Morning Briefing
For August 13, 2013
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1. Wimps, Frauds, and Charlatans
In
case you missed it, because for some reason the national press has
ignored what should be a salacious story, Tennessee Senator Lamar!
Alexander’s political campaign coordinated the “timing and even funding
for” an exhibit about Lamar! Alexander.
Alexander
is gearing up for a re-election campaign in 2014 where he expects to
get a primary challenge. He used your tax dollars to secure an earmark
for a state museum to do an exhibit about himself. Then the museum
coordinated with Alexander’s re-election campaign to turn the exhibit
into a traveling exhibit over this campaign season.
Lamar
Alexander is one of those Republicans who has decided he knows best. And
he’s willing to use your tax dollars to profit his own re-election to
ensure he can keep telling us what is best. . . . please click here for the rest of the post →
2. Why We Are Here
[W]hat do we expect … activists to do? One key area of focus, and one of the main reasons I think we are here, is to change the minds 0f the undecided. Our base is our base – we shouldn’t have to convince them that conservatism is right. The
vast majority of the time, the base isn’t who we need to convince about
conservatism…our focus should be on those who are on the outside
looking in. Back
in May, Gallup did a survey on the political composition of America and
found that about 41% of Americans consider themselves conservative, 37%
consider themselves moderate, and 19% liberal. That 19% is not our target audience. The 41% that are conservative ARE our target audience. BUT – it’s that 37% that is malleable and who we should be targeting for changed attitudes. But be not mistaken: this does not mean that we must somehow change our beliefs or principles to bring them into the fold. But it may mean that we need to do and say things differently. . . . please click here for the rest of the post →
3. Missouri Bans Satire
Sunday
I wrote about Tuffy the Clown, who clearly should be droned, wore an
Obama mask at the rodeo. Because it wasn’t a Bush mask he was banned for
life and all future clowns must now go through Clown Sensitivity
Training. You think I’m making this up. . . . please click here for the rest of the post →
4. Live from Macon, GA: My Take on the Georgia Senate Race
Here
in Middle Georgia, fresh from making buttermilk peach ice cream from a
fresh crop of Georgia peaches to go with my wife’s homemade pound cake,
comes word that Republicans are worried about Georgia. With this article
circulating from The Hill about the state of the GOP primary in
Georgia, more folks have emailed asking for my thoughts. I’ve put them
off to let the race take shape, but the race remains an amoeba of blah.
Allow
me to give you some initial info for out of state reporters. The
Georgia Democratic Party is largely bankrupt, is in the midst of a
scandal over its last Chairman and Executive Director leaving and now
only wanting a white man for the job (seriously), and has seen much of
its activity ceded to liberal groups further from the mainstream than
the Georgia Democratic Party wants. This has set the party to slightly
above simmer and slightly below boil on the way to a civil war. To call
the party dysfunctional would imply it actually was functioning. Right
now it is not. About the only thing it has going for it is a semi-united
front for Michelle Nunn.
That leaves the GOP to screw things up with its field. . . . please click here for the rest of the post →
5. President Obama’s auto fatality gaffe
President
Obama said some rather strange things during his appearance on The
Tonight Show last week, but one gaffe in particular has flown low under
the radar. While
he was attempting to downplay the resurgence of al-Qaeda, the President
said, “The odds of people dying in a terrorist attack obviously are
still a lot lower than in a car accident, unfortunately.” . . . please click here for the rest of the post →
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Erick Erickson
Editor-in-Chief, RedState
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