An energized and enthusiastic Republican Party turned out to cast their votes in the first in the South Primary in South Carolina.  A record 601,166 voted Saturday, far exceeding the 2008 primary of 445,499- And when all the votes were counted, South Carolina overwhelmingly choose Newt Gingrich as their choice to face Barack  Obama in the general election having garnered nearly 41% of the vote.

Newt Gingrich’s win comes on the heels of his debate performances in South Carolina where he was able to best articulate conservative principles and policies in a way that was clear and resonated with the voter.  Exit polling showed that Newt Gingrich overwhelmingly won the conservative vote, the women’s vote, the evangelical Christians, and the vote of blue collar workers- this should give pause to the Obama Administration.

Many, including myself, thought that Gingrich past infidelities would not play well with the evangelical right- Political pundits and I were wrong.  Clearly, the Christian right have forgiven Gingrich and believe in his redemption.  Conservatives have made it clear that a candidates private life should not disqualify him or her for office.  In 1992, Democrats came to that conclusion when they nominate Bill Clinton.

Whether Gingrich goes on to win the Republican nomination is still to be determined, but regardless the outcome, Gingrich is a powerful voice and someone who is most capable of articulating conservatism.  Bill Clinton once quipped that Newt was the only person who could out politic him.  It’s understandable why the Democrats woke up today and little more worried.

Courtesy:  John Paulus

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In the news…

1.  The hypocrisy continues with this administration and the Democrat Party…  Jeffrey Zients will serve as President Obama’s new acting director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB).  Zients and Romney are both alumni of Bain & Company and that connection may undercut Obama’s attacks on his potential Republican rival.

2.  The race war is being revved up by the left in order to get blacks to the polls in November.  For example, MSNBC guest Joy-Ann Reid, who writes for NBCUniversal-owned website theGrio.com, suggested that Mitt Romney was racist for helping a struggling African American woman he met while on the campaign-trail by giving her money from his own wallet. ”It galls me,” Reid started. “I don’t even like to watch it. I felt like it plays into every sort of patronizing stereotype of black people. Oh, here’s this little lady, let me give her 50 bucks.”

3.  House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi on Tuesday launched political grenades at Mitt Romney, arguing that Republicans haven’t coalesced behind the GOP frontrunner because they don’t believe he can beat President Barack Obama in November.  That’s interesting… Perhaps, the Minority Leader forgot the 2008 Democrat Primary in which Hillary Clinton did not concede until June 7th- nearly 5 months from where we are today.  In fact, on the heels of his caucus win in Iowa, Obama lost to Hillary in New Hampshire. Obama only garnered 36% of the vote compared to Mitt Romney who won 39% in New Hampshire.  To make matters worse, Obama wasn’t qualified to participate in the Michigan Primary and lost the Florida Primary by 17 points managing to only get 33% of the vote.

It’s obvious that Pelosi and nimble minded liberal like her would forget the results of their own primary… or do they think that we are so ignorant not to recognize that this is a failed attempt to make Mitt Romney appear to be a weak candidate.  Either way, it’s a failure on her/their part.

Courtesy:  John Paulus

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On this day we remember a great Republican, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

It should come as no surprise that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was a Republican. Why? It was the Democrats who Dr. King was fighting, and he would not have joined the Democratic Party, the party of segregation and the Ku Klux Klan. To understand why MLK was a Republican, let’s take a walk through history.

History of civil rights – In a nutshell

• The Republican Party – From its founding in 1854 as the anti-slavery party until today, the Republican Party has championed freedom and civil rights for blacks.
• The Democratic Party – As author Michael Scheuer stated, the Democratic Party is the party of the four S’s: slavery, secession, segregation and now socialism.

Slavery – Democrats fought to expand it, Republicans fought to ban it

Democrats formed the Confederacy, seceded from the Union and fought a Civil War (1861 to 1865) – a war where over 600,000 citizens were killed, including many thousands of blacks – in order to keep blacks in slavery because the Democrats had built their economic base on the backs of black slaves.

Democrats enacted Fugitive Slave laws to keep blacks from escaping from plantations and instigated the 1856 Dred Scott decision which legally classified blacks as property. Democrats pushed to pass the Missouri Compromise to spread slavery into 50% of the new states. Democrats also pushed to achieve passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act that was designed to spread slavery into all of the new states.

