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Some Thoughts on Last Night
Commentary Magazine ^ | May 7, 2008 | Peter Wehner

Posted on 05/07/2008 1:07:59 PM PDT by Jbny

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To: expatpat

We know Mccain won’t fight! Good lord he is weak in the attack dept!


21 posted on 05/07/2008 1:38:38 PM PDT by LYSandra
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To: Owen
McCain is a moderate centrist with years of the label “independent maverick” on him.

McCain's a flippin' socialist - just not quite to the degree of his opponent.

22 posted on 05/07/2008 1:39:16 PM PDT by meyer (Still conservative, no longer Republican)
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To: Jbny
Hillary is now over the rough part. She has nothing but major victories now in front of her until June 3. She will play up each one as though it were the biggest state in the Union.

Then she will feed the supers the October surprise information that she has been holding back on Obama.

She's in it to win. If she weren't she wouldn't have loaned herself another six million or whatever it was.

23 posted on 05/07/2008 1:43:29 PM PDT by SampleMan (We are a free and industrious people, socialist nannies do not become us.)
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To: LYSandra

He hasn’t had to attack. His VP will do the attacking.

Sarah Palin?


24 posted on 05/07/2008 1:46:01 PM PDT by TexanToTheCore (If it ain't Rugby or Bullriding, it's for girls.........................................)
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To: agere_contra

Do you think Billary are working behind the scenes to get the super-delegates to change their minds?

Also, once Hillary said that, technically speaking, the pledged delegates aren’t legally required to vote for the candidate they are pledged to. So, in the Clintonian world, they might try to pick off enough pledged delegates to throw the convention up for grabs.


25 posted on 05/07/2008 1:49:33 PM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: Jbny

The writer of this article appears to be posing as a savant. He brings to mind that compound German word, “Wolkenkuckucksheim” or “Cloud Cuckoo Land”

For Mr. Wehner, denial ain’t just a river in Egypt.

BTW, Petey, I’m betting 10 or less for BO.


26 posted on 05/07/2008 1:52:27 PM PDT by Panzerlied ("We shall never surrender!")
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To: Slapshot68

The degree of difference between them is like Stalin and Hitler. At least obama is naive and will make more mistakes with opportunities to become another Carter. Hoping for another clinton Whitehouse? Come on.


27 posted on 05/07/2008 1:56:15 PM PDT by stevio (Crunchy Con - God, guns, guts, and organically grown crunchy nuts.)
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To: Jbny

Barrack Obama may be the democrat nominee for president, but until he wraps it up with a needed number of delegates, the race goes on. And so it should! Isn’t it bad enough that the democrats have nullified the voters’ preferences with the power of the ‘super-delegates?’ Isn’t it enough that the democrat party has given delegates independent power to overrule the voters’ poll booth preferences? Actually, when you think about it, the democrat party rules look a lot like the rules of Stalinist Russia. What real Americans need to ask is, are these the people we want at the head of our government? Are these the people we want in charge of our national defense? Are these the people we want making decisions about our health care? Are these the people we want deciding on our taxes, on our civil rights, on our ‘pursuit of happiness?’


28 posted on 05/07/2008 2:11:46 PM PDT by Continental Soldier
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To: stevio

That’s the analogy I’ve been using the past few months.


29 posted on 05/07/2008 2:12:48 PM PDT by 2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten
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To: meyer

Ahh, so it’s a matter of degree.

Well, of course it is. All such things are a matter of degree. Candidates are rightward of others. Candidates are leftward of others. And one optimally supports the rightmost candidate who is viable in the general election. That won’t be Obama.

It doesn’t matter if people hold their nose. It doesn’t matter how forcefully they punch a chad. All that matters, ever, is the numbers. One supports the rightward most candidate who is viable in the general election. That won’t be Obama.

The third party types . . . should demonstrate their qualifications for running the country — by persuading majorities of the populace to vote for their candidates at the city council level, then the state legislature level, then the House, then the Senate. When they hold 1/3 of all these seats nationally, then they can put up a presidential candidate. Why this won’t happen can be summed up in one word. Ego. There is more ego involved than principal. People decide they are too important to be a state legislator and pay their dues.


30 posted on 05/07/2008 2:21:28 PM PDT by Owen
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To: Jbny

Who is Hillary?


31 posted on 05/07/2008 2:39:28 PM PDT by UCANSEE2 (I reserve the right to misinterpret the comments of any and all pesters)
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To: Slapshot68

Buck up! Obama has NO legislative accomplishments and NO executive experience. The only thing Obama has ever done effectively is win elections.

If Obama is President, look for no action from Washinton for 4 years. Perfect.

Hillary, OTOH, is pure evil. Always drive a stake through the heart of the witch.


32 posted on 05/07/2008 2:57:08 PM PDT by Uncle Miltie (Individualism is the Perfection of Diversity.)
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