[Hardastarboard]

He may try to employ Clinton-style attack dogs to try to destroy the opposition but he doesn't have the natural political instincts and shamelessness that Clinton used to defend himself.

He doesn't have to - his flying monkey advisers are good at it - witness what they did to "Joe the Plumber". I would add that we already know that his ego is big enough that he simply cannot / will not tolerate criticism. Imagine Barack Obama under fire the W has been for eight years.

The nation can ill-afford Jimmy Carter-like decisions on the domestic and international issues Obama is likely to face. His overconfidence in his own judgment amounts to hubris and his dissembling responses to questions about his past associations suggest he's learned little.

Whether we can afford it or not, we've earned it. We voted for the government we wanted, now we're going to get it, good and hard (hat tip to PJ O'Rourke).

Voters across this center-right nation ultimately decided Tuesday that if Republicans were going to act like Democrats, they may as well go ahead and elect Democrats.

This statement pretty well sums up the entire problem. It's pretty much a straight quote from a Wall Street Journal editorial from a few years ago.

[Bahbah]

"He may try to employ Clinton-style attack dogs to try to destroy the opposition but he doesn't have the natural political instincts and shamelessness that Clinton used to defend himself."

Good article, but he's wrong about this.

[Ghost of Philip Marlowe]

The left wants nothing to do with sustaining the Eagle and building pride in America.

Patriots are the wings of the Eagle.

Leftists are poachers.

[mrsmel]

The outrageous Howard Stern took it a step further and presented McCain's policies to Harlem voters as Obama's policies - they wholeheartedly supported those policies.

Now that's almost funny, except that these morons actually get to vote.

[NoControllingLegalAuthority]

The American people are going to get what we deserve and we will ALL suffer for it, even those who tried to stand against it.

[Nahanni]

I decline to participate.

[HighlyOpinionated]

http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=NDM4MjExZDFlZjI1NTUxNDY5NjJiZDNiYmFjYjQyNDM=

Rep. Thaddeus McCotter, chairman of the House Republican Policy Committee, in a recent interview, identified what I think will be the most important dividing line in the upcoming debate over the future of the Right:

He said the economic crisis exposed the split in the Republican Party.

“We ran into the bailout. The bailout touched upon the larger discussion in the Republican Party,” he said. “It’s not the conservatives versus the moderates, that’s the rather cliched way of looking at it. What you really have are globalists versus traditionalists. Globalists tend to view America as an economy, not a country. The traditionalists tend to view it as a country — a very delicate microcosm, a collection of individuals with different hopes, dreams, aspirations.”