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Lovely. So much for voting FOR someone. Where is the Gipper when you need him? |
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He's a loser. Vote for a conservative, Bob Barr. |
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This election, more than any other, is a referendum on the mainstream media. There is a wealth of information that Americans need to know about Barack Obama, his past, his closest associates, his personal ideology and the tactics he has used to get to where he is today. If these facts were known, Obama would never have won a single primary.
The real key then is to develop a medium that can both talk over and expose an overt media determined to direct and shape public opinion to accomplish their agenda. A real challenge to be sure but a president Obama may well be the catalyst to ensure its success. |
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I think it is safe to say that striking a vote for McCain is the equivalent of keeping Superfly out of the White House. That may be the most important issue. I do miss Reagan also.
If the true conservatives are going to cast a protest vote, they are doing themselves a disservice and shouldn't be at all surprised with the changes the country will go through. |
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Read the latest RCP:
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/maps/obama_vs_mcca in/
Not only are polls not tightening, McCain just went from "solid McCain" to "leaning McCain" in North Dakota while Florida just went from "toss up" to "leaning Obama". How is that a tightening of the polls? McCain would have to sweep the "toss up" states and 46 of the 93 electoral votes "leaning Obama" to eke out a victory.
Not going to happen. This is going to be a landslide for Obama. Maybe you guys need to insult us conservatives more, and with more feeling. We don't scare as easily as you noseholders. |
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I will plan on voting for Obama right up until the very moment I mark my ballot at which time I will switch to Barr at the last second.
That's a vote for McCain isn't it?
Go Bob Barr!!! |
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Maybe they should have nominated a Republican. The fault doesn't lie with us conservatives but with the RNC. Better luck next time. And relax, there WILL be elections in 2010. By then, the circulation will return to noseholders' brains and maybe they will think more clearly before voting for "the lesser of two losers". Vote your principles next time. |
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So you can trap more people into government job dependency. Small Businesses are our last defense against the foreign trade/economic warfare being carried out against the US by China |
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"If the election ends up as a referendum on John McCain, Obama wins decisively."
Wasn't it Michael Medved who was excoriating us conservatives just a few months ago for not recognizing how brilliant a move selecting John McCain was?
Unfortunately Its no consolation to know that my reservations about McCain has ben vindicated. |
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Last I checked, wasn't Kerry up by 6 or so back in 2004 on election day? I don't remember a Kerry presidency oddly enough. That by itself is reason to be hopeful.
But we can hardly rest on our laurels, particularly when McCain is still down, anywhere from as little as 3 to as much as 11 depending on the poll. The polls this time around have been pretty accurate with the exception of New Hampshire, due to Hillary's crying the day before election day, and California for which Zogby was horribly off.
Something to be mindful here is that yes, Reagan beat Carter, but Carter did not have a cult of personality surrounding him. You can all of the people some of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but the latter might be a majority, and may suffer from a mob mentality.
As you astutely point out, Mr. Medved, McCain can't win if this race is about him. But if it's about Palin and it's about how the Democrats have fundamentally mixed up the relationship between experience versus amateurness, and master versus apprentice with their selections of Obama and Biden, McCain may stand a chance at winning this.
Pasadena Phil -- I wouldn't say so much that the poll numbers are tightening as they are convering to a consistent 6-8 point deficit, rather than 3 or 11 points. |
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Go to RCP and review the polling data for 2004. That race was close in the national polls and in the electoral votes. Obama is ahead by more than Kerry in the national polls and is romping in electoral votes. You are grasping at straws. Besides, Bush was the incumbent president who had a clear message. McCain has no message. He is just an angry old man flailing wildly.
Ultimately, the "party unto himself" has no friends. He sought to make friends of his enemies by attacking his friends and ended up friendless... perfectly fitting. Aesop would have written a fable about this moral were he still alive. |
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I must say, it is with great joy that I sit here today watching you pathetic losers who once gloated about Bush winning the presidency in '04 and once prognosticated a "permanent republican majority" now line up in a circular firing squad. You despicable people have reaped what you have sown. Your economic theories have been completely debunked, your national security adventures are the shame of the world. You are out of ideas and out of time. Now, shut the hell up and learn from your unforgivable mistakes. |
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You almost had it right when you wrote: "...there's little that the Campaign itself can do..."
I think "...There's little that the Campaign WILL do..." would be more apropos.
As the weekend showed the McCain seems to have a problem with enemy identification-he treats his friends and allies as enemies and his enemies as friends. But then-as a senator he always did. |
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Never has the press been so absolutely determined to elect a candidate. Obama could not have done it on a fair playing field. Prejudicial behavior by the press favored him. |
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Everybody's an expert here. Bah, why don't you all get a life, vote on election day and get over it? Remember what 'opinions' are like - everybody's got one and they are usually full of ... |
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Running as the GOP nominee. It just doesn't work. |
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that identified himself as "Charles and screamed at your guest Mr. Cashill, attempting what Fred Friendly used to call the "hecklers veto" got my attention.
