Michael Medved: Will the Return of Values Voters Bring Another Election Day Surprise?

RE: “Likewise, there are nowhere near the amount of Obama signs and bumper stickers as there were Kerry signs/stickers here in CA.”

“I don’t think Obama is generating as much excitement as folks think”

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Agree — and in my corner of L.A., the weird thing is that some of the Obama bumper stickers seem to have disappeared over the past three weeks! Where’d they go? I don’t see signs of vandalism.

As for O not generating as much excitement as some might think — I believe one must look at his supporters closely to see which groups, specifically, he appeals to.

KTM, we have to stop allowing these Marxists defining the parameters. I understand and I catch myself using their paradigm all the time. It is hard not to do so we are brainwashed from kindergarten to grave.

McCain=Pro-life, 0bama= Pro-abortion, there is no pro-choice. Pro-choice is Newspeak. that by design, sets the tone of the debate and puts the advocates for the unborn at a disadvantage, right out of the gate.

Many choices are passed by in the vast majority of abortions that are performed. The Choice to use birth control, the choice not to be sexually active, not to be promiscuous and the choice to have the child and raise it lovingly or allow someone to adopt.

Just my 2 cents. I don’t think it’s so much that McCain has rallied or found a niche as much as it’s a Palin bump and voters really don’t want Obama as President. They see the damage the “Chosen One” can do. McCain is more of a democrat than the socialist Obama.

Medved mentions the loathsome Mark Foley.

That was a deliberate scandal-gig set off by the gay caucus with DNC support and blessings, to scandalize and suppress the conservative vote.

That said, the GOP deserved lumps for not jumping on it (although I've read more recently that they were mouse-trapped, that there were extenuating circumstances, etc., for Denny Hastert's dilatory and ineffectual response). They should have been way out in front, and shouldn't have let the media get away with pitching their circus tents on the GOP's lawn, not with Congressman Jefferson, D-La., refusing to explain where the cash in his freezer came from.

CNS NEWS.com: "OBAMA SEES SUPREME COURT JUSTICES AS CHAMPIONS OF THE WEAK OVER THE STRONG" by Matthew Cover (ARTICLE SNIPPET: "In both speeches, the Illinois Democrat chastised the nominees not for their positions on specific constitutional issues or matters of law but for what he perceived as too often siding with the strong instead of the weak. He chargied Roberts, for example, with being dismissive of claims of racial and gender discrimination and criticized Alito for making a habit out of siding with government and corporations against plaintiffs and workers.") (October 29, 2008)

THREATSWATCH.org - blog: "ENTERING A NEW ERA" by Jay Fraser (ARTICLE SNIPPET: "However, to consider that the War on Terrorism and its battles are over simply because the United States has not had to withstand another direct attack on our soil would be naive.") (October 28, 2008, 6:19 pm)

NEWSMAX.com: "EXPECT FEWER LIBERTIES IF OBAMA WINS" by David Limbaugh (COMMENTARY SNIPPET: "I am sincerely worried that if Obama wins, the checks and balances incorporated into our Constitution may not be enough to prevent a radical and irreversible diminution of our individual liberties because a confluence of factors has emerged to create a climate conducive to fundamental change. These are the factors:") (October 28, 2008, 8:40 am)

FRONTPAGE MAGAZINE.com (FOX NEWS): "THOSE MARXIST COLLEGE YEARS" by Bill Sammon (October 29, 2008)

FRONTPAGE MAGAZINE.com: "PALESTINIANS CAMPAIGNING FOR OBAMA" by Itamar Marcus and Barbara Crook (October 29, 2008)

JIHAD WATCH.org (GLOBE AND MAIL.co.uk): "GAZA STUDENTS CALL U.S. VOTERS, ASKING THEM TO SUPPORT OBAMA" (October 27, 2008)

DANIEL PIPES.org (HUDSON INSTITUTE): "PLO ACKNOWLEDGES: STILL AT WAR WITH ISRAEL" by Daniel Pipes (ARTICLE SNIPPET: "Yasir Arafat may have shaken Yitzhak Rabin's hand in 1993 and signed solemn declarations about ending the war to eliminate Israel, but late last month, in a New York City courtroom, the Palestine Liberation Organization formally confirmed that it still sees terrorism against Israelis as legitimate acts of war.") (October 28, 2008)

