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The School Board Who Stole Christmas

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From Fox News Online:

A school in Florida has not only banned Christmas – but everything associated with the Christian holiday.

Teachers at Heathrow Elementary School have been ordered to banish images of Santa Claus from classrooms – along with traditional Christmas colors like red and green.

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The parent, who serves as a volunteer room mother, said she was recently given a list of guidelines that listed the holiday restrictions.

She said the basic theme of the letter was, “We don’t want to offend anyone who doesn’t believe in Santa Claus or the Christian beliefs.”

The school board issued a response saying that they want to celebrate a “winter theme” but that red and green, as colors, were not explicitly banned. You’ll probably hear me say this a couple more times over the next month, but my annual policy still stands: Say ‘Merry Christmas’ to everyone you see, even the ones wearing Hijabs and Yarmulkes. In fact, especially those ones. Last year, on Christmas Day, I went through the drive through at the local coffee shop. Greeting me was a young Muslim girl wearing a Santa Clause hat on top of a Hijab. Interestingly, it doesn’t seem like the grassroots Muslims are the ones who overly care about this Christmas business, it’s their leadership, and White, Godless liberals (see “Kwanzaa.”)

H/T RightNetwork

"But only 3 of the 4 were topless Mr. Speaker"

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Only a short while after it was revealed that SEC officials were watching pornography through their office computers, it’s now revealed that a Florida State Senator was doing the same…from inside the chambers of the Florida Senate.

Florida Sen. Mike Bennett was caught with his pants down (or at least with his hands in his pants) as a news camera caught him with a picture of 3-and-a-half topless women pulled up on his monitor. No, the fourth wasn’t a midget; she had her bikini top on. In the video, the Senator making a statement in the Senate amusingly was saying, “I’m against this bill, because it disrepects too many women in the state of Florida” while speaking on the abortion bill.

Oh and by the way Senator, no one believes your excuse that you thought it was related to business of the Senate.

Leadership You Can Believe In

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Florida megalomaniac Senate candidate Charlie Crist was on NBC‘s Meet the dePressed this weekend. On the show, Crist was asked if he would caucus with Democrats or Republicans if he was elected. His response:

And there you have it – Crist, who is clearly running as an independent because he has certain core convictions (?) won’t say who he will caucus with. I’m sure his campaign will be an ideas-based one.

Charlie Crist was a poor Governor of Florida; he was a lousy candidate in the GOP Senatorial primary; and, he would be a brutal Senator. He has no core principles, save what is best for Charlie Crist. In fact, ‘lifelong Republican’ Charlie Crist went so far as to try to get Rhambo and Dr. Demento Dean to stand with him against Floridians.

Crist’s kind, unscrupulous self-promoters, are the problem with the GOP. The party does not need Charlie Crists who have no core convictions. It is not enough for the GOP to win, conservatism has to win. Conservatism will save the United States. The Republican Party is only a vessel to advance conservatism. A Senator Crist would not be a roadblock in the Obama agenda, he would embrace big government socialism, as he has done in the past. In November, Marco Rubio will prevail. He will be a leading light in the GOP for years to come. Charlie, well, he’ll have a lot of time to work on that tan.

Crist to Run as an Independent

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Crist Almighty, I can’t say that I’m surprised by this, but I kind of hoped that Governor Charlie Crist (R-FL) could take the high road at least this one time in his life and challenge Marco Rubio in the Republican primary, not in the Florida senate election in 2010.

Despite repeatedly assuring voters that he would not seek the Senate seat as an independent, sources close to Crist say that he’s having a change of heart.

It may be the worst-kept secret in American politics today, and it’s apparently about to become a reality. Reliable sources informed me today that embattled Florida Gov. Charlie Crist, whose early lead in his US Senate Republican primary race against former Florida House Speaker Marco Rubio has essentially reversed itself in the polls, is preparing to announce sooner rather than later that he will leave the GOP and continue his run for Senate as an independent. Sources add that the speech Crist will use in his announcement is now being drafted.

As Reagan said, when it comes to people who wont subscribe to true conservative principles, “let them go their way.” However, I must admit that I’m a bit concerned about how this will affect Rubio (the conservative one) in the general election. If it was a standard race with a Republican versus a Democrat, Rubio would take it hands-down. However, the presence of a “moderate conservative” (gag) could off-set things a bit.

However, at least Florida doesn’t have to worry about having a boring political ‘scene.’

H/T to AllahPundit.

Fox News Sunday Rubio v. Crist

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The Republican Senate primary battle in Florida is really a referendum on the direction the GOP wants to chart for the future. This weekend’s FOX News Sunday debate made it clear who the real conservative, ideas oriented candidate is for the GOP – Marco Rubio. Rubio defines himself as a “Jim DeMint” Republican, or a conservative. Rubio will fight the Obama-Reid-Pelosi scoilast, freedom killing agenda. Charlie Crist has a brutal fake tan, was a lousy governor and said that the two senators he admired most are John McCain and Lindsey Graham. That’s amnesty, cap and trade, and bailouts – case closed. Crist did not present a single new idea in the debate, and has not throughout the campaign. Instead, Crist is content to make false allegations against Rubio in an attempt to besmirch Rubio’s character. For Floridians the choice is clear: Marco Rubio represents the future of the Republican Party.

It Is Time For McCain To Go Home

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The thorn in the side of the GOP known as Senator John McCain recently sat down for an interview with The Hill. In the interview, McCain offers a compelling case that should lead all conservatives to support his primary challenger, J.D. Hayworth in the upcoming Arizona GOP primary.

McCain said “We have to convince these independent voters out there that we did learn our lesson about spending and we will be fiscally responsible.” One wonders where TARP, which McCain stopped his campaign to go persuade Republicans to vote for, fits into that picture. It is rich to hear the man who made a campaign promise to buy all of America’s underwater mortgages talk about fiscal responsibility.

You have to read on in the article to come across the real gem in the piece. Throughout the article, Mr. Progressive Republican answers questions about how the GOP is out of touch, and that if they want to win in the future they have to listen to the people. And who has their finger on the pulse of the USA better than the Maverick himself? Well, just about anyone else. When asked a specific question, it is clear that the Mac still doesn’t  get it. With Marco Rubio pulling away from Obama’s favorite Republican McCain said “sure, I’d be glad to help [Charlie Crist]” in his primary battle. So let me get this right, the problem is that the GOP embraced big spending policies and was out of touch while they were in power, so to solve that the Mac would “be glad” to support Charlie Crist, who was a huge supporter of the Porkulus bill, and has been demolished in the polls by a real conservative that connects with Floridians. Crist literally embraced Obama, while campaigning for the biggest, most wasteful spending bill in American history. Marco Rubio headlined CPAC. Marco Rubio is the model for the future for the GOP, not John McCain and definitely not Charlie Crist. Hopefully in the November general election Americans will have the opportunity to vote fr J.D. Hayworth in Arizona. We already know they’ll have have Rubio on the ballot.