~ “I hope we once again have reminded people that man is not free unless government is limited. There’s a clear cause and effect here that is as neat and predictable as a law of physics: as government expands, liberty contracts.” Ronald Reagan.
The Democrat National Committee has done everything it can to make Hillary Clinton president. The DC Media has done everything it can to make Hillary Clinton president. But in this glorious country of ours, We The People still matter, and due to that inconvenient truth, Democrats are now panicking as they watch a repeat of 2008. Only this time, Hillary isn’t losing to a charismatic black celebrity. This time she is losing to a 74 year-old white socialist.
In fact, nationally and in New Hampshire, things are actually worse for Hillary than they were in 2008:
And this is with the national media on Hillary’s side[…]
Carly Fiorina, Guest – Lincoln Dinner, Des Moines Iowa (photo courtesy of John Pemble, Flickr, Creative Commons license)
Will the REAL Carly Fiorina please stand up?
From one Progressive to Another???
Fiorina was long and full of compassion for Hillary Clinton before she was against her.
In a series of clips put together in a video by Buzzfeed, Fiorina praised Clinton during the 2008 presidential campaign while at the same time working pursuant to Forbes 2008 article employed as “one of John McCain’s most ubiquitous campaign surrogates.”
“I have such great admiration and empathy for Hillary Clinton…I have great admiration for her because I know what it takes in some small measure to do what she has done. She is obviously incredibly intelligent, focused, tough, determined, empathetic of all the tens of millions of people that she was trying to represent in her quest to become the first woman president of the United States….
And as a woman, I take great pride in the fact that Hillary Clinton ran for president. And I also watched with a lot of empathy as I saw how she was scrutinized, characterized, talked about as a woman…”
Think Progress obtained an audio clip (below) of Fiorina at that time praising Clinton which yet again raises serious questions about Fiorina’s loyalties (well maybe, maybe not but seven years later, one can’t help but wonder):
While I think woman have made great progress in so many ways I also known from personal experience that women in positions of power – particularly bold women – who are trying to drive change as Hillary Clinton must surely is…bold women, women in power are characterized, scrutinized differently than their male counterparts are…”
NOTE: Fiorina was responding to aspersions made against John McCain’s 2008 campaign by Progressives accusing the presidential candidate of sexist attacks against Hillary Clinton.
The intent behind ThinkProgress’ release of the audio was clearly a diversionary tactic intended to dismiss the outcry from Republicans at the time regarding the historically vicious sexist propaganda waged by the Progressive media and establishment against 2008 vice presidential candidate, Sarah Palin.
ENTER 2015: while Fiorina’s 2008 compassion and praise of Clinton will not sit well with Conservatives, it provides plenty ammunition for Progressives to use against 2016 Republican party primary candidate should she become the GOP’s candidate of choice.
This is just one of the many reasons to vet Fiorina. Americans have been played far too often as candidates pretend to be that which they are not.
So was Fiorina merely attempting to mollify women or was her overwhelming praise for Hillary Clinton the REAL Carly Fiorina?
Climate Change Advocate:
When asked earlier this year in an interview with Katie Couric “Is manmade global warming a problem?” Fiorina who has bought into the argument that climate change aka global warming exists was evasive in her response.
Even worse, Fiorina’s facts were all wrong.
Emphasizing her belief that the nation “must focus on innovation…we have to make coal cleaner…,” Fiorina failed to acknowledge that there has been no global warming for the past 17 or 18 years.
While Americans can agree with Fiorina that outlawing coal is “self-defeating,” Fiorina does not say how she would achieving clean coal technology. Through more government regulation? What?
Admittedly in her discussion with Seth Meyers, Fiorina also points out that the answer is “innovation not regulation” but how serious is she on the on innovation over non-regulation?
In order to invest in clean coal, you need a healthy industry to make those investments, and you also need the federal government to do some of that basic research. There are some very basic things that the federal government could be helpful on. One of the things I always say when we get involved with the topic of climate change is the answer to this is innovation not regulation….
A “healthy industry”. Strong words coming from one who left Hewlett Packard, anything but. Well, the coal industry IS NOT healthy, so what then?
