Posts Tagged ‘election’
Pawlenty: Courage to Stand Book Review
March 19, 2011
Recent autobiographical writer of Courage to Stand and ex-governor Tim Pawlenty has been traveling around the country promoting his new book. While addressing leadership and principles becoming of an American politician Pawlenty offers his background and how he got he start in politics. He points out how no manual is offered when becoming a leader and tough choices need to be made in a fiscal and moral manner. Moreover he cites that every politician will be nipping at your heels for a piece of meat and that as a leader you must have the courage to say no when necessary.
Tim Pawlenty coined a new phrase called the “Sam’s Club Republican” and he uses this to define himself. Essentially what it means is that many Republicans now-a-days are no longer party of the elitist class and instead are just common folk trying to get by in America. A Sam’s Club Republican, like himself, advocates change for the regular people of America, rather than just the privileged.
Pawlenty discusses his budget successes in Minnesota when he has the courage to say no and cut the budget massively in an effort to fix the looming deficit. He stomped out an over four and a half billion dollar deficit in Minnesota when many politicians were begging him not to cut their special programs all while not increasing taxes by a cent. He discusses some of the most heroic fights while governor of Minnesota.
In the presidential election of 2008 McCain was vetting then governor Pawlenty to possibly be the Vice President of the United States, however the campaign decided to go with one of their other choices governor Sarah Palin of Alaska. Pawlenty doesn’t think McCain should regret his choice, as he admire Palin and her efforts for the conservative movement. He mentions her fervor has really lit up the Party and moved it further through grassroots campaigns.
Pawlenty also discusses his personal life growing up South St. Paul Minnesota and examines his life experiences saying they played a major factor in what kind of man he is today. As a teenager Tim Pawlenty lost his mother to cancer when he was only 15 years old and learned about death at an early age. Though good times and bad he learned valuable life lessons that enabled him to later be a successful leader.
Buy Tim Pawlenty’s new book on Amazon.com . Courage to Stand offers a vision into true conservatism on both a fiscal and moral standing.
Pawlenty 2012 A Tea Party Favorite of Likely Candidates
March 14, 2011
Tim Pawlenty, Minnesota’s 39th governor from 2004-2010, is planning a run for the White House in 2012. However, he has recently stated he will wait 45 days until he makes a formal statement to the press. Pawlenty recently secured the support of former 2008 Huckabee campaign manager, Eric Woolson, and has been building a team throughout the starting primary states. With John Thune’s decision not to run some argue Pawlenty will win over many socially conservative mid-westerners. Tea Party favorites Mike Huckabee and Sarah Palin look like they might not be making a bid for the White House this time around and may give their support to Pawlenty in the republican primary.
Pawlenty stated during his speech earlier this week at the Iowa Faith and Freedom Coalition that if he can win two terms as governor in a liberal state like Minnesota, then he can be a viable candidate for the presidency of the United States. He quoted Frank Sinatra’s “New York New York” by saying if he can make it in Minnesota then he can make it anywhere. He is a social conservative candidate that reflects the values of Christian conservatives and he also addresses the fiscal needs that American’s are looking for. Pawlenty is married to Mary Pawlenty and they have two daughters, Anna and Mara. Although raised a Roman Catholic, he became an evangelical to match his wife’s faith and regularly attends a Baptists church in Eden Prairie, Minnesota.
As a social conservative, Pawlenty believes the Supreme Court’s decision in Roe v. Wade was a wrong decision and as governor he enacted a 24 hour waiting period for women who wish to receive an abortion in the state of Minnesota. Pawlenty has been publically outspoken on the issue of gay marriage, saying that it should not be legalized. Moreover he has stated that if he were president he would restore the Don’t Ask Don’t Tell law that restricts homosexuals from serving openly.
