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RedditIn an interview with Good Morning America today, John McCain calls Sarah Palin the new face of the GOP, saying "she's united our party."
Um, tell that to Colin Powell, Christopher Buckley or Ken Adelman, all lifelong Republicans who've cited the Palin pick as a chief reason they've endorsed Obama. Or to conservatives like David Brooks, David Frum, Kathleen Parker, Ross Douthat--all past or present McCain supporters--who've strongly criticized Palin. Or ask all the supposedly wavering Hillary Clinton supporters, who took the Palin selection as an insult and rallied around Obama.
No matter what happens on Election Day, a battle for the soul of the Republican Party is well under way. McCain's defeat will hasten that conversation, but surefire losses in Congress will require the party to plot a new course regardless. Will Republicans lurch right, under the banner of Palin's social conservatism and faux-populism? Or will they try and recapture the middle, reconnecting with suburban voters and independents and Hispanic voters they've lost ever since 2000 by advocating competent government and pragmatic problem-solving?
Don't count on the latter. Reports the Politico's Jonathan Martin:
Few believe that the Republican party will respond to another brutal election by following a path of moderation, but conservatives are deeply dispirited and anxious to reassert the core values they believe have not always been followed by Bush, congressional leaders and their party's presidential nominee . Many on the right, both elites and the rank-and-file, see a rudderless party that is in dire need of new blood and old principles: small government, a robust national security and unapologetic social conservatism.
That sounds like a recipe for continued disaster, not rebirth.
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"The Washington Times, which has had a reporter traveling with Barack Obama's campaign for nearly three years, has been kicked off his press plane.
"The decision came just three days after the editorial page endorsed John McCain," Times editor in chief John Solomon said this morning. "I hope a candidate who says he wants to unite the country isn't using a litmus test for who can cover him."
What's more, the Obama operation has ejected reporters for the New York Post and Dallas Morning News, which have also endorsed McCain. And room was suddenly made for two magazines that have not been traveling with the Democratic nominee, Essence and Ebony."
That's showing them!!
Go Obama go!!
Posted by bleedingheart at 10/31/2008 @ 12:48pm
Karl Rove will take Palin under his wing and mold her into his next puppet. The Republican Party will undoubtedly choose an even more stringent conservative path as the "answer" to their electoral woes.
Posted by guanabana at 10/31/2008 @ 12:56pm
i guess she has united whats left of it after the last of the sane republicans have drifted away...
Posted by dexter666 at 10/31/2008 @ 1:04pm
>>>Um, tell that to Colin Powell, Christopher Buckley or Ken Adelman, all lifelong Republicans who've cited the Palin pick as a chief reason they've endorsed Obama. Or to conservatives like David Brooks, David Frum, Kathleen Parker, Ross Douthat--all past or present McCain supporters--who've strongly criticized Palin. Or ask all the supposedly wavering Hillary Clinton supporters, who took the Palin selection as an insult and rallied around Obama.<<<
Sarah Palin did NOT "unite" the GOP, she only energized the hard-right wing of their party which drove out moderates and libertarians. Moderates think Palin is right-wing nut who is totally unqualified to step in as president, and libertarians see her evangelical background as scary and a threat to religious freedom and other liberties that conflict with born-again Christian view points.
It was the "left" that became "united" as a result of the Palin pick, as would-be Nader voters or Greens could not live with themselves if their wasted vote allows the prospect of a President Palin to lead this country.
W. was bad, but Palin would be a complete disaster for all the things any true progressive really cares about.
Posted by Metteyya at 10/31/2008 @ 1:09pm
<sigh>
Routine prioritizing based on which organizations have been there the longest, with the addition of the Chicago Sun-Times and the Trib (added because Obama and staff want his local papers there, a justified decision, frankly), I heard nothing about Essence and Ebony, but the Washington Times and New York Post have not been on the Obama plane regularly during the campaign.
Put into stark terms, there is not room for everybody, so extra reporters, executive editors and publishers have to find another way to travel, decisions had to be made.
This is a non-story that would have amounted to nothing if the cable news organizations and various mouthpieces didn't need something to incessantly blabber about all day long in the absence of anything else.
JWC
Posted by jwcisneros at 10/31/2008 @ 1:15pm
"Put into stark terms, there is not room for everybody, so extra reporters, executive editors and publishers have to find another way to travel, decisions had to be made."
The point is we have got to completely shut the right down. Especially the right leaning press. Burn it and salt the fields.
LEFT press. LEFT governing bodies. LEFT LEFT LEFT LEFT.
Bang the shoe! LEFT!
Posted by bleedingheart at 10/31/2008 @ 1:30pm
Nope McNuts - you've got that wrong.
Palin won't be around for 2012.
Look for Repubs to rebrand to small government and fiscally responsible government, with well reasoned and more cerebral torchbearers. Repubs have played the Palin card too long, and they will emulate the more "rational" politic of the Obama campaign. We saw some new faces of the Repub party on the bailout debate. This will be a welcome change, for both moderate progressives and moderate conservatives.
Posted by OneVote at 10/31/2008 @ 1:31pm
United the party
Goes right up there with "Mission Accomplished" and "The fundamentals of our economy are strong".
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Washington Times- There has been a lot of broohaha brought here from the right about "associations". How many of you cans know that Rev Moon, the owner of Wash Times declared himslef "King of the Universe" while at a party with many congresscritters? How many cons are comfortable with Rev Moon "marrying" thousands of people into marriages he arranged? How about his mandate that members of his church give over their assets to his church. Rev Moon has been accused of money laundering, and was jailed for tax fraud. Rev Moon has called America "Satans harvest".
[Moon taught that Jesus was intended to save mankind by having sex with six already-married women who would then have sex with other men who would pass on the purification to other women until, eventually, all mankind would have pure blood.
Pak contended that Moon took on this personal duty as the second Messiah and began having sex with the "six Marys." But Pak alleged that Moon began to abuse the practice by turning the "six Marys" into a kind of rotating sex club. Pak wrote that Moon's first wife divorced him after catching him in a sex ritual.]
Posted by crabwalk at 10/31/2008 @ 1:40pm
If I were some top donors to the Democrats....Day One, Hour One, if McCain loses on Tuesday?
Set up the "Palin in '12" "Study Committee" and fund the hell out of it.
Get some folks who aren't "openly" liberal or Democrat, to meet with the Governess and tell her "You know, Sarah, I think it was McCain that was the drag on the ticket...you could have taken the top slot and won it...I mean, did you SEE how those crowds loved you and Joe the Plumber?"....build up her ego and ambition even more (if possible)...and write her some good (not fat) checks to get the ball rolling.
Give Darin, LVLIB, PONTI, and the rest EXACTLY what they say they want.
