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By Charles Krauthammer
WASHINGTON -- Krauthammer's Hail Mary Rule: You get only two per game. John McCain, unfortunately, has already thrown three. The first was his bet on the surge, a deep pass to David Petraeus who miraculously ran it all the way into the end zone.

Then, seeking a game-changer after the Democratic convention, McCain threw blind into the end zone to a waiting Sarah Palin. She caught the ball. Her subsequent fumbles have taken the sheen off of that play, but she nonetheless invaluably solidifies his Republican base. (Read Full Article)

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Posted by: TheEnforcer  
Oct 10, 06:49 AM
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BubbaBob Wrote:
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> To: "TheEnforcer"
>
> You are an idiot. You are pathetic trailer trash.
> Your cognitive weakness insulates you from your
> own stupidity. You aggressively vomit up worthless
> and uninformed opinion and consider it as
> equivalent to reasoned and carefully considered
> dialog. You think it is appropriate to respond to
> reason and logic with vile belligerence. You
> wrongly assume that anyone else in the world might
> see something of value in what issues from your
> keyboard when you pound it with your fists. You,
> and the 10% of the population that is as dumb, or
> dumber, than you, are the cancer that is killing
> this once-great nation. Please go back to watching
> professional wrestling in your trailer and, in the
> future, avoid disrupting adults' discussions.


And by the way:

That description that you have up above?

It describes you.!!!

Ob(s)ama/Bi(nla)den. The ticket to......oblivion.

Posted by: TheEnforcer  
Oct 10, 06:38 AM
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BubbaBob Wrote:
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> To: "TheEnforcer"
>
> You are an idiot. You are pathetic trailer trash.
> Your cognitive weakness insulates you from your
> own stupidity. You aggressively vomit up worthless
> and uninformed opinion and consider it as
> equivalent to reasoned and carefully considered
> dialog. You think it is appropriate to respond to
> reason and logic with vile belligerence. You
> wrongly assume that anyone else in the world might
> see something of value in what issues from your
> keyboard when you pound it with your fists. You,
> and the 10% of the population that is as dumb, or
> dumber, than you, are the cancer that is killing
> this once-great nation. Please go back to watching
> professional wrestling in your trailer and, in the
> future, avoid disrupting adults' discussions.


"What I'say"(Buggs Bunny to Yosemitty Sam when Sam would get "REAL MAD")

Boy, It seems like I hit a raw nerve of truth on you.

You better watch your blood preasure there, boy.

Ob(s)sama/Bi(nla)den)' 08. The ticket to.....oblivion.

Posted by: Murfman  
Oct 10, 05:31 AM
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To "BubbaBob":

It always amuses me when a Democrat like yourself spews bigotry towards others who don't agree with his views. Nine times out of ten, people like you start name calling, from an elitist rooftop when others bring up opposing views.

Your kind always assume that you own the intellectual high ground, far above the ignorant, trailer inhabiting masses.

I guess you've never taken the time to read the news about your fellow Democrats soliciting that very trailer trash, whom you despise, for their votes, eh? I find it interesting that most of the small business owners in America are registered Republicans. Yes, we work so that others will have jobs.

My guess is that you, Bubba Bob, are in a dead end, government position, and would prefer that we, the business owners of the world, the providers, just hand over are hard earned paychecks to the likes of your kind, and then go home to our trailer park and turn on Fox news.

You just may get your socialist medicine, should your party control all of government. Oh, but it won't matter because rather than creating jobs and employing people, you get to bow to your Obama and thank him for giving you your daily bread.

Posted by: BubbaBob  
Oct 09, 08:15 PM
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To: "TheEnforcer"

You are an idiot. You are pathetic trailer trash. Your cognitive weakness insulates you from your own stupidity. You aggressively vomit up worthless and uninformed opinion and consider it as equivalent to reasoned and carefully considered dialog. You think it is appropriate to respond to reason and logic with vile belligerence. You wrongly assume that anyone else in the world might see something of value in what issues from your keyboard when you pound it with your fists. You, and the 10% of the population that is as dumb, or dumber, than you, are the cancer that is killing this once-great nation. Please go back to watching professional wrestling in your trailer and, in the future, avoid disrupting adults' discussions.

Posted by: TheEnforcer  
Oct 09, 02:08 PM
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Hey Folks:

Lets be REAL PATRIOTS and have 100% tax.

Now, that's real PATRIOTIC.

Ob(s)ama/Bi(nla)den, the ticket.......to oblivion.

Posted by: TheEnforcer  
Oct 09, 02:04 PM
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Tib Wrote:
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> MILF Wrote:
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> > Palin is a disaster. Give us a break. If Biden
> or
> > Obama had so many non answers the GOP would be
> up
> > in arms.
> >
> > The irrational right. Voted for Bush and will
> vote
> > for another disaster because they are married
> to
> > their IDEOLOGY.
> > SAD
>
> Dems have been as blind about Obama as Repubs are
> to Palin. The only real difference between them -
> and it's a big difference, granted - is that Obama
> understands the Constitution and is on the right
> side of the angels.


I thought he was a leftist???

So why is HE on the RIGHT side of the (Hell's) angels???

Ob(s)ama/Bi(nla)den, the ticket........to oblivion.

