With all the heated back and forth in this primary about this or that candidate pandering on conservative principles, it's reassuring to see that we have politicians that do get it.  It was an excellent speech.

You're entitled to your opinions just as much as the next person, but that's uncalled for.

If Obama is re-elected, the Legislative branch stays under Republican control (partially or fully), and the economy is still stagnate or awful during that time I don't see how the Republicans keep control through 2014.  Gridlock is not a viable long-term solution in my opinion.  We've already been doing that for 2 years and you want another 2-4 years more of that?

Plus, you're assuming that the Legislature does keep enough Republican control after 2012 to provide gridlock.  Not to mention Pres. Obama is trying to accomplish his plans by executive power alone.

It's actually somewhat feasible, and I could see some long lost SoCal friends in the process.  But, the likelihood is probably very low.  Enjoy it all the same!

Even the choir needs to hear the sermon from time to time. 

I've witnessed a fair amount of people in my own life that are Republican because that's all they know.  They only know arguments such as "they're obviously wrong because they're liberal" and not "here's why the liberals are wrong."  I've never listened to Levin's show, but if he provides the philosophical underpinnings for conservatism and limited government it's a service to those in the "choir."  If we want people to vote for free market-limited government-conservatism they need to understand why.  Hopefully, that would bring out those types of candidates too.

Really excellent podcast.  I've never listened to Mark Levin except when Hugh Hewitt interviewed him for the Ameritopia book mentioned in the podcast.  I liked what I heard on the podcast.  I'm very interested in reading his book now.

I thought I was going about this dating business all wrong, but in actuality it was my android smart phone giving off the wrong impression.

I see how it is.  You have a SoCal meet up after I have to move away from San Diego and California.  Well, fine, I'll take my state tax money and go elsewhere.

Still being undecided and not really for anyone as of yet, I feel the same way some of the time.

I've noticed that Newt has tapped into that.  Frankly, that disturbs me.  Ever since the debates in South Carolina I started noticing Newt fans tended to take any criticism of him as coming from the "Establishment" (queue the scary music) and thus invalid.  That emotional fervency isn't as wide-spread in his supporters as it was in Obama supporters in 2008, but it is there.  Some view him as the embodiment of true conservatism.  At least that's how they portray it.

We all wanted a candidate we could get behind, but perhaps it's better to have the opposite approach that so many had in 2008.  We're going to vote for the Republican (most of us are) anyway.  I'd rather clearly define conservatism for the public rather than rest it's laurels on a candidate that may or may not act in its best interest.

They obviously borrowed the same coefficients for their formulas for job growth that are found in the computer model algorithms predicting that the world would be under water due to AGW.

I'm inclined to see him jump in.  Though, with the caveat that it'd be sooner rather than later (i.e. drafted at a brokered convention).  He needs to be involved in the debates so that voters have a chance to stack him up against the other candidates.  That will allow people to determine if substance is better than style in their candidate.  Or, perhaps he does have the style which will emerge.  Otherwise, he has no chance if there is any at all with a late start.

I had never heard of him until he was mentioned in the Ricochet podcasts  and on the site.  I've enjoyed him on the podcast, and what he had written at Ricochet (which I hope picks up once his term is over!).  I still want to know more.

Will last night's rebuttal be his "Have Faith In Massachusetts" moment?  Who knows.  It'll be an incredibly hard road if it is.

I liked the speech.  I can't claim that it did or didn't work for independents.  All I know is I liked the maturity of the speech, and it provided a clear vision of what Republicans should be offering this year.

I don't like red meat, and I don't like populism so perhaps that's why I preferred this speech to someone giving one-liner rejoinders.  And, does that even work for people outside the rank-and-file anyway?

The delivery may not have been as good as Rep. Ryan's last year, but it was very statesman-like.

Thanks for the review.  As a WWII aviation buff when I was younger, I loved learning about these stories.  The Tuskegee Airmen is an inspiring story and good to know George Lucas didn't butcher it.  I'll look forward to seeing it.

Didn't he learn from the 2010 election that "I'm not a witch" type ads didn't work for Christine O'Donnell.

If having criticism of Pres. Obama is dumb, I don't want to be smart.