See....except for them (and Palin)....everybody else knows that the Couric interviews were NOT a fluke or "liberal media filtering".
Even if she doesn't win the nomination, she'll cripple the nominee by throwing a little snit (a la Buchanan) and possibly running as a 3rd Party'er!
Obama could cruise to re-election easier than Reagan in '84.
Posted by Maskdelta at 10/31/2008 @ 1:49pm
WIKI-
Sun Myung Moon (born January 6, 1920) is the Korean founder and leader of the world-wide Unification Church and of the larger Unification Movement which owns, operates or subsidizes many organizations involved in political, cultural, mass-media, and other activities. One of the best known of these is the Washington Times newspaper.[1] He is also well-known for holding Blessing ceremonies, which are often called "mass weddings".
Moon has said that he is the Messiah and the Second Coming of Christ and is fulfilling Jesus' unfinished mission.[2][3]
In 2000 Moon joined Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan in sponsoring the Million Family March in Washington D.C., a follow-up event to the Million Man March held in 1995.
In 2004, at a March 23 ceremony in the Dirksen Senate Office Building, U.S. Rep. Danny K. Davis (D-Ill.) wore white gloves and carried a pillow holding an ornate crown that was placed on Moon's head.
Moon delivered a long speech in which he stated that he was "sent to Earth . . . to save the world's six billion people. . . . Emperors, kings and presidents . . . have declared to all Heaven and Earth that Reverend Sun Myung Moon is none other than humanity's Savior, Messiah, Returning Lord and True Parent."[43]
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to all those that have used the word "cult" to mock "the left", I wonder where you have been for the last few decades as your movement has been finacially backed and propped up in the media by Rev Moon.
Posted by crabwalk at 10/31/2008 @ 1:51pm
Fine work as always, CRABBY, in telling it like it is about the Reverand Moon and the Moonie rag that Obama's people exercised un-needed liberality in even having them within binocular distance of their chariot.
And, once again, with the clockwork regularity of Gerge W. Loser failing at everything he does, we see that the shabby rightwing bozo BLEEDING_HEART more closely resembles BLOODY_STOOL_(IN_THE_DIAPER).
Posted by PhilMcCrevice at 10/31/2008 @ 1:55pm
Obama could cruise to re-election easier than Reagan in '84.
Posted by Maskdelta at 10/31/2008 @ 1:49pm | ignore this person | warn this person
Sounds pretty "Rovian" Mask. Great idea! The hell with Jindal or Pawlenty when you got Palin 2012! Like Pavlov's dogs...they will come a runin......
Posted by OneVote at 10/31/2008 @ 2:09pm
Hey there NASCAR crowd .. remember on Tuesday to "DRIVE FAST, TURN LEFT!"
Posted by leftofcenter at 10/31/2008 @ 2:10pm
Posted by crabwalk at 10/31/2008 @ 1:51pm | ignore this person | warn this person
nice post - moonie rightwing CRAZINESS!!!
Posted by dexter666 at 10/31/2008 @ 2:13pm
, once again, with the clockwork regularity of Gerge W. Loser failing at everything he does, we see that the shabby rightwing bozo BLEEDING_HEART more closely resembles BLOODY_STOOL_(IN_THE_DIAPER).
Posted by PhilMcCrevice at 10/31/2008 @ 1:55pm | ignore this person | warn this person
you mean "bleedingfart"?
ow! thats never a good sign...
Posted by dexter666 at 10/31/2008 @ 2:18pm
Posted by OneVote at 10/31/2008 @ 2:09pm
I think even LVLIB will give up on Palin, if they lose.
After all, he had to swallow a lot of evangey/fundy rhetoric about how "women should stay home with their young children and not ABANDON them to careers" to support her THIS time!
LOL
BTW....Obama upping his advertising...
IN ARIZONA!
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27468301/?GT1=43001
Posted by Maskdelta at 10/31/2008 @ 2:30pm
Great post Crab! Wonder how the rev. will respond. Almost makes me want to take him off "ignore." NOT. Phil, your a Hoot. You must be a comedian professionally.
Posted by Truthman at 10/31/2008 @ 2:35pm
BTW....Obama upping his advertising...
IN ARIZONA!
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27468301/?GT1=43001
Posted by Maskdelta at 10/31/2008 @ 2:30pm | ignore this person | warn this person
The ultimate slap in face! Gotta love it!
Wasn't it Liv who posted the other day that Obama should call a post election roundtable get together with all the bigwigs including John McCain? I am not real clear on what exactly John McCain can bring to the table. Perhaps some MacArthurian surrender ceremony for the Maverick to save some face? Losing Arizona - not even Hollywood produced political theatrics will resuscitate his fading career.
Posted by OneVote at 10/31/2008 @ 2:44pm
Looks like there is at least some residual kool-aid resistance in some parts of the cult. Somebody send Rendell the memo that under no circumstances are any cult members to show any respect whatsoever to Sarah Palin!
Rendell says race is closer than polls indicate
By Bill O'Boyle boboyle@timesleader.com Staff Writer
Gov. Ed Rendell Friday said the presidential race between Democrat Barack Obama and Republican John McCain is "closer than the polls indicate." Urging people to get out and vote in Tuesday's general election, Rendell said Obama does not have a double-digit lead in Pennsylvania and he told voters to take an umbrella and dress warmly to withstand the weather.
Rendell
Times Leader Photo Store
"Stay in that line and make sure you vote," Rendell told about 50 people at Wilkes University. "I've seen polls that have the race as close as four points."
Rendell also said the addition of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin to the Republican ticket has "enthused" the campaign. "She has drawn thousands of people to every event she has appeared at," Rendell said. Read the whole story in Saturday's The Times Leader.
Posted by pontificus at 10/31/2008 @ 3:00pm
Posted by Maskdelta at 10/31/2008 @ 2:30pm | ignore this person | warn this person
"McCain campaign manager Rick Davis derided Obama's moves: "We encourage them to pick other states that we intend to win" to spend their money."
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27468301/
Oh.....Mr. Davis, Obama's got money to burn....unlike you......."that one" wants it all I'm afraid.
Posted by OneVote at 10/31/2008 @ 3:11pm
Posted by OneVote at 10/31/2008 @ 3:11pm
"Oh.....Mr. Davis, Obama's got money to burn....unlike you......."
Two reasons I can think of why the Obamessiah has unlimited money:
a) reneging on his promise to take public money if McCain did (a blatant lie, covered up by the 'unbiased' media)
b) enabling massive donation fraud on its website, as documented by the Washington Post.
Change you can believe in!!!!
Posted by pontificus at 10/31/2008 @ 3:17pm
Change you can believe in!!!!
Posted by pontificus at 10/31/2008 @ 3:17pm | ignore this person | warn this person
Bait and Switch.....ain't it a shame Ponti..........BTW....whats the official flipflop count between the two candidates?
