Some Articles

I thought this article was interesting that comes to us courtesy of Dennis Prager. It's about how a particular article in a popular pop culture magazine, Rolling Stone, and how it illustrates a lot of the mentality of the left in America.

And here are some links about the GOP presidential candidates. Mostly Giuliani. This one is a blog entry by Hugh Hewitt talking about his courage. Also from Hugh, he looks at how blogs have reshaped the battle for supremacy amongst candidates. From Powerline, they look at Giuliani's path toward the nomination. And another from Hugh about Clinton's gaffe at one of the recent Democratic nominee debates.

I was talking with a friend yesterday about the elections a little bit - how it's looking amonst the GOP candidates, GOP vs. Dems, etc. The polls all reflect so many different things, it's really hard to say. Plus it's so far out, and it's a completely different dynamic once the candidates are actually chosen for each party. One thing that does seem apparent is that it does seem that Hillary lost a lot of momentum by supporting the New York Governor's recent proposal to give all NY drivers licenses, even illegal ones. In the Iowa primary she only leads by 6% over Obama. That used to be up around 15%. If she loses that one, then she is dun-fer.

I don't think I've mentioned on here which way I'm leaning. I think I'm all for Romney, but more importantly, I'm for whoever can win versus the Clinton Machine. If that's Giuliani, then so be it. He is charismatic, has a great hardline stance in his foreign policy, and has had a great track record overall. I think he could draw more moderate votes and liberal leaning people away from Clinton than Romney ever could. Plus, several Justices will probably need to be replaced in the next term or two and having a liberal in office could be devastating for all of the progress that was made with Bush's nominations to the Supreme Court. Something interesting for some people to look at - not just how Evangelical Christians react to Romney, but how hard, left-leaning people would react toward him.

An additional important factor that is in favor of the GOP is that there appears to be no third party independent candidate running in the background. This profoundly altered the playing field in favor of Clinton in both of his elections with Perot, and then Robertson running in '92 and '96. That's about all I know.