Author: Matt Margolis

Religious Freedom and the 2012 Election

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Did Obama just hand the Republican Party an issue to galvanize conservatives in 2012 to boot him out of office?

The top Republican in the Congress on Wednesday denounced President Barack Obama’s new rule on contraceptives as an assault on “religious freedom” and vowed to overturn it, as the White House sought to prevent the issue from becoming an election-year liability.

Fanning a political firestorm, House of Representatives Speaker John Boehner joined an outcry from religious leaders and social conservatives over a requirement that health insurance plans, including those at Catholic hospitals, charities and universities, offer birth control to women.

Seeking to ease a controversy that has roiled the 2012 presidential race, White House spokesman Jay Carney appeared to leave the door open to compromise. He said Obama was sensitive to religious beliefs on contraception and hoped to find a way to implement the rule that can “allay some of the concerns.”

But Obama, at a meeting with Senate Democrats, reaffirmed his decision and was “not equivocating,” Senator Frank Lautenberg, who attended the closed-door session, told Reuters.

Between things like this and the economy, things continue to look bad for Obama this year.

Ron Paul’s “Insane” Internet Support

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Last week I discovered I’d been quoted in an International Business Times story about Ron Paul’s loyal followers. The article actually quote me from a Wired article a few years old from back when I was running GOPStrawPolls.com.

Anyway, I followed up with the reporter and answered a few questions. The new story came out today.

Texas Congressman Ron Paul is the only 2012 GOP presidential candidate who has not won a primary or caucus while he continues to win each and every online poll by huge margins.

People who design online polls have alleged that Paul’s supporters spam the online polls and vote multiple times to ensure online victory for their candidate. “I would say there was enough evidence of well-coordinated efforts by Ron Paul’s supporters to vote in online polls,” Matt Margolis, who ran the GOP straw polls during the 2008 presidential election, told IB Times

There’s plenty more to the article. Feel free to discuss.

Obama at the National Prayer Breakfast

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Obama may not be much of a churchgoer, but if you believe what he said this morning, he’s apparently all about the Word.

I wake up each morning and I say a brief prayer, and I spend a little time in scripture and devotion. And from time to time, friends of mine, some of who are here today, friends like Joel Hunter or T.D. Jakes, will come by the Oval Office or they’ll call on the phone or they’ll send me a email, and we’ll pray together, and they’ll pray for me and my family, and for our country.

Does anyone truly, honestly, sincerely, and wholeheartedly believe that Obama wakes up each morning to say a short prayer and spend even a half a second in scripture or devotion.

Does Obama really expect us to believe that? I guess if you still believe the earth is flat you might believe him.

And you know what else really gets me, almost as much as his ridiculous lie, is that President George W. Bush, a true believer and devout Christian, was often ridiculed by the left for his religious devotion. Yet Obama finds it politically advantageous to tout fake humility before a God higher than him.

If We Really Want To Talk About Wealth

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You’ve probably heard the same stuff I have about how Mitt Romney’s wealth contributes to him being “unelectable.”

While I’m sure the teenie tiny fraction of Americans that would sooner attend an Occupy rally than buy a coffee at Starbucks would look at Mitt Romney’s wealth and say “I can’t vote for this successful businessman,” I can’t imagine why any normal, thinking American would take that view, especially when the other choice is Barack Obama.

Barack Obama’s net worth is over $10 million. I’ve checked multiple sources on this, and that seems to be a consisted low-end number.

That’s a very high net worth for someone who has never held a real job before.

Of course, the bigger issue here is that in America, why is wealth, and the accumulation of it actually considered to be a bad thing? If you think wealth is a bad thing, then you weren’t gonna support anyone but Obama anyway… because the only wealth that can be ignored by these anti-capitalist voters is the wealth of Democrats who seem to get richer while they keep the poor dependent on the government.

But really, if wealth is so bad to these people, why is Obama’s massive wealth, given his lack of ever having a real private-sector job, not an issue?

Do Conservatives Want To Lose In November?

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Every single day I hear the same lines of attack from Mitt Romney supporters against Newt Gingrich and Newt Gingrich supporters against Mitt Romney.

The way things are panning out now, it is highly likely one of those two will be the GOP nominee.

So really, it is time to stop the attacks. All we are doing is making it easier for conservatives to lose all advantages in the fall. In 2010 we had the enthusiasm, we won big in the midterms. This year, we are setting ourselves up for another 2008. We look for a conservative Messiah, a second coming of Reagan (who would never have survived a campaign like this, being a former Democrat) and ensure that no candidate can possible meet our expectations, then many of us stay home and complain that there wasn’t a “true conservative” in the race, and lo and behold, we have Obama again.

Well, enough of this already.

Yes, I support Newt Gingrich. I think he gives us our best chance to win in November. His record reducing government is unmatched by any candidate. His ability to articulate the conservative message is hands down the best I’ve seen. Do I care what he said about Ronald Reagan back in the day? No, I don’t. Ronald Reagan is the past. The canonization of Ronald Reagan is killing our party. Newt’s record matters far more.

That said, I would easily support Mitt Romney, should he be the nominee. Mitt Romney was my governor for four years. Did I agree with everything he did as governor? No. I was against Romneycare when it happened, but as I was active in the Massachusetts Republican Party back in those days, I know first hand how much effort he put into trying to build up the party in a ridiculously blue state. Do I believe him when he says he’ll repeal Obamacare. You bet I do.

If we keep slaughtering the candidates in our party, we might as well give up and give Obama the blank check he most certainly think he’ll have if he wins in November. Because frankly, we already are, with these vicious attacks against the likely nominees of our party.

No candidate is perfect. No candidate is a saint. But they are all determined to undo the damage done by Obama’s extremism and incompetence. Let’s focus on winning, not on destroying ourselves as a party. Obama can’t win in November, but the Republican Party can certainly lose.

Obama: The American Dream is Unattainable without Abortion

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Believe it or not, that is essentially what he said.

Barack Obama says the 39th anniversary of Roe v. Wade is the chance to recognize the “fundamental constitutional right” to abortion and to “continue our efforts to ensure that our daughters have the same rights, freedoms, and opportunities as our sons to fulfill their dreams.”

Really? Apparent children are not the future, they are obstacles.