Rush Limbaugh Says Fred Thompson Is the Real Conservative
Rush says he doesn't endorse candidates for the GOP primary, but he came pretty close to endorsing Fred Thompson last week:
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Rush says he doesn't endorse candidates for the GOP primary, but he came pretty close to endorsing Fred Thompson last week:
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The polls show Huckabee ahead of even Guiliani. Ace is declaring this a disaster, cause Ace says Huck can't win.
A Corner reader thinks Huck emerging indicates a new post-conservatism movement in politics.
Powerline asks if Huck would turn out to be more like Reagan or Carter.
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Who reports new from Iraq better than the MSM? Michael Yon, that's who. From Yon's dispatch:
Despite spending enormous energy trying to win their war in Iraq, it seems safe to say that al Qaeda has lost or will lose in Iraq. Yet even on the ropes, al Qaeda is still dangerous. They still blow up bridges and attack power stations. But so many groups have turned on al Qaeda that they are having a difficult time just breathing. They are still present and dangerous, but even Ansar al Sunhah has turned against them. When a group as crazy as Ansar al Sunnah turns against al Qaeda, AQ must be evil.
(HT: Little Green Footballs)
Americans are growing more positive about war in Iraq.
Meanwhile, what are Democrats in Congress doing to reward our soldiers and employees of our military? Why, throwing them out of work, of course.
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Gays in the military was not an issue in the 2008 presidential campaigns, at least not before CNN manipulated the Republican debate last week to set it up as a wedge issue. This is exactly the sort of thing that Hugh Hewitt was posting about earlier this year when he strongly advised the GOP not to agree to a YouTube debate. Now Jack Cafferty at the New York Times is promoting the whole Gays in the Military schtick.
Some are calling for: Save the Debate, Ditch CNN (HT: Instapundit)
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I don't like his populist-ish domestic record and inclinations, but wow, gotta give the guy credit.
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GOP retirements in both the House and Senate since the party lost in 2006, makes the task of winning back congressional majorities daunting. Plus Republican donors are not donating.
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Rush Limbaugh characterizes Hillary as being like one's ex-wife. Sounds exactly right. "You can't put in what God left out."
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Democrats have clearly defined themselves as the party of defeat in Iraq and in the War on Terror. With the success of The Surge in Iraq, and violence in that country continuing to drop, the Democrats in the US House unbelievably predictably want to force us into defeat.
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And for the record, the people of the US, really really do not like illegal immigration.
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...and pulls the rug out from under Hillary Clinton.
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Bin Laden is a brilliant guy? Er, not so much. He definitely does not understand how to make friends and influence people.
Yep, The Surge is definitely turning Iraq into a big win for the US.
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Leftist, feminist MSM reporter, Ruth Marcus, wasn't wowed by Hillary's debate performance this week:
The Hill newspaper, listening in on a conference call with Clinton fundraisers, quoted chief strategist Mark Penn being even more explicit about the "backlash" he was detecting among female voters: "Those female voters are saying, 'Sen. Clinton needs our support now more than ever if we're going to see this six-on-one to try to bring her down.' "
Please. The Philadelphia debate was not exactly a mob moment to trigger the Violence Against Women Act; if anything, this has been an overly (pardon the phrase) gentlemanly campaign to date. Those other guys were beating up on Clinton, if you can call that beating up, because she is the strong front-runner, not because she is a weak woman.
But, in typical liberal fashion, Marcus ultimately comes to Hillary's rescue. But Ed Morrissey capably fisks her column.
Hillary set that last cause back a few steps, and Marcus fails to realize it. By playing the damsel in distress, she wants to eat her cake and have it, too. Hillary wants to project strength but pull a fainting spell when other candidates treat her as an equal -- and as a frontrunner -- by challenging her on her policies. A fainting spell might serve as a distraction from the two disastrous answers she gave in the debate, but America won't elect Scarlett O'Hara as President. The voters want strength in the Oval Office, not passive-aggressive hypocrisy.
Here's a disturbing factoid that's related to whether or not illegal immigrants should have drivers licenses (and, consequently, be able to vote):
After 9/11, the Justice Department found that eight of the 19 hijackers were registered to vote.
And, yes, after her Democrat debate debacle, Hillary confirmed that she supports giving drivers licenses to illegal immigrants.
