Perspective

Victor Davis Hanson takes the reader back to the days of our march to victory in WWII. Reading the history books, we would think everything largely went off without a hitch. Hanson provides a little perspective on the battles, on Hitler/Saddam comparisons, and more. This perspective is quite lacking in most present commentary as everyone wants a clean, bloodless win where villains who can do no good are destroyed by heroes who can do no wrong. A must read. (Hat tip: Prof Hewitt)

I love this kid

Kyle Williams may be the brightest teenager in America. And now he drives home the notion that fringe conservatives must vote for Bush. I have heard many whisperings about trying to split the branches of government. This argument takes the "every vote counts" argument to a ridiculous conclusion. It assumes your one vote not only makes a difference but can craft an outcome you desire. We cannot know whether the Legislature will remain in conservative hands. We cannot gamble away a total loss on a silly principle of divided government.

What the fringe Right fails to see is that a more strongly conservate government needs less compromise to get its way. Bush could not have gotten anything done in this filibuster-happy Congress had he gone to the right of Reagan. Truth be told, even some of his seemingly leftist social programs have proved prescient. Take the AIDS money, for example. Well now, more than a year after that proposal, AIDS has pushed the life expectancy in parts of Africa to below 33-years-old. So not all feel-good social programs are a total waste.

At any rate, I want the self-proclaimed "True Conservatives" to remember how exactly their vote counts in November -- and not try so stridently to send any cruel messages to my Party.