Posted by OneVote at 10/31/2008 @ 3:20pm
Whattsa matta PONTIFICUS, no comment on Rev Moon? I would think that a cult that controls a print media outlet, has controlling interest in UPI, wants to install a theocracy in the US, keeps women as sex slaves and has connections to N. Korea ...
would be right up your alley!
Posted by crabwalk at 10/31/2008 @ 3:24pm
RED, the only people that use the terms "The One" and "Messiah" are the rabid right, ie, you. Why is it that on one hand you await the return of Jesus, The Messiah, but on the other you use that term to mock an upstanding member of society, a fellow Christian? Who on the left have you ever heard use messianic language regarding Obama?
President Barak Hussein Obama.
Rolling off the tongue, don't you think?
President Barak Hussein Obama.
Europe wants him
China wants him
S. America wants him
51% of Americans want him
the rabid right is afraid of all of those folk so rather than learn to get along, they will attack! attack! attack!
Posted by crabwalk at 10/31/2008 @ 3:28pm
Posted by OneVote at 10/31/2008 @ 3:20pm
"Bait and Switch.....ain't it a shame Ponti..........BTW....whats the official flipflop count between the two candidates?"
I've got it at about 9-0 Obama. Obama was against the Surge before it succeeded, now he's for it, kinda, as long as he doesn't have to admit he was wrong. Then he wanted to invade Pakistan, now maybe, not so much. He's always wanted to withdrawal 'immediately' from Iraq, now he says he wants to do it 'responsibly'. He's voted for every gun control bill ever to cross his desk, now he 'believe's in the 2nd Amendment', whatever the fuck that means. I haven't seen this level of cynicism of the candidate and kool-aid swilling of his slavish cult since, well...Bill Clinton!
Posted by pontificus at 10/31/2008 @ 3:29pm
Anyone like the conservative or moderate media representatives or a lowly plumber who chooses to oppose the disinformation campaign of Obamanation will feel his wrath fulforce! It is a fact, just ask them!
Posted by RedRiver_. at 10/31/2008 @ 3:19pm
"The Plumbers and Pipe Fitters union (UA) has endorsed Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) in the 2008 presidential race.
UA President William Hite said the endorsement, announced yesterday, was due to Obama's record of service to working families.
Barack Obama is the UA's choice because he has always fought for working people throughout his career and will do the best job of bringing badly needed change to Washington "
Or are you writing about plumbers that are not licensed and don't actually have the money to open their own shop?
Posted by crabwalk at 10/31/2008 @ 3:33pm
Posted by pontificus at 10/31/2008 @ 3:29pm
So, from your perspective, John McCain has not changed his position on any issues? None?
Hey! how often do you attend Unification Church services?
Posted by crabwalk at 10/31/2008 @ 3:34pm
Posted by crabwalk at 10/31/2008 @ 3:33pm
"Barack Obama is the UA's choice because he has always fought for working people throughout his career and will do the best job of bringing badly needed change to Washington ""
Uh, yeah, and I'll bet that Obama's pledge to strip workers of the right to a private unionization vote has something to do with the endorsement, too, eh? Nothing like a little intimidation and harassment to 'persuade' people to vote for the union, eh CRABBIE?
You know, it's the casual thuggery and acquiesence in same that makes me consider you and people like you to be lower than scum.
Posted by pontificus at 10/31/2008 @ 3:37pm
Posted by RedRiver_. at 10/31/2008 @ 3:49pm
The Obamessiah has no need for people don't understand the greater cause. Besides, it's only a coincidence that the three non-cult members were kicked off the plane.
Posted by pontificus at 10/31/2008 @ 3:51pm
it's only a coincidence that the three non-cult members were kicked off the plane.
Posted by pontificus at 10/31/2008 @ 3:51pm
They don't belong to Rev Moons Unification Church? What does that have to do with the choice of a private entity to limit access to their private jet?
RED- If Joe is upset about the media attention he is recieving, and the intrusiuon into his private life, maybe he should take that up with the Joe The (unlicensed) Plumber Campaign within the Palin/McCain ticket.
Posted by crabwalk at 10/31/2008 @ 4:10pm
Posted by lvliberty1 at 10/31/2008 @ 4:04pm
It's not a question of his being a "real" Christian, as PONTI and friends have taught us, it's about the "associations" of conservatives. The public has a righ to know about such things, dontja know? What does it tell us about cons that associate with child molesters and jailbirds? It would be moot but for the 3 months of Bill Ayers we have had to put up with.
Grass houses and stowed thrones.
Posted by crabwalk at 10/31/2008 @ 4:14pm
riiiiggghhhhttttt.....Is that why folks within your own party are calling her a whackjob, a rogue, a diva and not listening to what she is being told? Is that why she continues to drone on and on about the clothes she wears when everyone else has moved on? Is that why she has presidential asperations for 2012? Keep lying to yourself McCain its been working so far!
Posted by jloughry1976 at 10/31/2008 @ 4:15pm
Sorry about the spelling in those last posts... hurrying to get my 2C in before I leave the comp.
Posted by crabwalk at 10/31/2008 @ 4:16pm
The GOP was "...moderate [in] the past 8 years"? Wow! What does extremism look like, then?
Posted by asian_observer at 10/31/2008 @ 4:20pm
Posted by pontificus at 10/31/2008 @ 3:17pm
So, PONTI...you now a fan of
Campaign Finance Reform?!?!??!
heheh
Posted by Maskdelta at 10/31/2008 @ 4:26pm
Conservatives will rally around a Gov Palin or someone similar.----Posted by lvliberty1 at 10/31/2008 @ 4:01pm
What if it's Mitt Romney?!?!??
heheh
Posted by Maskdelta at 10/31/2008 @ 4:27pm
Posted by RedRiver_. at 10/31/2008 @ 4:18pm
If I decide to wonder about the country as a prop for a candidate, you no doubt will find out all. It's called "celebrity" status.
If someone illegally accessed his information they should be prosecuted. Can you say the asme for HS?
Posted by crabwalk at 10/31/2008 @ 5:07pm
jeez...
"wander"..
Posted by crabwalk at 10/31/2008 @ 5:10pm
Ponti, what happened to all the Native Americans if it was not genocide?
Why won't you comment on the cult that props up the conservative cause?
why do you run away so much?
Posted by crabwalk at 10/31/2008 @ 5:20pm
Former sec. of state and McCain supporter Eagleburger says Palin not ready for top job
By Associated Press | Friday, October 31, 2008 | http://www.bostonherald.com | Campaign 2008 WASHINGTON - A former secretary of state and supporter of Republican presidential nominee John McCain says that McCain's running mate, Sarah Palin, isn't up to the task of taking over the presidency in a crisis but could become "adequate" if not "a genius in the job."...........
