Smart Alec Trump Releases His Birth Certificate To Challenge Obama

• Monday, March 28, 2011, 17:26
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In this case when I call Donald Trump a “Smart Alec” it is a respectful compliment with admiration for the the most fascinating man on prime time television.  I am so thankful Mr. Trump has chosen to champion the cause of keeping the Barry Sorento a.k.a. Barack Obama accountable on the birth certificate issue.

Sorry Whoopi, your lame excuses of sticking up for a President who is hiding something is the “biggest pile of dog mess” ever, not the fact that Donald Trump is keeping him accountable.  (See video below)

I only wish it was easier to sign up my kids for little league, thus proving their age by birth certificate, than it is to apply to become President of the United States of America.

Donald Trump, who has been making headlines and television appearances calling for President Barack Obama to release his official birth documents, on Monday released his birth certificate exclusively to Newsmax to prove the point he is not hiding his own identity while calling on Obama to pony up some proof to Uncle Sam as a newborn.

“It took me one hour to get my birth certificate. It’s inconceivable that after four years of questioning,  the President still hasn’t produced his birth certificate. I’m just asking President Obama to show the public his birth certificate. Why’s he making an issue out of this?”

Thank you Mr. Trump for challenging the President of the United States to provide his birth certificate.  We look forward to the Lincoln dinner here in Iowa June 10th, when we will be challenged to consider more of your insightful relevant wit.

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Phyllis Schlaffly Jabs Joe Biden at Conservative Principles Conference

• Monday, March 28, 2011, 19:07
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If you don’t know Phyllis Schlaffy yet you will fall in love by watching this 21 second video demonstration of her wit and wisdom.
Check out her comprehensive webpage at http://www.eagleforum.org/misc/bio.html

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Herman Cain’s Conservative Principles Speech Was Best So Far In Prez Race

• Monday, March 28, 2011, 8:17
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Let me make myself clear… Herman Cain’s speech at Steve King Conservative Principles Conference was the best speech by anyone in the presidential race thus far.  Every American should listen to it.

Take it from my humble opinion, as I have attended most of the speeches in this early season by all the candidates… You should watch it or at least listen to it.  Herman Cain has a message everyone should hear and this was Herman at his best.

The only thing missing online when you watch is the inspirational patriotic spirit swirling in the room, for me I get goosebumps at home watching it again.  It was evident that people in the room at the time were inspired.

You can watch Mr. Cain’s speech at this CSPAN linke- http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/Cainatt

(Note: you will have to scroll down to 4th speech in the transcripts area and select the segment that is 24 minutes long.  If someone knows a more direct link please add it to the comment section. Thanks.)

Herman Cain also won the unscientific straw poll at the event.

Maybe this will even move Herman Cain into the seemingly prestigious, yet so far not so comprehensive Des Moines Register’s list of candidates to “watch” in the political section of their website.  Herman Cain was first to formally announce an exploratory committee over a month ago and yet the Register is still “watching” Mike Pence from Indiana who formally announced over a month ago he would not run for president.  So, in my deduction, the Register isn’t taking Herman Cain serious enough… yet, but they will and so will everyone else.  It is just a matter of time.

My time travel prediction is that  Herman Cain will at least “place” by earning either the gold, silver or bronze medal at the Iowa Caucus.  He will go on to be a huge influence and game changer in the race.  I envision him in the next administration somewhere at the top. Which medal will represent him and which candidate will come after him is the unfolding story… here in Iowa.

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Herman Cain’s Conservative Principles Speech Was Best So Far In Prez Race

• Monday, March 28, 2011, 8:17
• News Center, Presidential, TEApublican
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Let me make myself clear… Herman Cain’s speech at Steve King Conservative Principles Conference was the best speech by anyone in the presidential race thus far.  Every American should listen to it.

Take it from my humble opinion, as I have attended most of the speeches in this early season by all the candidates… You should watch it or at least listen to it.  Herman Cain has a message everyone should hear and this was Herman at his best.

