Posted on 02/21/2010 7:46:29 PM PST by Falcon28
Bob Bennett must be really worried. In the past couple of weeks, a few people have come to RedState to defend Bob Bennett against our pointed criticisms of just how bad he is.
And if this is a defense of Bennett, Bennett is not defendable. A Senate staffer (or Senator?) using the name ecfinder writes:
Erickson, sometimes you make good points. But this one is not one of them. Why are you so against Bennett from Utah? Have you even ever been to Utah? Why do you have so much interest in a state you don’t even reside? I suggest before you actually make such ignorant comments, you actually come and check out the state itself. Utah is the state it is today because of Bennett. He has helped get funding for so many projects and improvements, that Utah would not be the state it is today without his great work in Congress. In fact, Utah would be in a pretty sad state without the work he has done. Try picking on someone from your own state.
So the defense of Bennett is that he’s a porker? That’s actually why so many people in Utah are upset with the guy. He has never met a pig whose bacon he did not want to take home.
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This is a good sign.
I have to say, that email was so freaking weak. It’s something I expect from a dem. Talk about desperation. No wonder they fold under rat pressure.
Government projects?
He is using government pork to justify re-election?
Has he lost his mind?
This type of experiential criticism of people that skewer a sacred cow of theirs is a total liberal-ass move.
You can’t comment if you don’t live here. You can’t criticize unless you’re black. You can’t talk about it if you haven’t gone through it. Total liberal logic that we as conservatives do not accept when it comes out of their mouths. Why some of us go that way when we have a problem with some people being critical of something we like (for whatever reasons, good or bad) I guess it must mean that deep in their hearts they’ve taken it as a personal attack on themselves and the little liberal baby in all of us comes out and starts crying because they don’t really have any substantial defense to raise against it. Otherwise if they do have valid points to defend whatever the issue/person is, they’d bring those up instead, and argue like a conservative does, on the facts and the principles. Not the emotions and the feelings.
Sad situation, makes me sick to see people on the right acting like liberals.
Unfortunately they have you outnumbered with less than half of U.S. adults paying any federal income taxes.
http://www.thepostemail.com/2010/02/13/redstate-com-bans-eligbility-question/
But just who is Erickson, and why does he have such animus against the Eligibility question?
I decided to do some simple investigative reporting and found an amazing connection.
It appears that Eric Erickson, the Editor-in-Chief of Redstate.com, is an attorney who once practiced law in the same federal district as the infamous Judge Clay D. Land, who sanctioned Attorney Orly Taitz for having the daring to plead the Eligibility question in the case of Captain Connie Rhodes’s deployment.
Erickson himself admits that he was an attorney with Sell & Melton, L.L.P, of Macon, Georgia. His former law firm proudly displays an image of the William Augustus Bootle Building, which is the headquarters of the U.S. Middle District Court of Georgia, in which district Judge Clay D. Land presides. Erickson resides current in Macon, Georgia.
It is not known if the clients of Sell & Melton are known political donors to the Democrat Party, but if any were, that might be a reason for Erickson’s animus.
According to an anonymous source, The Post & Email has been informed that Judge Clay D. Land’s frequent drinking partner is none other than a local attorney who is notoriously opposed to the questioning of Obama’s eligibility, one who is affiliated with the Southern Poverty Law Center. It is not known who this individual is, but it seems that Eric Erickson shares the same prejudices as the personal friends and acquaintances of Judge Land.
Perhaps that is the real reason he has banned the Eligibility Question over at Redstate.com. He just cannot afford to lose an invite to any social gathering down in Macon, Georgia.
Does that sound like a Republican to you? Certainly it is a far cry from the manliness exhibited by our Founding Fathers.
More importantly, however, it should be recognized that Erickson does not stand alone. He is just one apparatchik of an entire generation of Republicans who have joined forces with the Democrats in a mass apostasy against the U.S. Constitution, and who have deemed themselves so worthy to rule, that they can dictate which terms of that document you and I must obey, and which they do not have to.
If America is to be taken back by the People, it would be naive, very naive indeed, to believe, as many writers are attempting to insist, in the face of the Tea Party Movement, that trusting the Republican Party to restore the constitutional order is a good bet. Like Scott Brown, how many will ride the wave of popular discontent, and when in office merely hand power back over to that same Elite (which includes Senator John McCain), which put Obama into power in the first place? Such an Elite shows no sign of repentance, rather, they glory in the rape they have perpetrated, and contemplate further crimes of moral turpitude against Lady Liberty.
As Editor of The Post & Email, I must, finally, deplore the slide into puerility, as evidenced by the use of the term “Birther” and now “Birfer.” My generation should know better than to babble, especially in public.
He is not an open-border pro-illegal Mormon is he? Like those liberal Catholics importing more illegals.
Dear ecfinder,
The only way we know Bennett is a conservative is because he tells us he is. We know an election is coming because all of a sudden we see Bob on TV again. Bob voted to confirm Cass Sunstein and Eric Holder, among others. Yes, I live in Utah. I will vote for ANYBODY other than Bob in the primary. If he wins the convention vote outright, I will vote 3rd party in the general election.
Is this the same Redstate that fellates McCain on a daily basis?
Utah would be in a sad state?!? Well if Utah got some 10th Amnedment stones they would go after all that high quality coal in Utah. Utah would be one of the wealthiest countries in the world with that coal and they could do coal diesel or coal oil.
Sad state? BS. Most Mormons are educated, literate, industrious and productive.
I have no idea, but if his campaign is based on government big spending he is definitely in trouble.
yep. A campaign based on spending your money for you, I would imagine it’d go down in glorious flames.
Please tell me that is satire. Tell me you sent that into "The Onion" and they sent it back because it was too ridiculous even for them.
You can't be serious.
I’m sorry, you seem to have detective work confused with the “Six Degrees of Separation from Kevin Bacon” game. Try again.
Thanks I was wondering if he was like Hannity and in bed with McLame.
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