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Showing posts with label Jim DeMint. Show all posts

Wednesday, December 5, 2012

Hervey: GOP Caving on Immigration & Taxes… AGAIN



Dear Conservative Party Members/Supporters:

The GOP’s response to the 2012 election has ripped open- once again- the festering sore on the Republican Party body politic: they have no core values aside from trying to get re-elected. They certainly don’t have any conservative values or principles of merit. There are two recent examples why they are sprinting headlong into political oblivion.

EXAMPLE ONE: When a true conservative like Senator Jim DeMint (R-SC) blasts fellow Republicans for responding to the Fiscal Cliff negations by offering to include $800B in new revenues (taxes) already, then you know something is amiss in the GOP dysfunctional family.  The handwriting is on the wall: Republicans will capitulate on raising taxes during a recession and will not demand meaningful spending cuts in return.

“Meaningful” is the operative word. Remember when Republicans pledged to cut $100B from the 2011 Budget? Well, that promise devolved into a sham because they only cut $31B and most of those were accounting gimmicks, not meaningful cuts.  Many Republicans also voted to increase the Debt Ceiling last year and will do it again in 2013. Take that to the bank…while you still any money left.

We must ask the question: Why did Republicans agree to a Fiscal Cliff deal that requires 50% of all the cuts to come from just one Department: Defense?  The Feds have more than 75 Departments and Programs but Defense has to shoulder half of all cuts.

So bad, so sad.

EXAMPLE TWO: Republicans are so spooked by the election results they are now actually contemplating caving on granting amnesty to illegal aliens.  That’s right folks, Republicans now want to abandon their long-held and proper opposition to amnesty just to get the Latino votes.

For years even most RINO’s were correctly against illegal aliens and amnesty for a host of valid reasons: it’s against the law; it would attract even more illegal aliens; it rewards lawbreaking; it places significant financial burdens on state and local governments; it increases crime rates.  And one more thing; it’s just plain wrong.

And yet many in the GOP now want to dismiss and ignore all those valid concerns just to get Latino votes. Republicans fail to understand such obvious and shallow pandering will garner few Latino votes while it ensures they’ll forfeit LOTS of moderate and conservative votes.

Like Democrats, Republicans care not one iota about what’s right or what’s wrong or what’s moral. They don’t care about what’s good for America.

They…just…care…about…votes.

GOP political oblivion is at hand. It’s foretold in the Mayan calendar. May the GOP R.I.P
It’s time for conservatives and fellow Tea Party activists to leave the GOP and JOIN CP-USA.

We’re called the Conservative Party for good reason. CP-USA will publish a conservative solution on immigration in the January Newsletter.  Stand by.


H. Michael Hervey
Chairman
Conservative Party USA

Source: Conservative Party USA

Sunday, August 5, 2012

C4L: Getting Close!




In just a little over a month, the 2012 Liberty Political Action Conference (LPAC) will get underway in Chantilly, Virginia!

If you haven't yet purchased your ticket(s), I hope you'll make plans right away to join us for what is guaranteed to be an inspiring, motivating, and refreshing weekend with hundreds of like-minded liberty activists.

Confirmed speakers include Congressman Ron Paul, Senator Rand Paul, Senator Mike Lee, Jerry Doyle, Joel Salatin, Brian Doherty, Mike Church, Jack Hunter, and - we're proud to announce - Senator Jim DeMint and Congressman Scott Garrett!

In addition to hearing the latest on the pressing issues of the day from our speakers, our second-to-none grassroots training will provide you with powerful, battle-tested tools to make you the most efficient, effective grassroots activist possible.

It’s political activism laid out so simply, even Lindsey Graham could understand!

LPAC 2012 will be held at the Westfields Marriott in Chantilly, Virginia, on September 13-15.

A ticket to all three days of main stage activities is available for only $120, which includes our training!  (The training is also available separately for those who can’t attend the entire Conference.)

To see more of our speakers and get further details on everything LPAC-related, visit www.LPAC.com.

My staff and I hope to see you in Virginia this September!

In Liberty,

Matt Hawes
Vice President

Thursday, January 12, 2012

Sen. DeMint: “I’d like to see a Republican Party that embraces libertarian ideas.”

Writes Peter Grier at the Christian Science Monitor:
 
Ron Paul did pretty well in the New Hampshire primary Tuesday. He placed second, slightly outperforming pre-election polls, and – perhaps more importantly – he tripled the number of votes he got in the Granite State when he ran for president in 2008. More and more, many in the GOP are realizing that this time around Ron Paul is a significant phenomenon that’s not going to fade away once the early primaries are over.
 
They’re also realizing that it’s counterproductive to dismiss the Texas libertarian’s followers as cranks, college students in favor of drug legalization, or disaffected liberals. The 2012 general election is likely to be close, and the GOP will need all the voters it can get.
 
Thus some in the GOP are beginning to make conciliatory noises about the Paulites. Tea party favorite Sen. Jim DeMint (R) of South Carolina on Wednesday said that the Republican presidential candidates need to listen to Ron Paul and might do well to adopt some of his ideas, particularly on economics.
 
