Flathead County Republican Women

The Flathead County Republican Women are hosting their second annual Celebrate America! on Saturday, September 11, from 1:00 to 4:00 P.M. at the Flathead County Fairgrounds Trade Center.

Celebrate America! will feature three dynamic speakers: Retired Major General Paul Vallely, his wife, Muffin, and New York Firefighter, Steve Naso. Steve was one of the courageous firefighters who rescue people at Ground Zero on September 11, 2001. Congressman Denny Rehberg will also be in attendance.

The event will include a dinner catered by Vista Linda. The meal will feature ham, scalloped potatoes, vegetables, salad, dessert, and a beverage. The price of dinner is $10 per person, and children under age five are admitted free.

Celebrate America! was attended by over 200 people last year. Caroline Solomon, chair of the event, states, “The Republican Women’s club is delighted to share ideas for helping to build a stronger America, and to celebrate our great country. We urge families to attend this exciting event.”

Celebrate America! is open to the public. To purchase tickets, call Caroline Solomon, 837.4525, or Lois Lauman, 857.3512. Tickets may also be obtained online Tickets for Celebrate America

Over 100 people participated in the NW Montana Fair Parade for the Republican Party. Here are just a few of the many photos taken. More can be seen by clicking on the link at the bottom of this page.

To see more photos go NW Montana Fair Parade

“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. – That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed…”

-the Declaration of Independence

A Republican Wrote the 19th Amendment

In 1878, U.S. Senator Aaron Sargent (R-CA) introduced in Congress the proposed 19th Amendment, according women the right to vote. Over the next four decades, it was primarily the Democrats who would oppose the measure. Not until 1919, after the Republican Party won majorities in the U.S. Senate and the U.S. House of Representatives, did Congress approve what would become the 19th Amendment

Gallup: GOP Enthusiasm Matches 1994 Posted by: Jan Larimer

A new Gallup poll shows that the enthusiasm of GOP voters for this fall’s elections is at its highest point since 1994 when Republicans reclaimed control of Congress in an historic wave election.

According to the Gallup organization, “an average of 59% of Republicans and Republican-leaning independents have said they are more enthusiastic than usual about voting this year compared with past elections, the highest average Gallup has found in a midterm election year for either party since the question was first asked in 1994.”

The numbers on the Democrat side of the ledger tell a much different story. When asked if they were more or less enthusiastic about voting this fall than in previous elections, just 44% of Democrats and Democrat-leaning independents described themselves as “more enthusiastic.” This enthusiasm gap, according to Gallup, represents the largest relative party advantage measured in a single midterm election-year poll.

The reasons for this gap are well known. The efforts by Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid and Barack Obama to shove ObamaCare into law angered conservatives and moderates alike. The mountain of debt and spending proposed since President Obama was sworn into office has raised eyebrows across the political spectrum and helped spawn a conservative movement that is poised to sweep incumbent Democrats out of office this fall – including Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. And the comparison by President Obama between the attacks of 9/11 and the BP oil spill have called into question the president’s ability to prosecute the war on terror and manage the federal response to the Gulf oil spill.

By almost every metric out there, from turnout in primary elections to polling data such as Gallup’s, the GOP has a significant advantage heading into the fall. Already, an army of conservative volunteers and activists are knocking on doors and running phone banks to return common sense, conservative leadership to Congress. If these trends continue through November, and given the Democrats’ failure to lead there is every reason to think they will, we are just months away from sending Harry Reid back to Nevada and Nancy Pelosi into the back benches of the U.S. House.