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Tonight Sarah Palin will give her speech at the convention. It’s been a while since I’ve been this charged up about a presidential campaign.
I predict she will do a lot better than expected. I predict more people will watch her speech tonight than watched little Barry Apollo Obama. I predict that in one week McCain/Palin will lead Obama/Biden in the polls and they’ll never catch up.
hehehehe
The RNC has released these excerpts of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin’s speech tonight.
“I had the privilege of living most of my life in a small town. I was just your average hockey mom, and signed up for the PTA because I wanted to make my kids’ public education better. When I ran for city council, I didn’t need focus groups and voter profiles because I knew those voters, and knew their families, too. Before I became governor of the great state of Alaska, I was mayor of my hometown. And since our opponents in this presidential election seem to look down on that experience, let me explain to them what the job involves. I guess a small-town mayor is sort of like a ‘community organizer,’ except that you have actual responsibilities.”
On why she is going to Washington, D.C.:
“I’m not a member of the permanent political establishment. And I’ve learned quickly, these past few days, that if you’re not a member in good standing of the Washington elite, then some in the media consider a candidate unqualified for that reason alone. But here’s a little news flash for all those reporters and commentators: I’m not going to Washington to seek their good opinion – I’m going to Washington to serve the people of this country.”
On energy policies:
“Our opponents say, again and again, that drilling will not solve all of America’s energy problems – as if we all didn’t know that already. But the fact that drilling won’t solve every problem is no excuse to do nothing at all. Starting in January, in a McCain-Palin administration, we’re going to lay more pipelines…build more nuclear plants…create jobs with clean coal…and move forward on solar, wind, geothermal, and other alternative sources. We need American energy resources, brought to you by American ingenuity, and produced by American workers.”
On John McCain:
“Here’s how I look at the choice Americans face in this election. In politics, there are some candidates who use change to promote their careers. And then there are those, like John McCain, who use their careers to promote change.”
http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2008/09/palin-comes-to.html
Re : HLP Hanks post.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHA
The American public is gonna sour REAL quick on Suzy know it all and her perky voice. Perhaps tonight she will mention that she would make abortion illegal even in case of rape. Or maybe she will give us the list of books to be banned.
Heh no less than Peggy Noonan has already said, “It’s over.”
Could McCain’s Extremist Running Mate, Palin, Help Obama?
Sen. Barack Obama is enjoying some of his highest numbers so far in the daily presidential tracking polls I frequently cite. Gallup has him up by 8 points today. Rasmussen by 5.
The question is whether this is a result of Obama’s convention bounce, or Sen. John McCain’s seemingly, shall we say, adventurous selection of an extremist running mate.
Clearly she has accomplished what McCain could not: energizing Karl Rove’s far right Christian evangelical base (as some people would call it, the Republican wing of the Republican Party).
I like this analysis by the Globe & Mail:
“If there’s one demographic group that holds the key to this election, it would be working-class white women. Mr. McCain calculated that the untested Ms. Palin, mother of five with a reputation for feistiness, would help nail down the social conservatives and impress working-class women. He nailed down the social conservatives with Ms. Palin’s appointment. Working-class white women will be a harder crowd to impress.”
http://tinyurl.com/6q69lq
I predict she will be largely unavailable to reporters questions after the convention, put back into seclusion.
Probably play john courar’s ‘Small Town” tonight.
Waiting for Sarah
Last week the acceptance speech of Democratic Presidential candidate Barack Obama drew 38 million viewers — 60 percent more than John Kerry’s 2004 acceptance speech.
It may not be 38 million watching tonight. But she’ll draw millions of Americans who don’t normally tune in politics. The convention so far has been fairly routine as these things go. Tonight, I wouldn’t miss it.
http://tinyurl.com/64qzx8
(CBS) Even after Sen. John McCain named her as his running mate on Friday, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin remained an unknown quantity to most Americans. Sixty-six percent had no opinion of her in a CBS News poll conducted over the weekend. In polling completed on Monday and Tuesday, sixty percent still had no opinion about her.
But of those who did have opinions, 26 percent of the most recently polled were favorable, while only 13 percent were not favorable.
More than one in four voters said that the vice presidential choices will matter this year, but few voters say that having Palin on the Republican ticket will change their vote. Just 14 percent said they are more likely to vote for McCain as a result of having Palin on the ticket, while 13 percent said they are less likely to do so. Sixty-eight percent said it won’t make a difference in their vote.
Seventy-four percent of voters said the addition of Joe Biden to the Democratic ticket made no impact on how they will vote. But those who said Barack Obama’s choice mattered to them were three times as likely to say that Biden will make them vote for Obama rather than against him.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/09/03/opinion/polls/main4413191.shtml
Is Gov. Sarah Palin of Alaska a strong leader, a brave reformer, a seasoned politician, and a highly experienced chief executive who is running a frontier state with crucially important oil reserves?
Or is she a lightweight neophyte who once ran a tiny town, has no foreign policy experience, has rarely traveled overseas, and is completely over her head?
It depends whom you ask.
Huge Divide Over Gov. Sarah Palin In Poll
Rasmussen Reports is out with a poll that shows a massive divide among Republicans and Democrats over Palin – the newest figure on the national political stage.
Overall, 69 percent of Republican voters think Palin was a good choice to be John McCain’s vice presidential runningmate. By contrast, 63 percent of Democrats think she was a bad choice.
http://blogs.courant.com/capitol_watch/2008/09/huge-divide-over-gov-sarah-pal.html
Dexter Clark of the Alaska Independence Party, with an intro by the guy who shot the video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E46_ZVzBf9U&feature=related
I can guess what her speech will be like. She’ll tell the tale of the scrappy small-town hockey mom who got a seat on the Oil and Gas Conservation Commission and was shocked–shocked!–at the corruption she found there, and resigned.
Then she ran for governor and won: “new sheriff in town” yada, yada, yada. Will trumpet any accomplishment she can claim, and several she can’t.
The main theme will be how she took on the corrupt Republican party establishment and won (oh, wait. . . . . ).
So she was for secession, before she was agin secession! Beautiful.
This continual line of attack on Obama is weird. Apparently, Camp McCain thinks “you think my VP choice sucks? Look at your presidential candidate!” is going to work. Unfortunately, that’s exactly what people are going to do, and that won’t help McCain at all.
Bizarre.
I’ve read she will emphasis energy because of her command of the subject. ;-) Should drive Cosmos wild! To me, who has NO command of the subject, I’ll listen to her, read Cosmos and probably learn a bunch!
Oh, and change. Ya know, the same change the Republicans have been ridiculing for months!
once she delivers the background in her speech it’ll be wide open territory for the msm. She’ll soon be Sarah Pathetic.
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lindainks55
Posted September 3, 2008 at 6:45 pm | Permalink
I’ve read she will emphasis energy because of her command of the subject. ;-) Should drive Cosmos wild! To me, who has NO command of the subject, I’ll listen to her, read Cosmos and probably learn a bunch!
Oh, and change. Ya know, the same change the Republicans have been ridiculing for months!
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You mean the non-scientist cosmos?
The cosmos who has never been the Governor of an oil producing state?
The cosmos that burns up valuable energy on the Internet when he shouldn’t?
That cosmos?
Palin casts herself as Washington outsider
Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin is casting herself as a Washington outsider and taking a slap at Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama in her prepared remarks for the Republican National Convention.
Palin, picked as John McCain’s running mate, didn’t mention Obama by name but her target was obvious. She said her past experience as a small-town mayor was sort of like a community organizer except you have actual responsibilities. Obama began his political life as a community organizer.
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5jrhFOsVwX9jtDyUhy3zKCBVms8tgD92VHKN00
Yeah the GOP is now shilling change.
Marching backward 50 years WOULD be change.
I don’t think that is change most Americans want anything to do with.
No way, no how, no Sarah Palin.
Multi-nic’d Regular posted September 3, 2008 at 6:48 pm
“The cosmos that burns up valuable energy on the Internet when he shouldn’t?”
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Like this?
http://blogs.kansas.com/weblog/2008/09/is-palin-taking-on-too-much/#comment-416475
Bob Dole has aged. Me too, but I see me daily and hadn’t seen him in awhile.
cosmos_originally
Posted September 3, 2008 at 6:55 pm | Permalink
Multi-nic’d Regular posted September 3, 2008 at 6:48 pm
“The cosmos that burns up valuable energy on the Internet when he shouldn’t?”
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Like this?
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No, just like you did with your 6:55 post.
Practice what you preach energy boy.
John mccain knows how to get bin laden, the maverick just isn’t sharing it with his preznit!
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080903/pl_nm/usa_politics_mccain_binladen_dc_2
There will be one problem with Palin’s speech. She will not have written a single word of it, nor could she have conceived of a single sentence in it on her own. She has been cloistered for several days now, being drilled in every aspect of it. She ran through it this morning to an empty auditorium, to eliminate errors. Neither her dress, her appearance or anything she does or says will have originated in her own mind, which is why no one in the Republican Party is worried if McCocaine croaks, and Palin takes over. It won’t be like she is actually running the country.
lindainks55 posted September 3, 2008 at 6:45 pm
“To me, who has NO command of the subject, I’ll listen to her, read Cosmos and probably learn a bunch!”
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The short version is that,
1) the U.S. does NOT have the oil reserves needed to significantly impact world oil prices, and
2) we can “produce” much more oil with higher energy efficiency than with more domestic drilling.
Plus higher energy efficiency is cheaper than buying oil, faster, cleaner, doesn’t run dry, and is guaranteed.
Lots of details about how we can cut oil demand here,
http://www.oilendgame.com/ReadTheBook.html
And some reasons why drilling in the Arctic Refuge (Palin’s solution(sic)) is the wrong idea.
E01-04, Fool’s Gold in Alaska — annotated, Foreign Affairs (PDF-980k)
near bottom of page here,
http://www.rmi.org/sitepages/pid256.php
She probably be more comfortable speaking like she did at her church speech, but that just wouldn’t fly.
She’d probably say Todd, I know I don’t know you that well but you look good, you’re going to bring alot of people to Jesus.
Rudy Giuliani, Mitt Romney and Mike Huckabee speech excerpts
Excerpts of their remarks have been released, with Huckabee attacking Barack Obama on foreign policy, Romney taking a none-too-veiled shot at Michelle Obama and Giuliani rallying to the defense of McCain’s pick for a running mate, Sarah Palin.
Huckabee: Maybe the most dangerous threat of an Obama presidency is that he would continue to give madmen the benefit of the doubt. If he’s wrong just once, we will pay a heavy price.
I’m not a Republican because I grew up rich, but because I didn’t want to spend the rest of my life poor, waiting for the government to rescue me.
Says Romney: Just like you, there has never been a day when I was not proud to be an American. We inherited the greatest nation in the history of the Earth. It is our burden and privilege to preserve it, to renew its spirit so that its noble past is prologue to its glorious future.
And at Saddleback, after Barack Obama dodged and ducked every direct question, John McCain hit the nail on the head: radical Islam is evil, and he will defeat it! Republicans prefer straight talk to politically correct talk!