Posted by: TheEnforcer  
Oct 09, 02:00 PM
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anchorcheck Wrote:
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> No Country for Old Men
>
> The following is my answer to another poster on a
> message board which follows the stock of a small
> wind turbine company. The posters are a long time
> established group, familiar with each other, and
> occasionally they get into political discussions.
> One of the posters told me that I should write as
> a commentator. Well, that’s not going to happen,
> but I thought I would post this on a political
> discussion board, where it might create some
> interest.
>
> The exchange started when I said I might move to
> Iceland or Croatia if Obama gets elected. OK, I
> was half joking. But, who knows?
>
> I have embellished my original post to make a
> fuller case, and I am known as a very lengthy
> writer. So, read this if you have the wherewithal
> to get through a long post.
>
>
> RICHIE:
>
> Anchorcheck, get a grip. It would take a massive
> switch to get McCain elected, now.
>
> You need to quit watching FIX news. Could you
> repeat your claim that you would move to Iceland
> if Obama gets elected, for the record?
>
>
> ANCHORCHECK:
>
> Richie, it may look grim for McCain this past
> week, but I just read an article pointing out that
> there has already been a couple of massive swings
> in the polls over the past many weeks.
>
> Remember the "Bradley Effect", too. Try running
> those interactive electoral maps I posted by
> adding in 3 to 5 points for McCain in the
> battleground states. I have. McCain wins. Maybe
> even big.
>
> And then there is the potential movement back to
> McCain. Americans just might still be having some
> considerable misgivings about Obama, as he still
> remains hopelessly vague and quite a mystery man,
> with little accomplishment.
>
> Is Obama the most hard left candidate to ever run
> for the presidency? I think the answer is easily
> yes. This is why the democrats are insisting that
> looking into Obama’s past is “not fair”, or dirty
> politics. But, they sent a few score of lawyers up
> to Alaska to try to uncover dirt on Palin, yet her
> past has been pretty much an open book. Obama’s
> past is filled with radical activist and socialist
> associations. And that is what is being hidden.
> And the media has simply ignored this glaring
> issue.
>
> The democrat’s mantra is "No more Bush!". We have
> heard that stupid mantra from the Bush haters for
> years and years. It is quite tiresome and silly,
> and maybe, just maybe, voters are not capitulating
> into lockstep with these democrat’s delusions that
> Bush is the devil. Some of the democrats even want
> to try Bush for war crimes! Thus, it appears that
> many of the hard left democrats, even Pelosi,
> suffer from ABDS (Anti-Bush Dysfunction Syndrome).
>
>
> Voters may simply not believe that McCain and Bush
> are linked, or that there is anything really
> relevant about hating Bush. As Sarah Palin pointed
> out in her debate, trying to link McCain to hatred
> of Bush is just looking backwards. We need to move
> on. This election is about the future. The country
> faces big issues, and needs sober leadership.
>
> Iraq is not really an issue anymore. Essentially,
> we have won, you know. The “Surge” accomplished
> this, which McCain bravely pushed, while the
> democrats brayed that Iraq was an American defeat,
> and put it front and center as the issue which
> they would use to win the coming presidential
> election.
>
> Well, that scenario didn’t work the way the
> democrats thought it would.
>
> Now, with Iraq, we just need to ensure that we
> don’t snatch defeat from the jaws of victory, and
> withdraw abruptly and give the terrorists a chance
> to undue what our soldiers sacrificed for. That
> would be a travesty for those brave young men and
> women who fought and some who died.
>
> Then there is the factor of the voter’s tradition
> of not giving one party both the presidency AND
> the legislative branch. And you do recall that the
> Congress has a favorable rating close to that of
> Hitler during the battle of Berlin, don't you? Is
> it in the single digits yet? Pelosi is a dried up
> Wicked Witch of the West compared to our perky
> Sarah Palin. Sarah could be wearing ruby slippers,
> maybe, and just needs to click her heels together
> to make things better.
>
> Pelosi actually turned out the lights in Congress
> on those republican congressmen who wanted to
> debate the issue of drilling for oil and gas right
> here in America! She did this even knowing that,
> clearly, the vast majority of Americans want to
> “drill baby drill!”. I think the democrats are so
> enamored of politically correct ideology, that
> they actually want oil prices to remain high, just
> to make their pet alternative energy projects more
> competitive with oil and gas produced right here
> in America! And, unlike Palin and McCain, the
> democrats just don’t want nuclear energy revived.
> The democrats were the ones who killed the nuclear
> energy industry 30 years ago. Now here we are with
> no nuclear pants being built in the past 30 years,
> and France gets 80% of their energy from nuclear!
> That’s what aligning yourself with the
> environmental extremists got them…...and,
> unfortunately, us too!
>
> Everyone is for SANE alternative energy. But the
> logical response to our energy crisis is to use
> true science to find the best methods to
> transition to them, not politically correct
> ideology which seeks to jettison oil, gas, coal
> and nuclear energy. That is just insane.
>
> I am hoping that some type of "Swift Boat"
> campaign will soon be launched to bring out the
> exceedingly strange background of your hero,
> Obama. The media certainly is not doing their job
> in examining Obama’s past. You do realize that he
> has actually had very little experience in
> governance, quite a bit less than Palin, who the
> democrats decry as being woefully
> unqualified…..for the VICE presidency!
>
> Go look up and compare Palin’s political career
> and Obama’s on Wikipedia. Palin started her
> governmental career in 1992 on the Wasila City
> counsel board. Obama was a leftist political
> activist in Chicago at that time. Palin then
> became mayor of Wasila for two terms, while it
> wasn’t until 1997 that Obama became a state
> legislator in Springfield, the Illinois capital.
> Obama served as a state legislator to 2004, then
> ran for US senator. He won that race when his
> campaign successfully got the divorce records of
> his opponent released publicly, and it was
> revealed that his opponent had asked his wife to
> accompany him to a sex club. Obama’s opponent had
> to withdraw from the race over the embarrassment,
> and Obama won easily in the disarray of his
> opponent’s candidacy.
>
> Obama began his senate term in January 2005. In
> February of 2007 he began his campaign for the
> presidency.
>
> Palin’s record is pretty well known, by now, with
> all the scrutiny. Her record has been quite
> transparent, I think. When she won her campaign
> for governor of Alaska on a reform ticket, she
> beat the incumbent republican governor in the
> primary, and then went on to beat a former
> democratic governor of Alaska, even though she was
> greatly outspent by him. Early in her
> governorship, her favorable ratings were polled as
> high as 93%, and she still remains the most
> popular governor in the US, by far.
>
> Here is a question for you. Has there ever been a
> less qualified candidate for president as Obama?
> Has there ever been a candidate which even
> remotely approaches Obama's apparent extreme
> radical background?
>
> You democrats are trying to sabotage Governor
> Palin across the internet and the media as being a
> stupid hick from Alaska. But, she clearly has more
> practical, as well as executive experience, than
> Obama.
>
> Obama's main experience appears to be a very fluid
> familiarity with all things radical, leftist,
> politically correct, and blackly militant.
> Somehow, I don't view that type of background as
> being useful or relevant. In fact, I, and I am
> sure most Americans, view that type of a
> background as being a DISQUALIFICATION to be
> president.
>
> That 20 year dalliance in the Black Liberation,
> "hate whitey" church fits very neatly within
> Obama's history. I am looking for the "swift boat"
> to properly "out" this arrogant leftist in sheep's
> clothing. Then lets do the polls.
>
> The media has simply had a “hands off” approach to
> reporting Obama’s disturbing background. But, you
> can find plenty about it on the internet. Here’s
> two links:
>
> An "Obama Timeline" at:
> [url]http:///id41.html[/url]
>
> A sobering list of "What Obama would do..." at:
> [url]http:///id35.html[/url]
>
>
> There has been very little of an expose of Obama
> which has not been "swiftly" minimalized by the
> Obama fawning media. Take Obama’s association with
> the former Weatherman terrorist, Bill Ayers. The
> media has just dismissed Obama’s quite extensive
> history with this man. From my reading, Obama was
> heavily involved with Bill Ayers in giving tens of
> millions of dollars to schools through a
> foundation which had been set up to improve
> education for kids in Chicago. I’m sure it was
> never the donor’s intent to do this, but Obama and
> Ayers and their colleagues set it up so that all
> that money was channeled to schools ONLY through a
> filter of radical leftist organizations, which the
> schools were forced to associate with, and
> programs were set up to use the funds to teach
> kids about leftist community organizing tactics,
> and America’s supposed racial and social
> injustices. Requests for funds by schools to this
> foundation to teach math and science were ignored
> by Obama and Ayers and the foundation they ran
> together.
>
> Go look this up on the internet yourself. Maybe I
> got some of the details wrong, but this was the
> gist of what I recall. It was called the Annenberg
> Foundation, I believe.
>
> Another point is that we have just had the worst
> run of economic news since the depression, and its
> conceivable that things will quiet down for a few
> weeks before more shoes drop. But, make no mistake
> that we are facing big challenges in the economic
