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Posted at 7:37pm on May 31, 2008 Eeny, Meeny, Miney, Moe, Was Scott McClellen Scott McMole?

By ilja

As Conspiracy theories go, I've got one that has been mulling it's way in my head this morning that is both too diabolical and brilliant to possibly be true. Still I'm going to share it with my readers because it's just too fun to pass up.

Have any of you considered the possibility that former Press Secretary Scott McClellan was really a Democrat Mole? I mean just think about it. As the saying goes there's no better way to defeat an enemy than to defeat him from within. And we all know that the biggest Achilles heel of President Bush's administration has been an inability to communicate.

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Posted at 7:24pm on Mar. 8, 2008 A Sure Sign Hillary is in Trouble

By ilja

With Senator Hillary Clinton's and former President Bill Clinton's recent hints that a combination ticket of Hillary and Obama as the candidates, I believe it is a sure sign that Hillary's campaign is in trouble.

Even with Hillary's recent wins in Ohio, Texas and Rhode Island, she suggested in several interviews that it just may come down to a joint ticket with both her and Obama.

On CBS' morning program, anchor Harry Smith said to Clinton, "We talked to a lot of people in Ohio who said there really isn't that significant a difference between you two, and they'd like to see you both on the ticket."

"Well, you know, that may be where this is headed." Clinton said. "But of course we have to decide who is on the top of the ticket. I think the people of Ohio very clearly said that it should be me."

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Posted at 3:37pm on Mar. 2, 2008 McCain is Not Abel

By ilja

Despite the wishful thinking of the inside the Beltway Republicans, one front-page attack by the NY Times does not erase eight years of Senator McCain being the Main Stream Media's (MSM) lapdog. Rather it was illegal immigration, tax-cuts, campaign-finance-reform, drilling for oil in ANWR, stopping the Senate's unprecedented filibuster against Bush's Judicial nominees, Global Warming, Water-boarding of Terrorists, Abu Ghraib and just about any controversial issue over the past eight years, the media knew exactly which Republican they could count on to be the bee in Bush's bonnet.

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Posted at 1:56pm on Feb. 9, 2008 Just Say "Uncle" To McCain?

By ilja

Did you hear Rush Limbaugh's caller yesterday who was comparing our relationship with Senator McCain to a pregnant women? She said that it's nine months until the general election just like there's nine months to a delivery. She claimed that at first when you find out you are pregnant, you react with horror and doubts. That you have all these thoughts like 'I'll never be a good mother? How am I going to cope?' Then after carrying the baby for nine months and having all that time to adjust to the idea of having a baby, when it is born, you react with happiness and joy and forget all about those initial fears.

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Posted at 8:55am on Feb. 1, 2008 I Voted Against McCain Today

By ilja

Today was the last day for early voting here in Tennessee. I usually vote early whenever I'm afraid there will be a large voter turnout and I suspect this years Presidential primaries will be such an election. Though normally I do not wait until the last day to vote since my whole purpose of voting early is to avoid the crowds.

But this year has been different than any other. This year I was so involved in the whole primary picture and had gone through so much emotionally with my search for a real conservative, having thought I found him more than once only to end up without any from which to choose.

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Posted at 6:55pm on Jan. 26, 2008 Conservatives Left Standing At the Altar

By ilja

In the beginning, the candidates we had to choose from were mostly like the guys you went to elementary, middle and high school with whom you had known all your life. You know how after awhile, you've dated a few, had crushes on a couple but mostly you feel like you know them all so well that you think of them more as brothers than possible love interests. Not to mention the fact that you've been through so much together that there's some bad blood between you and a couple of them that you could never entirely forget.

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Posted at 1:00am on Jan. 6, 2008 What Goes Around Comes Around Even in Politics

By ilja

I've noticed an interesting irony the past couple of days on the net in response to former Governor Huckabee's huge win in Iowa Thursday night. I've ran across several posts where people are stating that if Huckabee ends up winning the Republican Presidential nomination then that will be the one instance where they will not be voting Republican. The posters state that they could vote for any other Republican candidate (well excluding the one who wants to cut and run but figure that he won't be a part of the equation anyhow), but not Huckabee.

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Posted at 8:52pm on Dec. 31, 2007 Fox News: We Won't Have to Worry About Fred

By ilja

I was just watching Fox News Special Report and Bret Baier, Britt Hume's holiday replacement, asked if Fred Thompson comes in fourth in Iowa, does that mean he's done?

While unsurprisingly, the panel answered in the affirmative, Jeff Birnbaum added "We won't have to worry about Fred."

Hmmmmm, why would they be worried about him?

They did mention his 17 minute video criticizing it by saying it should have been cut to 30 seconds. Prior to that, they didn't mention him at all. Of course, they never showed any part of the video. Imagine that.

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Posted at 9:56pm on Dec. 15, 2007 Now Are You Ready To Be Fred's Steady?