Giuliani makes this case for Palin (the night’s featured speaker), saying she: represents a new generation. She’s already one of the most successful governors in America — and the most popular. And she already has more executive experience than the entire Democratic ticket. She’s led a city and a state. She’s reduced taxes and government spending. And she’s actually done something about moving America toward energy independence — taking on the oil companies while encouraging more energy exploration here at home. Taxpayers have an advocate in Sarah Palin — she even sold the former governor’s private plane on Ebay.
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2008/09/rudy-giuliiani.html
Also, the oil geology in the Arctic Refuge is different than Prudhoe Bay, and is unknown, except for one old (secret) test well.
Will Palin mention in her speech tonight that the Badami field, 1/2 way between Prudhoe Bay and the western edge of the Refuge, has NOT produced as expected?
It was shutdown before oil prices rose a few years ago, restarted when prices rose, and still is a low producer.
‘BP and Savant looking at Badami restart’
http://www.petroleumnews.com/pntruncate/610780426.shtml
“Major and independent would drill two wells over the next two years to avoid losing lands at the unit, hopefully restart field.”
Night of the GOP also-rans
“We have a prescription for every American who wants change in Washington – throw out the big government liberals and elect John McCain,” Mr. Romney said in his prepared remarks, adding that “The right course is the one championed by Ronald Reagan 30 years ago, and by John McCain today.”
Mr. Huckabee said in his prepared speech that Mr. McCain was advocating the right kind of change for Americans, not the Democrats. “John McCain doesn’t want the kind of change that allows the government to reach deeper into your paycheck and pick your doctor, your child’s school, or even the kind of car you drive or how much you inflate the tires,”
http://trailblazersblog.dallasnews.com/archives/2008/09/night-of-the-gop-alsorans.html
Kudos to Campbell Brown of CNN for not allowing Tucker Bounds to duck the question or put words in her mouth.
It looked like journalism.
lindainks55
Posted September 3, 2008 at 6:49 pm | Permalink
Palin casts herself as Washington outsider
Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin is casting herself as a Washington outsider and taking a slap at Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama in her prepared remarks for the Republican National Convention.
Palin, picked as John McCain’s running mate, didn’t mention Obama by name but her target was obvious. She said her past experience as a small-town mayor was sort of like a community organizer except you have actual responsibilities. Obama began his political life as a community organizer.
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Linda what about this surprised you? Obama has acted all day as if he were running against Palin. She is responding in kind. He said “I have 2,500 employees in my campaign, the town she was mayor of only had 50″.
Tonight should be interesting.
If things move into snoozer mode, check this out from JibJab.
The Year in Review 2006
http://www.jibjab.com/originals/nuckin_futs
“I predict more people will watch her speech tonight than watched little Barry Apollo Obama. I predict that in one week McCain/Palin will lead Obama/Biden in the polls and they’ll never catch up.”
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You may be right Hank, especially about the interest in Sarah Palin, if the number of posts on every Pain thread is any indication.
The lefties have no purpose other than to continue their cruel, mindless politics of personal destruction. It’s the women in the skooshy middle that are gonna be affected.
okob, NOTHING about Republicans surprises me.
If Neilson calls, I’m in the tub.
I agree, Rage! I posted a link to that exchange on another thread earlier today. Priceless! And so true! They can defend personal, they cannot defend professional. I posed at least a dozen policy questions today and none were answered. Not even attempted.
Or was it “the women with a skooshy middle”…
I dunno. Long day.
Is anybody watching the convention?
Republicans giving Palin the thumbs down:
Peggy Noonan
George W. Bush
Karl Rove
Wonder how many more will be added to the list.
Bush is complaining that McCain’s convention was “disresptful” to him.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/sidney-blumenthal/the-battle-between-mccain_b_123147.html
Just learned that Sarah Palin is a member of the same church denomination as Nathan Price, i.e. Assembly of God. Maybe she can invite him to Alaska and feed him a mooseburger. Does that food name create troubling images for anyone else?
Will be tuning in on the convention soon.
That’s cuz you ask silly questions Linda, and everyone knows that you aren’t looking for answers.
I tell you what. Go take all those questions and exchange Sarah Palin’s name with Barrack Obama. Answer all the questions and post them. Then, I might take a shot at them.
I’m surfing both the net and the channels. Giving Ginger a belly rub (she is a very good girl!). But that bath doesn’t sound half bad!
Did you guys check out the electoral maps? I posted a couple on the Open late this afternoon. McCain / Palin have a steep uphill climb. We all know politics can change overnight or faster, but right now Obama almost has the required 270 electoral votes and McCain has to pick up every toss up state left (well, minus one but it can’t be a big one!).
Dennis Miller just hit it oh the head when talking about the mean attacks by bloggers on Palin. He said these are small people only important to themselves so this gives them a moment in the sun to be important to others, until….
Their post are shot down such as the bikini gun pic, the birth by daughter story, the endangered birth for same baby by Sarah, her affair that wasn’t, the mother-in-law that won’t vote for her, and on and on and on…
Linda I agree that Rebublicans aren’t predictable. They are thinkers that can operate outside the box – a problem for the one way to think dems.
Yeah Steven Davis,
The Huffington Post, the place I go where I want to hear official opinions by Republicans.
:roll:
Steven what happened to your promise to Nathan not to bring up his religion. Is your word worth anything?
Karl Rove said on Fox the morning that he thinks the Palin choice was quite good Steven. And so does George Bush. Didn’t realize you were their spokesperson.
BTW Karl Rove appears to be a great guy. Engaging, funny, pleasant.
A teddy bear. Vilified by the ‘crats.
Just learned that Sarah Palin is a member of the same church denomination as Nathan Price, i.e. Assembly of God. Maybe she can invite him to Alaska and feed him a mooseburger. Does that food name create troubling images for anyone else?
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Mooseburger is dead meat, it ain’t moving. Cook it, season it and put it on a plate.
Maybe she can invite him to Alaska and feed him a mooseburger.
And he can even bring his own guns! What a guest!
I’m sorry. Are they praying? And here I am prattling on. Shame on me.
I tend to agree with Regular about that article, Steven. bush canceled, in fact the announcement that neither bush nor cheney would attend was made long before McCain canceled all but required business and a forum for gathering donations for storm victims. So, I don’t see how bush could think McCain had done anything to him. He was surely welcome to appear in person the night he did speak from the White House.
Pred maybe you should take your act on the road. If that last remark was supposed to be funny I missed the punch line. I hear the dems might need a little comic relief at their next meetup.
“she even sold the former governor’s private plane on Ebay.”
I need to look into that one.
Alaska being by FAR the largest in square miles state and separated hundreds of miles from the continental US?
Just how does she get around.
Before I even look?
I’m gonna guess she either
A Does not go much or anywhere or do much of anything.
B Hitches a ride on some corporate plane or other.
Either way? Her selling the Governors plane is no more than a cheap stunt.
I did notice the applause after bush’s speech lasted about 10 full seconds, so his absence probably wasn’t a disappointment to many.
okobserver posted September 3, 2008 at 7:50 pm
“Their post are shot down such as the bikini gun pic,. . .”
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okobserver, aren’t you going to answer my earlier questions?
http://blogs.kansas.com/weblog/2008/09/is-palin-taking-on-too-much/#comment-416471
Pre, the rest of us “got” it! ;-)
Blue Jay you are phenominal. Without even knowing why or if she sold the plane you declare it a ‘cheap stunt’. Is that kinda of like not having an open mind.
She is a pilot. Maybe she owns her own plane that she prefers. I really don’t know. But I did read that she “commutes” from Juneau to home most days.
Jet That Helped Defeat an Alaska Governor Is Sold
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/25/us/25jet.html?_r=1&fta=y&oref=slogin
“I hear the dems might need a little comic relief at their next meetup.”
We’ll let you know when the next meetup is okie.
After it’s over.
Palin is the same church as the Price’s?
So she DOES think she is the voice for god.
Dunno, outlander … I enjoyed this Freudian slip, more actually:
“…Pain thread is any indication”
Flying in Alaska by commuter plane is quite common.
Why I dare say the republicans have some very interesting and thought provoking ideas. These guys are not to be sold short.
With the nugatory comments I’m seeing here, no one is facing up to her potential on the issues.
Instead, we attack her flying in an airplane around a state bigger some countries.
Keep it up. They may surprise us all.
Cosmos not that I owe you an answer but I don’t accept your premise that she lied. I think that you mischaracterize frequently to make a case for your weak position. I read an article this week about the absence of sun spots. Many thinks this is pointing to a new ice age.
What thinks you of knowledgeable one?
http://www.crh.noaa.gov/fsd/astro/sunspots.php
And please just to save you time, I realized ‘this was not written by peer review scientists’.
Oh wow plastic man is on.
And reading the wrecking crew playbook.
Web Site With Speeches and Sermons From Palin’s Former Church Shuts Down as Religious Views of Candidate Face Scrutiny
The part of the Web site no longer functioning appears to be the section where the sermons of senior Pastor Ed Kalnins were available, including one from 2004 — after Palin left the church — where he suggested heaven wasn’t necessarily in the cards for anyone who voted for Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass.
Also no longer available is the video of a speech Palin delivered in June at the graduation service for the church’s School of Ministry.
http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2008/09/website-with-sp.html
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They didn’t get it shut down quickly enough however! Both Palin’s speech and her pastors sermons are safe on other servers! Did I mention that we won’t be hearing about Pastor Wright in the future?
I believe there is evil in the world mittens.
I just believe evil is what is currently cheering for you.
Is Romney trying to get Obama elected?
Yes lindainks, we get it. We’ve heard that tired dribble about the Assembly of God website about 1000 times here today on the blog. Give it a rest.
One thing our guide pointed out to us last year in Sitka and Ketchikan, Alaska was that many families don’t have cars but many of them are two helocopter families.
This state is a real challenge and the gov will be a tough challenger for the Obama/Biden ticket.
Government in business! Business OUT of government!
No mittens didn’t say that I did.
Linda,
Here’s the link about Bush’s feeling disrespected. Hell I think he should be grateful for not being in prison. But, that’s probably asking too much.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/sidney-blumenthal/the-battle-between-mccain_b_123147.html
Here’s the link about the A of G church having much impact on Sarah’s worldview:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/02/palins-church-may-have-sh_n_123205.html
They are calling her worldview “controversial”. I think they are calling it that because such is not common on the coasts, whereas around here and other rural states, such worldviews are much more common.
Bluejay has been reading Thomas Frank. I can tell.
He was surely welcome to appear in person the night he did speak from the White House.
That’s not what the news bits I’ve read have said. Here’s a quick rundown.
1. Trying to distance themselves from the Bush admin, they didn’t want Dubya there.
2. Along came Gustav, and Dubya felt he was needed in Nawlins to “oversee”.
3. McCain & Co. breathed a sigh of relief.
4. Dubya insisted that he speak via live satellite.
5. McCain & Co. didn’t agree.
And the rest, as they say, is history.
One other thing. My daughter mentioned something about it being the first time in history that a sitting president not running as incumbant ever attended a convention “live”. Anybody know?
I wonder — is sarah palin like a superstar and a messiah and …, what were all those other words we’ve been hearing?
They need something to wake them up! That was a long prayer!
Signs saying “Prosperity”? For who?
Just about finished with the book now Steven.
Thanks again.
On another thread today, we have an example of the “free market” turned on its head.
