I couldn’t believe all the Republicans who at last night’s presidential address fell all over themselves to pat Barack Obama on the back as in the case of Senator Hatch, shake his hand or even in Senator Coburn’s case to give him a big hug (I had no idea that Coburn and Obama were such good friends). It was truly embarrassing.
I did not see one principled conservative Republican sitting on his hands or at least standing up and not applauding though I can pretty much guarantee I know at least one who didn’t. They all gave him a standing ovation as soon as he entered the room. Even Senator Shelby was anxious to talk to Obama and probably apologize for his recent remark that he didn’t know if Obama was born in the US or not and wasn’t sure if Obama was even eligible to serve as our President. Don’t they realize that his Marxist policies on social issues, the economy and national security not only threaten to collapse our economy but may well ultimately result in the destruction of our country as Alan Keyes recently warned? If they do, how can they cheer on the man who history will note is primarily responsible for that?
They ought to show it by their actions and not fall over themselves to applaud Obama merely because he has a 63% approval rating in an attempt to show their bi-partisanship to their constituents. What will it take to get them to take courage? They should have followed Justice Alito’s lead which was to stand politely and not applaud and to shake Obama’s hand with a kind of tortured smile but then look immediately away showing himself uninterested in aggrandizing himself to Obama. That’s the kind of conservative leader who leads by example that I am looking for. If only we had more Samuel Alito’s in Congress.
I would not have applauded Obama when he entered the room had I been in that hallowed chamber. I would, however, have applauded the parts of his speech that I agreed with what few there were. Obama is far and away the most radical President ever elected in our history. He makes the Clinton’s look positively conservative in comparison. I will repeat what I said before, we need to hope and pray not for Obama’s success but as Rush Limbaugh stated for his failure for if he succeeds in implementing all of his socialist policies and decimates our military might, America may not survive very far into the next decade, but if he fails there is still hope for America’s future and the restoration of our God-given constitutional republic.
Obama is predicting that we will have a $1.5 trillion deficit up from the $1.2 trillion deficit that Bush left him, but I have been predicting it is going to be at least $1.65 trillion and probably closer to $2 trillion given his unprecedented spending spree robbing from our children and grandchildren to bail people out of their irresponsible decisions now. Just as I predicted Obama is trying to pass all his most radical socialist legislation including the carbon tax, socialized health care, a new more draconian national gun ban than we have ever before seen, gays in the military, etc. this year and next knowing as one Fox News analyst stated that he will never be more popular and have more support than right now. It is going to be all downhill from here. When the American people find out the true size of the deficit later this year, Obama’s poll numbers are doing to take a drubbing. I am predicting he tanks 25 points in the polls by Election Day 2010 due in large part to the near depression we will be in at that point due in large part to his socialist policies, thus according the Republicans a one-time chance to retake the House of Reps and begin to restore our system of checks and balances which is so badly needed at this time of one party rule in our nation’s Capitol.
Obama has promised to half the deficit to $530 by 2013 when he may or may not still be in office. That way when he runs for re-election he won’t have to worry about keeping that promise. Considering that the deficit would only be $500 billion without Bush’s $700 billion bailout package and Obama’s $1.2 trillion (with interest) socialist spending bill, doing nothing would probably allow him to reduce the deficit to well below that level, but with all of his additional socialist initiatives, it should prove quite a challenge.
One good thing I heard from RNC Chairman Michael Steele when asked whether the party would seek to oust the Gang of Three Republican Senate defectors without whom Obama’s$1.2 trillion depression stimulus bill could not be passed, he said “all options are on the table.” I believe we should strip them of all of their seniority in response. Well at least Steele appears to be a fiscal conservative if not a social conservative.
At a time when America has never been more indebted, we learned from John McCain yesterday that King Barack is spending $11.2 billion on his own private helicopter fleet each one costing $400 million and equipped with an onboard kitchen to ensure he and his buddies eat in style on the way to Air Force One. What a hypocrite…
Wednesday, February 25, 2009
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
Utah Legislators Considering a Tax Increase on Utah's Working Families
The Saturday before last, I attended a Town Meeting in West Jordan with four of our state representatives. Rep. Bird, Rep. Harper, Rep. Mascaro and Rep. Newbold. The town meeting went very well and the legislators did a great job of answering our questions. However, I was very dismayed to learn that some of them were giving serious consideration to increasing taxes on Utah's working families who are hurting the most in order to balance the budget rather than pursue a more fiscally responsible and fiscally conservative path of just cutting spending by whatever is necessary in order to balance the budget. What is worse, this drive to raise the food tax by 3 percent is being spearheaded by a Republican, Rep. Kay McIff.
