Election Eve Live Callouts Post
This will be a continually updated extravaganza into pithy prose that will call out candidates supporting Barack Obama despite the fact they are diametrically opposed to him on they claim are critical issues, and, in some cases, voters who vote for politicians to be named against their supposedly closely-held beliefs. Feel free to comment, but I won’t be posting any of them, or even looking at them, until after midnight (e-mails are fine, and I’ll be reading those from time to time). The callouts are calling …..
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11:45 p.m. – Here’s the callout wrap – There are an awful lot of Democrats who haven’t had to answer the question of whether they’re OK with Obama’s plan to radically cut the military (HT Atlas Shrugs; also see the transcript of a vid at this BizzyBlog link for Obama’s detailed gut-the-military plans). If they haven’t spoken against it, I would assume they’re for it. Every single one of them.
10:55 p.m. – in mid-2007, Kansas Democratic congresswoman Nancy (Oh) Boyda walked out of a hearing during a general’s testimony on progress in Iraq in some degree of distress. Upon her return, she basically called the general a liar. Hopefully, Boyda will get her comeuppance tomorrow at the hands of Lynn Jenkins. That will give her a legitimate reason to lose her composure.
10:25 p.m. – If there’s good news that you can almost count on at this point, it’s that Al Franken is going down in Minnesota. The bad news is that so much of the Gopher State is goofy enough to even pay attention to him as a politician, and a lot of people have a lot to be ashamed of for supporting someone who thinks killing the president is funny. But …. (wow, this is hard to believe) …. it may be that Franken has such negative coattails that he hurts Obama. I don’t see any good reason why McCain appears to be close there.
9:25 p.m. – With time tight, I’m going to have to rely on some posts at Central Ohioans Against Terrorism for those who want a final-night dose of evidence that Mary Jo “of course” Kilroy is unusually chummy with people who support jihad: here (”Mary Jo Kilroy locks up Ohio 15th female HAMAS vote”), here (”HAMAS Loooooves Mary Jo Kilroy”), and here (”The Franklin County Commission Stonewall”).
8:40 p.m. – Haven’t had much to say about Victoria Wells Wulsin Whatever (known around here as VW3) for a while, because her campaign appears to be on a downward spiral. Her “Brilliant!” (not) views on Iraq and energy haven’t changed at her web site since I ridiculed them in early July. If she’s not interested enough to stay current, I can be forgiven for losing interest in her efforts, or lack thereof. But I do have three words for VW3: malariotherapy, malariotherapy, and …. malariotherapy.
8:20 p.m. – In North Carolina, Liddy Dole’s opponent Kay Hagan got caught with her atheistic contributors exposed, and is offended that Dole had the gall to expose her. Too bad, so sad. That “PCUSA elder” stuff isn’t fooling me for a minute, and shouldn’t fool North Carolinians. Anyone who, like Hagan, is endorsed by Emily’s List supports the reinstatement of partial-birth abortion (or they don’t get an endorsement). Last time I checked there aren’t any religions, even PC ones, manning the barricades to support that (though they’ve so lost their nerve that many don’t speak out against it either). Of course, Hagan’s endorsement of Barack “won’t support a born-alive bill” Obama makes her even worse. Liddy Dole has largely been a pleasant surprise during her first Senate term, and she should continue.
7:30 p.m. – It’s really a shame I didn’t get a chance to call out OH-18 congressman Zack Space sooner. This guy is so out of step with his district’s values it’s not even a close call.
But wait a minute — I have learned Space’s thought-out position on Veterans’ issues. It’s right there at his web site. It’s “more info coming soon ….” And I’ll be — Space has the same firm position on “Broadband” and “Agriculture.” Did he focus-group those stances? You would think in two years that Space could come up with something other than, well, empty Space.
More seriously, Space claims to be pro-Second Amendment rights. The problem is that Space has endorsed Barack Obama (second item at link). We’ve been through this with John Boccieri; you objectively are not a supporter of the individual right to keep and bear arms if you have endorsed Obama, his clear lifelong antagonism to the Second Amendment, and his clear intent to put anti-Second Amendment judges on the Supreme Court and other federal courts. I’m thinking that Space has been missing without a trace since Obama’s bankrupting coal comments were exposed yesterday (if I’m wrong, e-mail me). Regardless, Space is clearly in the wrong place.
Fred Dailey is a perfectly solid guy who supposedly had no chance in the GOP primary, and emerged victorious. He supposedly has no chance now. I’m guessing it will be very close, and that Dailey will emerge victorious.
7:00 p.m. – It’s almost impossible NOT to start with a Dennis Kucinich callout. Not for the candidate, but for those who continue to vote for him. Though you could make a case against him based on the weeks and months he has wasted on hopeless impeachment motions and even more hopeless presidential campaigns, Kucinich has paid no price for abandoning his lifelong prolife beliefs almost 5 years ago. His district is supposedly heavily Catholic. Catholics need to remember two things, courtesy of Pius XII:
1) FIRST PRINCIPLE: “Any direct attempt on an innocent life as a means to an end – even to the end of saving another life – is unlawful;
2) SECOND PRINCIPLE: Hence there is no man, no human authority, no science, no medical, eugenic, social, economic or moral ‘indication’ that can offer or produce a valid juridical title to a direct deliberate disposal of an innocent human life.
Oh, there’s a third: What God promises he will do to those who ignore the two items just noted and don’t repent for it.
Jiim Trakas present no such problems. There is only one objectively defensible prolife choice.
