When I made the comment, I didn’t really have the sites’ respective owners in mind, so much as some of their more colorful commentators. That was before I remembered that Instapundit doesn’t even have comments.

Mea culpa.

And the implications of this quote from your link go beyond the enlistment debate:

The general did say the Army has surpassed its re-enlistment projections so far for fiscal year 2005. The Army’s active duty re-enlistment rate is 107 percent of projected estimates, with 58,480 soldiers re-enlisting between Oct. 1, 2004 and July 31, 2005. The Army was hoping to re-enlist 54,510 soldiers during that time. Lovelace said the Army National Guard and Reserve re-enlistment rates are also exceeding 100 percent of projections.

“Bush’s ratings won’t move much at all and will probably recover as the details of what went wrong come out. And this recovery will be along philosophical lines.”

This assumes that nothing else goes wrong. Hardly a safe bet at this point.

“And this recovery will be along philosophical lines. Those on the right tend to believe that laws and ideas are worth dieing for in the ancient Greek philosophy (which until a few years ago I thought was universal in America).”

You thought that Greek philosophy was a universal belief in America? Forget what country you’re from. What planet are you from?

Those on the right tend to believe that laws and ideas are worth dieing for in the ancient Greek philosophy (which until a few years ago I thought was universal in America).

Those on the right say they’d die for lots of things, I’m sure. But the proof is in the recruitment numbers, which continue to fall short every month.

Those on the left believe in fairy tales and “right makes right” as long as that right is saving puppy dogs (can you say Kosovo).

Using schoolboy-caliber insults to accuse your opponents of juvenilia, how rich. As for Kosovo, the left generally didn’t support it at all:

“Many on the left of Western politics saw the NATO campaign as US aggression and imperialism, while critics on the right considered it irrelevant to their countries’ national security interests.”

Since FEMA hasn’t really failed

Is this what you call success?

Abb1,
Hillary Clinton is way right of Bush on Illegal Immigrants, so I don’t think he has that card left to play.

Uncle Kvetch,
” “a bunch of pole-smoking faggots” making the rounds on InstaPuffball…” do you actually read Instapundit, or are you just an il-informed asshat? The idea that Instapundit would call its ideological opponents “pole-smoking faggots” is beyond ridiculous. You on the other hand have no problem going there. Projection anyone?

Well, I think they still have a couple of aces up their sleeve: crackdown on illegal Mexicans, for example. Gay marriage’s still good. Enviros driving gas prices up. Who knows what else. Don’t write them off just yet.

A reporter sets out to interview NASCAR dads, skips those who speak Spanish, dallies with the dollies, and comes up with this:

I asked him, “So you vote Republican?” “Yep,” he replied. “Always?” “Pretty much.” “So you like Bush?” “Before or after the hurricane?”

Tricky, tricky. It really does take something exceptional to swing Congress these days. Factor in gerrymandering and the pork-generating role of local incumbents and unseating a long-term congresscritter is a bit like invading and occupying a small country.

This is easily shown to be no exaggeration.

Unpopular presidents generally have a more difficult time realizing their agenda.