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Celebrating the 45th Anniversary of "The Speech"

"A Time for Choosing"; (October 27, 1964)
Ronald Wilson Reagan

 


It Is Again a Time For Choosing.

President Obama's agenda is proving to be far more radical than ever imagined, even by some Democrats. The tactics they are using to advance their agenda are familiar to third world despots and, while still short of the lengths a Castro would go to, they seem to draw closer day by day.

Republican voters must elect leaders that are strong Conservatives, who are willing to stand with everyday Americans against the tide of Socialism that Obama and his followers are intent on imposing on us. We need to elect Republicans that will not just slow down the Left's progress toward socialism, but will stop it and reverse it.

  • We don't need "squishy" Republicans who are afraid the Press will ridicule them for espousing conservative principles.
  • We don't need Republicans who will fall for Liberal promises of "compromise" and "bipartisanship" and who will "go along to get along."
  • We don't need Republicans whose answer to every perceived problem is to heap more government regulations on top of the already existing mountain, much of which owes its existence to legislators who habitually ignore the Constitution.
  • We don't need Republicans who believe the government must have ever more tax dollars while our personal assets shrink, our jobs disappear and the liberty so many have fought and died for is eroded by an ever encroaching State.
  • There is a bumper sticker that is growing in popularity. Have you seen it yet? It says "NO INCUMBENTS" and it indicates a growing awareness that America is in trouble and that people are beginning to figure out why. Angelo Codevilla, writing in The American Spectator describes in crystal prose what it is we've all been watching happen and yet not seeing: America's Ruling Class -- And the Perils of Revolution

With all that in mind, we are beginning our Endorsement Page for the August 24, 2010 Republican Primary


US Senate

First up, the race every conservative Republican in Arizona has been hoping to see for at least twelve of the last twenty four years. McCain, the Proud Maverick has come home, hat in hand to beg for a fifth (and final, he says) six year term in the Senate. Well, he's not so much begging as buying re-election. Between April 1 and June 30, he spent $10,163,270.

If we, the people of Arizona, thought John McCain was working for us, do you think he would be spending almost a hundred and twelve thousand dollars a day for our votes? His positions on most issues have taken such sharp right turns that the saying goes: "He's changed parties to run".

On the other hand he's pulled out all the stops in his attempts to distort, defame and destroy his challenger J.D. Hayworth. Oh, would that he had done half so much against his former opponent and our current Marxist President. Unfortunately, when it comes to Conservatives and Progressives, John McCain is at ease attacking Conservatives and careful to avoid offending Progressives in any meaningful way. If you thought he was a Maverick before, give him one more lame-duck term and see just how quickly his recent right-wing positions disappear down the memory hole. Here is a fifty minute audio refresher course. More history is available above, at the right edge of this page.

Ok, enough carping. The good news is, the "Great One", Mark Levin had the temerity to interview J.D. when most other Hosts demur to the McCain machine's "suggested" blackout. In nine minutes you will hear all you need to know as to why we enthusiastically endorse

J. D. Hayworth




Statewide and local races:

US Senator - J. D. Hayworth

Governor - Jan Brewer

Secretary of State - Ken Bennett

Congressional District 3 - Sam Crump

Congressional District 5 - David Schweikert

Maricopa County Attorney - Bill Montgomery

State Senator District 11 - Rich Davis

State Representative District 11 - Eric West

 

More coming soon.


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Fighting Liberal/Progressivism Everywhere
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May 3, 2010
Back in the bad old Cold War days Nikita Kruschev told us that we Capitalists were so greedy we would sell the rope our enemies would use to hang us.

We've come full circle. Addicts to Liberalism have given Barack Obama socialized medicine. It's the needle that will be used to euthanize them as soon as the death panels decide they have outlived their usefulness.


