Joseph Bottum's Warning

First Things - On The Square ^ | March 2, 2006 | Joseph Bottum

[gregwest]

"...The war in Iraq is lost, and the best scenario involves its becoming basically a client state of Iran..."

Won't this guy be surprised when Iran gets a dose of regime change, which is about to occur in as short a time as a few weeks. They and the Taliban will be fighting for cave space in the border areas.

[HP8753]

Sounds like more rantings from a MOONBAT!!!

[The Old Hoosier]

polling clearly indicates that as the abortion controversy heats up the Republicans - as a national party - are going to lose women’s votes on this issue, and that the stronger the anti-abortion position the greater the loss.

Actually, only untested speculation suggests this. While plausible, it has never happened, and we won't know how the abortion issue plays out in a post-Roe world until we get there. I expect that the issue will become huge but have a minimal net impact as a furious race begins to win over state legislatures.

For now, we know that abortion is a winner for pro-lifers in the current atmosphere.

[reformedliberal]

Start making Democratic friends as fast as you can, he advised. Give money, intellectual analysis, and political commitment to a couple that seem plausible, and boom them as hard as you can—for things could break so hard against you that your only chance to have influence for years, and maybe to stay out of jail, is to have some elected Democrats on your side.

Only an elected donk is going to keep me out of jail for the crime of having worked for and supported W? The elected donks don't even listen to their own moderates and they use those with money and talent only until they find someone richer or more talented and more ideologically pure.

DNC is the place to be for the social conservatives? I'll pass and take my chances in November and again in 08 with the GOP, thanks all the same.

[an amused spectator]

Give money, intellectual analysis, and political commitment to a couple that seem plausible, and boom them as hard as you can—for things could break so hard against you that your only chance to have influence for years, and maybe to stay out of jail, is to have some elected Democrats on your side.

Bricks are cheaper. ;-)

[Grut]

Sigh. "Vote Democrat and die." Again. The last argument of a feckless Republican party.

[ThanhPhero]

Picture Waco. Many Wacos.

[boop]

No, I don't think the dems are going to "win big" anytime soon. And it's not because they don't have their act togather. In fact, if they really came out 100% with what they truly believe, they'd discover just how unpopular they really are. I mean the first questions will stump them...."Mr.Liberal, what's your exact plan for the WOT?... what's your solution to Iraq?....why, exactly shoud the American people trust you to keep them safe?", etc.

[arthurus]

If the Democrats have the House and the Presidency after 08, expect the prices of used guns to skyrocket as they were doing in 94 right up to the election. New weapons will be harder to get and there will be waiting periods as demand for many models outstrips production. The 94 elections produced a sigh of relief almost audible through the country and used gun prices collapsed back to normal.

[arthurus]

I'm sure Bush & Rumsfeld will bring some troops home from Iraq in the August-October

Always keep Iran in mind. Sooner or later we have to do something about Iran and Bush right now seems to be methodically getting our international ducks all in that row for something definitive.

[sergeantdave]

Right...

Get the socialists in power so they can destroy the economy.

Then go try to round up 10 million really pissed off, unemployed conservatives who are sitting on arsenals.

Sounds like a plan. Good luck, dopey.

[SuziQ]

Heh, there is that, too.