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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Wednesday, April 18, 2012

STRAW MEN

(Published in the Independent Coast Observer)

It’s hard to overstate the farcical bumbling of the Obama administration/campaign over these last several days. I suspect that most Americans, even many supporters of President Obama, are increasingly aware of his failure the past 3 plus years to provide effective leadership for this great nation. 
Still, his loyal supporters have been giddy with the expectation that the “One” would rise above his trail of broken promises and self-inflicted wounds to lead the way to victory over the Republican standard bearer, Mitt Romney, thereby assuring four more years of unmitigated class warfare.
That may happen. But the first week of Obama v. Romney was nothing short of a disaster for the Obamicons. Administration scandals and presidential campaign faux pas (e.g., GSA bureaucrats romping in Las Vegas, an attack on Ann Romney and working moms, Secret Service “fun and games”) were stacked up like Walmart shoppers on Black Friday.
Then on Sunday, David Axelrod appeared on the Chris Wallace show looking so bedraggled that one could almost believe he’d spent the night partying with the President’s disgraced Secret Service detail. Mr. Wallace stumped the President’s political guru with a simple question:  “What’s the choice in this election?” Mr. Axelrod, his mind searching frantically for the appropriate talking point, blurted out this thick-tongued, rambling answer:
“The people will choose between an economy that produces a growing middle class and gives people a chance to get ahead and their kids a chance to get ahead and an economy that continues down the road we are on, and everybody else is running faster and faster just to keep pace.”
Ouch! General Axelrod set ablaze the President’s army of straw men on national television and provided the upstart Romney with a perfect campaign ad. Not an auspicious beginning for Team Obama.
Jim Littlejohn
Concerned Coastal Voters
Gualala, CA