http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/09/25/roland.martin.gop/index.html?eref=rss_politics

Mr. Huckabee can you show these front runners to the door please!?

I've been thinking about this for a while now, and since we are in the middle of a credit crunch I couldn't think of a better time to ask this question.

With us now at the start of the "Global Economy" should we expect more things like the Credit Crunch? What would happen if we had a "Global Recession"? What could the governments of the world do to restore confidence in the "Global Market"?

In the next few years, we are going to experience these issues at one time or another because no one in the world has ever had to deal with these issues before because the world economy has never been so closely linked to each other as it is now. Is the current issues in the market going to create this generation's first economic  depression? Do you think it's going to Rival or perhaps surpass the "Great Depression?

Just food for thought.

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The author of the book that a UF student was caring before he got tasered at a John Kerry Event called Alachua County, Florida "one of the worst places in the country for black voters". What the hell does he mean by that? The State of Florida is heavily Republican but Alachua County is heavily Democratic, 19.30% of the population in Alachua County is Black or African American and two of the members on the Alachua County commission are black and they get reelected every time because their supports are blacks so I don't understand why this Author would say this.

Anyone knows?

Source:
The Article where the quote came from
The makeup of the County Commission

At lest one Republican presidential candidate knows the importance of minorities for the GOP. Sadly, he's not considered a "front runner" by the mainstream press. The conservative wing having been disappointed by Fred Thomas clearly needs to find a presidential candidate who is capable of not only winning the nomination but also the Presidency and I think our best hope is none other then (drum roll please) Mike Huckabee.

Huckabee: GOP Needs Minorities

Just Thought I would post this, kinda in response to myself. I'm really disappointed at the republicans that choose not to go to the debate hosted by Tavis Smiley. Tavis Smiley is looked up to in the black community and I think that his forum is a great opportunity for our party to get our message out to the black community. I'm predicting that many African Americans will like Mike Huckabee.

the following is from the  National Black Republican Association.

Democrat presidential candidates refused to participate in the Congressional Black Caucus Debate in Detroit
By Frances Rice

Democratic Party operatives are busily creating a wave of anger in the black community over the fact that Republican presidential candidates do not want to participate in a debate hosted by liberal Democrat Tavis Smiley.  Yet, not a word was said when the Democrat presidential candidates refused to participate in a debate that was to be hosted by the Congressional Black Caucus in Detroit.  The hypocrisy and double standard are astonishing.

The rallying cry is "Republicans don't care about the issues affecting poor blacks."  Yet none of these people who claim to care so much about poor blacks issued one word of condemnation when both Senators Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama voted against the minimum wage bill, despite the fact that the Democrats used minimum wage as a wedge issue during the 2006 election.

Equally hypocritical is the lack of outrage about the fact that the Democrats in Congress are blocking reform of Social Security, even though black people, on average, loose $10,000 in the current system because blacks, on average, have a five-year shorter life expectancy.  No anger is expressed over the fact that Democrats are also blocking efforts to provide school choice opportunity scholarships to poor black parents so they can take their children out of failing schools.

A visit to any black community in this country will show that these communities are in a crisis.  Democrats have been running these communities for the past 40 years, and the Socialist policies of the Democrats have turned these communities into economic and social wastelands.  Yet, the Democrats have the gall to blame Republicans for the deplorable conditions created by the Democrats.

After getting fed up with what is happening in black communities run by Democrats, liberal Democrat Juan Williams felt moved to write a book called:  Enough: The Phony Leaders, Dead-end Movements, and Culture of Failure That Are Undermining Black America.

So, in the face of the devastating conditions in black communities created by the Democrats, the only thing blacks can find to be upset about is the fact that Republican presidential candidates won't show up for a debate hosted by a far left-wing Democrat?  I am mystified.

Well, I finally found something to blog about, unfortunately it has to deal with the leading GOP contenders having “scheduling conflicts” and won’t be at a forum to discuss minority issues. I’m a republican because I believe in smaller government, lower taxation, capitalism and freedom. It saddens me that the “leading” GOP candidates are not willing to come to a forum and discuss African American issues. How can these leading candidates expect for African Americans to listen to their proposals, to their ideas or even give them support if they are unwilling to do the same for us?