Gratefully, Gov. Huntsman is standing on the side of Utah's taxpayers in refusing to sign a tax increase on groceries which is a regressive tax that would most adversely affect the poorest among us and it is unlikely that the State House and Senate would be able to override his veto. The Governor is absolutely right in calling for the wholesale abolition of the tax on unprepared food. I sympathize with our legislators who are siding with the Dems in calling for a tax increase because I know how difficult it is to implement spending cuts, but it would be much preferable to implement the proposed 15% across the board spending cut with an exemption for Department of Public Safety to include police and fire departments, homeland security and prisons to ensure that the public safety is maintained.
The legislators also discussed increasing the gas tax, but I would oppose doing that as well as the gas tax is also a regressive tax which hurts Utah's lowest income families the most. I did hear one comment from one of the attendees that they would support these tax increases on food and gas as it would force illegal aliens in the state to pay them and contribute more of their fair share, but that does not justify hurting our low-income families when we can avoid doing so. A less objectionable proposal was submitted by Senate President Waddoups to increase motor vehicle registration fees rather than increase taxes. Raising taxes in the middle of a serious recession is incredibly short-sighted in my opinion. As I noted during the meeting, we should be talking about cutting taxes to stimulate economic growth and job creation, not raising them.
In other news, the Deseret News reports that a surprising majority--59% of Utah's citizens approve of Obama's job performance in the latest poll, but only 39% support his fiscally irresponsible, budget-busting $1.2 trillion "stimulus" bill which the US Senate voted to approve this morning.
Gratefully, Gov. Huntsman is standing on the side of Utah's taxpayers in refusing to sign a tax increase on groceries which is a regressive tax that would most adversely affect the poorest among us and it is unlikely that the State House and Senate would be able to override his veto. The Governor is absolutely right in calling for the wholesale abolition of the tax on unprepared food. I sympathize with our legislators who are siding with the Dems in calling for a tax increase because I know how difficult it is to implement spending cuts, but it would be much preferable to implement the proposed 15% across the board spending cut with an exemption for Department of Public Safety to include police and fire departments, homeland security and prisons to ensure that the public safety is maintained.
The legislators also discussed increasing the gas tax, but I would oppose doing that as well as the gas tax is also a regressive tax which hurts Utah's lowest income families the most. I did hear one comment from one of the attendees that they would support these tax increases on food and gas as it would force illegal aliens in the state to pay them and contribute more of their fair share, but that does not justify hurting our low-income families when we can avoid doing so. A less objectionable proposal was submitted by Senate President Waddoups to increase motor vehicle registration fees rather than increase taxes. Raising taxes in the middle of a serious recession is incredibly short-sighted in my opinion. As I noted during the meeting, we should be talking about cutting taxes to stimulate economic growth and job creation, not raising them.
In other news, the Deseret News reports that a surprising majority--59% of Utah's citizens approve of Obama's job performance in the latest poll, but only 39% support his fiscally irresponsible, budget-busting $1.2 trillion "stimulus" bill which the US Senate voted to approve this morning.
Saturday, February 14, 2009
DUV-PAC Supporting former State Rep. Morgan Philpot for State GOP Vice-Chairman
I met with former State Rep. Morgan Philpot and other conservative stalwarts at the Capitol cafeteria yesterday to discuss his State Republican Party Vice-Chairman run and Holly Richardson's run for Utah County GOP Vice-Chairperson. Very exciting! We also discussed which candidates conservatives should support for other state and county GOP posts. Also had a nice visit with departing GOP State Chairman Stan Lockhart who will undoubtedly be remembered as a chairman who tried to reach out to conservatives in the party.
DUV-PAC Joins Utah Coalition for Traditional Families
February 11th—Today the Defend Utah Values PAC was proud to join with the Utah Coalition for Traditional Families in opposition to the far left’s assault on traditional marriage in Utah. Other groups in the coalition include Utah Eagle Forum, the Sutherland Institute and the Utah Republican Assembly. The coalition joined with a number of conservative Republican leaders like State Senate President Mike Waddoups and State Rep. Carl Wimmer in holding a press conference at the Capitol earlier this afternoon against the gay lobby's Equality Utah legislation which includes a gay civic union and gay adoption bill. I believe it is vitally important that we make our voice heard on this disturbing legislation to let Utah citizens and policymakers that we oppose it.
Here is a link to an article about the press conference:
http://www.sltrib.com/ci_11681319
Here is a link to an article about the press conference:
http://www.sltrib.com/ci_11681319
Deseret News Article about Defend Utah Values PAC
Conservative Utah group has returned
By Tad WalchDeseret News
PROVO — A decade ago, a small but noisy conservative group stormed into Utah Republican politics and briefly threatened to divide the party before disappearing like a summer squall.
