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Sen. Harry Reid is a piece of work.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) said the possibility of Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) becoming president “sends a cold chill down my spine.”

Reid made his remarks Tuesday outside the Senate chambers when a reporter asked him about McCain, who is running for the Republican Party nomination for president.

Pulling out his wallet and removing a white piece of paper, Reid told the reporter: “All I have to say about that is this. I have it right here, and you can put it in your little recording devices.”

Then, reading aloud, and quoting Sen. Thad Cochran (R-Miss.) from an interview last Friday, Reid said: “The thought of him [McCain] being president sends a cold chill down my spine. He is erratic. He is hotheaded. He loses his temper, and he worries me.”

Reid then placed the piece of paper back in his wallet and continued taking reporter’s questions.

You don’t think he planned that, do you?

There’s nothing Reid would like more than to cause a riot among conservatives in the hope that we’d sit out of the 2008 cycle in protest against McCain. So, why not use one of our own as a tool to that end?

A Democrat playing offense is a dangerous thing. No matter who our nominee is, conservative Republicans need to ensure we’re not pawns of the Democratic party.

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2008 Election, John McCain, Democrats, Republicans, Conservatives, Harry Reid

The Huckabee Win: It Don’t Mean Nothin’

The media jumped on the Huckabee win in West Virginia as if it means something. It means nothing. By tonight, we’ll won’t be hearing about Mike Huckabee. It’ll be all about John McCain. For better or worse (I say worse), McCain will be the nominee. The media is driving him convoy style right to the Republican National Convention.

It’s over.

Now the debate going forward will be one concerning the lesser of two evils. Is it worth electing McCain to the White House just to have a Republican (in name only) occupying the oval office, or could McCain potentially screw things up so bad that he’d be worse than Hillary?

To be continued.

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2008 Election, Hillary Clinton, Huckabee, John McCain, Oval Office

Low on the Believability Quotient

The Stepford Child is on the stump.

From shaking hands and taking photos on the rope line at California State University in Dominguez Hills to answering personal questions with steely resolve in a town-hall meeting at Santa Barbara City College, the Chelsea that emerged was one of contrasts, seamlessly appropriating well-known attributes from both President and Senator Clinton. In the end, there’s little doubt: Chelsea is definitely her parents’ child.

And that’s just the way she wants it.

“There’s no one that I love more, that I respect more,” a smiling Clinton said of her mother during the day’s second stop in Santa Barbara. “She makes the best applesauce. She reads to me still when I don’t feel well. I’ve never doubted that I’m the most important person in the world to her.”

Ummm, riiiiight.

I’m sorry, but I don’t see Hillary Clinton as the homemaker whipping up a great batch of applesauce. Nor do I see her reading, comfortingly to a 27-year-old who’s feeling ill. Unless, of course, she’s reading from a policy speech she’s about to deliver.

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2008 Election, Chelsea Clinton, Hillary Clinton

Again, The Crying

Hillary Clinton will do anything to win.

Sen. Hillary Clinton teared up this morning at an event at the Yale Child Study Center, where she worked while in law school in the early 1970s.

Penn Rhodeen, who was introducing Clinton, began to choke up, leading Clinton’s eyes to fill with tears, which she wiped out of her left eye. At the time, Rhodeen was saying how proud he was that sheepskin-coat, bell-bottom-wearing young woman he met in 1972 was now running for president.

“Well, I said I would not tear up; already we’re not exactly on the path,” Clinton said with emotion after the introduction.

Clinton is holding a roundtable discussion with Connecticut women to talk about childcare and healthcare.

When Clinton got misty-eyed at an event in New Hampshire on Jan. 7, politicos and pundits filled hours discussing if it helped her, and Clinton eventually pointed to the moment as when she “found her voice” and turned the corner in the Granite State.

I don’t care what anyone says. This lady is 100% scripted. Calculating. Driven. Her thinking is obvious…if the “tear” thing worked in New Hampshire, it might work in Connecticut, so…

What amazes me are the people (ahem, women) out there who are enthusiastically supporting Hillary exclusively because she has a chance to be the first woman president. People need to wake up and realize who they’re dealing with here.

