Posted on 11/02/2006 9:00:14 AM PST by MNJohnnie
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New Iraq is working hard to get rid of the old ways GulfNews.com ^ | 10/25/2006 | Amir Taheri
Posted on 10/25/2006 1:32:24 PM CDT by baseball_fan
snip...Since liberation, an estimated 45,000 Iraqis have been killed, largely because of insurgent and terrorist activities. Yet, there are few signs that a majority of Iraqis are prepared to raise the white flag of surrender.
Several events in the past two weeks have highlighted the growing isolation of the jihadists and their Saddamite allies. One event is the creation of a tribal alliance, bringing together all Arab Sunni clans of western Iraq together in a united front to "chase Al Qaida out of Iraq".
snip
A second noteworthy event is the almost unanimous approval by the Iraqi National Assembly (parliament) of a new plan for peace and reconciliation. Backed by all ethnic and religious communities through their political parties, the new plan further underlines the marginalisation of the jihadists and Saddamite groups.
More importantly, the plan envisages the creation of a unified information office to harmonise the sermons delivered at mosques, regardless of their sectarian affiliations. The idea is to use the mosque as a forum for a unified and democratic Iraq rather than a hub of sectarian agitation.
A third event was the Makkah meeting held on Saturday. It brought together prominent Muslim Sunni and Shiite clerics from Iraq and eight other Muslim countries to discuss and approve a declaration demanding an end to sectarian feuds in Iraq. An initiative of the Organisation of the Islamic Conference (OIC), the gathering reflects growing impatience with the jihadists throughout the Muslim world.
snip
The Makkah gathering represents the first major effort by Sunnis and Shiites towards the mutual recognition of one another as acceptable versions of the same faith, since 1947.
Despite the dramatic increase in terrorist attacks in recent weeks, new Iraq is holding its own because Iraqi morale is holding. That morale, however, is under constant attack from snip
(Excerpt) Read more at gulfnews.com ...
Hmmmmm....curiouser and curiouser.
Hugh Hewitt: What The MSM Doesn't Know And Doesn't Care To Find Out
When unique visitors to HughHewitt.com crashes through 125,000 on a single day, I know the public is engaged.
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/HughHewitt/2006/11/02/what_the_msm_doesnt_know_and_doesnt_care_to_find_out
Cal Thomas: The 2006 choice
If conservatives believe enough has not been done to advance their agenda, let them work to elect more conservatives, not hand control of Congress over to a party controlled by far-left liberals who have no intention of moderating their tone or watering down their beliefs after the election.
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/CalThomas/2006/11/02/the_2006_choice
Larry Elder: Low black voter turnout -- who's to blame?
The so-called black leadership wants blacks to think of themselves as victicrats.
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/LarryElder/2006/11/02/low_black_voter_turnout_--_whos_to_blame
Emmett Tyrrell: Not a normal election
What throughout the decades of the Cold War was called the Liberal Establishment has been drained of ideas and meaning. It is what historians call an Old Order, a passing Old Order.
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/EmmettTyrrell/2006/11/02/not_a_normal_election
David Strom: What John Kerry Really Meant
John Kerry, Democrat Senator from Massachusetts and 2004 candidate for President is back in the news reminding us all why we didn?t vote for him.
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/DavidStrom/2006/11/02/what_john_kerry_really_meant
Jerry Newberry: With 'A' Company: The Grunts
The KOP isn't a very big place, not much more than a scrape on the side of a mountain. The troops that call the KOP ?home? live under harsh and extreme conditions ... so it doesn't take long before you start recognizing faces and putting names to those faces. In a brief time, they become your friends.
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JerryNewberry/2006/11/01/with_a_company_the_grunts
Janice Shaw Crouse: The Girls Who Loved the Greatest Generation Guys
Greatest Generation guys - young men who considered their military service a badge of honor and who wore their military identity with quiet pride. I grew up knowing that the Marines were heroes because my dad told us about his "buddies."
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JaniceShawCrouse/2006/11/01/the_girls_who_loved_the_greatest_generation_guys
Henry Edmondson: Education Woes
A report, issued by the non-partisan ?Education Schools Project,? alleges that most education schools are engaged in a "pursuit of irrelevance," with curricula in disarray and faculty disconnected from classrooms and colleagues.
