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DEL.ICIO.USGOP convention may not happen
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
With Hurricane Gustav scheduled to hit the Gulf Coast tomorrow, the McCain campaign and GOP officials are being forced to scramble. Here’s how the Washington Post is reporting it:
“(McCain campaign manager Rick) Davis told reporters here that the seven-hour program scheduled for Monday night would be pared down to a bare-bones afternoon session of roughly two hours devoted mainly to meeting the legal requirements involved with convening the party’s nominating convention. He said that there would be no partisan speeches and that officials would assess what to do with the rest of the convention once it became clear the magnitude of the storm damage. He said that they would seek to make sure that “nothing new distracts from the” response efforts in the Gulf.”
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By AJC/DNC Management
August 31, 2008 6:07 PM | Link to this
All government attention should be focused on the well being and safety of the citizens of the Gulf States.
It is the only choice they had.
We can party in November.
By RW-(the original)
August 31, 2008 6:17 PM | Link to this
You mean the Republicans are putting the country first? Somebody ought to make that a slogan!
By GodHatesTrash
August 31, 2008 6:19 PM | Link to this
It’s going to be a yawner anyway, unless Senator Hensley-McCain gets the Mrs. and Governor Lola to have a mud wrasslin’ contest.
The party faithful won’t mind - they’ll head to MN anyway - they’ll cancel their rooms and just hangout at the airport.
In the mens rooms… or the diaper-changing stations.
(The Minneapolis—St. Paul police will be happy to have all the pervs in one place…)
;-)
By AJC/DNC Management
August 31, 2008 6:29 PM | Link to this
A half-term governor has more claim to leadership and experience than does a one-third-term U.S. senator who has risen through a big-city political machine. Palin is a woman of action, moreover, who has used her political capital at every stage to fight corruption and bad policy. It’s hard to find anyone in politics who does that; pols “save” their capital instead, as Obama has done by voting “present” on numerous occasions, lest spending it cost them something somewhere down the road. Her personal profile—raising five children, hunting, fishing, and being a real NRA member—make an appealing contrast with the overly cerebral, political calculations of those who merely hold positions and whose lives have been led in the service of their résumés.
By AJC/DNC Management
August 31, 2008 7:09 PM | Link to this
Lynn Hackney and Kim Hoover might perfectly illustrate the emotions of those whom Ms. Palin counts as “not finished yet.” They had gathered 20 equally passionate Hillary supporters at their home in Washington on Tuesday to watch Mrs. Clinton’s speech. “The Kleenex was flowing,” said Ms. Hackney, who declared the speech “brilliant.”
Thursday, when 38 million Americans watched Mr. Obama’s speech, they watched a movie, “The Squid and the Whale.”
No matter what Mrs. Clinton urged, they cannot support Mr. Obama.
“To go against Hillary is not easy for us,” Ms. Hackney said. “We don’t take that lightly. We just don’t think he has a message. We don’t think he’s good for women.”
“It’s not about being bitter for Hillary,” she said. Still, “I think the Democratic Party took women for granted in the primary, they didn’t step on sexism when they should have, and I can’t support them.”
Say, have you met Mrs. Cuda yet?
By Rufus
August 31, 2008 7:12 PM | Link to this
No matter what the Republicans chose in this situation, it will somehow be spun into a selfish move, wrong move, blah blah. Don’t think the spin hysterics on the left aren’t cranking up the hamster wheel trying to counter it somehow. You watch…
NB as always lays it out spot on. Maybe the Atlanta Jihad Manifesto could learn a thing or two about our Sunday paper Parade magazine:
Parade, the nationally distributed Sunday newspaper supplement, handed its in-between-conventions political coverage to liberal Newsweek columnist Jonathan Alter. The editors actually kept the editorializing down in a story on how both campaigns are exciting voters and reaching independents. But you could still see the traditional labeling imbalance when describing the campaigns:
John McCain “had little support with the conservative base that has dominated the Republican Party for nearly half a century.” What? I don’t think any conservative alive for half a century would agree with that. Thirty years maybe, but not 50.
Get a load of how Barack Obama beat Hillary Clinton: “But change hungry-voters made up their own minds and flocked to Obama, who won 11 straight contests in February…Throughout the campaign season, supporters of both Democrats sent a clear message: We decide, not the insiders.”
It would have been much more accurate for Alter to describe how Obama won over the “liberal base that had dominated the Democratic Party for nearly half a century.” (Amen brother!)
The article was headlined “Why The 2008 Election Is Bringing Power to the People!”
By GMAN
August 31, 2008 7:24 PM | Link to this
Bush/McCain - Ooops!
By Rufus
August 31, 2008 7:27 PM | Link to this
Off topic: Congrats to Roddick. He was sharp today in an easy three setter. Keep it up Mr. 155mph serve. It’s only going to get harder in the fourth round. And Tracy Austin still looks good…
Regarding the hurricane, it looks like an upper level system is shearing it off, weakening it some. It’s not nearly as organized with an eyewall as it was earlier. Let’s hope it stays this way or decreases. We do not need another 150+ mph hurricane any time soon.