> system.
>
> Putting a radical like Obama in the presidency
> combined with Pelosi in control of the Congress,
> and Biden in control of the Senate, could just
> give them a once in a hundred year opportunity to
> use the country’s worrisome economic straights to
> permanently change the free enterprise system to a
> hard left socialist system, which is what Russia,
> China, and Eastern Europe only recently rejected.
> Socialism and communism just doesn’t work, and the
> Chinese, Russians and Poles know this through
> bitter experience, and finally kicked socialism to
> the curb.
>
> How Ironic if Reagan and Thatcher finally gave the
> knock out blow to communism, only to have a new
> drive towards socialism emerge here a few decades
> later! It is said that the only place where one
> can still find Marxists is on the campuses of
> America and Europe. Most of them are sporting grey
> pony tails.
>
> I admit, it looks grim for McCain at present, but
> it ain't over yet. I am very worried, though.
>
> It does look as though Obama will breeze through
> the election, with essentially no serious
> background check having been done on him by the
> media. And, it is amazing that the media is doing
> such a hatchet job on Alaskan Governor Sarah
> Palin, while giving a total pass to Obama on even
> glancing at his strange past.
>
> Eventually, you won't like what you get with an
> Obama presidency, if Obama breezes to his victory,
> and gets to have his personalized presidential
> seal painted on air force one. (Frankly, I find
> this just as disturbing as Obama’s radical past,
> that he would take the time to design his own,
> personalized, presidential seal. This smacks of
> some kind of extreme egotism or arrogance).
>
> Finally, Obama has one other factor going against
> him. The democrats have a bunch of little lunatic
> bloggers and activists who are constantly being
> mobilized to haunt the call in shows, or to
> literally SHOUT DOWN the opposition. This happened
> to the Milt Rosenberg radio show in Chicago when
> he interviewed an author who has carefully
> researched Obama’s past. And Milt Rosenberg is a
> gracious, extraordinarily gifted intellect, and is
> regarded as one of the smartest men living on the
> planet today. I have listened to him for a few
> decades. He is a retired University of Chicago
> professor of sociology, and a true gift to our
> country. He has interviewed the likes of Henry
> Kissenger, Margaret Thatcher, and a myriad of
> noted authors and intellectuals, and other people
> of note over the past 30 years he has been on the
> radio. He even had Obama on his program a few
> years ago.
>
> Obama’s operatives were instructed to shut down
> Milt’s interview with this author, and they
> literally flooded the Tribune’s radio station,
> WGN, with demands to not carry the interview, and
> then flooded this call in show with callers when
> WGN went ahead with it anyway. You can go to
> wgnradio.com, and click on the Milt Rosenberg
> show, and look up the archived program where this
> occurred. Milt archives most of his shows. They
> are very good.
>
> Milt was aghast at the activity which was swirling
> around his broadcast, and the episode made the
> national news. But, Milt didn’t cave in to the
> Obamabots, as some have nicknamed them.
>
> People see through these type of stalinist
> tactics. It is not attractive, and people get fed
> up quickly with it. Who would want to be governed
> by these pests, anyway? Legions of them would
> infest our government in an Obama presidency.
>
> Maybe Obama was one of these agitators when he
> started out his career as a ‘community organizer’,
> using the tactics invented by the communist
> activist Saul Alinsky. I think this was the case
> if you dig into Obama’s past on the internet.
>
> If McCain wins yet, there will be a massive sigh
> of relief across this nation. You simply do not
> realize how people purposefully hide their more
> traditionalist views from public view. They have
> been conditioned to hide, and only whisper their
> true views to people that they feel are safe to
> expose themselves to. Things may be becoming
> somewhat like living in East Germany when people
> were careful not to reveal themselves to potential
> Stassi informants. I think it could get worse;
> much, much worse under an Obama presidency
> combined with the democrat party in control of
> most other institutions.
>
> Remember, when Obama takes the presidency, the
> hard left democrats will also control the
> following:
>
> Congress
> Senate
> Judiciary
> TV Media
> Most "Talking Head" commentators
> Newspapers and magazines
> Environmental Cause Organizations
> Women's Lib Organizations
> Gay Rights Organizations
> ACLU
> Other Activist Organizations
> Hollywood
> Kindergarten schools
> Grade Schools
> High Schools
> Universities
> Teachers Unions
> Government Workers Unions
> General Unions
> Some Liberal Churches
> National Public Radio
> Public TV
> Most Charitable Organizations
> The United Nations
> Many European National Governments
> The European Union
> Most Actors, Comics, and Musician Celebrities
> etc.....add your own…
>
>
> The only institution that the conservatives have
> is talk radio, and Nancy Pelosi has vowed to shut
> that down once Obama takes the presidency.
>
> If there is some type of modern day "Bradley
> Effect", I suspect it will have more to do with an
> aversion to political correctness than it does
> with not being willing to vote for a black
> candidate.
>
> Finally, regarding my saying I would move to
> Iceland if Obama is elected, that will not be
> easily accomplished. So, no promises. But, if I
> were a young man, and Obama were elected, I would
> absolutely be making every effort to leave this
> country. You democrats have simply destroyed it.
> Your party leaders and a large contingent of its
> voters are simply viscous, malcontent zealots, who
> will stop at NOTHING to get your way of
> transforming this country into your foggy notion
> of a socialist nirvana.
>
> A young man can build a new life in some other
> country where sanity prevails, and political
> zealots don't patrol the airwaves, streets, and
> halls of government power.
>
> If by some miracle, Americans wake up before they
> elect this charlatan Obama to the presidency, I am
> sure that there will be epithets of racism hissed
> through clenched teeth, and a massive screaming
> wail of protest from the democrats, like a spoiled
> brat, red faced, jumping up and down, who didn't
> get her way, despite using her wiliest schemes and
> tactics. Eight years of vilifying Bush, wishing
> for the worst in Iraq, bashing the USA, etc,
> etc.......and all for naught!!
>
> Then, the nightmare beast of the democratic party
> and the political correctness goons will soon gear
> up for the next political Armageddon, plotting
> more voter fraud, and enfranchising more voters
> from the ranks of the felons, illegal aliens and
> what not. They NEVER stop. They are indefatigable.
> They are like a hideous pink bunny, constantly on
> the march. They keep going, and going, and
> going…….
>
> One very key difference between the republicans
> and the democrats is that republicans are just a
> political party, and if they win an election, they
> step into govern the country. The democrats, on
> the other hand, are a true political movement and
> machine. They view themselves as a PROFESSIONAL
> governing class and a mighty, unstoppable cause
> that is destined, by right, to govern the country,
> and to impose their vision of a perfected state of
> governance.
>
> This is a deadly serious cause for democrats, and
> few democratic party operatives have any desire
> for anything other than a political career. They
> are apparatchiks, and have no desire for a life
> outside of political governance. This is the
> reason that the democrats behave the way they do,
> and will literally stop at nothing to achieve
> power. And once they are in power, they will use
> every lever of government to retain power, to
> cement their rule. This is why voter fraud, which
> I think most Americans look upon as anathema, is
> viewed as simply a necessary tactic by democrats.
> It is one means to what they regard as an
> absolutely critical end; their ascension to power.
>
>
> Republicans, if they lose an election, just go
> home and go back to their families and the private
> sector. It is not the end of the world for them,
> at all.
>
> This country has been transformed by the democrats
> and the massive political correctness mania which
> has ensnared every institution I listed above.
>
> The movie "No Country for Old Men" said it all.
> The main character in the movie, an old Texas
> lawman nearing the end of his career, finds that
> he can barely recognize the country he knew as a
> young man. The movie focused on the drug trade
> along the Texas-Mexican border as the evil he
> confronted, along with the broader degradation of
> society.
>
> But, to me, beyond the obvious disintegration of
> civic society in all manner which has occurred ,
> another evil which has transformed the nation is
> the ruthless drive to political power which the
> democrats have exhibited over the past few
> decades, increasing in its ferocity with each
> election cycle. It seems that the democrats will
> literally stop at nothing to gain power. Whether
> it is a war in Iraq which they seemed to have
> taken a “see I told you so” glee when they assumed
> that we would lose, or the current economic dire
> circumstances we face, some of which can
> reasonably be laid at their feet, they never miss
> the chance to turn events into propaganda for
> their cause. It is truly despicable.
>
>
> I have only one conclusion:
>
> An Obama presidency will be a launching pad to
> cement the democratic party into a virtual
> monopoly on political power over the American
> nation which might likely last for generations.
> And, such a monopoly could likely, permanently
> change the nature of the American nation,
> overturning it’s traditions which transformed a
> wilderness continent into the strongest, most
> vibrant nation on earth, and the saving grace of
> the world for the past two centuries.
>
> Truly, it will be “No Country for Old Men”. Or
> young men, either.


