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Editorial: O.C. Republicans eager for November
THE ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER
Published: June 15, 2010
Updated: 5:16 p.m.
In the aftermath of a hotly contested GOP primary in California, and looking to accelerate momentum for their party's candidates nationally, about 800 activists, donors, politicians and party leaders gathered in Irvine for the Orange County Republican Party's annual Flag Day Dinner and heard Florida U.S. Senate candidate Marco Rubio outline a philosophy in lockstep
with the Reagan revolution.
Orange County is thought of by many as the most conservative county in the country. Politicians and candidates visit from all across the nation to gather support and money. The Flag Day Dinner is the pinnacle event for county Republicans. Previous keynote speakers have included presidential hopefuls
Mitt Romney and Rudy Giuliani. This year's event featured a level of energy and enthusiasm that we haven't seen in a number of years.
As is customary with an event honoring the Stars and Stripes, Boy Scouts presented the colors to kick off the evening, and Huntington Beach Rep. Dana Rohrabacher offered the invocation, which he sung while playing the guitar.
The theme of the evening was celebration over Republican electoral victories this year and looking ahead to November. County party Chairman Scott Baugh recounted for the audience the victories of many Republicans in attendance but drew particular attention to Fullerton Councilman Shawn Nelson's election to the county Board of Supervisors. Mr. Baugh, who has been battling the influence in local governments of public employee unions, touted Mr. Nelson's victory as momentous because he overcame union attacks and tons of union money spent against him.
Mr. Rubio was the keynote speaker, and, as a tea party favorite he was a natural fit for the conservative crowd. The crux of his message was about protecting America's free-enterprise system and drawing a distinction between President Barack Obama's agenda, which Mr. Rubio characterized as an attempt to "fundamentally redefine the role of government in our lives and the role of America in the world." He spoke about how the midterm races this year are a referendum on expansionist, overreaching government and attempts to thwart our free-market system.
He was welcomed with a standing ovation, in stark contrast to the last politician from Florida to speak at the event, one of Marco Rubio's opponents for Senate, Florida Gov. Charlie Crist, who was virtually booed off the stage in 2008 for out-of-touch remarks he made praising Governor
Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Mr. Rubio, 39, a former Florida House speaker and the son of refugees from Fidel Castro's Cuba, also talked about why he decided to run for the Senate. He claimed that he saw his party and Mr. Crist, a former Republican and front-runner in the Senate race, moving further to the left, trying to be more like the Democratic Party. "I decided to run," he said "because our country already has one Democrat party – we don't need two." The comment was very well-received. He has become a figure synonymous with getting the Republican Party's principles back on track.
If Mr. Rubio's espoused philosophy becomes the standard for Republican candidates and
elected officials, the GOP well could have much to celebrate in November. From Monday's celebratory atmosphere at the Irvine Hyatt one could conclude a new Reagan revolution
is on the horizon.
A couple years ago, back when Florida Governor Charlie Crist was thought to be
a candidate to run for V.P. on the McCain ticket, the Republican Party of Orange
County brought him here to speak at the Flag Day dinner. It was an unmitigated
disaster. Crist praised pathetic Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and he was
booed for doing so and left the stage in about six minutes.
Crist is now an independent and the Republican he is running against for an open
U.S. Senate seat is Marco Rubio, a Tea Party favorite. And sure enough Rubio is
here to speak at this year’s OC GOP Flag Day Dinner, on June 14, at 6 pm at the
Hyatt Regency in Irvine.
What a great event it was last night at the Irvine Hyatt. OC GOP Flag Day Dinner Guest
speakers Were Ralph Reed and Marco. ENJOY .... your webmaster certainly did! Rubio ... in that order. Marco is the real deal! Enjoy these excerpts. at order. Marco is the real deal! Enjoy these excerpts.
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Vice President Programs
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Vice President Membership
Jerry Scott
Treasurer
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Secretary
Jytte Gilmore
Chairman Clubs/Publicity
Steve Sarkis
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* Bruce Brown is a Candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives.
This Video should be ample ammunition to shoot down his opponent!
"And guess what this liberal will be all about. This liberal will be about socializing ... uh ...
um... will be about basically taking over, and the government running all of your companies"
~ Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) during a House of Representatives hearing with oil executives.
