This past week is Exhibit A for why I totally disagree with Newt and Rush (if he is serious) on the odds that Hillary or any Democrat will be elected president in 2008.

Every candidate running for the Democratic Party nomination for President has made statements revealing their weakness on defense. Unlike past Democrat losers they haven't tried very hard to hide their appeasement views. They have been fooled by the MSM and the 2006 election to think that a majority of Americans favor defeat in Iraq and a return to treating terrorism as a law enforcement problem.

This past week an anonymous Senate Democrat stated that since they didn't like to call Generals liars in public, that they would leave it to outside groups like MoveOn.org.

But they couldn't help themselves.

This is not the Democratic Party of Bill Clinton.

Rather, it is the Democratic Party born in the 1972 McGovern revolution; resentfully restrained in the 1990's by a DLC Clinton; enraged by Florida 2000; and emboldened by a sycophantic MSM and MSM polls into thinking the rest of America has finally come around to their historical world view that the retreat from Vietnam was one of America's greatest hours.

They will suffer the fate that McGovern, Mondale, Dukakis and Kerry suffered.

I had been growing sick of hearing the MSM and even some conservative beltway pundits marvel at Hillary's discipline and that she was positioned as a moderate on national security.

They must think Americans are stupid. Before Hillary destroyed her campaign by calling General Petraeous a liar on film this week, Hillary voted against funding the troops this year and has taken a baker's dozen positions of the war.

Her flip flops make Romney look like the Rock of Gibraltar.

2006 was not the devastating rebuke of Republicans or conservatism that many think it was. 2006 was a Year Six grievance election in which we lost a historically low number of seats. The reason we lost majorities is due to the fact that our movement is so young that we had not yet built up large enough majorities to sustain. Moreover, the Dems won by running rhetorical conservatives.

Americans were not making a decision on a Commander in Chief that wished to lose a war, and if Democrats and Republicans really believed that Americans wanted to lose they would have stopped Bush from fighting the war by now.

They haven't and they won't.

I spent 20 years in the Democrat Party knowing that we would lose every election due to being rightly perceived as weak on defense. Only after the victory over the USSR, and then only with Perot's help and a Clinton that campaigned to the right, did a Dem capture the CINK job.

No majority of voters are going to trust these Dem weenies to defend them.

Not going to happen.

Iraq or no Iraq, Americans understand that no Democrat president would have taken the steps that have been taken under this republican president to prevent further attacks.

They are willing that the President check library records if it means 3000 live.

Their will be a campaign in 2008. Inattentive voters will pay attention at that time, and just as the early polls that re-elected Carter, and elected Mondale and Dukakis were shown to be false msm coverage indicators, so will those that show Hillary or Obama being Inaugurated be shown to be irrelevant.

This past week was no surprise to me.

I knew that eventually Bill would be gone from Chappaqua long enough for Hillary to get overconfident and reveal who she really is.

A pacifist appeasing rude loather of the military.

The same Hillary that didn't allow Officers to war uniforms in her White
House office or in her presence.

The Dems will make sure we win the presidency in 2008.

Mike Gamecock DeVine @ The Charlotte Observer
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...this vignette is a perfect example of why the GOP lost its majority in Congress

[This blog is not a hit piece on McCain. I'm an issues guy. This is a hit piece on spineless Republicans. I am a Republican. No elected Republican, no not ONE, has adequately repudiated the Democrats' behavior in the Petraeus hearing]

But this vignette is a perfect example of why the GOP lost its majority in Congress despite the conservative views of a majority of Americans; why the American people have not risen up against unpatriotic attacks on President Bush and the troops for the past four yours; and why it has taken so long for President Bush and the troops to finally break thru and get more Iraqis to join the fight against the extremists lest they find themselves at their mercy if "friends respected by McCain" gained enough power to abandon the fight.

On Powerline:

John McCain was "feeling it" during his blogger phone conference today. And why not? The domestic political climate with respect to Iraq seems to have improved, and he's doing better in virtually every poll.

