From Openers

A poll released Thursday by the environmental group Oceana concluded that likely Ohio Republican voters are way happier with President Bush's performance than they are with Congress.

Sixty-seven percent of the 500 likely Republican voters in Ohio surveyed by the group rated President Bush's job performance as "excellent" or "good," but only 29 percent gave the same positive evaluation to Congress.

Chuck Blasdel's campaign website has undergone a major makeover, and I've gotta say, it looks good.

This is one of the most important Congressional races in the country, not only because it's an opportunity for the GOP to pick up a seat they haven't had real control over for a decade. What really makes Blasdel's victory so important is the fact that he's opponent, Charlie Wilson, is completely incompetent.

Unless you want to see someone who can't handle collecting 50 signatures, was caught dumping waste into the Ohio river, and voted against making English the official language, it's in your interest to see Chuck Blasdel go to Washington.

So, if you can spare a dime, send it over to Chuck. And if you live in the 6th district, volunteer and/or request a yard sign.

In a review of Miss Coulter's Godless: The Church of Liberalism, Richard Kirk gives conservatives good reason to embrace the blonde bombshell.

From The American Spectator:

What undercuts the liberals' case against Coulter on this score, however, is their own (not always tacit) endorsement of vile epithets that are regularly directed against President Bush and his supporters by the likes of Cindy Sheehan, Michael Moore, and a gaggle of celebrity politicos. Coulter employs the same linguistic standard against liberals (with a touch of humor) that they regularly use (with somber faces and dogmatic conviction) when they accuse conservatives of being racist homophobes who gladly send youngsters to war under false pretences to line the pockets of Halliburton executives. Hate-speech of this stripe is old-hat for leftists.

Until Air America, Helen Thomas, and most Democrat constituencies alter their rhetoric, I see no reason for conservatives to denounce Coulter for using, more truthfully, the same harsh language that leftists have employed, with no regard for accuracy, since the time of Lenin. When liberals denounce communist tyrants as fervently as they do real Nazis, then it will be time for Coulter to cool the rhetoric. Until that time her "verbal reprisals" serve a useful function within an intellectual marketplace that resembles a commodities pit more than a debating society.

While I would prefer a nice, calm, friendly exchange of ideas, there is a time for stinging satire and Ann Coulter proudly takes her place among the greats like H.L. Mencken and Mark Twain. For everything there is a season and I can think of no other American I would like better to represent me in the ring.

Give 'em hell, Ann!