LIBS DON’T PUT MONEY WHERE MOUTHS ARE: “State lawmakers can rule out Virginian’s offering up more of their hard-earned money to fix the $1.4 billion budget shortfall Gov. Tim Kaine announced this week. At least that is what a peek at the so-called ‘Tax Me More Fund’ suggests. Since its inception in 2002, the fund has collected a total of $10,217.04.
“…(The program provides) generous taxpayers with a way to contribute more of their money into the state’s coffers and allow lawmakers to highlight the hypocritical nature of higher-tax advocates. ‘It’s amazing how people want to tax other people for every idea they have, and they are not willing to step up to the plate themselves, said Delegate M. Kirkland Cox, Colonial Heights Republican and a sponsor of the legislation that created the Virginia fund. ‘It’s a real good way to make a point.’
- Washington Times, 2/15/08
THE FAT LADY IS SINGING
“(John) McCain effectively sealed the (GOP presidential) nomination last week when (Mitt) Romney withdrew from the race; only former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee and libertarian-leaning Texas U.S. Rep. Ron Paul remain. But neither has a chance to catch McCain in the convention delegate hunt.”
- Associated Press, 2/15/08
OUT OF LUCK HUCK
“Mike Huckabee, by refusing to leave the (GOP presidential) race, thus goes from running a quixotic and marginally heroic campaign against McCain, to being a laughing-stock or worse, a disloyal Republican.”
- Rich Galen of Mullings.com, 2/15/08
WWRD
“In 1976 the Ford vs. Reagan campaign for the Republican presidential nomination got so heated it looked as if my father and Jerry Ford would never again talk to one another. When it was over and Ford had won, what did Ronald Reagan do? He simply went all-out to help Ford win his re-election… Assuming that John McCain will be the Republican nominee, you can bet my father would be itching to get out on the campaign trail working to elect him even if he disagreed with him on a number of issues.
“…Let me say this. There has been plenty of battling in the primaries, and I’ve been in the middle of the battle, but until now haven’t committed myself to any candidate, waiting until we had a nominee. That’s over. If John McCain is the nominee of the party, this Reagan will happily campaign with him. The alternative is unthinkable to anyone who loves this nation.”
- Talk-show host Michael Reagan
MAJOR LEAGUE REJECTION
“(Hillary Clinton’s) whole life right now is a reverse Sally Field. She’s looking out at an audience of colleagues and saying, ‘You don’t like me, you really don’t like me!’”
- Columnist Peggy Noonan
DADDY, WHAT’S A SUPER-DELEGATE?
“Superdelegates are really ‘politician delegates.’ Superdelegates are technically uncommitted party insiders who can vote for whomever they choose. They were created by the party that prides itself on supposedly representing the common man to be the palace guards of the Democratic establishment. Bill Clinton is a superdelegate, as is Al Gore. They are Democratic Party insiders whose purpose is to put down insurgent campaigns and protect the interests of Democratic politics as usual.”
- Newt Gingrich, 2/15/08
Posted on February 15th, 2008 by Chuck Muth
Filed under: National
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