Now the Utah Republican Assembly has been resurrected, with chapters stretching from Centerville to St. George. A sometimes controversial former legislator leading the Utah County chapter promised the assembly's new incarnation will be less divisive.
"I didn't join it then," said Mike Thompson of the national movement's first appearance in Utah, which made headlines from 1997 to 2002. "We're a conservative organization, but I get concerned that sometimes when conservatives get together, they get too radical, so I didn't join it then." Thompson has stayed active in politics as a county, state and national Republican Party delegate since he lost his seat in the Legislature in the party primary in 2004. Now a member of the party's state Central Committee, he said the revived Utah Republican Assembly will endorse candidates who espouse the group's conservative views but that he will make sure dialogue among the assembly, legislators and the party will remain respectful, be a little less confrontational and "not get radical."
That might be a tall order, because one of the main purposes of the group is to endorse candidates in convention and primary races, when Republicans are running against Republicans.
The assembly took sides in this summer's Republican primary, endorsing Jason Chaffetz. Chaffetz defeated six-term incumbent and fellow Republican Chris Cannon by running to the right of Cannon, a conservative congressman who wasn't conservative enough for some. In fact, some called him a RINO, or Republican-In-Name-Only. The term is used on the Web site of National Federation of Republican Assemblies (NFRA), which represents groups in 40 states.
Chaffetz spoke Wednesday night at a Utah Republican Assembly dinner at the home of Rep. Chris Herrod, R-Provo. The dinner drew 38 people, seven of whom joined the assembly.
Thompson said the group wants to build an organization to help conservative candidates who share moral values extending beyond pro-life and anti-gay marriage issues to those of basic honesty.
To fill that role, Thompson and others revived the URA and launched a new political action committee. The president of the URA is Larry Meyers, who organized a May meeting that sparked the launch of new chapters in Davis, Salt Lake and Utah counties. Salt Lake chapter president David Pyne is vice president of the Western Region of the NFRA. This summer, Herrod, Pyne, Meyers and Thompson formed the new Defend Utah Values political action committee. Another member of the PAC's board is Lowell Nelson, former Utah County Republican Party treasurer and president of the new Utah Republican Liberty Caucus.
The possibility for division might get a test next spring, when the Utah County Republican Party holds elections for its leadership positions.
Thompson said he has declined to run for chairman of the county party but added, "We will be involved in that election." The 1990s Utah Republican Assembly, led by Tom Draschil and Don Ruzicka, was considered arch-conservative by some GOP officeholders. Draschil was arrested for trespassing in 1998 while passing out URA literature at the state Republican convention, but a judge dismissed the charges. Draschil said on his radio show that President Bush lied to the American people and should be impeached. He also ran a failed campaign against Cannon in 2002, saying he would yank the Violence Against Women Act, which he called "feminist pork," and stop co-ed basic training in the U.S. Armed Forces and oppose use of women in combat.
Ruzicka, whose wife is president of the conservative Utah Eagle Forum, called the movement "mainstream conservatism" and a "conservative uprising" and chafed when fellow Republicans described the Republican Assembly as too far to the right. "They talk about us like we're the plague moving across the state," Ruzicka said in 1998, when it seemed the URA was poised to take over the Utah County Republican Party in 1999.
The national organization calls Republican assemblies "the Republican wing of the Republican Party." In 1998, Ron Paul spoke at the first Utah Republican Assembly convention. Ruzicka took credit that year for influencing candidacies at Republican conventions and primaries, but within a few short years, after Draschil moved away, the organization faded into the background.
Then last year, the southern Utah chapter of the Utah Republican Assembly helped organize a sidewalk demonstration in St. George to call for secure borders and the rejection of amnesty for illegal immigrants.
The URA's endorsement of Chaffetz created a connection back to the heyday of the group in 1998, when the URA and Eagle Forum backed Jeremy Friedbaum's improbable intraparty run against Cannon. Friedbaum fared shockingly well at the Republican convention that year and forced Cannon to a primary. Cannon clobbered Friedbaum in the primary, but the embarrassment of being forced to a primary two years after winning back the Congressional seat from a Democrat spawned repeated efforts from the right to oust Cannon until Chaffetz succeeded this year.
By Tad WalchDeseret News
PROVO — A decade ago, a small but noisy conservative group stormed into Utah Republican politics and briefly threatened to divide the party before disappearing like a summer squall.
Now the Utah Republican Assembly has been resurrected, with chapters stretching from Centerville to St. George. A sometimes controversial former legislator leading the Utah County chapter promised the assembly's new incarnation will be less divisive.
