Thursday, September 04, 2008
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The Palin Breakout, Part 4
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Posted by:
Hugh Hewitt at
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What a rout. Up early to watch the pundits on parade for a couple of hours, and the lefty talking heads and the MSM anchors are fleeing Sarah Palin like a building on fire. No more chants of "inexperience," and only the most indirect of references to her family. Until yesterday the collective MSM sneer was that Palin was "Hello Kitty," reeling backwards under the pressure. Now she's Gorgo, smashing up the MSM's cars. The dismayed punditry is pondering the "meanness" of her attacks and her lack of details on health care refom. A complete triumph over the Beltway-Manhatan media elites, but they will of course regather in Mordor and try again next week.
The Obamains decying "mean-spritiedness" are diminishing Obama the former giant slayer turned victim. They think Sarah Palin, Rudy, Mitt and Huck are tough? Remember Obama is scheduling meetings with Ahmadinejad, Kim, and Chavez for '09. Disarray is far too complimentary a word to use for the Obama campaign.
CNN actually had a discussion on how Palin et al may have offended the "community organizers" of America. Really. Soledad had an e-mail to that effect, after all. Well, I have a virtul in-box filled to the virtual sky with e-mails like this:
I work in a small manufacturing facility in the greater Syracuse NY area. It is pretty darn "blue" around here, but kind of a "centrist dem, labor-oriented, working class value blue-collar blue". Not the "fever swamp truther, BushCo kind of blue". Anyway, to the point. No one EVER talks politics here, but the place is BUZZING with Palin fever. Everyone's talking about her, and the most often used phrase I hear is "finally, one of us!"
The left is in serious, serious trouble. I myself wasn't enthused about McCain, though my respect for the man's sacrifice alone gets my vote. But now I will writing my first EVER check to any candidate. And I will gladly support the McCain/Palin ticket because she inspires me.
And this one:
I love Sarah Palin. She was gracious and very tough in her speech. The Reuters picture of her holding her son, Trig, showed a mama lion not afraid to take on those wanting to make a thousand little cuts. Check out the photo...see her solid jaw of pit bull determination. Lipstick, yeah. She knows what I know. I am a commercial fisherman and fished, lived, and worked in Alaska for over 20 years. It is true about getting up at 3 am to hunt. I did with my husband to shoot caribou for our freezer. I don't recommend caribou for a staple red meat.
We fished for halibut, salmon, and herring for many years. What you learn is basic. Prepare to catch fish ( big investment in gear & fuel), go out and catch the fish ( mother nature can screw this up as well as the govt.) sell the fish ( market forces can go South anytime), put proceeds in the bank to live on. Results oriented. Period. Sarah Palin knows this with her hands and her mind. When this or her family are sullied, watch out. Nuance is not an issue. You don't gaze into the eyes of a grizzly bear without a fully loaded 44 pistol by your side.
Your analysis and reparte on your radio show are ever so welcome, Hugh. I have listened since I was fishing squid out of Ventura and jogged to your show in the morning in LA.
There will be reverses for McCain-Palin along the way, but enjoy today as the egg-on-face media elites and Democrats try to pretend they haven't spent 96 hours savaging a woman that America turns out to like, and respect, quite a lot.
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Obama Had Close Ties to Top Saudi Adviser at Early Age
Wednesday, September 3, 2008 5:58 PM
By: Kenneth R. Timmerman
New evidence has emerged that Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama was closely associated as early as age 25 to a key adviser to a Saudi billionaire who had mentored the founding members of the Black Panthers. |
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Check out the ridiculous picture CNN chose to post of Palin-- of all the pictures they could have chosen, they just "happened" to pick one where Palin has her arm raised. But they are not trying to send a message. They are not biased at all. Nope. |
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This speech work.
She didn't have to convince lefties. They're in the tank for Obama.
But most voters in this country are not hard left. They're people with families and they have to be leery of a inexperienced, unqualified egghead metrosexual like Barack Obama.
They may have been lukewarm towards John McCain, but Palin will tip the scales.
Enjoy your trip back to the Senate Obama, maybe this time you'll be able to accomplish something there. |
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Check out the ridiculous picture CNN chose to post of Palin-- of all the pictures they could have chosen, they just "happened" to pick one where Palin has her arm raised. But they are not trying to send a message. They are not biased at all. Nope. |
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The Thrilla from Wasilla...Down goes Obama! Down goes Obama! |
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I would say that if McCain sees an huge outpouring of donations to their campaign that what the MSM thinks will matter little. It is after all the crucial test if a team has hit a home run. I personally know a few moderate dems that are not thrilled with Obama. Do I think they will vote McCain.. Some of said yes. Some aren't saying anything but clearly looking closer at the McCain/Palin ticket. The die heart Hillary supporters will most likely vote Obama, as he predicted and the reason he didn't care a darn about making them happy, because of the abortion issue. I think it is imperative for Sarah to clear up her stance there as far as being pro-life and wanting to see Roe vs Wade over turned. I am very pro-life but do not want women to not have access to choosing abortion because they will do it anyway and a bad situation will be made worse. I prefer that we curb abortions by making sure women are better informed about when life begins. I want that debate. |
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I got some wild Alaskan salmon and my wife and I enjoyed it over a bed of salad as we watched the speech. Yummy.
But as good as that dinner was, the buffet Governor Palin served was even better.
And success for the GOP: That was measured by the blantant sullen faces of Keith Olberman and Chris Matthews. I thought perhaps their dogs died. They were so upset.
It was a brilliant performance. Of course, that will be the next line of attacks that she is only a good speech giver. |
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"Thrilla from Wasilla!"
LOL!!!
Did anybody else notice that veeps normally are supposed to take shots at their veep counterpart, but Sarah instead focused her kbar thrusts at the heart of Obammy?
Coupled with The One's defensive stance regarding his "experience" vs. McCain's veep the other day on CNN ... along with the follow-up McCain political ad yesterday (touting Palin's experience vs. the Community Organizer's?), the irony of the upside down comparison is not lost on the average Joe or Jill voter.
I have this mental picture now of Sarah Palin field dressing a moose with Barack Obama's name tattooed on its hindquarters ... working efficiently and effortlessly with the blade as she skins him out and quarters him up, for Mr. Moose's trip to the Palin family freezer.
Sarah Palin's speech last evening, followed by the family vignette on the stage with John McCain, and the image of Sarah holding her baby son on her hip - the images are powerful and so heroically American ... Sarah Palin evokes a mental image of the rugged pioneer women out on the lonely frontier, who when it was her time, took a brief break from her farm labors to squat and give birth to a squalling infant, then handing the babe off to one of the older kids before getting back to work again.
Of such stock we (at least some of us) are descended.
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Who can turn the world on with her smile?
Who can take a nothing day, and suddenly make it all seem worthwhile?
Well it's you girl, and you should know it
With each glance and every little movement you show it
Love is all around, no need to waste it
You can have a town, why don't you take it
You're gonna make it after all
You're gonna make it after all
http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=YzFiNGY3YTUzYWM2NG VmOTA1YmVmZWU4Zjc1YTM5MTE=
And it is Minnesota too! |
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moose butchering and birth squatting put me right off my breakfast. |
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to Tom Moe of Ohio in that CNN photo. He was McCain's Hanoi Hilton cellmate. I agree that CNN chose the crummiest photo they could find, but even that one is beautiful.
Go Sarah!!! Go McCain/Palin!!! |
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Check out little girl Piper trying to rearrange her baby brother's hair.
It is precious.
I loved the end of the speech when Mrs Palin picked up her baby and made sure the world could see him.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z42VFchucnU |
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NoDonkey, I have been trying to picture Obama returning to the Senate to actually do some work there after November.
Somehow I cannot get the image into my head. Can The One learn to become one of The Hundred? Would he want to? |
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...Baby.
Take that you dang phony MSM, Beltway elites, overwrought anti-America academics stomping on flags, and those two phony styrofoam columns Andrea Mitchell and Sally Quinn.