McCain began by calling on the Democrats to repudiate the aspersions cast by Moveon.org on the patriotism and integrity of General Petraeus. McCain reminded us that he repudiated what he considered attacks on the patriotism of Max Cleland and John Kerry. Later in the call, he declined an invitation to come down hard on the Democrats' conduct during the hearings this week. McCain said he wants to maintain a respectful relationship with the war critics in Congress, but added that they seem to have made up their minds.

Hillary, Wexler, Reid, Lantos, Hagel, Boxer etc, all called the General a liar.

Move On was supposed to serve as "cover" for Dems who didn't want to call the General a liar in public. But the Dems plus Hagel couldn't help themselves.

So now, elected Republicans serve as the substitute cover for the Dems in Congress. It’s not enough to call on Dems to repudiate Move on.

The Dems themselves need to be bluntly repudiated by elected Republicans.

Is it too much to ask that we have at least one patriotic party that will challenge unpatriotic statements by elected representatives?

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I am not easily shocked by the outrageous things Democrats say about our war efforts and haven't been since the birth of bushlied 72 hours after our invasion of Iraq.

But I'll never forget the dropping of this rooster's jaw when, soon after the third free election in Iraq some two years ago, Rep. Jack Murtha (D-Pa.) stated that he feared America's eventual withdrawal from Iraq would be seen as a SUCCESS.

That's right, he craves that America's effort in Iraq be seen by the world as failure, even if it isn't.

So it must be his worst nightmare that America is increasingly seen as winning the war, even by liberal reporters that previously opposed the invasion and that have called for our withdrawal for over two years.

The punch to Okinawa Jack's gut came today:

BAGHDAD (AP) - The top American commander in Iraq said Wednesday he was preparing recommendations on troop cuts before he returns to Washington next month for a report to Congress, and believes the U.S. footprint in Iraq will have to be "a good bit smaller" by next summer.

But he cautioned against a quick or significant U.S. withdrawal that could surrender "the gains we have fought so hard to achieve."

Gen. David Petraeus said the "horrific and indiscriminate attacks" that killed at least 250 Yazidis, an ancient religious sect, in northwestern Iraq Tuesday night were the work of al-Qaida in Iraq. That would bolster his argument, he said, against too quickly drawing down the 30,000 additional U.S. troops deployed in the first half of the year.

Read the whole AP report here.

The only thing more important than winning is that our winning be widely understood so as to deter would be potential future enemies and encourage would be potential future allies, so as to make America safer.

The Democrats who have painted themselves into a corner where American victory is bad news for them will soon face the prospect of insisting that a successful American general calling for troop reductions in the wake of victory is a liar and that while they favor troop reductions, that Americans must see their withdrawal as humiliating defeat.

One wonders if they will hire Hollywood to stage a fake helicopter scene from Baghdad.

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"One man with courage makes a majority." - Andrew Jackson

The GOP is so obsessed with being liked and admired by the inside the beltway elitists in the media that they forgot to hammer away at the Dem's desire to subsidize illegals with legal's tax money.

The Dem Party is virtually an enemy of the Country in whose legislature they serve whether the issue is war or immigration, but the GOP would rather play hall monitor and impress the press corps with a focus on the minutia of Robert's Rules of Order.

Earth to GOP: The People's House can change the rules by majority vote. Let them pass anything and denounce them for it loudly and bluntly and in moral terms that make them mad.

Expose the appeasing, open border socialist world citizens that they are.

Rather then put the American people to sleep over parliamentary Leviticusism.

Earth again to GOP: The American people agree with us on substance, so preach it.

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See links to audio here and here.

I don't think I have to explain what a sea change this is in Iraqi thinking, especially given our abandonment of them in 1991 and the 24/7 promise to al Qaeda calls for abandonment for the last 3 years by the leadership of the Democratic Party and most elected DC Democrats.

What I may need to remind some here of is who is most responsible for this sea change.

President George W. "the Liberator" Bush is responsible. He has never wavered in his commitment to keep faith with the millions of Iraqis that voted and that risk their lives daily fighting with our American and Coalition forces against al Qaeda and other forces of extremism that desire to defeat us and the forces of moderation in the Middle East.

