Democrats: Watch out! McCain Is Usurping You as the Loyal Opposition!

Watch John McCain in his speeches. More and more he is distancing himself from neo-con Republicans. He speaks against the glut of deficit spending. At a Spartanburg County, S.C., Republican Party's fundraising dinner in late January he told the crowd that he, Lindsay Graham, and others meet weekly to spearhead a return to fiscal conservatism. Their "fiscal watchdog group will figure out how to put the brakes on excessive spending." McCain added, "I promise this group will grow larger and larger, we're going to stop excessive spending, clean up our act, and restore the principles that motivated our takeover of Congress in 1994."

McCain is running against Bush and the crazy, kudzu-growth of neo-con Republican spending.

McCain has become the loyal opposition to the sitting president and whoever -- if anybody -- will be the Bush heir apparent.

McCain has beat all potential 2008 candidates to the punch.

Democrats, don't lag. Don't navel gaze. Don't miss the train.

The Marlboro Man May Become Invisible. If They Can Smear Murtha, They Can Dispose of Farmers, Too.

You've read the story of the Marlboro Man, the American GI whose photo represented the tough, gritty American stance in Iraq. It was all John Wayne...till he got home.

Now watch what happens.

Now he's home. Like many who have served, who now have a little perspective, he questions the wisdom of the leaders who sent him to harm's way.

Cindy Sheehan was once welcome to the White House. When she started to protest the policies that sent her son to his death, she was invisible. Watch over the next three years as more and more soldiers return home to question the sanity of their president's war policies. Watch them because invisible to the White House, who is led by a most vain, unsophisticated Narsiccist who cannot bear the bad news of all he has wrought.

Lefties: Always, always, always remember how this administration treats people: With disposability or as targets of character assassination. Drive that home and eventually the tide will turn on the appeal of this cravenous right wing.

If they can smear McCain, Kerry and Murtha, they'll have no trouble tossing overboard the farmers and other midwesterners who've turned their fair states red in recent years.