I don't know how to Photoshop. But surely one of my dear readers could take a picture of Angkor Wat and decorate it like a Christmas tree?
In today's Seattle Times, UW professor Edward Alexander bluntly recounts the Democrats' unwillingness to oust the anti-Semites from their midst: Al Sharpton, Cynthia McKinney, Earl Hilliard, Jesse Jackson, James Moran, Ernest Hollings. Alexander concludes:
Outside of the Islamic world, the anti-Semitic upsurge of recent years is mainly a left-wing phenomenon. It is therefore not surprising that it should have brought the Democratic Party, more swiftly than the Republicans, to that dark and bloody crossroads where politics and conscience collide.Having Michael Moore sit with the Carters at Kerry's nominating convention doesn't help either.
And Alexander doesn't even mention the local party's support for the jihad against Israel. A comprehensive account of the Democratic Party's slide into anti-Semitism requires more space than an 800-word op-ed allows.
Lots of discussion of local issues over at Sound Politics, the new must-read blog about goings-on in the Puget Sound region. Just go here and keep reading.
Among other things, Sound Politics will host the home page for opposition to Seattle's upcoming Families and Education Levy ballot measure.
The employees of our nation's taxpayer-funded libraries are turning their communities' public intellectual spaces into an outlet for partisan propaganda. The September Project, which I mentioned a few weeks ago, attempts to trivialize the September 11 attacks by using the upcoming anniversary of 9/11 to forget about the Muslim terrorists who slaughtered 3,000 people and instead fixate on the imaginary administration attacks on civil liberties in the course of preventing future acts of mass murder.
The September Project's events page shows how some of our supposedly public libraries are being hijacked to serve the narrow ideological agendas of the few who are lucky enough to work at the libraries.
The King County Library in Kent, WA will hold:
A Citizen's Analysis of What Really Happened on September 11 thYeah, Michael Moore's movie is a legitimate starting point for asking "What Really Happened", almost as useful as the tinfoil-hat website WhatReallyHappened.com.
Seattle 911 Visibility Project
With the report issued by the 9-11 Commission and the movie, “Fahrenheit 9/11,” there are many unanswered questions about the events of 9/11. Learn more about this pivotal moment in American history and its implications for the security of our nation. This program will be followed by a group discussion.
The library at the University of Washington-Tacoma will teach us about:
Libraries Under Attack: Afghanistan, Iraq and the U.S.I'm not sure I understand. Which American libraries are under attack? [except by their own unfireable employees who abuse them for partisan propaganda?] And the threat to libraries in Afghanistan and Iraq -- I doubt they're referring to the civil-liberty abusing Taliban and Ba'athist regimes that have since been ended.
This poster/display will explore the threat to libraries, as well as their destruction, in Afghanistan, Iraq, and the United States.
The main University of Washington library will treat us to "Statements of Rights" from around the world:
The United Nation's Universal Declaration of Human Rights, The United States Bill of Rights, the Magna Carta, and statements of rights from countries around the world will be available to encourage freedom of expression. See documents from Iran, Morocco, Saudi Arabia, Tunisia, India, S. Korea, China, Japan, Vietnam, S. Africa, Ethiopia, Ghana, Liberia, the Magna Carta and the European Convention on Human Rights. We are working on those of a couple of countries from both Central and South America. Also, Russia and either Australia or New Zealand.It is hollow moral equivalence to pretend that the unenforced "statements of rights" from chronic human rights abusers such as, say, Iran, Saudi Arabia and Vietnam are in any way equivalent to our own 200+ year tradition of actually enforcing our Bill of Rights.
The UW library also offers a limpwristed opportunity to "Form Your Own Opinion On Fahrenheit 9/11". You can tell the partisans know they don't have the facts on their side when they tell you it's a matter of "opinion".
The King County Library in Lake Forest Park, WA will show
And Justice for All, a film by Sandi Cioffi in cooperation with Hate Free ZoneAs I mentioned the other day, the group "Hate Free Zone" should more properly be called "A Zone Where Muslims Are Free to Hate Whites and Jews".
It's unfortunate that our public libraries are turning themselves into fountains of Michael Moorish partisan propaganda. If you live in King County outside of Seattle, you might want to think twice about voting to approve the King County Library System bond levy, on the ballot this September 14. Naturally, the people who work for KCLS will do whatever it takes to confiscate your money so they can indoctrinate you about civil liberties. But you can still vote no. For now, at least.
