Trying to figure out why I, a registered Republican, have now received seven mailings, trashing Meg Whitman and/or touting Jerry Brown. The latest missive I received was “paid for by the California Democratic Party.” Glad they’re spending money on folks like me; the more mailings I receive, the more determined I am to vote against the California Democrats.

Now, given how gung-ho I am for my gal Carly, there’s never been a doubt that I’d vote, but you gotta wonder about the tactics of the California Democrats. If they’re sending their propaganda out to more apathetic Republican households (or disgruntled right-leaning independents), they may well spur them to vote Republican this fall.

Oh, and Jerry, given that you admitted you lied your way to power, I just can’t buy the Republican rhetoric in one of your many mailings, telling us how you’re so committed to balanced budgets.  Oh, and, instead of saying “No New Taxes Without Voter Approval,” how about just saying, “No New Taxes. Period.” And what about cutting taxes, particularly on job-creating small-businesses?  (According to the Tax Fondation, “California’s taxes on small businesses [are] some of the most burdensome in the nation.“)

California currently has the third highest state income tax and the third highest unemployment rate. As the sage might say, “Coincidence? I don’t think so.”

Oh, and by the way, aren’t the Democrats supposed to be the environmentally conscious ones? They must’ve killed a lot of trees so they can mail out all these missives.

After reading that Barbara “Boxer’s campaign manager Rose Kapolczynski [wished] “Carly Fiorina a speedy recovery and hope she is able to return to her normal schedule soon’“, I went on over to Mrs. Boxer’s web-site to see what the politician herself had to say about her rival’s illness and, well, didn’t find anything.

Seems the Democrat can’t take the time to do the decent thing and wish her opponent a speedy recovery.

As you may know, Carly was admitted to the hospital this morning due to an infection “associated with the reconstructive surgery” following her successful treatment for breast cancer.  (My gal was, alas, unable to attend the campaign fundraiser I attended earlier today).

Here’s the statement from the campaign:

Carly learned more than a year and a half ago that she, like millions of women, had breast cancer. After successfully battling cancer, she had reconstructive surgery this summer and remains cancer free today. However, this morning Carly came down with an infection associated with the reconstructive surgery and, as a result, she was admitted to the hospital to receive antibiotics to treat this infection. While this will impact her campaign schedule today, Carly is upbeat and her doctors expect her to make a quick and full recovery and be back out on the campaign trail soon. Carly is looking forward to getting back to her full campaign schedule and to defeating Barbara Boxer on November 2.

Boxer should join her campaign manager and all decent Californians in wishing Carly a speedy recovery.

In past elections, Barbara Boxer has won by putting her Republican opponent on defense. In 1992, at the last minute, the California Democrats’ lead henchman, Bob Mulholland, whom Hugh has dubbed “one of the most malevolent forces in American politics“, walked through one of her opponent’s events with a sign alleging that that good man “frequented” strip clubs. Bruce Herschensohn spent the remainder of the campaign on defense.

Well, Carly supporters should be prepared for Ma’am’s minions to pull another such stunt, given that most polls show my gal with momentum similar to that Herschensohn was building up before Mulholland’s stunt. Even CNN notes that Carly’s got Ma’am playing defense

Help Carly keep Ma’am playing defense. The more money Carly raises, the less chance we’ll have of ever having to call Barbara Boxer Senator again:

Call Me Madam Joe from RightChange on Vimeo.

UPDATE: Ed Morrissey looks at the latest poll and points out that “Boxer isn’t closing the deal in a deep-blue state, and that means Fiorina has a shot at victory here. If she didn’t, Feinstein wouldn’t be hitting the campaign trail, and the DSCC wouldn’t be dumping millions to protect Boxer.”

This morning, I attended a fundraiser for my gal Carly Fiorina in the heart of Barbara Boxer country, held in the same hotel where, we were told, Jimmy Carter and Michelle Obama were also staying.  The keynote speaker at the event was none other than Mitch McConnell, the Senate GOP Leader.

I had a chance to talk briefly with that good man from the Bluegrass State and learned that Okalahoma’s Tom Coburn is one of the Kentuckian’s closest friends in the Senate.  That cheered me greatly because Coburn has been perhaps the most principled fiscal conservative in the chamber.  Good to know the Republican Leader keeps such good company.   Should he have the chance to set the agenda next January as Senate Majority Leader, this friendship signals that he’ll be listening to a diligent watchdog of the U.S. Treasury.

Indeed, McConnell seems well-attuned to the shifting political tides.  While he backed Trey Grayson against Tea Party favorite Rand Paul in his state’s Republican primary, when asked today about the Tea Party, he said the “movement has been entirely positive.”  Later, he said he’d like to give the president the opportunity to veto legislation repealing Obamacare.

