Right now neither the moderates in the Republican or Democratic Parties are content. I submit, the solution to what ails them long term is to create their own party. There is a huge need in the middle to influence politics, so why not organize. I am no expert of the 2 party system we have, but this could actually benefit everyone.

In the Republican Party, the country club moderates just tried to wrest control of the party and lost. Almost all of the moderates holding political office have been purged save 6-10 in the Senate and 25-50 in Congress. Who knows how many exist on the local level. Besides, didn’t Perot try this? If his effort wasn’t purely selfish he might have succeeded in creating a middle party. There is plenty of politicians (McCain) and grassroots to pull from the center-right.

In the Democratic Party, the blue bloods and moderate conservative types must twist their priorities in a knot, and lie to their constituents for absolutely no say or power in their Party. You may not have many Senators who would bolt (like Lieberman), but there are a lot (at least 50) in the House, and more than a few governors.

There is more agreement between the two alienated groups above than there is with their respective Parties. It is time for them to unite and make this a three party system. Heck in the Senate we already have 3 parties (see Gang of 12, etc.)

Maybe then each party could put forth a CANDIDATE THAT REPRESENTS THEIR BASE and moderates would feel they have a home. Of course they would also have to have a Party Platform.

In conclusion I would like to address what many will say is the biggest obstacle to this happening. Both parties feel they might never be able to achieve a majority to govern with a third party. The left will not want to loose the center because it gives them cover for their radical left ideas, and the right fears what happened with Perot in “92 when he pulled mostly from the Republican Party. I have personally concluded that things shape up differently than many fear. Here’s why…

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This is an in depth, 3 part blog on what Obama learned from his first employer, the Gamaliel Foundation. This explains where Obama learned to appear pseudo-conservative while maintaining his ultra-liberal ideology.

I use excerpts from Stanley Kurtz’s “Senator Stealth” as published in the National Review. His article is 6 pages long so I have only pulled what I deemed necessary for this diary. When you have 20-30 minutes I suggest you read Kurtz’s article.

www.nationalreview.com Kurtz’s article can be found on the front page.

* Part One: Obama and the Gamaliel Foundation*

Obama has long been linked — through foundation grants, shared political activism, collaboration on legislation and tactics, and mutual praise and support — with the Chicago-based Gamaliel Foundation, one of the least known yet most influential national umbrella groups for church-based “community organizers.”

The connections are numerous. Gregory Galluzzo, Gamaliel’s co-founder and executive director, served as a trainer and mentor during Obama’s mid-1980s organizing days in Chicago. The Developing Communities Project, which first hired Obama, is part of the Gamaliel network. Obama became a consultant and eventually a trainer of community organizers for Gamaliel, (and later ACORN).

How can Obama be radical and post-radical at the same time? Perhaps by deploying Gamaliel techniques. Gamaliel organizers have discovered a way to fuse their Left-extremist political beliefs with a smooth, non-ideological surface of down-to-earth pragmatism: the substance of Jeremiah Wright with the appearance of Norman Vincent Peale. Could this be Obama’s secret?

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This from the Columbus Dispatch.
www.dispatch.com/live/content/local_news/stories/2008/10/24/joe.html?sid=101

“Public records requested by The Dispatch disclose that information on Wurzelbacher’s driver’s license or his sport-utility vehicle was pulled from the Ohio Bureau of Motor Vehicles database three times shortly after the (third Presidential) debate.

Information on Wurzelbacher was accessed by accounts assigned to the office of Ohio Attorney General Nancy H. Rogers, the Cuyahoga County Child Support Enforcement Agency and the Toledo Police Department.

The attorney general’s office is investigating if the access of Wuzelbacher’s BMV information through the office’s Ohio Law Enforcement Gateway computer system was unauthorized, said spokeswoman Jennifer Brindisi.

“We’re trying to pinpoint where it came from,” she said. The investigation could become “criminal in nature,” she said. Brindisi would not identify the account that pulled the information on Oct. 16.