Because Mr. Cashill raises the specter of a ghost write of "Dreams of my Father", the livid left, (assuming the livid really have a political posture) come out of the clinics and screech, "how dare you Michael put these people on the air?"
The sub-text, as I'm sure you felt today Mr. Medved, was if you challenge Sen. Obama's authorship, you call into question Sen. Obama's intellectual capacity.
What are they afraid of?
This is why we will prevail.
The adherents to the Obama obsession know the discussion cannot turn on their man. If it does, they lose. This is why the race has turned so hot in the past seven days.
The focus on Ayers is working. The hysterical hermaphrodites such as the caller to your show today are in full press dervish toward any skepticism directed against Sen. Obama's authorship, sincerity, associations, experience, honesty or capacity.
For his cadres, everything goes to his essence. Everything is pitfall, all is peril.
We do need to stay on the economy. We couple this with the corollary that Obama's economic politics are the politics of Ayers and by extension Chavez and the levelers and diggers of old.
It is working.
Contrast and comparison, force the antiseptic scrunity of sunlight on dark and cryptic places. Barack Obama under the scrub of sunlight is not unlike Christopher Lee made-up and withering under a klieg light.
Thank you for giving Mr. Cashill airtime.
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"Never has the press been so absolutely determined to elect a candidate. Obama could not have done it on a fair playing field. Prejudicial behavior by the press favored him".
Ronaldus Magnus,Bush I, Bush II twice all won the presidency against a hostile press.
Obama seems to be having an easy time of it because he is running against the weakest candidate in the Republican field.
How Ironic-how many times were we told by RINOs that he was the strongest.
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"Last I checked, wasn't Kerry up by 6 or so back in 2004 on election day?"
How often do you check that?
On this day in 2004, Kerry was behind by 3%. He'd been behind for two weeks at that point, and never again got better than 2% behind. He lost the election by 2%.
McCain/Palin is losing because of McCain and Palin, not necessarily in that order. It's not the media, it's not an Obama "cult of personality;" it's because you have lousy candidates. |
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"I think it is safe to say that striking a vote for McCain is the equivalent of keeping Superfly out of the White House."
Do you even realize that you're being racist? |
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Dump Palin and select Ron Paul
It's the only way McCain could get elected. The so-called "base" is finally petering out which is bad but also good. Maybe Republicans can abandon thier current base, mostly religious zealots, and go back to traditional conservative beliefs, like say protecting the integrety of the US Constitution, fiscal sanity, privacy, freedom of religion (including the right not to excersize), freedom of speech, and the like.
Ron Paul exeplifies the old guard of conservatism. Oh yea, and if you must know he is a christian. |
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It's astounding that so many of you listen to hacks like the otherwise intelligent Medved. Less than two weeks ago, he was claiming that Obama's camp was singing the blues because the race was tightening.
That was not true. Medved just makes things up to project "victory." Exactly like Hewitt and Hannity. Exactly like that vampire Bill Kristol. Oh well.
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Character and Taxes
I would make the remaining weeks about Obama's character and explain exactly how Obama's tax increases are going to affect every American, this issue must be completely explained that over 40% will be on welfare and how small businesses will be affected. Forget the economy,concentrate on Obamas tax plan and character. This must be about bringing your opponent down not trying to beat him at his own game. Forget about a nice friendly campaign, we have not been treated nicely,Sarah has not been treated nicely, the MSM is for Obama and the ACORN FRAUD is outrageous .
I would only make ads about Obama's tax policies and paint the picture of his liberal radical life in Chicago. And then your typical stump speech that moves us. Its that simple. |
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Read the last paragraph of the speech you gave at the Republican Convention.
It said FIGHT WITH ME!!!
It's time to drop the nice guy act, and stop trying to remain passive while the Obama/MSM camp is taking shots at you all day long.
FIGHT WITH ME Senator McCain...take your own advice! We're out there fighting, but you now need to expose Obama for the Chicago crook he is!
CasualConservative.com
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"Obama seems to be having an easy time of it because he is running against the weakest candidate in the Republican field."
Oh Please!!!!
The media is gushing over Obama for ONE reason and ONE reason only. They don't want to be called racist. They lack the tact and ability to question the man who pulls the race card at every turn.
Disagree all you want, and by all means call me a racist too. But, you know I'm right.
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McCain is running against Obama. But McCain's real opponent is the Bigtime Media. All major newspapers, all major TV networks except Fox are pushing an Obama presidency. All conservatives know that this is what we must expect every election. This year, however, the bias for Left-Wingers and against Conservatives has crossed the line into outright advocacy of the left-wing candidate--Obama.
