Enough is Enough

Conservatives are tired of settling for someone who votes with us only 50% of the time, and sometimes even less as in the case of Olympia Snowe, or locally like Mary Bono Mack. The establishment in the Republican Party often forces candidates down our throats that are barely acceptable and we are asked to hold our noses and vote for them (John McCain). Unfortunately at this time, McCain is the party leader, since he was our most recent Presidential nominee and he is raising money for and supporting establishment candidates in many races. To support his candidates and for another possible Presidential bid, McCain has been talking like a conservative on many issues. Fortunately, conservative J.D. Hayworth is challenging McCain for his Arizona Senate seat. Thus far, McCain does not seem too worried, but in this election year, as Democrats fall to Republicans, and Republicans fall to conservative Republicans, he should be taking notice. As momentum builds and grassroots conservatives get involved McCain should be in big trouble. Sarah Palin, still showing campaign solidarity and gratitude in being name VEEP, is supporting McCain. Palin supporters are being understanding and not chastising her for this.

In California this year we have a unique opportunity, our candidates for the US Senate are the incumbent, a liberal Democrat, an Establishment Republicanand former member of the McCain campaign team, a liberal Republican, and a conservative, Chuck DeVore. The choice is clear, and despite his opponents being much better financed, DeVore is gaining momentum. In the race for Governor we are not so fortunate, we have liberal Jerry Brown, liberal Republican Meg Whitman, and maybe conservative Steve Poizner. Meg Whitman has been spending money early and gained lots of valuable name recognition.

In today's American Thinker, Gene Schwimmer's article Powerless Against Palin describes Palin fever and how the Dems are scared to death. The future POTUS has been handling her celebrity well. brushing up on world affairs, and becoming more of a polished speaker – crib notes aside, and I don't think we want her to be too polished, she would like some of her everyman gravitas. I haven't seen her on FOX enough times to make a judgement, except on O'Riley the other night and he was taking it easy on her. I still am disappointed that she is not taking advantage of her fan base and utilizing it to its full advantage in this election year. Even Team Sarah, seems to be evolving from social networking to campaigning, probably too late to make a difference and without support from Sarah I honestly don't know how far that can go. The Tea Party's don't seem to want to merge into the Republican Party, but if they want to become more active politically that is the only way to go. Remaining separate might seem the way to go to maintain credibility, but in order to keep the half conservative Republicans on the sidelines that is the only way to go.

More from Sarah this political season as she gears up for her Presidential run. Who will she be running against? Romney, who will probably be the establishment candidate, Pawlenty? Jeb Bush? Ron Paul, get real.