Records show it was a “test account” assigned to the information technology section of the attorney general’s office, said Department of Public Safety spokesman Thomas Hunter.

Brindisi later said investigators have confirmed that Wurzelbacher’s information was not accessed within the attorney general’s office. She declined to provide details. The office’s test accounts are shared with and used by other law enforcement-related agencies, she said.

On Oct. 17, BMV information on Wurzelbacher was obtained through an account used by the Cuyahoga County Child Support Enforcement Agency in Cleveland, records show.

Mary Denihan, spokeswoman for the county agency, said the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services contacted the agency today and requested an investigation of the access to Wurzelbacher’s information. Cuyahoga County court records do not show any child-support cases involving Wurzelbacher.

The State Highway Patrol, which administers the Law Enforcement Automated Data System in Ohio, asked Toledo police to explain why it pulled BMV information on Wurzelbacher within 48 hours of the debate, Hunter said.

The LEADS system also can be used to check for warrants and criminal histories…”

The first order of business under Obama would be to fill all Circuit Court judicial vacancies ASAP. This will be easy with a Large Senate Majority and the White House. We cannot let this happen…because…

“The balance of appointments could put solid Democratic majorities under Obama on the 2nd, the 3rd and the notoriously conservative 4th Circuit, which currently has four vacancies. It would add to the existing Democratic-appointed majorities in the liberal 9th Circuit.

Obama appointees would tip another four courts, the 1st, 7th, 11th and D.C. circuits to slight Democratic-majority appointments.” — Russell Wheeler, Brookings Institute interviewed by the National Law Review.

Currently there are 56 total announced vacancies (about 7%) in the US Courts. Why do you think all these vacancies are left open for so long. This is the left’s plan for change.

www.uscourts.gov/judicialvac.html

By the way, only the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals is constantly overturned by the Supreme Court for radical rulings. Do we want the other courts to follow the 9th Circuit’s lead?

This also from the National Law Journal and Brookings Institute….

“Republican presidents have appointed more than half of the current 179 federal appellate judges, but that could rise dramatically to 74 percent if Sen. John McCain wins the presidency, or give Democrats a 56 percent majority in appointments if Sen. Barack Obama prevails.”

www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1202425525272

Here’s the point. We stop Obama. We have options.
We put McCain in the presidency and hopefully someone like Thompson in the Attorney Generals office and we can push Pelosi and Reid around some. We can also possibly influence McCain.

We don’t stop Obama and we have to completely rely on Justice Kennedy to stop all the crazy legislation of a Liberal Government as well as the activist decisions of the newly left leaning Lower Courts.

In DJ Drummond’s blog discussing the latest AP-Yahoo poll, he stated that the poll was “biased in six distinctly invalid ways relative to known demographics”. So I decided to look for myself and I found 7 worth noting. And I compared his “known demographics with census information. These are the results from Knowledge Networks who conducted the poll, matched with DJ Drummond’s analysis. I made the type bold for DJ Drummond to make it easier to read.

First here are my sources:
A blog by DJ Drummond http://tinyurl.com/5jm2en (thanks PaRep),

A link to yahoo http://news.yahoo.com/page/election-2008-political-pulse-souring-on-mccain just click where it says “Full poll results”

UPDATE I was unable to produce the full tables due to formating, so I limited the sample to the first wave of calls. There is very little change from Wave 1 to Wave 8

Census info on 2004 election http://www.census.gov/prod/2006pubs/p20-556.pdf You have to scroll down to Table B.

Here are the seven fundemental problems with this poll, starting with the least objectionable.

*1. DJ Drummond – LV5 asks if the person is registered to vote. 86% say yes, so that tells you that unless the question was only asked of registered voters, one of every seven answers is irrelevant. *

Knowledge Networks – LV1. Are you registered to vote?