Why such a loooooooooooooooooooooooooonnnnnnnnnnnnnnggggggggggggg posting when at least I,
skip over them??????

Posted by: TheEnforcer  
Oct 09, 01:59 PM
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Stewie Wrote:
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> McCain's other Hail Mary was his declaration of
> war on the press. - not the best way to treat your
> so called base.


Base????

What base????

The "PRESS" IS IN THE TANK FOR OB(S)AMA!!!!

Ob(s)ama/Bi(nla)den: The ticket.......to oblivion.

Posted by: Uncle Sam  
Oct 08, 02:22 PM
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DISTRACTIONS FROM THE 'REAL ISSUES':

Rev. Wright: Distraction
Trinity United Church: Distraction
Michelle Obama's comments about her country: Distraction
Barack Obama's comments about small-town America: Distraction
Black Liberation Theology: Distraction
Black Panther Party: Distraction
Minister Louis Farrakhan: Distraction
Nation of Islam: Distraction
Hamas Endorsement: Distraction
Rashid Khailidi: Distraction
Nadmi Auchi: Distraction
Communist Mentor / Pedophile: Distraction
Cocaine Usage: Distraction
Larry Sinclair Drug-Sex Scandal: Distraction
Donald Young Gay Murder Mystery: Distraction
William Ayers: Distraction
Bernardine Dohrn: Distraction
Chicago Annenberg Challenge: Distraction
Saul Alinsky: Distraction
Rules For Radicals: Distraction
ACORN Agenda: Distraction
Marxist Professors: Distraction
Not Wearing Flag Pin: Distraction
Not Placing Hand Over Heart: Distraction
Father Michael Pfleger: Distraction
Muslim Background: Distraction
Tony Rezko Scandal: Distraction

Whew, for a minute there, I thought these might reflect some kind of pattern.
Silly me. More Kool-Aid?

Posted by: anchorcheck  
Oct 07, 07:06 PM
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No Country for Old Men

The following is my answer to another poster on a message board which follows the stock of a small wind turbine company. The posters are a long time established group, familiar with each other, and occasionally they get into political discussions. One of the posters told me that I should write as a commentator. Well, that’s not going to happen, but I thought I would post this on a political discussion board, where it might create some interest.

The exchange started when I said I might move to Iceland or Croatia if Obama gets elected. OK, I was half joking. But, who knows?

I have embellished my original post to make a fuller case, and I am known as a very lengthy writer. So, read this if you have the wherewithal to get through a long post.


RICHIE:

Anchorcheck, get a grip. It would take a massive switch to get McCain elected, now.

You need to quit watching FIX news. Could you repeat your claim that you would move to Iceland if Obama gets elected, for the record?


ANCHORCHECK:

Richie, it may look grim for McCain this past week, but I just read an article pointing out that there has already been a couple of massive swings in the polls over the past many weeks.

Remember the "Bradley Effect", too. Try running those interactive electoral maps I posted by adding in 3 to 5 points for McCain in the battleground states. I have. McCain wins. Maybe even big.

