To counter Guitarzan’s verbal excrement, read this from our good friend and part time contributor to Tennesseefree.com, Nathan Moore.

Understandably, Barack Obama doesn’t like his policies being aptly compared to one of the largest strategic blunders in world history. But then, the truth often hurts.

Instead, he wants to “talk” with those who are uninterested in reason. With Obama, it’s as if that “positive parenting” nonsense would become our foreign policy.

Anyhow, not to say Obama supports Hamas, but there are certainly good reasons Hamas supports him.

From the actual speech.

Some seem to believe that we should negotiate with the terrorists and radicals, as if some ingenious argument will persuade them they have been wrong all along. We have heard this foolish delusion before. As Nazi tanks crossed into Poland in 1939, an American senator declared: “Lord, if I could only have talked to Hitler, all this might have been avoided.” We have an obligation to call this what it is — the false comfort of appeasement, which has been repeatedly discredited by history.

Some people suggest if the United States would just break ties with Israel, all our problems in the Middle East would go away. This is a tired argument that buys into the propaganda of the enemies of peace, and America utterly rejects it. Israel’s population may be just over 7 million. But when you confront terror and evil, you are 307 million strong, because the United States of America stands with you.

Clearly a shot at Obama. CNN reports:

White House aides are acknowledging that this was a reference to the fact that Sen. Obama and other Democrats have publicly said that it would be ok for the U.S. President to meet with leaders like the Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmedinejad.

Funny, Bush’s own Defense Secretary said yesterday the US needs to sit down and talk with Iran, and appease them with incentives:

“We need to figure out a way to develop some leverage . . . and then sit down and talk with them. If there is going to be a discussion, then they need something, too. We can’t go to a discussion and be completely the demander, with them not feeling that they need anything from us.” — Robert Gates, US Secretary of Defense

Let’s see, where has Bush’s brand of cowboy diplomacy got us?

• The US was attacked on 9/11 after Bush ignored a string of dire and insistent warnings (he then went on vacation for a month)

• After Bush vowed to capture bin Laden, 6 months later he said he was “truly not that concerned about him” and … even after cornering bin Laden at Tora Bora, he was allowed to escape.

• Bush invaded Iraq based on lies, supported by a mass propaganda effort, and in a botched plan, didn’t provide for securing Iraq’s borders. Now there is a quagmire. A situation that the former top commander in Iraq, Gen Sanchez called: “a nightmare with no end in sight.”

• Al Qaeda has strengthened and a gov’t report lambasted the Bush Administration for having no plan to do anything about it and stated because of this incompetence, another attack could be expected.

• Iran has become emboldened and belligerent. The Middle East has become increasingly destabilized. Who knows what this could hold for future oil prices and the US economy.

Question: with this record, is Bush in a position to criticize someone else’s foreign policy?

Real Change, defined by John McCain, unlike the floating oratories rife with simple transcendental platitudes as spouted by the Obamessiah. John McCain knows why we are in Iraq, he understands that we can’t simply pull out quickly and leave that country a breeding ground for al Qaeda. From his extraordinary April 2007 VMI graduation speech…

“The war on terror, the war for the future of the Middle East, and the struggle for the soul of Islam - of which the war in Iraq constitutes a key element - are bound together. Progress in one requires progress in all. The many complex challenges we face require more than a military response. This is a contest of ideas and values as much as it is one of bullets and bombs. We must gain the active support of modernizers across the Muslim world, who want to share in the benefits of the global system and its economic success, and who aspire to the political freedom that is, I truly believe, the natural desire of the human heart. No matter how much attention their ruthless tactics receive, terrorists are not the true face of Islam. Devout Muslims in Lebanon, Indonesia, Pakistan and Egypt, Morocco, Bahrain, and in Iraq, aspire to progress for their societies in which basic human needs are met for more than the privileged few and basic human rights are respected.”The United States needs stronger alliances, coalitions, and partnerships worldwide to engage this long and multidimensional struggle. We need to pay careful attention to America’s image and moral credibility. And in this broad effort, the outcome of the war in Iraq will play a pivotal role.

We’ve made great progress in Iraq since April 2007, despite the negative and biased media’s coverage (those network and print medias that always seem sympathetic to the worst of the Leftist Proggs that have overwhelmed the Democratic party) and the continuous, nonstop whiny BDS from those same idealistic pipe-dreamers. Step aside, childe Obama, and see what future a real, grown man sees after four years of his Presidency. Mr. McCain…

“The Iraq war has been won. Iraq is a functioning democracy, although still suffering from the lingering effects of decades of tyranny and centuries of sectarian tension. Violence still occurs, but it is spasmodic and much reduced.”

Exactly in line with his reasoned speech last year at VMI. We see here the wisdom of a true patriotic American who served his country and has no qualms about defending our armed forces and their mission. None of the left’s “cut and run” policies here.

Mr. McCain’s vision for his first term includes…

- The Taliban threat in Afghanistan has been greatly reduced.

- “The increase in actionable intelligence that the counterinsurgency produced led to the capture or death of Osama bin Laden, and his chief lieutenants,” McCain said. “There still has not been a major terrorist attack in the United States since Sept. 11, 2001.”

- A “League of Democracies” has supplanted a failed United Nations to apply sanctions to the Sudanese government and halt genocide in Darfur.

- The United States has had “several years of robust growth,” appropriations bills free of lawmakers’ pet projects known as “earmarks,” public education improved by charter schools, health care improved by expansion of the private market and an energy crisis stemmed through the start of construction on 20 new nuclear reactors.

- Democrats are asked to serve in his administration, he holds weekly news conferences and, like the British prime minister, answers questions publicly from lawmakers.

Indeed, a major theme of Mr. McCain’s speech includes suggestions for bringing the country together, and eliminating the mindless partisanship that’s clouded our discourse for the past 7 years…

“I’m not interested in partisanship that serves no other purpose than to gain a temporary advantage over our opponents. This mindless, paralyzing rancor must come to an end. We belong to different parties, not different countries,”
…”There is a time to campaign, and a time to govern. If I’m elected president, the era of the permanent campaign will end; the era of problem solving will begin.”

A great goal, but Good Luck with that. The Leftist wing of the Democratic party, led by “The Scream” Dean won’t be satisfied until they’ve taken complete control of every facet of governance, bringing on the complete Ruination of the Country. We’ve seen John McCain’s outreaching to the Democrats, much of that to the chagrin of conservatives. We can expect him to continue to embrace the Democrats. What we won’t tolerate is embrace of the worst of the leftists. There is a difference, still, in degree of Democrat: Travis Childer, recently elected in Mississippi’s 1st District, is a Conservative Democrat who is pro-life and pro-gun. More of those, and the Democrats might become a worthy party, again.

But, yeah, sure, Conservatives will give Mr. McCain a chance to bring us back to the fold, and sit with Democrats at the same table.

These next few months before November are going to be interesting. I can’t wait for Obama to finally stop mouthing platitudes (hopeyness, changyness) and put something more substantial on the table, as Mr. McCain is doing today. If Obama has anything except platitudes and insipidity.

Partisanship as expressed in a strong debate is still the root of our democracy. What’s stifling to debate is the sheer volume and tone of the past seven years, the mindless BDS that’s served no purpose except to alienate fellow Americans and divide the country. If we can pull back from that, then I think everyone would be better off.

But if not, then so be it.

We have seven years of BDS as example of how to treat a leftist Democratic President. Fun times, indeed.

(… but he even lied about that)

GW Bush said this week that the election of a Democratic president could “eventually lead to another attack on the United States.”  Here’s a great review and commentary on the 5/13/08 Politico interview of GW Bush.    Well worth hearing.  Part 1  –  Part 2 

Obama in Michigan with John Edwards, 12,000+ screaming fans …. and some serious energy in the air.  (part 2 here)

Sometimes with all of the glorious acrimony that takes place at Tennesseefree.com, it’s good to sit back and listen to some good music.

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The first time I saw Derek Trucks play, he was 15 years old. He and his band were at Brothers Bar in Jacksonville, Al. where I went to school. There were probably about 50 people in the place. After the bar closed down, he and his band came over to my house and partied till about four in the morning. He jammed then, but is even better now.

Yes that’s Obama’s face, alongside Louis Farrakhan, the racist Reverend Wright, and Elijah Muhammad, founder of the Nation of Islam. No Martin Luther King jr, by the way.

Yes folks, this is the guy the Democrats think is going to win the Heartland in November.

Thank you Democrats.

Racism rears it’s ugly head

MTSU student Danielle Ross is mentioned at the the beginning of a Washington Post article on what her and her fellow campaigners have experienced while working for Barack Obama.

WaPost:

“The first person I encountered was like, ‘I’ll never vote for a black person,’ ” recalled Ross, who is white and just turned 20. “People just weren’t receptive.”

For all the hope and excitement Obama’s candidacy is generating, some of his field workers, phone-bank volunteers and campaign surrogates are encountering a raw racism and hostility that have gone largely unnoticed — and unreported — this election season. Doors have been slammed in their faces. They’ve been called racially derogatory names (including the white volunteers). And they’ve endured malicious rants and ugly stereotyping from people who can’t fathom that the senator from Illinois could become the first African American president.

This next account doesn’t surprise me. Growing up near Binghamton, NY on the PA border, we often referred to the rural PA county to our south as “Pennsyltucky.” The following account seems to confirm the stereotype:

Victoria Switzer, a retired social studies teacher, was on phone-bank duty one night during the Pennsylvania primary campaign. One night was all she could take: “It wasn’t pretty.” She made 60 calls to prospective voters in Susquehanna County, her home county, which is 98 percent white. The responses were dispiriting. One caller, Switzer remembers, said he couldn’t possibly vote for Obama and concluded: “Hang that darky from a tree!”

Read all the gory details from the emerging racist movement against Obama. I guess this was inevitable in the country that enslaved Africans and brought us the KKK.

From J.C Hawkins at the American Thinker…

“…Israel was created six decades ago, the Western democracies were returning a people to their cherished homeland where they had flourished 2,000 years before. With almost 40% of Jews exterminated in World War II, this action was the least the world could do to right the most heinous wrong in human history.At the time, the war victors contemplated a two-state solution, with an Arab state adjoining Israel. But conflict immediately broke out upon Israel’s creation, and the Jews there have been fighting for their lives ever since.”

Credit for the notion of the creation of Israel goes to Theodore Herzl, who in 1896 wrote the map for the creation of Zionism in The Jewish State…

THE PLAN

The whole plan is in its essence perfectly simple, as it must necessarily be if it is to come within the comprehension of all.

Let the sovereignty be granted us over a portion of the globe large enough to satisfy the rightful requirements of a nation; the rest we shall manage for ourselves.

The creation of a new State is neither ridiculous nor impossible. We have in our day witnessed the process in connection with nations which were not largely members of the middle class, but poorer, less educated, and consequently weaker than ourselves. The Governments of all countries scourged by Anti-Semitism will be keenly interested in assisting us to obtain the sovereignty we want.

Theodore Herzl was a Jewish German. It took another German, Adolph Hitler, with his death camps and the horror of Nazi Eugenics to spur the U.N to create Israel in 1948. From the link…

With the rise of National Socialism, the advocates of sterilization and euthanasia found ever-increasing support. More than half of Germany’s doctors joined the Nazi party. In 1935, Adolf Hitler gave his approval for the elimination of the “incurably ill.” In October 1939, Germany began its euthanasia program. This program involved virtually the entire psychiatric community and a large part of the general medical community.In August 1941, when Hitler officially stopped the euthanasia program because of outspoken criticism by church leaders and increasing public concern, German doctors and nurses had already killed at least 70,000 mentally or physically disabled people. Other than their disabilities, most of the victims were ordinary Germans citizens and non-Jews. It was not until after April 1940 that doctors began specifically targeting institutionalized German Jews .

Though the euthanasia program had been officially halted, it was secretly continued by a number of doctors committed to the cause of what was called “racial hygiene,” which would soon become the rationalization for genocide against the Jews, the Slavs and the Gypsies. The “Final Solution,” put in motion in 1942, was but a small step away.

Today, Israel has precarious footing in the Middle East. George Bush is a strong supporter of Israel; but unfortunately we are seeing the rise of Leftism and Democratic Fascism here in the United States. From Protein Wisdom, Jeff Goldstein…

“For those of you still unfamiliar with the thesis of Goldberg’s book — and with the general thematic arc of this site — allow me to note that the New Left, whose desire it was to destroy the “establishment” (often quite literally), are the heirs to both the German youth movement of the early 1900s (specifically, the Neue Schar of 1919) and, in political philosophy, the fascists, who in the US were aligned (by way both of socialism and an appeal to forging “community”) with the “Progressives.”Today, Barack Obama is running for President on the watered-down, vague, and milquetoast rhetoric of that same “activist” spirit — and not surprisingly, he is supported in his efforts by the remnants of the New Left, by modern progressives, and by the bourgeois white liberals who, during the sixties, threw their lot in with the “revolutionaries” rather than end “up against the wall, motherfuckers!” (in Mark Rudd’s famous phrase).

“Some commenters here have noted that the American people don’t care about such past associations — that the connection between Obama and the New Left, when pointed out, is a “smear” (just as it is when it gets pointed out that Black Liberation Theology is Marxist and anti-white, and in that respect carries the torch for the Black Panther movement) — and they may be right: forty-plus years onward after the brash Port Huron Statement, these one-time ostentatious radicals have learned to fold into the system like innocuous egg whites.

“But make no mistake: for many of these folks, their radicalism marked the highlight of their lives, and their lack of remorse is perfectly in keeping with their self-worth, which they tie to those frequently romanticized identities, and to the mythos of the 60s and early 70s.

“That Barack Obama is one of those liberal elites who has chosen to hob nob with domestic terrorists as a way to shore up his New Left bona fides — and cement himself as a progressive left “intellectual” whose identity markers make him a prime candidate for political success, given today’s complex racial calculus — should concern even those who have no real memory of the era of “peace and love” (and university takeovers, and race riots, and domestic bombings, and ambushes on police, and “smashing the establishment” by way of vandalism and random violence — Brownshirtism in sandals and mock-revolutionary garb played out to the soundtrack of Buffalo Springfield and Barry Maguire and the Peanut Butter Conspiracy).”

Yes, today’s Liberal Progressives have more in common with fascism than with Classic Liberalism. We see their anger, their hatred, their desire for ‘changeyness’ and we wonder if our own Nation will survive.

Israel’s fate? Again from American Thinker…

Leading Islamofascists like Ahmadinejad of Iran talk of “wiping Israel off the map” and call it “a stinking corpse.” At least no one can accuse him of subtlety. But what is really distressing is the response from the West, which can be characterized as “whatever.”Where the Left once could be counted on to stand up for Israel, it now has taken up the banner of the Palestinians. Ex-president Jimmy Carter has lent whatever remains of his tattered prestige to accuse the Israelis of human rights violations against the Palestinians. Indeed, Europe, which forever wears the stain of the Holocaust, seems indifferent at best, and downright hostile in the main, toward Israel’s right to exist.

I believe our fate here in the U.S. is ultimately tied to Israel’s fate in the Middle East. Whether we like it or not, we are Israel’s primary ally; even Hillary shocked the world two weeks ago with her statement

“I want the Iranians to know that if I’m the president, we will attack Iran,” she said when she was asked what she would do if Iran attacked Israel with nuclear weapons. “In the next 10 years, during which they might foolishly consider launching an attack on Israel, we would be able to totally obliterate them…”

Empty words from a desperate politician fighting to retain a chance at the nomination? Probably.

Enough of that worry now. The future will take care of itself.

But bottom line, we must continue to support Israel. Our fates, Israel’s and the U.S.’s, are tied, whether we realize it now or not.

Albert Einstein: belief in God is a “childish superstition.”

“The word God is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses, the Bible a collection of honorable, but still primitive legends which are nevertheless pretty childish. No interpretation no matter how subtle can change this. … For me the Jewish religion like all others is an incarnation of the most childish superstitions, and the Jewish people to whom I gladly belong and with whose mentality I have a deep affinity, have no different quality for me than all other people. As far as my experience goes, they are no better than other human groups, although they are protected from the worst cancers by a lack of power. Otherwise I cannot see anything ‘chosen’ about them.”

– Albert Einstein

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MSNBC and the AP have just called the Congressional special election for Democrat Travis Childer in Mississippi’s 1st District, one of the most solidly Republican districts in the US. A district that went for GW Bush in 2004 by 25 percentage points. Despite the millions of dollars of attack ads, despite personal campaign visits by Dick Cheney and Mike Huckabee, the Democrats pick up another congressional seat, deep in the heart of Bush country, aka… Jesus Land. This is the seat that Trent Lott once held.

Responding to this result, Mike Huckabee remarked on MSNBC, “The Republican brand is badly damaged.”

That’s three of three special elections in solidly Republican districts that have been won by Democrats. Chris Matthews remarked… “it would be like a Republican winning in the Bronx.” One of these three pickups was the former House Leader Denis Hastert’s seat.

Sorry wingnuts. GAME OVER.

UPDATE: Democrat Childers didn’t just win, he won solidly by 8 points in one of the strongest Republican districts is America. Yea! Check out this guy Greg Davis… does he look like a Republican or what?

CNN

Majority of Dems want Clinton to be V.P.

55 percent of Democrats and Democratic-leaning independents surveyed think Obama should offer the New York senator a spot on his ticket. That number is significantly influenced by Clinton’s supporters — close to 75 percent of her backers want the No. 2 spot to be offered.

Sen. Chuck Schumer said he at first didn’t think such a team was possible but now believes “it could be.”

“Hillary and Barack have both run very strong and great races, and I think they’d be a strong ticket together,” he said.

Rep. Charlie Rangel, who also backs Clinton, also put his support behind a joint ticket Monday. Speaking on CNN, the New York congressman said such a scenario would be “terrific,” adding “I hope it works out that way.”

UNSTOPPABLE.

Some think Obama will have a tough time, pointing to states like OH and FL where McSame looks competitive with Obama. With Hillary on the ticket, now leading in those states, the Democratic ‘Dream ticket’ would carry FL, OH and a landslide victory. The Republicans fear this possibility, although few of them will admit it. Particularly when it looks like a sure thing that the Dems will increase majorities in both houses and possibly approach the 60 vote filibuster breaking threshold in the Senate. (heh… Just to think, a few years ago we had Republicans drunk on power in the Senate, Frist threatening to subdue the Democrats with the nuclear option).

As a compliment to Barack, Republicans are now imitating his ‘Change’ theme. They can’t beat him, so they imitate him.

Things look tough for McSame - the perceived direction of the country, his association with Bush, a pending convention revolt by Ron Paul supporters, and Bob Barr’s entry into the race all spell doom for McSame.

Jackson Miller, government lover, is sad. He laments what he calls a missed opportunity.

In October 2005 I wrote a post asking for a higher gas tax; I wanted taxes to create $5 gas. The idea (and by no means was it my idea) was that a higher gas tax would accomplish 3 things:

1. Higher gas prices would reduce consumption, thus lowering the base price of gasoline
2. Demand for fuel efficient vehicles would increase
3. All additional gas tax revenues would have been spent developing alternatives to dependance on foreign oils and carbon burning fuel (and maybe some money could go to beefing up the national oil reserves)

Three years later we will have $5 gas, but all of the increase will be going to profits for private companies.

Oh how awful. Private companies are making profits, instead of government. Yes private companies owned by stockholders, everyday Americans participating in 401K plans, pension plans, etc. 41% of oil company stock is owned by people like firefighters and teachers in pension retirement plans, and nearly 30% are owned by mutual funds. And guess what happens when these corporations make profits? Well of course, these firefighters, and teachers all benefit. But the government does too, in that it brings in more tax revenue from these evil profit makers.

Jackson seems to think that if oil companies do not make a profit, that they will still somehow find an incentive to take the risk of spending millions each year to bring us this precious and necessary commodity.

Aw yes, the mind of a liberal. Strange thing.

Great commercial.

For all of you so stupid and blindly partisan (GoldnI comes to mind), that you actually believe John McCain being endorsed by John Hagee is the same as Barack Obama being a member of Reverend Wright’s flock for twenty years, please watch this clip of black liberal Juan Williams. I have never heard it put so well.

UPDATE: Hagee apologizes to Catholics in letter. William Donahue, President of Catholic League accepts and says “To me, it’s basically over.”

In a related note, Reverend Jeremiah Wright blames US government for inventing Sickle Cell Anemia.

Many modern liberals hate religion, and they especially hate it when church people vote Republican. But when it comes to Democrats and liberals using religion to win elections, well that’s okay. I said it best back in March 2007.

Whenever laws are passed that infringe on their libertine value system, many on the left scream “theocracy”. But oh how conveniently certain liberals bring up religion when discussing government expansion and wealth redistribution.

Yes it is okay to use religion to promote socialism, the global warming hoax, and elect Democrats.

I would be shocked if the religion haters that frequent this site, were to speak out against this ad, by Christian Marxist Barack Obama.

If you want to know how I feel about both parties pandering to religious groups, read this and also this. Otherwise, just make an ass out of yourself and argue with me against a position that I don’t hold. For an example of what I am talking about, read the comments of this post.

Politics, just like anything else, is a simple game. You look at trends, what works, what doesn’t, and then you stay away from what doesn’t. Democrats seem to have a hard time understanding this. In fact, you might even say, that to be a Democrat, is to be insane, because they continue to do the same things over and over again, while expecting different results.

As I brilliantly stated while discussing this brilliant post,

The only Democratic candidates that have won presidential elections in the last forty years have been white, southern, governors, and evangelical protestants, both Southern Baptists. Every time the Democrat Party runs somebody different, they lose, and they lose big. 2004 was a Democrat year, but the party, which has been taken over by the far left, nominated a far left Senator from the freaking northeast. Here we are in another Democrat year, and Obama, the most liberal member of the Senate, more liberal than the only Socialist, and not from the south, not white, not a governor, is the nominee. What a bunch of dumbasses you Democrats are. It is amazing to watch.

Of course William, who lives in WilliamWorld, a place where mid-May polls decide who is the next President, cited another poll showing Obama barely ahead. Woohoo, as previously stated in that post, rewind back to this same month in 1988. That’s when President Dukakis was blowing out Bush 41 by ten percentage points. Yes then, just like now, after months and months of favorable coverage, the Democratic nominee appeared to be sitting pretty.

Susan Estrich, who obviously reads this blog, has caught on to the Dukakis comparison. She asks quite wisely, “Could Obama Be Another Dukakis?”

It is a thought that sends shivers down the backs of Democrats, a name that brings to mind memories of an election lost that might have been won, against a war hero once referred to in headlines as a “wimp” who won not so much by his own strengths but because of the skill of his operatives in painting his lesser-known opponent as an out of touch “liberal” who refused to salute the flag or admit his mistakes, not to mention his supposedly unpatriotic wife.

Could Obama be another Dukakis?

Of course, being an optimistic liberal herself, Susan goes on to explain things away with right track/wrong track numbers. But the fact that she and others are able to see the comparison reveals that many Dems may be feeling a little bit of buyers remorse right now. William must be, since his defense against the truth of this electoral college map, was that Clinton, you know the one who lost the nomination to slick pretty boy, is ahead of McCain in the critical swing states of Ohio and Florida. I hate to break it to you Guitarzan, but you guys slipped up and nominated Obama, not Clinton. Currently the RCP average for Ohio shows McCain ahead of Osama Obama in every poll, averaging out to 3.4 points. In Florida, it is even worse. McCain leads Hussein in the Sunshine State by a whopping average of 9 points.

Focus on Serr8d’s electoral map. Then read this excrement from the Daily America Haters. In a twisted, we are better than everybody else, especially country white Baptists and Methodists sort of way, the Daily Kos seems to get it. Hillary was right to point out that “no Democrat has won the White House since 1916 without winning West Virginia.” Folks, the eventual Democratic nominee does not need to be doing this badly in West Virginia. In spite of the fact that they are despised by the Kosites, the MoveOn crowd and every other hate America group running the DNC, West Virginians have always been pretty solidly Democrat. Obama, who attends a church, where the preacher screams “God damn America”, will lose West Virginia in November for sure. Write it down.

And lest we not forget Obama’s little race problem. Yes, according to the liberal media, the only reason white people would vote against a black candidate that attends a black nationalist/ anti Semitic church, is because they are racists. Whatever. Like it or not, as liberal Juan Williams and conservative Pat Buchanan point out, Obama has a little problem with white folks. Pointing that out is not racist. It’s just factual. You all can bury your heads in the sand if you want, but this is the reality.

But the Williams, the Jeffrahams, and every other descendant of the Jonestown beverage committee, still don’t have enough sense to put two and two together. Bless their little hearts. Four more years of a Republican President, even if it is a RINO, just might push them over the edge. Sad, really, to be so delusional.

Born Again Voters No Longer Favor Republican Candidates

In 2004, the born again segment sided with George W. Bush, giving him a lopsided 62% to 38% preference over Democratic hopeful John Kerry.

Things look different now.

A new national survey of likely voters conducted by The Barna Group shows that the Republicans have lost the allegiance of many born again voters. The November election is truly up for grabs - and if the election were held today, most born again voters would select the Democratic Party nominee for president, whoever that might be.

The new Barna study shows that if the election were to be held today, 40% of all born again adults who are likely to vote in November would choose the Democratic candidate and just 29% would choose the Republican candidate. The remaining 28% are currently not sure whom they would choose, preferring to make their selection on the basis of the candidate than strictly on the basis of his or her party affiliation

Some evangelicals are actually expanding their view to consider the environment and poverty as ‘pro-life’ concerns. Apparently, some evangelicals actually walk the walk… instead of just walking the party line. Some evangelicals are NOT blind to facts and reason. Some can see this country is in a heap of economic trouble - worse than you think.

Then again, if you believe in the required authoritarian worship of ‘one God’ and the concept of torture (i.e. ‘hell’), Bush and the Christian religion DO have a lot in common.

From the New York Times… Tennessee is safe, it seems. Safe from falling for and completely accepting the leftist socialist sorts who would hasten our rush to the “Post-industrial Stone Age”. I for one am not ready for Al Gore’s ‘Little House on the Prairie’ economic model. Which is exactly what we will see if we allow proggtards to socialize this nation.

“Here are what the Obama and McCain campaigns now consider the true battleground states going into the fall campaign, assuming — as both candidates now do — that Barack Obama is likely to win his party’s nomination. In addition to these states, both sides have states that they say (or rather hope) will come into play in the months ahead — think New Jersey for Republicans and Georgia for Democrats — but for the time being, this is where the action is going to be.”

The President is elected by the Electoral College , not by “opinion polls“. Sneer quotes purposive.

Bob Barr, Libertarian candidate for president

Barr said neither McCain nor Barack Obama, the Democratic frontrunner, would rein in a government that he said has grown too powerful after the September 11 attacks.

Vote for Bob Barr

And … the LA Times reports that the forces of Rep. Ron Paul have been organizing across the country to stage an embarrassing public revolt against Sen. John McCain when Republicans gather for their national convention in Minnesota at the beginning of September:

In the last three months, Paul’s forces, who donated $34.5 million to his White House effort and upward of a million total votes, have, as The Ticket has noted, been fighting a series of guerrilla battles with party establishment officials at county and state conventions from Washington and Missouri to Maine and Mississippi. Their goal: to take control of local committees, boost their delegate totals and influence platform debates.

Quietly, beneath the political radar of the Republican Party establishment and mainstream media, they’re laboring at the local level. Last month Paul forces read the party rule book in Missouri and elected about a third of the delegates to the state convention that will pick the delegates to the national convention.

Noting the strength of the die-hard Paul supporters, expect a sea of Ron Paul signs and banners at the GOP convention. It’ll be great.  Hey, Paul got over a million votes, 27% in PA.

heh…

bub-bye grampa…

And this…

WASHINGTON — Americans are gloomier about the direction of the country than at any point since 1992, and Democrats have matched their biggest advantage in 25 years as the party better able to deal with the nation’s main problems, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll.

Overall, Democrats enjoy a 21-point advantage over Republicans as the party best-equipped to handle the nation’s problems, and 82% of Americans think the country is on the wrong track.

But thats ok with Roy…