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The California Democratic Party Shows it's true Socialist Colors.

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Despite a thriving economy, shrinking budget deficits, rising public school test scores and record low jobless claims, Phil Angelides still believes that pushing his socialist agenda will get him elected. And regardless of the fact that polls show he is out of touch with California voters, the Democrat party base is following him down the road to communism.

The Sacramento Bee points out:

The embrace of Angelides by the Democratic establishment and party partisans conflicts with polls showing Westly faring better than Angelides against Schwarzenegger in a hypothetical general election race.

"It's cathartic for Democratic Party activists to listen to the Angelides rant," said Dan Schnur, a Republican political analyst. "... It may be enough to get him the nomination, but not enough to get him elected."

But Angelides' fiery partisanship and his vow to fund schools by taxing the rich -- Californians earning more than $500,000 -- is striking a chord with union groups yearning for a populist message.

Art Pulaski, executive secretary of the California Labor Federation, said its board found "nothing wrong with Steve Westly." But he said the umbrella group for 2.1 million union members chose to back Angelides in the primary because he offered a more "forceful voice ... who will side with the middle class" against tax breaks for the rich.

Pulaski said the labor group is "mobilizing our forces, the ground troops, to support Phil's campaign" and is also sending out mailers on his behalf.

Another powerful Democratic constituency, the California Teachers Association, recently gave $1 million to an independent political committee backing Angelides. CTA President Barbara Kerr said teachers will be volunteering in phone banks and in communities to get out the vote for his campaign.

"The minute the activists started to turn out, the race started to turn," said Democratic political consultant Phil Giarrizzo, who said ground work by well-organized volunteers could mean a difference of three to five percentage points in the primary vote. "... Clearly, Phil has regained his footing."

Angelides’ Socialist agenda and shrill campaign rhetoric may be enough to get him the Democratic nomination. But it will hurt him when the general election comes around.

Angelides' gambit is an effort to win the gubernatorial primary June 6 by rallying partisans angry over President Bush, the Iraq war, corporate scandals, corruption and the Republican hold on Congress.

Democrats nationwide are packaging this intense discontent in an effort to win back the U.S. Senate and the House of Representatives.

Angelides' use of the same strategy could help with a comeback win in the Democratic primary. Yet the tactic could cost the nominee broader appeal against Republican Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger in November.

Undeterred, Angelides directs fiery rhetoric to charge up voters and inspire volunteers from union members to anti-war activists to turn out for his campaign.

And while Westly offered a nuanced answer in the debate about bringing back California National Guard troops from Iraq, Angelides thunders: "This war in Iraq is wrong. It is wounding the conscience of this nation."

For Angelides, it doesn't matter that Westly agrees with him on almost every California policy issue. While Westly runs as a problem-solving centrist "who is not an ideologue," Angelides depicts him as someone selling out by playing it safe.

That’s right Phil! Don’t play it safe! Be all the Socialist you can be! And let the voters of California know what the California Democratic Party truly stands for:

-Big Government
-Higher Taxes
-Social Indoctrination
-And Absense of Moral Values!

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Who would help your child? (Video)

Imagine your child were walking down the street and a strange man grabs her in an attempt to abduct her. Would someone come to here rescue? It appears that at least in New York City, your child would have a slim chance of getting any help.

NBC’s Today Show put together a hidden camera segment where they pretended to have a man abducting a 7 year old girl in broad daylight on a busy public street. Sadly, I wasn’t surprised by the result.

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Smaller government, lower taxes, family values, grandma and apple pie… These are the things that the Republican Party once stood for. What has happened?

As a matter of fact, one of the most commonly agreed upon planks of the Republican Party Platform has to do with smaller government and lower spending.

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Purity Balls… The latest casualty of San Francisco style tolerance.

Fathers make a profound gesture to support their daughters in their decision to save themselves for marriage, and what do they do in San Francisco? Mock them!

Tolerance is alive and well in San Francisco…

San Francisco Chronicle columnist, Mark Morford writes the following:

Purity Balls. No, not some sort of newfangled spherical chastity device to be inserted sing vacuum tubes and pulleys, but rather fancy creepy dress-up rituals taking place in towns like Colorado Springs and Tucson and Zoloft Jesusville, in which Christian dads rent a bad tux while their daughters, mostly teenagers but many as young as 6 or 7, get all dolled up in gowns from JCPenny and they all drive out to the airport Marriott and prepare to, well, lose their minds.

It begins. At some point the daughter stands up, her pale arms wrapped around her daddy, and reads aloud a formal pledge that she will remain forever pure and virginal and sex-free until she is handed over, by her dad (who is actually called the "high priest" of the home), like some sort of sad hymenic gift, to her husband, who will receive her like the sanitized and overprotected and libidinously inept servant she so very much is. Praise!

Would that I were making this up.

The dad -- er, high priest -- in turn, stands up and reads his pledge, one stating that he will work to protect his daughter's virginal purity that he has so carefully and wickedly drilled into her since birth, since she was knee-high to a disturbing dogma, that he will protect her chastity and oversee it and help enforce its boundaries, which might or might not involve great amounts of rage and confusion and secret stashes of cheap scotch, although his pledge claims it's with honor and integrity and lots of bewildering Godspeak. Which, in many households, is essentially the same thing.

It's true. Purity Balls are happening, right now. And yes, you have heard this all before. Particularly from the conservative Right, especially from America's rigid and pale fundamentalist "core."

What he is speaking of is an event at which fathers honor their daughters for their commitment to remain “pure” until they get married. Focused on the Family Magazine reports:

“This is not a debutante ball, but an elegant spiritual celebration that honors what God has created in fathers and daughters,” said Lisa Wilson, who with her husband, Randy, founded Generations of Light. (Randy is a Focus on the Family employee.) “We know that the covenants made that night will influence generations.”

Ample research shows that teen girls’ identities and their choice of future mates are strongly influenced by the relationship they have with their fathers — or the lack of it. Lisa’s father left when she was 2, and she grew up without knowing fatherly love or example. “I felt unprotected. I felt unloved. I had no identity,” she said.

The pledge that a father signs at the ball, Lisa said, is about his responsibility to model a righteous standard for his daughter, a standard of integrity, honesty, wisdom and discretion. And the purity message of the ball does not pertain only to sexual purity. “We want to help them enter marriage as pure, whole persons,” she said. “But it’s not just physical. It’s moral and emotional purity.”

Why does the existence of such an event offend Mr. Morford so? Is he being force to attend? Are they marching down the public streets celebrating their vows? Are his kids being forced to learn about these folks in their public school classrooms? I think not!

What offend Morford is that anyone dare have any moral standards. And that they would have the nerve to try and instill those same standards in their own children. Mark Morford is a part of the “Do Whatcha Like!” culture that has ruined the city of San Francisco. And with all their rhetoric about tolerance, they refuse to exercise any of their own.