By Natalie Gewargis

Oct 24, 2008 9:44am

Weld for Obama, Krauthammer Assails GOPers Backing Liberal Dem

Another liberal-to-moderate former GOP official — former Massachusetts Gov. William Weld — endorses Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., today.

"Senator Obama is a once-in-a-lifetime candidate who will transform our politics and restore America’s standing in the world," Weld said in a statement released Friday. "We need a president who will lead based on our common values, and Senator Obama demonstrates an ability to unite and inspire."

Weld will make his announcement later this morning in New Hampshire. He backed Mitt Romney during the primaries.

Meanwhile, conservative columnist Charles Krauthammer is having none of it.

"Contrarian that I am, I’m voting for John McCain," he writes. "I’m not talking about bucking the polls or the media consensus that it’s over before it’s over. I’m talking about bucking the rush of wet-fingered conservatives leaping to Barack Obama before they’re left out in the cold without a single state dinner for the next four years.

"I stand athwart the rush of conservative ship-jumpers of every stripe — neo (Ken Adelman), moderate (Colin Powell), genetic/ironic (Christopher Buckley) and socialist/atheist (Christopher Hitchens) — yelling ‘Stop!’ I shall have no part of this motley crew. I will go down with the McCain ship. I’d rather lose an election than lose my bearings."

He writes: "I’ll have no truck with the phony case ginned up to rationalize voting for the most liberal and inexperienced presidential nominee in living memory."

- jpt

User Comments

Iceberg warning!
Captain McCain to the bridge, Captain McCain to the bridge.

Posted by: Bud | October 24, 2008, 9:56 am 9:56 am

Bravo, Krauthammer.
Where does this idea that Obama is transcendent come from? What has he done that is so transcendent-y?

Posted by: MayBee | October 24, 2008, 9:56 am 9:56 am

Laura Bush will be next….

Posted by: John T. | October 24, 2008, 9:57 am 9:57 am

Better grab a lifejacket FOOL!

Posted by: linda n carolina | October 24, 2008, 9:57 am 9:57 am

Jake, what about the scandalous and racist hoax of the “attacked and scarved” McCain staffer or volunteer in Pittsburgh?
Can Obama hate become more desperate among McCain fans?
ALL the indicators already tell us that it’s a hoax, so feel free to report on it.

Posted by: steven | October 24, 2008, 9:58 am 9:58 am

When your “RIGHT” you are wrong!

Posted by: Thinking | October 24, 2008, 10:01 am 10:01 am

Thank you Charles– I’m with you.

Posted by: cardinal | October 24, 2008, 10:01 am 10:01 am

I voted for Silber against Weld for governor. He was the only Democrat I ever voted for. To call Weld a Republican is a stretch.

Posted by: Joe the Plumber | October 24, 2008, 10:02 am 10:02 am

Jake, what about the scandalous and racist hoax of the “attacked and scarved” McCain staffer or volunteer in Pittsburgh?
**************************************
It seems now, from recent reports, that the police say that her statement does not match the evidence from the ATM where the attack supposedly took place

Posted by: Thinking | October 24, 2008, 10:03 am 10:03 am

John T. “Laura Bush will be next….” I wouldnt be surprised… All the republicans who are in touch with the american people recognize that the party is being transformed by a handfull of narrow minded people. And those narrow minded people just got a boost in light of E. Hasslebeck campaigning for Palin…

Posted by: Alex | October 24, 2008, 10:04 am 10:04 am

Do we have a pitiable liar OBAMA running for high office.
Obama in the “Faith” chapter of his book The Audacity of Hope gives an intimate account of his mother’s final days, beset with fear and apprehensive of death …. more than once I saw fear flash across her eyes. More than fear of pain or fear of the unknown, it was the sheer loneliness of death that frightened her.” HOW COULD HE WRITE THIS and then state to the world that he was not there when his mother did?
Now Obama is saying that he went to be with his grandmother in Hawaii because he made that mistake with his mother not being with her at her death……..is everyone drinking Kool-Aid?

Posted by: Mike | October 24, 2008, 10:04 am 10:04 am

Weld abandoned Massachusetts in the middle of his term to seek a Washington DC appointment, which did not come through. Then he moved to New York, in a failed attempt to restart his career there. Weld’s late endorsement of Obama is another attempt to get in the news.

