I've made it to the initial round for favorite progressive blogger in the Air America Cruise Contest. I have to stay in the Top 5 before the second voting round begins, so your vote is appreciated! First voting round:
The Christian Civic League of Maine's Mike Hein calls Pam's House Blend: "a leading source of radical homosexual propaganda, anti-Christian bigotry, and radical transgender advocacy."
He is "praying that Pam Spaulding will "turn away from her wicked and sinful promotion of homosexual behavior."
(CCLM's web site, 10/15/07)
Ex-gay "Christian" activist James Hartline on Pam:
"I have been mocked over and over again by ungodly and unprincipled anti-christian lesbians."
(from "Six Years In Sodom: From The Journal Of James Hartline," 9/4/2006, written from the "homosexual stronghold" of Hillcrest in San Diego).
"Pam is a 'twisted lesbian sister' and an 'embittered lesbian' of the 'self-imposed gutteral experiences of the gay ghetto.'" -- 9/5/2008
Peter LaBarbera of Americans for Truth Against Homosexuality heartily endorses the Blend, calling Pam:
A "vicious anti-Christian lesbian activist." (Concerned Women for America's radio show [9:15], 1/25/07)
"A nutty lesbian blogger." (MassResistance radio show [16:25], 2/3/07)
Pam's House Blend always seems to find these sick f*cks. The area of the country she is in? The home state of her wife? I know, they are everywhere. Pam just does such a great job of bringing them out into the light.
--Impeach Bush
who monitors yours Bevis ?? Just thought I would drop you a line,so the rest of your life is not wasted.
Black GOP political consultant Raynard Jackson's latest guest post doesn't pull any punches about the soon-to-be former governor of Alaska. -- Pam
During last year's presidential election, Alaska governor Sarah Palin infamously accused Barack Obama of "pallin' around with terrorists." Of course this was an outright lie. So, after last Friday's press announcement that she was resigning her position as governor, one might rightly conclude that she has been "pallin' around with incompetence." But, in her case, this much is true.
When John McCain named her as his running-mate, the presidential campaign was effectively over. This will go down as the worst vice presidential pick in history! She brought absolutely nothing to the ticket. If you are still trying to solidify your base of support in August before a November election, you are in big trouble.
A young (45 years old), somewhat decent looking female who could read a teleprompter fairly well, was supposed to help win an election? What did that say about John McCain and the Republican Party? It showed how desperate they were.
Palin had little experience, no vision, and was and is politically tone deaf. From a PR perspective, she needed (and never received) voice training. Her voice is very irritating to listen too because of it's pitch. She misuses the English language (folksy talking may work in Alaska, but it doesn't come across well in a national campaign). She also should have been told to leave her children at home. Her using her children as props was very weird. Dragging around her infant, downs syndrome child was bordering on abuse. How do you justify dragging around a newborn on planes and having him on stage after 10 p.m. exposed to thousands of people? Some people will do anything for power.
A press release from the RNC landed in my inbox; it says Michael Steele raised $5.1 million in February and the RNC is currently debt free; it also has $24 million cash on hand. I guess that's the good news, because the bad news is that it represents a 30% drop from last year.
Feb 2009: $5.1 million (-29%)
Jan 2009: $13.2 million (+26%)
Feb 2007: $7.2 million
Jan 2007: $10.5 million
This, ultimately, may be what gets Steele's booty kicked out of his post. If the Dittoheads stop giving, there will be calls for him to go. I wondered what black political consultant Raynard Jackson thought about the job Steele was doing so far. He sends me his op-eds every so often and I publishthemhereon the Blend, so you can get an idea of what it's like to feel like an outsider in a party in a downward spiral, seemingly unable to come to grips that we are living in 2009, not 1950. Jackson has some interesting observations (emphasis below is mine)...
Michael Steele - The One
by Raynard Jackson
Michael Steele, the new head of the Republican Party, has been in office less than 50 days and he is already being set up to be the fall guy for the state of the party. On Friday, he will be criticized for the anemic fundraising numbers for March. Mind you that he became chairman on Friday, January 30 around 5:00 p.m.
He will be blamed if Republicans lose the March 31 special house election. The seat became vacant when NY governor, David Paterson (D), appointed then congressman, Kirsten Gillibrand (D) to fill the vacant senate seat of Hillary Clinton (she was picked by President Obama to become Secretary of State).
Now, let's add a little context to the picture. As with any new chairman, Steele asked for the resignation of all the employees of the Republican National Committee. During the month of February, he had his transition team do a top-down review of the entire operation of the committee and to make recommendations on how to better run the organization.
Earlier this month, Steele began to announce his senior staffers. April will probably be the first month that he will have anything resembling a full compliment of senior level staffers in place. Then he has to hire staff to fill out the rest of the committee.
Now, let's talk about the real problem. The problem is not Steele (though he has made his share of unforced errors). The problem is the Republican Party! You can have the best party chairman in the world, but if the people don't like the product or service you are offering, then the support will not be there.
