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links for 2008-05-03
- Posted by delicious on May 3rd, 2008 filed in Links
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“Obama was indeed only eight in early 1970. I was only nine then, the year Ayers’s Weathermen tried to murder me.”
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“It is imperative that someone at CNN or the New York Times ask Obama whether he, too, believes that the way to “fix the schools” is through Afrocentric curricula and double standards in student discipline, and whether he, too, believes that blacks on
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“When Petraeus surged additional troops to Iraq in January 2007, the light footprint model was replaced with aggressive counterinsurgency operations that, perhaps counterintuitively, prioritized the protection of local civilians over American forces.”
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If you’re spoken with someone who has swooned for Barack Obama, chances are you’ve heard them say the word “judgment” a lot. The Obama campaign’s central talking point has devolved into, “You have to vote for Barack Obama because he has such wonderful jud
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Joe Klein blogs that “people who want to negotiate with our enemies almost always have a stronger argument than people who don’t.” It’s a revealing statement, a window into the world of Carter-Obama liberalism: the make-believe land of treaties and confer
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“On abortion, Mr. Obama is an extremist. He has opposed the Supreme Court decision that finally upheld the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act against that form of infanticide. Most startlingly, for a professed humanist, Mr. Obama in the Illinois Senate also v
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“Apparently there’s been a curriculum change. On Tuesday, the good senator begged to extend and revise his previous remarks on race. Moral equivalence between Grandma and Wright is now, as the Nixon administration used to say, inoperative.”
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The juxtaposition of Obama’s Philadelphia speech with the denunciation is very damning.
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The primary conclusion of the pair’s first book, that door to door canvassing is by far the most effective form of outreach, is backed up by the new data in the second edition. But political consultants are quick to point out that field experiments on a s
links for 2008-05-02
- Posted by delicious on May 2nd, 2008 filed in Links
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“Obama must have trusted the media NOT to read Dreams from my Father p.99-100. In it he specifically contrasts his views from those of a biracial woman named Joyce who refused to be categorized.”
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“The key I think is his ties not to well connected uber lawyer Newton Minow, as Kaufman suggests, but more likely to the family of (in)famous former Weather Underground leader Bill Ayers.”
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“Neither Obama nor his critics in the media seem to have a clue about Ayers’s current work and his widespread influence in the education schools.”
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Video of Glenn Beck on McCain’s VP (Beck’s choice).
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“You’re either A) the worst judge in character the world has ever seen or B) another lying politician who just wants to get elected and thinks Americans have the intelligence of tree stumps.”
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In two years, voters in 36 states will elect chief executives. And at least 18 of those states will have new names from which to choose, thanks to term limits preventing incumbents from running again. That gives the Democratic and Republican governors’ as
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Unhinged moonbat in a McCain audience: “Previously I’ve been married to a woman that was very verbally abusive to me. Is it true that you called your wife a ____?” Typical lib yahoo. What a ___!
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The essence of good political leadership is the courage to do what you believe is right when it is unpopular and the skill to bring people of differing viewpoints together to get things done. By those measures, John McCain, 71, is a very good political le
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Silvio Berlusconi writes, “It’s up to historians to judge his presidency, but whatever fate history holds for him, I am sure that George W. Bush will be remembered as a leader of ideals, courage and sincerity. Personally, I will always remember him as a f
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“Compare the character of John McCain over the years with that of Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton. …There is one candidate remaining that has shown both under extreme pressure and utter privacy to have nearly unassailable morals, and that would be John
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“Joe Andrew was one of five superdelegates to swing behind Obama during the day, compared to four Clinton netted. The result was to trim the former first lady’s once-imposing advantage among party luminaries who will attend the convention to 268-248.”
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Jewish leaders “planned the Holocaust to kill disabled and handicapped” Jews to avoid having to care for them,” says Hamas state television.
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If McCain uses these rules, it cuts the list of prospective running mates WAY down - to about three. They’re damn good rules, though.
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Proof that we picked the right man as nominee: the GOP has a 27% approval rating, but McCain is riding high. (Hate to say I told you so, but I told you so.)
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“Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr. has defended his controversial remarks as “prophetic theology,” and said criticism of him amounted to an attack on the black church. But most black church leaders and members reached Tuesday disagreed.”
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Governor Bobby Jindal made an appearance on Jay Leno this week. In the clip, he talks to Leno about turning around Louisiana and the possibility of being McCain’s running mate.
