Yup, the Real Republican Party will rise again....new blood is definitely needed, that's for sure

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...because Obama got elected. He got elected because the republican party is in disarray. You got cause and effect reversed. In this era of political correctness the republican party has been trying to become more *moderate* and it cost them this election. By trying to water down the conservative message to *dem lite* they have lost their conservative base.

I voted, not for McCain, but for Palin and against Obama/Biden. The idea that Palin would be *one heartbeat away from the presidency* was a plus in my book. She was the only candidate who made any sense to me. Did not mince words. Said what she meant, meant what she said. Ya' betcha! No question about her stance on anything.

Whatever your feelings about the pro/anti-abortion issue, there is no question how Palin felt about it. She wasn't just against abortion until she and/or her daughter could've used one. And her own diluted republican party did a number on her, trying to marginalize her so she would be in a poor position to run in four years.

Meanwhile, if Obama's daughter had an unwanted pregnancy he would not want her *punished with a baby.* What an odd way to put that!

And please, just to head off the backlash over the abortion issue, that is certainly not the criterion by which I cast my vote, just an example of a candidate taking a stand - even an unpopular one - and sticking to it.

by Palin last night. I thought she spoke well and had a good speech getting the crowd going, but I was sad to see so much bashing from the speakers last night. I guess as a Rep. I think we should be above that.

. One of the things that bothered me was Rudy and Sarah going after Obama for his work as a community organizer. Excuse me, but shouldn't that be a good thing. I also wished she would have stayed away from the whole bridge to nowhere considering she was all for it until the heat came on that it was pretty much a joke and then she decided she was all against it. I'm not saying I am crossing party lines but I am not completely sold on the McCain/Palin ticket, and last night's speech certainly didn't clinch it for me either. I just hope that soon that junk will be pushed aside on her her so we can get to the issues and some actual hardline questions and answers. Below is a blog post from The Dallas Morning News. I know, it is just a blog but I thought it had some good points. Read on.

I really don't understand the mocking of Obama for being a community organizer as a young man.

Giuliani last night: "On the other hand, you have a resume from a gifted man with an Ivy League education. He worked as a community organizer. What? He worked -- I said -- I said, OK, OK, maybe this is the first problem on the resume."

Palin last night: I guess a small-town mayor is sort of like a "community organizer," except that you have actual responsibilities.

Now, the truth is that, starting at age 23, Obama ran a faith-based charity called the Developing Communities Project.

It was made up of eight Catholic parishes when he got there and had one staff member. He was its director, meaning he was in charge. He made decisions about it, including staffing, budgets, etc. And when he left in 1988 to go to law school, he had grown its budget from $70,000 to $400,000, its staff from 1 to 13 people. More important, he created a job training program for this community and a college prep tutoring program.

As mayor, she built a hockey rink/rec center using eminent domain (because apparently there just isn't enough land in Alaska).

And keep in mind the timeline here: Obama did this as a young man BEFORE going to law school, becoming a successful lawyer and a law professor.

I don't think it's right to attack someone for working in a faith-based charity out of college. I think we all have some embarrassing first-jobs in our past. I would not make fun of Palin for being a beauty queen and sports reporter out of college during these same years. Although, I do think Obama's experience shaped his political future a bit better ...

They wanted to polish her up, dress her in designer duds, and make her into what they wanted her to be. There were probably stylists who brought clothes to her. I am sure Sarah Palin did not take time out of the campaign to go shopping at Saks. Clothing was brought to her, she tried on outfits, decisions were made, and that was that. She probably have very little to do with what was spent.

Sarah Palin WAS treated unfairly. She was thrown into a shark tank. Her life will never be the same. It sucks and the Rep. Party needs to quit laying the blame on her for their loss. Shoulder some responsibility themselves. McCain was/is a seasoned politician as many Reps were behind the seens. EVERYONE has done nothing spout how inexperienced and ill-equiped Sarah Palin was and now they want to say it's her fault?!?!!?!? I find that incredibly cowardly! She's absolutely right!

The republicans should be looking at the mess their party is in and figure out what went wrong and how they can rebuild. Leave Sarah alone!

A new report from the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), which tracks the activities of violent hate groups in the United States, has found an alarming rise in the number of such groups, from 602 in 2000 to 926 in 2008.

This comes on the heels of a controversial report on "violent extremism" from the Department of Homeland Security, which has outraged many conservatives by seeming to lump them in with extremists.