Sure, Palin's vulernable on some stuff: Alaska's a big-time sanctuary state, they can balance their budget because they are rolling in oil dough.
But Andrea said, "Only uneducated women will vote for Palin." Well, here's a news flash from THIS woman, who has more formal education that Angria:
Go suck an egg, you witch!
We western conservative women have advanced degrees, climb mountains, shoot guns, go off-roading with our 4-wheel drives, drive speed boats, write our own speeches and ghost write for others, rear a pack of kids, take casseroles to the needy and know the difference between normal people and you frickin' freaks on the left. |
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Here is a video of Piper trying to pat down her baby brother's hair.
It is precious.
I loved when Mrs. Palin picked up her baby and turned him around for the world to see at the end of her speech.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z42VFchucnU |
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Last night’s polling shows that, by a ten-to-one margin, voters believe reporters are trying to hurt Palin’s campaign rather than help. Republicans and unaffiliated voters strongly believe that a double standard is being applied to Palin because she is a woman. Democrats disagree. Perhaps most stunning is that, among unaffiliated voters, just 42% believe Obama has better experience than Palin to be President. Thirty-seven percent (37%) say Palin has the edge on experience. Again, most of the interviews for this survey were completed before Palin’s well-received speech last night.
http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/ele ction_20082/2008_presidential_election/daily_presidential_t racking_poll |
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This is just a BAD pick all around. Now I'm hearing that Sarah Palin had/has an affair with a colleague? Will this end well? I'm not so sure, and for the sake of those Palin children, I will sacrifice having a Republican in office to ensure that MY family values are a consideration at the voting booth in November. I'm sick and tired of my Party bowing to the religious influence from the rightwing faction of Conservatism - and that is what this pick is all about.
Again, the issue of putting her smallest and most vulnerable child in the spotlight is, for lack of a better word: Disturbing. Sarah Palin seems capable of allowing the Party tos use this child to tug at the heartstrings of the country in general, but she derides the press for making the child an issue in this campaign? It's contradiction in the most deceptive way, and I for one, don't like what I'm seeing.
I am supremely disappointed in John McCain at this juncture. He chose a running mate who has obligations that SHOULD surmount the needs of the Party to run an effective campaign against Sen. Obama - but instead she is throwing her kids under the bus for ambition's sake. It's no wonder that her questionable family values have been under scrutiny and John McCain set us up for this. Our values are called into question when a leadership pick doesn't show that parental guidance was in play when the eldest daughter got pregnant by a thuggish 18 year old. Now they are pressuring the two to marry, while the boy seems less than capable - to put it mildly - to handle his own life let, alone a wife and child. We see a six year old still in need of mom's guidance and an infant who's special needs far out weigh the ambitious desires of his mom. And let's not forget the other teenaged child in the family, who may follow in big sister's footsteps if mom continues to be engrossed in a grueling race to the top.
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A few words to describe what we saw last night and those that are truly independent saw it to:
Genuine- She is who she is
Confident- She believes what she says
Poised - No speaker to date had the negative media pressure she did and she delivered
Tough- She can take it and dish it out
A Born Leader- It’s in her DNA . How else do you explain it
Optimism - Ron Reagan had it and few do….you just feel like no matter what it going to better with her
Judgment- Last night she proved McCain has it in spades
Smile- It’s her smile that people like
The future of the Republican Party is bright and in good hands.
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Trigneedshismom said, "I am supremely disappointed in John McCain at this juncture. He chose a running mate who has obligations that SHOULD surmount the needs of the Party to run an effective campaign against Sen. Obama - but instead she is throwing her kids under the bus for ambition's sake."
Just so I'm clear, would you have said that to Barack Obama if he had a special needs child? Or is it just that Sarah Palin is a woman? Doesn't know her place, is that what you're driving at? G'luck selling that line.
By the way, I don't buy the "my Party" bit either, troll. |
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Wasn't "juno" the wingnuts' favorite movie this year? or was that "juneau"? i guess a young woman getting pregnant before marriage is only acceptable if you give the child away to a neurotic single mother. i live in the belly of the beast, los angeles, and i'm seeing a LOT more McCain stickers alongside those greenpeace signs on all the soccer mommy suvs... |
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King Liberal groggily says, "when gallup charts McCain with an eight point lead and nielsen registers 40 million viewers for McCain's speech-then wake me up."
KL, you sound like you could really use some more sleep, so just hit snooze. We'll get ya up in time for the McCain inauguration in January.
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Are you talking about Hilliray and Chelsea? Or San Fran Nan and her granddaughter? Oh, it's about Palin, I see - you are a seminar poster.
As the old goat said, "What a beautiful family!" I agree, God has blessed these people generously. I was a fence-sitting McCain supporter, until last night. I saw grace and nine-inch steel nails all in one package. Pitbulls and hockey moms, oh yeah!! I find the quote from Hugh's emailer- "finally, one of us!" - to be more engaging than your hand wringing over a Downs kid I seriously doubt you give two hoots in hell about. These are quite capable people not in need of guv-mint handouts, and that appears to be what scares the typical, tired old guv-mint wonks we are all sick of the most. "OMG!!! These people don't NEED us! Quick!! Destrooy them!! DESTROY them!!!"
And your comments about the teenage couple, well, Keith Olbermann would struggle topping that nonsense. |
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"Just like a moose going after a cabbage!"
Just a few comments from guys at a Wasilla Bar watching Sarah tak the Planet by STORM! |
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nice boiler plate- did b.hussein send it to you directly, or did you have to download it off a site somewhere?
"This is just a BAD pick all around."
That's your opinion- a minority opinion, assuming you are a conservative.
"Now I'm hearing that Sarah Palin had/has an affair with a colleague? Will this end well?"
Who is saying this? Nice try on selling the F.U.D.- that is, fear/uncertainty/doubt. A common practice utilized when your own product is crap.
"I'm not so sure, and for the sake of those Palin children, I will sacrifice having a Republican in office to ensure that MY family values are a consideration at the voting booth in November."
Heh? Which values do you speak of? You lay out some vague rumor, then try to link it to family values? Man, b.hussein's folks need to up their game, this is pathetic.
"Again, the issue of putting her smallest and most vulnerable child in the spotlight is, for lack of a better word: Disturbing."
Wrong. The screeching msm and left trying to say the smallest was the child of her eldest daughter, now that was disturbing as well as disgusting.
"Sarah Palin seems capable of allowing the Party tos use this child to tug at the heartstrings of the country in general, but she derides the press for making the child an issue in this campaign?"
You got that backwards, operative. But nice try on the fact fudging.
"It's contradiction in the most deceptive way, and I for one, don't like what I'm seeing."
Your misrepresentation of events is the deception here. Of course you don't like what you're seeing, as a paid up obama operative you hate to see your empty suit get waxed.
Begone, captain uh lackey. |
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The MSM has gotten away with so much for so long I am sure they will be shocked to find out that it actually is possible for the typical American to wake up to what the MSM is really like. Epiphany in the USA, as a whole lot of people are starting to "get it". |
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. . . .. you are definitely not being cute right now. Apparently you're not a mom???? FYI - Moms are proud of their babies. Moms show their babies - whether they have Downs or not. To accuse her of doing it to "tug at the heartstrings of America" is disturbing!!! YOU are disturbing!! And calling the fiance thuggish????? The thugs in my neighborhood look a little different than that nice-looking kid. And how dare you criticize her for the way she raises her family??? It's frankly none of your business or mine - unless she's running for Mother of the Year. Now toddle off to your liberal blogs and post in your home territory. |
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Ah, so you noticed it too- this creepy pod person bit where someone sidles in and tries to sound just like a "concerned conservative", then proceeds to dump out straight b.hussein tripe.
Been seeing it multiple places. It's pathetic, and more than a bit sad.
Yo, obamadrones- up your game, it's waaaaay too obvious. |
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"That's Why
This speech worked.
She didn't have to convince lefties. They're in the tank for Obama."
Believe she addressed that directly with her line about not coming to DC to seek the good favor of the media (same thing as lefties), but to serve the American people.
