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Posted at 1:41pm on Jan. 14, 2008 McCain bounce hits Nevada; Romney lags behind.
By McCabius
Nevada is a tense battleground for the Democrats this year, but the GOP is spending virtually no time or money in the state. Romney, who has put more effort into Nevada than any other GOP candidates, has been favored to carry the state, or at least to play in a close head-to-head battle with Giuliani. But the first NV poll in over a month is challenging that conventional wisdom.
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Posted at 12:44pm on Jan. 14, 2008 New York Behind-The-Times: All The News That's Fit To Ignore
By McCabius
Breaking news: The New York Times has been drinking the DNC Kook-Aid on the Iraq War.
The re-Baathification law passed by Iraq's parliament on Saturday is one of the biggest pieces of news to leave Iraq in years. Or at least it would be, if anybody would bother to report it. Instead, most of the Mainstream Media is ignoring it altogether.
But the New York Times is taking the game to a whole new level. While other news outlets simply fail to report the story at all, the New York Times instead explicitly claims that it never happened at all.
(More below the fold.)
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Posted at 2:47pm on Jan. 11, 2008 McCain, Obama, The Surge, and the Audacity of Hope
By McCabius
It has now been one full year since President Bush first proposed "The Surge." He did so in response to criticisms from the right -- most notably from Senator John McCain -- that Secretary Rumsfeld's strategy was deeply flawed. And he did so in the face of fierce opposition from the left -- including Presidential candidate Barack Obama -- that the war was lost from the beginning, and that we should get our troops home as fast as we can.
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Posted at 11:47am on Jan. 9, 2008 Vulcan Proverbs
By McCabius
There is an ancient Vulcan proverb which states, "Only Nixon can go to China."
Essentially, the proverb means that only somebody with firmly-established credibility on an issue can be trusted enough to deal with it objectively. Because Nixon had such a staunch record as an anti-communist demagogue, he could open up diplomatic and trading relations with China without appearing "soft on communism." (Similarly, James T. Kirk's long history of hostility towards the Klingons makes him uniquely qualified to engage them in diplomatic detente.)
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Posted at 7:25pm on Jan. 5, 2008 Kinky Friedman on the 2008 election.
By McCabius
I know that there are more than a few Texans here on RedState who will know exactly who Kinky Friedman is.
For those who don't, Kinky is a very colorful man who ran for Governor of Texas on an independent ticket in 2006. His platform called for the "dewussification" of TX, including lifting any and all smoking bans, and co-ordinating a state-level response to illegal immigration along with New Mexico and Arizona. (He also proposed a "5 Mexican General" approach, whereby Texas would bribe the Mexican army to stop illegal immigration on their end of the border.) He is a very interesting guy, and a Texan to his core.
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Posted at 12:37am on Jan. 2, 2008 Question for Loyal Frederalists...
By McCabius
Let me preface this by saying that Fred Thompson is my 2nd choice for President. I agree with him on most of the issues, and have donated money to his campaign on multiple occasions. I've been disappointed by his showing so far, but would gladly campaign for him in the general election.
There has been a lot of talk about what it would take to make Fred Thompson to drop out of the race. If he takes 4th or 5th in Iowa, for example, would he hold on until SC, or would he call it quits?
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Posted at 1:33pm on Dec. 27, 2007 Why Foreign Policy Matters Most
By McCabius
When considering the strengths and weaknesses of a candidate, it's not enough to make a simple pro/con list. Not all issues are created equal, and we have to do some degree of impact analysis to decide which priorities carry the most weight. It is my position that a candidate's qualifications and position on Foreign Policy is of much greater importance than his (or her) domestic agenda.
When it comes to domestic policy, whoever becomes President will have to work closely with Congress. A Republican President, in particular, will have a difficult time getting his agenda through a Democratic majority. As much as the FMA and HLA may be hot-button issues in the minds of many voters, it is unrealistic to expect that either has a chance of passage. No matter how much we might want that kind of legislation, making a candidate's position on the FMA is, more than anything, a counter-productive waste of political capital.
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Posted at 4:27am on Dec. 24, 2007 Just how well does Huckabee know his Bible, anyway?
By McCabius
In the March 20, 2007 issue of TIME Magazine, Joe Klein published an article called "The Second Commandment Republicans." (It is apparently no longer available on TIME's website, but the full text is available here.) Mr. Klein borrows the title of the article from a statement made by Gov. Huckabee, where he said, "I'm a 'grace' Christian, not a 'law' Christian. The Second Commandment--do unto others--is the basic tenet of my faith."
Leaving aside the exegetical leap from an individual moral responsibility to a broader governmental obligation, I'm aghast at Pastor/Governor Huckabee's apparently poor grasp of scripture. "Do Unto Others" is not the second commandment, and as a candidate whose credibility rests largely on his identity as a God-fearing man, Governor Huckabee should know better.