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When John McCain outlined his foreign policy platform in a speech in Los Angeles on March 26, part of the credit went to Robert Kagan, an adviser to McCain’s campaign and a senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
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“In the last few weeks Barack Obama has learned the political perils of condescension. His Philadelphia speech on race was filled with it. People who don’t share Obama’s views were not refuted, they were explained.”
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On Wright, Obama, elitism, and disingenuity.
Barack Obama Rumors
- Posted by Beth on April 23rd, 2008 filed in 2008 election, Barack Obama, Funny, Jokes, Links, Politics
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links for 2008-04-11
- Posted by delicious on April 11th, 2008 filed in Links
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“Over the past 15 months, we have proved that we can win this war. We stand now at the moment of truth. Victory – and a democracy in the Arab world – is within our grasp. But it could yet slip away if our leaders remain transfixed by the war we almost
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Ron Paul supporters for McCain (!)
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In November, Mr. Obama said he would accept public financing for the general campaign if John McCain committed to public funds. Now he doesn’t want to be tied down by the spending limits attached to public funds.
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Lots of analysis suddenly focuses on the questions: Could Sen. John McCain actually win this thing? And how?
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Deval Patrick’s unpretty preview of an Obama presidency. Far from the politics of hope, Patrick’s first year in office has been a cross between Mike Dukakis and Tammany Hall.
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Jeremiah Wright, Louis Farrakhan, and now Rashid Khalidi, a “friend and frequent dinner companion” who’s a “critic of Israel and advocate for ‘Palestinian’ rights.” Lovely company he keeps.
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There’s nothing really “neo” about neoconservatism, despite what the critics would have one believe. Must-read history behind “neoconservatism.”
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In an article entitled “2 Camps Trying to Influence McCain on Foreign Policy,” Times correspondents Elizabeth Bumiller and Larry Rohter posit a nonexistent death struggle between John McCain’s “neocon” advisers (including yours truly) and those
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The miserable LIARS on the Left are all atwitter about a blatantly FALSE smear on John McCain. Again. And the one “retraction” isn’t even a retraction–not that any other libs have abandoned this latest smear.
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Obama says he knows more about foreign policy than McCain or Clinton because he’s been places on vacation and lived in foreign countries as a child. LOL. Maybe you’re more qualified to be President than they are, too!
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Idiot. “But our single biggest strategic challenge is al-Qaeda! That’s what Ambassador Crocker said, that’s the administration’s position. Al-Qaeda is not in Ir-… is… the, the key al-Qaeda leadership is not based in Iraq!”
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John McCain has erased Sen. Barack Obama’s 10-point advantage in a head-to-head matchup, leaving him essentially tied with both Democratic candidates in an Associated Press-Ipsos national poll released Thursday.
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Wealthy Democrats are preparing a four-month, $40 million media campaign centered on attacks on Sen. John McCain. (What have you done to counter it lately?)
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McCain plans a more comprehensive economic speech for next week, but came here today to blunt criticism from Democratic rivals Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton that he is insensitive to the plight of ordinary Americans.
links for 2008-04-10
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From David Frum - How to win back the “twenty-something” vote. From my view, it seems John McCain is PRECISELY the man to do it.
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Dick Morris: “In an age of terrorism, weakness is a capital crime. McCain needs to base his campaign on establishing Obama’s weakness and his own strong leadership by comparison.”
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“We’re not going to concede change to a guy who’s not changed anything in his career. John McCain’s been the change agent in the United States Senate for 20 years. Nobody’s fought for more change in the place, nobody’s spent more political blood than he h
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Roger Kimball: “The latest contribution to malicious journalistic non-entity dilated on the fact Mr. McCain says very little publicly about his son’s service in the United States Marines.”
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Nobody speaks so convincingly, with such clarity on Iraq like John McCain.
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“The Defeatocrats in the Senate are using the hearings with General Petreuas and Ambassador Ryan Crocker as a poitical show. …They are playing petty political games with our military to the Left Wing base in their party.”
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Lanny Davis: “I don’t get a chance to choose my family members. I do get a chance to choose my spiritual or religious leader and my congregation. And I do not have to remain silent or, more importantly, expose my children to the spiritual leader of my co
links for 2008-04-04
- Posted by delicious on April 4th, 2008 filed in Links
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At a time when Democrats are calling for a withdrawal of troops from Iraq, McCain has refused to use his children’s experience to strengthen his arguments for keeping the U.S. military in the Middle Eastern country.
