Hawkins: The Top 7 Reasons Why The GOP Can’t Build A Political Party Around Moderates

Kudos to John Hawkins.
I’ve spent some time the last few days tossing notes together for this sort of post, but Hawkins beat me to it:

…the GOP absolutely cannot build a successful political party around “moderates.”

Why is that

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As of noon January 20, two things well happen;.  George W. Bush will depart Washington with his principles intact.   Whereas BO a/ka/a one a/k/a messiah a/k/a Barack Obama will assume the presidency with his principles already shattered, Bush as attributed

Welcome dear reader to the most intense nightly read anywhere on the sphere… the Nightly Ramble

• This is the time of year when I spend time reconsidering actually WRITING my cookbook, called “365 Uses for a Used Thanksgiving Turkey”. I’ve

It must be, because…

The Lions lost again today.

Ummm… 47 to 10.

That’s a high school Basketball score… which is fitting because it appears to me that the local high school basketball team could beat the Lions at football.

The Thanksgiving tradition in

At some point, someone’s going to figure out that Islam is always at the center of these kind of attacks.

Can we call radical Islam the real enemy, yet, without being pilloried for it?

This isn’t a very Thanksgiving like message.  Alas.  Such is the World in which we live.

Memo to Barack Obama, a/k/a the One. a/k/a messiah, a/k/a BO, the the global terror is still being fought.   Fight it, or die of

BitsBlog system upgrade to WordPress v2.6.5 is complete.

No errors, no problems apparent.

Just a few minor bugfixes in this upgrade, and a few code changes for security at the Linux level. Since this blog runs on a Windows server,

Britt Hume a couple nights ago:

A traditional Thanksgiving meal between two elementary schools in Claremont, California, has parents in an uproar over costumes.
The kindergarteners have long celebrated the holiday by dressing up as pilgrims and Native Americans and

A happy Birthday to Billy Beck. Have a good one today, man… and talk to Priss about the present we got you…

The one on the vision thing:

“Understand where the vision for change comes from, first and foremost,” he told reporters at his third press conference in as many days. “It comes from me. That’s my job, is to provide a

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Welcome dear reader tot he pre-Thanksgiving version of the Nightly Ramble… the most intense nightly read on the sphere.

• First, some disturbing news about Barbara Bush, who is in the hospital. Prayers and good thoughts her way.
• We’re

We are thinking heavily here about how to present a systematic approach to understanding what we call “Conservatism”.  Just this week, a fellow Iowa blogger Albert Bregar penned his thoughts.

Albert provides an excellent start with a view to