http://senateconservatives.com/petition/makeitmichael#x

Sign the petition and tell KBH to keep her promise to resign and when she does, tell Rick Perry to appoint Michael Williams to the seat.

It is starting to get really disgusting.

First, the GOP said it needed diversity and chose the orange Charlie Crist over the Latino, Marco Rubio.

Then the GOP said it needed to do better outreach in the black community, so it ignored Michael Williams in Texas and tried to find a rich white guy to run for the Senate.

Now that Kay Bailey Hutchison has lost the Texas primary to Rick Perry without even making it into a runoff, the Washington, D.C. Republicans are scared to death a black man might actually get appointed to the Senate as a Republican.

Kay Bailey Hutchison has said over and over and over, as recently as a few weeks ago, that she would leave the Senate by November. Now the Senate Republicans are begging her to stay so they don’t have to have Michael Williams.

Why?

Michael Williams is not only black, but he is a Jim DeMint supported conservative.

This is really sick.

*Please note the hefty dose of sarcasm in this post. Geez some of you people get offended easy. The fact remains that the GOP preaches diversity all the time and when presented with an attractive Latino and black candidate, they pass on both because they are too conservative.

I want and need you to pay serious attention to this.

The Los Angeles Times is running a story today about the rising tide of moderates sweeping into the GOP. This will only happen if you let it.

Rep. Michael N. Castle, one of the most liberal Republicans in the House, is heavily favored to win an open Senate seat in Delaware.

Rep. Mark Steven Kirk, the GOP nominee for the U.S. Senate seat in Illinois, handily won the party’s primary despite opposition from conservatives.

Other centrist Senate candidates — such as former Reps. Tom Campbell in California and Rob Simmons in Connecticut, and Gov. Charlie Crist in Florida — still face conservative opposition in primary contests that are seen as battles for the ideological soul of the party.

But more is at stake. Additional moderates in the Senate could provide a more durable foundation for breaking logjams than any White House summit or lecture on bipartisanship.

What this means is, frankly, the GOP will not only keep compromising in favor of bigger government but will do it with gusto. That’s why we need a field of strong conservatives in the Senate. That’s why I support Jim DeMint’s Senate Conservatives Fund.

It’s also why we need to rally behind some strong conservatives in primaries in the order of those primaries:

May

Marlin Stutzman (IN)
Pat Toomey (PA)

June

Chuck DeVore (CA)
Mike Lee (UT)¹
Danny Tarkanian (NV)

August

Ken Buck (CO)
Marco Rubio (FL)

These candidates will deliver change we can believe in. I know a few of you have preferred candidates, but I trust this list. It is not comprehensive of all the races. But these are the races we can win if we rally now.

He’s running for the Senate seat that Senator Hutchinson is going to vacate (assuming that she ever does), and I was able to touch base with him in between his speaking appearances at CPAC. Michael’s site is here: for those of you unaware of the odd nature of Texan nomenclature, a “Texas Railroad Commissioner” doesn’t actually have oversight over railroads. The position instead involves oversight over oil and other types of energy production, which is why it’s one of the most powerful elected positions in the state.

Crossposted to Moe Lane.

On December 16, 1773, after officials in Boston refused to return three shiploads of taxed tea to Britain, a group of colonists boarded the ships and destroyed the tea by throwing it into Boston Harbor. This set in motion events that lead to the American Revolution in 1775.

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Yesterday, Moe wrote a short diary on activism going into 2010. It was a simple point, aim to misbehave. In that spirit I present a video done by our own Erick Brockway, with limited contributions from yours truly.

Enjoy, and consider this an open thread.

Conservatives Victorious in 2010/2012 from Erick Brockway on Vimeo.

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All I want from you guys for Christmas is simple, pick one of the following and make a $25.00 contribution:

Nikki Haley

Senate Conservatives Fund

National Conservative Campaign Fund

Marco Rubio

Michael Williams

Sean Duffy