Yes, at my current address 76%
Yes, but at a different address 7%
No 13%
Not sure 3%

Census.gov – Registration and Voting 18 and older

Registered Voters (142,070,000)
Actual Voters (125,736,000) Note: 88% of those registered, voted.
Pop Eligable to Vote (215,694,000)

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I wrote a response to Kyle in Secessionary’s first diary, regarding how the left has set themselves up to “change” our country if Obama is elected. I decided it would make a better diary entry.

In my post I explain my hopes and fears during an Obama presidency.

“Well written Kyle, and I hope you are right.

I would hope the worst that could happen is four years of liberalism. The electorate receives it’s history lessen in the perils of socialism as you suggest, and then another Reagan type emerges. Carter 2.

Our side should act with honor and love of America during that time. I pray that is all that would happen.

But I think something is being overlooked and I hope I am wrong.

What if we begin losing freedoms at a more alarming rate? How will our country react to this?

After the Carter and Clinton presidencies, the left has learned how to wield power. For example, the MSM is now unabashedly in the tank and the fairness act will become law.

Even worse there are now enough vacancies in the courts that the left is set to almost completely overwhelm the judicial system with liberals and that is where the socialist changes will begin.

What will Americans like Secessionary do when the fabric of our society is almost completely changed by judicial fiat or incredibly convoluted laws that are never reported on (remember fairness act and internet restrictions)?

We will all place our hope in Justice Kennedy to hold the line.

Lord help us.”

Regarding the judiciary, I would like to add to the post the following about what might become if Obama is elected.

1. There ate a near record number of judicial vacancies in the courts. Almost all of these will be filled in the first 2-4 years of an Obama presidency. We will not be able to undo this or even slow it down. The left has a huge opportunity here.

   1. Justice Kennedy will swing heavily to the left. The pressure on him will be unreal. When he swings further to the left we will have national same sex marriage, late term abortions, new socialist requirements for businesses, foreign/sharia law entrenched in our courts, and changes to how our military/intelligence community functions.

2. The left is now in almost complete control of the MSM and the “other” media will be lessened somehow. So whatever the courts do, will be perverted to sound good somehow.

This should be the number one issue in this election, because it is has ramifications for every American on every issue.

The purpose of this diary is to make the case that this election was transformed by both VP selections.

Sarah changed everything by being everything I thought was lacking in politics. Average Joe changed everything by actually causing me to rush to Drudgereport everyday to see what fun new quotes I could wrap my head around. Face it, they are both more fascinating than either McCain or Obama.

Sarah is actually the first national politician in my lifetime (post Reagan) that I want to hear interviewed one on one. She has made woman like my Mom, sisters, and wife passionate about politics again. We all hope that her presence on the ticket eventually puts an end to both Obama’s and Hillary’s careers. God that would be GREAT!!!

But where Sarah adds the much needed conservative touch to this election, Biden adds the much needed laughter. I too spent too much time watching the polls. Even after Sarah’s selection I watched the numbers rise and fall. Things got better, then worse, then better again to the point that now I wish we could pass a McCain-Feingold anti-polling legislation and prohibit polling a month before the election. *Yet through all the ups and downs of poll watching Joe Biden has been my one constant, my rock. *

What would this election be without Joe??

I woke up this morning to his “No coal for you” and his “Franklin Roosevelt got on television and didn’t just talk about the, you know, the princes of greed, he said, “Look, here’s what happened.” comments.

What would we do to relieve the daily stress of endless talking heads, polls, and analysis?!?

I still crack up laughing everytime I think of him trying to get the paralyzed guy in the wheelchair to “Stand up for Obama”.

The guy is absolutely hilarious. Little words of wisdom from the Average Joe to lift your conservative spirits, make you laugh, and drive Barry nuts. This is the trifecta. Poor Barry is wondering what he did to deserve this.

You have to admit, he has the uncanny ability to make news, no matter how much the top of his ticket doesn’t want him to. He is effectively stealing the limelight from Obama. He is a special vice-presidential candidate.

Even Rush has started the SOB, Save our Biden campaign.

I believe that these are the two most influential and interesting Vice-Presidential Candidates of the modern times.