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It Worked. NRA Not Endorsing Harry Reid.

I'm actually getting beat up a bit in email tonight from three different emailers saying, "See, I told you they wouldn't do this."

The NRA is not endorsing Harry Reid.

Two NRA board members emailed me today sending their congratulations to RedState members. Said one, "This is all you guys."

As the Wall Street Journal notes:

Erick Erickson, founder of the influential conservative blog Redstate.com, urged his readers in July to pressure the NRA not to formally back Mr. Reid. "Both people at the...

Their Guy vs. Our Guy

I got this from a friend on email and thought it was worth sharing.

Their guy:

Our guy:

Oh Nooozzzzzzz. We can't touch the judges.

There is some ridiculous handwringing in this Washington Post article about voters daring — DARING I say — to throw judges off the bench for finding gay marriage in a state constitution.

How dare the people exercise their right.

The effort in Iowa worries not only gay rights advocates but some legal experts who say it is wrong to punish judges for an unpopular decision. For critics of judicial elections, Iowa is offering a compelling example of the peril of subjecting judges to voters'...

Just How Badly Has the NRSC Screwed Up? Worse Than You Think.

17,000 of the 24,000 absentee ballots in Alaska will probably be counted Monday. Given Joe Miller's late surge, it may not help him. However, I am told by a number of people that given where those absentee ballots came from and his overall support in the areas, the odds remain in joe Miller's favor.

But word is coming out of Washington that the National Republican Senatorial Committee, already in "cover their butts" mode, is intervening in Alaska to help Lisa Murkowski.

John Cornyn, Chairman ...

Morning Briefing for August 27, 2010

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1. Liberal blog Talking Points Memo denies role in Carnahan firebombing.

2. Just How Badly Has the NRSC Screwed Up? Worse Than You Think.

3. Put Georgia 8 on your radar

4. NBC/MSNBC & YouTube teamed with progressive orgs with financial ties to ACORN in 2008

5. The Leftist Tailspin

6. Michael Bennet Says He Has Nothing to Show for All His Votes

7. Charlie Crist...

Joe Miller Fires A Shot in Alaska

The NRSC has sent its top lawyer to Alaska on Lisa Murkowski's behalf and Joe Miller went on Fox today to point out the NRSC is inappropriately meddling in the race now, even though Murkowski is flirting with an independent or write-in bid.

Well, I've just received a copy of a letter (PDF) from Miller's attorneys demanding the disqualification of Lisa Murkowski campaign observer Bonnie Jack.

The Alaska Division of Elections staff and Joe Miller's staff observed Ms. Jack using confidential...

Michael Bennet Says He Has Nothing to Show for All His Votes

What an insufferable moron.

Michael Bennet is traipsing around Colorado calling Ken Buck too responsible to be sent to Washington for Buck daring to forego his taxpayer funded salary as District Attorney while campaigning for the Senate.

Bennet wants you to know that he has never missed a vote in the United States Senate, but please don't ask him about his taxpayer funded multi-month vacations to be able to campaign. Will he give up his salary during that time? Of course not.

While Bennet...

Don't Forget the RedState Mission

Go get your congress critter on video. Ask if he agrees with John Boehner that Barack Obama should ask for Tim Geithner and Larry Summers' resignations.

Oh, and if you get your congressman to take a position on the Ground Zero Mosque, you just might get bonus points and maybe an extra prize!

Post your video to our Facebook page. Each person who does so will get a copy of my new book.

(one book per person, mission may end at my say, Geithner or Summers being fired, or September 15th...

Charlie Crist Secretly Went to See Obama This Past Friday

We now have confirmation from the Crist campaign. Caleb and I have been working on this story.

We have eye witnesses who saw Charlie Crist in Martha's Vineyard this past Friday. Now Crist claims he was not visiting the President at all and was there for a private campaign event, the details of which he is refusing to release.

But our witnesses say he very clearly was, at one point, in the company of secret service agents.

Crist was visiting Obama on the eve of the Florida Senate primary.

For...

McCollum the Sore Loser?

This is getting disgraceful. I realize the level of acrimony is out of control in Florida, but this behavior is typical of McCollum and one of the chief reasons his opponent barely lost McCollum's home county — ponder that point.

McCollum hired most of Charlie Crist's 2006 campaign staff, which happened to be former Florida GOP Chairman Jim Greer's inner circle. Yes, the indicted JIm Greer.

McCollum accepted Jim Greer's endorsement gladly, but he never endorsed Marco Rubio after Crist...