As you may recall, The Obamessiah recently ran an ad aimed at Gov. Palin, which many saw as demeaning and sexist. Now, here’s the return volley by the gals from “Team Sarah.”

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Can she pull off an election upset?

On a radio talk show, Republican Senate candidate Donna Perry accuses her opponent, Democratic incumbent M. Teresa Paiva Weed, of thwarting legislation to curb illegal immigration.

At a fundraiser, Perry says Paiva Weed “represents a sellout of the middle class” because she and the Democratic leadership care only about “the entitlement pie of state government.”

And at a candidates forum in Middletown, she criticizes Paiva Weed for avoiding important gambling decisions because her law firm represents Newport Grand.

Perry, former executive director of the state Republican Party and sister of conservative talk show host John DePetro, is clearly waging a vigorous campaign in Senate District 13, representing Newport and Jamestown. But can she pull off an election upset?…

Read More: The Providence Journal

Come celebrate VICTORY with the Rhode Island Republican Party!

The state Republican Party’s party will be held at Ruth’s Chris Steak House, 10 Memorial Boulevard, in Providence (located in the G-tech Building, across from Providence Place Mall ) on Tuesday, November 4th, 2008. Doors will open at 7:00 PM, and the event should go all night long (or longer!).

Come enjoy tasty appetizers and watch the state and national election returns come in on the big screeen TV’s. There will be Complimentary Valet Parking available.

Many of the local GOP committees and candidates will be having their own parties, however, please still make an effort to drop by afterwards at some point. It will be night to remember (hopefully, in a good way)! By the way, there’s a very well-stocked bar available at Ruth’s Chris … just in case.

This should go without saying, but … make sure you vote on Election Day! Polls are open from 7:00am to 9:00pm statewide. Try to vote in off-peak hours, as turnout is expected to be heavier than normal. If you don’t know your specific polling location, you can check the RI Secretary of State’s website for more information.

For more information, contact RIGOP HQ at 401-732-8282 | lvargas [at] rigop [dot] org

Protect your rights on Election Day. Check the candidates’ records — and see who stood up for your families, and who protected the criminals.

Chuck Norris, infamous for his web ads with Gov. Mike Huckabee, re-enters the electoral fray with a commercial for the National Rifle Association. It’s titled “An Outlaw’s Worst Nightmare,” and Norris certainly qualifies for that all by himself. He asks a very good question for people to consider on November 4th.

The ad doesn’t outright say “Vote McCain-Palin on November 4th,” but the conclusions one may infer from the ad should be fairly obvious. There’s no First Amendment without a healthy Second Amendment.

This new McCain ad uses Barack “The One” Obama against Barack “The Redistributor” Obama. The truth about Obama is starting to come out in public … finally.

The McCain campaign hits Barack Obama again on foreign policy in their latest 30-second spot. “Tiny” focuses on Obama’s stumble earlier this year on Iran, scoffing at the notion that it presented any danger to the US.

Iran. Radical Islamic government. Known sponsors of terrorism. Developing nuclear capabilities to generate power, but threatening to eliminate Israel.

Obama says Iran is a “tiny” country, “doesn’t pose a serious threat.”

Terrorism, destroying Israel, those aren’t “serious threats?” Obama — dangerously unprepared to be President.

Committee members from across the state support EP efforts of transparency

School Committee members across Rhode Island support the East Providence School Committee and its commitment to holding contract negotiation meetings open to the public. Currently, public sector contracts are negotiated behind closed doors. The public is denied the right to know how their money is being spent until the deal is signed and it’s too late to change it.

The opponents of transparent negotiations claim that opening the process would stifle negotiations with ‘onerous public input,’ ‘grandstanding’ and ‘political maneuvering’. However, Florida, Tennessee and Minnesota actually require open negotiations and they are all exhibiting positive results.

Hiding contract negotiations from public scrutiny is not required by law. Prior to each negotiation, the two parties establish ground rules. It is within these voluntary ground rules that the public loses their right to participate.

Chariho Regional School Committee member, Bill Felkner, having failed in the past to get his committee to support the change mustered quickly to the cause of the East Providence School committee and in the course of an hour yesterday had 8 other school committee members from across the state join him in endorsing open negotiations and decrying the old boy closed door attitudes of the past:

“Contract negotiations should move to the public realm. Absolutely.”
“It’s the people’s contract and they have a right to have input on the final outcome.”
“I do support holding the negotiations in public.”
“It could very easily be done in a professional and productive manner.”
“The public has a right to know what is on the table since it is their tax dollars involved.”
“I would like to see all contract negotiations done in public.”
“I think it would be quite beneficial for the people.”
“Open meetings would provide transparency and equity to the process and in this funding environment, people need to know where their money is going.”