Obama is a radical--he is as close to being a Communist as a candidate can be without actually being a Communist. We are talking major redistribution of wealth here.
Obama sees nothing wrong with letting babies born alive die without help. Are we pagans? That is what they did to unwanted children. Put them out on a cliff somewhere and let nature take care of the problem. How about getting rid of our elderly like that. Save us money wouldn't it? Who wants to worry about drooling, Alzheimers' patients who don't contribute to society?
Obmama is a thug! He would surround himself with thugs. His friends Bill Ayers and Reverend Wright were NOT just acquaintances. They were his buds--his homeys. Show me who your friends are, and I'll show you who YOU are.
McCain is not perfect. I would have preferred Fred Thompson. No, McCain is not perfect, but next to Obama he is a SAINT. |
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The only problem, Medved, is that your boy McCain has a 'withered sack'. Duluded by his 'bipartisanship fetish', he is bending over backwards to blur the distinctions between himself and Obama.
He told some woman at a rally that there is no reason to be scared of an Obama presidency (despite having declared Obama's foreign policy 'not just naive but dangerous' in their first debate). He says that 'he doesn't care about some washed up old terrorist and his wife' only to turn around and roll out Murtaugh to make the connection between Obama and Ayers. Levin nailed it when he called McCain's politics incoherent.
He refuses to tackle the Rev. Wright connection, he has to be dragged kicking and screaming to pin the Fannie/Freddie mess on Obama and the dems, he just told us the other day that he believes Obama would make perfectly acceptable Supreme Court picks.
In the debates he misses opportunity after opportunity to nail Obama. Just one example: When Obama claims to be offering a tax-cut to 95% of Americans, how hard would it be to point out the impossibility thereof? The bottom third don't pay taxes, the bottom half pay around 3% of the total income tax burden. Simple, right? But McCain just sits there. No doubt it would be 'partisan' to corner Obama like that. Pathetic.
McCain would rather be a bipartisan loser than a partisan winner. Again, pathetic. |
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This election is a referendum on McCain because his negatives are really high right now. Specifically, he gets negatives for attacks, on the economy, and because Sarah Palin is awful. |
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Republicans, I mean patriotic Republicans,not the girlie Repubs, and Conservatives.
Mccain, Sarah, Sean Hannity, Rush LImbaugh and Mark Levin all tell the TRUTH and give facts about Obama, Libs will never ever believe the truth about their guy, even if it is in their face!
So, when you repubs and Conservatives go to your local election box, make sure you look at the rest of the ballot and make necessary changes to the house and senate!
The Fraud will only be Trumped by your Vote!
Go vote and take someone who can't get there to vote!
Don't vote often, as many times you can, like the Dems do, do it legal and be proud you have done your part.
mccain/palin 08
Only 2 choices, Socialism or Capitalism
Welfare country or FREE COUNTRY! |
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Obama:
1) Ties with the radical racist preacher
2) Ties with a radical organization submitting fraudulent voter registration
3) Ties with a domestic terrorist
4) "Spreading the wealth around" - verbal confirmation of his socialist ideals.
5) Being referred to as "the messiah" by the most racist man in the country
6) Rhetoric masking a tax policy to hurt America rather than help it.
7) Endorsements from radical foreign countries.
8) Dispicable liberal views on abortion and human rights of an infant
9) Disturbing statements about wearing a United States flag pin
10) Not sure whether or not his campaign met with Hamas
11) Eerie foreboding - seeing young children singing his praises
McCain:
1) Erratic
2) Keating 5
Scorecard so far.
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In sports it's not uncommon for the losing team to claim incompetence or malfeasance by the referees and/or cheating by their opponents. Those who perform the worst usually complain the loudest. The same holds in politics, where the role of referee goes appropriately enough to the press. McCain's recent dramatic drop in the polls has been accompanied by predictable cries of outrage from the radical right, who, like their one-time hero, George W., cannot conceive ever having made a mistake.
The sports analogy fails, however, when it comes to another remarkable aspect of this campaign, in which Republicans deny not only their mistakes, but their very identity. Thus, we hear repeated claims that the current economic meltdown resulted when Republicans' heroic attempts to regulate financial markets were thwarted by lassez-faire Democrats. What a crock! The public probably doesn't understand the details of financial markets, but it obviously remembers the way John McCain and his buddy Phil Gramm have religiously opposed government regulation. |
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That was a favorite slogan of the Bush administration, back when there was any possibility of denying its utter incompetence. By the time the Presidential campaign began in earnest, however, McCain had no choice but to distance himself as much as possible from Bush's disastrous record. Considering how routinely he supported Bush, this was a doomed effort.
