Bush Rallies Republican Base (Via Satellite)

If nothing else is clear in this political cycle it is that Republicans are adept at staying on message, regardless of the messenger at the local, state or national level. They get the Talking Points Memo from Karl Rove & William Kristol on a daily basis. From AP, Fox News, Townhall, Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Joe Watkins et. al. etc and commentators at the RNC it is like one big chorus. None of these people are willing or able to exercise any independent thought, analysis or otherwise deviate from the script. The Neocon Propaganda Matrix is a hydra like serpent that has a stranglehold on the mainstream media. The truth is that the selection of Governor Sarah Palin was in many respects one that John McCain had to make. The choice of Palin will be seen by the thinking portion of the electorate and independents for what it is, a cynical maneuver to lock up the Evangelical vote and a lame attempt to appeal to women voters and those in the Western states. Attacking the intelligence, experience or character of Sarah Palin will play right into Rove’s hands. It is something that Democrats simply must not do. This selection was made in an effort to change the dialoque from Obama’s message and to separate McCain from Bush and illustrate his Maverick (Insane) appeal. Make no mistake, we are living in complex times, the election of McCain/Palin would be a disaster for this country. Neither can be described as intellectually curious, possessing a strong education, a high IQ or propensity for great understanding. This is one of the most dumb downed tickets in American political history. Palin is on a par with McCain. Maybe she can persuade McCain to drop himself from the ticket. Maybe then, the Republicans will have a chance. The Republicans and sending Americans a message and that is that IQ, intelligence, education and experience are completely irrelevant to lead this country. All that is needed is an infrastructure of Neocon Puppeteers beind the scenes to instruct these idiots to follow the script, including Fred Thompson, the redneck from Tennessee who had like 3 supporters.

John McCain did something remarkable, he managed to find someone who is almost as big a bimbo as John McCain and W Bush. Palin is clearly on the same level as these two Neocon puppets.

OH GOODY GOODY I can’t wait to hear the chimp speak

“I am optimistic about something else: When the debates have ended, and all the ads have run, and it is time to vote, Americans will look closely at the judgment, the experience, and the policies of the candidates”:
So, let’s get a jump on that:
McCain’s…
Judgment? He has picked his Second-in-Command, his VP, for largely symbolic reasons, and clearly without vetting her property.
Experience? Since when was longevity synonymous with experience? Just because McCain has been around longer than just about anyone else, doesn’t make him a wise nor capable leader. You doubt me? See VP selection, above.
Policies? Well, we can guess what his policies may be, the same as those of GW Bush,i.e. the same foreign policy, the same stance in Iraq, the same disregard for the Geneva conventions and disdain for our international partners, the same lawless, gun-slinging, shoot-from-your him policies that have defined the Bush adminstration.
Domestic policy? No room for discussion here, ie. the same approach to health-care, the same approach to energy, the same single-minded reliance on oil, and on and on…
I dare any Republican to point out one way in which a President McCain might conceivably governed different from President Bush. If you can, I might actually consider voting for him.

“The Electorate did not think McCain was ready in 2004 so what the hell has changed since then to make him Commander iin Chief material? ”
earth to this guy, McCain didnt run in 04…we had Bush to re-elect
the hate speech in these comments is great…screw the actuality of things! lets trash republicans!

Bush has a heart? Where?

Senator McCain is no longer a maverick, he has just lost his bearings and is casting about wildly for something, anything to keep his candidacy afloat.
it is genuinely sad: Senator McCain could be impressively bipartisan (when a Senator, Candidate McCain doesn’t no his own mind.
He wanted to choose Joe Liebermann or Gov. Ridge for pete’s sake. The evagelical wing of his party wouldn’t even let him do that – AND HE CAVED IN!
He can’t even stand up to one interest group in his own party, and we expect him to stand up to Putin!!!!
LOL

Will Sasser:
We are afraid – that McCain claims to put country first, but has the gall to put this nation at risk by choosing a small town mayor from a provincial state as his second-in-command.
The idea of her inheriting the Presidency is truly terrifying. That is why we are afraid.

