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Amidst all the post-election analyses, there was a lot of chatter blaming conservatives for the loss of a seat that had been held by a GOP-er since before Abe Lincoln.....

Because the liberal MSM can't win on their party's ideology (because they are actually irrelevant), they have taken to spinning right-wing ideology as out of touch.

But I find that a mistaken way of looking at recent events.

Conservativism is absolutely still relevant....

If it weren't it wouldn't be able to be the basis of the most popularly watched cable news channel (FOX), spawned a mass grassroots movement (Tea Party Movement), or created a national sweetheart (Sarah Palin).....They wouldn't have been able to force the GOP establishment's candidate to suspend her campaign, thrusting the Conservative Party candidate into the GOP spot.  A year after the most electrifying grassroots movement we have seen in my lifetime, the Republican party was able to take back two Governorships that had previously gone to the other side.

A lot of criticism and hate has been had on conservatives this week despite huge wins in a generally Democrat state, and one in a battleground swing state that had previously gone Dem the year before.  These are big wins...

.....Critics like to hate on Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck and Sean Hannity, yet they're following arguably rivals the likes of Britney Spears' breakdown.

No, the conservative movement is not to be mistaken as irrelevant or characterized as those right-wing crazies.   They are normal, average everyday American citizens who are tired of too much government..

And people are listening.

"....Steele argued during an interview with POLITICO that the GOP doesn’t need to worry about Scozzafava’s lagging ratings because Hoffman is essentially a Republican."  -Andy Barr

Michael Steele just doesn't get it.

Hoffman stands for what the Republican platform is -- small government and life.  Dede does not.

And on that note, it's Friday.  Have a great weekend.  Go Yankees!

The special election in New York's 23rd District is all the buzzz for people spent on reading about ObamaCare.

I myself am perplexed at why the RNC wants to sustain the beat down it experienced last November.

Last night, one of my more moderate friends asked me, "Would you rather have a Scozzafava win or a Democrat?"......

It's a legitimate question.

I tend to be more of an old-school Reagan conservative in my thinking. 

It's not about the party name to me, it's about the principles of the person collecting my tax dollars after election day. 

Call me old-fashioned, but I believe in electing people based on what they're actually going to do versus what their label is.

To me it's as simple as this: I want someone who is going to take their grubby hands off of my 70 hour-a-week, hard-earned dollars.  I want someone who is going to defend the values that I live my life by, and I want someone who is going to defend life. 

And anyone who deviates from these policies is not good enough to represent me, Republican/Democrat, or Liberal/Conservative.

To the general population, these principles fall into the category of conservatism.  So, Republican or Democrat, I want the candidate running to win who represents my views.

The biggest debate contrived from the hustle and bustle of this race points back to what the principles of the Republican party are/should be.  In my mind, Conservatives are NOT an extremist wing of the Republican party, contrary to MSM spin and "pale pastel" moderates.  I would say that if I had to put myself into a category it would be conservative. 

I believe many Americans desire less government intervention, less people telling them how to live my life or what to do with their money. 

These are not extreme ideas.  In fact, I'm pretty sure it's a luxury of the American people in general to favor less government.

The GOP has not picked candidates dedicated to these goals in a long time, and that is why the Republican party does not know what it stands for....

It's also why we need to start electing common sense, Reagan-type conservatives to represent that constituency.  That's why my support is going to Doug Hoffman.

We need to set a precedent on what the GOP stands for by showing consistency in our candidate picks -- by electing the Doug Hoffmans of the country.

The provided link is a story that was in the Politico today. It includes the southern districts the GOP is going to go after for 2010. Although the Dems are digging themselves in the whole, many are still drinking the Obama Kool-Aid.... Let's get to work! http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0909/27715.html

On Dancing With the Stars last night......

Was adorable.....

My official opinion.  http://www.politico.com/click/stories/0909/delay_gets_dance_fever.html

Aside from his not-so-cute outfit, I thought his performance was highly entertaining.  Love it!

Weren't the Dems the ones shocked and appalled by George W. Bush's Patriot Act?

This morning, I read an article about a bill currently proposed in the U.S. Senate that will grant "temporary" access to the president over private home internet usage during a so-called, "cyber security emergency."  

So, when the President wanted to grant warrantless wire taps to gain information on possible terrorists after an actual national terrorist attack occurred on American soil, it was a travesty to tap phones?  But a cyber-security emergency, now that requires spying on Americans?

