Thursday, January 31, 2008

Who Said It?

The trouble with using people is that when someone better comes along, you get dropped like a bad habit, or like a woman who believes Bill Clinton will call her in the morning.

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I Think Mormonism Is Less a Cult than these “Climate Change Believers”

It was like the meeting of two Scientologists...

"He's a crusader, has a great vision in protecting the environment and also protecting simultaneously the economy," Schwarzenegger said.

They are going to battle the climate! They can start by holding their breath.

California's a tinderbox and bankrupt.

Vision.

[cue the Vision Quest music from Madge]

Losties come home!  Two-hour premiere of season 4(a) air on ABC at 8 eastern, 7 central.

The two-hour premiere of Lost, season 4(a) begins tonight on ABC at 8, 7 central. Because of the writer's strike, what were to be 16 uninterrupted weekly episodes have been halved to a short 8-episode half season, to be followed by a second half season (hopefully) in the indeterminate future.

Darn writer's strike. Too bad they're so absolutely on the correct side in this, otherwise I could hate them in print. I'll have too settle for a slow, seething angst instead.

This 8 episode season idea seems so short, especially at a very important plot point with a whole slew of new characters about to be introduced to the two groups, which will revolutionize the dynamics between the "others" and the "survivors of Oceanic flight 815".

Didn't follow? No worries: the Lost Web site has a brief (8 minute, 15 second), very witty and through video presentation that will bring even the greenest viewer up to speed.

If that's not enough, or if you're wondering what to do during the season 4(a) to (b) break, ABC has posted all of the episodes from the first three seasons in HDTV at this link.

Apologizing to the Troops:  McCain’s Dirty Trix

It wasn't the timetable lie that got to me the most - it was when John McCain said that Mitt owed our men and women in uniform an apology for using the word "timetable" in his answer even though it was plain to any listener that Mitt was not advocating any date certain for withdrawal and held the Republican stance of stay until the mission is completed.

Let me ask McCain supporters this question - when did General McCain ask for apologies to the troops from:

1. John Kerry for calling students who join the military right now idiots?
2. Obama for claiming all our soldiers do is run air raids, bombing civilians?
3. Jack Murtha for calling our Marines cold blooded murderers without due process?
4. Barbara Boxer said since Condi didn't have children she couldn't respect the sacrifice?
5. Senator Durbin likened American servicemen and women to Nazi's, Stalinists, Shining Path followers?
6. Senator Clinton when she said that our soldiers were invisible to President Bush?
7. President Clinton apologizing to the Saudis for our Iraq "mistake"
8. Ditto Algore

I find this outrage to be both selective and obnoxious. And remember those Mormon robocalls talking about how strange Mitt's religion is? The first one to call for an investigation was John McCain. I am now wondering if he's the one who did it since it happened in NH.

Wednesday, January 30, 2008

Another argument for McCain

With McCain's win in Florida, it looks like the Republican nomination is his to lose. Conservatives seem dismayed, but this is good news for their side. Why? He can win: this liberal thinks that McCain is the only real threat to Clinton or Obama. The polls are http://www.realclearpolitics.com agree.

I hate to ignore policy, but barring a radical turn of events in the next ten months, the voters are going to want to put a Democrat in charge to fix the problems they perceive -- rightly or wrongly -- as being caused by Republicans (who had both houses of Congress and the Executive for a turn). Republicans are unlikely to win on the issues this November.

In a race against history, enough of the public will want to be able to tell their grandkids they voted for the first woman/black to run for president to potentially dictate the outcome. A former prisoner of war, and a war hero, would do much to mitigate that dynamic.

Besides, given that the Democrats are likely to have a very strong majority in both houses of Congress, they'll be able to override vetoed legislation fairly easily, and filibuster what they can't override. "McCain-like" policies are likely to result even if a "more Conservative" candidate is elected.

Is the slim chance a candidate other than McCain heading the Republican ticket can beat a Democrat in November worth the marginal difference in policies he'd get Congress to pass?

My November vote is slightly up in the air, though obviously I'm leaning towards voting Democrat for president at this point, mostly because nothing scares me more than two more conservative justices in the Supreme Court. But if McCain were running, my preference for splitting Congress and the Presidency between the parties would force me to reconsider what is best for the country come November.

If Republicans want to win, McCain is your best bet.

