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Last night the Independent Party of Delaware, or IPOD as they have come to be known, held an open house, meet and greet to show case their latest acquisition from the GOP, Mr. Don Ayotte. Mr. Ayotte is a failed candidate for many things, the latest being a failed run at the County Council seat, currently held by Joan Deaver (D). It would seem however that within the IPOD he has finally gotten what he has so long sought, a title before his name, wait for it, yes Don Ayotte is officially the “Director of Special Operations”.  WOW! One has to wonder whether he will now dress in all black and only work at night?

There has been a lot of buzz in Sussex County as of late over the announcement of Mr. Ayotte leaving the GOP, all of it coming from Mr. Ayotte. He and the state Chairman of the IPOD, Wolf von Baumgart, felt that this was such earth shattering news that they trotted out to both local talk radio stations in the area and put on their dog and pony show of announcing this, as if it were the political event of the century.  During these visits to the stations they also announced the open house event numerous times. Hey who doesn’t like free advertisement?

Due to the pre-event media coverage the turn out was exactly what we would have expected it to be.  “15”

This is from a Facebook comment from Douglas Beatty in response to a poster who thought the event had been canceled when they arrived because the parking lot was empty,

“Don’s truck was there when I got there 😉 . Didn’t miss too much. Dr. Issa is the new Community Outreach Director, Ayotte is Director of Special Operations, I am  Communications Director, registered a few new party members, Lacey Lafferty  introduced herself as intending to be a gubernatorial candidate in 2016, Wolf, Don, and I gave brief presentations on the Independent party. Fifteen people showed up, no media. Very nice gathering, we learned a lot from Don. Highlight is that a man who never registered to vote at all registered tonight. So that’s a good night no mater what.”

So as we can see Mr. Beatty is the “communications  director”, yet failed to have any media at the event, and by his official statement as “communications  director”, we see that the IPOD need only to hold another several thousand of these events to actually grow the IPOD enough to be relevant.

I welcome Mr. Beatty, who has become a regular commenter here at Delaware Right, to please feel free to elaborate on parts of this statement. Such as, if Lacy Lafferty was there to announce her intention to run for governor in 2016, does this mean that she will be an IPOD candidate?  Also we would like to know exactly what a “director of special operations” does, exactly?  But most of all we would love to know what they learned from Don.

So you see I have to admit I am shocked and amazed that they were actually able to get fifteen people to show up at all.

Conservatives are angry that mainstream media liberals have jumped to the uninformed conjecture that the Boston Marathon bombing was committed by a “right winger.”

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Yes, some conservative media outliers presumed the police report of a Saudi being a “person of interest” means the U.S. should reconsider Muslim immigration, but there’s a world of difference between the host of a show on American Family Radio and major media host Chris Matthews of MSNBC, driving his partisan hack into the ditch presuming the Boston Marathon bomber is a conservative.

The reasoning Matthews and Representative William Keating (D-Mass.) employ is that Monday was Tax Day and Patriots Day. Because Timothy McVeigh blew up the Alfred P. Murrah Building on Patriots Day in 1995. That’s it. Others have pointed to David Koresh. The difference is that the Branch Davidian horror ended an ill-conceived 50-day assault on their compound by Janet Reno.

You’ve also likely seen left wing bloggers, a Wisconsin school official and uncountable blog and online news chatterati wheeling out their baseless presumptions that the bomber is some right-wing maniac, while right-wing bloggers are baselessly presuming it’s al Qaeda.

This column isn’t about the bloggers, hosts of niche programming or occasional partisan guests on cable talk programs.This isn’t about serial conspiracy theorists like Alex Jones, former Representative Cynthia McKinney or anyone suffering from pareidolia.

This is about the alleged major media professionals and the executives who keep them employed.

What is the goal of news and news-talk programs broadcasting nonprofessional, non-educated opinions about the nature of the bomber(s)?

In the case of Matthews, it appears to be an exercise in using the camera as a psychiatrist’s couch to let him release his anxiety about conservatives who push for fiscal responsibility.

It is meaningful for broadcasters to interview experts and professionals with years of experience, helping audiences gain some knowledge as to how the investigations are conducted and what details they may be considering, such as the calendar date and historical perspective as well as the nature of the targets and significance of the type of bomb, which is used in Afghanistan, Pakistan and the ones Times Square jihad bomber Faisal Shahzad was trying to detonate.