Posted by: tina | October 24, 2008, 10:04 am 10:04 am

Krauthammer: “I’ll have no truck with the phony case ginned up to rationalize voting for the most liberal and inexperienced presidential nominee in living memory.”
It does seem to be something of a contact high for a lot of these closet democrats. Is marajuana legal in Massachusetts and DC?

Posted by: today | October 24, 2008, 10:08 am 10:08 am

Gov. William Weld – Nice one!
Obama 08
We need a president who will lead based on our common values !!!!

Posted by: Mike NC | October 24, 2008, 10:09 am 10:09 am

Scott McClellan Former Press Secretary endorses Obama.

Posted by: Lookup | October 24, 2008, 10:11 am 10:11 am

Krauthhammer lost his bearings multiple decades ago. Adding his deranged ramblings to a substantive note about Weld backing Obama is really doing your readership a disservice.

Posted by: The Phantom | October 24, 2008, 10:11 am 10:11 am

Mike NC says “We need a president who will lead based on our common values !!!!”
Yes and those values are those of Liberation Theology! Rev. Wright for head of HUD and Bill Ayers as head of Education!

Posted by: today | October 24, 2008, 10:14 am 10:14 am

Lookup says “Scott McClellan Former Press Secretary endorses Obama.”
We know the weasel Scott. Are you for or against Obama?

Posted by: today | October 24, 2008, 10:15 am 10:15 am

That does it– changing my vote to Obama! If Scott McClellen sees substance there then I will follow.

Posted by: cardinal | October 24, 2008, 10:16 am 10:16 am

“I will go down with the McCain ship. I’d rather lose an election than lose my bearings.”
Yea, same thing Leonardo Di Caprio said in the Titanic; bet he wishes he would have got a piece of that table!

Posted by: PolitcsAsUsual | October 24, 2008, 10:20 am 10:20 am

I’m not a fan of Scott McClellan, I just want to stick-it to the Republicans.
11 days to go, McCain’s days are numbered the “Rocking Chair” is waiting.

Posted by: Lookup | October 24, 2008, 10:21 am 10:21 am

Even the deomcrats on this list have to realize that the election is over. Obama has won it.
I kind of like this idea of picking members of Obama’s cabinet. I said before that Rev. Wright should be head of HUD and Bill Ayers as head of Education. What slot does Weld want?
This all has to pass by Pelosi and Reid. I think we can get them on board. Maybe have Franklin Raines as treasury chief.

Posted by: today | October 24, 2008, 10:21 am 10:21 am

Mr Krauthammer – say hello to Davey Jones for me.

Posted by: bsimon | October 24, 2008, 10:22 am 10:22 am

Obama was the one candidate who predicted the central message of this election. The one among a field of seasoned politicians. ……………..

Posted by: Ohg Rea Tone | October 24, 2008, 10:22 am 10:22 am

Lookup says “I’m not a fan of Scott McClellan, I just want to stick-it to the Republicans.”
Hey, I am with you. Lets wreck America to show that we hate Bush. McClellan is a problem in that everyone hates him.

Posted by: today | October 24, 2008, 10:24 am 10:24 am

Seems like everyone is jumping ship.. even my state!
Haters never prosper. John McCain will learn that.
Obama Biden 2008!

Posted by: Paint VA Blue! | October 24, 2008, 10:25 am 10:25 am

Lookup says “I’m not a fan of Scott McClellan, I just want to stick-it to the Republicans.”
Hey, I am with you. Lets wreck America to show that we hate Bush. McClellan is a problem in that everyone hates him.
Posted by: today | Oct 24, 2008 10:24:18 AM
** It wasn’t just Bush we didn’t like it was your whole party! You’ll see after Nov. 4th

Posted by: Paint VA Blue! | October 24, 2008, 10:26 am 10:26 am

Pretty strange comments from someone who just recently credited Obama with “a first class intelligence and first class temperament.”

Posted by: Brooklyn Democrat | October 24, 2008, 10:28 am 10:28 am

Paint VA Blue! says “** It wasn’t just Bush we didn’t like it was your whole party! You’ll see after Nov. 4th”
Do not pick on me. I am a Jon Stewart democrat.
I love Nancy Pelosi, Ried, Barney Franks, Chuck Schumer. I think we should vote out all of the republicans. But lets work on wrecking the cabinet first. We can wreck the rest of the country as we go.
For Atterney General lets put in some one with good work experience from the ACLU.

