Day 58 of 1000

We caught the last half hour of the Republican Presidential Debate in Las Vegas last night after church.  Kelly made the comment that she wished Paul Ryan would have been there.  I agreed with her.  We also agreed that CNN and hard-left commentator, Anderson Cooper, famous for his extreme partisanship should not be in same building as a Republican debate, let alone moderate one.  Still, I would vote for any of the people on the stage, with the possible exception of Ron Paul, over Obama (I think I would move to Mexico to help the fight against the drug cartels if that was the choice).  It would be awfully hard to cast a vote for Mitt Romney, but I would hold my nose and do it.  Any of the others would be great.

On another note, I removed my browser bookmark to National Review’s online blog The Corner.  The whole Hugh Hewitt style, establishment Republican thing they have going completely gags me.  I decided they are not worth reading on a regular basis.  If they are not in my bookmark list, I will only get to their page by following links from the pages I regularly visit or by manually typing in the address–it will not be often.  For politics, I will will stick with The Other McCain and Free Republic with a little Michelle Malkin, Ace of Spades, and Wintery Knight thrown in when I have some extra time.

Update:  My buddy Stepan, the PhD Chemist from Moscow State University in Russia and I talked about politics this morning.  I explained to him how it was Ronald Reagen and his Star Wars, low gas prices, and booming economy that shortened the life of the Soviet Union.  He made the first cogent argument against that idea I have ever heard.  He said, “You cannot prolong the life of someone who is already dead.”