Black Mormon Conservative Mia Love won the GOP’s 4th Congressional District nomination at the Republican convention today.

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On September 19th, Republicans for Black Empowerment will hold its fourth annual gathering of GOP activists. The event, which occurs every year, acts as a conservative alternative to the more liberal leaning Congressional Black Caucus event, which is held the same day. This year’s special guest will include Congressman Allen West.

Watching five members of the House Women’s Caucus unleash their fury at Rep. Allen West for telling Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz to “shut the heck up” was comical. Their press conference reminded me of a Saturday Night Live sketch.

Just when I thought I had heard almost every kind of slavery gaffe and apology uttered by Republicans, Rep. Michelle Bachmann joins in the fun.

As Newt Gingrich’s candidacy “burns,” Mitt Romney is haunted by Obamneycare, and Jon Huntsman looks like a squishy RINO, conservatives need Governor Perry to right side this GOP ship for 2012. Perry’s plain talking, tell it like is style and passion, could make him the Bill Clinton of 1992. Clinton entered the presidential race late and rose like a meteor to the top of the heap.

Besides his ability to communicate, Perry could teach President Obama a lesson or two about how to lead and get the economy going. In the midst of the worst recession since the Great Depression and yes we’re still in one, Perry created over 254,000 jobs in Texas last year. Since 2009, 38% of all US jobs created were in Texas, Texas the top state in the nation for job creation. (You paying attention Obama?)

The state of Texas’ business friendly environment has led to companies fleeing hostile regulatory state of California in droves for the greener pastures of Texas. In fact, 14 out of 70 businesses fleeing the debt ridden, sky high tax state of California ran to the heart of Texas. Another benefit to companies moving to Texas is their employees don’t have to pay a state income tax because Texas has none.

If the current crop of declared GOP presidential contenders is the party’s field of dreams for 2012, we’re in real trouble. Reviewing the line up thus far, Ron Paul, Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich, Rick Santorum, Herman Cain, Tim Pawlenty, the group has the charisma factor of a ball of wax. Let’s face it charisma is more than 50% of presidential candidates appeal and for the most part this group is just plain dullsville when stacked up against Obama.

So far, Republicans’ quest for the White House in 2012 is looking more like a bad reality show at best, giving team Obama ample room for confidence the president will win a second term. Comb over, business titan Donald Trump’s flirtation with running for president was truly embarrassing. This week, just when we thought he couldn’t top his ridiculous press conference, taking credit for forcing Obama to reveal his birth certificate, Trump declared he wouldn\’t run for president but “I maintain the strong conviction that if I were to run, I would be able to win the primary and, ultimately , the general election.” Hardly, Americans won’t elect a birther as president.

I’m quite familiar with Detroit. I’ve been there many times. I was born in Sandusky, Ohio, and I can see that many Detroiters are familiar with my hometown, too, as evidenced by the license plates of the cars snaking their way along the roads leading to Cedar Point.

Ohio has a Rust Belt problem, too. On two occasions (2002 and 2004) I was the Republican candidate for state representative in a portion of Ohio’s Rust Belt, encompassing Lorain, Oberlin, parts of Elyria, and the vicinity. I didn’t win the elections, as one would expect in such Democrat bastions, but I had a chance to think long and hard about remedies for Rust Belt decay as I drew up my own economic development plans for the district I hoped to represent.

It would take a book to detail each facet of what I envisioned, and even my own blog, to date, contains only a fraction of my proposals, so I don’t plan to elaborate much within this thread (it’s already a wall of text, as it is), but my approach to urban renewal differs from most other approaches I’ve come across. My approach is different because my assessment of the causes of the decay are different. While I readily agree that Detroit’s economy must be diversified to counter the prevailing trend, I do not think that the auto industry is at the root of the decay at all. Attitudes are at the root of the decay.

Officer Ziplock came to my house a few months ago and asked me to drop the term “urban” because it was synonymous with “black”. He informed me now that I live on the Conservative side of town, I don’t need to self identify as “urban” or talk about race under any circumstances whatsoever. I showed him a Wikipedia article that defined “urban” as being “of or related to the city” – to no avail.

