By Drew Zahn, WorldNetDaily

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., will soon be facing a public-relations nightmare in his bid for re-election: a TV ad campaign produced by the same strategist whose "Willie Horton" commercial spoiled Michael Dukakis’ 1988 presidential hopes.

Floyd Brown, author and president of the Western Center for Journalism, created the infamous "Willie Horton" commercial accusing then-Massachusetts Gov. Dukakis of being soft on crime. The ad, which focused on convicted murderer William Horton, who was granted a weekend furlough under Dukakis and who used his freedom to flee, rape and murder, sent the Dukakis campaign flailing to the defensive and is credited with contributing to the candidate’s loss to then-Vice President George Bush.

Now a pair of political-action committees have hired Brown to create a new series of independent-expenditure advertisements that allegedly expose Reid’s record of political corruption and ties to Arab money.

Specifically, the commercial responds to an ad launched last fall that included the CEO of the MGM Mirage casino in Las Vegas, James Murren, praising Reid for calling banks and pressuring them to finance the casino’s failing $8.5 billion construction project called City Center. Murren claims Reid’s efforts saved over 12,000 Nevada jobs.

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by Dena Bunis, Orange County Register

 James Lacy is also the treasurer for ExposeObama

Longtime Republican political activist Jim Lacy of Dana Point has teamed up again with Floyd Brown, author of the 1988 Willie Horton ad that helped bring down Michael Dukakis. This time they want to try to bring down President Barack Obama. And they’ve got an Impeach Obama Web site to prove it.

“Enough is enough. We’re calling for the impeachment of Barack Hussein Obama. And if you agree you can join us right now,’’ begins the message on the site.

Lacy was one of six people candidate Obama listed on his “Behind the Smears” page, during the presidential campaign. These were people who the Obama campaign said played fast and loose with the facts in an attempt to bring down his candidacy. I’ve asked the White House is they have any reaction to Lacy’s latest effort. But the administration tends not to comment on such sites.

Lacy says he’s fully aware that there isn’t any chance now to get Obama impeached. But that doesn’t dissuade him.

“This guy has engaged in activities which have taken away people’s property rights under the first amendment, threatens people’s speech rights and has affected our national security,’’ Lacy said. An election lawyer and former general counsel for the Consumer Products Safety Council, Lacy is a former Dana Point councilman. He says he has the largest slate mail business in the state.

Lacy said he knows there’s no chance under this Democratic Congress that articles of impeachment would be brought against the president, the only way such an action could happen.

“But that doesn’t mean that the reasons don’t exist and there isn’t value in putting the information out,’’ he said. “To the extent that it exposes Obama it helps to undermine his political support.’’

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By Jonathan Chait, The New Republic

 A Lefty Blog Notices and comments on the Impeachment Campaign…

The movement has begun. Floyd Brown, naturally, is the ringleader. Right now they’re a little light on rationale:

Why are we calling for the Impeachment of Barack Hussein Obama?

Radio-personality Tammy Bruce may have said it best:

"… ultimately, it comes down to… the fact that he seems to have, it seems to me, some malevolence toward this country, which is unabated."

Oh… there are many reasons to call for the impeachment of Barack Hussein Obama and there is more than just cause to call for his impeachment.

The site mainly continues in this vein. Reasons to impeach Obama? There are so many reasons! Oh, the reasons we have. We could give you so many reasons that you’d be bored to tears.

They get a bit more specific, but not much:

Are you terrified at Barack Obama’s campaign to change our country into a third-world nation?

Are you willing to sit back and watch Obama bulldoze our great nation?

 Are you willing to let him construct a totalitarian regime… fascism, socialism, Obamaism… take your pick?

