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Suddenly Toomey

4.29.09 @ 6:01AM

TIMELY INDEED
Re: Philip Klein's Toomey Talks:

FLASH! Specter to switch to Democrat Party.

Can the Republicans who gave him millions now ask for their campaign contributions back?

No?

Ah, he'd keep it anyway.

Go, Toomey!
-- A. C. Santore

Looks like Mr. Klein's carefully crafted article is now more interesting in light of Specter changing parties! One wonders what the Democrats are going to throw at Pat Toomey now! He had better get body armor. Either that, or the current pace of passed bills moving us ever farther left will get the job done before the 2010 election. This is getting downright scary: GM and Chrysler under the control of the unions. Maybe the conservative talk show hosts now hawking GM products should rethink where the money should come from.
-- Robert Mandraccia
Ft Myers, Florida

THE TRUTH WILL OUT
Re: Jeffrey Lord's Bring It On, MoveOn: The Cautionary Tale of Furious George:

No line better describes the far-left hate machine and, by extension, the administration of our Proto-Dictator, than a very old one, attributed to St. Optat, and used in Blaise Pascal's Provincial Letters:

Omnia pro tempore, nihil pro veritate.

My translation: Everything for the moment, nothing for the truth.
-- A. C. Santore

One difference I have found between Republicans and Democrats, that reflects directly on this piece, is that most Democrats think you are supposed to hold public officials accountable after the fact, while most Republicans think you should avoid ever voting in anyone likely to ever need to be held accountable. It's that "character" thing.

Republicans believe that once they are voted in, they become "your SOB" ... whether you like it or not... while Democrats like to "opt out"... it's not "my war."
-- Mark Warner
Pottstown, Pennsylvania

TIGHTENING THE NOOSE
Re: Matthew Vadum's Soros Show Trials:

Damn, if Stalin wasn't right: "When we hang the capitalists, they will sell us the rope we use." Thomas Gensemer, a former venture capitalist, now Blue State's managing partner, was integral to helping engineer the One's victory. A former venture capitalist! Makes one wonder who is the real author of irony, God or the Devil.
-- Ira M. Kessel
Rochester, New York

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