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Posted at 12:16am on Sep. 21, 2007 The NYT vs Rudy and his "emergecny bunker": They were for it before they were against it
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The NYT writes a front page story today about Rudy and 9/11 and continues a left wing talking point criticizing him for his "bunker" on 9/11 and how he was incredibly studpid to have it at the World Trade Center given it had already been attacked in 1993 and how bad a site it was and so forth. But they conveniently fail to mention their own support of and advocacy for the very same command center
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Posted at 1:07am on Jul. 26, 2007 Executive Experience, the 2008 election and Arnold(Yes, they do all have a connection)
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A random thought just occured to me in that in recent elections, executive experience has been one of the most important factors in who wins and who is nominated.
If you look at history, the last person to win an election with no previous executive experience was JFK in 1960. That's a long time ago.
Since then you've had Johnson who was an incumbent, Nixon who had 8 yrs as VP, Carter who was a Governor for 4 yrs, Reagan who had 8 yrs as Governor, Bush who had 8 yrs as VP, Clinton who had 10 yrs as Governor and Bush who had 6 yrs as Governor.
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Posted at 6:04pm on Feb. 20, 2007 Ronald Reagan announcing his campaign in 1976 to challenge Ford, Why he wants to be President
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http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/reagan/filmmore/reference/primary/restore.h...
A fascinating speech by Reagan, on many levels. The site also has a bunch of other Reagan speeches and is highly valuable in that regard.
After talking for a while about his key issues of less government, lower taxes, unemployment, inflation, etc... he gets to the real heart of the matter:
But there is one problem which must be solved or everything else is meaningless. I am speaking of the problem of our national security. Our nation is in danger, and the danger grows greater with each passing day. Like an echo from the past, the voice of Winston Churchill's grandson was heard recently in Britain's House of Commons warning that the spread of totalitarianism threatens the world once again and the democracies are wandering without aim."
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Posted at 7:30pm on Feb. 15, 2007 The World Series, The Super Bowl and the Iraq War: How they all fit together
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If you look at the two current champions of baseball and football, you'll find they both have something in common.
During their seasons, both the Cardinals and the Colts struggled mightily. The Cardinals almost went through the worst collapse in the history of baseball down the stretch. They were saved by a 9th inning walk off home run by Albert Pujols. Fans and pundits were calling for La Russa's head, saying the game had passed him by. They made it in to the playoffs by the skin of their teeth, beat two higher seeds, including a 7 game upset of the favored Mets, and then upset the Detroit Tigers to win it all.
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Posted at 4:50pm on Feb. 9, 2007 The fun factor in the 2008 election
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Between now and 2008, you'll no doubt read plenty of articles discussing the candidates various positions, you'll see plenty of ads, and you'll basically be inundated with everything having to do with the election.
Nevertheless, if you look at back at recent Presidential elections, and especially those in the television age(sine Eisenhower in 1952), one thing does tend to stand out.
The winner of the election is the guy who has a better personality, has more charisma, is more likeable, is better able to connect with the people. To break it down further, for men it would be the guy that most guys would rather have a beer with and watch the game, play poker with, hang out with, have as a friend. For women, it's which guy they'd rather date/have as a boyfriend/be better in bed(this is controversial but I think the record tends to support it, although it's not as important as the better date criteria)
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Posted at 1:58am on Feb. 9, 2007 Future GOP Cabinet Appointments?
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I was just thinking about the make up of the cabinet in the next administration. Does anyone here have any ideas as to who might be considered in say a McCain, Romney or Rudy administration?
I'm mainly concerned with the top posts of SecDef, SecState, AG
Neither Rudy nor Romney has any real insider DC GOP ties and they don't have ties to a prior WH like Bush did through his father.
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Posted at 4:00pm on Feb. 7, 2007 The right choice for conservatives in 2008
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With conservatives not exactly in love with all of the top candidates thus far, I think it's important to point out that there is someone out here who I think would be ideal to run and would have a very good chance of getting the nomination and winning the general. In fact, this man could be considered a hero by many conservatives.
He is as well known nationally as just about anyone on the scene, and has served two terms as the governor of one of the nation's largest states. I don't think there's anyone who communicates and promotes the conservative message as well he does. On both domestic and foreign policy, he would be the conservative champion that so many of us yearn for.
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Posted at 1:29am on Jan. 19, 2007 2008: A bunch of 1sts in the WH?
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The 2008 election is shaping up to produce some very interesting 1sts, almost no matter who wins.
If Hillary wins, she'll be the 1st woman obviously
Obama would be the 1st black president
McCain would be the 1st Vietnam vet, the 1st POW, and the oldest President to be elected(not a 1st but the same idea)
Romney would be the 1st Mormon
Giuliani would be the 1st Italian, the 1st with an ethnic name, the 1st Mayor, and only the 2nd Catholic
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Posted at 3:32pm on Dec. 28, 2006 End of Year GOP Primary Polls in IA, NH, NV and SC(ARG)McCain and Giuliani on top
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ARG recently competed polling over the last couple of days in the 1st 4 GOP primary states. The results are pretty much sa expected, although Giuliani has a bit stronger showing in SC(28%) than I would have thought. McCain leads in NH and SC, Rudy in IA and NV This is really too far out to have any meaning but it's always interesting to look at and discuss.
On the dem side, Hillary leads all 4 and Obama is far behind, seemingly contradicting other recent polls that showed him doing better.
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Posted at 2:22am on Dec. 23, 2006 Is the Primary Process unfair?
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With all this talk about 2008 one thing I haven't really seen mentioned is that for the vast majority of the country, their thoughts and votes won't matter.
By the time most of the states have their primary, the nominee has already been decided and the primaries are mere formalities.
In 2004, after he won Iowa and NH, Kerry pretty much wrapped it up. In 2000, after Bush a brief hiccup in NH, Bush won SC in early february and it was pretty much a done dela. States like CA, IL, NY, PA, and other big EV states hadn't even weighed in.