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Brendan Loy, hurricane blogger extraordinaire, has long thought that Rudy Giuliani will be the GOP presidential nominee. Loy notes that Frank Rich of the New York Times is only now discovering that maybe American's aren't as narrow minded as he thought:
Why is Rudy doing so well? People in the know used to think the rubes just didn't realize Rudy has dressed in drag and once lived with 2 gay guys; they just remembered him as the star of that 9/11 show they saw on TV that one time.
But now it's dawning on the pundits that Americans probably know all that stuff by now, so why isn't Rudy sunk? They're shuffling around for explanations. You could say "terrorism fears trump everything," or "the rest of the field is weak." But Rich thinks the right answer is that Americans really aren't as narrow-minded as they are portrayed...
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The S-CHIP passed the Senate (again!), 64-30. The Democrats are framing the this as needy children vs. The War - and with Democrats the war always has to be the loser.
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Hillary Clinton, the Democrat candidate of inevitability, was a mess last night when it came to illegal immigration. Here's one really smart conservative guy who doesn't think that she won that debate.
UPDATE: Be sure to read Ed Morrissey's post, where he describes just how bad Hillary's answer was to this illegal immigration problem, just what a bureaucratic nightmare multiple drivers licenses will be for the state of New York.
UPDATE II: Hugh Hewitt's got more:
We now know something that we did not know before: When Hillary Clinton has a bad night, she really has a bad night.
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With the Republican presidential candidates each claiming to be the true conservative, it's good to revisit the core conservative principles. Redstate has a great post that demonstrates how conservative principles have held steady through the decades:
- First and foremost, he needs to understand that, by the tens of millions, true conservatives do exist in our country. That their unbending beliefs make them -- not only the backbone of this nation -- but the hope for a better future. That they unashamedly love their country and have reached the point of no return with regard to political correctness and pandering politicians who place themselves above the welfare of our Republic.
- He needs to understand that they have a deep and abiding belief in God. A belief that is under a daily, escalating and obscene assault from those on the left who only use the word “Christian” as an insult, a punch line, or as an identifier to be added to a blacklist to deny employment at most schools, colleges, newspapers, and television networks. He needs to understand that this is a belief that must be acknowledged, respected, and defended. He needs to understand that all life is sacred and that it begins at conception.
- He needs to understand that true conservatives believe we live in a sovereign nation with clearly defined borders that must be protected. Period. He must understand that the invasion of illegal aliens is not only a threat to that sovereignty, but widens the pathway for terrorists to infiltrate our nation. A scenario that the House Committee on Homeland Security has already documented as becoming a reality. He needs to accept that there are those in our country who would turn the United States of America into part of a “North American Union.” A suicidal strategy that was recently pushed and admitted to by former Mexican President Vicente Fox.
- He needs to understand that we are engaged in a world-wide war against Jihadists and extremists who mean to wipe our nation off the face of the Earth. For that reason and more, it is imperative that we retain a national defense that is second to none. He needs to understand that true conservatives believe that the young men and women who serve in our military represent the very best of our nation and must be given every consideration. That without their heroic service, we will be vanquished.
- He needs to understand that true conservatives do believe that large segments of the entertainment industry are purposefully and systematically exposing our children to the vilest forms of smut. That they do so first, to make money, and second, to indoctrinate as they continue their quest to subvert the morals, ethics, and character of our nation.
- He needs to understand that true conservatives actually do believe in lower taxes and fiscal responsibility. That if you proclaim yourself to be a “Conservative” and turn your back on these tenets, then you are worse than those on the left who believe in neither. He needs to understand that true conservatives understand the value of limited government and expect their leaders to be just as enlightened.
- He needs to understand that true conservatives believe in strict enforcement of the rule of law. That aside from the terrorists from without, our nation is at war with hundreds of thousands of violent gang members from within. That in many cases, these gangs are aligning themselves with drug cartels, terrorist groups and foreign nations. That if we don’t acknowledge this war and win it, then many of our cities and much of our border, will spiral into lawlessness and unchecked murder as these gangs prevail.
- He needs to understand that the appointment of judges is an overriding issue for true conservatives. That they believe in having a strict-constructionist Supreme Court. That there can be no compromise in this area.
- He needs to understand that if he panders to them now to win the nomination and then stabs them in the back to try and win the general election, he has lost them forever.
- And finally, he has to understand that true conservatives will never vote for the “lesser of two evils” come November of 2008. That to do so, would be to betray all that they hold sacred. Faith, family values, and conviction can never be compromised.
