September 3rd, 2008 02:15pm
Pat Cunningham
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.
September 3rd, 2008 01:36pm
Pat Cunningham
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.
September 3rd, 2008 12:01pm
Pat Cunningham
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.
September 3rd, 2008 08:21am
Pat Cunningham
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.
September 3rd, 2008 07:21am
Pat Cunningham
September 2nd, 2008 10:31pm
Pat Cunningham
Last evening, I quoted ABC News as reporting that Sarah Palin and her husband were members of the quasi-secessionist Alaskan Independence Party in the mid-1990s.
Today, the McCain camp produced records indicating that Palin never officially registered with the state as a member of the AIP, but other records SHOW that her husband, Todd, belonged to the group for most of seven years. And there’s a REPORT that Sarah attended the party’s 1994 convention in her hometown of Wasilla, where she later served as mayor.
There also surfaced today a report on something AIP founder Joe Vogler once SAID:
“The fires of hell are frozen glaciers compared to my hatred for the American government…And I won’t be buried under their damn flag.”
That was in 1991, and it would be unfair to hold either of the Palins even remotely accountable for such a statement. Nor is that my intention here.
I just want to pose this question: If it were Barack Obama or his spouse who had been associated with a group whose founder employed such rhetoric, what do you think would be the reaction among right-wing Republicans? What would the Limbaughs and Hannitys and the others have to say? What would even the mainstream media have to say?
I’m guessing it likely would be something akin to their apoplexy over the Rev. Jeremiah Wright.
If Palin doesn’t get roughed up over what Joe Vogler once said before her husband belonged to the group – and she shouldn’t be roughed up over it — don’t forget the treatment Obama likely would get in the same circumstances. The pseudo-patriots of the Republican right would go berserk, and the inflammatory words of Joe Vogler would be repeated over and over.
Who can doubt that? That’s what the smear merchants of the radical right do. That’s what they’re about. Just ask Barack and Michelle Obama — y’know, the couple famous for the terrorist fist jab and for hating America.
September 2nd, 2008 10:11pm
Pat Cunningham
September 2nd, 2008 09:13pm
Pat Cunningham
September 2nd, 2008 07:09pm
Pat Cunningham
Remember Campbell Brown’s total emasculation of McCain mouthpiece Tucker Bounds, which I SHOWED YOU this morning?
Well, golly, the thing got Mr. Straight Talk so UNNERVED that he’s cancelled a scheduled interview tonight on CNN. And he only would have had to face lob-pitcher Larry King.
Maybe he can get Sarah Palin to pinch-hit. She probably wouldn’t be so afraid.
UPDATE: I forgot. They’re keeping Palin UNDER WRAPS.
September 2nd, 2008 02:12pm
Pat Cunningham
And please, please, please, no boring stuff about your problems at other forums.
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