Posted by OneVote at 10/31/2008 @ 5:23pm
Posted by pontificus at 10/31/2008 @ 3:17pm
So, PONTI...you now a fan of
Campaign Finance Reform?!?!??!
heheh
Posted by Maskdelta at 10/31/2008 @ 4:26pm | ignore this person | warn this person
Sure Ponti is for it...just as long as there are no restrictions on the fund raising and spending of the RNC on political campaigns.
Posted by OneVote at 10/31/2008 @ 5:28pm
Why is Obama removing hostile press from his plane? A valid question, except for those that have been full fledged supporters of Bush for 8 years.
Why does Palin not engage with the press at all?
How did Jeff Gannon ( guckert) get a press pass? Why was he allowed to ask softball questions while other reporters were sidelined?
Why did Bush dis Helen Thomas so bad?
Why did Bush set up "free speech zones " within the United States of America?
why did Bush want to "create his own reality"?
Why did Bush use illegal propaganda to further his education agenda?
Why did VP Cheney use the press to attack a covert CIA agent?
why did all the so called Patriots go along with it but now all of a sudden they care about Rev Moons paper being removed from a private plane?
Posted by crabwalk at 10/31/2008 @ 5:31pm
Why did veterans and the supporters of our military stand by idle while Patrick Tillman and Jessica Lynch were used for propaganda of a government? Not actually idle, they actively attacked those that questioned the Bush admin, those that turned out to be right!!
Posted by crabwalk at 10/31/2008 @ 5:34pm
"Conservatives will rally around a Gov Palin or someone similar."
posted by LL
You mean they would rally around an empty-headed twit who even GOP insiders say isn't fit for the job - because she presents the right "moral base"? Apparently she's not the only whack-job in the house.
Ponti ..... McSame has a long and rich history of flip-flops..if we look at http://www.bi30.org/wordpress/flipflopper.htm Gramps has passed 100 easily.
Posted by leftofcenter at 10/31/2008 @ 6:02pm
".....rather than one that tries to be moderate like the past 8 years."
the quote of the month
Posted by darladoon at 10/31/2008 @ 7:07pm
"the quote of the month"
Posted by darladoon at 10/31/2008 @ 7:07pm
Quote of the fucking year.
Posted by Darth_Vulgar at 10/31/2008 @ 7:42pm
either ponti, red, lvl, etc. really want a quasi-fascitic gov't that represses basic personal liberties of those who voice any sort of dissent in this country, kill the dissenters in other countries, turns control of all basic services over to profit driven industrial giants, promotes thinly veiled oppression of anyone making LESS than 250,000$, spys on and arrests people at will and with out due process or evidence, etc --- or they are just f-ing with us because antagonizing others is the only satisfaction they can wrest from their pathetically sad and miserable lives. whatever the case, they are simply afraid of not being in total control over their own lives, which, perhaps ironically, has grossly inflated their egos to a size that prevents any sort of healthy self-appraisal of the morality of their thoughts, actions, and beliefs. lets be honest, there are those on the far left who suffer in the same way. my experience has taught me that we ought not toss these unfortunates aside like so much filth, but be aware of their illness, and be there for them when the hard facts of reality come crashing in, so that they may have a shoulder to lean on while they pick up the pieces of their shattered sanity. i've been an extremist, it is total misery.
fortunately, all the numbers from all the different sources tell that 25% or less of the nation (roughly equal % support the far left i'd imagine) actually support the right wings regressionist, fear inspired, faith-LESS philosophy. 25% is still alot, however. at least we're still free to be disgusted by the philosophy without being killed in the streets, as happened in all the rightwing nations that have briefly (thank god) existed on this planet.
Posted by skawtee at 10/31/2008 @ 8:11pm
Gee that's funny...
Maybe before he talks about how much uniting this awful woman has done, he should ask independent voters in PA (like MYSELF) who are now voting for Barack Obama ONLY because he picked a flaky religious fanatic as his running mate.
Have fun losing Nov. 4th John McCain, you deserve it! If only you had demonstrated something even slightly resembling a spine, morals, or dignity, you'd have gotten elected.
At least LVLIBERTY, PONTIFICUS, and the rest of the 25% can squawk about how the election was stolen LOL. Oh the irony, it's delicious.
Posted by TexasFlood at 10/31/2008 @ 9:17pm
Posted by leftofcenter at 10/31/2008 @ 6:02pm
Why, that's exactly what he means!
i.e. they'll vote for anybody so long as they talk about Jesus and abortion.
After all those things have SO much to do with the executive branch....
Sucks for Ms. Palin though, I know how much she must have been looking forward to...being in charge of the senate?!?!?!?!
LOL!
Posted by TexasFlood at 10/31/2008 @ 9:19pm
So how many staunchly republican voters that post here spent their time during the 2000 primaries calling John McCain a flip-flopper, or questioning his war record?
Let's not even go into the fact that he hired the very people that spent all that time discrediting him, to work on his campaign!
Posted by TexasFlood at 10/31/2008 @ 9:30pm
Posted by OneVote at 10/31/2008 @ 5:23pm
Don't forget about Sen. John Ensign (R-NV)....supposedly a McCain ally...
said the same thing about Palin!!!!
Posted by Maskdelta at 10/31/2008 @ 9:46pm
You know, it's the casual thuggery and acquiesence in same that makes me consider you and people like you to be lower than scum. Posted by pontificus at 10/31/2008 @ 3:37pm
People like me? Why do you hate gun owners?
Or do I misread you and you agree that people like me create jobs, breed technology and change the world?
Business Week.com
One of algae's great virtues is that the plant has so little in common with other sources of fuel. Unlike cornfields that are harvested to produce ethanol, algae farms don't require huge volumes of freshwater, nor do they tie up land that could be used for food crops. Algae flourish in saltwater or even wastewater and grow up to 40 times faster than other plants. Compared with current energy crops, algae have "the potential to deliver 10 or 100 times more energy per acre," says Ron C. Pate, a technical expert at Sandia National Labs. That's why industrial giants ranging from Chevron (CVX ) to Honeywell (HON ) to Boeing (BA ) are starting up algae business units. "In the past two years, we have changed from algae skeptics to proponents," says Dave Daggett, Boeing's technology leader for energy and emissions.
http://tinyurl.com/6q58uz
Posted by crabwalk at 10/31/2008 @ 10:03pm
Weelllllll...well. If Erica Jong and Zogby are right, it's soon be open season on America-hating leftists. I'm stocking up on ammo myself, might not get this chance for awhile.
....
ZOGBY SATURDAY: McCain outpolled Obama 48% to 47% in Friday, one day, polling. He is beginning to cut into Obama's lead among independents, is now leading among blue collar voters, has strengthened his lead among investors and among men, and is walloping Obama among NASCAR voters. Joe the Plumber may get his license after all...