 ===> MAXINE WATERS (CA-D) ADMITS LIBERALS = SOCIALISTS!
Okay, ten more questions for the vacationer-in-chief. There's a big sob story in the Washington Post today by Anne Kornblut. I kid you not. It's a sob story. Oh, poor Obama, when duty calls, Obama has to put his holidays on hold. How do you get on vacation around here? Events are conspiring against Obama is what is written here, Anne Kornblut. Events are conspiring against Obama. The last time he tried to go home the Christmas bomber, the Fruit of Kaboom Bomber,
got in the way. Now it's an oil spill that's getting in the way of his vacation. Can you imagine any
such thing being written about Bush?
Question number one: Do you prefer golf or basketball when avoiding the hard work of being president?
Question number two: Approximately 70% of the American people approve of Arizona's immigration law and want the border sealed. What do you do, Hugo Chavez, Fidel Castro, and Felipe Calderon know about these matters that we don't?
Number three: You say that you won't rest until every American has a job and the Gulf oil spill is capped and the area cleaned up. Well, why are you vacationing in Chicago over the Memorial Day weekend and then returning to Washington for a Paul McCartney concert?
Number four: Speaking of Memorial Day, why not commemorate the day at Arlington National Cemetery? Are you avoiding Arlington due to the fact that you embarrassed yourself there a few years ago when you said, "On this Memorial Day, as our nation honors its unbroken line of fallen heroes, and I see many of them in the audience here today, our sense of patriotism is particularly strong." Remember him saying that? He saw many of our fallen heroes in the audience, meaning he saw the walking dead. Remember he said that?
Number five: When you do deliver your Memorial Day remarks, if the word "corpsman" pops up on your teleprompter, how will you pronounce the word, "corpsman" or "corpesman"?
Number six, did you learn to solve big problems by putting your boot on people's necks from Frank Marshall Davis, Saul Alinsky, Bill Ayers, Jeremiah Wright, or Rahm Emanuel?
Number seven: When you said to your staff, "Plug the damn hole," was it your impression that BP had not yet thought of that, and did it take you five weeks to come up with that solution? What were some of the other ideas you had, if this was your latest and greatest idea, plug the hole?
Number eight: When it comes to Gulf oil spill, would you say that better late than never is your motto, or is it, why do today what can be done tomorrow?
Number nine: Should the American people be saying "thank you" for the economy and for your response to the Gulf oil spill?
Number ten: Does the Mexican president ever object to what you tell him to say?
A Citizen's movement* to take our government back
from the "Big Money" Special Interests groups...
GOTO: http://www.ourcaucus.com/index.html
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Monday, 24 August 2009: An audio of U.S. Congressman Brian Baird (D-WA-03) Town Hall
meeting was featured in the first hour of the Rush Limbaugh show today.
A YouTube video appeared during the next hour..
 OohRah!
"I, David William Hedrick, a member of the silent majority, decided that I was not going to be
silent anymore. So, I let U.S. Congressman Brian Baird have it. I was one questioner out of 38,
that was called at random from an audience that started at 3,000 earlier in the evening. Not
expecting to be called on, I quickly scratched what I wanted to say on a borrowed piece of paper
and with a pen that I borrowed from someone else in the audience minutes before I spoke.
So much for the planned talking points of the right wing conspiracy."
~ DWH
At his closing speech at the CPAC conference, conservative talk radio host Rush
Limbaugh doubled down on his widely-controversial claim that he wanted President
Barack Obama to fail, insisting that he meant what he said, and chastising those
who were critical of him.
"This notion that I want the president to fail, this shows you the problem we've got.
This is nothing more than common sense and to not be able to say it? Why in the
world would I want what we just described: rampant government growth, welfare that
is not being created yet is being spent? What is in this, what is possibly in this that
any of us want to succeed? Did the Democrats want the war of Iraq to fail? They
certainly did. And they not only wanted the war in Iraq to fail they proclaimed it a
failure.... They hoped George Bush failed. So what is so strange about being honest
and saying I want Barack Obama to fail if his mission is to restructure and reform
this country so that capitalism and individual liberty are not its foundation?"
