NRCC "Pop-Up Democrats"

HotAir h/t

Allen West Pep Rally

http://allenwestforcongress.com/

Katherine Jenerette's Tea Party Speech

Libertarian Republican h/t

Katherine Jenerette, former U.S. Congressional Field Representative for the 1st District, SC; U.S. Army Veteran Persian Gulf War - Army Paratrooper; Married mother of four and college History Professor. April 15, 2010 - Myrtle Beach Tea Party Federal Tax Protest. She gave the Tea Party a taste of her unconventional campaign style for the U.S. Congress. Katherine then went to Charleston, SC for that Tea Party celebration.

http://www.jenerette.com/

Herman Cain @ Southern Republican Leadership Conference

 (HotAir h/t)

Murmurings

 (Libertarian Republican h/t)

New polling data from Rasmussen and Marketing Research Group shows Republicans well on their way to picking off two heavy Democrat State Governorships: Michigan and Pennsylvania.

Michigan

Pete Hoekstra (R) 43%
Andy Dillon (D) 27%

Pennsylvania

Tom Corbett (R) 49%
Joe Hoeffel (D) 28%

Note Hoeffel is a former Congressman. Dillon is Michigan Speaker of the House

Rand Paul Ad

(Libertarian Republican h/t)

Meet John Kasich (I Love When He Fills In on Talk Radio)

Marco Rubio Ad Running Right Now

Rand Paul (Ron Paul's Son) on Jim Bunning in the Senate -- I Like Him

(Libertarian Republican h/t)

American Gothic Cartoons (some of my favs this week)

Crazy 9/11 Truthers (Medina, now Shami -- or, SHAM WOW!)

This is with thanks to Libertarian Republican. The question (low volume) and answer precedes the video:

INTERVIEWER: The question was posed [to Debra Medina] whether the United States was involved in the attacks on 9/11. Let me pose that question to you?

DEMOCRAT FAROUK SHAMI: I was told that is what she said. Well, you know, there's no smoke without fire. We heard the commission on 9/11. But ya know, somehow people are not believing that. I'm not sure. I'm not going to judge on something I'm not sure about. But the rumors are there. True or not, it's hard to believe what happened... The possibility is there. The jury's still out.

INTERVIEWER: Let me be very clear, understand what you are saying. Do you think it's possible?

DEMOCRAT FAROUK SHAMI: Well, so many people have talked about it. Professors have written books about it. So many people overseas talk about it. And whenever I go overseas people ask me these questions... Do they know something we don't know?

Would we ever find the truth about 9/11? That's a very dangerous subject to get into. It's hard to make judgement. I'm not saying yes or no.

Tom Campbell -- Fiscal Conservative In Name Only

(HorAir h/t)

Carly for California released FCINO, exposing Tom Campbell as a Fiscal Conservative In Name Only. Since his flip-flop into the Senate race, Campbell has been calling himself a fiscal conservative based on his time as a member of Congress nearly two decades ago, hoping that voters will ignore his recent support for more government spending, increased borrowing, a $16 billion tax hike and a 32-cent gas tax increase.

Brown Not Being Seated!? (More to Come)

Drudge has a headline saying this:

"BROWN DEMANDS TO BE SEATED"

NPR vs. (Scratch That) -- er, Joins Rasmussen

HotAir has a great story on the swaying voter dislike of the road the Obama administration is taking them:

The president has said he’ll talk about economic growth — the top priority for voters, according to a new survey conducted by Republican Glen Bolger and Democrat Stan Greenberg. The poll of 800 likely voters also finds that opinion has soured on Obama’s No. 1 legislative priority this year: an overhaul of the country’s health care system.

The poll holds plenty of danger signs for the Democrats. In one indicator studied closely by both parties ahead of midterm elections, likely voters chose an unnamed Republican candidate by 5 percentage points over the Democrat on a hypothetical congressional ballot.

And, Bolger points out, that edge is more pronounced among people whose interest in the midterms is high.