And I wonder, from a liberal moonbat perspective, are Bush and Cheney going to blow up the levees and target poor minorities again?
By AJC/DNC Management
August 31, 2008 7:28 PM | Link to this
Uh oh
UH OH
Democratic vice presidential nominee Joe Biden received five student draft deferments during the Vietnam War, the same number of deferments received by Vice President Dick Cheney, and later was disqualified from service because of asthma as a teenager.
Bwahahahahahaha, oh my.
Chickenhawk.
Bwa.
By AJC/DNC Management
August 31, 2008 7:47 PM | Link to this
Uh oh
UH OH
Gov. Sarah Palin has breakfast and visits with Ramstein Air Base Airmen in Germany on July 26, 2007. Palin went on to visit wounded Airmen and Soldiers at Landstuhl Regional Medical Center, Landstuhl, Germany.
Oh my, this is getting good now.
By Rufus
August 31, 2008 7:51 PM | Link to this
Nagin also warned that looting — one of the chronic problems after Hurricane Katrina — would not be tolerated. “Looters will go directly to jail. You will not get a pass this time,” he said. - or shot dead by a homeowner
Let’s see here. The Mayor has made preparations ahead of time for his people as has the governor who called up the Guard well ahead of the storm and mobilized it. People have actually heeded warnings and are getting the flock out of there this time.
Kinda different mentality than three years ago when it was all Bush’s fault and bungling and all that, huh?
By AJC/DNC Management
August 31, 2008 8:04 PM | Link to this
She sure did, check it out, losers:
I found this picture of Sarah Palin visiting wounded U.S. soldiers in Germany.
By AJC/DNC Management
August 31, 2008 8:24 PM | Link to this
Aahhh, yes, Steyn is back, if just for a moment:
What other country in the developed world produces beauty queens who hunt caribou and serve up a terrific moose stew? As an immigrant, I’m not saying I came to the United States purely to meet chicks like that, but it was certainly high on my list of priorities. And for the gun-totin’ Miss Wasilla then to go on to become Governor while having five kids makes it an even more uniquely American story. Next to her resume, a guy who’s done nothing but serve in the phony-baloney job of “community organizer” and write multiple autobiographies looks like just another creepily self-absorbed lifelong member of the full-time political class that infests every advanced democracy.
Sarah Palin and Barack Obama are more or less the same age, but Governor Palin has run a state and a town and a commercial fishing operation, whereas (to reprise a famous line on the Rev Jackson) Senator Obama ain’t run nothin’ but his mouth. She’s done the stuff he’s merely a poseur about. Post-partisan? She took on her own party’s corrupt political culture directly while Obama was sucking up to Wright and Ayers and being just another get-along Chicago machine pol (see his campaign’s thuggish attempt to throttle Stanley Kurtz and Milt Rosenberg on WGN the other night).
Sixth (see Kathleen’s link to Craig Ferguson below), I kinda like the whole naughty librarian vibe.
It’s good to be a Conservative again.
By AJC/DNC Management
August 31, 2008 8:32 PM | Link to this
Question for the blog; Are individuals limited to giving only $2300 to a campaign or can they give like $2300 to McCain, $2300 to Palin and $2300 to the RNC?
This is important as I do not want to go to jail, although I could claim I was attempting to give all $6900 to Oblahma but I clicked on the wrong website.
Then all the toadies would come out and defend me.
I’ll hang up and wait for your answers.
By RW-(the original)
August 31, 2008 8:44 PM | Link to this
AJC/DNC-M,
The ticket is what you can contribute too, but if you hurry I think you can get in $2300 for the primary season and $2300 for the general since McCain hasn’t been officially nominated. After he is you won’t be able to contribute anything since he’s taking the public financing that he and the flip flopper both promised to commit to.
I’m not sure that same limitation applies to the RNC, but I’ll go have a look.
By RW-(the original)
August 31, 2008 8:48 PM | Link to this
Looks like you can give 28,500 to the RNC
By ByteMe
August 31, 2008 8:59 PM | Link to this
RW: The RNC needs all the financial help they can get. The Republican brand is so awful right now, only the lobbyists are getting behind them… and they’ll get behind both parties if it’ll get them what they want.
By AJC/DNC Management
August 31, 2008 9:01 PM | Link to this
RW: From what I’ve seen, McCain cannot accept any private donations after Thursday, when the “general” election starts, from then on it’s all public financing.
The RNC can still accept private money as far as I know, even beyond Nov.
But surely we can donate to Governor Palin’s “relection fund,” can’t we?
By RW-(the original)
August 31, 2008 9:08 PM | Link to this
AJC/DNC-M,
You could but she could only spend it on a reelection campaign. Hopefully she’ll have resigned that job and been sworn in as VP by then.
By AJC/DNC Management
August 31, 2008 9:13 PM | Link to this
Biteme: Oh yeah, all of us Conservatives are just so enamored with Hairy Reed and Nacy Pelosi, oooh boy.
You may want to read about our resurrection, sakes alive, it’s amazin what one little commitment to our cause can do.
It’s a lucky thing that we all cling to our guns and religion and don’t pay no mind to politics, us idiots will just mash the R button November 4th and make it easy on our clueless selves.
