Old habits die hard. Let’s review the Left’s standard practice of renting non-English-speaking protesters to represent the “grass-roots.” In August 2009 , Nancy Pelosi snuck into a Denver health care clinic, where she was greeted by 200 grass-roots protesters against socialized medicine — and a handful of Obama-bots and union members carrying identical HCAN signs. Denver photojournalist El Marco was at the event and exposed how Pelo-cchio’s Astroturf brigade had to be coached by professional organizers — including several day laborers who didn’t speak English and couldn’t tell what the signs they were holding read. In September 2010 , Sen. Barbara Boxer borrowed a page from Pelosi and recruited day labor stooges to hold up anti-Carly Fiorina signs. Asked if they made the signs, one of the men confessed: “No, there’s a lady that pay.” And this week, Michelle Fields at the Daily Caller caught an Occupy Wall Street organizer in D.C. admitting that he paid Hispanic men to march. Gotta the love the smell of Astroturf in the morning… A liberal organizer told the Daily Caller on Thursday afternoon that he paid some Hispanics to attend “Occupy DC” protests happening in the nation’s capital. TheDC attended the protest event, an expansion of the “Occupy Wall Street” movement that began in New York City. Some aspects of the protest, it turned out, are more Astroturf than grassroots. One group of about ten Hispanic protesters marched behind a Caucasian individual from the DC Tenants Advocacy Coalition, a non-profit organization dedicated to supporting rent control in Washington, D.C. Asked why they were there, some Hispanic protesters holding up English protest signs could not articulate what their signs said. The vid: “Some of them are volunteers. Some of them aren’t. I can’t identify them. I’m not going to get into an identification game.” Resorting to rent-a-mob and pay-to-bray is the Progressives of Pallor way. Viva La Revolución! *** Related: Sacramento Occupy-bots get pissy when asked exactly why they’re protesting: Organizer Anthony Bondi said he has what he referred to as a “message team” working on the primary goals of the local protests, which he admitted “was kind of vague.” “That message team will reveal that tomorrow [Friday] morning,” Bondi said. “So you guys are in the process of forming the reasons why you are here?” asked CBS13 reporter Tony Lopez. “Exactly correct,” Bondi said.
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From Obamacare to Occupy Wall Street: A brief history of the Left and rent-a-non-English-speaking-protester
Okay, okay, Carly Fiorina is joining the team at the National Republican Senatorial Committee… National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) Chairman U.S. Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) today announced that businesswoman and civic leader Carly Fiorina will join the organization as a Vice Chair for the 2012 election cycle. Keep reading this post . . .
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NRSC Picks Up Candidate From Zaniest Major Party Campaign In 2010
A Republican in the right loop tells me that speculation regarding Carly Fiorina running for RNC Chair is misplaced. Jim Geraghty
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No Carly Fiorina Bid for RNC Chair
From yesterday afternoon: ” Kamala Harris wins attorney general’s race as Steve Cooley concedes .” (At Memeorandum and Crooks and Liars , where folks are thrilled with Harris’ radicalism.) Democrats have now won every single statewide race. Some might recall that I’ve contemplated leaving California , although that’s entirely impossible at this point. I’ll no doubt be having continuing thoughts on this, unless something improves soon, which is unlikely. A poll out a couple of weeks ago was no consolation. I’ll be down in the bunker if you need me. From the Los Angeles Times : The road to redemption for the Republican Party in California may be even rougher than November’s statewide electoral drubbing indicated, as a new Los Angeles Times/USC poll shows a deep reluctance among many voters to side with a GOP candidate and broad swaths of the state holding views on government’s role that conflict with Republican tenets. California voters surveyed in the poll repudiated the party’s stance on illegal immigration by endorsing a host of positions intended to make it easier for the undocumented to gain legal status. Their support for same-sex marriage outnumbered that opposing any legal recognition by more than 3 to 1. Californians also endorsed an assertive role for government in protecting minority citizens, regulating corporations and helping the poor and needy, and rejected arguments that an activist role for government had harmed the fiber of American society. The negative overlay both explained and helped determine the fates of the party’s candidates in November. As a GOP tide swept the nation, Republicans here lost all statewide offices, with one contest, for attorney general, still unresolved but leaning toward the Democrat. Republicans here also failed to gain any congressional seats and lost a legislative seat. Strikingly, almost one in five California voters said they would never cast a ballot for a Republican. Among Latinos, that rose to almost one in three. Only 5% of California voters were as emphatically anti-Democrat. “I don’t know how any Republican thinks they can win in California after looking at this,” said GOP pollster Linda DiVall, who with Democratic pollster Stanley Greenberg directed the survey for The Times and the USC College of Letters, Arts & Sciences. The party faces a critical collision between its own voters, a minority in California, and those it needs to attract to win. The most faithful Republicans this year — those who voted for both Meg Whitman for governor and Carly Fiorina for Senate — said by a 27-point margin that to be more successful, Republicans should nominate “true conservatives.” But among the majority of voters who spurned Whitman and Fiorina in November — and in whose good graces any future winning candidate would need to be — the results were reversed. Forty-three percent said that future Republican candidates needed to be more moderate. Only 20% said that Republicans should nominate “true conservatives.” As those figures help illustrate, the GOP’s difficulties in California rest on two overlapping conflicts, ideological and demographic. The party’s conservative primary voters determine nominees, even if their views are often opposite those of the far more moderate general election audience. And the party’s white and conservative voter base is increasingly giving way to the state’s non-white and nonpartisan population. RTWT . Related : At Michelle’s, ” DREAM Act nightmare: 2.1 million future Democrat voter recruitment drive .”
