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Posted at 12:53am on May 17, 2008 Wait What?

By ClarkKent

Am I missing something here? In Obama's knee jerk press conference this afternoon he stated that John McCain is naive and inexperienced when it comes to foreign policy?

Either I'm in a parallel universe, I must have misunderstood Obama, he meant he was inexperienced and naive, or Obama is just that arrogant and stupid enough to challenge John McCain on the one issue Obama can't win.

Democrat

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Posted at 10:16pm on May 16, 2008 Reality Check

By rgregm

I've read the many posts here at RS by those who are fed up and disgusted with our Republican nominee and the posts by those who would like the aforementioned posters to just shut up. I sympathize with both parties, but it's time for a reality check. We conservatives are by nature patient and optimistic; so much so that come November we will cast our ballot for John McCain and work for our party to recommit to conservative principles and give us leaders we can be energized about in future elections. We are patient enough to endure any bump, either perceived or real, in the conservative road and optimistic enough to know the majority of Americans are not foolish enough to willingly destroy, surrender or relinquish any of the precious freedoms so many men have fought and died to secure by electing a Marxist like Obama to the Presidency.

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Posted at 12:03pm on May 16, 2008 527's to the Fore!

By Hammer2008

I've come to the conclusion that until the SCOTUS and/or Congress acts to repeal &/or strictly limit McCain-Feingold, the only way to bring 527's to a crashing hault is for a massive 527 buildup, vis-a-vis Reagan's assault on the Evil Empire.

Out-spend, out-maneuver, out-campaign and beat 'em back at their own stupid game!

Is there a site yet posted with right-leaning 527's and PACS?

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Posted at 3:58pm on May 15, 2008 The Unintentional Enemy Within

By goldenboy

The drama of my continuing love/hate relationship with Rush is starting to wear me out. After listening to the second hour of his show today at lunch, I really felt sad and disappointed. Not because I have disagreements with McCain, but because I am becoming convinced that Rush is doing everything in his power to demoralize Republicans in the run-up to this election.

Rush takes such cheap shots against McCain that it calls into question his credibility on other issues. Today, for example, he actually played McCain’s speech to compare the intensity of applause between McCain’s introduction and his policy proposals.

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Posted at 12:55am on May 15, 2008 Mac the Knife killed my camel !

By Mike Dugas

Over the last month I have read the many posts and diaries about our * cough * Republican nominee for President, Senator John McCain. You have your “anyone but Obama” supporters, and I am truly sympathetic to that stance. I have no desire for a Marxist President, Obama, with the Dems in apparent control of both Houses. I see a real possibility that if he wins he will drive this country into the ground economically and ruin our “real” advances militarily in the War on Terror. Those two possibilities scare the bejeezus out of me. An administration that was adversarial to business and the free market is what really caused the so-called Great Depression, especially when it comes to how long it lasted. So yes Obama is a real worry.

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Posted at 10:06pm on May 14, 2008 Poor Little Blind Democrats

By ClarkKent

I um, you know it makes my head hurt a little bit, it bewilders me why Democratic Strategists and the media break their necks and risk what little self respect they have in order to protect Barack Obama and whatever he might be hiding in his closet. Whenever asked about William Ayers and Reverend Wright, or any other comments Obama has made or associations he's had, Democrats dodge the question and say it doesn't matter. I mean are they so in love with Barack Obama that they just can't fathom any negative or wrong doing in his heart? Are they so captivated by his words and his anti-Christ like charm they lose the ability to think and really step back and take a closer look at this guy? Democrats say his numbers go up in the primary and thus the Reverend Wright issue and the William Ayers issue isn't hurting him, yet Democrats in all their intelligence and all knowing nature fail to realize that it's a Democratic primary. Democrats will vote for Satan and the Easter Bunny if they have a great personality. So it's null and void to suggest since Obama is doing well in a Democratic primary that he's just this unstoppable, lovable guy. Newsflash, he lost the Republican and Independent votes he got early on.

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Posted at 9:59pm on May 14, 2008 Left wing Maine 1st District House Candidates

By From ME to you

Spring is here (sort of) and the body politic is watching the emergence of candidates from their winter cocoons. Maine, being a very blue state (nothing to do with the cold), has an overabundance of Left winged blue birds! One such blue bird is Mark Lawrence of York County who is running to fill Rep. Tom Allen's (D-ME) seat.