Newt Gingrich said it best today on FNS when he challenged Russ Feingold and others in the appeasement party when he said that the left wing of the Democratic Party wants the United States to lose in Iraq, without a thought to our friends in Iraq who would be slaughtered if we left precipitously. He seemed to be trying to guilt the Dems into supporting the war, or more likely, painting the image of the mean-spirited Dems in the minds of viewers.

Critics of the Commander in Chief can carp about this or that, but it is Bush's will made America's will that is more responsible for the good news from Iraq today than any surge or change in strategy.

Like JFK said, America does things not because they are easy, but because they are hard, and our work in Iraq would have been no less hard no matter the generals, armchair or retired, we had listened to in 2003 (even if Turkey had not betrayed us).

The fact is that just by staying the course, we have broken thru the minds of many Iraqis.

Not leaving is what matters most. Showing the world that America can take a tough fight is what matters.

America never lacked for the troops to stick it out whether it was Patton's troops in WWII; MacArthur's in Korea; ours and South Vietnam's in 1973-75; ours in 1991 or ours in Somalia.

But the difference now and for the last 4 years is that we have a CINC that shares the spine that won in 1776 and since when we had to win.

George W. Bush has convinced Iraqis that we are there to stay and in so doing has enabled and inspired them to join us against the extremists in their midst.

Americans and Iraqis and many freedom loving Arabs and Muslims will forever be grateful that George W. Bush passed this way.

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How can its citizens be inspired to want to stay within its borders?

MIKE DEVINE

Special to the Observer
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"A nation without borders is not a nation."

-- President Ronald Reagan

Two months ago roughly one out of 10 Mexican citizens celebrated their nation's signature Cinco de Mayo holiday while residing in the United States. On last week's Independence Day, the American people celebrated the revolution that has made our nation the envy of the world.

Last month, we exercised the power of government by the consent of the governed, given to us by our Founding Fathers, to kill an immigration "reform" bill that could, among other things, have granted legal status, i.e. amnesty, to as many as 20 million illegal aliens living in the United States.

Fresh in the minds of the governed, but decidedly absent from the minds of too many of the political class in Washington, was the last amnesty of 3 million illegals in 1986 that mushroomed into that 20 million in just 20 years.

Polls showed that over two-thirds of voters of both political parties opposed the bill and flooded their members of Congress with e-mails, letters and telephone calls. They shouted Deputy Barney Fife's famous refrain from the old "Andy Griffith Show": "Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me."

With that in mind, just last November Congress passed a "good fences make good neighbors" bill, insisting that we see visible evidence of Washington's so-far invisible will to enforce the border.

Encouraged to leave

Do any of our leaders realize that Mexico's corrupt government encourages its disgruntled citizens (who might lead a revolution against them) to go north? The 90 percent of Mexicans still living in Mexico might have experienced more compassionate results if the disaffected who left had been required to solve their problems at home.Instead, they came to the U.S., encouraged by the desire of Big Business for cheap labor and the desire of the Democrats for a steady flow of victim voters.

America's future does not depend on cheap labor. It was only after we ended chattel slavery that we became the nation that could defeat fascism, communism and any other evil form of totalitarianism that dared to rear its ugly head against liberty.

Meanwhile, country-club Republicans would trash the indispensable rule of law in fear of forever losing the Latino vote that they have never owned. Do they so lack the courage of their convictions that they refuse to even try to persuade new voters that conservative principles and policies are the way?

American citizens repeatedly fill jobs after raids of plants employing scores of illegals. This betrays the claim that illegals were doing jobs that Americans won't do.

False accusations of racism

The ugliest part of the immigration debate has been the suggestion by many Democrats, not a few prominent Republicans and even the president himself that opposition to the poorly drafted bill was led by racists. The greatest of all ironies occurred when South Carolina's senior senator compared opponents of the bill to those in decades past who declared that "Blacks, Jews and the Irish need not apply." GOP Sen. Lindsey Graham made that assertion to a Hispanic group named "La Raza," which means "The Race."

