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by Jim Kelley on May.07, 2010, under Politics

This evening, JD Hayworth, Republican Party candidate for the US Senate, opened his Tucson campaign office. Attendance hovered over 100 people for about 2 hours. KGUN-9 covered the event alongside the BBC. Yes, the BBC, as in the British Broadcasting Corporation. I wiggled my way into an at length sit down interview with the former Congressman, radio host, television broadcaster, college football player and Eagle Scout. Of course I am reminded by Eagle Scouts throughout Arizona that there is no former to the Eagle Scout moniker, he is an Eagle Scout.

Prior to my time with the candidate, I spent some time talking to the people who came out to greet him. I spoke to a couple from Tucson who owns a local business, Tad Denton, age 42 and his wife Anita, age 37. They have never been active in politics before but have followed it. Tad is a native of Tucson and has some real estate investments and she runs an assisted living facility. They have belonged to the Tucson Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce, the Better Business Bureau, and other industry groups. They are pretty normal everyday Republicans living their dream as best as possible. I wanted to know what brought them out and what they intended to do. “Well, my city has only one level one trauma center at UMC. It seems all the politicians here care more about illegal immigrants than they do their own citizens.” Anita said. “I’m looking for a candidate that will cut the Federal government in half and secure our border. The government has grown way too large and is taking on responsibilities that don’t belong to the state.” said Tad. I asked them why they supported JD instead of John McCain. “I can relate to JD. As much as we appreciate Senator McCain’s service to our country, it is time for him to retire. From his past voting record we just can’t trust him anymore” they added.

 JD opened the Tucson office by standing on a table outside in the courtyard and opened with a joke. He said he was glad to see the BBC present because when the Daily Telegraph wrote a story about him they called him “the candidate with the broad shoulders, excellent voice projection and Trump like hair.” He was proud to announce that his son John Micah Hayworth has been elected to the president of the philosophy club at Notre Dame Preparatory High School in Phoenix and unseated an incumbent to do it. JD hopes it is ominous and prophetic. JD likes to tell the story of the woman and her daughter in Philadelphia at the time the Constitutional Convention was being held. Afterwards, the woman saw Benjamin Franklin and asked, “Dr Franklin, what form of government have you given us?” Franklin replied, “A Republic, if you can keep it.” This is probably one of JD’s favorite stump quotes because it takes him immediately into his philosophy of government and his view of our tasks and his vision for the future as a Republic. The other Franklin quote he gives is “A democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what’s for dinner. A republic is a well armed lamb contesting the vote.” JD believes the context of “well armed” means well educated and knowledgeable about the constitution and love for the Republic respecting the rights of the minority. He said  “There should always be energetic opposition, not grounded in negativity but on the Constitution itself.” He said Obamacare could have been defeated with four words that Senator McCain knew he could say and never did. Senator McCain could have at the time the clerk read the title and the motion made to accept the bill like it had been read, said “ Mr President , I object.” That would have forced under Senate rules the entire bill be read by the clerk and when he came upon a blank portion under any section, the American people would then know full well that Rahm Emanuel, the president’s Chief of Staff, was in Harry Reid’s office doing his best to fill in those blanks while Senators who had never read the bill prepared to vote on it.

“To date Senator John McCain, has not signed on as a co-sponsor to Senator Jim Dement’s (R-SC) bill to repeal Obamacare, nor has he signed any pledge to do so. All he has to do is go to www.repealitnow.org, and add his name to the petition and ask Senator Dement to be added as a co-sponsor.” “Senator McCain talks about his and Senator Jon Kyl’s ten point plan to reform immigration laws and secure the border, yet he has introduced no bill to that affect.” “In the past the people of Arizona have been skeptical of Senator McCain’s behavior, now they are just cynical.”

What subsidies would you support and what subsidies would you oppose?

Well the United States Postal Service is constitutionally subsidized, so that one stays. I see the Department of Commerce disappearing except for the National Weather Service and the Census Bureau. Everything else is on the table. The Obama administration has raised discretionary spending 80%. We need to freeze government spending at pre-stimulus levels and cut away at the size of government. We are going to have to make profound cuts in entitlements. We have no choice but to raise retirement age for Social Security.

Who can tell you when you are wrong?

First and foremost my wife.  (Immediately, his cell phone rang and it was his wife, Mary confirming that she can tell him when he is wrong). But the people of Arizona can and have and will. Persuasive argument is accepted and I do want to hear it and I will listen to it. I didn’t go to D.C the first time to be a career politician. I served from 1994 to 2006. The defeat helped me re-center myself back to my family and gave me time to reflect. I did register as a lobbyist but my primary function in that role was more as a political advisor to people that needed to know how to approach legislation than anything else. I have learned some tough lessons and I am stronger, and my family is stronger for it. I have been and will, with the voters consent again, be a citizen legislator. I will do twelve years and come home. I will be a steward of the office.