Wow, talk about a leg tingle- you get that, Matthews?
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Let me get this straight: Holding a DS baby, oblivious to what's going on, in front of a TV camera vs. allowing an aborted DS baby to die alone in a dirty linen room?
Maybe you're happy to let Obama take office. Not me.
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a broken teleprompter.
Oblahma, meet ohhhhMomma!
^5 to K.G. from an east coast woman who loves it when you tell it like it is:
"Take that you dang phony MSM, Beltway elites, overwrought anti-America academics stomping on flags, and those two phony styrofoam columns Andrea Mitchell and Sally Quinn.
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But Andrea said, "Only uneducated women will vote for Palin." Well, here's a news flash from THIS woman, who has more formal education that Angria:
Go suck an egg, you witch!
We western conservative women have advanced degrees, climb mountains, shoot guns, go off-roading with our 4-wheel drives, drive speed boats, write our own speeches and ghost write for others, rear a pack of kids, take casseroles to the needy and know the difference between normal people and you frickin' freaks on the left."
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that McCain's best chance of winning was to run to the middle. I think Sarah Palin pushes him to the right, which is not ultimately helpful, and I also do not think Sarah Palin is qualified to be VP (and Obama is not qualfied to be President). I thought that his experience was also a good argument for McCain, but now, despite the executive experience is better than communty organizer/legislator stuff, the experience argument is basically gone. Although Sarah Palin gave a great speech and I understand why conservatives are very excited about that and about her, the more I reflect on this, the more I think that she will hurt McCain more than she will help him in the general election. |
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You guys are swooning over her like a Birkenstock wearing hippie swoons over Obama.
This is going to be a fun two months. |
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Palin is awesome. I blogged about her this morning and how she is "every-man".
http://sapper.blogtownhall.com/ |
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"... the more I think that she will hurt McCain more than she will help him in the general election."
If this is the case, you should probably just give up thinking. Maybe sports is for you. |
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has ever won without receiving a majority of the white male vote, NEVER. You lefty's, what makes you think obambi will be able to garner that demographic? The answer is, NOTHING, therefore, the only way, Ms. obambi can enter the White House is to pay for a tour. |
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Your post is funny, but if you disagree with someone, and that is the best you can do, it seems you have already given up thinking. I tried to explain the reason for my concerns -- that she pushes McCain to the right and vitiates the experience argument, and I am concerned that will hurt him in the general. And by the way, why do you think that sports is inconstant with thinking anyway? |
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...want to wake King Liberal up? Let the narcoleptic fool sleep.... We can all continue to make fun of him as he drools on his pillow.....
and we don't have to listen to his inanities....
zzzzzzz |
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What a clever line. You might want to copyright that. |
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Hugh,
I just worry that the dems will hit back hard with slow joes executive experience. I mean he is currently president of Hairplugs For Men. |
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You guys are swooning over her like a Birkenstock wearing hippie swoons over Obama.
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
LOL, this coming from a man (Obama) who tried to make himself look like a god during his speech..
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She is the mother of five, you know raising those kids was not a cake walk.
She understands a womans view of life.
She is by my estimation about 10 times stronger than Obama. She has executive experience, Obama has none. She understands the need to develope our own energy. Obama is clueless.
Note: Sarah Palin as vice President will be more talented than Obama as Prez. Ladies that is saying a lot. You have a shot at having a real lady in the White House that understands women issues. Now is your day! Don't be fooled by the left, they can give you nothing but worthless double speak. PS. My wife will vote McCain Palin and so I will also. |
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On our blog, kgkkaty.blogtownhall.com, kgk has a memory of working for Goldwater and the famous Speech of Ronaldus Magnus which got AUH2O on his way. Last night, was The Speech II. It was not the stern, leftist, socialist pacifist speech of the Messiah before the Columns of Olympus. It was a real American speech. Now McCain needs to follow up with an energized speech to rally Pubs, Indies, Blue Dog Dems and people who are not DNC lawyers!! The sheer radical nuttiness of the Obama Campaign will finally come through to American voters. No community organizer in the cloneness of Saul Alinsky Acorn types can compete with people who actually have run a city, state and a military organization. |
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Stand up with Sarah
"I AM SARAH PALIN" Bumper Stickers at Ebay.
It's where Sarah sold the Jet!
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As an independent voter, and occasional reader of this site, I find the similarities between Obamamania and its new counterpart, Palinamania, that I see here striking.
Neither of these people have the experience required for being the Most Powerful Person on the Planet. She gave a great speech last night. So what? Obama gives great speeches.
I'm sure you will all agree that Obama's resume is very weak.
Palin's is no better. So, she's been governor of a state of 670,000 people for a year and a half. Big Wup!. That's the size of Baltimore, or Austin, or Memphis. My county in CA has five times that population, so any of my county supervisors arguably have more experience than she does. And she was mayor of a small town in Alaska for a while. Again, Big Wup! As she said herself, "It's not rocket science. It's $6 million and 53 employees." A lot of small business owners or mid level managers have that experience.
Yes, she is only going to be VP, but that's a big concern for me. What's the chance of her becoming President during McCain's term? Historically it's about 20%. Of the 43 Presidents we've had, 8 have died in office, 4 by assassination. Every President since FDR has had at least one assassination attempt, Kennedy's succeeded, Reagan was badly wounded and lucky not to have been killed.
McCain is 72. He's in excellent health reportedly and has been cancer-free for more than five years, but like all cancer survivors, he faces a risk of recurrence. Consider that generally one out of three men aged 72 die before they reach 80.
The risk of debilitating stroke, heart attack or dementia is significantly higher and always increasing for someone over 70. How often are you surprised to hear that someone in their early 70's has had a stroke or heart attack, or is starting to "lose it."
I like McCain, always have, but that doesn't mean I have to like the decision he made given the far better choices he had for VP.
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Several observations. She did a good job reading a speech that the campaign worked on for 3-4 days. Let's see how she does in unscripted situations against Biden and the media. She took great pains to attack the media so I'm sure they will be looking for opportunities to make her look bad. She let us know she is a pitbull so fine, the gloves are off. No fair whining she is being picked on because she is a girl. This is the big leagues and if she wants a fight, she'll get one. Also, no more celebrity attacks on Obama after the adulation bestowed upon her. If he is The One, is she The Other One? After the glow wears off, it will be interesting to see if the women she is going after will accept her extreme view on choice. Doubtful. Many women i have talked to say they vote based on issues rather than plumbing. Best comment about her- a young Phyllis Schaffly.No way McCain tops her tonight. |
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I AM SARAH PALIN
I am sooooo looking forward to the rest of this campaign.
GO GET 'EM! GET 'EM GOOD!!
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A number of Clinton Aids are supporting Palin:
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0908/13129.html
All we need is Hillary to come out against the MSM :) This might be in Hillary's best interest for 2012.
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with the board your "independent voter" concerns about mccain and palin.
we'll take it that after careful examination and study of all the facts and points of view you'll vote for obambi just like you voted for kerry, gore, clinton twice and dukakis. |
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__"the issue of putting her smallest and most vulnerable child in the spotlight is, for lack of a better word: Disturbing. Sarah Palin seems capable of allowing the Party tos use this child to tug at the heartstrings of the country in general," ,and I suppose you, susiecute , cannot imagine that, it was an example of a mothers LOVE for her child. Get off your self-loving soap box for their is nothing cute about your selfish ideology, and is not a "contradiction in the most deceptive way,". She was not being deceptive in expressing her LOVE for her child in anyway, just has none of the LOVE, and its TRUTHS, she expressed were not of deception. You are correct in saying, "I for one, don't like what I'm seeing.", as you are of one self-love, and any other action, or voice, if not of your opinion, cannot accept what you see. I've got a revelation for your following remark, "He chose a running mate who has obligations that SHOULD surmount the needs of the Party" McCain is running to be the president of a nation, a republic, and not for the needs of a singular party. While. I know this may come has a surprise to you, we are not a democracy of the demoncrat party, but a REPUBLIC in control of our democracy. McCain, and Palin, are not, "throwing her kids under the bus for ambition's sake.", but are stopping the out of control bus the left rides by on. A bus that has run over, and killed, more American lives then any of the wars we have fought to protect American. Give Satan a big hug, and thank him for your selfish desires! |
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"I honestly thought that McCain's best chance of winning was to run to the middle."
