Rep. Michele Bachmann Talks About Chuck DeVore

She is a great and brave patriot. So nice that she appreciates Chuck DeVore, the best candidate to replace Barbara Boxer in the U.S. Senate. Cross posted at MAinfo.

Hot Air's CK MacLeod Bit By Palin Mania And Endorses Fiorina

Is there a moderate insurgency going on at the Hot Air blog? One of their Green Room contributors is now asking the true and tested Conservative, Chuck DeVore, to get out of the race for the unknown Carly Fiorina.

"Chuck DeVore is a solid conservative, very well-qualified to be senator or to hold other important offices or positions, but he doesn’t seem to have a prayer of both overtaking Carly Fiorina and defeating Tom Campbell in the June 8 Republican senate primary. He should drop out and, following Sarah Palin’s lead, endorse Fiorina for the good of the conservative movement, the state, and the nation.

I’m not going to attempt to compare Fiorina to DeVore: That would have been a more worthwhile undertaking if Campbell, supposedly at the behest of gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman, hadn’t switched to the senate race at the beginning of the year. The real comparison should be between any-conservative and Campbell, who, in addition to being just the kind of bland establishment politician that Tea Party conservatives were invented to bring down, has an extremely dubious history of support for radical Islamist and anti-Israeli groups, ideologues, and activists that may give Barbara Boxer an opening she doesn’t deserve, and that in any event many conservatives will find difficult to forgive and forget..."

I am not satisfied that we know enough about Fiorina's tenure at Hewlett Packard. Her pro-life credentials seem tenuous at best. Fiorina has the money to finance her own campaign and keeps dumping her own money into her campaign, that ought to tell us something about her prospects. If DeVore loses the primary I will likely support Fiorina, but now is not the time to concede.

Cross posted at Blue Collar Philosophy.

Chuck DeVore Casts Doubt About Carly Fiorina's Views On The Chris Matthews Show

Tom Campbell Is Barbara Boxer's Political Twin; Separated At Birth?

The more I learn about Republican Tom Campbell the more I do not like what he stands for. He has questionable Conservative credentials on the economic side of the coin, and he is no different from Barbara Boxer on the social side of the coin. Campbell supports abortion rights and gay marriage. From the Los Angeles Times:

"The contest to unseat Boxer has been overshadowed by the bruising Republican race for governor between Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner and former EBay CEO Meg Whitman, who has blanketed the state with ads and donated $59 million of her own money to her bid.

Campbell, who unlike Fiorina and DeVore supports gay marriage and abortion rights, has led in recent polls, but Fiorina has often been close behind. And although DeVore has developed a following on conservative blogs and among "tea party" groups, he has struggled to catch up with his rivals in polls and fundraising..."

And more from the Bay Area:

"He also served as a member of Congress for five terms, representing the South Bay. Campbell lived in the city of Campbell when he was first elected to congress. He held the 12th Congressional seat for two terms and then later held the 15th district for three terms, after Norman Mineta resigned.

He then made a failed attempt for U.S. Senate, losing handily to Dianne Feinstein.

Campbell is a moderate Republican. He is conservative on fiscal issues and considered liberal on social issues like gay marriage and abortion..."

It should be increasingly clear that Conservatives cannot vote for Tom Campbell, he offers no substantive change from our current Liberal Senator, Barbara Boxer.

Cross posted at Blue Collar Philosophy.

Palin Goes RINO With Fiorina Endorsement; Is There A Planned Parenthood Skeleton In Fiorina's Closet?

I think the very real possibility of defeating Senator Barbara Boxer here in California may have caused some clouded thinking by some Republicans. Most notable, Sarah Palin's endorsement of Carly Fiorina today.

"Chalk up another conservative base endorsement for ex-HP CEO Carly Fiorina, and it's a big one: Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin.

And the blowback has already started among some of the conservative base -- on Sarah's Facebook page. And now the campaigns are sniping at each other...just in time for the taping of tonight's Senate debate in LA. (It will air at 11 a.m. Sunday on KGO-Channel 7 in SF.)

Palin, the unsuccesful GOP VP candidate, posted her nod on her Facebook page...complete with an unnamed dis to Fiorina rival Tom Campbell as "a liberal member of the GOP who seems to bear almost no difference to Boxer."

Tsk, tsk, Sarah. You broke Reagan's 11th Commandment...about three sentences before praising Fiorina as a Reagan conservative.

Palin, who quit before her first term as gov ended, talks up Fiorina as growing up in a "modest home with a school teacher Dad." Uh, sort of. Fiorina's dad was a law professor who taught at A-list universities -- Yale, Stanford, Duke, Cornell, the London School of Economics -- that Sarah's peeps might sneer at by using the "e-word." Elite. Palin also doesn't mention that Fiorina studied several languages and attended the finest schools as her family traveled around the world.

Also: No mention of the "CEO" moniker or Fiorina's $21 million golden parachute she got from HP or the layoffs that went down while she was there..."

This is a decision based on pragmatism not principle. Chuck DeVore is the lone consistent Conservative running in this race. Palin's endorsement is even more troubling given the relationship Hewlett Packard has had with Planned Parenthood.

"The Hewlett Foundation has announced $125.1 million in new grants to 214 organizations. First and foremost among the beneficiaries is International Planned Parenthood Foundation (IPPF), for whom Hewlett cut the largest check by far, granting $8.3 million to support worldwide abortion.

Of the Menlo Park-based foundation's six program areas, the most money went toward “population” issues, specifically supporting family planning and AIDS prevention worldwide. In all, the foundation's "Population Program" gave $31.8 million to 38 organizations dealing with global population issues. The International Planned Parenthood Federation, based in London, claimed over a quarter of the sum to support its radical agenda..."

So how far back has Hewlett Packard been giving money to Planned Parenthood? Back when Carly Fiorina was the company's CEO? It is hard to imagine that Sarah Palin, a mother with a down syndrome child, would support a candidate who previously helping Planned Parenthood abort babies because they had down syndrome.

HT: Hot Air

Cross posted at Blue Collar Philosophy.