A friend is a blue dog Democrat who, disillusioned with Obama’s policy on the Keystone pipeline, might vote Pub this year. He had previously expressed a negative opinion about “outside influences” on the Pub Senate primary this year. I later asked him if he were going to vote in the Pub primary. His reply was that he preferred a country club Republican to a Teabagger.

When I see him next, I am going to ask him, “What does it say about you, that you would refer to a political opponent as a testicle-licker?”

The United States of America refutes that trend because we are cosmopolitan in our nature but national in our experience.

Basketball, track and field, swimming . . . but the defining event of each summer Olympics is the women’s gymanstic’s team medal, which we just won tonight.

Call it what you will. I call it the power of freedom.

His blood will not refresh liberty.

Vitality. Charisma. Intellectual quickness.

Look at conservative candidates, and you see many stars who are just entering the early stages of their prime. The political left does not have the same quality and depth of candidate talent. The right side political stars have the vitality.

Why? I think a big part of it is the internet. The internet is a bypass which goes around the make-believe media and makes the principled arguments about limited government and free markets. Potential conservative candidates, such as Jindal TedCruz Rubio Ryan AllenWest, even Palin: they soak up some of their philosophic understanding from the internet bypass which goes around the media and directly into their consciousnesses. And then they stand up, tall and boldly. Ted Cruz stood, tall and boldly, for conservative principles, in a way in which conservative politicians were not standing a scant 10 years ago.