Creekstone farms wants to sell guaranteed mad cow free beef.
The FDA, virtually a wholly owned subsidiary of agribusiness and big pharmaceuticals, refuses to allow them to do so.
Look at your question and repeat it for me, Pre. Please. You’re typing like me now!
I bet Huckabee was a really cute kid, what with those dimples.
“Signs saying “Prosperity”? For who?”
The “Wrecking Crew” and its various minions, stooges, cannon fodder, etc.
Genuinely delighted. That sounded really- polite.
I swear he said Hillary Palin
I think he is still a good looking man. The dimples are niiiice. My youngest has dimples, always melted my heart!
Sorry, Linda. I’m eating and typing.
True or false:
A sitting president, not an incumbant, has never before attended the convention (either party).
If true, Bush was a first via Satellite.
I swear Mitt and Mike are trying to get Obama elected!
lindainks55
“senior Pastor Ed Kalnins were available, including one from 2004 — after Palin left the church — where he suggested heaven wasn’t necessarily in the cards for anyone who voted for Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass.”
How could Heaven be for anybody who would vote for a supporter of partial birth abortion? What scripture could you supply to support murdering innocent babies?
Thanks
Can the Republicans not have a “theme” of their own?
Change…
Prosper…
Do they have a hand sign for that too?
Live long and prosper!
Do you mean — has never before NOT attended?
Less government…that’s what we got with Bush right?
OH this is a wrong move. WRONG- he’s saying democrats don’t work hard? And these rich silver spoonies are the laborers?
okobserver posted September 3, 2008 at 8:13 pm
“Cosmos not that I owe you an answer but I don’t accept your premise that she lied.”
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So your argument is that the Gov. of Alaska is just confused, and/or misinformed?
http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/015/427xjuoj.asp
“One of the pieces of a solution is allowing exploration on that little 2,000 acre plot of land out of the 20 million acres up there in the coastal plain.”
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The Gov. of Alaska does not know that Area 1002 is about 1,549,000 acres?
She does not know that recent bills in the U.S. Congress would open ALL but possibly 45,000 of those 1,549,000 acres to oil exploration?
(If she becomes VP, she serves as President of the Senate, and casts tie-breaking votes.)
She does not know that “2,000-acres” is a limit on ground contact of “production” facilities, and has NOTHING to do with “exploration”?
And she (incorrectly) seems to believe that the “coastal plain” in the Refuge has 20 million acres?
Then your Republican party “energy expert” is very, very confused and/or misinformed.
NO, a sitting president has never before attended.
I can’t think how to google that one.
Did Huckabee really say one of his heroes was FDR??
Nope, they don’t have a theme of their own, policies of their own, plans of their own — they have criticisms, platitudes and talking points. Oh, and dimples.
How’s it working out for ya there Hickabee?
StevenEDavis
Republicans giving Palin the thumbs down:
Peggy Noonan
George W. Bush
What conservative actually likes Bush? Ramous? Copean?
Every human life has value UNTIL birth he means.
I missed her speech, watched America’s Got Talent because Palin doesn’t.
Bush first sitting president to skip convention since LBJ
In 1968, LBJ chose not to attend after he decided not to run for reelection.
http://washingtontimes.com/weblogs/trail-times/2008/Aug/31/bush-first-sitting-president-skip-convention-l-1/
Hey Mike?
Can ya ask John McCain about those 40 dollar an hour lettuce picking jobs?
He never gets back to me on that.
Where are my hipwaders?
Thanks, Linda. Either she heard or read wrong or I heard her wrong. Probably the latter. :( I’m a visual person, not auditory(?).
Taking desks away from students. How very Republican.
It’s a good thing there is a night between Huckabee and McCain. We don’t need two speeches full of stories. Is it bedtime? This sounds like a bedtime story.
Oh what a smarmy little bit of agit prop!
Mike told that story on the stump when he was running.
So: going over to another country to blow shit up = school desks.
O. . .kay.
Someone should remind that teacher that if it were up to republicans only the ones who could afford to buy their own desks would be allowed an education
Would you like to debate Governor Palin on those points cosmos?
I’m very sure she could send you packing with your tail tucked between your legs.
You’re small potatoes cosmos, a nobody. Stand the Floor Up as Chas would say. :D
Yeah every human life is important before birth- and after they’ve gotten blown up in a war of lies.
In between, you’re on your own.
Hey LOOK!
It’s America’s most famous unwed pregnant teen AND her red neck, high school dropout shotgun husband!
shotgun fiancee. sorry.
Well Cosmos I read your link and it seems as if the sitting gov of the state of Alaska has different opinion of the area that would be affected than your eco experts.
Mummm, someone could be wrong here! My guess is that the truth lies somewhere in the middle. I know that the people of Alaska think we should drill there. I asked many of them this last summer. She is a very popular gov and they know she looks out for the interests of their great state.
I guess we just agree to disagree.
What about that sun spot article and the coming ice age?
Levi Johnston is from the same town/city where my penpal in Alaska lived. Palmer, Alaska. Too bad I lost touch with her around the age of 13.
They’re sure proud of the current bunch of Republicans aren’t they? Notice how often we hear about bush / cheney?
CHANGE1 CHANGE!
It’s something we ALL agree on!
roflmao!
The new pig sticker on the Obama campaign. Zero executive experience.
Zero!
Zero!
Zero!
I know that the people of Alaska think we should drill there. I asked many of them this last summer.
Since “oil” is pretty much the only means of jobs and income in Alaska, who would expect them to be against drilling? They would be in the majority.
We in Wichita treasure our aircraft industry much the same way.
I’m glad I didn’t have a mouthful of anything.
Spew alert!
The Japanese would be disappointed predestined if you didn’t mention the magnificent lumber and fish products it gets from Alaska. :)
Pred actually salmon fishing and its processing is their number one industry and the main means of income for the Alaskans.
Do you spew alot? Sorry about that. I’m sure there are doctors somewhere who specialized in that. Good luck in finding one.
Hey Rudy?
You shoulda wore a dress. It mighta livened things up.
He definitely is the most engaging speaker of the three also rans. I can’t spell his name — ya know the noun – verb – 911 guy.
I own one square inch of Alaska. Somewhere.
My folks bought each of us kids land in Alaska.
Yep. Got the form off the cereal box.
As such, I feel a certain connection with the governor.
Reg thanks for that comment. I think Pred is having a problem tonight or maybe a whole slew of problems. She must not be able to get out much.
My bad, Reg. I forgot about the wildlife.
Thanks BlueJay. I can spell Rudy! I was only thinking of the last name, which I can pronounce but always need to look up in order to spell correctly.
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American_Way
Posted September 3, 2008 at 9:03 pm | Permalink
I own one square inch of Alaska. Somewhere.
My folks bought each of us kids land in Alaska.
Yep. Got the form off the cereal box.
As such, I feel a certain connection with the governor.
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Better double check it, it might have mineral rights. :D
“He was tortured in a POW camp.”
Well that’s the first thing I want in the most powerful elected person on Earth! Give me a guy with night terrors!
Go Sarah go.
I wasn’t going to vote for McCain until Sarah came along.
She is such a refreshing change to the evil on the other side.
Suppose any of those delegates worked as neighborhood organizers? They probably think it’s different for them. There is only one community organizer to be critical of.
Wow! Lookee here at all the snide remarks by liberals sitting in their armchairs chomping down popcorn and watchin’ the Republican Convention.
Closet Conservatives?
Wannabees?
You know how here on the blog we know the Republicans have nothing but criticisms, their speakers at the RNC are the same way! Must be a common trait among the party.
Keep the close ups off of Cindy!
They talk more about the opposition, than they do their own candidates. But, who can blame them?
We pay attention to all sides! Keeps us well informed.
“Better double check it, it might have mineral rights”
I’ve often wondered about that. I wonder how many millions of American parents sent in the money and boxtops to get an inch of Alaska.
I’d like to see where this land is on a map.
I’ll bet my inch is right square over one of those oil wells.
During Palin’s speech, I will be chanting To ken to ken to ken.
For the token woman that the GOP is placing on the ticket.
At a press conference of Republican women, a reporter asked what John McCain had led.
The answer: his squadron.
I thought the word “torture” was off limits?
“We will be safe in his hands.”
I just don’t want to be anywhere near John McCain and an aircraft. They have a way of blowing up when he is nearby.
Our children will be sent to war and less safe under McSame.
Our children will live under a fundamentalist regime under mcSame.
“their speakers at the RNC are the same way”
Oh yes, we all KNOW that NONE of the democrat speakers made ANY snide comments, jokes, or attacks on Republicans.
Please Linda, stand far away from me. That lightning is dangerous stuff.
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American_Way
Posted September 3, 2008 at 9:11 pm | Permalink
“Better double check it, it might have mineral rights”
I’ve often wondered about that. I wonder how many millions of American parents sent in the money and boxtops to get an inch of Alaska.
I’d like to see where this land is on a map.
I’ll bet my inch is right square over one of those oil wells.
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Well, as a landowner and if you change your state residency, you might get one of those $12,000 checks from the State of Alaska windfall profits on oil. heh :)
Heh
IF elected? John McCain will not be able to do anything.
Well, except maybe pardon bush and cheney.
Dems will hold the congress.
Oh stop lying Kandisue- you weren’t about to vote for Obama.
lindainks55
Posted September 3, 2008 at 9:11 pm | Permalink
We pay attention to all sides! Keeps us well informed.
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Between you Pred and Rudy I am laughing so hard my sides hurt. Wish I could have shared the dems convention with you. Was you as entertaining then as you are now?
“Our children will be sent to war…”
You mean like under a number of democrats in the white house? JFK, LBJ, to name a few.
How about Mogadishu under Clinton? Or Bosnia (those pesky undeclared wars)
The democrats will sell you to terrorists….their mantra.
Ask how their hero Ronald Reagan quickly sold them out to terrorists.
I wondered when Mayor 9-11 was going to get around to that.
Be afraid! Be verrry afraid!
Our children will live under a socialist regime under Messiah Obama.
Yo Rudy?
I don’t hear you saying McCain will get bin Laden.
You know, since bush…didn’t?
Hey Bin Laden is still out there thanks to Republicans. Shows all of YOUR brilliant ideals.
He’s got em! Told you he was the most engaging of the also rans.
Socialism is EMINENTLY preferable to feudalism.
This is the most enthusiasm I’ve seen from the crowd. Too bad they chose the other guy as heir candidate. giggle
Oh, I forgot! It’s OK, their superstar is coming up next!
“The democrats will sell you to terrorists….”
History will remind us about Bill Clinton’s failure to attack Osama Bin Laden and the democrats chicken shit entry and withdrawal from Black Hawk Down.
A little pressure, a little bind in the polls – and the libs are outta there!
Liberal leaders theme song:
Yeah they ran through the briars and they ran through the brambles
And they ran through the bushes where a rabbit couldn’t go
They ran so fast that the hounds couldn’t catch ‘em
On down the Persian Gulf and out the Indian Ocean.
linda
after lackluster last night?
The cons probably got the whips out on the delegates.
Well that and probably lots of liquor and no doze.
I’m glad to see them pumped up. It took them most of the night last night to even get some decent applause.
How soon they forget.
Wag the dog, AmWay.
