ I usually see the words open thread and didn’t today. I’m learning the hard way I guess- lol. Appreciate it :)

  • checkmate2012

    lol. The day I posted Paul suspended his campaign with a sentence or two and a yeah. It wasn’t a proper diary so I promptly did a mea culpa due to excitement & promised to never do it again. Yeah I was bad once :)

    Was glad to see MI got some sense like CA. Now we’re gettin somewhere.

  • gekster

    and streiff as an enforcer.
    Bill will tell you, but streiff will make you.
    And streiff had his hand with my conduct awhile ago. ;)

  • checkmate2012

    could be a movie. BTW, wanted to share this with you (somewhere)regarding Zombies (love you’re vid fill ins), but it’s gross but from a normal media:

    Cannibalistic attack examiner.com
    June 7, 2012

    Zombie apocalypse 2012

    Sheila Carroll

    Dallas Top News Examiner

    Over the last month several cannibalistic attacks have occurred across the globe. In the latest incident, North Miami Beach police arrested Brandon De Leon, 21, after entering a restaurant shouting obscenities and resisting arrest.

    On the way to the station De Leon begin slamming his head against the plexiglass barrier in the police car and shouting that he was going to eat them.

    Later, De Leon growled and tried to bite the officer?s hand.
    In bond court De Leon told the judge that he did not remember the incident.

    De Leon and Brian Yerdon, 33, were arrested at a Boston Market after they began to disturb customers. After the officers arrived, De Leon began yelling obscenities nd making vulgar gestures.

    De Leon was taken to Aventura Hospital for treatment where his blood test revealed the presence of cannabis, Xanax and an alcohol level of .29. The results also showed that De Leon also had Mephedrone in his system.

    Advertisement

    Mephedrone is an ecstasy-like drug that is part of a new line of over-the-counter bath salts. This same drug was implicated in an attack several weeks ago in which a growling naked man chewed off most of a homeless man?s face.

    Police warn the narcotic has a stimulant effect on the central nervous system that can be addicting. Symptoms include excessive sweating, headaches, heart palpitations, nausea, hallucinations, paranoia and erratic behavior.

    Zombie Apocalypse 2012

    Suggested by the author:
    Man shot and killed for chewing victim’s face off

  • CincoSolas_del_Bronx

    I would have preferred more than merely the first 3 notes, but there are still several months left, and the slightest allusion is sufficient for cultural traditions ingrained over centuries. Here’s hoping we make it up to the 1812 Overture and Shore’s Fall of Barackd-d?r by late October!

  • http://www.hakubi.us/ Neil Stevens

    Ditto Daily Links.

  • checkmate2012

    still my fav mod due to: Neil the Exterminator! We have Strieff the Enforcer, but I don’t know Bill well enough.

    BTW, Sticia came back after you 3X banned her..cockroach. Tor was extemely interesting coming from 19 years in telecom.

  • CincoSolas_del_Bronx

    in answer to your earlier question about the apparent non-posting of which year a diary was posted in, the yyyy/mm/dd date of every diary is embedded in its URL. Individual comments are not so dated–they will have the date of the diary itself–but with a little work one can check the weekday assigned to the date to figure out if it matches the current year.

  • CincoSolas_del_Bronx

    who has doubtless figured out the dating scheme by now … unlike my incorrigible misuse of “Reply To This”.

  • checkmate2012

    on dates & your still mad about a post from a few days ago but let’s just agree to disagree. I think you’re a smart person, not that my opinion means anything because it doesn’t.

    I don’t get your dialogue and understand that you won’t ever get mine; I’m simple and you’re complicated. Let’s move on.

  • mikeymike143

    walker is a politician who has courage and vision, two things the republicans could use more of. :)

  • mikeymike143

    the loud and sustained boos came when perry said ”we need to send more strong conservatives like dewhurst to washington, dc”.

    i think cruz will win and we will be sending jim demint some conservative reinforcements by the name of richard mourdock and ted cruz”.

  • westcoastpatriette

    and people are craving this kind of bold, sensible leadership. If only more of our squishy and timid RINO types would realize this.

  • mikeymike143

    richard mourdock in indiana also fits that same bill. :)

  • Viet71

    He could have been of any political stripe, so long as the laws he got enacted worked for the benefit of Wisconsin.

    Of course, no Dem would have pursued his goals.

    IMO, the focus needs to be on Wisconsin’s budget surplus, job growth, and tax reduction.

  • westcoastpatriette

    Are Californians finally starting to come to their senses as they start to lose patience with the left?

    http://www.pe.com/local-news/politics/politics-headlines-index/20120608-field-poll-voters-losing-faith-in-brown.ece

  • acat

    unless you’ve managed to export enough Dems to Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Colorado, Montana, Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas to tip the scales….

    Mew

  • westcoastpatriette

    I know we’re in the same boat but miracles still happen.

    I grew up when Reagan was our governor and remember when we led the nation with the best public schools one could find. I long for those days to return.

  • acat

    A “California Miracle” would be a good thing for the country as a whole…. I’m concerned that the whole “golden state” is so steeped in liberal thought, though, that it’s gonna take more along the lines of decades of hard work just to get back to purple.

    Mew

  • westcoastpatriette

    agrees Jindal would be good pick for Romney’s VP.

    http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/Thompson-leaks-confront-pack-up/2012/06/09/id/441770

  • westcoastpatriette

    Three weeks left in the month of June. By the end of the month we may have two more victories in our pockets should the court strike down O’Care and uphold SB 1070. It will be like winning the triple crown for conservatives and liberals will be apoplectic.