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Since I always think of things that would look good on the bumper of people’s cars, I have decided to post some of my bumper sticker designs here on MVRed.com for you, our readers, to purchase. I use a website called Zazzle.com and they create the bumper stickers and set the price, so I have no control over it. I have purchased from them in the past and I have been very satisfied with what they have to offer. Enjoy!

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The GOP Resurgence Begins in Ohio says Two National Media Outlets

CNN and the DC newspaper Roll Call have two fabulous articles out on the battleground races that will take place in Ohio in 2010. Each article likens the Republicans chances of a resurgence in the Buckeye State next year. Read the articles below:

CNN Article by John King.

Roll Call Article by Nathan Gonzalez.

As 2010 approaches, MVRed.com will begin to focus a lot more on the huge slate of statewide races here in Ohio, as we look to elect a Governor, a new Senator, and every other high level statewide office.

Cap and Trade: Boehner Filibusters, but Eight R’s Defect to Pelosi

I commend Republican Minority Leader John Boehner for attempting to filibuster the largest tax increase in American history. Despite that, I am extremely agitated with eight Republican ‘traitors’ that decided to defect to Nancy Pelosi to help get this bill passed by the narrowest of margins, 219-212. In order to pass, this bill needed a total of 218 votes. As you can clearly see, the eight Republican traitors are the primary reason this provocative piece of legislation passed in the US House. Below Boehner’s filibuster video from YouTube, I provided the phone numbers of these eight Republicans that decided to vote for this gigantic tax increase on all Americans. I urge you to clog up their telephone lines and let them know that you are very unhappy with their decision. Vodkapundit said it best, “Never have so few stolen so much from so many to achieve so little.”

Thankfully, many pundits are predicting Cap and Trade will die a painful death in the US Senate. Although a few Republicans like Snowe and Collins from Maine may back it, there are a number of Democrats from farming states that will likely not.

H/T: Infidel’s Paradise
Bono Mack (CA) 202-225-5330
Castle (DE) 202-225-4165
Kirk (IL) 202-225-4835
Lance (NJ) 202-225-5361
Lobiondo (NJ) 202-225-6572
McHugh (NY) 202-225-4611
Reichart (WA) 202-225-7761
Chris Smith (NJ) 202-225-3765

Michael Jackson: 1958-2009

June 25th, 2009 will now be a day that will be remembered in the annals of the United States. Much like the day John Lennon or Elvis died, June 25th is now a day that will be used to mourn and remember. This time we will not be trying to remember a Beatle or the King Of Rock N’ Roll but the King Of Pop, Michael Jackson.

A lot of people will cite the troubles and controversies in Jackson’s life, including his trial for sexual molestation, as a way to hate Jackson or discredit what he has done in his career. However, there is no denying the power he had: to break down the barriers of race and make his music universally liked by people of all ethnicity. His dancing, his singing and his fashion were admired and liked by all. He had quite possibly the biggest and best run in the history of the music industry. Michael Jackson owns three of the best selling albums of all-time, including the #1 most popular album ever: Thriller. Thriller has sold 109 million copies worldwide and is far and away the number one album. The other two albums by Jackson in the top of pyramid, Dangerous and Bad have sold a combined 62 million dollars worldwide. He has often been cited as the greatest entertainer of all time and the Guinness Book Of World Records has called Jackson the “most successful entertainer of all time”. He was one of a kind.

I won’t go into the details about the speculation of how he died or why, but I will say this: Michael Jackson is the greatest musician to ever live. Yes, better than Elvis. More influential than The Beatles and more successful than Bob Dylan. Michael Jackson forged a path that no one else has ever made before and had a career that no one else will ever top. He is the greatest ever, and he will be sorely missed.

R.I.P. to the greatest of all-time.

USA Upsets Spain 2-0!

Congratulations to the United States Soccer Team for beating the #1 team in the world, Spain, in what is one of the biggest upsets in American sports history.

As a former soccer player, I always enjoy watching the USA Soccer Team play the best teams in the world. Going into today’s game, my heart said the USA would win, but my head said the USA would likely lose, considering they were playing the best team on the globe today. But you got to give the USA credit for fighting and clawing all 90 minutes and finding a way to win it all!

The USA will play Brazil, who they lost to 3-0 last week, or South Africa in the Confederations Cup Championship Game on Sunday afternoon! Win or lose on Sunday, this victory is huge for the growing popularity of soccer in America and will be a huge confidence booster for the USA in the World Cup in 2010!

