"YOU!"

In what I guess is a supposed response to the new harmless Huckabee television ad. Drudge is now highlighting Ron Paul's thoughts on patriotic Americans (I have had an American flag flying in my studio since the day of 9/11) who also happen to be born-again Christians...

"Ron Paul: 'When fascism comes it will be wrapped in a flag and carrying a cross'..."

Way to reach out to the fly-over country Congressman. Why don't you accuse us of holding weekly Bible "burnings"... you mean "studies."

"KKK Bobby" getting the rub out?

Evidently Senate Dems have begun a whispering campaign to rub out Robert "KKK" Byrd from his leadership post on the Senate Appropriations Committee. Anyone who has ever been to the Senator's state of West Virginia knows that nearly everything in the state has been earmarked by and named in honor of - hisself.

Wonder if the Byrd staffers are so old and so disconnected from reality that they would miss Politico posting it as their lead story...

Ok read my lips carefully...

YES!

uh... NO!

"I'm tougher on bad people than you are!"

Going the "Merry Christmas" route...

Your wish is our command...

And of course this...

And to be perfectly candid - what the heck is wrong with her face? The Orange? The plastered smile? The agony...

"hey we failed by 4 million - but who cares - we're gonna win it all!"

Ron Paul's most ardent ponied up another 6 million this weekend, (no word on how much of that from the MoveOn/George Soros delegates that have joined the PaulPot cause), but the trouble is - they had promised a "day of reckoning" kind of total of 10 million.

See the key to politics - like much of life is trust. That's why you should err on underpromising, and over delivering!

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Seeing those who would like to President get teary on the campaign trail hurts their chances at being seen as strong leaders. Mitt Romney cries on - Meet The Press - when recalling the moment he heard that the "faith of his fathers" had decided that racism was finally a bad thing - in the middle of the 1970's. Personally - I have no doubt  believing that this was an important moment to Mitt. I don't sense a single racist bone in his body, and his father marched with Martin Luther King Jr. But I do have this personal issue with seeing leaders get misty that rubs me wrong. Steve and Gretchen on Fox-n-Friends disagreed on it this morning. Gretchen saying, "to see a man cry makes him appear more manly to women!" My only question is "how?" 800.345.WMCA.

2:45pm:
We will qualify our first contestant for Lord's Diamonds Christmas Gift...

3pm:
Americans fundamentally overlook Adultery. 66%-70% of the respondents to a recent poll of registered female voters think its just peachy if Judith Giulianni or Bill Clinton become first spouse. So at least in the White House we would tolerate it/overlook it. I have theory though that at some point we would draw the line. How much would we accomidate it in a President, a Pastor, a Principal - a SPOUSE? For me it's a total deal breaker. I'm human - what can I say, I can't tolerate it because twice it has touched my life - once as an adult, once as a child. Trust is too hard to build, and I'm just being honest. 800.345.WMCA.

3:55pm: The McCULLOUGH PUNCH
New Jersey Democrats have nearly sexual lust for protecting rapists, murderers, and child molestors!

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a pink number 9?

Dear Jessica,

The only thing that brought me the least bit of joy amidst these early snow storms had previously been to see my favorite football team go out and beat the snot out of everybody they played with the exception of the one team they may face again in the Super Bowl.

I don't know who you think you are, and I'm sure you think you had good reasons, but I don't think you being anywhere near the vacinity of Texas Stadium was the least bit helpful to our man Tony. Oh sure - you probably don't think you had anything to do with it...

Blondes often don't...

But all I know is that roughly four hours ago Tony was getting ready to lead the best record Dallas Cowboy football team in the history of the franchise out onto the field. Ranked with the second best ranking in the NFL of 107.7 and seeming at time unstoppable this season and oh yeah - the team was pretty much injury free.

But then you had to go flaunt your blonde locks and dance around in your pink number 9 Jersey. (BTW NFL commissioner's office: no more pink jerseys - at least not for Dallas, San Francisco - sure - knock your little panzy-self out!)

Not only that they kept flashing you doing the "don't my boobs look awesome dance" up on the stupid stadium jumbo tron.

What the heck? I thought this was a home game...

Anyway - after your dance and such pops up on the screen - next thing you know five Dallas players are injured including the man whose career you're now poisoning.

Look I do NOT CARE if he says he wants you to be at the game, hurt him to help him. Give him a kiss goodbye when he leaves for the stadium and tell him you won't miss a single play - while you watch your stupidly huge flat screen that Nick probably installed for you.

Bake him brownies and put him in his bag... leave kisses and secrets on his cell phone... text him on his way to the stadium - but for the LOVE OF ALL THAT'S HOLY - stay the heck away from any place where your statiscally impossible measurements can appear on any screen that will be beamed into the gaming arena OR put on television.