It’s only dark half the year in Palin’s hometown.
It’s dark all the time in the Republican party.
See how petty the liberals are? They had their convention and conservatives and republicans posted about the issues.
These small town libs are lacking anything to do but watch the Republicans and admire them from afar.
And post one liners which mean nothing. Absolutely nothing. No content. No issues. No arguments on the merits of the speakers.
Typical sounding brass.
okobserver posted September 3, 2008 at 8:51 pm
“Well Cosmos I read your link and it seems as if the sitting gov of the state of Alaska has different opinion of the area that would be affected than your eco experts.
Mummm, someone could be wrong here! My guess is that the truth lies somewhere in the middle.”
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okobserver, you are very wrong.
And WHY do you believe that legislation in Congress is just an “opinion” of “eco experts”?
Go to http://thomas.loc.gov/
Research the bills that open the Refuge to drilling.
For example,
“S.2758
e) Special Areas-
(1) DESIGNATION-
(A) IN GENERAL- The Secretary, after consultation with the State of Alaska, the North Slope Borough, Alaska, and the City of Kaktovik, Alaska, may designate not more than 45,000 acres of the Coastal Plain as a special area if the Secretary determines that the special area would be of such unique character and interest as to require special management and regulatory protection.
…
SEC. 4. LEASE SALES.
(d) Acreage Minimum in First Sale- For the first lease sale under this Act, the Secretary shall offer for lease those tracts the Secretary considers to have the greatest potential for the discovery of hydrocarbons, taking into consideration nominations received pursuant to subsection (b)(1), but in no case less than 200,000 acres.
SEC. 7. COASTAL PLAIN ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION.
(3) ensure that the maximum surface acreage covered in connection with the leasing program by production and support facilities, including airstrips and any areas covered by gravel berms or piers for support of pipelines, does not exceed 2,000 acres on the Coastal Plain .”
Pmom I think you must have got your history lesson from public schools. Bin Laden is still out there because when Clinton was offered him on a silver platter he said ‘I don’t want him you can have him’ and our country then suffered thru 9/11.
cosmos,
No one cares.
Get it?
Boy, cosmos, I gotta give it to you — you do persevere! Never quit! Many of us don’t have your passion even for what we are truly interested in!
“We’re the party that believes in giving workers the right to work.”
Three jobs! No benefits!
““The democrats will sell you to terrorists….”
And least anyone forget – the terrorist today WANT Obama to be our next President. Why? Because he loves EVERYone in the world. He stood before the Reiche people and they worshipped him. Obama is one of their own. Someone who understands them (sniffle, sniffle). Someone who can reach out to them (more sniffles). Someone who will offer them change and America’s best (strong sobs). Someone who will consider their vote on the issues (outright bawling now).
That should tell you something. But it won’t.
Cosmos cares.
A prime example of what happens when you go to sleep and the tape recorder is left on auto rewind/play. Too much listening to the koolaid will do that to a soul.
Let’s listen to see if the voice coach was able to help.
yeah keep telling yourself that granny. Cuz Bush has looked SO HARD….even had that document on his desk before he struck.
If no one cares James McCluer “Regular”?
Why was it cosmos reduced you to scrolling about beating horses til they are dead?
Oh and HERE is our little shrink wrapped import from the 1950’s Sarah Palin!
TO ken TO ken TO ken
Rudy was AMAZING!
AmWay, you bonehead, we did this for ours too. Its in the archive really, go look it up. So did the cons.
Quoth Peggy Noonan:
“It’s over!”
Nope! still work to be done on that voice. Very irritating, almost grates.
I dunno James Ryan Remil aka BlueJay, where’s your son? Doesn’t he need help with his home work or fatherly advice?
Why are you sitting on your ass in front of the computer?
He kissed up to the ones he said he used to dis. He flippperrr flopppereeddddddddddd.
Voice coach didn’t help.
She still sounds like Suzy know it all.
She does have a very nice looking family!
I want someone who’ll send my kid to war indefinately. BOM BOMB BOMB IRAN. YAY. Send my kid to get killed!
Anybody wanna bet Levi was made to get a haircut?
What a cutey!
Damn Levi looks like a trapped animal.
Political_mama
Posted September 3, 2008 at 9:30 pm | Permalink
yeah keep telling yourself that granny. Cuz Bush has looked SO HARD….even had that document on his desk before he struck.
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Lady do you wake up in a new world every day? You don’t even make sense most of the time. What document are you talking about now? Another one of the ‘blog’ rumors you seems to find all of the time.
Oh she is so NOT GOING to talk for me and Special needs kids.
LOL
AGAIN with the “snow machine” bit!
Gran, that’s not a rumor. Surely you are not that dumb that you forgot that he had the document on his desk saying “Bin Laden Determined To Strike Within the US”.
MONTHS before the first plane hit the world trade center.
Are you denying that happened?
Isn’t it amazing what babies can sleep through?
Hey parents, be careful, if you don’t support her she’ll fire you.
Echhhh Her voice is like nails on a blackboard.
No comments from Testicle on how her voice ‘grates’ on him?
hey alright- who found the Harper Valley PTA song?
There is some improvement! It isn’t as squeaky and nasal as it was last Friday.
PTA?
Only for your first kid.
Now that’s cute! Get that hair slicked down.
Damn Levi looks like a trapped animal.
I’m sure they’re all accustomed to that deer(moose)-in-the-headlights look.
Actual responsibilities?
You mean like banning books and firing people who disagree with you?
john mccain is the same man who voted with bush 90% of the time.
Tina Fey is going to have SUCH fun with Sarah Palin.
I’m almost glad this import from the 1950’s came to us.
She’s going to washington to instill her view of religious dominance on this great country.
Political_mama
Posted September 3, 2008 at 9:38 pm | Permalink
Oh she is so NOT GOING to talk for me and Special needs kids.
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You couldn’t ask for a better advocate. She puts value on life and didn’t throw Trig in a dirty broom closet when he was born just because he was ‘damaged’. Unlike the left she says what she means and means what she says. I admire her for that alone.
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Political_mama
Posted September 3, 2008 at 9:39 pm | Permalink
Gran, that’s not a rumor. Surely you are not that dumb that you forgot that he had the document on his desk saying “Bin Laden Determined To Strike Within the US”.
MONTHS before the first plane hit the world trade center.
Are you denying that happened?
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Unlike you pmom I don’t try to politize everything. Clinton had that same memo what did he do? They did know Bin Laden wanted to attack but no one knew the method they would use. If Clinton had been on the ball he would have realized the terrorists were training right under his nose in Florida and Georgia learning how to fly jets. Funny thing was they didn’t want to learn how to LAND them.
Pull your head out Pmom. Don’t be so gullible.
A servant’s heart- religious term.
Sarah Palin for student body president!
“Nobody expects us to agree on everything.”
“I promise I will carry myself with this spirit.”
That’s why she fires people who disagree with her.
She’s going to get to some “meat” now. Something that tells us how she will do all these glorious things, right? ;-) I had to do it! It was the questions the Republicans always ask when Senator Obama is giving an inspiring speech!
NO GRAN.
The jet didn’t sell on ebay.
Palin is claiming credit for Congress removing funding for the bridge. She may remember the bridge, the one she fought for.
I believe Alaska is the highest per capita recipient of federal aid.
I wonder if she’ll mention the gas pipeline project that was given to Canada?
Is that true Beber? I’d like to know.
Yeah, JR . . .
She said that she “took on crony-capitalism and special interests” and there was smattering of applause.
I was surprised. The RepubliCON party platform holds a hallowed place for crony-capitalism and special interests.
And since we all know she was FOR that bridge to nowhere before she was against it, how many other lies is she telling that we haven’t yet outed? You tell one lie, and you’re gonna tell more!
“If Alaskans will just be right with God we will get that pipeline!”
berber, please elucidate. I read it did for over a mil.
we do not import much natural gas.
“I also put my village of 8,000 into almost 20 mil in debt as mayor and preferred a multi-million sports complex over a water treatment plant” Oops, just paraphrasin’ there.
Russia produces the gas
She speaking against Reagan now and speaking in favor of Carter’s energy program.
America wouldn’t have to import any natural gas if we increased efficiency. You know, the sort of thing McCain and the Republicans often vote against.
Then why do you chant drill here, drill now.
http://www.stateline.org/live/ViewPage.action?siteNodeId=136&languageId=1&contentId=15797
True beber.
The only difference between hockey moms and pit bulls is lipstick.
Holy CRAP! If you’re a RepubliCON, that is the funniest goddang thing you ever heard. They clapped, they cheered, they stomped, they laughed until their sides ached.
Idiots.
And I’m outta beer. Looks like tequila shots, I can’t take this sh!t completely sober.
Thank God, Jon Stewart is up in 6 minutes . . .
Um Palin, you gave the gas pipeline contract to Canadian workers. Gee, I have the talks on for less than five minutes and the lies pile on.
Palin said the Iraq war is about oil and religion. Does victory happen when we suck all the oil out of Iraq and kill the last Muslim?
THIS….squeaky…cupcake was supposed to get me, a Hillary voter, to vote for McCain?
No way, no how, NO Sarah Palin.
I think I read that she put the jet up three times on ebay and it didn’t sell, but eventually sold privately. I also think it sold at a loss, but I’m not sure. I didn’t run it down, and don’t even know where I read it.
The state has tried selling its unwanted jet online four times and failed. So last week, the Palin administration signed a contract with an Anchorage aircraft broker who thinks he can succeed where eBay couldn’t The eBay thing didn’t work out very well, said Dan Spencer, director of administrative services for the Department of Public Safety. He’s the person charged with trying to get rid of the infamous Westwind II.
The administration made a deal last week with Turbo North Aviation, promising the broker a 1.49 percent cut of the selling price.
http://www.adn.com/sarah-palin/story/203814.html
Hey Winkin Blinkin and Nod. Yes you in the bleachers, making the snide remarks.
How does it feel looking at the first female president of the United States?
All, I can say is WOW!
The government increased under Bush and was reduced under Clinton. Palin lies again, typical Republican.
I don’t suppose she’s going to mention Obama’s legislation to gather up loose nukes in the former Soviet states. Nah, she’s a Republican so she has to rely on lies.
I’ll never diss you on being a slow researcher P.M.
Did I hear that right? Did she literally just poo poo American rights as whining?
Obama will increase my taxes by zero.
Ok, I believe she just hung out with Rove for the last five days in a La Quinta Inn in Fargo to rehearse the “memo”
“Hi America! I’m Sarah Palin and I’m a liar! YAAAAAaaaaayyyy!”
“Did I hear that right? Did she literally just poo poo American rights as whining?”
Yup, she said people shouldn’t have rights. She said police should be able to drag us off the streets and “whiners” only want civil rights.
Clean coal in pennsylvania. My ass.
John McCain, voted with Bush 95% of the time. That’s change. *rolls eyes*
Which world are you posting from this evening outlander?
She’s a competent speaker, I’ll give her that.
borg speak
Where are those clean coal plants that Palin is talking about? They don’t exist, kinda like a fiscally conservative Republican (there is one, but he’s holding his convention elsewhere in Minnesota).
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Maggotpunk
Posted September 3, 2008 at 9:59 pm | Permalink
“Did I hear that right? Did she literally just poo poo American rights as whining?”
