Yes, antilibertarian bias actually-admitted, albeit too-late to matter. Be still, my beating heart...At least we know those bridges to nowhere were all those damn libertarians' fault.
JMR

Rally online with fans of Dr. Ron Paul. (All purpose anti-slander-link, sadly-needed these days...)

Is it possible for McCain to pick a non-Republican running mate?  Would a McCain/Lieberman ticket be possible or can the Republican Party step in and say no?

Calm Down!

What I find interesting about this article (aside from the whole situation of a financial news media with antilibertarian-bias so-blatant that a group would actually spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on an ad to try to get around it) is the mention of the Barrick Gold lawyers' admission(pdf) that -- just as GATA's "kooks" have always-accused -- Barrick is engaged with central banks. These lawyers, who had full access to Barrick's books and top officials, swore to the truth of what was the core basis of Blanchard's lawsuit when submitting that statement to the court. Yeah, I'm sure trading gold swaps, leases, and futures won't affect gold prices...I believe the government!! Riiight....
JMR

If this is winning, I think I'd rather lose...

Relax!

The Daily Show looked at media coverage of Super Tuesday. Very good.

http://www.thedailys...

Even amidst their own turmoil surrounding the Billary / Obama contest, the Democrats and the MSM all are salivating over the prospects of the kinds of damage that will be brought onto the Republican Party by the nomination of John McCain. That the Party will fissure is beyond doubt, the only question remaining is their minds is how deep will be the wound be and how long it will it leave the Republicans weakened while it heals, if ever. 

The Republican Party and its conservative principles and not some feral beast to be wounded, but rather a strong tree, irrevocably rooted in our country’s long traditions of low taxation, small government, personal freedom, self-reliance and individual responsibility. 

Sometimes as with any healthy, growing tree, there are branches that have been corrupted or infected. Or maybe even it’s a growth that has somehow grafted itself to the tree.  If the rank and file, along with the Party officials are to be wise and dutiful arborist of that tree, than perhaps the time is now, before the convention starts  to declare the McCain branch to be not only apocryphal to the core concepts of the Republican party, but now be apostate as well.  Convene the convention without his delegates.  Bring in representatives of all the other candidates who have participated in this primary process and seat the Platform committee to produce a document clearly delineating our history, our core beliefs and how we feel they apply to the world today.   The task would then be to re find a candidate who will not just stand by them but pledge to them and actually build his campaign on them. 

Let the Senator from Arizona and his “independent voters” go stand with his friend Joe Lieberman. They can call themselves “Lieberman Independents” or McCain Democrats” or the “John and Joe Traveling Road Show”.  What they cannot call themselves is Republicans.  Being for the troops and pursuing those who wage war against us makes you a patriot, not necessarily a Republican.

Turn the paradigm of the whole election on its head once more.  Let the left worry about how liberal voters may split their vote between Billary / Obama and McCain / Lieberman.  All while we reunite our base around either a new or unforeseen candidate. Tom Tancredo, Duncan Hunter and Fred Thompson all come to mind.

We have all asked ourselves “What would Reagan do?”  If he were looking over your shoulder while you are reading this, I think he just might be smiling.

I may be just an old line Republican whose roots go back to Joe Martin of Massachusetts, but I have no access to the halyard line that would be required to run this idea up the appropriate flagpole.  Know anyone who might?

"A nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master and deserves one."

Alexander Hamilton

DRUDGE -- Rush reporting Romney out!

Rush is flagging Drudge report that Mitt Romney will annouce he's out of race at CPAC.

Ron Paul continues ... pitching for Romney supporters (only kidding!)

Check out my exclusive edit of BBC News America's interview with Mrs Clinton: It's news to me!

To help out my dear undecided friends on here, I thought I'd post some of John McCain's lesser known campaign promises so you can make a more informed decision.

If elected president in 2008 McCain plans to:

-Cut the federal interest rate to zero 

-Leave us in Iraq for ten thousand years

-Discuss diplomacy with the wrong man in Germany

-Drool over legislation that darn Congress won't send

-Show us all how fighting in Vietnam taught him economics

-Call reporters jerks when they make him mad

This is bad news. Really bad news.

None are so hopelessly enslaved as those who falsely believe they are free. -J.W. von Goethe

What happens when Romney officially drops out and Newsbusters actively rallies against the Republican nominee?  (let's face it, this is an Anti-McCain website from top to bottom, across the board)

Wouldn't that make Newsbusters an enemy of the Republican party?

Wouldn't that further mean that Newsbusters is essentially working for the goals of the Democratic party?

Should be interesting.