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Erica Jong Tells Italians Obama Loss 'Will Spark the
Second American Civil War. Blood Will Run in the Streets' by Jason Horowitz | October 30, 2008
Erica Jong, 1976. Getty Images Erica Jong, 1976.
It seems that the final days of the presidential campaign have made Erica Jong and her friends more than a little anxious.
A few days ago, Jong, the author and self-described feminist, gave an interview to the Italian daily Corriere della Sera, the choicest bits of which were brought to my attention by the reliably sharp-eyed Christian Rocca, the U.S. correspondent of Il Foglio, who published excerpts on his Camillo blog. Basically, Jong says her fear that Obama might lose the election has developed into an "obsession. A paralyzing terror. An anxious fever that keeps you awake at night." She also says that her friends Jane Fonda and Naomi Wolf are extremely worried that Obama will be sabotaged by Republican dirty tricks, and that if an Obama loss indeed comes to pass, the result will be a second American Civil War.
Posted by pontificus at 10/31/2008 @ 10:43pm
Obama will not take away anyone's guns and McCain will not stop abortion. The difference is that we on the left know this is true while those on the right, even after their party was in control for SIX YEARS without an inch of real movement on abortion keeps believing that the Republican Party is committed to ending it.
That, or the dopes have never read Roe vs Wade and don't realize overturning it only tosses the issue back to the states-most of which will never make abortion illegal.
They will put our beloved country in the hands of an angry,tired old man and anti-intellectual,incompetent woman because they are to damn lazy to do their homework.
Posted by eggman at 10/31/2008 @ 10:49pm
Posted by pontificus at 10/31/2008 @ 10:43pm
The return of GuantanaMouse!
Lover of Moonies, hater of cults.
Posted by crabwalk at 10/31/2008 @ 10:58pm
I'm bettin' that Guantanamouse would be lucky to graze the broadside of the Superdome if someone were so silly as to place a firearm in his paws.
Drudge Report: "An 8-year-old boy in Westfield, Mass., died after accidentally shooting himself in the head while firing an Uzi submachine gun under adult supervision"
See that Ponti...The cultists killed a small boy by letting him fire a fully automatic gun! What kind of indoctrination would lead a parent do do such a thing! The parents are linked to the NRA and McCain is linked to the NRA, therefore using Pontiflogic we can say that McCain killed this boy via cultist indoctrination!!!!
oooohhhh, say it ain't so Ponti!!!
Posted by crabwalk at 10/31/2008 @ 11:06pm
Speaking of France, whoever was filling in for Michael Savage on the AM radio Wednesday night was saying that the brilliant and wonderful Sarkozy of France was criticizing Obama as in "see, the smart French President guy agrees with us McCannanites, Obama is a loser".
Alas how quickly the right wing forgot their freedom fries!
Inconsistency is the one constant with these guys.
Posted by Pogge at 10/31/2008 @ 11:10pm
Posted by crabwalk at 10/31/2008 @ 10:03pm
I don't have much time for your stupidity, CRABBIE but I'll feed you a few clues. They are:
- Mandatory internet censorship in Australia - what we can expect here if Obama/Pelosi/Reid et al get ahold of our government and institute the 'Fairness Doctrine' as they have pledged they will (the reason why the MSM has sold out their last shred of credibility in this election, by the way)
- Iraqi/North Korean/Soviet style union elections here in the US - courtesy of the Democrats stripping workers of their right to a private union vote via the 'Employee Free Choice Act' - as promised by Obama to the unions as payoff for their support in this election
By the way, good for you if you own a firearm. You're going to need it - IF Obama gets elected.
Posted by pontificus at 10/31/2008 @ 11:15pm
*By the way, good for you if you own a firearm. You're going to need it - IF Obama gets elected.
Posted by pontificus at 10/31/2008 @ 11:15pm*
Is it just me or does this paranoid rant get trotted out about every single Democratic candidate?
Posted by yutsano at 10/31/2008 @ 11:21pm
As a mom with a ten year old who is set to take hunter safety next year I was horrified that any idiot would let their child play with an Uzi.(Yes, play, since there is no legitimate reason an 8 year old needs to use an Uzi).
I remember a guy back in the eighties who taught his four year old to roll joints because wasn't it cool that little Max was just like daddy.
Watching this poor kid's brainiac of a father on youtube you can almost see him digging for the video camera so he could catch his cool little kid shooting his first machine gun.
What an ass. If we really want to reduce gun deaths forget about licensing the guns and concentrate on strict licensing to keep morons, psychopaths and felons from owning them.
Posted by Pogge at 10/31/2008 @ 11:23pm
Lets play a game of Find the Fucknuts Ponti.
You went first, albeit missing the gist...
Now I'll go...
[JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- An election threat scribbled on the bathroom wall of a Florida high school promises violence if Sen. Barack Obama is elected president.
The message said "If Obama is elected as president, the new KKK is going to blow up the school," reported WJXT-TV in Jacksonville, Fla.[
hmmm, that one could be hoaxish...
how about another stab?
[Tuesday, October 14, 2008 9:55 PM EDT Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin brought her version of the "Straight Talk Express" to Northeast Pennsylvania today, wowing thousands of supporters during a rally in Scranton.
....There were no incendiary outbursts from the crowd about Mr. Obama during Mrs. Palin's speech, as there have been during other recent McCain-Palin rallies.
However, someone did shout out, "Kill him!" during Republican congressional candidate Chris Hackett's remarks before Mrs. Palin took the stage.]
[When Mr. McCain asked at one event this week "Who is the real Barack Obama?", someone in the crowd responded, "Terrorist." At a Palin rally, an audience member shouted "Kill him!" when she mentioned Mr. Ayers' ties to Mr. Obama]
Posted by crabwalk at 10/31/2008 @ 11:27pm
pont-
Who is going to take away our guns?
Historically it's the right wing nationalists, for the most part, who take away the guns.
To be fair though, right wing nationalist also kill the smart people first so I can easily see why right wingers feel safer in Republican hands. The death toll would be minimal.
But seriously, who exactly is going to physically take our weapons? I have been a Liberal my whole life and have yet to catch even a hint of this army of peaceniks among us who plan to join forces with Pelosi and Reid to beat my .38 into plowshares.
Come on, it's stupid, paranoid rhetoric that even Wayne LaPierre doesn't really believe.
Posted by Pogge at 10/31/2008 @ 11:30pm
*By the way, good for you if you own a firearm. You're going to need it - IF Obama gets elected. Posted by pontificus at 10/31/2008 @ 11:15pm*
Why is that? To put you down like Olde Yeller?
