Très Gras

Huckabee Wins WV

Story.

BTW, I drive a Saturn.

Jacoby on why 2008 case for McCain is "vastly more compelling"

Read the whole thing. Excerpt:

Conservatives bristle at the thought of a Republican president who might raise income and payroll taxes. Or enlarge the federal government instead of shrinking it. Or appoint Supreme Court justices who are anything but strict constructionists. Or grant a blanket amnesty to millions of illegal aliens.

Now, I don't believe that a President McCain would do any of those things. But President Reagan did all of them. Reagan also provided arms to the Khomeini theocracy in Iran, presided over skyrocketing budget deficits, and ordered US troops to cut and run in the face of Islamist terror in the Middle East. McCain would be unlikely to commit any of those sins, either.

Does this mean that Reagan was not, in fact, a great conservative? Of course not. Nor does it mean that McCain has not given his critics on the right legitimate reasons to be disconcerted. My point is simply that the immaculate conservative leader for whom so many on the right yearn to vote is a fantasy. Conservatives who say that McCain is no Ronald Reagan are right, but Mitt Romney is no Ronald Reagan either. Neither is Mike Huckabee. And neither was the real - as opposed to the mythic - Ronald Reagan.

By now it's old news....

In all the sturm und drang about the Superbowl, politics, etc. I totally forget to post this exciting bit of news. I'm sure everybody has heard it already, and has been racking up long distance bills and stealing bandwidth from the internet like crazy talking about it over Skype. I sort of feel like a fool even mentioning it so late on my blog, but I willing to risk looking like a retread just in case a few folks missed it....

Kate Beckinsale's cat caught on fire.

Kristol: "Dyspepsia on the Right"

Straight talk from Bill Kristol to conservatives. Excerpt:

This is an important moment for the conservative movement. Not because conservatives have some sort of obligation to fall in behind John McCain. They don’t. Those conservatives who can’t abide McCain are free to rally around Mitt Romney. And if McCain does prevail for the nomination, conservatives are free to sit out the election.

But I’d say this to them: When the primaries are over, if McCain has won the day, don’t sulk and don’t sit it out. Don’t pretend there’s no difference between a candidate who’s committed to winning in Iraq and a Democratic nominee who embraces defeat. Don’t tell us that it doesn’t matter if the next president voted to confirm John Roberts and Samuel Alito for the Supreme Court, or opposed them. Don’t close your eyes to the difference between pro-life and pro-choice, or between resistance to big government and the embrace of it.

And don’t treat 2008 as a throwaway election. If a Democrat wins the presidency, he or she will almost certainly have a Democratic Congress to work with. That Congress will not impede a course of dishonorable retreat abroad. It won’t balk at liberal Supreme Court nominees at home. It won’t save the economy from tax hikes.

I posted the above so you'd maybe read the whole thing without scoffing, throwing up or whatever it is you people do when I post nice things about McCain. But here's my favorite part:

One might add a special reason that conservatives — and the nation — owe John McCain at least a respectful hearing. Only a year ago, we were headed toward defeat in Iraq. Without McCain’s public advocacy and private lobbying, President Bush might not have reversed strategy and announced the surge of troops in January 2007. Without McCain’s vigorous leadership, support for the surge in Congress would not have been sustained in the first few months of 2007. So: No McCain, no surge. No surge, failure in Iraq, a terrible setback for America — and, as it happens, no chance for a G.O.P. victory in 2008.

Uh, yeah.

LOL: "I smell an upset"

Giant Upset

Prior to the Superbowl, Steve Schrader handed Plaxico Burress the "It's Just Not Patriotic" award:

To N.Y. Giants receiver Plaxico Burress, who had the audacity, the utter gall, to think his team would win today and to actually say it out loud. Why isn't he on the Patriots' bandwagon like everybody else?

Turns out that Burress overestimated the Pariot offensive peformance when he made the 23-17 prediction. Oh, well, we can't all be Jimmy the Greek....



He enjoyed that. This was the play of the game, though.



Hey, how'd they do that?

Now everyone can pretend they saw the whole superbowl. Myself, I just caught the 4th quarter.

Anchoress Reviews New Weigel Book

Here. It's a good one.

I heard Mr. Weigel trying to discuss the book on Laura Ingraham's show the other day, but Laura kept interrupting him and bringing up Ronald Reagan and trying to relate everything he said to the strategy needed to win the 2008 Election. I felt embarrassed for her and I turned the channel to some superbowl nonsense.