If I have a moment later today, I may fill you in on a few more details of his remarks, but the really remarkable thing was that he was making them here in deep “blue” Los Angeles in “blue” California the week before the election.  As Senate GOP Leader, he has a very busy schedule.  And yet he chooses to be in a state that hasn’t elected a Republican to the Senate in over two decades and which delivered 7% of its votes two years ago to the Republican presidential nominee.

One more thing.  I wasn’t the only gay person at the event.  I happened to sit next to wonderfully engaging lesbian who blogs at these two sites.

Please help Mitch McConnell restore some fiscal sanity to Washington, by sending a few more bucks to my gal Carly.

The California media would rather focus on Meg Whitman’s household than on Jerry Brown’s record.  It’s been 28 years since he was Governor and our memories grow dim.

To give you some sense of what Californians thought of the Democrat after his tenure in office, consider this.  1982 was a Democratic year.  Jerry Brown had opted not to run for a third term, but instead took a shot at the Golden State’s open Senate seat.   S.I. Hayakawa, the iconoclastic incumbent, was stepping down.

Brown faced off against the then-immediate past Mayor of San Diego, Pete Wilson who had (then) never previously held statewide office.  The then-incumbent Governor didn’t even clear 45% of the vote, losing by nearly 7 points and winning only 5 (of 58) counties (including the City of San Francisco).  He mustered 3,494,968 votes, 300,000 voters fewer than did Tom Bradley, the Democratic candidate for Governor that year.

Help Meg Whitman do in 2010 what Pete Wilson did just shy of 30 years ago.

In the fictional world of Hill Valley, California today is a momentous day in history. Twenty-five years ago this morning, while being chased by angry Libyans, Marty McFly attempts to outrun them in a gussied-up DeLorean. Instead of escaping from the Twin Pines Mall parking lot, the DeLorean reaches 88 mph, the flux capacitor designed by Dr. Emmett Brown activates and transpors Marty and the fancy car back to the year 1955.

The movie Back to the Future actually premiered in July of 1985 — 25 years ago. But those of us die-hard fans know all of the movie dates all too well. Oct. 26, 1985 at 1:24 AM is among the most important moments in the film’s storyline.

I was 17 years old when I first saw the DeLorean disappear in a flash on the big screen. No other movie made such an impression on me in my teen years as BTTF did. Perhaps it was the fact that like Marty, I was also a bit of a loner in high school and anxious about my own future. And yeah, there were Star Wars geeks & Trekkies — but ever since BTTF I’ve been a time travel fanatic.

So cheers to Steven Spielberg, Robert Zemeckis & Dr. Brown on the 25th anniversary of the first trip of the time traveling DeLorean!!

-Bruce (GayPatriot)

Looks like Jimmy Carter may have won his own eponymous contest again.  Back in 2007, we awarded Dan Rather the 1st James Earl Carter Bitter Old Man Award (JEC BOMA):

Named in honor of the nation’s thirty-ninth president, the JEC BOMA honors those men over 70 who, in their dotage, by the very bitterness of their manner, follow in the footsteps of the nation’s worst president.

We have selected Mr. Carter’s name to go on the (yet to be designed trophy) for his nearly twenty-seven years of sour grapes. Having not gotten over his 1980 landslide loss to Ronald Reagan, Carter has become a perpetual critic of his successors . . . . Through the better part of his public actions since voters in 44 states rejected him, this sourpuss has helped redefine the term Bitter Old Man.

He’s still whining about the Gipper’s victory.

Hey, Jimmah, in 1980, Reagan may have got fewer than 51% of the vote; actually he had 50.75% of the popular vote, even with a third candidate in the race, a little higher share that he 50.08% you attracted in 1976 — without a third party candidate in the race. And no, John Anderson didn’t announce at the last minute.

(H/t:  Pat Dollard via Bruce’s twitter feed.)

Pelosi: ‘We haven’t really gotten the credit for what we have done’

FROM THE COMMENTS:  American Elephant begs to differ with the Speaker:

Yes, they have gotten credit for what they have done. That’s precisely why they are being fired en masse.

Just “before a campaign event for her colleague Barbara Boxer in San Jose on Monday,” Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein,

. . . was greeted by a reporter who asked how things are going.

Her answer: “Bad.”

“In the House?” pressed KTVU political editor Randy Shandobil. Feinstein didn’t answer…

A telling silence.  Wonder if she was aware of some of her colleague’s internal polling indicating that the 28-year Washington veteran had reached a ceiling in popular support — and that independents and late-deciders were leaning toward Carly.

Help make things worse for Barbara Boxer, send a few bucks to the woman seeking to send the career politician packing.

Jerry Brown admits lying in his previous tenure as California Governor:

Guess then his change of tune on taxes today is just another lie.

(H/t: reader Jesse, via Breitbart.tv.)

