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Pima County Chamber of Commerce Hearts Cheryl Cage
Posted: 13 Oct 2008 04:53 PM CDT
http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/BlogForArizona/~3/419905930/pima-county-cha.html
by David Safier
The Northern Pima County Chamber of Commerce doesn't make a regular practice of
endorsing Democrats. Those types of organizations are run by people who usually
go with Republicans by reflex.
Which makes that group's endorsement of Cheryl Cage over Al Melvin in the LD-26
Senator race that much more significant. The members recognized that Cage, who
has run her own business for years, knows the kind of economic environment that
can help businesses grow and thrive, which is especially important in these
shaky economic times. Melvin knows -- well, he knows that the answer to every
question is, "Stop illegal immigration." I'm exaggerating, but not by much.
Melvin and his consultant, Constantin Querard, have been desperately trying to
portray Cage as a wild-eyed leftist and Melvin as a centrist. The Northern Pima
County Chamber of Commerce apparently disagrees. Her 11 endorsements by
organizations to Melvin's 4 also makes Melvin look like the outlier here, and I
don't see any elected officials who have been willing to step up and endorse
Melvin, while Cage has the Governor, Attorney General, two Congressional
Representatives and a Sheriff on her list.
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I Agree with Kristol: Let Palin Be Palin!
Posted: 13 Oct 2008 03:44 PM CDT
http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/BlogForArizona/~3/419862438/i-agree-with-kr.html
by David Safier
How often do I get a chance to reach across the aisle and say I agree with Bill
"I can say as much stupid stuff as I want because I'm an intellectual" Kristol?
I just saw him on FOX News bemoaning McCain's dysfunctional campaign and
repeating the points he made in today's column in the NY Times. He wants McCain
to fire his campaign staff and "Let McCain be McCain. Let Palin be Palin."
I say, yes, let McCain be McCain. Which is what he's been from the start, a
highly competitive, ridiculously ambitious man who will say and do anything to
win. He's done it before, and he's doing it again. Nothing new there.
But I say emphatically, in bold, italicized, underlined,
triple-exclamation-pointed capital letters, LET PALIN BE PALIN!!!. Please,
please free Sarah Palin. Put her on TV. Put her on radio. Have her talk
one-on-one with reporters and give news conferences every day. Make that twice
a day. Let her smile and wink to her heart's content as her words shine through
for the world to hear. More Palin! More Palin! More Palin!
After all, what could go wrong?
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Conservatives Jump Ship: Wick Allison
Posted: 13 Oct 2008 02:19 PM CDT
http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/BlogForArizona/~3/419794784/conservatives-1.html
by David Safier
I've never heard of Wick Allison before, but he was the publisher of the
National Review from 1990 to 1993, recruited by no less a conservative luminary
than William F. Buckley himself.
Less than a month ago, Allison wrote A Conservative for Obama In D Magazine in
Dallas, a magazine he co-founded. It's not that he sees the error of his
conservative ways. Instead, he says the so-called conservative movement has
left its principles behind, and, though he disagrees with many of Obama's
ideas, Wick sees Obama as someone who he can trust to deal with the country and
the world responsibly.
In 1964, at the age of 16, I organized the Dallas County Youth for Goldwater.
My senior thesis at the University of Texas was on the conservative
intellectual revival in America. Twenty years later, I was invited by William
F. Buckley Jr. to join the board of National Review. I later became its
publisher.
[snip]
...today it is so-called conservatives who are cemented to political programs
when they clearly don’t work. The Bush tax cuts—a solution for which there was
no real problem and which he refused to end even when the nation went to
war—led to huge deficit spending and a $3 trillion growth in the federal debt.
Facing this, John McCain pumps his “conservative” credentials by proposing even
bigger tax cuts.
[snip]
Barack Obama is not my ideal candidate for president. (In fact, I made the
maximum donation to John McCain during the primaries, when there was still hope
he might come to his senses.) But I now see that Obama is almost the ideal
candidate for this moment in American history. I disagree with him on many
issues. But those don’t matter as much as what Obama offers, which is a deeply
conservative view of the world. Nobody can read Obama’s books (which, it is
worth noting, he wrote himself) or listen to him speak without realizing that
this is a thoughtful, pragmatic, and prudent man. It gives me comfort just to
think that after eight years of George W. Bush we will have a president who has
actually read the Federalist Papers.
Most important, Obama will be a realist. I doubt he will taunt Russia, as
McCain has, at the very moment when our national interest requires it as an
ally. The crucial distinction in my mind is that, unlike John McCain, I am
convinced he will not impulsively take us into another war unless American
national interests are directly threatened.
This kind of respect and admiration from a man who still holds to his
conservative principles speaks volumes -- and not that Obama has sold out to
the right wing. It says that Wick sees in Obama a leader who has the ability to
rise above politics and labels and do what's best for the country and the world.
Sounds like something right out of an Obama speech, doesn't it?
Note: Here's a comment added to the article by the daughters of Bill Miller
who ran for Vice President with Barry Goldwater:
Your article endorsing Obama found its way to my computer, Wick... and I wanted
you to know you have a VERY strong "thumbs up" from three folks you might least
expect: my two sisters and me. We are the daughters of Bill Miller who ran for
Vice President with Barry Goldwater back in '64. We have all morphed quite
independently into feeling, as you do, that the Republican Party in general and
George Bush in particular do not represent in any fashion what our dad stood
for more than 40 years ago. In fact, we are all HUGE Obama Mamas! I live with
my family in Salisbury, NC... my older sister Libby Miller Fitzgerald is in
Lynchburg, VA... and our youngest sister Stephanie Miller is in LA where she
has a nationally syndicated radio talk show and is seen regularly on Larry King
and other TV shows. Thank you for your wise words. I hope there are enough
others like you to put Obama over the top. Or we're headed overseas to live!
Mary Miller James
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