Posted by: today | October 24, 2008, 10:31 am 10:31 am

All the opportunist RINOs coming out of the woodwork like the roaches they really are like their leader Huffington.

Posted by: geevill | October 24, 2008, 10:45 am 10:45 am

Wow. Another bitter moderate-to-liberal “republican” is voting against McCain (rather than for “the One”) and it is big news.
When oh when is the media going to talk about the top fundraisers for the DNC who similarly can not vote for Obama?
Oh. Wait. That is not “news”…that is just negative racism. I forgot. People who don’t vote for Obama are racists. God forbid that we actually vote based on our belief that smaller government is better than the “cool government” that Obama wants. Or that we don’t believe that “spreading the wealth” is good for anyone in America…least of all the working, middle class.
No…we’ll all be lumped into that category of “racists” because that’s what the Obamabot media and the rabid left will continue to tell us all…
So…if Hillary had been the nominee, would a vote against her made us all sexist?

Posted by: michelle | October 24, 2008, 10:46 am 10:46 am

I guess the man came out of his elitist washington insider hate for Palin stupor long enough to take Biden’s advice.

Posted by: geevill | October 24, 2008, 10:46 am 10:46 am

Wow. Another bitter moderate-to-liberal “republican” is voting against McCain (rather than for “the One”) and it is big news.
When oh when is the media going to talk about the top fundraisers for the DNC who similarly can not vote for Obama?
Oh. Wait. That is not “news”…that is just negative racism. I forgot. People who don’t vote for Obama are racists. God forbid that we actually vote based on our belief that smaller government is better than the “cool government” that Obama wants. Or that we don’t believe that “spreading the wealth” is good for anyone in America…least of all the working, middle class.
No…we’ll all be lumped into that category of “racists” because that’s what the Obamabot media and the rabid left will continue to tell us all…
So…if Hillary had been the nominee, would a vote against her made us all sexist?
Posted by: michelle | Oct 24, 2008 10:46:37 AM
** Move to Lynchburg or Appomattox VA where I live.. if you saw the signs painted the “N word” then you would see why people are calling McCain supporters racist.. and don’t pull the sexist crap.. it’s not America’s fault she’s not the brightest crayon int he box. we have a right to question her character like the GOP questions Obama’s. It’s only right we’ve only known her for 7 weeks and she hasn’t always made a good impression

Posted by: Paint VA Blue! | October 24, 2008, 10:50 am 10:50 am

Wow. Another bitter moderate-to-liberal “republican” is voting against McCain (rather than for “the One”) and it is big news.
When oh when is the media going to talk about the top fundraisers for the DNC who similarly can not vote for Obama?
Oh. Wait. That is not “news”…that is just negative racism. I forgot. People who don’t vote for Obama are racists. God forbid that we actually vote based on our belief that smaller government is better than the “cool government” that Obama wants. Or that we don’t believe that “spreading the wealth” is good for anyone in America…least of all the working, middle class.
No…we’ll all be lumped into that category of “racists” because that’s what the Obamabot media and the rabid left will continue to tell us all…
So…if Hillary had been the nominee, would a vote against her made us all sexist?
Posted by: michelle | Oct 24, 2008 10:46:37 AM
** Move to Lynchburg or Appomattox VA where I live.. if you saw the signs painted the “N word” then you would see why people are calling McCain supporters racist.. and don’t pull the sexist crap.. it’s not America’s fault she’s not the brightest crayon int he box. we have a right to question her character like the GOP questions Obama’s. It’s only right we’ve only known her for 7 weeks and she hasn’t always made a good impression

Posted by: Paint VA Blue! | October 24, 2008, 10:50 am 10:50 am

today
Clearly you dont read!
To much hater-aide from you and the mccain camp!
You even have a girl who cuts a b into her own face and blames it on obama supporters!
Now shes going to be charged!
I mean how stupid is she cutting a b into her own face in the mirror and then it comes out backwards please!

Posted by: Mike NC | October 24, 2008, 10:51 am 10:51 am

I think we are being short sighted here. We know Obama has won. Lets look at how things are going to work under his rule.
Chicago politics will be the defacto standard. Dailey always got elected by giving away garbage cans. Yeah, yeah, I know we each have our $500 tax rebate checks coming, but I want something tangible. If I am selling my vote, I want a trophy.

