Unless, he gets wise and appoints, if he wins, Rudy as his press spokesman, Boy would that be exciting!

Aside from an occasional ray of brilliance Pres. Bush and the Republicans just looked the other way every time a Wm. Jefferson type popped up on the radar screen, instead of having 14 hearings on it like Henry Waxman has been doing the last 2 years on anything he can think of that might embarrass the administration.
As I recall Bush impeded the FBI from searching Jefferson’s office, in spite of it being a proper search.

I am ready for someone with some spine in Washington representing Republicans.
If it’s a pitbull with lipstick, then I say “‘sic em.”

Regards

The brilliance of the MAD policy between the Soviet Union and the United States was the fact that it emphasized the consequences of crossing the line; both parties knew the other side would retaliate with equal or greater force and in the end, neither would win. Democrats are in the lucky position of knowing that there is nothing they cannot do, no line they cannot cross – we would never respond because we’re trying to be Caesar’s wife.

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Is anybody with an IQ above room temperature (in Celsius) under the impression that one day this will cause the Democrats to feel shame and get them to stop? Are we forgetting that the New York Times actually hired people to rifle through Chief Justice Roberts’ children’s adoption records(!) in a bid to torpedo his nomination to the Supreme Court? Does anybody here honestly believe that Chuck Schumer had absolutely no idea that his staffers had illicitly procured copies of Michael Steele’s credit report ready to pass along to some activist “journalist” at the Baltimore Sun?

I’m far from saying that we should respond to this by also resorting to these same underhanded (and in the latter case, illegal) practices. That the bulk of the Democratic Party leadership and activist base often sees nothing wrong with crossing the line does not mean Republicans should respond by doing the same. However, make no mistake, we must respond. And respond in such a way as to make it a very high risk venture for the Democrats to continue to take the low road.

But we do not. We never do. And if indeed we try to, our contingent of masochists would be the first to rush forward and demand we stop making Democrats uncomfortable … or else they would not be “bipartisan” with us, there would be no more “comity” and instead {gasp!} there would be “bickering!” So while Democrats run ads featuring burning crosses about Republicans, we should just stick to policy, with bill numbers and sponsors.

Being better than them does not mean not taking the opportunity to respond in kind when such opportunities present themselves.

Quite frankly, the guy who busies himself talking about the AMT while his opponent is running ads accusing him of being lenient towards rapists is going to lose. Sticking exclusively to the minutae of policy presupposes a different American electorate than what actually exists in reality.

I am the post-racial individual Obama has always claimed to be. my “give him some rope” comment was not racially loaded, in that I would have said it about anybody with as much a verbal diarrhea problem as Obama has. That you took it racially says more about you than me.

Whether you think Geoprge Allen was a putz or not, it doesn’t matter. Whether he actually intended a racial doesn’t matter, although I don’t think he did.

What matters is that with the macaca incident, the liberals set the ground rules. From that point on, anything that even remotely sounds racist, sexist or even just plain insensitive is a foul. In Allen’s case, it was a disqualifier.

Obama tried to ad lib, and he put his foot in it. After Palin’s lipstick and pit bull joke in her acceptance speech, the “lipstick on a pig” expression was made out of bounds. No speechwriter in his right mind would have included that remark. It underscores the fact that The Obamessiah is in deep DU DU without his trusty Teleprompter.

The ad is a good one. It continues to keep Obama on the defensive and off message. Remember that it only runs on the internet, not on broadcast or even cable TV.

It’s past time for Republicans to stop letting the Democrats reap the benefits of their double standard. It’s time to even the playing field. And it’s time for payback.

• JP

Look, EPU, I don’t know where you reside or were during his 2006 Senate run but I can tell you that in the eyes of many Virginia Republicans George Allen quickly descended from the “hopeful GOP frontrunner in 2008″ to “well, hopefully he’ll help us keep the Senate” candidate. I honestly don’t know anyone who voted for him in 2006 who did not do so holding their nose.

But nobody at RedState is running for office. We will not bow.

Well, we decided to get down in the “mud” of identity politics and under-qualified celebrity candidates whose track record doesn’t exactly match their rhetoric but who still excite the base; just like the opposition. We both get muddy but, quite frankly, I think we like it, too.

Quite frankly, I rate this entire “pig with lipstick” episode exactly as I did the “McCain’s ‘celebrity ad’ is racist” one: utter nonsense about who can be the biggest victim and the most offended.

Yeah, George Allen was that bad!

Ask ANY liberal to decode that for you.

The election would be OVER if McCain said this.

An expression like “quacks like a duck” has no racial or gender implications, for example.

“Imminent Threat” being one of the more enduring ones. “Macaca” is another one. “100 years in Iraq” was making the rounds just a few weeks ago.

The difference is that these cases, the speakers were definitely taken out of context. With Obama, it’s really 50/50 … especially if you take into account the crowd reaction.

Whether he meant it as a jab at Palin or whether he misspoke, his behavior following the statement and his quotes today about “lies and phony outrage and Swift-boat politics” and “the latest made-up controversy by the John McCain campaign” proves there is something much more sinister about this guy than many would care to admit.