The article says Smith.

You keep saying Jones.

she would represent conservative Tennesseans very well in Congress.

but still an informative map. Only two safe Dem seats according to the poster.

http://www.swingstateproject.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=5752

I wouldn’t mind wobbling those “safe” seats a bit but there are no takers so far and I’m a nobody.

And yes, it is Robin Smith. She is the former State Chair of the Tn GOP. Robin is a Conservative. She knocked heads with Sen. Lamar Alexander a number of times not only during the 2008 Presidential election but also in the 2006 campaign of Harold Ford Jr. Robin isn’t politically correct enough for Lamar’s RINO tastes.

The good news is Robin is running for Zach Wamp’s Congressional seat and the bad news is Zach is running for Governor. I’ve personally nicknamed Wamp ‘Zip Zag Zach’. What ever is politically expedient. Haslam (who is also running for Gov) is a big government, anti-gun (who suddenly got religion when he entered the race in Jan’09 but had been a member of Bloomberg’s anti-gun mayors group) taxer.

Oh and the other bad news is that Lamar Alexander’s minions are now running the Tn State GOP making it another RINO waffling toothless group. It’s very disappointing after having Robin in charge.

I’ve already eliminated supporting Haslam and Wamp for Governor. I am supporting Lt. Gov Ron Ramsey. I wish I could say it’s because everything Ron does I’m in agreement with but he’s a far better candidate than the other 2 choices.

There are also a couple other races which might be interesting and that is Bart Gordon’s seat in District 5(contested GOP primary with 4 or 5 in the race). It looks like 2 of the candidates are viable – Lou Ann Zelnick and Kerry Roberts.

Kent Greenough is taking a whack at Lincoln Davis (District 4 and my district). I was a supporter for Kent back in 2008 and am thrilled he’s trying again. He’s a strong and knowledgeable conservative. But it is also a contested primary and the Democrats always come in and vote for this nut (Don Strong) in the primary. This is a really tough district (24 counties, no large cities, all rural and I don’t even know the number of media markets). Lincoln did make a recent strategic mistake though, he voted in support of Charlie Rangel in retaining his chair of Ways and Means.

Oh and one last thing, Adam Kleinheider of the Nashville Post professes himself to be a libertarian but I’ve yet to hear of him voting for anyone other than a Democrat. And yes, he has admitted who he’s voted for in a few elections. He voted for Harold Ford Jr over Bob Corker and Dem Gov Bredesen over State Senator Jim Bryson (a strong fiscal conservative).

Marsha Blackburn a conservative?

Marsha Blackburn Voted FOR:
Omnibus Appropriations, Special Education, Global AIDS Initiative, Job Training, Unemployment Benefits, Labor-HHS-Education Appropriations, Agriculture Appropriations, U.S.-Singapore Trade, U.S.-Chile Trade, Supplemental Spending for Iraq & Afghanistan, Prescription Drug Benefit, Child Nutrition Programs, Surface Transportation, Job Training and Worker Services, Agriculture Appropriations, Foreign Aid, Vocational/Technical Training, Supplemental Appropriations, UN “Reforms.” Patriot Act Reauthorization, CAFTA, Katrina Hurricane-relief Appropriations, Head Start Funding, Line-item Rescission, Oman Trade Agreement, Military Tribunals, Electronic Surveillance, Head Start Funding, COPS Funding, Funding the REAL ID Act (National ID), Foreign Intelligence Surveillance, Thought Crimes “Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act, Peru Free Trade Agreement, Economic Stimulus, Farm Bill (Veto Override), Warrantless Searches, Employee Verification Program, Body Imaging Screening.

Marsha Blackburn Voted AGAINST:
Ban on UN Contributions, eliminate Millennium Challenge Account, WTO Withdrawal, UN Dues Decrease, Defunding the NAIS, Iran Military Operations defunding Iraq Troop Withdrawal, congress authorization of Iran Military Operations.

Marsha Blackburn is my Congressman.
See her unconstitutional votes at :
http://tinyurl.com/qhayna
Mickey

Mickey hits every site where Marsha is mentioned to go after her. Marsha is a good conservative but she is by no means perfect. I’m sure she wished she was but then don’t we all. It seems to me that nothing Marsha does pleases Mickey. I’d be thrilled to have Marsha as my Representative instead of Lincoln Davis.