Felkner said he is encouraged by the recent push for transparency, “Many times the school committee members themselves want to keep the public out, so this is certainly a positive sign. There really is no reason for this secrecy. If taxpayers had a say, I’m sure they would insist on open meetings.”

The signed public school committee members below would like to request that open sessions be required for all public sector contract negotiations and express their support for the efforts taking place in East Providence. There are other committee members expressing support but did not respond in time to participate. Others wish to remain anonymous. The co-signers represent their own opinions and not that of the committees they serve. A copy of this release will be sent to the RI Board of Regents.

Douglas Roth, North Kingstown
David Coughlin, Pawtucket
Renee Cockerill, North Kingstown
Sandra Gabaree, Johnston
Mark Baker, Glocester
Jean Ann Guliano, East Greenwich
Paul Cannistra, Warwick
Joseph Quinn, Tiverton
Bill Felkner, Hopkinton/Chariho

Press Contact:
Bill Felkner
401-474-1893
Hopkinton Representative of the Chariho Regional School Committee

Mark Levin, over at The Corner on NRO, wrote an excellent piece this weekend entitled, The Obama Temptation, wondering aloud why normally rational people may be so will to risk the future of our country on the “hope” of someone they know so little about.

‘ve been thinking this for a while so I might as well air it here. I honestly never thought we’d see such a thing in our country - not yet anyway - but I sense what’s occurring in this election is a recklessness and abandonment of rationality that has preceded the voluntary surrender of liberty and security in other places. I can’t help but observe that even some conservatives are caught in the moment as their attempts at explaining their support for Barack Obama are unpersuasive and even illogical. And the pull appears to be rather strong. Ken Adelman, Doug Kmiec, and others, reach for the usual platitudes in explaining themselves but are utterly incoherent. Even non-conservatives with significant public policy and real world experiences, such as Colin Powell and Charles Fried, find Obama alluring but can’t explain themselves in an intelligent way.

There is a cult-like atmosphere around Barack Obama, which his campaign has carefully and successfully fabricated, which concerns me. The messiah complex. Fainting audience members at rallies. Special Obama flags and an Obama presidential seal. A graphic with the portrayal of the globe and Obama’s name on it, which adorns everything from Obama’s plane to his street literature. Young school children singing songs praising Obama. Teenagers wearing camouflage outfits and marching in military order chanting Obama’s name and the professions he is going to open to them. An Obama world tour, culminating in a speech in Berlin where Obama proclaims we are all citizens of the world. I dare say, this is ominous stuff…

…But beyond the elites and the media, my greatest concern is whether this election will show a majority of the voters susceptible to the appeal of a charismatic demagogue. This may seem a harsh term to some, and no doubt will to Obama supporters, but it is a perfectly appropriate characterization. Obama’s entire campaign is built on class warfare and human envy. The “change” he peddles is not new. We’ve seen it before. It is change that diminishes individual liberty for the soft authoritarianism of socialism…

Read More: The Corner on National Review Online

What generally makes a Saturday Night Live political skit funny, is how closely it comes to the reality of a situation. In this skit, Sen. Joe Biden and Rep. Jack Murtha take turns at inadvertently trying to blow the presidential election for Sen. Obama. Enjoy!

You might have heard that at a recent Obama rally in New Hampshire, the singing of the National Anthem — which had been scheduled to be sung by a local teenager — was canceled without explanation. Obama’s campaign people insisted afterwards that the singing of the National Anthem would have taken valuable time away from the many speakers they had lined up … but the truth may be somewhat different.

It appears they have been secretly working on their own version of the Anthem and are waiting until just after the election to have it ratified by the Democrats who control both houses of Congress. You may as well start learning it now, as this is what we will have to look forward to, unless…

OBAMA ANTHEM LYRICS

All hail the Messiah
Obama, Obama
The path to the new socialist motherland
Our Savior, our Savior
Obama, Obama
The leader more famous than Lindsay Lohan
Bow down and praise the One
Give Him your money and your guns
Give us a country
That makes your wife proud
Lord Barry heal the bitter ones
White and clinging to faith and to guns
Hope for the change of the hope of the change!

PS Just in case you don’t immediately recognize that rousing tune, it is based on the Hymn “Gimn Sovetskogo Soyuza,” the National Anthem of the former Soviet Union.

Courtesy of the Glenn Beck Show

Joe, you’re certainly not alone!

“Joe the Plumber” all but came out of the water closet for Sen. John McCain on Friday, saying that his famous exchange with Sen. Barack Obama made him “scared for America” and that he doesn’t trust the Democratic presidential candidate on taxes.

