 A Message From Lucianne
Now More Than Ever Get Your Eagles Up! Lucianne Tees - in Black or White Click to Buy
|
|
Advice for GOP: Don’t change your message; change the map
Daily Inter Lake [Kalispell MT], by Frank Miele
|
|
Original Article
|
|
Posted By:davesenior, 11/18/2012 1:49:02 AM
|
| Winning the presidency isn’t about who you nominate, but about who votes —and most importantly about where they live.[SNIP]The truth is that people can restore our nation to its founding principles and they can do so without leaving their country—all they need to do is leave their state! Put another way:To change the future, change your demographics.If the Republican Party, for instance, could encourage 50,000 reliable Republican voters to move to Ohio over the next four years, they could probably compete in that crucial state in 2016.Likewise Florida.Likewise Colorado.That is the short-term solution.It sounds crazy, but it just might work.
|
Comments: The author proposes an Electoral College solution that might give GOP a chance. Get Republican voters out of states where they are unwanted and unwelcome like California and boost their electoral count in states where they can make a difference. He calls it the Nonviolent Revolution of 2024.
|
Reply 1 - Posted by:
4Justice, 11/18/2012 2:04:14 AM (No. 9021440)
That is what the lefties did to California way back in the late 60s and early 70s. They stole our state from us and the carpetbaggers from the East Coast have been in control ever since. But to be truthful, we´d do much better taking back big states like California. This state has the most electoral votes by a long shot. Most red state have small numbers like 4 or maybe 9 votes. CA has 55 votes!! Besides, we natives want our state back from the commies. So, if the GOP were smart, they´d help us take back California... especially now that Hollyweird is moving out faster than ever before.
|
Reply 2 - Posted by:
hisself, 11/18/2012 3:19:46 AM (No. 9021454)
How about we just ensure honest elections. Without fraud, the dumbocrats cannot win!
|
| |
|
Reply 3 - Posted by:
MissMann, 11/18/2012 3:34:17 AM (No. 9021459)
I agree with #2: job 1 is getting fraud out of the voting system, as much as possible.
But! With California dhimms having a super majority, I will be leaving as soon as possible. I can either go to a state where I am the majority (Texas sounds good to me!) or to a state where I might actually make a difference.
I love my country enough to give it a shot. Are there 50,000 other like me???
|
Reply 4 - Posted by:
locarno, 11/18/2012 4:11:02 AM (No. 9021463)
Although I love Frank and enjoy his articles, this one is too far out there for me. Consider this: If 50,000 Republicans moved out of IL to OH, for example, and began voting, its possible we could turn around that one state for one or two cycles. But how do we compete with the endless flow of refugees from the inner cities & the other blue states that have wrecked their own homes, and move to red states hoping to wreck that too by voting for higher taxes and more democrats?
The GOP voters are out there, and I dare say, they do outnumber the mind-numbed robots on the left. Our #1 problem is the media narrative. Obama had 8 months to demonize Romney in OH, and there was no money or time for anyone to respond. By convention time, it was too late. We MUST regain the narrative. That IMHO, is our only chance of turning this country around.
|
Reply 5 - Posted by:
doctorfixit, 11/18/2012 4:26:29 AM (No. 9021468)
Let´s redraw the map, with borders around the coastal leftwing cities, and then declare independence from them. If you live more than 20 miles from Lake Erie in Ohio, you probably already live in a conservative state. If you live more than 30 miles from the Pacific Coast, you already live in a conservative state. There´s no need to move, just redraw our borders and fence out the leftwing cities.
|
Reply 6 - Posted by:
Velox, 11/18/2012 5:47:28 AM (No. 9021490)
I have a better idea. Simply drive to those states, use a Hispanic surname and vote. Evidently, that´s what the other side does. Many areas get more voters than they have registered voters. Also the liberals are running the voting precincts and the counting the votes. We need to get control of that area or we can never take back our country.
|
Reply 7 - Posted by:
Thos Weatherby, 11/18/2012 7:05:42 AM (No. 9021542)
The Free State Project was suppose to do that. I helped with their formation. They chose New Hampshire, I chose Texas. The Republicans need to get their Black, Gay, Hispanics etc. out into the field to articulate the conservative position that has been poisoned by the Democrats. I also think that there was a fair amount of voter fraud going on this last election.
|
| |
|
Reply 8 - Posted by:
lazyman, 11/18/2012 7:39:23 AM (No. 9021577)
I´d go back to Vietnam before moving to Ohio.