And then there is the potential movement back to McCain. Americans just might still be having some considerable misgivings about Obama, as he still remains hopelessly vague and quite a mystery man, with little accomplishment.

Is Obama the most hard left candidate to ever run for the presidency? I think the answer is easily yes. This is why the democrats are insisting that looking into Obama’s past is “not fair”, or dirty politics. But, they sent a few score of lawyers up to Alaska to try to uncover dirt on Palin, yet her past has been pretty much an open book. Obama’s past is filled with radical activist and socialist associations. And that is what is being hidden. And the media has simply ignored this glaring issue.

The democrat’s mantra is "No more Bush!". We have heard that stupid mantra from the Bush haters for years and years. It is quite tiresome and silly, and maybe, just maybe, voters are not capitulating into lockstep with these democrat’s delusions that Bush is the devil. Some of the democrats even want to try Bush for war crimes! Thus, it appears that many of the hard left democrats, even Pelosi, suffer from ABDS (Anti-Bush Dysfunction Syndrome).

Voters may simply not believe that McCain and Bush are linked, or that there is anything really relevant about hating Bush. As Sarah Palin pointed out in her debate, trying to link McCain to hatred of Bush is just looking backwards. We need to move on. This election is about the future. The country faces big issues, and needs sober leadership.

Iraq is not really an issue anymore. Essentially, we have won, you know. The “Surge” accomplished this, which McCain bravely pushed, while the democrats brayed that Iraq was an American defeat, and put it front and center as the issue which they would use to win the coming presidential election.

Well, that scenario didn’t work the way the democrats thought it would.

Now, with Iraq, we just need to ensure that we don’t snatch defeat from the jaws of victory, and withdraw abruptly and give the terrorists a chance to undue what our soldiers sacrificed for. That would be a travesty for those brave young men and women who fought and some who died.

Then there is the factor of the voter’s tradition of not giving one party both the presidency AND the legislative branch. And you do recall that the Congress has a favorable rating close to that of Hitler during the battle of Berlin, don't you? Is it in the single digits yet? Pelosi is a dried up Wicked Witch of the West compared to our perky Sarah Palin. Sarah could be wearing ruby slippers, maybe, and just needs to click her heels together to make things better.

Pelosi actually turned out the lights in Congress on those republican congressmen who wanted to debate the issue of drilling for oil and gas right here in America! She did this even knowing that, clearly, the vast majority of Americans want to “drill baby drill!”. I think the democrats are so enamored of politically correct ideology, that they actually want oil prices to remain high, just to make their pet alternative energy projects more competitive with oil and gas produced right here in America! And, unlike Palin and McCain, the democrats just don’t want nuclear energy revived. The democrats were the ones who killed the nuclear energy industry 30 years ago. Now here we are with no nuclear pants being built in the past 30 years, and France gets 80% of their energy from nuclear! That’s what aligning yourself with the environmental extremists got them…...and, unfortunately, us too!

Everyone is for SANE alternative energy. But the logical response to our energy crisis is to use true science to find the best methods to transition to them, not politically correct ideology which seeks to jettison oil, gas, coal and nuclear energy. That is just insane.

I am hoping that some type of "Swift Boat" campaign will soon be launched to bring out the exceedingly strange background of your hero, Obama. The media certainly is not doing their job in examining Obama’s past. You do realize that he has actually had very little experience in governance, quite a bit less than Palin, who the democrats decry as being woefully unqualified…..for the VICE presidency!

Go look up and compare Palin’s political career and Obama’s on Wikipedia. Palin started her governmental career in 1992 on the Wasila City counsel board. Obama was a leftist political activist in Chicago at that time. Palin then became mayor of Wasila for two terms, while it wasn’t until 1997 that Obama became a state legislator in Springfield, the Illinois capital. Obama served as a state legislator to 2004, then ran for US senator. He won that race when his campaign successfully got the divorce records of his opponent released publicly, and it was revealed that his opponent had asked his wife to accompany him to a sex club. Obama’s opponent had to withdraw from the race over the embarrassment, and Obama won easily in the disarray of his opponent’s candidacy.

Obama began his senate term in January 2005. In February of 2007 he began his campaign for the presidency.

Palin’s record is pretty well known, by now, with all the scrutiny. Her record has been quite transparent, I think. When she won her campaign for governor of Alaska on a reform ticket, she beat the incumbent republican governor in the primary, and then went on to beat a former democratic governor of Alaska, even though she was greatly outspent by him. Early in her governorship, her favorable ratings were polled as high as 93%, and she still remains the most popular governor in the US, by far.

Here is a question for you. Has there ever been a less qualified candidate for president as Obama? Has there ever been a candidate which even remotely approaches Obama's apparent extreme radical background?

You democrats are trying to sabotage Governor Palin across the internet and the media as being a stupid hick from Alaska. But, she clearly has more practical, as well as executive experience, than Obama.

Obama's main experience appears to be a very fluid familiarity with all things radical, leftist, politically correct, and blackly militant. Somehow, I don't view that type of background as being useful or relevant. In fact, I, and I am sure most Americans, view that type of a background as being a DISQUALIFICATION to be president.

That 20 year dalliance in the Black Liberation, "hate whitey" church fits very neatly within Obama's history. I am looking for the "swift boat" to properly "out" this arrogant leftist in sheep's clothing. Then lets do the polls.

The media has simply had a “hands off” approach to reporting Obama’s disturbing background. But, you can find plenty about it on the internet. Here’s two links:

An "Obama Timeline" at:
http://[colony14.net]/id41.html

A sobering list of "What Obama would do..." at:
http://[colony14.net]/id35.html


There has been very little of an expose of Obama which has not been "swiftly" minimalized by the Obama fawning media. Take Obama’s association with the former Weatherman terrorist, Bill Ayers. The media has just dismissed Obama’s quite extensive history with this man. From my reading, Obama was heavily involved with Bill Ayers in giving tens of millions of dollars to schools through a foundation which had been set up to improve education for kids in Chicago. I’m sure it was never the donor’s intent to do this, but Obama and Ayers and their colleagues set it up so that all that money was channeled to schools ONLY through a filter of radical leftist organizations, which the schools were forced to associate with, and programs were set up to use the funds to teach kids about leftist community organizing tactics, and America’s supposed racial and social injustices. Requests for funds by schools to this foundation to teach math and science were ignored by Obama and Ayers and the foundation they ran together.