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The Wall Street Journal today, Rep. Charlie Rangel's new tax increase plan is explained. (And if Rangel's behind this, we know that it's really Hillary Clinton's tax increase plan.) Tax cuts increase revenue to the US treasury and reduce the deficit. Plus tax cuts result are good for the economy because tax cuts fuel economic growth. That's what President Bush's tax cuts have done.
But as surely as the sun rises and sets, after the Democrats won majorities in both the US House and Senate, the Democrats are looking to raise our taxes:
Rep. Charles Rangel of New York, chairman of the tax-writing House Ways and Means Committee, last week introduced an estimated $3.5 trillion tax increase that would raise the capital gains tax rate from to 19.6% from 15% and places a surtax of as much as 4.6% on people making more than $150,000 a year. Mr. Rangel applies it not to current taxable income but to adjusted gross income, thus phasing down itemized deductions such as charitable contributions, home mortgage deductions, and state and local tax deductions. Together with the end of the Bush tax cuts, Mr. Rangel's plan would increase the top income tax rate to 44% from 35% for individuals, small-business owners and farmers, who make up about three-fourths of taxpayers in the highest bracket.
Now there, is an economic nightmare. All you Republicans who sat out the 2006 elections-how stupid are you now??
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Bobby Jindal is a second generation Indian-American, and he won the election in Louisiana to become governor of that state. The MSM/media has constructed a narrative that the Republican party has pursued a "Southern strategy" to change the once Democrat south to the now Republican south. Plus, Governor-Elect Jindal is not only a Republican, he is a movement conservative:
Bobby Jindal, a second generation Indian-American, is going to be the new Republican Governor of Louisiana. Although governors who are black have been elected in Virginia and Massachusetts, this election marks the first time the support of white Southern voters has propelled a non-white governor into office. Jindal's election is evidence that the much-reviled Republican "Southern Strategy" has actually produced one of the greatest advances for civil rights in the history of the United States.
Here's is Michael Barone's analysis of the Jindal win.
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As I noted last week, it had been reported that Jamal al-Badawi, had been released from prison in Aden, Yemen. Badawi is a suspect in the USS Cole Bombing, an al-Qaeda terrorist attack on our country.
The State Department now says that Badawi is now in prison in Aden, Yemen.
More excellent information is here and here.
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How much humiliation can one woman take? A whole lot, if Hillary is the standard of comparison. She suffered humiliation on a world-wide scale through Bill's Monica Lewinsky affair/impeachment. Why didn't Hillary leave Bill Clinton? Because furthering her own political ambitions is more important to her than her dignity.
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Conservative Republican churchgoers are backing Fred Thompson for the GOP presidential nomination. Fred now ties John McCain with this group of voters. Some conservatives think that Fred was the winner of last Sunday's Republican candidate debate on Fox News.
And Thompson is sending the kind of signals I like on illegal immigration and national sovereignty-at least as far as the Law of the Sea Treaty is concerned.
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While Hillary has a lock on the Democrat nomination, Rasmussen's poll indicates that Rudy and Fred are both, within the margin of error, in the lead for the GOP nomination. Hillary is leading in head-to-head polls against all of the top tier Republican candidates. Patrick Ruffini is theorizing that the nature of the center right political blogosphere could be better structured to positively impact GOP 2008 chances, a very interesting read. He has a great example here of the superior Democrat fundraising operation.
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The Democrats want to socialize medicine in the US, to turn the health care in our country into a European-like system. As an American who is now WAYYYYYYYYYY beyond middle age (I am middle aged if you expect to live a very, very long time), the idea of socialized medicine in the next decade is a frightening thing. As Mark Steyn writes at National Review:
I’m in favor of tax credits for child health care, and Health Savings Accounts for adults, and any other reform that emphasizes the citizen’s responsibility to himself and his dependents. But middle-class entitlement creep would be wrong even if was affordable, even if Bill Gates wrote a check to cover it every month: it turns free-born citizens into enervated wards of the nanny state. As Gerald Ford likes to say when trying to ingratiate himself with conservative audiences, “A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take away everything you have.” But there’s an intermediate stage: A government big enough to give you everything you want isn’t big enough to get you to give any of it back. As I point out in my book, nothing makes a citizen more selfish than socially equitable communitarianism: once a fellow’s enjoying the fruits of Euro-style entitlements, he couldn’t give a hoot about the general societal interest; he’s got his, and who cares if it’s going to bankrupt the state a generation hence?
