I post these poll data merely as fodder to ruin our liberal trolls’ evening.

On major issues, 48% of voters say that the average Tea Party member is closer to their views than President Barack Obama. The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey found that 44% hold the opposite view and believe the president’s views are closer to their own.

Not surprisingly, Republicans overwhelmingly feel closer to the Tea Party and most Democrats say that their views are more like Obama’s. Among voters not affiliated with either major political party, 50% say they’re closer to the Tea Party while 38% side with the President.

Poll after poll shows that Independent voters have fled Obama and are not coming back.  This is a fact.  Not a conspiracy theory about BushHalliburtonCheneyRove.

Facts are stubborn things.  Liberals should study facts more, not create their own realities.

-Bruce (GayPatriot)

Since Tom Campbell trailing badly in the race for the California GOP gubernatorial nomination jumped to the Senate race, I have been largely silent on this blog about the move.  To be sure, at least two of his new media people, both individuals I respect, have reached out to me.

While I have never shifted my personal allegiance from Carly Fiorina, I was initially less concerned about Campbell’s candidacy than that of Chuck DeVore.  I had heard Campbell speak last June at a Cato event here in LA and was impressed with his understanding of and commitment to the ideas and ideals of free markets.  But, given his record in Sacramento where he served a stint as director of the California Department of Finance, it seems that commitment is entirely rhetorical.

And then, we learned about his association with some unsavory characters who had terrorist associations.  Today, Jimmy LaSalvia, Executive Director of GOProud is calling the FCINO (Fiscal Conservative in Name Only) out on those ties:

[LaSalvia said,] “The greatest threat facing gay people worldwide is the spread of radical anti-gay Islam. Unfortunately, Tom Campbell’s record makes it clear he either doesn’t understand that or is unwilling to confront it.”

Campbell wrote a letter of support for convicted terrorist Sami Al-Arian, who actually raised money for Campbell’s failed run for Senate in 2000. Al-Arian was indicted in February 2003 as the North American head of Palestinian Islamic Jihad. In the indictment, it was revealed that in Al-Arian’s communications with his colleagues were discussions of terrorist operations. Among the victims of these operations in Israel were several Americans.

“Tom Campbell raised money from and publicly voiced support for a convicted terrorist,” continued LaSalvia. “A man who once publicly declared, ‘Jihad is our path. Victory to Islam. Death to Israel. Revolution. Revolution until victory. Rolling to Jerusalem.”

This is not a man gay people can, in good conscience, support.

If Campbell’s lead in the polls for the GOP Senate nomination does not continue to erode as it appears to be doing, Democrats would be wise to tap Micky Kaus as their party’s nominee for the U.S. Senate.  Many Republicans, straight and gay alike, wary of supporting a candidate with associations like Campbell’s might opt for a new face instead of the failed Senator now ending her third term in Washington.

The crash is hard when it comes.  Our poor yoot were deceived and ignorant about what/who they were voting for.  Perhaps their eyes are slowly opening....

[U]pper-middle-class professionals—are suddenly downwardly mobile. For years, they used rising family wealth to help foot the bill for college, down payments for houses and start-up cash for children’s careers. But pay cuts, layoffs and the decade-long flat-lining of the stock market mean many families can no longer help their children.

This comes as young adults could use a financial helping hand more than ever. The unemployment rate for workers ages 16 to 29 was 15.2% in March, the highest rate since 1948, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

In general, highly trained and educated workers are faring better than those without degrees in this labor market. The unemployment rate for college graduates is 5%, compared with 9.7% overall. In general, the employment picture is improving, with employers adding 162,000 jobs in March, the biggest monthly gain in three years.

Even so, the average length of unemployment, 31 weeks, is at its highest level since 1948. There were a total of 2.3 million unemployed college graduates in March 2010, 1.45 million more than in March 2007, with heavy layoffs in white-collar sectors such as finance.

So the young are being penalized by Obama’s economic policies and healthcare mandate.  And those making over $250,000 (who voted for Obama by a majority) are now having to pay for the rest of the President’s welfare policies.

I think I’ve figured out Obama’s principles:  Use them, throw them under the bus, move on to next target.  No wonder he hearts Castro & Chavez.

-Bruce (GayPatriot)

Unlike Bruce, I have only recently become a fan of Ann Coulter.

I knew her when we were both in law school, she at Michigan, I at U-VA and while impressed with her intellect, I was irritated by her schtick, playing the leggy blond right-winger who said outrageous things. She used her looks as did Helen, daughter of Tyndarus (later of Troy), Cleopatra and Evita, to advance her career, especially as they (those looks) contrasted with the pock-marked, pot-bellied stereotypical outspoken conservative who also said outlandish things.

In an ideal world, her commentary would be beyond the pale.  She says some things which are deliberately provocative, but her commentary is no less provocative than that which passes for serious liberal thought on the editorial pages of our nation’s major dailies and on cable TV.

We are, however, not living in an ideal world.  We live in a world, at evidenced by the attacks on the Tea Party when some in the media report as news inaccurate stories about racist conservative activists, activists who exist only in the heads of Democratic Congressmen and their various and sundry echo chambers.

I had an insight about Ann about the time last year I heard her speak at David Horowitz’s birthday celebration.  (I went not so much to hear her speak, but to honor David, a man I have long respected.)  I realized that in the world as it is — and not as we’d like it to be — she is an ideal conservative spokesman (no spokesperchild she).

What Ann does is just throw the left’s broadsides on conservatives back at them, returning with a playful smile what lefties send out with a self-righteous scowl.  She mocks in good fun and to make a point.

I thought of Ann today when Byron York was looking into the left hyperventilating over Rush Limbaugh responding to the president’s attack on him, calling his Administration a regime:  ”By using the word ‘regime,’ Limbaugh was doing something he does all the time: throwing the language of the opposition back in their faces.”

In short, Coulter’s “schtick” is a lot like Limbaugh’s.

Ann, I apologize for not getting you before.  I was holding our side to a higher standard.  Sometimes in the current media atmosphere, you have to respond in kind to get heard.  And to make a point.