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From two years ago, upon son Jimmy’s enlistment, an editorial from the Arizona Republic.
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In an exclusive interview with GoMids.com, Midshipman McCain spoke about his relationship with his dad, his surprising connection to Chelsea Clinton, his love of Navy football and even who he thinks would make a great vice presidential running mate.
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(From 2006) “John McCain’s public certainty about Iraq masks a more private and potentially wrenching connection. If more troops go there, as McCain hopes they will, his youngest son could be one of them, taking his place in a line of family warriors that
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“It’s hard not to be impressed watching McCain’s handling of his son’s deployment in Iraq. And it’s hard not to be disheartened watching the British mishandling of their favorite son’s retreat from Afghanistan.”
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Interview with McCain from Dadmag.com about his family.
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“The McCain men have viewed their American birthright as a pedestal on which to serve; they have that old-fashioned American trait that is devoid of elitism and aristocracy, that says you have to put country first and foremost, even above family. The McCa
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Probably the most substantive exchange of the Presidential campaign took place within the past two weeks. It was between Barack Obama and Newt Gingrich.
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The problem for the Democrats is not that they are locked into an enduring contest of bickers and squabbles, but an enduring contest for the allegiance of liberal activists.
links for 2008-04-01
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Obama’s campaign staff tries to distance his Presidential campaign from the far-left political positions he has taken while an Illinois politician. Busted!
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John McCain holds statistically insignificant leads over both Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama in New Jersey. It’s McCain 45%, Clinton 42% and McCain 46%, Obama 45%. This reflects a significant change from a month ago when Clinton held a double-digit le
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Mr. McCain’s blogger outreach, the most extensive of any presidential campaign in either party, helped keep him afloat in the dark days last summer when the major press was sizing up his campaign grave.
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The Ramazan Corps is responsible for smuggling weapons and cash into the Mahdi Army and the Special Groups terror cells, as well as recruiting and training Iraqi operatives.
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Apparently blaming Islam for Islamist terrorism is verboten in the Netherlands. What exactly will be the charge, failure to submit to Islamic law?
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The contrast between Barack Obama and Bobby Jindal could not be more stark. On the campaign trail this year, Obama serves up messages of hope and change. Last year, running for Governor of Louisiana, Jindal did the same.
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On the View, Obama made a complete reversal of his “hope” for “change” in white America/black America rhetoric. What DOES Obama believe about America?
links for 2008-03-31
- Posted by delicious on March 31st, 2008 filed in Links
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If Iraqis could elect America’s next president, chances are good that the next occupant of the Oval Office would be Gen. David Petraeus. Barring that unlikely development, John McCain will do.
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“We suspect the public still prefers winning a war to losing one. If it does, John McCain is better suited for the task than either of his two opponents, no matter how often they throw out the 100-year comment.”
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As Lenin is said to have said: “A lie told often enough becomes truth.” And as this lie passes into truth, the Democrats are ready to deploy it “as the linchpin of an effort to turn McCain’s national security credentials against him,” reports Da
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Portman’s background is legislative (House Republican leadership), executive (George W. Bush’s Cabinet), diplomatic (U.S. trade representative) and economic (Office of Management and Budget director). He comes from a swing state (Ohio), is young enough (5
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The Democrats have offered a few recent glimpses at their initial plan of attack against John McCain, and the clumsy, off-the-mark contents of their general election playbook should be encouraging to Republicans.
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“If America is looking for a second term of the Jimmy Carter Administration of high taxes at home and weakness abroad vote Obama. I doubt they are.”
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Obama says he didn’t hear “some” of the comments that caused controversy. It would be helpful if Obama gave us a sense of which ones he had heard and let slide, and which ones prompted his (previously unexpressed) conclusion that if Wright didn’t retire,
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Lieberman has told reporters that he will speak at the Republican National Convention if McCain asks, but has ruled out sharing the 2008 GOP ticket with McCain. McCain, he said, is “a reformer, somebody who understands ask not what your country can do fo
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The only reason his Democratic critics can allege that he is Bush redux–despite all those pesky matters of public record to the contrary–is because he, like President Bush, is determined to win in Iraq and stave off the devastating effects American de
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“Age might not even turn out to be Sen. McCain’s cross to bear but that of his likely opponent, whose youth and inexperience compared to Sen. McCain’s years of impressive service to country could be politically emasculating in an election when perilou
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Followup on the Winter Soldier II agitprop campaign.
links for 2008-03-30
- Posted by delicious on March 30th, 2008 filed in Links
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“Sen. McCain’s numbers are moving up, his approval numbers are rising, he’s drawing a lot of support from the other party, strong independent support and a unified Republican Party.”