But, as we know from the media treatment of Barbara Boxer that when Democrats misrepresent American history  – or their own record — well, it just isn’t newsworthy. Jeff Dunetz reports about Lois Capps, the Democratic Congressman from Santa Barbara.

Last year, while holding a town hall about the Obamacare bill she was asked where in the Constitution does it say the government can provide health care?  Her answer was that the Constitution guarantees Health, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness. Of course, Capps is wrong on two counts, the phrase is LIFE, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness, and the line is in the Declaration of Independence not the constitution. This is the quality of some of our people in Congress, they have no idea about the document they are sworn to uphold.

(H/t: my co-blogger via his Twitter freed.)

Commenting on Tammy Bruce’s post (that I blogged about earlier today), Glenn Reynolds gets it, “You’re better off being a gay conservative with the right, than a conservative gay with the left.”

Pretty much my experience.  And I would dare say that of many of our readers.

Having failed to accomplish much of anything for the Golden State in her 28 years in Washington, Barbara Boxer has based her campaign, not so much on defending her record, but attacking her opponent. While the California media have largely been silent about Boxer’s misrepresentations of her own record and questionable investments, it’s been up to her opponent to remind us of that record:

Since the media aren’t telling us the truth about this failed Senator, you can help Carly Fiorina remind us what a disaster Barbara Boxer has been for California.

Principled lefty blogger Michael Petrelis has read through HRC’s recently released 2010 IRS 990 filings so you and I don’t have to.  Among other things, he found that the Democratic front group gay advocacy organization saw a steep drop in its revenue:

The annual report shows that revenue for 2009 was at $45,792,310, and for 2010 it was $37,918,133. The difference comes to $7,874,177, which is a drop of 17%.

The lousy economy certainly played a role in that steep fall, but my gut also says a significant portion of the decline is due to more gays not donating to HRC.

Wonder if being White House lickspittles had anything to do with that drop-off in donations.  Read the whole thing to see what other tidbits Petrelis pulled out.

Building on Petrelis’ post, Ryan Tedder at Queerty quips, “Luckily, if you work at HRC you wouldn’t have noticed any budget problems in your paycheck“:

Digging through the forms that he’s been urging HRC to release, Michael Petrelis finds in salary and benefits, programming head David Smith is taking home $245k, (now former?) development director Cathy Nelson took home $272k, and president Joe Solmonese is still earning a cool $304k . . . . That’s roughly what they earned in the previous year, thanks to a two-year pay freeze mandated by the board of directors in 2008.

Maybe HRC’s fundraising prowess is just not what it’s cracked up to be.  Or, maybe gay conservatives and gay lefty bloggers are right that Solmonese’s leadership has been lacking.

Earlier today, Glenn Reynolds quipped, “SO DO DEMOCRATS THINK THERE’S SOMETHING WRONG WITH BEING GAY? Protester Who Called Andrew Breitbart ‘Gay’ Is A Democrat Party Official.”

So, I followed the link.  Over at Big Government, we learn, “This person has now been identified by multiple sources as a local Democratic Party official named Sue Walton.”

Now, over to GLAAD’s website where the masthead reminds us that “words & images matter.”  Plug Sue Walton into the search engine.  Our result, “No results found for Sue Walton“. Now, a search for Vince Vaughn.  The organization defined as “anti-gay” a scene in the movie The Dilemma where the “actor uses the word ‘gay’ as an insult.”

Now, we’ve got a Cook County Democratic Party Official using the term as an insult and GLAAD is silent.   Wonder why that is.

He may be leading in the polls in the California gubernatorial contest, but that’s because our media have seen fit to all but ignore his record as governor in the 1970s and his bizarre statements over the past three decades.  If this contest were to turn on Jerry Brown, Meg Whitman would win in a landslide.

I mean, bringing Jerry Brown in to fix Sacramento today is like having a man wear a leisure suit (and a moth-eaten one at that) to a job in Silicon Valley.  His governing philosophy comes straight out of the 1970s.

Hardly the man we need to fix a state which repeatedly faces budget “shortfalls” and where public employee unions all but control the state legislature.  Before his first election to public office, the state Assembly Speaker spent his career working for unions, having “served as political director for United Food and Commercial Workers before his election to the Assembly in 2008. His resume includes 15 years of serving labor unions, including a stint with the California Labor Federation.”

We need a governor able to stand up to the public employee unions, yet they’re out there campaigning or him.  We need a governor who will rein in state spending, but Jerry Brown just wants to keep on spending:

So, basically, he wants to balance the budget and then start spending again, putting us right back in the mess we’ve been since his understudy Gray Davis’ tenure as chief executive of the Golden State.

As Hugh Hewitt put it when posting this video:

Jerry also doesn’t seem to understand why film production has fled California.  It isn’t about permits, but about tax policy.  Does any Democrat anywhere in the United States understand that capital and production are mobile?  Can go anywhere at any time, and will?

