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Hilarity vs McCain

Posted on March 5, 2008 | Comments Off on Hilarity vs McCain

Well, she did win the popular vote in Ohio comfortably, and creditably in Texas, though I suppose Barry’s still ahead in the delegate count. Makes no nevermind to me who wins, though. I still don’t think either one can beat McCain’s experience, reputation, and charisma of competence. And I’m happy to say my vote contributed to his Texas win, instead of Hilarity’s as trickster Limbaugh wanted it.

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The Texas primary

Posted on February 19, 2008 | Comments Off on The Texas primary

I’m not sure who will win the March 4 Texas primary, where early voting began today, and I can’t say I really care. I think either Democrat candidate is, as I have said before, imminently beatable–Hilarity because she has Bad Bill in tow, and Barry (the name Obama went by in high school) because he’s a pure lefty populist-socialist whose only compelling asset is his race. Half of it, anyhow. Some think Huckabee could beat McCain, but we’ll see. I don’t understand why so many Republicans are throwing in the towel against the Dems before the race even begins. Because our former governor, GW Bush, is so unpopular? Nonsense. You could be pardoned for believing that, given that the MSM harps on his negatives every day, but, hey, they have done that for eight years–including the day after he won re-election in 2004 by five million votes. As for Texas, the Democrat primary may get the lefty press ink but it’s just a sideshow. No way, their nominee will carry this state in November. Huckabee might do well in the primary, but I believe McCain will prevail, here on March 4, and here again on Nov. 4 and in the rest of the country.

UPDATE: I have been asked whether I, like this fellow, intend to vote in our open primary for one of the Dems, just to keep them unresolved until their convention. I thought about it. But I can’t do it.

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Bumper sticker

Posted on February 7, 2008 | Comments Off on Bumper sticker

Like Instapundit says, this is a real winner: "McCain for President. Or we’re really screwed." Nuff said.

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Endorsing McCain

Posted on January 31, 2008 | Comments Off on Endorsing McCain

Cobb has a good one, the best I’ve seen. It’s a version of the old get 50 percent of what you want or 100 percent of nothing.

",,,the real news here is what a Romney failure means in light of what social conservatives aim to do in the GOP. I think it means that we break from a full press to the right on every issue to a reasonable press on the issues that matter most, National Security and the Economy."

He raises the specter of a Hilarity/Obama ticket. I hadn’t thought of that. Be one heck of a flip for Obama to make, though. But if he’s right, and I think he is, that national security is the leading, if not the only, issue, whatever the Dems and the MSM say, McCain and (probably) Giuliani with him can take all the marbles. If McC. can just control his temper and stop being a jerk.

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McCain vs. Hilarity

Posted on January 29, 2008 | Comments Off on McCain vs. Hilarity

I was sorry to see Giuliani lose so badly, but I can take McCain, even if he is a cantankerous half-liberal. I think he’d have an easy time with Hilarity (who also won Florida tonight) as an opponent, but I’m not so sure about Obama. With either one, though, the contrast will be telling: experience versus little/none. The commenters at Fresh Bilge, disliking McCain, are predicting Repubs and conservative Independents will stay home and let the Dem win. I really can’t see that happening, ever, but especially not if Hilarity is the nominee. Repub and conservative hatred of her and Bubba is too extreme. But we’ll just have to wait and see. Nine months to go. Anything could happen.

UPDATE  McCain Derangement Syndrome (MDS) arrives for the disappointed Repub/Indy. Which some consider, rather, to be McCain Estrangement Syndrome (MES). Politics ain’t perfect, folks.

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Obama vs. McCain

Posted on January 26, 2008 | Comments Off on Obama vs. McCain

They are the winners, that is, of their respective party primaries in South Carolina. Obama’s crushing of Hilarity today was based on the SC Dem Party’s being fifty percent black, but he also he got a quarter of the white vote. I agree with David Freddoso at National Review: I don’t see how any liberal could want the Clintons back in power. They aren’t liberals, for one thing. They’re mainly in it for themselves, as he has readily proved this month. Neither candidate offers the Democrats much of a chance in the fall–the MSM’s relentless cheerleading to the contrary notwithstanding–but it seems to me that the (so far) scandal-free Obama would have the best chance of the two. Or three, if you acknowledge the obvious, that the Clintons are in it together.

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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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