How a Republican alienated many of his key Hispanic supporters and lost.

Republican party stalwart Bill McCollum lost Tuesday’s GOP gubernatorial primary in Florida because Hispanic Republicans stayed home after he pandered to the party’s right wing on immigration, a state GOP strategist just said.

Navarro who has advised leading Republicans such as former Florida governor Jeb Bush and Sen. John McCain, said McCollum alienated many of his key Hispanic supporters when he hustled out proposed legislation that would crack down on illegal immigration two weeks before the election.

“He antagonized some of his top Hispanic advisers, his Hispanic voters and his Hispanic surrogates,” she said, “And the backlash was perhaps much larger than what he envisioned.”

http://content.usatoday.com/communities/onpolitics/post/2010/08/immigration-flip-flop-decided-gop-primary-in-florida-latina-consultant-says/1

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By Heather Bachman

Obamas HealthcareDespite political remarks showing more than once that his Healthcare proposal was not going to be approved, President Obama recently took his plan on tour to the people. Taking the stage at Glenside of Pennsylvania, Obama attempted to talk the public into supporting his expensive and destructive proposal. There is only one problem with this scheme: The people have already thrown ObamaCare out.

I don’t understand what the thought process could have been to go to the public about something that they wouldn’t consider as even as the slightest possibility for improving their healthcare system. Making obvious comments like we need to pass “healthcare reform” somehow believing we don’t know he’s talking about his own proposal, he states that now is the time to fix this broken system. (more…)

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Rep. Jim Viebrock and his love of horse slaughterEarlier this year, state Rep. Jim Viebrock, R-Republican, introduced a bill designed to circumvent federal rules that prevent horse slaughter for human consumption and would enable horse processing facilities to open in Missouri. Viebrock thinks the legislation would jump-start the ailing equine industry by slaughtering old horses, which pro-slaughter advocates say has been hurt by the recent closure of the country’s three horse slaughterhouses.

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John Boehner

House Minority Leader John Boehner with his argument that any real bipartisan effort at reform must begin by scrapping the existing House and Senate bills and starting fresh from a clean slate. basically stalling so they could have something to bash during the elections and the guaranteed money they will have received from the anti Health-care Lobby.

Bipartisan for republicans is for Democrats to forget about Health-care Reform. they don’t bring anything to the conversation besides talking points that have been proven to be incorrect. No ideas but keeping the status quo. (more…)

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Mitt Romney the HypocriteRomney is expected to run for president again in 2012 to be the Republican Party’s nominee against President Barack Obama, whom he hypocritically trashed thursday to the delight of activists at the opening day of the Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington. so its no surprise he would try and bash Obama for some votes.

Romney also said the $787 billion stimulus bill Obama pushed through hasn’t created “a net new job” except in the government sector, adding the business community “frankly, is scared” by his policies. (more…)

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Ron Paul Wins CPAC Straw Poll

He won with 31 percent of the nearly 2,400 votes at the conference, edging out Mitt Romney, the former Massachusetts governor, who won the straw poll last year and who captured 22 percent of the vote.

A libertarian / Real Conservative from Texas who has railed against spending and the Federal Reserve with its printing money and asking questions later approach.

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Jonathan Krohn Is The Political WonderKidTo complete his brief biography, Jonathan Krohn was born in Georgia and still lives there with his parents. Father Doug is a computer engineer while his mother Marla is a school teacher. He gets most of his news from republican talk show hosts and thus has no idea about what normal things people go through.

Jonathan Krohn has absolutely zero life experience to actually understand what he’s talking about. but the  republican base will eat this up. are there no adults who can garner such press, aside from Sarah Palin? / sarah palin is a joke btw.

Jonathan Krohn: I got into politics when I was eight years old. Six years now. And I got involved because I started listening to talk radio. It goes back to one event. The Democrats filibustered something in the Senate when I was eight years old. I don’t remember what it was on and I didn’t honestly care when I was eight years old. I cared about the history and the Senate rules,” “I listened to Bill Bennett and tons of other republican talk show hosts who talked about that and other policies and started branching out and caring about other issues in regards to politics. Bill Bennett really became an idol for me. I listened to him every morning from 6 to 9 for, oh, years. And I started learning more and started to be able to think on my own, understanding politics on my own. I started to be able to use my mind to engage in political conversations under the conservative banner.”

the crazy ones start out early , don’t they? (more…)

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Mitt Romney Defends The Bush Record. dont blame the airplane beatdown!

Mitt Romney: “When it comes to shifting responsibility for failure, however, no one is a more frequent object of President Obama’s reproach than President Bush,” said Romney. “It’s wearing so thin that even the late night shows make fun of it. I am convinced that history will judge President Bush far more kindly — he pulled us from a deepening recession following the attack of 9-11, he overcame teachers unions to test school children and evaluate schools, he took down the Taliban, waged a war against the jihadists and was not afraid to call it what it is — a war. And he kept us safe.”

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Tea Party Attendees Racist

 

Tea Party Attendees Racist

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whitman for GOVWhitman can barely control her own two rich, rude and racist sons. Their antics will become front-page fodder should she win the GOP nomination.

Whitman kIDS: Will, also a Princeton student, was supposedly banned from the Cottage Club, one of the school’s hoity-toity eating clubs, afte rdropping the n-bomb at a black girl. -http://www.queerty.com

Newsweek:

To hear Jon Corzine tell it, Meg Whitman is either deceiving us or deceiving herself. Like Whitman, the former eBay CEO who’s vying for California’s Republican gubernatorial nomination, Corzine is one of the few people in America who has tried to make the leap from running a business (in his case, Goldman Sachs) to running a government (the state of New Jersey).

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