Registration Update

Update on the voter Registration in Wood County:

Republican: 21597

Democrat: 21621

Also you can take another one from the D and put it under the R. I was checking on an individual who I had helped him and his wife switch a few months ago and he had not been properly updated in the system, imagine that! So that brings the difference to 22.

Many of us remember when we were 2500+ behind just a few short years ago. Something is happening that the local media is ignoring, we Republicans just aren't as much out of public favor as some would like you to believe.

*If you know someone who has switched registration please follow-up and ask them if they received a new Voter Registration Card from the County Clerk. That's how I caught this one.*

I'm Speechless...for now

Hoppy's Commentary For Friday

--State Republican Party Chairman Doug McKinney confesses he would vote for Democratic State Supreme Court Justice Spike Maynard in the General Election if there were only one Republican on the ballot. Two seats are open in 2008. McKinney adds that fellow Republicans may “throw me out of the party for that, but you have to give the guy his due.” McKinney says “history will prove him to be the best Supreme Court Justice West Virginia has ever had.”

My thoughts: Maybe our Chairman will prove to be a great prognosticator.

The Rumors are True

Fred Thompson campaign announces state director for West Virginia

An exciting challenge and a change of pace

"Naturally, these new duties require me to sever my official ties with the state party and the state GOP convention."

"My biggest hope is that Republicans in West Virginia can come through this process without creating bitterness or divisiveness, and that we all rally enthusiastically behind the eventual nominee."

Gary Abernathy

My thoughts: I haven't really decided what I think about the way things are beginning to play out here in West Virginia with the change to a convention, but let me say it is starting to remind me of intra-squad scrimmages back in my football days. Most of us couldn't wait to play the opposing team and really put it to them, but then there were always a handful of individuals that just loved to show off for the coach and beat up on one another. We have ten teams choosing up sides within our own larger team. I hope everyone makes it through practice and to the real contest in November.

Cut and Run Crowd Wrong!

Neville Chamberlain was wrong in 1938 and so are the cut and run crowd in 2007.

The head of the Wood County Democrat Committee is on a long rampage again in yet another letter, this one in the September 9th paper. She even quoted one of the great 20th century "intellectuals" Pat Buckhannon and the loser John Kerry.

I supported President Bush in 2000 and 2004 and still do! I can only count our blessings that the challenges of the last six years were not faced by the likes of Gore or Kerry! The President made mistakes, so did other war presidents--Washington, Lincoln, FDR, et al. War is not only hell it is also almost unmanageable. I took Military Science and always thought it was an oxymoron.

The President is fighting the Islamo-Fascists on all fronts he can (and where the Dems don't block him). The primary job of the Federal Government is National Defense. Practically everything else should be left to the local governments and the people.

Al-Qaeda is our enemy, not President Bush. Wake up or we'll all be in deep doo doo, Madam Chairman! What chutzpah by the Dem chair to write her letter the week of 9-11.

Allen Ross
Parkersburg

Bush PR can’t alter Iraq facts

Will the local GOP folks elected to represent the Party please respond!

Walt Auvil is the Chairman of the Wood County Democrat Executive Committee, which the News conveniently omitted. The time for hand holding and singing in Wood County is over, we need ACTION. We on the Wood County Republican Executive Committee need to wake up, before we measure our losses at the ballot box in a few short months.

Bush PR can’t alter Iraq facts

On Sept. 10, Gen. David Petraeus, commander of U.S. forces in Iraq, began delivering his much-ballyhooed report to Congress and the nation of the state of the “surge” in Iraq and his view of the way forward there. Except—as usual with this administration—the whole thing was a stage-managed fraud, cooked up by the Bush PR machine. A fraud most major media outlets echo and perpetuate.

If only Bush’s opponents in Iraq were as spineless, toothless and gullible as the major U.S. media we would have achieved “mission accomplished” there long ago. Iraqis—and our troops—however have the misfortune to largely be in Iraq—outside the convenient bubble of unreality surrounding the U.S.

The Iraq they live in has lost 2.5 million of its citizens—refugees from the violence, of whom less than a thousand have been accepted into the U.S. Two million more have been “internally displaced,” which means driven from their homes by ethnic cleansing and/or U.S. attacks, but lacking the means to escape the country. Thirty percent of equipment the U.S. has issued to Iraqi “security forces” is unaccounted for, including 110,000 AK47 assault rifles and 80,000 pistols. And, 655,000 Iraqis are dead due to the violence as of mid-summer 2007.

Despite the fact one in every $10 spent by the U.S. government is spent on Iraq (approximate total projected bill of $1 trillion; $200,000 a minute) Baghdad “enjoys” approximately 1-2 hours a day of electricity (with heat not less than 100 degrees during the summer). There were four complete nationwide blackouts during July. Of 17 major power lines to Baghdad, two are operating. Two-thirds of all Iraqis have no access to clean drinking water.

No amount of PR can alter the facts for those living in Iraq. The cost of deploying a U.S. soldier in Iraq is $390,000 a year. The cost in human suffering for our troops, Iraqis and the families of both is incalculable. And one more: The cost of bringing a U.S. soldier home is $627.80.

Walt Auvil -- Parkersburg

*My thoughts: I'm actually disappointed with Walter. This diatribe could have been concocted from any Moveon.org piece of propaganda. Walt is beginning to sound like a George Soros clone.