The only thing missing online when you watch is the inspirational patriotic spirit swirling in the room, for me I get goosebumps at home watching it again.  It was evident that people in the room at the time were inspired.

You can watch Mr. Cain’s speech at this CSPAN linke- http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/Cainatt

(Note: you will have to scroll down to 4th speech in the transcripts area and select the segment that is 24 minutes long.  If someone knows a more direct link please add it to the comment section. Thanks.)

Herman Cain also won the unscientific straw poll at the event.

Maybe this will even move Herman Cain into the seemingly prestigious, yet so far not so comprehensive Des Moines Register’s list of candidates to “watch” in the political section of their website.  Herman Cain was first to formally announce an exploratory committee over a month ago and yet the Register is still “watching” Mike Pence from Indiana who formally announced over a month ago he would not run for president.  So, in my deduction, the Register isn’t taking Herman Cain serious enough… yet, but they will and so will everyone else.  It is just a matter of time.

My time travel prediction is that  Herman Cain will at least “place” by earning either the gold, silver or bronze medal at the Iowa Caucus.  He will go on to be a huge influence and game changer in the race.  I envision him in the next administration somewhere at the top. Which medal will represent him and which candidate will come after him is the unfolding story… here in Iowa.

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Mike Huckabee stumps in Iowa for Vander Plaats

CEDAR RAPIDS — The Tea Party movement represents an energized Republican base, and its members shouldn’t think of looking elsewhere. That’s Mike Huckabee’s advice.

“I think the Tea Party has energized a whole new political group of people,” Huckabee, the former Arkansas Republican governor and current Fox News commentator. “It’s been 100 percent positive.”

Huckabee, in Cedar Rapids on Wednesday to rally support for Republican gubernatorial candidate Bob Vander Plaats, said the year-old protest movement has attracted new activists to the party.

Huckabee and Vander Plaats want to make them feel at home.

“For the most part, they’ll join up with conservative Republicans,” Huckabee said.

He’s probably right: In a CNN-Opinion Research poll last week, 44 percent of those who had attended Tea Party events or otherwise supported the movement identified themselves as Republicans. Of the 52 percent who self-identified as “independent,” 87 percent said they would vote for a Republican congressional candidate if an independent alternative weren’t available.

Huckabee wants to make sure an independent isn’t available.

“If the Tea Party falls into a third party, it’s the end of it,” he said. “Their power now is that they represent a mood and a spirit, not an organization. When they become institutionalized, that will be their demise.”

Vander Plaats is the best fit for the newcomers, especially those concerned over the state Supreme Court’s legalization of same-sex marriage, according to Huckabee.

Huckabee: I’m here as a positive, not negative force

2008 Caucus winner downplays his 2012 aspirations while stumping for Vander Plaats

By Lynda Waddington 2/24/10 2:40 PM

CEDAR RAPIDS — Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee made clear Wednesday at a press conference that his presence in the state was to accentuate the positives of the person he believes is the best choice to lead the state of Iowa, and not to serve as a negative attack dog on other politicians.

Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee and GOP gubernatorial hopeful Bob Vander Plaats talk to the media in Cedar Rapids (photo by Lynda Waddington/Iowa Independent).

Huckabee, who won the 2008 Iowa presidential caucuses, will make several stops Wednesday on behalf of Bob Vander Plaats, a Sioux City businessman in the midst of a heated Republican gubernatorial primary. The Iowa Family Policy Center, an influential conservative religious organization, has made clear that as an organization it will not support any other candidate for governor besides Vander Plaats, and that it will encourage those who feel the same to stay home if another candidate wins the June primary.

“[T]hat’s not why I’m here. I’m not here to get in the middle of their (The Iowa Family Policy Center’s) business,” said Huckabee, noting that he and Terry Branstad, Iowa’s former governor now considered the front-runner for the Republican nomination, have long been friends.