If we were investing in clean coal technology and achieved some level of progress and breakthrough, we could be exporting that technology to China. We could help them solve a problem, but we could also develop a competitive advantage and help our own economy. This is a better, more productive answer than shutting down our own coal plants while the Chinese continue to burn coal at tremendous rates. It destroys our coal mining community, it’s bad for our economy, and it doesn’t allow us to invest in the technology that ultimately could make a difference in climate change by having a positive impact on China’s coal burning industry…. Source: The Fuse.
Speaking of which since Republicans have had the House and the Senate since 2014, why have they made no effort to reign in the Obama’s administration destruction of the coal industry (the subject of which will be addressed in a later post) which brings me to the:
RINO Factor:
As pointed out by Scott Shackford at Reason.com, “Fiorina is benefitting somewhat from having an ‘outsider’ status while holding many of the same positions as ‘insiders’ whom she’s currently beating in the polls.”
Fiorina who insists that she is not part of the establishment has often sided with the Progressive leadership of both parties.
“Fiorina says she wants to throw punches at Clinton on the issues, but how can she when she has sometimes sounded just like Clinton? As Daniel Horowitz writes at Conservative Review, ‘During the 2013 Obamacare funding showdown, Carly ripped into Ted Cruz, echoing the Democrat talking points about the ‘Cruz shutdown.’ She also said she felt bad for John Boehner. If you look at her statement carefully, this runs a lot deeper than the issue of defunding Obamacare….”
Translation: Fiorina stood with the establishment against us wacko-birdsright wing extremists We the People.
And if that is not enough, below is a list of RINOs that supported Fiorina during her failed 2010 run for the Senate – California which points to the fact that Fiorina is not an outsider.
Fiorina’s latest dog and pony show calling out Boehner and McConnell is meaningless. Just another example of Fiorina being for them long before she was against them.
See full list here including organizations and corporate sponsors.
Per OpenSecrets.org, Silicon Valley’s fat cats aka the elites, many of whom are Progressive elitists are donating to Carly Fiorina’s super Pac, “Carly for America Cmte.”
Executive consultants, Chartwell Partners has donated $1,559,750 from individuals.
Keep The Promise I, a super PAC for Ted Cruz donated $500,000 to Fiorina; venture capitalist and for HP board member, Tom Perkins cut a check for $25,000 and Intel CEO Paul Otellini, $5,000.
According to CNN, Jerry Perenchio, the former CEO of Univision and national finance co-chairman for John McCain’s 2008 presidential campaign donated “close to $1.6 million.”
The excerpt below from a 2008 article entitled “POLITICS: Obama and the Integrity Gap: The Extremists” by Baseball Crank (Dan McLaughlin of RedState, Twitter handle @baseballcrank) describes the extent of Barack Hussein Obama’s deception, the radical scum Obama intentionally sought to bed down with along his path to the Oval Office that history in time will reveal as the most elaborate hoax ever perpetrated on the American people backed by the complicit American mainstream media who refused to vet Obama.
Also complicit in the hoax is the Black community so desperate for a Black president that they willingly placed their souls on the auction block for a deceiver and the illusion of an ancient Greek temple.
For those who followed Barack Obama prior to and throughout the 2008 presidential campaign, this information is not new. However, for those who are just realizing that the fish rots from the head down, this is a double face palm moment.
Chapter three of seven.
The Extremists
To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists and punk-rock performance poets. We smoked cigarettes and wore leather jackets. At night, in the dorms, we discussed neocolonialism, Franz Fanon, Eurocentrism, and patriarchy. When we ground out our cigarettes in the hallway carpet or set our setereos so loud that the walls began to shake, we were resisting bourgeois society’s stifling constraints. We weren’t indifferent or careless or insecure. We were alienated.
But this strategy alone couldn’t provide the distance I wanted, from Joyce [a former girlfriend] or my past. After all, there were thousands of so-called campus radicals, most of them white and tenured and happily tolerated. No, it remained necessary to prove which side you were on, to show your loyalty to the black masses, to strike out and name names.
A report released today by a state board finally ruled that Governor Sarah Palin did nothing wrong. Findings indicate that she did not apply improper pressure to try to dismiss a state trooper who was her former brother-in-law and, therefore, did not violate any state ethics laws in the firing the public safety commissioner.
The report by the Alaska Personnel Board is contradictory of last month’s conclusions in a separate inquiry of this matter as overseen by a bipartisan legislative panel.