Go look this up on the internet yourself. Maybe I got some of the details wrong, but this was the gist of what I recall. It was called the Annenberg Foundation, I believe.

Another point is that we have just had the worst run of economic news since the depression, and its conceivable that things will quiet down for a few weeks before more shoes drop. But, make no mistake that we are facing big challenges in the economic system.

Putting a radical like Obama in the presidency combined with Pelosi in control of the Congress, and Biden in control of the Senate, could just give them a once in a hundred year opportunity to use the country’s worrisome economic straights to permanently change the free enterprise system to a hard left socialist system, which is what Russia, China, and Eastern Europe only recently rejected. Socialism and communism just doesn’t work, and the Chinese, Russians and Poles know this through bitter experience, and finally kicked socialism to the curb.

How Ironic if Reagan and Thatcher finally gave the knock out blow to communism, only to have a new drive towards socialism emerge here a few decades later! It is said that the only place where one can still find Marxists is on the campuses of America and Europe. Most of them are sporting grey pony tails.

I admit, it looks grim for McCain at present, but it ain't over yet. I am very worried, though.

It does look as though Obama will breeze through the election, with essentially no serious background check having been done on him by the media. And, it is amazing that the media is doing such a hatchet job on Alaskan Governor Sarah Palin, while giving a total pass to Obama on even glancing at his strange past.

Eventually, you won't like what you get with an Obama presidency, if Obama breezes to his victory, and gets to have his personalized presidential seal painted on air force one. (Frankly, I find this just as disturbing as Obama’s radical past, that he would take the time to design his own, personalized, presidential seal. This smacks of some kind of extreme egotism or arrogance).

Finally, Obama has one other factor going against him. The democrats have a bunch of little lunatic bloggers and activists who are constantly being mobilized to haunt the call in shows, or to literally SHOUT DOWN the opposition. This happened to the Milt Rosenberg radio show in Chicago when he interviewed an author who has carefully researched Obama’s past. And Milt Rosenberg is a gracious, extraordinarily gifted intellect, and is regarded as one of the smartest men living on the planet today. I have listened to him for a few decades. He is a retired University of Chicago professor of sociology, and a true gift to our country. He has interviewed the likes of Henry Kissenger, Margaret Thatcher, and a myriad of noted authors and intellectuals, and other people of note over the past 30 years he has been on the radio. He even had Obama on his program a few years ago.

Obama’s operatives were instructed to shut down Milt’s interview with this author, and they literally flooded the Tribune’s radio station, WGN, with demands to not carry the interview, and then flooded this call in show with callers when WGN went ahead with it anyway. You can go to wgnradio.com, and click on the Milt Rosenberg show, and look up the archived program where this occurred. Milt archives most of his shows. They are very good.

Milt was aghast at the activity which was swirling around his broadcast, and the episode made the national news. But, Milt didn’t cave in to the Obamabots, as some have nicknamed them.

People see through these type of stalinist tactics. It is not attractive, and people get fed up quickly with it. Who would want to be governed by these pests, anyway? Legions of them would infest our government in an Obama presidency.

Maybe Obama was one of these agitators when he started out his career as a ‘community organizer’, using the tactics invented by the communist activist Saul Alinsky. I think this was the case if you dig into Obama’s past on the internet.

If McCain wins yet, there will be a massive sigh of relief across this nation. You simply do not realize how people purposefully hide their more traditionalist views from public view. They have been conditioned to hide, and only whisper their true views to people that they feel are safe to expose themselves to. Things may be becoming somewhat like living in East Germany when people were careful not to reveal themselves to potential Stassi informants. I think it could get worse; much, much worse under an Obama presidency combined with the democrat party in control of most other institutions.

Remember, when Obama takes the presidency, the hard left democrats will also control the following:

Congress
Senate
Judiciary
TV Media
Most "Talking Head" commentators
Newspapers and magazines
Environmental Cause Organizations
Women's Lib Organizations
Gay Rights Organizations
ACLU
Other Activist Organizations
Hollywood
Kindergarten schools
Grade Schools
High Schools
Universities
Teachers Unions
Government Workers Unions
General Unions
Some Liberal Churches
National Public Radio
Public TV
Most Charitable Organizations
The United Nations
Many European National Governments
The European Union
Most Actors, Comics, and Musician Celebrities
etc.....add your own…


The only institution that the conservatives have is talk radio, and Nancy Pelosi has vowed to shut that down once Obama takes the presidency.

If there is some type of modern day "Bradley Effect", I suspect it will have more to do with an aversion to political correctness than it does with not being willing to vote for a black candidate.

Finally, regarding my saying I would move to Iceland if Obama is elected, that will not be easily accomplished. So, no promises. But, if I were a young man, and Obama were elected, I would absolutely be making every effort to leave this country. You democrats have simply destroyed it. Your party leaders and a large contingent of its voters are simply viscous, malcontent zealots, who will stop at NOTHING to get your way of transforming this country into your foggy notion of a socialist nirvana.

A young man can build a new life in some other country where sanity prevails, and political zealots don't patrol the airwaves, streets, and halls of government power.

If by some miracle, Americans wake up before they elect this charlatan Obama to the presidency, I am sure that there will be epithets of racism hissed through clenched teeth, and a massive screaming wail of protest from the democrats, like a spoiled brat, red faced, jumping up and down, who didn't get her way, despite using her wiliest schemes and tactics. Eight years of vilifying Bush, wishing for the worst in Iraq, bashing the USA, etc, etc.......and all for naught!!

Then, the nightmare beast of the democratic party and the political correctness goons will soon gear up for the next political Armageddon, plotting more voter fraud, and enfranchising more voters from the ranks of the felons, illegal aliens and what not. They NEVER stop. They are indefatigable. They are like a hideous pink bunny, constantly on the march. They keep going, and going, and going…….

One very key difference between the republicans and the democrats is that republicans are just a political party, and if they win an election, they step into govern the country. The democrats, on the other hand, are a true political movement and machine. They view themselves as a PROFESSIONAL governing class and a mighty, unstoppable cause that is destined, by right, to govern the country, and to impose their vision of a perfected state of governance.

This is a deadly serious cause for democrats, and few democratic party operatives have any desire for anything other than a political career. They are apparatchiks, and have no desire for a life outside of political governance. This is the reason that the democrats behave the way they do, and will literally stop at nothing to achieve power. And once they are in power, they will use every lever of government to retain power, to cement their rule. This is why voter fraud, which I think most Americans look upon as anathema, is viewed as simply a necessary tactic by democrats. It is one means to what they regard as an absolutely critical end; their ascension to power.