Yup, she said people shouldn’t have rights. She said police should be able to drag us off the streets and “whiners” only want civil rights.
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You’re a part of Al Qaeda?
She is effective and she does have them excited! It’s about time! Before Rudy and her it was really dull.
They’re only clapping because they feel they have to.
Ralph Nader?
John McCain fights or fought for me?
When?
“POW.POW.POW’
So Palin is saying that if McCain loses the election then he’ll kill himself? He was defeated in 2000 but he’s still alive. He was defeated when he was captured in Vietnam. He was defeated when the Keating Five were busted. Etc.
Bluejay, McCain fought for you when he tried to privatize social security and remove all the benefits you’ve worked your entire life for.
She sneers while she smears. Not attractive!
they’re the borg, they’re not like us. I’m done.
I took a drink every time Palin lied. Now I’ve been drinking too much. In order to sober up I’ll just drink every time I see a Black person in the crowd.
The Republicans run on McCain’s status as a POW because he has the experience to make us all feel like prisoners of war.
It was interesting watching Romney and Huckabee – they both seem to be seeting the stage for their runs in 2012. If McCain loses in 2008 the GOP is wide open in 2012. Even if he wins it will likely be open – I cannot see him going for two terms.
OH KERAP! Jon Stewart just transposed Fred Thomson with FogHorn Leghorn and Lieberman with Droopy Dog.
Perfect!
Don’t republicans usually praise heaps on Reagan for his ability to speak? Now its wrong to be a good speaker with Obama? WTH?
Can these people get their story straight?
Political_mama
Posted September 3, 2008 at 10:03 pm | Permalink
They’re only clapping because they feel they have to.
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I am so glad to have the left to share this with. Without you all I would be lost. I would think she did a great job and was very ‘articulate’.
I loved watching her family and their ease with each other and the special baby in their family.
I’m surprised she didn’t wear her tiara.
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lindainks55
Posted September 3, 2008 at 10:06 pm | Permalink
She sneers while she smears. Not attractive!
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The truth hurts doesn’t it? :)
The demonstration you will now see is actually scheduled.
Uh oh, she’s using her family as campaign props. I thought they were off limits?
“John McCain has inspired with his deeds.” If only he could remember if he was for it or against it first.
BTW, wmd4Jesus,
Love your nic and your posts.
Welcome to the WEBlog.
Hey, McCain just pulled an Obama. Not just content with stealing his slogan.
I have to tell you JR. Sarah Palin seems to be everything I had hoped. And everyone everyone is interested. The comments here in all Palin threads are more numerous than any other subject and largely snide and catty.
I can understand that. I can smell that anxiety. Almost like fear. The savior Obama had it in a cakewalk. Then along comes someone like Sarah Palin. Someone that the heart of America can relate to.
The old coot himself!
Oh LOOK she’s holding the baby.
What staged, hypocritical piffery crap.
Damn, they really had to up the volume to make McCain sound popular didn’t they?
Where’s McCain flag lapel pin? Does that mean he hates America?
Pmom it is only wrong to be a good speaker when you speak words with no meaning. He is the classic ‘empty suit’. Obama is in trouble.
So, which one was the most boring speaker tonight? About 10:00 I turned it off. Getting sleepy. The whole production looked so stage. One shot even showed the teleprompter she was reading off of.
You didn’t answer outlander.
Which world are you posting from this evening.
And they kept old John up this late?
Barack? If you lose to….this? It is because you do not see it for the homegrown threat that it is.
See folks- OUtlander LOVES HER…same crowd that love Bush.
Fundy squared.
All in all, very uninspiring, doubt if Mccain will save the day. So many distortions and inaccuracies I lost track of them.
I think both Rudy and Palin excited them. Before that it was a dud — booorrrring. But their salvation came through!
Empty skirt.
At least some of her hair was let down, so not a total waste.
For your enjoyment, the reliable(sic) source of oil for the United States of America, according to the McCain/Palin campaign. Note the photos.
‘Alaska clean-up ‘could take years’
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/1584553.stm
A drunk with a hunting rifle shut it down for about 60 hours during heightened security, in Oct. 2001.
A mid-winter shutdown could congeal the heated oil, and make a restart impossible until it warmed the next summer.
More details why drilling in the Arctic Refuge (Palin’s solution(sic)) is the wrong idea.
E01-04, Fool’s Gold in Alaska — annotated, Foreign Affairs (PDF-980k)
near bottom of page here,
http://www.rmi.org/sitepages/pid256.php
What’s up with the Mod Squad in cowboy hats?
Remember, this is the same woman that asked waht the VP job is a few months ago.
We haven’t had the time to learn about and comment on Palin Outlander, of course we’re going to talk about it.
She isn’t an empty skirt. She gave a good speech. Now onto the interviews, the debate, the campaign trail.
Palin forgot to answer this question, “Recent polls have shown a fifth of Americans can’t locate the U.S. on a world map. Why do you think this is?”
I’m certain she would have something about ‘the Iraq,’ you know, for the children.
The real world JR.
So, how are things in Bizarro World?
Well, well, well. As someone who has been disgusted with the republican party, I found the VP Candidate to be refreshing and new. Someone who remembers the conservative values which the party has strayed from.
Yet, she also showed that she also reflects a new breed of republican who can also embrace the change needed to grasp environmental issues out of the hands of the corporations which have banked on the old republicans.
But of course, the WEBLOG is not the place to discuss the republican candidates with any seriousness. There can be no real discussion on the issues or merits here.
This is the home of the irrational liberals who flood the blog with so much crap anyone trying to carry on an exchange of ideas – with any positive merit for republicans (or negative), will surely drown in the bullshit posting.
Going to find my square inch.
I’m so proud to be a liberal.
PMom, she spent several days in seclusion and she learned a speech. Give her some time on what the VP does every day. Maybe that will be the next lesson. She has some cramming to do. But she’s young, and purported to be a quick learner. She better be, there isn’t much time.
It took me a while to figure the one out about John Mccain was the only one who fought for you, think it was an obscure reference to—wait for it—POW!
Cosmos last week when I was on the east coast a computer glitch shut down all of the air traffic in the east and a large part of the west. Planes were in holding patterns all over the US. So by your reasoning we should outlaw all computers in air traffic control.
I say we should not let drunks have guns in Alaska if they live close to the pipeline. That will solve that problem.
Best line was mccain wants to increase exporting jobs with more free trade, who delivered that Giluani?
Palin reminds me of someone. Who could it be?
Hmmmm . . .
http://www.evaangelinaonline.com/
Amway, for someone who is disgusted with the Bush admin- you sure like more of the same. You defend them at every turn.
She didn’t get on that stage by being a rulebreaker. She got on there by being staunchly evangelical right wing fundy conservative.
Jon has Newt on his show!
Sarah Palin just gave the best speech of this entire election season – possibly, of all time. Moving, passionate, factual, funny, witty, inspiring, motivating….
She will likely be president someday.
THIS world outlander?
Or “the next” as you say you use your nic to remind you of your place in?
Biden is gonna eat this cupcake for lunch.
Go Palin!……sorry lib’s, your screwed.
Sorry Linda, she did what her masters wanted her to do, but she did not give a good speech.
Should a bit part in a re-make of the movie Fargo ever come up, she has a job.
To be vice president and one heart beat away from the leader of the free world – the poor woman fell on he face.
She is not ready for prime-time. She is so far above her head, that I am sure her breathing is difficult. Sorry all.
Congrats to Palin for repeating all the Republican talking points mentioned on Fox News this election year. Perhaps they’ll come up with something original in 2012.
Does Palin know where the Pakistan-Iraqi border is located?
okobserver,
Again. . . WHY do you believe that actual legislation in Congress is just an “opinion” of “eco experts”?
Are you completely unable to support your (false) opinions?
Go to http://thomas.loc.gov/
Research the bills that open the Refuge to drilling.
For example, S.2758
http://blogs.kansas.com/weblog/2008/09/republican-convention-thread-93/#comment-416706
Leave it to KomradeKapn to post a porn site on here.
*shock*
Oh just tell us if you think she is “MILFY” there Golfnut.
That is the level of your intellectual involvement here.
Yeah I feel screwed. LOL.
Jon is kicking Newts ass.
She gave an excellent speech and you libs know it…and it scares you!
Golfgut is seldom correct, but Capn you are above that kind of nonsense. At least I thought, any way.
Yeah . . . and KSGolfnut knew it was a pornsite without even clicking on the link . . . if you know what I mean.
Like I said before their convention would be POW+WoW, but instead of my predicted Drill here…they were chanting some other slogan about oil.
Go look at the electoral maps and let’s see if anything changes as the result of her speech. We’ll see how she does unscripted when they let her loose on the campaign trail and the talk shows. If she has learned only those phrases and talking points we heard tonight, it’s going to get real boring real quickly!
Get with teh program, the correct term now is GILF-y.
yes Anti- I’m scared. Oh so scared. Please, someone save me I might have a heart attack so scared.
heh
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Political_mama
Posted September 3, 2008 at 10:25 pm | Permalink
Yeah I feel screwed. LOL.
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Good, at least you are over you lengthy dry spell.
Good, at least you are over your lengthy dry spell.
Reality check.
For the most part, Palin hit this speech out of the park. The one sour note was the snark about Obama’s infamous San Fransisco line. Look at the audience Obama spoke to, and look to the obviously well dressed, prosperous looking and, frankly, ethnically homogenous group of people cheering that statement. In images, it is a serious disconnect. Every other snarky line and attack, however, was smartly delivered and smartly done.
But, it was a very, very smart speech overall. She stayed away from the cultural conservative red meat while saying things that appeal to the audience nevertheless. She navigated this election’s third rail for Republicans with ease.
The verdict is in. McCain made a smart choice. If she is vulnerable, and policy wise she should be, the Democrats are going to have to work very hard and very smart to derail her.
And that’s a fact.
Now, I was curious. I don’t recall seeing the teleprompter so obviously in other speeches. What was up with that?
And no, everyone uses it, so I don’t buy the predictable Democratic snark that she needed it to be more obvious.
“Sarah Palin just gave the best speech of this entire election season – possibly, of all time. Moving, passionate, factual, funny, witty, inspiring, motivating….
She will likely be president someday.” Put down the crack pipe and back away!
You’re wrong, Anti. I am not scared of her. Her policies are not what will get votes. She did give a good speech and she did excite the delegates at the convention. McCain still plans to continue the same economic policies that bush has used to put our economy on the rocks, McCain is still a warmonger. Palin is his running mate. And, she’s purdy!
It was strange set up,like a hologram.
She moved THAT crowd?
Hell I could have done that by handing out bibles, guns and flags.
No way, no how, no Sarah Palin.
And it IS Sarah Palin at the top of the ticket.
The cons are hoping against hope now that John will live long enough to die in office.
Not gonna happen.
Agnatha- sorry- but god I really don’t see it.
I thought it was dry and boring really.
The words looked to be about 6 inches long in white, I’d never seen it before, kind of like the star wars credits.
You’re right, Steven.
It was over the line.
I blame it on the hypocrisy fest the Republics made me listen to . . .
Don’t worry, JOHN MCCain will protect you from those evil terrorist!