Bad strategery. Look what happened in the house votes, which gave us skeletor the vacuous as house speaker.
"I think Sarah Palin pushes him to the right, which is not ultimately helpful, and I also do not think Sarah Palin is qualified to be VP (and Obama is not qualfied to be President)."
Yep, hewing to the right never does the GOP candidate any good- I mean, look at the disastrous Reagan campaigns.
"I thought that his experience was also a good argument for McCain, but now, despite the executive experience is better than communty organizer/legislator stuff, the experience argument is basically gone."
I'm sorry- how? Did McCain suddenly get less experience? Did captain daaahr suddenly get more experience that he didn't have?
Palin is more qualified than plugs biden, and for that matter b.hussein.
"Although Sarah Palin gave a great speech and I understand why conservatives are very excited about that and about her, the more I reflect on this, the more I think that she will hurt McCain more than she will help him in the general election."
You are entitled to your opinion, but if the "reasons" you've elucidated on your post are the basis of this opinion, it isn't worth much. |
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I said
She reps. the North, so what you talking about
She not running off her mouth, She knows this without a doubt
'Cause if you know these towns, then these streets towns you
When it's time to handle business, then she knows what to do (what to do)
Mac and his crew, they stay true, old skool or new
Many were called, but the chosen are few (were a few)
They rise to the top, what you want? Just in case you forgot
Rush the stage, grab my mic, show me what you got
You didn't know, thought she was new on the scene
Well, it's alright! It's alright!
I know you know, I see you smiling like me
Well, it's alright! It's alright!
Boom! Here comes the Boom!
Ready or not, here comes the gal from the North
Boom! Here comes the Boom!
Ready or not, How you like her now?
I said
Boom! Here comes the Boom!
Ready or not, here comes the gal from the North
Boom! Here comes the Boom!
Ready or not, How you like her now?
Is that all you got?
She'll take your best shot.
(6x)
She'll take your best shot.(2x)
is that all you got?
Well, it's alright! It's alright!
She'll take your best shot.
is that all you got?
Well, it's alright! It's alright!
She'll take your best shot.
is that all you got?
She'll take your best shot.
Well, it's alright! It's alright!
She'll take your best shot.
She'll take your best shot.
is that all you got
She'll take your best shot.
Well, it's alright! It's alright!
She'll take your best shot.
She'll take your best shot.
Boom! Here comes the Boom!
Ready or not, here comes the gal from the North
Boom! Here comes the Boom!
Ready or not, How you like her now?
Boom! Here comes the Boom!
Ready or not, here comes the gal from the North
Boom! Here comes the Boom!
Ready or not, How you like her now? |
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Obama will need GPS to find his way to the Senate and he'll need a PowerPoint briefing in order to figure out what committees he serves on.
Truth be told, Obama shouldn't even be in the Senate. Once he blows this election, he'll just become a party line vote, which is all he was in the past.
It will give him more time to write unreadable books about how wonderful Barack Obama really is. |
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Always remember this, liberals "love" humanity, but they hate people. The "ideal" is more important than the individual; the "cause" takes precedence. This is why leftism has created greatest human atrocities in history, from the "Reign of Terror" in France, to Hitler's Germany (yes, Nazism was leftist - National Socialism) to the Gulag's of the Soviet Union and the killing fields of Cambodia.
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...but all I could think of this a.m. was the old '60s-vintage hit song, with a tweak or two:
They said, "We don't believe you ought to be a-bringing up your little girl this way..."
And that's when Sarah SOCKED IT TO the Harper Valley P.T.A.
LOL, I guess it would be the MSM P.T.A.
Oh my gosh. She OWNED them last night.
Go Sarah Go!
Diane
P.S. Did Andrea Mitchell really say that only uneducated women would vote for Sarah? Talk about Utterly and Absolutely Clueless. The MSM's arrogance will be the death of 'em. And the sooner the better, say I. |
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while you're trying to figure out the answer to the one I posed above. . .
Do you think Mequeno/Palin will ever heed this warning?:
http://www.chroniclesmagazine.org/?p=719#more-719
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They attacked her and her family relentlessly and unconscionably, expecting she'd be broken. She was unbowed, undeterred, even unaffected.
They said her family would be mad at her for thrusting her in the spotlight. They showed up and cheered her on.
They ran with the "small town mayor" meme and said she wasn't ready for prime time. It turned out prime time wasn't ready for her. |
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Bet he's hiding from Hillary right now.
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[LOL, this coming from a man (Obama) who tried to make himself look like a god during his speech.]
First, this makes no sense at all, since I’m not Obama.
As to the columns issue, well, I think that given just how far we’ve elevated the presidency as:
- Leader of the Free World
- Commander in Chief of America (not just the armed forces)
- our Protector
- The Decider
- the continual demeaning and cowtowing of an ever weakening Congress
- An anthem that hails our 'Chief'
- the ever more common mindset that if the President orders you to do something illegal, you should assume it is legal and do it.
I think it’s a perfectly logical progression for future presidents to start showcasing the trappings of an Emperor, given that this is where the office is heading.
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Bill Cross writes: "Peccator Dubius, thanks for sharing ... we'll take it that you'll vote for obambi."
Nope, not true. I'm not a true believer for the left or right, neither party speaks for me. If you want a label, maybe I'm some sort of progressive libertarian, but I try to avoid dealing with people through labels. It makes for bad assumptions and too many misunderstandings.
I liked the Straight Talk Express John McCain more than the present version, but hope that the real John McCain will stand up after the election. I expect that I'll vote for him. That's why I don't like the Palin pick, it's an unreasonable risk IMO. Way less risky than electing Obama, but still a risk that I wish I was not presented with.
Not voting at all is another possibility. Voting for Obama or Barr, no. In any case, living in CA, a solidly blue state, my vote doesn't count for much given our ridiculous electoral college system.
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I wrote this after what you wrote. Pointing out about Birken stocks (libs) and Obama making himself look like a God during in Denver.
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You guys are swooning over her like a Birkenstock wearing hippie swoons over Obama.
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LOL, this coming from a man (Obama) who tried to make himself look like a god during his speech..
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They aren't used to a woman politician who is actually *likable*.
Newsflash DNC, they aren't all like Clinton or Pelosi...
Should be interesting to see how they decide to handle such a foreign concept. |
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"She did a good job reading a speech that the campaign worked on for 3-4 days."
Funny how everyone in the media (and you) keep pointing out that she didn't write her own speech when Obama and most other major politicians don't write their own speeches either. Hence the title "speechwriter."
Hilarious.
The Lefties don't know which way is up right now - they're spouting whatever gibberish bubbles to the surface. |
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They're murdering babies.
Do you really want people to have that option? |
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Jennifer Rubin takes them to the woodshed:
Let’s stipulate that the purpose of political campaigns is to win. And the techniques and demands of modern media and pop culture require the parties find candidates whom voters actually like and with whom they can identify. Sue me. I think having an attractive cultural icon as the standard bearer for the conservative movement and for the previously anemic McCain-Palin ticket is a good thing. Like the basketball annoucer Dick Vitale says, the whole point is to “Win, baby, win.”
And if by winning, the candidate with a full appreciation of the danger of Islamic terrorism, a commitment to cutting government, a belief in low taxes, and a determination to develop domestic energy supplies reaches the White House–is all that such a bad thing?
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George Will hates McCain, so I am not surprised he hates McCain's pick of Palin. Will also dislikes Obama but I never really hear him express it. Krauthammer and Ben Stein just doubt the wisdom of the pick because they say it gives away the experience argument. I get that--to a point. It is a legitimate question. I disagree it does give that argument away, but I wish these guys would at least look at the glass half full. Say what you will about Gov. Palin, but she seems to have a lot more common sense than Obama and Biden combined and is very knowledgable about energy issues (which I thought was important). |
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My dream team is as follows:
Keep Gates at Defense. Gates is awesome.
