Saw Erick on CNN tonight and it made me sick. He was making sarcastic jokes about our likely nominee (“show Romney a poll and he’ll change his mind!”). It’s no wonder CNN hires him as a token GOP spokesman: first, Erick is not very articulate. But second, as the token “Republican” spokesman, he bashes our eventual nominee, so the liberals on CNN’s panel can yuk it up.

If Erick can’t get behind our nominee, rather than embarrassing him on national TV, then screw this site.

Why does it always tell me, “Duplicate comment detected! Looks like you’ve already posted that” when I hadn’t posted it yet?? It is so frustrating when someone responds to one of my postings, and I then try to answer him back, and the bloody site won’t let my comment go through. That’s just bad, bad programming.

I’m predicting Romney will pick Sen. Rand Paul as his running mate. That way, he reaches out to both Tea Party voters and to the Ron Paul supporters, while fending off a Paul third-party bid.

It might be some inside joke, but I have no idea, and he’s never explained it… Can anyone explain?

The electoral college could be another Bush-Gore in 2012.

Assuming the GOP nominee holds all the McCain states (a safe assumption), and we flip the following states (another safe assumption):

North Carolina, Virginia, Florida, Indiana, Ohio, (and that one Omaha-based electoral vote in Nebraska)…

we still lose in the electoral college, 272-266.  And that’s with reapportionment factored in.

Therefore, just ONE other state puts us over the top, and I think that’s where the battle lines will be drawn.  We will need to win one of the following Obama states: Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, New Hampshire, Iowa, Nevada, Colorado, New Mexico, Minnesota, Michigan, or Maine.

Those ten states.  We win one — we win the election.  But, can we?

Methinks it’s time to rekindle the ANWR debate. Sure, the Dems will say, “it will be ten years before we’ll see any of that oil”, etc. etc. To which, we reply: “Well, we passed ANWR in the 90s, but Clinton vetoed it.”

Republicans also have to point out how Obama is continuing his moratorium on deep-water drilling in the Gulf (defying a court order), and won’t let us drill off the coasts of Virginia or California, in addition to ANWR. We need to make these high gas prices about Obama.

Which would the American people support: increased drilling, or $4 gas? It’s time to bring this issue front-and-center.

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