Tucker Carlson says GOP will win in '08.

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His list of reasons why....

1.) First of all, when times are uncertain, people want strong leadership.

The Republican Party is the "Sit up and eat your peas or we're gonna spank you party," he said. "The Democrats are softer, more compassionate, like Mommy ... the kind of guy who cries at Meg Ryan movies."

2.) Another reason Democrats won't take the White House in 2008, Carlson said, is they've yet to learn what Republicans learned while Bill Clinton was president. After independent council Kenneth Starr's report on Clinton's affair with White House intern Monica Lewinsky was made public, the president's approval rating went up.

"How do you explain that? It's just perverse," he said. "It's a reflection of the discomfort with those who are attacking."


I think he's wrong to assume the GOP will win on these points alone, but I think his first reason holds some water. We need to overcome the 'weak on national security and defense' myth if we're going to have a legitmate chance of winning big in '06, '08, and beyond. Its just a matter of how? How can we do it without becomming just like the other side?

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