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/HenryEdmondson/2006/11/01/education_woes
Marvin Olasky: Hungary, Iraq and shredding machines
Iraqis have endured oppression for decades. They now face the prospect of more tyranny unless the United States stays the course
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MarvinOlasky/2006/11/02/hungary,_iraq_and_shredding_machines
Halp us Jon Carry
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MattTowery/2006/11/02/halp_us_jon_carry
Rich Galen: Uh, oh. You mean I was right?
If Pelosi becomes Speaker of the House, her constituents will demand she reward them with policies they (and the rest of the Howard Dean/MoveoOn.org wing of the Democratic party) are panting with desire to embrace.
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/column.aspx?UrlTitle=uh,_oh_you_mean_i_was_right&ns=RichGalen&dt=11/01/2006&page=2
- Case in point re: Pelosi: http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-sanfran30oct30,0,7328529.story?coll=la-home-headlines
Chuck Colson: Is It a Sin not to Vote?
That?s a question that?s been very much in the news in the wake of the supposed exposé by David Kuo, author of Tempting Faith.
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/ChuckColson/2006/11/01/is_it_a_sin_not_to_vote
Herman Cain: Armchair Presidents
It?s easy to give someone advice after the fact, and even then, there is no measure that the advice would have been a better decision. The armchair presidents claim to have the winning play for fighting terrorists and preventing future terrorist attacks on American soil.
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/HermanCain/2006/11/01/armchair_presidents
Suzanne Fields: Keeping up with the Joneses
But there's a voting cohort between Generation Xers and boomers that bears watching. They're the not-so-young Generation Jones. If they're not "the lost generation," they're invisible to most of our culture commentators.
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/SuzanneFields/2006/11/02/keeping_up_with_the_joneses
Alan Reynolds: Rhetorical overheating
The British government released the "Stern Review" on global warming by Nicholas Stern, a former chief economist for the World Bank.
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/AlanReynolds/2006/11/02/rhetorical_overheating
Ann Coulter: Jihad is fun! Vote Democrat!
(Excellent historical stats on midterm pickups)
John Kerry is the "botched joke" of American politics. For those of you keeping score at home, John Kerry has now called members of the U.S. military (a) stupid, (b) crazy, (c) murderers, (d) rapists, (e) terrorizers of Iraqi women and children. I wonder what he'll call them tomorrow.
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/AnnCoulter/2006/11/01/jihad_is_fun!_vote_democrat!
Thomas Sowell: Cast of characters: Part II
This year, the Democrats are running as "None of the above" and polls show that they may well win the House of Representatives and perhaps the Senate.
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/ThomasSowell/2006/11/02/cast_of_characters_part_ii
A FINAL LESSON FROM A FALLEN HERO
By Laura Ingraham
http://www.michnews.com/artman/publish/article_14636.shtml
Common Sense vs. Nonsense - A Simple Choice This November
http://www.michnews.com/artman/publish/article_14634.shtml
John Kerry: A One Man Quagmire
By JB Williams
http://www.michnews.com/artman/publish/article_14649.shtml
UNICEF Attempts to Intervene in Nicaraguan Abortion Debate
http://www.michnews.com/artman/publish/article_14631.shtml
ARTICLES DEMOCRATS DON'T WANT YOU TO SEE
http://www.michnews.com/artman/publish/article_14643.shtml
Federal Judge Blocks Pennsylvania Town's Crackdown on Illegal Immigrants
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,226818,00.html
Why I Have Faith in Values Voters
by Rep. Steve King
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=17806
Democrat-Controlled Senate Would Be Disastrous for Judicial Nominees
by Sen. Elizabeth Dole
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=17814
Who's to Blame for Anti-Gay-Marriage Initiatives?
by Linda Chavez
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=17800
Apology Not Accepted
by Rabbi Aryeh Spero
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=17829
The Big Stem-Cell Breakthrough
That you're not hearing about . . .