No amount of e-mails from kooks can erase the reality that today's America is the most racially tolerant nation the world has ever seen. We know that immigrants from Mexico and elsewhere have been a part of our great Melting Pot since before 1776, but that for the ingredients of the pot to melt, there had to be the Great Lull in the 1920s and a crackdown at the Rio Grande in the 1950s.

Maybe more importantly, past immigrants didn't encounter essentially unassimilated native cultural elites in academia, entertainment and the press, nor an ambition-sapping welfare state.

Americans understand that the Shining City on a Hill cannot retain its luster if all the huddled masses of Planet Earth move here. They know that the city won't shine unless one can marvel like the Psalmist and exclaim: "Behold, how good and pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity!"

Our nation's motto is E Pluribus Unum -- out of many, one.

What Mexico needs is a new revolution that would inspire their many to want to be one within their own borders.

Mike

DeVine

Does this necessarily mean that most liberals are unpatriotic and/or want our enemies to prevail against their own country? No

But the effect of their rhetoric and votes on enemies, potential enemies, allies and would be allies is to embolden the former and discourage the latter.

Wouldn’t we love it if we saw our enemies on TV 24/7 saying that they can’t win and that they would quit if only they got their leaders in a position to surrender?

This is not new for the mainstream media or the Democratic Party. They conspired to lose the war in Vietnam by false reporting after Tet in the 60’s and betraying an ally that was winning in 1975.

They regularly objected to any assertion that the USSR was evil and opposed aid to freedom fighters against communist aggression.

They appeased Iran and the Palestinians.

Their view of bin Laden is that he needs to be captured and tried in with Miranda rights in a Ninth Circuit court, rather than that America fight the Islamist jihad that bin Laden inspired that is being waged against us worldwide, so as to prevent future 911s. They still think they can cause our enemies to stop hating us through appeasement.

Their bushlied rhetoric since the 2004 campaign and continuing has inspired more Islamists to join the fight than anything bin Laden has done since his disappearance from all but once a year cameo roles in syndication.

The MSM and the Democratic Party has American blood on their hands.

Even when I was Democrat from 1980-2000, I loathed the weakness most Democrat leaders showed to the world, and it’s the reason I always knew we would lose presidential elections until Reagan policies vanquished the Evil Empire. Its why, even after the Cold War was won, that Clinton needed Perot assists to win two elections. It’s why Kerry lost, despite the MSM 24/7 365 campaign against Bush for all of 2004.

The Dems have also been responsible for regulations that have inhibited the building of any new oil refineries or nuclear power plants and of opening up new areas for oil drilling in our country since 1978. How much would the USSR have paid and Iran and al Qaida pay today for us self inflict such harm to ourselves?

A perfect example of the moral and intellectual bankruptcy of the Democratic Party was on display when that party’s excuse for a so-called “hawk” went on Meet the Press and argued for defeat based on Bush war mistakes in the past, never once addressing what would be the consequences to America. It was all about discrediting Bush, not America’s interests.

The Democrats’ greatest fear is that Bush gets credit for an American victory in the war. As Rush Limbaugh says, the press and the Dems are so invested in defeat that it is impossible to imagine what circumstances on the ground in Iraq before January 20, 2009, would cause them to join in any celebration for the great accomplishments of our troops.

For the Dems to admit victory would doom them as the discredited brazen and pathetic party they have become.

Last week, even George McGovern himself stated that he doubts any anti-war candidate could win the presidency. He remembers the disaster of his own campaign’s landslide defeat, despite his “Come Home America” theme. He also knows of Bill Clinton’s post 911 praise of Iran as his favorite progressive regime on Earth in 2003.

Given the hostility of the Dems and the MSM to Bush and our war effort, it is a near miracle that we have accomplished so much and didn’t surrender years ago. We have the troops and the spine of their Commander in Chief to thank for that and for the fact that we can faintly see the possibility of victory now.

