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Good video from friends @TNGOP. Shows Obama being a hypocrite on national debt. Looks like he's on vacation again. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9yV2kgbUKE

East Tennesseans — both Democratic and Republican — agree that the release of more than 20,000 pages of Sarah Palin’s email messages by the state of Alaska last Friday will not affect her possibility of running for president in 2012. Those involved in local and state-level politics did, however, disagree on what weight should be given to the email and how much probing the government should do into one woman’s life. “Sarah Palin is an interesting case study,” Brandon Puttbrese, director of communications for the Tennessee Democratic Party, said in an attempting to explain why the country is fascinated about...

Early voting in Tennessee starts tomorrow, October 13

NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- Sixth Congressional District candidate Diane Black has won the support of former Alaska Gov. and vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin. Palin announced her endorsement Thursday. She said Black understands the problems with the nation's health care and understands why the country needs "real health care reform and why Obamacare is not it." Palin recently endorsed 20 conservatives who have committed to voting to repeal and replace the health care reforms passed earlier this year by President Barack Obama.

Girlfriend says Barack needs some help! Early voting begins Wednesday (Oct. 13) Michelle Obama and I had a conference call Wednesday. Ok, Michelle, me and several thousands of other people. That didn’t make it any less special. The First Lady, who polls show is one of the most popular figures now in the White House administration, has been given campaign duty ahead of the November general election. She’s busy stumping for candidates and motivating the political troops. So, when I got an email this week from Organizing for America saying that Michelle Obama wanted to talk to me about voting,...

The influential group represents the largest county in Tennessee’s Fourth Congressional District and is dedicated to bringing responsibility back to government. The group advocates for fiscal responsibility, limited government and free markets by supporting candidates and initiatives to further those principles. “I am proud to announce the Maury County Tea Party’s endorsement of Dr. Scott DesJarlais. We have reviewed the candidates in this race and his campaign will truly represent the people of the Fourth District. He has a platform dedicated to less government, lower taxes and more freedom,” said Bowen Pratt, Maury County Tea Party Chairman. “That message resonates...

This space never has had anything negative to blog about Former Congressman Harold Ford Jr. until today. His statement about Former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin was so grating the television set was turned off. Ford said that Palin was going to run for President and that she was "formidable." That was when this space wondered if Ford was being paid by a Republican operative. Sarah Palin has so many errors and mistakes that will be tossed back at her in the middle of a presidential campaign it would be embarrassing. Ford saying she was "formidable" just gives hope to her...

Stephen Fincher is the Republican candidate for Tennessee's 8th congressional district seat. The seat has been held by democrats for over 100 years, most recently by John Tanner. Fincher is a cotton farmer who has received nearly $3,400,000 of taxpayer subsidies - see http://farm.ewg.org/persondetail.php?custnumber=010829265 This amount is dwarfed by the amount taken by the rest of his family. He has known eating from the government trough all his life. It stretches credulity to believe that one so accustomed to the dole can be a real conservative capable of the fiscal austerity required to turn the country. Will he cut for...

Gospel performer Steve Fincher has won northwest Tennessee's 8th District Republican primary. With 68 percent of precincts reporting, Fincher had 30,228 votes, or 50 percent of the vote, to Jackson physician Ron Kirkland's 14,873, or 25 percent. Memphis radiologist and broadcaster George Flinn had 13,431 votes, or 22 percent. The three waged the most expensive House race in the country, spending more than $5 million. Fincher, also a farmer, faces Democratic state Sen. Roy Herron in fall. Incubent Democratic Rep. John Tanner is retiring, and Republicans think the seat is one they could pick up in November.

With just two weeks to go before early voting begins in Tennessee, state Sen. Diane Black has released a poll showing her far ahead of the six other candidates vying for the Republican nomination in the 6th district. Black was the preferred candidate of 41 percent of likely primary voters surveyed. Her closest competitors, former Rutherford County GOP Chairwoman Lou Ann Zelenik and state Sen. Jim Tracy, polled at 22 percent and 20 percent, respectively. Four other Republicans garnered support in the low single digits, and just 12 percent of those surveyed said they were undecided. The poll was conducted...

Al's a scumbag like BJ.

LENOIR CITY - A candidate for state representative photographed partially unclothed on a website said today the photo has been removed. Julia Hurley, 28, of Lenoir City, a Republican candidate for the 32nd Legislative District in the Aug. 5 primary, today refused to describe the photo. She also said she doesn't know who removed the photo from the website, ModelMayhem.com. "It's not my website," she said. A media report describes Hurley's pose in the photograph as "pantless" while wearing high-heel boots. Hurley disputes that description but declined to give her own depiction of it. Hurley today said the photo was...

NASHVILLE – Anger over the skyrocketing national debt, which topped a stunning $13 trillion today, is fueling record contributions to Jeff Hartline’s campaign against incumbent Congressman Jim Cooper in Tennessee’s Fifth District, the campaign said today.

Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin has a lot going for her at the moment, but a lot to prove, too, if she hopes to build her conservative grassroots support beyond the tea party movement that is fueling her meteoric rise as one of the GOP’s top presidential contenders. Palin has been drawing big crowds during her unending Going Rogue book tour, strategically hitting all of the major red states that will be critical to any 2012 campaign. She has stepped up her whirlwind speaking tour as well, almost exclusively in venues that are packed with adoring fans. She has been...

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Sarah Palin, the former half-term governor of Alaska, threw plenty of red meat to a ravenous Tea Party audience in Nashville last night, reminding the political world that she's still a hero to confused, unhinged right-wing activists. There wasn't anything especially surprising about her 40-minute diatribe -- apparently, she does not hold President Obama in high regard -- but there were a few interesting remarks of note. For example, it was pretty amusing to hear Palin trash the financial-industry bailout, which she just so happens to have supported at the time -- a detail she hopes her adoring fans won't...

State Senate speaker and gubernatorial candidate Ron Ramsey said Tuesday he doesn't know whether President Barack Obama is a U.S. citizen, but that it's not an issue that voters care about. Ramsey was asked after a speech to a Republican group about his views on the president's citizenship by Maclin Davis, a former state lawmaker and attorney for the state GOP. "I don't know whether President Obama is a citizen of the United States or not," Ramsey responded. "I don't know what the whole deal is there. "But I'm going to tell you something. When you walk out on the...

TN/OK: Polls Close In Special Elections The polls have closed in Tennessee. The first results are in for early voting and absentee and can be found here. The polls have also closed in Oklahoma. The first results are also in for early voting and absentee and can be found here.

So here we were in 2007 worrying about who would take the Reagan "mantle of conservatism" forward. John McCain, Mitt Romney, Rudy Giuliani, Duncan Hunter, Mike Huckabee, Ron Paul and others were already in the race to become the next GOP nominee for president. And you know what? Conservatives were freaking out! Was this really the crop we had to choose from? None of these guys, with the exception of maybe Duncan Hunter or to an extent Ron Paul, really understood what conservatism was. Then a grassroots draft campaign was initiated to bring someone into the race that really understood...

i think we could form a more perfect union if we could find peace in the nation and abroad.we should not be dictators.dictatorship ended in the early 1960's.some say cummnuism is where you share your countrys' wealth.i'm more in favor sharing wealth with the united and free world.