by Wesley J. Smith
http://weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/012/886hpnnn.asp
Five Days to Go
http://www.americanthinker.com/articles.php?article_id=6002
Unanswered Questions, Disturbing Thoughts
http://www.americanthinker.com/articles.php?article_id=6001
No Viet Cong Followed Us Home, Al-Qaeda Will
November 2nd, 2006
http://www.americanthinker.com/articles.php?article_id=6000
J.R. Dunn asks Has Kim Jong Il Backed Down? While the media focuses on Kerrys bomb, there is reason to be optimistic about the situation in North Korea. Provocative and stimulating reading.
http://www.americanthinker.com/articles.php?article_id=5996
Pelosi's illegal alien employees
http://www.americanthinker.com/comments.php?comments_id=6512
Rejecting mutli-culti barbarism
Female genital mutilation is a life-altering barbaric practice, which has no place in America. Thank goodness a Georgia jury handed down a guilty verdict and a judge imposed a ten year sentence on a father who assaulted his own two year old daughter in the name of Islam. The AP speculates that this may be the first such conviction in the USA.
http://www.americanthinker.com/comments.php?comments_id=6513
Early voting results encouraging
http://www.americanthinker.com/comments.php?comments_id=6514
Expose how much so-called N.Y. Times exposé cost us
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/editorial/outlook/4304189.html
Clinton: Democrats Will Take Power Because Republicans Have Abandoned Principles (Principles? Unbelievable)
http://www.nysun.com/article/42805?access=215871
THE MODEL OF A MAJOR MODERN DEMOCRAT
http://www.nypost.com/seven/11022006/postopinion/editorials/the_model_of_a_major_modern_democrat_editorials_.htm?page=0
Navy sets sail as fear of coup in Fiji grows
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,20692007-2703,00.html
Call off protest, pleads Hilali
(uh no, that's not how I read it)
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,20692049-2702,00.html
The Curse of Kerry
http://www.nypost.com/seven/11022006/postopinion/opedcolumnists/the_curse_of_kerry_opedcolumnists_rich_lowry.htm?page=0
We're just asking for trouble
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,20690285-7583,00.html
Christians are guilty of prejudice, too
http://www.theage.com.au/news/opinion/christians-are-guilty-of-prejudice-too/2006/11/02/1162339985160.html
The Truth About Muhammad
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=25185
A border bonfire smolders
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oe-goldberg2nov02,0,4034633.column?coll=la-opinion-center
Experts: Polling method suspect; Zogby disagrees
(no kidding, Zogby is really something)
http://www.syracuse.com/news/poststandard/index.ssf?/base/news-0/1162461478265550.xml&coll=1
James Webb and lessons in make-believe
http://jewishworldreview.com/1106/hanson110206.php3
Democrats find religion, churchgoing voters
(More from the party of separation of church and state)
http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=politicsNews&storyID=2006-11-02T131550Z_01_N01160966_RTRUKOC_0_US-USA-ELECTIONS-FAITH.xml&WTmodLoc=PolNewsHome_C2_politicsNews-3
Air Plot Said to Target Cities
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/11/01/AR2006110103097.html
Sore-loser Kerry stuck in Vietnam
http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061102/COL05/611020323/-1/columnists
U.N. official accused of
steering contracts to his friend
http://www.newsday.com/news/local/wire/newyork/ny-bc-ny--un-procurement1101nov01,0,3895565.story?coll=ny-region-apnewyork
Can't Muslim men control their urges?
(You need to read this)
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,1071-2432347,00.html
Vermont poised to elect America's first socialist senator
http://www.guardian.co.uk/midterms2006/story/0,,1937064,00.html?gusrc=rss&feed=1
Newsnight defends Taliban report
(Unbelievable)
http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/article/021106/newsnight_defends_taliban_report
U.N. Agents Tried to Stop Nicaragua's Vote on Abortion
http://www.michnews.com/artman/publish/article_14645.shtml
Iran Tests Shahab-3 Missiles in Military Exercise
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aI7fOBx2dFM0&refer=home
When Tolerance Invades
by Ellen W. Horowitz
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/article.php3?id=6657
You think the two things are related?
