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FPM BLOG
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The Strategy
Whoever is architecting the McCain-Palin campaign is doing a brilliant job of it. With Palin anchoring the right, McCain is freed to be the "maverick" -- unloose his ship from its self-discredited Republican moorings and court the independents. "Country First" is a brilliant political slogan which manages to hold out the bi-partisan carrot while wielding the patriot stick.
Underscoring the importance of the latter, Barack Obama's interview with Bill O'Reilly which preceded McCain's convention speech revealed the uncertain trumpet he will sound as president. He could not bring himself to say that Iran -- a self-declared enemy of the United States -- is an enemy of the United States and part of the Islamic jihad -- a term he could also not utter. He could not admit he was wrong about the surge in Iraq even though without the surge the terrorists and more likely Iran would be in control of Iraq. O'Reilly gave him enormous lattitude to concede error by claiming the Iraq war was wrong from the beginning and Obama was right to oppose the war. (Think about that one. If we hadn't gone to war with Iraq, Saddam would still be in power, and on the brink of developing nuclear weapons if not already possessing them.)
As these points make their impression on the voting public, look for McCain-Palin to start pulling away from the Obama-Biden ticket.
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The Attacks on Palin: Fear Factor
I've been thinking about the attacks on Sarah Palin and her children. I am the first to recognize liberals' penchant for being unprincipled, bigoted and vicious in political combat. But the assaults on Sarah Palin and her family are extraordinary even for this crowd. What accounts for them? The obvious answer is fear.
First of all fear of the 'Other' -- Palin is a gun-toting, believing Christian. In a word: the anti-anti-Christ.
But an even more powerful force driving them is fear of defeat. I think what liberals fear in Palin is that she doesn't look like or talk like their stereotype of the religious right. She looks and talks like the best of them. She's articulate, she's pretty, and she has stolen the thunder of their Chosen One. She can provide McCain with the youth and charisma that he can use to beat them.
This arouses in them the nastiest instincts -- envy, resentment, hate. They need to destroy her and can't afford to wait. I think I'm going to feel sorry for them.
Click here to read David Horowitz Replies to Critics
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Happy Labor Day! Sarah Palin: A Historic Nomination
McCain's VP pick puts a much needed new face on the Republican Party. Hopefully state branches of the Republican Party, such as the party in California where there are only three Republican women legislative officials in America's bellwether state will get the message. Hopefully Sarah Palin will be up to facing down the most vicious attack machine in modern American political history (now that Begala and Carville have joined the Obama campaign).
Click here to read David Horowitz Replies to Critics
Click here to read David Horowitz Debates with the Left
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Fox Has Relented; How Low Can the Palestinians Sink?
According to my sources, Fox has now run the ad questioning Obama's links to terrorist Bill Ayers. Bravo.
On another note, here is a report on the recruitment of women as suicide bombers in the terrorist state of Gaza.
I have written in the past about the genocidal nature of the political culture in the West Bank and Gaza. Consider also the hypocrisy of Hamas's version of Islam. Treat women as chattel and then as bombs. Justify blowing them up with holy writ. These people are disgusting.
Click here to read David Horowitz Replies to Critics
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Fox's Big Mistake: The Ayers Ad
Harold Simmons, a great and patriotic American has funded a TV ad that asks whether a man who launches his political career in the home of a known terrorist and then lies about his relations with the terrorist should be president. Reasonable question. The Obama campaign doesn't think so and attempted to get the Justice Department to suppress the ad, telling us another important thing we need to know about the Obama camp, which is that the First Amendment doesn't mean anything to them (and look out talk radio if the D's wind up controlling 3 branches of government).
But according to Shepherd Smith, Fox has decided not to run the Ayers ad because its funder Harold Simmons was also one of the chief funders of the Swift Boat campaign that saved the country from the liar and turncoat John Kerry. Fox's decision is a capitulation to the liberals' version of both the Vietnam War and the Swift Boat vets. John Kerry is a Judas who defamed his own country and its brave men in arms and did so in the fraudulent "Winter Soldier" campaign organized by the America-hating, Jane Fonda left. The Swift Boaters are heroes and patriots. We are proud to have one of their leaders, John O'Neill, on our board, and proud to know Harold Simmons as a friend. I hope Roger Ailes has second thoughts, and I hope the Fox audience lets him know how they feel.
Click here to read David Horowitz Replies to Critics
Click here to read David Horowitz Debates with the Left
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