Wictory Wednesday: Re-Elect Rep. Jean Schmidt
This week Wictory Wednesday features Rep. Jean Schmidt (R-Ohio).
Congresswoman Schmidt is a supporter of private property rights against the increasing abuse of eminent domain by cities and states. Emiment domain is the widely-criticized practice by which local governments can seize private property deemed to be useful for publicly desirable purposes. Essentially, it entitles your city or town, if it chooses, to kick you out of your home, pay you what is likely to be a very deflated price for it, and then use the property for some public or even private project deemed beneficial to the community. In some cases, eminent domain has been abused to the point at which municipalities have had to pay only one dollar for property worth over a million! The City of New London even charged "back rent" for citizens who exercised their legal right to attempt to retain their property by challenging its seizure in court! Congresswoman Schmidt is commited to ending the abuse of eminent domain by curtailing the practice.
Representative Schmidt has been a strong proponent of fiscal responsibility and has co-sponsored legislation to give the President a line-item veto in order to enable him to strip away pork-barrel appropriations tacked on to legislation, a practice known as "earmarking." She also understands that when taxes are cut, spending should then go down, not up.
Jean Schmidt also recognizes the importance of dealing with the crisis in illegal immigration by gaining greater control over our borders.
Please consider donating to Representative Schmidt's campaign or volunteering your time.
Comments
I don't recall nearly as much insane press about her as about our two Senators, so that's cool.
In addition, she supports homosexual marriage, and supports admitted homosexuals serving in the military. Schmidt is not a conservative, but another RINO - and we have too many RINOs. At this point I would rather have a Democrat in her seat, because quite frankly, it's hard to tell Schmidt from all the other Democrats. Jean Schmidt is a Democrat in Republican clothing.
A true conservative rejects taxes. She has a history of supporting taxes - large tax increases. We cannot afford to have someone like Schmidt in Congress.
As to the issue of gay marriage, I'll investigate that.
The idea that "a true conservative rejects taxes" is, of course, absolutely nuts. Conservatives favor small government, and taxes as small as possible. But only the most extreme Libertarians- whom I don't consider conservatives, personally- oppose taxes in principle.
"Anonymous-" one of the reasons why I wish Blogger had a setting which allowed me to accept only comments with names on them (that and my belief that people should accept responsibility things they say, especially when attacking others). But thanks, Anon 2, for your imput. Any word on the gay marriage accusation? I have to admit it seems out of character. And I think at this point we can dismiss any talk of calling this lady a RINO.
As I recall, though, Ms. Schmidt's response to Murtha was actually "Cowards cut and run," not that they don't! ;)
The charge that Jean Schmidt supports homosexuals in the military is bogus. So is the nonsense about her supporting same-sex marriage. She is a devout Roman Catholic, and traditional marriage is one of the RC "sacraments." It would be blasphemous for any committed RC to accept ANY form of marriage other than that sanctioned by the Roman church. Those of us who support her have seen all these ridiculous charges before--just a few weeks ago during the nasty Second Ohio District Republican primary. The Jean-haters have simply found a new venue for displaying their hatred. It's kinda sad and kinda infuriating both.
Left-wing bloggers have a designation more or less equivalent to what we on the Right mean by "moonbat." They call those whom they want to designate as right-wing extremists "wing nuts." This is short for "right-wing nuts," and has always struck me as a rather lame perjorative, since "left-wing nuts" would fit the expression just as well.
Anyway, "wing nuts" (in the valid usage of the Leftist bloggers' rather lame lingo) have been coming out of the woodwork all over the place in the last few months, turning not only on the the President but on rational Republicans alike, conservative though they may be. Now, of course some of the hostility is more rational than other hostility. Dubyah is fallible; I, myself, am not totally happy with everything this president has done. But this seems to be an example of the really far-out extremists lying about a conservative with impeccable credentials just to vent their spleen at the fact that not everybody in the Republican Party is as extreme as they are.
Pity the poor moderate Democrats, who have to content with a majority of at least their Party's activists who seem to fit into the fanatic category!
And I can't emphasize this too much: if the Demogogues regain control of the House this November, you will simply not believe how extreme Pelosi and the people who will end up running the House and its major committees are until it's too late.
I can't think of a better way to motivate the Republican faithful to get out and work and go out and vote than this: "Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi." Or how about this one: "Speaker of the House John Murtha." As I wrote on a local Ohio blog recently, either option makes me want to upchuck on some Democrat's shoes.