FAMILY SECURITY MATTERS.org: "BARACK OBAMA'S ANTI-ISRAEL ALLIANCES" by Rachel Neuwirth (ARTICLE SNIPPET: "Rashid Khalidi was the director of the PLO's press agency WAFA from 1976 to 1982, at a time when the PLO was conducting a massacre of 37 Israeli civilians in a bus on Israel's coastal road, the brutal murder of a four-year-old Israeli girl in Nahariya, and numerous other terrorist killings of Israeli civilians. The PLO was also waging a brutal war against the Lebanese Christian community during this period, and carried out numerous massacres of Lebanese Christians; the worst of these was the killing of about 500 people in the village of Damour.") (October 24, 2008)

Elections.FOX NEWS.com: "LA TIMES REFUSES TO RELEASE TAPE OF OBAMA PRAISING CONTROVERSIAL ACTIVIST Video of farewell party for alleged PLO worker shows Obama toasting 'friend and dinner companion' with questionable past." (October 28, 2008)

AMERICAN THINKER.com - blog: "THE SAID-KHALIDI-OBAMA CONNECTION" by Ed Lasky (October 22, 2008)

stepping back in time...CAMPUS-WATCH.org - Campus Watch Research: "COLUMBIA U. RELEASE EDWARD SAID CHAIR DONORS: NAMES ARAB GOVERNMENT" (March 19, 2004)

stepping back in time...CAMPUS-WATCH.org (FRONTPAGE MAGAZINE.com): "SECRETS, DONORS AND THE EDWARD SAID CHAIR" by Jonathan Calt Harris (November 19, 2003)

stepping back in time...MARTIN KRAMER'S SANDBOX - blog: "RASHID REDUX" (Posted Janurary 29, 2003)

[Post no. 2] - ARCHIVES - Topic: BIDEN & OBAMA (aka B & O) (October 28, 2008 -- Click Here TO VIEW MY ARCHIVED LINKS.)

JEFF HEAD.com - Videos: "THE AUDACITY OF TRUTH - Obama In His & His Supporters Own Words"

All the yards with only one political placard...that of Paul Avela, a local republican running for state senate. Maybe three Obama signs. One really stupid Obama/Kerry sign! Same number of McCain/Palin signs. Less than a dozen all told. So what’s going on in all those other houses without signs?

The Brady effect, that’s what. People aren’t stupid. They know small business makes this country run, and Obama will squash small business under his foot. Pray to St. Jude that he helps the US on Nov. 4. He’s worked miracles, and that’s what this country needs right now and fast.

I know in our family, the ultra-conservative vote has doubled this year, as two of our three daughters can vote for the first time this election! How many other families out there who voted conservative in the last couple of elections have added new 18-year old voters? And - in our circle of friends at least - the conservatives have lots more children than the liberals do!!! (and we’ve never been polled...!)

[nothing republican congress. It cost the house and senate.

The conservatives have awoken now and I believe there will be some surprises in congressional races too. Many of these polls are extrapolating numbers from 2006 turnout and oversampling democrats to boot.]

That’s been on my mind too. In 2006, conservatives stayed home because they were sending a message - to Republicans. So that skews all the political demographic data. But conservatives as a whole must be livid that a Planned Parenthood Marxist is being shoved down their throats. I’m looking for an upset.

So what’s going on in all those other houses without signs?

I have no signs and no bumper stickers. I don't want to be vandalized by tolerant liberals. Even so, around here (an area that the Obamacentric media tells me is overwhelmingly for Obama), McCain signs and bumper stickers significantly outnumber Obama signs and stickers.

Two years ago many conservatives never voted because the immigration fiasco and how they were disgusted with the do nothing republican congress. It cost the house and senate. The conservatives have awoken now and I believe there will be some surprises in congressional races too. Many of these polls are extrapolating numbers from 2006 turnout and oversampling democrats to boot. I am even seeing many pro McCain/Palin yardsigns here in Oregon something that was missing 4 years ago with W.

I agree.

Instead of teaching the GOP a 'lesson' we learned one-don't put Democrats in power.

They are important to me. There's a connection between a nation's moral health and its economic prosperity. We cannot have a sound economy without protecting life and families. Voters recognize that and while liberal elites are dismissive of traditional values, they are still the code by which most people live their lives. In Colorado, I voted for the personhood amendment. If we don't protect the unborn, we will never be a decent society. Pocketbook concerns matter but at a time of economic crisis, our character matters even more.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

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