Social Security may be here to stay, but nobody, liberal or conservative, gives a damn about the DOE except vested interests. (Although high-information liberals who recognize its role in multicultural indoctrination might fight for it, most voters are vaguely--if at all--aware that it exists. The thing is, they don't like words like "abolish" and "end" because these words sound extreme. All a conservative candidate would have to do is say "reduce the budget for the DOE" and then kill it, and no one would care.

Same with abortion. Abandon harsh rhetoric and the issue is yours, particularly with the extremism of Obama, NARAL, and other proponents of the FOCA. A small--but real--majority of voters of all ages want to restrict abortion more than it is restricted today. And the amount of truly committed Pro-Lifers vastly outnumbers the committed Pro-Choicers, a contingent mostly limited to "Wymyn's Studies" departments on college campuses.

IMO, the main reason why urban "moderate" Republicans want to stifle the Social/Populist/Christian/anti-PC Right is because they don't like them and are embarrassed of them in front of their nice urban liberal friends. They wish to say "Look, we're as sophisticated and progressive as you liberals, and we love PC; we just want lower marginal tax rates." (I am not saying that this is what Mr. Joyner thinks.)

This is doomed to fail for obvious reasons.

Thanks for taking the test- you flunk; not a surprise to anybody who has read even one OTB comment thread.

"Barry;
So... You're saying that David Axelrod should be president? Right?"
Posted by Floyd | November 11, 2008 | 03:11 pm |

Thank you for taking the test - you flunk, and are also positive for psychedelics (considering I didn't even mention D.A.).

Thus demonstrating his inability to stay within the realm of reality.

Well, reality in the bitverse perhaps. You know, the place that proves Orwell knew of what he spoke...

James, anybody who says this is either ignorant, foolish or lying. There is no third alternative. It's one of those things which allows one to check somebody off as not having an opinion deserving of respect.

Posted by Bithead

Taking on the frontrunner of the party, who had just about every advantage, and methodically beating her, after starting with jack sh*t in his hand. That's a really good start.

Simple. By talking to me like I was an intelligent person who needed to be persuaded.

And on what principles do you operate if he's able to talk you off of them, so easily?

Simple. By talking to me like I was an intelligent person who needed to be persuaded

Thus demonstrating his inability to stay within the realm of reality.

Alex, you're a tree stump.

How appropriate. You fight like a cow.

Considering the level of disdain,wouldn't you think that if her detractors thought it was the peter principle, they would have started b*tching when she ran for mayor?

A. 99.9999999999999% of the people in the U.S. did not know she was alive when she ran for mayor.

B. She may well have been an adequate small town mayor. She may even be a decent gov. of a state with a low population. I don't know anything about Alaska politics.

Clearly, she was totally unprepared to function effectively as a candidate for national office, or to serve with distinction, or even competence, if elected. Hence the Peter Principal.