I find it funny when I see adherents of a discarded philosophy like socialism brag about ‘IQ’. Good going – keep it up.

Well according to Bush, McCain wasn’t ready to lead in 2000. But it seems now that their views are the same he is ready to lead. And Bush was the best president and policy maker wasn’t he!!!!

Criminal traitors are in control of our Federal Government. It is therefore our Patriotic duty under the Constitution to protest. It’s also not too late to hold these criminals accountable for their actions. This is your opportunity to participate in True Justice.
http://kucinich.us/

Bush saw Putin’s soul in his eyes… Putin looked at Bush’s eyes and saw bullcrap.

While Russia invaded Georgia, Bush was on holiday at the Olympics. He didn’t stop his holiday. He did the same thing during the first year in office. The guy is a joke.

PALIN ??????????
1) Palin was member of the Alaskan Independence Party. They want Alaska to break away from the rest of the nation. She said “am Alaskan not American”
2) She’s an inexperienced, closed-minded conservative (NOT what this country needs). Hardcore right wing extremist. She said “Iraq a task from God”
3) I can’t respect a woman who would take abortion rights away from women.
4) She is in the tank with Bush/McCain/Cheney
5) She is under Federal investigation

“According to Biden, McCain would have been fantastic in 2000.”
True enough, but
1. McCain was a spry 64-old back in 2000.
2. McCain actually was an interesting Maverick back in 2000.
Whereas today;
1. McCain is a doddering 72-year old.
2. He is to the right of hiw own Republican party on a number of issues. He certainly can no longer be called a maverick, unless by maverick you mean entirely unpredictable. I’m not sure unpredictability is what this country currently needs to see in its Commnander-in-Chief

Chasman | Sep 2, 2008 6:04:20 PM
According to Biden, McCain would have been fantastic in 2000. But it seems now that he cant lead. And Biden is a fantastic VP choice who is strong on policy and experience isnt he!!!!!!
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2. McCain actually was an interesting Maverick back in 2000.
Whereas today;
1. McCain is a doddering 72-year old.
2. He is to the right of hiw own Republican party on many of issues (particularly questions of energy).
3.He certainly can no longer be called a maverick, unless by maverick you mean entirely unpredictable. I’m not sure unpredictability is what this country currently needs to see in its Commnander-in-Chief

JUST WAIT ‘TILL NOVEMBER….
THE SILENT MAJORITY IS JUST NOW STARTING TO CLEAR IT’S THROAT…
ALL YOU LEFT-WINGNUTS (YES, I MEAN ABC, NBC, CBS, AND ESPECIALLY MSNBC…CAN BEND OVER NOW AND KISS YOU ARSES GOODBYE!!!
NO WAY, NO HOW, NO-BAMA !!!!
p.s. Hey, NY Times, I hope all you low-lifes have your entire life savings tied up in that POS stock/company of yours….BWAAAAHAHAHAHA

I’ll give you campaign finance reform.
Immigration Reform? His position is indeed exactly that of President Bush’s. Hardly that of a Maverick. Under pressure from the anti-immigration crowd , he has actually modified his position so that he is to the RIGHT of George Bush. This is Maverick? This is going against your party? This is caving to an interest group in your party.
3. Enhanced Interrogation? True, he spoke out eloquently against torture on the Senate floor, but when it came time to vote for a bill banning torture, he voted against, AND VOTED with his party.
Actions do speak louder than words.
Give me something more. I honestly cannot think of anyway in which McCain differs from Bush, unless it is to swing to the right of Bush. That isn’t Maverick, that’s grovelling for votes, and a little undignified.

I’ll give you campaign finance reform.
Immigration Reform? His position is indeed exactly that of President Bush’s. Hardly that of a Maverick. Under pressure from the anti-immigration crowd , he has actually modified his position so that he is to the RIGHT of George Bush. This is Maverick? This is going against your party? This is caving to an interest group in your party.
3. Enhanced Interrogation? True, he spoke out eloquently against torture on the Senate floor, but when it came time to vote for a bill banning torture, he voted against, AND VOTED with his party.
Actions do speak louder than words.
Give me something more. I honestly cannot think of anyway in which McCain differs from Bush, unless it is to swing to the right of Bush. That isn’t Maverick, that’s grovelling for votes, and a little undignified.