McCaskill Watch
Missouri ACORN Workers Indicted, 35,000 Questionable Forms!
http://gatewaypundit.blogspot.com/2006/11/missouri-acorn-workers-indicted-35000.html
The Unreported Good News From Iraq Vs. the Leaked News
http://gatewaypundit.blogspot.com/2006/11/unreported-good-news-from-iraq-vs.html
CHAVEZS HAND IN OAXACA? (Read the whole blog)
http://www.publiuspundit.com/
Check it out (All the links here):
Midterm prediction - Right Wing News has the collective opinion of right-of-center bloggers (including yours truly) on whether the GOP will hold the House and Senate.
http://www.rightwingnews.com/archives/week_2006_10_29.PHP#006713
South Park Tackles Evolution
http://www.rightwingnews.com/archives/week_2006_10_29.PHP#006726
Did You Vote in '06? By CavalierX
(Read it or Weep)
http://www.rightwingnews.com/archives/week_2006_10_29.PHP#006724
Im not as optimistic as others, but maybe they know something I dont (http://time-blog.com/allen_report/2006/10/why_some_top_republicans_think.html).
All eyes on Kerry
Theory: John Kerry planned the botched joke.
http://vikingpundit.blogspot.com/2006/11/all-eyes-on-kerry-theory-john-kerry.html
Religion of peace update Jeff Jacoby reviews the march of jihad in countries all around the world. Time to wake up, Europe.
http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2006/11/01/scenes_from_the_jihad?mode=PF
Al-Qaida able to build nuke weapon inside U.S. Determined terrorists with less than $10 million could murder 100,000 Americans within months
http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=52733
US Says Has Evidence, Syria, Iran And Hizbullah Are Plotting To Topple Democratically Elected Lebanese Government
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0%2C7340%2CL-3322572%2C00.html
UN Admits Syria Arming Hizbullah, UNIFIL Takes Nights Off
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/news.php3?id=114650
Kerry Used Soldier's Funeral To Solicit Campaign Help. Authors Say Representative Asked Parents To Speak Out Against President Bush
http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=52726
Libs At Georgetown Stop Minutemen co-founder Jim Gilchrist
http://michellemalkin.com/archives/006256.htm
Michael J. Fox's TV Ads Are All Wrong
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=17815
Kerryism [Victor Davis Hanson]
http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=YmEzZGYwYzk0ZDE3YTM0NjY4MmY3Nzg3NDNjNzM5MjY=
Sheesh.
Immigrant vote drive disappoints backers
http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2006-11-01-immigrantvoters_x.htm
Signs story Rush was just reading:
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/politics/4304612.html
Yeppers.
EEK!!!! LOL!
I listened all day... Rush was sounding like Rush. He was not "down".
LLS
gosh you is one busy bee.
No idea, I hope not... more for us.
Yikes, sorry... reformatting...
I listened to him too. I really got the impression he was down. I never heard him say "if we lose" before today.
He is getting so much thrown at him, I can't blame the guy for being off but the GOP needs him at his best this week.
LOL Spock Video
http://ace.mu.nu/archives/203442.php
Shock: Men's Testosterone Drops Over Past 20 Years
http://ace.mu.nu/archives/203429.php
South Park Evolution (total)
http://hotair.com/archives/2006/11/01/video-south-park-on-evolution/
Hello! Four Indicted In MO ACORN Scandal; Over 35,000 Fraudlent Voter Registrations
Ace
I can't blame the media, I guess, for ignoring this story. I did. Even though Larwyn kept feeding me Gateway Pundit links.
I can't ignore it anymore.