Northern anti-Civil War Democrats, called “copperheads”, did not want to be drafted to fight in the Civil War. Starting in 1861, they attacked blacks in virtually every Northern city and pushed for a negotiated peace that would have resulted in an independent Confederacy where blacks were kept in slavery. In New York, anti-Civil War Democrats engaged in “Four Days of Terror” against the city’s black population from July 13-16, 1863.

The anti-Civil War chant of the Democrats, as reported by one Pennsylvania newspaper, was: “Willing to fight for Uncle Sam”, but not “for Uncle Sambo.” These anti-Civil War Democrats verbally attacked Republican President Abraham Lincoln because he fought to free blacks from slavery and make his Emancipation Proclamation a reality – a Proclamation that became the source of the June tenth celebrations that occur in black communities today.

The Party of Lincoln

The Republican Party was started in 1854 as the anti-slavery party by abolitionists opposed to keeping blacks in human bondage, and Republicans, under the leadership of President Abraham Lincoln, fought to free blacks from slavery.

After the Civil War, Republicans amended the US Constitution to grant blacks freedom (13th Amendment), citizenship (14th Amendment) and the right to vote (15th Amendment). Republicans passed the civil rights laws of the 1860′s, including the Civil Rights Act of 1866 and the Reconstruction Act of 1867 that was designed to establish a new government system in the Democrat-controlled South, one that was fair to blacks. In the book “The Political Lincoln: An Encyclopedia” Professors Paul Finkleman and Martin J. Hershock debunk the absurd myth that President Lincoln was somehow a “racist” because of his measured approach to ending slavery in the rebelling South first, while waging a war to end all slavery nationwide.

If the Democrats had left blacks alone at this moment in history, our nation would not be faced with racial divisiveness today. Instead, Democrats set for themselves the horrendous task of keeping blacks in virtual slavery.

Reconstruction – Democrats fought to end Reconstruction started by Republicans

Democrats started the Ku Klux Klan in 1866 to lynch and terrorize Republicans -black and white and drive Republicans out of the South.

In the book “A Short History of Reconstruction”, renowned historian, Dr. Eric Foner, revealed that the Ku Klux Klan was founded in 1866 by Democrats as a Tennessee social club. The Ku Klux Klan became a military force serving the interests of the Democratic Party, the planter class, and all those who desired the restoration of white supremacy. The Klan spread into other Southern states, launching a ‘reign of terror‘ against Republican leaders, black and white.

The Hayes-Tilden Compromise of 1877 was an attempt by Republicans to end the presidential election stalemate, as well as get the Democrats to stop the lynchings and respect the rights of blacks. Contrary to popular belief, President Rutherford Hayes did not remove the last federal troops from the South, but merely ordered federal troops surrounding the South Carolina and Louisiana statehouses to return to their barracks.

Segregation – Democrats enacted the discriminatory Black Codes and Jim Crow laws

Democrats fought to prevent the passage of every piece of civil rights legislation from the 1860’s to the 1960′s.

Democrats wanted to keep blacks in virtual slavery and deny blacks the promised “40 acres and a mule”.

After they took control of Congress in 1892, Democrats passed the Repeal Act of 1894 that overturned civil rights legislation passed by the Republicans, including the Civil Rights Acts of 1866 and 1875. It took Republicans nearly six decades to finally achieve passage of civil rights legislation in the 1950’s and 1960’s.

It defies logic for Democrats today to claim that the racist Democrats suddenly joined the Republican Party after Republicans finally won the civil rights battle against the racist Democrats. In fact, the racist Democrats declared that they would rather vote for a “yellow dog” than vote for a Republican, because the Republican Party was known as the party for blacks.

The Republicans started the NAACP in 1909 on Abraham Lincoln’s 100th birthday to counter the racist practices of the Democrats. The first black American to head the NAACP was Republican James Weldon Johnson who wrote the lyrics to “Lift Every Voice and Sing”, the inspirational song that is considered to be the Black National Anthem.

Few blacks know that Republicans also started the Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU’s).

The Modern Civil Rights Era- Democrats fought against civil rights in the 1950’s and 1960’s

Democrat Public Safety Commissioner Eugene “Bull” Connor in Birmingham let loose vicious dogs and turned skin-burning fire hoses on black civil rights demonstrators.

Democrat Georgia Governor Lester Maddox famously brandished ax handles to prevent blacks from patronizing his restaurant. In 1954, Democrat Arkansas Governor Orville Faubus tried to prevent desegregation of a Little Rock public school.