Democratic Attorney General / gubernatorial candidate Christine Gregoire is lunching around Eastern Washington looking for votes:
Ritzville's mayor and the local Chamber of Commerce president also took advantage of the chance to chat with the possible next governor. Over sandwiches and potato salad, the mayor filled her in on the big problems the town is having with its new sewage-treatment system.A discussion of sewage-treatment problems should be enough to kill anybody's appetite. But the prospect of eating while sitting across the table from this woman is more frightening than I care to imagine:
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Of course Michael Moore hates America. And as I pointed out yesterday, he also hates Israel. But in all fairness, I don't think Moore discriminates against Israel and America. He is an equal opportunity hater. He hates everybody.
"Combustible Boy" of the mothballed Sound and Fury blog sent me some snapshots of pages from Moore's 1997 book Downsize This. Here are pages 88-89 and 90-91 from chapter 10 "Germany Still Hasn't Paid for Its Sins and I Intend to Collect". After starting out by saying that Germany didn't do enough to compensate the world for the Holocaust, he launches into a thoroughly insane bit of historical analysis:
I know some of you are saying, "Hey, Mike, the survivors got to move to Israel after the war. Didn't giving them that land make it up to them?" Well, I don't think Israel was actually "given" to them. The British were ruling the place (then called Palestine), and suddenly all these Holocaust survivors with nowhere else to go started arriving and the Brits didn't like that one bit. But they didn't have the energy to fight the Jewish guerrillas after having just lost most of their British empire. so they just bagged the place and said, "Fine, you want this, it's yours." Most Arab residents were not considered in the deal.Then he froths at the mouth about the many Germans who have emigrated to Florida, or who simply visit the state:
I have never understood why giving the Holocaust survivors Palestine/Israel was such a great gift. Have you ever been there? It's a friggin' desert! There's nothing there! Israelis like to tell you, "We've made the desert bloom!" Talk about rationalizing something ... I'm telling you, it's 100 percent sand, rock, and more sand. Why did we think we were making it up to them by placing them in a horrible environment that has cost them even more lives in more wars? Because the Bible said so? When did the world start going by *that* book?
If we had really wanted to do what was right -- and punish the Germans -- we should have given the survivors the state of Bavaria. Now, that's one beautiful piece of real estate! And it would have cost the Germans plenty. Turning Palestine into Israel didn't hurt the Germans one single bit. But losing Bavaria to the Jews would have really kicked those bastards where it counted. Israel has only 10,840 square miles; Bavaria has over 28,000! Israel has few, if any, natural resources; Bavaria is rich in minerals, forests, and water. Since the war, the Israelis have been surrounded by hostile enemies who want them dead; Bavaria is surrounded by the beautiful Alps containing a few goats and those three guys in the Ricola commercial. I guess it's probably too late to correct this mistake by moving Tel Aviv to Munich and forcing the Germans to go and try to make the desert bloom.
I am of two minds regarding this German invasion of Florida. On the one hand, I hate Florida. It's full of bugs, humidity, and stupid people running around with guns. And it's got those nutty Cuban exiles. If there were a pair of scissors big enough, I wish we could just snip the state where it hangs off the rest of the country.For those who don't yet realize that Fahrenheit 9/11 is little more than Michael Moore's private pathological delusion, the above passages from Downsize This should put everything in perspective.There is part of me that likes the fact that all these ex-Nazis are moving there to terrorize the people of Florida. Serves them right. The Right-Wing Cubans versus the Geriatric SS in a fight to the finish! I'd pay money to watch that one on Pay-Per-View.
Michael Moore was the personal guest of Jimmy and Rosalyn Carter at this year's Democratic Convention.
Most people already know that Michael Moore hates America. Less well known is that Michael Moore also hates Israel.
By way of The Republican Jewish Coalition, which also observes:
Oy vay , as my bubby would say. A lot of Jews will vote Republican this year. Bubby's spinning in the great beyondWell my bubby was a Republican and wherever she is, she's having a kvell over me.
What would arrests do without AP?
AP headline: "AP: Arrests damage al-Qaida network"
What would al-Qaeda do without analysis?
