Our crazy guy is crazier than your crazy guy!

Seriously, I don’t mind the POTUS having a bit of a temper. Doesn’t seem to have hurt Harry Truman’s place in history.

The one who will do the most damage to his cause is clearly the Democrat, so he thinks the thing to do is to help ensure the victory of the candidate who will harm his cause the most?

You can’t make this up. Insanity.

Oh, if we lose the war, he can just forget about the next election. There won’t be any more, or at least not any that mean anything.

Uh, yeah. That’s going to work as a unifying principle, to get the conservatives on board. Let alone the Dem’ crossovers. Dem’s, who are voting in their primaries about 2-1 over Republicans. Votes necessary to win if ALL the Party shows up. (Maybe someone should have been thinking about that “little” problem, eh?)

Or, how about the ever popular: I wish the conservatives would all just leave, we don’t need ‘em, contretemps “solution” suggestion? I guess that’s the heart-and-brain-ectomy surgery option? Y’all think the patient will survive the operation if you take out his heart and/or brain? Heh. Why am I not surprised.

Clue in here: the battle for the heart and soul of the Republican party goes back to the ’60’s. It defined the rise of Reaganism, and the ascendancy of conservatism. The current question remains: what does the Republican party stand for?

Hint: Machiavelli wouldn’t understand the answer.

…and apparently y’all don’t either. I’d suggest you try reading a little history. Does wonders to clear up the confusion.

Or hell. Maybe not. After your self-performed brain-ectomy, it’s not like there’s a lot left there to work with.

You said Pluto. You coulda picked the 7th planet…

Coach Jacobson offered this advice to me, way back in 1970. “Know what your going to replace a system with, before you tear down the current one.”

Winning the war against “…Islamofascism, which seeks to overthrow Western Civilization with Sharia Law” is critical. But is McCain our “Happy Warrior”?

Perhaps a return to Minnesota normal.

But, in the words of our current president, “I am the Decider”. (GW Bush, August 22, 2006) What framework for defending Western Civilization will serve as McCain’s template? As the temperature here, on Pluto, rises–due to MMGW–should I be concerned with the candidate’s views on limited government?

If the answer is no, then is Western Civilization defined as France? There are competing views on what we shall define as Western Civilization. From Pluto, we note the current problems facing our ally, Germany. Is the 600 lb. gorilla what Jeffrey Herf (University of Maryland, College Park) describes as reactionary modernism?

Or, are the human rights conditions of the Helsinki Accords or, the Euston Manifesto, simply anachronisms in a new “realpolitik”?

Disregarding the template for choice reduces the selection of our next president to mere preference of tastes. Why choose a blue dress when a red one will do as nicely?

We survived LBJ. We survived Jimmy Carter. We survived Clinton. We’ll survive Clinton II or Obama. But regardless of the battles we face and choose to fight, it’s the “other things” that advance or retard a nation. We’re not fighting for Western Civilization. We’re fighting for America. And the logistics dilemma from Pluto strains our capacity to serve as a useful ally. Granted.

Huckabee won in Kansas and LA, I do believe. That means Republicans voted for him, and most of them probably consider themselves fairly conservative. On Super Tuesday the analysts seemed genuinely surprised when he did so well in the South. They shouldn’t have been surprised. These people do not think of him as a socialist or a big government guy, they think of him as a man who shares their values. When he talks about God, country and the second amendment…they respond.

Of course the pundits do not like him, but they are not the ones voting in the caucuses and primaries. It would take a miracle for him to win, but he just keeps plugging along.

The problem the Republicans have is that they have within their party a group of people who are under the impression that they run things. They can not come up with winning candidates to support. They can not win in terms of general elections, but they work as a bloc and therefor they believe they should have a veto over the rest of the party’s candidates.

At the last minute they decided that Mitt Romney was their man. But it was too late, and more importantly the voters just did not take a shine to the man.

Besides, if he had won the primary he would probably would not won the general. His overall favorability rate was about 30. That is a high hill to climb. The conservatives would have blamed Bush. If he had somehow won and 120 days passed and he had not shipped all the illegals out of the country or whatever, the grumbling would have begun. In no time they would have been calling him Mexicali Mitt and demanding his impeachment.

And then they would blame Bush as well as Mitt and claim once again, that they have been betrayed.

And so on and so forth.

I will hold my nose and vote for him if he gets the nomination and it looks like he will.

Perhaps the only thing that could stop me from doing so would be to put Huckleberry on the ticket.

The Huckster is a person of half thought out ideas and a statist who likes more government and higher taxes. He knows nothing about military intelligence or foreign policy. He is a snake oil salesman who makes up half of what he says as goes along.

Given that we have the highest likelihood of a sitting President dying in office, the ticket needs a fiscal conservative to mitigate that risk and bring the conservative coalition together.

http://drsanity.blogspot.com/2008/02/real-agenda-of-fascist.html

http://drsanity.blogspot.com/2008/02/real-agenda-of-fascist.html

That being said one has to be from another galaxy to think we are in more danger of succumbing to sharia law than socialism. We will at worst have a terrible war with Islamists at some point due to the folly of a strategy of appeasement, but we will fight and win that war before we will submit to sharia, albeit at a dreadful cost. Socialism on the other hand is here already to a degree, and like the frog killed by slowly boiled water we will find our freedoms and American way of life dismembered bit by bit until we lose them all. The framers understood that tyranny was the end result of the increasing concentration of power in the central government, and that in a nutshell is what the left’s agenda is.

Marxists realized along time ago America could never be taken by direct confrontation or revolution and adjusted their strategy to demoralize us with propaganda aimed at eroding our confidence in our institutions. The rampant cynicism that permeates our citizenry, especially on the left, is a direct and intentional result of that campaign. The ubiquitous anti-Americanism within our own population is proof that the Marxist critique has been wildly successful. People who come here from former communist countries recognize it right away. We don’t, because it’s been such a gradual creeping transition in attitudes and belief that it appears normal.

Wake up people.