Mitt Romney at Treasury.
Joe Lieberman at State (okay that is not my first choice, but I think it could be an effective choice).
Fred Thompson as Attorney General.
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Its funny the thing that scares the left so much about Sarah Palin.....it that she is normal. Far to often we get rich people who(from being bored or from guilt) become politicians and tell us how we should be living our lives based on what other rich people that got them elected are telling them. It is a breath of fresh air to have a plain speaking person that most people(regardless of party) can relate to.
I don't think that McCain made a bad choice...he made a great one. Say what you will about her personal life but that only defines her as a stronger person. Do you really want a perfect robotic politician in office or someone that has been there done that and understand the most important part of this election. The average American person and family.
On a side note.....foreign policy is equal between the VP for McCain and the Presidential nominee for the Dems. Just because Obama took a trip to the middle east doesn't make his an expert on the Middle east just like me taking a trip to Mexico dosn't make me a expert either......think about that..... |
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CD- Of course I know they all use speechwriters, that was a comment rather than a criticism. The point is all of the things she said that the right is raving about were crafted for her so as to put her in a good light. Any good speaker could read the same speech and get applause from the convention folks. There were several lies she will have to address at a later date. She said she was against the "Bridge to Nowhere" but she actually pushed for it until it became the poster child of pork. She also said she was against wasteful spending, but she got several earmark spending projects that McCain later denounced. She attacked the media, which the right loves, but they will have plenty of chances throughout the campaign to ask her tough and probing questions in unscripted situations. It will be interesting to see how she holds up. She took off the gloves and pronounced herself to be a pit bull, so she can't expect to get any favors because of her sex. Let the games begin! |
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I've been trying to figure out where the "she didn't write her own speech" meme came from too. What is that supposed to mean? Name one major politician since Reagan who even co-writes their own speeches. Certainly not BO or JB! (hey, just noticed their initials together = bjob. Heh)
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Your post: Erin writes: Thursday, September, 04, 2008 11:38 AM was spot on. Your later post not so much.
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"I know they all use speechwriters, that was a comment rather than a criticism"
So why doesn't anyone ever say "Obama did a great job reading a speech that the campaign worked on for 3-4 days?" Hmm???
"so she can't expect to get any favors because of her sex"
But she *can* expect sexist innuendoes about her reading speeches that other people have written (because she's obviously too dumb to write her own), when Obama doesn't get the same "commentary?"
Is it difficult to speak out of both sides of your mouth?
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As I've surveyed the Dems and Obama and Biden's counter attacks this morning I was shocked by what I didn't see - no rebutals of the substance of her speech. Nada.
...Yes, they have mocked her hair, that her speech was written for her, that she is evil for parading a Down's baby on TV for political gains...that she was "shrill", "mean spirited", etc.. ... But not a single rebuke of the substance of the speech.
If I'm a Dem, I'm scared that the party's best and brightest can't score a single, substantive counter punch or rebuttal to the facts in the speech.
She just walked out in front of 30 million Americans and said Obama hasn't had accountabilities, hasn't written legislation, hasn't accomplished any thing in his life - and they can't answer those charges head on. Just attack her hair style!
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I am a huge Palin fan, Barracuda!
I was for Rudy or Mitt to win the nomination and have never liked McCain much (mainly the free speech issue because of his campaign reform laws).
I am so sick of senators running for president. they have managed nothing. for them to think that managing a campaign (where everybody who works for you is a big supporter) qualifies as management experience is absurd.
Palin is one of us. Palin is authentic. She impresses me more than McCain, Biden, or Obama. I am much more impressed by McCain now that he has selected Palin. I will open up my billfold and am even thinking of going to a tossup state (probably Oregon because it is really beautiful) to help the campaign.
It is amazing how little the media know about the real America. |
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And don't forget how concerned the MSM is that the Fairness Doctrine be applied to talk radio and the internet. |
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Bring it on, snob. We'll match our Barracuda with your pathetic elitist piranhas any day of the week.
Real Americans have been itchin' for this fight for a long, long time.
BTW: Let the record show your leftist witches took the gloves off first.
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once again as a political lightweight with a very shallow historical perspective.
i'll go easy on you since you're an amateur.
but since you brought up the topic of `lies' please share with the board your rage of clinton's blocking of welfare reform and then taking credit for it when there was a veto proof majority to override him.
or the lewinsky lies.
or kerry's for it / against it lies.
or hillary's cattle future trades with red bone.
or the whitewater files that mysteriously wound up on the conference room table.
in the meantime you say:
"She took off the gloves and pronounced herself to be a pit bull, so she can't expect to get any favors because of her sex. Let the games begin!"
has the media thus far given palin a pass because she's a woman?
and btw, i thought every single american citizen except us neanderthals here at hugh's were voting obambi?
so how can you say "Let the games begin."
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"I wonder where Bill C is
Bet he's hiding from Hillary right now.
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I think yer right. She probably ran out of breakable lamps at Chez Clinton not long after she dropped out and Obama began his multiple stumbles ("Clinging to religion and guns," "punished with a baby" and so on). A fireplace poker on the other hand is not breakable. If I were Bill (and I thank God I'm not), I'd be worried about the damage my head might do to the poker. Jeez, it would bend it all to hell!!
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No wonder the airways and net are still reeling from Sarah Palin's speech last night!
... and as for her record on education funding in Alaska --- don't believe the lie about her cutting funds. Naysayers are referring to the education budget she inherited from the previous administration.
As governor, she REVISED the education budget by increasing it substantially. That's an increase -- not a decrease. |
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on amateurs like snob.
but honestly the low lying fruit the leftists give us is so low you don't even have to reach to get it.
actually you don't even have to reach up for it.
the low lying fruit is actually on the ground.
the debate is not competitive.
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BC- take a deep breath, have a sip of decaf and relax. I realze you're in the afterglow of love and all your blood flowed from your brain to another organ. The infatuation with Palin is like when you meet what you think is the perfect woman. Remember that rush of testosterone and the feeling you've met someone who completes you? It takes a few days to realize her breath smells in the morning, she goes to the bathroom everyday and she will probably grow up to look like her mother. You're still suffering from Clinton Derangement Syndrome, but none of the folks you mentioned are on the ballot this year. Palin is, so you should address the fact she lied in her speech. If you want to criticize the Dems for lies in the 90's will you also criticize Palin for her lies last night? You may have a short memory but Clinton was impeached for lying about the BJ from Monica. I never implied this was going to be an easy race, the Dems need to run hard every single day and go after McCain and Palin on policy issues. The focus should be on McCain and his continuation of the Bush policies. BTW- have the names Bush/Cheney been uttered at the convention? Guess I must have missed it. |
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No worries...lefty posters are like a bunch of bananas: some are green, most are yellow, the rest are rotten.... |
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You are asking us to "grant favors" to Whine Sob?
Well, there is that verse in the Bible re: being charitable to the feeble-minded. |
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obviously you are ex-kimberly who was harassing guys on the internet, until she was exposed, and her fat face was all over the papers.
Poor, poor, poor, not so cute susie,
Hopefully, you already read my past post. I do like to repeat myself.
You are one messed up, depressed, sad, troubled one.
It is not your fault, you were born that way, don't take it on others sweetie.
Stop whinning.
There is a place for people like you in the society, jealousy, will not solve your fears.
cutieeeee, start with arobics, plus jogging will tone thoses flabby, out of shape swollen-things called ankles. |
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Andrea Mitchell has said other gems as well. Such as this about southwest Virginia back in June:
“redneck, sort of bordering-on-Appalachia country.”
Right up there with clinging to religion and guns, eh? Far as the quote on uneducated Hilliray women going for Palin:
"Brokaw: ...There are other Republicans who are saying, listen we'll be able to pull those Hillary Clinton voters who are not happy the way Obama treated her across the line. What are the chances of that Andrea?