Democrat Alabama Governor George Wallace stood in front of the Alabama schoolhouse in 1963 and thundered, “Segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever.”

All of these racist Democrats remained Democrats until the day they died.

Republicans championed civil rights in the 1950’s and 1960’s

Republican President Dwight Eisenhower pushed to pass the Civil Rights Act of 1957 and sent troops to Arkansas to desegregate schools. Eisenhower also appointed Chief Justice Earl Warren to the U.S. Supreme Court which resulted in the famous 1954 “Brown v. Topeka Board of Education” decision that ended school segregation and the “separate but equal” doctrine created by the 1896 “Plessy v. Ferguson” decision.

Much is made of Democrat President Harry Truman’s issuing an Executive Order in 1948 to desegregate the military. Not mentioned is the fact that it was Eisenhower who actually took action to effectively end segregation in the military. In 1958, Eisenhower established a permanent Civil Rights Commission that had been rejected by prior Democrat presidents, including President Franklin D. Roosevelt.

Ignored today is the fact that it was Roosevelt who started blacks on the path to dependency on government handouts during the Great Depression with his “New Deal” that turned out to be a bad deal for blacks. Even though Roosevelt received the vote of many blacks, Roosevelt banned black American newspapers from the military because he was convinced the newspapers were communists.

Little known by many today is the fact that it was Republican Senator Everett Dirksen from Illinois, not Democrat President Lyndon Johnson, who pushed through the 1964 Civil Rights Act. In fact, Dirksen was instrumental to the passage of civil rights legislation in 1957, 1960, 1964, 1965 and 1968. Dirksen wrote the language for the 1965 Voting Rights Act. Dirksen also crafted the language for the Civil Rights Act of 1968 which prohibited discrimination in housing.

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. hailed Senator Dirksen’s “able and courageous leadership” and “The Chicago Defender,” the largest black-owned daily at that time, praised Senator Dirksen “for the grand manner of his generalship behind the passage of the best civil rights measures that have ever been enacted into law since Reconstruction.”

Democrats today ignore the pivotal role played by Senator Dirksen in obtaining passage of the landmark 1964 Civil Rights Act, while heralding President Johnson as a civil rights advocate for signing the bill. The chief opponents of the 1964 Civil Rights Act were Democrat Senators Sam Ervin, Albert Gore, Sr. and Robert Byrd who filibustered against the bill for 14 straight hours before the final vote.

President Lyndon Johnson could not have achieved passage of the civil rights legislation without the support of Republicans.

And there you have the real history of the civil rights movement.

Courtesy:  John Paulus

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It shouldn’t come as a surprise, but dead Democrats emerged from their graves and voted in the New Hampshire primary last night.

Video footage (Click here for video) shows election workers in New Hampshire giving out ballots in the names of dead voters at multiple voting precincts during the state’s primary election on Tuesday.

The bombshell video is the work of conservative filmmaker James O’Keefe and his organization, Project Veritas.

Voters in the Granite State are not required to present identification to vote. O’Keefe’s investigators were able to obtain ballots under the names of dead voters at polling locations Tuesday by simply asking for them, he said.

“Live free or die,” an election worker told one of the investigators in the video. “This is New Hampshire. No ID needed.”

O’Keefe said the exposé shows how voter fraud can be easier to perpetrate when identification isn’t required.

“There is fraud going on and our goal is to visualize it for people,” he said.  The Obama Justice Department has sued states who have pushed through legislation requiring ID in order to cast a vote citing discrimination.

“We decided to go in there without using any false pretenses,” he said. “There’s no misrepresentation in these videos if you watch them — we didn’t lie about who we were.”

The investigators never actually voted when they were given ballots. Sting artists who received ballots would leave the voting precincts after saying they left their identification in the car.

Courtesy:  John Paulus

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The Labor Department said Friday that employers added a net 200,000 jobs last month and the unemployment rate fell to 8.5 percent, the lowest since February 2009. The rate has dropped for four straight months.

Earlier in the Summer, President Obama had pushed Congress to pass his spending job’s bill which saw his own party stall it’s passage in the Senate.  Republicans and others said Obama’s “jobs” bill was nothing more than a political gimmick designed to help Obama’s re-election efforts.  Clearly, the economy is improving without more of Obama’s gimmicks and reckless spending.

