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Friday, September 12, 2008
Dick Morris and Eileen McGann :: Townhall.com Columnist
Why She Really Scares Them
by Dick Morris and Eileen McGann
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For two weeks, Democrats and their media allies have leveled scorching fire at Sarah Palin. It's not having much effect, but they keep at it anyway.

The latest Fox News poll shows Palin with a 54-27 favorable/unfavorable ratio, which compares well with Barack Obama's 57-36, John McCain's 60-33 and Joe Biden's 51-29. (Of the four, she's the most popular).

Why do Democrats feel so threatened? They've even stopped attacking McCain and President Bush to launch a vicious and sexist barrage at her that would normally make a feminist angry and a Democrat blush.

Basically, it's this: John McCain only endangers Democratic chances of victory this November, but Sarah Palin is an existential threat to the Democratic Party.

She threatens a core element of the party's base - women

When an African-American like Clarence Thomas, Colin Powell or Condi Rice rises to prominence as a Republican, he or she endangers the Democratic coalition. So would a Republican labor leader.

And so, above all, does the woman Republican running for vice president.

Democrats can't stomach seeing the feminist movement's impetus for greater female political participation and empowerment "hijacked" by a pro-life woman who espouses traditional values. They must obliterate her, lest her popularity eat away at their party's core. Continued...
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Dick Morris, a former political adviser to Sen. Trent Lott (R-Miss.) and President Bill Clinton, is the author of Condi vs. Hillary: The Next Great Presidential Race. To get all of Dick Morris’s and Eileen McGann’s columns for free by email, go to www.dickmorris.com
 
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Reply # 1
Date: Sep 16, 2008 - 9:20 PM EST
A Few More Things . . . .
For the record, Rolo, responsibility for Congressional oversight of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac belongs to none other than Barney Frank, a DEMOCREEP representative from Massachusetts.

Also for the record, Jim Johnson, a former economic coach of BARACK HUSSEIN UBUMYA, was also a director of Fannie Mae.

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac also contributed $85,000 to BARACK HUSSEIN UBUMYA'S campaign. (How Fannie and Freddie undoubtedly wish they had that money now!)

Finally, Robert Rubin and Jamie Gorelick--the Treasury Secretary and Deputy Attorney General, respectively, in the CLINTON ADMINISTRATION--were the public officials who relaxed lending regulations--including those governing Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac--and PROFITEERED as a result.

People whose idols live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.
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Date: Sep 16, 2008 - 8:51 PM EST
What Really Caused It?
heavydoug scrawls left-handed with his pink crayon on yellow paper:

"Foreclosures 1.25 mil

"Unemployment 6.1%

"Jobless Claims 444,000

"Inflation 5.6%

"Consumer Price Index 5.5%

"Banks Closed 10

"Fannie and Freddie Seized"

A couple of points to add to the one on top of your fat head, Rolo.

First of all, any third-grader can rattle off a bunch of statistics--or even make them up. That doesn't take any intelligence.

Second, I can remember much rougher times in America than what we're facing now. Take, for example, the late 1970s, when Jimmy Carter was in the White House and your Democreeps controlled both houses of Congress.

You're upset about 6.1% unemployment? When Carter was thrown out of Washington in 1981, the unemployment rate was TEN PERCENT.

You're upset about a 5.6% inflation rate? When we threw Carter out of the White House in 1981, the inflation rate was THIRTEEN PERCENT.

You didn't even mention the current prime lending rate (which for the record is about two percent.) When we got rid of Carter in 1981, the prime lending rate was TWENTY percent.

And those who are old enough to remember the Great Depression (I'm not) can cite even more alarming numbers than this. Try an unemployment rate of THIRTY-FIVE percent on for size!

A little friendly advice for you, Rolo: If you want to copy statistics, fine. If you want to make them up out of thin air, fine. Like I said, any third-grader can do that. But if you REALLY want to demonstrate something remotely resembling intelligence, then go through all the numbers you posted--line by line, item by item--and tell us exactly which policies of the Bush Administration and/or the Republican Congresses of 2003-07 ACTUALLY CAUSED THEM.

And explain them in your own words. Don't fall back on your tired and lame strategy of posting links to left-wing blogs or YouTube.
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