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Understanding Peggy Noonan I read the other day that Peggy Noonan voted for John McCain. What's news is that that is news. You would think that we could assume a leading conservative writer didn't vote for Barack Obama, but Peggy Noonan has given us reason to wonder. After Peggy declared that “Palin's Failin'”, the notion was taken up far and wide that she wandered from the conservative fold. “Peggy, we hardly knew ye” has become a refrain among on-line conservatives. But her wanderings didn't begin with that op-ed. I have read all of Peggy Noonan's books and followed her column...

Folks, It is not too early to start thinking about 2012. I think, if he is indeed a Republican, that General David Petraeus would be a PHENOMENAL candidate for the Republicans. I, for one, do think that in four years time it will not be "bread and butter" tabletop, economic issues that will be driving national debate but instead a myriad of increasingly frightening international developments, i.e., a nuclear-enabled Iran, a collapse of a nuclear-capable North Korea, continued Al Quada militancy, and the largest one, an attack by Russia upon the independent nation of the Ukraine. Americans will tire of...

It's been over a week since the grandmother who raised Him died. I haven't heard anything about a funeral, nor more than a few perfunctory remarks by him (shades of Camus' "The Stranger"). Its bad enough that his daughters didn't see her during their Hawaii vacation this summer, but what gives? The Man won, can't they pay their last respects?

The demographics are frankly killing us. Kerry won the latino vote 53%-44% four years ago. Obama won the latino vote 67%-31%. Obama won the latino vote in Florida for the first time ever. Obama vastly increased his share of the latino vote in Colorado, New Mexico, and Nevada. If McCain wasn't on the ticket, Arizona would have been very competitive as well. And we probably got another decade before Texas becomes a purple state unless we reverse the trends here. Bush won Texas by 23% with Kerry getting 50% of the latino vote. McCain won it by 11% with Obama...

Shame on you Senator McCain! Not ONE word from you in defense of Sarah Palin regarding the attacks on her??? Shame on you.

The Republican Party as it is now has no chance in a large part of the country, and lacks direction in the rest. The only one I can see at this time that has his hand on the pulse of the movement is Rush Limbaugh. A new base of operations needs to be established and soon before even the remnants of the movement are scattered with such things as the fairness doctrine. So I am appealing to you Rush Limbaugh to start a new party.

Today on FOX News, Katon Dawson, head of the South Carolina Republican Party spoke out in support of Sarah Palin. Apparently he is the ONLY Republican to have done so. I think we shold CONTACT Mr. Dawson and express our support of him for supporitng Sarah Palin. Again, a check to the South Carolina Republican Committee might make sense. Mr. Dawson pointed out that the attacks against Palin are anonymous, are being spread by the leftist media, and if successful, will go on to smear Jindal, Sandford, etc, in the same way. His web site is: http://www.scgop.com/ The RNC is...

Okay, so we are looking at a few years of outright democrat control of the WH, Senate and House. The prospects for Americans is rather dour on the whole but there are ways to prosper and build "something" for the future. I fully expect people to jump on and complain about outright government confiscation of wealth and compensation and whatever else they need to say but there are other places to rant about that. What I would like to start a discussion on is how people can make money for themselves, their families and the causes that they choose to...

An Excellent Editorial posted on City on a Hill Political Observer. The mainstream media and the Obama-Biden campaign made the political assassination of Governor Sarah Palin their number one goal during the 2008 election cycle. The agile and tough Alaskan moose-hunter was able to survive the attempt on her political life, but left this campaign field bloodied. In the past few days some second-rate hacks within the McCain campaign and establishment elites within the GOP have tried to finish the job. They must not and will not succeed. It is often quoted by some random Alaskan politician that, “the Alaskan...