"I didn't join it then," said Mike Thompson of the national movement's first appearance in Utah, which made headlines from 1997 to 2002. "We're a conservative organization, but I get concerned that sometimes when conservatives get together, they get too radical, so I didn't join it then." Thompson has stayed active in politics as a county, state and national Republican Party delegate since he lost his seat in the Legislature in the party primary in 2004. Now a member of the party's state Central Committee, he said the revived Utah Republican Assembly will endorse candidates who espouse the group's conservative views but that he will make sure dialogue among the assembly, legislators and the party will remain respectful, be a little less confrontational and "not get radical."
That might be a tall order, because one of the main purposes of the group is to endorse candidates in convention and primary races, when Republicans are running against Republicans.
The assembly took sides in this summer's Republican primary, endorsing Jason Chaffetz. Chaffetz defeated six-term incumbent and fellow Republican Chris Cannon by running to the right of Cannon, a conservative congressman who wasn't conservative enough for some. In fact, some called him a RINO, or Republican-In-Name-Only. The term is used on the Web site of National Federation of Republican Assemblies (NFRA), which represents groups in 40 states.
Chaffetz spoke Wednesday night at a Utah Republican Assembly dinner at the home of Rep. Chris Herrod, R-Provo. The dinner drew 38 people, seven of whom joined the assembly.
Thompson said the group wants to build an organization to help conservative candidates who share moral values extending beyond pro-life and anti-gay marriage issues to those of basic honesty.
To fill that role, Thompson and others revived the URA and launched a new political action committee. The president of the URA is Larry Meyers, who organized a May meeting that sparked the launch of new chapters in Davis, Salt Lake and Utah counties. Salt Lake chapter president David Pyne is vice president of the Western Region of the NFRA. This summer, Herrod, Pyne, Meyers and Thompson formed the new Defend Utah Values political action committee. Another member of the PAC's board is Lowell Nelson, former Utah County Republican Party treasurer and president of the new Utah Republican Liberty Caucus.
The possibility for division might get a test next spring, when the Utah County Republican Party holds elections for its leadership positions.
Thompson said he has declined to run for chairman of the county party but added, "We will be involved in that election." The 1990s Utah Republican Assembly, led by Tom Draschil and Don Ruzicka, was considered arch-conservative by some GOP officeholders. Draschil was arrested for trespassing in 1998 while passing out URA literature at the state Republican convention, but a judge dismissed the charges. Draschil said on his radio show that President Bush lied to the American people and should be impeached. He also ran a failed campaign against Cannon in 2002, saying he would yank the Violence Against Women Act, which he called "feminist pork," and stop co-ed basic training in the U.S. Armed Forces and oppose use of women in combat.
Ruzicka, whose wife is president of the conservative Utah Eagle Forum, called the movement "mainstream conservatism" and a "conservative uprising" and chafed when fellow Republicans described the Republican Assembly as too far to the right. "They talk about us like we're the plague moving across the state," Ruzicka said in 1998, when it seemed the URA was poised to take over the Utah County Republican Party in 1999.
The national organization calls Republican assemblies "the Republican wing of the Republican Party." In 1998, Ron Paul spoke at the first Utah Republican Assembly convention. Ruzicka took credit that year for influencing candidacies at Republican conventions and primaries, but within a few short years, after Draschil moved away, the organization faded into the background.
Then last year, the southern Utah chapter of the Utah Republican Assembly helped organize a sidewalk demonstration in St. George to call for secure borders and the rejection of amnesty for illegal immigrants.
The URA's endorsement of Chaffetz created a connection back to the heyday of the group in 1998, when the URA and Eagle Forum backed Jeremy Friedbaum's improbable intraparty run against Cannon. Friedbaum fared shockingly well at the Republican convention that year and forced Cannon to a primary. Cannon clobbered Friedbaum in the primary, but the embarrassment of being forced to a primary two years after winning back the Congressional seat from a Democrat spawned repeated efforts from the right to oust Cannon until Chaffetz succeeded this year.
RINO’s Seize Control of RNC Chairmanship
The Washington Post praises pick of moderate Republican Michael Steele over his five more conservative rivals. The caption below the title in the link below says it all.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/30/AR2009013003898_pf.html
This is disturbing as the only people this liberal newspaper call moderates are liberals whereas centrist Republicans like McCain and even pro-abortion Republicans are often mislabeled by the liberal press as conservatives. Steele supports affirmative action and embryonic stem cell research. He also praised Obama’s election as President and said he would moderate the party’s conservative stands on the issues (like abortion?)
