Fight the Power: Rapping for Lower Taxes and Waterboarding

Straight up. Two freshmen at Dartmouth College, "Serious C" and "Stiltz", having grown up on the mean streets, have styled themselves as "The Young Cons". They take on the authority of the man (especially the man seeking same-sex marriage) with lines like "Taxes are the subject and I will spit them verbally", "EVERYONE can succeed cause our soldiers bleed, daily", and "Superman that socialism and waterboard that terrorism."

Just think of this as the love-child of Vanilla Ice and Sarah Palin.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkeZ2P4SiY8[/youtube]

(Powerline, which salutes the "wit and learning in equal parts" of this duo, are asking for additional lines for the rap. Enduring America has made its initial contribution, and we invite readers to join us in this political-musical quest.)

Republican Video Fight: Mitt Romney Runs from Bears, Ronald Reagan, Sarah Palin

We've been letting the Republican Party get on with its internal squabbling, but this latest scrap was too good to go unmentioned.

2008 GOP Presidential candidate Mitt Romney got a bit lippy about Sarah Palin's recent appearance on Time magazine's list of most influential people: ""Was that the issue on the most beautiful people or the most influential people?"

Devoted Palinists, rather than taking the "most beautiful" compliment, hit back with this video:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDOykmey7-I[/youtube]

Respect is due. The video is a throwback to Ronald Reagan's mega-successful 1984 campaign video where he took down the Soviet Bear (apparently there was a Cold War going on):

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpwdcmjBgNA&feature=related[/youtube]

And it's also a parody of Romney's 2008 campaign video "Leadership":

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PsJ3p5X6rLc&feature=related[/youtube]