Posted by: today | October 24, 2008, 10:53 am 10:53 am

Charles Krauthammer would support George W. if he was running today as well.

Posted by: indy_voter | October 24, 2008, 11:20 am 11:20 am

Michelle -
The media certainly has discussed “top fundraisers for the DNC who similarly cannot vote for Obama.” The most prominent of them has been Lady Lynn Forrestor de Rothschild who divides her time between Manhattan and a castle north of London.
During her first tv interview, Her Ladyship used the term “redneck.” More recently she wrote a piece for Tina Brown’s e-mag decrying the “sexism” being directed at Governor Palin.
Haven’t heard any thing from her since, though. Think the McCain campaign has locked her in the same place they’re keeping Carly Fiorina.

Posted by: Brooklyn Democrat | October 24, 2008, 11:22 am 11:22 am

mav•er•ick
An unbranded range animal, especially a calf that has become separated from its mother, traditionally considered the property of the first person who brands it.
– American Heritage Dictionary

Posted by: UNLEARN | October 24, 2008, 11:39 am 11:39 am

Lady de Rothschild hasn’t been locked up, she’s joined the army at FoxNews. She was on “Fox & Friends” this morning talking about how thoughtful and brilliant Sarah Palin is.

Posted by: Dave | October 24, 2008, 11:43 am 11:43 am

It’s always such big news when a few high-profile Republicans come out for McCain.
They seem to forget about all of the disgruntled Dems who have abandoned ship and will be voting for McCain.
If the MSM bothered to look for them, I am sure they outnumber the Republicans voting Democrat.

Posted by: SandyB | October 24, 2008, 11:54 am 11:54 am

Scott McClellan’s mommy Carole Keeton Strayhorn was the Tx Comptroller who ran for Governor and she couldn’t get any big endorsements from Bush.
So, as I understand it, Scott’s mom helped Scotty write his book as payback. Same goes for Scott backing Obama, he was slammed by the Republicans for bashing the Bush years on Bill MAher and Daily SHow.
- It’s simple payback and he doesn’t have a strand of integrity within his being.
~ case closed.

Posted by: Texas Tea Party | October 24, 2008, 11:55 am 11:55 am

There are some SMART republicans. They are the ones REALLY putting COUNTRY first instead of PARTY first

Posted by: ann | October 24, 2008, 12:10 pm 12:10 pm

Charles Krauthammer…..good for you. Go on down with McCain-Palin’s sinking ship. We’ll save the ship, but will let you drown. CHANGE must be too scary a word for you. And SPREADING THE WEALTH is even hard for you to choke on. This republican is for the winning team, OBAMA-BIDEN. Share the wealth, rather than hoarding it to buy 7 homes and $150k for a clothes shopping spree. Do you know what GOP stands for: GO ON PIG (WITH LIPSTICK).

Posted by: khatts98178 | October 24, 2008, 12:24 pm 12:24 pm

What was Senator McCain palling around with?
In December 1985, Senator McCain and Cindy traveled to Chile for a friendly meeting with Chile’s military ruler, General Augusto Pinochet, who at the time was the world’s most notorious violators of human rights. General Pinochet was credited with killing and jailing tens of thousands civilians for political reasons. The private trip was arranged and paid by the Pinochet’s ambassador to the United States. They spent three and a half days fishing and riding horses in the scenic Puyehue area of southern Chile, in the estate of a prominent and wealthy Pinochet backer Marco Cariola.
According to a declassified U.S. Embassy cable, McCains meeting with Pinochet was described as warm and friendly. McCain, a member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee at the time made no public or private statements critical of the dictator. General Pinochet assassinated his opponents at home and abroad. According to the U.S. Justice Department, in 1976 the Pinochet regime was involved in an act of terrorism in on the US soil involving the assassination of the former ambassador to the US and former Foreign Minister Orlando Letelier. The car bombing on Sheridan Circle in Washington, D.C. was described as the most egregious act of international terrorism perpetrated on U.S. soil by a foreign government.
Army General Pinochet came to power through a bloody coup of a democratically elected government on September 11, 1973. He led the bombing of the presidential palace, padlocked the congress, outlawed all political activities and actively persecuted his opponents. At the time of his death, around 300 criminal charges were pending against him for people disappearances, torture, assassinations, tax evasion and financial embezzlements. Was McCain ever aware of the despicable international terrorism record of his friend General Pinochet? This is a very good question for the Senator to be asked?