Republicans, if they lose an election, just go home and go back to their families and the private sector. It is not the end of the world for them, at all.

This country has been transformed by the democrats and the massive political correctness mania which has ensnared every institution I listed above.

The movie "No Country for Old Men" said it all. The main character in the movie, an old Texas lawman nearing the end of his career, finds that he can barely recognize the country he knew as a young man. The movie focused on the drug trade along the Texas-Mexican border as the evil he confronted, along with the broader degradation of society.

But, to me, beyond the obvious disintegration of civic society in all manner which has occurred , another evil which has transformed the nation is the ruthless drive to political power which the democrats have exhibited over the past few decades, increasing in its ferocity with each election cycle. It seems that the democrats will literally stop at nothing to gain power. Whether it is a war in Iraq which they seemed to have taken a “see I told you so” glee when they assumed that we would lose, or the current economic dire circumstances we face, some of which can reasonably be laid at their feet, they never miss the chance to turn events into propaganda for their cause. It is truly despicable.


I have only one conclusion:

An Obama presidency will be a launching pad to cement the democratic party into a virtual monopoly on political power over the American nation which might likely last for generations. And, such a monopoly could likely, permanently change the nature of the American nation, overturning it’s traditions which transformed a wilderness continent into the strongest, most vibrant nation on earth, and the saving grace of the world for the past two centuries.

Truly, it will be “No Country for Old Men”. Or young men, either.

Posted by: DAStubbs  
Oct 06, 04:15 PM
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Wow. Chuck praising Obama's economic policy / strategy? Now I KNOW the election is over except for the voting.

Posted by: J.H. Tiemens  
Oct 06, 07:52 AM
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> Obama is the right choice for president!
>
> Obama/Biden '08!


Obama is, in fact your ONLY choice. That is if Americans want their coutry to stop downfalling the Republican highway (to hell?)

Posted by: pviel  
Oct 04, 07:48 PM
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Perhaps the Republican Party needs a new game plan based on the fact that governing America is a Team sport that calls for individuals exerting their specific skills for the betterment of the team. We as the spectators need to recognize all the players are equally important. It doesn't make any difference right or left side of the line both need to block and get off on the same count and protect the quarterback. Too long - since Nixon's "Dirty Tricks" - this country has been led by division, fear and hate.

Posted by: Robin M  
Oct 04, 04:49 PM
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Anarcho-Republican Wrote:
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> Robin M Wrote:
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> > Setting the debates aside, this has always been
> > one of my top two reasons for why we need to
> vote
> > for Barack Obama. This just came out in the
> > Economist.
> >
> > [www.economist.com]
> >
> > And for those who say f**k the world this is
> > America. I want you to note you are a
> Republican.
>
>
> Oh perish the thought, Far from it, I think its
> quaint that they would even take the time to write
> in and tell us their preferences...I remember
> fondly the weekly reader poll myself...besides
> this really helps McCain- go viral with the Blue
> World Map...pleeeeazzzee

I have since noticed a reader bias in the specifics. I didn't expect an economics magazine to favor a democratic candidate. Still, regardless of whether I get a thousand bucks or we are out of Iraq in 16 months, Obama's selection eases tensions directed around the world. That is an immediate benefit regardless of whether he is able to deliver on health care. It may not be quite as blue but the world does want Obama. If that means our enemies want him for nefarious reasons, I would prefer an enemy who thinks us weak, with enthusiastic allies than an enemy who thinks us strong and hates us more and only have soft allies.

Posted by: Betcha by golly wow  
Oct 04, 12:51 PM
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You bet we are gunna take votes away from vets
doggone it, if they dont love me then why should they vote?



Watching John McCain attack our veterans has become the norm these past few years, with his status as a symbol for the American veteran merely a weird plot twist in his history; We have watched him stand on the Senate floor for five-and-a-half hours, leading the fight against the dwell time amendment that would give our troops more time between tours. We have seen him speak out against the 21st Century GI Bill that would expand education benefits for our troops for the first time since the Senator himself used them to pay for college. Like a bizarro-world version of Mark Foley ruthlessly fighting pedophiles while being one himself, so goes McCain's inexplicable record on veterans issues.

But finally, he's put his mouth where his money is. McCain and Palin, who both have children in the Armed Forces, have declared Ohio troops and hospitalized vets unqualified voters.

I get emails from McCain's Ohio arm to try to keep an eye on what they're doing there, since the state will probably decide the election, but happens to have a Republican party establishment that would purge every voter without a butler from the rolls if it had the chance. This is what they sent out after the debate last night under Palin's name:

The Obama-Biden Democrats and their allies are exploiting loopholes in Ohio election laws that we fear may result in unqualified voters casting ballots.

The "loophole in Ohio election laws" that Palin is talking about is not a loophole at all, just a very sensible premise that is standard for absentee ballots -- that a vote is not technically cast until it is tabulated. Republican groups cited a rule that requires 30 days between registration and voting and sought to disqualify absentee ballots that were filled out on the same day as registration. Same-day registration and filling out of absentee ballots is the best option available to unregistered troops abroad and hospitalized vets in VA facilities. The "Obama-Biden Democrats and their allies" are non-partisan veterans advocacy groups like Veterans For America and IAVA that fought tooth and nail to defeat a lawsuit that challenged this very sensible notion to protect thousands of troops and vets from disenfranchisement.

With deployed troops donating 6:1 in favor of Obama, the cynic in me can see why the GOP doesn't want their votes to count. Then the decent person in me chimes in and says, "I can't see how anyone could try to block a deployed soldier's right to vote and be able to live with themselves."

Despite Gov. Palin's strange relationship with colloquialism ("Hockey Moms across America," anyone? How many are there?), the use of the term "unqualified voters" in a country that generally lets citizens over the age of 18 vote is the kind of phrase that should've been phased out long before the word "email" was phased in. With regards to the only American citizens who don't get to vote, felons, that's left up to the states. In Ohio, felons are only disqualified from voting while incarcerated, and I'm pretty sure she isn't talking about prison visitors stuffing stacks of voter registration forms and absentee ballots into God-knows-where in the name of democracy, though that would be quite the heist.

That leaves the troops and hospitalized veterans, the target of this power-grab. Nope, don't want those dangerously unqualified voters pulling the levers at all...

