Bravery? Bravery in the Presidency?

Look at Rudy Guiliani!! The man has a speech impediment to rival Cindy Brady and yet his speeches are chock-full of tongue-twisters and “sally sold seashells” numbers. Hey, that’s pretty brave!

Gracious…abortion, abortion, abortion. Again, I know it’s an important issue but only in the sense that Republicans looking for a “true” Republican candidate will want a strong Pro-Life guy. There are few issues left upon which voters can

(And note to Giuliani: Never debate this issue with Huckabee on this issue…you’ll walk over, but you’re gonna limp back. Governor Huckabee is not only Pro-Life he is very well spoken about it. The most Pro-Choice person in the world could find themselves drawn into a calm, productive debate with Huckabee because he is true believer on this issue and a genuinely compassionate man.)

Finally we arrive at it…The National Question!!

This is Tancredo’s strongest issue–the MSM even calls him the “one hit wonder”–and yet he spent his allocated 30-60 seconds talking around the subject and making a few jokes.

Romney just gave a brilliant answer–people actually applauded him. Here’s the catch: He managed to sound hard on illegal immigrants but also said “they have to get in line like everybody else” for citizenship. Hmm…loosely translated: those here will not be sent back.

Giuliani wants to focus on creating a national database to track illegal immigrants. Yawn…

Ooh….here’s a good one! Should South Carolina be able to fly a Confederate Flag at the Capitol?

McCain said yes…and let’s move on! Good for him!

Global warming…again, yawn. Then again I am one of those consumers who is just out of it where environmental issues are concerned. Like society’s newfound obsession with “Trans Fat”…I don’t even know what that is but KFC is taking it out of their chicken and we just can’t have that, people!

Senator McCain is clearly one of the most experienced men on the stage but for some reason he does not appear comfortable at the podium. He vacillates between pounding the podium to rocking back and forth on his feet. Either way, he’s just not comfy.

Wow…my early prediction for the front-runner after today’s debate is: Rudy McRomney!!

Brownback needs more face time…he could be a real contender if he learns how to capture the sound bite. Brit Hume isn’t tossing enough questions to Brownback, Hunter and Tancredo…and of course he’s practically ignoring Ron Paul.

Back in a minute!

Another day, another debate! Tonight is the GOP debate in South Carolina–generally speaking, the first major debate in the South during a Presidential tends to weed the sick and old out of the pack and identify the frontrunners for the rest of the nation.

First of all, Brit Hume? Not a bad choice…then again, I think anybody can do a better job mediating a political debate after what we saw from Chris Matthews last week and by “anybody” I am including this kid I saw yesterday who had both Down Syndrome and Tourette’s Syndrome so that he spat a loud raspberry after every third word–he was also cuter than Matthews!

The first question is of course about the War. Yes, this is an important issue so please don’t misunderstand me when I say “Come on! Talk about anything else, boys! Anything! Talk about the need to legislate sloppy joe recipes for all high school lunch rooms…I don’t care!”

It’s amazing how good these guys are at dodging the issue though…seriously, each of them are very proficient at sounding very well-informed, appearing to have a plan and promising to making a change–without actually saying anything of the sort.

Oh jeez….here we go! Now they’re going to talk about who is more qualified to be Prez based on military experience. “I’ve got two sons in the Army” or “I spent years as a P.O.W (guess who?) or “I once gave my seat on a packed bus to a woman in uniform.”

Yep, that’s quite a range of experience but it doesn’t really mean anything, you know?

Gas prices…no answers worth printing. Moving on the budget and government funding…

OK, Tommy Thompson said “I would automatically have each department come in at 95% of last years budget to control costs.”

Ron Paul disagrees “If you think we can cut budgets without looking first at how we operate, we’re kidding ourselves. We can’t continue to police the world, live as a welfare nation etc. without fixing our spending problems.”

Congressman Hunter is commenting on our trade deficit with China–personally, I think a man who drives a vehicle with more than 250,000 miles on it is the type of guy I would trust to design a budget. He doesn’t just speak a fiscal responsibility, he lives a fiscally responsible life.

So far…aside from the specific questions, I am impressed with Congressman Tom Tancredo’s presence. He is a candidate with the ability to grow and mature throughout the race. For example Gov. Mitt Romney seems too overly positive to the extent that he can only be described at best as….well, vague.

I just heard about Jerry Falwell’s death, and while VDARE.com probably includes people who disagreed with him on many issue, we sort of had enemies in common.

John McCain, for example, and Council on American Islamic Relations.

Even people who disagreed with him would admit that he had the courage of his convictions, which includes the courage to be “intolerant.” You see, ministers of the Gospel aren’t supposed to tolerate everything, and yes, it takes a lot of courage to be “intolerant,” when the entire Mainstream Media is howling for you to be tolerant of, among other things, sin. (For example, Falwell did come out in favor of enforcing the immigration laws in 2006, although I don’t recall him saying anything about limiting legal immigration. ) A number of his death notices use the word “intolerant,” although some of them are just quoting John McCain, but few of them mean it as a compliment, as I do.

Then you either have it bookmarked, or you’re subscribing via RSS. The front page of the site is entirely taken up by Peter Brimelow’s appeal for funds, which the Lord knows we need. So let me point out this article on the Wall Street Journal’s website, saying that newspapers that give away all their content free are sinking.

Of course this article is appearing free on the Opinionjournal website of the Wall Street Journal, which is the most successful web subscription newspaper around, partly because you can tell the IRS that your subscription is necessary for your business, which is harder to do with TimesSelect.

The OpinionJournal site is the Editorial Board’s way of thrusting their opinions on the whole public, not just the subscribers, and frequently a particularly obvious item of immigration enthusiast journalism which appears as subscriber content will appear the next day for free.

Newspaper critic A. J. Liebling suggested in the 1950’s that to avoid having newspapers controlled entirely by plutocrats, reflecting the opinions of their wealthy Republican owners, some institutions might consider endowing a newspaper, the way universities are endowed.

One of his ideas, (he was a Democrat) was that a labor union might endow such a paper. Since the 1950’s the newspaper game has changed, so that while some of the same plutocrats control the papers, they’ve given editorial control to the liberal Democrats who work for them.

And as far as the immigration issue is concerned, wealthy owners and liberal employees have the same idea about immigration. As Peter Brimelow wrote in 1999

“IN AMERICA, WE have a two-party system,” a Republican congressional staffer is supposed to have told a visiting group of Russian legislators some years ago.

“There is the stupid party. And there is the evil party. I am proud to be a member of the stupid party.”

He added: “Periodically, the two parties get together and do something that is both stupid and evil. This is called—bipartisanship.”

The same applies to the Mainstream Media–owners and journalists alike are committed to more immigration, which means that VDARE.com is performing a service that you don’t get elsewhere. So if you haven’t already decided to help with our endowment, you can read Peter’s appeal. If you have decided…

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