Boy, Republicans are going to have fun over the next two months. Check out these ads.

Even Democrats prefer to run as … hmmm … something other than Democrats.

Kristi Noem fact checks Herseth Sandlins ad.

 Tom Emmer is trailing Mark Dayton in the contest to become the next governor of Minnesota, but this is a great ad.

You just got to love this guy. Very impressive! If he manages to get elected in November, he is headed for greatness. It’s almost like listening to Ronald Reagan’s radio talks in the late 70s. Unfortunately, Colonel West is running against a Jewish incumbent in a heavily Jewish district. It would be tragic if he loses. You can help. Go to Allen West for Congress and donate.

Not only does Allen West get it, he is not afraid to say it. Fortunately, he is also the most articulate speaker running for office in 2010. With him and more like him populating the House starting January 2011, there is still some hope for the West.

Lt. Colonel West explains why Muslims do what they do. Note how others shy away from the topic.

Congressman Jack Murtha died last week, leaving America a better place. There, we said it! No squeamish preemptive apologetics. The Democrat from Pennsylvania, chairman of  the House defense appropriation subcommittee, was a power-hungry megalomaniac. Nancy Pelosi will miss him.

In John Murtha: Requiem for a corruptocrat, Michelle Malkin wrote:

We are not supposed to speak ill of the dead. But those whom the deceased viciously smeared and humiliated deserve to be defended. Entrenched Democrat Rep. John Murtha passed away on February 8 after a botched gall bladder surgery. He has been hailed as a “military advocate” (Associated Press) and “one of the greatest patriots ever to serve in Congress” (former Democratic congressman Harold Ford). These obsequious obituaries leave out inconvenient truths:

John “Jack” Murtha was an unrepentant smear merchant and corruptocrat to the bitter end.

He stole from taxpayers to enrich himself and his political friends. In 1980, he was taped negotiating bribes with FBI operatives. They get to the actual bribe in part three below, but if you have the time watch the whole gory affair. This is how Congress works. Read more >

Scott Brown shows them how it is done. When a loony Liberal “journalist” throws you a loaded question with a biasing preamble, attack the preamble, attack the journalist, don’t let it stand. Sarah Palin failed to attack in the Couric and Gibson interviews and she paid for it.

Conservatives must approach each interview as a no-holds-barred battle for survival in which journalists are the enemy and the political opponent is just a prop. Read more >

Questions:  Quick. On which Israeli national holiday did Ophir Pines resign from politics?

Answer:  Any day in which Ophir Pines resigns from politics is an Israeli national holiday!

Ophir Pines is a politician whom I really love to hate. He is an obnoxious leftist McCarthyist. He led the Labor Party’s campaign against freedom of speech for anti-Oslo dissidents. After Rabin’s assassination, Pines led each and every Labor Party attempt to indict members of the political opposition for supposedly being collectively guilty of Rabin’s death, and he led the camp claiming that exercise of freedom of speech by Right-wingers was what ultimately produced the Rabin assassination. He repeatedly filed court petitions against Righists expressing opinions.

Pines was considered until yesterday, when he resigned from the Knesset, to be the up-and-coming Young Turk, the Bonnie Prince Churly, and next-generation-leader of the Labor Party. He had come in at the very top of Labor Party internal primaries. This – in spite of his total absence of charisma and his lack of any sense of humor. Pines looks like a young Montgomery Burns, and has yet to be seen cracking a smile.

“Pines” is actually a common name for German Jews. It is however pronounced in German and Hebrew, and I kid you not about this, “Penis.” Some members of the clan spell the name as it sounds, making their peace with the jokes. Others, including young Ophir, prefer the PG spelling – PINES. In any case, his name is pronounced Offer Penis, and for many years I respond to anyone mentioning his name with, “Sure, just not my own.” Wouldn’t it be cool if he had married a woman named Fanny Prostate?

So just what induced Prince Penis to abandon the Labor Party? I think the answer is pretty clear.  Rodents never stay aboard sinking ships. The Labor Party has sunk from a hegemonic single-party ruling class, running the state all on its own, to squeezing into the last Knesset as the 4^th largest power. It is possibly about to split into two even smaller splinters.

The Labor Party has very simply been completely wrong about nearly every single matter on which it has taken a public stand. First and foremost, of course, the Labor Party bears direct responsibility for the Oslo debacle and all the existential damage it has done to the Jewish people. Pines completely supports all of that, but he can see that the Labor shiplet is a-sinkin. Read more >

Prime Minister Netanyahu, speaking to a special session of Cabinet, recited a popular nursery rhyme.

The Jews of Gush Katif lived behind a wall,

The Jews of Gush Katif had a great fall.

All the Kadima traitors,

And all the Likud plans,

Couldn’t put the Jews in their homes again.

The forced removal of Jews from their homes in Gaza was a mistake, Netanyahu is really, really sorry, he promises to not do it again, but he can’t do anything about it now … life goes on, get over it. Read more >

It’s been a mixed week for Obama, with his approval rating index in the Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll remaining in negative territory (30% strongly approve, 37% strongly disapprove giving Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of –7).

The economy is the overriding issue for most Americans, once again taking the top spot on a list of 10 important voter issues. But interest in health care has surged and is now at its highest level in nearly two years.

Opposition appears to be growing to the reform plan proposed by President Obama and congressional Democrats: 49% of voters now at least somewhat oppose it, while 46% at least somewhat favor it. Just two weeks ago, those numbers were reversed: 50% were for the reform plan, and 45% were opposed.

Read What They Told Us: Reviewing Last Week’s Key Polls

Johnson (incoming Home Secretary – – ed.) said Smith had no right to put Savage, the third highest rated radio talker in America, on the same list as a former Ku Klux Klan grand wizard, a skinhead gang leader and a Hezbollah militant.

Last week, Jacqui Smith admitted she was not up to being home secretary, saying she should have been given some training for the job before being named.

“When I became home secretary I’d never run a major organization,” she told Total Politics magazine. “I hope I did a good job but if I did it was more by luck than by any kind of development of skills. I think we should have been better trained. I think there should have been more induction.”

Last month, Smith resigned her position in the wake of scandal over personal use of taxpayer funds and her controversial ban of Savage.

Read Michael Savage: Pack your bags for England!

Prime Minister Moussavi and the First Supreme Leader Khomeni

We haven’t written about events in Iran because we could not understand what the fuss was all about. The Butcher of Beirut vs. the Hitler of Our Time, and we are supposed to choose sides?

In all the excitement, highly respected Conservative bloggers lost their bearings. Stars like Michelle Malkin started posting in support of the “green revolution” led by Mir-Hossein Mousavi, who in the 80s arranged the attack on the US Marine barracks in Beirut and is widely known to be the founder of Hezbollah.

Bloggers pined for Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, the first Ayatollah to come out in favor of nuking the Jews, to tip the scales in favor of the Butcher and his minions in their struggle to wrestle control from Hitler and his thugs. How one group of militant Shia Islamists would be better than another group of militant Shia Islamists is beyond us.

Of course, when the enemy has to expend energy suppressing uprisings in the rear it is a good thing by definition. Hopefully, fighting  each other will keep the Ayatollahs busy. So here is to chaos in the Islamic Republic of Iran! May the Supreme Leader and the Supreme Leader wannabe both suffer the fate they so richly deserve, in hell. What color should we display for that? Red?

Debbie Schlussel got it right and has been posting furiously on the subject. Read more >