The whole point in electing a new chairman to break from Bush was to move the party back to its core conservative principles not further along the same center-left path that Bush took us along resulting in unprecedented back-to-back GOP electoral wipeouts. I believe Republicans made a big mistake in electing him and are putting their hopes for retaking power in serious jeopardy as moving our party to the left is a near certain recipe for permanent minority status for the Grand Old Party.
I think his election represents a step backward for the GOP who really needed a conservative like Blackwell or Dawson to lead it to victory in the all-important 2010 and 2012 elections. Steele's praise for leaders of the most liberal wing of the party like Christine Todd Whitman a pro-abortion, pro-gay liberal and the Main Street Centrist Coalition are troubling. We could have done a lot better.
I was disturbed to learn that while our new RNC Chairman claims to be pro-life, he also has stated that he supports Roe v. Wade so he has a mixed record at best on the life issue, which has always been the most principle tenet of the Republican Party.
http://www.ontheissues.org/Senate/Michael_Steele.htm
He has spent his whole career supporting inclusion of liberal groups in our party, not that inclusion is necessarily a bad thing in and of itself. We obviously don't want a litmus test for Republican Party membership. However, the more I learn about Steele, the more I am beginning to believe that even re-electing Duncan as Chairman would have been preferable to moving the party to the left with Steele's ascension to the chairmanship. I am sorry to see that a solid conservative like Blackwell provided the margin of victory for Steele rather than endorsing fellow conservative Katon Dawson who would likely have won with his endorsement. Some of you may not know Steele was one of the founders of the liberal Republican Leadership Committee with liberal GOP former Gov. Christine Todd Whitman. Whitman created this group along with Steele to take control of the party for the liberal wing of the party.
Among the RLC's most prominent supporters are four pro-abortion groups as well as the gay activist Log Cabin Republicans. The Log Cabin Republicans had a lot of good to say about his candidacy for RNC Chairman. When asked about the RNC's Conservative Steering Committee, Steele stated that if elected chairman he would not allow this conservative group to meet ever again. In consideration of these and other facts about Steele, I am very concerned that his open tent policy for the GOP may not include conservatives. If he moves the party leftward to marginalize and exclude conservatives from the GOP, then the GOP will have lost any chance it hoped to have to regain power and return to being the majority party in this country.
So Steele supports Roe v. Wade, is supported by the Log Cabin Republicans and was a founding member of a group dedicated to taking over the GOP for the liberal wing of the party leaving only last year to run for chairman and now we find out supported the Clinton semi-automatic rifle ban to boot. I just don't see how anyone can call him a conservative. A moderate or centrist yes, but conservative no. Is he a likable guy and good speaker yes and is it nice to have a black Republican leading our party? Sure. I know there are people who will disagree with me on this and of course I respect their opinions as fellow conservatives, however, I fear with Steele's election as our chairman, the GOP is in danger of moving even farther leftward than it did under George W. Bush. I would not be surprised to see him try to water down the pro-life plank of our party in his continuing attempts to make the GOP more inclusive of the left.
Change is not always a good thing as we have learned all too well with Obama. With Steele's election, conservatives have lost the battle for the RNC chairmanship in my opinion and our road to retaking the majority in Congress will now be that much harder without someone who can clearly articulate our conservative principles and stand his ground against the left and against Obama. I find myself missing Chairman Duncan already.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/30/AR2009013003898_pf.html
This is disturbing as the only people this liberal newspaper call moderates are liberals whereas centrist Republicans like McCain and even pro-abortion Republicans are often mislabeled by the liberal press as conservatives. Steele supports affirmative action and embryonic stem cell research. He also praised Obama’s election as President and said he would moderate the party’s conservative stands on the issues (like abortion?)
The whole point in electing a new chairman to break from Bush was to move the party back to its core conservative principles not further along the same center-left path that Bush took us along resulting in unprecedented back-to-back GOP electoral wipeouts. I believe Republicans made a big mistake in electing him and are putting their hopes for retaking power in serious jeopardy as moving our party to the left is a near certain recipe for permanent minority status for the Grand Old Party.
I think his election represents a step backward for the GOP who really needed a conservative like Blackwell or Dawson to lead it to victory in the all-important 2010 and 2012 elections. Steele's praise for leaders of the most liberal wing of the party like Christine Todd Whitman a pro-abortion, pro-gay liberal and the Main Street Centrist Coalition are troubling. We could have done a lot better.