Bush held firm in January after the 2006 election losses and has held firm now. There have been no more 911s since 911. Given the very unlikely that 67 senators would ever override a veto of a cut in war funding, Bush can fight this war till he leaves office.

Bush is defeating the wimps at home and the enemy abroad.

Mike DeVine
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I would wager a large sum they won't and an even larger sum that no Democrat will tout this news. To defeat the foreign enemy we must also defeat the fifth column press and the appeasement Dems (and some repubs). What's sad is that I can't be positive that The White House will highlight this good news on the accomplishment of the troops either (but I suspect Tony Snow will lead with it).

Strata-Sphere highlights Zawahiri's desperate plea for more jihadist troops to enlist to fight our forces in Iraq and the al-AP's grudging admission that al Qaeda views Iraq as the central front in the War on Terror:

A new video by al-Qaeda’s deputy leader Thursday left no doubt about what the terror network claims is at stake in Iraq - describing it as a centerpiece of its anti-American fight and insisting the Iraqi insurgency is under its direct leadership.

But the proclamations by Ayman al-Zawahri carried another unintended message: reflecting the current troubles confronting the Sunni extremists in Iraq, experts said.

The Islamic State of Iraq, the insurgent umbrella group that is claimed by al-Qaida, has faced ideological criticism from some militants, and rival armed groups have even joined U.S. battles against it.

…

“Some of the developments suggest that it (the Islamic State) is more fragile than it was before,” said Bruce Hoffman, a Washington-based terrorism expert at the Rand Corp. think tank.

…

But al-Qaida in Iraq - the group that claims allegiance to Osama bin Laden’s goals - has been put on the defensive. Some Sunni insurgent groups have publicly split with it, distancing themselves from its bomb attacks on Iraqi civilians and accusing al-Qaida of trying to strong-arm their members into joining.

One influential faction, the 1920 Revolution Brigades, has openly helped U.S. forces in new offensives against al-Qaida in and around Baghdad, and some Sunni tribes have turned against it in western Anbar province.

If al-Qaeda is going to lose in Iraq, it will happen surprisingly quickly because of the fact the Iraqi street has risen up to oppose it. As the wave of Muslim rejection continues to spread in Iraq, al-Qaeda will be forced to apply even more strong arm tactics until it all its evil is exposed and the people throw it off once and for all. The same thing happened with the Nazi fascists. Their image as the undefeatable, superior human beings was shattered and all that was left was their evil actions which was as a stain no one wanted to see return. The Islamo Fascists of al-Qaeda could lose just as quickly. Do not underestimate the power of popular rejection and repulsion that happens at the end of large struggles.

Major Update: Zawahiri confirms that Iraq and our efforts in Anbar and Diyala Provinces to rid these areas of al-Qaeda and secure the support of the local people is KEY to the greater war on terror both in the short and in the long term:

He claims Iraqis are increasingly supporting the self-styled Islamic State of Iraq, proclaimed in predominantly Sunni areas by an al-Qaeda affiliate.

The success of the Islamic State, he says, is crucial to the revival of a global, pan-Islamic caliphate.

No one needs to have doubts about our present administration twisting intelligence or the poor track record of intelligence in the ME. We can and should recognize the words and concerns of our enemy when he is out trying to shore up support and avoid a stunning loss. He admits the current focus will either boost or cripple al-Qaeda’s plans, and he sees problems already:

Zawahiri underlines the need for unity in Iraq - an implicit acknowledgement that splits have opened up in Sunni ranks.

In this I have no issues in believing in Zawahiri’s concerns. - end update

al-Qaeda’s number 2 leader Zawahiri is out begging (or threatening) the Muslim street to rise up against the US and the West and to stop rising up against al-Qaeda. In a tacit, if vague, admission al-Qaeda’s brutality has turned the tide in Iraq against al-Qaeda Zawahiri pleads for unity - knowing full well what the result will be if things continue on:

Al-Qaida’s deputy chief called on all Muslims to join the holy war against the West.

“May Allah pluck out your eye if you haven’t yet seen that jihad is an individual duty,” the transcript quoted al-Zawahri as saying.