Same AP story, different headline: "Analysis: Arrests put squeeze on al-Qaeda"
What would tens of thousands of dead Sudanese do without Frist?
WaPo headline: "Frist Calls Darfur Killing 'Genocide'"
I just heard Michelle Malkin speaking in Bothell to promote her new book, "In Defense of Internment: The Case for "Racial Profiling" in World War II and the War on Terror". The title and subject are indeed controversial. I haven't read the actual book, but having heard her lecture and having read much of the discussion on her blog and by her knowledgeable critics (summarized here), I'll venture a reaction.
She's an engaging speaker and made a compelling case to challenge the prevailing mindset that the relocation and internment of West Coast Japanese-Americans were solely driven by racism and hysteria and had no basis in legitimate security concerns. It's hard to dispute the evidence that there were some number of people of Japanese ancestry, both immigrants and native-born citizens, who were more loyal to Imperial Japan than to the United States. Among them were people who actually assisted the Japanese war effort against the United States. It's also reasonable to assume that there were others who would have acted against the United States had they not been relocated and interned. Having said that, I'm not prepared to defend the internment as Michelle does, nor would I give the same answer that she gave to an audience question "If you were sitting in Roosevelt's shoes would you sign Executive Order 9066?". Her answer was "Yes. It was the best decision that could have been made based on the information that was available at that time". I can't justify the wholesale relocation of thousands of U.S. citizens solely on the basis of ethnicity. I would prefer to identify and neutralize the individuals who were most likely to be a security threat. Then again, my judgment is colored by present day sensibilities, not the sensibilities of the period immediately following the Pearl Harbor attack.
But the revisionist history can be useful, especially to shed light on possible responses to today's security threats from militant Islam. I'm not sure that putting "Defense of Internment" in the title was the best choice, as it will draw more attention than the rest of the book, which isn't necessarily as inflammatory as the title. The title will undoubtedly get the book some publicity that it wouldn't get from a less controversial title, but not all of the extra attention will be productive. The controversy might cause others to avoid the book who might not have avoided it otherwise. I think a more productive argument would have been to make the case that then, as now, there were clear threats to our security from certain segments of an ethnic (or religious) community. And that those threats would be most appropriately dealt with by using forms of profiling, surveillance and detention that were limited and far short of a massive relocation and internment of an entire population. I believe that was Michelle's primary goal anyway (at least in regards to the current war) and I hope that the controversy and discussion stimulated by the book will focus us in that direction.
The book and the talk were mentioned in a Seattle Post-Intelligencer article this morning, so I was expecting a swarm of hysterical protesters. In fact, it seemed to be a mostly sympathetic audience of talk radio listeners. There were a few disputatious comments from the audience, mostly from aging pacifists who kept droning on and on without ever posing any question. (none of them had seen the book and didn't seem to have paid attention to her talk)
After the talk I met Michelle in the book-signing line. She told me she loves my blog. That made my day.
Meanwhile, on the other side of Lake Washington
Tonight was coincidentally the Green Lake From Hiroshima to Hope vigil, the Annual Lantern Floating Ceremony
in remembrance of the victims of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and all victims of war and violence.It's appropriate to remember the innocent people who died in the actions that were necessary to end World War II. But it would be more appropriate to remember them by explicitly naming the other victims of Imperial Japan, such as those in China, Korea, the Philippines, Hawaii, etc, without whom neither the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki nor the internment of West Coast Japanese would ever have happened.
The Seattle Monorail has become so radioactive that potential contractors are saying it's not worth the billion dollars they would earn for their efforts:
One of two companies bidding on the new Seattle Monorail has withdrawn.Damn.Team Monorail, a consortium led by Canadian train maker Bombardier, announced it will not be submitting bids on the $1.75 billion project.
My local pal Matt Rosenberg is blogging up a storm these days. In addition to writing his own fine blog Rosenblog, he's also a contributor to RedState.org, The Political State Report and best of all, he's one of my co-conspirators over at Sound Politics.
Check out Matt's piece on Dino Rossi, who gets both my vote (and my bet, if I were a betting man) to be Washington's next governor. [For those who don't mind downloading 1MB jpegs, there is this photo I took of Dino giving a stump speech on an actual stump! and this photo that Andy MacDonald took of two generations of Sharkanskys standing with Dino]
Matt also responds to the Seattle Weekly's inability to nominate a Best Local Conservative. Matt's a modest guy, he should have included himself in the list of best local conservative bloggers.