And that’s why businesses are leaving the state, with Intel announcing that it’s building a new facility in Oregon — despite all the vacant office space in Silicon Valley.  We don’t need more spending, Jerry, we need less government.

Support someone who wants to rein in Sacramento’s spending.

At a Democratic rally at the University of Southern California for the president of the United States, one of the leading Democrats in the state used a sexual slur to malign members of the most dynamic, grassroots political movement in the country:

[Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa] relinquished the stage to his cousin, Assembly Speaker John Perez. Perez is running unopposed in his district, so he doesn’t need an Obama bump. But there he was anyway, sending his own personal “message to the teabaggers” that not only do Democrats understand the Constitution, but they’ve also read it. Zing! Who are you again?

Emphasis added.  How would this openly gay Democrat feel if social conservatives at a rally for a prominent Republican referred to gay “equality” advocates as “sodomites”?   They would rightfully be offended and would condemn both the mean-spirited speaker — and the prominent Republican.

As state Assembly Speaker, Mr. Perez serves all the people of California, including those of us who support the Tea Party Movement.

This Democrat should be ashamed of himself for using such juvenile rhetoric, particularly in a public forum.  He should forthwith issue an apology.  And while he’s at it, he would do well to invite a coalition of Tea Party activists to his office in order to familiarize himself with our concerns.

(H/t Gateway Pundit.)

So says the San Gabriel Valley Tribune in its endorsement of my gal Carly:

Those accomplishments are entirely in the private sector. In our ongoing economic downturn to which joblessness is key, it’s precisely someone who understands private-sector job creation who we want representing us in Washington. As a Silicon Valley leader, the only woman CEO of a Fortune 20 corporation, Fiorina understands the way forward economically for our state.

You can help this accomplished woman get the Golden State back on track by supporting her campaign.

If the National Republican Senatorial Committee has committed an additional $3 million to this race, you too can help out.  They sense that this race is winnable.  And wouldn’t it be nice to wake up on November 3, knowing that Ma’am could never ask anyone to call her Senator ever again?  Help us work hard to relieve her of that title.

Call Me Madam Joe from RightChange on Vimeo.

It seems that some liberals in the media have a remarkable unity of thought when it comes to gay conservatives.  Since our pal Tammy Bruce started writing for Britain’s left-of-center publication, The Guardian, she’s asked the same question we at GayPatriot get on almost a daily basis:

. . . what is it like to be gay and conservative?

After all, those conservatives hate the homos, don’t they? It must be very, very difficult for me, one concerned reader noted, to be among the intolerant and hateful.

And no matter how many times we relate our experiences, we almost always get the same incredulous look, as if they know better what it’s like to be gay and conservative (from reading the New York Times) than we know what it’s like being gay and conservative (by being openly gay in conservative circles).  In their reaction to us, they display a certain prejudice, a prejudice being:

“1. an unfavorable opinion or feeling formed beforehand or without knowledge, thought, or reason[,] 2. any preconceived opinion or feeling, either favorable or unfavorable.“

They have come to their opinion without knowledge of the real experiences of gay conservatives.  Not wonder Tammy finds that

The real story of bigotry and intolerance is the fact that it lives and thrives on the left. As a gay woman who spent most of her adult life pushing the cart for liberal causes with liberal friends in a liberal city, I found that sexism, racism and homophobia are staples in the liberal world. The huge irony is liberals spend every ounce of energy promoting the notion that they are the banner carriers of individualism and personal freedom, yet the hammer comes down on anyone who dares not to conform to, or who dissents even in part from, the liberal agenda.

Read the whole thing.

We have, by and large, found welcome on the right.  And over time, the intolerance on the left makes us stronger.  And helps us judge the character of our interlocutors.  For while we often deal with liberal bigotry, we also frequently find open-minded “progressives” who in their interactions with us demonstrate an ability to rise above the prejudices of their peers.

Just as they hold the majority in both houses of Congress, so too do Democrats hold the majority in both houses of the California legislature.  While they may have ruled the roost on Capitol Hill for just four years, in Sacramento, it’s a different story.  Democrats have controlled both chambers for fourteen years.

Since 1992, only Democrats have represented the Golden State in the United States Senate.  And now, at least according to CBS’s”60 Minutes,” the real unemployment rate here in 22%:

(Via JammieWearingFool.)

Remember how back in February 2010, Barbara Boxer who has represented California in the United States Senate for 18 long years, echoed the White House in telling us the “stimulus” would create (or save) “approximately 400,000 jobs” in the Golden State.

And now, nearly one quarter of the Californians are unemployed or underemployed.  This is what comes from putting Democrats in charge.  It’s time that one California Democrat lose her job.  Please help the woman who is seeking to retire that career politician.