…

He also encouraged Iraqis and Muslims in general to show greater support to the Islamic State of Iraq, an al-Qaida insurgent front in the country, despite detractors saying it lacks “necessary qualifications,” the SITE group quoted al-Zawahri as saying.

Al-Qaida’s deputy leader did not name these detractors, but implicitly acknowledged some problems.

“The first thing which our beloved brothers in Iraq must realize is the critical nature of unity,” al-Zawahri was quoted as saying. He also called on Kurds from northern Iraq to join forces with insurgents.

It was not clear what problems al-Zawahri was alluding to, but a number of major Sunni Arab tribes have turned against the Islamic State in recent months and have cooperated with US forces in the Iraqi provinces of Anbar and Diyala.

It’s not clear? You think al-Qaeda cares about the ‘detractors’ from the West? Gimme a break! The tape reeks of faux bravado trying to cover up a desperate last ditch call to save al-Qaeda from the anger of the Iraqi Muslim street.

Read it all and smile for America:

Zawahiri Begs Iraqis To Join A Losing al-Qaeda

And let's report tomorrow on what page each of our local papers reports this story and the headline they choose.

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I have always been patriotic.

I shed tears upon hearing the National Anthem, speeches quoting the Founders, Lincoln, FDR, etc.

But the patriotism I had before 911 doesn't compare to the patriotism I feel to my bones everyday post 911. The patriotism I feel now is akin to the way one's feelings about one's parents changes over time after they die. At some point you are shocked and stunned in a very desperate way with the fact of who they were, how so very precious and important they were, and how much they loved you, and you can hardly bear the fact that you can't repay it more now that you realize just how important they were.

My parents were both passed away before 911.

Mother when I was 17, but Dad, just two year before 911. To not be able to talk to Dad and watch ballgames was already a source of great pain, but then to not be able to see him now.

And then it struck me.

I looked around at America in a whole new way, especially those in my communities and State, but also the whole country. I saw the country that my Mom and Dad lived and died in and left their mark upon. I was one of their marks, and this was my country.

And others wanted to destroy my country. To cause my Dad to die all over again. To cause all of us and all we have been, are and will be, to die, utterly, and forever.

The Cold War was never real to me. Probably because I was in a Carter-like liberal denial.

After my 2000 conservative epiphany, though, when I read many books about Reagan and what he faced, I now realize how dangerous was the world I sleepwalked thru while Reagan won the war.

But on 911 and after, it really hit me just how much I loved this country and would do anything to preserve it for posterity.

I thought back to a College Professor that I didn't understand at the time. He would tear up talking about sitting on the banks of the Panama Canal watching our Boys go to fight Japan after Pearl Harbor. I didn't understand then. I was a young spoiled American that just took all this for granted. WWII was history and it had to be that way....

Well, when the WTC towers fell, I knew that things would be like they would be only if we fought and won. And what was to happen post-911 wasn't in a history book.

It was and is in us. George W Bush is one of us, and he has in him what many of us have in us. Hopefully a majority. I am confident it is a strong majority. But there is a strong minority that does not have in themselves what Bush and I and Millions have that will not let us ever stop fighting to save this country, and that is a love so deep that to live is to love this country.

It is THE emotion.

The emotion that animates a man to want to live. That cares about his fellow man. After the fall, and more specifically, after man united under one government totally alienated from God living in pure evil, God separated man into nations so that evil would not compound exponentially. So that nations could check each other and not be as likely to think himself God.

So it is God's plan that men look after themselves in groups that take care of themselves first and protect themselves from others. For when man is not so separated, he is less able to see God.

Patriotism is really a barometer to determine if a man is truly alive in God's world. Is a man's life connected with others or is he an Island to self?

This patriotism I have post-911 is different in kind from what it was pre-911. I think about this love everyday. And I guess it explains my complete and total contempt for people that show that they do not love this country by what they say and do.

They say they love this country, but what they really love is themselves and an imaginary country that never was and never will be. They are not connected to our people by love.

No.