I like the conflation of socialism with fascism. (I’ve never been to Sweden but I assume it’s basically like Nazi Germany.) Jonah Goldberg’s book is clearly a massively influential text. Of course, I’d note that it’s a bit tautological to assert that "Obamaism" is a totalitarian ideology that justifies Obama’s impeachment. But I’m sure the details will be filled in over the next few years, as this notion inevitably moves closer to the GOP mainstream. Michelle Bachmann, Steve King, Jim DeMint, what say you?

BY LEWIS KAMB, Tacoma News Tribune

 EO Publisher Floyd Brown, was a part of the recent Supreme Court Case

A controversial U.S. Supreme Court ruling today that loosened restrictions on corporate campaign spending and had President Barack Obama fuming in the other Washington has strong ties to this Washington.

In fact, the legal case’s connections get even far more local than that – leading to a home in University Place, where conservative political consultant and columnist Floyd G. Brown hailed the high court’s decision as a “huge, huge victory for free speech.”

Brown, a Washington native, founded the Washington D.C.-based conservative nonprofit, Citizens United, in 1988 and served as its president until 2000.

He also worked with the group in 2007 while it produced, “Hillary: The Movie,” an unflattering portrait of then-Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton that was timed to appear during her presidential campaign. The film ultimately led to the legal case, Citizens United v. Federal Elections Commission, that prompted Thursday’s 5-4 court ruling.

The decision, which declared limits on so-called independent expenditures by corporations violate First Amendment free-speech rights, essentially means more money can be spent on federal elections, including this year’s midterm congressional elections. It will free corporations and unions to spend from their own treasuries on ads and other advocacy efforts.

“This gives corporations the same rights that individuals have,” Brown told me during a telephone call this afternoon.

“I know there’s a lot of people, especially political insiders, who want to control free speech, because it frightens them,” he said. “They want to protect their turf and incumbency. But I think this is going to enhance politics by getting more people involved.”

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By Floyd and Mary Beth Brown, Western Center for Journalism

“Christmas has always been a very special day for as long back as I can remember,” Ronald Reagan once reminisced, writing in a letter. “Maybe this was due to my mother and her joyous spirit about the day.”

Although President Reagan could have spent his White House Christmases with family at his beloved ranch in Santa Barbara, Calif., he instead stayed in Washington, D.C. This way, his sacrifice allowed Secret Service agents and other aides to spend Christmas at home with their families. He was a thoughtful person.

Reagan grew up in a desperately poor family. His father was a shoe sales clerk who had trouble keeping a job, partly because he was an alcoholic. “There were very few decorated trees in the years of my growing up, Reagan said when recalling his childhood. But never defeated, my mother would with ribbon and crepe paper decorate a table or create a cardboard fireplace out of a packing box. And she always remembered whose birthday it was and made sure we knew the meaning of Christmas.”

His mother Nelle was an optimistic Christian woman who always looked for the positive side in every situation. President Reagan explained, no matter how bad things were for their family, his mother was always finding someone worse off than them. Reagan’s most vivid early memory of his mother was of her taking a covered dish to a needy family. Nelle was always gladly helping others.

Perhaps those lean years are one reason why Ronald Reagan once said a particular Christmas gift was especially memorable for him, calling it “a gift truly in keeping with the spirit of the day. It became his favorite gift. His older brother, Neil, gave it to him after struggling to find a suitable gift for his brother. At the time, they both were middle-aged adults with successful careers.

Neil solved his dilemma by writing a letter. In the letter, Neil told his brother he had found a truly needy family with small children “who wouldn’t go to bed with dreams of Santa Claus in their head.” Ronald Reagan recounted how his brother Neil changed that and “became Santa himself, providing a Christmas from tree to turkey plus toys and gifts for all.” Included in Neil’s letter was a very detailed, blow-by-blow account, describing the “joy of the children and the grateful happiness of their mother.”

This act of charitable giving by Neil reads like the ending of Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol,” thus becoming President Reagan’s most unforgettable Christmas gift. He called it “a gift that will never grow old,” as he enjoyed re-reading the letter and thinking about the family’s reaction to Neil’s generosity.

