Wow nothing can say how outrageous and ridiculous this is.

RINOHunter | Monday, February 06, 2006

I wish the N-RINO-SC would start supporting real Republicans instead of these Democrats for election. Sad state of affairs for the GOP.

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Last night I attended Rick’s Super Bowl party which was a great time. Got to meet some more of the fantastic Santorum ‘06 team including their wonderful web person, Mindy Finn; coalitions director Julie George and others who are doing a great job to get Rick re-elected.

The event was held at a hotel down at Station Square and was sponsored by the Republican Comm of Allegheny County. RCAC exec director Monica Douglass, who has done a great job with limited resources, just left RCAC for the Swann campaign, but either way I wanted to thank her for her service.

There was probably about 300 people in attendance including most of the Santorum ‘06 staff and assorted Santorum allies. Congressman Murphy also made an appearance. If there is one thing that keeps me up beat about Rick’s chances in 2006 is that he is a fantastic campaigner and that was on full display at this event. He looked extremely natural dressed down in Steelers gear, and mingled with the crowd the whole time. He sat at one of the tables and watched the game just like everyone else there, and there is something to be said for his ability to mix with the average citizen. Its a skill his opponent Bob Casey definitely is lacking in, which is why Ed Rendell was able to come back from down 17 points in some early polls to beat Casey by double digits.

All in all, a great event and a good time.

Go Steelers! Go Rick!

[Cross posted at Santorum blog]

Lincoln Chafee is an embarassment to anyone who thinks the Republican party ought to be a conservative one, yet the NRSC keeps dumping money into his race.

Now they’ve violated Reagan’s 11th Amendment. By way of NRO’s Reconcilable Differences blog we learn that they’re touting an anti-Steve Laffey ad. Laffey is a center-right Republican who has launched a primary challenge against Chafee. To add insult to conservative injury, they have been censoring comments on their website.

Frankly the NRSC ought to be taken to the woodshed for their low behavior. National Review has posted an editorial outlining the case against Chafee, but now its necessary to make sure the message gets through to the NRSC. I’m open to suggestions… CPAC is right around the corner…

So says Neal Boortz. I’m reprinting the whole thing right here; it’s that good and that important.

The publication of these cartoons of Mohammed are not the reason for the rioting and violence. They are the excuse. Islamic protesters burned down the Danish consulate in Beirut in response to those cartoons making fun of Islam. Riots are ongoing, cars are being overturned and at least one person is dead in Afghanistan. Pakistan is boycotting prescription drugs from companies based in countries where the cartoons were published.

This is absolutely insane. What we are witnessing is the ultimate conclusion to militant political correctness. Many leftists would excuse this behavior…because these Muslims are “offended.” Know this: in the world of liberals, there is no greater crime known to man than offending Muslims. The more violent radical Islamists become the more the politically correct elements make excuses for them.

This religion is rapidly getting out of control. Muslims can murder 200 school children and their parents, shooting kids in the back, in Chechnya and the Muslim world hardly pauses a moment to notice. Let someone draw a cartoon of their so-called “prophet” and they start burning embassies and looking for Europeans to kidnap or murder. The more our Western leaders make excuses for their behavior, the bolder they become. These Muslims torching embassies and rioting around the world are not what we might consider highly educated. They have little or no understanding of Western culture and the concept of freedom of the press is entirely beyond the grasp of most of them. They believe that anything printed in any newspaper constitutes the official opinion of that country’s government.

These riots and demonstrations are not about those cartoons, they are about freedom. One protestor was seen carrying a sign that said Freedom go hell. To these Islamic jihadist criminals freedom is an enemy. A religion that says you must either convert, kill or enslave those who don’t believe as you is not a religion that would embrace freedom. Whether the politically correct like it or not, this is a religion that is anathema to our way of life and the liberties we hold dear.

There was another sign being carried by these Islamic rioters. It said “Europe. Take some lessons from 9/11.” I sure I don’t have to explain the threat implicit in that sign. Actually, this is a good thing. I wish the Islamic radicals would wave more of those “Europe. Take some lessons from 9/11″ signs. The train bombings in Spain and the subway bombings in London apparently weren’t enough. Maybe these riots will convince the Euro-snobs that Islamic fanatics and their myrmidons pose as much a threat to them, perhaps more of a threat, as they do to the people of the United States.

Who knows … maybe even some Americans will wake up. Democrats, for instance.

Right on, Neal.

Enron, meet Jack Abramoff. Jack Abramoff, meet Enron.

One year before the energy firm went belly up, paid adviser Ralph Reed urged Enron officials to hire Abramoff, then a rising Washington lobbyist, as a “kitchen cabinet” consultant.

