Forbes has an interview with Shannyn Moore. Here’s the last question:

Forbes: There is talk that Sarah Palin may replace outgoing Republican National Committee chair Michael Steele. Do you know anything about this?

Moore: I’ve heard talk about it, but at this point it’s just a rumor.

http://www.forbes.com/2009/07/10/shannyn-moore-sarah-palin-business-media-moore.html

Howard Dean flamed out spectacularly in 2004 and came roaring back as the grassroots hero DNC Chair who flipped the House and Senate two short years later.

Just sayin’.

It does not follow axiomatically that cities become Blue because of all the needs. The needs are all the same, just on a larger scale. Cities do, however attract people who are more marginal. They often become Dems. There are many Red cities, and they are more functional.

When NYC got fed up with all the Blue problems, they elected Giuliani. He cleaned up a lot of it. Was it all fixed? No, but it was better off. Louisiana went Red after Katrina. It is still a mess, but improving rapidly. Jindal may be dweeb-tastic, but he is a very competent dweeb… and a Conservative Republican.

Conservative principles work. Unfortunately, as soon as we fix things, people get the crazy idea that we can now afford to do this, that, and the other for the “underprivileged”. Then, the rot begins again. Rinse and repeat.

Carter messed things up badly. Reagan, a Conservative fixed it. Bush 41, a moderate, raised taxes and began the slide. Clinton continued it. Gingrich, a Conservative, took over Congress and fixed it. (Clinton took the credit.) Bush 43, a moderate/liberal, was mixed. When he cut taxes (Conservatism), the economy did well. When he spent (not Conservativism), things went badly. A bit simplistic, but the trend is clear.

So, did I get your State right, at least (TX)?

(Btw, if a good-looking man winked at the crowd, he might be flirting, too, but that would be okay, wouldn’t it? You have been indoctrinated. Please wake up.)

At a time when the elite (who think like you, btw) are running our country into the ground, it may be time to think a little differently. Professionalism is the uniform YOU wear to work, but we wear different uniforms in different occupations.

There was a lot of noise about the clothes she wore during the campaign. The Pubs dressed her up. The media criticized her for it. However, if she continued to wear her thrift store clothes, they’d've sneered at her all the more. Which way is it for you, Ms. Farmer? You deride her for being folksy and flirty, but do you really want another cookie-cutter, same-old-same-old, no-integrity, self-serving politician?

Fact is, you like so many, are merely justifying your disdain for her background, instead of evaluating her character. I like her because she is someone who got where she is by bucking the system, not by going along and playing the game. I want someone who will buck the broken system. It’s the only way to reform it. She may not be as educated as I’d like, but she has the character we need at this time. At another time, I would not back her candidacy, but now, we need real reform. She’s about reform.

• “John McCain voted against a Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty that every Republican has supported,” Biden stated. (Actually, in a 1999 vote in Congress, McCain sided with 50 other Republicans to kill the treaty. Only four joined the Democrats.)

• “Pakistan already has deployed nuclear weapons,” Biden said. “Pakistan’s weapons can already hit Israel and the Mediterranean.” (Pakistan has no known intercontinental missiles. The range of its weapons is thought to be 1,000 miles – halfway to Israel.)

• “When we kicked — along with France — we kicked Hezbollah out of Lebanon, I said and Barack said, ‘Move NATO forces in there. Fill the vacuum, because if you don’t…Hezbollah will control it.’” Biden recalled. “Now what’s happened? Hezbollah is a legitimate part of the government in the country immediately to the north of Israel.” (Except that the U.S. never kicked Hezbollah out of Lebanon or anywhere else. They’ve been entrenched in Lebanon since 1982. Actually, Hezbollah, insofar as it was responsible for the 1983 suicide bombing at the Marine barracks that killed 241 U.S. servicemen, kicked America out of Lebanon, not the other way around.)

• “The president…insisted on elections on the West Bank, when I said, and others said, and Barack Obama said, ‘Big mistake. Hamas will win. You’ll legitimize them.’ What happened? Hamas won,” Biden said. (Only the last two words of Biden’s strange soliloquy are true. The rest are false. For one thing, Fatah controls the West Bank. Biden was thinking of Gaza. Secondly, neither Biden nor Obama predicted the 2006 victory for Hamas in Gaza’s legislative elections. Third, McCain and Obama – but not Biden — signed a letter urging the president to pressure Palestinians to require that candidates adhere to democratic principles before being allowed to run for office. Fourth, Biden served as an election observer and later wrote an article expressing high praise for Bush’s actions. To sum up: One factual error and three fibs in only 31 words. Pretty impressive, in its way.)

• “With Afghanistan, facts matter…we spend more money in three weeks on combat in Iraq than we spend on the entirety of the last seven years that we have been in Afghanistan. Let me say that again…” (He did say it again, but that didn’t make it true. It’s wildly and weirdly off the mark. Yes, facts matter. The facts here were that at the time Biden was speaking, the U.S. had spent $172 billion in Afghanistan. The Iraq War consumes between $7 billion and $8 billion every three weeks. Biden’s math was off by 2,000 percent.)

• “Can I clarify this? This is simply not true about Barack Obama. He did not say (he’d) sit down with Ahmadinejad.” (He most certainly did. And among those who criticized him at the time for it was Joe Biden, who told Byron York of National Review that the idea of a president meeting with the likes of the Iranian president or Hugo Chavez was “naVve.”)

Those were alarming mistakes. To me Biden’s most discordant claims concerned his Animal House-like history lecture about the office of the vice president. It came while Biden was dressing down Dick Cheney, who was not present, for supposedly being unfamiliar with the Constitution. “The idea (that) he doesn’t realize that Article I of the Constitution defines the role of the vice president of the United States – that’s the executive branch – he works in the executive branch,” Biden said. “He should understand that. Everyone should understand that. And the primary role of the vice president of the United States is to support the president of the United States of America, give that president his or her best judgment when sought, and, as vice president, to preside over the Senate, only in a time when in fact there’s a tie vote. The Constitution is explicit….He has no authority relative to the Congress. The idea he’s part of the legislative branch is a bizarre notion invented by Cheney to aggrandize the power of a unitary executive, and look where it has gotten us.”

Lord, would Tina Fey have had fun with this jumble of misinformation – if only Palin had said it! Article I defines the legislative, not executive, branch. The vice president is, indeed, mentioned there. What Biden finds “explicit,” hasn’t been so to previous vice presidents or to most constitutional scholars. Prior to the 20th century, vice presidents didn’t even have offices at the White House compound – they were housed in the Capitol. The notion that a veep’s constitutional authority is to provide advice to a president springs from Biden’s brow; it certainly isn’t mentioned, or even contemplated, in the Constitution, which doesn’t even say whether the vice president should receive a salary.

Should Joe Biden have known this stuff? Since he chaired the Senate Judiciary Committee, you’d hope so. But even if he didn’t, you’d think it would be news when he unleashed a veritable fount of misinformation to impugn Palin’s knowledge of the federal system while attacking a sitting vice president. It barely rated a mention in the collective mainstream media.”

Thanks, Newsbusters!

You really focus a lot of your attention on prison rape.

I guess that explains why you don’t have time to not care less about George Soros, ACORN, or “communism”.