Mitchel: Well, they think now that they have a story. They have a story of a working mom, she is a colorful character, an Annie Oakley... you know, Annie get your gun. They love her story, but when she tried to talk about Hillary Clinton in Pennsylvania, in western Pennsylvania, yesterday at a rally with conservative Republican voters, Hillary Clinton was booed. So, she can use the Hillary Clinton and Geraldine Ferraro analogy if she wants to in interviews, she cannot use that at Republican rallies.
She is not appealing to the same women who were really voting or supporting Hillary Clinton on ideological issues but they think that they can peel off some of these working class women, not college educated, who, the blue collar women who were voting for Hillary Clinton and may be more conservative on social causes."
The MSM elites just can't help themselves from sneering from "at last, one of us."
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"No worries...lefty posters are like a bunch of bananas: some are green, most are yellow, the rest are rotten...."
and how!
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"What? Bill Cross?
You are asking us to "grant favors" to Whine Sob?"
i will admit that many times i must let others practice christian forgiveness, because i cannot.
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On bunch of lefty bananas:
susie not cuteieee
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...instead of simply reporting. We con women are outraged! This wild fire is going jump the road. It's stopped being a contest between BO and JSM (if it ever really was) and will become a fight between the Two Americas:
Sneering, elitist anti-American academia vs. the patriotic Heartland. Ivory-tower elites will vote Obama as well as those believing his phony nanny-state promises.
But I've said all along, the Average Joe-Sixpack Dem is never going to vote for femmie, phony, anti-America BO over the the grandfatherly old war hero...
...especially now that he's got his fresh, funny pistol-packing-mama at his side. We educated, coastal men women who run business with enough profits to be terrified of Obama will make common cause with the Heartland.
Real men and women will not vote for Obama. They will not. Just my opinion. |
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After digesting last night's hollow and content bereft howling from the tundra, one thing is clear. McSame has all but surrendered to the Bush-Rove playbook. Sad. I used to respect the man. But he obviously just a slave to the machine. This speech will be long forgotten when she is exposed for who she really is. A severe lightweight. Nevermind experience. For all of her ranting she is still a scandal plagued time bomb waiting to crush the man's campaign. She is doomed to wilt under the spotlight outside of the preaching to choir role she has played. Nevermind the issues. Create a caricature of "small town America" and they will come says Rove. How cute!
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Just saw on Drudge Obama has received $8,000,000 from 130,000 donors since the speech, on track to get $10,000,000 by the time McCain speaks tonight. Nice work Palin. Sorry I don't add anything to this board, I actually thought people could have spirited debates without just resorting to insults. I'll look elsewhere . Bye. |
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"Just saw on Drudge Obama has received $8,000,000 from 130,000 donors since the speech"
I love the smell of desperation in the morning. Smells like...victory. |
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The issues are simple: Palin made these points:
The Dems want to raise taxes when they should be lower; spend more when we should spend less; grow the goverment when it's already too big; refuse to drill when we could rationally drill and build nuke plants, and give even more money to the nanny state by weakening the military.
You and Obama are going in the wrong direction for the country. Please note Arnold Swarzennegger and the CA Pubs: 65 days and counting without a budget because the Pubs refuse to budge on more debt.....since it's already tah-dah....60 BILLION.
The Pubs are demanding spending cuts.
Half of CA's school children are children of illegals, BTW, and education is a huge part of the budget. The guv reduced all state workers' wages to fed min wage. The state controller refused. Arnold has taken him to court for defying an exec order. State workers are marching in the street. Schools don't have their budgets. Fire season is starting.
Today we heard state funded medical clinics are running out of money. The uninsured sick will not get care.
You nanny-staters are killing the Golden Goose.
BTW, did you hear that Hurricane Gustavo evacuees whining his head off? "We ain't gittin' no help. We have to spend our own money!"
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that McCain's picking Palin takes Obama's lack of experience "off the table". That seems to be the "conventional" (which is usually wrong) wisdom these days.
I beg to differ.
Since Palin's veep announcement we've had a virtually non-stop debate on nominee experience ... and most of that talk has focused on Palin's experience vs. OBAMA's experience. Even to the point that Obama gave an interview on CNN a couple days ago in which he defended his experience by trashing Palin's experience.
Which only resulted in a new McCain campaign ad yesterday that specifically compared and contrasted Palin's experience vs. OBAMA's (not McCain's) experience!
So not only do we have the spectacle of The One trying to defend his experience as being at least up to par with the other side's veep experience, but gee - the best applause lines in both the Rudy and Sarah speeches last night were about what, precisely?
Uhhhhh ... try Obama's lack of experience and non-accomplishments, and his pathetic attempts to shoot down Palin's experience to puff up his own!
Therefore, I ask everyone .... since Sarah Palin became John McCain's veep pick, what topic - beyond the silly media babbling about whether Palin actually bore her own son or not, and/or whether Sarah is woman enough to be both a veep and a mom - have we all been talkin' about non-stop?
Obambi's lack of experience, that's what!
NO WAY is Obama's lack of experience now "off the table".
Au contraire, Sarah Palin has amplified the talk about the merits of "community organizing" vs. actually being responsible for stuff.
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And this was taken BEFORE Sarah's speech when a large majority of voters said they didn't know enough about her.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/09/04/opinion/polls/mai n4416798.shtml
The interesting thing in the poll was that while McCain is far ahead amongst those who think he would be the best Commander in Chief, he lags badly amongst 1) women and 2) those who feel he understands them and their strugglers.
On both counts, Sarah Palin scores HUGE for McCain.
P.S., I know something about how these MSM Polls are conducted and they give HUGE sampling advantages to Democrats. The truth is likely that at this point, McCain is ahead, not tied if a fair sample was used. |
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Like a thunderbolt from Zeus to strike down Obama in his Greek temple of hubris...Palin! |
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I have withheld donating to McCain because ... well because I'm cheap and I was allocating money to my US Senate race (Go Bob Schaeffer!)
However, after watching Gov. Palin extoll her baby Trig and give a shout out to special needs kids I burst into tears. I told my wife that this is the first time since Reagan in 1980 that I have become personally invested in a politician.
Win or lose, and the McCain/Palin ticket may still very much lose given the media bias, this is a CAUSE to get behind with donations and volunteering.
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I'm still seething over Whine Sob's comment that "Palin better not ask for special favors because she a woman."
What the heck do people think have been going on for the last 18 months: Obama has been getting special favors because he's the far-left, barely-Black George Soros pick. He's been treated with kid gloves and everybody knows it, especially Hillary and all her supporters, who BTW has way less experience than Palin.
She kept touting her "30 years of fighting for you." Well, what kind of nebulous, nutty resume is THAT?
If Palin's unqualified, so are Obama and Hillary and yet the dang MSM feels no need hammer that fact endlessly.
Let's have this fight. At long last maybe the MSM will be forced to take a good look at THEIR candidate, who really is unvetted and inexperienced. |
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Obama: A hallow, styrofoam column.
Obama is easy pickings. Like Colorado says above: The evil MSM: not so much. It's us and Sarah against the MSM now.
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..that's for sure. I am just amazed that the sober guys I have talked with and argued with over the past couple years are so bowled away by this second-rater. As someone said elsewhere, talk about a cheap date!!
Enjoy your little moment. Among the broader public, the view will develop that McCain is not a serious person. He's a hustler. He's reckless. He'll do anything to win. Don't need a guy like that--especially in these perilous times--in the Oval Office. The Reep base squandered its seriousness long ago, and the childish excitement over the likes of Sarah Palin is the proof in the pudding. |
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Regarding Pat Liberal's comment above, the left simply doesn't get small-town America/the silent majority/the heartland. At all. And that's o.k. because it allows for stealth and surprise and ends up with Pauline Kael saying about the 1972 presidnetial election results: "How can that be? No one I know voted for Nixon!" |
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Check out CNN's website right now at http://www.cnn.com/
On the eve of the most important speech of John McCain's career and on the heels of one of the most electrifying acceptance speech in recent memory from Sarah Palin, whose photo does CNN post on its main websit portal? Well, of course, Barack Obama. Silly me. |
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I totally diagree. Already comparisons between Palin and Barack reveal what we cons have been able to see along: Emperor Obama has no clothes.
