Category: Election 2010

With Another $15 Million, Poizner is Poizner’s Biggest Contributor

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

California Insurance Commissioner and candidate for the GOP nomination for Governor, Steve Poizner, has announced that he’ll donate another $15 million of his own fortune to float his flagging Gubernatorial campaign making himself his biggest contributor. Once the transfer is complete, Mr. Poizner will have donated a total of just over $19 million of his […]

 

A Message to Senators Landrieu and Reid form the Louisiana Tea Partiers

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

This past Saturday, hundreds of people gathered in the pouring rain in New Orleans, Louisiana, to tell Senator Harry Reid (D, Nev.) and Senator Mary Landrieu (D, Loius.). As you may know, Senator Reid was supposed to attend a fundraiser in New Orleans, but canceled his plans to attend when he started taking heat for […]

 

Is Your Right Not to Vote Endangered in Illinois?

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Well, Illinois voter, say you go to the polls and you decide you don’t like any of the candidates for lt. governor or secretary of state but you are all fired up about your choice for governor. So, you just don’t want to vote for the ones you don’t like but you darn sure want […]

 

Why Conservatives Have Trouble Getting Elected

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

The reasons that I could never get elected to any government position is the same reason why conservatives have a tough time getting elected and, if they end up elected, can’t govern in this era of the ill-educated voter. First I’ll lay out my main principles… Leave me alone Stop taxing me Shove your regulations […]

 

SEIU Fixing the Vote in Fresno, Too

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

A few weeks ago we reported on how the Services Employees International Union was attempting to fix the vote in Sonoma County, California so that Sonoma’s in-home healthcare workers would end up with SEIU representation instead of NUHW representation. Well, Sonoma wasn’t an isolated case. The SEIU used the same vote fixing tactics in Fresno […]

 

Charlie Crist: A Serving of Pork Sounds Good

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

On November 11, I wrote of the statements that Charlie Crist made denying that he ever supported Obama’s $787 billion stimulus bill in his role as Florida’s Governor. Unfortunately for his obfuscation, though, I noted that he and 17 other governors signed a letter in February of this year announcing support for the Stimulus. Apparently […]

 

Kirk Denies He’s Going Right With Palin Request

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Mark Kirk is denying that he’s trying to angle rightward in the run up to the GOP primary next year with his recent reaching out to Governor Sarah Palin to secure her endorsement for his candidacy. “I think I am who I am. I am a social moderate, fiscal conservative. But this is a big […]

 

House Democrats vote to increase Republican gains in 2010

Posted on by B. Daniel Blatt

The good news about the House vote yesterday to approve PelosiCare is that the city where I was born, Cincinnati, Ohio will, come January 2001, once again have a Republican Congressman. Now that Steve Driehaus, who currently represents the Queen City, voted in favor of HR 3962, he has all but guaranteed that Steve Chabot, […]

 

Right To Work Prez Calls Out Newt’s Hypocrisy

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

National Right to Work President Mark Mix is calling on Newt Gingrich to rescind his endorsement of Dede Scozzafava, the liberal candidate chosen by New York’s GOP powermen for the special election for the 23rd District Congressional seat. The reason? Scozzafava is a supporter of the Employee Free Choice Act and Newt has said he […]

 

Republican Defeat in NY-23 Could Lead to GOP Victories in 2010

Posted on by B. Daniel Blatt

With word that former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin has endorsed conservative Doug Hoffman to fill the House seat vacated by Army Secretary John McHugh, there is a real chance the once and future Republican could score an upset, defeating GOP nominee Dede Scozzafava and Democrat Bill Owens. The safe bet though would be for an […]

 

New York’s Dede Scozzafava MUST Withdraw

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

In July liberal Republican DeDe Scozzafava was tapped by the 11 Republican county chairmen of New York’s 23rd Congressional District to run for the seat being vacated by John McHugh, who resigned to take Obama’s offer to become Secretary of the Army. The NY GOP made a huge mistake with this smoke-filled-room choice. Scozzafava has […]

 

Races Like NY-23 Are Why People Don’t Trust The Republican Party

Posted on by John Hawkins

On a regular basis, we hear Republicans in DC pouting about the base. “Why are they so hard on us? Why don’t they trust us? Why are they so unreasonable?” They don’t take into account the fact that the Republican Party betrayed many of its biggest supporters again and again during the Bush years. They […]

 

The Neverending Campaign Ramps Up A Notch

Posted on by William Teach

Childlike Democrats: Call my name! Obama, please! Save us! Obama: All right, I’ll do it. I’ll save you. I will do what I dream! Bastian: FUNDRAISING! Even though the midterm elections are still a year away, President Barack Obama and the White House have started to unleash the fundraising force of the administration for candidates […]