What calibrates your moral compass?

The Gospel of Jesus Christ. I am a Christian, which means I am a sinner requiring and requesting the grace of God. The constitution says no religious test is to be given as a qualification for office. It does not say I have to abandon my faith or my religion to be in office. When Winston Churchill, Harry Truman and Joseph Stalin were at Potsdam after World War II, Churchill returned to England for his campaign for the office of the Prime Minister of England. When he lost, he did not return to Potsdam. His wife said “Winston this may be a blessing in disguise.” Churchill replied “Well my dear, it is a very well disguised blessing indeed.”

If you were a cactus what kind of cactus would you be?

A stately saguaro. They have longevity.  (He then repeated a joke that Mo Udall once told him about the difference between a cactus and a caucus. Let’s just say I haven’t figured out how to clean up the punch line for this article).

So there you have it. JD Hayworth, candidate for the US Senate. I have met him on numerous occasions before this interview. He always remembered my name. He always greeted me enthusiastically. He did not know that I was writing a column at the Tucson Citizen for the last month until tonight. He just thought I was a substitute teacher and precinct committeeman. He didn’t hesitate to go on the record and he did not distract from any issue I discussed. I think his experience with various and nefarious players in the political world have honed his instincts but have not dampened his enthusiasm. I saw no cynicism in him tonight. I saw a man who believes in himself, believes all is not lost and believes that there are solutions to everything we are experiencing.  He knows he doesn’t have all the answers but he thinks he can bring the people who can contribute to solutions to the process, particularly people who have been marginalized by party organizations in the past. His grassroots support from the new conservative activists, the over 400 new precinct committeemen in Pima County as well as the large number of new recruits in Maricopa County give energy to his campaign not experienced for a long time in the Republican Party.

Can JD Hayworth beat Rodney Glassman? The polling shows he can. Can JD Hayworth beat John McCain? I don’t know yet. This summer will be the true test. JD Hayworth supporters are younger and have more to lose than John McCain supporters. They use the social media better than McCain supporters. They are more decentralized and cell like. They have a fire in their gut that McCain supporters don’t have in my opinion. McCain supporters are the same people that let Obama win.  I do know this; most McCain supporters do so out of a feeling of obligation. Hayworth supporters do so out of a desire for change. Change in the party, change in the state and change in the White House. Who usually wins those fights? A hint, as I was leaving the office I scanned the new volunteer sign up sheet, the Denton’s signed up.

The Prague Post – Opinion – Growing optimism.

The landslide victory of Fidesz in Hungary’s elections creates excitement for the first time in years; too bad most international analysts are easily distracted

Despite the skeptical and in some cases hostile reaction by most of the international media toward the recent political changes in Hungary, most Hungarians are optimistic and content. After years of the “doing nothing” policy of the Socialist party – during which the country sank into deep economic and moral morass – it is finally over. <snip>

For the first time in a long time, things are looking up – not that the international press seems to have noticed.

- The author is the online editor for the Hungarian weekly magazine HVG. He was formerly editor of the World Bank’s Transitions newsletter and a John S. Knight Fellow at Stanford University. 

Richard Hirschler can be reached at
features@praguepost.com

I don’t know how everybody else feels about it, but to me I

think Hispanic people in this country, legally or illegally,

made a huge public relations mistake with their recent demonstrations.

I don’t blame anybody in the world for wanting to come to the

United States of America , as it is a truly wonderful place.  

But when the first thing you do when you set foot on American soil is illegal it is flat out wrong and I don’t care how many lala land left heads come out of the woodwork and start trying

to give me sensitivity lessons.

I don’t need sensitivity lessons, in fact I don’t have any-thing against Mexicans!  I just have something against criminals and anybody who comes into this country illegally is a criminal

and if you don’t believe it try coming into America from a foreign country without a passport and see how far you get. What disturbs me about the demonstrations is that it’s tanta-mount to saying, “I am going to come into your country even if it means breaking your laws and there’s nothing you can do about it.”

It’s an “in your face” action and speaking just for me, I don’t like it one little bit and if there were a half dozen pairs of gonads in Washington bigger than English peas it wouldn’t be happening.

Where are you, you bunch of lily livered, pantywaist, forked tongued, sorry excuses for defenders of The Constitution? Have you been drinking the water out of the Potomac again?

And even if you pass a bill on immigration it will probably be so pork laden and watered down that it won’t mean anything anyway Besides, what good is another law going to do when you

won’t enforce the ones on the books now? 

And what ever happened to the polls, guys?  I thought you folks were the quintessential finger wetters.  Well you sure ain’t paying any attention to the polls this time because somewhere around eighty percent of Americans want some thing done about this mess, and mess it is and getting bigger everyday. 