With few viable options Republicans turned to an old stand-by: distraction. At one time this was referred to as "guns, God, and gays" (not ncessarily in that order.) For some reason - maybe because internal polling showed that these issues no longer have the same traction - they turned instead to Obama's "character" issues and, a real "dea ex machina," Sarah Palin. Unfortunately (for the GOP) it turns out that the only people stupid enough to be impressed by the Ayers/Wright approach were already in the McCain camp.
As for Palin, I don't agree that she wasn't adequately vetted. Rove et al. don't make that sort of mistake. I think they got in her exactly what they anticipated and what they wanted: someone of limited intellect and scruples, who could memorize talking points and lie without compunction. Their mistake was in believing that someone like this would appeal to uncommitted voters. |
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Republicans and Conservatives , if you doubt that Obama didn't support Acorn a must see video!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8vJcVgJhNaU
Obama addressing Community organizers, how he depends on them! |
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...he'll be popular w/ the press again. In fact, I predict they'll refer to him as quite "maverickish" once he's defeated.
Look, there's no gain w/out pain. As Obama, the dims and the MSM fulfill their self seeking prophesy of an America that is viewed poorly in the world; Americans, over the next two to four years will respond.
Support phase three of the conservative revolution: support Sarah Palin in 2012! |
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...McCain's total flight from George W. Bush was and is a mistake. For all of Bush's shortcomings, w/out his leadership in the war against those who use terrorist tactics against us, we'd have seen another (if not several) 9/11 type attacks over these last 7 yrs.
The Bush legacy:
Too much spending.
Too loyal to inner circle.
Poor communication skills.
Katrina.
Massive deficits.
CONSISTENT VICTORIES AGAINST TERRORIST ORGANIZATIONS.
You tell me which one a these people will remember. |
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People will remember Bush for utter incompetence.
Katrina
Economic meltdown - worst since the depression
Iraq - a longer war than World War 2
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Please lower your whinning, the fat lady is on stage, and she's cued up.
Redistribution of wealth is what's happening in the middle east because we have no energy policy.
Help get this nation back, stop with your strict constructs and labeling we live in a more complex world then your ideology might make you believe.
Barack has smarter and more engaging ideas then you guys, you guys have car wrecked our country please just step back and enjoy the landslide, we are on our way to a renewed shared prosperity for all.
LOSERS!!!!!!!!!!! or is it
WHINNERS!!!!!!!!!!! |
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Continuing to mix metaphors ...
Now in the eleventh hour the McCain campaign has realized that its strategies have all been trumped by circumstance. The war is too consequential and too unpopular to be ignored, and it's going too badly to be an asset, as they'd hoped. Ditto the economy. No one believes McCain, when he claims to be in favor of regulation and prudent fiscal policy after all. His proposal to solve our huge economic problems by eliminating earmarks reminds me of the courtroom scene near the end of The Pink Panther, when Inspector Clouseau explains his possession of the stolen jewelry by noting that his wife is very frugal. It just doesn't add up.
What's next? I doubt we can expect a graceful defeat; it's just not in the far right's nature. There'll be more "blame the ref" hysteria, of course; but, barring some unlikely circumstantial windfall, I think McCain will continue to flail, jumping from one failed tactic to another, like Lillian Gish in the ice floe sequence of "Way Down East", until he disappears over the brink on election day. |
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Givemeabreak are you on Obamas Welfare Roll? Are you a beneficiary of Obama's Agenda?
Are you a deadbeat who will be getting a check from Robin Hood?
Stop Obama from taking the Freedoms of Making a Living Away!
Obama wants to steal from the rich and give to the deadbeats who think the government owes them a living.
It will affect the stock market and all Americans in a BAD WAY!
Come out of your Obama Slumber and Get a Clue Americans!
We are not Cuba, We are not Venezula, we are the United States Of America!
Vote against a Socialist Obama Agenda!
Every American has the same Opportunitis, Some choose to wait for the Obama Welfare Check! |
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Do you feel safer now than you did Sept 12th 2001?
Again, Bush has had many failures (a fact that as a conservative/oft republican I'll admit); strange(not really) how you guys on the left refuse to own up to your guys mistakes.
So gloat away, your guys gonna win. And unlike others here I don't think the worlds gonna end (tho it won't be a picnic). Like Clinton in '94 Barak Obama will do more to further the rise of conservatism than John McCain ever could. |
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No, I don't feel safer. Not yet!
It was eight years between the first WTC attack and 9-11. Does anyone on the right credit Clinton with "keeping us safe"? Not hardly. That would be too honest.
