Sue Myrick's Warning of Terror Threat Is Main Course at GOP Women's Lunch

[Sarajmt]

Sue Myrick's Warning of Terror Threat Is Main Course at GOP Women's Lunch

The 100 or so people who attended the meeting of the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Republican Women felt uneasy about the state of the country for a variety of reasons. But the group's president, Linda Jones, summed up her No. 1 concern this way: "It's a perceived loss of freedom" in America. Jones judged the speech of U.S. Rep. Sue Myrick, the guest at Wednesday's Charlotte luncheon meeting, "fabulous."

If an earlier speaker set the stage by expressing happiness at being in a room "filled with people who love the Lord, respect the flag and understand that freedom isn't free," Myrick won the audience over with her views on "two different versions of America."

Though her re-election is hardly in doubt, the congresswoman from North Carolina's 9th district has been holding town halls and making appearances as she gears up for a return to Washington and a November midterm election that she hopes will transform Congress.

Sue MyrickMyrick's warnings about the deficit and "illegal aliens" were met with applause, her passionate and familiar warnings on national security were met with concern. On Wednesday, she sounded the alarm for a nation "going back to a pre-9/11 mindset." She decried outreach to "Islamist" groups -- which she distinguishes from "Islamic" moderate, mainstream Muslims, who "stand up for what we stand up for; they're Americans." Myrick has met with Muslim community members, with mixed results.

Myrick, a member of the House Intelligence Committee, wrote a June 23 letter to Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano calling for a task force to investigate ties between Lebanon-based Hezbollah and Central and South American drug cartels. "I believe Hezbollah and the drug cartels may be operating as partners on our border," the letter read. Myrick said on Wednesday that she gets her information on this "unholy alliance" from agents in the field. (Homeland Security spokeswoman Amy Kudwa told the Charlotte Observer on Tuesday, "At this time, DHS does not have any credible information on terrorist groups operating along the Southwest Border." President Obama this month signed into law a $600 billion border security bill.)

Myrick said she has little patience for "so much political correctness going on today," which, she said, played a part in the Fort Hood shooting, the attempted bombing of a U.S. airliner on Christmas Day and a car bombing attempt in Times Square. She is suspicious of Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, the organizer behind the proposed Islamic community center and mosque two blocks from Ground Zero, his speaking trip through the Middle East and the State Department's assurance that he's not allowed to raise money for the Park51 project while he's there. "Give me a break," she said. Myrick said she doubted the project would be built because "public outcry has been so big." If outreach is the goal, you "don't do it by being in people's faces."

"Just because it is legally right," Myrick said of the project, "doesn't mean that it's morally right."

Myrick's message to "stop the redistribution of wealth" and stand up for the free enterprise system she said "built this country" resonated with Connie Brown, a new member of Charlotte-Mecklenburg Republican Women. Brown, 49, a mother of three, described herself as a "typical mom, not involved," until she saw the health-care reform bill and other actions of the Obama administration "moving the country more toward what I assume is socialism," she said.

Brown said she is trying to learn more about the issues by listening to Glenn Beck, occasionally CNN, "to see what the other side is saying," and looking at different publications and online sites. Next week, her conservative Christian women's group, with a mission "to impact our country from a Biblical worldview through prayer, encouragement and information," will meet to discuss "The Christian's Role in Politics Today."

Though "fired up, ready to go" was the slogan of Obama supporters in 2008, these Republican women, joined by a few men, representatives of Mecklenburg County Young Republicans and a sprinkling of elected officials and hopefuls, could match them in enthusiasm.

When a gentleman in the audience praised Myrick's boldness, she answered with a call to arms (not literally, though a questioner did worry about Second Amendment rights). She accepted a $1,000 check from the group and left them with a message: "The Democratic Party is running scared." She said that though the Service Employees International Union and the AFL-CIO are joining to get out the vote as they did in 2008, "We're smarter than they are. We can make it happen."

http://www.politicsdaily.com/2010/08/26/sue-myricks-warnings-of-terror-threat-the-main-course-at-gop-wo/

[margypops]

you are right teko time and not too long now will tell the tale ...yes you hit the nail on the head, well done, blinders off America .

[teko]

Are you sure of that margy? I dont think so, otherwise you would not be trying so hard to convince me or others of it. I also dont think America is ready to forget the motives of the last administration either. So time will tell the tale, but in the meantime. Blinders off.

[margypops]

She's right The domocratic party is running scared and so they should be many are questioning the motives of this administration ..

[teko]

Why dont ya all just donate all YOUR money to the top 3 percent if you think they need it. Leave the rest of us out of it. We have always heard that the rich get richer and the poor get poorer, just another way of rooting out the middle class. Some things just never change do they. I think the rich have enuff money and they need to pay their share, not get tax cuts on everything. Which is just another one of those smart ideas that put us where we are today. Also seems the latest scam is to go from calling obama a racist and a muslim to God, love of country and all that overnite. Another scam? Yep sure it is. But what is missing in all the message is that love for one another that is supposed to bond us together. Opposing messages? Yup... God, Call to arms, Reload, sure sounds like words that will bring the masses together umhm.