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lindainks55
Posted September 3, 2008 at 10:31 pm | Permalink
You’re wrong, Anti. I am not scared of her. Her policies are not what will get votes. She did give a good speech and she did excite the delegates at the convention. McCain still plans to continue the same economic policies that bush has used to put our economy on the rocks, McCain is still a warmonger. Palin is his running mate. And, she’s purdy!
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I have only been wrong once in my life. It was last Tuesday when I thought a Baconator from Wendy’s would be delicious…I was wrong.
Palin HIT A HOME RUN!
KNOCKED IT RIGHT OUT OF THE PARK!
KNOCKED OBAMA ON HIS ASS!
WAY TO GO PALIN!!!!!
Well, twice in a a week. Better work on that.
Palin is Genuine. No phony baloney acting job like Obama/Biden.
Palin is the real deal.
And she knocked Obama off his high horse tonight!
Oh, she is purdy Linda.
So how do you guys plan to get McCain out of the way of Palin?
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MaxGrobnik
Posted September 3, 2008 at 10:37 pm | Permalink
Palin is Genuine. No phony baloney acting job like Obama/Biden.
Palin is the real deal.
And she knocked Obama off his high horse tonight!
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Agreed.
wmd4Jesus: Do YOU know where the Pakistan-Iraqi border is located?
Or are you intentionally an idiot.
Please tell me you can look at a map and actually read it?
Susan Esienhower on Colbert.
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lindainks55
Posted September 3, 2008 at 10:38 pm | Permalink
So how do you guys plan to get McCain out of the way of Palin?
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Nature.
I’m just chuckling. Rah rah rah.
I wonder if Palin will have to ask what the President actually does.
wmd4Jesus: Do YOU know where the Pakistan-Iraqi border is located?
Or are you intentionally an idiot.
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Uh, Dion, McCain said it about a month ago, dude.
She says the Republican party has demonstrated they care more about right to life issues than national security and the economy.
Well, yeah! We already knew that!
All in all, very uninspiring, is she done yet? I’d like to see the commentators reactions.
Drill Baby Drill, that’s what the chant was. Even that was forgetable.
I think the commentators will tiptoe for awhile. They were among her attacks — she was actually an equal opportunity attacker and spread them around far and wide.
As I said earlier, the republicans have stepped up to the plate with a new list of candidates. Those of you making light of her presentation tonight are hopefully doing so for the con pukes reading this. But if you are taking her lightly, you do so at some risk, in my opinion.
She appealed to my family members watching tonight. Our senior citizen parents were looking a little confused on their position after listening tonight.
I fear they are not alone.
Regular
Posted September 3, 2008 at 10:02 pm | Permalink
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Maggotpunk
Posted September 3, 2008 at 9:59 pm | Permalink
“Did I hear that right? Did she literally just poo poo American rights as whining?”
Yup, she said people shouldn’t have rights. She said police should be able to drag us off the streets and “whiners” only want civil rights.
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You’re a part of Al Qaeda?
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In a Rod Serling voice, “Please note ladies and gentlemen, a classic Regular post. Brought to you for your edification and enjoyment by our sponsor, the Republican Party.”
The 10:41 post referred to Susan Eisenhower.
The 10:42 to Palin.
She’d need a wheel chair to move That Crowd!
Capn, are you a “moran”?
Well Max I will agree Palin is Genuine. No phony baloney acting.
Not so sure she stole any of Obamas thunder. But that was not her intent. Her entire speech was focused on the middle of the road fence setters.
The far left is hopelessly under the Obama spell.
But those looking for real change – got a shocker tonight.
John McCain
Her Story
The skit on Colbert is so true!
John McCain
It’s Like He Has A Vagina
Sorry Capn. Dion, are YOU a “moran”?
okobserver posted September 3, 2008 at 10:20 pm
“I say we should not let drunks have guns in Alaska if they live close to the pipeline. That will solve that problem.”
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Let the record show that okobserver says that guns should be confiscated from all people who live near the 800-mile long pipeline, if they have a drinking problem. And also access to alcohol?
okobserver will now provide her solutions to mechanical failures of the pipeline, and bomb threats. Or maybe she will not. . .?
The U.S. Army studied the 800-mile long pipeline, and concluded that it was “indefensible”.
E01-04, Fool’s Gold in Alaska — annotated, Foreign Affairs (PDF-980k)
near bottom of page here,
http://www.rmi.org/sitepages/pid256.php
The Speech to NOWHERE
“colbert”
bawhahaha. Yeah, that’s right up there with Saturday Night Live on the scale of importance.
I wouldn’t focus on the crowd Phantom. I would say republicans overall, are not easily led to theatrics and the wild gyrations one would see at a tent revival, or like at a black church.
As in the picture of the FReeper holding the sign, “Get a clue, moran!”
Yeah, I never get tired of that one.
For my part, I was hoping hear something I hadn’t already heard on CNN etc. And, yes, she did lie a few times (I give MP credit for the best snarky post of the thread!).
I wasn’t expecting an “empty skirt” as I remembered when NPR interviewed her shortly after she become governor.
So maybe that’s why I wasn’t particularly impressed. When she tossed out the line how being mayor was like being a community organizer, except with real responsibilities, and thought “like. . .?” Information was not forthcoming.
The true test will come when she debates Biden.
“The Speech to NOWHERE”
Good one, political_mom. Do you think Sarah kept the money?
Political_mama
Posted September 3, 2008 at 10:25 pm | Permalink
Yeah I feel screwed. LOL.
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Finally! About damn time! It was a lot of work, but someone had to do it.
Thank him or her or it for all of us.
MaxGrobnik
Posted September 3, 2008 at 10:37 pm | Permalink
Palin is Genuine. No phony baloney acting job like Obama/Biden.
Palin is the real deal.
And she knocked Obama off his high horse tonight!
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you need to remember, the convention is like a pep rally in high school. We’re gonna rock ‘em sock ‘em and beat ‘em up. Big talk before the game. And then the game starts neext week. Ought to be interesting.
P-Mom, THAT was funny!
Thank you.
“‘colbert’
“bawhahaha. Yeah, that’s right up there with Saturday Night Live on the scale of importance.”
Hey, shallow troll boy.
SNL arguably had a measurable effect on the Democratic primary this season by drawing attention to the behavior of some of the journalists asking questions in the debate.
However, it does not surpise me that a shallow troll boy like you wouldn’t get Colbert (who alas, probably does not have the influence of SNL, and whose satire probably goes right over your head).
Soccer moms V Hockey moms?
A nasty piece of work, that Sarah Palin. Tonight gave us a glimpse of what the Alaska Daily News meant when it said that “she can look you in the eye and tell you black is white. Especially when there’s oil involved.”
Hagfish,
Colbert is a comedian. Nothing more.
Oh but Palin has “executive experience” so she’s qualified. Who else had executive experience, in fact more executive experience. That would be Romney, Huckabee and Guiliani. You know those guys, the ones the Republican primary voters thought were less qualified than McCain.
Agreed, CF.
One wonders if even the Republicans can believe that she “took on the oil companies.”
On the take, yes . . .
The reaction from the Leftist Raadical Socialist Libs here is a great indicator of how successful Palin was tonight.
She wasn’t giving a speech to convert you Radicals, she was targeting the base to make sure they come out to vote, targeting those conservatives voting 3rd Party as a protest vote, and targeting some in the middle of the road. And maybe, capturing some old man and old lady Clinton supporters who usually just pull the D lever.
You Leftist Radicals, there’s no HOPE for you.
“Agnatha- sorry- but god I really don’t see it.
“I thought it was dry and boring really.”
You weren’t the intended audience (neither was I for that matter), but to evaluate it you need to see it for what it was, a speech that appealed to the right wing base without much of anything that would drive off the foul weather swing voters.
And really, the only way one would conclude that it was dry and boring would be if s/he made up their mind about the speech maker before seeing the speech. Hey, I despise this woman’s politics (most of it anyway) but it doesn’t do anyone any good to pretend that it was not an effective speech.
The one possible (and I am not saying it’s likely) drawback to the speech, it was the sheer red meat offered through the attacks on Obama. But even then, that’s the accepted role of the VP nominee, and if it backfires, it really isn’t her fault, it was the undertone of nastiness from those who cheered the lines. And frankly, while I don’t agree with her obviously, I don’t think she crossed the line like she could have.
dionysius,
Indeed. I, for one, don’t underestimate Sarah Palin at all. Her theocratic, apocalpytic worldview poses a mortal danger to this nation. She’s completely without scruple or personal integrity, and misuses political authority for personal reasons like other people breathe. She dissembles expertly and lies without hesitation.
I also believe that she is eminently defeatable. And I think the Obama campaign has the smarts to accomplish it.
RE: KsGolfnut
DNFTSTB
Max is also in fine trolling form tonight, I see.
lindainks55
Posted September 3, 2008 at 10:48 pm | Permalink
John McCain
It’s Like He Has A Vagina
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You had some very good posts today Linda. This isn’t one of em.
And actually, John does have a vagina, she’s blond, rich, and beautiful too.
All of the Liberal talking heads on the Cable Networks are whining how Palin was so mean to poor wittle Barry Obama.
(sniff)
Max, you do realize that you and those like you are a liability to your own side this election, don’t you?
Nah, probably not.
And no more soup for you.
Trolling for Libs?
Waste of gas. Just throw out a bare hook and they snag themselves here.
Dear Nazi,
“…targeting some in the middle of the road. And maybe, capturing some old man and old lady Clinton supporters who usually just pull the D lever.”
Dream on, Nazi child molester. If those folks don’t want to vote for Obama, Sarah Palin’s speech just gave them every reason to stay home on November 4.
So the fundies want a culture war?
And THEIR Joan of Arc comes from a land that spends half the year in the dark?
I say bring it.
max, I was watching a comedy skit on Colbert, quoting that skit. For heaven’s sake, do you not possess a tiny bit of humor someplace in there?
McCain wins the nomination! I can’t wait for Guy Lombardo and those Canucks to rock the half-dead out!
“I blame it on the hypocrisy fest the Republics made me listen to . . .”
Agreed, that party of personal responsibility can make it really tough on a person; unfortunately, not nearly tough enough on their adherents.
The jawless fish thinks Colbert is a serious political commentator. Hagfish probably keeps a copy of the Liberal bible by his bedside, written by another serious commentator, Marx.
Groucho Marx
None of the Republicans addressed my very serious question. How are you going to get McCain out of Palin’s way?
StevenEDavis,
Nice snark.
RE: Regular
Sing along with me now.
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Cheap-shotting Palin looked like a wind-up doll reading someone else’s words, lauding the character of a man she barely knows and talking about subjects she had to be drilled on like Eliza Doolittle in “My Fair Lady.”
She’s a joke right out of a Hollywood movie script where the candidate doesn’t get that he (she) is a pawn of evil power-brokers who care nothing for the people, only about their own personal agendas.
It’s war now. And Barack and those who forced him on us better get that.
Palin looked like a wind-up doll reading someone else’s words, lauding the character of a man she barely knows and talking about subjects she had to be drilled on like Eliza Doolittle in “My Fair Lady.”
I say, no way.
Maybe the speech was more effective if you hadn’t read the parts of the speech before she was to give it. When I signed on earlier, I read most of her speech on the internet, and mistakenly thought she’d already given it.