Whatever one says about Palin comes right back in spades against Obama. Second rate? That would be Obama. Cheap date? That would be Obama supporters
Perilous times? I'll make my bed with Palin over Barack.
Obama's triumph of flimflam will finally come to an end as more and more people make the comparison and Barack comes up wanting.
Every criticism of Palin becomes as an indictment of Obama. Every compliment to Palin becomes an indictment of Obama.
I know you love him, but he just doesn't have the juice. Sorry. |
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And it reduces Obama to defending himself agasint the Republican VP nominee.
And it completely leaves Biden where he belongs- forgotten.
The frantic Obamaton tossing of money to their messiah does not help. It only shows they know their guy is being shown up for the empty suiut he is, was and will be.
If they are hysterical over a VP selection, how will they handle real fight ahead?
I run in a very diverse crowd. I have not yet met an indie voter not favorably impressed by gov. Palin, and not rethinking BHO's and his claims of self importance. |
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the only unvetted candidate is Obama.
Rezco
Trinity
Wright
'community organizer'
real estate
Ayers
lack of work in US Senate
Lackof work in State Senate
Self-obsession
naivete
lack of loyalty
his admitted drug use and drug dealing
for starters
You guys nominated him, not us
The storm to rain down on your annointed one is your fault entirely. |
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projecting again.
It is your guy that has done nothing, solved nothing, represents nothing, has led nothing anywhere.
You have Chauncey Gardner for a nominee, but are too blind to accept the reality.
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Since Palin took the party by storm I have enjoyed reading the stories and testaments about Palin from friends and associates that have known hear and watched her ascend to her position. Why don't we ever hear from Obama's friends and associates? Does he have any or is it just better that they not speak? |
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...from Obama's friends: Wright damning America, Michelle, embarrassed by America, Ayers stomping on the flag, Phleger dissing Hillary.
But you are right; no one standing up for Obama. No one. Only "associates" bringing down America.
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currently the obambi campaign is spending more than what it has coming in. That fundraising advantage, they once had, is no longer. McCain/Palin now have a cash advantage, and the Palin effect has not yet been fully experienced.
The only place democrats want to drill....your wallet. |
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K.G's right my friend. . . . you're projecting. And here's further proof that your Man 'Bam is runnin' scared: who made the call to interview with O'Reiley this morning - as long as it was aired tonight during the RNC??? Desperate move by a desperate candidate. Nah - Sorry O'R, not watchin' ya tonight my friend - I'm gonna be watching a REAL man. . . . |
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Poor, demented susie kimberly-plus size inane twin, derelict from her senses.
Unprecedented, desolated, & drowned in melancholia, and those hidden idiosyncratic idiopaty, is driving her into constant sniffing that glue.
Poor, not so cute stoned-susie, stressed, anxiety-filled days , being denigrated, - not so cute, is in deep deep trouble.
Pity susie, better, do something nice for youself, start excercising. |
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Good speech, well-delivered. Despite the hypocritical pandering of her choice, Palin's got charm, and will be more formidable than anyone expected. In another world, with a saner Republican party, I would be loving this ticket, and would be falling all over myself in support. But not this year, with this brainless GOP, with this disastrous President, with the flip-flopping of McCain, with this paucity of ideas, with this SAMENESS and promise of the status quo should he be elected. No way can I reward Republicans with more power, considering how they abused it in the past eight years. |
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.....hehehehehe..... yeah, uh, I think Kos and Huff are calling. . . they need to feed you some more koolaid. . . you're starting to "show". . . . . |
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So I'm a lefty troll? Think what you want. I gave $$$ to McCain in 2000, in 2008 after New Hampshire, and for his Arizona senate reelection. I get a solicitation in the mail from him almost every day, hoping I'll cough up more. But he sold his soul to the corrupt GOP to get this far, and poisoned former supporters like me. What, that's so inconceivable to you? Your kool-aid is a lot more toxic. |
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Are right or left of Mack. Are you mad because he moved right? What's you beef? |
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winesnob writes: Thursday, September, 04, 2008 4:26 PM
Obama fundraising
Just saw on Drudge Obama has received $8,000,000 from 130,000 donors since the speech, on track to get $10,000,000 by the time McCain speaks tonight. Nice work Palin. Sorry I don't add anything to this board, I actually thought people could have spirited debates without just resorting to insults. I'll look elsewhere . Bye
Arch says"
winesnob. Don't let the door hit you on the way out. Your posts are an insult to the intelligence of a human being and those unfortunate enough to have read them, lost ten IQ points for their effort. |
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Sorry Bradkz!!!! I guess you only SOUND like a lefty troll!!! So I guess you're votin' for BamBam??? |
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That's what our Moose shooting, snowmobiling, child rearing, Reformer Butt-Kicker, Executive experienced, NRA-Gun toting, Unimpeachably Conservative, Pluperfect American Girl did in Minneapolis last night.
The Empty Clueless Elitist Suit, Bammy, is melting...m..e..l....t...i..n...g...
Toast is what Bammy is. Getting grayer and less starry by the hour. Sarah's Huge Voltage has dimmed the Neighborhood Organizer to a mere bic lighter. |
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and did you hear BamBam on O'Reilly??? runnin' scared, he is. . . . you can smell it. |
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Is Obama.
He has thrown his friends under the bus, along with his grandmother, his preacher, his mortgage broker.
The only one he has held fast to is Ayers, the admitted terrorist.
He has a book where he confesses racism, drug abuse and drug dealing.
He has a brother whom he is happy to leave in squalor.
But we are to never question him about this stuff, and his MSM pals won't.
We know Obama not.
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I'm mad because Mac used to have principles. He was his own man. I bought the whole maverick image. I liked it when he was environmentally AND fiscally responsible. I liked it when he called out the religious right. I liked his election reform that's keeping corporations from running the elections. I liked that he worked to compromise instead of going for the "nuclear option." The guy could get things done by working with Dems instead of shrieking names at them.
Now he has renounced all of those positions. He's against bills he wrote. He's taken opposite positions that he had, just to please the base. Did you know he and his people had almost nothing to do with drafting the platform? The new Mac doesn't CARE about the platform. He didn't get the VP choice he wanted. Fine with Mac. All he cares about is getting through this convention by pandering as hard as he can. Anything to get elected. And all y'all who are singing his praises now were FURIOUS with him four months ago. You KILLED John Kerry with "flip-flop" noises four years ago when he pulled half this stuff. It's so hypocritical!
McCain has no integrity left. He's a desperate-to-be-elected, pandering flip-flopper now in service to a corrupt Cheney-Rove-Bush-led party that really needs to be cleared out. THAT'S what I'm mad about. And maybe four years of Obama will be just the ticket to clean the GOP up.
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bradkz writes: Thursday, September, 04, 2008 9:31 PM
McCain has no integrity left. He's a desperate-to-be-elected, pandering flip-flopper now in service to a corrupt Cheney-Rove-Bush-led party that really needs to be cleared out. THAT'S what I'm mad about. And maybe four years of Obama will be just the ticket to clean the GOP up.
Not gonna happen my friend. Obammy is wasting away as you read this post. He has been exposed for the easy target he is, with Zero qualifications and flip flopping gaffes on record. McCain/Palin will terminate him in the next eight weeks. It makes quite a difference when you dress up a Chicago machine politician and run him against true and steadfast Americans with the well being of their nation at heart. A sleaze merchant against a sacrificing servant of his nation. You are so confused it makes me laugh!
(Laughter) What you gonna do now my boy?