The Portland (Maine) Press Herald is doing a series on all the candidates. Here is the article on Mr. Lawrence:

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Posted at 7:03pm on May 14, 2008 Curtain Call

By ClarkKent

I went to the Hillary Clinton Facebook group and I told my fellow Hillary supporters that it's about time I left the group to concentrate on supporting McCain and helping fellow McCain Facebook supporters rally young people to our side. I also thought about convincing Hillary supporters to vote for McCain in the fall. I might still do that so Obama won't be able to capture the working class voters or Hillary's base of the Democratic party.

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Posted at 1:41pm on May 14, 2008 Senator Obama, What Is This New Kind Of Politics You Speak Of?

By ClarkKent

So I'm wondering. What is the new kind of politics that Barack Obama and his supporters talk about? What does it mean? How do we know we're engaged in a new kind of politics? I have a theory but perhaps I could be mistaken. Whenever someone ran an ad against him, questioning his record or simply pointing out their ability to answer a ringing red phone at 3 in morning, Senator Obama and his clan of insecure supporters slapped the "Politics of old" sticker on it. When Charles Gibson grilled Barack Obama over his flip flop on taxes, CGT, and Gun Control, after the debate Senator Obama mocked the moderators and accused them of, you guessed it, "Old Washington politics" So I'm going to take a stab at guessing what the new kind of politics are, here goes nothing.

According to Senator Obama if you question his record, his words, his supporters, or his past you're a partitioner of old style politics. He actually believes that we should never vet him or question what he says. His idea of a new politics is to accept whatever he offers no matter how empty or questionable it may be. To object his proposals is to engage in Washington tomfoolery. I remember the outrage from the Obama camp when Hillary Clinton's now legendary 3 AM Red Phone ad swept the nation. Other Dem's said it was a Republican prototype and it rivaled Rudy Guliani's terrorist ads. I wouldn't go that far, just compare the two.

Rudy's Ad:

Now sink his ad in and look at Hillary's ad:

Now that you've seen the two ads, is Hillary's ad really a horrible sort of scare you into submission kind of ad? Compared to Rudy's "We're all gonna die! If you don't vote for me" ad? I thought Obama supporters were wearing their pansy symbol on their sleeves when they cried about it. Yet that's the environment Barack Obama created this year. We aren't suppose to question records, or run ads that make valid points, or talk about issues, or vet candidates we hardly know if at all. We're suppose to accept what he says and fall in line. He's the change candidate and change is good even if it's bad. After all, according to Obama if we aren't supporting him then we're anti-hope, against change, and we're dream crushers.

Or perhaps we're intelligent people who value our vote instead of throwing it away on a guy that at best could write a nice poetry book or song. He basically stole away Bill Clinton's former staff and expects us to believe he holds detailed and fundamental knowledge of the issues. Some of those former Clinton staffers should have told him that raising the CGT will have a negative result on middle income families; not just the very rich. But I guess in the interest of fairness Obama has to screw the very people he promises to help.

Finally I absolutely love denial and race baiting Obama supporters participate in. Whenever someone states, I don't know, the facts? maybe? about Hillary Clinton winning the white working class vote by an overwhelming margin the Obama camp accuses her of being racist, or they dismiss those working class voters as racist feeble minded rednecks. On Facebook I posted a blog about the large number of African Americans voting for Obama and I caught hell for it. One Obama supporter asked me this insightful question:

Do you ever ask why so many white people are only voting for McCain?

They meant that in a harsh tone because they were angry for my bringing up the obvious. The obvious they refuse to accept. I told the supporter that of course blacks vote for Obama because he's black. Women did the same for Hillary, and I'm sure if a Latino or Asian candidate ran it would read the same result. People finally want to vote for someone that looks like them. It doesn't make sense to ask why so many white people are voting for McCain because white men have been running for president since this nation first began. So why would white people vote for McCain based on historic reasons?