Since Republicans took control in the House of Representatives, the economy added 1.6 million jobs, better than the 940,000 added in 2010 under Democrat control. The unemployment rate averaged 8.9 percent last year, down from 9.6 percent the previous year.

For those who were asking early last year after Republicans took control of the House, “Where are the jobs, Republicans”, their answer is 1.6 million.  Imagine how many more the economy would have with a Republican Senate and a President who really wants to see the country succeed.

By:  John Paulus

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In the news today…

1.  Thanks to the reckless spending by Obama and Congressional Democrats 2011 ended with record debt of $15.22 trillion.

2  Obama’s U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services are pressuring rank-and-file officers to rubber-stamp immigrants’ visa applications, sometimes against the officers’ will, according to a Homeland Security report and internal documents exclusively obtained by The Daily.  A 40-page report, drafted by the Office of Inspector General in September but not publicly released, details the immense pressure immigration service officers are under to approve visa applications quickly, sometimes while overlooking concerns about fraud, eligibility or security.

Pressure has heightened after the Obama administration appointed Alejandro Mayorkas as director in August 2009 during an effort to pass comprehensive immigration reform, bringing with him a mantra of “get to yes.”

One-quarter of the 254 officers surveyed said they have been pressured to approve questionable cases, sometimes “against their will.”

3. Former President Jimmy Carter has some advice for Barack Obama as he gears up for the 2012 election: Don’t alienate voters with controversial positions. The Georgia Democrat told The Associated Press on Tuesday that just about everything he did alienated voters, from sealing a treaty to hand over the Panama Canal to establishing diplomatic ties with China.  Carter said: “If your main goal is to get re-elected, avoid a controversial subject as much as you can in the first term.”

4.  And for you  cat lovers…  A stray cat that survived two trips to a Utah animal shelter’s gas chamber now has a new home.

Officials at West Valley City’s animal shelter in Utah say the cat named Andrea hadn’t been adopted for 30 days when shelter officials tried to put her to death in October. She survived, so they gassed her again.

Shelter officials detected no vital signs and presumed she was dead after the second try, so they put her in a plastic bag in a cooler. But when they checked the bag, they saw she had vomited on herself and had hypothermia but was alive.

The shelter then decided to stop trying to kill her.

Courtesy:  John Paulus

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National Democratic Party officials dive-bombed Romney, who is in Davenport for a grassroots rally, setting up a press conference outside the event with an Indiana worker who was laid off in the 1990s after his company was purchased by Bain.  Democrats have ignored the fact that Obama forced GM and Chrysler to close hundreds of dealerships resulting in thousands of Americans losing their jobs and businesses.

DNC chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz also planned a press conference in Florida focusing solely on Romney on what she claims is his “attempts to rewrite history, distract voters from his out of touch positions and support for failed policies that won’t help the middle class.”  Wasserman Schultz is adept at rewriting history.  According to Factcheck.org, Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz wrongly claimed that the U.S. has begun to add “millions of jobs in manufacturing.” About 800,000 manufacturing jobs have been lost during President Obama’s time in office, reaching a low of about 11.5 million in December 2009. Since then, about 303,000 manufacturing jobs have been created — not “millions.” At the current pace, the country will not return to the pre-Obama manufacturing job level until August 2016.

Obama surrogates have been swarming the media with claims that Romney is a flip flopper while somehow ignoring the President’s egregious flip flops.  For example; Obama promised to close the prison at Guantanamo- it’s still opened.  Obama claimed that raising the debt ceiling was unpatriotic when Bush was President, but has called for raising it several times.  Obama claimed that the US should never go to war with Congressional approval, but did just that in Libya.  Obama flip flopped on the EPA clean air rule.  Obama flip flopped on horse slaughtering.  Obama flip flopped on his pledge to have the most open administration- there are many, but you get the idea.

It’s clear- Democrats fear a Mitt Romney nomination.  They know that should he win the Republican nomination, Obama will be guaranteed a one-term presidency.

Courtesy:  John Paulus

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Happy New Year to everyone.  I wish all of you a very healthy and prosperous New Year.  These are my top ten prediction for 2012.

1.  Mitt Romney will win the Republican nomination for President.

2.  After a very bitter and nasty campaign, Barack Obama will not win re-election.

3.  Democrats will lose the Senate and gain some seats in the House of Representatives; however, they will fall short, giving Republicans control of Congress.