I can see you foaming at the mouth muttering "President Barak Hussein Obama..... Ayers..... terrorist..... cultists...aaagghh"
Posted by crabwalk at 10/31/2008 @ 11:32pm
Ponti, did you see this news story? It is about some more people you think were going to dirty bomb you. They are some of the "most vicious" held in Cuba...
[SAN JUAN -- The U.S. military abruptly dropped charges against five Guantanamo Bay detainees, including one who allegedly plotted to detonate a "dirty bomb" in the U.S., after a prosecutor accused the military of suppressing evidence that could have helped clear them.]
The PROSECUTOR alleged that there was suppression of evidence. Why would they do that Ponti? Does the prosecutor picked by the DoD hate America?
[Air Force Maj. David Frakt, the lead defense attorney in another case that was being prosecuted by Vandeveld, said the Pentagon's action is "a recognition of the validity of Vandeveld's concerns." He said the Pentagon was also suffering the consequences of rushing cases.
"In the relentless push to bring charges to trial against as many people as possible prior to the election, many detainees were charged before the prosecution was ready," Frakt said.]
Posted by crabwalk at 10/31/2008 @ 11:40pm
All this race war crap is annoying the hell out of me. If I am going to become a hater-unlikely, but possible, Sarah Palin might put me over the edge on this one-I'm going to turn on the trust fund babies and start a class war.
Makes more sense. Probably more fun too.
Posted by Pogge at 10/31/2008 @ 11:45pm
Pogge
A brief story about Tom Joyce:
"He is to make a lecturn for the United Nations World Center in San Francisco, commissioned in celebration of the UN Diamond Jubilee. The lecturn is to be especially symbolic: Hephaistos readers will recall the baptismal font constructed from a collection of separately made pieces that we featured in 11/2 (1994). The UN lecturn will also be composed by assembling many separate pieces. But the elements from which it will be assembled will be small pieces of dismantled nuclear weapons from the United States and the [former] Soviet Union. "
http://www.artmetal.com/files/imported/
project/News/Hephaist/JoyceTom.html
Posted by crabwalk at 10/31/2008 @ 11:49pm
Is it just me or does this paranoid rant get trotted out about every single Democratic candidate? Posted by yutsano at 10/31/2008 @ 11:21pm
From freerepublic:
"I bought a Glock for my daughter after Bill Clinton was elected but before his inauguration. I told her it was a Christmas present from Bill Clinton. I suspect the same thing is happening now, even before the election. Right now I can't afford another gun, but I may have to re-think that if it looks like Obanalamadingdong is really going to make it. Also, I may buy more ammo. BLOAT! "
47 posted on September 8, 2008 1:38:49 PM PDT by JoeFromSidney
Posted by crabwalk at 11/01/2008 @ 12:02am
According to FBI stats, in 1999 murder rates were the lowest level since 1969.
Under Clinton.
But the cons were still afraid.
Posted by crabwalk at 11/01/2008 @ 12:06am
Crabby,
I swear, I have never had an anti-abortion voter tell me how-as a practical matter-they would enforce anti-abortion laws or a gun nut tell me how the ubiquitous "they" will collect all our guns. I've concluded that some people just like being hostile and paranoid. If the wingies around here are any indication it is because there is very little passion in their relationships, hobbies or jobs. Even their religion is less than robust with a wussy little god who really, really needs their help to accomplish anything and a devil who is nearly all powerful.
I'm a Christian, a mom, a gun owner, a carnivore, a member of a military family and yet these folks and I have no common ground. It's just plain strange.
They are a death cult unto themselves.
Posted by Pogge at 11/01/2008 @ 12:22am
Nice to be back, but I gotta go to bed. Buh bye
Posted by Pogge at 11/01/2008 @ 12:22am
I look for Palin to totally throw McCain under the bus and blame any of her campaign embarrassments on him and his staff. She has already blamed her handlers for making her look bad.
She can change the perception that she is incompetent. But, how can she remain relevant? It's bad enough being from Alaska, but in 4 years she may not even be the Governor anymore.
Posted by koroviev at 11/01/2008 @ 01:42am
Posted by crabwalk at 10/31/2008 @ 11:32pm |
Unless he wants to be painted as a total hypocrite (after his Rush-inspired post on Erica Jong)...
only reason I can think for PONTI's comment about "needing a firearm if Obama is elected" is...
to stick the barrel in his mouth.
Hope not, he'd be so much fun to have around for the next 4-8 years.
Posted by Maskdelta at 11/01/2008 @ 08:55am
Posted by koroviev at 11/01/2008 @ 01:42am
Koro, you're not up on Palin's "ingenious 2012 strategy"
1. Get Stevens elected.
2. Get Stevens to resign.
3. Name a schlub to fill his spot.
4. Beat schulb for GOP nomination during special election.
5. Win special election to much Media fanfare.
6. Begin 2012 campaign for GOP nomination the next day!
BTW, I wonder if Larry Eagleburger will change his opinion of Palin back (again)?
Posted by Maskdelta at 11/01/2008 @ 08:58am
Maybe Ponti is onto something with this Khalidi character:
Richmond Democrat
"During the 1990s, while he served as chairman of the International Republican Institute (IRI), McCain distributed several grants to the Palestinian research center co-founded by Khalidi, including one worth half a million dollars.
A 1998 tax filing for the McCain-led group shows a $448,873 grant to Khalidi's Center for Palestine Research and Studies for work in the West Bank. (See grant number 5180, "West Bank: CPRS" on page 14 of this PDF.)
The relationship extends back as far as 1993, when John McCain joined IRI as chairman in January. Foreign Affairs noted in September of that year that IRI had helped fund several extensive studies in Palestine run by Khalidi's group, including over 30 public opinion polls and a study of "sociopolitical attitudes."
I think John McCain needs to prove that none of the money he steered to Rashid Khalidi was used to purchase weapons. I wonder how many Israelis were killed by John McCain's donations to "PLO sympathizer" Rashid Khalidi."
Juan Cole
"McCain is bringing up Khalidi in order to scare Jewish voters about Obama's associations, and it is an execrable piece of McCarthyism and in fact much worse than McCarthyism since it is not about ideology but rather has racial overtones. Not allowed to pal around with Arab-Americans, I guess. What other ethnic groups should we not pal around with, from McCain's point of view? Is there a list? Are some worse than others?
Ironically, as the Huffington Post showed, while John McCain was chairing the International Republican Institute, he gave over $400,000 to Rashid Khalidi's Center for Palestine Research and Studies for work in the West Bank. "
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what was that about Kool-aid?
Posted by crabwalk at 11/01/2008 @ 10:13am
McCain and Palin HAVE united the Republican party! The proof is in the dirty vicious lieing attacks of the leftwingnuts and the Liberal National Media Undemocratic party slaves!