KSGolfnut
Posted September 3, 2008 at 10:22 pm | Permalink
“Sarah Palin just gave the best speech of this entire election season – possibly, of all time. Moving, passionate, factual, funny, witty, inspiring, motivating….”
Shame about all the outright lies. But seems to me that Republicans see the refusal to be bound by reality as a plus.
Colbert has more Peabody awards than the comedian Bill O’Reilly.
I thought it was odd she talked about mccain’s character like she’d known him all her life instead of a few days.
But Phantom, McCain said he and Palin were soulmates.
I wonder how many times the “O”hboy! had to light up tonight?
soulmates until mccain gets pissed and calls her a slut.
Many patriots would speak endlessly about McCain’s character without EVER having met him. Just like I would about Ronald Reagan.
Sure Linda, I have humor. You call me mean and nasty and all kinds of other things when I say stupid siht like you just did.
But that’s ok.
From the Leftists, I expect that hypocracy.
It’s almost funnier then your jokes.
JR is certainly entertaining while being stupid. Sorta like the Deliverance boy on the porch playing the banjo and showing both teeth when he puts on his siht eating grin. :)
Then Sq Peg/Chas comes out thumpin his bible, after sippin some moonshine, and he makes no SENSE AT ALL!.
Capn is the collective brain and least I ’spect his intellgence a bit. Good sense of humor dat boy has too.
Davis, poses as the intellectual of the bunch, then his closet idiot side emerges, I spect after have a few hot toddies late at night after his ole lady has gone to bed, so she don’t cetch him.
Davis buys his shine from vtole, who has a still in his law office, since his mother won’t let him keep his still at home. Vtole is quietly and shyly combatitive, posing intellectual and legal like with GMC, the quietly condescending to others, though he seeks Lib approval almost as much as JR or Chas.
Bout it for now.
G’nite y’all, do come back ‘gin real soon.
Junior,
Still think she’ll opt out by the end of the week…
You know, “for the good of the party”???
hmm, Junior?
Phantom,
OUCH. Too funny, though.
This is interesting: it’s the comment thread from the CNN story about Palin’s speech. Negative comments far, far outnumber positive ones. On this public thread, at least, Palin’s speech didn’t play well with anybody but the true believers.
http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/09/03/rnc.day/index.html
If this is any measure, I’d say this could be the equivalent of Pat Buchanan’s ‘92 “Culture War” speech that helped to lose Bush re-election. And I think Obama already is positioning himself to ride the backlash. Judging by the poll numbers these last few days, the trickle of undecideds moving to Obama could become a flood.
Max . . . Don’t make me start liking you, dude.
The only polls that count are the ones in November.
The rest are biased fluff.
If mccain doesn’t get a bounce, he’s dead in the water. If he does get a little bit it’ll be short lived God’s sendin Ike to detract from it lasting too long.
I’m outta here.
I bet Obama is one chain-smokin’ paranoid negro tonight.
I hope she doesn’t there golfnut.
What has she won? The con bible nuts?
Go with that. Run with it.
KSGolfnut,
Now that summer is almost over, we all can imagine your relief at not having your “decision” to be heterosexual so sorely tested by young dudes running around without much clothing.
I think I speak for everyone on the board, left, right, and center, when we say we support you in your stated “choice” of heterosexuality.
KSGolfnut,
And I bet you’re one racist asshole–not just tonight, either.
There’s nothing as inspiring as rich white people trying to geek up their rich white delegates. Here’s a look at the first Palin-McCain phone conversation. Pardon the French. Later………http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-QevraCQUc
Yeah, Obama leading in electoral vote polls.
Let’s see Obama had half of the Democrats in the campaign vote for him and squeaked out a victory.
Not half the total population , just half of the Democrats.
McCain on the other hand, won the overwhelming majority of of the Republican delegate votes.
Aw shuks Capn, I can’t hep it. My natural charm and charisma shines thru sometimes. I usually am successful at holdin it back tho.
Capn, tho I see you as being wrong 98% of the time, and mistaken 2% of the time, you do make me laugh my ass off sometimes.
I saved a few of your posts before, dang if I can find em anyhow, but they was funny, trust me on that. In one, you called my so many names, I had to look up half of em, and in combination I couldn’t quite breathe for some period of time whilst I nearly laughed meself to death.
Oh well, those were the days….
Obama is the divider (of the Democratic party) not the decider.
On this public thread, at least, Palin’s speech didn’t play well with anybody but the true believers.
I took a look. Ouch!
Obviously, a comments thread is as unscientific a survey as they come, but, Agnatha, you might want to rethink your assessment. base+whoever isn’t going to work this year: the independents are in a decidedly restless mood.
Maxine giving me crap. I consider that the highest form of flattery. Max is the dumbest poster on this blog, but fleettwood routinely beats him in that contest. Take home message for Max: try harder if you can…
“…talking about subjects she had to be drilled on like Eliza Doolittle in ‘My Fair Lady.’”
Loved that allusion. We may have another intellectual on this blog. Those of us still around and can hardly stand the sulfurous stinch of Max’s posts would appreciate some help.
“McCain on the other hand, won the overwhelming majority of of the Republican delegate votes.”
Which only confirms that cons sell out. They go along get along. They’ve no other choice. Their boss or their “god” says so.
This does not mean that in being disagreeable Democrats do not know who the real enemy is.
I will not so much vote for Obama as I will vote against Sarah Palin. McCain is outta the picture. I don’t have to wish he was dead. The cons are already doing that.
Loved that allusion. We may have another intellectual on this blog. Those of us still around and can hardly stand the sulfurous stinch of Max’s posts would appreciate some help.
That would be “stench” Einstein.
Rage,
Indeed. The thread is, indeed, a “for what it’s worth.” But I think it jibes with the movement toward Obama we’ve seen since last Thursday.
This nomination was designed to get the Fundos on board: nobody else. Writing off the independents is a losing strategy; McCain can’t win without them.
So what is the endgame here? What are they planning for Election Day? What do they need all the Fundo bodies in the street to try to push through?
Chain-smokin’ and dreamin’ of taking his styrofoam greek columns on the road to San Francisco: “Yeah, they love me there…”
Which only confirms that cons sell out. They go along get along. They’ve no other choice.
No, it means that Republican know what they want and they go for it.
Unlike the Dumbocrats who go for something before they know what they want.
Stevie, you better not let your mother catch you up bloggin this late.
She’ll wup your ass boy!
Max–
I’m mellowing out now that Bush’s reign of terror and error is almost over.
He couldn’t even show up personally at his own CONvention. Heheh.
Sit around the fire with me and let’s sing “Kumbayah” . . .
Sulfurous Stench?
Is that the best you can do?
(Call Capn for help on those addgetives)
Okay, tard -
How about stinks like sh*t? Got it now dumbass?
BlueJay
Posted September 3, 2008 at 11:38 pm | Permalink
“McCain on the other hand, won the overwhelming majority of of the Republican delegate votes.”
Which only confirms that cons sell out. They go along get along. They’ve no other choice. Their boss or their “god” says so.
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This from the Rockin Chair boy who swore he’d never vote for Obama.
Weren’t you going to bed Hank er Max?
BlueJay=sellout.
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StevenEDavis
Posted September 3, 2008 at 11:43 pm | Permalink
Okay, tard -
How about stinks like sh*t? Got it now dumbass?
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That would be “shit” not sh*t.
“Before I became governor of the great state of Alaska, I was mayor of my hometown. And since our opponents in this presidential election seem to look down on that experience, let me explain to them what the job involves. I guess a small-town mayor is sort of like a ‘community organizer,’ except that you have actual responsibilities,”
I guess the leftist are quaking in hate. That’s good. They deserve it.
Other than that, it looks like Biden announce that Obama will be pressing charges against the Bush Administration.
I guess that good news for the leftist.
Gettin better Davis, but ya still need help.
If Capn won’t help ya, wake your Ma up to help you discover some new cuss words.
PMom said she’d never vote for Obama, too.
What’s with these libs and their moodiness(es)?
How them Obama balls a’tastin Junior?
You doing a double lick or you going around the world to pleasure your new master?
“Responsibilities” that she handed over to a City Manager, thereby burdening the city of Wasila with another budgetary responsibilty.
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KSGolfnut
Posted September 3, 2008 at 11:46 pm | Permalink
PMom said she’d never vote for Obama, too.
What’s with these libs and their moodiness(es)?
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Vaginitis?
Speakin of smokin up a storm, I think I’ll go out back and bum one off Obama, if he has any left.
I’m sure he could use some good advice at this dark hour.
“If Capn won’t help ya, wake your Ma up to help you discover some new cuss words.”
At least I won’t have to wake up my mother to get me some milk and other comforts, like Maxine will.
Vtole, you got any shine left or did Davis drink it all? Capn already said he was out.
Dang, maybe Obama has a bottle with him. Be right back.
God, Joe Williams, you’re a bundle of nervous tics: “the leftist” gives you away every time.
Try posting when it isn’t so late and you aren’t so tired.
Regular,
LMAO, Dude. “..around the world…”
Man oh man.
Dear Nazi,
W has been hitting the scotch for some time. Ask him. But don’t startle him; we wouldn’t him to “choke on a pretzel” or have another “bicycle accident.”
Say Anti, if we get Obama care, then that V-itch will stop bothering em.
JR just needs to make sure he sucks up enought to get the free scripts with Obama care.
Obama is like corn nuts, taste good going in, but stink coming out.
I call it as I see it. I know a leftist when I see one. Democrats are different, so don’t get me wrong. There are leftist that are Democrats, but not all, clearly the majority of all Democrats are not leftist. Obama, Biden, Hillary…they are not leftist.
Some members who post on this blog, are though. And leftist is a terrible ideology to subscribe to. I don’t know if you’re a leftist CF2K, but if you are, that’s a damn shame.
MaxGrobnik
Posted September 3, 2008 at 11:52 pm | Permalink
Say Anti, if we get Obama care, then that V-itch will stop bothering em.
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Nope, won’t help. They love the scratching to much.
Okay, we survived another night of the Republic CONvention.
That’s saying something.
Until tomorrow . . .
Has your sister been down to change your diaper James?
Come on “Max” Post under your real nic. We’re old “friends”.
Peace out ya’ll…..Go Palin!
Dang,
Obama smokes methols!
That’s ok, I din’t inhale. Much.
And Obama was plum outta Malt Licker.
Had to settle for some MD 20/20. Tastes like crap, but ya can live on it, sorta.
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ANTI
Posted September 3, 2008 at 11:54 pm | Permalink
MaxGrobnik
Posted September 3, 2008 at 11:52 pm | Permalink
Say Anti, if we get Obama care, then that V-itch will stop bothering em.
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Nope, won’t help. They love the scratching to much.
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The Dems can find that treatment under the giant pantsuit sign that says “Hillary’s Depilatory – wild hair removal.”
Joe Williams,
I believe in making a place for everyone, and in helping everyone to get where they can in life. I believe in mutual effort and collective responsibility. Those are my personal and political convictions.
With these as my political convictions, I affirm that I am a “man of the Left.”
What’s with that CF idiot?
Those squiggly lil red lines of his look like Chinese Commie writin.
