This is a blanket statement but here’s my take:

The ass-kissing and “conventional wisdom” echo chamber bs that it takes to get these jobs gets us a group of people who are not willing to make quick adjustments in the “net roots” environment.

Independent-thinking, brash, younger Republican operatives don’t easily get invited into this club. And, in 2008, I think this type is what we need running the campaigns.

How about standing up for the rights of ALL Americans to have life, rather than acting as if we who have been born already have more right to life than those who have not ?

How about listening to those of us whose votes they want, instead of pretending we will let them lie to us forever, like the Dem’s have been doing to certain people groups for so long. Or will we?? Think about it

The nations is not becoming more Democrat, or moving to the left; The Republican Party is.
If they don’t stop it, and fast, November will vindicate what we have been trying to tell them yet again, though I hold out only marginal hope that the Party will see it this time, as they apparently still don’t get ‘06, and ‘07

On a different note, one of the big problems is that Democrats are recruiting better candidates. I didn’t pay much attention to the Mississippi race but I think most people can agree that was the case in Illinois. Foster was a way better candidate then Oberweis.

Another problem is the way the NRCC tries to attack Democrats. Attempting to link them to Pelosi or Obama is a stupid line of attack. Most people don’t know enough about Pelosi for that to effective. The ads with that type of message are laughable and a waste of money.

Some people are starting to take note, though, beyond the conservative blogosphere. One guy in my office, a fellow conservative, recently told me he’s on the fence about whether to give McCain his vote or not. Another colleague, who is the father of a good friend of mine from high school, told me last night he’s made up his mind not to vote for McCain, but rather for Barr come November.

Luckily for McCain plenty of Democrats are ticked off at one another, and he is liberal enough for plenty of them to vote for him, so I expect him to win the election against Hillary or Barack. But it will be interesting to see how much of the vote Barr gets, and how much of the GOP base either stays home or votes for all offices but President or writes-in/votes third party.

McCain’s speech yesterday is further evidence that he, for one, has no intention of taking us in a different direction. I’m not sure when it happened, but at some point the Straight Talk Express became the Sellout Express. As part of his ongoing attempts to pander for votes, he delivered a message that has to rank as one of the most nonsensical of all time. It was a long list of inconsistencies and non sequiturs set in the framework of one large-scale contradiction.

Actually, now that I think about it, in a twisted and somewhat ignominious sense, it was truly an impressive piece of work.

Conservatives are independent by nature so it is kind of like herding cats.

Liberals will protest the wind. Its what they do.