By the time 9-11 happened, it was abundantly clear that GW was a dangerous moron/ right wing lunatic. If he had anything to do with the lack of a repeat 9-11, it was by setting up so many convenient targets in Iraq that it wasn't cost effective for al Qaeda to look futher. By now we've lost more than 10x as many dead and wounded American kids as died in the towers, not to mention nearly a trillion bucks, 5 million Iraqi refugees, several hundred thousand dead Iraqis (but what the heck, they're just arabs, right?) This is a success defense?
bin Laden announced his purpose in launching the 9-11 attack: goad the U.S. into attacking/occupying an arab nation (check), driving us out of Moslem holy lands (check), and "bleeding" us the way the mujadaheen bled Russia (check). Thanks to GW, he's gotten every wish. What a success |
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Michael Medved, now says if the election is about John McCain, we lose!
That's great. Will MM next reveal he is making a left turn back to being the liberal democrat he truly is. |
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With three weeks left in the election I am beginning to think McCain does not have a real chance even though I am going to vote for him. McCain has really done nothing wrong, except not articulate a forward thinking plan, which may not even be possible anyway. McCain's only shot is something that most bloggers don't want to here but it is the only way.
Repudiate everyone. The dems for helping engineer this fiasco, and Bush for sheepishly not standing up to it. Blame the republican congress for their corruption. An then stand up as the only person who can beat back the cavalcade of liberal overrach. This is not a change election. It is a battle against excess. Most people understand that. They also understand that Bush is in over his head and Obama will also be in over his head.
That is the shot. Unfortunatley there are still fools out there who think that McCain must hold onto the "true conservative" message. That appeal right now might only get 25% of the vote.
The is no true conservative movement anymore.
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You only know sound bites; to your credit you know them very well. I won't be waiting on any checks sir; I earn my money teaching at a university. We try to educate most of those that come thru our halls, looks like you either didn't walk thru any of those halls, or you were too busy in the library redefining constructs and trying to get your small mind about what socialism is. There's an important tenet of business. In order to make money you have to invest money (the old you have to spend money to make money adage). Obama’s smart and robust economic plans call very a robust re-investment into our nation. Jobs as you say are central to our capitalistic mantra. Jobs allow people to earn a living – not to mention it elevates self worth - and create multiple tax streams for our government (i.e. taxes on income, taxes on purchases, and so on.). As people go out and make purchases they move products and those companies tend to need to hire more people and the cycle repeats. That sounds like rebuilding the middle class not deadbeats. What affected the stock markets more was deregulation. If companies are moving products they tend to be more attractive and more valuable for investors/ shareholders. So his plan would have the opposite of what you are peddling.
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Our country has spent billions in reconstructing Iraq, what’s wrong with focusing on reconstructing America? His reconstruction plan would not only put to work people who have been displaced by construction work due to the housing collapse but would help every company that supports those efforts like Caterpillar and other heavy machinery companies. Those that support companies like Caterpillar – those that make the nuts, bolts and rubber that go onto those machines. The proposal also gives us the opportunity to update our wireless and fiber optic infrastructure – adding higher paying jobs. I’ll stop here with the pluses that I see with a thoughtful Obama administration so that I can hear your twisted logic about a word called socialism. You dumb and clueless American.
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You peddle your BS the best!
I would argue with you on this subject, but, I can't muster enough stupid to be on your level!
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what an omission. I guess that's because you have run out of your thoughts that come in little slivers of soundbites. All you have is "I can't muster enough stupid to be on your level". Oh I think you have tons of stupid left in you come on. Say something stupid besides peddling BS about the word socialism that doesn't apply here. Dummy |
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you are right about the conservative fools who do not realize the stakes in this election.
With a compliant Congress, Obama, Jr. can wreak any damage he wants on the U.S.A. and its laws. |
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lies and distortions and cheating are stocks in trade for socialists and the far left. Their worldview is dominated by "might makes right". Mao Tse Tung said it best and most succinctly for the left, "Power comes from the barrel of a gun". That is the mindset that lies behind Obama, Jr. and his supporters. The end justifies the means. |
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have only one objective, to get Obama, Jr. elected in November. Read their posts with their agenda in mind. They desperately want Senator McCain to lose in November. They are not friends of Republicans and conservatives. They are enemies of conservatism. |
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Conservatives don't vote for liberal Trojan Horse Democrats or card-carrying liberal Democrats. We vote for conservatives.
You noseholders wanted McCain when a vote for McCain in the primaries was a vote for Obama. Now we have to throw our vote away on that loser? Vote against the corrupt Marxist one-party system.
Go Bob Barr! |
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I don't know about the aforementioned, but I sure want him to lose along we the dumbest hockey mom on the planet turned governor. You have had miserable years, time to see what that other grass looks like, it sure looks green. You guys the so-called conservatives and repubs - really code for, country last, division first. Full throated racist to your I didn't know I was really a racist joke six packs......The Fat Lady is on stage....HUSH Please we've been waiting. |
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want Obama,Jr. to win if it means McCain loses. You are unable to discern the differences between McCain and Obama, Jr. Or at least that is what you say.
