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Posted in Republican Party on Oct 27th, 2011
Sussex County Sheriff Jeff Christopher has filed a complaint with Georgetown Police against Sussex County Councilman Vance Phillips. It appears that the two were in a heated discussion in Sussex County Republican Headquarters when Phillips allegedly threw a Pad of Paper that hit Christopher. The News Journal papers have the full story, such as it [...]
Posted in Conservatism, Election 2012, Republican Party, Sussex GOP on Apr 26th, 2011
Protack and Ayotte have been sweeping though Sussex County like a steamroller gathering speed. Monday’s 35th District Meeting at Cindy’s Green’s finished garage, in Greenwood was a sweep for both Michael Protack and Don Ayotte in a straw poll. Michael Protack and John Sigler are candidates for the position of Republican State Chairman. Donald Ayotte [...]
Posted in Republican Party, civil liberties on Feb 13th, 2011
GOP reveals hypocrisy with Patriot Act vote by Chris Slavens Both parties in the House failed to muster enough votes to extend controversial provisions of the Patriot Act on February 8, which required a two-thirds majority. Some commentators have chosen to focus on the lack of discipline within the parties; both the Obama administration and [...]
Posted in Election 2010, Glen Urquhart, Michelle Rollins, Republican Party on Sep 14th, 2010
Twenty-four hours from now we should all know the winners in these hard-fought races for US Senate & US Congress for the GOP. I have had this thought rattling around in my head for months now, and this has been posed in so many words on DelawarePolitics.net already. The GOP leadership has supported the candidates [...]
Posted in Election 2010, National GOP, Republican Party, Stuff on Jun 17th, 2010
Courtesy of David Anderson via Wilmington News Journal: Delaware politics: National GOP program gives boost to Rollins’ campaign By BETH MILLER • The News Journal • June 17, 2010 Congressional candidate Michele Rollins is “On The Radar” with the National Republican Congressional Committee’s two-year-old Young Guns program, one of seven GOP women to make the [...]
Posted in Americanism, Republican Party, immigration on Apr 28th, 2010
Republicans are very much against illegal immigration and support tough enforcement, but they are more welcoming of legal immigration than Democrats or Independents according to a new Rasmussen Poll. A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 58% favor a policy that would welcome all immigrants except “national security threats, criminals and those who [...]
Posted in Carney, Election 2010, National GOP, Republican Party on Mar 25th, 2010
When partisan politician John Carney was running for governor, he proposed a government-run healthcare plan that would have killed Delaware jobs by raising taxes on small businesses: “Lt. Gov. John Carney says if he is elected governor, he will make certain every Delawarean has affordable and accessible primary and preventive health care. He says universal [...]
Posted in Election 2010, Mike Castle, National GOP, Republican Party on Dec 24th, 2009
In 2010 Delaware is going to be getting a lot of attention for its Senatorial Race. In fact it already is. We haven’t even had a primary yet and the NRSC is trying to tell Delaware how to vote. Sen. Cornyn, Chairman of the NRSC has made Rep. Castle his poster boy for championing moderates [...]
Posted in National GOP, Republican Party on Dec 15th, 2009
As members of the GOP we are seeing across the nation a back lash against the policies and agenda of the Democrats in general and against Pres. Obama specifically. From the bailouts, to cap-and-trade and of course against their plan to socialize health care. The American people are concerned and in some cases [...]
Posted in Mike Castle, Republican Party, Stuff on Nov 29th, 2009
I have made no attempt to hide the fact that I am dissatisfied with the past performance of Rep. Mike Castle in congress. I do not feel that he represents my views on what I consider to be key issues, such as the environment, smaller government, and family values. Okay, so I have [...]
Posted in Obama, Republican Party, Wacko Appointees on Nov 16th, 2009
“In Chicago you have gangster government and Valerie Jarrett has been in the middle of that. She’s been brokering power for a long time and the links she has with William Ayers and other nefarious characters in Chicago tell us what we’ve got in the White House itself,” Congressman Steve King in today’s Washington Observer. [...]
Posted in Republican Party on Sep 28th, 2009
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Posted in No Politics, Republican Party on Sep 7th, 2009
A Prayer meeting will be held at Noon on September 11 in both Kent and New Castle Counties. See the events page for details. CRY OUT AMERICA, NATIONWIDE PRAYER GATHERING When: September 11, 2009 Where: Kent County Courthouse (State Street on the Green) Dover, Delaware Time: Twelve Noon to 1:00PM Local Time What: Prayer gathering; [...]
Posted in Conservatism, Election 2010, Republican Party, Sarah Palin on Jul 7th, 2009
Alex Gimarc writes a weekly newsletter called Interesting Items. His newsletter covers national and Alaskian politics. His newsletter gave me the first gimplse of Sarah Palin when she ran for governor. I was awaiting his opinion on the Palin resignation, which arrived in my mailbox this afternoon. I’ll share it with you below: Governor Sarah [...]
Posted in Republican Party on Jun 26th, 2009
After Thurman Adams passed away this week, his 19th district state senate seat was vacated requiring a special election to occur. In an email sent out tonight, Eric “Bodie” Bodenweiser notified potential supporters that he is being interviewed by GOP leadership as a potential candidate in that special election. Bodie is currently the honorary chaplain [...]