Kid Rock Joins Bouchard Campaign in Michigan
http://www.townhall.com/blog/g/ade95c9a-94b1-453f-81ca-60ac8ba9b132
36% Ashamed To Be A Democrat
Yep, Zogby has confirmed Democrats are ashamed to be democrats:
We asked, are you proud or ashamed of your political party, and 71 percent of the Republicans said that they were proud, which is not good. That means some 20 percent are not proud, are ashamed or not sure. But for the Democrats it was 64 percent who said that they were proud - meaning one in three are ashamed
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2006/11/1/175446.shtml?s=lh
From Powerline Blog:
http://www.powerlineblog.com/
A Salute to those fine men and women of 1st Bridgade/34th Infantry, who made a banner in answer to Kerry.
http://powerlineblog.com/archives/015732.php
Columnist Stephen Morse of the Daily Pennsylvanian greeted Bob Casey with a few questions yesterday when Casey arrived to speak at the University of Pennsylvania. Morse tried to get a comment from Casey about the cancellation of John Kerry's scheduled appearance with Casey. Morse also asked Casey questions about what Morse views as Casey's underreported pro-life stance.
Morse reports that for his efforts he got an elbow to the stomach from Casey campaign spokesman Larry Smar:
http://lamp.dailypennsylvanian.com/blogs/index.php?section=2&keyword=27
I decided to leave the media pack and go off on my own. I was met with nothing less than Larry Smar obnoxiously covering my camera with a folder, accusing me of working with Virginia Davis (Rick Santorum's press secretary) and an off-camera elbow to the stomach. Thanks Larry!
Morse has posted video of his encounter with Casey and Smar (sans the elbow to the stomach) at the link above on The Spin, site of online comments by the Daily Pennsylvanian's columnists.
http://lamp.dailypennsylvanian.com/blogs/index.php?section=2
The U.S. government has expressed concern over "mounting evidence" that Syria, Iran and Hezbollah are planning to topple the government of Lebanese Prime Minister Fuad Siniora.
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1162378306758&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
At the same time, Walid Jumblatt, longtime leader of the minority Druze community in Lebanon, says that Syria is sending arms to Hezbollah without impediment. "As long as the Syria-Lebanon border is not being monitored effectively, the flow of weapons will continue and there will be instability," Jumblatt said during a visit to Washington.
http://www.washtimes.com/world/20061031-100116-5406r.htm
He added that the image of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah has soared in the Arab and Muslim world because of the tough resistance his fighters put up against Israel, although Nasrallah still does not command anything like majority support in Lebanon.
I guess that's why those Syrian arms are so important.
Mike Can Win
http://time-blog.com/allen_report/2006/11/upset_in_michigan.html
Pelosi to Dems: 'Do as I say, not as I do.'
http://www.redstate.com/stories/elections/2006/pelosi_to_dems_do_as_i_say_not_as_i_do
***Excellent
Your 109th Congress
The Fruits of a Republican Majority
(mind you, doesn't include legislation blocked by the democrats... i'd love to see that list)
http://www.redstate.com/stories/elections/2006/your_109th_congress
Irey Nailing Murtha on Abscam (new ad)
http://www.redstate.com/stories/elections/2006/nailing_murtha_on_abscam
Get on the phone
It is time to get on the phone.
While sending money to candidates will help them out now, what will help even more is calling voters. You can help.
The RNC has put together a little project and turned it into an inter-blog competition. Let's see which Right of Center Blog can call the most voters and encourage them to vote.
It's very easy.
Go here. You'll provide your contact information and then, on the screen, you'll see the name of an individual to call and check boxes for once you've called them.
It's time to Get On The Phone.
Go try it out here.
http://www.gop.com/NeighborToNeighbor/Signup.aspx?refid=8&CampaignId=4
http://www.redstate.com/stories/elections/2006/get_on_the_phone
Campaign Video, Hanging Patricia Madrid on Her Own Words
http://www.redstate.com/stories/elections/2006/more_of_hanging_patricia_madrid_on_her_own_words
Yesterday's fantastic Heather Wilson Ad
http://www.redstate.com/stories/elections/2006/fantastic_ad_from_heather_wilson
Dang, how'd I miss this yesterday?
BREAKING: Kerry pulls list of Democrats he's campaigned for from his website
The former Presidential nominee is ratcheting up his efforts to protect Democrat candidates from himself.
(Not to worry, Redstate has the cached page)
snip:
The organization Fidelis America recovered the deleted page, which indicates that he raised and/or contributed $3,173,000 to 18 Senate candidates and $1,058,000 to 20 House candidates. Bob Casey, Jr. was the top recipient of funds among Senate candidates, collecting over $586,000 from Kerry, and Tammy Duckworth, was the top recipient of funds among House candidates, collecting over $209,000 from Kerry.