That’s the real “war on children”: In Europe, it’s killing their future. Don’t make the same mistake here.
The Republicans in the Congress want to see the S-CHIP program continue, at the previous rate of funding. So that families earning up to $80,000 are not covered-which what the Democrats are looking for in the current proposed S-CHIP expansion. Joe Knollenberg, A Michigan Republican congressman writes that Nancy Pelosi's health care bill will affect illegal immigration rates:
But this story gets worse. Speaker Pelosi’s health care bill lowers the standards for proving one’s citizenship. This will open the flood gates to identity theft, fraud, and make it possible for illegal immigrants to qualify for the expansion of taxpayer-provided health care. That’s just wrong and I can’t accept it.
Democrat Congressman, Pete Stark (see the deranged video at the link) manages to draw a parallel between the S-CHIP entitlement expansion, President Bush and the war in Iraq:
Rep. Pete Stark starts blabbering about Republicans who don’t want to spend money on children, but instead want to spend it on “an illegal war” to be fought by children whom Republicans want to send to Iraq to “blow people up” and “get their heads blown up” for “his amusement.”
Stark: “Bush just likes to blow things up!!!”
There's a fine public servant for you, heh? (Insert sarcasm tag here.) I'm sure it's just a bit of Democrat nuance.
Ed Morrissey live blogged the S-CHIP debate in congress.
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House Democrats have pulled the legislation that would have changed the FISA law for the worse:
House Democrats have been forced to pull their proposed legislation to change the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) because they couldn't round up enough support among Dems who need the votes of non-liberals to be re-elected. You probably recall that the Democratic leadership was embarrassed two months ago when these same non-leftist Dems joined with Republicans to pass a temporary FISA fix so that our intelligence agencies could monitor the overseas communications of terrorists without obtaining a warrant. Still unwilling to provide the administration with the FISA fix it needs to ensure the gathering of information vital to the national security, the Democratic leadership has been slapped down again by members of its own caucus.
Michelle Malkin has more.
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Conditions in Iraq are improving. The Maliki government is slowly making progress on legislative reform. The Sunnis and Shi'ites have begun to cooperate with each other. The New York Times reports that voters in the US associate Iraq with the War on Terror - to me that's always been a no brainer. AJ Strata reports the defeat of al-Qaeda in the Anbar and Diyala provinces:
The Associated Press is reporting that U.S. forces in Iraq will begin leaving in December and that the first out will be the 3rd Brigade of the 1st Cavalry Division in Diyala province. That move would cut Army ground brigades to 19.
Soldiers from a brigade in adjacent Salahuddin province will expand their coverage into Diyala when III Corps returns to its home base at Fort Hood, Texas.
12 former captains in the Army wrote a piece this week critical of the Iraq War. But none of these retired captains have served in Iraq since The Surge began.
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In 1994 Mitt Romney ran again Ted Kennedy for the US Senate. Powerline has a video montage of Romney's statements during the debates in that rate. At that time Mitt Romney said, very clearly, that he had not been a supporter of Ronald Reagan, that he was an independent at the time.
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It's always great fun to watch Rush Limbaugh run rings around the liberal Democrats. Talk about rich with irony. Why do they ever try going after Rush? He's way too smart for dullard Democrat Senators like Harry Reid-LOL! Basically what's happening is that Harry Reid got 40 stupid Democrat senators (including Hillary Clinton) to sign a letter written to the CEO of Clear Channel demanding that the CEO force Rush to apologize over the Phony Soldier smear. The CEO of Clear Channel gave Rush the letter, and Rush is auctioning this letter (again, signed by 40 Democrat Senators) on Ebay. The auction runs until this Friday. And to make it even better, Rush is challenging Harry Reid, or any of the other 40 senators who were dumb enough to sign this letter, to match the donation to the Marine Corps - Law Enforcement Foundation. The auction price right now is up to $45,000.
Here's the video:
(HT: Kim Priestap at Wizbang)
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Based on this week's Republican presidential debate, Larry Kudlow says that all 4 of the major GOP candidates support the continuation of Ronald Reagan's "revolutionary policy transformation"-where tax cuts are concerned. But Kudlow wants to hear specifics, and asks Where's the beef?:
The Republican party needs to re-brand itself as the fiscal-disciplinarian party. GOP candidates must get specific about which departments and program clusters they’re going to curtail. The sooner the better. The burden is on their backs to reestablish credibility.
