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In perspective

Posted on January 22, 2008 | Comments Off on In perspective

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Equal time for Huckafrudy. Call it the seldom-alluded-to context missing from Hilarity’s "campaign."

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The Left’s take

Posted on January 22, 2008 | Comments Off on The Left’s take

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Funny, yes, but it isn’t really this bad. Besides, would you rather have choices, or Hilabama, the Democrat’s PC circus–liberal or more liberal? As if gender or melanin really were the main issues.

UPDATE:  Make that Huckarudy, as Fred has withdrawn, as expected, after his third in SC. 

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Avoiding a Greek tragedy

Posted on January 20, 2008 | Comments Off on Avoiding a Greek tragedy

In a Greek tragedy, the fated catastrophe can’t be prevented. But conservatives should be able to avoid a Republican train wreck (caused by sitting out a McCain candidacy), says military historian Victor Davis Hanson, if they give up their litany about his past sins and accept his turnarounds, for instance on blanket amnesty. The alternative, afterall, would be four years spent discovering Obama’s make-it-up-as-I-go-along intentions, or another round of Clinton sex, money and national security scandals. And, whichever one won, the bumbling, expensive and corrupt social manipulations for which the Democrats are so famous. McCain, by comparison, should be a walk in the park. I disagree that ONLY McCain has "an outside shot at edging out" Obama/Clinton. I think they’re eminently beatable. But I like Hanson, have read many of his good books, and tend to follow his lead. This looks like another good time to do it.

MORE:  Hanson’s earlier good, and therefore controversial, take on McCain. 

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Fred’s dead and McCain is a pain

Posted on January 20, 2008 | Comments Off on Fred’s dead and McCain is a pain

Fred’s distant third in South Carolina probably means he can start taking long naps again, but surely someone (Mitt? Rudy?) can stop McCain, the irascible liberal Republican, who won. He’s the MSM’s darling, which ought to be clue enough. Nominate this guy who pretends to talk straight while refusing to call his amnesty for illegal immigrants amnesty, and you get a guy whose main claim to fame is he would fight the Islamic fanatics. I suppose that might be enough. He could match wrinkles with Hilarity. He would look awful old opposite Obama, but Obama’s anti-war, which would be a good contrast. Clinton/Obama would be sure raise taxes; McCain might not. But I’ll still cross my fingers that Mitt or Rudy blows out Florida in time to derail McCain. They have his advantage without his negatives.

UPDATE:  Romney leads in the delegate count, but has yet to win a big primary, on the order of SC or NH. Mitt’s been hit for being too slick, but he should look sincere next to argumentative McCain.

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What will Hilarity do when she loses?

Posted on January 19, 2008 | Comments Off on What will Hilarity do when she loses?

Kill Bill? Or just finally divorce the aging, temperamental philanderer and… marry Madeline Albright?

Humor shamelessly stolen from Fresh Bilge 

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“See Rock City”

Posted on January 17, 2008 | Comments Off on “See Rock City”

There was a time, long ago in my vanished youth, when I would see these words painted in white on the sides of old barns on major arterial roads all over the South and as far north as Illinois. Dew on the Kudzu reminded me of it in a piece on the aging tourist attraction on Lookout Mountain, TN. The mountain, with its Lover’s Leap, drew my paternal grandparents on their Chattanooga honeymoon in the winter of 1904. I know because I still have a little sewing kit with a yellowed plastic cover over a fading colored paper insert on the top that my grandmother kept as a souvenir. Rock City opened later, in 1932, and it’s still trying to keep up with the times. Most of its painted ads have also vanished as the old barns have fallen down, but the place now has a Website, and a Webcam. Looks overcast this morning, up there in the clouds.

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The white male vote

Posted on January 16, 2008 | Comments Off on The white male vote

For years now the Democrat focus has been on women and minorities to the exclusion of you know who. This year, fatefully, their presidential candidate will be one or the other. Meanwhile…

"White men have drifted from or have been driven from the [Democrat] party in record numbers… Their absence has left the party hobbled in presidential politics, primarily playing for states on the liberal coasts."

My gut has been telling me that neither Obama or Hilarity can be elected. Former Dem Congressman Floyd Flake shows me why. He says they must put their pitches on a less-divisive plane, and that pledging a cure for a souring economy is the best one. I don’t think the economy is sour enough, or that they’ll be able to rise above the divisiveness they so obviously represent.

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