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You’d never know that the Wyoming Tribune-Eagle is biased and really really wants a Freudenthal win, would you? And the Casper Star Tribune? Neh, couldn’t be. The Tribune-Eagle poll asked the following questions:

– On fighting methamphetamine, 45 percent said Freudenthal would do a better job, with 18 percent favoring Hunkins.

– Asked who would do a better job reining in state government, 57 percent said Freudenthal and 19 percent said Hunkins.

– Just over half, 53 percent, said Freudenthal would do a better job addressing moral and ethical issues; 20 percent said Hunkins would do better.

– Overall, 73 percent said the state is going in the right direction.

On fighting methamphetamine — Hunkins has done nothing.

Who would do a better job reining in state government? Crazy — the state legislature is Republican, and it’s all they can do to rein in Freudenthal.

A better job with moral and ethical issues? He’s a demonRat — read this. nuff said.

73% believe the state is heading in the right direction? As stated before, the state has a Republican Legislature.

The poll surveyed 539 people and had a margin of error of plus or minus 4 percentage points.

I really hope that November 7th is a shock to the Tribune and Eagle-Tribune, but I also think that Hunkin’s campaign manager really dropped the ball for the Republican candidate.

I’ll do my part and if the remaining registered Republicans did theirs — well it would be a huge upset to the DemonRats here in WY. With any luck, they’d just crawl right back under the rocks they crawled out from under in the first place. I can dream ….

This is the best news I’ve heard the entire campaign. I believe wholeheartedly that Hunkins is the best man for the job, and this interview simply confirms it. It’s just refreshing to find a real Republican — and one that minces no words regarding his feelings on child killing. I believe the majority of people in WY love children and despise the murder of them. Hopefully, they will hear of Hunkins’ stance and go and cast their vote for him.

“I believe that abortion is murder, the homicide of a human being,” Hunkins said.

Hunkins is running under the campaign motto, “a real Republican,” and pointed to the abortion issue as one of the key differences between himself and incumbent Gov. Dave Freudenthal.

Of course, Ray Hunkins has recently become the grandfather of beautiful twin granddaughters. Looking at this precious picture, how could anyone be pro murder?

I’m confident this will go in the win column for NE. Then, I’ll be sure and comment over here. It’s the least I can do

UPDATE: (5:00 PM) Dang!

Saw this on HotAir today. It’s a great post and I haven’t read all the comments yet, but they seem to concur that the Ditsy Chicks can speak their mind all they want — but why do we still have to purchase their music if we don’t like what’s coming out their pie-holes?

Newsbusters has the transcript.

Martie Maguire: “Yeah. I think country music is unique to other forms of music. You know, you’ve just got a, a majority of the core of, of country music listening audience kind of feeling the same way about politics and we always kind of felt like the black sheep but never really used the stage to talk about politics or how we felt about important, controversial issues. But I, we, we weren’t surprised, I guess, when that part of the population was angry with us because it is a big military group, it’s a big kind of Christian fundamentalist group, that, that core country audience. So I wasn`t surprised we rubbed them the wrong way, I just didn`t think that it would go to the extent it did.”

She wasn’t surprised they rubbed them the wrong way? Why would anyone with half a brain want to rub their core fans the wrong way? When your business sense is nill — you deserve to crash and burn. Stupid. I have to admit, what these ditzes say really doesn’t bother me, and I think it’s hilarious that they want to keep shooting off their mouths, but somehow we should be forced to keep purchasing their product? They apparently don’t understand that just because someone has free speech, it doesn’t mean there might not be consequences. As I stated before: stupid.

Matthews: “Well, who were the people that were, let me go back to Natalie, who started this all because you were the voice that spoke? Who went out there and really tried to exploit this against you? Were there any commercial forces that compete with you that said, here’s a chance to bring down the Dixie Chicks and, and take the money they’d be getting? I know it sounds Machiavellian but that’s the way I am. I’m thinking who is gaining by your demise?”

Natalie Maines: “Well, personally, I think the Right did. And I think it was originally started by the Free Republic. And they were very organized in calling radio stations across the country and telling them that they would never listen to their station, when they didn’t even live in that town.

Who is gaining by their demise? Well, the Right is. Who’s the Right? I think I fit in this category. It’s nice to know that I’m gaining by their demise.