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2008 Election, Hillary Clinton, Polls

The Clinton Apology Tour Rides Again

According to Blacks in South Central L.A., the former president needs to ‘splain himself.

The Clinton camp asked Rep. Diane Watson (D-Calif.) to clarify remarks she made in an interview with The Sleuth on Friday evening in which she said Clinton needed to “renew his relationship with the South Central community” after turning off voters in her district with his racially tinged comments during the South Carolina primary campaign.

To achieve that, Watson said she had asked the former president to write a letter “explaining his commitment to civil rights and equal rights.”

“He knows what needs to be in it: He needs to renew his relationship with the South Central community,” Watson said Friday evening.

But on Saturday, things changed after the Clinton campaign called Watson who then told The Sleuth there will be no letter after all. She had mistakenly thought, she said, that Clinton would not be able to speak inside the churches on Sunday and, therefore, had asked him to put his thoughts in writing.

“I just learned he will be able to speak,” Watson said. “So there will be no need for any kind of letter.”

But what about mending fences with voters who felt Clinton had unfairly injected race into the campaign? “He can do that now in person in true Bill Clinton fashion — personally and verbally,” Watson said.

This is just what the country needs, days before Super Tuesday. Now, on Monday, we’ll hear story after story about how Bill Clinton “renewed his ties” to the African American community by an act of contrition only he can pull off. He’ll be crowned the first black president again, and Hillary will talk about how she and Bill are the real uniters-in-chief.

I think I just threw up in my mouth.

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2008 Election, Bill Clinton, Black Vote, Hillary Clinton, President

So Much for the Straight Talk

When confronted on why he opposed Bush’s tax cuts, John McCain said it was because they didn’t come with spending cuts. Umm, okaaaay.

That’s not what he said in 2001, when his reason was because he thought the tax cuts favored the wealthy over the middle class.

And that’s not what he said in 2003, when he reasoned that there should be no cuts until the Iraq war costs were known.

I’ve got news for Mr. Mac. He’s enjoying a little honeymoon of sorts with his media buddies right now, what with the endorsements and a few nice poll numbers. But Johnny’s gonna watch all those smiles turn to rabid foaming clinch teethed growls once the actual campaign starts. All these flip floppin’ politically expedient explanations will come to light, you can be sure, and Captain McQueeg will be caught with his pants down wondering what happened to the love.

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2008 Election, John McCain, Straight Talk

Question of the Day

The NY Post endorses Barack Obama and asks…

“Does America really want to go through all that again?”

All that, of course, being Bill and Hillary Clinton. They go on.

Democrats in 22 states across America go to the polls next Tuesday to pick between two presidential prospects: Sens. Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton.

We urge them to choose Obama – an untried candidate, to be sure, but preferable to the junior senator from New York.

Obama represents a fresh start.

His opponent, and her husband, stand for déjà vu all over again – a return to the opportunistic, scandal-scarred, morally muddled years of the almost infinitely self-indulgent Clinton co-presidency.

Doh!

I’m not voting for Obama, primarily because I’d practically almost never ever ever vote for a Liberal Democrat. But this kind of thing makes me want to at least root for him a little in the primaries. Heck, I’d root for anyone who could keep the nomination away from Billary.

So, three cheers for the New York Post.

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2008 Election, Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, President

Trouble in the Streisand Family

If momma’s not happy, ain’t nobody happy.

Barbra Streisand is reportedly furious that stepson Josh Brolin is to play the lead role in a forthcoming biopic of US President George W. Bush. The National Enquirer claims that the singer, a staunch Democrat supporter, pleaded with Brolin not to appear in the Oliver Stone-directed film. A source said: “Barbra thinks this movie will show a side to George W. Bush that draws sympathy from the public and she does not think Bush deserves anything positive.

Uh, wait a minute. Isn’t this an Oliver Stone film? Babs is acting as if Oliver is Rush Limbaugh! I don’t think she has anything to worry about, given Stone’s political leanings. Still, this story once again illuminates the wackiness of the moonbat left. Even Oliver Stone is a threat.