Coming soon, Home Depot co-founder Bernie Marcus warns of what might be the most incidious result of an election win by Barack Obama.
Obama-Biden could easily be the most arrogant presidential ticket in history. Yes, I know, none have been humble, but this ticket is "full of itself." And it's this arrogance, and propensity to lose discipline, that the McCain campaign should focus on.
Billionaire Warren Buffett had some interestingly ironic suggestions for the donors to the John Edwards for President Campaign. See C. Edmund Wright's report here on American Thinker.
Interesting that Buffett is a Democrat. Ditto for the recent switcheroo for Boone Pickens. These ultra-rich white guys never give a comprehensive answer as to why they support Obama. Could it be that what is best for the ultra-rich is NOT what is best for most Americans? Could be...most of the ultra-rich are Democrats. Most business owners trying to get that way...are Republicans.
For months, www.MoveTheRNC.com has predicted that 2008 should not be the blood bath for the Republicans that most pundits have assumed it would be. In fact, we have been clear that this SHOULD be a fabulous year for the GOP based on energy, although we did...and still do...have reservations about the party being smart enough to capitalize on the energy issue to the fullest.
As the Zogby polls indicate, perhaps the price of gas is so high that the American people will figure out which party is chiefly responsible for this in spite of scared me-too Republican candidates and consultants.
More on this soon....
What is Liebermania? Why is Liebermania? What causes it? Hint: it is related to why the Republican brand is in trouble. It is related to why John McCain is the nominee of the Republican Party. We have McCain...but we can...and MUST...get rid of Liebermania... MORE
All the buzz about Joe Biden joining Barack Obama on the Democrat ticket is not convincing. Republicans would love to see Obama pick Biden, who may be the only man on the planet with ego's comparable to that of Obama (and McCain for that matter.) His explosive temper, incredible sense of self importance and shameful history in 1984 with plagerism make him the VEEP pick the GOP would love to see. He would also be another pretty hard leftist domestically on the Democrat ticket.
I still say it will be Virginia Governor Tim Kaine, for a number of reasons. It will be funny to watch Kaine try and square his economic plans with that of Obama, especially in light of the text book communist politics of Obama's father and the son's desire to please the old man that has surfaced this week...but he could put Virginia in play and give those who want to remain blind a sense of security.
And for McCain? I think the Lieberman trial balloon is another fake left, go right deal. At least, I hope so. No prediction yet, except that I do not think it will be the Connecticut liberal. Some in the McCain campaign dearly want this...but it won't happen.
Barack Obama's reaction to getting thoroughly whipped in the Saddleback Civil Forum is perhaps more telling...and frightening...than the poor performance last Saturday itself. He and the Democrats are running on the merits of being whiny little children. C. Edmund Wright breaks it down here at nationally respected American Thinker blog
More performances like this from McCain and reactions from Obama, and the Republican brand won't be in trouble....and there won't be a Democratic tilt to the 2008 elections anymore...
Barack Obama will likely name is Vice Presidential running mate Tuesday or Wednesday of this week. He needs to. He needs to change the subject away from the Saddleback disaster as soon as possible. My thought is that he still might take Virginia Governor Tim Kaine...even though Kaine mistakenly gave Obama credit for ending the Russian-Georgian conflict..which did not end and for which Obama was irrelevant.
Meanwhile, McCain will name his running mate on the following Friday, the morning after Obama's acceptance speech, in an effort to change the subject from Obama's nomination. I don't hear as much about Sarah Palin as I'd like to these days...but I'm glad the Romney name has re-emerged and the Lieberman name has died down. That would be more consistent with the Saddleback performance.
Not bad strategy...on the part of both camps. Obama will be in NC on Wednesday, when the announcement is expected...and is scheduled for Virginia the following day. Perfect timing to have day one of this new ticket in Kaine's home state.
Who was that? Was it really John McCain? In the most amazing performance of McCain's career (at least since 1992), he veered FAR to the right Saturday night at the Saddleback Civil Forum. And guess what? He won a huge victory by any rational count. This is how to save a Republican brand in trouble. This is how to reverse the Democratic tilt. See the best analysis anywhere...here....
C. Edmund Wright
It is rare when bad news for the American people is good news for Republicans (at least conservatives), but such is the case now with the energy crisis. Having said that, since the aftermath of the 1994 election, you could generally count on the GOP to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory at every possible opportunity. (they allowed Bill Clinton to take credit for the "Gingrich Contract with America economy"....almost lost elections to Gore and Kerry...think about that) Such could well be the case this week. See MORE HERE
Mav McCain Gets Taste of Own Medicine
By C. Edmund Wright
In much the same way John McCain seemed to pop up and blunt any momentum the Bush Administration seemed to build on key issues for the past eight years, three more "maverick" Republicans are now doing their best to suck the wind out of the McCain Campaign's best week. What a scream. -- MORE
VISA is advertising with their new age touchy feely "GO WORLD" campaign. Do you reckon that's a big hit today in Georgia (the former Soviet Republic that is....not the southern American state....)
Speaking of that...I wonder if for a moment Obama thought the Ruskies had invaded one of the "57 American states" when he heard of this.
So, Europe does not have their own military preparedness or their own energy sources....how does THAT feel about now?
Where is Neville Chamberlain....when you don't need him?
Did George Bush see this coming when he "looked into Vladimir Putin's soul" and figured this was someone he could "do business with?"
Do you reckon Obama has ever heard of Sudetenland? (google it). I mean, he didn't learn about Capital Gains tax cuts in the Ivy League...why should we think he learned world history?
Do you think anyone planning to vote for Obama has any idea what that last question was talking about?
By the way...what is wrong with "war for oil." Really. If it makes you feel any better, we don't have to think about it as trading our blood for oil.....we can trade the blood for the freedom part of the equation. But how about some oil thrown in as a ROI in the taxpayers investments into our military? (do any Obama supporters know what ROI is?)
Is compassion defined by having an affair only when your wife is "in remission."
Is VISA really "everywhere you want it to be?" Like in the former Soviet Republics? GO WORLD you know....
Famed, and brilliant economist Larry Kudlow has the answer for a Republican brand in trouble...for how to change the Democratic tilt to 2008. He has a plan, in fact, for a "Republican Tsunami" in 2008. A new "contract with America" style electoral monster. Of course, he is right. And he is about 120 days behind C. Edmund Wright. See Kudlow's analysis....
Bejiing Air: We can see clearly now.....
By C. Edmund Wright
The Godless government of China is on full display this week....and like all Godless entities, liberalism is the defacto faith of choice. With the opening ceremonies set for tomorrow, two of the most incidious tenets of the liberal world view will be front and center: American induced climate change and the ability of humans to play god. MORE
Could the tire guage be
Barack Obama's Swift Boat? Are we about to find a 527 group known as Tire
Mechanics for Truth? Unlikely, perhaps. But Obama did violate the political
rule of holes today by continuing to argue the point that much of the nation's
energy issues could be solved by simply inflating our tires. .MORE
The Republican brand is in trouble for many reasons, one being the party's lost focus on Reaganomics. Today, the Associated Press discovered the truth of trickle down and Reaganomics...by accident. See C. Edmund Wright's breakdown of the AP article.
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