Tim Pawlenty has a strong background on eradicating government waste. As governor of Minnesota Pawlenty cut the budget drastically in both his terms, his first term he fixed the budget by almost five billion dollars and in his second term he eliminated the budget deficit by nearly 3 billion dollars all while raising no taxes. However it wasn’t an easy task, Pawlenty had to face many of the state legislators who were unwilling to take cuts which caused the infamous 2005 shutdown of the Minnesota state government for ten days.
The latest Tea Party poll shows that Tim Pawlenty has a slight lead over Sarah Palin, a Tea Party favorite. This could indicate a reason why both Pawlenty and Palin have waiting to make any official announcements about a candidacy. Similar platform candidates may ultimately end up splitting votes causing an unfavorable candidate to win the republican candidacy. Pawlenty in a recent statement said republicans ought to follow Ronald Reagan’s 11th commandment in which he declared that Republicans shouldn’t speak ill of each other.
Derek Thomas is the editor-in-chief of republican2012.org and is writing the news on the latest 2012 republican candidates. You can show your support for the Tim Pawlenty 2012 campaign by purchasing Pawlenty 2012 Bumper Stickers and Pawlenty 2012 t-shirts.
Herman Cain A 2012 Republican Presidential Candidate
March 12, 2011
With all the recent controversy over the electability of other 2012 possible presidential candidates, Herman Cain might just be the true conservative we’re looking for in 2012. Herman Cain, a syndicated radio talk show host and once time senatorial candidate in 2004, reflects true social and fiscal conservative values without carrying baggage from his past.
He believes in making it illegal for doctors to kill unborn children, protecting the sanctity of marriage, and has the business background to put our economy back on track. While some naysayers doubt his electability he has a true shot at taking Obama out of office. Just why do I believe this? He has well thought out ideas on fixing the failing economy by eliminating the regulations that are bankrupting our businesses all around the country, cutting taxes, and making government smaller.
With a exhaustive resume that outlines business experience in many major US corporations, Cain might just have the know-how to get us our of our economic mess. The former syndicated conservative talk show host has experience as a CEO of the major pizza chain Godfather’s Pizza, as a business analyst for Coke, and an executive for the Pillsbury company. With this experience in the private sector he says he knows how we can solve the economic crisis. The first is to get major businesses to start hiring again and we can do that only by making major tax reform and deregulate harmful laws to businesses. This he argues, will allow businesses to grow and become more profitable, thus hire more workers. If more Americans are working, then they will have a steady income stream that they can invest back into the American economy.
He argues that congress should have made the Bush tax cuts permanent rather than merely extending them for only two years. He further states that taxes should not only be cut, but that we should implement a fair tax. The fair tax plan involves doing away with the IRS by abolishing the payroll, income and corporate taxes then implementing a sales tax at the federal level. This means people would only be responsible for pay taxes for consumer goods and services. Again, he argues, businesses can’t grow when government is taking a major share of earned profits. In 1994 when Bill and Hillary Clinton were establishing their version of health care reform, that later was rejected, Cain appeared in a town hall forum where Bill Clinton was speaking. Cain asked Clinton what he is supposed to tell his employees after he is forced to lay many of them off for mandated government health care costs. Clinton responded by saying the costs for his health care plan would only increase business expense by one-and-a-half percent. Cain responded by telling Clinton his calculation is incorrect.
Cain has stated that he can no longer sit back on his radio show and do nothing while the economy is in shambles. And has taken a serious look at the other candidates and believes he is true conservative running in this race. He can no longer support Romney, as he did in 2008, because of the Romneycare a Massachusetts government health care plan similar to Obama’s. Cain has spoken at over 40 Tea Party events across the country and hoping to gather support in the coming months.
Derek Thomas is the editor-in-chief of republican2012.org and is writing the news on the latest 2012 republican candidates. You can rally support for the Herman Cain 2012 campaign by purchasing Cain 2012 Bumper Stickers and cain 2012 t-shirts.
