Pardon My Politics

A sim­ple look at past cam­paigns and can­di­dates could pro­vide Re­pub­li­cans with the an­swers they need. Elec­tions are a re­ac­tive/chem­i­cal pro­cess – not a con­form­ing/sci­en­tif­ic one – cam­paigns and elec­tions are more akin to a per­son­al ro­mance than any­thing root­ed in loy­al po­lit­i­cal rea­son­ing.

The idea that Re­pub­li­cans need to find new pol­i­cy ideas – or change their mes­sage to en­tice a cer­tain vot­ing block is wrong. Vot­ers de­cide on their sup­port based on what a can­di­date…

When discussing his criteria for a Supreme Court Justice less than a month ago, President Obama said “I view that quality of empathy, of understanding and identifying with people’s hopes and struggles, as an essential ingredient for arriving at just decisions and outcomes.” Evidently that is not a quality he requires of himself.

There is a saying that history repeats itself and without a doubt that is what is currently taking place in this country with the gay rights movement.

People who supported slavery, denied white women and people of color the right to vote, were all on the wrong side of history by denying people’s basic human and civil rights. And today, there are many who are still on the wrong side of history by denying gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender Americans basic civil rights.

Future wars may require censorship, news blackouts and, ultimately, military attacks on the partisan media. Why? Because the “anti-war” media has caused increasing numbers of American military figures, and a host of ex-diplomats, intelligence officers and others to publicly challenge the Jewish lobby.

The shock that some lib­er­als dis­play in light of the Democrats’ com­plic­i­ty (or at least com­pli­ance) to the “harsh in­ter­ro­ga­tion tech­niques” is in it­self shock­ing. Are we to be­lieve Congress has nev­er tak­en the time to in­ves­ti­gate and dis­cov­er the acts in­side the in­ter­ro­ga­tion room?