The e-mailed endorsement resulted in clubby lunches in which Abramoff and Enron reps, future icons of scandal in Washington and on Wall Street, sat across the table from each other.

It’s well-known that Reed worked for both Enron and Abramoff. That he helped them cross paths is not. The e-mail has never been published before.

Reed’s plug for his old friend serves as further evidence his professional relationship with Abramoff was closer than Reed — a Republican candidate for lieutenant governor — cares to admit.

In a lower-cased e-mail dated Dec. 19, 2000, Reed tapped out: “abramoff is arguably the most influential and effective gop lobbyist in congress. i share several clients with him and have yet to see him lose a battle. he also is very close to [then-House majority leader Tom] Delay and could help enormously on that front.”

The message was addressed to Richard Shapiro, Enron’s top lobbyist, who met with Abramoff several weeks later, without Reed - according to Shapiro’s electronic appointment calendar.

Reed made strong reccomendations to Enron on Jack Abramoff’s behalf. Reed’s connections to Abramoff are long and close.

Reed left his position as executive director of the Christian Coalition in 1997 to form a private grassroots firm, Century Strategies, in Duluth. Enron was one of Reed’s first clients. By the time the company collapsed, it had paid him more than $300,000.

Reed’s history with Abramoff dates back to their days as College Republicans. Shortly after he went into private business for himself, Reed sought Abramoff’s help in developing a list of corporate clients.

In 1999 and 2000, Reed defeated an Alabama lottery referendum and video poker initiatives on behalf of Mississippi Choctaws, an Abramoff client out to protect casino operations. Reed had just started an anti-gambling campaign in Texas, funded with casino money from another Abramoff client, the Louisiana Coushatta tribe.

In the August 2000 memo to Enron, Reed stressed the importance of intimate contacts in Washington “for the purposes of intelligence.”

He provided an example: “We recently worked on the grassroots side of a legislative issue that had been reported out of committee and was awaiting floor action. The client desired that the bill not come to a vote. Contacts in leadership offices assured us that while the bill would get its vote, they would not fight for it. This was critical information to our grassroots strategy.”

Reed denied any connection, but one month earlier, he’d helped, paired with Abramoff, to defeat a congressional ban on Internet gaming. Their effort was financed by eLottery Inc., a Connecticut-based company eager to sell state lottery tickets on-line. The gambling ban failed on a floor vote in the U.S. House.

Reed has said that he didn’t know “the specific client” funding his operation, and that he opposed the measure because of loopholes that would have condoned Internet gambling for horse and dog tracks.

Federal prosecutors are now looking looking at circumstances leading up to the vote. According to court papers, Abramoff and his clients allegedly provided $50,000 to the wife of Delay’s chief of staff, Tony Rudy, to encourage Rudy’s help in killing the anti-gaming bill and other legislation.

Rudy was identified as “Staffer A” in the plea agreement Abramoff signed last month.

The taint of corruption is encircling the GOP and needs to be clensed. Ralph Reed is not the Lt. Governor Georgia needs. Reed has shown a propensity to associate himself with people of questionable character. Is he guilty of anything? I can not say, but he has chosen to insert himself in the seedier side of politics. For this I can not support him and I will work to get Casey Cagle elected in the GOP primary and in the general election. Georgia deserves better.

Nuclear obliteration was avoided in the Cold War in no small part because of MAD: Mutually Assured Destruction. The Soviets understood that if they nuked us, we’d nuke them, and vice versa. It wasn’t necessarily moral, but it worked.

But if Arnaud de Borchgrave is right, we may be facing in Iran an enemy that welcomes MAD. In a fascinating commentary for the Wash Times, he writes:

President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s Shi’ite creed has convinced him lesser mortals can not only influence but hasten the awaited return of the 12th Imam, known as the Mahdi. Iran’s dominant “Twelver” sect holds this will be Muhammad ibn Hasan, the righteous descendant of the Prophet Muhammad. He is said to have gone into “occlusion” in the 9th century, at age 5. His return will be preceded by cosmic chaos, war, bloodshed and pestilence. After this cataclysmic confrontation between the forces of good and evil, the Mahdi will lead the world to an era of universal peace.

“The ultimate promise of all Divine religions,” says Ahmadinejad, “will be fulfilled with the emergence of a perfect human being [the 12th Imam], who is heir to all prophets. He will lead the world to justice and absolute peace. Oh mighty Lord, I pray to you to hasten the emergence of your last repository, the promised one.” He reckons the return of the Imam, AWOL for 11 centuries, is only two years away.

read it all here.