How could anyone place credibility in any of your thoughts, conclusions or writings when you say things as preposterous as, "There are no substantial differences between the policies advocated by Senator McCain and those advocated by Obama, Jr.?
If you cannot see how preposterous such a claim is, you are either blinded by hatred or ignorance or you are an Obama, Jr. shill. It does not matter to me which you really are. The results are the same. Displays of incredible ignorance or stupidity or disingenuousness. |
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I had not experienced any problems until the Dems took over control of both Houses of Congress in 2006.
At that time, gas was about $2.50 per gallon and unemployment was under 5%. Since then, the facts speak for themselves. GWB had things running smoothly until the Dems gained a little power. What will happen after they gain unrestrained power?
Socialism is the death of freedom. |
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keep playing the race card. We will see how much you and yours can divide the country over race.
It is not the right that brings up race at every opportunity. It is not the right who are voting based solely on the skin color of the candidates. It is not the right who votes knowing nothing about a candidate's policies, character or past. It is not the right that touts the end justifies the means. It is not the right that demeans God-fearing people. It is not the right that demeans gun owners. It is not the right that believes partial-birth abortion should be legal. It is not the right that believes in taxpayer funded abortions. It is not the right that believes in removing all restrictions from abortion. It is not the right that believes in gun control. It is not the right that believes in income re-distribution (which is nothing more than taking the fruit of the workers' labors and giving it to the drones). It is not the right that believes in expanding government control over individuals' lives.
Those are all the goals of Obama, Jr. and the left. The problem is that Obama, Jr. is doing everything he can to prevent the American voters from knowing his agenda. He cannot be trusted.
He is the most cold and calculating person I have ever seen aspire to power. With his shallowness and inexperience, he should not come within a lightyear of the POTUS. |
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Polls tightening? Election getting closer? What is Medved smoking? Look at the trend since Paulson's moronic power grab. We are about to see a massacre of McGovern proportions.
The Republican party had it's chance to repudiate Bush's big spending, they didn't. They could have nominated a strong free market candidate but chose instead a man who is far more in line with the economically fascist Democrats.
When the economic manure hit the rotary air circulator Republicans could have put the blame where it belonged - on the foolish regulatory intervention of the CRA and the subsequent corruption at Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Instead they chose to jump on the blame "selfishness and greed" bandwagon. What a way to defend capitalism!
Now the comes the apex of Republican campaign strategy - vote against the guy who opposes everything that we have abandoned - individual liberty, the free market and private property.
And do it because our president is a big spending joke and our candidate a hopeless mish-mash of contradictory positions.
Wow! Who could fail to be inspired by that?
If you oppose bailouts of incompetents then don't bailout the GOP. They deserve to lose and be replaced by a real opposition party, one that takes capitalism seriously and will foil Obama's socialist plans.
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Eddie,
You are either a lair or your selective memory is off by 2 years (I suspect probably both).
I happened to be in Florida Oct 23rd, the eve before what turned out to be a pretty bad hurricane for south Florida – called Wilma. A lady and I were pumping gas and we were both furious that gas had just hit $3 and the reasoning on NPR was that it was due to all the hurricane activity the last 2 years – we were listening to the broadcast while pumping. We looked at each other and she asked. “Why are we being charged $3 when this gas is already in the tank, this isn’t new shipment that was somehow interrupted” The storm had not even hit yet. I will never forget that, for the first time $3. So you are wrong about $2.50 in gas Nov of 2006 when Democrats gave the Repubs a “thumping” for Congress, Sir, or Jan 2007 when they officially took over.
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It is the right that seeks to divide the country based on sub-prime mortgages and code words of socialism. It is the right the claims to be god-fearing people at least up to birth then you’re on your own after that. It is the right that forgets god’s main tenet, you are your brother’s keeper – unless you are a CEO and your company is bankrupted. It is the right deregulatory ways that has us in the worst spot since the worst spot (Great Depression). It’s the right who blocks increasing wages for the lowest of income workers, but no cap on excessive pay from CEOs. It is the right that says country first and is willing to put someone with the most limited of knowledge to date ever on a ticket, in such perils of times. It is the right that has Osama doing jihadists gone wild videos 7 years later. It is the right who wants to take away my grandmother’s social security when she needs government the most. It is the right who has left every child behind. It’s the right that took 5 days just to go see what was happening in New Orleans. It’s the right that has let our infrastructure detoriate to the worst state ever and is mad about the money needed to take care of the issue. It is the right that believes people that are stewards of the country should not have some intelligence and we should dumb down.