They are connected to us and this land; more like a Scientist is to guinea pigs, or doctors to patients, or a hotel patron to the Hotel staff, or curious ex-patriots from Utopia nation. We just don't measure up to them. They just can't accept that this is as good as it gets. They hate life because they are surrounded by Neanderthals compared to them. They hate their parents for not fixing the world before they were born into it. They reject the notion that man cannot perfect himself thru social structure. They reject the notion that war is ever necessary. Send a few detectives to Tora Bora.

It is people like these that look at 5000 years of history in which there has always been war and in which civilizations like them fell to barbarians, and yet come away clueless and in denial. If only people would just do right, then I might could love them...

Well, they wait to love and so are not prepared to fight.

And if we are to preserve this nation we love, we will have to defeat the Left just as surely as we have to defeat the Jihadists.

God Bless America on this most special of America days.

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I have spent plenty of bandwidth here, at The Minority Report and at Race 4 2008, refuting the unwarranted 2006 born doom and gloom and predicting victory for any Republican nominee over any Democrat nominee in the '08 presidential election.

I have been down this road before in the 80's and I look at 1972 and 2004 to reinforce my confidence. The fact is that no matter how far the GOP strays from its conservative principles in many areas, the Democrats insist on owning defeat in war. They simply refuse to deter enemies of the US that want to kill us all.

In 2004 when the Iraq War was going much worse than prior to the now succeeding surge; prior to the three Iraqi elections and Constitution ratification and 12 months after a 24/7 365 MSM Dem bushlied offensive, President Bush was re-elected in a landslide when Americans focused on him and the liberal with the global test, rather than the between election choice of Bush and an imaginary 20/20 hindsight perfect Caesar.

Let a liberal from the 60's remind us what the last McGovern did under circumstances much worse than today.

Richard Cohen, liberal columnist for The Washington Post gets it too, in today's How the GOP Could Win:

There are two ways to predict the winner of the 2008 presidential race: Check the polls or read some history. The polls tell you that with George Bush's approval ratings abysmally low; with the war in Iraq becoming increasingly unpopular; with the GOP lacking a dominant candidate; and with the party divided over immigration, social issues and even religion ( Mitt Romney's Mormonism), the next president is bound to be a Democrat. History begs to differ.

The history I have in mind is 1972. By the end of that year, 56,844 Americans had been killed in Vietnam, a war that almost no one thought could still be won and that no one could quite figure out how to end. Nevertheless, the winner in that year's presidential election was Richard M. Nixon. He won 49 of 50 states -- and the war, of course, went on. Just as it is hard to understand how the British ousted Winston Churchill after he had led them to victory in Europe in World War II, so it may be hard now to appreciate how Nixon won such a landslide while presiding over such a dismal war.

And let Cohen echo Gamecock's tale on McGovernization and 2004:

Maybe more to the point, most Americans did not endorse the way the Democrats would handle the war -- nor the way the antiwar movement was behaving. Nixon seized on those sentiments and, in a feat that historians will be challenged to explain, characterized George McGovern as something of a sissy. In fact, the Democratic presidential nominee was a genuine World War II hero, a B-24 pilot with 35 combat missions under his belt and a Distinguished Flying Cross on his chest. Nixon, in contrast, had served during the war but never saw combat. He had, however, seen the polls.

This is similar to what happened in the 2004 campaign. The Bush-Cheney ticket consisted of two Vietnam slackers. George W. Bush had served in the Air National Guard, and Dick Cheney had obtained five draft deferments. Their opponent was the much-decorated John Kerry-- Silver Star, Bronze Star and three Purple Hearts. Yet during the campaign, the Republican ticket and its allies in the Swift boat veterans movement managed to paint Kerry as a quivering liar. The character attack was so bold, so outrageous, that it of course worked.

Read it all, as Cohen comes close to predicting Democratic Party defeat and most definitely provides the GOP with a surefire blueprint for victory and see a previous Rooster Crowing on the subject:

Obama, Democrats are Out of the Mainstream Liberal McGovernites

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As a then objective Democrat Party activist during the 2000 primary season and eyewitness to the post-New Hampshire, pre-South Carolina primary, I know first-hand that McCain lost in S.C, due to his stands on issues and failings of character.