|
Reply 9 - Posted by:
bpl40, 11/18/2012 8:00:16 AM (No. 9021607)
It would mean they will simply print 50,001 more fake ballots. Thats not a serious answer.
|
Reply 10 - Posted by:
birddog, 11/18/2012 8:42:53 AM (No. 9021693)
Nearly a decade late Mr. Miele. Take a look at the swing states...look at who has moved in, Dems. have been diluting Rep. Majorities in just this manner for years. NC, VA, Fla, NV, AZ. While the reliably Blue cities have a huge surplus of dependent Democrats they offer NO jobs or hope for future jobs and the young from these places move to those states that DO have jobs (or at least the HOPE of jobs). Even intrastate migration can be seen in it´s effect on Congressional seats...look at the dem. votes around colleges and "Job Corp" Locations.
|
Reply 11 - Posted by:
Rumblehog, 11/18/2012 9:22:22 AM (No. 9021756)
Please don´t ask me to leave Texas for Ohio.
|
Reply 12 - Posted by:
enuf8, 11/18/2012 12:46:52 PM (No. 9022148)
Curbing Voter fraud would eliminate the situation as well.
|
| |
|
Below, you will find ...
Most Recent Articles posted by "davesenior"
and
Most Active Articles (last 48 hours)
|
Most Recent Articles posted by "davesenior"
|
Equal Pay Day: Think before you parrot the empty rhetoric
|
|
Daily Inter Lake [Kalispell MT], by Frank Miele
Original Article
|
|
Posted By: davesenior- 4/7/2013 1:20:28 AM
Post Reply
|
|
When I was a kid, women were demanding “Equal Pay for Equal Work.” Somewhere along the way in the last 50 years, that has been conveniently truncated to “Equal Pay— Period.”At least, that SHOULD be the slogan — if truth in advertising laws could be applied to political posturing — because Equal Pay Day, which falls on Tuesday, April 9, is not about equal pay for equal work, but just about increasing women’s pay arbitrarily as a form of Marxist social engineering.The press release I got from the (George Soros-funded) National Partnership for Women & Families lamented
|
Restoring the Constitution — with a little help from my friends
|
|
Daily Inter Lake [Kalispell MT], by Frank Miele
Original Article
|
|
Posted By: davesenior- 3/31/2013 6:40:54 PM
Post Reply
|
|
Last week, I somewhat audaciously proposed a “Restoration Amendment” to free the U.S. Constitution from decades of judicial precedent and neglect and return it as much as possible to the original intent of our nation’s founders.Many readers were grateful for the effort and pitched in with their own ideas for how the federal leviathan could be tamed, but many others were dismal and dismayed — certain that any honest effort to reform the nation was already a lost cause, and that the Constitution was already good enough if only people would follow it. Probably all of us who are concerned about
|
The Restoration Amendment: Putting the genie of big government back in the bottle
|
|
Daily Inter Lake [Kalispell MT], by Frank Miele
Original Article
|
|
Posted By: davesenior- 3/24/2013 3:17:04 AM
Post Reply
|
|
A recent letter to the editor got me thinking about the origins of our great country, and how far astray we have gone from the principles enshrined in both the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States of America.[SNIP]What was needed was an amendment which both stated plainly its intended goal — to strip the federal government of the power it has grabbed without authority over more than 200 years — and at the same time provided a clear mechanism for restoring America to the principles envisioned by the founders.
|
|
FDR, Obama and the need for opposition
|
|
Daily Inter Lake [Kalispell MT], by Frank Miele
Original Article
|
|
Posted By: davesenior- 3/16/2013 9:06:26 PM
Post Reply
|
|
Some time ago, a reader presented me with a yellowed newspaper clipping from 1936, which seems to grow more relevant every day.It is a syndicated column by Frank R. Kent of the Baltimore Sun and was written just after the re-election of FDR.[SNIP]Kent’s column is a welcome reminder that the horror conservatives feel today at the willful blindness of their fellow citizens is nothing new. Indeed, I am more and more impressed by the similarities between our current regime and that of Roosevelt.President Obama, although from a very different background than FDR,governs from almost the same sense of privilege.
|
| |
|
|
Power vs. liberty: A lovers’ quarrel
|
|
Daily Inter Lake [Kalispell MT], by Frank Miele
Original Article
|
|
Posted By: davesenior- 3/10/2013 3:23:57 AM
Post Reply
|
|
The much talked-about schism in the Republican Party is better defined as a schism between the lovers of liberty and the lovers of power.But let’s be more specific: This schism is really a love triangle as the libertarians and authoritarians vie for the affections of the American people.It’s nothing new, a spat as old as the political feud between Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson, but it made for headlines last week when Sen. Rand Paul thumbed his nose at his Republican handlers and went directly to the American people with a real live filibuster on the floor of the Senate.