Today it was a busted thumb and causing him to throw the pass behind nearly every receiver on the field. Look just because you may enjoy catching passes thrown behind you doesn't mean that the 'BOYS can survive doing the same thing.

In fact today's game was all the evidenciary proof one needs to recognize that the further you stay away from him in the actual act of playing the game - the better off everyone will be.

My own Lovely Bride predicted the 'BOYS demise because of your sudden emergence onto the field, into the discussion of the Joe Buck/Troy Aikman broadcast, and the in stadium Jumbo-Tron.

And understand - we're not saying this to be mean. We wish you and Tony all the new romance bliss the two of can take. Just take it in Hawaii during the Pro-Bowl - NOT in even ONE MORE game that matters this season.

You seem like a nice girl, who used to have some singing talent, still searching for your direction in your acting career - and we wish you all the best on your endeavors. In fact... why don't you head back to Malibu and read scripts until say the middle of February. Maybe you'll have actually completed one or two by then...

Just kiddin' girl - you know we love you.

But we do need to tell you this - if you even think about showing up to Texas Stadium or any other arena Mr. Romo may be playing in for the rest of this regular and playoff seasons? Well, we will be forced to drag you by your gold locks all the way back to the beach... And as best I can tell that's several hundred miles in every direction.

Plus we may poison your cat, deflate your tires, and write "I killed my boyfriend's shot at the Super Bowl" across your forehead with a Sharpie while you sleep.

Get the picture?

Sincerely,
The Entire Fan Base of the Dallas Cowboys

The guy inside...

Nearly every day when I shut down and turn off the voices of the harping shrews that demand agreement with them or else I am the devil - I am reminded of why I like so many things about so many of the GOP candidates. (Yes I do have my differences with them too!)

I was a fan early on from a distance with Governor Mitt Romney when as Governor he in nearly miraculous fashion got health care coverage for everyone in his state - and did not rely upon raising taxes to get it done.

His op-ed basically instructing other states on how to keep their state from redefining the institution of marriage in the Wall Street Journal was and still is a primer on the topic.

Reading Hugh Hewitt's book, A Mormon in the White House, (something most Romney critics haven't done) brought to me to see a side of this executive that few could see in news stories. He IS a problem solving wizkid.

But none of those little peeks into his life really compared to the man I feel like we've had the chance to come to know in recent months. His love for HIS family permeates his desire to help other families. His willingness to say publicly, "I had gotten it wrong on abortion," takes an understanding of one's self that few are ever able to admit. His brainiac strategy to win the nomination has been the best laid strategy of any of the candidates.

The times I have spoken with him in person and by phone for my show - gave me the raw in-your-gut feeling that this man is as genuine as he is smart. That his conversion on abortion is REAL and that there was never any conversion necessary on marriage - because the Camenker/Rios/Jackson train has been built on manipulations of truth - not evidence of it.

He is now in the fight for his life in Iowa, he is pacing very strongly in New Hampshire and in the midst of very emotional outbursts by his most ardent supporters, a speech on the practice of faith, and the feeling wrongly or rightly that his main rival was attempting to smear him through a question - Mitt gives this interview with Politico. It's endearing, it's a real man dealing humbly with his circumstances, and saying honestly - what will be will be.

It reminds me greatly of all the things I have come to appreciate about Mitt Romney and should he be the fortunate candidate to win the nomination - it gives us a peek into how the down moments on his watch might be handled.

These men are seeking the highest office in the land. Their testing to be fit for office SHOULD be excruciating... And it is refreshing to see the class of an individual who is up for the long haul and willing to not lose perspective in the midst of some of those tests...

See its one thing to root for your guy... It's another thing to utilize smears, deception, and innuendo to make your point...

For instance instead of championing the fact that your guy has now cleared the 15% threshold nationally in many polls - which Hewitt compatriot Patrick Ruffini was so dilligent to point out, the primary blogger on Hugh's page leads with this:

Huck Falling In Iowa; Politico Throws Him An Anvil
Posted by: Hugh Hewitt at 5:53 PM

This poll has Huck's lead at 9 in Iowa (Newsweek's poll taken from calls on December 5/6 had Huck's lead at 22 points.)

Ok a little fact-checking here... It was "Lee Newspapers" that found Huck in front by 9% - not Newsweek. The way Hugh writes it and puts them next to each other the impression is that Huck is falling (which he might in the near future - who knows). But this isn't legitimate. I could not find a previous Lee Newspapers poll to compare their present findings to. Their sample was exceedingly small and who knows how they polled.

The more telling polling story in Iowa is the RealClearPolitics Iowa polls page. Here you will find that the AVERAGE of all the most recent polls taken puts Huck in front of Mitt by an AVERAGE of 34.5 to 21.7. Because that's an average - that means that some of those polls mean the margin is LARGER than that. Heck even the Newsweek poll had Huck up by 22.

