AMERICA-The Right Way!(Jan. 14-18,2008[ Remember the Trade Center!]

All of Us | 1/14/08 | Various News Sources and FRee Republic members

[Molly Pitcher]

Another primary week....a critical week for the R candidates, particularly Mitt Romney.

A fast-moving winter storm hits the n.e.

[Molly Pitcher]

Good morning! Post away, and join the discusion. All sorts of topics covered;))

[Molly Pitcher]

GOP in Mich. up for grabs

A Hollywood Yarn Unravels WSJ

Iran's latest ethnic revolt Amir Taheri

Mr. Ed Rollins may be out....The Prowler

[lysie]

Good morning everyone. Thanks for the start and links, Molly.

[Molly Pitcher]

Did anyone watch the latest Lonesome Dove installment on CBS last night? I taped it, and am wondering if it was any good?

I have to go out in the snowy weather, and will be back in awhile.

[alwaysconservative]

Thanks for the links, Molly! I just keep wondering: what Republicans are REALLY voting for Huckabee or McCain? This has to be one of those “contrived-poll” things, like when the NYT “finds” an alleged Republican voter who is really a Democratic voter/donor trashing President Bush for democracy in ME/social security reform/ESCR/whatever.

I’ve talked with all kinds of pubbie voters in the last few weeks and not a single one of them was a fan of Huck OR McCain. To the contrary, the Dems I’ve talked to are simply, positively gleeful about a HuckHill or HuckObama matchup, or McCain against anybody, because they are completely certain the Dems would win. It’s all about identity politics for the Dems, and they love the idea of being able to cariacaturize (sp?) the GOP as naive (slack-jawed), closed-minded “Christianists” who are bigoted to big blocks of American voters, or being able to paint the GOP with McCain’s angry brush, and have the “maverick” AGAIN betray the principles of party to maintain his collegiality with traitorous Dems for media favor.

Unfortunately, the media discouragement campaign of pubbies seems to be working. By the time the primaries roll around to most of America, we will likely have the two LEAST conservative candidates in the field as the standard bearers of our party.

Sigh. Sometimes I feel like the GOP is the party of the circular firing squad.

[NewsBee]

Good morning to all. It is overcast and snowing in Hoosierland.

Thanks for keeping this thread going Molly and Lysie.

I have been down with a sinus infection and I am just starting to feel normal.....sure hope it continues. I have been ill for weeks.

Molly, I did see a few minutes of the “new” Lonesome Dove, but not enough to give a review. Sorry.

[NewsBee]

Hi always.

I never pay attention to the polls but guess lots of folks do.

I did get a request to send out my take on the coming election and who I liked from some family and friends in Florida......right now I have Fred as my first choice. Then Mitt. Then McCain.
JMHO

[alwaysconservative]

I like Fred, Mitt, and the one who should not be named here. It is frustrating to think that in NH and Michigan, it is independents, not Republicans, who are the ones deciding who our Republican nominee will be.

I think Huckabee got his bounce to the top tier with Iowa, so that the rest of us got a hard look at this seemingly affable candidate and his cringe-worthy record. Most of us didn’t like what we saw, which is why his standing in the polls is perplexing to me, unless (donning tinfoil hat) they are not polling Republicans, but the fake Republicans I referred to earlier.

[lysie]

Just got back from errands.

Did anyone watch the latest Lonesome Dove installment on CBS last night?

Sorry. I didn't, but on a stormy day I would imagine it would be worth watching.

[lysie]

You are welcome, NB. You were missed. I was hoping you were having fun. As I can see..you weren’t. Get better soon.

[Bitwhacker]

You want a Lonesome Dove review, eh???? Well, you got it!!! ;-))

First of all, I was all set to watch something else because I really wasn't up for a multi-night western, if you know what I mean. But somebody I was chatting with told me to watch it so I did -- and was I ever glad I did!!!

First of all, this is a prequel, all events happening before the original Lonesome Dove, so if you have seen the original, this one means a lot more...I loved matching up the characters to the originals (Gus=Robert Duvall, Call=Tommy Lee Jones, Jake Spoon=Robert Urich, etc)...

They are Texas Rangers on the frontier, trying to keep the Commanches in check but just about holding their own...mostly the fights are skirmishes, settlers being attacked outside of town and the Rangers going after the perps...

But if you watch this for one reason and one reason only, just have to catch Val Kilmer as Captain Scull, leader of the Texas Rangers! He's a dandy from the East who maried a rich Southern belle, who is now in Texas for the adventure and thrill of it all...he sees the fight with the Indians and the Mexicans as an epic struggle, the ultimate test of his will and his skill, and he is eccentric as all get-out!!!! Seriously, you just have to get a load of Kilmer singing in German while being held captive by a Mexican warlord (because they stole his horse and he set out on foot to track the perps, then gets captured), who is Scull's sworn arch-enemy...