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The Intrade website is for people who bet their real money on Politics. As right now, here's what the gamblers think will happen in the 2008 presidential election:
Intrade puts the chance of a Hillary Clinton presidency at 46.7%, as of right now anyway. For what it's worth...
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Megan McArdle has thoughts:
I have to ask conservatives and libertarians: is this really the hill you think we should die on? I do understand your objections to the program, but an informal survey of swing voters, in their current incarnation as my mother, indicates that this is killing you with the moderates. Save it for national health care next year, is what I'm saying. This debate is framing the issue in a way that is going to make things harder, not easier, when Hilarycare is on the table again.
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After last night's debate, an interesting thread at the National Review blog about Fred Thompson as a Conservative, in Which Sense:
Mark Levin:
As I said, however, taking conservative positions on certain issues, such as law enforcement, doesn't make you a conservative, in my view. Is Joe Lieberman a conservative because he's strong on national security? I don't know anyone who defines conservatism by cherry-picking issues. I understand why some candidates try it — in fact, to some extent, they're all doing it. But we need not. And my point, underscored by your concluding paragraph, is that Rudy's supporters insist that we do so — as they must. And that's okay, but I dissent. Let me put it this way: what is Rudy's political philosophy? He repeatedly refers to Ronald Reagan, he has appointed Ted Olson to head his judicial advisory committee, but apart from trying to glean his political philosophy through association, what is it?Back to Fred Thompson. The "senior moment" jibe was the cheap shot, J-Pod. He stumbled briefly, as other candidates have and do, despite their ages. Indeed, as the president does - often. As I said, I heard it used against Ronald Reagan. It's a demeaning put down suggests infirmity that does not reflect the man.
Mark Levin in another post:
This "senior moment" and "Fred Thompson-is-lazy" stuff is really starting to irk. I remember hearing the same comments about Ronald Reagan in every campaign in which I participated — 1976 and 1980. And this tactic was especially used against him in 1984. I have spent some time with Thompson. He is intellectually curious and sharp. He is engaging and vigorous. Yes, he chooses his words carefully. He speaks in a southern accent. But the attacks on him appear to have a Northeastern-liberal-style feel to them, emanating largely from the New York-Washington, D.C axis. This is a man, after all, who worked sixteen hours a day in both television and radio.
John Podhoretz started the whole thing:
And if Fred Thompson goes completely blank in the middle of his first answer in a candidate's debate, it's perfectly justifiable to point out that it made him look bad and that his primary liability in looking bad as a new candidate is the impression he gives of lacking the requisite energy for the task ahead. You want to call using the term "senior moment" a cheap shot, fine. I call it fine writin'.
All in all, many think that Fred Thompson won a narrow debate victory over Rudy, McCain and Romney.
Fred Thompson takes the right side against the Fairness Doctrine.
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How did Mitt Romney perform in yesterday's Republican debate? Depends on who you ask, no doubt. Hugh Hewitt thinks that his man Romney did, wait for it.............., really well:
Giuliani and Romney win, going away….On the economy and trade, taxes and optimism, Romney has the edge, but he miffed the Iran question….The talk of lawyers - probably a fumbled reference to when and if the War Powers Act applies, but you couldn’t really tell - was not his finest hour, but also not the huge deal that some want to make it out to be….
Fred Thompson is just flat. Period. And the perpetual frown isn’t going to win anything.
What a surprise. Hugh Hewitt is one of the best center-right bloggers out there, but Mr. Hewitt is totally biased when it comes to Romney. Rudy's campaign is suggesting that Romney committed a "Lawyer's Test" gaffe in that debate yesterday. Paul Mirengoff thinks, not so much.
Romney is backing off from his debate tax fight that he tried to pick with Giuliani.
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Mark Penn is Hillary Clinton's pollster. Mark Penn runs Burson-Marsteller. Burson-Marsteller is Blackwater's PR firm. Ooooops!
This blog's Hillary Clinton post page is here.
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What is it about the Congress these past few years? The Republicans were too slow to pass important legislation like appropriations bills, but now the Democrats are proving to be at least as ineffective as the Republicans were-and a government shut down could be the result
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The Republican presidential candidates have a debate this week, the first debate that includes Fred Thompson. Fred has good news from a Rasmussen poll.
Saturday Night Live did a really funny Fred Thompson skit, but K-Lo at National Review doesn't sound so amused:
The Fred Thompson posts for this blog is here.