Let's be real:  This is a sad attempt by the liberal movement to silence the opposition.  Hundreds of thousands of Americans are genuinely frightened by the slippery slope the current health-care reform will lead this country into, and Obama's minions are trying to pass it in any way possible. 

Change? I think not..

Read the whole article at CNET news. (news.cnet.com)

As an under-25 recent college graduate now working in her second "real" job in Washington, DC, I continue to be amazed at the bone-headed moves being made by supposedly "smart" people running major industries and companies.  Having grown up in a world where I can hardly remember life prior to Google, it's hard for me to fathom why some people industries continue to fight against the zeitgeist.  Clearly nobody under 30 is in the board rooms.  Today's consumers have been trained to expect 21st century products -- yet some industries seem stuck in the 20th century top-down command-and-control model.  The movie industry is one such example.

Admission:  I own a lot of dvds.  Too many, to be honest, and would love to be able to legally upload them to my iPhone and computer.  After all, what if I lose one, or a roommate "borrows" one???  Right now, making a copy is not permitted by Big Hollywood Brother, though pirated software does allow one to illegally do so if they are willing to break the law.  A company called RealDVD has invented a technology that would allow me to legally make a personal copy of my movies, but the movie industry in Hollywood sued them.  Sadly, the courts have granted the studios a temporary injunction, which basically means no RealDVD player under my tree this Christmas.  Rather than embracing this product, Hollywood sued them.  How un-21st century.  You can't imagine the cool companies like Facebook or Apple doing something so unwise.  In an age when bands like Radiohead give away music for free (in order to make money in other ways and stay in the game), Hollywood is stuck in 1991. 

This is literally so bad that Hollywood has united the LA Times and conservatives.   

In an editorial out this week, titled, "Hollywood's Control Freaks," the LA Times' editors write, 

"RealNetworks' RealDVD software and Kaleidescape's home servers drew fire in part because they can make permanent copies of the rented or borrowed discs. But people who are so inclined can do that already with tools that are cheaper and less restrictive. More important to the studios, RealNetworks and Kaleidescape add value to a movie collection by making it easier to manage and watch. In so doing, they increase the incentive to own a movie rather than just rent it.One lesson from the technology industry is that there is a trade-off between controlling products and unleashing the innovation that spurs growth. Just look at how well the iPhone has fared since Apple invited independent developers to create applications for it. Hollywood should remember the principle underlying the case against China: Centralized control stifles a market. Rather than trying to stop potentially disruptive technologies and business models, Hollywood should find a way to harness them."

The editor-in-chief of the influential Wired magazine, Chris Anderson, is out with a new book titled "Free".  Essentially, he argues that everything from newspapers to dvds, traditional business structures are becoming obsolete because of the new wave of free stuff.   

......has a good post up today titled, "The 10 Stupidest Tech Company Blunders."  It includes quotes like, "This iPod thing will never catch on..."  (Reminds me of all the record companies who turned down the Beatles...) Here's their #1 example ...

     1. Yahoo Loses Facebook

      In 2006, Facebook was a two-year-old social network that most people thought of as a digital playground for Ivy League brats. In the world of social networks, MySpace's 100 million members totally swamped Facebook's 8    million. So when Yahoo offered to buy Mark Zuckerberg's baby for a cool $1 billion--nearly twice what Rupert Murdoch had spent for MySpace in 2005--people said, "Take the money and run, Mark." In fact, the then-23-year-old and Yahoo shook hands on a deal in June 2006.

     Then Yahoo posted some bad financials, and its stock dropped 22 percent overnight. Yahoo's CEO at the time, Terry Semel, reacted by cutting the purchase offer to $800 million. Zuckerberg balked. Two months later Semel re-upped the offer to $1 billion, but by then it was too late.

     Today, Facebook boasts some 250 million registered users and is worth roughly $5 to $10 billion, depending on who's counting. Three years and two CEOs later, Yahoo is still struggling to survive.

... Read the whole thing here.

If you weren't at the RightOnline conference this weekend, let me highly recommend viewing this blogger panel discussion.  The event was aired on C-SPAN, and features Robert Bluey, Matt Lewis and Erick Erickson. 

http://www.c-span.org/Watch/Media/2009/08/15/HP/A/22179/RightOnline+2009+National+Convention+Day+Two.aspx

Today in Pittsburgh, some of the most committed members of conservatism are getting together to discuss the importance of, and also strategize increasing a conservative presence via the internet....

The decline in newspaper sales, and decrease of legitimacy in the mainstream media are no doubt an example of the average American taking to turning on their computer for their news...

Thus, let's see what happens and stay informed on this year's, RightOnline National Conference...