McCain is not Bush and only the Bots believe that.
McCain/Palin!

Posted by: Clyde | Sep 2, 2008 6:18:50 PM
You seem to have forgotten that 9/11 happened on George Bush’s watch.
You seem to have forgotten that more Americans have dies directly as a result of George Bush’s failure to protect them than under President Clinton.
You seem to forget that Iraq currently certainly represents a more dangerous breeding ground for terrorists, where they can really train to attack America, then before Bush invaded. And Bush claimed to be invading Iraq to reduce the likelihood of terrorism. What a joke.
Bush’s disdain for international opinion, mores, conventions, and laws was just the example and excuse Putin needed to invade Georgia. So, we can blame Bush for missing the ball in Georgia, too.
Thanks but no Tnanks. Time to throw the bums out.

Machiavelli, I think it did take someone pretty strong to coauthor the immigration bill with Ted Kennedy when you look at it objectively.
Im not a McCain lover, I just think Bush 3 is a little strong. McCain is further from Bush 3 than Obama is from Carter 2.

I cannot imagine a bigger catastrophe for the US than to have Obama elected president! The man has zero credentials for the job, because he’s never done anything of note. He voted “present” in countless senate votes? Does that mean he has no views? Secondly, the man is a far left-liberal, a socialist in fact! He clearly believes in socialist, even Marxist, policies. If elected he would nationalise health care and much else besides. He would reduce the USA from its leadership position, based on free-market capitalism, to the position of a “me too” socialist state. In socialist states, the state(ie govt) is the boss! It makes all decisions and the people have to accept them. It decides on services that it will provide, and the extent to which they will be provided. Above all, it stamps on entrepreneurship and initiative! It ignores merit and believes all should be equally rewarded, irrespective of ability, quality of work, education and accomplishments. It is soulless and destroys peoples motivation to improve their lot by their own hard work. Its results can be seen in the EU where the people are far advanced down the slippery slope and have lost all motivation. Worst of all, the EU has become effete and weak, and totally unable to defend themselves! They rely on the US for that. If the US were to withdraw from Nato, the EU would be a sitting duck for Putin and his ilk. We all saw the Spanish capitulation to the al Qaeda terrorists who bombed their trains! They gave in to them and did exactly what they wanted. Do the people of the USA want to end up like that? Defenceless and sitting ducks for whatever monster comes along? The world is full of dangerous regimes. Only America’s will and its military power can defend it from these perils. McCain understands this and carries the scars to prove it. He will keep the US strong. Obama does not, and his naivety would lead to the US becoming a 2nd rate power, reluctant to defend itself. Americans who care about this great country must not let that happen! A vote for Obama is a vote for the end of America as you’ve known it. And there will be no turning back, not ever

Whine, whine, whine – want some cheese with that whine?
Bush kept you ijuts safe, Gawd I don’t know why. If I was president I would have them march all liberals into the ocean. We would’t miss any of them.
Obammmys wife and daughters are off limits, according to libs. But Palin’s, look out.
Bush/Palin/McCain 08

Jack Cafferty on CNN just said that Sarah Palin cannot handle the vice presidency, because world leaders are not “PTA lightweights” … wow Jack Cafferty what a great analogy — women don’t deal with real men on a daily level, they just deal with PTA lightweights — so women are not qualified to do anything in the realm of political power—- sexist CNN

