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Romney Trounces Obama At Debate

W R Collier Jr October 4, 2012

The first presidential debate of 2012 was an overwhelming victory for Mitt Romney, so say most of the media and around 2/3rds of debate watchers.

This is bad news for the Progressives when you consider that up to 60 million Americans watched the debate. A focus group run by pollster Frank Luntz consisted of “undecided voters” who had voted for Obama in 2008- of the entire panel only 3 remained Obama supporters. If this focus group is indicative of the whole populace, Obama persuaded many or most undecided voters to swing towards Romney.

Romney stuck with a theme based on the idea that Obama’s plans are all “trickle down government”, effectively nuetralizing the “trickle down economics” argument. Romney knocked it out of the park when he complained about Obama’s spending $90 billion on “green energy”: Romney said that Obama puts his money where his heart is and that the $90 billion could have gone for 2 million teachers. This after Obama accused Romney of being “for less teachers”.

At one point a flustered Obama asked Jim Lehrer, the moderator, to “move on to another subject”, a line likely to be used in ads against him.

Obama’s supporters turned against him, shocked and dismayed at his performance. For four years Obama has been shielded from tough questions and face-to-face challenges to his rhetoric. In countless “interviews” Obama’s media supporters focus on making the President look good while reserving the “gotchya” questions for Republicans only. While this has confused the populace who are not aware of the ooposition’s responses to the Progressive meme, in this debate that meme was fairly exposed and challenged by Romney.

The debate will be a factor in this election, altough how much of a factor it will be has yet to be determines, and that can only be good for Romney.

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AP Breathlessly Defames Voter ID Law

W R Collier Jr September 26, 2012

Playing to fear and using rank supposition, The Associated Press ran an article today claiming that Voter ID Laws will potential cause “chaos” if the 2012 election is close. The reportage of the peice ignores the very real fraude being perpetuated by an election process that pretty much makes it a cake walk to “vote early and vote often.” While you have to have a valid ID to fly and do many other activities, including collecting benefits from the government, vote fraude perpetrators deny the need to ensure that people who vote have a legitimate right to vote. In many locales run by party machines, places like Philadaelphia for instance, it is all too common to see more votes counted then there are voters. Vote fraude deniers never take this obvious and glaring red flag into account. One suspects that illegal votes can give candidates around a 5% or more advantage over their opponents. The AP is complicit in this process and should be disclosing its so-called “reporting” as an “in kind” campaign contribution to the party they favor. http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_NEVER_ENDING_ELECTION?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2012-09-26-03-49-18

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Totally Skewed Polls

W R Collier Jr September 25, 2012

Over at UnSkewedPolls.com they’ve uncovered what amounts to a major, smoking gun story of betrayal, lies, and just plain malpractice.

With precision and overwhelming evidence UnSkewedPolls.com has revealed how the Progressive Media are skewing polling data, often by as much as 15 points, to give Obama the appearance of inevitable victory.

All of this is designed to demoralize your opponent, energize your base, and discourage donors from supporting the opponent. The funny thing is, these media outlets aren’t the campaign, although they are acting as if they are, and not disclosing these “in kind” campaign donations. This kind of bias might explain recent findings about the media’s plummeting credibility- over 60% view the media as untrustworthy, according to Gallup, with the partisan divide being rather stark.

We’ve queried among the inside-the-beltway types we know about this and, not surprising, they tend to believe the media and take a rather jaded view of the veracity of this polling analysis. Some internal polling we are aware of seems to back up UnSkewedPolling.com’s take on matters, but to the insiders this is all just “wishful thinking.”

Election day will prove whether this new polling analysis is useful or not, although we understand the new site will be launching its own internet-based weighted polling data using the 2010 election and party affiliation as its baseline.

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Romney-Rice 2012

W R Collier Jr July 12, 2012

Reading the proverbial political tea leaves, in light of the Drudge red letter update, I am predicting Condoleezza Rice gets the stamp of approval from Romney’s wife.

Romney’s wife is not a show pony, she’s active, engaged, and has strong opinions, and more than a little horse sense.