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Bunkering Down in the Bluest of Blue States
From Lisa Richards, at NewsReal : Left-wing feminists are furious that conservative women are wildly popular. It’s completely unnerving to them that Sarah Palin, a well-educated athlete with a political resume (but considered illiterate because of her western accent, marriage, children, and home state) is the most popular woman in America, even with leftists who obsessively cover all things Sarah. After all, aren’t women supposed to lock-step like a bunch of politically enslaved vote-only-Democrat drones, support abortion, demand better pay (but insist minimum wage stay intact) and sue bosses who fire female incompetents? This is America for heaven’s sake! Women are not supposed to think for themselves, that’s the job of the Democrat Party! And then came 2008 and Sarah Palin, followed by Michele Bachmann, Nikki Haley, Christine O’Donnell, Linda McMahon, Carly Fiorina, Meg Whitman, Sharron Angle, Angela McGlowen, Star Parker … should I stop? This might be too much for anti-female-unless-she-hates-men-and-unborn-babies leftist women to bare. Bachmann and Haley won, the other GOP ladies lost, much to the glee of left-wing feminists like The Nation ’s Betsy Reed who declared: This result should not come as a huge surprise, given that the GOP Year of the Woman was always mostly hype, fueled by a potent mixture of Republican propaganda, Democratic hysteria and the mainstream media’s fondness for loopy ladies. As opposed to Nancy Pelosi who did wonders elevating women’s political s tatus with her spoiled demands for military jet-set vacations and claims of not knowing anything about intelligence reports . And let’s not forget Hillary’s contribution to women’s equality–accepting her serial molesting husband’s philandering actions , something feminists allegedly abhor. Leftists do nothing to elevate women, yet they demand women vote one way and only one way. When women break that iron grip, saying no thank you, I can think and vote for myself, radical feminists turn against women like a pack of rabid grizzlies. Case in point is Amanda Marcotte, who described Nikki Haley’s win as “the second most telling example of the ‘mama grizzly curse.’” More at the link .
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AP – The national Republican wave in the midterm elections didn’t spread to President Barack Obama’s former state.
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Republican wave stops short in Obama’s home state
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Reuters – President Barack Obama faced a bleak political landscape on Wednesday after voters punished Democrats over high unemployment and a sluggish economic recovery, delivering a divided Congress in Tuesday’s midterm elections.
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Republicans capture House, gain in Senate
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As noted, one of my rules of thumb for my election predictions was that any incumbent below 50 is in at least a little trouble, and an incumbent in the mid-40s is in real trouble. The more well-known and well-established the incumbent, the more trouble they're in. I usually give those folks about one or two percent of the remaining undecided; that's how I ended up getting Massachusetts right. My last pick was California's Senate race, reluctantly picking Democratic incumbent Barbara Boxer over Republican Carly Fiorina, spurred in part by Boxer reaching 49.5 percent in the RealClearPolitics average. But in between writing down the picks and now, she's slid to 48.5 percent , a very tenuous position in my usual formula. Looking at the RCP average for
Republican Senate candidate Carly Fiorina was released from the hospital after treatment for an infection, allowing her to resume campaigning in her close California race against Democratic incumbent Barbara Boxer.
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Fiorina Released From Hospital
Carly Fiorina was hospitalized Tuesday to treat an infection related to a post-cancer surgery, adding an element of uncertainty to the California Republican’s campaign to unseat Democratic U.S. Sen. Barbara Boxer.
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