I was disturbed to learn that while our new RNC Chairman claims to be pro-life, he also has stated that he supports Roe v. Wade so he has a mixed record at best on the life issue, which has always been the most principle tenet of the Republican Party.
http://www.ontheissues.org/Senate/Michael_Steele.htm
He has spent his whole career supporting inclusion of liberal groups in our party, not that inclusion is necessarily a bad thing in and of itself. We obviously don't want a litmus test for Republican Party membership. However, the more I learn about Steele, the more I am beginning to believe that even re-electing Duncan as Chairman would have been preferable to moving the party to the left with Steele's ascension to the chairmanship. I am sorry to see that a solid conservative like Blackwell provided the margin of victory for Steele rather than endorsing fellow conservative Katon Dawson who would likely have won with his endorsement. Some of you may not know Steele was one of the founders of the liberal Republican Leadership Committee with liberal GOP former Gov. Christine Todd Whitman. Whitman created this group along with Steele to take control of the party for the liberal wing of the party.
Among the RLC's most prominent supporters are four pro-abortion groups as well as the gay activist Log Cabin Republicans. The Log Cabin Republicans had a lot of good to say about his candidacy for RNC Chairman. When asked about the RNC's Conservative Steering Committee, Steele stated that if elected chairman he would not allow this conservative group to meet ever again. In consideration of these and other facts about Steele, I am very concerned that his open tent policy for the GOP may not include conservatives. If he moves the party leftward to marginalize and exclude conservatives from the GOP, then the GOP will have lost any chance it hoped to have to regain power and return to being the majority party in this country.
So Steele supports Roe v. Wade, is supported by the Log Cabin Republicans and was a founding member of a group dedicated to taking over the GOP for the liberal wing of the party leaving only last year to run for chairman and now we find out supported the Clinton semi-automatic rifle ban to boot. I just don't see how anyone can call him a conservative. A moderate or centrist yes, but conservative no. Is he a likable guy and good speaker yes and is it nice to have a black Republican leading our party? Sure. I know there are people who will disagree with me on this and of course I respect their opinions as fellow conservatives, however, I fear with Steele's election as our chairman, the GOP is in danger of moving even farther leftward than it did under George W. Bush. I would not be surprised to see him try to water down the pro-life plank of our party in his continuing attempts to make the GOP more inclusive of the left.
Change is not always a good thing as we have learned all too well with Obama. With Steele's election, conservatives have lost the battle for the RNC chairmanship in my opinion and our road to retaking the majority in Congress will now be that much harder without someone who can clearly articulate our conservative principles and stand his ground against the left and against Obama. I find myself missing Chairman Duncan already.
Representative Carl Wimmer Joins DUV-PAC Board!
Utah State Representative Carl Wimmer joined the Defend Utah Values PAC Board of Directors late last month. He has been an outstanding voice for conservatism in the State House of Represetnatives and we are very excited to have him on our Board! Carl received the highest Grassroots conservative rating of any legislator in the Utah State House of Representatives this past year. He has championed a number of very important pieces of legislation for social conservatives particularly those relating to banning or restricting abortions in our state and protecting traditional marriage between a man and a woman. I am looking forward to working with him in the future in our continuing fight to defend moral values in our Great State of Utah!
DUV-PAC Chairman Now on Facebook!
Earlier this week, I set up a Facebook page to network with fellow Utah conservatives and Republican leaders. My conservative friends had been telling me to set one up for months, but it took urgings from my wife, Donelle to get me to finally do it. I have found it to be very addictive.
I am considering setting up a DUV-PAC Facebook discussion group in the near future as well.
119 friends and counting so far after five days online!
See you on Facebook!
I am considering setting up a DUV-PAC Facebook discussion group in the near future as well.
119 friends and counting so far after five days online!
See you on Facebook!
The Day After Obama's Presidential Election Victory
It is a dark day for America. We have just elected our first Marxist President. McCain currently has 157 electoral votes with Missouri, Indiana, Montana and North Carolina too close to call and Alaska not yet reporting in. If the current results hold, McCain should win 174. Amazingly, he is losing the popular vote by only five points which is what I predicted over a year ago and repredicted yesterday, but revised this morning to eight points based on election day morning polls. One good thing--Proposition 8 banning gay marriage in CA is currently leading 53-47.
The most important thing now is to pray for our close Senate and House Republicans which are too close to call. Senate races in Oregen, Minnesota and Alaska are still up in the air. Coleman is leading in Minnesota by only 170 votes but Fox News says he is likely to eke out a victory whereas Gordon Smith is losing by one point. Stevens is leading by three points with 40 something percent of the vote counted. So the likely result will be 6 Senate seats lost for the GOP which is actually considerably better than everyone was predicting perhaps the only bright light at the national level. We have lost 16 House seats so far, but perhaps a dozen or two are still too close to call so the Dem pickup may end up being much higher around the 25 estimate I predicted. Assuming that is correct, the Dems will have a 261-174 majority in the House and a 57-43 majority in the Senate which if Lieberman switches will go down to 56-44 giving the GOP a small chance of retaking control of the Senate, but not the House in 2010.