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Could well be the case, and why didn't the MSM report on it? (HT: Ace of Spades)
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The Republican Party has a real horse race happening among its 3/4 top tier presidential candidates. Mitt Romney, Rudy Giuliani, Fred Thompson and John McCain have each reported their Q3 fundraising totals. Basically, Fred Thompson did really well with fundraising considering that he was only a declared candidate for 24 days in Q3. Fred Thompson raised $9.3M, and all in all, did the best of the top 4. Rudy raised $11M. Mitt Romney raised $18+M but had to loan himself $8.5M of his own money (why does he need to keep giving his own campaign money??).
Fred Thompson has the fastest money raising rate. I know this is anecdotal, so take it for what it's worth, but in our family the 6 or so voting members were all positively impressed with Fred's announcement of his candidacy on the Jay Leno show:
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The MSM is working hard to keep the liberal, George Soros funded, attack against Rush Limbaugh going. As I have documented on my Rush Limbaugh program index, this entire phony soldier issue is a contrived lie by the anti-war political left in this country in preparation for the 2008 elections. The left needs to damage Rush's reputation and to reduce influence so he doesn't negatively impact Hillary Clinton's campaign for the presidency. Remember, in 1994 Rush was called "the majority maker" by the newly elected Republican congressional majority.
Conservative bloggers are working to counter the lying spin (there's a redundancy, n'est-ce-pas?) of the Democrats and their MSM allies. Here are some great resources/opinion pieces:
This is all so faux, so contrived...all for the price-per-click Google AdSense keywords...
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For the past few years, now and then, Democrats like Rep. Charlie Rangel of New York have tried to saddle our country with an unnecessary military draft. The reason, IMO? To turn public opinion against the war. Last week, Democrat David Obey proposed a war tax to fund the Iraq War instead of reducing the new spending that Congress wants this year. The majority of Democrats, recognizing that a war tax is a really bad idea for them politically, immediately ran from that hot potato.
Just like a military draft, a war tax would help to turn the American people against the war.
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Appears that James Dobson doesn't think that Fred Thompson is a Christian. Fred Thompson tells Dobson to take a hike (this characterization does make Dobson sound awfully careless and judgmental where his opinion about politicians is concerned). Thompson told Sean Hannity:
Don't read too much into the Dobson thing. A gentleman who has never met me, who has never talked to me, I've never talked to him on the phone. I did have one of his aides call me up and kind of apologize, the first time he attacked me and said I wasn't a Christian... I don't know the gentleman. I do know that I have a lot of people who are of strong faith and are involved in the same organizations that he is in, that I've met with, Jeri and I both have met with, and I like to think that we have some strong friendships and support there.
Fred Thompson's wife, Jeri, continues to be impugned by the MSM.
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Mitt's basing his entire campaign on victories in Iowa and New Hampshire. But the change in the primary calendar may be his undoing.
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You are not going to believe this, but Hillary Clinton, who we recently found out, got (and had to return) $850,000 from corrupt Norman Hsu has taken money from another Ponzi-schemer, Keith Raniere (insert sarc tag here). Surprise, surprise, another unvetted, bundling campaign contributor.
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Rush Limbaugh opened his radio program yesterday describing how, in the past 24 hours, the Media Matters (a Hillary Clinton/George Soros front group) website, Democrats in Congress, Howard Dean and the drive by media had conducted a coordinated attack against Rush. The lie that these liberals are spreading is that Rush had described US soldiers who are against the war as "phony soldiers". That is a lie. What Rush said has been taken totally out of context. I know, because I was listening to his show when Rush said it.
Rush was speak, specifically, about Jesse MacBeth who had been a hero of the left. Jesse MacBeth had claimed he was an Army Ranger who had served in Iraq, and had seen other US soldiers commit horrible atrocities. Turns out that, just as Rush had reported, Jesse MacBeth has never been an Army Ranger and he's never served in Iraq. Jesse MacBeth was run out of boot camp after just a few weeks.
Watch this video of Rush, on his radio program, accurately describing exactly what happened:
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Last night in the yet another, interminiable Democrat debate, the Democrat candidates wouldn't commit to a withdrawal from Iraq by 2013. Because Petraeus and The Surge are improving things on the ground in Iraq, and the American people want to keep the positive momentum building to victory.
Cue the outrage at the Daily Kos - good times, good times.
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