CCV GOALS AND PRIORITIES



CCV GOALS AND PRIORITY ISSUES

At our initial meeting early in 2010, the Concerned Coastal Voters developed the following major goals for our organization to pursue:

1. To publicly present conservative views in a professional, factual manner and to counter misinformation where appropriate.

2. To research topics of interest at the national and state levels, and share the information among members of our group.
3. To identify and pursue the most effective venues for disseminating factual information related to our priority issues.

4. To expand membership of our group to like-minded persons regardless of their political affiliation.


Some of the Issues We Care Most About:


1. Free Enterprise Economy (e.g., fiscal responsibility, tax policies that promote growth of businesses, jobs, and general prosperity, elimination of unnecessary bureaucracy and regulation)


2. Limited, responsible, and responsive government.


3. Strong national defense, including border security.


4. Adherence by politicians and the courts to the Constitution and the rights of the individual. (e.g., civil rights, freedom of expression, right to bear arms)


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Friday, December 17, 2010

THOUSAND CUTS (Letter to Independent Coast Observer)

Many Americans have come to believe that President Obama is in over his head. It’s not just the results of the November 2 Congressional election in which the President’s Party received a “shellacking.” The party in power often loses seats in a mid-term election. However, the scope and depth of the losses were of historical proportions and reflected a deep unease with the President’s leadership in a number of areas. These include his decision making (or lack thereof), his inability to match deeds with words, his arrogance in dealing with the opposition, and his increasingly shrill and un-presidential rhetoric directed at various individuals and organizations. Such self-inflicted wounds are a thousand cuts on his Presidency. When combined with one misstep after another on highly important matters, they have ripped apart the fabric of confidence required for an effective leader.

The President’s flamboyant signing of an Executive Order to close the Guantanamo detention facility within one year and his subsequent failure to do so was just the first of many errors brought on by his lack of experience and gravitas. Another was his light-hearted “shout out” to a conference attendee just before announcing the terrible tragedy of the Ft. Hood massacre; this faux pas was compounded by his reading details of the disaster in an emotionless monotone as if it were a weather forecast. A long list of poor decisions followed: the health care debacle, the failed stimulus package, the mishandling of the BP oil spill, and his more recent characterization of Republicans as “hostage takers,” to name a few.

It must be a sad spectacle for his supporters to watch their “Man of the Left” being forced now to tack to the middle on many issues, but that may be his only path to reelection in 2012.
Jim Littlejohn