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To: Conservative & Evangelical Leaders From: Mark DeMoss (Personally) Date: October 9, 2007 Subject: The 2008 Presidential Election In about 100 days we will likely have a Republican nominee for president. Most political observers believe it a near certainty that this nominee will face Hillary Clinton in the general election. While most people think this election cycle started too early, I’m finding that few people realize the primaries are almost upon us—and how compacted the primary calendar is. Within about 30 days after the last college football bowl game is played, primaries (and an all-important caucus) will be held in...

At a rally in Ames, Iowa, on the eve of last weekend's straw poll, Mitt Romney invited his siblings onstage with his children and grandchildren. "Boy, we've got the whole gopher village up here," he told the crowd with a grin. "This is so much fun." "Whoop-de-do!" he says of John Edwards's proposal to let Americans save $250 tax-free. "Gosh, I love America," Romney said during one GOP debate. After hitting a long golf drive in one of his campaign videos, he shouts, "Holy moly!" Romney often sounds as if he has stepped out of a time machine from 1950s...

STAMFORD -- Fred Dalton Thompson took his undeclared presidential campaign before Connecticut Republicans on Thursday, helping draw a full house of 600 to the party's annual fundraising dinner - and gathering a few political IOUs. Panned by conservative commentators for an unfocused speech weeks ago before Republicans in the GOP stronghold of Orange County, Calif., Thompson delivered a well-received call Thursday for the party to stand firm in Iraq and demand secure borders at home. ADVERTISEMENT SPONSORED LINKS "If we do the right thing, politics will take care of itself," Thompson said. Thompson said Republicans did not lose Congress last...

Recall the lurid photos of Private Lynndie England, United States Army. At Abu Ghraib, she was pulling an Iraqi man on a leash. Liberals said it was "torture." It violated the Geneva Conventions. Conservatives, hard-wired to "support our troops," said it was no big deal. Rush Limbaugh compared it to a fraternity hazing. Heh, heh. "Most Muslims did not view it as a torture story at all," writes Dinesh D'Souza in his book, "The Enemy at Home." To the Muslims, Abu Ghraib was a story of sexual perversion. D'Souza quotes a Muslim businessman in Turkey: "What the female American soldier...

As many of you may know, Sam Hunter has recently become the Hunter Campaign's ambassador to Free Republic. He serves as a direct line to Duncan Hunter, under the username "Duncan Hunter Ambassador". You have questions? Sam has answers. Without further ado, I give you Sam Hunter. (Opening Statement from Sam Hunter) "Thank you all for the warm welcome. I am here to represent my father to the best of my ability. I will work hard to respond to every post, although it may take a while to answer all of them, as I am only one person. I look...

WASHINGTON (AP) - Is the Christian right the Republican Party's real political base or have conservative Christians taken over the GOP, forcing the party to meet their demands? For former Missouri Sen. John Danforth, the answer became clear when the Republican-controlled Congress intervened in the case of Terri Schiavo, the brain-damaged Florida woman who died after her husband won the right to remove her feeding tube. "The effort to keep Terri Schiavo alive artificially became a religious crusade and Republicans in Washington responded to a core constituency, even though it meant abandoning traditional Republican philosophy," Danforth writes in his new...

TO BE A Swede is once again to be admired. Sweden is "the most successful society the world has ever known", declares the left-wing British newspaper the Guardian; "Swedes lead Europe in reform", claims the free-market-oriented Financial Times; only the Nordic model "combines both equity and efficiency", explains a recent report initiated by the European Commission. In a contentious European debate marked by hostility, riots and unrest, Sweden looks like a safe bet--neutral, uncontroversial and with no natural opponents. Sweden is a Rorschach test: The Left sees a generous welfare state, and the Right sees an open economy that pushes...

Kara Monaco, 23, an aspiring actress from Lakeland, Florida, received a cheque for $US100,000, a car and a sports motorbike from Playboy Enterprises Inc., company founder Hugh Hefner announced at the Playboy Mansion.

At Saddam Hussein's former Republican Palace, Tuesday is now karaoke night `It's Saigon all over again' at the temporary home of Iraq's latest conquerors BAGHDAD—Tuesday night is karaoke night at Saddam Hussein's Republican Palace in central Baghdad's fortified Green Zone. To the beat of the music, Iraq's latest conquerors triumphantly take to a stage that dominates the inner courtyard of what is today the temporary U.S. embassy in Baghdad and bawl out old rock 'n' roll and blues anthems to their hearts' content. A few metres away, soldiers take off their shirts to play volleyball, U.S. State Department contractors have...

The events of September 11, 2001, were unique in American history, public tragedies so overwhelming that they altered not just the politics of the nation, but its entire cultural consciousness. Nearly five years later, the political consequences of that day are apparent, if far from resolved. The cultural effects, however, are just beginning to take shape. From a host of mediocre novels to TV shows like 24 and The Sopranos, the lingering effects of that day have brushed up against our popular culture. But until recently, the day itself remained sacrosanct, as artists and critics have struggled with how one...

25. Titanic (1997) Rose (Kate Winslet) and Jack (Leonardo DiCaprio) may have been sailing the high seas in high style. But when it came time for getting it on, these crazy kids knew how to put the heat in the rumble seat. Luckily for them, these soon-to-be-doomed lovers find a parked car on their luxury ocean liner. Our favorite part? The steamed-up windows. That's sexy. 24. Seven Year Itch (1955) How provocative is the scene where Marilyn Monroe's white dress starts to billow up, leaving parts below exposed? So much so that when Monroe's real-life hubby, Joe DiMaggio, saw her...

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Jeb Bush, Florida's Favorite Governor After more than an hour of solemn ceremony naming Rep. Marco Rubio, R-West Miami, as the 2007-08 House speaker, Gov. Jeb Bush stepped to the podium in the House chamber last week and told a short story about "unleashing Chang," his "mystical warrior" friend. Here are Bush's words, spoken before hundreds of lawmakers and politicians: ''Chang is a mystical warrior. Chang is somebody who believes in conservative principles, believes in entrepreneurial capitalism, believes in moral values that underpin a free society. ''I rely on Chang with great regularity in my public life. He has been...

"Only in - and from - America."

Rush on fire today- talking about Kerry's senatorial flip flops, taking him to task for wasting 20 years in the US Senate. Also talking about raising taxes and class warfare.

Sundays Face the Nation program was put in its place by the honorable Doctor James Dobson of Focus on the Family. Host Bob Sheefer could not force any of his pre-arranged "trapdoor" questions in an interview with Dr. Dobson.

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing. -- Abraham Lincoln Everyone needs to be organized. Few are. Getting organized and being productive is the province of successful people. There are, of course, quite a few successful folks who live through a muddled haze, but they're the exception rather than the rule. Getting organized is work, but it can be done effortlessly, and the effects can be liberating after the fog lifts. The moments saved soon become days that your life can now reclaim. Here is my advice to those wanderers...