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Posted at 12:10pm on Jul. 1, 2008 Conservatism's Last Stand
By lowdowncentral
By Rose Pedenko and Tanya Simon
George Armstrong Custer lost his luster and got whacked at the Little Big Horn.
Senator John McCain spent five years of his life inside a Viet Nam death camp, was beaten and tortured, and survived to tell about it. He too has lost his luster (with conservatives) and is getting whacked by a previously fawning media.
Custer was vain, arrogant, ambitious, reckless and a risk-taker.
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Posted at 12:42pm on Jun. 6, 2008 The Ugly American Drug War
By lowdowncentral
by Rose Pedenko and Tanya Simon
How many times have we heard, “Arrest the Johns, not the hookers”?
Quick answer: every time a high-profile madam is arrested.
What is the point of this question? It represents the logic that continues to elude Americans in the interminable drug wars.
Americans publicly bemoan the high price of gasoline, yet our own environmentalists have cut off nearly all existing avenues or expeditious remedies for independence from foreign oil. The idea of trying to “force a remedy” by cutting off oil dependence is exactly the kind of irony that we are presented with in the war on drugs.
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Posted at 12:38pm on Jun. 6, 2008 Will It Be Conscience or Compromise for Black Americans?
By lowdowncentral
By Rose Pedenko and Tanya Simon
In a parade in Germany recently, the worldwide audience was treated to effigies of Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, where Obama was biting the New York senator on, shall we say, her derriere.
This was proof that the graphic and embarrassing divisiveness roiling within the Democratic Party is being mocked internationally through a prism the Democrats themselves have cut with very precise angles.
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Posted at 1:21pm on Feb. 22, 2008 Waking Up With the Enemy
By lowdowncentral
By Rose Pedenko and Tanya Simon
"Fantasy, abandoned by reason, produces impossible monsters.” -Francisco de Goya
The morning news led with the announcement that the New York Times had published an extensive article exposing an alleged dalliance over eight years ago between John McCain and a woman (not his wife) which came as absolutely no surprise to us. We had synchronized our watches in expectation, because it was just a matter of time – the countdown commencing the moment the Times puffed their feathers and handed McCain a grandiose endorsement following the final Republican debate at the Reagan Library. The fact they endorsed the most liberal Republican candidate was also lost on no one save the candidate himself.
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Posted at 4:47pm on Feb. 19, 2008 McMitt...Because Americans Deserve a Break Today
By lowdowncentral
By Rose Pedenko and Tanya Simon
The structure and strength of conservative ideals as they stood against the anti-climaxes of the Republican state primaries must now be examined based on the outcome of those primaries. Scrutiny should not involve what should have been or could have been but what has in fact occurred, which is, John McCain has pitched past his competitors and is the de facto conservative leader. It is clear that while the polls fluctuated almost daily on the issues most important to Americans, the war on terror continues to guide our priorities. That is the clear answer for all that didn’t see the contentious result coming.
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Posted at 1:38pm on Feb. 13, 2008 What We Have Here are Conservatives Who Failed to Communicate
By lowdowncentral
By Rose Pedenko and Tanya Simon
Conscience will ever judge right when it is rightly informed, and speak the truth when it understands it. -John Leland
How is the conservative media to be assessed during the recent chaotic Republican Primaries?
This is one question that, if it can be answered honestly, may come to haunt the conservative party throughout the term of the next administration.
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Posted at 2:13pm on Jan. 15, 2008 Media Calls Election - February 2008
By lowdowncentral
They deem them their worst enemy who tells them the truth .
- Plato
By Rose Pedenko and Tanya Simon
The primary election has moved with light speed into the category of historic firsts: defiance of historical statistics, legitimate polling results, demographics and the usually dependable predictions of high-profile pundits on both the left and the right.
What is the common denominator? The answer is becoming more apparent with each passing day, with each passing media report. Absent empirical evidence to the contrary (which may or may not be arrived at any time soon – okay, not), the excitement being built up by the media has thus far been principally aimed at the Obama-Huckabee, McCain-Clinton maelstroms, and, taking a wild guess at the upcoming South Carolina outcome: Obama-Thompson.