“One of the things that’s hurt the so-called conservative alternative [candidates] is saying negative things about Ron Paul,” said Senator DeMint on conservative Laura Ingraham’s radio show. “I’d like to see a Republican Party that embraces a lot of the libertarian ideas.”
 
Source: The Paulitical Ticker with Jack Hunter

Friday, December 2, 2011

In Case You Missed It: Michele Bachmann’s (Really) Tough Week

#TweetFail, Iran tidbit, curious VP picks, ‘borrowing without asking,’ and missed SarbOx vote hinder clean execution – especially in Iowa
 
ANKENY, Iowa – Campaigning for our nation’s highest office is difficult, and Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) is experiencing a really tough week that isn’t even over yet.
 
On Tuesday, Bachmann’s Iowa campaign chairman Tweeted an under-140-character mini-gaffe, writing that there were moving trucks outside pizza baron Herman Cain’s Iowa headquarters, assumedly for a quick exodus from the first-in-nation voting state.  The offending Tweet even included a photo of the trucks.  The trouble is, the trucks were delivering thousands of campaign signs, requiring Bachmann’s Iowa campaign manager to apologize.
 
On Wednesday while in Iowa, Bachmann told supporters that if elected President she would close the U.S. Embassy in Iran as a gesture of her firm stance against the nation.  The only problem is, the U.S. hasn’t had an embassy in Iran since 1980, the year when Blondie’s hit single “Call Me” filled the airwaves, Mt. St. Helens erupted, and Ted Turner launched CNN.
 
Also Wednesday, Bachmann floated some names of those who might have the high honor of serving as her Vice President, should she be elected.  Names include such stalwarts as her strategic competitor Rick Santorum, and U.S. Senators Jim DeMint (R-SC) and Marco Rubio (R-FL).  The list also includes real estate developer and reality TV host Donald Trump.  Uh-oh.  Is this the same Donald Trump that left the Republican Party of Iowa holding the bag by backing out of the party’s annual Lincoln Day Dinner?
 
On Thursday, Bachmann’s name came up yet again.  This time it was for pilfering a list of homeschool family emails from the well-regarded Network of Iowa Christian Home Educators (NICHE), and using that list to send two communiques to this “niche” market.  The misuse of the email list was traced to a NICHE board member who is a paid Bachmann staffer, necessitating a multi-pronged email response to members from NICHE President Justin LaVan.  The email included the requisite apology to members, an assurance of corrective measures, and an interesting list of FEC compliance actions including giving other campaigns an equal opportunity to use this listserv for the same purpose.
 
Lastly, again on Thursday, Bachmann made what smaller and newer publicly traded business owners might call a fatal error in missing a key vote on the House Financial Services Committee.  Congressman Paul adjusted his New Hampshire campaign schedule to vote for a SarbOx compliance exemption for businesses of this kind.  Yet, Bachmann missed the committee vote and therefore she delayed a step toward regulatory relief for businesses already burdened with the kind of overregulation that prevents hiring, even during these trying economic times.
 
“Campaigning for the presidency is challenging and this fact is one of the reasons why my admiration for Ron Paul grows with every stop along the campaign trail.  On behalf of the whole Iowa campaign team, I’d like to wish Rep. Bachmann a future schedule free of hiccups,” said Ron Paul 2012 Iowa Chairman Drew Ivers.

Wednesday, October 12, 2011

Sen. Paul Holds Hearing on Government Assault on Private Property

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Sen. Rand Paul today hosted a roundtable discussion, "PROPERTY WRONGS: A Discussion With the Victims of the U.S. Government's Assault on Private Property," to bring to light a few of many instances of overreach by the U.S. government, Environmental Protection Agency, Army Corps of Engineers, and others. He was joined by Members of both the House and Senate, including Sens. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.), Mike Lee (R-Utah), John Barrasso (R-Wyo.), Jim Risch (R-Idaho), Mike Crapo (R-Idaho), Roger Wicker (R-Miss.), and Reps. Raul Labrador (R-Idaho) and Connie Mack IV (R-Fla.), to deliver questions and comments to the attending witnesses.
 
Sen. Paul plans to introduce legislation in the coming days addressing the issues brought forth in today's hearing.
 
Witnesses included Henry Juszkiewicz, CEO of Gibson Guitars; Mike and Chantell Sackett of Idaho, whose current battle with the EPA is headed to the U.S. Supreme Court this winter; Victoria Pozsgai-Khoury of Pennsylvania, who was representing her father's continuing battle with EPA over erroneous wetland regulations; Peter Nimrod, chief engineer of the Mississippi Levee Board, currently suing EPA to allow for a pumping station in the Mississippi Delta region; and John and Judy Dollarhite of Missouri, rabbit breeders whose side business was shut down and fined exorbitantly by the USDA.
 
Click here for a transcript of Senator Paul’s opening remarks.