Over the past few months, the Obama campaign team and the Left have dropped the following issues into the national debate and let them explode like political IEDs:

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This morning, I got up to news that Occupy Wall Street was going to use the day traditionally used by communists to celebrate, well, communism, May 1, to mobilize against ugly capitalism by marching in about 140 cities, shutting down bridges and tunnels, blocking traffic, threatening banks, menacing stores and shoppers, and getting in the face (or worse) of law enforcement. Socialism’s storm troopers are on the march.

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As more and more details emerge about the Colombian adventure of several members of the Secret Service, the story keeps getting raunchier…and more outrageous.

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President Obama’s entire political career has been based on smoke and mirrors, finely spun imagery, and fantasyland projections. Governing, however, has been a rude awakening—for him and for us. Reality has a way of intruding uninvited and upsetting the most delicately arranged illusion.

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For decades, the Left has been accusing Republican presidents of carrying out “imperial” presidencies. Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, George W. Bush…they were all accused of abusing their power and trampling the other two co-equal branches of government. That, of course, was not true, but when did the truth ever stop the Left?

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Many folks are prematurely celebrating the death of ObamaCare after the pummeling of the administration’s lawyer—the Solicitor General—and others arguing on the law’s behalf. The questioning was aggressive, the Constitutional questions pointed, and the SG a nervous wreck.

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President Obama has launched his re-election effort. He’s kicking it off with no official governing business today; instead he’s spending the day at campaign and fundraising events. Five of them, to be exact.

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Michelle Obama has been busy getting her organic garden ready for the spring and summer, pushing her “Let’s Move” exercise campaign, and seating herself next to George Clooney at last night’s state dinner for British Prime Minister David Cameron.

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Over the past few weeks, Team Obama and the Democrats have been letting out a collective sigh of relief, excited that the worst politically may be behind them and that better days were ahead: an improving economy and with it, sunnier re-election chances for Obama.

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“Where are the jobs, Mr. President?” So wailed then-Speaker Nancy Pelosi when the unemployment rate was about 6 percent toward the end of President Bush’s term.

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So a young kid plays basketball while at Harvard, goes undrafted, gets dropped by two NBA teams, kicks around for a while, bums couches to sleep on in New York, ends up playing for the New York Knicks…and becomes a sensation.

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Nothing says Valentine’s Day like a new budget from the President that is chock-a-block with his usual big spending, big government nightmares: it’s another $3.8 TRILLION monstrosity, with another $1.3 TRILLION+ deficit, with higher taxes, more “stimulus” spending, more class warfare, much more debt, and no entitlement reform to the biggest budget busters of all. Every day with this man is Groundhog Day. He is exhausting.

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Well, he’s done it again.

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Here’s why the GOP presidential race and whom we settle on as the ultimate nominee matters: Politico reports that the White House has been telling progressives that they’re going to “love” Obama’s State of the Union address tonight. If we don’t defeat Obama in November, America will be gone. And once she’s gone, that’s it. Game over. For us and the rest of the world.

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It’s often said that the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result. President Obama keeps giving us the same thing—the same policies, the same rhetoric, the same tone—over and over again. I’m not sure he expects a different result, though. And that’s the point: he’s neither insane nor stupid. He’s a pure leftist ideologue who will not—indeed, cannot—change.

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We now have the first race of 2012 under our belts. It was simultaneously exciting and boring. Exciting because it was a three-way race for much of the night, then it was a two-way race between the Dominant Guy and the Dark Horse, and then it was the Dominant Guy by a mere 8 votes. Boring because we conservatives are still saying, “Are we really going to go into this war with Barack Obama for the future of the country…with this group?” Sigh.

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Over the past day or so, we’ve gotten the news of the deaths of two prominent global leaders: former Czech president Vaclav Havel and North Korean dictator Kim Jong Il.