Erick-

I’m just loving your piece on Tennessee. You’ve got most of it right. And Robin can use all the Red State help she can get. She’s the real deal.

Wamp is most assuredly talking the conservative talk. He sounds convincing. But I must say, his record should be closely examined by Red State. As a three-term party chairman with Wamp as my Congressman, I know plenty about his record.

He voted for TARP, was McCain’s pet promoter for the horrible McCain Feingold, voted FOR the Rangel funding when other GOP members voted no, BROKE a pledge to term limit himself, BROKE a pledge not to take PAC money (that’s not really an issue for me, but don’t make a pledge if you don’t intend to keep it), support for PAYGO (http://www.nationalreview.com/nr_comment/staff200404020835.asp),

and then there’s Club for Growth and their amendment tests on outrageous pork spending. Back in 06 (just as one example,) Wamp scored a big ZERO. Harold Ford Jr. got over 60 percent!

I could go on and on, like his vote against earmark reform, his vote for the Democrat price-gouging bill, and on and on. But suffice it to say that before you offer any endorsements, I beg you would do some more research.

By comparison, you may end up finding him the lesser of evils, however, more research is warranted.

When it comes to conservative, I inherently trust Ben Cunningham of Tennessee Tax Revolt. Not too long ago on a post at his site taking Congressman Wamp to task on a vote, Ben stated:

“Congressman Zach Wamp is consistently the most anti-freemarket Republican in the  Tennessee delegation.”

I couldn’t agree more.

I was at that meeting in Cookeville. In fact my friend Sherry was the on one who interrupted Alexander during his speech and the room erupted. It was such a wonderful moment to see Alexander with that look of ‘get me out of here’! It was a great morning/afternoon. My blog post got picked up by Krikorian on National Review and the discussion on Rush about the event about my friend Sherry was awesome. Alexander absolutely hated it. He’s such a wuss and RiNO.

Jim my Democrat Fair Tax friend. You can have Marsha. What is the difference between a tax and spend Republican like Marsha and a tax and spend Democrat like Bart? 500 Billion?
So Marsha will spend less but she is still spending. and spending …. and spending…
I want someone that will represent me by sticking to their oath to the constitituion. Jim, you may not care that your representative votedfor the Bridge to Nowhere, but it is votes like that that add up. She came into office after 2002, ( i voted for her that only time, as she did help with the state incometax) but after her first term I saw that she was just another GOP Stooge. and she has not failed me in that respect.
She is not only the queen of pork, she wants to take our liberty, and our freedoms. just go look at her votes.

Violation of Our Civil Liberty and Rights under the Constitution of the United States of America!

Dear Senator, Congressman, Oversight Committee, Judicial and Homeland Security, Please Respond in Writing, and On the Floor of Both Houses of the Congress, and Senate the Reason and Justification for this Egregious Usurpation of our Sovereignty?

IT; was brought to My attention that On Dec. 16th, in the dead of night, no press, President Obama signed order giving INTERPOL immunity in the USA and giving them Authority to act with homeland security– guess who’s coming to dinner?

Executive Order 12425 – INTERPOL now has immunity and impunity to function inside our country starting to get the picture now?
Guess who is coming to your doorstep with the DHS.

EO: AMENDING EXECUTIVE ORDER 12425 DESIGNATING INTERPOL AS A PUBLIC INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including section 1 of the International Organizations Immunities Act (22 U.S.C. 288), and in order to extend the appropriate privileges,
exemptions, and immunities to the International Criminal Police Organization (INTERPOL), it is hereby ordered that Executive Order 12425 of June 16, 1983, as amended, is further amended by deleting from the first sentence the words “except those provided by Section 2(c), Section 3, Section 4, Section 5, and Section 6 of that Act” and the semicolon that immediately precedes them.

Here’s the text of 2(c), which this EO now has applying to INTERPOL:

(c) Property and assets of international organizations, wherever located and by whomsoever held,
Shall be immune from search, unless such immunity be expressly waived, and from confiscation.
The archives of international organizations shall be inviolable.

An INTERPOL branch in the US now cannot be searched; its files are not subject to legal subpoena nor discovery.
If any branch of government wants to keep documents out of the hands of the court system, just hand them over to INTERPOL until the smoke clears.
INTERPOL will now be able to maintain files on US citizens.