|
The Hostess Shuffle: Feds put the ‘dough’ in this doughnut
|
|
Daily Inter Lake [Kalispell MT], by Frank Miele
Original Article
|
|
Posted By: davesenior- 3/3/2013 2:49:49 AM
Post Reply
|
|
“The devil,” wrote Shakespeare, “hath power to assume a pleasing shape.” It is just such a devil that has been summoned forth from the still warm remains of Hostess Bakeries in the form of millions of dollars of assistance money being paid out to thousands of former Hostess workers.At first glance, it is a very pleasing devil indeed.[SNIP]But wait a minute. Why should those former Hostess workers get extra help from the federal government when so many other people are out of work, too? What makes this former cupcake maker the Hostess with the mostest?
|
|
One good reason not to trust Fox News
|
|
Daily Inter Lake [Kalispell, MT], by Frank Miele
Original Article
|
|
Posted By: davesenior- 2/24/2013 4:21:08 AM
Post Reply
|
|
What’s good for the goose is good for the gander, and the same thing goes for Al Gore and Rupert Murdoch, right?I wrote a column recently excoriating Al Gore for selling his Current TV cable channel to Al Jazeera, the Arabic news broadcast company based in Qatar.It isn’t just that Al Jazeera is Arabic, but rather that it is a mouthpiece for the Muslim Brotherhood and other Islamist causes.Turns out that the new Al Jazeera America may not be the only problem, however. An interview with columnist Diana West on the website www.radicalislam.org has pointed to Rupert Murdoch’s Fox News
|
|
Two killers: Which received justice?
|
|
Daily Inter Lake [Kalispell MT], by Frank Miele
Original Article
|
|
Posted By: davesenior- 2/17/2013 10:14:07 AM
Post Reply
|
|
They say that justice delayed is justice denied.If that is the case, then surely the families of Harvey Mad Man and Thomas Running Rabbit can rightly complain that there is no justice in Montana.The two men were murdered execution style in 1982 by Ronald Allen Smith, who during his trial confessed to the murder and said he had wanted to know what it felt like to kill someone.He also rejected a plea bargain for life in prison and insisted on the death penalty.[SNIP] Maybe we can learn from the case of Eddie Anderson.
|
A declaration of sanity: Don’t give up rights without a fight
|
|
Daily Inter Lake [Kalispell MT], by Frank Miele
Original Article
|
|
Posted By: davesenior- 2/10/2013 2:38:51 AM
Post Reply
|
|
What part of “self-evident” don’t Americans understand? Or more to the point, I suppose, what truths in the Declaration of Independence are left that Americans actually DO understand?Somehow, in 237 years, we have gone from declaring the NECESSITY of dissolving political bands with England and explaining proudly why we must do so ... to the current pusillanimous acquiescence to tyranny which we are assured by the villains in Washington, D.C, is better than the alternative.Don’t you believe it. The alternative, ladies and gentleman, is freedom.
|
| |
|
Cloward and Piven, immigration reform & ‘nothing left to lose’
|
|
Daily Inter Lake [Kalispell MT], by Frank Miele
Original Article
|
|
Posted By: davesenior- 2/2/2013 10:14:18 PM
Post Reply
|
|
With apologies to Kris Kristofferson, “immigration reform” is just another phrase for “nothing left to lose,” and as Janis Joplin sang in her version of “Me and Bobby McGee,” “Nothing don’t mean nothing honey if it ain’t free.”Let’s face it, whether you are talking about immigration reform by George W. Bush, immigration reform by John McCain, immigration reform by Barack Obama, or immigration reform by Marco Rubio, all you get is the same old “nothing left to lose.” And maybe, at long last, they are right — maybe we have sunk so low, there is nothing left to fight for.