Matthews: “Were you blacklisted?”

Maines: “Absolutely. They have a hate list. They have a black, they have a list, and we were number one.”

I’ve looked and looked all around the house for my hate list, but I’ve apparently misplaced it. I don’t recall them being number one on it anyway. If I find it, I’ll let you know.

I hope the Ditzes put some money away for a rainy day — back when they were selling tens of millions of albums (really I don’t care one way or the other) because I think their original fan base is finished with them. I guess if money really gets tight, they can travel the sluts for Soros circuit.

Okay, maybe when hell freezes over I’ll give a chance to a flaming liberal DemonRat to hold the only US House of Representative seat that WY has. You’ve got to be kidding me! I find our so called “moderate” demonRat governor to be utterly asinine for making such a suggestion.

Gov. Dave Freudenthal on Wednesday threw his political weight behind the campaign of Democratic U.S. House candidate Gary Trauner, saying activities in the nation’s capital make a strong argument for change.

“Gary has worked hard, and he has demonstrated a willingness to listen and to travel the state,” Freudenthal, a Democrat, said during a meeting with reporters at the State Capitol. “I think the kind of campaign he’s run speaks to the kind of representative he would be.”

Reached on a campaign stop in Pinedale, Trauner said it’s clearly a good sign to have Wyoming’s popular governor standing in his corner.

“I guess the message I would have for both the governor and the people of Wyoming is I won’t let him down and I won’t let the people of the state down, either,” he said.

What activities in the nation’s capital make a strong argument for change? Why won’t our beloved governor be more specific instead of just spewing out political catch phrase garbage? If I had to guess, it’s probably because it’s hard to court the state’s majority Republican voter base and still throw your political weight behind a flaming libtard. You see, it’s an election year for Freudenthal — and he has to exercise his skill of talking out both sides of his mouth.

Oh, and this:

In his comments Wednesday, Freudenthal said ability — not seniority — is the best measure of Wyoming’s lone representative in the House. He pointed to Vice President Dick Cheney, who quickly proved a powerful force when he held the House seat.{M3 Cheney served as Wyoming’s lone U.S. representative from 1979 to 1989.

Well, seniority should mean something to Wyoming voters — when you just have ONE seat! Not to mention, Cubin’s voting record speaks for itself. She has not failed to uphold Wyoming values and is also strong on securing the border. It just goes to show that Freudenthal really doesn’t care about Wyoming, instead, it’s all about his personal politics.

Cubin responds:

“I believe my record of voting for tax cuts, creating jobs, helping to build billion dollar surpluses for Wyoming’s treasury, and voting right for the Cowboy State will be recognized by my fellow Wyoming citizens and help me to win on Nov. 7.”

I cannot say that I disagree with Freudenthal on this:

“I think that there’s a point in time which people have served long enough and they are frankly no longer growing in the job and they begin to take it for granted,” Freudenthal said.

Come to think of it … I think 4 years is plenty long for his service and he is no longer growing in the job. Time for change is right.

This is why politics suck so bad. You have to say you’re sorry to sorry arse political opponents who have no business running for office, but have the big victim / disability card to play, and they pull it off the bottom of the deck. Thomas Rankin is nothing but an attempt at spoiling the only US House of Representative seat that WY has. You do not have to be able to read between the lines of all his latest press to see what a lying freak he is.

I don’t understand how Representative Cubin tolerates all the garbage she does from the liberal left wing press.

“It was person to person, and it was not an attack on the disabled,” Cubin said in a telephone interview from Rock Springs. “In retrospect, I was wrong in what I said, and I apologize.”

However, Libertarian Thomas Rankin said Cubin hadn’t apologized to him personally and he still considered it an “open issue” until she did so.

“Barbara has been a loose cannon too long. She needs to be reined in,” he said.

Are people really this stupid? Rankin obviously thinks so. I personally refuse to be bullied or manipulated by some jerk who hides behind his disability. I know others are sick of it too and Barbara will win this election in November. She needs to be reined in? What kind of a freak talks that way?

Cubin, who is seeking a seventh two-year term against Democrat Gary Trauner and Rankin, also presented a different account of what she said compared to what Rankin recalled, and her account of the incident was different from the one her campaign initially issued.

