Just when a near-perfect storm of unpopular Democratic ideas - from massive health-care reform to terrorist show trials, not to mention global-warming hype - is coagulating over 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. Wow. Kathleen Parker talking about global warming hype?
Just when the GOP was gaining traction after gubernatorial victories in Virginia and New Jersey . . . Republicans perform a rain dance at their own garden party.
Thus, some conservative members of the party have come up with a list of principles they want future candidates to agree to or forfeit backing by the Republican National Committee.
The so-called purity test is a 10-point checklist - a suicide pact, really - of alleged Republican positions. Anyone hoping to play on Team GOP would have to sign off on eight of the 10 - through their voting records, public statements or a questionnaire. The test will be put up for consideration before the Republican National Committee when it meets early next year in Hawaii. It's a 'suicide pact' because she doesn't agree with any of the points.
Each of Bopp's bullets is so overly broad and general that no thoughtful liberal person could endorse it in good conscience. Some are so simplistic as to be meaningless. As just one example: "We support victory in Iraq and Afghanistan by supporting military-recommended troop surges." What does that mean? It means, as opposed to the Commander in Chief, who can't seem to make up his mind about following the recommendation of the guy he put in Afghanistan.
Do we support all troop surges no matter what other considerations might be taken into account? Do we take nothing else into account? Does disagreement mean one doesn't support victory? That would probably depend on how you define "victory", Kathleen. Victory is better than going home with our tails between our legs, Kathleen. We tried that once in a place called Vietnam. It took a while to get ourselves right after that, and longer to get other countries to trust us again.
Whatever the intent of the authors, the message is clear: Thinking people need not apply. The formerly elite party of nuanced conservatism might do well to revisit its nonideological roots. It's from the Washington Post. What did you expect? Just what you'd expect alright. Every political party has a core set of principles. You want to be a 'big tent' party, at least to 50% plus one, but the tent isn't so big that you try to recruit people who don't believe in your core principles (right, Dede?). Otherwise you're not a party but a social club, and social clubs don't win elections.
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there's no room for Obama-lickers in the GOP tent Kathleen. Take your stained dress and go full-Donk
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Give the lass some credit. It's a step up from her previous magnum opus suggesting that Obama and Edwards make out after Edwards threw what little support he had to Teh Won's camp.
Not much of one, but hey....progress comes in baby steps sometimes. In a few years, she may approach the confused brilliance of MoDo.
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Excerpt, Page 144, Inside The Revolution, Joe C. Rosenberg.
In 2007, the Pew Research Center published the largest and most comprehensive study of Muslim American opinion ever done, involving nearly sixy thousand interviews with Muslim Americans conducted in English, Arabic, Farsi, and Urdu. The study, entitled "Muslims in America; Middle Class and Mostly Mainstream." found that there are an estimed 2.35 million Muslims in the U.S. and that they are "largley assimilated, happy with their lives, and moderate with respect to many of the issues that have divided Muslims and Westerners around the world." The stuy also found that "Muslims in the United States reject Islamic extremism by larger margins that do Muslim minorities in Western European countries." For Example, nearly seven in ten Muslims in America (68 percent) had a "somewhat unfavorable" or "very unfavorable" view of al Qaeda.
This is good news, to be sure. But in the current environment, it must be asked: why was it not 100 percent? Deeply troubling, in fact, was that fully 5 percent of all Muslims in America admitted to the pollsters that they had a favorable view of al Qaeda. This included 7 percent of American converts to Islam and 9 percent of Afrian-American Muslims. Moreover, nearly three in ten (27 percent) said the either didn't know or refused to answer questions about their view of al Qaida. Out of 2,350,000 Muslims, this means that there are at least 117,500 Muslims inside the U.S. who like what Osama bin Laden and his colleagues are doing and have a favorable view of their terrorist networks. If those who refused to answer the question were disguising their own support for al Qaeda, there could b another 600,000 or more Radical Muslims or Radical-leaning Muslims or sympathizers inside the country.
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FREEREPUBLIC + OTHER are repor that FOUR WA State police officers were shot and killed in what may be a pre-planned "ambush" at a local coffee shop. The Officers were repor wearing thier bullet-proof vests and getting ready to go on duty.
Also, INTERFAX > EIGHT MORE BOMBS DEFUSED IN DAGESTAN AND CHECHNYA.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
