Common Folk Using Common Sense

The Primaries are finally settled, so it’s Roy Barnes versus Nathan Deal this November for Governor of Georgia. I’m not a big fan of Deal, but I have absolutely no love for Barnes. So to keep Barnes out of office I have to vote for Deal. Lesser of two evils. Hopefully Deal will show me [...]

Spread The Word:

[Read more →]

Roy Barnes is an Obama wannabe. He is beholden to the teacher’s unions and the “disenfranchised minorities” inside Georgia‘s urban areas (his “big ticket” legacy was getting rid of Georgia’s former “evil” state flag). He is Georgia’s version of Bill Clinton. I’m scared Barnes will side with the Washington Progressives over Georgia. A vote for [...]

Spread The Word:

[Read more →]

Says the NRA: The National Rifle Association believes that any restrictions on the political speech of Americans are unconstitutional. In the past, through the courts and in Congress, the NRA has opposed any effort to restrict the rights of its four million members to speak and have their voices heard on behalf of gun owners [...]

Spread The Word:

[Read more →]

Says the Detroit Free Press: A growing wave of discontent with government came crashing down on “establishment” candidates running in primary elections Tuesday as voters turned five-term Pennsylvania Sen. Arlen Specter out of office and nominated a populist “Tea Party” candidate in Kentucky. Few races represented the political backlash sweeping across the country better than [...]

Spread The Word:

[Read more →]

Atlanta Center for Disease Control February 8, 2010 Reuters, CNN Wire Services New Disease Discovered and Classified: ‘Gonorrhea Lectim’ The Center for Disease Control has issued a warning about a new virulent strain of this old disease. The disease is called Gonorrhea Lectim (pronounced “Gonna re-elect ‘em”). The disease is contracted through dangerous and high [...]

Spread The Word:

[Read more →]

Via FOX News: President Barack Obama strongly signaled that Democrats will move forward on a health care overhaul with or without Republicans, preparing his party for a fight whose political outcome will rest with voters in November. Delivering his closing argument at a 7-1/2-hour televised policy marathon Thursday, Obama told Republicans he welcomes their ideas [...]

Spread The Word:

[Read more →]

Or so says CNN: 52 percent of Americans said President Barack Obama doesn’t deserve reelection in 2012, according to a new poll. 44 percent of all Americans said they would vote to reelect the president in two and a half years, less than the slight majority who said they would prefer to elect someone else. [...]

Spread The Word:

[Read more →]

From the Boston Herald: Upstart Republican Scott Brown rocketed to victory in the race to the U.S. Senate yesterday, steamrolling Attorney General Martha Coakley’s layabout campaign in an against-all-odds triumph that sent shock waves from the Heartland to the White House. “I thought it was going to be me against the machine. I was wrong. [...]

Spread The Word:

[Read more →]

Spread The Word:

Spread The Word:

[Read more →]

From Rasmussen: Running under the Tea Party brand may be better in congressional races than being a Republican. In a three-way Generic Ballot test, the latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds Democrats attracting 36% of the vote. The Tea Party candidate picks up 23%, and Republicans finish third at 18%. Another 22% are undecided. [...]

Spread The Word:

[Read more →]

Says Jonah Goldberg: Hence, the quest for the middle ground usually rewards the worst kinds of politicians — those devoid of any core convictions and only concerned with feathering their own nests — and yields the worst kinds of policies. Blending the two visions is like trying to marry two different recipes. You don’t get [...]

Spread The Word:

[Read more →]

Said by Doctor Zero: The Declaration of Independence states that governments derive “their just powers from the consent of the governed.” The American understanding of democracy does not envision voters as slaves who enjoy the privilege of voting for a new master every few years. When the Declaration speaks of the right – and, later [...]

Spread The Word:

[Read more →]

Says Richard Viguerie at ConservativeHQ: In her statement announcing suspension of her campaign in the special election for New York’s 23rd congressional district, Assemblywoman and liberal GOP nominee Dede Scozzafava refused to throw her support behind a fellow Republican, Doug Hoffman, who is running on the Conservative Party ticket in this particular race. That was [...]

Spread The Word:

[Read more →]

New Jersey Governor Chris Christie (R) – 49% Jon Corzine (D) – 45% Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell (R) – 59% Creigh Deeds (D) – 41% N.Y. District 23 Bill Owens (D) – 49% Doug Hoffman (Conservative) – 41% Christie and McDonnel, both Republicans in heavily-Democratic states, won. Hoffman, a complete underdog on a 3rd party [...]

Spread The Word:

[Read more →]

From Rasmussen: The race in New York’s 23rd Congressional District highlights the concerns many Republican voters have about their party leaders. At a time when 73% of Republicans believe their party’s representatives in Congress have lost touch with the GOP base, 11 county leaders in upstate New York picked a nominee for Congress who supported [...]

Spread The Word:

[Read more →]