The Obama camp hates whenever someone states the facts. They don't take kindly to rational assessment and they reject all forms of reality. They believe reality harbors the very thing they're fighting against. They're fighting a realist view of the world and they long to replace it with idealistic and sometimes unrealistic ideals and policy.

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Posted at 1:48pm on May 12, 2008 Why The Democrats Shouldn't Underestimate John McCain/Why Hillary Is A Better Choice For Democrats

By ClarkKent

Democrats are showing their true colors when it comes to how they approach John McCain. They don't know how to approach him, or at least their "strategy" is all wrong. They really believe that labeling John McCain as a "Third term of George Bush" will actually work. They think they can bind the two in terms of the economy and the war, when in reality they can only tie the two in terms of the war. That's about it. John McCain is not a Bush third term and voters aren't that dumb. Yet Democrats, in all their tradition of patronizing and playing voters for complete fools actually think voters will buy into that narrative.

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Posted at 12:29am on May 12, 2008 A Blueprint for the Republican Party's future

By Haley37

Sometimes I am at odds with posters and moderators on RS, at other times we are in complete agreement. There is hope that this post will reflect the latter instead of the former, but we shall see.
GOP operatives and others in the Conservative movement read these blogs, so maybe they will take note if they happen to see this posting.

The reasons the GOP lost the Congress in 2006 has been the source of much discussion but not much debate. The rank-and-file GOP have carried the media mantra that the difficulties in Iraq and corruption issues were the culprit sources of that defeat.

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Posted at 3:22pm on May 11, 2008 What would a Contract with America Look (2008) Like?

By mdetlh

I've received fundraising requests from the RNCC and Mitch McConnell's office. McConnell is specifically being targeted by MoveOn.org. I'm a Mitch McConnell fan. What was extraordinary was that both appeal letters appeared with only solicitations without any agenda of what they would pursue. Their role has been spoiler of the radical left agenda, I'll give them some credit.
People are starved for Conservative leadership.

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Posted at 6:35pm on May 10, 2008 The Unspoken Problem with the McCain Presidency

By Flagstaff

It isn’t just the issues on which John McCain is off the Conservative reservation that generate angst among the other members of the tribe.

After all, he is undoubtedly better on all those issues than his opponent will be.

The Problem is that the Republican Party will certainly accept every vote for McCain as support for all those mistaken positions—illegal immigration, Guantanamo Bay internment, interrogation of prisoners, “reaching across the aisle.” And McCain himself has given no indication that he won’t come to the same conclusion.

That’s why we have such anxiety as we reluctantly acknowledge the necessity to support McCain this year. And there's no reason to believe that the anxiety will go away.

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Posted at 1:27am on May 10, 2008 The Hidden Tax

By Pejman Yousefzadeh

Andrew Biggs reveals that when it comes to tax policy, Barack Obama has got some 'splainin' to do:

As the presidential campaign heats up, a key issue is whether to extend the 2001 and 2003 income tax cuts, which expire in 2011. John McCain wants to make the tax cuts permanent. Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton want to let the rates rise.

Opponents of the tax cuts point to spending programs that could be financed by the extra revenues. Chief among these is Social Security. Sen. Obama's Web site, for example, argues that "extending the Bush tax cuts will cost three times as much as what is needed to fix Social Security's solvency over the next 75 years."

Such statements imply that if we return to the seemingly modest tax rates of the 1990s, we could fund the $4.3 trillion Social Security deficit, and so much more. As Mr. Obama recently told Fox News, "I would roll back the Bush tax cuts on the wealthiest Americans back to the level they were under Bill Clinton, when I don't remember rich people feeling oppressed."

This argument seems compelling, but it is misguided. In reality, repealing the tax cuts would raise taxes far above Clinton-era levels. Due to quirks in the tax code, average taxes would be almost 25% higher than during the 1990s.

Read on . . .

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Posted at 6:42pm on May 9, 2008 An option for Hillary?

By JKarpan

I don't know if this is possible but . . . why couldn't Hillary convene a meeting with the top dogs of the Democratic Party under the condition that 'nothing discussed in the meeting' could ever be revealed publicly. Then allow those top dogs to make their argument for her concession to Obama. After they're done, why couldn't she say this - "If you don't give me the nomination,I'll run for President as an 'independent' and assure a Republican victory in November"?

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