Posted by: jeffrey | October 24, 2008, 12:26 pm 12:26 pm

Weld must not be a “real” Republican. When you have to present your Bona Fides at the gate to Heaven, only “real” Republicans, “real” Christians will get in. Everyone “knows” that.
Now, could all the true believers please line up, it’s time for everyone to drink the kool-aid. The rest of us will stay here and clean up the mess you made.

Posted by: thebob.bob | October 24, 2008, 12:30 pm 12:30 pm

So, you take your anger for eight years under a Harvard Boy, and show it by trying to elect another Harvard Boy.
You’re just trying to trade the one who can’t speak well for one who speaks but doesn’t think well.
Wouldn’t it make more sense to just elect George Soros directly? Citizenship doesn’t seem to be a problem anymore…

Posted by: Virginian | October 24, 2008, 12:41 pm 12:41 pm

I guess all the sailors on the RNC ship are saying jump baby jump. The ship is sinking fast and Caribou Barbie is planning for 2012, while McBush is looking for a retirement home in Florida.

Posted by: geevill | October 24, 2008, 1:07 pm 1:07 pm

It appears that the people really jumping ship are investors. As it looks more likely that the this Marxist could actually be elected the world markets, to say nothing of our own, are in FREEFALL.

Posted by: Virginian | October 24, 2008, 1:28 pm 1:28 pm

Obama a once in a lifetime candidate? Hello? We have presidential elections every four years. That is a very racist statement to say there won’t be another viable mixed race or black candidate in our lifetime. Unless Weld is 99 years old, this statement is bogus. There doesn’t seem to be the same feeling about a woman on the ticket… Weird.

Posted by: Fallon | October 24, 2008, 1:44 pm 1:44 pm

Interesting how quickly Karl Rove b.s. makes its way from his mouth into the blogosphere. This morning, Karl (the economic expert) said that the market was tanking due to the prospect of an Obama presidency.
Didn’t bother Karl that his latest b.s. flies in the face of yesterday’s testimony by Greenspan who said that he’d put too much faith in the the self-correcting power of free markets and that the failure of the deregulation strategy had left him “in a state of shocked disbelief.”
The right wing has also tried to blame the economic meltdown on Fannie and Freddie…ACORN was somehow responsible, too.
When asked about Fannie and Freddie’s roles by Cong. Waxman, both Greenspan and the head of the SEC said that the agencies may have “contributed to” but were not “the cause” of the current economic crisis.
I love it when actuality trumps daily political talking points and b.s.
P.S. Why isn’t Karl Rove in jail?

Posted by: Brooklyn Democrat | October 24, 2008, 1:57 pm 1:57 pm

Which is worse, spending $150,000 on a much needed wardrobe for you and your family to campaign in or spending $800,000 on voter registration and voter fraud with ACORN? I gotta go with $800,000 on ACORN being a bigger issue.

Posted by: Apples, Ayers and Acorns | October 24, 2008, 1:57 pm 1:57 pm

Bachman is right. France is having terrible problems with Islamic enclaves. Google “France” “Islam”. Read for yourself.

Posted by: She's right. | October 24, 2008, 1:59 pm 1:59 pm

Bush and Obama both went to Ivy League schools. Elites just can’t help but back an Ivy League guy. Muffy and Bif spent much of the summer drinking G & T’s and playing tennis at club in Old Lyme.

Posted by: Bushie and Obie | October 24, 2008, 2:09 pm 2:09 pm

Brooklyn: Why isn’t Karl Rove in jail?
Because, as far as I know…a person still has to be charged with a crime–maybe even by a grand jury–and convicted before he/she can be sent to jail. Not just because people don’t like their politics.
Although–that may soon be changing given the current state of affairs. Did you see what happened when Obama didn’t like what WGN was going to interview Stanley Kurtz? hmmm…
Have you noticed how freely the term “racist” gets thrown about?? and “hate crime” laws are already on the books.
Times they are a changing… and there is a Blustery Hot Obama Wind blowing our way.

