Plus - does the Republican party understand the meaning of MAVERICK?

• Media - Flambe
  • When trying to reinvent one's own failed party platform, - Highjacking successful campaign, no suprise. sm
  • obama's comment - Flambe
    • All the while, his supporters taking notes - on how to turn the tables. szq
    • Plus - does the Republican party understand the meaning of MAVERICK? - CJ
      • A few signs in the audience showed that some people - there can't even spell it.
      • side kick better description - Flambe
        • Let's be fair now - sm
          • LOL, there's that scary word again: - CJ
        • Well sure, divide and conquer - CJ
          • Yep - Flambe

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...because Obama got elected.  He got elected because the republican party is in disarray.  You got cause and effect reversed.  In this era of political correctness the republican party has been trying to become more *moderate*  and it cost them this election.  By trying to water down the conservative message to *dem lite* they have lost their conservative base. 

I voted, not for McCain, but for Palin and against Obama/Biden.  The idea that Palin would be *one heartbeat away from the presidency* was a plus in my book.  She was the only candidate who made any sense to me.  Did not mince words.  Said what she meant, meant what she said.  Ya' betcha!  No question about her stance on anything. 

Whatever your feelings about the pro/anti-abortion issue, there is no question how Palin felt about it.  She wasn't just against abortion until she and/or her daughter could've used one.  And her own diluted republican party did a number on her, trying to marginalize her so she would be in a poor position to run in four years.

Meanwhile, if Obama's daughter had an unwanted pregnancy he would not want her *punished with a baby.*  What an odd way to put that!  

And please, just to head off the backlash over the abortion issue, that is certainly not the criterion by which I cast my vote, just an example of a candidate taking a stand - even an unpopular one - and sticking to it. 

They wanted to polish her up, dress her in designer duds, and make her into what they wanted her to be.  There were probably stylists who brought clothes to her.  I am sure Sarah Palin did not take time out of the campaign to go shopping at Saks.  Clothing was brought to her, she tried on outfits, decisions were made, and that was that.  She probably have very little to do with what was spent. 

Now, those behind the scenes want to cry foul.  It's just stupid and petty. 

Sarah Palin WAS treated unfairly.  She was thrown into a shark tank.  Her life will never be the same.  It sucks and the Rep. Party needs to quit laying the blame on her for their loss.  Shoulder some responsibility themselves.  McCain was/is a seasoned politician as many Reps were behind the seens.  EVERYONE has done nothing spout how inexperienced and ill-equiped Sarah Palin was and now they want to say it's her fault?!?!!?!?  I find that incredibly cowardly!  She's absolutely right! 

The republicans should be looking at the mess their party is in and figure out what went wrong and how they can rebuild.  Leave Sarah alone!

I believe the term you are really using is not "arrogant", but "uppity." 

applied for and accepted per diem travel money from Alaskan tax payers while staying in her own home.  Over $16,000.  Reformer . . .  against wasteful govt spending . . . honest?  you decide.  oink.

sought federal earmarks to study halibut and baby seals.  (Maybe to determine best size of club to use?)

John McCain is indeed adventurous; his selection of an untested running mate whom he had met only once attests to his willingness to take a gamble. Even at the cost of popularity in his party, McCain has often been a politician of stern principle. These are engaging qualities; and ones shared to some degree by Sarah Palin, the vice-presidential nominee. The pair were presented this week by some supporters as "maverick squared."

But these are the attributes not of an American president but of a defiant prisoner in a Hanoi prison camp; an unbowed dissident in the Soviet Union; or head of state in one of those countries with a presidency sufficiently powerless that it can be given as a lifetime achievement award to the keeper of a nation's conscience.

