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It’s Sarah!

Posted on August 29, 2008 | Comments Off on It’s Sarah!

Some old school conservatives worry she will take Mac down in flames like Ferraro was blamed for doing to Mondale years ago. But Mondale was running against the Reagan juggernaut, not the lightweight B. Hussein Obama. They also fear the MSM will ridicule her. But, hey, the MSM–whose poll results are lower than Congress and lawyers–has proved it’s already in the tank for Barry.

Sarah’s light years ahead of Dan Quayle, who didn’t stop Daddy Bush. Sarah will do us all proud, and not tell lies about being under sniper fire like Hilarity did. At the end of the day, however, Quayle proves that the veep pick is a concern for only about forty-eight to seventy-two hours. After that it’s back to comparing the nominees, not their veep choices.

MORE: In the meantime, however, ten good reasons why Sarah is a great choice.

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A difference of fathers

Posted on August 23, 2008 | Comments Off on A difference of fathers

The pre-campaign memoirs of B. Hussein Obama and John Sidney McCain, like their presidential candidacies, couldn’t be more different, despite similiar titles: Obama’s Dreams from My Father and McCain’s Faith of My Fathers.

Mac’s book, published in 2000, is the spirited yet self-deprecating narrative of two fighting admirals, Mac’s father and grandfather, and his use of their examples about duty and honor to survive five years of torture and abuse as a prisoner of war with his self-respect intact. 

Obama’s tale, published three years earlier, is of his search for identity, and for the black father who abandoned him and then died in an accident. Barry had little faith or much of anything else to fall back on, except for the sacrifices of his mother’s white, working-class family. Yet race, rather than the example of the white grandmother who raised him, became his guiding conception. In the end, as Victor Davis Hanson puts it, I just couldn’t take his "idealization and myth-making about a polygamist, alcoholic and absentee Marxist father."

Not many people will bother to read both books, I’m sure, but if they do, they’ll have no trouble figuring out who’d make the best president of the United States.

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McCain’s best ad

Posted on August 8, 2008 | Comments Off on McCain’s best ad

Without a doubt. When you got it, flaunt it.

Via Roger L. Simon.

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The foreign vote

Posted on July 26, 2008 | Comments Off on The foreign vote

Baby Barry, apparently, has the German vote. Mac has–believe it or not–at least some of the North Vietnamese vote:

"If I were an American, I’d vote for McCain."

Via PajamasMedia.

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Mac: the surge is the key to Afghanistan

Posted on July 17, 2008 | Comments Off on Mac: the surge is the key to Afghanistan

It’s the way to win the Afghanistan campaign, McCain says, logically enough…

"…if I’m elected President, I will turn around the war in Afghanistan, just as we have turned around the war in Iraq, with a comprehensive strategy for victory."

…versus Baby Barry’s unserious preference to abandon Iraq in favor of hunting down (the quite probably already dead) Osama bin Forgotten.

Via Belmont Club.

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American Patriot

Posted on July 13, 2008 | Comments Off on American Patriot

Retired Air Force Colonel George E. "Bud" Day, with his black-or-white views, wouldn’t survive an old media profile, but then I’m sure the eighty-three-year-old Vietnam combat veteran wouldn’t want one. He’s famous enough among his peers without the MSM’s ministrations, and their interleavened hymns to liberal politics and political correctness.

This 2007 biography, warts and all, is much better, anyhow, and worth the read just to find out how this fighter-pilot leader of the Vietnam War’s surviving "hard-ass resister" POWs–with the help of one honest journalist–helped defeat John Kerry for president. Of course the liberals, who can’t stand Day, like to lump him with Kerry’s Swift Boat critics. But Day’s group was altogether different: the 1973-returning Nam POWs, who consider Kerry not merely a phony hero, as the Swifties do, but a traitor who made their captive lives worse after his 1971 congressional testimony slandering all Vietnam combat veterans as murderers.

But there’s lots more to the Heartland, Iowa-raised Day in Robert Corum’s fine book, including his service in World War II and his years of flying before his 1966 shootdown over North Vietnam, and, of course, his command of the famous Misty FACs. You’ll also see why Day and John McCain are very close despite differences on some issues–and why you’ll undoubtedly see Day campaigning for Mac.

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Mac’s big in Iraq

Posted on June 25, 2008 | Comments Off on Mac’s big in Iraq

No, this post by Roland Dodds won’t impress the Lefties. The ones I know have been saying for some time that they wish we’d leave the Iraqis to stew in their own juice. But it might have an interesting effect on the Independents, the ones Mac really needs to get if he can, to know that the Iraqis find him more persuasive than Baby Barry, whose entire idea of war and strategy comes from books and old movies. Of course, our election is not the Iraqis’ decision to make. But it’s nice to know that they care, all the same. I hope their prayers for Mac help. Prayer is always good.

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