Enough of the Republican "Gloom & Doom" already! It seems as though every time a Republican announces that they're retiring from Congress or Mrs. Bill Clinton goes out to make a speech, Republicans go into an emotional tailspin. When did the GOP become the "pity party"?

I have said repeatedly, the election of 2008 is the Republicans' Race to lose. The Great Presidential Election of 2007 doesn't even involve Republicans if you listen to the Idiot Media. Republicans just don't exist in their world, because there isn't any place for them. Bear in mind these are the same people giving headline press time to peacemakers like Mahmoud "I-want-a-jihad",or social giants like Paris Hilton and Lindsay Lohan. The only time Republicans exist is if one of them is allegedly trolling for boyfriends in an obscure airport bathroom. Then the media is practically orgasmic. (Cheap pun fully intended).

So why then do I say that the Election of 2008 is the Republicans to win? I'm glad you asked.

To begin with, the liberals have seized firm control of the Democrat Party. They learned nothing from the brooming of the Republicans in 2006 where they had to actually get candidates to the right of the Republican running to win key races. Right now, the radical left is so fixated upon returning a Democrat to their "Rightful" place in the White House that they're almost completely ignoring key Congressional Races.
 

They're facing the most competent bunch of Republicans to run in perhaps 20 years and polling numbers that suggest that the American People aren't exactly comfortable with the idea of a Democrat managing the War on Terror. This could perhaps have something to do with the stellar job Bill Clinton and his wife did during the 90's when we were kicked in the gut repeatedly by Al Qaida and their response was to blow up an old barn then refuse to arrest Osama Bin Laden twice when the Sudan had him in custody and begged us to get rid of him. Or perhaps it could be that Barack Obama believes that elevating the likes of Hugo Chavez, Kim Jung Il and "President Tom" of Iran to a peer level of the President of the United States, Prime Minister of Great Britain or Chancellor of Germany is the answer. In typical liberal fashion, he "feels" that empowerment is the answer. It is, but not empowering the enemies of the freedom we have fought and died for over the past 231 years.

Rudolph Giuliani made a brilliant point when he added up the collective years of experience of the current crop of what the Idiot Media calls "Democratic Hopefuls" (Sounds like a cheap, tacky figurine to me) and pointed out that as a group, they have less experience in leadership roles than any one of the Republicans running. This inexperience is the first key target for G.O.P. Strategists to focus on, because in a debate, if properly attacked and exploited, will become a recurring, glaring issue.

If the Republicans are "a house damaged", the Democrats are definitely "a house very divided". Make no mistake about it, Hillary Clinton has got to be furious with Barack Obama. He's not only kicking her sizeable behind in fundraising, but is forcing her to move left in order to get the nomination (entitlement) that she no doubt will. I have more respect for him than her, because although I disagree one hundred percent with what he stands for, at least he's genuine. This is WHY he's thumping her at fundraising - the people ain't buing what she's selling. Enter key target two for the Republicans. The Democrats risk further alienating black voters by giving Hillary the nod over Obama, and sticking him in as Vice President will be read as a bigger slap in the face than sending him back to the Senate. The Republicans need to seize upon the opportunity being afforded by the Democrats here and effectively show how conservatism actually empowers all people.

Then, there's the "Hillary Factor" itself. I've said it before and will say it again: She's simply unelectable. She is the political "perfect storm". Women don't like her all that much because she comes off as being an imperious witch, not unlike Leona Helmsley did back in the '80's. Any man that runs as her Vice President is going to be viewed as neutered because she has that reputation and image. Weakness never wins - period. As if this weren't enough, Mrs. Bill Clinton is the most polarizing figure in American Politics today and aside from Rosie O' Donnell, may well be the most polarizing person in America. Nothing would unite the G.O.P. base like her candidacy. Add to this the idea that people are sick of "regimes" or "dynasties" regardless of whether they're Republican (Bush 1&2) or Democrat (Clinton 1& wannabe). The Republican Party should thoroughly exploit every point above to it's fullest. She could try to counter this by playing the "girly-girl" card, you know, where you don't pick on the girl - except that she's more of a man than John Edwards is, and so doing would expose her as being exactly the big phony she is. That is the death knell for her candidacy -  people don't like her because they don't believe a word she's saying and rightfully so.
 

