VIDEO INTERVIEW WITH LT. COLONEL ALLEN WEST, NEWLY ELECTED CONGRESSMAN, REGARDING HOW WE ARE FIGHTING THE WAR AGAINST TERRORISM
Friday, November 26th, 2010
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MARCO RUBIO – A MAN WITH A VERY PROMISING FUTURE
Saturday, November 20th, 2010
Published on The Weekly Standard (www.weeklystandard.com)
It Was Rubio’s Tuesday
The most important freshman senator.
Stephen F. Hayes
November 15, 2010, Tampa
EXCERPT FROM MARCO RUBIO’S SPEECH: ” I do not believe you have to demonize people in order to win elections. Quite frankly, I think that many of these people in Washington who are making bad policy are generally well intentioned. But I think they have two things wrong: a fundamental misunderstanding of how our economy functions and a fundamental misunderstanding of America’s role in the world. And those two things are what led to these policies.
Number one—The economy functions like this: Jobs are not created by politicians, they are created by people that start businesses or expand existing businesses. And the job of government is to create the environment where doing that becomes easier, not harder. Number two—America’s role in the world is pretty straightforward. The world is safer and it is better when America is the strongest country in the world. (more…)
VIDEO – MARCO RUBIO’S ELECTION NIGHT SPEECH
Friday, November 19th, 2010THE GOP’S RACIAL CHALLENGE
Thursday, November 11th, 2010
- NOVEMBER 10, 2010
The GOP’s Racial Challenge
Republicans can’t win in the future without more nonwhite votes.
By ZOLTAN HAJNAL
Lost in the GOP’s euphoria over its landslide midterm victory is the fact that the Republican Party has almost become a whites-only party. Its strategy may win seats now, but it will lose over the long run.
Republicans won big in 2010 primarily because they won big among white voters. The 60% of the white vote that Republicans garnered last Tuesday is, by most estimates, the highest proportion of the white vote that the GOP has won in any national election since World War II.
Relying on white support is not a new strategy for the party. In 2008, 91% of the votes that John McCain received in his presidential bid came from white voters.
Voters at a polling station during the closely contested election between Democratic Sen. Harry Reid and Republican challenger Sharron Angle last month.
The problem for Republicans is two-fold. First, whites may currently be the majority but they are a declining demographic. The proportion of all voters who are white has already declined to 75% today from 94% in 1960. By 2050, whites are no longer expected to be a majority of the U.S. population. (more…)
VIDEO – SARAH PALIN, MORNING IN AMERICA
Friday, November 5th, 2010REPUBLICAN TIM SCOTT OF SOUTH CAROLINA OFFERS HOPE IN BREAKING DOWN BARRIERS
Sunday, October 10th, 2010Telegraph.co.uk
Black Republicans offer hope after Barack
Obama’s failures on race
The Obama presidency has not led to a post-racial America, says Toby Harnden, but black Republicans in Congress could help break down barriers
By Toby Harnden
09 Oct 2010
Tim Scott at his office in Charleston. Scott will be the first black Republican congressman from the Deep South in more than a century Photo: AP
Campaigning a few miles from Fort Sumter, where the first shots of the Civil War were fired in 1861, Tim Scott described last week how he was born into poverty and a broken home, much like Barack Obama.
“My dad was gone by the time I was seven,” the black candidate for the House of Representatives told a mixed group of students at Fort Dorchester High School in North Charleston. “I was flunking out of high school. I failed geography, civics, Spanish and English. When you fail Spanish and English, you are not bilingual, you are bi-ignorant.”
But the conclusions that Scott, 45, drew were very different from those of Obama. When he was 15, a man who ran a Chick-fil-A fast-food restaurant taught him “that there was a way to think my way out of the worst conditions”. Scott went on to became a small businessman and a proud “conservative Republican”.
Barring a cataclysmic upset, Scott will be elected to Congress on November 2nd. There, he will be a ferocious opponent of Obama, to whom he gives a withering “failing grade” for his presidency. (more…)
VIDEO – INTERVIEW WITH MARCO RUBIO
Saturday, September 25th, 2010A video interview with Marco Rubio by www.thekitchencabinet.us
VIDEO – NIKKI HALEY’S SPEECH IN CHARLESTON TO NATIONAL FEDERATION OF REPUBLICAN WOMEN
Monday, September 13th, 2010NIKKI HALEY SPEAKS TO MEMBERS OF THE NATIONAL FEDERATION OF REPUBLICAN WOMEN IN CHARLESTON, SOUTH CAROLINA
Friday, September 10th, 2010Haley talks about importance of port during Charleston visit
Posted: Sep 09, 2010 8:27 AM EDT Updated: Sep 09, 2010 5:10 PM EDT
Click image to enlargeCHARLESTON, SC (WCSC) – Republican candidate for governor Nikki Haley was in the Lowcountry Thursday afternoon.
State Rep. Haley spoke to members of the National Federation of Republican Women.
Earlier this week, Haley’s Democratic opponent, Vincent Sheheen, asked Haley to take a stance on the effort to secure funding for a study on deepening Charleston’s harbor. After the speech, Haley gave her position on it.
“The port is absolute priority,” Haley said. “We’ll do what it takes to get the money they need and dredge. We’re going to make sure we do here in the state.”
Throughout the weekend, the group is hosting several state leaders to kick off the fall election season.
Haley faces Sheheen and Green Party candidate Morgan Reeves in the November election.
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A BLACK REPUBLICAN CHALLENGES RANGEL IN HARLEM
Friday, September 3rd, 2010MURDOCK: A Republican in
Harlem
Michel Faulkner could upend Rangel with conservative play
By Deroy Murdock –
The Washington Times
August 12, 2010
Illustration: Harlem Hokie by Greg Groesch for The Washington Times”I am not going away,” 40-year veteran Rep. Charles B. Rangel told House colleagues Tuesday. “You’re not going to tell me to resign to make you feel comfortable,” the 80-year-old New York Democrat added in an unfocused jeremiad in which he defended himself against the House ethics committee’s 13 charges. It said Mr. Rangel‘s “pattern of indifference or disregard for the laws, rules and regulations of the United States and the House of Representatives is a serious violation.”
Among many things, Mr. Rangel allegedly failed to declare “his ownership of vacant lots in New Jersey” and neither disclosed nor paid taxes on rental income from a Dominican condo. All told, the committee stated, Mr. Rangel “brought discredit to the House.”
Michel Faulkner hopes Harlemites have had enough. The 53-year-old ordained Baptist minister and former Virginia Tech All-American footballer seeks to unseat Mr. Rangel – as a Republican. And a black one at that.
“I must have shaken 1,000 hands yesterday,” he said over gazpacho Monday at Bill’s Gay Nineties, a former speakeasy on Midtown Manhattan’s West 54th Street.
“Wouldn’t it be nice if the poor kicked the liberals out of their lives?” Mr. Faulkner smiles. “Imagine if they told them: ‘We don’t want you to be our pimps anymore.’ ”
Mr. Faulkner wants to reverse four decades of Mr. Rangel‘s big-government activism. Mr. Faulkner proudly signed Americans for Tax Reform‘s “no new taxes” pledge. He also decried the death tax, which is set to skyrocket from zero to 55 percent come 2011. (more…)