Maggie's Farm

Thoughts about John McCain. As somebody said on the radio, "I would crawl over broken glass to vote for McCain over Hillary Clinton." McCain is not a Conservative ideologue, but he is a Conservative. When it comes to immigration law, I see no Liberal-Conservative ideology issue at the heart of it; only a Dem-Repub issue. When it comes to McCain-Feingold, McCain was way wrong on the spirit and word of the Constitution. His CPAC speech yesterday is here. You might term it pandering, but McCain isn't much of a panderer.

Are we heading into a cooling phase? h/t, Insty

McCain-Palin? Ace

Anna Schwartz: There is no recession, just a slowdown.

Society expects perfect medicine. "Society" is a spoiled brat.

Englishman not happy with his Archbishop. Also, Roger K: Who will rid us of this troublesome priest?

Boring but important, and it involves a heck of a lot of our money: Farm policy

Surber: "If she runs health care like she runs her campaign, better become a millionaire if you want to see a doctor."

I strongly suggest that you read the essay by Robert George linked in the preceding QQQ post.

Romney's speech dumped on France, and righly so. h/t, No Pasaran. A quote:

"Europe is facing a demographic disaster," he said. "That's the inevitable product of weakened faith in the Creator, failed families, disrespect for the sanctity of human life, and eroded morality."

He called for the United States to become energy secure, because "America must never be held hostage by the likes of Putin, (Venezuelan President Hugo) Chavez and (Iranian President Mahmoud) Ahmadinejad,"

Romney said if the United States did not change course "we could become the France of the 21st century."

I hope we have not heard the last from Mitt.