Rice is respectable, smart, and will likely excite many voters, including independencts and conservatives. Liberals will hate anyone who runs.

I think Rubio or Demint would be great picks, I still wish Palin was on the ticket at the top, but Rice would be a bold, surprising, but not really risky move- just up Romney’s alley!

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Supreme Court Says Yes To UNLIMITED Federal Power

W R Collier Jr June 28, 2012

This morning the Supreme Court ruled on what is known as “Obamacare” by supporters and opponents alike.

The court ruled that the individual mandate is a “tax” and is therefore LEGAL, shocking observers and outraging Constitutionalists.

The media had initially guessed that the court would rule 8-1 in favor of the mandate but in the weeks leading up to the ruling conventional wisdom shifted against such an outcome.

Obamacare supporters felt that an ruling against the health care law would set America back and undo what they say as historic progress, while opponents said that if the ruling favored the individual mandate, under the commerce clause, it would be like saying there is no limit to Federal power.

Outraged Americans, most of whom oppose the law as an afffront to the very concept and principle of a limited, Constitutional Republic, are no considering, as one said to us, “that the courts are no longer a viable means of hatling the slide towards turanny” and that “other means” will have to be discovered and employed in the fight to stop the federal goverment from becoming the new Soviet empire in America.

Of course, proponents are delighted and consider this an historic win for their side, which does not believe in a constitutional republic but which embraces a form of democratic socialism like what Europe has.

Supreme Court Obamacare Ruling Here

Supreme Court Rules On Arizona Immigration Law

W R Collier Jr June 25, 2012

Today the Supreme Court ruled on the Airzona Immigration Law, striking down three of the four key provisions, but they upheld the strongest part of the law, giving Obama a legal loss in the week they are expected to rule on Obamacare’s legality according to the Constitution. The key provision, requiring police officers to identify the immigration status of persons they choose to apprehend.

Other provisions that were struck down were worrisome because they targeted emplyers and renters who provided employment or services to illegal immigrants. Many felt that this was problematic because the law was broad enough to include someone giving somebody a ride or just having some maintenance work done for a few hours.

The key provision upheld gives local law enforcement the power to check people’s immigration status. Opponents worry that “anybody who looks Hispanic” will face extra scrutiny and, while they may in fact be a citizen, they might not have their ID on them.

Proponents argue that illegal immigration is “out of control” and some means of identifying those persons who are not legally here MUST be provided for, and if the Feds won’d do it, proponents say, “the states MUST.”

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Occupiers Target US Ports- Progressive Socialist Sedition Targets THE END OF AMERICA

W R Collier Jr December 12, 2011

Socialist Occupiers Wage War On America- Bill Collier- Radical Progressive anti-capitalists are targeting US ports on the west coast with street actions in the hope of provoking a police response and creating unsafe working conditions which the Unions can use as an excuse to stop work in the ports. The Occupiers, who want to implement a Soviet-style one-party state in America, are backed by radicalized front groups, like the local teacher’s union in Oakland, California, in their bid to replace capitalism with state-controlled economic planning.

Ports along the west coast are bracing for a promised onslaught of Progressive socialist sedition which many fear will lead to violence. The Occupiers have engaged in violence in cities throughout America leading to injuries of law enforcement officers and even rapes and murders within their illegal encampments. The socialist sedition, if successful, would plunge the US into a massive depression, which could turn out millions of angry workers who the Progressive socialist Occupiers believe they can then recruit for their world-wide socialist revolution.

The agenda of the Progressive socialist agitators is to impose a “sexual liberation” that distracts people from the loss of their far more important economic, cultural, religious, and political freedoms as they impose a Soviet style one-party state once they have seized power. The Occupiers, unlike the Progressives in the Democratic party, favor immediate revolution while the Democrats favor a slow-motion “revolution by subversion”. As more and more Americans are waking up to the reality of, and getting angry about, this radical anti-freedom agenda the Occupiers are looking for a way to quickly finish their revolution before the Progressives lose even more ground during the next election cycle.