IT IS THE RIGHT SIR THAT IS AND HAS BEEN SO WRONG
It is Obama that offers a way out. A thoughtful way out of where we are because you all knew it all.
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Who's more absurd, Republicans claiming to have been for regulation all along or those who say the crisis was caused by too much regulation. I vote for Apollo & Co. who claim the 1977 Community Reinvestment Act, which made red-lining by banks illegal, actually promoted subprime lending (although it specifically mandated safe banking practices.) This is bunk! Banks would have lost tons of money, if they'd started making subprime loans in '77. The subprime mess began in 1999, when Phil Gramm, John McCain & other Republicans repealed Glass-Steagall & deregulated derivatives trading with the Commodities Futures Trading Act. (This also led to the Enron meltdown!)
Thanks to McCain & friends, commercial lenders could make bad loans, skim the profits & export the risk to investors via complex derivatives like Credit Default Swaps. The only ones who believe the crap about the CRA are people like Apollo, who don't understand finance & lack the guts or honesty to admit that their crackpot lassez-faire economics doesn't work. |
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Give Me a Break:
You are quoting Cain, the first murderer. When he killed his brother in cold blood, and God asked him where he was, Cain said, "Am I my brother's keeper?"
How you twisted that around to be "god's main tenet" defies reason. You are quoting the first felon.
But that just fits, doesn't it, with felons voting for Barack Obama thanks to ACORN.
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That's all you have. And scholar you are not. I was quoting jesus loosely. Speak to other things in there. You creep, your dumba$$ thinking is criminal. |
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You were quoting Cain, period. You do not have to be a scholar to know that.
Don't tell me what I need to speak to. I am not taking orders from slinking libs today, who quote the Bible on behalf of their little Bill Ayers friend. |
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make a complete idiot out of yourself.
It was the free marketeers who saw this coming, not those in favor of regulation. Barney Frank said that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were solid, as did Schumer and Dodd.
Fannie Mae has been a problem for nearly seventy years but no matter how many times congress tried to do something about it the Democrats voted in lockstep against any changes. The last two times the vote was straight party lines. Why not? They received a ton of money from the FMs.
Enron didn't involve derivatives, it involved off budget losses hidden in subsidiaries as well as executives lying about the viability of the company, a lot like Fannie Mae. Franklyn Raines ended up with 100 millions dollars for doing the same things that Ken Lay did. The difference - Lay ended up dead.
The derivatives market only existed because of sub-prime an alt-A loans. Without the CRA they would never have come into existence because the insane housing boom would never have occurred and no one would have believed that real estate values can only go up.
Add to this Sarbanes Oxley which forced companies to magnify losses on their books (just as it made them magnify gains when the market was rising). Without the phony losses there wouldn't have been a need to hide them and therefore no need for derivatives.
Just as in the Great Depression every attempt to regulate trade backfired and made things worse.
Read Amity Shlaes "The Forgotten Man" and learn something about economic history.
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If you'd like to make an argument regarding Clinton's success(?) w/ Bin Laden I'd have to remind you that it was Clinton who coulda taken him out and choose not too. Not to mention the yearly attacks on US interests by terrorist organizations during Clinton's 8yrs. Bill failed to respond to terrorists threats, W responded.
Unlike you (and liberals in general) I'm not blinded by party loyalty. There's much I dislike about Bush and a some things I liked about Clinton.
Your problem (w/ Bush or any non-liberal/socialist) is you won't give credit where credit is due.
No one can be right 100% of the time; not me... not you. |
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will put to rest once and for all the lame argument I've been hearing that McCain is "the most electable" candidate for the Republicans. Romney would have cleaned Obama's clock by now. Right now more voters think Obama is better on the economy (which is completely insane and I don't understand it) but Romney's STRONG suit was the economy.
It's a moot point now (I know, Lord do I know) but it just amazed me when people here on townhall justified their support for McCain in that way. =( If we push weak candidates then Republicans deserve to lose and lose big.
I'm here in California and I've already absentee voted. I voted McCain although it made me want to barf. It was a vote against Obama, not a vote for McCain. I'd like a chance to vote for a viable candidate I actually support, people. No more "most electable" nonsense in the future, please. |
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The Alaska Daily News comes out swinging:
Sarah Palin’s reaction to the Legislature’s Troopergate report is an embarrassment to Alaskans and the nation.
She claims the report “vindicates” her. She said that the investigation found “no unlawful or unethical activity on my part.”
Page 8, Finding Number One of the report says: “I find that Governor Sarah Palin abused her power by violating Alaska Statute 39.52.110(a) of the Alaska Executive Branch Ethics Act.”
In plain English, she did something “unlawful.” She broke the state ethics law. |
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McCain would defend America with his last breath against any enemy.