Conservatives represent about 30% of the Republican Party, but exercise a disproportionate amount of influence within the party. Even if all 20 million of Limbaugh's listeners voted Republican, it is not enough to win a national election.
So, when Michael made his comments about abortion in GQ magazine, he was being pragmatic. I have known Michael for close to 20 years and he has always been pro life. But what amazes me about my more conservative friends who went apoplectic at Steele's comments is: they are quick to say that he is a party chairman who happens to be Black (not a Black party chairman). But, when it comes to ideology, these same people claim that he is a conservative chairman not a chairman who happens to be conservative. What hypocrisy. So, let's get this straight, Steele is only chairman of 30% of the party and not the remaining 70%? This is the fundamental problem with the party, either you agree with us (the 30%) on all the issues that we care about or you are not welcome in our party (the 70%).
We all wondered about the motivations of the Log Cabin Republicans for sticking with the party given its turn to the right with the McCain/Palin ticket, so it goes without saying that blacks trying to effect change in the GOP are having a really hard slog, given how the bigoted McCain mobs made their feelings clear.
Raynard Jackson, a political consultant, has been railing about racism within the party fairly often. In his latest column, he doesn't hold back in blasting the Virginia GOP. Snippets:
Having served as the first and only black to be elected as national committeeman for the Young Republicans Federation of Virginia in the early 1990s, I have spent almost 20 years trying to educate state party leaders about how to get more blacks involved, but to no avail.
...In all my years of involvement with the RPV, there has NEVER been a black in a position of power. When I say power, I mean someone with hiring or budget authority. This is somewhat odd when you consider the fact that former governors Jim Gilmore and George Allen had very good relations within the black community and both put blacks in significant position within their administrations.
The problem has always been with the political side of the party-RPV. I was much too young for the civil rights movement, but attending RPV meetings and functions gave me an idea of what it must have been like during that time.
Raynard Jackson, a Republican and a D.C.-based political consultant, does a great job of outlining the dilemma of the black Republican in today's GOP in this op-ed. Much like the Log Cabin Republicans, they feel they don't get the respect from their communities, who often cleave to the Democratic party (for obvious reasons).
What must be acknowledged is that there has been progress of some sort in the GOP -- after all, Dear Leader appointed a record number of blacks in his administration at high levels. Former RNC chair Ken Mehlman made strong overtures to blacks as well (that all fell apart after Katrina, which showed the true face of the party). What Jackson asserts, is this was window dressing -- all the people behind the scenes were snow white, and well-known members of the consultant class -- few strategists or consultants were of color. If you look at the McCain campaign, it's clear diversity is not a goal or a guiding principle.
[W]hat Blacks have any power within McCain's campaign or relevant campaign committees or in the Capitol Hill offices of Republican Members of Congress? When I say "power" I mean either budgetary or hiring authority. The answer is none!
The former party chair, Ken Mehlman, was very committed to getting more Blacks in the Republican Party. But how many Blacks did he have on his personal staff? Zero! How many Blacks worked for the RNC with budgetary authority or the power to hire? Zero.
The GOP has proven to Blacks that it is a color-blind party. Every time I go to their offices I rarely see people of color. So they are either color-blind or just blind to people of color.
Watch CPAC 2007: The Unauthorized Documentary. The Nation's Max Blumenthal took a camera inside the Conservative Political Action Conference and recorded some comments from some well-known and not-so-well-known righties.
You also get to see Ann Coulter lob the "faggot" bomb (and see Max ask her a question about the sanctity of marriage), and watch Malkin come unglued with anger in the short documentary, but you also get to see a horde of xenophobe presidential candidate Tom Tancredo supporters get mad when asked if there's a connection between race and his anti-immigrant views and they go unhinged, including one guy who didn't want to be seen on camera wearing a Confederate flag pin. He covered it up with a Tancredo sign and gets upset with Blumenthal when asked why he wanted to cover it up.
There is thoughtful commentary by former Rep. Bob Barr on how the conservative movement has lost its way, and Grover Norquist on the dangers of the anti-immigrant Tancredo candidacy, which threatens to turn the "brown" vote away from the Republican party for decades to come.
Another hilarious bit is when he goes up to the table for the National Black Republicans Association table and it's staffed by, as Max says, a "curiously pale black Republican" who tries to explain why it's hard to recruit.
This phenomenon, sadly, is not hard to find. Take a look at the head of Project 21, a supposedly black organization that provides token talking heads of color for the MSM to represent the right wing viewpoint.
During last year's presidential election, Alaska governor Sarah Palin infamously accused Barack Obama of "pallin' around with terrorists." Of course this was an outright lie. So, after last Friday's press announcement that she was resigning her position as governor, one might rightly conclude that she has been "pallin' around with incompetence." But, in her case, this much is true.