The Occupiers are using the rhetoric of populism, much as many authoritarian regimes in the past and present have (including the Mullahs of Iran, Hugo Chavez, Lenin, Franco of Spain, Mao, and even Hitler’s “National Socialist German Worker’s Party”). Their proposal for solving “injustice” by “corporations” is to totally transfer power away from the corporations to the state, under the guise that they are transferring power to “the People.”

The waging of economic war against these United States is an act of sedition, however, the present American Administration is not likely to label this sedition as such because the Democratic Party is actively seeking to co-opt or channel the radical energy of the Occupiers into support for Democratic candidates during 2012, a fact that this front party for American radical Progressive socialists seems to want to conceal from the majority of voters who reject the socialist ideology which is at the heart of Progressivism.

The emergence of a true Worker’s Freedom Movement which stands up for the rights and interests of workers, as well as their values and beliefs, without compromising our national commitment to a free market and a constitutionally limited form of self-government, is the only viable alternative to Unions that have become purely ideological, in favor of state-control over the economy in the NAME of the workers, and which reflect the corrupt moral depravity of a small minority of God-hating, America-hating secular humanists who seek to impose an atheistic, amoral lifestyle on America (beginning with our children) while forcing any kind of morality that has a religious genesis into the “closet”.

The Occupiers wish to recolonize America with a caesaristic old-world ideology of state-control over the economy that gives people “sexual freedom” at the expense of REAL freedom. Their waging of economic war on America’s ports is not likely to be responded to in a proportional manner, with under-armed and under-staffed police forces being sent against groups of seditionists who want to destroy America itself as part of their ideology for a world-wide socialist revolution.

Some of the Unions, however, may be seeing in this effort a really bad “jump the shark” moment which, far from shutting down ports and winning more powers for the state-controlled economy, will only harden public sentiment against Progressivism, hurt Democrats at the polls, and cause their members to be out of work, and this all for little real gain.

Regardless of the outcome, the Occupiers are determined that NOW is the time to implement a Progressive socialist revolution and destroy America as a union of popular and democratic republics while creating, in its place, a union of soviet socialist “republics” with Washington DC as the national capital and planning center for the state-controlled economy.

State Senate Race In Illinois Garners National Attention- Lennie Jarratt

W R Collier Jr December 9, 2011

In the 31^st State Senate District in Illinois Lennie Jarratt’s bid to be the new State Senator is getting national attention among rank and file conservative activists. Jarratt, a long-time proven fighter for conservative causes and values, has won the admiration and support of many of his peers as a faithful defender of freedom for all against the encroachment of big brother government.

Jarrat’s own story in private and public employment as well as in his own business, providing web design services, is a typical American story these days- an honest, hard-working citizen whose greatest obstacles seem to be the big brother government policies coming from Washington DC and Springfield Illinois. When Jarratt learned that his bank would get more money, thanks to government policies, to foreclose on him after an 11 month period of unemployment than to settle with him, his thoughts turned to the thousands of other citizens in Illinois who were probably facing the same problem, with NO help or support from their elected officials.

Jarrat’s campaign motto is “Supporting Families, Not Government” and this sets the tone for his whole campaign, a campaign that has been endorsed by Illinois Conservatives and is lauded on many national conservative blogs and websites.

Some of Jarratt’s stances include:

Pro Family

The family is the basic unit of our society and it must be preserved. Income tax hikes, property tax hikes and the continual raising of fees are sapping the hard earned money from the families and businesses of Illinois.

Property Taxes

Lake County has the highest property taxes in the Midwest and the 14th highest in the country according to Forbes magazine. Budgets are shrinking, yet taxing bodies never stop increasing these taxes. Families should not be squeezed any more. It is time to restore fiscal sanity to Springfield and reform this state sanctioned local tax.

Income Taxes

Illinois is currently is in the 48th worst financial position*. The 66% tax increase on individuals and 45% increase on the companies that drive our economy caused unemployment to rise to 10%.

Foreclosures

1 in 295 Lake County homes received foreclosure filings in September. In October, the rate climbed to 1 in 271. There are over 2500 active cases in the courts here in Lake County, of which mine is one. I too am living the reality of bad tax and spend policies destroying the jobs families rely on.

