You might think we’re crazy for saying so, but Wendy and I believe Tuesday will be one of history’s largest election upsets. There are several reasons we think so. Consider…

1. The media is in the tank for Obama, but the truth is still getting out.

The impression is blatant and intentional: Obama is “so far ahead” that the election is practically over. Really? Zogby reports today a mere 5 point spread between the two, where Obama has not yet secured a majority of the electorate (i.e. above 50%). Still, Obama is planning victory parties and predicting success reminiscent of Reagan (Reagan won 49/50 states in his race against Mondale). Nothing of the kind. TIPP polls show over 10% undecided (TIPP was the most accurate poll in the ‘04 election) and McCain is the one gaining with undecideds. Don’t listen to the pundits who say this election is over. It is an extremely close race.

The alternative media (and you can consider this blog a part of it) is uncovering the reality of an Obama administration. The phenomenon of Joe the Plumber has rocked the news. An amateur cameraman captured Obama reprimanding a plumber about small business administration: “I just want to spread the wealth around.” The mainstream media immediately began rummaging through Joe’s past to discover any morsel of dirty laundry to bring Joe down. It was reported he didn’t have a plumber’s license (you can still operate as a contractor without a specific plumbing license) and he owed back taxes (but he still files honestly).

Did the media ever think of researching Barack Obama’s comments? Maybe dig a little deeper? For those who know the philosophies of Karl Marx, Obama’s financial picture of tax policy would be very similar. The YouTube video of Joe the Plumber’s simple question spread like wild fire, but the mainstream media largely ignored it. On Friday, one brave news anchor drilled Joe Biden about this. “Are you kidding?” Biden responded when asked if the Obama administration was Marxist. No Joe, not kidding. Biden was clearly upset and the Obama campaign canceled all appearances with the local news agency.

Notice Biden’s flat-out denial of the meaning of “spread the wealth around.” He denied the notion that it was Marxist or even socialist. Now, this is a denial that the mainstream media should investigate. But, once again, the alternative media uncovers the reality of the Obama administration. In 2001, Sen. Barack Obama literally calls for a “redistribution of wealth.” Posted on YouTube and Drudge Report this morning…

If you watch CNN or NBC or any of the more left-leaning mainstream media outlets, you will be oblivious to such news. Can you call this anything other than a cover-up? Why is it that Matt Drudge and amateur YouTube video enthusiasts doing the truth-seeking that journalists should do

In a previous post, I said this was 1992 all over again, where the media took active part in covering up Clinton’s shady past. But this isn’t 1992. In 2008, we have the Internet, Fox News and talk radio. Alternatives are rampant. Still, much of America rely on the mainstream media as their primary news source. Encourage your loved ones to be free from such propaganda. Even the mainstream media elites are crying foul; the following articles were written by Democrat journalists:

“Would the last honest reporter please turn on the lights?”
“Media’s presidential bias and decline”

2. Several misleading factors with the polls

There are several factors that are making the pre-election polls wobbly. First, the polls are polling TV watchers. Most cable shows are bundled with DSL packages, and those with cable or DSL likely have landlines. Those who are dependent on Internet news (the source of alternative media) rely on cell phones, not television. Internet-savvy folks are much more educated as to the issues of this election, and because of this they are more apt to vote for McCain/Palin.

There is the Bradley Effect, too. While some debunk this theory, I beg to differ. In 1982 Tom Bradley (a black man) lost the governorship of California to a white opponent even though Bradley was ahead in the polls. Some attributed this to racism, but I attribute it to the tendency toward political correctness. When a pollster calls today, the polled voter will be more apt to be for Obama. He’s the more politically correct choice, and the constituent will–especially if he or she is undecided–lean toward Obama on the phone. However, when entering the voting booth, people vote free from the fear of being labeled politically incorrect. Chances are good that a good portion of these voters will vote for McCain/Palin.

Finally, there is the fact that Obama has not secured a majority vote despite the media’s full-fledged Obama campaign. TIPP reports Obama 46.5%, McCain 43.4%, undecided 10.1%. Not only is this within the margin or error, but those that lean undecided is huge. If McCain gains the majority of this number, he will win this election.

