McCain wins the GOP nomination

For a campaign that was near death late last summer, Senator John McCain showed how far he had come back by moving ever closer to the GOP nomination tonight by winning the Florida primary. Now, all eyes turn to next Tuesday, February 5. McCain has to be the odds on favorite to win the nominee.

McCain will be in Nashville Saturday morning for a 10:45 AM rally at MBA.

UPDATE: Fox News tonight reports that Rudy Giuliani will endorse McCain Tuesday.

70 rounds of applause in 53 minutes!

President Bush did an outstanding job in his final State of the Union message tonight. He promises to move forward with his initiatives to protect our economy and our borders. He will push forward with making his tax cuts permanent. Will the Congress make the deductibility of Tennessee's sales tax permanent? It expired at the end of 2007.

I was disappointed to see the Democrats took such a partisan stance by sitting on their butts when the president called upon the Congress to pass important legislation to defend ourselves against terrorism. What kind of message does that send to the terrorists and to the rest of teh world?

A Drunken Sailor

The Tennessean has the text of Governor Bredesen's State of the State address tonight. While he use a nautical motif to describe his role as head of state, he could have avoided the state's current fiscal shortfalls if he had not spent money like a drunken sailor last year. Bredesen has practically doubled the size of the state budget in his six years in office, blew through $1.8 billion in new revenue last year, and now is coming up short. It's time for Bredesen and the Democrats to sober up and realize the state should live within its means just like we do at home. Of course the governor's official residence will be much bigger than ours, especially once he spends more taxpayer money to build his underground dance hall.

Credit where it is due

Laura Ingraham's quote of the day:

	Look, the success over there is due to the blood and the courage of our servicemen and women, and to General Petraeus and to President Bush. Not to General Hillary Clinton. -- Mitt Romney, at last night's Republican debate.

and her soundbite of the week:

The idea of Bill Clinton back in the White House with nothing to do is something I just can't imagine. I think we want to have a president, not a team of husband and wife thinking that they're going to run the country. -- Gov. Mitt Romney, at NBC's Republican debate.

W.W.R.D.?

While it seems that even Republicans want to go along with the liberal/progressive/Democrats who think the answer to every problem is more government and higher taxes, it is high time to ask W.W.R.D.? That is, What would Reagan do?

Who can do more?

Senator Hillary Clinton brought her Bigger Government express to Nashville last night as she spoke to a crowd at TSU. The more I hear from her and Senator Obama, it sounds like they are competing over who can do more. Who can raise taxes? Who can spend more government dollars? Who can hand out more pork? Who can expand welfare programs? Who can do more to take away personal responsibility? Who can put the government in charge of our alives? How I long for the Reagan Revolution to return. Folks, the answer to our problems will not be found in DC.

The truth about abortion

Excellent piece from Gary Redden published in the Tennessean concerning the truth about the abortion issue. For abortion proponents, its really a matter of a convenience. A matter of a convenience for a woman to dispose of an unwanted child easily. I argue that a woman's choice is made earlier--when she decides to engage in unprotected sex. While that may not be the case when it comes to rape or incest, those no doubt for a small proportion of abortions. Redden says:

It's time to tell the truth and stop burying our heads in the sand concerning abortion. We as a nation must protect the most vulnerable among us, the unborn. If we do not, we are no better than all the other morally corrupt nations and civilizations that have allowed mass genocide of the perceived undesirable or unwanted.

The State Senate will have the second reading of SJR127 as amended Monday night at 5 PM followed by the third reading and voting on Wednesday morning.