How about we all move to the South and secede?

Name another person without a bat guano crazy foreign policy with as much knowledge and credentials on tackling the deficit and government spending.

Meghan mentioned the "Midwest" and "lifestyle" in the same sentence... Come and visit us in flyover country!

I think SpatialD has the (mostly) correct take. Members of the active military are prohibited from criticizing the CIC and participating in domestic political activity.

Chaplains may also be in a position where they are ministering to non-Catholics as well and the reading of a pastoral letter directed only to Catholics might not be the best way for them to go about this.

Choosing between New York and Boston? It's the Land of the Insufferable vs the Land of Boorishly  Provincial. Is there a way to swing it so that both lose?

Out in the wilds of fly-over country, we ask the eternal question "How do the Cleveland Browns make it to the Super Bowl?" Answer: One ex-player at a time.

This year the privilege goes to DT Gerard Warren of the Patriots, who graduated from the Browns after the 2004 season.

I wish I had a load of that stuff to spread on my garden this spring.

The line that "It is better to have a president who owes you..." is downright laughable. Political debts are like claims made to a bankruptcy court - those with the highest amount of claims go to the head of the line. The folks in the back get pennies on the dollar.

So who will President Romney owe more to at the end of the day? The Republican establishment types that helped to squash or at least delay the ambitions of more conservative types and the folks that have been backing him since the early days of 2007? Or do you really think that he will feel indebted to the base?

Remember, Romney has guys like Mike Murphy in his ear telling him that the base will turn out, they always do. The Rubes can be turned because their ABO instincts are stronger than their ABR ones.

No, the Tea Partiers are viewed as the Blacks of the GOP.  What are you going to do? Vote for them?

How did you know I do all this stuff lying flat on my back?

I love that liberal reaction and I believe we should adopt it.

• They are not trying to BAN abortion, just REGULATE it. Which they really, really should.
• They are not trying to BAN gay marriage, just REGULATE it. Which they really, really should.
• They are not trying to BAN idiocy, just REGULATE it. Which they really, really should.

I get my own button:

For you Misthiocracy!

"Now I, too, can see Russia from my house! IN 3-D!"

Here at Ricochet we should not be satisfied with the choices everyone else "settles" for:

To explicitly answer the title of Mollie's post:

Supporting Romney without supporting Romneycare is like Cindy Sheehan and Code Pink claiming they support the troops.

Yeah.

Right.

Peter and his wife have five children. My wife and I have four. With that many children, it is not a drive to crazy, just a short putt.

Like Peter, I would not trade any of it away for all the gold in Glenn Beck's safe. Although when the tuition bills start rolling in next fall for the oldest's freshman year the wife might consider selling me off.

Wish to feel old, boys? Here's Andie McDowell today... with her daughter, Miss Golden Globes of 2012, Rainey Qualley. (Yes the girl that fell for the weatherman in Groundhog Day named her kid Rainey. No word if her older brother is nicknamed Party Cloudy)