An earlier inquiry ruled that Governor Palin breached a state ethics act by pressing to have the trooper, Mike Wooten, fired. The panel said, however, that the governor was within her rights to fire the public safety commissioner, Walt Monegan.
In a statement about the new report, Ms. Palin’s lawyer, Thomas V. Van Flein, said, “The governor is grateful that this investigation has provided a fair and impartial review of this matter and upholds the governor’s ability to take measures when necessary to ensure that Alaskans have the best possible team working to serve them.”
Mr. Monegan has said he believes he was fired because he would not bend to pressure from Ms. Palin, her husband, Todd, and her subordinates to fire Trooper Wooten, who had been through a bitter divorce with the governor’s sister. He said that he had received many complaints about Mr. Wooten from the Palins and several members of the administration and that he felt they wanted him to dismiss Mr. Wooten, who is still on the force.
Mr. Petumenos said the governor and other state employees had testified firmly that several conversations Mr. Monegan described had not happened. No witnesses confirmed Mr. Monegan’s account of the discussions, he said.
The differences between John McCain and Barack Obama are stark, prompting me to offer links to audio and video clips below which combine to serve as the Top 10 Reasons Not to Elect Barack Obama president of the United States:
1. Obama wants to establish a civilian national security force and, in doing so, further enlarge the federal government. To find out why Cuba’s Fidel Castro calls him the more “advanced” presidential candidate, read this post at Babalu (Hat tip: Gateway Pundit).
2. Obama wants to bankrupt the coal industry. At least, that’s what he told the San Francisco Chronicle. despite the fact that nearly half of the nation’s electricity is generated by coal. Learn more about it at NewsBusters.
4. Obama stood by and did nothing while his colleagues in the Democrat-controlled Congress voted to throw hundreds of billions of dollars at the nation’s recent economic meltdown while not taking responsibility for what caused it. See Dems Defended Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac in ‘04 to learn more.
5. Obama says his campaign is — and his administration will be — free of the influence of lobbyists. If the Democratic National Convention was any indication, however, one has to conclude that he’s saying one thing but doing another.
6. Obama promotes a culture of death by supporting so-called “pro-choice” legislation at every turn and counting Planned Parenthood as a strong and close ally. Learn more here.
7. In his own voice and his own words, Obama reads from his memoir, Dreams From My Father, and expresses views that can only be viewed as hateful toward what he calls “white folks.” Further, his wife Michelle plays the race card, too.
8. Obama’s friends in the mainstream news media tout him as a “gifted orator,” but when he’s without his teleprompter, things look much different. See examples here and here.
9. Based on Obama’s error-filled knowledge of the United States (i.e., he said he had traveled to 57 states), many find it hard to believe Obama graduated from Columbia University and Harvard Law School and was elected a U.S. senator.
10. Was it a gaffe or was it true? During an appearance on ABC’s This Week with George Stephanopoulus, Obama admitted he’s a Muslim.
Please forward these Top 10 Reasons Not to Elect Barack Obama to as many people as you know ASAP so that we can prevent the most-liberal member fo the U.S. Senate from winning the White House (Reason #11).
On July 17, 2007, Senator Obama said to the Planned Parenthood Action Fund: “The first thing I’d do as president is sign the Freedom of Choice Act. That’s the first thing that I’d do.”* Skip ahead to 1:32.
What about the ban on partial birth abortions? Obama is silent on that one.
“In the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court’s regressive ruling on April 18 in the two abortion ban cases, women’s rights advocates in Congress have introduced the Freedom of Choice Act (FOCA) S. 1173/H.R. 1964. This legislation, if enacted, would override the Court’s decision in the two cases, Gonzales v. Planned Parenthood and Gonzales v. Carhart, in which the court upheld vaguely-written bans that could prohibit the most commonly used and safest abortion procedures after 12 weeks of pregnancy.”…
…The Freedom of Choice Act, if adopted into law, will restore the reproductive rights recognized in 1973 in Roe v. Wade and in Doe v. Bolton, before Congress, state legislatures and courts eroded these rights. Since Roe, hundreds of anti-reproductive-rights measures have been enacted by state legislatures and more are being considered with each legislative session. The sum total of these erosions, combined with extremists’ clinic violence, have narrowed women’s access to reproductive health services. Indeed, in many parts of the country and for many low-income women, the right to an abortion is meaningless for lack of providers and financial assistance.”