Can’t ’spect a man who thinks a 12-yr old Chinese girl is too old for him, unless she’s family of course.
MaxGrobnik
Posted September 3, 2008 at 11:58 pm | Permalink
And Obama was plum outta Malt Licker.
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Shhh, don’t say “Licker” in front of JR, he’s liable to go Pavlov on Obama.
Dear Nazi,
Sounds like you’ve been savoring the delights on the Rush Limbaugh Child Sex Tour.
Raped any children lately?
ictBest–
I will own to that label.
I would definitely self-identify as a leftist activist. “Liberal” is too moderate for me. A lot of “liberals” supported the Vietnam War, for instance. They want change as long as they don’t have to change (or change much).
Still, I have to call myself a liberal just for convenience sake.
Saying I’m a leftist doesn’t mean that I want to “free the mice in a research lab.” It doesn’t mean I believe in socialism or government intervention in all aspects of society.
It means that I want society to serve the common good instead helping rich people get richer, which is what we’ve had essentially since Reagan.
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CF2K
Posted September 4, 2008 at 12:00 am | Permalink
Joe Williams,
I believe in making a place for everyone, and in helping everyone to get where they can in life. I believe in mutual effort and collective responsibility. Those are my personal and political convictions.
With these as my political convictions, I affirm that I am a “man of the Left.”
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???????????? ??????? ?????? Muppet
oo, it didn’t like Russian.
Should have read, “spoken well Komrad Muppet.”
Don’t forget that I know where you live James.
Too late Regular. He done gone down the tube already.
Chinese, Regular. Try that if you know it. Maybe you can talk to it.
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BlueJay
Posted September 4, 2008 at 12:04 am | Permalink
Don’t forget that I know where you live James.
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How cute, Junior is making a threat.
MD 20/20? Do they still have that stuff?
Haven’t touched it since high school . . . although, dry sherry is just a refined version of the same thing.
If you’re left, that’s on you.
Good luck with the all the Republican bashing. I’m sure it helps your cause.
I for one, think the back and forth amongst the Dems and Reps is good entertainment, whenever I get around to it.
But it gets boring.
So, I’ll see ya! Peace!
Ict Joe Williams?
When did ya get out? Keep the plans of your escape. You can share them with “Regular”.
Or wave a red flag and see if he gets a collective look of glee on his face. That might be the way to see if there’s any intelligence there.
Dear Nazi,
You sure went awful quiet when I brought up how you like to rape children. Struck a nerve, I guess. Got a couple chained up in the basement, now do you?
You really ought to let them go, Nazi. It would be the right thing to do.
MD 20/20, only touched it once, also in high school.
Found out lighter fluid is better.
Speaking of Mousy Tongue, (mao tse tung)
I think that’s the new name I’ll give the Muppet poster CF2K. It’s more suitable now that he’s given up referring to himself in the third person.
We should have a thread on what the political left likes about the political right and vice-versa.
That may be the shortest thread on record . . .
That CF sure has a warped mind.
Bet there’s a red dot on his house on the child molester website.
Who is “junior”?
Who is “James”
For that matter, who are “ANTI” and “Max”
Me I have only the one nic.
CF,
You better hit the sack. You have to get up for school tomorrow. Remember to stay 1 mile away from the school though, or your beeper will go off.
“Mao” works. Good fit for it.
And “Para-Schizo” for JR?
He still thinks he’s debating one conservative here.
(Course I’m just arguing with myself again.)
Crapon America is the perfect fit though. Difficult to find a more fitting phrase.
What happened to Clark?
Is he in the State Pen Again?
Well I’ve scared off James McCluer.
That or he passed out.
Let’s better know YOU “Max”.
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MaxGrobnik
Posted September 4, 2008 at 12:19 am | Permalink
What happened to Clark?
Is he in the State Pen Again?
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He’s fulfilling his mandatory community service in Florida for molesting alligators.
When I was in high school, we had a friend who’s dad was basically a functioning drunk. He smoked about three packs of Camels a day and had such a scratchy voice, you could hardly understand him.
One day, our friend Bob was changing a flat on his jalopy, and he was having trouble getting the jack to lower.
So Bob’s dad comes out with a bourbon in one hand and a Camel in the other hand, and says in his slightly slurred, gravel voice, “Just drive it off the jack. Drive it off the jack, Bob. Drive the damn thing off the jack, Bob.”
That’s what I like about Conservatives. They’re so unselfconsciously unconcerned about consequences.
Sure, it screwed the country. But dammit, they drove it off the jack. “Just drive it off the jack!”
I went back and kept reading. . .and reading. . .and reading. . .the negative comments at the CNN thread. It was close to 99% negative, many claiming to be angry Republicans who expected more.
If this wasn’t some type of organized “comment blitz” I think John McCain is in trouble.
Didn’t know you grew up with mechanically deficient idiots Crapn?
Thanks for the report, Rage.
I’d hate to have to slog through all that.
Good news too.
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Rage
Posted September 4, 2008 at 12:22 am | Permalink
I went back and kept reading. . .and reading. . .and reading. . .the negative comments at the CNN thread. It was close to 99% negative, many claiming to be angry Republicans who expected more.
If this wasn’t some type of organized “comment blitz” I think John McCain is in trouble.
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Negative comments on CNN about Republicans?
S H O C K ! ! ! ! !
Get a clue Rage, wake up, snap out of it.
Molesting alligators is against the law?
See JR, I told you!
They say you hear Dueling Banjos down on the Bayou.
It was quite amazing how JR taught that gator how to play.
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MaxGrobnik
Posted September 4, 2008 at 12:29 am | Permalink
They say you hear Dueling Banjos down on the Bayou.
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…and the sound of bib overall buttons unsnapping…
Negative comments on CNN about Republicans?
S H O C K ! ! ! ! !
Get a clue Rage, wake up, snap out of it.
(chortles)
ruh roh…
Hurrican Ike upgraded to Cat 4…
Hurricane too…
That gator fretted with one paw and strummed with his tail.
Don’t know what treats JR had to use to train that gator.
Max and Regular are James McCluer.
Much as I have said all along.
Pretty nasty thing you do here James McCluer. You had me thinking “Max” was Hank or Nathan.
…and the sound of bib overall buttons unsnapping…
LMAO!
Yeah, JR disappeared for long periods of time too.
Oh get over it JR.
I’m sure your pals survived Gustov!
Junior is just as delusional and always wrong as usual.
They say marshmallows can be used to train gators.
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MaxGrobnik
Posted September 4, 2008 at 12:39 am | Permalink
They say marshmallows can be used to train gators.
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…along with graham crackers and Hershey bars…
You know the difference between a southern gator and a northern gator?
And buck wheat.
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MaxGrobnik
Posted September 4, 2008 at 12:42 am | Permalink
You know the difference between a southern gator and a northern gator?
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Northern gators say, “Yes you can!”
Souther gators say, “Y’all can!”
Well, at least I’ve outed “Max”.
If you have business with me James McCluer? Let’s transact it.
lmao Max!
well on that , I’m off to bed.
Junior is all yours Max, he’s gone paranoid once again.
A bloke walks into a bar with an alligator.
He walks up to the bar and says “I would like a beer thanks.”
The Bar man says “Sorry mate you can’t have that alligator in here.”
The man says “No it’s tame I can prove it to you.”
So the man throws an ashtray at it’s head, and the alligator just shrugs it off.
The bar man says “No I’m still not convinced.”
So the guy puts his dick in the alligators mouth and throws an ashtray at his head and the alligator still does nothing.
The bar man looks real impressed so the man says “Would anyone else like a go ?”
An old lady in the back corner says “Yeah I would, but could you please not throw an ashtray at my head.”
All this gator talk got a big rise outta banjo boy!
And now we know where “Regular” and “Max” live.
‘Night.
I’m sorry I haven’t been on-line for a while. I had to clean the CONs’ Palin jism from the inside of my monitor.
She reads a speech with skill.
Irony is so… ironic.
All the RepubliCONs who’ve sneered at Obama’s obvious ability to communicate are creaming their jeans over “Trophy Veep’s”…, well… speech.
And the Washington Post reports she was reading from campaign boilerplate.
There was a flutter of attention when McCain campaign manager Rick Davis told a group of Post reporters and editors yesterday that his team was having to rework the vice presidential acceptance speech because the original draft, prepared before Gov. Sarah Palin was chosen, was too “masculine.” While we all wondered to ourselves what might make a speech masculine or feminine, no one batted an eye at the underlying revelation: that the campaign was writing the nominee’s speech before knowing who the nominee would be.
The GILF energized the base of the Republic Party tonight. Grant her that. But since when do Republic Party conventions (you’re all there because you all agree with each other) need to start to get interested on the third night of their convention? And since when has that newfound spark of life depended on the Vice-Presidential candidate?
The SnowBilly sure tapped her inner Mary Ann from “Gilligan’s Island” chops tonight. “I’m just a gal….”
Thursday night we’ll hear from the “Skipper.”
Unlike America, the Republic Party is still dependent on the twice-born conservative bloc: your “Franklins” your “Nathans” your “okobservers” your “Outlanders” et al. And they still don’t have a good word to say about John S (for Senile) McCain the Third (for Shrub’s 3rd term).
But the Sally Fields look-alike did her job tonight.
We all know how highly this forum’s CONs hold in rapturous esteem the ability to read a
sermonspeech.Most of the mainstream Republic Party partisan are still waiting for (and expecting) the Gaffe that Keeps on Giving to top her “Bridge to Nowhere” fibs and her
“taking on”new wealth-redistribution Windfall Profits Tax on Big Oil. They’re walking around with that creepy pasted-on smile McCoot gets. And if they were to fart, only dogs could hear it.BlueJay
Posted September 4, 2008 at 12:43 am | Permalink
Well, at least I’ve outed “Max”.
If you have business with me James McCluer? Let’s transact it.
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What is that? A pick-up line for alligators?
Junior,
Would you like to know where I live, too?
Regular
Posted September 3, 2008 at 11:25 pm | Permalink
The only polls that count are the ones in November.
The rest are biased fluff.
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I want you all to take note of the above. If and when the polls shift the other way, he’ll be singing a different tune. The same goes for the other side. I saw it every day in 2004, which is why I don’t put a lot of stock in polls. These days, they shift almost by the hour.
“Predestined” –
I wrote about polls yesterday. No need to repeat.
The top-of-the-line results, which most news sources cite, are the least reflective of actual useful information that can be obtained from polling.
Yes, the mystical “internals” some people talk about but most people don’t understand; they’re important.
Some studies go down to the Zip Code level and compare like neighborhoods that migh be miles and miles apart.
The best way to analyze polls you don’t have all the data from is to monitor what the campaigns are doing in response to their polling.
The McSame campaign is expanding media purchases in formerly “safe” Red States. That can’t be good for the Republic Party. If you start seeing commercials for John S (for Senile) McCain the Third (for Shrub’s 3rd term) on cable and local channels in Kansas, it’s probably time to pack up the kids and head for the hills and wait for Jesus.
But in previously “safe” Red States such as Colorado, Wyoming, Montana, Kentucky, North Carolina (and others), the McC*nt campaign is pouring in millions of media dollars. That’s based on research and the research it’s based on is in the internals.
I’ll tell u one thing, bro – it ain’t a problem