Indianapolis Candidate Forum this Friday

There will be a candidate forum on the East side of Indianapolis at Crossroads Bible College this Friday evening at 6:00 pm. The college is located at 601 North Shortridge Road. The event is freeand will include several state and federal candidates. Big Victory for the US Military!

While our US servicemen and women have been faithfully serving around the world to defend our nation, liberals in Washington, DC, have been actively working to enact radical social engineering schemes under the guise of military funding legislation.

Yesterday, Senate leader Harry Reid attempted to bring the $726 billion Defense Reauthorization bill to a vote. In order to do this, he needed 60 votes to end debate under the Senate rules. Amazingly, every Republican, including RINO’s like Susan Collins, and a few Democrats in election trouble like Blanche Lincoln of Arkansas stood firm and the bill failed on a 56-43 vote – four short of the 60 needed.

The reason for the bill’s demise was due to the controversial amendments stuck on the funding measure. The most egregious of which was the effort to repeal the ban on open homosexuality in the military known as “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell.” (At the time of its passage under President Clinton, DADT was considered a compromise with homosexual demands groups, but they haven’t compromised and walked away from their ultimate goals.)

The legislation also included efforts to expand abortion on military bases and the “Dream Act” which many see as an amnesty plan for the children of illegal immigrants.

I found a line an Associated Press account of this victory rather amusing. It noted that Republicans, conservatives and military officers opposed the repeal of DADT.  Republicans, social conservatives, and, oh, yeah, military officers don’t like it either, as if that is just a minor point. It’s a huge point! Yesterday, even President Obama’s nominee to be the next Marine Corps Commandant spoke out before the Senate’s Armed Services Committee. He did so in opposition to the avid support the President has expressed for homosexuals in the military.

Marine General James Amos, told the Committee, “In my personal view, the current law and associated policy have supported the unique requirements of the Marine Corps, and thus I do not recommend its repeal.” He added that Marine input from an online survey regarding Congress’ plan to allow open homosexuality in the military “has been predominantly negative.”

There are a lot of reasons why most military personnel do not like the idea of allowing homosexuality in the military. Here are just a few:

• It undermines troop morale for several reasons including violations of personal privacy and modesty through forced cohabitation with soldiers sexually attracted to each other. For the same problematic reasons, we do not allow male and female soldiers to bunk and shower in the same barracks. Forcing heterosexuals to serve with homosexuals also undermines military cohesion.
• It would harm recruitment efforts. Polling shows that if DADT is repealed, up to 25% of current duty service members would not re-enlist or would consider not re-enlisting if forced to share quarters with people who engage in homosexual acts.
• Recruitment levels have been higher with segments of the population who hold to traditional values. Such groups would be less inclined to join the service if homosexuality is allowed and endorsed.
• It would cause a loss of military chaplains who will not compromise their religious beliefs or risk punishment for expressing what their faith says about homosexual behavior.
• It would lead to “sensitivity training” for soldiers who disagree with homosexuality because the repeal of the ban on homosexual conduct, which goes back even to the Continental Army under General George Washington, would elevate homosexual choices to the moral equivalent of race and skin color.

There is no constitutional right to serve in the military. Our armed services have always had the ability and the obligation to set standards for service which best uphold military readiness and effectiveness. This legislation was fatally flawed and deserved to be defeated, though its outcome was uncertain right up to the moment of the vote. Homosexual demands groups poured millions of dollars and thousands of hours of effort into this vote, and they had the support of a sympathetic mainstream media, Senate leader Harry Reid and President Obama. Many expect this issue to come back during the dangerous “lame duck” session in December after the accountability of the November election is removed from the backs of many legislators.

Incidentally, for all his quirks and “maverick” wanderings that bother many conservatives, Sen. John McCain whose military service and knowledge is unquestionable, deserves a lot of credit for leading the opposition to the repeal of “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell” on the floor of the Senate. In spite of the opposition to the repeal of DADT from the Indianapolis-based American Legion, the nation’s largest veterans group, Senator Bayh voted with Senator Reid. Senator Lugar voted with the GOP.

Democrats Gaining Momentum . . . But Perhaps Not In Indiana?

There is a new poll from Zogby Polling that is probably receiving a lot of attention behind closed doors in campaign circles all across the nation today. The poll shows Democrats ahead of Republicans for the first time since May in the generic ballot question for whom Americans would rather see control congress. It seems as though Democrat voters are gelling around their candidates with an eight-point jump in support among the party’s base. Pollster John Zogby explains, “President Obama’s attempts to draw contrasts with the Republicans and raise fears about a Republican takeover of Congress appear to have been successful, especially among Democratic voters.”

However, if this poll is correct in revealing a new change in trends that shift has not seemed to help Indiana Democrats this week.

A political magazine web site (Hotline on Call) is claiming that the national Democrat Congressional Campaign Committee has shifted significant amounts of money away from a planned advertisement buy in mid-October for Indiana 9th District Congressman Baron Hill. It seems that this money is now going to Columbus, Ohio for Congresswoman Mary Jo Kilroy. Apparently, the Hill campaign is furious over this decision and is still arguing that their campaign is worthy of continuous national support.

The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee is also wavering on financial support for Congressman Brad Ellsworth in his bid for the open Senate seat against former Ambassador Dan Coats. Ellsworth does have about $1.2 million on hand, giving him the ability to do advertising in the final days of the campaign. Nevertheless, his campaign had to answer questions this week about rumors that he would have no national party support. The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee has already aired TV ads for candidates in Delaware, Colorado, Missouri and Pennsylvania.