Posted in Budget, Cathcart, Deficit, Delaware Blogs, Delaware Democrats, Delaware GOP, Jack Markell, Local Media, Republican Party, Taxes, economy on Jun 19th, 2009
For the record, I am happy we have Dick Cathcart and Jack Markell, I really am. These two are absolutely hardballers and having them in opposition right now over the budget is a great thing. There should be fighting over this. Never would I want to see happy bandwagoners supporting something as drastic as this [...]
Posted in Delaware GOP, National GOP, Polls, Republican Party on Jun 4th, 2009
A quarter of Democrats cast protest votes against Governor Corzine in a lower than normal turnout primary. U. S. Attorney Christi is now over 51% in the latest Rasmussen poll. I believe that Governor Corzine can come back to win the race, but I believe that he will not. An incumbent who has approval numbers [...]
Posted in Delaware GOP, National GOP, Republican Party on May 17th, 2009
“Things will get better – despite our best efforts to improve them.” – Will Rogers Looking at my old blog, I came across two posts from then where I pretty much summed up the state of the GOP, and darn it, I may be able to take over Karnac’s job (video link, and yes, I’d [...]
Posted in Delaware GOP, Republican Party on May 16th, 2009
Uneventful (uncontested seats – wasn’t bad, just routine). I got duped…or something changed. I will take some of both This is in reference to the two independent sources that told me that Mike Protack was going to be nominated from the floor for vice-chair. One of those two is a committed-supporter of Mr Protack and [...]
Posted in Conservatism, National GOP, Republican Party on May 13th, 2009
All due apologies to Homer Simpson for tying his trademark quote into this equation. There is going to be a special session of the RNC! Goodness! Major policy shift? Sudden change at the top? What is it? It’s gotta be good for an unscheduled, special session! From politico: …in an extraordinary special session next week, [...]
Posted in Delaware Democrats, Delaware GOP, Mike Castle, National GOP, Republican Party, US Congress on May 5th, 2009
Castle “trounces” Biden in polling. Feel the pain here.
Posted in Republican Party, Stuff on Apr 30th, 2009
The last two elections the far left masqueraded in Republican clothes while the GOP didn’t even leave the dressing room. The Democrats ran candidates claiming to be pro-business, pro-gun, pro-tax cuts, pro-life, pro-marriage, and pro-military. They claimed that the problem was that Republicans had grown into protecting their power base that they couldn’t perform on [...]
Posted in Conservatism, Delaware Blogs, National GOP, Republican Party on Apr 29th, 2009
h/t to Salt Lake Tribune via John Cole via Pandora* * – Once again, I present my service of bringing Delaware Liberal to those too scared to visit A snippet from the Salt Lake Tribune article, linked above: Gov. Jon Huntsman Jr.’s appearance at a Michigan county Republican Party event was scrapped this week after [...]
Posted in Delaware Blogs, Quotes, Republican Party on Apr 28th, 2009
If you live under a rock, you may not have known that Mike Protack organized the Wilmington Tea Party. WOO HOO! Good for you…except that you’ve managed to tell many people on your own that you organized it. Usually, that’s spread word-of-mouth from other people, but hey, it was still a monumental task and planning [...]
Posted in Delaware Democrats, National Dems, National GOP, Republican Party on Apr 27th, 2009
Is it time to junk the Democratic and Republican labels and go with Progressive and Conservative labels, instead? After having some time for deep thought about politics this weekend (and wishing I could get through Nemski’s desire to bulk-label people, with prejudice, pun intended), I’ve come to the conclusion that progressives from each party have [...]
Posted in National GOP, Republican Party on Mar 17th, 2009
Words I never thought I’d say: “David Frum nails it.” The newest edition of Newsweek has an article from David Frum that addresses the “we or them” attitude coming from a certain contingent of the Republican Party. To my satisfaction (it’s no secret), he also takes on the argument of why Rush Limbaugh is not good [...]
Posted in Delaware GOP, National GOP, Republican Party on Mar 17th, 2009
Alternate Titles: I Blame Maria, You All Can Blame Me Maria is Dangerous, Heed Her Words or Hide A Brick Smacked My Head, it Had Initials M.E. On It Maria Kicked My Dog; Not Really, But It Sure Seemed Like It For the more serious: Why Now and Not Before? Apparently, I’m NOT Alone Within [...]
Posted in Republican Party on Mar 16th, 2009
“But remember one thing — it came from the West, I know, but I’m still singing it — the greatest thing that’s happened for the Republican Party is, when the chips are down and the decisions are made as to who the candidates will be, then the 11th commandment prevails and everybody goes to work, [...]
Posted in Conservatism, National GOP, Radio, Republican Party, Taxes on Mar 3rd, 2009
There is controversy across America sparked by the amazing speech given at the Conservative PAC conference by famed talk show host Rush Limbaugh (and my mother‘s favorite talk show host). I regret deleting it from my DVR. I have watched the hour recap twice. I found it inspiring and instructive. It was a wake up [...]
Posted in National GOP, Radio, Republican Party on Mar 3rd, 2009
First…thanks to Dave for bringing us back to the delawarepolitics.net domain. I am no longer blocked! That said, this may be short-lived…maybe. Depends how this post is taken. I twitted (sounds so wrong) via text this morning: Has my GOP lost its identity and become Buckley’s (once) defunct Conservative Party? Rush thinks it’s so. Limbaugh, you [...]
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