Rankin, who has multiple sclerosis and uses an electric wheelchair, said that after the debate Sunday night Cubin “walked over to me and said, ‘If you weren’t sitting in that chair, I’d slap you across the face.”‘

Cubin said she went over to Rankin, challenged his debate assertions and remarked that “if you had said that to anyone else, they probably would have smacked you.”

Either way you slice it, the guy apparantly needs the crap slapped out of him. As reported by the Jackson Hole News, Rankin thinks he knows what people from WY want.

Rankin said he wanted Cubin to resign over the incident.

“The best response Barbara Cubin could give would be a resignation,” he said. “Nothing less than that would satisfy me.

“She is not the type of person Wyoming residents want representing them,” he said.

No, you arrogant jerk, you are not the type of person Wyoming wants representing them. You nor your buddy Gary Trauner. It would be nice if the people from the east and west coasts would stay the heck out of our state — freaking busy bodies.

Read this on HotAir and then jumped over to Scrappleface.

Please, go to Scrappleface and watch the video — it’s precious.

Claire McCaskill, the Democratic candidate for US Senate had no qualms using Michael J. Fox twitching with Parkinson’s, but, look out — this cute little baby just crosses all sorts of ethical lines. Although the article accompanying the video is satirical, I think the point is valid

This is so worth blogging on my lunch hour. I’m not sure who all will pick it up, but being from Wyoming, I couldn’t be more proud of my only representative. A friend emailed me the link at work and get this — he found it on Drudge! I’m really not that impressed with Drudge’s headline:

Wyo. opponent says incumbent made threat ….

Well, here’s the opponent:

With this glowing caption:

Ryan Soderlin, Star-Tribune Libertarian candidate Thomas Rankin conducts a telephone interview with an out-of-town news reporter on Monday at his home in Casper. Rankin works from a hospital bed, with an attached tabletop that holds his computer equipment.

This guy appears to be as low as Michael J Fox playing the victim card, which HotAir pointed out yesterday. Better yet, it only proves Ann has been right all along. Play that victim card baby — we’re sick of it.

The Libertarian challenger for Wyoming’s lone U.S. House seat says Rep. Barbara Cubin offended him by uttering a slur related to his physical disability. Thomas Rankin said Cubin approached him after a campaign debate on Sunday and said, “If you weren’t sitting in that chair, I’d slap you across the face.”

And the best part:

The Cubin campaign did not deny the remark, but a spokesman for the six-term congresswoman said Rankin started the exchange. “He misrepresented her and insulted her integrity during the debate,” Cubin spokesman Eric Cullen said, reading from a prepared statement.
“When she approached him after the debate about it, he said something not very complimentary. She responded. It was a private conversation. She’s over it.”

That’s right, she meant it. Barbara Cubin is a class act and I could not be more proud to have her as our only Representative in the House. Rankin is a class jerk. By inferring that Cubin insulted all people with disabilities, he is implying that all people with disabilities are jerks — which we all know is not the case. Rankin is the one who needs to be apologizing. First to Cubin, and then to other disabled people he pretends to represent.

UPDATE: Well, what do you know? Barbara got a little mention on HotAir too. Though Allah doesn’t seemed overly impressed. Turns out that she might have apologized if you follow that link — but Rankin said it was not directly to him. Good.

I wish I knew what Allah meant when he typed, “Good Lord” after his post on Cubin. He tends to be the type that doesn’t mind the left using victims for their spokespeople. He really hates in when Ann says truthful things about the Jersey girls.

UPDATE: Kudos to tiekitwist for her awesome comment on HotAir:

Allah, if you’re going to attack Wyoming’s only representative on the first day (that I know of) that she’s mentioned on DrudgeReport, at least give her an entire thread instead of throwing it randomly in the middle of a post about stem-cell research.

Furthermore, maybe you could give the subject a little more thought than going along with the left and assuming that handicapped people ought to be immune from dissagreements. Contrary to leftist beliefs, this man does not have absolute moral authority just because he is handicapped. In the same way, if someone disagrees with him, they ought to be able to say it to his face. Is he such a baby that he can’t handle a little verbal sparring? If that’s the case, he shouldn’t be trying to run for political office - especially in Wyoming.