Roemer 2012: Makes the Official Announcement
March 11, 2011
Former one-term Louisiana governor Buddy Roemer was raised in on a cotton plantation in northern Louisiana close to Bossier City. Roemer jump started his political career by running for the House as a democrat in 1981 and holding that seat until 1988. While in the House of Representatives Roemer consistently went against the Democratic Party on policy issues and tended to support the Republicans and the Reagan administration. Roemer describes himself as a “Methodist boy” and attends church on Sundays. There he met his wife Scarlett, who plays the piano for the chapel at a neighboring church.
At odds with his party in the House of Representatives, Buddy decided to try and take a shot at running for governor in his home state of Louisiana for the 1988 gubernatorial election. Louisiana at the time was a heavily democratic state run by many conservative democrats, allowing Roemer to be with more like-minded party members. However Roemer had to challenge the sitting democratic governor, Edwin Edwards, in the primary. So he started a campaign which he effectively named “Slay the Dragon” and exposed Edwards as a corrupt official. Roemer won the democratic primary by five points and was elected the next governor of Louisiana. In 1991 Buddy Roemer switched to the Republican Party after being pressured by the George H. Bush administration. As a new republican, Roemer had to face David Duke in the Louisiana republican primary for the 1992 governor’s election. He lost it to Duke, allowing Duke to run against ex-governor Edwin Edwards who sought another term. Edwards ultimately ended up winning that election in 1992.
Roemer recently gave a speech to conservatives in Iowa about his ideas and background in hopes to get Iowans more familiar with him and his candidacy for president in 2012. He underscored his successes as the governor in Louisiana illustrating how he had cleaned up the air and reduced harmful toxins by 41%, reduced the unemployment rate by half, and cut financial waste from the state budget. Moreover he talked about his experience in the House of Representatives and how he defied his party by working closely with republicans and Ronald Reagan.
Campaign finance reform is Buddy’s platform for the 2012 election. He is limiting all donations to only one-hundred dollars a pop from every donor and will not take funds from any major corporations or PACs. Buddy is sincere on this issue and understands how special interest money negatively affects America’s goals. In 1992 he was majorly outspent by two candidates for the governor’s seat in Louisiana. Both Edwin Edwards and David Duke had major funds from almost all the special interests within Louisiana and both later ended up serving prison time on various charges of corruption. Roemer believes that this sort of financing in campaigns has the ability to corrupt politicians who then serve their special interest groups rather than the American people.
Roemer declared his intention on a 2012 presidential run on March 7th 2011, however he has been making open statements about his plan since 2010. Presently, he is the only presidential hopeful that will not take lobbyist or PAC money for his presidential bid. He believes that PAC money is the ultimate corruption of politics and the cause of the overspending in congress today. Politicians are busy paying off their campaign debts on special pet projects that help the PACs and lobbyists in Washington.
Derek Thomas is the editor-in-chief of republican.org and is writing the news on the latest 2012 republican presidential candidates. You can show your support for the Buddy Roemer 2012 campaign by purchasing Roemer 2012 Bumper Stickers and Roemer 2012 t-shirts.
Mass protest in Tehran on 16 Azar 1388 (7.Dec.2009) – Coming soon :)
December 4, 2010
Mass protest in Tehran on 16 Azar 1388 (7.Dec.2009) – Special Thanks to original designer “MyNameIsIran”
http://www.youtube.com/mynameisiran
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T.I.- Whatever You Like SPOOF! (OBAMA- Whatever I Like)
October 8, 2010
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My original spoof of T.I.’s “whatever you like” as BARACK OBAMA the first Black and 44th President of the United States of America CNN “SO WHAT”
Video written, performed and edited by: Iman
Audio Editing by: Lisa Lavie
http://www.youtube.com/lisalavie1
Background vocals: Iman & Lisa Lavie
LYRICS!!!!
First black prez
Aint that nice,
Im in the highest office thats right!
