COURAGE UNDER FIRE
In a tough re-election campaign against a “flexible”
opponent who refuses to sign the Taxpayer Protection Pledge, conservative
Assemblyman Jim Wheeler of Douglas
County is unable to be with us tonight at our monthly First Friday Happy Hour
event in which we will be honoring 2014’s “Conservatives of the Year.”
Wheeler was selected to receive this year’s Courage Under
Fire Award. As he won’t be with us in
person, he asked that I share the following prepared statement…
I just want to thank Citizens Outreach for the Courage Under Fire Award.I don't know how much courage it takes to do what is right; to do what you promised you would do. But I guess in this day of candidates lying about there records in their campaigns, calling themselves conservatives, and then voting in direct opposition to their promises, we may consider standing your ground courage.However, real courage took place 70 years ago today on the beaches of France. Real courage still takes place today in far off lands where those that still serve risk there very lives everyday to ensure our freedoms.Given their sacrifices, their courage, I believe the very least I can do is to uphold our values and to stand our political ground. So I accept this award in their name.
REPUBLICAN ESTABLISHMENT: WINNING UGLY
A number of good, conservative candidates are going to come
up short on Tuesday. And there are two
prime reasons…
1.) Not because they
weren’t good candidates, but because they ran bad campaigns. Or worse, they paid “Karl Rove” wannabes, who
don’t know sh*t from apple butter, to run a lousy campaign for them. Talk about insult to injury.
Once again, especially in Nevada, there is more incompetence
in the field of political consulting than in any field other than psychiatry. Oh, how I would love to see one or more of
these badly mismanaged candidates sue their self-professed professional “campaign
manager” for malpractice!
2.) The moderate,
establishment-backed candidates had a sh*tload more money and used it to great
effect to (a) lie about their opponents, and (b) lie about themselves, their
own positions and voting record.
The most egregious, of course, being the campaigns of Mark Hutchison for lieutenant governor
and Moderate Mike Roberson for
Senate District 20. But here’s another
example…
As Ray Hagar of
the Reno Gazette-Journal reports, in
a 2010 debate between conservative Ty
Cobb and moderate Ben Kieckhefer
for the open Senate District 16 seat, “Cobb point(ed) his finger at Kieckhefer
and ask(ed) point blank if he would vote for a series of ‘sunset’ taxes if
elected. Kieckhefer flatly said no.”
Kieckhefer went on to win that race. Then voted for the $620 million worth of “sunset”
taxes in 2011. And then again in 2013.
Then added support for an additional new $600 million mining tax as a
cherry on top. In other words, he lied.
Fast forward to this year’s GOP primary and Kieckhefer
actually had the stones to tell Hagar that he’s “as conservative on tax issues
as anybody.” Um, not as conservative as
the true conservatives in the Legislature who kept their word and voted AGAINST
extending those “temporary” tax hikes!
In other words, Kieckhefer’s STILL lying.
This phenomenon/fraud, by the way, is not unique to
Nevada. Establishment Republicans have
been doing the exact same thing all across the country this year, including in
U.S. Senate races. Click
here for examples outside of Nevada.
Bottom line: The establishment GOP candidates who win on
Tuesday will have bought their victories on a bed of lies. God help them if they ever have to run on a
platform congruent with how they vote.
But they won’t, because they’re too dishonest. Hard to see how a Democrat is any worse.
In any event, conservatives moved the ball down the field
considerably this GOP primary season, but to really change the direction of
state government back to the right we’re going to need to do some serious fixin’
of the above two problems.
DRIVE-BY MUTHINGS
>>>>> I was actually on the
road traveling three weeks out of four in May and, as such, am way behind in
writing about Nevada politics. So if some of this is old, please bear with me
as I try to catch up…
>>>>> Even if Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl wasn’t a deserter (or
worse), negotiating with the Taliban to swap him for FIVE high-level terrorists
out of Guantanamo Bay was not only a bad deal, it was fundamentally stupid. Alas, par for the course for this president.
>>>>> I learned a little more
about ride-sharing service Uber yesterday from a driver in San Diego. WAY cool
technology. And a great way to break
open the closed monopoly enjoyed by the taxi industry…especially in Las Vegas. A true free-market alternative. Count…me…in.
>>>>> At long last, I finally
had enough of liberal blogger Jon
Ralston’s blather and bloviating on Twitter.