Aaron Wants To Throw Up, I Remain Nonplussed

36% is proof that McCain is, in his words, a conservative leader?

No, what it proves is that in a race with several contestants, a liberal Republican can get a plurality. I talked about this before.

I want to see him repeat it without Rudy or Huck in the mix, personally. I've said it before and I'll say it again, Feb. 5th is the decider.

Now, for the record, I will vote for John McCain if he gets the nomination.

But also, for the record, I know that a significant portion of the base will refuse to do so.

If John McCain is the nominee, the GOP will lose. He's alienated too many conservatives to win.

His backers might want to think about that.

Tuesday, January 29, 2008

I want to throw up.

Blah, blah, congrats to the McCainiacs and all....but the MEDIA coverage is what's unbearable.

And if anything at all shows you're backing the pretender is that the leftwing media is in utter ecstasy.

Mark this down folks. Two years into a McCain Presidency (or Clinton or Obama), you can remember that today might have been the day...just like historians will look to the people in Ohio in 2004 when discussing who help save the Middle East.

However, I will say, if he needs to keep that hot ass wife of his with him everywhere. She makes looking at him sufferable.

Will you be able to vote for him knowing what you know about how he campaigned? The Robocalls? The deceptions? The Clintonianism of his defeat of Mitt in Florida.

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WHATEVER!!! Duh, McCain won Florida by 5 percent. I never even thought Romney was supposed to win Florida! Giuliani was supposed to win, remember? I am totally losing my mind. It's precisely because McCain won Florida so dirtily that Romney can destroy him over immigration and the economy. And I mean go REAL negative.

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Thar she is! blocks from the Rhode Island metro with houses on the same block selling for 550k and above. I get this gem that will need a new roof in a couple of years and needs AC installed for only 250k.

Monday, January 28, 2008

If The November Election Focuses On Domestic Issues, What Is The McCain Advantage?

Let's face it, the place where John McCain is most conservative - and indeed, sometimes mroe conservative than some lily-livered politicians - is the Global War on Terror. Even McCain's anti-waterboarding stance is not liberal, it's based on firm moral conviction, and dare I say, religious faith. (Some of the moonbats who protest waterbaording have no problem with what Chavez, Castro, or other dictators do to dissedents, so I count their anti-waterboarding stance as simply hating American power.)

McCain's early support for the surge is in fact the one thing that made me re-evaluate him, and I think it also gives him cedibility to swing voters. On a huge issue, he was proven right. (See an interesting "endorsement" here.)

However on the domestic side, John McCain is very liberal. He's liberal on climate change, ANWR, judges, taxes, and a number of other issues. He seems to be pro-life in name only.

It has been observed by many that given a choice between a Republican liberal and a Democrat liberal, the swing voters go for the Democrat, but in a clear choice between the clear conservative and the clear liberal, the conservative wins. The way Dukakis ran from the liebral label, as well as all Dem nominees that followed, proves that.

So, if the theme of the election in November is foreign policy, I'm willing to concede that McCain can do well. (I think Rudy might do better, but RUdy's strategy of holding his fire until he sees the whites of their eyes seems to have backfired, so it apepars that Rudy is out of the race.)

But if it's not going to be about foreign policy...

Like if Iraq seems pretty restive in the summer, and Al-Qeada takes another beating there, removing them from the main cocnerns of the electorate...

The election will be about the economy and the role of government. Immigration, too.

So who grabs more independent votes, then? The war hero or the CEO?

Romney was never my first choice, that's clear, but he is the most attractive candidate to swing voters who are focused on economic issues. And I know who to bet on when it's the US Armed Forces vs. anyone else. Which means I know Al-Qeada is about to be royally ethnically cleansed from Iraq. (By November we may not even have half the forces in Iraq that we do now.)

Of course things can change, the midget hitler in Iran may do something, the economy might rebound, or Britney Spears might do something utterly inane and divert everyone's attention, who knows...but as it looks now, the election in November will be based on economics.

So, if the November theme is not one of military issues or foreign policy, what is the McCain advantage?

Sunday, January 27, 2008

Bill Clinton Compares Obama to Jesse Jackson

I swear, Rush must have a mole in the Clinton campaign. More than a week ago he said that this would be the Clinton strategy - Obama wins SC and then they declare him the unelectable, BLACK candidate. Jake Tapper blogs:

Bubba: Obama Is Just Like Jesse Jackson

January 26, 2008 8:18 PM

Said Bill Clinton today in Columbia, SC: "Jesse Jackson won South Carolina in '84 and '88. Jackson ran a good campaign. And Obama ran a good campaign here."