|
Inaugural auguring: Clues from 2009 speech
|
|
Daily Inter Lake [Kalispell MT], by Frank Miele
Original Article
|
|
Posted By: davesenior- 1/27/2013 3:23:02 AM
Post Reply
|
|
President Obama’s second inaugural address is now history, and unlike various posthaste pundits, I will reserve to history the right to judge it.Nonetheless, the occasion of the inauguration does remind us that it is wise to be wary of speeches in general, and their grand pronouncements in specific, for oftentimes rhetoric does not reflect reality.Take, for instance, the president’s highly praised 2009 inaugural address.[SNIP]Perhaps the disconnect between the president’s words and his actions comes about because most Americans think of government as a necessary evil to be endured whereas President Obama views it as a means to an end—namely redistribution
|
Empire and resistance: Lessons from history
|
|
Daily Inter Lake [Kalispell MT], by Frank Miele
Original Article
|
|
Posted By: davesenior- 1/20/2013 8:21:41 PM
Post Reply
|
|
What do these all have in common: The Ottoman Empire, the Nazi Empire, the Soviet Empire and the New Islamic Caliphate?If you are a student of history, you will recognize that the first three of these expansionist empires have all been the underlying or overt cause of millions of deaths, and that they were central players in three world conflicts. The fourth empire, which is the only one still extant, cannot yet be measured in terms of the damage it will eventually do, but it is the largest in both geography and population and it is still growing.
|
Most Active Articles (last 48 hours)
|
We Are Living in a Dying Country
|
|
Rushlimbaugh.com, by Rush Limbaugh
Original Article
|
|
Posted By: Desert Fox- 4/5/2013 4:53:10 PM
Post Reply
|
|
RUSH: Folks, I don´t know how else to categorize this. We are living in a dying country. I don´t know how else to categorize what´s happening -- 88,000 new jobs. The unemployment rate, because of a terrible statistic, is down to 7.6%. The number of people in this country who are not working is shameful. Ninety million Americans are no longer in the workforce. Ninety million. People not in the labor force grew by 663,000, and now 90 million. That´s the labor force participation rate. This is 1979 levels.
|
Why Obama´s ´Best-Looking Attorney General´ Comment Was a Gaffe
|
|
The Atlantic, by Garance Franke-Ruta
Original Article
|
|
Posted By: Oblio- 4/6/2013 6:51:15 AM
Post Reply
|
|
President Obama´s biggest gaffe yesterday when speaking of California Attorney General Kamala Harris was not in flirtatiously complimenting her as "the best-looking attorney general," but in introducing an observation from the system of beauty into a forum that was about the system of power.What´s that, you say? Irin Carmon does a great job in Salon in laying out the bounds of propriety for when it´s appropriate to talk about a woman´s looks as a general matter. But I´ve long felt we lack a solid theoretical underpinning for easily discussing these issues, and why precisely it is that
|
Hillary Clinton Would Not ´Clear the Field´ for 2016
|
|
New Republic, by Tod Lindberg
Original Article
|
|
Posted By: StormCnter- 4/6/2013 5:22:36 AM
Post Reply
|
|
No one is more preoccupied these days with Hillary Clinton´s 2016 plans than the Beltway political class—not even the former presidential candidate herself. To hear some tell it, her decision will be dispositive for all other Democrats thinking of entering the race. And pundits and reporters aren´t the only ones positing the "The Hillary Factor": No less than the House Democratic whip, Steny Hoyer, told BuzzFeed, “I don´t know that anybody would run against Hillary…. If she runs, she clears the field.” It´s an understandable conclusion, given Clinton´s stature in the Democratic Party and her 70 percent
|
Obama critic apologizes for his ´poorly chosen words´ on gay marriage
|
|
The Hill [Washington DC], by Alexandra Jaffe
Original Article
|
|
Posted By: JoniTx- 4/6/2013 12:18:19 PM
Post Reply
|
|
Neurosurgeon Ben Carson, considered by some to be a potential Republican contender for president, apologized to Johns Hopkins University for the "poorly chosen words" he used in expressing his opposition to gay marriage last month.“I am sorry for any embarrassment this has caused,” Carson said in the letter, reported in New York Magazine.(Snip) "Although I do believe marriage is between a man and a woman, there are much less offensive ways to make that point. I hope all will look at a lifetime of service over some poorly chosen words.” Carson will remain as commencement speaker at Johns Hopkins,
|
´My bangs are getting a little irritating´: Michelle Obama admits she already regrets her high-maintenance hairdo
|
|
Daily Mail (UK), by Margot Peppers
Original Article
|
|
Posted By: pineledger- 4/7/2013 7:43:42 AM
Post Reply
|
|
Michelle Obama has admitted that she is already tired of the bangs she first sported in January. The First Lady said in an interview with Entertainment Tonight: ´Bangs are a day-by-day proposition. They´re starting to grow out, get a little irritating.´ Still, she hasn´t let her hairdo woes get her down. ´It´s okay,´ she said after her initial complaint. ´We´ll be good.´ The first indication that her hairstyle was becoming a burden came about last weekend, when Malia, 14, was spotted adjusting her mother´s hair during the White House Easter Egg Roll.
