"Hillary Clinton doesn't have to prove she's a man. She has to prove she's
a woman. She doesn't have to prove to people that she's tough enough or
aggressive enough to be commander in chief. She doesn't have to show she could
and would wage a war. She has to prove she has normal human warmth, a normal
amount of give, of good nature, that she is not, at bottom, grimly combative
and rather dark. This is the woman credited with starting and naming the War
Room. Her staff has nicknamed her 'The Warrior.' Get in her way and she'd
squish you like a bug. This has been her reputation for 20 years. And it is
her big problem. People want a president to be strong but not hard... Back
[in 1992], when the Clintons were newly famous, their consultants were alarmed
to find the American people did not believe Hillary was a mother. They thought
she was a person with breasts in a suit. She had a briefcase and a latte and
was late for the meeting, but no way did she have a child... The Sopranos
video the Clintons made and released this week was smart and well done... It
addressed yet again the likability problem, but from a new angle... The
film jokingly acknowledges what the Clintons well know: that a certain
portion of the voting population sees them as... well, as gangsterish. As
dark, and dishonest to a degree more extreme than is usual even in political
figures. By putting these perceptions so colorfully on the table, they make fun
of them. And they invite their foes to go too far, at just the right moment,
a year before the 2008 presidential race really begins."
---Peggy Noonan

Father of the Iranian revolution
By MICHAEL D. EVANS

We just don't get it. The Left in America is screaming to high heaven that the mess we are in in Iraq and the war on terrorism has been caused by the right-wing and that George W. Bush, the so-called "dim-witted cowboy," has created the entire mess.

The truth is the entire nightmare can be traced back to the liberal democratic policies of the leftist Jimmy Carter, who created a firestorm that destabilized our greatest ally in the Muslim world, the shah of Iran, in favor of a religious fanatic, the ayatollah Khomeini.

read the rest of the article here

"Fellow Americans, our duty is before us. Let us go forward, determined to
serve selflessly a vision of man with God, government for people, and humanity
at peace. For it is now our task to tend and preserve, through the darkest and
coldest nights, that 'sacred fire of liberty' that President Washington spoke
of two centuries ago, a fire that... remains a beacon to all the oppressed
of the world, shining forth from this kindly, pleasant, greening land we
call America." ---Ronald Reagan (http://Reagan2020.US/)

"Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come
from the subjects of government. The history of liberty is the history
of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of the limitation of
governmental power, not the increase of it." ---Woodrow Wilson

I think Fred Thompson won the debate last night!
And he wasn't even there!

Otherwise, Guiliani did very well.

Where's the fence?

Were on our way!
For the tenth year in a row the kids, Bonnie and I are going.

Democrats Hide Pet Projects From Voters

Jun 3 05:08 AM US/Eastern By ANDREW TAYLOR Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON (AP) - After promising unprecedented openness regarding Congress' pork barrel practices, House Democrats are moving in the opposite direction as they draw up spending bills for the upcoming budget year.

Democrats are sidestepping rules approved their first day in power in January to clearly identify "earmarks"—lawmakers' requests for specific projects and contracts for their states.

Rather than including specific pet projects, grants and contracts in legislation as it is being written, Democrats are following an order by the House Appropriations Committee chairman to keep the bills free of such earmarks until it is too late for critics to effectively challenge them.

Via Breitbart.com

YES!

Fifty percent of adults would not vote for Clinton

By Kelly McCormack

March 27, 2007

Half of voting-age Americans say they would not vote for Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) if she became the Democratic nominee for president in 2008, according to a Harris Interactive poll released Tuesday. More than one in five Democrats that participated in the survey said they would not vote for Clinton. Overall, 36 percent say they would vote for the former first lady and 11 percent are unsure of their top choice. Forty-eight percent of Independent voters also said that they would choose another candidate over Clinton, the poll, which surveyed 2,223 potential voters, states. Fifty-six percent of men said that they would not vote for Clinton, while 45 percent of women said that she would not be their pick. In addition, 69 percent of those 62 and older said that they would not vote for Clinton. Nearly half of the respondents said that they dislike Clinton’s political opinions and Clinton as a person. Fifty-two percent of people also said that “she does not appear to connect with people on a personal level.”

via-Harris poll

John Edwards Tells Hollywood All Candidates and Wifes Called—Except Bill and Hillary Clinton

At a Hollywood fundraiser Friday night, John Edwards told donors that he and wife Elizabeth heard personally from every candidate and their spouse after their press conference -- except the Clintons. "He said Hillary and Bill didn't call but all the others did with messages of support. He repeated the story to each table," an attendee told me. I'm told that a member of Hillary Clinton's team sent an email afterwards to at least one politico "claiming her staff had been repeatedly trying to make calls to the Edwards but hadn't gotten through." So the politico emailed back the Edwards' home phone number.

via- the Hillary project

British Forces Held By Iran

Updated: 13:28, Friday March 23, 2007

The Government is demanding the "immediate and safe return" of 15 British sailors and Marines seized by Iranian forces.