Posted by: Michelle | October 24, 2008, 2:09 pm 2:09 pm

Today’s Republican Endorsements of Obama:
Reagan Appointee and (Recent) McCain Adviser Charles Fried Supports Obama: Fried asked that his name be removed from the several [McCain] campaign-related committees on which he serves. In that letter, he said that chief among the reasons for his decision “is the choice of Sarah Palin at a time of deep national crisis.” –From TNR.com
McCain is a sinking ship. Even lifelong Republicans are bailing at this point…

Posted by: FelixRodriguez1 | October 24, 2008, 2:22 pm 2:22 pm

Charles Fried.
Ahh, another Harvard boy raises his hand. Someone, somewhere, should act surprised.
He objects to Palin as VP, but prefers the top job goes to a similarly inexperienced person, and a Marxist to boot. The Harvard gang must truly consider the rest of the country a ship of fools.

Posted by: Virginian | October 24, 2008, 3:01 pm 3:01 pm

And if there’s one thing of which Krauthammer is expert, and there certainly isn’t more than one, it’s ginning up phony cases.

Posted by: Majorajam | October 24, 2008, 3:14 pm 3:14 pm

Actually Michelle, turns out indictment by grand jury is insufficient. You have to be able to find a law enforcement agency prosecutor with the authority and semblance of integrity first. Given Rove’s made over Mugabe-esque DOJ, that’s the bottle neck.
Oh, sucks to be you guys. Above the law one day, jail birds the next…

Posted by: Majorajam | October 24, 2008, 3:19 pm 3:19 pm

Wow majorajam.
If this election goes right, your talking about Chris Dodd and the gang, wrong and you can take your best shot at Rove.
Shaping up to be a high stakes contest, isn’t it.
Interesting that you bring up Mugabe…

Posted by: Virginian | October 24, 2008, 3:31 pm 3:31 pm

Why would that be interesting Virginian? Because he’s black? Or couldn’t it be because Mugabe, like Rove, has turned law enforcement into a tool to maintain power? Might that be the marginally more meaningful similarity?…
Now, I’m sure it doesn’t interest you that the attorney’s scandal stinks to high heaven, mountains of evidence available to support the contention that attorneys were fired for not orchestrating partisan witch hunts (while presumably others were not for doing Rove’s bidding: see Siegelman, Don), and yet Mukaskey has steadfastly refused to investigate. I’m sure that raises no questions in that serenely clean place in your mind where dissonant cognitions go to die, but for the reality based community it raises a few questions.
Would absolutely LOVE to hear what your allegations of Senator Dodd are that haven’t so much as bubbled to the surface of our media, liberal conspirators though they all are. It might be as humorous as your average Republican recounting of the cause of this financial crisis.

Posted by: Majorajam | October 24, 2008, 4:01 pm 4:01 pm

Scott McClellan Former Press Secretary endorses Obama.
Posted by: Lookup | Oct 24, 2008 10:11:07 AM
++++++++++++++++++++++++
Big freakin surprise! McClellan’s mother,(who I voted for) ran for governor of Texas against Perry, successor to Bush and Bush’s friend, whom he endorsed while McClellan was still White House press sec.
Guess McClellan has some hard feelings because he quit right after Bush’s endorsement of Perry and started writing a “tell all” book.
No one really cares what Scott McClellan does, he’s only important in his own mind.

Posted by: S Adams | October 24, 2008, 4:16 pm 4:16 pm

Charle Krauthammer has a brilliant mind and is a highly respected member of the media.

Posted by: S Adams | October 24, 2008, 4:17 pm 4:17 pm

Except for Krauthammer, people are so confused. And I think I know why. A vortex in the political time/space continuum has caused Sen. Obama to mistakenly run against Sen. McCain. But all things considered he should be running against Gov. Palin. They are the two less experienced, younger, great spokespersons. They both wrote a book. They both entered local politics in 1992 and climbed up from there (but to be fair I’m discounting any of Obama’s community organizing experience there is so little information available). The two old guys, McCain and Biden, really should be facing off against each other don’t you think? They’re both a little flighty, with long, checkered histories and plenty of silly grimaces. So let’s just tell them to switch it around a bit and we’ll all be better off and less confused.

Posted by: 600vista | October 24, 2008, 4:22 pm 4:22 pm

Augusto Pinochet, ruthless dictator, and G. Gordon Liddy, convicted felon. Great friends McCain has.