What Obama is going to do is going to make us all yearn for the good old days of the Jimmy Carter administration. Mark my words. Decimiating the military, killing millions more babies, gay marriage, passing guns, socialist health care and a lot more all in Obama's first two years in office. Obama is the most liberal Senator in the US Senate so contrary to expectations if anything it will be the more moderate Democrats in Congress and particularly in the Senate that will have to be the brake on Obama's radical extreme left agenda for America if America is to be spared his ultra-liberal legislative priorities. Obama has never been moderate about anything, has never worked with Republicans on anything that the liberals didn't support so the idea that because his rhetoric is mainstream rather than radical liberal that he will somehow govern to the center is the most unlikely of presumptions.
Joining Democrat celebrations, America's Communist and Islamist enemies across the world are celebrating the victory of their presidential candidate—Barack Hussein Obama. Not only Hamas, but the Communist Party USA has been particularly effusive in its praise for the victory of their presidential candidate. Communist dictator Hugo Chavez of Venezuela said he looked forward to meeting with President Obama and Russia congratulated Obama as well while a member of the Castro's Communist government indicated their support for Obama. Iran's terrorist leaders said they hoped Obama would win and looked forward to meeting with him. With friends and supporters like these, my trepidation over Obama's rise to the Presidency increases more and more. May God save our great country!
The most important thing now is to pray for our close Senate and House Republicans which are too close to call. Senate races in Oregen, Minnesota and Alaska are still up in the air. Coleman is leading in Minnesota by only 170 votes but Fox News says he is likely to eke out a victory whereas Gordon Smith is losing by one point. Stevens is leading by three points with 40 something percent of the vote counted. So the likely result will be 6 Senate seats lost for the GOP which is actually considerably better than everyone was predicting perhaps the only bright light at the national level. We have lost 16 House seats so far, but perhaps a dozen or two are still too close to call so the Dem pickup may end up being much higher around the 25 estimate I predicted. Assuming that is correct, the Dems will have a 261-174 majority in the House and a 57-43 majority in the Senate which if Lieberman switches will go down to 56-44 giving the GOP a small chance of retaking control of the Senate, but not the House in 2010.
What Obama is going to do is going to make us all yearn for the good old days of the Jimmy Carter administration. Mark my words. Decimiating the military, killing millions more babies, gay marriage, passing guns, socialist health care and a lot more all in Obama's first two years in office. Obama is the most liberal Senator in the US Senate so contrary to expectations if anything it will be the more moderate Democrats in Congress and particularly in the Senate that will have to be the brake on Obama's radical extreme left agenda for America if America is to be spared his ultra-liberal legislative priorities. Obama has never been moderate about anything, has never worked with Republicans on anything that the liberals didn't support so the idea that because his rhetoric is mainstream rather than radical liberal that he will somehow govern to the center is the most unlikely of presumptions.
Joining Democrat celebrations, America's Communist and Islamist enemies across the world are celebrating the victory of their presidential candidate—Barack Hussein Obama. Not only Hamas, but the Communist Party USA has been particularly effusive in its praise for the victory of their presidential candidate. Communist dictator Hugo Chavez of Venezuela said he looked forward to meeting with President Obama and Russia congratulated Obama as well while a member of the Castro's Communist government indicated their support for Obama. Iran's terrorist leaders said they hoped Obama would win and looked forward to meeting with him. With friends and supporters like these, my trepidation over Obama's rise to the Presidency increases more and more. May God save our great country!
Status Quo Election for Utah Republicans in 2008
I sent out this E-mail the day after the election...
After reading up on all the state and local races, it looks like for all the Dems could throw at us, this ended up being a status quo election here in Utah. After spending millions of dollars trying to defeat our Republican state legislators on the vouchers issue, it appears they netted only two seats in the State House and zero in the State Senate leaving Republicans with two-thirds supermajorities in both chambers. Republicans took two of the three US House seats and won everything at the statewide level from Gov. Huntsman on down. Our only other net loss in northern Utah was Salt Lake County Council seat 6 which now gives control of the County Council back to the Dems a regrettable loss that I predicted.
We won some really hard fought races like Carl Wimmer's, Chris Buttars', Greg Hughes' and Chris Herrod's to whom I offer my most hearty congratulations! But we also lost some individual state legislative races and some great candidates though including Lavar Christensen and Rob Alexander plus Sen. Morgan and of course Speaker Curtis, but lest the Dems have much to crow about we took out their House Minority Leader and retook the Senate Minority Leader's district after he retired! I wish Lavar and Rob in particular all the best.