Posted by: bahamamama  
Oct 04, 12:07 PM
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Robin M Wrote:
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> Setting the debates aside, this has always been
> one of my top two reasons for why we need to vote
> for Barack Obama. This just came out in the
> Economist.
>
> [www.economist.com]
>
> And for those who say f**k the world this is
> America. I want you to note you are a Republican.
> No intended insult to Republicans. I'm independent
> and would probably be a Republican if Reagan would
> rise from the grave and walk the earth. They
> aren't just for O, but afraid of M, and that is
> not going to keep us safer in a world where we are
> going to need a lot of friends.


Thanks for the link.. it is very interesting.

Posted by: Sarasoon  
Oct 04, 11:22 AM
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Oh dear
All you journalists whose lives depend on writing sleek lines! You spend so much time trying to make a nonesense of reality and underestimate the intelligence of the public. How do go home to your families professing to have done a good day's work and how do you sleep at night?!

Posted by: Tib  
Oct 04, 11:03 AM
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JD Wrote:
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> Tib Wrote:
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> >
> > Dems have been as blind about Obama as Repubs
> are
> > to Palin. The only real difference between them
> -
> > and it's a big difference, granted - is that
> Obama
> > understands the Constitution and is on the
> right
> > side of the angels.
>
>
> What do you mean when you say "Obama is on the
> right side of the angels"?


His policy positions and philosophies.

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Oct 04, 10:30 AM
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Tib Wrote:
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> Dems have been as blind about Obama as Repubs are
> to Palin. The only real difference between them -
> and it's a big difference, granted - is that Obama
> understands the Constitution and is on the right
> side of the angels.


What do you mean when you say "Obama is on the right side of the angels"?

Posted by: DavidG  
Oct 04, 10:00 AM
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To extend the question in your last paragraph: Do I really know who John McCain is, and what he believes?

Posted by: Tib  
Oct 04, 09:35 AM
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> Palin is a disaster. Give us a break. If Biden or
> Obama had so many non answers the GOP would be up
> in arms.
>
> The irrational right. Voted for Bush and will vote
> for another disaster because they are married to
> their IDEOLOGY.
> SAD

Dems have been as blind about Obama as Repubs are to Palin. The only real difference between them - and it's a big difference, granted - is that Obama understands the Constitution and is on the right side of the angels.

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Oct 04, 09:02 AM
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Indivoter Wrote:
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> ExT Wrote:
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> -----
> > James Wilson Wrote:
> >
> --------------------------------------------------
>
> > -----
> > > For your information Rev. Wright is a
> Decorates
> > > Veteran and has earned the right to FREEDOM
> OF
> > > SPEECH. Which is more than I can say for
> those
> > who
> > > knock him. Did you ever think that President
> > may
> > > have told Wright about many of the things he
> > > spoke so angery about ? He has a couple of
> > PHD'S
> > > he might know a few things.
> > > Of course if slander and not truth is your
> goal
> > > then your have reached the summit!
> >
> > Decorated for what?...he never left CONUS
> > PHDs in what?...Black Liberation Theology and
> > basket weaving?...WOOHOO!
> >
> > He is the boat anchor that is going to sink
> Barack
> > Hussein Obama, and he is still relevant to this
> > election...it goes toward character, which he
> is
> > devoid of.
> >
> > ExT
>
>
> Are you joking? You're now at the point where, in
> disingenuous strategy, you're finding yourself
> going back a year in order to find talking
> points?
>
> Oy.

I didn't bring it up jackoff!

ExT

Posted by: MILF  
Oct 04, 07:28 AM
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Palin is a disaster. Give us a break. If Biden or Obama had so many non answers the GOP would be up in arms.

The irrational right. Voted for Bush and will vote for another disaster because they are married to their IDEOLOGY.
SAD

Posted by: ReformedRepublican  
Oct 04, 05:30 AM
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McCain may pass the intellect test (Sarah Palin still TBD), but he flunks the temperament test big time.

If America wants steadiness under fire, it's pretty hard to argue that McCain has demonstrated that characteristic.

You should call him "Johnny Pinball"....

RR

Jim in OBX Wrote:
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> Charles said, "Obama has shown that he is a man of
> limited experience, questionable convictions,
> deeply troubling associations ...and an alarming
> lack of self- definition -- do you really know who
> he is and what he believes? Nonetheless, he's got
> both a first-class intellect and a first-class
> temperament.
>
> That will likely be enough to make him
> president."
>
> Egads. Let's hope not.
>
> The thought of No-Blame-a being at the helm evokes
> memories of Dick Dastardly in his flying machine.
> I hate to see us go splat - straight into the
> farmer's barn. Or worse yet, hit with the force
> of Wile E. Coyote falling off a cliff.
>
> Our nation can't afford that. Send the ACME
> package back where it came from and tell people to
> vote for Johnnie Mac.

Posted by: Pgrace  
Oct 04, 02:22 AM
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Conservatism in the US has been besmirched by the Bushs, Roves, Kristols, Murdochs etc. I congratulate Krauthammer for reminding us that true conservatism does not automatically embrace misleading and deceptive conduct .

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Oct 04, 02:20 AM
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JimBeam Wrote:
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> Erin Wrote:
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> > I think the polls are off. I do think obama
> made
> > gains. I do not see Va going blue. I dont think
> > ohio will as well. Thing that concerns me is I
> can
> > see nm going blue. If obama then wins co game
> > over. I still have to ask. HOW does Mccain pull
> > this out?
>
>
> Here's McCain's strategy:
>
> Win the Bush 2000 states.
>
> I think he has a good shot of doing this. It's
> been a bad week for McCain and I expect him to
> bounce back in the polls. McCain takes MO and NV.
> VA and NC will be close, but McCain still wins. I
> think he takes OH and FL as well. NH is
> surprisingly close, but remember, in the
> primaries, McCain has underpolled while Obama
> badly overpolled. NH knows and likes McCain.
>
> That puts him at 269. He needs only one more vote
> to win.
>
> CO is the last Bush 2000 state, but it looks like
> an uphill fight. PA, MN, and WI are possible, but
> these are tradionally Democratic states.
>
> McCain has one more option: The "second front" in
> Northern Maine. Maine gives 2EV to the winner,
> then splits the other two based on congressional
> districts. McCain will not win Maine, but he has a
> shot at the 1EV in the Northern part of the state.
> (Obama is doing something similar in the Omaha,
> NE area) That 1EV could put him over the top.

I'm going to take a shot in the dark that you're not a campaign professional. You're assessment of the race is surreal, and the strategy you suggest is just...odd. But, by all means, encourage the McCain Campaign to do this. It will make it that much easier for Obama to win with margin to spare.

Posted by: Gilbert1111  
Oct 04, 02:02 AM