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When Will We See The End?

BY RICH GALEN
Reprinted from Mullings.com

In the 1965 film “The Agony and the Ecstasy” Michelangelo (played by Charlton Heston) is taking his sweet time painting the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. Pope Julius II (played by Rex Harrison) loses his patience and asks, “When will you make an end?”

To which Michelangelo responds, “When I am finished.”

That’s pretty much the status of the GOP primary campaign. Washington-based reporters (now faced with no election activity until February 28 when Arizona and Michigan have their primaries) are expending a great deal of energy asking each other “When will they make an end?”

It is useful to remember that in 2008 Barack Obama didn’t sew up the Democratic nomination against Hillary Clinton until June. JUNE!

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Five Concerns for Each Party

BY GARY ANDRES

Reprinted from the weeklystandard.com

Never mind the talk of tsunamis and tidal waves, last Tuesday’s results revealed some storm clouds ahead for both parties. (Okay, I promise to stop sounding like the political Weather Channel.)

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The Election: Looking Back, Looking Forward

BY BILL GREENER

The Democratic/liberal narrative for what is about to happen in the mid-term election next Tuesday is becoming clearer.

First, President Obama and the Democrats attempted not only to do good things, but to reach across the aisle and get Republican support for these wonderful ideas (stimulus package, healthcare reform, cap and trade, etc.). Republicans, however, refused to cooperate and. cynically, opposed everything. Never mind that Democrats hardly proved themselves to be the models of cooperation when they were in the minority. That would confuse the narrative.

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This Election Won’t Be the Last

BY BILL GREENER III

Republicans—for good reasons—are pretty giddy about the prospects for Election Day. Unless unemployment suddenly drops, there is just no precedent in American history for the election to result in anything other than a massive victory for Republicans. The mainstream media can rant all they want about the Tea Party and the party of ‘no’, but it will not change a thing in my opinion.

But , in addition to the issues of the economy, massive spending, and ObamaCare, another issue is emerging as salient and defining. I am talking about immigration. Depsite, our election-year euphoria, my fear is that we Republicans are failing to fully grasp and understand the power of a defining moment in American politics, a failure that could have long-term implications that are not good for our Party.

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