Now I can do whatever I like
Now I can do whatever I like
yeahhhh
So what Im half black and half white
So what I fist bump with my wife
Man, I can do whatever I like
I can do whatever I like
McCain I thought that you knew
By debate number two
That I was gonna win and there was nothing
That you could do
You got so upset by the third debate
I swear to god I think I saw tear,
LOOK
I picked Joe Biden
Now this ones riding
Long as yall got me you wont need nobody
You want it I got it
Propose it, Ill sign it
Tell them republicans BE QUIET
First black prez
Aint that nice,
Im in the highest office thats right!
Now I can do whatever I like
So what Im half black and half white
So what I fist bump with my wife
Man I can do whatever I like
Man I can do whatever I like
Palin was the hottest
MESS that ran for office
She spoke so odd
Couldve swore it was a comic skit.
She got people excited
But still she couldnt stop this
I won all three debates
If you got it Then you got it!
Now im trying to put money back in your wallet
So as I fix this financial crisis
Theres a long list
Of things I really gotta fix
Like no more shady healthcare
YOU can get what I get.
My country can have what it wants.
McCain can have a seat and think about what he did wrong
I know you aint never have a prez like that
That gives amazing speeches then turns around and raps!
I picked Joe Biden
Now this ones riding
Long as yall got me you wont need nobody
You want it I got it
Propose it, Ill sign it
Tell them Republicans BE QUIET
First black prez
Aint that nice,
Im in the highest office thats right!
Now I can do whatever I like
I can do whatever I like
So what Im half black and half white
So what I fist bump with my wife
Man I can do whatever I like
Man I can do whatever I like
Im talking Black prez rides
And black prez ice
Fo at least the next fo years thats tight
Americas upset
And Im just right
Time to put this black pres in yo life
THATS RIGHT
I picked Joe Biden
Now this ones riding
Long as yall got me you wont need nobody
You want it I got it
Propose it, Ill sign it
Tell them republicans BE QUIET
First black prez
Aint that nice,
Im in the highest office thats right!
Now I can do whatever I like
So what Im half black and half white
So what I fist bump with my wife
Man I can do whatever I like
ALSO please check out my interview with Abiola from B.E.T.!
T.I. -Paper Trail
1 56 Bars (Intro)
2 I’m Illy
3 Ready For Whatever
4 On Top Of The World(feat. Ludacris and B.o.B.)
5 Live Your Life (feat. Rihanna)
6 Whatever You Like
7 No Matter What
8 My Life Your Entertainment (feat. Usher)
9 Star
10 Swing Ya Rag (feat. Swizz Beatz)
11 What Up, What’s Haapnin’
12 Every Chance I Get
13 Swagga Like Us T.I. and Jay-Z (feat. Kanye West and Lil’ Wayne)
Duration : 0:4:6
NYTimes.com – Humor on the G.O.P. Campaign Trail
October 8, 2010
Mike Huckabee, it turns out, is one of the funniest presidential contenders.
Duration : 0:3:25
Basil Marceaux Dot Com Translated
October 4, 2010
Seven minutes of Basil Marceaux Dot Com , translated for your viewing pleasure. Not an actual translation. Duhhhhhhhhh.
http://provine.blogspot.com
Duration : 0:7:2
Obama and Hilary Clinton- Umbrella/Dreamscape
September 14, 2010
Song: Dreamscape
Artist: 009 Sound System
A parody of the Democratic race between Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton. Originally airing on MTV. A music video set to the tune of “Umbrella” by Rihanna. Mad TV Music Video with Nicole Parker.
I really only uploaded this because I think this song makes this video orgasmic. So, I hope you enjoy it.
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( UU ) Keaten
Copyright:
I do not own this song/video in any shape or form.
May have content that is owned or licensed by Warner Bros. Entertainment.
Duration : 0:1:56
I’m Voting Republican
September 14, 2010
www.ImVotingRepublican.com
I’m Voting Republican is a satirical look at the likely outcome of another four years of Republican government. The not-so-subtle message behind the film is the importance of a united bloc of citizens willing to take the time and effort to vote Democrat in order to improve America’s domestic and foreign policy.
Duration : 0:3:29