[2ndDivisionVet]

How is it that a college kid has more wisdom than half of the "grown-up" pundits?

[omega4179]

Some people are intelligent and others are skooled.

[the anti-liberal]

It’s a shame that we have a candidate whose best thing going for him is the fact that he’s not Obambi.

[B4Ranch]

When the choice is for me to support a socialist Republican or a communist Democrat, I refuse to do either.

[A.Hun]

An Obama administration coupled with a supportive Democratic Congress would result in unforeseen changes for all Americans, and the Republicans don't seem to be putting up much of a fight. With only 11 weeks remaining until Election Day, Bernard Goldberg's year-old theory unfortunately appears to be correct.

When conservatives decided GWB wasn't conservative enough, we cut our own noses off. Now, we might get lucky enough to have McCain President with the looniest congress of all time to work with. Obamby with the same congress is too scary to imagine.

Voting RINOS out of congress and handing it to the Democrats worked out real well too. I've really enjoyed the $3.80 gasoline.

[Paul Ross]

Bump.

Succinct, and solid.

[JavaJumpy]

Someone did a good job raising him.

[TexasNative2000]

How is it that a college kid has more wisdom than half of the "grown-up" pundits?

Well, you start with the fact that he is in Texas. . . . .

[TexasNative2000]

This author can be reached at jgoddard@smu.edu if any of you wish to acknowledge his fine work.

[Antoninus]

With the loss of even more seats in the House and Senate a seemingly foregone conclusion for the Republicans this year, one would think that the GOP would put forth their best effort in the presidential race. However, Republican fundraising figures are down across the board, and Obama is predicted to outspend McCain three-to-one by November.

Obviously written by a kid with little experience election-watching. And being stuck on a campus full of shrieking ideologues and mush-headed go-alongs can make it seem as if the world truly has gone insane.

Don't let the polls get you down, junior. McCain, as old and uninspiring as he appears, is actually running one of the best presidential general election campaigns I have ever seen to this point. Of course, there's still plenty of time for him to blunder (and pick a loser like Mitt Romney as his VP, for instance). But I've been extremely impressed with what I've seen from the campaign to this point.

Think about it... While Obama was in Germany wooing all those non-voting Germans, McCain was pressing the flesh at a grocery store in PA--a swing state--and his campaign was putting out commercials that turned an Obama strength (his perceived celebrity status) into a weakness.

McCain is in there punching and it looks like he means to win it.

[Cacique]

btt

[Maelstorm]

I always will agree that conservatives/Republicans don’t typically fight well enough but this article does not reflect reality. McCain if anything is NOT running as a centrist and even with the outrageous disparity of coverage McCain does not appear frail in comparison to Obama. He did not appear frail at Sturgis, he did not appear frail in confronting Russian aggression, the did not appear frail at the SaddleBack church.
This article sounds like it was written from someone who is stuck in the middle of a liberal bastion somewhere.

Also the House Republicans and Senate are doing an excellent job with the Energy issue something that has united the House and Senate against the Democrats and look to give them a black eye. I don’t see anyone aggressively running away from President Bush or Iraq. The conventional wisdom is usually wrong, as it was in 2004. Bush lost ground in 2006 because the wild spending of Republicans and the capitulation to Democrats caught up to him. You can’t piss off you base by calling them bigots and sexist and expect them to feel all warm and fuzzy about you while you call traitorous Democrats patriots.

That said I do think we do need to do more. I know locally I’ve seen more involvement as people are starting to actually like McCain for a change. McCain’s excellent performance at Saddleback and over the past few weeks has really started to shift opinions. This kid is right the GOP needs to be even more aggressive.

What I find disheartening is how we can’t seem to provide the same level of support to try to win races that are tough like here in VA. We have a lying cheating liberal running and a solid conservative who epitomizes conservatism cutting taxes and signing tons of Pro-Life legislation and he is having trouble fighting the lies of Mark Warner because he doesn’t have the dollars.

Jim Gilmore has been on the ground all over this state making his case and the media is trying to shut him out. Trying to lift up Warner to the Senate. The same thing is happening in New Mexico. Also there are other places where the candidates are not independently wealthy and have real jobs. Again everyone says they want more people who aren’t politicians, aren’t obsessed with power and when they show up for duty they are left empty handed. Fred Thompson was one of those. Everyone called but when they got what they asked for it wasn’t jazzy enough or slick enough.

Well I’m going to fight here in VA and encourage others to fight. I know the difference between liberal and conservative. John McCain wasn’t my first choice but I’m not going to be a parrot for the media that hates all conservatives in accepting their premises. Obama was never so much better than McCain and McCain was far under estimated.

We have enough purveyors of doom without having conservative and libertarian savants like Alan Keyes, Bob Barr, and Ron Paul offer advice on how to win when they have proven without a doubt that they are not very good at it. I am not so insane with anger and bitterness that I’d call good men who may disagree only a small bit the enemy while leaving the door open to send America into the hands of another liberal who will leave us open to attack and place our military men and women not just in danger of death on the battle field but of dishonor at home.

It is bad enough that one party in this country has seen fit to divide us and attack our military and try to drag America down to defeat. I’ll not leave lady liberty to be raped so I can rush to her rescue and sooth her wounds as many of these so called conservatives would have us do! I’m also not going the route that insane conservatives who peddle kook devices and phony medical cures along with their news material and say “vote none of the above”. Yes vote none of above? Well we know who that is a vote for. They should stop attacking McCain and start boosting some of the conservative Senate and House candidates but no they want Jesus to deliver them victory. Well Jesus isn’t a branch of the federal government and he isn’t going to send us a victory check in the mailbox if we pray hard enough.

Sorry 2ndD I’m just a bit fed up.