These may be petty points, but with an election within single-digits of each other (and some polls within the margin of error), this election can clearly go either way. Call us wishful thinkers, but we’re convinced that McCain/Palin will pull through.

Cut and paste this email in its entirety and email it to someone you think it will convince. You have my permission.

Wendy, Cynthia and I just returned from the Colorado Springs McCain/Palin rally. She has visited the Springs a few times already, but this was our first venture into town to see her. Sarah Palin reminded everyone that her administration will rejuvenate the economy, affirm life, and show the media that comebacks are possible in America. It was amazing.

It was raining and cold, but mobs huddled together to await signatures of McCain/Palin signs. We had yesterday’s blog post picture blown up to 8-1/2×11. Pressed into the mess of thousands of people, I passed our family photo up. She smiled widely and three times yelled back to me, “Beautiful family!” as she signed it. Willow was behind her and did the same.

We got some pretty good pics of the Palins! I snapped only a couple dozen because my batteries were running out of juice. Here’s one, and Willow looked right at my camera (I was in a sea of people!)…

Man, I should send this one into the Washington Times…

I snapped this one while in the “mosh pit” waiting for her autograph…

Are we popular enough to endorse a presidental candidate? Who knows. While we’re far from Oprah Inc., we figured we would give our reasons why we’re voting for McCain/Palin on Nov. 4. Here goes…

1. Economics

We post quite a bit about economics on this site, and those of you with a sound sense of what makes our economy tick should get excited over McCain/Palin’s plans–and extremely frightened over Obama’s. It is no doubt that our economy is in dire straights right now, and raising taxes is a sure-fire way to depress it even more. Not since 1933 has a president successfully raised taxes as an answer to a slowing economy, and it then led to the Great Depression (Herbert Hoover was president). It isn’t all that complicated. Taxes take money out of the marketplace and puts it into government bureaucracy. The idea that government will spend the marketplace’s money better than regular people is economically ignorant.

Now, Obama/Biden’s drumbeat response to this is the claim that only 5% of businesses will be taxed: “95% of the people will not get a tax increase.” Again, economically ignorant. The top 5% (the so-called “rich”) employ virtually all of employed people in the nation and purchase most of the commodities of our economy. Raising taxes will most assuredly increase unemployment, increase prices, and shrink our economy as a whole. Why people think these “rich” people will naturally take the financial hit of raised taxes is beyond me.

When it comes down to it, Obama is pandering to class envy and the human desire of covetousness. It stems from the Democratic playbook: punish the rich by taxing them hard and use the tax dollars for social programs for the poor. This was tried by Hoover, Johnson and Carter in the 20th century and look how it turned out. All three led to recessions that crippled everyone in America, and Obama’s attempt to “spread the wealth around” will be no different.

As hard as I have tried to reason with some people, I have not been able convince some that trickle-down economics works. Fine. Let me appeal to you this way: the reason we are in economic hardships today is not because of “Bush’s failed economic policies,” but because of the Democratically-controlled congress’s inaction. The housing meltdown was flagged by Republicans in 2004 and 2006 (lead by John McCain, no doubt), but Democrats refused to listen to prudent economists and their very own appointed regulators. In fact, Obama is the second largest recipient of Freddie/Fannie contributions, a whopping $2 million. The media totally ignored the story, but here it is with documented footage. Notice the vitriol toward the regulators who attempted to fix the problem we’re now neck-deep in:

2. Life

We are surprised at how many pro-lifers we meet who are voting for Obama. With this election, the stakes have never been higher. Nearly 50 million babies have been aborted since 1973 when Supreme Court justices on a 5-4 decision read in the Constitution that women had the right to an abortion. The same Constitution that begins by securing “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness” allows for sucking unborn children out of wombs. Legal scholars have argued for 35 years the foolishness of Roe v Wade, and it all comes down to judicial activism.

Obama believes judges should legislate from the bench, and McCain believes strict constitutionalists should interpret the Constitution. The former will make decisions by making the Constitution say whatever he/she wants it to say (like the justices that wanted to make abortion legal in America). The latter takes the Constitution for what it says and interprets it from the bench.