...and the Commanches are planning an all-out war on the Texans to try to crush the Anglos before they get too strong and wipe out the Commanches...

The character development is tremendous, too, especially Guss with his girlfriend and Call always acting as the perfect foil for Gus -- and you can almost imagine Duvall and Jones while you hear Gus and Call speak...

Oh well, hope that helps...;-))

[Holding Our Breath]

WOW!! Good morning everyone!

Wow! again, I didn't watch it but taped the other Lonesome Dove movies, so maybe I'll watch the next installment. There is one,right?

I watched the first of the two Sarah Connor premier's.last night because I heard it was going to be great. And it was. I'm a sci-fi fan, so this was right up my alley.

[Bitwhacker]

I watched the Terminator episodes, too, and in some ways it’s better than the movies, in some ways it’s too contrived...like, they had that conveniently-placed time-travel machine in the bank and then went forward in time to 2007 — but how do they get back now? And they had a weapon at the bank that could destroy any terminator, so they could now ‘win’ against the machines, yet they gave it all up to go forward in time to kill the creator of the technology??? Hmmm.....

[LBKQ]

Great reviews, guys!

Thanks.

[LBKQ]

So sorry you’ve been sick.

Daughter has had sinusitis for a couple months. She’s been through two rounds of different antibiotics and is now on a steroid nasal spray. Something is working, because she feels better.......sounds better, too. Speech isn’t as nasally as it was.

[Common Tator]

I find it amazing in a field where Huckabee won Iowa, McCain won New Hampshire and Romney won Wyoming, that Romney must win Michigan to remain in the race. Does Huckabee have to win Michigan or McCain have to win? Not according to the media!

You see people are supposed to vote for those born in a state or living in neighboring states. If Hillary does not win Illinois, and she won’t, will they demand she withdraw? After all Obama was not born in Illinois and Hillary was. So Hillary should win Ill...Right?

The media must think that Romney has to win twice to stay in the race while the rest only have to win once. Some don’t have to win or even come in second to stay in the race. If Romney were to eek out a win in Michigan would they say he has to win Florida and South Carolina to stay in the race?

The fact is Romney has raised more money from donors than any other Republican candidate and has more personal money than any other Republican candidate. Money is not a factor in him staying in the race. Yet historically 90 percent of the candidates that have dropped out have done so because they ran out of money.

Rudy has money problems, we know that. His staff took pay cuts and some have been laid off. People do not cut staffs before super Tuesday if they have the money to pay them.

When Al Gore did not carry Tennessee in 2000 did they say he was out? Or did it all depend on Al being able to steal
Florida from Bush?

Oh and Obama is not competing in Michigan because the Democratic party is punishing Michigan for moving its primary. Obama would not want to go against the parties ruling. But isn’t Obama competing in Florida which is also being punished by the Democratic party for moving its primary.

Notice how the media points out the illogic in Obama’s position. The media thinks there is one born every minute. But as my Dad used to say, it actually occurs far more often than that.

[prairiebreeze]

Sorry to read about the sinus infections Newsbee, been there and done that. Hopefully what I have now isn’t one....I’ve been watching for signs of infection and so far things don’t point that way, just a bad head cold I believe. I’ve had a miserable sneezy, drippy weekend though.

Thanks for the thread and pings Molly. It’s decided to turn cool and drizzly this week here. The moisture is very much needed but I’m wondering when house fever is going to set in for me as I’ve been housebound since Friday night.

[Molly Pitcher]

well, well, well....that's exactly what I wanted, Bit! You told me so much, I'll definitely give the program a go, then. I did love the original with the actors you named...

always, I've had some of the thoughts you've expressed...PLUS, I'm wondering about those "independents" voting for McCain...I'm beginning to feel like a conservative turning into a dodo bird....

prairie, if I were you, I'd have had cabin fever yesterday!

[Bitwhacker]

Remember I told you about the lawn signs for Ron Paul that I saw a while back on a known Dem lawn??? They are gone now, replaced by Obama signs; looks like the 'Independent' thing is a tactic popular among Dems....Kerry-Edwards stickers are still on the Subaru's, though...;-))

Also, here's a link to Jay Nordlinger (second item) on NRO in which he excoriates The Huckster for bringing class envy, identity politics and populist pap to the GOP, something which he thinks Ronald Reagan would have had NO time for...

In re Lonesome Dove: You know, I never thought Larry McMurtry was all that great a writer, and I never thought the books were that well-written, but the TV script is just great, so I think this may be a rare case of the TV/Movie being better than the book (like always happens with Grisham, only then they have to change the ending to make the movie 'work'...;-))

[tillacum]

Wellll, I guess I wasn’t paying too much attention, cause I kept getting lost. It seemed chopped up and disjointed, at least to me and even Roomey thinks it was disjointed, but it may straighten out as the story goes on.