Senator Tom Coburn–A Real Conservative and An Excellent Vice-President Candidate

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Movement conservatives are watching and waiting for Senator McCain to announce his choice for Vice-President running mate.

The name most often mentioned is former Governor Mitt Romney.

Acceptable, but not my first choice.

A name mentioned that would get raves from movement conservatives is Senator Tom Coburn.

The Best and Brightest
Senators scoring 100% on ACU’s 2007 Ratings of Congress

John Barrasso (R-WY)
Tom Coburn (R-OK)
Jim DeMint (R-SC)
James Inhofe (R-OK)
Jon Kyl (R-AZ)

http://www.conservative.org/archive2/Senate_standout.asp

The American people need a fiscally responsible conservative candidate.

Big spending Republicans and Democrats are bankrupting and ruining the country.

They call Senator Coburn, Dr. No in the Senate.

Just what the country needs–some adult supervision!

Background Articles and Vidoes

The case for Vice President Coburn

By Jeremy Lott

Many new Republican congressmen played at small government conservatism, but Coburn meant it and grew increasingly dismayed by his colleagues’ capitulations to Bill Clinton and big government. He regularly lacerated them for their cowardice and didn’t let it go at just rhetoric.

When it had become clear that Speaker Newt Gingrich would no longer fight for real reforms, Coburn backed a failed coup to install Majority Leader Dick Armey as speaker, marking him as one of the hardest hard-liners.

When the Oklahoman kept his promise to retire after three terms, many of our nation’s lawmakers breathed a sigh of relief and then gasped in utter horror when Coburn ran for a Senate seat in 2004. He won in an upset and became a greater problem than ever before. …”

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0408/9341.html

Tom Coburn on John McCain at CPAC

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hahyQVLtljE

Tom Coburn – The Dr. of Truth

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yf7z9KtJgGA

There’s No Defending Pork
A key battleground for the GOP.

By Tom Coburn

“…First, it’s important for conservatives to understand who the Porkbusters are and who they are not. The Porkbusters are not the visionaries behind the “Porkbusters” website — Glenn Reynolds and N.Z. Bear, nor are they conservative activists at issue groups, nor are they members of Congress like Jim DeMint, Jeff Flake, or myself.

Instead the Porkbusters represent what is arguably the only grassroots movement since 1994 to gain traction and build momentum on the core American principle of limited government. The Porkbusters movement is not particularly concerned with the electoral fate of Republicans or Democrats, but they are concerned with the fate of the Republic and their own tax dollars. Quite simply, Porkbusters is a movement comprised of individuals who are just plain sick of their money being wasted, quite often in secret, by self-serving politicians.

Establishment Republicans loathe the Porkbusters because they are effective. They are so effective, in fact, that one powerful politician said of them in 2006, “I’ll just say this about the so-called Porkbusters. I’m getting damn tired of hearing from them. They have been nothing but trouble ever since Katrina.” Recall that in October 2005, the Senate voted to protect the “Bridge to Nowhere” by a vote of 82-15. Today, thanks to unrelenting pressure, both parties are clamoring to out-reform the other. Rather than belittling this movement, the Republican establishment should embrace and learn from it. …”

http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=NmYzYzJjMTgzOTU2OGVlZDY1MWJhMDQ3YmQ3NzljMWU=

Senator Tom Coburn Needs Your Help Fighting Wasteful Government Spending

“…While Senator Coburn has unapologetically stood up for the American taxpayer, he can only do so much on his own. The Senate’s liberal leadership has devised a scheme to bundle many of the bills he has held up into one package, known on Capitol Hill as the “Coburn omnibus.” Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) has said he plans to bring the “Coburn omnibus” to the Senate floor before the August recess. If these bills were debated one at a time, Senator Coburn would likely succeed in demonstrating how frivolous much of this proposed spending is. But bundled together, the Senate leadership may succeed in steamrolling Senator Coburn and other fiscal conservatives. As John Fund of the Wall Street Journal put it, many senators “will be torn between supporting their colleague in his fight against excessive spending or risking losing projects for their state. Mr. Reid’s move is a clever way to force [senators] to choose between their self-proclaimed principles and pork.” And keep in mind, my friends, what it says about the Senate’s priorities if it chooses in the final days of this month to debate more spending rather than to solve our energy crisis. …”

http://samuelatgilgal.wordpress.com/2008/07/21/senator-tom-coburn-needs-your-help-fighting-wasteful-government-spending/

The Minority Leader

Is Sen. Tom Coburn an extreme social conservative, a libertarian hero, or both?

“…But in the economic realm, Coburn is one of the most outspoken, principled, and, increasingly, influential advocates for smaller government that either house of Congress has seen in years. He has thrown more monkey wrenches into the machine of congressional spending than any national politician. And he has done this without losing an election. …”

http://www.reason.com/news/show/120322.html

Tom Coburn

“Thomas Allen “Tom” Coburn, M.D. (born March 14, 1948) is an American politician and medical doctor. A member of the Republican Party, he currently serves as the junior U.S. Senator from Oklahoma.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Coburn