In my personal experience from hearing Cubin at a local Lincoln Day dinner and also following her record in Washington, she is not one to disagree so vocally without just cause. An earlier article (before the apology that I wish hadn’t happened) stated that Rankin had insulted Cubin’s integrity. In Wyoming we don’t take those kinds of insults lightly. I’m glad Cubin said what she did and like wytammic, I wish she hadn’t apologized. I think Rankin should consider himself lucky that Cubin didn’t slap him. That’s what I call compassionate conservatism.

When you’re from Wyoming, you stick together and you stand behind the best Representative in the House.

The Wisconsin Democracy Campaign (WDC) has been pushing democracy since 1995. Perhaps they don’t realize that the US is already a practicing democracy? Anyway, their little mission statement is cute:

We are a nonpartisan political watchdog group working for clean government and real democracy. To carry out this mission, WDC tracks the money in Wisconsin politics and works for campaign finance reform, media reform and other pro-democracy reforms.

Yeah, right … nonpartisan. Not according to the Alliance Defense Fund. Real democracy? Is that the democracy where everyone has a voice except the Christians?

It’s a group called the Wisconsin Democracy Campaign (WDC) that is requesting legal action against a Catholic parish in the state capital of Madison. The allegations of wrongdoing, though, are unfounded, according to Mike Johnson of the Alliance Defense Fund.

“The church,” he said, “issued a flier to its own members that said ‘A yes vote upholds the Catholic teaching that marriage is a union between a man and a woman.’ ”

Even though the flier was distributed after the service and outside the church, the WDC, which did not return calls seeking comment, is asking for “fitting penalties.”

A spokesman for American Values doesn’t buy into the nonpartisan bull either:

Kristi Hamrick, a spokeswoman for American Values, said groups like the WDC don’t want values voters to go to the polls Nov. 7.

“The purpose of this is to chill religious speech and to wipe it out of the marketplace of ideas,” she said. “That cannot be. This country was founded on those rights.”

Conservative commentator David Limbaugh told Family News in Focus if social conservatives fail to engage the electoral process, it could mean the redefinition of marriage, advances in abortion rights and a host of other cultural defeats.

“Don’t be duped into staying at home,” he said, “because if you do, you will have on your hands — on your conscience — the knowledge that you are contributing to the demise of this culture.”

Once again, I do not think Christian conservatives are as stupid as the liberal media is encouraging us to be. At least I’m not. It should be an interesting election.

There is plenty that churches can do. Click here to find out what.

Stumbled on to this at Sweetness & Light. I’m always stumbling on to great information over there.

They stayed at home in large numbers instead of voting in the 2000 election, or so Karl Rove has always maintained. They came out for President Bush in 2004 and were key to his re-election, or so they like to claim. Now, just weeks before the Nov. 7 midterm congressional elections, one of the last unknowns of a wild and potentially historic campaign season is: What will Christian conservatives do this time?

Well, I’d like to hope that we’re not a bunch of idiots willing to hand power over to the DemonRats, regardless of how disappointing the Republican Congress has been. As the American Family Association so bluntly puts it — What if the liberals win in November?

Here is what we can expect if the liberals win:

• Amnesty for 12,000,000 illegal immigrants.
• A push to make homosexual marriage and polygamy legal in all 50 states.
• Only liberal judges will be appointed. They will create laws to implement the social agenda liberals cannot get passed through the legislative process.
• Liberals will make the killing of the unborn more difficult to stop.
• Liberals will continue to try to rid our society of Christian influence, including any reference to God in our Pledge and on our currency.
• A return to the “Fairness Doctrine” in broadcasting where opposing views must be given equal time. Every conservative talk show host will be forced to give a liberal equal time on every issue. The purpose of this rule will be to shut down conservative talk shows.
• An increase in taxes to push new social programs.
• Passing a new “hate crimes” law making it illegal to refer to homosexuality in a negative manner.
• Liberals will give terrorists from other countries who try to kill Americans the same rights American citizens enjoy under our constitution.
• We will withdraw from Iraq, sending the message to the terrorists that if they will just be patient they can win and bring their terrorist acts to the U.S.

Heck — I’ll go out and vote just to keep the tax cuts. Seriously though, I would have absolutely no faith in the DemonRats when it comes to national security. They are nothing but a bunch of cowards and traitors.

Christians need to continue voting their morals and ethics. Change will come, it just takes time.