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Democrats, Unions Bankroll 527 Group Attacking Massachusetts Republican

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BOSTON — Charles Baker is the Republican candidate challenging Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick. Lately, Baker has been targeted by attack ads from a group called “Bay State Future,” headed by Barbara Weniger. But this group is actually a front for Democrats and labor unions:

The more than $2 million worth of negative ads, aired by Bay State Future to help Patrick win reelection, were bankrolled by the Democratic Governors Association, with help from the Massachusetts Teachers Association and Local 1199 of the Service Employees International Union. . . .
In reports to the state Office of Campaign and Political Finance, Bay State Future lists the Democratic Governors, the Massachusetts Teachers Association, and the SEIU local as sources of the funding . . .

Read the whole thing. The “Bay State Future” ads accuse Baker of favoring “tax loopholes that encourage companies to ship jobs overseas,” an accusation against Republicans that is being repeated all over the country this campaign cycle.

This charge is aimed at the Bush tax cuts, which Democrats say gave special treatment to transnational corporations. But Democrats have controlled Congress since January 2007 and have held the White House for nearly two years and have never attempted to repeal those provisions.  Why? Because the Bush policy was smart; without it, transnational corporations would be penalized for doing business in the United States.

So if any Republican takes the Americans f0r Tax Reform pledge against new taxs, Democrats say this amounts to being in favor of shipping jobs to China — an absurd and outrageous lie that ignores the realities of both tax policy and trade policy. Rob Eno at Red Mass Group says:

During these final 23 days of the election it is helpful to remember that the Democratic Machine will do anything to hold on to power.  They’ll cheat, they’ll steal, and they’ll outright lie.  It is up to us to call them out on it.  

Damn right. And it’s the Democratic governor Deval Patrick who is really killing jobs in Massachusetts by raising taxes that hurt business.

CHARLIE BAKER for MASSACHUSETTS GOVERNOR

The Left’s New Political Judo Tactic Revealed!

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by Smitty

Gateway Pundit reports on the arrest of 25 SEIU demonstrators at a single event, as opposed to 0 people at Tea Party protests which numberd. . .a lot.

One sees that this is all really a double-secret head fake. If SEIU can just lure the Tea Parties into a game of one-upsmanship, then the Tea Parties themselves, striving to out-do SEIU, will magically all get arrested.

Tea Partiers can then all be tossed into big rolling cages drawn by unicorns.  They can be carted through the city streets as an example to all of the decent, non-bitter Klingon population.  All should know that the First Amendment, like the rest of the Constitution, is only to be mentioned when accusing Conservatives of hypocrisy.

What a great plan. I don’t know if there is anything on tap for Memorial Day. Certainly the Tea Party will muster for July 4th pretty much everywhere. Do link and tweet this post so that everyone is on guard. Don’t let those zany SEIU dudes head fake you into singing the Jailhouse Rock:

  • You might not sound as good as Stacy McCain, and
  • When that policeman and public sector union member realizes the degree to which he’s been robbed by the big bosses, he may not be quite the chipper person you’d expect.

Union Rank-and-File in Massachusetts Deserted Democrats in Droves

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The Wall Street Journal today notes that Republican Scott Brown got more union votes than Martha Coakley. That would be big news if I hadn’t already reported a week ago that SEIU members were supporting Brown and if I hadn’t reported on Election Day that an AFSCME local official was supporting Brown.

The plural of anecdote is data, and with the help of Da Tech Guy, I got plenty of anecdotal evidence in Massachusetts of a massive blue-collar backlash against Coakley, Obama and the shove-it-down-our-throats approach to politics.

But it’s not just Massachusetts, it’s everywhere nowadays. People are tired of the “insider consensus.” They’re tired of experts and intellectuals and politicians who don’t seem to understand that “We The People” want meaningful input into the process of governance. Last year, I explained the concept of The Ordinary American:

The Ordinary American is not a journalist, a movie producer, an academic or a politician. News media, entertainment, education and politics are endeavors that shape public attitudes, and for this reason the elite have striven f or decades to exclude from those fields anyone who might dispute their consensus. . . .
Ordinary Americans may be Democrats or Republicans or neither. They may be gay or straight, black or white, Hispanic or Asian. They may be rich or poor, but most are somewhere in the broad middle. They don’t define themselves by the categories of ideology or identity politics that are so important to the elite.

Liberals just don’t seem to understand why Ordinary Americans are fed up with the Obama administration’s arrogant we-know-better-than-you type of governance. Here’s another anecdote: My buddy Chris Cassone — the “Take Our Country Back” singer — was talking to one of his liberal musician friends. When Chris said he was performing at a Tea Party rally, the friend said dismissively, “Did those people ever figure out what they’re so angry about?”

Of course, if you actually listen to Tea Party protesters, they’re quite specific about their grievances, especially the out-of-control deficit spending that is heaping debt on the heads of their children and grandchildren. This is why I despise yuppie NPR Republicans like David Brooks who use “populism” as a pejorative and turn up their noses at grassroots conservatives. These elitists are effectively urging the GOP not only to abandon the limited-government principles of Ronald Reagan, but also to abandon the kind of working-class voters who powered the Reagan Revolution.

Whether it’s moose-hunting Sarah Palin or truck-driving Scott Brown, voters will listen to a limited-government message if it is presented to them by an Ordinary American candidate who doesn’t talk down to them. In 2008, I dubbed this concept “Libertarian Populism,” and it’s the real secret of why the GOP is starting to get its mojo back.

SMALL GOVERNMENT = BIG VICTORIES