Helping and serving others gives true joy and happiness, not only to the recipient, but even more so to the giver. Maybe Neil’s gift was particularly touching to Reagan because he knew what it was like to go without. Today, there are still families out there who are in difficult circumstances, facing a bleak Christmas. A gift like Neil’s may be the perfect gift for you to give to that someone in your life who has everything. Your church or locally based charities such as the Salvation Army are aware of needy families. You could make a difference and receive special Christmas joy by giving to a family who has hit hard times. Then, write a letter similar to Neil’s describing the family’s reactions, and give it as a gift. This is the true spirit of Christmas.

While speaking to the nation on Christmas Eve 1984, President Reagan said families and friends across America will join together in caroling parties and Christmas Eve services. Together, he said imparting his usual optimism, we’ll renew that spirit of faith, peace, and giving which has always marked the character of our people.

At the end of his tale, Dickens writes, “it was always said of [Scrooge], that he knew how to keep Christmas well, if any man alive possessed the knowledge. May this be said of all of us. And so, as Tiny Tim observed, God bless Us, Every One!”

Merry Christmas from all of us at Expose Obama!

By Floyd and Mary Beth Brown

 Positive momentum came out of this years elections

The American people have spoken, and a wave of change has begun. After last Tuesday’s election, Democrat Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi tried to claim victory. The left-wing media tried portraying the Republicans as a party at war. But the American people, specifically moderates and independents, swung towards the Republicans in significant numbers. The electoral tides have shifted, and if the Republican Party doesn’t waste this opportunity they will ride the wave of economic discontent to major victories in 2010.

Specifically, the Republicans swept the two governorships up for election in 2010. Although the GOP lost a competitive House seat in NY, the loss was a result of a corrupt nominating process, not conservative ideas. As C. Edmund Wright writes in American Thinker, “The Democrats did not lose a 2-1 squeaker last night. They lost two huge races, saw an overall evaporation of 25 basis points of support — and lost by nearly 500,000 cumulative votes in the three high-profile elections.”

The best news of the day came from Virginia. Republican Bob McDonnell, an outspoken fiscal and social conservative, trounced Democrat Creigh Deeds by nearly 20%. The Republicans also defeated at least six incumbent Democrats in the House of Delegates and won the important Lieutenant Governor and Attorney General’s races by comfortable margins. All three of the statewide candidates in Virginia — Bob McDonnell, Bill Bolling for Lieutenant Governor and Ken Cuccinelli for Attorney General — are outspoken conservatives. The left-wing media tried downplaying Obama’s involvement in the Virginia rout, but Obama had personally campaigned for Deeds, and over the weekend Obama signed a personal letter urging 300,000 of his supporters to support the Democrat. Evidently his calls fell on deaf ears as independents broke two to one in favor of the Republican candidate.

The news out of New Jersey was equally dismal for Democrats. Goldman Sachs millionaire Gov. Jon Corzine, who had purchased his previous elections and outspent his opponent Chris Christie by a three-to-one ratio, was rejected by the usually reliably Democratic electorate of New Jersey. This was a major setback for Obama as he had campaigned for Corzine multiple times including just a day before voters went to the polls. Just as in Virginia, voters in New Jersey threw out the incumbent and voted for a believer in limited government.

Of the three closely watched elections, the only loss for conservatives came in upstate New York. Doug Hoffman, a hero of the conservative tea-party movement was defeated 49 percent to 45 percent. This race was a boondoggle for Republicans, as the party bosses nominated a liberal who ended up dropping out of the race and endorsing the Democrat. If Hoffman had been able to run as a Republican he probably would have won the election. If the party bosses had nominated a real Republican — rather than a Democrat in disguise — the Republican candidate would have been in a good position to win.

