If you refuse to fight the fight, you don’t get to complain about the loss.

Democrats fight tooth and nail to defend the even the most deplorable of their colleagues yet few Republicans defend their own even when they are right and attacked on critical issues.

Newt Gingrich lead Republicans from 40 years in the minority desert to victory and majority. Liberals immediately went on the attack. But when he was called the Gingrich who Stole Christmas, who came to his defense? He was left out to dry and his name became political poison.

For over eight years now, President Bush’s political enemies have constantly called him an idiot and a liar. But for fear of becoming a target themselves Republicans, including John McCain, failed to defend the honor of an honorable man. Is should be no surprise that he is damaged.

If there is a lesson to be learned, it is that kinder, gentler, compassionate conservatism has failed. It is time to drop the neo, get back to the real thing and fight!

You can start by going to IraqVetsforCongress.com

Campaigns are like Backgammon, Football and a Bullfight all wrapped in one. I love them all but if it comes down to working for John McCain or mowing my lawn, I'm mowing the lawn.

...and he will get the same whipping

The Country Club Republicans are in charge and they think of the rest of us the way that liberal democrats do. They think we're retarded. How else could they expect us to believe McCain is a conservative and a Reagan conservative at that. Yeah, and I'm a giant circus clown with super human powers and a personality that leaves the ladies swooning.

So on February 5, 2008 I'm making this prediction: if John McCain gets the republican nomination, he will get his (@#*$& KICKED like Bob Dole, especially if he runs against Obama.

Chairman Bernanke kissed up to every politician and gave them exactly what they wanted today, his endorsement to buy votes under the guise of providing immediate and temporary fiscal stimulus. Bernanke went on to provide two caveats that should scare the heck out of everyone in the free world.

The first caveat was that any stimulus should be immediate so as to have an effect when it is needed, meaning now. The second caveat was that any stimulus should be temporary so that it would not over-stimulate the economy when it no longer needed stimulation. What Bernanke is saying is that government should go ahead and tax us, then filter that money through the least efficient sector of the economy [government,] and then borrow enough to cut us all a check so that we can spend again and get the economy rolling.

WHOSE MONEY IS IT?
1. While the above course of action sounds stupid, and it is, it sounds remarkably like what nearly every democrat candidate is currently suggesting. Now they have the tacit endorsement of the chairman of the Federal Reserve. Nice going Ben.

2. By conceding that government stimulus would help, Bernanke just admitted the problem has gone beyond the banking system, into the economy at large, and the Fed cannot fix it alone. Ooops.

3. The  philosophy behind this thinking is what is really terrifying. At its core is the notion that government is the regulator of all things economic. They decide if you are making enough or whether you are making too much and overheating the economy. And if you are, they slow things down, not just by making borrowing more expensive [higher interest rates] but by taxing. If government gets to decide what you should make, the money is not yours. It's the state's. And that's not Capitalism.

Carnival fortune tellers have better track records than the "experts" and their pollsters who got it wrong in Iowa, New Hampshire and now Michigan. If pollsters built cars, their polls would be recalled before another one blew up. If they were college basketball players, they would be investigated for ties to "gambling interests."

There are only two possible reasons for the media blowing election coverage so badly: They stink at what they do, or they are lying. If they stink, they should be fired. At the very least, they should pretend to be humble. If they are lying to affect political outcomes there is a name for that. It's called propaganda.

If the excuse is simple incompetence, the media needs to explain why they continue to call the end of Mitt Romney. Because he's in the lead? Because he didn't win big enough? What about Super Tuesday? Calling it over for Romney if...[continue to raise the bar] is like calling a football game before the end of the first quarter and calling it for the team that's losing.

But where are those calls on Hillary Clinton? The Woman of the Wide Pants Suit was supposed to be inevitable. That didn't happen. She didn't win Iowa. She didn't exactly blow out New Hampshire. In Michigan, where she got about 150,000 votes, over 100,000 people voted "uncommitted."

So, having not blown any poll yet, I'm willing to make a prediction: If Hillary does not win really big, really soon against a black guy with little experience and no former president for a spouse, she's toast.

One more prediction: the "mainstream" media is toast already. People don't like to buy bad product. The only question is, who makes it better?