[DJtex]

RCP is not a poll, but an average of a lot of polls. That's good in a way, but it does not reflect the present. Also, for some reason there have been no polls of Texas that I've seen for the last 3-4 weeks. That's why, the recent ARG poll is important, even though ARG is not the most respected group out there.

RCP won't show the trend for Obama, if there is one, for a couple of weeks yet. I agree that Hillary takes Ohio. But she's lost 8 primaries in a row, and lost 20 of the 28 states they've competed in. Don't count New Mexico, that took over two weeks to count their cauci.

I'm coming around to McCain, who is definitely a safer candidate than Obama or Billary. I'm crossing over in Texas to mess with their process, as they've messed with ours. I was going to vote for Obama--but now, I know I should boost Hillary to keep the fight going until the Dim' convention. But I just can't do that. Billary is evil, it's unnatural, a two-headed monster that will have their marraige dynamics played out on the world stage for four years.

Someone here said to watch McCain on Larry King last night so I tuned to a network that I've not watched since they started airing 'snuff films' of our guys in Iraq. McCain looked so much better than either Hillary or Obama. I think that we sweep the floor with either of the Dim' candidates this fall, so I'm pushing Obama in Texas to kill the Clinton's once and for all.

If Hillary runs but loses, she and Bill still control the party for four more years. She might even run again. If Billary, Inc. loses the nomination in a messy, convention floor fight, then their Party is through with them, and America is better off.

[Miss Didi]

McCain has a "gift" with this FISA bill...let's hope he starts blasting the Dems now.



RUSH: The Democrats once again bit the dust on the FISA bill yesterday, which contained a clause granting immunity to the telephone companies, telecommunications companies which provided data to the president for its warrantless wiretap searching program. Now, yesterday was an opportunity because of the Potomac primary, the vote was yesterday in the Senate, and we have three senators running for the presidency. We have Senator McCain, we have Senator Obama, and we have Senator Hillary. It would have been very easy for all three to take a couple minutes off the campaign, head over to Capitol Hill, cast your vote on the very serious issue of American security. Two of the three did so. Kudos to Senator McCain. He made sure he was there while fighting off this pesky challenge from Governor Huckabee. He voted to preserve the powers of the intelligence agency in the executive branch to defend and protect this country.

Also, hats off to Senator Obama. He showed up. He voted. He voted against it. In so doing, he demonstrated he is not fit to lead this country as commander-in-chief. He has voted against every reasonable authority that has come before him in the form of legislation in terms of intelligence and protecting this country. But at least Obama showed up. At least he voted. At least he told the country he's incompetent. Mrs. Clinton did not show up. And, remember, as my friend Andy McCarthy at National Review Online points out, Mrs. Clinton had a whole lot to say way back when about Obama's "present" votes in Illinois, correct? And here she doesn't even show up to vote on the intelligence bill yesterday, the FISA bill. It was a very important set of votes, perhaps as important a set of votes as there had been since she's been in the Senate. They involved issues that go to the core of her fitness to be president, and she decided she had better things to do than her job. She was in Texas, or at least en route to Texas to make a speech last night, in which she totally ignored what had happened in the Potomac primary, did not mention Obama, did not mention the vote, just ignored it. It didn't happen. Same way she dealt with the scandals inside the White House.