April 4, 2010
Each time I hear those Sarah Palin ads for John McCain, my understanding of the tough sacrifices required by the game of politics gets a little deeper. On the other hand my imagination amuses me by showing me little videos of her making gagging noises and frantically reaching for the mouthwash as soon as the microphone clicks off. Michelle Malkin fills in the puzzle in a January 22, 2010 article warning us not to succumb to McCain Regression Syndrome: "While he runs to the right to protect his seat, McCain's political machine is working across the country to install liberal and establishment Republicans to secure his legacy."
March 25, 2010
A Choice at Last:: Why JD Hayworth must replace John McCain as Arizona's Senator. Once every six years, when it's reelection time, John McCain comes home to Arizona to try to forge a believable set of conservative credentials... Here's something to keep in mind while he carpet-bombs Arizona with cynical leftist-style commercials.
October 30, 2009
Hearing Ronald Reagan's speeches again it's hard to believe what is now facing us from Washington. Are Americans really where the mainstream media hopes we are?
October 11, 2009
Gold is at an all time high and going higher but Obama is urging us to sell something far more precious at a rock bottom price.
October 8, 2009
Should I stay or should I go? Race, religion or national origin don't matter, it's what you believe.
September 12, 2009
Statist solutions to healthcare abound on both sides of the aisle these days. We all know about ObamaCare so the Republican Leadership Council, formerly known as It's My Party Too has an ObamaLite plan on the table. As usual the moderate Republican group sails in the same direction, just at fewer knots.

How about a few ideas that don't deliver your doctor's proctoscope into government hands. The last thing you want to hear from Nancy Pelosi should be "Bottoms Up"!


September 9, 2009
Foolish trades. The Cyclops, a giant with a single eye in the center of his forehead, is one of the fascinating characters in Greek mythology. One story has it that when he originally had two eyes he met a blind witch who could see the future. The witch talked him into a trade in which he would give her one of his eyes so that she would no longer be blind and in exchange she would share her ability to see the future with the Cyclops. But the witch cheated the Cyclops, giving him only the ability to see the time and place of his own death.

Stories with a lesson about foolish trades have been around for thousands of years. Judging by the trade Obama is offering us today, cheap affordable healthcare in exchange for our freedoms, as a species we haven't learned much in those thousands of years.

Here is hoping all our Republican representatives stand firm against his government takeover of healthcare.


July 13, 2009
Two thoughts on the health care crisis
July 10, 2009

National Review Online provides a 5-part video series on the recession, who caused it, what's being done about it and how that compares with what happened in the 1930's. Spend half an hour getting a real education from Dr. Thomas Sowell, you'll be glad you did. Then write your congressman and your senator.

Part 1 - Part 2 - Part 3 - Part 4 - Part 5


July 9, 2009

Arizona Secretary of State, Ken Bennett describes the annual budget of the State of Arizona in an excellent video produced by his office. The blocks are full and half sized tissue boxes, the full ones each symbolizing about one billion dollars, the half-sized boxes each representing about five hundred million dollars. (500 million is half a billion in case you're a recent graduate.)

[Bennett Video] The three stacks on the left account for tax dollars from all sources that go to education. They add up to 16 billion dollars. All the rest add up to 16.5 billion dollars. You can click the picture to get a larger image if you want to see the categories. The point is, nearly half of all your state tax dollars get spent on education.

The total State budget is roughly 32.5 billion dollars. That's how much they would spend if they had it. The recession has caused collections to fall about 4 billion short. That's about 12.3 percent if they could cut everything equally across the board.

The current recession has provided many of us with a significant decline in our net worth. Your house is probably down between 20 to 50 percent. Your 401-K is probably down 20 to 40 percent even after the recent March run up in the stock market. You may be one of those lucky ones who are still working but maybe you just took a 10 percent cut in pay, that is if you were lucky. Or maybe you're out of a job entirely.

The point is, the education folks don't want to feel your pain. They don't want to feel any pain at all. In fact, they want you to feel their pain along with your own. "There'll be Hell to pay if you cut a penny from education." So that means cut the other half of government 25 percent or raise taxes on the rest of us.

