Vote a Conservative Congress, Part 4 - Marilyn Musgrave

For a Conservative Congress

This will be part of an on-going series, which will identify key races where we either need to retain strong conservatives or to elect strong conservatives. My personal feeling with being faced with two inferior candidates for President offered by our major political parties, we must turn our attention to insuring more conservative American-values oriented persons are elected to the U.S. Congress.

THE RACE

The next congressional race that we will highlight is Colorado District 4. I suggest that all conservatives in Colorado U.S. District 4 and elsewhere support Representative Marilyn Musgrave (R-CO), Republican incumbent

She is a strong pro-life and pro-family leader. Mrs. Musgrave is a conservative known for her staunch opposition to same-sex marriage. I have personally heard her speak at 2006 Values Voters Summit in Washington DC and she is convincingly conservative on the issues with which I am most concerned She was the original sponsor of Federal Marriage Protection Amendment and is a strong pro-life supporter. She also is a strong supporter of the Second Amendment.

THE RATING

Musgrave is rated as a hard-core conservative. She has represented her district since 2003. See OnTheIssues.com.

Representative Musgrave’s opponent is Democrat Betsy Markey, a businesswoman and regional director for Colorado Senator Ken Salazar.

THE REALITIES

Marilyn Musgrave will be in a tough race to maintain her seat in Congress. It is important that she remains in Congress. The Democrats covet her set and dislike everything for which she stands.

THE RESOURCES

To support Congresswoman Marilyn Musgrave, which I urge you to do, see his website to learn more about her, to make a campaign contribution, to volunteer your service, etc.

Election 2008 Recommendations, Advice & Final Thoughts, Part 2 - The Congress

We continue the series of articles about tomorrow's election. We plan to look at the race for president, congressional races, ballot issues, and some resources that might help with a voter's choices.

RE: CONGRESS

It just blows my mind that the Democratic leadership in the U.S. House of Representatives and the Senate have expectations of increasing their majorities. When it would seem that America should be crying out, “Oust 'em bums all of 'em from office.” Pelosi and Reid are counting on the likes of Bob Murtha and Tim Mahoney retaining their offices, when the overall approval rate has reached single digit proportions. Unbelievable. All of the turkeys should be fired. It would seem to me that as ineffective as the Congress has been the last two years especially, that there should be a mass number of Democrats looking for work for a change, not a swelling of same!

The following are candidate of whom I as a Christian and Conservative endorse, support or recommend. Those races that I reviewed and wrote about are linked to those articles. These elections will be those that I will be closely following tomorrow.

Please also note that fellow blogger, Matt, has also provided a list of his 2008 endorsements. Most of which I would concur.

U.S. SENATE:

Colorado:

Bob Schaffer

Michigan:

Jack Hoogendyk - incumbant Carl Levin's opponent - see his website

Minnesota:

Norm Colman – challenged by comedian Al Franken

Mississippi:

Thad Cochran
Roger Wicker

New Mexico:

Steve Pearce

U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES:

California:

Duncan Hunter, Jr. (CA-52) - see his website

Colorado:

Marilyn Musgrave (CO-5)

Florida:

Tom Rooney (FL-16)

Minnesota:

Michele Bachman (NN-6)

South Dakota:

Joel Dykstra

Ohio:

Steve Chabot (OH-1)
Jean Schmidt (OH-2) - see her website
Jim Jordan (OH-4)
Bob Latta (OH-5)
Kirk Schuring (OH-11)

Pennsylvania:

Lou Barletta (PA-11)
Bill Russell (PA-16) – incumbant Murtha’s opponent

Texas:

Ron Paul (TX-14) - see his website

Hillary of Arkansas is no Joan of Arc

When I was still watching television one of my favorite shows was Joan of Arcadia. Joan was a teenager who talked to God. God appeared to Joan in the form of different people. One day it could be a small child another it could be an elderly black grandmother. In each episode God would ask Joan to do something usually out of the box, something she normally would not do on her own. Joan was a very ordinary, very normal teenager. What made the show so uplifting was that Joan would grudgingly obey some outlandish request which in the end would turn out for the best for everyone. After all God is really all wise, all knowing and all powerful.

