What health care needs most is for guys like Edward to butt out, for the government to butt out, and let the market work its magic with direct payments from patient to doctor, the individual patient determining his/her own health care plan, if any, and carrying it with him/her from job to job.

Hospitals will find it hard to charge patients $20 for a bandaid when the patients are paying the bills directly. However, you can be sure that there will be plenty of twenty buck bandaids in any plan a shyster trial lawyer like Edwards cooks up.

It’s a complete fabrication that was firmly denied by Fred himself yesterday, 1/2/08. Dirty 11th-hour politics at its finest. Thanks.

Christopher Hitchens
It is impossible that the Republican Party could be saddled with a clown like Huckabee if there were a serious primary in Iowa, let alone if the process were kicked off in Chicago or Los Angeles or Atlanta. (Remember that not Iowa …

Thanks for the Village People video and the embedded irony.

Next up: Denny K will bench-press his wife for the cameras!

Did he get Jack LaLanne’s endorsement!

As for Hillary, have you seen those ads? It looks like she hired a mortician to do her makeup.

EDWARDS’S PUGILISTIC populism (which John Tabin captured brilliantly last week) is an absurd spectacle to witness in person. I’ve never heard so much macho talk coming from an adult since I used to watch the WWF as a kid.

His closing argument is that, “I will fight for you with every fiber of my being,” and he spent the speech explaining why we needed a fighter, why he is itching for a fight, and why he can kick the butts of corporations because his father taught him to stand up to street toughs when he was a young boy.

Silky, Silky, Silky. It does not work for you.

You have hands, eyelashes and hair most women would covet. What are you going to do, work up the courage to scratch someone’s eyes out?

His Daddy taught him to stand up to street toughs? Gimmie a break! Either he had his ass kicked on an hourly basis or he “stood up to them” by becoming their bitch. John Edwards – Iran’s Bitch in Waiting.

What do you have against black transvestites? If Rupaul wants to offer opinions about 9/11, let his words flow like H20 off a rubber duckie’s backside.

Besides, I disagree on the whole hating liberals thing. Without them, who could we conduct controlled experiments on?

Little do they know the cure for their Bush Derangement Syndrome was a placebo.

eric aka the Tygrrrr Express

Former Senator Fred Thompson is the only real conservative in the race for the Republican nomination, and the only candidate who can unite all three pillars of the Republican Party, namely, fiscal conservatives; national security and defense conservatives; and religious conservatives.

The Republican party, given that the nation is divided, cannot afford to alienate any of these pillars, or they will lose in the general election, as a sufficient number of the alienated pillar’s constituents will simply not cast a vote for president when they vote. This is not an attempt to intimidate Republican voters, but merely a recognition that there are certain conservative voters who simply will not violate their own principles and vote for someone they have fundamental disagreements with, or do not trust. For example, Governor Romney, has not provided a satisfactory answer in the minds of many religious conservatives in his efforts to explain the change from pro-choice to pro-life. They want to know the motivation, and need to be convinced that it was not political. This matter remains unresolved, and thus alienates a proportion of religious conservatives who would otherwise support him as the party’s nominee – regardless of his own religious persuasion. Mayor Guiliani also has a similar problem with religious conservatives, given his personal position on abortion; and promising to appoint strict constructionist judges will not vitiate the conflict with pro-life constituents. Religious conservatives will not vote for a pro-choice Republican nominee – even if it means electing Senator Clinton president. They will not violate a moral conviction. They will simply adopt the attitude – God’s will be done, and maintain their conviction. Governor Huckabee alienates fiscal conservatives as a result of his tax and spend policies during his tenure in Arkansas. Senator McCain, terminally severed his relationship with a proportion of national security conservatives through his aggressive support of the proposed comprehensive immigration agreement, which failed as a result of a citizens’ uprising against this legislation; his opposition to the tax cut policy of the Bush Administration; and his opposition to aggressive interrogation techniques on high value captured terrorists.

Senator Thompson has none of the foregoing problems. Read why at:

http://sheetanchor.wordpress.com/2007/12/26/the-best-republican-presidential-candidate-for-2008/