The message from these results to the Republican Party and conservatives is that they need to stick together. The only way they lose in 2010 is if they sabotage themselves. Conservative candidates should compete in the primary system, and avoid launching third-party bids for office. Senator John Cornyn states that the NRSC won’t interfere in competitive primaries, which is exactly what the party needs. If conservatives and moderates are both able to have a fair opportunity in the primary, and the loser agrees to support the winner, Republicans will emerge united and victorious.

The message to Democrats is crystal clear. Voters are sick and tired of what is happening in Washington. The White House announced that Barack Obama didn’t bother watching the election returns. Maybe this is because Rahm Emanuel and the sycophants that surround Obama don’t have the courage to tell him his leftist agenda is unpopular. Government-run health care is unpopular. Huge new energy taxes are unpopular. His dithering in Afghanistan is unpopular. His bailouts and America’s rampant joblessness is unpopular.

Barack Obama should be watching the election returns. If he were listening he would learn from Tuesday night and take America down a less radical path.

By Floyd and Mary Beth Brown, WorldNetDaily 

It has been a wild two weeks since we announced the new website www.impeachobamacampaign.com on the pages of WorldNetDaily. A firestorm has been ignited in the blogosphere, on talk radio and in the media over the issue. The debate has been so feverish that one liberal blogger has even labeled Floyd, "the most dangerous man in America." We thought it was time to review their arguments.

Most of the liberal blogs ignored the charges outlined against President Obama. Instead, they attempted to deflect issue questions by attacking WorldNetDaily, Joseph Farah, or Floyd. This is clearly the case on Huffington Post, which wrote: "WorldNetDaily – the hard-right website that has trafficked the most outlandish rumors about the Obama presidency, including pushing the ‘birther’ conspiracy – is now circulating an article suggesting that the president should be booted from office. The effort is being spearheaded by the longtime GOP operative Floyd Brown, who has launched his own online Impeach Obama Campaign. On Thursday, Floyd took to WND to ask: ‘Is it time to whisper the word "impeachment"?’" Rachel Maddow on MSNBC echoed Huffington Post as she ranted for over seven minutes about the new campaign.

We expected these attacks, but the more unexpected attacks were from some conservative blogs, the largest being HotAir.com. Here, Ed Morrissey opined, "When the grass roots come together for events like Western CPAC, it usually brings together a great deal of energy as well as a wide idea (sic) of ideas, some better than others. One of the worst – and worst defended – ideas at WCPAC comes from Floyd Brown, whose ImpeachObamaCampaign.com is one of the sponsors for this event. In his speech this morning, Brown misstates history, draws ridiculous parallels to the Nazi era and takes the wrong lessons from the Clinton impeachment, which at least had the virtue of coming from an actual impeachable offense."

The most disappointing part of the Morrissey comments is his lack of interest in the driving issues. Instead of tackling the real issues that are compelling activists to call for impeachment, he tried to dispute peripheral issues of the process.

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DBKP

Over a year ago Obama targeted this website as one of its enemies

What you won’t hear from this campaign or this party is the kind of politics that uses religion as a wedge, and patriotism as a bludgeon — that sees our opponents not as competitors to challenge, but enemies to demonize.“
– Barack Obama, June 3, 2008
featured at the top of Obama’s Fight the Smears.com website

OBAMA enemies list is nothing new:

Before Fox News and Glenn Beck, there was Floyd Brown and Bob Perry.

This White House has had plenty of practice compiling lists of those it sees as “enemies”, and then going public with it. The Nixonian practice started over a year ago.

Hark back to July 2008. That was when the above image made its debut on Barack Obama’s ironically-named campaign website fightthesmears.com. DBKP wrote about it in Smear, Inc: Obama Enemy List Published on FighttheSmears.com

As they wrote last July:

By tagging conservative activists as part of a “smear”, Obama has re-defined the word to mean “those who do not agree with you”. Obama’s site doesn’t say that the activities the activists are engaged in are illegal , immoral (to anyone other than rabid liberals) or untrue–it just implies it.

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