Anyone like the conservative or moderate media representatives or a lowly plumber who chooses to oppose the disinformation campaign of Obamanation will feel his wrath fulforce! It is a fact, just ask them!
Posted by RedRiver
I guess that's why all the rats are deserting the ship...right RedRiver??????? I just love seeing the foam drip from you 'rabid right wing lunatic's' lips when you speak of a terrible 'LIBERAL'!!!! Ahh! You always run screaming from the room in horror!
Posted by ganddw42 at 11/01/2008 @ 10:14am
BTW, I wonder if Larry Eagleburger will change his opinion of Palin back (again)?
Posted by Maskdelta at 11/01/2008 @ 08:58am | warn this person
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/10/31/172738/35
Did he have a gun to his head?
Posted by OneVote at 11/01/2008 @ 12:09pm
You're going to need it - IF Obama gets elected. Posted by pontificus at 10/31/2008 @ 11:15pm*
don't point it at your temple, put the barrel in your mouth, more reliable.
Posted by emile duBois at 11/01/2008 @ 12:29pm
Don't forget about Sen. John Ensign (R-NV)....supposedly a McCain ally...
said the same thing about Palin!!!!
Posted by Maskdelta at 10/31/2008 @ 9:46pm | ignore this person | warn this person
'Ensign heads the Republican Senatorial Campaign Committee, the group responsible for recruiting the party's Senate candidates and raising money for them. The committee is trying to fight off a Democrat surge that could steal GOP seats and give Democrats a controlling 60-40 majority in the Senate.'
Excerpt from:
Ensign: Palin not ready for presidency By KATHLEEN HENNESSEY Associated Press Writer Article Launched: 10/31/2008 04:36:29 PM PDT - MercuryNews.Com
No retraction here?.....Eagleburger is like Mooseburger - can be readily molded into a variety of shapes and forms before cooking and consumption and in some cases eaten raw....but his moments of candor without censure are appreciated.
"Eagleburger questioned the timing of possible military action in Iraq, saying, "I am not at all convinced now that this is something we have to do this very moment."[4] He did indicate he believed that Iraqi regime change could be a legitimate US endeavor at some point, but that at that time he did not believe the administration was fully prepared for such a conflict.[5"
Source: Wikipedia
Posted by OneVote at 11/01/2008 @ 12:34pm
*By the way, good for you if you own a firearm. You're going to need it - IF Obama gets elected.
Posted by pontificus at 10/31/2008 @ 11:15pm
Oh puh-leeeeeze.
Sir, you are so DUMB, you named yourself pontificus, which I'm assuming is a play on pontificate.
One would have to guess you don't even know what "pontificate" actually means, since it is certainly not a POSITIVE word.
Get yourself a dictionary, and stop making idle threats, you silly, and most assuredly fat and lazy, lunatic.
Posted by TexasFlood at 11/01/2008 @ 12:39pm
>>>I said the other day and I repeat; Conservatives will rally around a Gov Palin or someone similar. Conservatives made a determination following the loss in 64 that seemed to have paid off pretty well. I would rather see a smaller GOP that loses a few elections on principle rather than one that tries to be moderate like the past 8 years.
Posted by lvliberty1 at 10/31/2008 @ 4:01pm<<<
LVL,
Unless the GOP moves left, it will be a "permanent minority party".
The middle class is tired of being fooled by trickle-down policies that favor the wealthy, and as a "PARTY OF THE WEALTHY" there are simply not enough votes to be viable as a political party in the US.
Reagan was able to fool middle class voters to vote against their economic interest with Rove/Atwater "politics of distraction". These voters have now wised up and will not be fooled again with distraction politics, forcing Republicans to move left to address middle class concerns in a substantive way.
I have said over a year ago that an Obama presidency will pull the GOP to the left. It looks like that is still the case as the hard-right base simply doesn't have enough votes.
Democrats + moderate Republicans + independents = New Progressive Majority that will govern for decades!
As Obama said years ago:
Politics is a game of ADDITION, not subtraction or breaking even!
Posted by Metteyya at 11/01/2008 @ 12:48pm
You have got to wonder if Palin wasn't asked to quit the ticket weeks ago on her "own volition" but refused, and threatened to create a "base" alienating scandal if forced out. When party elders are voting no confidence, you have to suspect some pretty interesting internecine squabbles are going on in the "United GOP Party."
Posted by OneVote at 11/01/2008 @ 12:54pm
Posted by OneVote at 11/01/2008 @ 12:54pm
Did Lawrence Eagleburger "screw up"?....or tell the truth on purpose to sabotage McCain-Palin because eve HE is scared of her being a 72 year old heartbeat away?
Posted by Maskdelta at 11/01/2008 @ 1:28pm
Posted by Metteyya at 11/01/2008 @ 12:48pm
Eh, I don't think the middle class is tired of anything. Even if they are, they don't seem to smart enough to do anything about it.
They're just voting for one shill as opposed to the other.
Do you really and truly believe that BO will bring about some transformation in the way that Washington does business? That the Democratic party is going to do something it hasn't done since god knows, that is to act like morally responsible adults that care about the well-being of their countrymen? Just because the Dems appeal to a different constituency does not mean they're going to do a better job.
Granted they may not start any unending wars (it appears they won't STOP any either), and they have less of a likelihood of spending us into oblivion (maybe).
Gee, hopefully Obama can institute some disgustingly bureaucratic nationalized healthcare while our country is financially crippled!
GOOD IDEA!
Posted by TexasFlood at 11/01/2008 @ 1:35pm
Stop lying to yourselves, Democrats are rich, opportunistic, greedy fat cats as much as the Republicans are!
Posted by TexasFlood at 11/01/2008 @ 1:36pm
For 26 years John McCain's been SPREADS AMERICA'S WEALTH to FLDS polygamists in Colorado City, Arizona who practice tyranny over women and children and receive 25-30 million a year in taxpayer handouts.
Watch the video:
http://www.bankingonheaven.com/
Posted by XPolygamistWife at 11/01/2008 @ 2:52pm
If by 'united' they mean that all the drooling, fundamentalist, in the closet, hypocritical, close minded, racist, self centered, fearful, war mongering, mean spirited, name calling, mud slinging people that George Bush called his 'base'... the have's and the have-mores...
...If you mean that Sarah Palin 'united' THAT party, well, at least we can identify them by their bumper stickers.
Posted by ficheye at 11/01/2008 @ 4:04pm
Uh, yeah, and I'll bet that Obama's pledge to strip workers of the right to a private unionization vote has something to do with the endorsement, too, eh? Nothing like a little intimidation and harassment to 'persuade' people to vote for the union, eh CRABBIE? You know, it's the casual thuggery and acquiesence in same that makes me consider you and people like you to be lower than scum.