Experts include among their list of suspects solo domestic terrorists as well as those loosely affiliated with or inspired by al Qaeda.

What’s not meaningful and is certainly divisive in this country is to define your imaginary killer as “right-wing,” impugning conservatives in general. If you only watched Matthews or CNN’s Jake Tapper you might actually believe “right-wing” groups are responsible, as if the “political right” is an entity to be feared, as the Obama administration propagandized in a 2009 Department of Homeland Security memo identifying evangelicals and pro-life groups as potential threats to national security.

Do they call the terrorist groups Environmental Liberation Front and Animal Liberation Front “left wing?”

On CNN, Jake Tapper’s analyst referred to a “right-wing” attempt to bomb a Martin Luther King parade. Kevin William Harpham, a former member of a white supremacist organization, was convicted as attempting to bomb a MLK parade. I would describe him as a “racist criminal.” For Matthews, Tapper and others who thoughtlessly or deliberately consider all racists and domestic terrorists to be “right-wing,” consider this:

A large group of white people protesting against a politically influential organization is videotaped and posted on YouTube stating that a black judge supportive of this group’s economic stance should be “hung,” saying, “put him back in the fields,” and “cut off his toes one by one and feed them to him.” Is this group racist? Is this group “right-wing?”

This vile, racist, white “right-wing” group is actually the liberal political group, “Common Cause.” The site of their 2011 protest is the Koch Brothers’ free market policy meeting. The subject of their collective racist fantasies is Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas.

Perhaps Matthews and other mainstream media liberals should start referring to the liberal group, “Common Cause” as “right-wing.”

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  Well last night was the monthly 35th Representative District meeting for the Sussex GOP.

   It was uneventful, which is a nice change for Sussex GOP meetings. We had several of our elected officials present. Sen. Brian Pettyjohn, Rep. Dave Wilson, Sussex Councilman Sam Wilson and Rep. Ruth Briggs-King.

   Rep. Briggs-King was also there to speak about her candidacy to be the next vice-chair of the Delaware GOP. The other candidate, also from Sussex is Nelly Jordan who is a RD chairperson at this time.

  Mrs. Jordan was unable to attend the meeting due to a family emergency, and so she sent a proxy to speak in her place. Since this was basically an endorsement speech for Mrs. Jordan and not her personal vision of how she sees the position of vice-chair, I will focus on Rep. Briggs-King’s presentation.

  As always Rep. Briggs-King comes well prepared, and is an above average public speaker. She laid out her view of what the position of vice-chair of the state party’s role is.

  Of course it is to fill in for the chairman when not available, but she also sees it as a position that can network throughout the state in order to grow the back-bench of up and coming candidates. She spoke of the need to have candidates for every race. She spoke of how it will be impossible for the Delaware GOP to counter the one party rule that has infected the state, until the Republicans can field candidates for every race.

  In my opinion the one thing that Rep. Briggs-King said last night was that, to win elections the Republicans must first concentrate on the three Ms. “Message, Messenger, and the money to put them over the finish line. In my view this is a winning vision for the future of the Delaware GOP.

  This should not be about one person against another person, it should be about who can do the best job moving the GOP in Delaware forward?

 With his announcement on the Dan Gaffney Show on Delaware 105.9 this morning Don Ayotte, former GOP candidate for Sussex County Council, and a member of the Sussex GOP Executive Committee, has given the Delaware GOP hope for the future.

 What could that announce ment be you ask?

  That announcement is that Mr. Ayotte will be leaving the GOP to become a member of the Independent Party of Delaware.

  Mr. Ayotte has been a member of the GOP for several years, he has been a GOP candidate, and has been active in the Sussex GOP.

  While I can’t speak for all Republicans, for myself however, I would like to thank Mr. Ayotte. For leaving the Republican Party!

  Mr. Ayotte is exactly the angry type of reactionary people who are what I feel is wrong with the Delaware GOP.

  This announcement should give Republicans hope that we can actually regain our true balance and attract more people to the party, rather than driving them away with people like Mr. Ayotte, and his brand of so-called conservatism.

 I wish Mr. Ayotte a long, long relationship with the Independent Party of Delaware. It can only benefit the Delaware GOP.