Trouble Brewing for Obama in the Polls

Brian Williams of NBC Nightly News said it best this past week saying, “the honeymoon is coming to an end for President Obama.” Well this Monday we have not one, not two, but three polls to back that statement up.

Rasmussen: Obama’s Job Approval is at an all time low of 53%.
For the first time as President, more Americans strongly disapprove of Obama’s job than strongly approve by a 34%-32% margin.

Gallup: Obama’s Job Approval hit another all time low this afternoon of 57% in the Gallup Poll, down 6% in just the past ten days.

NBC/WSJ: Obama’s Job Approval hit a new low in the NBC News/Wall Street Journal Poll this past week with a Job Approval of 56%.

The question most of you are probably asking yourself is why are President Obama’s Approval Numbers falling? Well here is the best answer I can give you:

Americans have become very concerned with the massive amounts of money the Administration has spent in order to improve the economy, the massive expansion of Government we have seen over the past six months, and the enormous price tag to provide health care for uninsured Americans.

Although many Americans still admire President Obama as an individual, more Americans each day are  beginning to putt the blame on him now than they have over the past few months. It now appears that six months into the Obama Administration Americans are beginning to hold Obama accountable for his policies and actions. Perhaps the blaming Bush routine will come to an end soon, or maybe not. My bet is on the latter.

We shall see if this is a short term dip in the polls or a long term dive below 50%, which will remain to be seen for another few weeks.

The GOP Comeback in Ohio

Earlier this week I posted a political thread on the Ohio High School sports website JJHuddle.com. I posted a poll and asked the members to tell me who they were going to support for Governor in 2010 and why. To my surprise and the surprise of many, Republican John Kasich is blowing out incumbent Democratic Governor Ted Strickland in the unscientific poll 73% to 27% with 85 members voting. (Yes I realize this is as unscientific as they come with 85 people voting, but still the comments tell the story below).

Although many Republicans may not believe this since I am Mr. Republican, I did not support Ken Blackwell in 2006. I did in fact believe Ted Strickland was the better choice for Ohio. Although I still believe that Strickland would have done better than Blackwell, I also believe that Strickland has done a piss-poor job as Governor. With Ted at the helm, the unemployment rate in this state is at at 25 year high and has nearly doubled to 10.8% in May. It is quite evident that Ted Strickland is not the answer to fixing Ohio’s economy. He was left with a state in a big mess and since he took office he has made that mess even worse.

I decided to post some of the comments Ohio voters posted on the JJHuddle.com thread to prove to everyone that Ted Strickland’s job is in great jeopardy.

LegalEagle: If the race were today, I’d vote for Kasich.
WriterBuckeye: On the other hand, my past voting choices for governor have included Rhodes, Gilligan, Celeste, Voinovich, Taft and Strickland. I’ll be voting for Kasich this time, because I believe he’ll correct what’s deadly wrong about our state’s business atmosphere; and he’ll get the budget in line.
Village Idiot: I voted (D) last time, in virtually all of the statewide races, including governor, on the basis of “vote all of the bums out.” But, since getting the office, has Strickland accomplished anything? Good, bad, or indifferent? I mean, he doesn’t even have anything worth bashing, because I don’t think that he has any accomplishments, even ones that I don’t like. So, I’m leaning towards Kasich, and would vote for him if the election were today, but I’m still sway-able.
CenterBHSFan: I voted for Strickland the past election and now he’s in. And to tell the truth, he seems pretty far off the political map since then. I’ll vote for Kasich if nobody else catches my eye.
wkfan: Kasich. I did vote for Strickland in the last election….lesser of the evils.
CinciX12: Kasich might be the first republican I ever vote for. Strickland has just been horrible.
senor_cbus: Strickland has been the best governor on the gun issue in my lifetime. Period…. Strickland and his Democrat buddies have continued to kiss up to the unions, which are a major part of this state’s economic problems. Ohio needs to be dragged, kicking and screaming, into the 21st century. I think Kasich is the better choice.
DYTBuckeye: Under Strickland…. 10.2 percent unemployment rate (highest in 25 years) and estimated 300-350,000 jobs lost during his time in office. Your local government effects you so much more greatly, than your national government. So I’m gonna vote for Kasich.
VikingWarrior: Let’s get real. Ohio needs recharged. Ohio needs a new look. I say this right now. Bob Taft = Ted Strickland , there is no difference. John Kasich has the record to get this state turned around. Ted is a good guy, not a leader.