This is no longer a problem, it is a dilemma and headed for being a tragedy.  Do you honestly think that what happened in France with the Muslims can’t happen here when the businesses who hire these people finally run out of jobs and a few million disillusioned Hispanics take to the streets? 

If you, Mr. President, Congressmen and Senators, knuckle under on this and refuse to do something meaningful it means that you care nothing for the kind of country your children and grand-children will inherit.  But I guess that doesn’t matter as long as you get re-elected.

Shame on you. 

One of the big problems in America today is that if you have the nerve to say anything derogatory about any group of people (except Christians) you are going to be screamed at by the media and called a racist, a bigot and anything else they can think of to call you 

Well I’ve been pounded by the media before and I’m still rockin’ and rollin’ and when it comes to speaking the truth I fear not. 

And the truth is that the gutless, gonadless, milksop politicians are just about to sell out the United States of America because they don’t have the intestinal fortitude to stand up to face reality. 

And reality is that we would never allow any other group of people to have 12 million illegal in this country and turn around and say, “Oh it’s ok, ya’ll can stay here if you’ll just allow us to slap your wrist.”

And I know that some of you who read this column are saying “Well what’s wrong with that?” 

I’ll tell you what’s wrong with it.  These people could be from Mars as far as we know.  We don’t know who they are, where they are or what they’re up to and the way the Congress is going we’re not going to. 

Does this make sense?  Labor force you say?  We already subsidize corporate agriculture as it is, must we subsidize their labor as well? 

If these people were from Haiti would we be so fast to turn a blind eye to them or if they were from Somalia or Afghanistan ? 

I think not. 

All the media shows us are pictures of hard working Hispanics who have crossed the border just to try to better their life. 

They don’t show you pictures of the Feds rounding up members of MS 13, the violent gang who came across the same way the decent folks did.  They don’t tell you about the living conditions of the Mexican illegal some fat cat hired to pick his crop. 

I want to make two predictions. 

No. 1: This situation is going to grow and fester until it erupts in violence on our streets while the wimps in Washington drag their toes in the dirt and try to figure how many tons of political hay they can make to the acre. 

No 2: Somebody is going to cross that border with some kind of weapon of mass destruction and set it off in a major American city after which there will be a backlash such as this country has never experienced and the Capitol building in Washington will probably tilt as Congressmen and Senators rush to the other side of the issue.  

I don’t know about you but I would love to see just one major politician stand up and say, “I don’t care who I make mad  and I don’t care how many votes I lose, this is a desperate situation and I’m going to lead the fight to get it straightened out.” 

I don’t blame anybody for wanting to come to America , but if you don’t respect our immigration laws why should you respect any others?   

And by the way, this is America and our flag has stars and stripes  Please get that other one out of my face. 

God Bless America

Charlie Daniels  

MY COUNTRY

  IF IT IS YOUR COUNTRY,

SPEAK UP!

I am not against immigration -

just come through like everyone else

Get a sponsor;

have a place to lay your head;

have a job;

pay your taxes;

live by the rules;

  and

LEARN THE LANGUAGE

as all other immigrants have in the past

and

GOD BLESS AMERICA!

PART OF THE PROBLEM

Think about this:

If you don’t want to forward this

for fear of offending someone,

YOU’RE PART OF THE PROBLEM!

Will we still be the Country of choice

and still be America if we continue

to make the changes forced on us by

people from other countries who came

  to live in America because it is the

Country of Choice?

Think about it!

All we have to say is, when will

Someone do something about

MY RIGHTS?  

We’ve gone so far the other way,

bent over backwards to not

offend anyone, that I am now

  being offended.

But it seems no one has a problem

with that.

“In God We Trust”

is our national motto. This is not

some Christian, right wing, political slogan.

We adopted this motto because Christian men

  and women – on Christian principles – founded

  this nation, and this is clearly documented. It is certainly appropriate to display it on the walls

 of our schools.  

It is Time for America to Speak up

New Television Ad Needs Support!
Spread the word…

For now, this ad is only running on our website and being distributed electronically to J.D. Hayworth supporters. 

But J.D. needs your help to get this advertisement on a television station near you.  Can you please help J.D. out by making a $25, $50, $100, or more contribution to the campaign so we can put this spot and others like it on television.  

The reality is – television ads are very expensive and our opponent is already spending millions on television and radio spots.  That’s why we urgently need whatever you can send.  

Early voting starts in July with the Republican Primary on August 24th.  Time is running out to raise money to get J.D.’s consistent conservative message to the voters. 

Please help today.  With your support, and with your vote, we can win this.  

For now, this ad is only running on our website and being distributed electronically to J.D. Hayworth supporters. 

