It's a Wonderful Day in the Neighborhood

Tuesday, 9 May 2012, a day which will live in conservative lore for a long time. Let me break it down for everyone since it was such an outstanding day for conservatives all across the fruited plains.

Indiana

We'll start with Indiana because Indiana means a lot to the conservative movement. In Indiana, moderate Richard Lugar lost in a landslide to conservative Richard Mourdock in the republican primary. The reason why this is a good story is this, Richard Lugar served in the senate for 36 years. He was the third longest sitting senator in the senate. The problem with Lugar is that he was all about compromising with the liberals. I'm not adverse to compromise, but it seems recently, the only people compromising are the republicans. When republicans go across the aisle, it's bad for the country. Conservatism is the proven way to get an economy going and get jobs back to Americans again. No, don't give me that Bush didn't get the economy going, and Bush didn't get jobs back to American's again crap. There is a reason for that, Bush wasn't a conservative. You can't bail out auto companies, sped billions on a stimulus package, and basically have an open border policy and be a conservative. The simple truth is conservatism works, when liberalism takes hold whether through Democrat or Republican legislator, it is bad for America. So, having a conservative battling for the senate seat instead of a moderate is a good thing. But we're not done yet.

Wisconsin

Wow, Wisconsin was a fun race to watch. In case you don't know, Governor Scott Walker is up for a recall election because the public sector union bosses didn't like the fact that he balanced the Wisconsin budget and put the public sector unions in check at the same time. So, they had a primary Tuesday, Governor Walker ran unopposed in the primary. Running unopposed means he had absolutely nothing to worry about in this primary election. There was no one running against him. In the Republican primary, Walker got a total of 600,000 votes. That total is just about equal to the TOTAL votes in the Democrat primary. That's just part of the fun. The reason he was recalled, the supposed outrage because of Gov. Walker's stance against public section union's having certain rights that private employee's don't have. The union's candidate, Kathleen Falk, lost to her Democrat opposition by 18 points. Oh we're not done yet, the Democrat she lost to, Tom Barrett has been staying as far away from unions as he possibly can. The fun to this one is that it is yet more proof that the media can't be trusted. Watch this one, Walker is going to win this one big. Moving on...

North Carolina

This one is for all my Republican friends who say "social conservatism is a non-winner". North Carolina voted for a Constitutional Amendment to their state Constitution that defined marriage as between one man and one woman. This is the 30th time a vote has been put before the people of a state and the 30th time same sex marriage has lost. But once again, you would never know this if you listen to the media. If you listen to them, you would think the social conservatives are in the minority. By the way, the only places where gay marriage is legal are those places where it was imposed on the people by the legislature or by the judges. Remember, even the liberal capital of the world California voted to define marriage in their Constitution to between one man and one woman. Oh, we still have one state left to go.

West Virginia

This one is just fun. The President during a re-election year still has to run a primary in the states. You don't hear about it because he always runs unopposed and always wins. That being said, it is feasible that someone could very easily get themselves on the ballot in some states, and run against the incumbent president. That very thing happened in West Virginia. Don't ask me how, but an inmate in a federal prison in Texas got on the Democrat primary ballot in West Virginia, The inmate got 41% of the vote against the sitting President. After hearing this, I laughed for a while. How does that happen? It's very simple; the President has put himself at odds with the coal industry. Well, the coal industry is kind of a big deal in West Virginia. It is so bad there that after he voted in the primary Democratic Senator Joe Manchin was asked who he voted for, Barack Obama or the inmate, and Senator Joe Manchin refused to say who he voted for.

Ultimately, I recognize it is only May; we still have a long way to go until November. But this is a sign of the election to come. My point in all of this is don’t listen to the media, don’t listen to Hollywood, and ignore the polls. Just watch, because if you're anything like me, November is going to be fun.