Gotta Have Faith


Looks like things aren’t going well for Romney. Yesterday McCain’s mother got the ball rolling again, addressing the issue of Romney’s faith. Today, New Hampshire voters wouldn’t leave it alone. Voters want to know how this would play into his decision making process. It’s a valid question.

Which brings me back to what I said the other day. He’s got a hill to climb, especially in the Bible Belt. I wasn’t far off. In September according to a Pew Research Center poll in September, a quarter of all Republicans – including 36 percent of white evangelical Protestants – said they would be less likely to vote for a Mormon.

Which brings us back to the question…Who do conservatives vote for? They’re not voting for Romney. Guiliani has too many issues with the biggest being pro-choice. And McCain stills leaves a bad taste in many Republican mouths.

Looks like were back to Mike Huckabee or Duncan Hunter. I know the so-called front runners have ruled Huckabee out, but it looks like he’s picking up steam in Iowa. Only time and votes will tell.

Aw.. Mom

Just when you thought you were too old to be embarassed by your mom, John Mccain’s mom lashed out at Romney on MSNBC saying “As far as the Salt Lake City thing, he’s a Mormon and the Mormons of Salt Lake City had caused that scandal. And to clean that up, again, it’s not a subject,” Roberta McCain said.

McCain on clean up detail quickly implied that they did not share the same views.

View the clip below.

Here’s a Tip Hillary!


So, Hillary didn’t tip the waitress, again.

Here’s a tip Hillary… that waitress was a democratic, working class, poor, single mother trying to raise two kids. Essentially, your consituent and you can’t find some change in your pocket to help support her and her family?

Oh.. that’s right, you think the government should take care of her. Well, I’ll let you in on a little secret.. YOU ARE THE GOVERNMENT!

I wouldn’t count on that waitress giving you a tip in the form of a contribution, if you know what I mean.

Principles Not Politics

Frankly, I’m tired of people telling me, “Vote for me, I’m the only one who can beat Hillary.” That’s a bunch of crap. Conservatives are not about compromising on principle. And that’s just what several of the front runners are asking us to do. Frankly, the candidates that are preaching this message are scared, because they are the most liberal candidates. Let’s not take the Republican party down the center or even left because we feel that’s the only way we can win.

That backfired on us in 2006 and will backfire on us again. The fact is that Americans like clear choices. The best thing we can do to beat Hillary is to run someone against her that stands for true conservative values. Someone that is pro-life. Someone diametrically different. Someone like Huckabee or Duncan Hunter. Not someone like Guiliani or Romney. Think about it.

If you’re just going to vote for someone on the criteria alone, that can beat Hillary, why not vote for Ron Paul? I’m sure he could sway a lot of votes from the Democrats, especially anti-war dems.

Who thought they would see the day that Pat Robertson, a Christian opposed to abortion, would back Guiliani just because he says he can beat Hillary?

What does this say about our country? The Christian Right, Moral Majority, or whatever you would like to call them, should be backing someone that fits their beliefs and prinicples, not someone totally the opposite.

Romney and Guiliani both think they’ve got this one in the bag on name recognition alone. But I believe when it comes down to it, the Bible Belt will vote for the one that they have the most in common with. And for me that is Huckabee.

Stay tuned..

We’re making some exciting changes to the website, blog and other spaces. Right now, we’re in the process of changing our hosting, Michael and I have been working hard. So we hope to have the website up shortly. We will be keeping the same domain seminoleyr.org. You can still expect to find up to date content as well as happenings.

We are also turning this into a team blog. If there are any other people who would like to be added as a blogger, please contact Michael or me.

CNN up to Old Tricks

bush resigns

This headline was posted on CNN last night around midnight for about 12 seconds. Just a few seconds before this post President Bush had appeared on the screen when the headline read “Pressure Over Iraq.”

CNN again nice try. Maybe the mindless idiot that posted this headline should resign. What do you think about that?

Seriously, you guys need to get some better staff people, who actually pay attention and do their jobs right. This isn’t the first time you have had an incident like this and I’m sure not the last either. No matter, when I want serious news I just tune in FOX.

FL Moves Primary

Florida lawmakers voted this week to move up the Presidential Primary to Jan 29 despite threats from National Republican and Democratic leaders to strip some of their delegates for the nominating conventions. In addition they have warned that any candidate who campaigns in Florida early than Feb 5 will be ineligible to receive any of the state’s delegates.

see article

So let me get this straight. Our new Presidential Primary is on Jan 29 but candidates can’t campaign here till Feb 5. That leaves a bit of a conundrum. How are we supposed to vote for someone after the election is closed? And why would a candidate campaign here after an election is closed? Seems a little bit stupid.

What happened to state’s rights? Doesn’t Florida ultimately have the right to move our Primary to whenever we so choose? This decision by the national Republican Party surprises me. The Party that has always stood for state’s rights is not willing to take our right to choose our primary election date away from us. That is ludicrous.

Rest assured, this won’t be the end of the discussion.

FL Looks to Move Primary

A few weeks ago, I wrote about how Florida early primary was not going to be early enough since 25 states were talking about holding their primary the first week of February, essentially moving the so-called SuperTuesday. Now it appears that Florida is getting back in the game. Talk in the Florida House this week was of moving the primary to Jan 29 making our election before California.

So we’ll see what happens!

FL’s Primary Too Late?

There was talk here in Florida about changing our Primary Election Date to somewhere around the 1st of March. However, that may be too late. According to a report released in The Hill the other day 23 states are in the frame to hold primary elections on Feb 5. That’s a whole month earlier than Florida.

Those states include: Delaware, Missouri, New Mexico, Oklahoma, California, Illinois, Michigan, New Jersey, New York, Texas, Tennessee, Arkansas, Arizona, Alabama, Georgia, North Dakota, Utah, Kansas, Colorado, West Virginia, Nevada, and possibly Pennsylvania and North Carolina.

So what’s Florida to do? Considering that we can’t hold it before the 1st of March if we don’t want to incur penalties set down by the legislature.

So with about half of the states voting early now, maybe the only fair thing to do is have a National Primary Day so that all states have an equal voice.

Gore’s Inconvenient Truth


Global Warming and it’s fuzzy science has been the focus of many news reports this week, especially with Al Gore winning an Oscar for his Inconvenient Truth. But the fact of the matter remains is if liberals really believe this, then why aren’t they all living like the early pioneers who founded this country? Al Gore and the Hollywood left with all their millions have no qualms telling other people how to live but when it comes to changing their lifestyle that’s a different story. But Gore can’t run far from reports this week that he used 20x the average consumption of electricity. So much for carbon footprints.

However, some supporters are quick to point out that his investments in energy reduction balance out this agregous use of energy. I guess this is Gore’s Inconvenient Truth- he would rather sacrifice the well-being of the planet than give up his lavish lifestyle.