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Category: Election 2008

  • Romney’s Real Problem

    By Selwyn Duke With campaign 2008 in full swing, pundits are wondering why Republicans aren’t coalescing around the candidate who has assumed the most conservative posture, Mitt Romney.   They’re trying to explain why John McCain has become the front-runner despite an embrace of leftist measures ranging from the scamnesty bill to the McCain-Feingold violation of…

  • The Clintons, Race, and the 50-year-old Calculation

    By Selwyn Duke Since I think the Clintons would probably sell their souls and firstborn for another White House tenure, the idea they would play the race card raises no eyebrow here. They are political creatures first, most everything else second and statesmen last. For this to elude one, he must have his head planted…

  • Giuliani’s Out – Who’s Surprised?

    By Selwyn Duke Quite predictably, Rudolph Giuliani has withdrawn from the presidential race.  His campaign had hit the skids, and, if he couldn’t win in Florida, with all its transplanted New Yorkers, he couldn’t have won anywhere.  Yet his decline in the polls was also predictable, and, in fact, I did predict it.

  • Southern Ledger: Is John McCain Eligible to Be President?

    There is a discussion on the Web about whether or not John McCain is constitutionally qualified to be president.  Rodger Hedgecock discusses this, and here is an excerpt: John McCain was born in 1936 on an American military base in the Panama Canal Zone to American citizen parents. There is no question he is a…

  • NOW Slams Ted Kennedy

    By Selwyn Duke It’s a beautiful thing when leftists start to eat their own.  The New York chapter of the National Organization for Women has harshly condemned Ted Kennedy for his endorsement of Barack Hussein Obama. 

  • Hitchens on the Clintons: Fool Me Thrice

    Christopher Hitchens has certainly been training his sights on the Clintons lately, and he does another great job skewering them is his piece "Fool Me Thrice — It should be no surprise that the Clintons are playing the race card."

  • John McCain Again

    By Selwyn Duke Yesterday I wrote about John McCain’s association with Juan Hernandez, an activist for illegal aliens.  There isn’t much more to say, except that if he will surround himself with such unsavory individuals when seeking office, what should we expect of him once he attains it? Think about it.   

  • John McCain: Tell Me Who Your Friends Are and I’ll Tell You Who You Are

    By Selwyn Duke To those who get their information from sources other than campaign propaganda, it’s no secret that John McCain believes in amnesty for illegals.  Not surprisingly, however, this isn’t a position he touts on the stump.  This is why it’s quite startling that he would choose an illegal-alien enabler as his Hispanic outreach…

  • The Slickster Strikes Again

    By Selwyn Duke Well, Bill Clinton is once again being Machiavellian.  He now has publicly stated that his wife and John McCain are "very close" and that a race between them would be "the most civilized in history."

  • Election Year Nonsense

    By Selwyn Duke To use a play on Winston Churchill’s cynical words, the best argument against democracy is a five-minute perusal of election coverage.  Another way to put it – at risk of sounding trite – is if it weren’t for nonsense, it wouldn’t make any sense at all.  Yet, if being trite were a…