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As fear and panic about the economic crisis turns to apprehension and anger, we have one chance to win the presidential election and fight off massive losses in the House and Senate … Make the Democratic involvement in the Freddie and Fannie mess well-known and give the MSM no choice but to report on it. That isn’t just an important task … it’s now the only task! Ayres, Wright, Rezko or whatever else just became distractions from this goal. Hitler, Castro, Marxism all rose to power during uncertain economic times. Freedom, liberty, free-markets, let alone character, all become less important...

Rod Dreher, a self described "crunchy con" blogger has, over the last week or so, become a wildly ardent critic of Sarah Palin, actually going on morning tv and Larry King, who used him to demonstrate conservatives think Palin's unfit to serve... Slipped over the edge and revealed his own lack of belief in democracy for anyone but himself as well... He's calling for "an acceptable dictator" apparently be installed and then we leave Afghanistan, on his blog at beliefnet. With friends like this, conservatives don't need enemies. Other wacky statements like "Well, look, I can read the newspaper, and...