H/T to Drudge
Breitbart is reporting that Colmes is leaving Hannity and Colmes.

This begs the question…who will replace Colmes?

Promoted from the diaries by Erick

Lately there seems to be a lot of confusion as to what a Conservative is and is not. Some seem to think it has to do with abortion or taxes or national security. Well the truth is that conservatism is not about any given issue, rather conservatism is about principles.

Before we go any further I believe it would behoove us to go over a bit of terminology that is thrown about too often without people understanding thier meanings. the terms I am refering to are Issues, Policies, and Principles.

First let’s deal with Issues.

An Issue, for the purpose of Politics, is something that is a cause of dispute. Issues come and go, some last longer than others, but all issues are fleeting in the long term. Some issues we deal with today are abortion, international terrorism and slowing or failing markets.

Next we have Policies.

Policies are the constructs that we create to deal with any given issue. Policies of today include the ESCR Ban, GWOT, and TARP.

Last but not least we have Principles.

Principles are what guide us in the formation of Policy on any given Issue. All political groups have their set of principles that guide them, but not all principles are equal.

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I know this has nothing to do with politics and feel free to remove it if I am abusing my RedHot privileges, but this looks great!!

Today I recieved an email from RNC Chairman Mike Duncan encouraging me to reflect on why I am a Republican and to share my input. In order to do so they have put up a site called Republican for a Reason. I encourage all of us to participate on this site.

The site allows you to post 2000 character text posts on a variety of topics. Also it allows you to upload video post, for those of you with pretty faces…;^). Additionally users can rate posts on a scale of 1-5 stars. This, to me is the most important part of the site. This is an opportunity for conservatives to create a grassroots groundswell that cannot be ignored.

Already the site has some comments condemning evangelicals and conservatives in general, but there is hope as most of the 5 star comments appear to be in favor of conservatism.

So I am hoping that you will all take a gander, make your voice heard and give out some stars to the conservative posts. After all if we don’t take this opportunity to speak out now, we may be silenced for a long time to come.

H/T to Drudge for this link.

Apparently some are planning to promote a National holiday for Barack Obama. This is absolutely ridiculous. In my life span we have demoted Pres. Washington and Pres. Lincoln to being lumped in with all the other Presidents while promoting Martin Luther King above all others who fought for civil rights for all people, not just African Americans. Now, before he has issued one Executive Order, not to mention, even been inaugurated, there are some who are planning to promote him above all others. Shameful.

The point I was making was that the Journalists were attacked for trying to expose this. They were trying to be helpful and were met with violence. This should not be since The One was elected…we’re all supposed to be friends now. After further review, I probably should have let this one go in the trash heap.

60 Minutes Reporters Attacked in China

Shouldn’t China now understand that we only have their best intentions in mind? After all didn’t HOPECHANGEHOPE win on Tuesday Night?

In the aftermath of the utter failure of the McCain campaign, and the Republicans in general, to come with and understandable and comprehensive plan of how we will govern, I decided to look back on to the giants whose shoulders we should be standing. I will warn you right now that this is a very long diary and it is unequivocally conservative. It is my opinion that this should be the starting point for the road forward. I looked back to the Republican Party Platform for 1980. I went through the entire thing and subtract some and added some based on what I believe are still issues and what I believe needed to be updated. Surprisingly you will find that not much has change, but isn’t that always the way it comes out. Have at it.

Free Individuals in a Free Society

Properly informed, our people as individuals or acting through instruments of popular consultation can make the right decisions affecting personal or general welfare, free of pervasive and heavy-handed intrusion by the central government into the decision making process. This tenet is the genius of representative democracy.

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