New York Times Smear Festival:
Bumiller Writes Her Own Story
While the press scrambles to report on the process by which Governor Palin was offered the second spot on the Republican ticket, New York Times reporter Elisabeth Bumiller has opted instead to make up her own version of events. As the AP reports, “Sarah Palin voluntarily told John McCain’s campaign about her pregnant teenage daughter and her husband’s 2-decade-old DUI arrest during questioning as part of the Republican’s vice presidential search, the lawyer who conducted the background review said.” Yet according to Bumiller, yesterday’s disclosures “called into question” how thoroughly Governor Palin had been vetted. Why the discrepancy? It seems one reporter actually reported the story, while Bumiller made up her own.
The AP quotes Steve Schmidt saying the campaign was prepared to send a “jump team” to the home state of whoever was selected for the second spot. But Bumiller has her own version: “A Republican with ties to the campaign said the team assigned to vet Ms. Palin in Alaska had not arrived there until Thursday, a day before Mr. McCain stunned the political world with his vice-presidential choice.” A Republican with ties to the campaign? How about a Republican on the campaign? It’s not as though the leadership of this campaign was unwilling or unable to talk to the New York Times, in fact, they were already on the record answering these questions.
And Bumiller writes that Governor Palin “was a member for two years in the 1990s of the Alaska Independence Party.” Not true, and unsourced. Governor Palin has been a registered Republican since 1982.

To one of the persons who claims that McCain is still a maverick:
1) The immigration bill that he endorsed, he’s now against in order to appease his Republican base.
2) The former POW that was against torture, is now for it.
3) And the senator that was once for campaign finance reform, violated campaign financing rules.
Also it’s interesting how during the Democratic primaries there were these charges of sexism by the media..Ironically Sarah Palin said that Clinton should stop whining about it. And so many months later now GOP surrogates are complaining about sexism towards Palin!!

@Chasman
In 2000, the policies and ideas that McCain put forward would have made him a good presidential candidate and prospective president. But the Bush/Rove team railroaded him. Ever since then McCain has changed his view to bring them more in line with the President. He thought that it was necessary to be a good soldier in order to be an eventual Commander in Chief.
The man is changed, he is a feeble sheep. Many people would have readily supported that prospective candidate in 2000 including Biden, but they fundamentally can’t in 2008.

Ok, if McCain is a sheep…what is Obama? When has he EVER gone against the liberal agenda?

Posted by: plainsm | Sep 2, 2008 7:01:57 PM
I’ve responded to this earlier, and noted that many of us ARE indeed afraid.
The idea that Gov. Palin could be McCain’s Second-in-Command, one heart beat away from the most powerful office in the world terrifies some of us, regardless of party.
The manner of her selection, so obviously at the flip-of-a-coin, in the last minute, and without proper vetting suggests to some of us that McCain himself is not fit to be Commander-in-Chief.

There is not another network that is as biased as ABC. I, along with mamy others, will not watch ABC again. Diane Sawyer and Charles Gibson are pathetic. We don’t care what they believe, don’t they ahve an obligation to present the facts. If you do not want to watch President Bush, then don’t. This is a free country. The nastiness of people ever surprises me. This is America, go live somewehre else and get ABC off the air once and for all.

Posted by: Obama = Good Ole Boys | Sep 2, 2008 6:57:31 PM
You manage to get down a lot of words, but somehow most of them are cut & paste from my comments, and your observations add nothing. Maybe…
’cause you have nothing to say?
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I’ll repeat it here for any genuine McCain supporter who might actually have something illuminating to say:
“I dare any Republican to point out one way in which a President McCain might conceivably govern differently from President Bush. If you can, I might actually consider voting for him.”
Thanks, and God Bless America

Poor NeoConnies, all the kings horses and all the kings men can’t put their party together again. Ms Palin is a total mess and no amount of shaking their pom-poms or whining is gonna make it go away.

WHY IS THE CHIMP NOT IN A CAGE?

Democrats are the party of hate and discontent.