Of the nine justices that currently sit on the highest court of the land, at least three will retire after the election. The next president will most certainly shape the court that will impact the next 30-50 years of American law. If Obama wins, not only will Roe be cemented in our land, but who knows what other wacky interpretations will come about.

McCain, especially with Palin’s fundamental pro-life backbone, is a pro-lifer’s only choice. McCain and Palin bring both judicial sense and compassion to the issue of abortion. The McCains are adoptive parents, and the Palins went ahead with a pregnancy they knew would result in a Downs syndrome birth. Not since Reagan has the executive office been filled with such conviction on the Life Issue. They walk the walk, not just talk the talk. We have never been closer to overturning Roe v Wade since its reckless decision 35 years ago, but all this ground will be lost with an Obama presidency. When you think about it, millions of babies’ lives hang on the thread of this election outcome.

If you are unconvinced, watch this video…

3. Media

The popular media is 100% behind an Obama presidency as they refuse to broadcast his weaknesses while hammering the slightest gaffe of McCain/Palin. Just last week, Joe the Plumber became a central talking point in the debates, and because Joe turned into a benefit to the McCain campaign, the press camped out on his lawn and have been raking they guy over the coals. Meanwhile, no one in the media is banging on the doors of ACORN or Bill Ayers to expose Obama of his past associations with voter fraud and unrepentant terrorists.

It’s 1992 all over again. The press then totally ignored Bill Clinton’s history as a draft dodger and reputation as a womanizer. Instead, headline after headline reminded the electorate of Bush Senior’s “No New Taxes” broken promise and any attempt to bring up Clinton’s past was brushed aside or ridiculed as petty. No expose has been shown on the radicalism of Obama or the incompetence of Biden, while NBC can’t wait to expose Joe the Plumber’s weaknesses or attack Sarah Palin for daring to serve her country as the first mother vice president. The media elites are unabashedly using their privilege of speech to sway the electorate by hiding the harmful truth of their candidate while viciously attacking McCain/Palin.

So this is our third reason to vote McCain/Palin: stick it to the media. Those who still cling to the popular media (NYT, NBC, CNN, AP, etc.) are the ignorant ones who are obediently following their orders. But subscriptions of newspapers have dwindled in the past decade. My hope and prayer is that the electorate turns on the popular media pro-Obama campaign. This would serve as an extra benefit: a final nail in the coffin of brainwashing propaganda of the popular media.

Read: Michelle Malkin “The Left Declares War on Joe the Plumber”

For what it’s worth, the Jeubs strongly endorse McCain/Palin for the presidential race. Click here to register to vote and view the candidates other positions. Get involved, families, and help ensure a better future for our children.

Friends of ours are putting on a play, Fiddler on the Roof, next month. The director, Renee Davis, is nationally recognized as coaching top performers in national competition. Wendy and I have gone to her Shakespeare plays for a few years now and they are absolutely incredible! If you can make this in Colorado Springs, you will be in for quite an entertaining time. We’re bringing our entire family!

Pikes Peak Village Singers

presents

Winner of Three Academy Awards

November 13 & 14 – 7:00 p.m.
November 15 – 2:00 p.m.

Village Seven Presbyterian Main Sanctuary

Reserved Seating

With Professional Orchestra

Tickets available online at www.v7pc.org

Adults (18+) $10
Youth (17 & under) $5

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“An harvest of the best, what needs ye more?” -Anne Bradstreet

Most hunters recognize there are more reasons to go hunting than the meat. Retreat into the mountains is therapeutic, an escape from the sterility and monotony of business-as-usual. The Jeubs treat hunting as a family event. Three of my children came this year (Cynthia, Lydia and Isaiah) and my dad traveled from Minnesota for his first-ever elk hunt. While Grandma stayed at home with Wendy and the rest of the children, we five huddled close together in our outfitters tent for the 3-day hunt.