Honestly Governor Strickland, what can you run on? The economy is a mess, the education system is in complete disarray, and you can’t blame Taft/Bush in 2010!

Kasich is the right choice for Governor in 2010!

The GOP Revival Begins with Conservativism

Many in the liberal media have made the claim that the Republican Party has become the minority party because the party had moved too far to the right under the Bush Administration, but that could not be further from the truth. Had the Republican Party elected a conservative candidate in 2008 and actually acted like conservatives the past eight years, our chances of holding onto the White House would have been a lot higher. Of course that did not happen because we elected the ‘moderate’ John McCain as our nominee and acted like liberals by spending way too much of the taxpayers money.

Yesterday morning Gallup released their yearly poll on the ideological makeup of the United States , and what do you know, 40% of Americans identify themselves conservatives!

By looking at those numbers, Reagan’s dominant blowout victories in 1980 and 1984 make a lot more sense now. When you nominate a true conservative like Reagan you pretty much are handed 40% of the vote because you can win over the Reagan conservatives. All that remains is winning 10%+ of the moderate vote, which is a huge 35% chunk of America. I hope the Republican Party is listening to me here!

In 2012, it is imperative for the GOP to nominate a true conservative like a Mitt Romney to take down President Obama. Even if the economy is turned around by then, a true conservative will have plenty of ammo on the spending and budget issues to take down Obama. Americans may appreciate Obama’s efforts in fixing the economy, but they certainly cannot be happy that Obama bankrupted this nation in the process.

The key to victory in 2012 begins with the Republicans in this nation nominating a true conservative to take down President Obama. If we elect another ‘Maverick’ we will get our butts kicked once again. The most popular conservative in America right now is a man by the name of Mitt Romney. If anyone can take down Obama, it is Mitt!

Obamunism

When thinking back to previous Administration economic policies; we had Reaganomics, Bushonomics, and now Obamunism. The reason I call it Obamunism is because President Obama’s economic policies are eerily similar to socialism. Now before everyone accuses me of unnecessary namecalling, I do have proof to back up my statements.

Under the Obama administration, the Government has nationalized our auto industry, our banking industry, our mortgage industry, and now they are looking at nationalizing our first class health care industry. This broad nationalization of our nations economy is along the lines to socialism. Massive government control over all these sectors of the economy should worry all Americans. Anything that inhibits free competition like we are now seeing is a direct threat to capitalism.

If anyone warned us about the potential socialistic policies of President Obama, it was Joe the Plumber. It was he who had the opportunity to ask President Obama a question off the teleprompter in which Obama responded honestly by saying, “When you spread the wealth around, it’s good for everybody.” The dictionary on Google.com described socialism as, “The view that the government should own and control major industries using the dollars earned to provide benefits to citizens.” Well let’s see, the US Government owns/controls our auto industry, our banking industry, our mortgage industry, and soon they will control our health care industry. How is this not socialism?

We can’t say Americans were not warned of this threat to capitalism known as Obamunism. I am not calling Obama a socialist, I am simply of the belief that his policies are similar to the European socialist policies, whose supporters were royally defeated this past week in the European Union Parliamentary Elections.

A Job Saved Versus a Job Created

Like many Americans, I cannot help but to wonder how the White House can claim they ’saved or created 150,000 jobs’ during the first 100 days of the Recovery Bill without informing the American public where they got that number. I would like to give credit where credit is due and praise the advisor’s to President Obama for creating one of the most confusing things to come out of a President’s mouth in a long time. Better yet, I want to praise them for giving the media a phrase that even they can’t explain! I don’t think a mathematician at Harvard could come up with a formula to calculate jobs created and/or saved.

Well believe it or not I did learn a thing or two in my math classes back in the day; so I used that knowledge to come up with the best formula that the White House uses, in my eyes, to calculate jobs saved and/or created.

Well maybe that is not the ‘exact’ formula the White House uses, but it got to be something to close to it right? All kidding aside, I would simply like the White House to explain to the American people where they come up with this figure, because I honestly believe they are throwing out a bogus number to fool the American taxpayer into believing this Stimulus package is actually working right now.

When the Administration can explain how they get this number, then maybe I will believe them. Until then, I will remain skeptical and hope this nations economic situation begins to improve Stimulus or not.

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