Contrary to the McCain-Hardball-Matthews-Fineman fiction that McCain lost in SC, after swamping the Establishment's Bush in NH, due to Karl Rovian slanderous telephone push-polling plants in the SC boonies, I watched McCain self-destruct due to his own non-straight talk on abortion, the SC Confederate flag compromise and taxes.

He did not lose because a self-described GOP loner made slanderous statements about McCain during phone calls.

McCain was discovered (by the Late Rev. Jerry Falwell and CBN Founder and President, Pat Robertson) to have told California republicans during the summer prior to the SC primary that he would not support a Supreme Court justice that would overturn Roe.

McCain then slandered all conservative Christians when he got called out.

McCain equivocated on the flag issue as Bush decisively said the issue was for the state of SC to decide. McCain was more concerned with future invitations to appear as a co-star on Sunday morning TV.

Finally, McCain voted against tax cuts, while Bush endorsed tax cuts.

The slander against my state prompts me to right this "I told you so" column. South Carolinians did not reject McCain because he has a non-Caucasian child.

That was a bigoted lie.

South Carolinians reject Roe v. Wade as bad law, favor tax cuts, honesty and decisiveness, and reject slander based on uninformed and dishonest characterizations of the black caucus endorsed Confederate flag controversy.

Some contend that McCain's stand on the immigration bill is "principled." It may be. But the manner in which he follows principle leaves much to be desired if it is.

Whether it’s cursing out colleagues who dare offer amendments to his back room deal, cursing in resignation at the prospect of building a fence, or stating that we won't build a fence when his own bill says we will, we can do without that kind of principle.

Even the MSM is having a hard time trying to hide the fact that McCain's polls are dropping due to immigration and not his consistent support for Iraq War, as they nearly always say that his downfall is due to his stands on both issues.

The facts show that McCain's fall occurred only after the secret immigration, Grand Compromise was unveiled and his VP, Lindsey Graham compared border security conservative republicans to supporters of Jim Crow laws and "no Jews or Irish need apply" sign hangers.

This rooster crowed warnings that McCain's SC support in earlier polls would not stand up, as they were attained due to relative name recognition, the lack of a Bush in the poll, and the inclusion of many democrats that can vote in an open primary.

One Rooster crowing confirmed. One to go.

I believe that Romney will finish no lower than second in the 2008 SC primary.

At present, I lean to Giuliani, ever so slightly, but am pleased with Romney, Thompson and Hunter.

It’s the issues that drive conservatives, which is one of the main reasons I left the Democrat Party.

Mike Gamecock DeVine @ The Charlotte Observer
"One man with courage makes a majority." - Andrew Jackson
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From Michael Ledeen at NRO's The Corner:

Several folks with time on their hands wrote in to point out that Lee lost the war. As if that had anything to do with the price of eggs. It's the thought that counts, folks. But if you only count winning generals, how about Sherman? This came in over the transom:

"I hate newspapermen. They come into camp and pick up their camp rumors and print them as facts. I regard them as spies, which, in truth, they are. If I killed them all there would be news from Hell before breakfast."

- Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman

Prior post quoting a saint:

Just got this from the wonderful Fred Singer, who puts out a terrific weekly e-mail on energy questions—mostly deflating the global warmers. In it, he provides this gem:

It appears we have appointed our worst generals to command forces, and our most gifted and brilliant to edit newspapers! In fact, I discovered by reading newspapers that these editor/geniuses plainly saw all my strategic defects from the start, yet failed to inform me until it was too late. Accordingly, I'm readily willing to yield my command to these obviously
superior intellects, and I'll, in turn, do my best for the cause by writing editorials - after the fact.

Robert E. Lee, 1863

Mike Gamecock DeVine @ The Charlotte Observer
"One man with courage makes a majority." - Andrew Jackson
The HinzSight Report
The Minority Report
Race 4 2008