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. . . Mac certainly wasn't my first choice either. And I'd thought the same thing - 4 years of the Dems would finally unite the Pubs. . . . Just don't think I can afford 4 years of Dems, let alone 8!!!! We've got 5 kids to feed and house, and get through college . . . . Gotta turn the tide. Yeah, Bush overspent big time - you don't think Obama and the Dem Congress will spend more???? Good grief!!!! You think government's gonna get smaller with Bam and crew??? Nah. . . . . we have GOT to stop it now. Get on board. Mac's stood up to both sides. The Nanny state will just grow and grow if we don't stop it now. . . .. |
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What you are really saying is that you like him when he acts like a Democrat.... When he applauds big Govt, and Big Taxation; You liked him when he was about to put a "Pro-Choicer" on the Ticket with him; You liked it when he formed the Gang of 14 to derail Conservative Appointments on the Bench; You liked it when he joined hands with Kennedy to open our Borders and when he sought to tear down Legal Immigration....
I'm betting that the only thing you didn't like about him was his position on the War On Terror...
Truth is Brad, you were never going to vote for him to begin with.... and the overiding truth is that because of those changes that you don't like... he has made himself "PALATABLE" to the millions of voters like me which in turn will probably make him the popular choice for POTUS...
The world and the country is full of compromises and McCain is one of them... I would have prefered someone far more conservative and far more predictable. |
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The guy is the most boring speaker I have ever heard in my life.... And, if you take away his position on the surge and his POW experience he becomes a pretty mediocre candidate...
While SP seems to be a very good cheer Leader.... She still needs to prove herself... She is untested and she is green (like others who are running this time around)....
I am soooo disgusted with the results of this Primary season... The one time in our history where we had a wide open field to vet and select quality candidates, both parties blow it and we end up with two very mediocre folks to choose from.... So, I guess I'm stuck with a decision to vote for the one who supports the War on Terror, the one who claims he will hold taxes down, and the one who tells us that he will select Conservative Judges...
I'm pumped. |
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Yup, I can't disagree. That's why we cons didn't like him. He won the primaries with the center. If he could have won the general with the center, he might have stayed a true center maverick.
Maybe he should have been a third party candidate. But he's a Pub and can't win w/o the conservatives.
It's not hypocrisy; it's politics. My man Mitt got crosswise because he was a moderate to win Mass and moved right to win POTUS.
If you want purity, join a church. Sorry.
Now, how is Mack going to govern? Who the hell knows? He calls himself a straight-talker, but I don't believe it. Like you, I don't like people who move around.
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Migrant workers are Americans?
No, they are illegal aliens.
We're going to make up the difference if someone loses a higher paying job and has to take a lower paying job?????????
Socialism-lite, with a side of amnesty. |
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you are right, Senator McCain was not my first choice,or last, but now, by your audacity, hey, I am madly in love with Bush/Cheney, and John McCain has my loving vote!
keep up the good work.
you will change lots of minds
and hearts
krazy one! |
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Now is the time to support the man who won. He fought and won on his own accord and the alternative is despicable beyond belief. Let us suck it up and recognize a fighter and winner, no matter what, Obammy is not to achieve The Office. Never help a despot into power as evil will prevail if good people do nothing. |
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...with my one CA vote and a few bucks.
I would vote for Jack the Ripper over Obama. However, my comments were to Crazy Brad, who seems to think politicians have to be as pure as the driven snow or "they have lost all their integrity."
To Brad's dismay, Mack has moved right. I hope he means what he said in his speech.
It just doesn't work that way. Like you say, the only course is to suck it up, work like you-know-what and pray for the best.
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GOOD thing King_gawd Obama has raised another 1/4 of a billion to blow jetting around the globe to tell the world that the USA sucks:::
HOW awesome to hear two candidates and their respective spouses say they Love, respect and believe in the USA over the past two nights:
King of sleaze merchants, hate peddliers and wife need to go find another place more to their liking to be king and queen of:
McCain Palin love the USA, believe in it, respect it: HOW refreshing: we will let them take the 3:00 AM call:
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K.G I knew you were on board, my friend. I just was jiving to get brad to step in it.
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DUH::: Obama thinks he is running against Palin
He is crying a river after his sleaze campaign against her:
WELL:: wait until PUTIN chops his arms off:
If he thinks getting his lying face kicked in by Palin/ he thinks he can play kissy face with Putin: he is in for one big surprise:
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KG: I'm not asking politicians to be "pure as the driven snow." But I do want them to represent something. Right-wingers make a lot out of "core values," as in, "Obama has no core values." How can you trust/elect a guy who has sold out so many of his political core values to win? Why, in your eyes, does McCain escape the dreaded "flip-flopper" tag laid on Kerry?
And yes, poyman, I would have voted for him had he stayed the candidate I idolized back in 2000: straight-talking, tough but compromising, not beholden to the religious right, standing up to Bush. That guy is WAY long gone.
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Vote as you will, of course. But it is important to separate politics and government. In order to have a shot at winning this year, McCain MUST abide by conservative politics in his campaign. It is a judgment call for us to make, to try to discern what is just politics and how McCain will actually govern.
I've also wanted McCain for president since 2000. I watched as he fell (more) out of favor with conservatives and then out of favor with the media. Obama was going to be the media's favorite no matter what. To his credit, McCain has not exploited social issues as Bush did. One cannot blame McCain for not trying to alienate what serves as an electoral base, however.
Democrats criticize McCain for not denouncing Bush, and for not choosing Ridge or Lieberman for VP. They want him to do exactly what you think he should do because it would help them win.
The media is no longer able to discern the difference between politics and government. We should not make the same mistake. McCain will undoubtedly govern much differently than Bush.
In observing politics, one must have faith and a keen eye. McCain knows that nothing is accomplished without working with others - even those he disagrees with. One cannot define a man by simply the last few years (as is done with Obama). One must consider the circumstances surrounding the politics and not take politics as a representation of how a person would govern. |
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Yes and no. Mack "reached across the aisle to get something done" to create bills that most conservatives object to, especially amnesty.
I understand that a democracy is built on compromises, but is it always necessary "to get something done?" if that something is ojectionable?
When is compromise just capitulation? I want a POTUS who will hang tough for what I view as Founding Principles.
How many federal laws do we have? Does Congress need to sit around making more? Many years ago doctors and nurses in Israel went on strike. The mortality rate went down.
Maybe gridlock is a good think. Just saying.
Mack has promised to veto, veto, veto, and on the other hand, is going to reach out. The problem is I don't like the current bills that bear his name. |
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He'll get my vote but it won't be an enthusiastic one.... and I won't be donating any money to the cause, like I usually do...
I am not a McCain fan.... but I am a Reep.... Truth is I think the Dems and the Moderates hijacked our primaries and that is how we wound up with a guy that works harder at crossing the aisle and jumping into bed with the Dems than he does looking after Conservative values and issues... And despite what he says about "rather losing an election than a war"... he proved a willingness to stoop to low levels to win the FL state primary.... This guy is not the "model of decency" that y'all are trying to sell.... Sorry...
I will, however vote for him, cuz I think that Obama is a disaster for the country...
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just invented a new campaign slogan"
"The only place democrats want to drill....your wallet."
HAR! I'm using it! |
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poyman writes: Friday, September, 05, 2008 11:24 AM
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He'll get my vote but it won't be an enthusiastic one.... and I won't be donating any money to the cause, like I usually do...
I am not a McCain fan.... but I am a Reep.... Truth is I think the Dems and the Moderates hijacked our primaries and that is how we wound up with a guy that works harder at crossing the aisle and jumping into bed with the Dems than he does looking after Conservative values and issues... And despite what he says about "rather losing an election than a war"... he proved a willingness to stoop to low levels to win the FL state primary.... This guy is not the "model of decency" that y'all are trying to sell.... Sorry...
I will, however vote for him, cuz I think that Obama is a disaster for the country...
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Poyman. Me too buddy. I don't like McCain but will vote for him this time around and work for the future of Palin types. He did do us a favor by throwing us a bone which has turned out pretty smart. McCain is not an evil man, but sincerely takes his public service seriously. Some of his stands on issues make me sick but he really does have the best interest of the nation at heart. He is a good man but a terrible conservative senator as Hugh says. |
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susiecute writes: Thursday, September, 04, 2008 11:04 AM
DS Baby on display - it's distressing
I call BS on susiecute, gee thee back to the dailykos! |
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