Wow Newt hit a grand slam today
LATE EDITION (CNN) : Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff; Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez; Rep. Brian Bilbray, R-Calif.;Gov Napolitano
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Some of the best discussion I have seen on the Immigration Bill
Bilbray is Very Good at explaining ideas in soundbite form.
Does this program publish a transcript?
Keep things in perspective:
As Tigerhawk long ago wrote, the enemy's strategy is no mystery; it is to vex and exhaust us, to foment defeatism and division at home so our civilian leadership will lose heart and withdraw our soldiers from the field, leaving them in control.
Chertoff and Paul, two Republicans CNN rewards for saying things that they said this week.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1836700/posts
Female suicide bombers ‘eagerly await’ IDF soldiers
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1836729/posts
Qaeda Sheikh: Jews Most Decitful Nation
There is a certain segment of Freepers with a Messiah complex who rush around the board screaming hate at anyone who does not mindlessly worship their pet dogmas. When they come here and start going after the long time Freepers, who are regulars of this thread, with their usual hyper emotional ranting and foaming at the mouth bile, they should expect to get it shoved right back at them.
This is a serious thread. It is for serious discussions of issues. It is not one of the ranters "choir practice" threads where the Always Whining losers sit around an mindlessly scream at each other how dogmatically pure and brilliant they are.
If they come to this thread and act like adults, they will get treated like adults. However, since they decided today to come here and act like punks, they got treated like punks.
The choice is theirs.
If at some point either of you actually achieve sentient and can finally express a coherent rational thought please do try again.
However, since that level of minimum attainment is obviously far beyond your current state of evolutionary development, we suggest you wait at lest one or two millennium before you try again.
In our judgment, based on reading your postings today, it is fairly obvious that both of you have at this time only achieved the same sentient level any parrot in a pet store can demonstrates.
This has occurred without any formal announcements with the doings this week have made it clear that the field was narrowed because John McCain has forfeited all hope of nomination by his ill advised press conference in support of an amnesty immigration bill which is anathema to the party base. So the field has narrowed by one as John McCain is dropped, although he has not yet acknowledged this reality and dropped out, as he now inevitably must.
The field broadens as it becomes increasingly clear that Fred Thompson will run. He has advanced his cause greatly by his timely and unqualified announcement of opposition to the amnesty Bill. Similarly, Newt Gingrich is showing a little more leg as he mopped the floor with Chris Dodd on Meet the Press. If Gingrich sees any daylight at all at the end of September, he will opt in.
Meanwhile, Mitt Romney is doing his best to deny the rest of the candidates that daylight as Rasmussen reports that he is moving to a double digit lead in New Hampshire and other reports show that he is ahead in Iowa. I predicted that Mitt Romney would be the nominee in August 2006 and I hold to that prediction providing Fred Thompson does not enter the race. Thomson is playing outside game while Romney runs conventionally. At some time that window will be closed and if Thompson procrastinates too long, it will be too late. But so far, Thompson has shown strength in Georgia and elsewhere, and must be considered the front runner, despite his undeclared status. He should have a care though, his weakness might be lack of coherent organization against a man who has demonstrated in every endeavor, demonstrated by earning tens of millions of dollars, that he is the ultimate mechanic. He will find a way to probe and test Thompson.
Rudy Giuliani's reaction to the amnesty Bill is too ambiguous for my taste and I believe he is otherwise disqualified by his views on abortion. The remaining candidates, especially Huckaby, are running in reality for vice president. This includes, alas, Duncan Hunter who is right on every issue there is.
So if we subtract McCain and Giuliani and the second-tier candidates, that leaves us with a fascinating field of three, two of whom were as yet undeclared: Thomson, Romney and Gingrich. I've often posted that Gingrich cannot be elected and will not be nominated, but the party desperately needs him. I believe the party is sleepwalking toward a disaster in 08 and we need to kick over the table and change the rules or we are going to find ourselves in the wilderness for a generation. Newt Gingrich is the kind of bombthrower a party in our situation needs ram-rodding the party or acting as eminence grise backstage, however he cannot be the nominee. But he can save the party.
I would love to see Gingrich in the debates but, if he chooses not to run, I hope someone enlists him in his campaign to somehow change the dynamic so that we have a chance in November 08. A Bush, Rove, Martinez Republican Party is foredoomed to a disaster. Gingrich alone, despite all his liabilities, is the only man known to us with the genius to change the rules of the game. The man, like Churchill, is a walking idea factory and, above all, the Republican Party and the conservative movement needs new ideas about Iraq, the war on terror, globalization, and the emerging threat from Russia.
So the real field is reduced to two: Romney and Thompson. Either one of these two could win the election but not if it is conducted as business as usual.
Dems scramble in Florida
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1836805/posts
Did anybody notice Nancy Pelosi let slip that one of her biggest priorities is to stop the war in Iraq. She moved on quickly with other blather. George Stephanopolous didn’t pursue it but she said it.