This was in response to a question about Obama saying it "took two people to beat him." Jackson had not been mentioned.

Boy, I can't understand why anyone would think the Clintons are running a race-baiting campaign to paint Obama as "the black candidate."

This simply disgusts me. Obama is no Jesse Jackson. The Clinton's must do this because Obama has broad appeal. The dirty secret is that the Clinton's actually know who Democrats are: racists, and are counting on that or the primary...then to turn around and accuse Republicans in the general of being the REAL racists when we are the ones defending Obama against the Clintons.

Saturday, January 26, 2008

Something That McCain-bashers Need To Think About

I have been monitoring the Election 2008 National Head-to-Head Polls provided by Real Clear Politics.

The RCP poll average as of 01/22/08 shows that John McCain is the only Republican presidential candidate who has any chance of defeating the Democratic presidential nominee this coming November.

So, I have a question for the pundits who are opposed to John McCain becoming the Republican presidential nominee:

Do you want a Democrat to be occupying the Oval Office a year from now?

President JFK’s Daughter Supports Obama

OVER the years, I’ve been deeply moved by the people who’ve told me they wished they could feel inspired and hopeful about America the way people did when my father was president. This sense is even more profound today. That is why I am supporting a presidential candidate in the Democratic primaries, Barack Obama.

-Caroline Kennedy

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An AP Story That Bush Bashers Will Hate

The AP has published a story about Saddam Hussein that is certain to upset people with Bush Derangement Syndrome.

To read the story, click here.

The story reveals that before President Bush sent the U.S. military into Iraq, Hussein wanted the World to think that Iraq had WMDs in order to discourage Iran from attacking Iraq.

As it turned out, there were no WMDs in Iraq at the time that the U.S. military entered Iraq.

However, according to the AP story, Hussein was planning to restart Iraq's WMD program.

In short, Hussein was being deceptive about the existence of WMDs in Iraq, and he intended to obtain WMDs.

This news should come as no surprise to people who paid attention to the claim made by Georges Sada, who was a General in the Iraqi Air Force. Sada has claimed that Iraq indeed had WMDs as late as Summer of 2002, but that Hussein had the WMDs hidden in Syria. [Information Source]

TSK, TSK, ASK

Now, Andrea. I commented on your post, but I wanted to more strongly say that its almost disgusting what you've said calling John McCain a traitor. I believe I know you enough to believe this is simply emotionalism running in overdrive because of all the politicking going on for the Florida primary, but McCain is NOT a traitor.

Look, I'll admit I am a bigot when it comes to Mexican who come here illegally. I get a different emotional reaction than if it were a Canadian that overstayed their VISA - and I think that comes from my disgust with the groups arrogance and low culture. So when I see this story from MM that the illegal immigration/open borders pleader, Juan Hernandez, is working with McCain, I get upset and wish the voters of AZ would just throw him out of the senate through a recall. But this is no different than him working with LuLAC or La RAZA when crafting the previous bill. I don't know how THIS now crosses the line into treason.

Like I said in your comments:

Having a position of a free flowing border (like they have in Europe) between the US and Mexico is an acceptable political position.

Many could argue that it is a logical extension of free trade - free trade of unskilled labor.

Now, we argue (correctly) that this constitutes lawlessness and would destroy the cultural cohesion and bankrupt our government and increase crime and etc.

Advocating stupid positions does not make him a traitor - it simply makes him leftist; and the fact that he conceals his intentions makes him a liar.

But, you will hear me say something I hardly do: but the man is a war hero and suffered, bearing untold misery out of love of his country. If it was simply love of family he would have gone home when he could.

He's just WRONG, should be EXPOSED and should LOSE.

Calling him a traitor to his nation, however, is a bridge to far. John Kerry is a traitor because he cavorted with the enemy in Paris. Kennedy is a traitor by working with the soviets to defeat Reagan in 1984.

John McCain just supports amnesty and lies about it. That makes him a politician.

And one that should lose...bad.

Thursday, January 24, 2008

Well Now It’s Less Fun

Dennis Kucinich quits White House race.

This is really depressing, watching Denny K was fun, it reminded me that lunatics like Ron Paul aren't confined to our side.

Ah, well.