The Exercise of Vital Powers

ViaReason Magazine - Hit & Run comes news that Dekalb’s favorite daughter might make a run for the White House.

Remaining questions:

1: Would McKinney get more or fewer votes than Nader did in 2004?
1a: Would the Libertarian candidate actually win fewer votes than her? Her? Really?
2: Would a McKinney candidacy make the LP look, by the mainstream media’s lights, like the serious third party?

Fewer. Yes. No.

The only thing that could make the LP a serious third party is if the Dems nominated Cynthia and the GOP nominated Fred Phelps.

While we’re in the minority, we might as well use it as a chance to clean house and get rid of the frigtards who lost us the majority.

The FBI and a federal grand jury have been investigating an extensive remodeling project at U.S. Sen. Ted Stevens’ home in Girdwood that involved the top executive of Veco Corp. in the hiring of at least one of the key contractors. (adn.com | politics : Feds eye Stevens’ home remodeling project)

H/T: Club for Growth

The only way we’re gonna win in 2008 is to run against the big-government and incompetent record of George W. Bush.

The only way to keep the White House in G.O.P. hands, Gingrich said, would be to nominate someone who, in essence, runs against Bush, in the style of Nicolas Sarkozy, the center-right cabinet minister who just won the French Presidency by making his own President, Jacques Chirac, his virtual opponent. Sarkozy is a transforming figure in French politics, Gingrich said, and he suggested that the only Republican who shared Sarkozy’s “transformative” approach to governing was, at that moment, eating a bowl of oatmeal at the McLean Family Restaurant.

“What’s fascinating about Sarkozy is that you have an incumbent cabinet member of a very unpopular twelve-year Presidency, who over the last three years became the clear advocate of fundamental change, running against an attractive woman”—the Socialist leader Ségolène Royal—“who is the head of the opposition,” Gingrich went on. “In a country that wanted to say, ‘Not them,’ he managed to switch the identity of the ‘them.’ He said, ‘I’m different from Chirac, and she’s not. If you want more of the same, you should vote for her.’ It was a Lincoln-quality strategic decision.” (Letter from Washington: Party Unfaithful: Reporting & Essays: The New Yorker)

Almost seven years have passed since I shared breakfast with that New Jersey couple, yet I think about them often, and when I do, my eyes always fill with tears. I think about the little girl, now ten, living in a Chinese orphanage never knowing the life she missed. (Freakonomics Blog » Adoptive Parents May Also Face the Decision to “Abort”)

Roftl

I am this morning, declaring my candidacy for Congress in the GOP primaries against Ron Paul. If he does not resign his seat, and if another Republican candidate does not declare against him, I will run a balls-to-the-wall campaign for Congress in Texas CD 14.

I am the guy that got Ron Paul elected to Congress in 1996. I can and will defeat him in 2008.

Eric Dondero, Fmr. Senior Aide
US Congressman Ron Paul (R-TX)
1997-2003

HT: Reason Magazine: Blowback, Texas-Style

I want to thank all the immoral gays reading this for causing this national tragedy. I owe you one.

“I think every good Christian ought to kick Falwell right in the ass.” — Barry Goldwater

FOXNews.com - AP: Jerry Falwell Dies After Falling Ill - Local News | News Articles | National News | US News

Good use of humor and internet marketing:

Good article on burnout. Which is where I’m at right now. For me it’s not time to find a new job. It’s time to find no job.

“That happiness equals reality divided by expectations.”

HT: Where Work Is a Religion, Work Burnout Is Its Crisis of Faith — New York Magazine

I was interviewed for a radio show in south Georgia on the RLC, Georgia Politics and the problems with the GOP. You can listen here

and carry it with me.

Murders of Christopher Newsom and Channon Christian