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Proposed Iowa Republican Party platform contains ‘birther’ language

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A section in the proposed platform of the Republican Party of Iowa requires candidates to prove they are a natural born citizen of the United States, according to Radio Iowa.

Don Racheter, chairman of the Iowa GOP’s 2012 platform committee, told Radio Iowa that the section was directly aimed at President Barack Obama.

“There are many Republicans who feel that Barack Obama is not a ‘natural born citizen’ because his father was not an American when he was born and, therefore, feel that according to the Constitution he’s not qualified to be president, should not have been allowed to be elected by the Electoral College or even nominated by the Democratic Party in 2008, so this is an election year,” Racheter said. “It’s a shot at him.”

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GOP problem: 'Their voters are white, aging and dying off'

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Washington (CNN) — When presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney appears before Latino small-business owners in Washington on Wednesday, he’ll address a group whose explosive birth rates foreshadow a seismic political shift in GOP strongholds in the Deep South and Southwest.

“The Republicans’ problem is their voters are white, aging and dying off,” said David Bositis, a senior research associate at the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, who studies minority political engagement.

“There will come a time when they suffer catastrophic losses with the realization of the population changes.”

Over the next several generations, the wave of minority voters — who, according to U.S. Census figures released this week, now represent more than half of the nation’s population born in the past year — will become more of a power base in places like Alabama, Mississippi and Georgia. That hold will extend across the Southwest all the way to California, experts say.

The coming political revolution could result in a massive changing of the guard on nearly every level of government, potential cultural clashes, and the type of political alliances that are now considered rare.

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Want to win the WI Recall? Make sure this story goes as wide as humanly possible

more via dailykos, here is a taste

Certainly the litany of Scott Walker’s sins is long and varied: Gross mismanagement, worst in the nation Job numbers, union-busting, billionaire toadying, and good old fashioned political corruption and criminal activity. But the fact is, anyone upset about these things is already voting against him, and many polls still have the race tied or ahead. So to win this thing, we need a wedge issue that peels off some of his support, particularly in his Northern WI base areas. Fortunately Scott Walker has just handed us just such a wedge on a sliver platter in his appointment of Dr. James Kroll as the State’s “deer Czar”. You see Dr. Kroll considers allowing hunters to hunt for free on state-managed game lands, “the last bastion of communism” and want to do away with it altogether.

Even if you think this issue doesn’t matter because you’ve never shot an animal with anything other than a camera, if you want the Dems to win the recall election you need to spread this story as far and wide as possible. Because, trust me, there are people in WI for who this will REALLY matter, and they’re precisely the people we need to reach. Let me explain:

The first thing you need to understand, is that for a significant number of people in WI, deer hunting is less of a sport and more of a religion. I’ve spoken to a lot of people who grew up in WI, particularly the northern part of the state, who told me that growing up, most high- and even Middle-schools managed to make sure that the first day of whitetail season was some sort of school holiday, since they knew that huge percentages of their students wouldn’t be there anyway. It is a time when contractors turn down business, people take days off of work, shifts go unfilled and deliveries are delayed, because, hell, it’s deer hunting time.

And this is not merely some sort of blood-lust on these enthusiastic hunters’ part either. There are a lot of lower-middle and lower income people, especially in rural areas for whom successfully ”shooting for the table”, or freezer can make all the difference in their family’s food security for that winter, or even over the whole year. The 50-75 lbs of usable meet that a good-sized deer will yield goes a very long way to making up for the protein deficit many of these hunter’s families might otherwise face. It is also a generational tradition for these folks that helps bond families, an activity that helps give them a connection to the land that borders on spiritual, and powerful symbol of what they believe to be their independence and self-reliance.

Therefore anything that threatens that tradition or looks like it might take it away entirely, is likely to put them “up in arms”, almost literally.

Guess What Dr. Kroll wants to do?

Yep. He’s pissed off that people might be enjoying this activity (which also benefits the state since the excess deer population is a huge hazard to motorists and cause massive damage to forests. Since we kinda wiped out all the natural predators that pretty much leave hunters to take of the problem) without SOMEONE getting fabulously wealthy as a result and squeezing every penny out of the hunters first.

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How what's happening in Wisconsin affects all of us

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IOKIYAR - It’s OK If You Are A Republican

con-tem-plate:

Between 1840 and 1900, there were 16 filibusters.

Between 2009 and 2010, there were more than 130.

Stuff that the complicit MSM will not talk about.

Source: WaPo

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Dropkick Murphys to WI GOP Rep. Jeff Fitzgerald: Using our music as your intro like "a white supremacist coming out to gangsta rap"

cognitivedissonance:

Wisconsin Republican Jeff Fitzgerald is running against Sen. Tammy Baldwin, (D-Wis.) for the U.S. Senate. Fitzgerald is BFFs with Gov. Scott Walker and used the Dropkick Murphys song “Shipping Up To Boston” at the GOP Convention this weekend. This is the same band who released “Take ‘Em Down” in support of Wisconsin’s unions and the protesters at the state capital, and have long been friends to organized labor.

Well, they found about Fitzgerald’s musical selection.

Hilarity ensues:

We just got word that Wisconsin State Rep and Speaker of the State Assembly Jeff Fitzgerald used “Shipping Up To Boston” as his walk-on song yesterday at the Wisconsin GOP Convention in Green Bay.

The stupidity and irony of this is laughable. A Wisconsin Republican U.S. Senate candidate - and crony of anti-Union Governor Scott Walker - using a Dropkick Murphys song as an intro is like a white supremacist coming out to gangsta rap!

Fitzgerald: if you and your staff can’t even figure out your music you might wanna give up on the politics!!!!!

We stand beside our Union and Labor brothers and sisters and their families in Wisconsin and all over the U.S!

–DKM

Today, Fitzgerald replied:

Fitzgerald on Monday said he meant no harm, and has simply always liked the band and that song, which was featured in the Martin Scorcese film, “The Departed.” He said he doesn’t plan to play the song anymore, but doesn’t know what song he will chose next.

The Departed? Hey, way to burnish your image with a song featured in a movie about the Irish mob… if that’s your reasoning. “Ooh, that one song in that movie I like…”

I challenge Jeff Fitzgerald to name one other song by Dropkick Murphys he likes.

I’ll bet it’s not “Take ‘Em Down.” Or “Worker’s Song”…

Ok, I am from MA, I remember Dropkick when they couldn’t sell out the pub at my women’s college, and they aren’t my thing, but I am loving their awesome message…

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barackobama:

To get an idea of how Mitt Romney would run the economy, get to know how he ran his business. (Spoiler alert: not the way you’d want a guy to run the economy.)

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