Yes, he’s well-connected and writes about a lot of relevant
Nevada political stories. But the
constant self-congratulations and smarmy ridiculing of conservatives just became
too much – as was the sheer number of tweets this guy posts, mainly to massage
his own ego.
So on Wednesday I unplugged from the Ralston Matrix. And I gotta tell ya…the food tastes better,
the air smells cleaner and, by golly, I think the sun is actually shining
brighter. Admittedly, I may feel
compelled to start “following” him again down the road, but for now…free at
last, free at last, thank Al Gore
almighty I’m free at last!
>>>>> On a related note, I
received an invitation for the aforementioned Mr. Ralston to “connect” with him
on LinkedIn. I, um, respectfully
declined. But the really funny part is how Jon describes himself on his
LinkedIn profile: “Journalist at KSNV.”
“Journalist”?
HA! If he’s a journalist, I’m a
biochemical engineer.
BTW, if you’ve never witnessed a patented Ralston Hissy Fit,
click
here. Man, this guy can sure
dish it out, but what a whiny crybaby when it comes to taking it!
>>>>> Remember that one and
only remaining bill that Sue Lowden
disputed from her 2010 U.S. Senate race.
Yeah, a judge this week kicked the lawyer who brought the suit off the
case…and Lowden already won the other disputed case in Ohio.
In other words, Mark
Hutchison’s scorched-earth campaign against Lowden in the GOP lieutenant
governor race was like that episode of Seinfeld many years ago: It was all
about nothing.
>>>>> Perhaps not since Heath Shuler was tapped by the
Washington REDSKINS in 1994 has there been a worse first-round draft pick than
Democrat congressional candidate Erin
Bilbray-Kohn, who is challenging incumbent Republican Rep. Joe Heck. How bad is she?
ICYMI, the Democrat Congressional Campaign Committee recently
announced a $43.5 million TV airtime buy for its top 2014 congressional
prospects…and Bilbray-Kohn, a seasoned, professional Democrat campaign/candidate
trainer, didn’t make the cut!
Her imported substitute spokesbabe, Erica Prosser, said – with a straight face, mind you – “We're
confident we'll have the resources we need to be successful in November." It’s pretty obvious that Prosser is the ONLY
one with such confidence. I think maybe
she’s been dipping into Tick Segerblom’s
stash.
>>>>> Cliven Bundy roundly criticized
Republican Gov. Brian Sandoval for
not doing more to resolve the dispute Bundy has with the BLM. And it’s hard to argue the point. Other than issuing one restrained press
release in opposition to the BLM’s establishment of “free speech zones” at the
protest site near the Bundy ranch, Sandoval was pretty much AWOL.
In other words, par for the course.
As a direct result, Bundy left the Republican Party and has
joined the far more conservative and principled Independent American Party. Hard to argue the decision.
>>>>> My liberal buddy Sen. Tick Segerblom tweeted a link to a Las
Vegas Sun story about how a “Surge in Medicaid patients swamps state, puts UMC
in a bind.” That surge in Medicaid
patients is thanks to Gov. Brian
Sandoval and his running mate, Mark
Hutchison. Heckuva job, guys. Heckuva job.
>>>>> Lawyer and judicial
candidate Jacob Hafter called Judge Valerie Vega – who’s married to a
Jewish guy - a racist and anti-Semite for not altering “a two-week civil trial
schedule to accommodate a Jewish holiday” even though the trial date had
reportedly been set for almost NINE MONTHS.
And this isn’t the first time Hafter has trotted out the ol’
anti-Semite routine against a judge.
Is anyone else tired of such race-baiting and Jew-baiting? Well, apparently, yes…his own MOM! She’s endorsing her son’s opponent, incumbent
Judge Susan Johnson. I’m voting for
her, too.
>>>>> Some Clark County schools
are bursting at the seams. Victor Joecks of the Nevada Policy
Research Institute has the only common sense, no-cost solution: Opportunity
scholarships, or vouchers. No wonder
Victor was our Conservative Rising Star Award recipient in 2009!
GAWKER
FAMOUS LAST WORDS
“The fundamental difference between Barack Obama and Ronald
Reagan is that Obama wants the American people to feel good about him while Reagan
wanted the American people to feel good about themselves.” – Reagan
biographer Craig Shirley
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