Posted by: William J. LePetomaine | October 24, 2008, 4:52 pm 4:52 pm

who care about what old Charles “the stiff neck” kraut thinks,
so what if he will be a pass. on the John mccain SST (STRAIGHT TALK TITANIC)
with charles, and all of the rest of mccain followers with them all yelling
birth certificate!,bill ayers!,socialist! and all of the other loser mantra mccain has decided to steer his followers in.
It is sad, he has sunk his campaign and his followers by swiftboating his own people with fear.

Posted by: cheer up,smile,nertz! | October 24, 2008, 5:06 pm 5:06 pm

It is amazingly true that he who controls the message, controls the masses.
7 – 1 articles negative to McCain/Palin
60% positive, glowing, gushing reporting of OBAMA. Only really scratching the surface of his past. The MSM lack of intellectual curiosity into his experiences in Occidental and Columbia where Obama was molded.
We know he is a DEVOTED socialist and will move this country into a direction that will cause the collapse in confidence our the free market and thus the entire global market will collapse.
These are no small words. If the most coveted economy can collapse in the span of a couple of weeks, then how could any small country ever make it.
With Obama as President, economy at a stand still, our charitable working class tapped out and Venezuela and Saudi Arabia not being able to GIVE AWAY their oil, we DIVE into a depression that will claim the lives of MILLIONS across the world…. there will not be enough Obama posters and CHe t-shirts to hold the economy up.
The globe from space will begin to look more and more like that of N. Korea….but hey, at least gas will be cheap and we will have stopped GLOBAL WARMING.
Apocalyptic?
More like Obamalyptic.

Posted by: Texas Tea Party | October 24, 2008, 5:16 pm 5:16 pm

I can only report what i see
and i see negative all over mccain and palin’ campaign.
when mccain starts campaigning 7-1 in the positive
i will report it

Posted by: media | October 24, 2008, 7:20 pm 7:20 pm

mcpainin ah negative

Posted by: media | October 24, 2008, 7:21 pm 7:21 pm

Gee, how slanted of the liberal media! 7 to 1 negative articles against McCain compared to Obama! when we all kow it is IMPOSSIBLE to have such a looser in the Republican ticket! Well informed patriots like us are well aware that if there are so many negative articles against McCain, they must be authored by communists and bolshevicks, p[eople who do not understand patriotism and stupidity!

Posted by: Vladimir | October 24, 2008, 8:39 pm 8:39 pm

Jake – that was a hack job on Krauthammer’s column. You completely left off EVERY reason he was voting for Mcain and not Obama – and just made it catty. It was actually an interesting column. You can be pro-Obama and still appreciate an opposing point of view. Really, honest and truly.
Come on – this is tiresome!
People can vote Obama, they can vote McCain – but darn I am REALLY tired of journlalists telling me what to do, think, say, vote . . . .
You chopping Krauthammer’s column; NBC “Meet the Press” giving Powell a 17 minute soliloquoy on the pros of Obama . . .
ICK! MSM WHERE ARE YOU???? Are you still investigating Joe the plumber????

Posted by: ECHO21 | October 24, 2008, 9:34 pm 9:34 pm

What a surprise! Charles Krauthammer, he who makes Genghis Khan look like a Libertarian, voices his support for John McCain? I hear tomorrow’s headlines will read “Sun Comes Up Today.”

Posted by: chuck | October 24, 2008, 10:21 pm 10:21 pm

Wrong, Krauthammer! Judge Alton B. Parker (D-1904) was the least qualified nominee in American history! Obama isn’t even that high up on the list.

Posted by: Jesse | October 25, 2008, 8:36 am 8:36 am

Has anyone considered something other than the Bradley effect. It would be called the “Why Should We Think People We Have Always Thought Were Wrong Are Suddenly Right Now” effect. These people would include Rush’s so-called Drive By Media, Conservatives Who Are Finding It Hip To Desert Their Party, Former Secretary of State’s Still Carrying A Grudge, Former Press Secretary’s Still Tryiing To Peddle Their Book and on and on and on and on……Remember that at the end of the day the American people are still eternal optimists and so they just might wake up on November 4 and think to themselves that there is no way that Obama could be this perfect and that McCain could be as bad as all these knuckleheads say he is…..

Posted by: funnypaysoff | October 26, 2008, 12:29 am 12:29 am

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