Pat's thinking is that all demographic groups remain forever where they are now and only the Republican party sustains losses and the only thing the Democrat paryt does is gain. Did Irish Catholics stay as Democrat as they did in the immigrant days. Will the Democrat party keep it's white percentage or women when it becomes the party of the minorites. The rise of serval female Republicans like Palin makes a moment that the DEMOCRATS dreaded which is they couldn't keep white women AND pander to other vicitm groups at the same time.

Mona you are really out of touch if you don't understand why everyone was glad that Newt decided to castigate the media for trying to ruin another of OUR Republican debates. Do you ever read the constant drivel about our field being weak after a liberal moderator dominated debate? Watch one of their debates from 2008 where they try their damnest to make Dems look smart and tell me again why you don't understand the standing ovation and why voters, who don't have many serious policy differences with the candidates shouldn't vote for the one who can articulate why we are right and the left is wrong.

Ann teaming with Christie and Romney wouldn't be as strange as it is when you add it to the vitriol for people she is trying to supposedly win over. Ann's strategy of trying to intellectually shame others who don't agree with her might work on people who will never agree with her on the left (as it is amusing to people observing on the right) but to use it on your own supposed political bedfellows is going to sour a lot of people like myself on Ann for A LONG time. Regardless of who I end up supporting in the primaries I wouldn't be jamming others in my own party and creepy totalitarian behavior by Romney (Ann C) people puts them in the Ron Paul category for me.

Railing against fractional reserve banking sounds like Ron Paul. People who argue Paul's ideas don't know the problems with things like returning to the Gold standard and I am not talking about just the banking community. It is like putting toothpaste back in the tube. the results would be much worse than sticking with the current system which makes the Paulites scream when their utopian banking system can't be recreated.

Here is what rich liberals see. They see their agenda and philosophy being rejected due to worries about the debt and they are desperate to ss the deficit closed by taxing the rich not because it is a good idea but because it would take the pressure off the left politically. The key thing about the left is they just want a good economy so they can gain enough legislators to invoke what they really care about. This also explains why they are not for spending cuts. They only care about short term economic gains until they can vote in their agenda and then it they think it will be too late to undo a "transformed" America and they are probably right if you look at the trap Europe is in.

Gerson's writing is that of a disgusting blue-blood republican that may even be more dispicable than Obama. Gerson wants the rest of us to go back to the slimy days when Republicans cut deals with democrats to sell out the public in favor of the elite (to whom if you ever watched him or read him he considers himself one of). He is the mirror image of the limosine liberal on the right showing his true colors when anyone leaning right threatens the governance of the country club Republicans running the Republican party. Ann Rand IN NO WAY serves his elite purposes and so most be dismissed as "adolescence". Just the kind of intellectual brow beating you would expect from someone in the intellectual class to try and keep the rest of us in...

The birth Certificate is an example of the WH being too cute. They let the contraversy bubble because it allowed them to paint opponents as crazy. Now the hiding of the real birth certificate has fueled the idea he is someone who hides his identity from others even among people like myself who admit he was born here. Obama has himself to blame for being too cute with the birthers and now that the game has blown up in their face they can't understand how people got the idea the President can't be taken at his word. Well lefties maybe not being candid about personal matters like your school records or your birth records means people get to be suspicious when your actions don't match your words. Obama built this mistrust by his deeds.

At this point is anyone over at MSNBC doing anything but feeding the radical left that are their only viewers left? If you look at the numbers that is who must be left so I don't see how they keep those tin-foil hats going without this sort of insanity confirmation programming. It isn't going to change over there but it is sort of like shooting fish in a barrel to point it out.

Gerson quite honestly makes me ill. He has been on Fox recently trying to explain himself. He reminds me of what we hated about Bushism. The idea we had to make some pandering gestures to minorities in the fashion of liberals or face a dark future of electoral banishment. What we see now in the reflection of 2009 and 2010 is that the wieght of this pandering destroys support among those outside the pandering as seen in Arizona and the Ground Zero mosque. Only 30% or so ever really get behind any particular pandering so getting behind the pandering doesn't get you to a majority because the pandering assumes you only add to your voters and never subtract in much greater number with further pandering in another area. It wouldn't bother me...

What would any of the 41 Republicans have to gain by reversing themselves in a Lame Duck Session after a Democrat loss on issues they didn't support before this? Lame Duck Republicans would also not want to participate in ending any comeback by doing it. Why would the 23 Senate Democrats ( and you would need all of them plus defectors to get to 60) up in 2012 start their re-election bids by selling out ot the far left? The lame duck scenario is not going to happen. Please point to me how they get to 60 when they can't NOW.