Every single year the Republican party tries to get their message out to the African American community, they try to register more as republicans, they try to get African Americans to support their candidates the community never does, even if the candidate is African American. Then the National party wonders why, this is the answer to the why. It's because when the community is ready to listen to them, the Republican party say no thanks and go to the other side of town for a "fundraiser"  Instead. But as soon as election time comes around they go and  ask for our support.  When you show us that your not interested in our issues, our problems or our ideas we will not be interested in yours. Do you blame us? So what the Democratic Party takes us for granted, at least they listen, at lest they have a discussion with us, at lest they come in and try to help solve the problems of our communities. What do you do? you turn your back on us and say that we really don't matter anyway, is this the way we're going to be treated if we where to become a party of your party? Is this what we have to look forward too? if so we're not interested.

The Republican party has a lot to offer to the African American community, African Americans benefits when taxes are low, when school choice is available, when the economy is creating jobs. But because the party candidates are not willing to discuss our issues, they in turn hurt the party. If the Republican party is serious about gaining our support they need to seriously educate their presidential and Congressional candidates on the importance of reaching out to our community. Yeah, maybe the community only accounts for 10% or less of the party, but how do you expect that to grow to 20%?

As I’ve stated in an earlier post I really like Mike Huckabee, he gives great debate performances, he listens and he is very good at communicating to the voters and I’m happy to report that he is one of the republicans that has agreed to attend this event, thank god for people like Mike.

The following “leading” candidates are a disgrace to the party:

Rudy Giuliani (Hardly knew you anyway)
John McCain (Wish you wasn’t here, we need someone who is a Independent thinker like yourself)
Mitt Romney (What are your positions again?)
Fred Thompson (you just started politics?)

The following Republicans are doing not only a great service to their self,  but also to the nation as well as the party by being willing to have a discussion with the minority community. I welcome them with open opens to my community, my party and my country:

Newt Gingrich (would you just please run? Or and get social security reformed for me)
Mike Huckabee (win the nomination and you will be President. Great guy)
Senator Sam Brownback (hardly know you, but will keep an eye on you)
Ron Paul (thanks for stopping by, but I want to win in Iraqi. Will you stand up for freedom?)
Tom Tancredo (your that immigration guy right? You’re running for President? Welcome)
Duncan Hunter (Welcome to the community)

Read the full article Here

Just for those who don’t know there is a National Black Republican Association, I’m a member and I would encourage you to join. Visit them online at NBRA.INFO

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aTDi05pwniw

Mike Huckabee nailed it. The former mayor of New York might be ahead in the polls, but a mayor will never (no matter how big the city) have the knowledge or experience that a governor has it. By election time next year I see Mike Huckabee being one of the leading contenders for the nomination the men outperform every other candidate in the debate...in my opinion.

-unless we can feed ourself, fuel ourself, manufacture our own weapons we are not free (Mike H)
-Iraqi has to take control of Iraqi (Tom Tan)
-Did he forget about 9/11 (Mitt)
-Give us sometime to let the surge be sucessful (Mccain)
-give every american the same kind of health care congress has or give every member of congress the same kind of health care america has (Mike H)
-Expand HSA (Tom Tan)
-We have better navigation  systems in our rental cars then in our airline system (Mike H)
-Growth provides the revenue that we need (Mitt R)
-I absolutely support the fair tax (Mike H)
-on the questions of the flat tax "it's good but it's not that good" (Mitt R)
-we need to simplify the tax code (McCain)
-the income tax is a manipulator for the government (Tom Tan)

If you know someone who is either undeiced, not going to vote or are leaning to vote Democratic. Do them a favor. Goto http://guardian.blogdrive.com/ and email them the posting titled "A 'Big-Picture' Look at the 2006 Elections"

It just might help them make up their mind!

I'm sorry about the lack of update, but I've been very busy in my personal life. I made time for this post because it is a very interesting question and something I've been thinking about for a while and I want to see what other people think.

As we all know the republican party supports tax cuts across the board and there is some evidence that tax cuts help improve the economy. Then there's the democratic party who for the most part are against tax cuts but they support a minimum wage increase.

