Not to suggest for a minute that John McCain isn’t sincere in his eloquent defense of the war over the past week, including this morning - he has been consistent on that issue since day one, at least as pertains to the Iraq theater - but isn’t it awfully convenient timing that he’s getting so out in front on an issue of prime importance to the GOP base in such close proximity to the immigration amnesty he championed and which has so damaged his presidential ambitions?

I’m just saying….

I’ve got nothing bad to say about Rudy Giuliani’s “Justice Advisory Committee“.  Any group of judiciary advisors that boasts Ted Olson, Larry Thompson, and Miguel Estrada isn’t lacking for intellectual or ideological firepower.  That seems by design to reflect well on the man who recruited them.

And therein lies the question that I have about all these high-profile, publicity-seeking teams that “America’s mayor” is assembling.  If Rudy Giuliani is truly a constitutionalist who will appoint constitutionalists to the federal bench, why does he need to hire a bunch of conservative legal stars to point at and all but say to GOP primary voters, “See, I brought these guys in so that means I’m one of you!”  Seems to me that a clear, unequivocal repudiation of Roe v. Wade on legal grounds would go a lot farther in convincing the base of his credibility on the judiciary.

I’m not nearly as skeptical about Rudy’s economic and national security stances, but the same doubt applies to the all-star team he’s put together in those areas.  A presidential campaign isn’t like fantasy sports leagues, or the New York Yankees, where you go out and shop for the most garishly expensive lineup you can find.  When it comes down to where the cheese binds, the candidate himself has to be believable as to what he’s putting himself over as.

Rudy is surrounding himself with conservatives and hoping that he gets sufficiently bathed in their aura for the glow to remain on his face through next spring.  But he’s not a conservative, particularly on the judiciary, and if Republican primary voters let themselves get bamboozled by all this name-dropping, they’ll have nobody but themselves to blame when they wake up and find they’ve nominated the most left-wing GOP nominee since Richard Nixon.

UPDATE: Michael Gerson gets it - maybe a little too much - but J-Ger doesn’t have a clue.

‘NOTHER UPDATE: “Doth” instead of “dost”.  Thanks to “Grammer Nitpicker” for pickething mine medieval English grammer.

“In my view, the most noteworthy event that took place in Washington yesterday was Vets for Freedom’s appearance at the Capitol to argue for victory in Iraq.” — John Hinderaker, Powerline News

TONIGHT ON BLOGTALKRADIO, David Bellavia of Vets for Freedom tells us about the group’s Capitol Hill visit including this stop at Sen. Jim Webb’s office.

“Nadia Naviwala is Senator Webb’s legislative aide. She had brought in his military aide, a thirty year Navy vet and a Vietnam veteran.

He told one of our members who had lost most of his hearing to lower his voice. The meeting started off uncomfortably when he (Webb’s military aide) didn’t apologize, even after he was told the Marine was almost completely deaf from his four tours in Anbar province.

He (the military aide) was trying to appeal to our shared “brotherhood” as combat veterans in explaining that although Senator Webb was in favor of ending the mission in Iraq ASAP, he was NOT in bed with the radical left.

He said that these “wackos” come in and the Senator does not support them and “they get under his skin.”

One of the VVF members picked up this letter on his desk. I immediately confronted him (the military aide) saying, “How are you gonna sit here and lie right to our face? You have a giant pink card on your desk from a group that yelled at Walter Reed amputees ‘You got maimed for a lie’….? This is why Senator Webb has no credibility. Tell us you support defeat but don’t lie to our faces.”

The meeting ended shortly after.

We’ll also be having a conversation with Gregory Davis, co-director of the new documentary “ISLAM: What the West Needs to Know”.

We get underway at 9 p.m. ET. THE LIVE CHAT ROOM WILL BE OPEN. Don’t be late. You ready? It’s showtime.

*****

Also posted at The Radio Patriot

Wow, I didn’t think anybody could beat Don Young’s “bridge to nowhere.”  I mean, at least the bridge was tangible, even if it served no practical purpose.  Now the Dems are subsidizing transdimensional realms.

Does anybody know if Flake asked Visclosky where that million bucks will go once it doesn’t find a payee in this quantum reality?  I rather doubt it’ll go back in the general fund unspent.

Tonight on Political Vindication Radio we’ll be discussing America hating Canadian leftist Avi Lewis’ interview with Islam critic Ayaan Hirsi Ali. If you missed the whooping Avi Lewis received from this heroine… here it is:

Other top stories tonight on Political Vindication Radio:

*The Senate overnight surrender charade

*Do border agents Ramos and Compean belong in jail?

*Democratic Congress gains momentum - toward the cellar!

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Still have no Internet in my den, and getting on the other machine is harder than it looks.  But where there’s a will, there’s a way.

Jen doesn’t take Dirty Harry’s surrender sleepover very seriously.  I hope Uncle Teddy brought a few extra kegs, just in case.

The Dow crossed the 14,000 mark, and took under two months to get there from 13,000.  It marks the biggest economic boom in American history that nobody knows anything about.  But once Hillary gets her manicured hooves on it, everybody will know about it, until she kills it stone-cold dead.

David Vitter has been a very bad boy.  But neither he nor we have the luxury of throwing away a GOP senate seat because of it.

The buildup to a 9/11 sequel continues apace.  Meanwhile, Dick Cheney may or may not have brought the President back to his senses on Iran, but if he has, that is cause for much-belated relief, not the “concern” of some.  We can only hope that it isn’t too late.