The plumber, aka Joe Wurzelbacher, burst into the headlines after he buttonholed Mr. Obama less than two weeks ago during a campaign stop in his Holland, Ohio, neighborhood and quizzed him about his tax policy. On Friday, he said that he wasn’t impressed by the Illinois senator in their encounter.

“When I was face to face with him, my honest first impression was that I expected something more. I had heard so much about ‘his presence’ in the media that I was surprised to find that he seemed very average,” Mr. Wurzelbacher wrote in a live online chat on WashingtonTimes.com (read the transcript with Mr. Wurzelbacher here).

“My gut feeling as he answered my questions? I was scared for America,” he wrote in response to a reader who asked “When you were face to face with Obama, what were you thinking and how did it feel?”

Mr. Wurzelbacher, arguably the world’s most famous plumber, has become a cornerstone of Mr. McCain’s Republican campaign, which had embarked on a statewide blitz across Florida in a series of “Joe the Plumber” events aimed at blue-collar workers…

Read More: The Washington Times

2008 Presidential Race: Educate and Get Out the Vote - Update 1

The integrity and indeed the the basic fundamentals of our nation may be in the process of being compromised.

Please check out the link for the Michael Savage Radio show and listen to the following interview.

In it, Savage interviews Democrat attorney Philip J. Berg, Esq., the former Deputy Attorney General of Pennsylvania, about his federal lawsuit which demands that Barack Obama present his original birth certificate in order to prove once and for all that he is a “natural born” citizen of the United States, and is thus Constitutionally qualified to serve as President of the United States, should he be elected.

http://michaelsavage.wnd.com/?pageId=2256

Thank you for your time going to the website and for supporting the U.S. Constitution and the American People.

Please Remember to Vote on November 4th. Please vote for John McCain for President.

God’s speed and blessing in all you do.

Conservatively yours,

Raymond T. McKay
President, RIRA

PS I will be leaving later today for New Hampshire, and will be there through Election Day. I will be assisting the McCain-Palin campaign with their GOTV operation and with other things in that critical state. I’ll keep you informed of anything newsworthy.

An Event for the Whole Family!

The Walk-A-Thon takes place on Saturday October 25, 2008

9:00 am - Registration
10:00 am - Walk Begins at RIRTL Headquarters, 266 Smith Street, Providence.

Walk will end at the Rhode Island State House with a brief address.

Parking is available at St. Patrick’s Church on Smith Street. Refreshments will be provided. $10 suggested donation per individual/per family.

Matching Donor Incentive - Every dollar will be matched dollar for dollar!
Great way to fill Community Service hours for students.

Attention Parents and Students: We have a rewards* program for any elementary or high school students wishing to get sponsors and help raise money. For those who earn over $10 in donations you will receive a precious feet pin. If you earn over $50 you will receive a pin and t-shirt. Most amount of donations collected (donations collected must be equal or greater than$100) then you will receive a pin, t-shirt and your choice of either a $100 visa gift card or IPod Shuffle**.

To get your sponsor sheet you may call Alison at 521-1860.

In the event of a tie the prize will be in the form of cash and spit between the winners.

Prize is not based on school or group participation but determined by individual participation.

RI Right to Life
266 Smith Street
Providence, Rhode Island 02908

We always kind of assumed this, since every liberal we’ve interacted with seems to be miserable and devoid of a sense of humor. Of course, there are always exceptions.

Now the good news for Republicans: You are happier than Democrats. You always have been, and you probably always will be.

Never mind that your presidential candidate is sinking in the polls while your president plumbs historic depths of popular scorn and your free market squeals for intervention while your investments evaporate on Wall Street. You are not just happier than the other guys, but more of you are very happy indeed, according to new survey results published yesterday by the Pew Research Center.

The pollsters were in the field asking about happiness this month, a period when economic news was gloomy for everybody and presidential campaign news seemed especially baleful for Republicans. Yet they found 37 percent of Republicans are “very happy,” compared with 25 percent of Democrats; 51 percent of Republicans and 52 percent of Democrats are “pretty happy”; and 9 percent of Republicans are “not too happy,” compared with 20 percent of Democrats.

The partisan happiness gap — unbroken for nearly four decades — is impervious to electoral ups and downs. It has something to do with worldview.

“I’m very happy,” says Grover Norquist, president of Americans for Tax Reform, and a Republican. “When I was 12, I realized the world was not organized around my desires and wishes. The problem with guys on the left is they never figured that out at age 12. And they’re just irritated the world is not organized around their vision. This makes them grumpy.”…

Read More: The Washington Post