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

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

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.

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"!

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.

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

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.)

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.