“We not only served together as governors, but we were co-national chairs for the presidential election bid for Lamar Alexander at one time. We’ve been good friends during my many visits to Iowa. This is not about Terry Branstad. This is about the very strong, deep, personal relationship I have with Bob Vander Plaats, plus my confidence that he would be a great governor at this time in Iowa.”

Huckabee, who is the only Republican presidential candidate from recent years to foster and maintain an active political arm in Iowa, also downplayed any connection of his recent state visits to a 2012 bid of his own.

“I think it is too early. I know a lot of people are already laying out the tracks and getting all set, but I love what I’m doing,” he said, and noted the success of both his television show on the FOX cable network and his radio commentary series.

“This year I’m busy helping people like Bob,” he said. “I think it is a little getting ahead of the process when we are already trying to lay out what’s going to happen in 2012 [when] 2010 is the election cycle we have to focus upon. And, I’m not ruling anything out, but I’m not even going to start thinking about my position in 2012 until sometime in 2011. I understand that others are head-long and full-throttled. I get that. I don’t have the luxury of that because I’m totally consumed right now with what I already have to do.”

He added that his reasons for visiting the Hawkeye State are “not so much about what I’m going to do in the future, but a whole lot to do with what I’ve already done in the past” and the people he has come to know and respect in the state.

Vander Plaats campaigns in Davenport

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John Schultz Republican candidate for Iowa Governor Bob Vander Plaats shakes the hand of Linda Willareth of Bettendorf, Thursday Feb. 18, 2010, during a campaign stop at Godfather's Pizza in Davenport. (John Schultz / Quad-City Times)

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It is a great time for someone who has never held political office to make a run for the governorship of Iowa, Sioux City businessman Bob Vander Plaats said Thursday.

Speaking to about 50 people at the Godfather’s Pizza restaurant on East Kimberly Road in Davenport, Vander Plaats, one of three candidates vying for the Republican nomination, said he has no political record by which he can be hanged. 

The other two candidates are former Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad and State Rep. Rob Roberts of Carroll. Earlier Thursday, a fourth Republican candidate, Christopher Rants, dropped out of the race.

“I believe Gov. (Chet) Culver wants Branstad to be the Republican nominee,” Vander Plaats said. “He has a record big-time to run against.”

Culver has had the recession to deal with, while Branstad had the 1980s, Vander Plaats said. 

While Branstad was in office, he said, the state sales tax was raised twice, fees were increased 30 times, and gambling and the lottery were established to help pay state bills.

Vander Plaats said Culver has grown the government, and hired 2,500 new employees during his tenure. When the recession took its toll, he added, the Culver administration instituted a 10 percent across-the-board cut that showed no imagination.

Instead, Culver should have cut programs that were not working and the state could do without, Vander Plaats said. 

The state’s tax structure also does not promote the growth of private business, he added. 

Vander Plaats said that Iowa is first in the nation in a wage disparity between government employees and private sector employees, with the government employees coming out on top.

It used to be that people would work in the private sector for good salaries, benefits and job security, he said. Now, people try to be hired by a government agency for those same incentives private industry used to provide.

“How long can you grow the public sector at the expense of the private sector and have things turn out well?” he asked the crowd.

The state does not have a revenue problem, Vander Plaats said. “It has a spending problem.”

To grow Iowa, the state’s education system has to be improved, the tax system must be more business friendly, the bureaucracy must be reduced, and Iowa must remain a right to work state, he said.

“I want to be a transformation governor that opens up the state for business and limits government,” Vander Plaats said.

Vander Plaats to visit Mason City Wednesday

MASON CITY — Bob Vander Plaats of Sioux City, who is seeking the Republican nomination for governor, will greet people at the Pizza Ranch starting at 6 p.m. Wednesday.

Vander Plaats sought the nomination in 2002 and 2006. He became the running mate of the eventual candidate, Jim Nussle, in 2006.

He will compete in a Republican primary this year with former governor Terry Branstad of Urbandale, State Rep. Rod Roberts of Carroll, and State Rep. Chris Rants of Sioux City.

— By John Skipper