Over on the new Sound Politics blog, my overview of I-884, a proposed billion dollar increase in the sales tax .
Making the e-mail rounds today is this photo of roadside art, observed on Route 38 near Racine, Wisconsin.
My interview Monday evening at the Downtown Seattle Republican Club on the topic "The Seattle Families and Education Levy" will be broadcast on SCAN-TV (Comcast Cable channel 77 or 29 in Seattle and most of King County) tonight, Thursday, Aug. 5 at 6pm. The show is called Republican Perspective.
I've never done a half-hour issues program before, so please set your VCRs to SCAN-TV tonight at 6, and send me any constructive feedback on my performance.
I'll be the guest host of Republican Perspective taping on August 16 to air on August 19. It's up to me to schedule the guest interviewee. I have a few ideas but am still open to suggestions. Local readers, please feel free to suggest any local political figures whom you might be interested in seeing in conversation with The Shark and for whom you would come to downtown Seattle on a Monday evening to be part of the live audience.
UPDATE: I've tentatively scheduled a representative from the Monorail Recall campaign committee.
Yet another episode involving acts of peace in the name of religion:
Two leaders of a mosque in Albany, N.Y., were arrested on charges stemming from an alleged plot to purchase a shoulder-fired missile that would be used to assassinate the Pakistani ambassador in New YorkYes, I know, this whole "Religion of Peace" joke is getting old. But in this case it really fits. The name of the mosque that these terrorist conspirators lead?
"Masjid as-Salam", which literally means "Mosque of Peace"
What would Al Qaeda do without reports?
Reuters headline: Al Qaeda may still be plotting against U.S. - reports
Michelle Malkin will be in town this week to promote her new book, In Defense of Internment: The Case for "Racial Profiling" in World War II and the War on Terror. To call a defense of Japanese internment controversial is an understatement. Everything I've learned about the internment tells me that it was regrettable stain on our history. But l've always respected Michelle for her willingness to challenge otherwise unchallenged assumptions with frankness, facts and reason. I haven't seen the book, but Glenn Reynolds sounds reasonable when he says:
Malkin's right to say that reaction to the wrongs (well, I think they were wrongs) of the Japanese internment of World War Two is limiting our ability to do the rather mild things that we need to do now.Michelle will be speaking at the Cedar Park Church in Bothell Friday, Aug. 6, at 7pm. Some of her commentary about her new book and the discussion it's spawned is here. Details and directions to the Bothell talk are here.
KING5 News interrupts its regularly scheduled programming to bring us an urgent report:
Research finally confirms what Seattleites have long suspected – their city’s streets are some of the most confusing in the country.Boston and Washington are indeed difficult to navigate, but San Francisco is a piece of cake next to Seattle.Seattle ranks number eight in the nation in terms of toughest to navigate, behind Boston, Washington, D.C. and San Francisco.
A neighborhood near Green Lake is now known as Tangletown, where you're likely to find yourself at the corner of 51st and 52nd and Keystone.Heh. That's right near my house. And not only is there a corner of 51st and 52nd and Keystone, there is also a corner of 55th and 56th and Keystone! The other silly thing about this neighborhood is that there are five adjacent parallel streets, named Canfield, Kenwood, Keystone, Kirkwood and Kensington. I've been here more than a year and I still can't remember which one is Kirkwood and which one is Kenwood. And based on the amount of other people's mail that shows up in our mailbox, neither can our mailmen.
I'll be today's featured dinner speaker at the Seattle Downtown Republican Club, discussing the Families and Education Levy. The event starts at 5pm, with dinner and fascinating conversation followed by a half-hour interview/Q&A; that will be videotaped for rebroadcast on a local cable channel later in the week.
Come hear me explain why the Families and Education Levy (a $117 million property tax measure) has not and will not accomplish very much for education and won't be a good deal for Seattle's families. The admission price is the cost of the ala carte dinner, usually under $15.
For location, directions, parking, etc. and/or rebroadcast information, see this page for details.
I'm pleased to unveil Sound Politics, a new group blog dedicated to local issues in the Puget Sound region (Seattle and outlying areas) and Washington State.