First of all, the convention is in St.Paul, not Minneapolis. And nobody calls Minneapolis the “Minne-apple”

An Open Letter to Senator John McCain and the Republican National Committee:
September 2, 2008
Dear Senator McCain and Mike Duncan, Chairman, Republican National Committee:
“Dear” is all you will get from me. By now you all should be in Minneapolis for your shindig that you call a “convention.”
I am an African-American, and I cannot hold back my anger any longer. It is a documented fact that the Republican Party before and during the Civil War supported and benefited from slavery. As a matter of fact, the Republican Party was started for the express purpose of defending slavery and holding down black people.
It is also a matter of record that the Ku Klux Klan was started by Republicans after the Civil War to terrorize and murder black and white Democrats in the South. Republicans hated the fact that many ex-slaves were serving in state and federal government. They also hated the fact that everyone of the ex-slaves were all members of the Democratic Party. All the white Democrats, before and after the Civil War, were sympathetic to the cause of abolition of slavery and of civil rights for blacks, therefore racist Republicans had no use for them.
The Republicans historically have been bitter opponents of the following Democratic initiatives:
• The 13th Amendment that abolished slavery in 1865
• The 1866 Civil Rights Act
• The First Reconstruction Act of 1867
• The 14th Amendment in 1868 that made all persons born in the U.S., including former slaves, U.S. citizens.
• The 15th Amendment in 1870 that give every citizen the right to vote
• The Ku Klux Klan Act of 1871 which was to stop Republican Klansmen to terrorized white and black Democrats
• The 1875 Civil Rights Act
• The 1957 Civil Rights Act
• The 1964 Civil Rights Act
• The 1965 Voters Rights Act
In every case, the white Republicans in the Senate, especially Senator Everett Dirksen, and in the House of Representatives fought passage of these laws in every turn as well as being compelled to give up their slaves after the Civil War. The Democratic leadership, especially Senator Robert Byrd who has always despised the Ku Klux Klan and who discouraged white Americans from joining that gang, fought very hard to have those laws passed. Democratic Senator Al Gore Sr., not only voted for the Civil Rights Act in 1964, but he, along side of Senator Byrd, fought a 74-day filibuster by Republicans to defeat the legislation. The Congressional Quarterly of June 26, 1964 recorded that, in the Senate, only 69% of Republicans (46 for, 21 against) voted for the Civil Rights Act as compared to 82% of Democrats (27 for, 6 against) the Civil Rights Act. In the House of Representatives, 61% of Republicans (152 for, 96 against) voted for the Civil Rights Act and. 80% of Democrats, (138 for, 34 against) voted for it.
The Republicans have also opposed every Democratic anti-lynching bill to their shame. The Democrats have always been opposed to lynchings for decades.
For these reason, we black people deserve an apology from the Republican Party for the following:
• support of slavery, on record in their platforms
• support of the Dred Scott decision
• support of segregation and Jim Crow prejudice
• opposition to anti-lynching laws
• attempts to destroy black schools and colleges, and the burning of black churches
• efforts to defeat the Reparation Bill of 1866
• efforts to defeat every piece of Civil Rights legislation from 1863 to 1964
• efforts to have the 1875 Civil Rights Act declared unconstitutional
• support of the Ku Klux Klan, composed of entirely Republicans, and its vile and violent racist agenda:
• Republican participation in the lynchings of thousands of blacks.
History will also show the following:
• Eugene “Bull” Conner (the poster boy of American racism) was a Republican.
• The poll tax was a Republican institution.
• Black codes and Jim Crow laws were instituted by Republicans.
Africans Americans are even due reparations from the Republican Party since it supported and benefited from slavery as well as supporting KKK terror, racism, etc. The Civil Rights movement started because of the majority white racist Republican power structure in the South.
My conclusion is that if this nation was left to the devices of the Republican Party, African Americans would not be anywhere near where we are today. As a matter of fact I would argue that we African Americans would not have any constitutional rights, be U.S. citizens or otherwise because we would still be slaves!
The Democratic Party, of course, has had its problems racially here and there, unfortunately, but it does not have the consistent racist legacy for decades and decades, stretching back to the early 1800’s as the Republican Party has had. The Democratic Party, in general, has always been supportive of and open and honest with African Americans throughout its history.
It is time for the Republican Party to come clean, tell the truth, and settle the debt.
Sincerely,
Brother X