By this EO, Obama has conferred diplomatic immunity upon INTERPOL, exemption from being subject to search and seizure by law enforcement,
Exemption from US taxes, and immunity from FOIA requests, etc.

Obama just declared INTERPOL records immune from search and seizure — “The archives of international organizations shall be inviolable.”

Does INTERPOL have a file on Obama — on his associations?

Gentlemen I would ask that you please look into why we need this organization doing business of such a nature in our Country.

If EVER “WE THE PEOPLE” Needed Our States Representative to ACT FOR US, This Sir Is the TIME! I Urge you to Remember, the Tenth Amendment to OUR State Sovereignty!

Propose Legislation in Our State to Reject this Unconstitutional Takeover of Our Rights, Liberties and Pursuit of Happiness that Violates Our Civil Rights, and Takes away our Freedom of Religion, Freedom of Speech, and Freedom from Tyranny!

Sir’s,
Remember; the Constitution?
Remember;
“Why” It was Written over 200 Years Ago?

These were the Actions, That Sparked the Fire of Revolution;
The straw that broke the Founding Fathers’ backs. Not Just the TEA PARTY!

The Intolerable Acts of 1774. When you listen to this stuff, these intolerable acts, this is the stuff that broke the camel’s back for the founders.

This makes what’s happening today seem like child’s play.

“The British government responded by passing several Acts which came to be known as the Intolerable Acts, which further darkened colonial opinion towards the British.

They consisted of four laws enacted by the British parliament.
The first was the Massachusetts Government Act, which altered the Massachusetts charter and restricted town meetings.”
That ticked them off.
That’s why freedom to associate is in the Constitution, because it was restricted.

“The second Act, the Administration of Justice Act, ordered that all British soldiers to be tried were to be arraigned in Britain, not in the colonies.
” That ticked ‘em off.

“The third Act was the Boston Port Act, which closed the port of Boston until the British had been compensated for the tea lost in the Boston Tea Party (the British never received such a payment).” That ticked them off.

“The fourth Act was the Quartering Act of 1774, which allowed royal governors to house British troops in the homes of citizens without requiring permission of the owner.”

Those were the four things that sent Founding Fathers over the edge.

They already escaped for freedom of religion. So that was already in the deck. Now, these things seem like child’s play compared to what is happening today.

Your Support for the Repeal, and Outrage For this EO Mr. Obama Just Signed, And Propose For the Citizens of TENNESSEE, Legislation That;
“Will” Give US “WE THE PEOPLE” of Tennessee Back our Constitutional Rights, UNALIENABLE! BY GOD! And Protected By this Document!
You Swore to Uphold!

If you Will Not do it In the Senate in Washington, Then We the People Demand, Our State to Represent US in Tennessee!

The real way to resist DC is not by begging politicians and judges in Washington to allow us to exercise our rights…it’s to exercise our rights whether they want to give us “permission” to or not.

NULLIFICATION – STATE-LEVEL RESISTANCE TO UNCONSTITUTIONAL,
FEDERAL LAWS – “IS THE WAY FORWARD!”

I Submit to You Sir, This Outrageous Law by Fiat Accompli,
( IS ) “UNCONSTITUTIONAL” – and Against Our Rights!

It Takes away “Our Civil Rights to Redress”, and “Justice”, Just as The British King George, Did in 1774!

I Demand, My Rights, and Swore My Oath to Defend the Constitution From “ALL ENEMIES” FOREIGN OR DOMESTIC! October 21st 1968!

The Action’s, of this Sitting President Violate MY Rights, and Every Citizen in AMERICA! Whether it is the Unconstitutional Mandates, on Health Scam, or the Cap and Trap, This One; “Added Insult to Injury to the Rest? Ice’s the Cake. And “Freezes my Soul” in “Fear” for this Country!

If this Action along with the Birth Certificate Issue Is Not Reason for “Impeachment”, Maybe “TREASON” to the Constitution and Oath of Office “IS”!!

It is Not Too Late for you To Act on Your Oaths of Office to Declare Your Oath as Sacrosanct and Inviolable as Mine Sir!

Kerry Marvin/USN/DAV/68-77.

If this is so important to you, make it a diary and see if it is important to anyone else.