The founding co-conspirators include bloggers Andy MacDonald, Matt Rosenberg, Brian Crouch and also Ron Hebron and Hank Bradley, who are frequent readers and commenters of the Shark Blog. Other contributors will be joining the group soon.
Look to Sound Politics for sound commentary on the region's government and media: The state legislature, Ron Sims and the King County Council, [un]Sound Transit, the Seattle Monorail, the state's congressional delegation, "It's in the P-I" and more!
My contributions will include both cross-posts from the Shark Blog and some original content.
One of Sound Politics' first big projects will be to serve as the nexus for the opposition to Seattle's Families and Education Levy, which will be on the September ballot. Andy MacDonald and I helped write the official opposition statement for the voters' guide and we'll be posting a lot of information about the levy over at Sound Politics between now and the election.
Check it out: www.soundpolitics.com
An educational assistant from Edmonds, WA was charged with possession of child pornography on his home computer.
It is not believed any of the photos depict Edmonds students.The photos appear to have been taken at the schools where the man worked. Nevertheless, school officials have no idea how to proceed:In addition to those photos, however, charging papers say investigators also found "dozens of pictures of fully clothed young girls obviously photographed surreptitiously while they were at school." Charging documents said the photos "focused on the girls' rear ends and crotches."
Jakala said Buckley will be fired if he is convicted of the child-pornography charge. District officials are also investigating whether taking photos of Edmonds students is a fireable offense.It's amazing that even the lowliest school employees have such bulletproof property rights to their jobs that they can't be fired unless they violate an explicit policy. It's not enough to engage in conduct that is so obnoxious that it could well inspire some mother of one of these violated little girls to give the creep a penectomy using a blunt-tipped scissors.Jakala said it is not against school policy for district employees to photograph students as they walk through the halls during the school day.
School-district officials are also investigating why Buckley was hired in 1994 despite having a criminal record, although she said the district does not have a policy forbidding such a hire. "We have nothing in policy that says flat out the Edmonds School District does not hire convicted felons," said Jakala.But there is a policy that says that the good people of Edmonds have to keep paying through the nose to keep the Edmonds School District in operation no matter how idiotic are the folks who run it.
My wife ran off to San Francisco yesterday, taking the children and leaving in their place a bag full of diapers and other essential personal effects that she apparently meant to take with her. They're due to return on Monday. Or possibly sooner if David needs his diaper changed.
In the meantime, I did what any other abandoned husband would do on a Saturday night -- I went out campaigning with my local candidate for the state legislature. Lt. Gubernatorial candidate Jim Nobles and I joined Mark Griswold to walk through the crowd at the Seafair Torchlight Parade carrying Griswold for Representative signs. It's a dangerous job to prance around Seattle advertising oneself as a Republican, but somebody has to do it.
The parade was good fun, with floats, clowns, pirates, marching bands, policemen on motorcycles, beauty queens, historic fire engines, people painted purple, etc.
We looked around the parade for any signs of life from Griswold's opponent, House Speaker Frank Chopp, who's managed to serve in the legislature for a decade without ever having to run against a Republican challenger. We failed to find any evidence that Chopp maintained a presence to reach out to voters at the parade, one of the largest annual events in Seattle. We did bump into a sympathetic local government insider who shared an anecdote that other Democrat bigwigs had recently told Chopp that his best response to the Griswold challenge would be to "sit down for a bit". We weren't quite sure what that was supposed to mean. Sit down and strategize? Sit down and collect his temper? In any event, it sounded vaguely amusing and apropos for someone who has managed to sit in the legislature for years and years without having to get up very often to compete for the hearts and minds of his constituents.
We were stopped a few times by visiting legislators from other states who spied the campaign signs and wished Mark a gracious welcome into the fraternity of representative government. North Dakota's Kim Koppelman (R-West Fargo) was in Seattle for the ALEC conference. He handed Mark his business card, which had a jagged right edge like the map of North Dakota. We also met Texas' Larry Taylor (R-League City), also in town with ALEC. We found Taylor sitting on the bumper of an unattended Christine Gregoire campaign pick-up truck. He didn't know who Gregoire was, so I explained that she was a goofy-assed ultra-liberal, whose gubernatorial campaign is bankrolled by a bunch of out-of-state feminists. Taylor quickly got off the truck and went to look for his wife. We didn't get to see if his business card was shaped like the map of Texas.
