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Well, he’s promised to be different

Posted on February 17, 2008 | Comments Off on Well, he’s promised to be different

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Via Cobb.

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Hilarity’s secret weapon

Posted on February 16, 2008 | Comments Off on Hilarity’s secret weapon

While the suckers hustle down to the elementary schools to vote for Obama-rama and CHANGE, the real action is out where Hilarity and Slick Willie are passing out "campaign contributions" to the Democrat Superdelegates. Buying their votes, get it?. And I thought the Texas Lege had cornered the market on legal political graft. These Democrat Superdelegates will vote for the one who bought ’em at the proper time and that one will get the nomination. ‘Course we’ll have to wait to see which candidate gives out the most bucks. Barry and Michelle must figure they will. "Yes We Can!" But I’d bet on Hilarity, because, I mean, think about it: Every minute those old Clinton retainers from ’92-’00 who want to get their jobs back are out beating the bushes for more bucks.

UPDATE: Strange that there’s no mention of the bought-and-paid-for part here.

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Referendum

Posted on February 15, 2008 | Comments Off on Referendum

Despite all the fancy, tax-raising promises of this or that by the Dems, the presidential race will be a referendum on the war, particularly the Iraq campaign for which the Lefty Obama-rama already has plans:

“’Obama will immediately begin to remove our troops from Iraq,’ says a statement on the senator’s Web site. ‘He will remove one to two combat brigades each month, and have all of our combat brigades out of Iraq within 16 months. Obama will make it clear that we will not build any permanent bases in Iraq. He will keep some troops in Iraq to protect our embassy and diplomats; if al Qaeda attempts to build a base within Iraq, he will keep troops in Iraq or elsewhere in the region to carry out targeted strikes on al Qaeda.‘”

As Michael Totten says, the hedge at the end only means he’ll eschew counterinsurgency for a return to smart bombs and civilian casualties. This is why I think the Dems are headed for defeat. The lefties want to cut and run, they always have. But I’m betting no one else does. 

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“Can we fix it…?

Posted on February 14, 2008 | Comments Off on “Can we fix it…?

….Yes, We Can!"

I confess that the person Obama most reminds me of is Bob the Builder.

Well, sort of. Of course, they use their charisma very differently. BtB is a can-do fellow, not a nanny-stater like Obama out to tax Scoop, Muck and Wendy to pay Spud to do it.

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McCain vs. Clinton

Posted on February 5, 2008 | Comments Off on McCain vs. Clinton

So it would seem, at least in the delegate count. But the truth probably won’t be know until later Wednesday.

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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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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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