For Your Election Consideration

Several stories have caught my attention lately about the presidential candidates.  I don't know that they would constitute major policy changes, but they're certainly some interesting bits of information that could illuminate your views.

Huckabee's double talk
Mike Huckabee is showing himself to be quite a double talker.  In the past few weeks, he's called a press conference to announce that he's not going to use negative ads, but that if he were to use a negative ad, it would be something like this...and then he showed the MSM the negative ad he wasn't going to run.  He's also claimed that he didn't want to use the word conspiracy to describe his opponents' efforts to get him, but then he said there was a conspiracy to get him.  The more I hear of Huckabee, the more he sounds like a liberal!

McCain: closet Democrat?!
McCain is getting very little traction within the Republican party, mostly because most of his views do not reflect that party.  Even he knows it, as indicated by an article at NewsMax in which he is quoted as saying, " I believe my party has gone astray," right before saying, "I think the Democratic Party is a fine party, and I have no problems with it, in their views and their philosophy."  Well, gee, how do you think Republicans are going to react to this guy??

Obama's church is very, very black
Barack Obama belongs to a church that claims it is "Unashamedly Black" and identifies its membership as "an African people [who] remain true to our native land."  That doesn't sound too terribly bad, but it gets even more controversial.  It also pushes an aggressive black supremacist agenda, and its pastor, Jeremiah Wright, Jr., has ties to Libyan Palestinians and the Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan.  The MSM has given him a total pass despite putting Mitt Romney and Mike Huckabee through the ringer about their own religions.  Why isn't anyone asking Obama about his faith and home church?

Reagan works, and everyone knows it
Barack Obama recently invoked the name of Ronald Reagan in a speech.  He couldn't lay claim to remotely similar policies as Reagan, but he did try to associate himself with the former President's optimism and ability to change the course of America.  Reagan was immensely successful because of his conservative policies, and Obama is trying to capitalize on that success simply by associating himself with Reagan's name.  Even the Left knows that conservatism works.

Rove lays out plan for defeating Dems
As the architect of numerous victories over the Left, Karl Rove recently gave a speech to the RNC that laid out the keys to successfully beating Clinton and Obama:
Clinton

On Clinton, Rove said the senator talks about fiscal responsibility but has introduced "$800 billion in new spending and the campaign is less than half over."

Rove said that "the woman" wants to repeal all of Bush's tax cuts, and that she can be targeted for voting against "troop funding" in the form of her votes against the Iraq war supplementals.

Specifically, Rove hit Clinton for what could have been her worst campaign moment last year, when she had trouble answering a question about driver's licenses for illegal immigrants at the Democratic debate in Philadelphia.

"You know, Sen. Clinton [has] got a problem with giving straight answers in this campaign," Rove said. "I thought that was an incredible moment. In the course of 15 minutes, I counted her giving about four different answers."

The Bush confidant also trotted out one of the lines of attack the RNC has already been working feverishly against Clinton, questioning why she and former President Bill Clinton will not release records from their time in the White House. This, according to Rove, "raises legitimate questions about what she's hiding."

Obama

Rove made it clear that most Republican attacks on Obama would focus on his "accomplishments and experience."

"He got elected three years ago, and he [has] spent almost the entire time running for president," Rove said.

Rove added that Obama has only passed one piece of legislation during his time in the U.S. Senate, and during his time in Illinois state Senate, Obama had "an unusual habit" of voting "present" instead of yes or no.

Rove also said that nonpartisan ratings show that Obama is more liberal than Clinton, which he said is "pretty hard to do."

He also hammered both candidates for their unwillingness or inability to protect America from terrorists.

As I've said for a long time, the truth is out there and the truth is on the conservatives' side.  The key for Republicans is to correctly communicate the truth; if they can't do that, they won't have success.

There's my two cents.