Even the ever accurate Rasmussen is showing Huck still gaining and now leading in more states than ever before including Michigan, South Carolina, and Florida...

Hugh - you're certainly entitled to cheer for the guy you are bought and sold for (and personally I'd love to see you be the Press Secretary for President Mitt), but to do so in less than sincere ways makes you an operative... and an OPERATIVE is someone "who is not to be trusted as an analyst!"

Hey looky here... another day dawns and (surprise!!!!!) Drudge hits Huck at the behest of the Romney campaign.

In today's edition the title: HUCKABEE SLAMS BUSH WHITE HOUSE so totally overstates the case of the story that he then links to its embarrassing...

It's sort of like Hugh getting to release a radio commentary that slams Huck up one side and down another - without ever mentioning that he was commissioned to write Mitt's book, and is jockeying for the Press Secretary's position in the Romney White House.

Only 20 more days...

"Merry Christmas 2007"

Each year on my radio show, on December 25th, I have done something special for YOU the loyal, valued, and much appreciated MuscleHead! It has ranged from inviting live musicians into the studio, to face to face chats with deeply wise people about the lessons or meaning of Christmas. 

This year I'm turning the expectations up a notch and I'm personally wanting to give you something no one else can.

Digging back into my music radio days I have been given special permission to clear my show for Christmas Eve and Christmas Day and bring to you the THE GREATEST CHRISTMAS COLLECTION OF ALL TIME. This list of songs will be unique in both its variety of style and the time periods from which it is gathered. And this is where we are asking for your help.

My producers and I will have to do some serious hunting for the exact cuts and artists that you suggest. Obviously the more who request the same songs the stronger the likelihood that your song makes the final cut - so the more people you tell about this and get to reply the better the lists will be. From right now we have roughly four weeks to prepare the list, secure the music, and bring you the most complete Christmas treat ever. But we can't do it without your help.

Here's what we are asking you to do: PLEASE E-mail us by clicking on this link. In the body of the e-mail simply put your top three all-time favorite Christmas songs followed by the artists who performed your favorite version.

We will likely use between 60-80 songs for the final list so please make sure to put them in the order of which you prefer. A sample might look like this:

1. O Holy Night - Josh Grobin
2. Little Drummer Boy - David Bowie
3. Tender Tennessee Christmas - Amy Grant

Enter as many times as you like and get as many friends as possible to vote your songs up the list.

On Christmas Eve and Day we will be launching the ALL-TIME efforts at 2pm EST. So if your holiday celebration needs a couple of hours of great Christmas music either day feel free to cue us up on the computer or radio. (PodCASTS of the shows will be available for roughly seven days following.)

So get thinking, and get voting - the ballot box is now open!

Ann hits and compliments all in the first two or three lines of the clip. And it classicly defines the fundamental problems with the GOP primaries all the way around. Huck's strength is that mainstream Americans identify with him. The Conservative elite hate him because he's been a mixed record in office. Ann ultimately comes back to his defense on the "wives respect your husband" point that Heather Nauert brings up...

Repeatedly full disclosure here: I am not endorsing a candidate for the GOP Primary - and have not yet decided upon the candidate for whom I will be casting my vote. My blog at present is dedicated to being an open and transparent opportunity for you to observe my own degree to which I am torn between the different choices we have in the GOP.

(h/t: HotAir)

Number 4?

He's got the SECOND best record in the NFL. SECOND best QB rating. SECOND most rushing TD's (for a QB). SECOND most rushing 1st downs.

But ESPN rated him behind Favre who Romo beat head to head?

ESPN = homers for old guys

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Americans have become completely immune to cheating - it no longer bothers us - we don't correct our kids, in fact we love it! On the baseball cheaters: "When they violate their bodies, they're sending a terrible message to America's young," Bush said. Another headline reads: "Once campaign killers, traits like infidelity less of an issue among the voters today." Pastor's steal sermons, students buy term papers, even the cute Little Debbie commercial... It is epidemic, it is out of control, and there is no way to fix it... or is there? 800.345.WMCA.

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I've gotten a little more aggressive in my own taste for Christmas cards...so has President Bush. Barbara Walters was shocked, shocked I say that she received a Christmas card that proclaimed Jesus as Lord. Then she fretted, "Now does this also go to agnostics, and atheists and Muslims?" Truth is she is being duplicitous I'm willing to wager that she gets upwards of 30% of all her Christmas cards each year that have some biblical reference. It's not the message that bothers her - its from the source - and its offensive to some. So is it pushing the envelope to make your Christmas card greeting evangelistic, Biblical, "Christ" oriented? Does it put stumbling blocks in the way of bringing people to salvation? 800.345.WMCA.

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When going negative hurts!

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