90 percent Bush
12 comments September 3rd, 2008
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Will the election be cancelled — by Doomsday?
2 comments September 3rd, 2008
Anything’s possible — even THIS.
But on the bright side, there’ll be no need to sweat the mortgage crisis.
Here are some excerpts from Palin’s speech
3 comments September 3rd, 2008
This STUFF is from an advance text.
Gallup: For every voter Palin wins over, another jumps to Obama
1 comment September 3rd, 2008
THIS is why Obama remains ahead overall.
But, of course, anything can happen in the next two months.
As Ben Franklin said: “In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.”
UPDATE: Wall Street Journal columnist and former Reagan speechwriter Peggy Noonan, apparently unaware of an open microphone, was heard to SAY on MSNBC today that McCain’s choice of Palin was “political bulls–t” and that the race for president is “over.”
UPDATE II: Noonan has posted THIS MEA CULPA on the WSJ Web site and has clarified her remarks.
UPDATE III: Here are video and audio of Noonan’s faux pas:
McCain has thrice dissed Palin’s “pork” requests
2 comments September 3rd, 2008
John McCain, fearless watchdog of the public purse, regularly issues lists of “objectionable” earmarks — requests for federal spending on projects he deems unworthy.
On three occasions, McCain’s lists have INCLUDED requests from Sarah Palin, serving as governor of Alaska or mayor of the hamlet of Wasilla.
UPDATE: It appears that Palin was QUITE PROUD of one of the federal earmarks she secured.
UPDATE II: The Washington Independent has obtained this copy of Palin’s note on the matter:
UPDATE III: According to Taxpayers for Common Sense, Alaska RANKED FIRST among the 50 states in pork-barrel spending in 2007, Sarah Palin’s first year on the job as governor.
McCain’s campaign manager says: “This election is not about issues”
18 comments September 3rd, 2008
Rick Davis (above), manager of John McCain’s campaign, seems to THINK that the election will be determined by personalities rather than issues.
That helps explain why none of the speakers at last night’s opening session of the Republican Convention said a word about the economy.
Prominent conservatives fulsome (and fearful?) in their praise of the Democrats’ ground game
1 comment September 3rd, 2008
Former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay and Rep. Eric Cantor, currently the third-ranking Republican in the House, are conceding that Democrats hold a significant organizational advantage going into the fall campaign.
Read about it HERE (and take special note of former Sen. Rick Santorum’s ridiculous implication that Democrats don’t have families and don’t go to church).
POSTSCRIPT: Actually, I don’t think DeLay and Cantor know the half of it. The Obama campaign’s ground game is perhaps the most awesome in American political history — a factor not fully mirrored in the national polls.
If talk radio couldn’t deny McCain the GOP nomination, how’s it going to deny Obama the presidency?
8 comments September 3rd, 2008
All the bluster from Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity and a chorus of wannabes amounts to nothing more than preaching to the choir.
Don’t forget that most of these radio blabbers stubbornly defended George W. Bush and his glorious war while the popularity of both declined precipitously.
And most of them didn’t want John McCain to become the Republican presidential nominee.
So much for their influence, even among Republican voters.
And don’t forget that Barack Obama leads in the polls, no matter that the radio radicals savage him every day.
So, I don’t think we need worry too much about THIS STUFF.