They were taking part in a routine operation boarding merchant ships in Iraqi territorial waters when they were taken captive by Iranian naval vessels.




The left thinks we need to talk more.

Headline
In the proud tradition of Thomas Payne and Martin Luther, today's blogs and even Youtube have taken their place.
The 'media' and liberal politicians say that this "viral" political talk is somehow bad (read; they have lost control of it) This little video is great! It expresses an idea many of us have but would never be said in the main stream media (even on the supposed conservative Fox News)

George Orwell wrote,

“The pamphlet is a one-man show. One has complete freedom of expression, including, if one chooses, the freedom to be scurrilous, abusive, and seditious; or, on the other hand, to be more detailed, serious and ‘high-brow’ than is ever possible in a newspaper or I most kinds of periodicals. At the same time, since the pamphlet is always short and unbound, it can be produced much more quickly than a book, and in principle, at any rate, can reach a bigger public. Above all, the pamphlet does not have to follow any prescribed pattern. It can be in prose or in verse, it can consist largely of maps or statistics or quotations, it can take the form of a story, a fable, a letter, an essay, a dialogue, or a piece of ‘reportage.’ All that is required of it is that it shall be topical, polemical, and short.”

via-liberty and culture

How The NYT Covered Reno’s Firing Of All US Attorneys

via-Sweet & Lightness

Early Leads in the Nominating Process

With the nominating conventions more than 17 months away, what, if anything, do these early polls mean for would-be nominees? A look back at nearly 50 years of early primary polls suggests that Republican front-runners are often a good bet to capture the nomination, but the picture is more mixed for leading Democrats.

In seven open Republican contests since 1960, the early front-runners held on to win the party nod six times.¹ By contrast, early Democratic poll leaders won four out of eight open contests between 1960 and 2004. In early 2003, Sen. John Kerry was tied with Sen. Joseph Lieberman, but fell behind Gen. Wesley Clark and Vermont Gov. Howard Dean at different times later in the year before eventually getting the final nod from Democrats.

Unfortunately for Republican aspirants in this cycle, no candidate can benefit from the GOP's traditional early leader tenacity for the simple reason that no single frontrunner has been established. Until recently, former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani and Sen. John McCain had been running neck-in-neck in Republican horse race polls. Although recent nationwide polls show Giuliani slightly outpacing McCain among likely GOP primary voters, some election watchers are skeptical about Giuliani's chances, given his relatively liberal views on social issues.

On the other hand, the Democratic front-runner, Clinton as of now, need not necessarily be daunted by historical precedent, whatever other challenges she may face in the months to come. At least two of the Democrats who did not win the nomination withdrew from the race for reasons other than lagging support in the polls. One decided against a run (New York Gov. Mario Cuomo in 1992); one withdrew in the face of scandal (Sen. Gary Hart in 1988).

via-pew research center

via-http://PatriotPost.US/subscribe/humor.

A radically common-sense idea

One Congressman is hoping to blaze a trail back to America's roots -- the U.S. Constitution

By Jeff Emanuel

Last week, as was noted here on RedState at the time, conservative Congressman John Shadegg (R-AZ), as he has every session since the 104^th Congress, introduced his Enumerated Powers Act in the House of Representatives. This legislation would, in his words, "require Members of Congress to include an explicit statement of Constitutional authority into each bill that is introduced.

In other words, he says, "It would hold Congress accountable for its actions."

via-redstate

"The mania for giving the Government power to meddle with the private affairs
of cities or citizens is likely to cause endless trouble, through the rivalry
of schools and creeds that are anxious to obtain official recognition,
and there is great danger that our people will lose our independence
of thought and action which is the cause of much of our greatness, and
sink into the helplessness of the Frenchman or German who expects his
government to feed him when hungry, clothe him when naked, to prescribe
when his child may be born and when he may die, and, in time, to regulate
every act of humanity from the cradle to the tomb, including the manner
in which he may seek future admission to paradise." ---Mark
Twain

Their words count.
this is from '89

The Democrats say that the economy is horrible, no one can find jobs, people are miserable and they need the government to do something! (read-raise taxes)


The truth;

Unemployment Rate Drops to 4.5%...

Trade deficit shrinks to $59.1B...