Morning Briefing
For August 5, 2013
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1. The Establishment vs. The People
This year’s RedState Gathering was a
wonderful event. There was, however, one interesting moment with a guy
from the National Republican Senatorial Committee worth sharing.
Friday
afternoon as I was trying to make my way to Governor Jindal’s reception,
the guy from the NRSC stopped me and very derisively asked if I was
going to support anyone other than challengers to incumbents. He went so
far as to claim I must be making money to support challengers against
incumbents and let me know RedState would be blamed if the GOP did not
take back the majority.
What was
most fascinating, however, was that he demanded I name candidates
RedState supports in states without incumbents as proof RedState does
not somehow get paid to push challengers. I mentioned Larry Rhoden in
South Dakota, at which point he started bad mouthing State Senator
Rhoden and revealing NRSC opposition research on Senator Rhoden.
I also mentioned Dr. Greg Brannon in North Carolina, but he was dismissive of him too.
This all comes as multiple friends of this
site, in conversations with me, told me the National Republican
Senatorial Committee contacted them to do negative stories about the
Madison Project — a conservative group I am a big supporter of. Why?
Because the Madison Project endorsed Matt Bevin in Kentucky against
Senator Mitch McConnell. Full disclosure: the Madison Project’s Daniel
Horowitz is a RedState contributor, which is why these friends reached
out to give me a heads up.
So let’s recap — the NRSC is pushing hit jobs
against conservative organizations who don’t support their incumbents
in primaries. They are claiming conservatives who don’t support their
candidates are getting paid to do so. They demand to know who
conservatives support in open races then bashing those candidates.
And they call this outreach.
Friends, this is exactly why we have the
RedState Gathering. You’d never have the opportunity to hear for
yourselves people like Matt Bevin, Bryan Smith, Rob Maness, Art
Halvorson, and Larry Rhoden if the NRSC and its establishment friends
had anything to do with it.
Each year we do the RedState Gathering and I
invite the speakers and I approve the sponsors. We returned money for
some politicians who thought they could buy their way into the Gathering
to get a platform. We refused large sponsorships from various
Republicans because we did not want to be associated with them. We
aren’t CPAC and work hard to present people we either fully support or
are interested in supporting.
It is a sad commentary on the part of anyone
at the NRSC that they would see RedState turning down money and then
claim we are getting paid to do what we do. I would submit that is more a
reflection on them than us and it is also a reason why we must commit
to growing the RedState Gathering every year so the grassroots can
experience authentically conservative candidates outside the world of
the establishment and the coin operated portions of the movement.
Lastly — should you see any conservative
outlets attacking groups like the Madison Project or Heritage Action for
America or Club for Growth or others, it is probably a clear sign these
outlets are on the side of the incumbent establishment leaders who’ve
been complicit in getting us to $17 trillion in national debt, but think
the only problem with government is Democrats in charge of it.
Thank you to those of you who attended the
RedState Gathering. It’s clear we are up against more than just
Democrats in the fight to take back our country.
By request of the attendees, below (or click
through if you’re coming via the Morning Briefing) are links to the
campaign pages of everyone who spoke at the RedState Gathering or, if
not running, other appropriate links. Also, as I mentioned on stage at
the Gathering, Heritage Action is a great resource to find the best
candidates and see how good or bad your incumbent congress critter is.
We will soon announce the location of next
year’s Gathering, but be sure to go on and hold the first weekend in
August of 2014. That would be August 1 – 3, 2014. And, like this year,
you’d want to actually arrive the day before, so that’d be July 31,
2014. Stay tuned for details. . . . please click here for the rest of the post →
ALSO FROM THE GATHERING
2. Frederick Douglass Republicans Are Fighting To Win Hearts, Minds & The Masses
K. Carl Smith may soon be one of the most influential people in America you have never heard of…until now.
Most certainly, Mr. Smith is one of the most
important people grassroots conservatives and Republican Party leaders
should be listening to right now. Yet, his message is not really
partisan. It is American.
While you could call Mr. Smith a community
organizer (of sorts), that would seem to be doing him an injustice. You
see, K. Carl Smith is more than a mere community organizer. Mr. Smith is
a messenger. . . . please click here for the rest of the post →
3. Obama and the Potemkin Embassy Threat
Today a
virtually unprecedented event took place. Throughout North Africa and
the Middle East nearly two dozen US embassies are closed because of the
threat of a terrorist attack. Some of these will remain closed until
late next week.
Officials shuttered 22 U.S. embassies and
consulates for the day on Sunday amid fears of an al Qaeda attack. On
Sunday afternoon, the State Department said it had extended embassy and
consulate closures in 15 of the locations until Friday and added four
other posts to the list.
If true, this is a damning indictment of the decline of our abilities to protect US interests. . . . please click here for the rest of the post →
4. It’s up to you to stop ObamaCare
At the
RedState Gathering in New Orleans on Friday, Sen. Ted Cruz called for a
grassroots effort to persuade Republicans to eliminate funding for
President Obama’s health care law. Or as he put it, the “biggest and the
most important battle 113th Congress is going to face” — the battle to
defund ObamaCare.
Senator
Cruz told the gathering of Conservative activists that the best way to
defund ObamaCare is with the continuing resolution needed to fund the
federal government after the current continuing resolution expires on
Sept. 30, 2013.
Senator
Cruz and other like-minded Senators have vowed not to vote for any
continuing resolution that funds ObamaCare. To be successful 41 Senators
or 218 Members of the House must stand together and likewise refuse to
fund ObamaCare. . . . please click here for the rest of the post →
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Erick Erickson
Editor-in-Chief, RedState
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