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1. After the latest GOP debate, the race is still Mitt Romney vs. Newt Gingrich, but the other candidates really helped themselves with strong, confident performances—with the exception of Ron Paul, who really hurt himself with his dovish answers on Iran, which revealed that he’s living in a bizarre, dangerous unreality.

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The latest polls of the Republican presidential field show Newt Gingrich holding on to and in some instances, expanding his lead over Mitt Romney. Romney still holds a commanding lead in New Hampshire, but it’s been dramatically cut by in-roads from Gingrich over the past few weeks. The other candidates are well behind, and while it’s possible that Ron Paul (who’s running in third place in many early contests) or someone else could score, it’s unlikely to hold as the primary process drags on.

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Of Newt Gingrich, Clinton said:

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Newt Gingrich: Newt is the master of detail, history and policy. Nobody can lay a glove on him when he gets on a roll. He dispatched all questions with ease and expertise. His answer about allowing children of law-abiding, longstanding illegals to stay in the U.S. may embroil him in some trouble, but perhaps his gamble was to try to humanize himself. Not sure, but it may be risky. What conservatives like about Newt is that he ISN’T warm n’ fuzzy. Maybe he’s already running a general election campaign, targeting independents??

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Over the years, most effective conservatives have been subjected to withering and unfair criticism that they were dummies, that they lacked the intellectual gravitas of, say, an Al Gore, a John Kerry or a Barack Obama. Obama, in particular, was held up as an example of an extraordinarily brilliant and agile mind: smart, educated, contemplative, deliberative and elegant.

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Macbeth (IV, i, 14-15)

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Many of the Occupy Wall Street protests—which began with generalized calls for anarchy—have now slipped into anarchy themselves. Anarchy and violence. Rampant drug use, rapes, theft, smashed windows, public urination, defecation and sex, and physical clashes with police have made these demonstrations into hotbeds of chaos—which is what the organizers would like to export to the rest of country. Forget a chicken in every pot. These radicals want urine in every street.

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Many professional political observers have puzzled over the rise of Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain. Here he is—a non-politician, successful businessman running a non-traditional insurgent campaign on a shoestring. And here he is—ahead of the pack in many polls or running even with the traditional political choice, Mitt Romney. Many of these professional political analysts are scratching their heads, wondering why GOP primary voters seem inclined to the unconventional candidate who sings gospel, admits he doesn’t know things when he doesn’t know them and otherwise tells it like it is.

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James Carville has resurfaced with another strategic warning to Barack Obama. You’ll recall that a few months ago, Carville let loose about the President’s political problems. He fumed that Obama should “fire everybody,” bring in a new team, shake things up.

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Let’s take a quick look around, shall we?

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When businessman Herman Cain was first thinking about throwing his hat in the ring in the Republican presidential race, I met him in the greenroom at Fox. He was delightful: brilliant, elegant, charming. I knew instantly that he was going to light a fire under the then-sleepy field of candidates. I then interviewed him on my radio show and was impressed by his forceful advocacy of conservative economic and constitutional values. I immediately “hearted” Herman Cain.

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I’m a little late with this analysis of the GOP field after this week’s debate, but better late than never.

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Two special Congressional elections took place this week. In Nevada’s 2nd district, Republican Mike Amodei walked away with a huge victory.

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In tomorrow night’s speech, President Obama will stride before a Joint Session of Congress and the American people and do what he always does: announce new spending.

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The Bama just wrapped up a three day “listening tour” in the heartland. At the conclusion of his “One Nation, Under the Bus” Tour, he seemed pretty satisfied that he had heard the wishes of the people.

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Thirty-four years ago today, Elvis Presley died of a drug overdose at his Graceland estate. The man who brought rock n’ roll to mainstream America and revolutionized music as a result remains a cultural icon. Thousands of people still make pilgrimages to Memphis, and he earns more money dead than he did while alive.

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As I watched the Republican presidential debate, I kept thinking to myself: “Who among them is ready for primetime? Who is ready to go head-to-head with Barack Obama? Who is ready for the Big Stage?”

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