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The Democratic Party depends on voting blocs of less educated, less wealthy, more knee-jerk voters than the Republican Party, As this is being written, Rasmussen Reports says that 48% of likely voters approve of President Obama’s performance in office while 50% disapproved. Other polls indicate far more unhappiness with Obama, but in general one must conclude that half the voters are idiots. He is an enormous failure domestically and with his foreign relations. In early July, a Quinnipiac University national poll found that Obama was regarded as “the worst president since World War II.” The only poll that counts will...

Howard Dean is doing such a bang-up job as Chairman of the Democratic Party that many are convinced he is an operative of Karl Rove. Not since the days of the Carter Administration has any single Democrat made Republicans look so impressive. But when he isn’t claiming that George W. Bush had beforehand knowledge of the 9/11 attacks, or attacking members of the military as brutal thugs, or stating that some 61 million moronic Bush voters “haven’t worked an honest day in their life,” Dean is trying to convince America that he and his liberal elitist friends represent Mainstream America....

One of the mistakes Democrats made during the 2004 election (and which they continue to make now as they grope about blindly for someone to provide a desperately needed shot of real leadership as Chairman of the DNC) was to categorize people who voted for George W. Bush in very broad-brush, single-issue terms. Now the Democrat Party is, if nothing else, a coalition of single-issue voter groups, and so it's perhaps not surprising that Dems, projecting their own mindset, see red-staters in this way. It would seem as though Democrats can't believe that anyone who voted for George W. Bush...

The founding fathers knew this day would come, when “we the people” would become so focused on our own individual desires, that we would no longer act in the interest of our nations needs. They talked about America’s most fatal threat coming from within, in the form of self-servitude. They spoke of America’s eventual fall from the weight of decisions made by “me the people” without regard for “we the people”. They knew that America’s long term future would depend on “the people’s” ability to resist the urge to vote ourselves money from the treasury, once we figured out that...

This was supposed to be the presidential election in which those hip souls who dwell in the cybersphere would revolutionize politics, and a gargantuan army of draft-wary young people would really rock the vote. These and other axioms were embraced by many as articles of faith going into Election 2004. Hopeful Democrats also believed that President Bush would find reelection impossible because so many Americans disapproved of his performance, thought the country was headed in exactly the wrong direction, and knew they were worse off in almost every imaginable way than they were four years ago. Bush's opposition was convinced...

This is today's editorial from the Sierra Vista Herald. For education and discussion: The federal fiscal year has just ended. With it comes the final tally of what illegal immigration is doing to our great county. Unbelievable as it may be, Cochise County was the site for nearly one fifth of all illegal immigration apprehensions in the nation. Two thousand miles of unprotected border with Mexico, and little old Cochise County leads the way in this regrettable statistic. We wish we could trust the government to tell the truth in regards to this amazing indicator. Our cynicism however, won't let...