- After my comments of the other night, as regards John McCain, I’m not surprised to find some of the other great minds coming to the same conclusion. Limbaugh [1], for example. Limbaugh is technically incorrect, when he says that McCain was never the frontrunner. He did have the numbers to claim to be in front, though the frontrunner in what, seems a question, given the how early the measurements. However, as he says, the real problem is that the Republican party nomination requires support from the base, which is precisely what Mr. McCain never had. It got even worse when he started singing the immigration song with Ted Kennedy, and worse yet when the ripper cautions of McCain- Feingold started becoming apparent. The “gang of fourteen” business didn’t help either. Here it is, my friends, president Bush is currently in the poll number trouble he’s in because he is far too willing to lean left to be seen as “popular”. McCain comes down to the left of George Bush on most everything. No wonder the liberals were supporting him. And no wonder his campaign is in the tank. One wonders if the remaining RINOs are not looking at their own houses for similar trouble. Mark this well; that trouble is coming and soon.
- It’s somewhat cooler around town, today. A thunderstorm went through about 1:00, and brought the temperature down by 20° almost immediately.
- Of course the Pope is going to say that the Roman Catholic church is the only Church. Look up the meaning of the word “catholic”. Try at least to have some idea of what you’re complaining about. I mean, There’s enough intentional stupidity about all of this, let’s not try to be stupid in responding to the man.
- I’ve been watching this business with John Conyers trying to put together yet another show trial. Make no mistake, that’s what this has devolved to. Libby’s entire testimony, several days of it, are now available online. Even the eight hours of secret testimony. It strikes me as ludicrous, then a congressional show trial is going to reveal any facts that Fitzgerald’s investigation did not. Like everything else the democrats have been doing of late, this entire thing is a show trial, and a sham.
- My wife is one of the millions that’s going to be out looking for a copy of the last of the Harry Potter books at midnight on the release date. All of which will be in front of me on I-390 trying to get to the freakin’ bookstore, all at the same time. Makes me mindful of the traffic around the malls on black Friday. And I wrote a whole article once about trying to avoid that. But this, I’ve gotta drive right into… and with a new truck, no less. Oh, Joy. Rapture.
- Of course Democrats don’t want people actually thinking about what they’re pushing. That’s why they always go for the sensational, and the emotional. What Rusty informs us of [2] is actually something we’ve known about for years , though admittedly they don’t often reveal it and so clear a detail.
- Captain Ed [3]notes that Al-Qaida wants to open a new front in their war, this time in Pakistan. Ed remarks about how they haven’t learned much from history. Perhaps that’s true, but I’m not quite sure that history means much here. We are, after all, fighting a completely different style of enemy, here. I don’t recall an example in history avoid multi front guerrilla war. Perhaps you do? Drop a comment.
- Katie, the word is “Sputum”. You’re welcome. And is it just me, or does “Bitch slap” now have a new meaning?
- I’m still waiting for an apology from John Murtha, for his charges about Haditha. You know… Where Martha charged that the marines were covering up a “massacre”? It turns out the Marine investigator is going to drop the charges [4]. So where is John Murtha and his apology? It would be about right for him to say nothing, or better yet, to try and claimed that the charges being dropped were further part of the cover-up he originally charged. Let there be no doubt; them and never had the character or the credibility to make such charges in the first place. He certainly doesn’t have the character in him, to admit that he was wrong. but don’t tell him he’s not patriotic, and don’t tell me doesn’t support the troops.
- Are we as a people truly comfortable with Larry Flynt dictating to us [5] who is moral enough to hold office in these United States? Or, for that matter, Dana Milbank [6]?