“So while it’s a 5-point lead overall, among the most interested voters, that lead doubles,” Bolger says. “And we saw that take effect in Virginia; we saw it took effect in [the] New Jersey gubernatorial race; and we saw it take effect in the Massachusetts Senate race as well.”

Make sure you follow the links about the war on Rasmussen. Here is a bit from NPR:

If the 2010 elections for United States Congress were being held today, for whom would you vote: the Republican candidate or the Democratic candidate in this district?

It Seems Global Warming and Health-Care Are the Administration's Top Priorities, Which Is Why They Will Lose in Nov and 2012

Hitler Finds Out Scott Brown Beat Coakley

Charles Krauthammer on Supreme Court, Massachusetts, and Air America (the Conservative Trifecta)

Britt Hume and Glenn Beck on Obama's Crazy Assertion that Bush (a Republican) Helped Brown (a Republican) Win

Osama Bin Olbermann Still a Raving Lunatic

(NewsBusters import)

....The Countdown host repeated a myth promoted by the liberal blog bluemassgroup.com that, in February 2007, then-State Senator Scott "swore at a hall full of high school students" as he appeared before a group at King Philip Regional High School in Wrentham, Massachusetts. In reality, Scott was not alleged to have "sworn at" the students, but rather, he angrily responded to and complained about vulgar comments that some students had written about him and one of his daughters – comments which had been posted on the Facebook page of a pro-gay rights teacher at the school – as Scott read the uncensored comments from the site, naming some of the students, in front of the assembly. His actions sparked criticism because he read aloud the profane words as they appeared on the Facebook page, but he was not alleged to have "sworn at" the students.

 

Olbermann also incorrectly claimed that Brown "never refuted" a vulgar threat made at one of his recent campaign rallies during which one audience member called for a curling iron to be "shoved up the butt" of Brown’s opponent, Attorney General Martha Coakley, because of a controversial case in which Coakley was accused of not being aggressive enough in prosecuting a child rapist who assaulted a baby using a curling iron.

Even though the Boston Herald's Daily Briefing blog and Politico.com both reported on Monday that Brown contended that he had not heard the remarks as he was speaking and went on to denounce the comments as being out of line, Olbermann on Tuesday and Wednesday claimed that Brown had not issued such a repudiation.

Olbermann referred to a video clip released by Democratic activists which shows Brown speaking at a rally, and, as Brown was pausing for audience reaction, one audience member can be heard in the background shouting, "Shove a curling iron up her butt!" Moments later, Brown smiles and says, "We can do this," presumably referring to winning the campaign, though Democrats have charged that he was responding favorably to the audience member’s vulgar suggestion.

On Wednesday’s show, Olbermann contended: "This past Sunday, when a man at a Brown rally shouted they should, quote, ‘shove a curling iron up' Martha Coakley's 'butt,’ Brown responded by answering, ‘We can do this.’ Or, if that remark was unconnected to the shout, he never refuted, condemned, nor disassociated himself from the call to violence and even sexual assault."

But on Monday, January 18, 2010, at Politico.com, in the article "Massachusetts Gets Ugly," Ben Smith reported: "Brown called the supporter's words ‘inappropriate’ and said he hadn't heard them."

And also on Monday, according to the Boston Herald's Daily Briefing blog, in the article, "Brown Denounces Curling Iron Comment," Hillary Chabot reported: "GOP U.S. Senate candidate Scott Brown said a supporter's remarks about shoving, 'a curling iron up (Martha Coakley's) butt,' were innapropriate today. 'If I had heard it I would have said something,' said Brown today."....

Read more: http://newsbusters.org/blogs/brad-wilmouth/2010/01/21/factcheck-olbermann-repeats-incorrect-anti-scott-brown-claims-racism#ixzz0dG9ar7MY

Louisiana or Massachusetts?

You can be forgiven for thinking this looks more like Louisiana than Massachusetts: