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Democrats are sinking fast…

A new USA Today Gallup survey of registered voters shows Democrats now lead Republicans by just three percentage points — 48 to 45 — in a generic ballot preference for Congress. That number is down from a consistent double-digit Democratic lead over the past year and an 11 point advantage at the beginning of this month.

When likely voters are included, Republicans actually lead Democratic candidates by five percentage points — 50 to 45.

Charlie Gibson’s Gaffe…Charlie Gibson didn’t know what the Bush Doctrine is, today.

Informed her? Rubbish.

The New York Times got it wrong. And Charlie Gibson got it wrong.

There is no single meaning of the Bush doctrine. In fact, there have been four distinct meanings, each one succeeding another over the eight years of this administration — and the one Charlie Gibson cited is not the one in common usage today. It is utterly different.

He asked Palin, “Do you agree with the Bush doctrine?”

She responded, quite sensibly to a question that is ambiguous, “In what respect, Charlie?”

Sensing his “gotcha” moment, Gibson refused to tell her. After making her fish for the answer, Gibson grudgingly explained to the moose-hunting rube that the Bush doctrine “is that we have the right of anticipatory self-defense.”

Wrong.

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[Today’s 4th iteration of the Bush doctrine is]..the idea that the fundamental mission of American foreign policy is to spread democracy throughout the world. It was most dramatically enunciated in Bush’s second inaugural address: “The survival of liberty in our land increasingly depends on the success of liberty in other lands. The best hope for peace in our world is the expansion of freedom in all the world.”

This declaration of a sweeping, universal American freedom agenda was consciously meant to echo John Kennedy’s pledge in his inaugural address that the United States “shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, in order to assure the survival and the success of liberty.” It draws also from the Truman doctrine of March 1947 and from Wilson’s 14 points.

Charlie Gibson and ABC were “out for blood”, but that may backfire.

The double-standard Gibson applied to Palin, compared with the uncritical media platforms repeatedly offered to Obama, who has had zero executive experience running anything, was especially striking. ABC and Gibson focused on Palin as if she were running right now for the presidency rather than the vice presidency. He and other media pundits, by contrast, have never asked the Democratic vice presidential nominee, Sen. Joe Biden of Delaware, if he has ever had to make a decision on anything.

The press has lost it’s credibility. Irregardless of the MSM’s bloodlust and the obvious double standard, Americans see in Sarah Palin and John McCain strong advocates for real change, not the rubber stamp of Obama and his empty messages. Polls show strong momentum for the McCain — Paulin ticket, even in the all-important electoral college tabulations.

Oh, but Sarah Palin loses the ‘plastic slut vote’.

Heh. Pamela Anderson’s vote, and that psychotic MTSU professor’s vote, Obama can have. John McCain and Sarah Palin do have much higher standards than Barack Obama, after all, and do espouse values BHO has never had.