[goldstategop]

Charlie Daniels Bump! He's the conservative answer to lib Willie Nelson.

Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." -Manuel II Paleologus

[Sue Perkick]

Charlie always nails it.

[Just another Joe]

Charlie has been a beacon of hope in an sea of political PC.

I'd support Charlie for President if he decided to run.

[SMARTY]

Our system is very far from perfect, but still about the best thing going. The majority elects officials and it is only when the MSM and loudmouth unelected ‘officials’ (read uneducated and selfish celebrities) begin to slam the perfectly bonified policy of a duly elected administration that we run into trouble.

[ryan71]

Thompson/Daniels ‘08!

[Puppage]

In my seventy years

Oh, man... I am get'n old. Where's my Ensure?

[sgtbono2002]

Charlie should think about backing Fred Thompson.

I think Fred is the right man for the job.

Willie Nelson is a great song writer,but all those drugs have burned out his brain. happens to a lot of liberals.

I dont know whether its being liberal that leads to drugs,or using drugs that lead to being a liberal,but the two have a definite tie in.

[jackv]

Although I agree with Charlie that these pols ought to have to answer to us instead of the talking heads, I don’t see many of “us” willing to change our minds.
The division is deep and sadly people have dug into their convictions. You cannot shed light on a closed mind. Most liberals simply do not want to see.

[STONEWALLS]

the folks that talk about a candidate that will “unify” America are stuck in the past when America was still Anglo-European-Judeo-Christian....the future is civil war....and it’s coming faster than you think.

[newgeezer]

To be concerned with the price of gas

Hmm... It's curious that he picks that issue to make his point. I wonder what he thinks politicians should do about it.

[Lil'freeper]

Perhaps someone who, instead of depending on the media to get their opinions out, would invite randomly chosen American citizens from every walk of life to sit in the press room and ask questions they wanted answered, not the stilted enquiries the agenda driven reporters ask but questions dealing with the every day problems of the rank and file citizenry.

What a capital idea!!

[Earthdweller]

Nice piece Charlie. You don’t seem to get that a large part of the MSM and the politicians work in unison as separate parts of one entity though.

[Sir Francis Dashwood]

Charlie, I love ya... But I do not agree...

Let’s have the civil war and settle this before we are all too old to fight...

[ropin71]

Thank you Charlie!

[Savage Beast]

Charlie makes some good points. For example: I will probably vote a straight Republican ticket in 2008--no matter who's on it--because I have NO respect for Democrats or trust, whatsoever, in them--and in spite of my Libertarian leanings and disillusion with President Bush and the Republican Congress!

However, I seem to feel a mellowing of the cultural divide in the U.S.

Most Americans across the political divide are strongly opposed to illegal immigration and in favor of closing the Mexican Border. This includes Leftists, even though they assume that continued illegal immigration and an open Border policy will likely favor Democrat politicians. Americans seem generally united over this issue.

Americans are also generally united in their disapproval of President Bush, albeit for different reasons. The disapproval of large numbers of Republican supporters seems to have had a slightly mellowing effect on Democrat supporters and their rage. Much of this rage was outrage over what they perceived as unfair attacks on President Clinton during his Presidency, and a desire to get even, and a consequent willingness to believe the propaganda that Democrat leaders put forth concerning a "stolen election" in 2000; outrage at preceived unfairness blinded Democrat supporters to the truth that they could otherwise have seen.

I also seem to have detected a creeping uneasiness in Leftists about the ascendancy of Islam and the decadence of the Western Left. It seems to have occurred to some of them that Muslims and the Western Right have certain things in common--for example a dislike of pornography, the coddling of criminals, attacks on traditions such as marriage and family, et al.--and that their combined forces could destroy some of the Left's sacred cows--not to mention the Left itself. This realization seems to be late in coming. One marvels that it hasn't seemed to occur to Leftists that, if Muslims take over, the destruction of the Left would be at their top of the agenda, but Leftists are by definition delusional; if they weren't they wouldn't be Leftists in the first place. It also may have occured to some of the more intelligent Leftist that in a conflict between decadence and ascendancy, ascendancy prevails, and that, whether they like it or not, the Left is Decadence.

Of course this could be only a blip. And when the 2008 election gets cranked up, everybody will choose sides again. The possibility that I will support a Democrat politician are between zilch and none.

[CindyDawg]

I’ve often thought that if President Bush had gone to the people more often he would have had a better term. All the public hears is what the media wants them to. A unifier? No. A communicator ,yes.

[PGalt]

And that's as it should be. Make the politicians who want our vote come before the public and make their case unimpeded by the media people who stand between us.

What do I think? I think that's a good idea, Charlie.