Included in the removed portion of Kerry's website are two candidates pictured in uniform, along with three known veterans. Where are they on this -- besides seeking shelter for themselves, and abandoning their fellow soldiers who Kerry so insulted?
http://www.redstate.com/stories/breaking_news/breaking_kerry_pulls_list_of_democrats_hes_campaigned_for_from_his_website
For the record again:
Who's Enlisting in the Military?
http://www.heritage.org/Research/NationalSecurity/cda06-09.cfm
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In which we remember that Seymour Hersh is a turd
(the pig who backed Kerry and claims to have seen a tape of our guys engaging in atrocities; After which he stated "there has never been an [American] army as violent and murderous as our army has been in Iraq."
Don't forget to read his background (in post link)
http://www.redstate.com/blogs/leverkuhn/2006/nov/02/in_which_we_remember_that_seymour_hersh_is_a_turd
Winning Small
WISDOM OF THE FOUNDERS:
Majorities in Congress arent formed by the national zeitgeist, as Mr. Rove cheerfully points out. They are built one race at a time. And in dozens of close contests this fall, the outcome will be determined largely by one often-overlooked minority group: the mostly white and mostly conservative voters who live in Americas small towns.
Residents of rural areas make up only a fifth of the countrys population. Thats a little less than African-Americans and Hispanics combined. But unlike voters in those minority groups, small-town whites are often kingmakers in national politics.
In 2004, they voted for George W. Bush by nearly a 20-point margin. Newspapers ran headlines that baffled their urban readers: Rural Values Proved Pivotal, Conservatives in Rural Ohio Big Key in Bush Victory, and G.O.P. Won With Accent on Rural and Traditional.
This year, those same right-leaning small towns make up a major voting bloc in a half-dozen make-or-break Senate races, like those in Missouri, Montana, Tennessee and Virginia. They also dominate battleground House districts throughout the country, from Idaho to northern New York. If rural America embraces Republicans with the same fervor it did two years ago, Democrats will almost certainly be denied a majority in the Senate and may fall short in the House.
In part, the electoral importance of small towns reflects a profound rural bias hardwired into our political system. The Constitution grants two Senate seats to each state regardless of its population. As a consequence, a majority of senators are elected by voters in 26 sparsely settled states that together contain less than 18 percent of the countrys population.
Mr. Mann's own book on rural America suggests why the GOP will never lose the filibuster electorally.
http://www.brothersjudd.com/blog/archives/2006/11/wisdom_of_the_f.html
PURITY VS. ELECTABILITY:
Abandoning the See-Saw of Centrism (Sally Kohn, November 2, 2006, AlterNet)
If you listen closely this election season, you can hear the sound of Democratic candidates scraping their bottoms in a hasty rush toward the center. But the reasoning is unclear. In a political climate where once-preposterous, archconservative ideas are now the status quo, shifting the political center of balance to the middle would only aid that Right-wing tilt. As the center of politics is masqueraded as the new left, the right becomes the new center.
If Democrats seem generally allergic to articulating moral convictions and standing up for what they believe, election season exacerbates this condition.
http://www.alternet.org/story/43787/
The problem is that their convictions are amoral and they're running in a moralist society, which is why they have to keep their ideology so carefully hidden in order to be competitive.
Correct.
I thought Rush sounded a bit down, too...and then I start feeling sick inside. Then at one point didn't he say that he never doubted our victory but feared the "cut n' runs" buying into the media hype? Maybe he is confident but is just feeling the pressure over this MJ Fox thing...who knows what people are emailing him.
LOL, that required the running man.
Yep, that is the danger of the Democrat Noise Machine in the Junk Media. They keep screaming the lies loud and long and even people like Rush have moments of weakness.
Turnout, turnout, turnout! Votes, not polls, decided elections
You are my pearl beyond price. Thank you. Now I got a lot of reading I need to catch up on :-)
He was motivating the base to not sit home. He was talking to those who were thinking of not voting. Way too important to stop evil from taking over the House!!
LLS
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