Morris Dees, the founder of the SPLC, told CBS's Harry Smith on Wednesday that he believes the two reports do "synch up pretty much" and that "the report from the Department of Homeland Security should be taken very seriously."

However, the SPLC's own report focuses very narrowly on groups which actively preach violence, including neo-Nazis, the Ku Klux Klan, and the "racist skinhead subculture." It also notes the surprising rise of "anti-Semitic black separatists calling for death to Jews on bustling street corners in several East Coast cities."

"A key 2008 hate group trend was the increasing militancy of the extremist fringe of the Hebrew Israelite movement," the report states, "whose adherents believe that Jews are creatures of the devil and that whites deserve death or slavery. These radical black supremacists have no love for Barack Obama, calling him a 'house nigger' and a puppet of Israel. They preach to inner-city blacks that evil Jews are solely responsible for the recession."

Dees told Smith, "The political climate, the election of Obama, the immigration issues ... and now, especially, the economy is almost causing a resurgence of what we saw in the days of Timothy McVeigh, almost a militia movement that's being reborn. ... I think that an American person is much more likely to be harmed by a domestic terrorist extremist group than by one from abroad."

Dees also emphasized that many extremist groups are recruiting Iraq veterans and even active-duty members of the military because of their expertise with arms and explosives. "It's a serious issue," he stated, "especially with a lot of these guys coming back with post-traumatic stress syndrome, coming back to a failing economy, the inability to buy a home and get a job and get credit."

This video is from CBS's The Early Show, broadcast Apr. 15, 2009.

Video at: http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Southern_Poverty_Law_Center_50_rise_0415.html

"Reporters Without Borders said 20 journalists were arrested over the past week. The BBC said today that its Tehran-based correspondent, Jon Leyne, had been asked to leave the country. The BBC said its office remained open.

Today, Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki held a news conference where he rebuked Britain, France and Germany for raising questions about reports of voting irregularities in hardline Mr Ahmadinejad's re-election - a proclaimed victory which has touched off Iran's most serious internal conflict since the revolution.

Mr Mottaki accused France of taking "treacherous and unjust approaches". But he saved his most pointed criticism for Britain, raising a litany of historical grievances and accusing the country of flying intelligence agents into Iran before the election to interfere with the vote. The election, he insisted, was a "very transparent competition".

That drew an indignant response from Foreign Secretary David Miliband, who "categorically" denied Britain was meddling. "This can only damage Iran's standing in the eyes of the world," Mr Miliband said.

An eerie calm settled over the streets of Tehran today as state media reported at least 10 more deaths in post-election unrest and said authorities arrested the daughter and four other relatives of ex-President Hashemi Rafsanjani, one of Iran's most powerful men.

The reports brought the official death toll for a week of boisterous confrontations to at least 17. State television inside Iran said 10 were killed and 100 injured in clashes yesterday between demonstrators and black-clad police wielding truncheons, tear gas and water cannons. "

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/fears-of-brutal-outcome-in-iran-conflict-rise-1712147.html

for nicotine, alcohol, drugs, THC and anything else ''unhealthy'' we consume that they can identify could be a healthcare rationing device. And why would they waste valuable healthcare resources on those of us with high cholesterol? Pretty clearly, we are refusing to eat healthily.

I saw a commercial about designing a ''smart planet'' and my flesh crawled. ''Soon, we will be able to tailor treatment to your genetic code''? Oh, super! Sounds so warm and fuzzy, doesn't it? But in reality, who wants a national genetic database storing information on who has the gene for breast cancer or other diseases they can now predict a predisposition for? Nice, if it's actually used to help us (what are the chances of that?) Really bad if they won't waste treatment on somebody they feel is already a goner anyhow.

Even as he was pledging to "change the way government does almost everything," the senator from Arizona announced his commitment to much, much more of the same.

He pledged to maintain endless occupations of distant lands that empty the U.S. Treasury of precious resources that might pay for infrastructue renewal, housing and job creations initiatives for hurting Americans.

He outlined trade and tax policies that would extend, rather than alter a failed economic status quo.

He reintroduced flawed proposals for health care, education and entitlement reforms that Americans have wisely rejected.

McCain's rhetoric was that of a liberated man declaring his independence from his party's failed president and corrupt Congresses.

But his platform was that of Republican candidate who, for all of his talk of reform, offers the crudest continuity to a country that is crying out for change.

http://www.truthout.org/article/the-anti-republican-republican-who-is-really-a-republican

Yup, the Real Republican Party will rise again....new blood is definitely needed, that's for sure

Why do Republicans mock "community organizer" role?