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“Each one of the places we’re going to was part of the formative experiences that shaped my views and my thinking,” he told reporters Friday after a fundraiser at the Venetian casino-hotel.
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Meghan, 23, offers an insider’s view, offbeat and sometimes surprisingly intimate. While the Web site is about a campaign, it is not about issues and rarely mentions other candidates. Rather, it is intended to make her parents, and politics, seem more rea
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Anybody who thinks McCain is merely continuing the Bush agenda is not paying attention. (That means you, libs.)
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Liberal values: “I am going to teach them first about values and morals, but if they make a mistake, I don’t want them punished with a baby.” Funny, I consider my daughter a BLESSING, not “punishment.”
Del.icio.us Links
- Posted by Beth on March 27th, 2008 filed in 2008 election, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, John McCain, Links, McCain Blogs, Politics
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Some Saturday Links
I got a rash…
links for 2008-02-10
- Posted by Beth on February 10th, 2008 filed in Links
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READ THE COMMENTS. This is what Ann Coulter does for conservatism. STOP giving her your time and money, because she is destroying the GOP and the conservative movement! JUST SAY NO to Ann Coulter.
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“Now, with the Bolton endorsement I feel compelled to rethink my assessment of Olson. I am not the only one who needs to ratchet up my self-reflection on the McCain issue. You Fredheads have no doubt been dealing with your guy’s endorsement of McCain as w
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Dobson and other so-con activists have to decide if they care more about achieving their policy goals than they do about being kingmakers within the GOP.
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Today’s challenges are terribly demanding and cannot be left to luck or divine providence [and] there is the cost of their extremist rhetoric to the GOP. As Reagan once told me, “Going over the cliff, flags flying, is still going over the cliff.”"
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Presidential candidates as cartoon characters! (Simpsons, Futurama)
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Elections have consequences, writes Jules Crittenden. Sitting out Election ‘08 because you don’t like McCain could mean a defeat in Iraq and a nuclear-armed Iran in four years’ time. Will that make you feel better?
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RCP readers weighed in, and here are their VP picks.
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Virtually no one sees Huckabee positioned to stem McCain’s march toward a majority of convention delegates. Some party operatives say Huckabee could jeopardize the clout he has gained if he stays in the race much beyond the upcoming contests.
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“He wants to cut the corporate tax and keep dividend and cap-gains tax rates low. He’s tough as nails on restraining government spending and blowing up earmarks. On top of all this, he’s a very strong free trader who knows America can compete with the res
links for 2008-02-07
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Listening to the talkers continue their rants today against the direction the party is going (which is as fast away from them as possible) I realized they have jumped the shark.
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“You are expecting John McCain to meet you at least halfway (or maybe more) on Thursday. Why don’t you think about meeting him halfway as well?”
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He doesn’t just “go along to get along.” Quote: “Those who confuse the Republican party with the conservative movement are indulging in a fantasy — that there is purity in politics and that there is something immoral about ideological impurity.”
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To assert, as some have, that there is “really” no difference between McCain and Hillary Clinton is the kind of never-mind-the-facts shrillness that we expect from the Left, not from our fellow conservatives.
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Video; he promised to “work hard to ensure that the conservative philosophy” wins out in November.
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“Yet the political right, once a clean and well-lighted place, is now muddy and confused and lost, the symptoms evidenced by talk-show hosts on the radio, as Rush Limbaugh and Laura Ingraham sank their fangs into McCain’s metaphorical left hip.”
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“The modern Conservative Moment seems to be dominated by the shrill nonsense of Coulter and Jonah Goldberg[*] and Michael Savage and Neil Boortz. In short, the Conservative Movement is no longer particularly “conservative” at all.”
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From 2003, on shrill conservatism: “I guess stuff like this sells books to fanatics. But one wonders how many fence-straddlers on the abortion issue are going to climb over to Coulter’s side after reading that?”
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How the classified military documents from Iraq, which named the coordinates of where the Army suspected weapons of mass destruction to be hidden, ended up in an Arabic translator’s apartment on Hoyt Street in Brooklyn, is clear.