JOAN OF ARC

I was visiting the video store the other day and the DVD titled Joan of Arc grabbed my attention. It turns out that it was a four hour TV miniseries which just enthralled me. I had heard about St. Joan of Arc in the past, but this miniseries really brought her to life. In fact, I even stayed up one night way beyond my bed time (12:30 am) on a week day. I was wasted at work the next day.

Joan was portrayed as being humble, devoted, uneducated yet wise beyond her years, principled, confident but not cocky, enthusiastic, courageous, bra e, persistent and faithful to God. Her is a truly fantastic and inspiring story.

The original Joan of Arc led forces of France against the English and against the Burgundies. She was martyred by her political and religious opponents as a heretic and traitor. In doing a little research on the internet tonight I found several movies have been made about Joan of Arc recently besides the TV miniseries.

HILLARY OF ARKANSAS

What a stark contrast there is between an unscrupulous unprincipled ruthless chameleon of a politician Hillary Clinton, and the godly leader of men and woman the historic Joan of Arc. There is more than just the 500 years difference between the godless radical liberal political hack and the saint.

Hillary listens to pollsters, to political strategists like Paul Begala and James Carville, to a dead Eleanor Roosevelt, and to vile political supporters and lobbyists like abortion, same sex and feminist activists, While Joan of Arc listened primarily to the voice of God. After all is said and done Senator Hillary Clinton is the antithesis of Joan of Arc.

MODERN DAY JOAN OF ARC

Where have all the leaders gone? Have they all gone to graveyards everyone? There are a few out there. One of them is U.S. Representative Marilyn Musgrave of Colorado. I am so thankful she was re-elected this past November. She was a strong supporter and sponsor of the Marriage Protection Amendment She suffered terrible abuse during the campaign from a radical left that was bond, determined and united in unseating this champion.

Voice of a Vacationing Values Voter

I attended the Values Voters Briefing in Washington, D.C. held at the Omni Shoreham Hotel (pictured on the left) this past weekend as part of my vacation. I arrived Thursday evening and “battled” D.C. traffic and streets, which was a literal nightmare coming from mostly small town Ohio.

The Briefing was sponsored by the Focus on the Family, Family Research Council Action, the American Family Association and Americans United for Marriage. The briefing started early Friday morning and concluded with an inspiring church service on Sunday with Bishop Harry Jackson providing a great closing message.

The conference included speakers such as Dr. James Dobson (Focus on the Family), Don Wildmon (American Family Association) and Tony Perkins (Family Research Council), Senators Mitt Romney, George Allen, Sam Brownbeck, Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee, panels on movies, church involvement in political arena, the media, woman’s issues. In addition pundit Ann Coulter spoke as did radio and TV personality Sean Hannity. However, the last two though very conservative did not have the spiritual fire and biblical basis that the majority of other speakers seemed to have.

What an uplifting and motivated time, I attended a breakout session on healthcare which dealt with alternative values-driven insurance programs. These programs, unlike many current insurance programs would exclude coverage for abortions so that as a policy holder I would not be supporting or subsidizing any abortions or orther morally unacceptable procedures.

Senators Sam Brownbeck and George Allen of all the potential presidential candidates seems to capture my imagination. Both gave excellent presentations.

There seemed to be a general consensus that the Republican Party has for the most part disappointed Christian Conservatives by their inconsistant support for conservative social and economic issues. Although it was agreed that the opposition party was much much worse an alternative.

Senator Rick Santorum was scheduled to speak, but was had a pressing personal/family issue that prohibited him from attending. He did have a video presentation. To me he looked like he was suffering from the incessant attacks from the left, which have been pulling out all stops to defeat him this fall in Pennsylvania. The same could be said about Congresswoman Marilyn Musgrave who sponsored the Marriage Protection Amendment and has also been targeted by the left as a must beat in the fall election.

Pro-life, pro-traditional marriage, morally based-education, pro legal immigration, curtailing the rampant sex and violence in the media, are all values that all addressed during the course of the conference. The need for churches to be uninhibited involved in declaring biblical positions on the issues is much needed.

There were many exhibitors, primarily Chirsitian-based including two organizations supporting and encouraging the study of the bible in terms of its importance historically and as literature in public schools as part of the curriculum.

Bishop Jackson capped the conference by challenging us to wake up and to strengthen the things that remain both personally and as a society. We need to turn from our wicked ways and to seek God to provide everything we need to serve society as living alarm clocks, alerting society of the dangers in the world, especially the spiritual dangers around us.