Education

Education is the key to the future. All children deserve access to a quality education to unlock their door to excel. We need to empower parents to be able to better direct their child’s education, be it public school, private school, charter school, home school, or other alternatives. The parents know their child best.

Honest Government

Every citizen has the right to expect open and honest government. We should never have to pay a corruption tax as the price of government graft and back room dealings.

Pro 2nd Amendment

It’s simple, the right to bear arms is enshrined in our Constitution and it should not be infringed upon.

Aside from his stance on particular issues, the Freedomist has found him to be capable, credible, honest, a man of his word, and consistently reliable. Often people give lip service to these things, make great promises, do little, and THEN insist on getting credit and glory for things they did not actually do! Lennie has often done more than he says he will while often letting others “get the glory” who did much less, and that without complaint.

But while Jarratt may have earned a good reputation, which explains some of the interest in his candidacy among national activists, there are other reasons for this interest.

Jarrat’s district, the 31^st State Senate District, is in the region of northern Chicago and many conservatives believe that a Jarratt win here would prove that running on a conservative platform is in fact a “mainstream” value, contrary to the Karl Roves of the GOP who insist that one has to be center-left (what they call “moderate” or even “independent”) to win elections.

These two schools of thought, one that says that candidates can run on conservative values and win voters over and the other that assumes the media’s view of “mainstream” is the right view that candidates need to conform to, are looking at the 31^st State Senate District as a bell-weather for the validity of their approach.

While polls have not been conducted in the district, Jarrat’s involvement in helping dozens of local conservative candidates win elections over the past 4 years seems to indicate that creating a solid “ground game” will not be a problem for his campaign, even if his financial war chest is not on par with the establishment candidates GOP progressives will run against him.

That being said, more and more conservative activists are going to http://www.lenniejarratt.com/donate/ to donate “$20.11” to help Jarrat’s campaign round out 2011 with a god-sized financial war chest.

What Motivates Mitt Romney?

W R Collier Jr December 9, 2011

By Bill Collier- Mitt Romney desperately wants to be President but WHY?

Often people who want to be President are motivated in one of four ways- they are on a power-mad ego trip, they are inspired by a cause or ideology, they have a hidden agenda, or they are being propped up as a front-person for hidden forces.

When considering a candidate one always looks for one of, or a combination of, these four motives. With our current President, whose behavior comes across to some as rather Quisling and Ahab-like, betraying America’s core values and discarding morality and ethics, it appears that he may be a front-man for hidden forces and he has a hidden agenda but that he is also on a power-mad ego trip.

President Obama’s conceited tendency to couch everything he does as “good for America” while attacking all who disagree as “putting politics ahead of the country” may in fact be a classic Freudian slip. The reality is that President Obama is doing what he thinks is best for his ideology, for his allies, and for his globalist/progressive agenda, even if that is, objectively speaking, bad for America’s economy, culture, or security.

So what is Romney’s core motivation?

Prior to 2007 he was worse than a “RINO”, he was an outright Progressive! He implemented socialized medicine in his state, he acquiesced on gay marriage, he was staunchly pro-abortion, and was generally in tune with all of Progressivism’s tenets. His Mormon faith might have informed him for all those years that he was a member of one church that his values were skewed, but when it came to politics Romney checked his faith at the door.

To this day, Romney does not deny that global warming is man-made, a “fact” that most freedom-minded people are highly suspicious of because this claim usually precedes a call for radical government control over people’s lives.

Now Romney is claiming to have had a change of heart, but since 2007 Romney has scrupulously avoided wading into any controversy and when fellow-conservatives have been attacked he has stayed on the sidelines. When people like Bachman and Palin were going after egregious offenses by the progressives in power all these past 4 years since Romney’s “conversion”, the “former” Progressive said and did nothing.

All through the past four years Romney has not taken any stands for any conservative cause or issue, unless it would help his campaign, and he has not helped any candidate, as his rivals have all done. If Romney hasn’t made any gaffs or foolish choices in the past four years it is because he has never taken any leadership role for any candidate, cause, or issue not directly related to his own campaign.