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Senior al Qaeda leaders have diverted operatives from Iraq across the globe and are increasing preparations to strike the United States, senior intelligence officials told the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence yesterday.
links for 2008-02-04
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Karl Rove: “Calm down. The GOP’s demise isn’t as immineent as some would have it.”
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“Romney charged with flip-flopping on guns, but his team responds with this. You decide. [...] I’m beginning to question his sincerity.”
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“In the minds of many there is a strong emotional need for Romney to win the primary regardless of whether he wins in November. Better to lose with honor than to win dishonorably. The problem is that if Hillary wins, the entire country will be placed in a
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The Republicans appear poised to nominate a guy who can actually win the presidential election in November - a possibility few Republicans had seemed willing to entertain, [...] and yet, party conservatives seem apoplectic about John McCain’s surprising r
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“The conservative case against McCain is clear enough; I made it myself in some of these columns when he first ran for president eight years ago. But this year, the conservative case for McCain is vastly more compelling.”
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“These are the nine men and women who have the final word on everything from abortion to eminent domain, and you’re going to let some left-winger make the call? “
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From only two years ago–8. Gov. Mitt Romney (Mass.) Has said, “I believe that abortion should be safe and legal in this country.” Supports civil unions and stringent gun laws. After visiting Houston, he criticized the city’s aesthetics, saying,
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Nanny State! The Mississippi State House is proposing a law that would ban restaurants from serving people with a BMI higher than 30.
RUMOR: Barack Obama was in the Black Panthers.
STATUS: False.
He does not like felines; in fact, he eats live kittens for breakfast.
RUMOR: Barack Obama will have the Black Panthers in his administration.
STATUS: False.
He will, however, have black pants.
RUMOR: Barack Obama is exceptionally gifted and will Change™ America.
STATUS: False.
Being just like any other person, he will, however, change his underwear. Occasionally.
RUMOR: Michelle Obama has burned the flag.
STATUS: False.
This is a misunderstanding; she has actually turned a man into a fag*.
Idea shamelessly ripped from Frank J.’s much funnier rumor fact-check. ;-)
Argh. The link dump didn’t post, so I have to do it manually. Good stuff in here, though, so it’s worth the two minutes it takes to do it. ;-)
(If it DOES post later, I’ll just delete the auto-post.)
LINK DUMP!
A collection of links for a Saturday afternoon.
Yesterday, Rodger at C&S posted a picture of a salad bowl made of bacon.
Here is the picture by picture on how to make batter dipped deep fried White Castle cheeseburgers! Yummy! Just make sure your cardiologist is on speed dial.
You probably don’t care about high school basketball, but this dunk is the best you will ever see.
So, did you know that anorexia is now a lifestyle choice? Ugh.
Here is a funny video of a dog that gets mad at and attacks it’s own leg.
For no reason, a cat brushing it’s teeth.
And finally, the extended Ironman trailer!
Of links!!! Since we’re just kind of in neutral for the weekend, here is a link dump. Nothing really political here. Some cheesecake at the end. Have a good evening!
Here is a sneak peek into the new Wolverine movie with Hugh Jackman, or “Huge” Jackman as my co-worker calls him.
Remember when Schuster said Chelsea was being pimped out? Well, here’s a small bit on her being sent on a “date” with a gay dude to get his super delegate vote. But she’s not being pimped out.
There is something very wrong with the Will Jones Cardio Workout. Warning, big ewwww factor. Major ewwwww factor. For criminy sakes, DON’T CLICK THAT LINK! Oh, come on, you can’t resist, can you…
CHUG! CHUG! CHUG! Here’s grandma reliving her old partying days at a Southern Cal football game
Need a cinder block? Funny, but major language warning.
You have probably already seen this Kitty cartoon, but what the hey, it’ll be good a second or third or fourth time too.
Have y’all met the MoxArgon Group? The conservative space aliens watching U.S. politics?
Meet the dailyKos of soaps. I didn’t think liberals and/or hippies bathed…
How totally cool is the Toronto Zombie Walk? We should do that. Oh, wait, we already do. It’s any anti-war rally. Here’s 2007’s version of the zombies in Canada.
Oooooohhhh, Aliens. Maybe one that good ol’ Dennis saw!
Speaking of aliens. Star Trek Star Map, Babylon 5 Star Map, and what the hey, a map of Springfield.
Geek out everyone! Oh, and for the ladies, a couple pictures below the fold….