|
Hillary Clinton: The clock is turning back for women in America
|
|
Washington Examiner, by Charlie Spiering
Original Article
|
|
Posted By: Desert Fox- 4/5/2013 3:25:20 PM
Post Reply
|
|
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton explained to the Women in the World summit in New York today that the clock is turning back for women in America. Clinton praised her own mother for helping empower her to success and marveled at the opportunities that her own daughter Chelsea has pursued. But Clinton warned that there is still so much to do to promote women´s rights in America. "As I look at all these young women that I am privileged to work with, or know through Chelsea, and its hard to imagine turning the clock on them," Clinton said.
|
White House Blames Jobs Numbers on Sequester
|
|
Breitbart´s Big Government, by Wynton Hall
Original Article
|
|
Posted By: Dreadnought- 4/5/2013 8:02:58 PM
Post Reply
|
|
The Obama White House is scrambling to blame Friday’s abysmal March jobs numbers on the sequester’s trimming of the rate of growth in federal budgets that have yet to fully commence. After the Labor Department announced that a mass exodus of 663,000 workers left the U.S. workforce last month and that job creation fell 112,000 jobs short of projections, Obama’s top economic adviser Alan B. Krueger, took to the White House blog to blame the sequester: It is important to bear in mind that the March household and payroll surveys are the first monthly surveys to look
|
The Deafening Silence that Signals Our Demise
|
|
Townhall, by Diana West
Original Article
|
|
Posted By: Drive- 4/5/2013 11:56:32 AM
Post Reply
|
|
Get ready for the last straw. First, though, I´d like to suggest that anyone reading this column in a local newspaper or news site pat the editor on the back for publishing what in our neo-medieval world of fear amounts to a forbidden column. Yup, I am about to say something about the Great Barack Obama Identity/Eligibility Scandal again. I know that this is one rich and urgent topic that doesn´t see the light of day in certain so-called news outlets -- and I say that from the experience of watching my own syndicated columns
|
Trayvon Martin´s parents settle wrongful death claim
|
|
Orlando Sentinel, by Rene Stutzman
Original Article
|
|
Posted By: Desert Fox- 4/5/2013 3:15:25 PM
Post Reply
|
|
SANFORD - Trayvon Martin´s parents have settled a wrongful death claim for an amount believed to be more than $1 million against the homeowners association of the Sanford subdivision where their teenage son was killed. Their attorney, Benjamin Crump, filed that paperwork at the Seminole County Courthouse, a portion of which was made public today. In the five pages of the settlement that were available for public review, the settlement amount had been marked out. Lower in the agreement, the parties specified that they would keep that amount confidential. When asked during an earlier interview whether the amount was
|
Beyonce, Jay-Z celebrate 5th anniversary in Havana, Cuba
|
|
Los Angeles Times, by Nardine Saad
Original Article
|
|
Posted By: Fiesta del sol- 4/6/2013 8:20:04 AM
Post Reply
|
|
Beyonce and Jay-Z celebrated their fifth wedding anniversary in Cuba this week. The couple, who married on April 4, 2008, took in the sights of Old Havana, visited a school, dined on a rooftop terrace and strolled the fan-filled streets in their island best.(snip).The power couple declined to answer journalists´ questions about their visit to the island nation, but some outlets are reporting that the moguls are there as tourists, though that would be illegal because of the half-century embargo the U.S. has on the Communist country. However, the Miami Herald said Washington has issued special licenses for
|
Obama Budget to Cap Retirement Accounts at $3 Million
|
|
Breitbart´s Big Government, by Tony Lee
Original Article
|
|
Posted By: Desert Fox- 4/5/2013 9:40:39 PM
Post Reply
|
|
The budget President Barack Obama will submit on April 10 will contain a proposal that would prohibit individuals from accumulating more than $3 million in Individual Retirement Accounts (IRAs) and tax-preferred retirement accounts. According to a White House statement, the Obama administration believes the current rules allow some wealthy individuals "to accumulate many millions of dollars in these accounts, substantially more than is needed to fund reasonable levels of retirement saving." "The budget would limit an individual’s total balance across tax-preferred accounts to an amount sufficient to finance an annuity of not more than $205,000 per
|
| | |
|