By ilja

We already knew that even with all of the money that former Governor Romney has spent, he had lost the lead he once held in the great state of Iowa. Now if Rasmussen can be believed, it appears that former Mayor Giuliani is no longer a sure thing in Florida. Which doesn't really surprise me any, though I will admit to breathing a sigh of relief.

So how is it possible that both of these well-financed, extremely experienced politicians, both of whom have some highly powerful backers have lost their once large leads to some hick former Governor from Arkansas?

I believe these current events are a natural reaction by the Republican Social Conservatives to how they have been treated during this race. While I can't say for certain this is true, as a Social Conservative myself, I can say how it has felt to be one during the past few months. The way that I see it is by the Republican party pushing on us a New York Liberal, a former MA Governor who is only recently a convert to conservatism and a media-darling, I'm too good to care about the Social Conservatives Senator, they have more or less pushed us under the bus.

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Posted at 10:55pm on Dec. 7, 2007 Fox News Out-foxes Itself

By ilja

Am I the only one who is finding at least a little joy in the fact that Fox has outfoxed itself with the rise of former Governor Huckabee in the polls? Don't get me wrong, I'm still whole-heartedly a Fredhead yet I'm thrilled that Fox News has egg on it's face at the moment.

While I know some of you don't agree with me, I still assert that Fox has been banging it's drum for former Mayor Giuliani. I believe, and I know I'm not the only one, that Fox has purposely been boosting Huckabee in the hopes that he would give Mitt a run for his money (yeah, I said it) in the Iowa Caucus. I believe their motivation was to help Rudy by using Huckabee to knock-out Mitt. Though I don't believe for a minute that it even dawned on Fox that they were about to open Pandora's box by all of their hawking for the Huckster.

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Posted at 9:56pm on Oct. 28, 2007 Masquerading Liberalism

By ilja

With Halloween just around the corner and the primaries coming faster than ever before, I thought now would be a perfect time to discuss a phenomenon that I've been noticing lately in the race for the Republican Presidential nomination. That phenomenon is how to successfully masquerade your liberalism.

Here is my top 10 list of how it is done. Please feel free to add your own.

#10. When asked about your liberal record, cite George Will

#9. When accused of being to the left of Hillary Clinton, laugh really loud and change the subject

#8. When asked about your support of sanctuary cities, claim that you only did what you had to do to encourage illegal immigrants to come forward with information about other illegal immigrants who have broken other laws besides their in ital crime of entering the country illegally and say it all without ever using the word "illegal"

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Posted at 4:27pm on Oct. 21, 2007 A Divided Conservatism Will Not Stand

By ilja

I don't know how many of you were listening, but talk-show host Laura Ingraham sent a message to us on the right this past Friday that I believe Conservatives of every stripe need to take to heart. She said that we need to find a Candidate that will satisfy Social Conservatives, Fiscal Conservatives and National Security Conservatives if we want a real shot at winning the Presidency.

But mainly, it seemed to me that she was talking to us Social Conservatives who are splitting our support among all the candidates except the one who is supposedly leading in the polls. She reminded us that we need a coalition of voters in order to have a chance of winning first the Republican Presidential nomination and then the actual Presidency with a Conservative candidate.

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Posted at 8:48pm on Oct. 14, 2007 The "Real" One-Issue Voters

By ilja

We've all read those posts from people complaining about anyone who considers abortion to be too important an issue to compromise on when it comes to voting. Hardly a thread can go by pertaining to these particular voters where someone does not use the phrase "one-issue voters". Of course, these voters they are referencing will come in and explain why they are not one-issue voters but those posts seem to go in one ear and out the other.

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Posted at 11:05pm on Oct. 13, 2007 All the Conservative Pundits' Horses

By ilja

This is a Blog done by a good friend of mine whom I have learned quite a bit from since I started paying attention to politics just a few short years ago. I thought it was well-worth the read.

by Sturm Ruger
Saturday, October 13, 2007
The Frederalist
Posted in it's entirety with permission

Used to be, you didn't need a scorecard to read a column written by a conservative pundit. But then along came Election 2008 two years early, and now you have to read 'em with a grain of salt. No, better make that a pound of salt.

Take Jennifer Rubin (please). She's regularly thrashed Fred Thompson for months in the American Spectator's AmSpec blog. And in a recent post on Race 4 2008, she explains that it's not just the NY Times that is bashing Thompson, but points to pundits David Frum, Robert Novak and George Will as conservatives who have been critical of the former Senator. What she fails to mention is that all three of those writers, plus Rubin herself, have their own horses in the race. More on that just a few paragraphs down.

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Posted at 1:39am on Oct. 12, 2007 Sincerely Fred

By ilja

The great white hope, their Savior, the next Reagan, the actor, no fire in the belly, the staff turnovers, the uhs, the Guccis, the lobbying, more uhs, the too-late entrance, the ups and downs of his campaign, the constant predictions of this is it, the make it or break it debate, and yet he's still here. He's still at least second in most polls and even first in some. He has always been a top-tier candidate even prior to his official entrance into the race.

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