By contrast, the American presidency is an executive role. Decisions require deliberation; principle must be put to one side in the interest of a messy compromise; pride must be swallowed. My personal test is a hypothetical reenactment of the Cuban Missile Crisis. If McCain were president, could he really ignore the more belligerent rantings of America's enemies? Would he, like Jack Kennedy, have made the face-saving concession that helped the Soviet Union withdraw missiles from Cuba? If the phone rings at 3am in the White House, it's McCain the proud martyr I worry about rather than careful Barack Obama.

campaign fall down around his knees this week has been amusing.  His VP selection has been judged as a political choice only by 79% of the nation. Her poll numbers have dropped 10 points.  He thinks Spain is in this hemisphere.  He was against the bailout of AIG and then 24 hours later for it.  He now claims, after 24 years, that he is FOR regulation after innumerable remarks about being against it.  The great joy that his supporters professed at Lady deRothchild's defection was erased when she made that redneck remark. It's over.  He just looks like a desperate fool now.

He may consider himself a "Maverick" and he may have "Love for Country" -- but his love is for men (military) and he has a disrespect for women as you will see in the following video clip -- but he will take votes from women (anything to win).

As you see John McCain allow someone to say this about Hillary (I not a fan) and not correct it or call the person on it -- and even laughs at it -- shows his true colors. 

He called his wife a C___ in public, I hate to think what he calls her at home.  His poor daughters are probably referred to "female dogs" on a daily basis.

LETS FACE IT:   John McCain has "war on the brain" and you can tell by his actions that he truly feels that women have no place in the military.  Sometimes I wonder if he is running for "President of the United States" or "President of the Military of the United States." 

And yes, he is too old to lead -- just as someone would be too young to lead with the constitutional age qualification being 35.  I guess when they wrote the constitution they didn't imagine that they would have to cap it at the top, that anyone past retirement age in their Mid 70's would think they were caple of running the country.  Retirement age is 65 -- go enjoy your grandkids or something.

judge prior to her election to quit harassing her sister's ex-husband and trying to get him fired by filing endless complaints against him with his boss.  After she elected, and trooper had already been disciplined by his superiors, she insisted on going after him anyway.  Rule of law . . . anybody?

federal earmarks to fund research on halibut and baby seals.  (Maybe to determine correct size of club?)

    Even as he was pledging to "change the way government does almost everything," the senator from Arizona announced his commitment to much, much more of the same.

    He pledged to maintain endless occupations of distant lands that empty the U.S. Treasury of precious resources that might pay for infrastructue renewal, housing and job creations initiatives for hurting Americans.

    He outlined trade and tax policies that would extend, rather than alter a failed economic status quo.

    He reintroduced flawed proposals for health care, education and entitlement reforms that Americans have wisely rejected.

    And he threatened to achieve "energy independence" by declaring:

    "We will drill..."

    "We'll drill..."

    "More drilling..."

    McCain's rhetoric was that of a liberated man declaring his independence from his party's failed president and corrupt Congresses.

    But his platform was that of Republican candidate who, for all of his talk of reform, offers the crudest continuity to a country that is crying out for change.

http://www.truthout.org/article/the-anti-republican-republican-who-is-really-a-republican

Then let's get out of there and let them control their government.  Let's take off the *training wheels* (like Murtha has been saying) and let them learn to ride their *bike* while we observe from the periphery, there if they need us to *catch* them.  As long as we are there doing it for them, they will never do it on their own.  And by agreeing to amnesty, we're publicly telling the world that the lives of our soldiers aren't important, regardless of how you try to spin it. 

And, yes, the media is eerily silent about this.  The last article I read last week indicated that the Iraqi Prime Minister was AGAINST amnesty for anyone who kills an IRAQI but was in FAVOR of amnesty for anyone who kills AMERICANS.  What a wonderful plan. 

fine.  I could never have an abortion because I personally believe it is wrong.  However, if people are bound and determined to terminate their pregnancy, I'd much rather it be done by a professional instead of these girls having babies in bathrooms and throwing them away, going to some whack job who does permanent damage or have some girl take poisonous things into their body to try and get rid of the pregnancy. 

There are pros and cons to abortion whether people want to see it or not.  Abortion will not be stopped and so I have to look at it like population control and just go on about my business.

They're blatantly peddling socialism..."spreading the wealth around?"  So if you make more than I do, Obtama will take from you & give some to me.  How can people NOT see this? 

As far asa I'm concerned, these Obama fanatics can move to Canada, Cuba, etc.  Look how well that's workin' for them.