While his opponents were publicly exclaiming against progressive policies like cap and trade, stimulus bailouts, gay marriage, and more, Romney was quietly but earnestly raising money with insider fact-cats and staying mute!

Those who question Romney’s “conversion” can rightfully ask “what price has Romney ever been willing to pay for a principled stand?” His career has always been characterized as one big “conflict avoidance” journey. Did he take a principled stand in business, as governor, or as a candidate that actually cost him something personal?

One can hardly see a man whose political training occurred in an extremely progressive-dominated state, where one’s choices were moderate progressivism versus radical progressivism, to NOT fall back on those habits if he is ever in power again.

Romney’s behavior is very Progressive. He won’t debate if Donald Trump moderates, but he’s happy to have the journolist media moderate a debate. He mischaracterize his opponent’s stances and vilifies them through proxies, with media complicity, but he won’t admit when he is caught red-handed changing his tune on his socialized medicine scheme’s similarity with ObamaCare.

Romney’s attacks on Gingrich may in fact be backfiring, if one reads conservative blogs right:

Romney brings out big guns, shoots self in foot (Romney imploding)
Legal Insurrection ^ | 12/8/2011 | William Jacobson

Posted on Thu Dec 08 2011 14:06:28 GMT-0500 (Eastern Standard Time) by Lakeshark

Romney is losing it. His coordinated assault on Newt does not make the case for Romney.

And it’s embarrassing. Romney brought out former Congressman and former Senator Jim Talent to bash Newt’s leadership as Speaker. Talent forgets that the internet has a long memory, and that Talent supported Newt for Speaker of the House even after the issues Talent now complains about were raised:

Old Quote from Talent: Allegiance comes from Rep. Jim Talent, R-Mo., who says, “I intend to support the speaker”

As I mentioned last night, bringing John Sununu to the rescue just reminds us of the appointment of David Souter and the breaking of George H.W. Bush’s “no new taxes” pledge, in both of which Sununu played an instrumental role as Chief of Staff.

(Excerpt) Read more at legalinsurrection.com …

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It would seem that Romney, while he is no Obama, is a moderate progressive who has a hidden agenda that he conceals behind his new-found conservative rhetoric. It would also seem that for Romney the real motive is power while he is being propped up financially by the insider Republican progressives.

What is also clear is that when it comes to the issues and values of GOP primary voters Romney has not ever been willing to pay any price to stand up for them.

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Obama Hoisted On His Own Petard

W R Collier Jr December 1, 2011

Will Occupiers Turn On Their Master?
Progressives’ Manufactured “Revolutions” Backfires

When shadowy bigwigs want to take down a popular resistance movement, like the Tea Party, they usually sponsor their own mob to fling at the opposition. The problem with flinging mobs at your enemy is that mobs can see their former sponsors as their enemy and turn on them.

On the northwest corner of 53rd Street and 7th Avenue, in view of the Sheraton hotel in New York City, a groups of 100 or so ultra progressive extremists who want a socialist worker’s paradise NOW started an “action” that President Obama may have been surprised by.

As the progressive President arrived at around 9 PM the uber-radical vanguard his team thought might reinvigorate his base like the Tea Party did for the other side turned its guns on him. Signs proclaimed:

Obama Is A Corporate Puppet
Sold Out
War Crimes Need Persecuting, No Matter Who Does Them

One of the organizers lamented that Obama was going to get money from “the richest of the rich.”

Obama’s visit to New York has been marked by controversies and irony. He allegedly came to New York for the lighting of the Christmas Tree in Rockefeller Plaza, but he is snarling traffic on an epic scale to attend numerous fundraisers for extremely wealthy donors. Rudi Guilliani criticized Obama’s segway from nice public event to money-grubbing politicking.

The irony of this was not lost on the Occupiers- little people’s lives were severely inconvenienced so that Obama could get big bucks from the very same wealthy people both he and the Occupiers were vilifying.

It’s not certain that the whole movement, largely “sponsored” by legacy, but often covert, radical progressive organizations will turn completely on its master and become a source of trouble from Obama’s left flank, but the first signs of potentially losing control of the mob they sought to fling against the Tea Party may have already emerged.