Posted on 02/25/2007 5:13:11 AM PST by Alas Babylon!
The Talk Shows
Sunday, February 25th, 2007
Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows:
FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice; Govs. Rick Perry of Texas and Ed Rendell of Pennsylvania.
MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich.
FACE THE NATION (CBS): California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger; former Sen. John Edwards, D-N.C.
THIS WEEK (ABC): Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice; former President Carter; actor Patrick Dempsey.
LATE EDITION (CNN) : Sen. Sam Brownback, R-Kan.; Iraq's national security adviser, Mowaffak al-Rubaie; former Secretaries of State Henry Kissinger and Madeleine Albright; Reps. Jane Harman, D-Calif., and Duncan Hunter, R-Calif.; investigative reporter Seymour Hersh.
I don't think this election is the time to be looking at changing the national course. Right now I think we're in a pause as the rough edges of the Conservative Revolution have been knocked off. Our own fringe elements on the right have been largely dealt with, people like Buchanan, Falwell, Barr, maybe even DeLay (though I think he got railroaded unjustly). There are a few who are still pretty far out there, but they are largely relegated to fringe status.
Despite what the DBM and moonbats are trying to say the last election wasn't about Iraq or rewarding the left. It was about the most conservative elements of the conservative coalition punishing the Republicans for not being perfect. They had their temper tantrum and I think now most of them regret it, particularly since truly good conservatives like Santorum and Allen got thrown out too. It was baby and bath water time. And worst of all the truly ugly RINOs are still there, like Hagel.
The Dhimmicrats have also badly overreached IMHO, with Nazi Pelosi acting as America's Mother in Law, John Murtha even making the Washington Post question his sanity and competence and Jon F'n Carry being Jon F'n Carry just three examples. They have an even uglier cast of characters than our bad actors and their act is beginning to rub the American people the wrong way. Worse they can't get anything done and any attempt to point the finger at the Republicans only highlights how obstructionist they themselves have been for the last six years.
No, this next election needs to be about competence, about cleaning up "bloated bureaucracy and persuad(ing) liberals to reorganize and improve operational efficiency." There needs to be a pause in the ideological combat at the margins while we concentrate on actually cleaning up some of the obvious problems in the bureaucracy. Romney is clearly the most able candidate in that regard, not only given his history as Governor but his turnaround of the failing Olympics in Utah and the businesses he did the same thing to out in the real world. I don't think the American people are ready to embrace the moonbats who are now in charge of the Dhimmicrat party but they don't want to turn right back to the right again.
They long for someone who doesn't promise an immediate resumption of the struggle between right and left and concentrates on just getting things done. Clinton sold that notion in '92, but then it turned out he was incompetent at everything but public relations (and lying).
Settling for competence is about where most of the nation is this time around, so long as the left doesn't gain more power. And if they don't then that's about the best we can hope for in the immediate future. We need to catch our breath and find new leaders who truly can carry the banner of Reagan because they believe in it, not because it's the expedient thing to do politically. Better yet we may find someone with a broader vision that builds on Reagan's legacy and takes us to a new place. But we need time for that to happen.
Bill Clinton is a felon, not a "bad boy" as Cokie said. And he was not impeached because of his personal life as Sam suggested. It makes me scream to always hear this go unchallenged!
Bingo... and folks jumped all over me when I suggested charges be brought against leakers and the press shut down in the beginning. This would've been much shorter and our troops hands would not have been tied (no to mention the SWIFT program, Gitmo, secrets intact), had this been done. Sure it would have been fought and maybe overturned... but the message would've gone out. How could they be more against W?
An Obamanation!
Good Bless Brit Hume for actually coming right out and speaking the truth about John Murtha last week
And typical Leftist that he is, what he is pissed about is Rich was a tax dodger. That is what REALLY pisses Geffen off. A "rich white guy" got pardoned for dogging his tax bill.
He is a "geezer" probably a "Senior" moment.
We really really need to be screaming this one from the roof tops. HOW do we get Talk Radio and the Bloggers on this story
Shhhh... The Surge is Working
http://townhall.com/columnists/PatrickRuffini/2007/02/24/shhhh_the_surge_is_working
Have you noticed that as outraged as all the dem pundits are about what Geffen said, mot one of them has denied the original charge? That both of the Clintons are accomplished liars? I think that is one of the reasons why everybody jumped on the statement and went so ballistic. It was MISDIRECTION, something the Clinton machine is famous for. And the DBM and tv pundits and evidently most of the posters on Freerepublic fell for it again.
This is not meant as criticism. It is just my personal thoughts.
Hiya eee.
Daschle has always been #2. Priceless.
Beautiful post. Phsstpok! Worth printing out and reading repeatedly for the next two years, and worth sharing with every Republican friend we all have as we discuss the candidates.
Trust me, Hill doesn't want to go up against Geffen, you'd sooner find him disappeared if he wasn't so popular.
We are going to have lot's of fun this next year. We can even help them out by calling Joe's office and lauding him for his strength of conviction on the War.
Brit wouldn't interview Hillary... even if the opportunity presented itself. I'm pretty sure of that.
Speaking of EVIL, get a brown bag for this one.
Hillary speaking to Code Pink re: Saddam, war, WMD
(you'll want to fast forward a bit... trust me, and turn up the audio)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYATbsu2cP8&eurl=
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