You'll be hearing a lot from the Education lobby in the coming months about why you should vote to make yourself pay more taxes "for the children". Just ask them to answer you this: "If you can always find ways to spend more money, why can't you step back and see if you can't find a few ways, to spend less money, and do it responsibly, for a little while.

Yes, we know it's not really that simple. But it could be a lot simpler than it is if your Arizona educators would get in the boat and pull with the rest of us.

Meanwhile, click here and see what New York City is getting for all the billions they spend on education.


July 7, 2009
Will the last Republican "gentleman" to take off the white gloves just shut up and lie down. It's too late, you're already dead.
...stop thinking of the Democratic Party as merely a political party... David Kahane of National Review Online tells it like it is in I Still Hate You, Sarah Palin.

July 6, 2009

[Under Construction] Had it up to here with those Eastern Intellectual Elites? They should have a degree for what they do, like PHD only maybe it should be EBACS (Educated Beyond All Common Sense). It's time we got back to work here, annoying those so-called Liberals who seem to be doing their best to undermine the principles and the freedoms restored to the human race by those giants who founded our great country.

So, this site is back. Its continuing mission; to disseminate information useful to Conservatives interested and active in taking back their country. Some of the information pertinent to the ongoing functions of District 11 formerly kept on this site will be removed, some of it to be taken up by the new official LD-11 site when it comes on line. Other features will be maintained and some will be added as time and imagination permit.


July 6, 2009
You know that what's happening in DC at a frenetic pace will destroy your wealth, deny your freedom, kill your spirit and limit the aspirations of your future generations, yet you can't believe it's really happening. That's what they're counting on. They want to get it done before you wake up. They want to do things that will be difficult or impossible to undo when you do wake up as they know you will, eventually.

The last time we went this crazy we got the Great Society. It will take generations to undo the damage perpetrated by Lyndon Johnson but at least the work was begun by Ronald Reagan. Now he's gone and they're at it again, "progressing" toward the socialist utopia that the Russians suffered under 75 years of totalitarian government.

You want to speak up but what they're doing is so far off the map you can't think of the words. Fortunately there are some who see what's happening and can write about it from a perspective of history and experience. There is a lot of good writing out there and we'll be linking to it. Right now, you could do a lot worse than peruse the writings of Thomas Sowell. You won't find anyone more grounded in common sense, more literate or erudite in economics and history. The truly marvelous thing about him is that he explains this stuff so anyone can understand it.

So start here with his June 23 essay; Republicans in the Wilderness and then go back to his page on TownHall.com and enjoy at least one essay a day until you've covered them all. Do that and before long you'll know more truth about history, economics, politics and common sense than 99 percent of the "intelligentsia" that populate the two ends of Pennsylvania Avenue.




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A Source for Arizona's Conservatives, this site is intended to provide information and tools necessary to become and stay informed.

On this site, we try to consolidate up to date information useful to those who would resist the encroachment on liberty, family and culture that is everywhere evident in growing government power, increasing bureaucratic regulation and a return to confiscatory taxation.

We are traditional Reagan Republicans. That means that we strongly disagree with what the "smart money" says that the way for the Republicans to win elections is to appeal to a wider range of voters, including minorities, by abandoning the Ronald Reagan kinds of positions and supporting more of the kinds of positions that Democrats use to get elected...

Ronald Reagan won two elections in a landslide by being Ronald Reagan-- and, most important of all-- explaining to a broad electorate how what he advocated would be best for them and for the country. Newt Gingrich likewise led a Republican takeover of the House of Representatives by explaining how the Republican agenda would benefit a wide range of people.

Neither of them won by pretending to be Democrats. It is the mushy "moderates"-- the "kinder and gentler" Bush 41, Bob Dole and John McCain-- who lost disastrously, even in two cases to Democrats who were initially very little known, but who knew how to talk.

(Italicized text taken from Thomas Sowell's June 23, 2009 essay, Republicans in the Wilderness)

 

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