Themes and Memes

1) "Whoever wins in 2008 will be a one-term candidate anyways.”
America is in MUCH BETTER SHAPE than the media and the Democrats want people to believe. I am sure that once Obama is elected and even before he takes office , the media will inform us of all the good news that has been going on for years that they have held back.

2) “There is no way any president can fix a 3 Trillion dollar housing bubble;”
It is getting fixed already. We are not even in recession due to this unwinding. this is not as bad as the internet bubble burst of 2000 and we navigated that from 2001 to 2003.
Bush was hit with a burst bubble, recession *and* 9/11 in his first year. Within a few years we navigated through it all, he passed tax cuts that kicked off 5 years of high growth and we took the fight to the terrorists in Afghanistan.

3) ” the runaway inflation (which is only at its beginning given the current run-up in commodities);”
speaking of bubbles, commodities is the next one. You foolshinly fail to consider that since the commodities have already risen in price, they are mainly priced in already to inflation. Oil for example is way above a sustainable price and will retreat sooner or later to a sub-$100 price.

4) ” the state budget crises that will among simultaneously lower the quality of K-12 education and increase the cost of higher eduction;” - education quality has little to do with funding (which is more than adequate) and more to do with standards and educational excellence. We can simply improve massively by passing school choice programs in all 50 states; this gets parents involved, it can lower education costs by 20-30% (we waste about 40% of education funding on overhead); also, defunding most of Dept of Education could save billions yet improve education quality.

Elect fiscal conservatives if you want states to navigate through dips in income properly. Leftist governors like granholm in Michigan just raise taxes, which drives business out of state, which makes the hole bigger.

5) ” unwind the war in Iraq;”
- We are already winning in Iraq. If McCain is elected, he could wrap it up in under 2 years and give Iraq the full lead role, successfully ending the war and paving the way to peace in Iraq.

6) " provide universal health care in the face of a recession;” - USA already has universal health care of sorts; you go to an emergency room, you get care. The trick is to provide access at lower cost. we can have lower health insurance costs by electing McCain and implementing his plans, he has the best plans on healthcare. allow people to buy health insurance from any state and you cut the cost of health insurance tremendously.
Less regulation leads to lower costs; the real problem is healthcare industry is overregulated. All the Democrats want to do is regulate more and more, which makes it worse and worse.


7) "Fix immigration"
Obama’s positions on immigration are simply horrible: He is for driver’s licenses for illegal aliens, he filibustered the border wall; he watned even more ‘chain migration’ and has absolutely NO SOLUTION to end illegal immigration … oh, I take that back, he supports 100% amnesty, so he basically wants to surrender to the problem. And he supported a tax for UN global programs. See, Obama is really a status quo socialist with no real change or fix to illegal immigration. Rather, Obama wants to give away the store, sock it to the taxpayers and call us racists if we whine about it or call him the leftist that he is.

8) "Obama can unite this coutry"
National Journal ranked Obama the MOST LIBERAL Senator in 2007. Obama is to the LEFT of Dukakis, Gore and Kerry. And has fewer accomplishments and expereince compared with all three.
Obama is the weakest, most leftist, and least accomplished nominee that a party has put forth in many many years. he is the least deserving to win of any nominee in a long time.


9)“Democratic bullshit didn’t cost 4000+ lives and 650 billion dollars, or make the entire West much more dangerous and less free for everyone.”

LOL. 5 or 6 Democrat BS talking points in a single sentence. Surely no Republican can outrun that amount of BS.

Democrat BS like Carter’s foreign policy and Clinton’s ‘wall’ of separation that kept us clueless about AQ’s intentions madethings more dangerous. Deposing two of the worst govts in the worlds - the Taliban and Saddam Hussein’s regime - have been beneficial to long-term peace and stability.

USA has spent $2.7 trillion in past year, or about $12 *trillion* in the past 5 years, so the cost of liberating Iraq from Saddam and making it a democratic nation free from Al Qaeda is not more than 5% of the Federal Govts expenses. We hear nary a peep from the leftists about the waste, boondoggles etc. from that other 95%. This is all about the desperate and failed attempts to (a) lose a war that is on its way to being won and (b) gain power through fear and demonization, which takes us back to the point of that article.

Attacking Bush over his response to 9/11, which was overall a far better response than previous administration reactions to earlier terrorist attacks, is nothing more than meaningless political posturing.

As for Iraq, Bush is blamed for a war where no WMDs were found, and yet prior to the war, Democrats from hillary Clinton to John kerry were insisting along with everyone else that they were there. So much for Bush keeping Clinton’s CIA chief - a ‘slam dunk’ mistake. And Saddam’s intent to develop WMDs was there. It’s a typical 20/20 hindsight call. Yet it is the Democrats who want to lose the war unnecessarily now, evading completing plain facts such as - Al Qaeda has been in Iraq fighting, and that is where the war on terror is being waged, like it or not.

11) “When Bush was given the news of the events of 9/11, he looked like a rabbit caught in the headlights.”
On the contrary, the President was on top of the situation, gave a national address that evening and an historic speech 9 days later, and within days of 9/11 the genesis of the response, to take out the Taliban, took shape. Within 75 days, the taliban was out of power. You may want to get educated instead of sipping Michael Moore’s swill.

12) “and then unleashing the might of the US military on a country that had nothing to do with 9/11 - “
The Taliban in Afghanistan had allowed Al Qaeda training camps. they had everything to do with 9/11, that is why Bush took them out. Saddam was a sponsor of terrorism for 2 decades with friendly contacts with AQ, so the ‘nothing to do with 9/11’ is simplistic talking points, not the whole story.

13) "how much has oil gone up?”
The price of oil is up. The price of DRAMs and cellphones is down. American productivity is up. Unemployment is around 5%. Life is good in USA, so long as you dont have an 80 mile commute in an old cadillac or screwed up by buying zero down in Cali at the height of the housing bubble. More to the point, Pelosi in 2006 promised to lower gas prices. The Democrats who won the Congress failed; they could have voted for more drilling but the Democrats blocked it.