If you had a choice between either a minimum wage increase or no federal income tax, which one would you choose?

What's the purpose of raising the minimum wage if you're just going to raise taxes?

"...readers were asked how they felt about Florida's new "deadly force" law, which took effect Oct. 1. The law allows Floridians to use force against a perceived deadly threat and removes a traditional clause that requires them to retreat first before doing so."

Here are some of the reponses:

It's a disgrace that we have a state attorney publicly side with a six-time convicted felon who should have been in prison at the time he was attempting to commit a robbery.
Doug Freeman, Jacksonville.

To say that this law restricts prosecutors from pursuing homicides is completely false. This law protects honest people who had the courage to defend their lives and the lives of others from someone seeking to do them harm. There is a stark difference. This law needs to be replicated in every state.
Joshua Mize, Gainesville

The deadly force law should have been enacted many years ago because the criminals have always had the advantage.
James Ritter

More Information:
http://www.jacksonville.com/tu-online/stories/071206/met_22309791.shtml

As reported Earlyer, President Bush is reviving the issue of social security reform. This time around he is reportedly not supporting Personal Retirement Accounts (PRA). This time around he is seeking a bipartisan approach. In my Opinion, without PRAs it's not considered reform. The Social Security system needs to be protected in it's current state for those near and in retirement and totally REFORMED! for those, like myself, who are just starting to pay into the system.

I wish that the President, would put as much effort, as he is putting in trying to give amnesty to illegal alliens, into getting personal retirement accounts into the social security system.

More Information:
http://news.monstersandcritics.com/northamerica/article_1179387.php/Bush_still_pushing_Social_Security_reform

Representative Tom Delay deiced to retire from Congress because he did not want his legal issues to be the focus of the campaign. He moved out of state. The republican party deiced that it needed to fill the vacant position that Tom Delay left when he retired, so they was going to pick someone to run for his seat for the party.

The Democratic Party however took the republican party to court and the Judge, Sam Sparks, ruled that because Delay won the primary he must stay on the ballot. At the time that the ruling was made Mr. Delay's office, according to the NYT, reiterated that Delay had no intention of running for a 12^th term.

Friday, the day after the ruling was made, Delay told supporters “for this guy to say he can't tell where i'm going to be on Election Day, and that I am forced to be on the ballot, well they may get exactly what they want”.

Imagine for a second what the headlines would look like if he won. Now Imagine what the headlines would look like if he won without really campaigning? what effect would his election (or reelection) would have the political establishment.

More Information:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/06/washington/06cnd-delay.html?ex=1309838400&en=83b3f1f2287b3ba5&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060708/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/delay_s_replacement_5

According to Bruce Braley, who is running against Republican Mike Whalen in the contest to fill the seat being vacated by Republican Rep. Jim Nussle, he states that ”President Bush and congressional Republicans (are) making privatization a top priority in 2007.”

If this is true I look forward to 2007 more then I do 2008.

More Information:

http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/07/08/democrat.radio.ap/index.html?section=cnn_allpolitics

http://www.brucebraley.com/

The Democratic Party theme for this election year is "Culture of Corruption" (or is it a New direction for America?). They plan to use the republican party's questionable activities against them. But what happens when it is used internally against an primary opponent?

The Culture of Corruption theme is suppose to be what the Democratic Party use against republican candidates, But one democratic party candidate thinks this would be so effective that he is using the theme against his opponent in the Democratic Primary for governor of Florida.

Jim Davis who is facing Rod Smith in the Democratic primary for governor of florida said the following about his opponent:

"Rod Smith's cronies in Tallahassee concocted a fund raising scheme that would make Jack Abramoff proud, but it's the kind of corruption that's left Florida voters unhappy with the direction of our state,"

What he failed to mention is that the money did not go to Rod Smith but a political committee that backed Rod Smith. Rod Smith doesn't have any connection to or control over the committee of the use of the money.

The Smith campaign says that the Davis campaign is "bringing Washington-style smear politics to Florida."

more information:
http://www.sptimes.com/2006/07/07/State/Davis__Scandal_touche.shtml
http://www.democrats.org/a/national/honest_government/abuse_of_power/