'Carter hailed Ceausescu, dictator of the most repressive police state in Eastern Europe, as a "great national and international leader" who had "taken on a role of leadership in the entire international community." Triumphant, Ceausescu brought home a joint communiqué in which the American president stated that his friendly relations with Ceausescu served "the cause of the world..."' - Ion Pacepa (Former Romanian head of intel, who defected). Fast forward to today: Obama hailed Ahmadinejad, dictator of the most repressive police state in the Middle East, as a "great national and international leader" who had "taken on a role of...

Question: What happened to FreeRepublic yesterday? It was unavailable? I was beginning to suffer from truth withdrawal syndrome.

There are still a few very good Conservatives in Congress, but they're a dying breed on the verge of extinction. We need to organize a grass-roots movement to support our good men and women in enemy territory. We need to send them cards and letters, call their offices, offer encouragement and support and send them pizzas during filibusters. Please, is there a reliable, organized FReeper who can organize an "Adopt a Cute Pubbie" program? This FReeper needs to research and locate the true conservatives and the RINOS. They need to develop a list of of email addresses, phone numbers and...

There has been an overwhelming response to the call to BOYCOTT FOX because of their trashing of Sarah Palin on their various programs, especially by Carl Cameron and Shep Smith. The one-week BOYCOTT began yesterday - Thursday, at 3:00 PM EST. While some of you remarked that you had already tuned them out, many of you agreed to begin doing so. To broaden the BOYCOTT, post this on as many conservative blogs that you can. The Nielsen ratings might not relfect the BOYCOTT but you can be sure that FOX's sponsors will not be happy, and it's all about money...

Okay, I think I see it now. Rush is right, McCain will do this, and Obama will get 30 million more voters for big government. Folks, we (conservatives) will never win another election. See the posts on how the Republican party in league with FoxNews are trying to destory Palin, this is being done for a reason, she was brought on merely as a ruse to play us, and it worked, they have no intention of returning to convervative values, they no longer believe, we have been royaly fooled, our own party is the enemy, how else could a socialist/marxist...

Enough already. Please.Vanities used to be well thought out, researched and/or funny and somewhat rare. Now the vanities consist of whatever crap pops in someone's head and they are drowning out whatever news is being posted.I'm not the forum police, but please add you're rant, joke or pearl of wisdom to an ongoing thread.

I hereby submit the following proposal which I guarantee will cause the LA Times to release the Obama-Khalidi Party tape: Just copy and paste the following to russ.stanton@latimes.com : Dear Mr. Stanton, Editor of the mighty Los Angeles Times: I write to you regarding a matter of great national security. I am quite worried that the LA Times may be tempted by public pressure to release materials that would set back our nations war against terror. My business provides lunch catering to the CIA's training facilities for agents looking to infiltrate Middle Eastern terrorist organizations. (You should stop by and...

This election is by no means lost. For God would not be stirring up his children all across this nation and indeed around the world, to pray, if he did not want to give us the victory in this election. And he wants us to join him in the battle. God will hear the cries of his children if we will only cry out to him with fervent, earnest, prayers for this election and this nation. If those who are being drawn to prayer by the Spirit will indeed enter into a time of prayer and seeking His face, then...

Pick up on of your children's books and read it... Does it share your values? Does it demonstrate what you want your children to learn??? I was recently given a book called "The Rainbow Fish", I read it before attempting to read it to my son and gave the book back to the person who gave it to me.... It is about this fish who was more beautiful than the other fish. The other fish wanted one of his colorful scales and he refused to give his scales away, wouldn't you know... The other fish refused to talk to him...

I was thinking about the election day debacle coming up. I don't like all this early voting nonsense, especially since you don't have to show ID to vote in all 50 states. 0bama telling everyone just to take the day off is ridiculous also, but I do support the idea of election day being a holiday. Finally, it just hit me. Since everyone in America owes their freedom to vote to our Veterans, why not move Veteran's Day from November 11th to Election Day. Make sure to keep calling it Veteran's day, because we owe it all to them, but...

Shall we start with copies of his college & law school SATs, LSATs, class rankings and overall GPA scores and grades?