The Seattle Times reports on a campaign to get more Muslims to vote:
Jama is heading a voter-registration drive on behalf of Hate Free Zone Campaign of Washington, a civil-rights advocacy group, and the Seattle branch of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-Seattle). The groups are hoping to reach as many as 10,000 Muslims statewide — either new voters or those who've registered but are not on the mailing list of either group.The so-called "Hate Free Zone"
was formed as an immediate response to hate crimes and discrimination from individuals and government policies targeting Arabs, Muslims, South Asians and other communities following September 11, 2001.Fair enough. But the group approaches its mission with an inappropriate hysteria. The home page has a prominent link to this article
Hate crimes surged last year against people of Islamic faith and those of Middle Eastern ethnicity in the aftermath of the September 11, 2001 terror attacks, the FBI reported Monday. Incidents targeting Muslims, previously the least common involving religious bias, increased from just 28 in 2000 to 481 in 2001 -- a jump of 1,600 percent.Only thing though, is that the report, issued in 2002, was succeeded by the 2003 report which showed that the number of anti-Muslim incidents in 2002 fell to 155. But this reassuring drop-off is nowhere mentioned over at the Hate Free Zone. (As a point of comparison, the annual mumber of anti-Jewish hate crimes, also reported by the FBI but nowhere mentioned by the Hate Free Zone, is relatively stable in the range of 1,400 - 1,600 per year). The Hate Free summary of the FBI report also informs us that:
Whites made up the vast majority of known offenders for all cases, at 6,054, followed by blacks at 1,882Those hateful whites! But alas, one reason that the "vast majority" of hate crimes are committed by whites is that the vast majority of Americans are white. A comparison of hate crime statistics with population statistics shows that the percentage of white people among hate crime offenders is the same as the percentage of white people in the general population. But the Hate Free Zone doesn't bother to put the "vast majority" number in this context.
In addition to whipping up hysteria about the imaginary epidemic of anti-Muslim hate crimes committed by white people, the other thing that is weird about the "Hate Free Zone" is that their voter-registration drive recruits Muslims exclusively and is in partnership with the local chapter of CAIR. What kind of political activity does the local CAIR group encourage? Its proudest accomplishment was inserting a plank into the county Democratic platform that singles out Israel for condemnation. That sounds like a form of hate to me.
A better name for the "Hate Free Zone" might be the "Free-to-Hate-Whites-and-Jews Zone".
The Washington State candidate filing period has ended. A list of the state legislative candidates is here. Follow the links at the top to see the other state, federal and judicial candidates on the ballot. Our own district's Mark Griswold gets a nice mention in today's Seattle Times article about the candidate filings.
Republican Party Chairman Chris Vance said the GOP is being equally aggressive. "Republicans are poised to have a big, big year," he said ... Vance noted his party even has a Republican candidate, Mark Griswold, running against state House Speaker Frank Chopp, D-Seattle. State records show this would be the first time Chopp has faced a Republican opponent since he was elected in 1994.Knock Chopp's block off, Mark!
Several other Republicans filed this year to run for Seattle legislative seats that seldom have even token Republican challengers. I credit Mark Griswold for blazing the trail.
Meanwhile in the gubernatorial race, Democrats Ron Sims and Christine Gregoire have been joined by a candidate who is no less qualified than they are to be the state's chief executive: Mike the Mover. There are even two candidates duking it out in the primary to be the Libertarian standard-bearer in the general election. Now that's a title worth fighting for!
Today's Seattle Times has a nice profile of young GOP activist Aaron Schwitters, who aspires to elective office some day:
It's 7:30 in the morning. Aaron Schwitters is shaking hands and grinning broadly outside the kickoff breakfast for George Nethercutt's Senate campaign. He was at the ballroom in his crisp blue suit at 6 a.m. to help set up chairs.Heh. I know Aaron Schwitters too.Schwitters is only 21. But he's already done dozens of these political events, speeches and fund-raisers here and in Washington, D.C.
"Everyone knows Aaron Schwitters," Kristina Morris, a fellow young activist, said recently.
[Schwitters] has his own critique of Republicans: The party, he said, has too many pessimists and culture warriors. He believes Republicans would be better off talking optimistically about free-market policies at home and democracy abroad.He's my kind of Republican. I hope he goes far.