Obama can't (has never) summoned one breath in her defense against his own pastor or his own neighbor. Never objected to their views.
Two memoirs and not one act of personal or moral courage. They're stories of how he'd do anything to "fit in" and have an "identity".
Short time in politics, but so far no act of differing with his party. No act of political courage.
When has he ever done the difficult thing? Taken the unpopular stance? This is a needy man, lacking in spine.
hardly presidential material. |
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Those guys who swagger around and tout Bob Barr, and diss everyone else for not being a "true conservative" are really just all about one thing: they're mad--very very mad--at McCain for backing the immigration reform bill.
They saw it not as needed reform, but as "amnesty" presumably because it didn't call for 40 lashes across the back of every Mexican in the US.
Now, the republican party will pay a price for this in the hispanic vote. In my view, those folks would make much better Americans in the future than many of our homegrown citizens (legally here but hating America), and they traditionally have been conservative and grateful. Personally, we need a few of those kind of patriots to offset those folks in Pastor Wright's congregation.
All I can figure is that they really really don't like Mexicans. Now as to why McCain should be blamed, it's the same as Bush getting blamed for the economy. No connection. |
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I beg to differ. Obama has taken a firm stance on not releasing or making available the followin.
His...
1. Occidental College records
2. Columbia College records
3. Columbia Thesis paper
4. Harvard College records
5. Selective Service Registration
6. Medical records
7. Illinois State Senate schedule
8. Illinois State Senate records
9. Law practice client list
10. Certified Copy of original Birth certificate
11. Record of your baptism
Whatever skeletons exist, he and the MSM think we're to "clingy" to handle it. |
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Virginia Patriot and Pasadena Phil are libertarians (admittedly toward the right wing of libertarianism) who masquerade as "true" conservatives in order to push their agendas here. Phil with his anti-moderate views and V.P. with his single-minded anti-immigration rants. They epitomize what is wrong with many right-leaning voters these days: their very-much-liberal "If the candidate of my party is not my personal preference I'm not going to vote for him" thought process. That is the EXACT SAME THING THAT CAUSED BUSH TO LOSE IN 1992 & GORE TO LOSE IN 2000.
But then, that's Democracy; by virtue of screwheads like this, we get who we deserve. If Obama wins the Bob Barr voters can congratulate themselves for helping to elect him. And we can all gather here on Nov. 5th and say "Thanks, guys, for helping to ruin the next 4 or 8 (or longer, depending on what Bambi is able to enact) years of ALL OF OUR LIVES. What the hell? Do they think this is some kind of game?
Screwtape whines about voting AGAINST someone rather than voting FOR someone. While I think there are plenty of reasons to vote FOR John McCain let's bottom line this thing: It is necessary to vote against Barack Obama, period. Medved resists the use of the term but let's be realistic here -- Obama IS a Marxist. His form of "Change" is a GUARANTEED change for the worse; it is a GUARANTEED change that will restrict freedom. This vote is such a no-brainer it isn't even funny. |
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The KING is back! :D
But let Virginia Patriot (the genuine), Pasadena Phil, and BrianR know that they are not, not, not! opposing McCain. They are supporting a triumvirate of Obama, Pelosi, and Bader-Ginsburg. Radical left executive, radical left judicial, and radical left legislative.
That is their choice and right.
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McCain needs to link Obama to Hoover. Hoover turned a recession into a depression by raising taxes and tariffs (reducing free trade). He needs to run attack ads with picture of Hoover/Obama and their policies.
He also need to run ads that point out that Obama can't fund any of his promises. He is promising things he can't deliver. McCain needs to straight talk about getting the economy started again before there can be any new programs.
McCain has to turn the economic issue into a weapon.
About the only other way McCain might win is if there is a terrorist attack or if Israel bombs Iran. That would crater the economy but shift the voter decision making to security and foreign policy. |
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Did you have a nice siesta?
Ps, I won't be posting after kingsx. He gets the baton. Every time. |
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Mike says you shouldn't vote your conscience but vote party ticket Rep or Dem. But in the primaries instead of voting the best person able to win (ROMNEY) Mike says to vote your conscience = McCain. As we see this is a losing strategy, especially in the primaries.
Obama is what we get when people don't vote for the the best person prepared for the job of president in the primaries.
Just like REAGAN and Ford in '76. You have to look for the person best prepared for the Job, not someone you would like to possibly be president. Why? because primaries are by a plurality of vote, so you get the Gerry Fords, Bob Doles, and John McCains.
2008-2012 will be known as the "lost 4 years" -
We should give a lot of thanks to Medved and his poor pick and support of McCain instead of someone who could actutally have won.
Start now. ROMNEY IN 2012. |
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Thought McCain did well in the debate tonite (his first debate win!). The question is, is it too little too late? |
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