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Posted at 1:14pm on Jan. 8, 2008 Between Huck and a Hard Place
By lowdowncentral
by Rose Pedenko and Tanya Simon
The Democratic Congress must be breathing a hefty sigh of relief that it was Mike Huckabee , not Mitt Romney, who received the higher tally at the Iowa caucus. Relief because Huckabee pandered not only to evangelical voters but to all the independent secular malcontents that could ultimately swing the election to Barack Obama .
Huckabee is perceived by Democrats in the same way some of us Republicans had been tickled pink about the possibility of Hillary winning her party’s nomination. Mike Huckabee is one candidate the other party believes they can beat – and they would, because he is beatable. Susan Estrich almost did a jig at the Fox News Iowa post caucus analysis because Democrats see the end of moral majority influence on the political spectrum. Obama trumps a Huckabee in what is looking more and more like a hand of political poker where Liberal pundits do not play their cards close to the vest.
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Posted at 3:22pm on Jan. 4, 2008 Huckabee is Cruising for a Bruising
By lowdowncentral
By Rose Pedenko and Tanya Simon
In the past eight to ten weeks, Mike Huckabee has proffered to anyone with a news camera and microphone his now-familiar negative rhetoric about anything and anyone crossing his line of sight that he perceives as a threat to his presidential aspirations. Sandwiched between those unpleasant brainteasers are his pet statements about Christians, the Christian faith, Christian community, him being the “Christian Leader,” and every vote for him is a vote for God. Holy Moley! Huckabee has elevated himself to the not-so-lofty position of the Republicans’ answer to Jimmy Carter -- and Heaven help us if this turns out to be true.
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Posted at 1:43pm on Dec. 17, 2007 Pastor-in-Chief
By lowdowncentral
By Rose Pedenko and Tanya Simon
In Air Force-speak a bogey is defined as “…an unidentified aircraft or missile, esp. one detected as a blip on a radar screen.” And to have a bogey on your “six” is trouble; it means he’s on your tail and closing fast. The acronym IFF (for “Identification: Friend or Foe”) is also used by the military for when an unknown blip appears.
In today’s political aerial show, all three terms can be used to describe Mike Huckabee “the Huckster from Hope.”
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Posted at 6:56pm on Nov. 21, 2007 2nd Annual "Turkey of the Year" Award
By lowdowncentral
Once again we must give thanks for a multitude of contestants. While they were all worthy of first prize, we carefully weighed their effect on the media and blogosphere. Photos with captions:
http://www.lowdowncentral.com/feature-article/2007/11/21/2nd-annual-turk...
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Posted at 4:27pm on Nov. 9, 2007 Evangelism’s Man of La Mancha
By lowdowncentral
By Rose Pedenko and Tanya Simon
Rudy Giuliani is dreaming the impossible dream – verified by the across-the board news report on November 7 that Pat Robertson had tossed his support behind him in his bid for the Republican presidential nomination. Could Rudy be chasing windmills in an effort to secure the support of Christian conservatives, despite his stance as a pro-choice advocate?
After his announcement, Conservatives east to west and north and south were – and still are – shocked and troubled by Robertson’s feckless attempt to convince evangelicals that Giuliani is the right choice in spite of his own long-held principals to the contrary. Giuliani lingers inconsistent on the matter of illegal immigration as well as his stance on abortion and same-sex marriage. He has been married three times, not the picture of the stable family man conservatives feel relaxed and confident supporting.
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Posted at 7:38pm on Oct. 25, 2007 The Giuliani Factor
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By Rose Pedenko and Tanya Simon
One of the biggest non-surprises of the 2008 Presidential race came on February 13, 2007: Rudy Giuliani officially threw his hat in the ring. The second non-surprise was the immediate support of “America’s Mayor” by Congressman David Dreier. If his name rings a bell it is because he engineered Arnold Schwarzenegger’s victory in the California recall election.
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Posted at 6:20pm on Oct. 22, 2007 Mormon Shmormon
By lowdowncentral
By Rose Pedenko and Tanya Simon
For nearly eight months, there has been a spate of articles questioning the religious belief of one presidential candidate: Mitt Romney. This is not because he is the only candidate who happens to be a man of faith, but because he is of the Mormon faith. Every writer that injects a man’s religion into a campaign as an issue has a dearth of negative information to write about. The nonsensical hammering of the Mormon point makes us wonder if the MSM are actually trying to say “First Moron in the White House” – in which case, it’s a wide open field.
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