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Is the Republican Party broken? After watching Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama hiss and claw at each other for the past few months I'm not worried about the Republican Party nor do I wonder if it is broken, at least not irreparably so. The Republican Party is in the process of healing and all without the help of Barack Obama.

As the months wear on, Republicans will see enough of the backstabbing and infighting and they'll conclude that John McCain is a better choice for President of the United States. As an added bonus, McCain may get some votes from the fall out of the fight between Clinton and Obama.

The Republican Party is beginning to unify behind John McCain. His maverick style can become an asset as he directs it toward issues that matter to the American people. Dick Morris, former member of the Clinton White House, who has been favoring the Obama camp, is beginning to give helpful comments to the McCain camp on how to win the hearts and minds of voters.

Since he announced his candidacy, Obama has gotten a pass from the mainstream media, but recent events suggest that the honeymoon is just about over. Once Obama is fully vetted, some people may change their minds about him.

Chicago breeds Chicago politicians - not messiahs.

Hillary's been a great help to Republicans, she given more than $10 million worth in smear attacks on Obama during the campaign for the Democrat nomination. The information she gave has been available online for some time, but she made the search engines sing with the information she gave on Wright and the others.

Republicans still have the smear to face.

The $40 million smear campaign against McCain led by David Brock and fueled by George Soros is hardly a surprise to anyone. McCain should feel honored; I believe Soros only spent $26 million to defeat Bush. It looks like McCain has a higher bounty on his head, but George Soros isn't putting up all his own money this time.

At the beginning of the primaries, it was the republicans who were called "undecided" on a candidate. The primaries yielded a winner quickly and it was settled by March 4, 2008.

Whose party is split now?

Obama is at odds with the image he is projecting.

Obama is criticizing the debate moderators in Philadelphia because of the questions asked about his association with Bill Ayers and Jeremiah Wright. With regard to Ayers, former Weather Underground and bomber, Obama says they don't exchange ideas "on a regular basis." That's good to know, but I wonder how often they do exchange ideas?

"According to Politico, Ayers also hosted a political event for Obama in 1995 with his wife Bernadine Dohrn, another former member of the radical weathermen group. The purpose of the event was to help launch Obama's campaign for the Illinois State Senate." http://blog.washingtonpost.com /fact-checker/2008/04/pennsylv ania_democratic_debate.html

Ton y "The Fixer" Rezko hosted fund raisers for Obama too, long before he assisted with Obama's housing problem with finances, fixing it with a real estate deal in 2005. After 20 years, Obama claims he still doesn't know if Rezko is a fraud and they're still friends unless Rezko proves to be guilty. I guess now is not the time to brush off Rezko while he is on trial.

Is he nave or just a bad judge of character? Either way, he has a long list of friends who are anti-American. There are more Obama friends and connections like Ali Abunimah, Rashid Khalidi, and Nadhmi Auchi. Does he know who they are?

Republicans may have problems when the Democrats launch their $40 million smear campaign, but the party is not broken and it has plenty of ammunition.

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