4.  The Supreme Court will find Obamacare unconstitutional.

5.  Riots will strike out across cities in the United States starting in the Spring.

6.  Gas prices will hit an average of $4 a gallon this Summer.

7.  Inflation will rise to the highest level in three decades.

8.  Liberals will lose control in many European countries giving way to more fiscally conservative governments that will cut social spending and help bring Europe back from the brink.

9.  Israel will be forced to take action against Iran in order to prevent it from developing nuclear weapons.

10. Cuba will begin the transition away from Socialism and work toward improving relations with the United States.

By:  John Paulus

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From the New York Times:

House Republicans Reject Deal Extending Payroll Tax Cuts

After defiantly rejecting a Senate compromise to extend a payroll tax break and jobless pay, Speaker John A. Boehner stood before the television cameras on Tuesday enveloped by scores of House Republicans. Even as a group, they seemed very much alone.

By turning down a bill that was overwhelmingly supported by both parties in the Senate as well as the White House, the conservative House majority that has spent the year inciting combative legislative showdowns is now staring over the brink, standing fast against legislation with significant financial consequences for nearly every American household.

Over just a few hours on Tuesday, President Obama held an impromptu news conference to sharply criticize them, the House floor exploded with partisan derision and many members then headed for the airports, not knowing how or if the legislative battle would end. In a year of bitter legislative standoffs, the preholiday clash over the payroll tax was as tense as any, ripe with potential political repercussions in the first days of an election year.

Mr. Boehner of Ohio, the first-year speaker who has struggled throughout 2011 to corral his members, said House Republicans would not relent and accept a two-month extension of the tax cut that was approved by the Senate on Saturday as a way to buy time for a more permanent solution. He instead named members to a committee to negotiate a new agreement with the Senate, which adjourned Saturday.

After reading this article from the New York Times, I no longer have to wonder why some Americans hold a negative opinion of the Republican Party.  First, the title of the article is misleading.  It’s Senate Democrats who refuse to negotiate a deal to extend the payroll tax cut.  Senate Democrats, doing the bidding for the divider-in-chief, Barack Obama, would rather use the payroll tax cut as a political issue.  Both Democrats and Obama could really care less whether taxes will rise.  Since when have Democrats or Obama for that matter been unequivocally supportive of tax cuts.

Second, Senate Democrats only extended the tax cuts for two months despite Obama’s call for 1 year.  House Republicans gave Obama exactly what he said he wanted; however, he now fingers the House Republicans as obstacles to the payroll tax cuts despite Senate Democrats refusal to come back and vote on the one-year extension.

The New York Times is longer in the business of reporting accurate news.  It’s sole purpose is to act as an extension of the Democrat propaganda machine and too many ignorant people believe what they read to their detriment.  Joseph Goebbels would be proud at how well the New York Times and the Democrat Party have learned from his influences.

Courtesy:  John Paulus

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Today the Democrat Party demonstrated a low not witnessed since false allegations were thrown at Clarence Thomas.  “Runaway Slave” Herman Cain was confronted with a hit piece in Politico over the weekend charging that he sexual harassed two women while at the National Restaurant Association.

When questioned today about the allegations Cain responded: I have never sexually harassed anyone, let’s say that. Secondly, I’ve never sexually harassed anyone, and yes, I was falsely accused while I was at the National Restaurant Association, and I say falsely, because it turned out, after the investigation, to be baseless. The people mentioned in that article were the ones who would be aware of any misdoings, and they have attested to my integrity and my character. It is totally baseless, and totally false, never have I committed any sort of sexual harassment.

Politico claims that the National Restaurant Association settle the case with a 5-figured payout.  In the article, Politico cited unnamed sources.  In response to the settlement, Cain said: If the restaurant association did a settlement, I am not — i wasn’t even aware of it and I hope it wasn’t for much, because nothing happened. So if there was a settlement, it was handled by some of the other officers that worked for me at the association. So the answer is absolutely not.

The media’s response to these baseless and false allegations should be examined.  Is this how the media would respond if similar charges were directed at Obama or would they, as I suspect, circle the wagons and destroy the women who claimed they were harassed.  One only needs to look to Jennifer Flowers and Paula Jones for the answer- those women were dragged through the mud and called whores by the left.

If Herman Cain did harass these women then the media should present all the facts and list its sources rather than saying, “we’re just not going to get into the details of exactly what happened…”

It’s another new low for the Democrats and their sycophants in the mainstream media.

Courtesy:  John Paulus

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