 

Where I Come to Mark Kirk’s Aid

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

I am not a Mark Kirk fan. For me he is and always has been far too “moderate” on social issues and his now (maybe) retracted Cap and Tax vote sticks in my craw pretty badly. But Steve Benen of the Washington Monthly blog Political Animal unfairly and illicitly slammed Kirk on something he said […]

 

Meg Whitman’s Extreme Pro-Abortion Views

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

A few weeks ago Jon Fleischman of FlashReport.org was fortunate enough to snag an interview with gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman. But the results of one segment of the meeting left him admittedly non-plussed, or as he termed it “unnerved.” Fleischman was aghast to learn of just how extreme Meg Whitman’s views on abortion really are. […]

 

Carly Fiorina: A Possible Fit for Conservatives?

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Cary Fiorina, former Hewlett-Packard CEO and probable candidate for U.S. Senate from California, is starting to look like a viable choice for conservative voters in the Golden State, giving the GOP two conservatives from whom to chose. Fiorina’s bona fides have been a question to many California Republicans because she is a relative newcomer to […]

 

CA Elections: Whitman’s Spotty Voting Record: Not Exactly as it Seemed?

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Much has been made about Meg Whitman’s spotty voting record by many, including me. When the Sacramento Bee’s Andrew McIntosh first reported that records for Whitman’s voter registration going back a decade or so were nearly non-existent it seemed that the anti-Whitman camp(s) out there had quite an issue to hang their hats upon. It […]

 

Meg Whitman: A Big Lib Supporter?

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

-By Warner Todd Huston Meg Whitman has had some bad days lately. After recently proclaiming herself a “darned good” conservative Republican, Senator Barbara Boxer’s staff revealed that Whitman was a Boxer supporter in 2003. Dangerously for Whitman, Senator Boxer is one of the most liberal members of the Senate. According to Boxer aide Rose Kapolczynski, […]

 

Travesty: Most Illinois County GOP Organizations Have no Web Presence

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Imagine that. In this day and age most of the GOP Party organizations in the great state of Illinois do NOT have a web page. Illinois has 102 counties, but only 23 of them have a usable, working webpage. In this Internet age, the very first place everyone runs to in order to find out […]

 

The Curious Case of Linda McMahon

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

We seem to have a trio of sudden Republicans in the news these days. I say sudden because there is a lack of any long history on the part of these three candidates of being Republicans for very long before running for office. In fact, it seems that all three only became Republicans once they […]

 

Is The NRSC Jumping the Gun in California?

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Rasmussen polling group has recently reported its findings on the upcoming California Senate race and the results seem to say that the National Republican Senate Committee has jumped the gun by endorsing a candidate so early in the race. To date, Rasmussen has found that incumbent Senator Barbara Boxer (D) is holding her own against […]

 

2009 Cook County GOP Convention

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

What are we going to do to clean up Obama’s corrupt Chicago Democrats? The Cook County GOP has some ideas… I just got back from attending the Saturday session of the Cook County Republican Party Convention (and before you ask, yes, there IS a Cook County Republican Party). It appeared that about 1,000 participants had […]

 

Obama OK, Democrats In Trouble

Posted on by McQ

Charlie Cook, one of the most respected of the political prognosticators, continues to sound the alarm for Congressional Democrats. Since August, Cook has been telling them they’re headed for electoral disaster in the 2010 midterms if they don’t change their ways. Most of the erosion of support has taken place among independents. Although the country […]

 

WH Throws David Paterson Under The Bus

Posted on by Sister Toldjah

Obama has conveyed to Gov. Paterson, through various admin officials, that he doesn’t want Paterson to run for re-election: President Obama has grave concerns that New York Gov. David Paterson cannot win a reelection contest in 2010, and the White House has taken the unusual step of conveying those concerns to the governor himself, several […]

 

Ill. GOP Central Committee Meeting Report

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Note: I realize that this is sort of narrow, but I attended the Illinois GOP Central Committee meeting today and I thought some of you might be somewhat interested to see what is going on in Obama’s home state on the Republican front. The excitement for anything NOT Democrat that was reported at this meeting […]

 

Marco Rubio Vs. Charlie Crist: A Tale Of 10 Straw Polls

Posted on by John Hawkins

The National Republican Senatorial Committee is supposed to represent Republicans — aren’t they? Heck, they’ve got the word “Republican” right there in their name. They certainly don’t hesitate to hit up Republicans for money. They also bill themselves as THE organization to give to if you want to help elect Republicans in the Senate. Yet, […]