THE DEMOCRAT PLAN FOR WINNING ELECTIONS - cheat.

And: “I’d cheat to keep these bastards out.”

Via Instapundit.

IS THE GOVERNMENT coming for your IRA?

Try it and I’ll be on the next (one-way) flight to Costa Rica.

More here.

And an especially prescient comment here: " I have an old friend who is converting his life time savings into gold, silver, ammunition, booze and other non-perishable staples for what he believes is the inevitable "economic crunch." I hope he is wrong that it is imminent, but at least now he can rest easy knowing that the government can't get to his nest egg, and based upon the recent price of ammunition and gold/silver it is appreciating nicely. "

IF OBAMACARE PASSES, I predict the Amish community will grow significantly.

The Amish have it right: it's insurance, dammit.

I'd happily give the liberals their ObamaCare if like-minded conservatives could opt for Lloyd's of London-like insurance based on the Amish model.

WHAT? Entitlement isn’t enough? This comment says it all: "WORK, Martha. It's what politicians have to do to EARN respect."

COMMENT OF THE DAY: "Politicians are movie star wannabes sans talent."

From my wife.

A PITY IN THE MAKING. Moderate Democrats may be headed for extinction.

Congressman Vic Snyder, (D-AK) has announced he is not running for reelection this year.

Rep. Bart Gordon (D-TN) will not seek reelection next year.... Gordon joins Reps. Dennis Moore (D-KS.), John Tanner (D-TN) and Brian Baird (D-WA) in announcing his retirement in recent weeks. Also, Rep. Neil Abercrombie (D-HI) announced that he will resign early to run for governor.

Sen. Ben Nelson (D-NE) was booed after dinner out at a pizza parlor in Omaha. I suspect he’s headed for eventual defeat in 2012 unless he redeems himself by voting against final passage of Obamacare.

Maybe Nelson can be that "one brave Democrat" the nation needs.

ERICK ERICKSON from Red State writes:

There is a serious problem developing among some of [Sarah] Palin’s biggest fans....

[T]here are Republicans who like — even love — Sarah Palin who think some of her handlers might not give her the best of advice or think she should or should not do one thing or another. And I’m finding ... that when those points are brought up, the person raising the point is often inappropriately attacked as a Palin hater.

Allahpundit from Hot Air responds:

How did she get to this rare, exalted, and enviable position? Erickson’s surely right that part of it comes from an instinct of wanting to defend her after the relentless media nastiness towards her, but obviously it’s more than that. Is it cultural identification, that she’s blue-collar and familiar in a way that most cookie-cutter pols aren’t, which makes the slings and arrows of liberal “elites” sting twice as much? Is it a function of the leadership vacuum in the GOP, with the emergence of someone young and charismatic such a precious thing that some supporters will do battle with anyone who risks upsetting that? Is it just that she really is more unshakably conservative in her policies than anyone else?

I rather suspect it’s not the criticism, it’s the critics.

WILL IT BE YOU? The Washington Times is looking for one brave Democrat to step forward and kill Obamacare for the good of the nation.

If your senators are Democrats, email them the link and ask "Will it be you?"