Conventional Wisdom May be Overlooking Concerns of Voters

Speaking of polling, I was in Washington, DC, a week ago for a meeting of pro-family and conservative state and national leaders who gathered before the start of the Values Voter Summit. Part of our six-hour meeting involved an in-depth presentation from a leading political polling firm. One of the interesting things we learned was that many polling firms are operating from conventional wisdom regarding the views of voters.

We were shown numerous slides breaking down various polling data on the “top concerns” of voters. As you would imagine, with a lingering 10% unemployment rate jobs and the economy have consistently been at the top of the minds of most voters. This has caused other issues to be ignored in many polls, but it doesn’t mean that those issues are not on the minds of voters.

Polls that do look at other issues are finding that voters are still very concerned about moral, cultural and family issues. For example, a recent poll from a Democrat polling firm conducted in mid August found that among Republicans, 72% rate family values as one of their top concerns. A majority, (nearly 60%) of Independent voters also ranked “family values” as a priority issue. The issue ranked above taxes, immigration, nuclear weapons proliferation, energy and the war in Iraq and Afghanistan all of which seem to receive far more media and polling attention.

This may explain why AFA of Indiana has received such a positive response to our new billboard campaign reminding voters of the importance of marriage. Two more of our “Marriage: Unique by Design” billboards went up near Huntington last Wednesday.

Important Voting Information Online

Do you know where your polling place is? Are you registered to vote, or need to? Do you need an absentee voter ballot? Answers to these and many more questions can be found at this statewide voter information site:
https://indianavoters.in.gov/PublicSite/PublicMain.aspx

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All I can say to the knuckleheads in Minnesota is, “hey, insomnia bites!”

A now, a little Jimmy Buffet tribute to the assholes in D.C. selling out our country. Franken appears at the end.

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It’s November 5 and the nation is in shock. Media blame it on the “Bradley effect”: Americans supposedly turned into Klansmen inside the voting booth, and Barack Obama turned up with 6 million votes less than calculated from the exit polls. Florida came in for McCain and so did Indiana. Colorado, despite the Democrats’ Rocky Mountain high after the Denver convention, stayed surprisingly Red. New Mexico, a state where Anglos are a minority, went McCain by 300 votes, as did Virginia.

[...]

Swing state Indiana. In this year’s primary, ten nuns were turned away from the polls because of the state’s new voter ID law. They had drivers’ licenses, but being in their 80s and 90s, they’d let their licenses expire. Cute. But what isn’t cute is this: 566,000 registered voters in that state don’t have the ID required to vote. Most are racial minorities, the very elderly and first-time voters; that is, Obama voters. Twenty-three other states have new, vote-snatching ID requirements.

[...]

The Ugly Secret

Here’s an ugly little secret about American democracy: We don’t count all the votes. In 2004, based on the data from the US Elections Assistance Commission, 3,006,080 votes were not counted: “spoiled,” unreadable and blank ballots; “provisional” ballots rejected; mail-in ballots disqualified.

This Tuesday, it will be worse. Much worse.

[...]

The answer is the GOP’s secret weapon, the Help America Vote Act, signed by George Bush in 2002. When Bush tells us he’s going to help us vote, look out. But Democrats didn’t. They signed on to the GOP bill, believing this “reform” law would prevent “another Florida.” Instead, “Help America Vote” Floridated the entire nation.

Here’s how: Help America Vote empowered secretaries of state to remove fraudulent and suspicious voters from the voter registries.

This is the same wingnut that claimed the election was stolen from Gore.

If you have not voted yet today, when you do, vote against socialism, vote for McCain.

AWB

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From NewsBusters

Obama: “So if somebody wants to build a coal-powered plant, they can; it’s just that it will bankrupt them because they’re going to be charged a huge sum for all that greenhouse gas that’s being emitted.”

Amazing that this statement by Obama about bankrupting the coal industry has been kept under wraps until this time.

Obama: “So if somebody wants to build a coal-powered plant, they can.

It’s just that it will bankrupt them.”

UPDATE: NewsBusters’ Tom Blumer has found out that the San Francisco Chronicle story published on January 18 based upon this January 17 interview did not include any mention of Obama’s willingness to bankrupt the coal industry which you can hear on the audio. You can read the story here when you scroll down to the “In His Own Words” section. Way to cover up for The One, SF Chronicle! More here.

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1. Source: National Mining Association

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Pollster John Zogby: “Is McCain making a move? The three-day average holds steady, but McCain outpolled Obama today, 48% to 47%. He is beginning to cut into Obama’s lead among independents, is now leading among blue collar voters, has strengthened his lead among investors and among men, and is walloping Obama among NASCAR voters. Joe the Plumber may get his license after all. “Obama’s lead among women declined, and it looks like it is occurring because McCain is solidifying the support of conservative women, which is something we saw last time McCain picked up in the polls. If McCain has a good day tomorrow, we will eliminate Obama’s good day three days ago, and we could really see some tightening in this rolling average. But for now, hold on.”

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Erica Jong Tells Italians Obama Loss ‘Will Spark the Second American Civil War. Blood Will Run in the Streets’

It seems that the final days of the presidential campaign have made Erica Jong and her friends more than a little anxious.

A few days ago, Jong, the author and self-described feminist, gave an interview to the Italian daily Corriere della Sera, the choicest bits of which were brought to my attention by the reliably sharp-eyed Christian Rocca, the U.S. correspondent of Il Foglio, who published excerpts on his Camillo blog. Basically, Jong says her fear that Obama might lose the election has developed into an “obsession. A paralyzing terror. An anxious fever that keeps you awake at night.” She also says that her friends Jane Fonda and Naomi Wolf are extremely worried that Obama will be sabotaged by Republican dirty tricks, and that if an Obama loss indeed comes to pass, the result will be a second American Civil War. More here.

This will be interesting to watch.

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Now that’s funny stuff.

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Well, most of it

Priceless – AWB

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