Officer Ziplock warned me he’d be keeping his eyes on me and I noticed he had been following me around town the last few months. He even emailed me on facebook, but I never responded. I remember an incident in the supermarket where I noticed some eyes staring back at me through the cracks in the aisle right by the Apple Jack’s boxes. It kind of creeped me out, but I figured, since he was the self-identified “conservative police”, he was just doing his job. I always wondered how a public sector employee was busy stalking me and my urban conservative brethren instead of fighting crime and spreading the ‘conservative’ message to areas with very few conservatives.

Opposition to President Barack Obama’s agenda fueled Tuesday’s GOP surge, and many also connected Obama to the rise of minority GOP candidates.

In an election year when Democrats are accusing the GOP of being anti-immigrant, Hispanic candidates are poised to make historic gains Tuesday – on the Republican ticket.

While listening to music on my I-phone, I began to contemplate the upcoming mid-term elections. The rock band, The Who sang: “I’ll tip my hat to the new constitution/Take a bow for the new revolution/Smile and grin at the change all around me/Pick up my guitar and play/Just like yesterday/And I’ll get on my knees and pray/We don’t get fooled again”

It struck me that the words could be an anthem for a new political generation. Of course, they might also be a prescient warning for voters casting ballots on November second.

As Election Day approaches, there is a feeling of excitement among conservatives. Republicans are poised to take control of both houses of Congress. As of this writing, both the Gallup and Rasmussen polls have Republicans holding a commanding double-digit lead among likely voters. There is even speculation that Republicans could win as many as 100 seats in the House of Representatives and 12 seats in the Senate.

I can already hear a few people screaming that this somehow disqualifies me as a true conservative. After all, humans were born to live free away from the grabby hands of government. Snicker all you want, I do think we need to have a less dominating government, but I also see the importance of safety nets, like Medicaid or unemployment benefits.

I don’t say these things because I’m a lover of all things government. I say this because I’ve experienced times when I’ve needed these programs. In 1996, I caught the flu which then went to pnuemonia and then to a bad bacterial infection. At the time, I didn’t have health care; couldn’t afford the insurance offered at the coffee chain I worked for. I ended up in the hospital and because of the efforts of a savvy nurse practitioner, Medicaid was able to pay most of the bill.

Patricia F. Saiki was not always a politician. Once she graduated from college and her own children were securely embedded with-in the Hawaiian Educational System, Pat Saiki went to work as a teacher of History in Hawaii public and private schools for twelve years. Next, she worked as a Union Organizer and as a research assistant to Hawaii Senate Republicans. “In the mid 1960’s” Saiki served as a secretary and as the vice chair of the State Republican Party. (Women In Congress, Patricia F. Saiki, p.2) It was not until 1968, however, that Patricia Saiki tossed her hat in the ring eventually winning election to Hawaii’s House of Representatives where she served for six years. According to Women In Congress: “In 1974, Saiki won election to the state senate where she served until 1982.(p.1) Unfortunately, she left the post to run for Lieutenant Governor in 1982.

Although she lost the election, her work in revitalizing The Republican Party in Hawaii was obvious and unparalleled. For not only did she seek and win election for herself, but as the Party Chair she also managed to raise $800,000.00 in two-and-a-half years as well as expanded Party membership by three times the amount it had previously been.

The First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States allows freedom of religion, yet even those who are the most unabashedly religious are capable of openly expressing religious intolerance.

I don’t seek to excuse religious intolerance practiced by some from the political left, but since I’m on the political right, I’m more sensitive to broad-brush criticisms of the political right being dominated by narrow-minded Bible-thumpers. Personally, I don’t think that belief in the Bible makes me or anyone else narrow-minded. I think the perception of narrow-mindedness more likely springs from politically active religious persons who publicly demonize other religious persuasions.

You already know the prime example of what I’m talking about even before I say it, don’t you? In case you don’t, Exhibit A would have to be Christian conservatives that demonize the Muslim religion. A common refrain is that our nation was founded upon Judeo-Christian values. I know that the nation’s founders were religious, and I know that their sense of morals and ethics are the bedrock from which they conceived the framework for our laws and Constitution, but must we frame the nation’s history in such a way as to be exclusionary toward religions that aren’t identified as Jewish or Christian?