Pontificus
Moves to ensure free choice on union membership wouldn't be needed if American companies didn't have a record of intimidation and harassment and opposition toward union drives. Private security companies like Wackenhut have been used to intimidate workers and suppress union membership drives.
A law that maintains the secret ballot but curbs corporate intimidation and obstruction of organizing is possible, but I would guess that you are opposed to collective bargaining on principle. Your ideological cousin Lvlib, opined that employers should have the absolute right to hire and fire at will when discussing Palin's human resources choices; but to me that makes ordinary Americans little more than "labor units." Not a basis for us to come together.
Posted by ohsotired at 11/01/2008 @ 4:31pm
Posted by ficheye at 11/01/2008 @ 4:04pm
or the rubber bull testes swinging from the trailer hitch
Posted by leftofcenter at 11/01/2008 @ 7:25pm
BTW, I wonder if Larry Eagleburger will change his opinion of Palin back (again)?
Posted by Maskdelta
I have to view Eagleburger's comments cynnically. He obviously didn't realize telling the truth would hurt McCain so bad, so he recanted.
Also, Palin update...
2 Montreal radio DJ's called Palin as a prank and she chatted with them for 7 minutes without catching on; even when they asked her if she has heard of Hustler's Nailing Palin film or when the Sarkozy imposter told her that his wife was hot in bed.
Posted by koroviev at 11/02/2008 @ 12:11am
It dosent do any good to call Ponti or Redriver names like Wingnut/nutjobs etc... It just reinforces thier need for attention...
BUT its hard not to, when he finds that Mccain didn't Flipflop at all during this campaign (tax cuts for rich come to mind for one) Another AM listener brings up the Mccain plant (proven donor) Lunkhead "Joe The Unlicensed Plummer"... And then points out someone objective like Michelle Malkin said the "LIBRL" media was mean to him.... But Joes privacy is paramount and the rest of the nations privacy dosent mean shit to these people when it comes to wiretapping and abuse of the Homeland sec Act...
Casual Thuggery... HmMMm ... You mean to tell us that the right wing smear machine of AM radio and FOX news is "casual thuggery free" ?? Do your heros from the right "just tell it like it is"..???
ED Rendell HAD to say its too close... Does this not make sense?? If you want your voters to come out for you, you dont tell the masses that "We have this in the bag" Can you not see this....??
AND PONTI.... JEBUS..!! You had better get to your Y2K bunker soon !! your fear mongering is coming to all time HIGH !!! IF OBAMA WINS (insert armageddon scenario here)......
GIVE US A BREAK !!!!!!!
Posted by Vvf1969 at 11/02/2008 @ 01:32am
You know, it's the casual thuggery and acquiesence in same that makes me consider you and people like you to be lower than scum.
Posted by pontificus at 10/31/2008 @ 3:37pm
Ponti, Ponti, Ponti. Man, you've lost your at-best tenuous hold on objective reality, haven't you? I mean, along with Rio (OK, he may never have had such a hold) and Larry. You people are really frothing at the mouth on this particular thread, aren't you? This is really pathetic shit you're spewing here, all the while tying to prove, maybe, that you're a big ol' hard ass tough guy. It's like your utterly dishonorable administration and your equally dishonorable candidates, especially angry old John. Man, with the exception of you whiny righties, I'd guess everyone here sees in 3-D color what a tremendous sense of entitlement you have. Ponti, you want to talk about scum - you support mass murder and torture and you lack the balls to put your own life on the line to fight your own wars, demanding that others do YOUR duty. THAT, you utterly deranged coward, is what scum looks like.
Posted by jmusolino at 11/02/2008 @ 01:44am
Palin has united the religiously intolerant, the borderline intellectually functioning, the bloodthirsty Bambi killers, the blatant and sublime racists, the rabid anti-choice crowd, and the attention seeking Bill-O and Hannity acolytes. That's it in a nutshell. Still that appears to be 41% of the country. Really pretty sad when you think about it...
Posted by jjpound at 11/02/2008 @ 05:03am
Did Lawrence Eagleburger "screw up"?....or tell the truth on purpose to sabotage McCain-Palin because eve HE is scared of her being a 72 year old heartbeat away?
Posted by Maskdelta at 11/01/2008 @ 1:28pm | ignore this person | warn this person
Larry Eagleburger "think tanks"
"He is Chairman of the Board of Trustees for The Forum for International Policy, and a member of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy (WINEP) Board of Advisors."
Source: Wikipedia
I am opting for the "heartbeat away."
Very curious is the tension between "funders" of these neocon think tanks and the united party line dogma. Looks like towing the "party line" was Eagleburger's path of least resistance. Ensign's dilema was the more pragmatic problem of saving congressional seats and from which we apparently had no retraction.
Posted by OneVote at 11/02/2008 @ 09:20am
Posted by jmusolino at 11/02/2008 @ 01:44am
MUSO,
You have all that right.
But let me add a few things: PONTI-FECES is what the Repugs attract these days. PONTI-FECES is the base: Angry, ignorant, unaccomplished, easily manipulated due to his unrestrained prejudices. And all that he says DEMANDS TO BE read through the ASHLEY TODD prism. You recall that TODD walloped herself, even going to the mirror to scar herself with a (reversed) "B" --- and then blamed Obama for it!
In PONTI-FECES's case, we are seeing a 40-something nobody, a never-was-and- never-will-be, who is unrelentingly pompous about his supposed superiority to everyone around him ... precisely because he is TODDing, and it his way of saying "I am GOP. I am limp-dicked. I am inferior".
Or his endlessly smug blather about (giggle giggle) "wealth-creation"? Being of the Repug base, what PONTI-FECES is saying in TODD code is that he has not even been able to open and manage a lemonaid stand without George W Loser-type failures. There is no doubt PONTI-FECES is still living off his parents and their wealth.
PONT-FECES is the kind of self-hating American who devoted all his time after 9/11 thinking ROVIAN, anti-human thoughts, not far removed from sicko BILL O'RIELLY pleading for terror attacks on SF/CA: To wit, PONTI-FECES asked himself, "How can I use this event to my advantage to harrass people of color, like the Mickey D's cashier? And can George W. Failure cash this in in as an electoral winner?"
This kind of despicable trash lurks around the shadows of any society. It is our duty to keep PONTI-FECES and his ilk in their deserved place.
So, PONTI-FECES, be sure not to leave the trailer without peering through the crack in those improvised curtains for signs of black helicopters..
Posted by PhilMcCrevice at 11/02/2008 @ 11:51am
John McCain is a traitor to the United States, who denied his country four days after capture in Viet Nam. Eudcation yourself by reading the facts in his own words in his book. Country First, oh you betcha.
Posted by mcteach at 11/02/2008 @ 1:03pm