Now, let's take a look at the mutual problem both Democrat front-runners have, and that is the massive dissatisfaction with Congress. The "House of Reid-Pelosi" is the most hated Congress in history since they started tracking such things. The Continental Congress probably had a higher public approval rating in Great Britain in the mid 1770's than this clan of clowns on Capitol Hill has right now. The Democrats made two very fundamental errors that have afforded the Republicans two very decisive opportunities.

One, they took Congress by running as the more conservative option, which they were not. In other words, they lied. (Shocking, I know). The moderates that lean conservative were disenchanted with the Republicans for the same reasons those of us who are actual conservatives are - The Republicans gleefully spent us into oblivion while ignoring the borders. In other words, they forgot they were Republicans. Those moderates that gave the victory now regret it because they see that they were duped by Pelosi, Reid and Company who did nothing in the first 100 hours except kick small business in the groin.

Two-The leftist kooks, who comprise a major block of the Democrat Party, led most prolifically by "Mother Sheehan" and Rosie O' Dumb-a*s are mad because the promise to take over the War on Terror and cut and run from Iraq didn't happen. Instead a troop surge, which is working (and yet another point) did. The Democrats now have no choice but to swerve hard-left and try to mobilize their base, which will not win. The leftist kooks are so angry with Pelosi-Reid and Company, of which Mrs. Bill Clinton and Barack Obama are senior partners, that they (rightfully) feel betrayed and aren't going to be overjoyed to vote for people that promised them so much and then acted as if they didn't know them when the voting had ended.

Meanwhile, conservatives and conservative leaning independents and even moderates are sickened by the dreadful, outrageous statements being spewed from such outlets as Jack Murtha, Dick Durbin, Chuck Schumer and John Kerry-who served in Viet Nam. The borderline treasonous statements and the shameful treatment of General David Patreus is going to haunt them. Here is where the G.O.P. can take congress back - by firing right into the broadsides of the Democrats and forever marrying them to a desired defeat and humiliation in this war for their own political gain.

Now, the Republicans aren't out of the woods just yet. In order to win this thing and win big, they need to:

Exploit all of the above shamelessly. STOP referring to the left as "our friends". They aren't. Learn a lesson from President Bush and never try to fight a politically correct fight. To hell with that -Fight the left by putting them on and keeping them on defense. Feelings may get hurt -  so what? The Democrats and the leftist ideology which owns that party needs to be pounded repeatedly. There's more at stake here than hurt feelings.

Next, For the love of God - LEAD. One of my favorite absolute rules that I offer up from time to time is this: "Leadership, by it's very nature is often offensive." Leadership from a foundation of character, integrity, courage and a belief in the power and greatness of the American People is the exclusive province of conservatism and something that sickens the left. Offend the liberals, make them sick, they have bought and paid for it repeatedly for the last 40 years. These things aren't slogans or buzzwords and if you think they are, or you believe they're outdated, you're wrong. They are fundamentals of being American, they're the pillars of greatness upon which this Republic has stood for 231 years and they are the things upon which we will never debate or compromise. They support the mantle of freedom, and that is the very thing we've been fighting and dying for around the world for more than 200 years. The liberals hate that and in so doing hate America. The job of a leader and the people who follow them is to defend what's sacred. For the left, I guess that's losing the war in Iraq and socialized medicine.

Given these two points above, the current Republican Presidential contenders seem more than well equipped. We, as conservatives hold sacred those principles that I outlined above, and more. We are the guardians of the legacies of Teddy Roosevelt, Barry Goldwater and Ronald Reagan. We are, by our very principles, stewards of freedom. We need, and I believe in our Republican Presidential Candidates, have the person to lead us boldly forward. It can be "Morning Again in America" if only we make it so.