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Hey, everyone’s talking about Security Moms again. There’s this article in the San Francisco Chronicle (reprinted in today’s Manchester Union Leader and elsewhere). There’s this Associated Press report on John Edwards’ efforts to woo women voters by promising “We will do absolutely everything that needs to be done to keep this country safe.” And this [...]

The New York Times headline this morning reads: “Bush Cites Doubt America Can Win War on Terror.”
John Edwards (who?) yapped: “This is no time to declare defeat.”
Bush did not “declare defeat.” John Kerry’s desperate spinners are selectively seizing on the second sentence in Bush’s answer to NBC Today Show co-host Matt Lauer about how the [...]

I’ve written a piece for USA Today that was posted online tonight and will appear in the print edition tomorrow: Candidates ignore security moms at their peril. A few excerpts:
I am what this year’s election pollsters call a “security mom.” I’m married with two young children. I own a gun. And I vote.
Nothing matters more [...]

Over and over again, we are reminded that the intelligence on WMDs in Iraq was flawed. Over and over again, we are informed that there was no collaborative relationship between Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden. The strong implication is not just that the case for war was built on “lies” and “hype” but that [...]

The folks at Townhall.com’s C-Log are debating whether John Edwards is hot or not. Carolyn Davids likes the Southern accent; Emily Shaheen says he’s “prissy.”
Meanwhile, the voters at Am I Annoying? give the Golden Boy a 57.04% annoying approval rate in 2003.
(Your humble correspondent, by comparison, scored a 42.35% annoying approval rate. But that’s before [...]

Congratulations to the New York Post for breaking the news that John Kerry has picked Dick Gephardt to be his VP candidate.

An inspired choice. Consider Gephardt’s many positions on:
- abortion, defense
- confederate flag
- gay marriage
Flip-flop, flip-flop, flip-flop.
Update: Props to ArchPundit, who saw the Gephardt pick coming two days ago.
Update II: WHOOPS: IT’S EDWARDS!!!! Geez, [...]