But J.D. needs your help to get this advertisement on a television station near you.  Can you please help J.D. out by making a $25, $50, $100, or more contribution to the campaign so we can put this spot and others like it on television. 

The reality is – television ads are very expensive and our opponent is already spending millions on television and radio spots.  That’s why we urgently need whatever you can send.   

Early voting starts in July with the Republican Primary on August 24th.  Time is running out to raise money to get J.D.’s consistent conservative message to the voters. 

Please help today.  With your support, and with your vote, we can win this. 

Time Square Bomber a Democrat and Obama Donor?.

Still tracking down that news but one thing is clear: he wasn’t a Tea Partier!

There are reports that Faisal Shahzad, the failed Time Square bomber was a registered Democrat in Connecticut and may be a donor to Obama’s campaign.

This comes after the Mayor of New York, Michael Bloomberg openly speculated that the bomber might be “somebody with a political agenda who doesn’t like the health care bill or something.”

Coming on the heels of repeated warnings from Obama, Bill Clinton and others that Tea Parties might lead to violence it was only natural for libs to assume this attack may have been inspired by opposition to Obama. But like the other baseless charges in Obama’s political repertoire, this one turned out to be false as well.

Homeland Security almost let terrorist slip away?

What’s worse than the overt profiling of Tea Partiers is the sheer incompetence of the Obama Administration which nearly let Faisal Shahzad get away. While security at the JFK airport in New York City was busy patting down little old ladies, Shahzad boarded his flight to the Middle East, the plane had began to pull away from the gate and only at the last second was the suspect caught.

How is it that a man whose name should have immediately placed him on a “no fly” list would be allowed to board a plane? Were counter terrorism agents spending too much time tracking down Tea Partiers?
 
Meanwhile, the Obama Administration has a “boot to the throat” of British Petroleum ten days AFTER the oil spill began in the Gulf of Mexico yet they don’t seem to be paying much attention to the growing problem of terrorism in the U.S.!

National Guard May Be Needed To Stop Violence In Chicago

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DC Knows that Obama is Ineligible for Office.

Members from all three branches of the Federal government already know that Barack Hussein Obama is ineligible for the office of President. National leaders, to include members of the US Supreme Court, already know that Barack Hussein Obama is not a “natural born citizen” of the United States of America, and therefore, is ineligible for the office he currently holds.

What they don’t know is how long it will take for most Americans to figure it out, or what to do about it.

The diversionary search for an authentic birth certificate is ongoing and Obama has now spent in excess of $2 million in legal fees to keep that search alive.

Eric Holder’s Department of Justice continues to deploy taxpayer funded attorneys around the country to file dismissals on behalf of Obama, denying all American citizens access to the courts as a peaceful remedy, which only fuels the fire of discontent and the questions about Obama persist.

Michelle Obama states that Kenya is Barack’s “home country.” She knows, after twenty years with Barack. The Ambassador or Kenya has confirmed the same  His family friends all know it, and are in fact quite proud of the fact that Americans had no hesitation in electing a “black man from Kenya” as President of the United States.

The US Supreme Court knows what the constitutional condition of “natural born citizen” means. Even the most far left member of that court, Justice Ginsberg, is on record proclaiming that a “natural born citizen” is a birth child of TWO legal US citizens.

Democrat Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi knows that Barack Hussein Obama is not eligible for the office of president, which is why she refused to certify the following language when certifying Obama as the DNC candidate for president in 2008.

Glenn Beck closed out the three-day conservative conference on Saturday with a stirring speech. Watch the complete speech above…

It is with great excitement that we are passing on to you this breaking news development from Massachusetts where a brand new poll has Republican Scott Brown surging to a 4% lead in the polls for the Special Election for U.S. Senate.

Scott Brown now leads liberal Democrat Martha Coakley by a 50%-46% margin.  This is the first time Brown has hit the magical threshold of 50% in a poll, suggesting he has the momentum to win this race in this heavily Democratic state!

The Democrats are in a state of panic and have just dumped even more money into this race.  We here at the Tea Party Express are countering with our own TV ad campaign for Scott Brown that is running into the hundreds of thousands of dollars – thanks to your support.

Tomorrow we are expanding our ad buy even more – and we need your support.  The final deadlines for us to purchase advertising is the end of the day Friday, and then one last time for the end of the day Monday.  This is it, there are no more tomorrow’s – we must make our final push now!

You can make a contribution to our campaign effort for Scott Brown – HERE.

We must take action, for if we can pull out a victory, we stop the Democrats dead in their tracks in their effort to secretly ram through their socialistic healthcare plan.

That’s because Scott Brown wholeheartedly opposes the Democrat’s government-run healthcare plan and has made his opposition to it a central part of his campaign.

If Brown wins then he will be the deciding vote to kill the socialistic healthcare monstrosity in the Senate!

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