Lydia and I shot the elk, the only elk any of us had a shot at all weekend. I sensed Cynthia feeling the pressure (the older sister thing) to get herself an elk, but the exhaustion was getting to her. All hunters struggle against impatience and disappointment, but she was feeling like she was disappointing me. Sensing this as we sat under an aspen tree waiting for elk to walk out in front of us, I said, “You know how much of our hunt has to do with elk? None. One-hundred percent of this has to do with us being together.”

I brought a signed copy of Wild at Heart by John Eldredge and read some of the chapters to my dad and kids for evening devotions. The opening of the book starts with a pursuit of a bull elk that is quite exciting, but never ends with the typical “shoot ‘em up” conclusion you’d think of a hunting story. Eldredge surprises the reader by saying…

“My hunt, you see, actually has little to do with elk. I knew that before I came. There is something else I am after, out here in the wild. I am searching for an even more elusive prey…something that can only be found through the help of wilderness. I am looking for my heart.”

The heart of the Jeub hunt is family. Huddling around the campfire to stay warm at night, playing cards in the tent, the simple conversations in the woods, working together to cook up Sunday morning breakfast…these are memories that were discovered as they happened. Sure, watching Lydia stalk her elk was wildly exciting, but you know my favorite time of the weekend? The giddy laughter in the tent as Grandpa kicked all our tails at a spunky game of Thirteen.

Our harvest is now wrapped up in our freezer and ready to eat this winter. God is good in granting us a bountiful harvest of elk steaks, roasts, sausage and burger. But the best harvest was experiencing the wild together as a family. Can’t wait till next year.

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Biden focuses on “past 8 years” as if Bush is running for a third term. He also starts focusing on “fundamental disagreements” between tickets, which he repeats several times through the debate. Palin speaks directly into the camera, while Biden speaks to the moderator. This is a great debate tactic: remember always who you’re trying to persuade. It isn’t the moderator or your opponent, it is the judge, and in this case it is the American people. “We’re tired of politics as usual” really rings with the American people, I believe, which leads to another debate strategy: take the opponent’s strongest point and turn it to your advantage. Obama/Biden is all about “change.” Palin runs with this when she refers to Biden’s “long record”…”With all due respect, Senator, I don’t believe the American people want the same old Washington.”

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Tonight Republican VP candidate Sarah Palin will be debating Democrat Joe Biden. The dramatic anticipation couldn’t be scripted any better. The popular media can’t stop trying to find “gaffes” in Palin; they keep trying, but have only resorted to the “possibility” of such gaffes. Here’s how an AFP article worded it: “Concerns about Palin’s readiness to take the national stage have mounted in recent days following interviews in which the first-time Alaska governor has sometimes been lost for words when faced with tough questioning.” Any specifics? None.

Meanwhile, VP candidate Joe Biden can’t seem to keep his leather shoe in his mouth. The Boston Globe ran a piece outlining his several missteps here. It’s funny, for Biden is known for having to stick his foot in his mouth, yet the press seldom hits him with reminders of his blunders. If you listen to the media, the gaffer appears to be Gov. Palin.

Well, the kids are doing their after dinner chores and we have the AM radio blaring. The debates are on, and I’ll be posting question with responses with my quick analysis. I’ll try to post some more thoughts tomorrow. Remember, I’m a debate coach and a publisher of some of the bestselling debate material in the nation, so I’ll be focused on both form and substance. Refresh this page as the debate goes on, and I’d love to see your comments…

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Wendy and I have spoken on frugal living, and we’ve been emailed asking our opinion on the top news of the $700bln bailout. Since we are the parents of 14 children (soon to be 15), a most natural question is “how can you afford it?” Our lengthy response is in our product “Cheaper by the Baker’s Dozen” where we outlined strategies to frugal living. Really, it stems from a basic understanding of economics, basics I learned getting my MBA and we both have learned as small business owners.

The current Wall Street Bailout that is struggling to pass the House of Representatives is being touted as needed, claiming the current situation in the markets is the worst since the Great Depression. Correction: it is the scariest SOLUTION to economic hard times since the Great Depression, but it is not the Great Depression. Read the rest of this entry »