Ultimately, I am very grateful that we live in a solidly Republican state where even a Democrat landslide at the national level will not affect us.
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Additional comments...dated Feb 14th.
Maybe Lavar should run for Utah Republican State Chairman as Stan Lockhart is retiring. Governor Huntsman compared Utah Republicans to riding a surfboard against the Democrat electoral tidal wave. Thankfully, this Republican majority island survived the Democrat electoral onslaught enabling Utah to remain the best managed state in the country due to continuing Republican control!
After reading up on all the state and local races, it looks like for all the Dems could throw at us, this ended up being a status quo election here in Utah. After spending millions of dollars trying to defeat our Republican state legislators on the vouchers issue, it appears they netted only two seats in the State House and zero in the State Senate leaving Republicans with two-thirds supermajorities in both chambers. Republicans took two of the three US House seats and won everything at the statewide level from Gov. Huntsman on down. Our only other net loss in northern Utah was Salt Lake County Council seat 6 which now gives control of the County Council back to the Dems a regrettable loss that I predicted.
We won some really hard fought races like Carl Wimmer's, Chris Buttars', Greg Hughes' and Chris Herrod's to whom I offer my most hearty congratulations! But we also lost some individual state legislative races and some great candidates though including Lavar Christensen and Rob Alexander plus Sen. Morgan and of course Speaker Curtis, but lest the Dems have much to crow about we took out their House Minority Leader and retook the Senate Minority Leader's district after he retired! I wish Lavar and Rob in particular all the best.
Ultimately, I am very grateful that we live in a solidly Republican state where even a Democrat landslide at the national level will not affect us.
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Additional comments...dated Feb 14th.
Maybe Lavar should run for Utah Republican State Chairman as Stan Lockhart is retiring. Governor Huntsman compared Utah Republicans to riding a surfboard against the Democrat electoral tidal wave. Thankfully, this Republican majority island survived the Democrat electoral onslaught enabling Utah to remain the best managed state in the country due to continuing Republican control!
DUV-PAC Chairman’s 2008 Election Predictions Reviewed
Reviewing the accuracy of my Election Day morning predictions, Obama ended up winning 53-46% about two to two and a half points of which may have been due to widespread Democrat voter fraud perpetrated by Obama’s old ACORN group which stole at least two of four disputed US Senate elections after Election Day. I predicted a 53-45% Obama victory so I was pretty much aced this one.
He won 365 electoral votes which was one over the 338-364 range I had predicted. I predicted the GOP would lose 7-8 US Senate seats which is exactly what happened after the Democrats stole a couple more where the Republican had been leading after Election Day. Their unprecedented attempt to steal a third US Senate seat in Minnesota remains in dispute over three months after the election. I also predicted the GOP would lose 20-25 US House seats and we ended up losing 21 seats. So all in all I had a very good night in terms of my predictions even though it was heart-rending for me in terms of GOP losses across the country. I also predicted the Republican loss of both houses of Congress in 2006 for years before the fact due to President Bush's abandonment of traditional conservative principles both at home and abroad.
I still believe Obama’s attempts to move this country hard to the left gives the GOP the opportunity to make a big comeback in the 2010 election with a real chance of picking up the 40 seats it needs to retake the US House of Representatives, but not the US Senate. However, Obama’s decision to politicize the 2010 Census in order to maximize the chances for a permament Democrat majority in the House puts longterm GOP retention of the House after 2012 in serious doubt.
He won 365 electoral votes which was one over the 338-364 range I had predicted. I predicted the GOP would lose 7-8 US Senate seats which is exactly what happened after the Democrats stole a couple more where the Republican had been leading after Election Day. Their unprecedented attempt to steal a third US Senate seat in Minnesota remains in dispute over three months after the election. I also predicted the GOP would lose 20-25 US House seats and we ended up losing 21 seats. So all in all I had a very good night in terms of my predictions even though it was heart-rending for me in terms of GOP losses across the country. I also predicted the Republican loss of both houses of Congress in 2006 for years before the fact due to President Bush's abandonment of traditional conservative principles both at home and abroad.
I still believe Obama’s attempts to move this country hard to the left gives the GOP the opportunity to make a big comeback in the 2010 election with a real chance of picking up the 40 seats it needs to retake the US House of Representatives, but not the US Senate. However, Obama’s decision to politicize the 2010 Census in order to maximize the chances for a permament Democrat majority in the House puts longterm GOP retention of the House after 2012 in serious doubt.
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