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"Do not yield. Do not flinch. Stand up. Stand up with our President and fight. We're Americans. We're Americans, and we'll never surrender. They will."-John McCain
McCain/Rudy 08-kill the terrorists and punch the hippies.

forcing out the conservatives... Not a good future to look forward to.

Formally known as Deagle... "Golf is a way of life..."

that the flood of retirements is nowhere near ending. This does not bode well for the GOP.

We are losing a lot of good talent. It seems those who actually lead, as opposed to those who talk about it, do not see a lot of good results coming our way in the near term.

...a long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right...

---Thomas Paine---

in a McCain administration.

I like it.

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According to Democrats, it’s greedy to want to keep your own money, but it’s “justice” to demand someone else’s.

--Jonah Goldberg

Now that McCain has the virtual lock on the nomination, Shadegg resigns. The first approximation guess is that he's going to be named to some office in the McCain administration.

That'd be fantastic!

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Congressman Shadegg has been a highly principled and highly effective legislator. He was a model conservative who can hold his head high as he rides off into the Arizona sunset. Although, I have a sneaking (and hopeful) suspicion we'll see him again in a more significant role. Like Obi Wan, he will come back more even more powerful.

Hats off to The Directors for this send off.

Sean would be a good replacement.

will be greatly missed. I have followed his career since he was elected in 1994. He is a true conservative.

I hope there is someone as great as he is to take his place.

I just wish he could have gotten the leadership position that he was seeking, then maybe he would have stayed.

It is going to be very difficult for the Republicans to pick up any seats in the house.

I'm not totally familiar with how the process works in AZ - I gather that state law requires Gov. Napolitano to pick a GOP successor, but I don't know how that process would translate into her taking a conservative star like Shadegg.

That said, I would love the game of chicken aspect to McCain quitting. At his age, it's a reasonable gamble to push the chips to the center of the table and bet it all on winning the White House, at the price of retiring to a quiet life as a weekly guest on Meet the Press. But doing that would put a lot of pressure on the D nominee to quit too - and Hillary and Obama would both prefer to be able to fall back on spending decades more in the Senate. (Although if Obama wins the nomination and loses the general his smart move is to run for IL-GOV in 2010 and wait for 2016 before going national again - the Nixon playbook, except that unlike Nixon he would win the GOV race).

"No compromise with the main purpose, no peace till victory, no pact with unrepentant wrong." - Winston Churchill