The crowd, watching in three individual ballrooms because of overcrowding,
went absolutely wild.
"I know what's going on. We are in the aspects here of a historic presidency, I know
that. But let me be honest again, I got over the historical aspects of that in November.
President Obama is our president. President Obama stands for some things. He could
be a Martian. He could be from Michigan. I don't care. It doesn't matter to me what his
race is. It doesn't matter. He is liberal. That's what matters to me.... I want the country
to survive. I want the country to succeed."
Limbaugh, whose speech went on more than an hour than what was planned, didn't
end there. "Ladies and gentleman of the United States, the Democrat Party has actively
not just sought the failure of Republican presidents, and policies, and now war for the
first time. The Democrat party does not stop at failure. Talk to judge Robert Bork, talk
to justice Clarence Thomas about how they try to destroy lives, reputations and
character. And I'm supposed to say I don't want the president to fail? We are in for a
real battle. We are talking about the United States of America... remaining the country
we were all born into and reared and grown into. And it is under assault, it has always
been under assault. But it has never been under assault like this, from within."
The red meat speech was more than well received among the adoring conservative
crowd which punctuated his address with repeated standing applause. On the flip side,
it is hard to see how the elected officials of the Republican Party welcome this.
Limbaugh's first declaration of hope for Obama's failure put a lot of GOPers on the line:
did they stand with the brash talk show host against the president? Though, to be sure,
there was little push back. Now, however, Limbaugh's invited more of the same line of
questioning. .
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Rush Limbaugh was the final speaker at CPAC 2009. Rush noted that
the speech was being televised live on Fox, so he referred to his speech
as his "First Address to the Nation".
Rush once again addresses the "controversy" over his remarks
on whether he wants President Obama to succeed or fail:
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama's chief of
staff says talk show personality Rush Limbaugh is a top figure in the Republican Party.
Chief of staff Rahm Emanuel says Limbaugh is the "intellectual force" of the GOP.
Emanuel says Republicans now have to live with that choice.
Limbaugh gave a major speech at the Conservative Political Action Committee
meeting this weekend in Washington. Limbaugh says it's fine for Republicans to
criticize Obama's plans and says Republicans must return to their core beliefs.
Limbaugh has been a vocal critic of Obama's, saying he hopes the new president's
plans fail. Liberal and labor groups have broadcast ads citing Limbaugh as a driving
force inside the GOP.
Emanuel spoke on CBS' "Face the Nation."
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"The best way to fight rumor is with fact.
If you don't fight rumor, it becomes truth."
~ Robert Gibbs
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Uh, duh, uh ... count the "uh"s in this brief video:
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XL0HABWKf30
 What a buffoon!
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Once A Marine - Always A Marine
Semper Fidelis, Ugly Angel '65-66
U. S. Senators Email List - No more excuses
Okay, here is the website that provides the email contact information for each Senator. You can plug in any state and receive the names and email addresses for all Senators. Tuck it away in
your "Favs" ... send it to your friends and family members and let our voices be heard over the
"greed and plead" of the Washington crowd that is NOT looking out for America's best interest.
http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm
"You cannot legislate the poor into freedom without legislating the wealthy out of freedom. What one person receives without working, another person must work for without receiving. The government cannot give to anybody anything,that the government does not first take from somebody else. When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that my dear friend, is about the end of any nation."
Dr. Adrian Rogers 1931-2005
Change Is Coming?
The buzzword of this election is "CHANGE." Candidates toss it
around without saying what they want to change to.
Just that we need CHANGE!
This brings to mind the following illustration:
Years ago, there was an old tale in the Marine Corps about a
Lieutenant who inspected his Marines and told the "Gunny"
that they smelled bad. The Lieutenant suggested that they
change their underwear.
The "Gunny" responded, "Aye, aye, sir. I'll see to it immediately. "
He went into the tent and said, "The Lieutenant thinks you guys
smell bad, and he wants you to change your underwear. Smith,
you change with Jones. McCarthy, you change with Witkowskie.
Brown, you change with Schultz ..."
"Change, now get on with it!"
And the moral is:
A candidate may promise change in Washington ... but the stink remains!
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