So you're not endorsing Mike Castle for US House? Other than that, it seems everyone you've endorsed comes as no shock at all.
Nope, not endorsing Castle.
I think he is a good man, and a good Congressman, but I cannot support him given his moderate positions on issues like life.
Yea there really werent any suprises here.
I am not opposed to endorsing Democrats or third party/independent candidates, I just don't know of any worth endorsing.
As most who attended the rally know, I was there. After the dust had cleared created by some moonbat among the bootmurtha crowd who called in a fake police report that a fight had broken out, Larry Bailey came out to speak with me.
I complimented him from the bottom of my heart for the contributions he has made to our country's national security while he was serving active duty in the US Navy.
He made it clear my request to speak would not happen. He then proceeded to suggest he has no memory of the email he wrote me on 8/20/2006 2:59:30 P.M. Eastern Standard Time stating that our current Commander in Chief made stupid mistakes in Iraq.
Larry then proceeded to illustrate stupid mistakes made in passed wars. After he mentioned 3 or 4 examples I interjected that there is a difference between those wars and this one.
In the past it took weeks, months, sometimes years for mistakes to be discovered and reported. Today is the information age where mistakes are reported within hours of their occurrence. I reminded him this war was still going on. I also reminded him of the glaring mistakes he had acknowledged President Bush had made in Iraq, and our respective use of the Internet to support our respective views and that is where our conversation ended.
I waited outside the Arena with a Johnstown police officer who had stayed behind after the bootmurtha hysterics caused 3 squad cars and a sergeant to arrive with sirens blaring. I was debating Steeler football with him when a motorcycle officer stopped by, who had been inside. When I asked how many were inside he said, "not many at all" When I asked "500?", he responded, "na ... well maybe 500, at most."
At the end of the event when Larry Bailey came out for a photo op next to the bootmurtha.com sign on the sidewalk outside the War Memorial Arena. I handed Larry the speech I had waited to deliver. He put it in his outside left coat pocket.
This is my speech Larry Bailey has in his coat pocket ... the words he was not man enough to let me say:
"Please join me in Prayer.
Heavily father we pray today for you to continue to protect the men and women of the armed forces of the United States and other countries who are in harms way in Iraq, Afghanistan, and other countries throughout the world. We thank them and their families for their sacrifices.
We pray for the souls of those who have made the ultimate sacrifice in all wars. We pray for strength and courage for the POWs and MIAs and those held hostage.
We pray for protection and safety of relief workers helping those in need.
We pray for the protection of children and innocent civilians. Lord we especially pray for our nation and our leaders."
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Below you will find the press release that went out on October 29th of this year.
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LARRY BAILEY (BOOTMURTHA.COM) OCTOBER 1ST RALLY IN JOHNSTOWN, PA.
" I am not opposed to endorsing Democrats or third party/independent candidates, I just don't know of any worth endorsing."
Can you think of any Democrat anywhere you would endorse? I mean, you are involved in the College Republicans, so you are supposed to be sort of a partisian hack, are you not? 
Nope, not endorsing Castle.
I think he is a good man, and a good Congressman, but I cannot support him given his moderate positions on issues like life.
LOL. You kill me.
Ryan you support Ehrlich for governor but you can't even get his first name right? What kind of support is that based on?
What a good, subservient, obedient partisan you are, Ryan. You and Jason would make GREAT roommates!!
Well, you all seem to think I should endorse non-Republicans, yet you don't provide any names of non-Rs I should endorse.
And Mike (both of you), I am not endorsing Castle or Allen specifically. I don't think either of their opponents merit endorsement, but were I a blind partisan, wouldn't Castle and Allen top the list?
Not endorsing certain Republicans is not the same as endorsing non-Republicans. I don't suggest anyone because I truly cannot think of anyone who you would support. That just reinforces Mike's point; why not just admit that you are more or less a partisian hack?
(Not to say that I am not for the most part, but at least I can admit it)
I refuse the label. I consider myself to be mostly non-partisan. I help the party when our goals are in common, and don't help them when they aren't.
I don't believe there are Republican/Democrat values. Party platforms change, philosophy doesn't.
I support conservatives and certain other candidates based on their personal integrity.
I'm sure there are Democrats in Sussex Country I would wholeheartedly support, I just don't know any of their names.
"I'm sure there are Democrats in Sussex Country I would wholeheartedly support"
Touche. Some of these traditional "Southern Democrats" that have been in office since the 1950's are very much more "Republican" by today's standards (you are correct about platforms changing) than "Democrat."
I like your statement about parties changing more than ideals, though those change within an individual too depending on where you are in your life. You lonley conservatives have more friends in the real world than in College. This is not to say that the party changes haven't also been huge. Both of my parents started out as registered Democrats (first registering in the early 1970's or late 1960's. In the last election, they both voted almost straight ticket Democrat, and my mom has even changed her registration.
So, thank you for your explaination. Well put (though you must admit that your ideology very much fits in with the current beliefs of the Republican Party).
On a side note, all of this has inspired me to put up my own endorsements over at McLefty, which is up and running again (but remains inferior to Ryan's site - I have to say something so he doesn't complain about me advertising on his blog )
Compete.com has a blog posting today about internet traffic to candidate's websites in close Senate races. This could provide an indicator of polling or even election trends. Here is the link: http://blog.compete.com/index.ph...-menendez-kean/
Of course, these would be the same fellows who would turn their backs on Joe Lieberman for siding with Bush on Iraq.
Take the plank out of your own eye before criticizing the speck in anothers.
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