Buh bye, morons.
By "The Corporal"
August 31, 2008 9:15 PM | Link to this
You may disagree strongly with their individual viewpoints but at least McCain and Biden are qualified to be President of the United States while Obama and Palin are not.
By RW-(the original)
August 31, 2008 9:19 PM | Link to this
ByteMe,
Do you by any chance do any research before you post?
Barack Obama may be doubling up John McCain in campaign fundraising, but the RNC continues its dominance of the DNC this election cycle. The RNC outraised its rival more than 2-1 in contributions and by $6 million in total receipts in July, and now has a $68 million advantage in cash-on-hand. The numbers bode ill for any assistance Obama expects from his party in the final stanza of the campaign:
Not to mention as of last night McCain had raised 7 million in just over a day since making Governor Palin his running mate.
By Midori
August 31, 2008 9:29 PM | Link to this
more hot air from RW.
so very predictable.
why don’t you and Andy just call each other on the phone?
don’t you have 3-way? that way you can invite Bud.
you guys are pathetically laughable.
By GodHatesTrash
August 31, 2008 9:35 PM | Link to this
Since as far back as McKinley, the GOP always has the best politicians money can buy, and they work cheap.
(Governor Lola will be handing out “special favors” for her new friends all week - for as low as $5! But I bet it’s still free at the airport…)
By GodHatesTrash
August 31, 2008 9:39 PM | Link to this
Could be an interesting week coming up for the GOP…
L-o-l-a
&
N.O. LA
By AJC/DNC Management
August 31, 2008 9:42 PM | Link to this
I r o Dim: And you could get yourself a Pamprin.
By GodHatesTrash
August 31, 2008 9:45 PM | Link to this
Midori, it looks like Bud has been thrown out of the Mean Girls, and Rustic Rufus is now in… they’re all sitting at the same lunch table, and Bud is o-u-t out.
Lots of catfighting, whining, moaning, and sissy/hissy fits this weekend.
The usual Andi/Angelina and RWinona stuff.
Middle school can be a difficult time for girls.
By AJC/DNC Management
August 31, 2008 9:46 PM | Link to this
Well, look at this, God’s Trash could use a Pamprin too.
By AJC/DNC Management
August 31, 2008 9:55 PM | Link to this
Heh, Chambliss is only 6 up over Martin in a solidly Repug state, boy, I’ll bet he’s glad he went pinko at just the right moment.
Keep it up Saxby, it’ll be buh bye for you.
By Hillbilly Deluxe
August 31, 2008 10:00 PM | Link to this
Let’s hope whoever is unfortunate enough to get hit by the storm comes through it ok and damage is minimal.
Given the long primary process now, political conventions are just dog and pony shows now anyway.
By AJC/DNC Management
August 31, 2008 10:02 PM | Link to this
Chickenhawk Hair Plugs get’s a coveted liberal endorsement:
It is true that Biden talks of his support for Israel in principle, but the reality is that he has done his utmost to thwart keeping the possibility of a military option open to stop Iran acquiring nuclear weapons. As a result he was even praised recently on the Iranian regime’s official propaganda arm, Press TV.
By RW-(the original)
August 31, 2008 10:16 PM | Link to this
If this site had a registration system there’s a nasty little piece of code that can be added so that a banned poster can post all day and they’ll see there posts on there own computer, but nobody else will ever see it. The San Francisco Chronicle got outed for doing that a few months back.
By RW-(the original)
August 31, 2008 10:30 PM | Link to this
geez.
there=their squared
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Were it true this really would be one for the history books
Science and Biology too.
By Tom
September 1, 2008 5:43 AM | Link to this
Well now, phoney non-combat hero McShame has chosen a rabid backwoods hillbilly to deal with the country and world leaders. “Moose-killin, Moose-eatin Mama.” Another intellectual repug choice. Watch the devoted Repunk psychopaths surround her and pronounce it “just what we need. Brilliant. Another God-fearing, patriotic Murcun Heeroh!” Praise thee lord!
By AJC/DNC Management
September 1, 2008 6:31 AM | Link to this
Nothing like a good glass of whine on a holiday morning, is there, Doom and Gloom?:
In its first national labor scorecard, the Rutgers School of Management and Labor Relations said more than 10 percent of Americans are unemployed, discouraged from seeking work or underemployed. That is a nearly 25 percent increase from one year earlier.-Urinal/PMS
So the Urinal and their fellow cry babies have created a new scale to grade how much they think America sucks.
This is pretty easy-
“In it’s first national scorecard, The Duh Institute of Lying and Half Baked Propaganda, has determined that 99.99% of what is printed in thee Atlanta Urinal/DNC is totally false, save for the date on the top of each page.”
“Urinal Editor Julia Wallace, when questioned about the findings, issued the following statement, “We are working diligently to correct that pesky date issue.”
Whine on, Urinal Soldiers, whine on.
By ByteMe
September 1, 2008 6:40 AM | Link to this
RW: hmmm, ok, my bad. You’re right, the RNC has been using Bush effectively in their efforts to raise money.
http://demconvention.thehill.com/content/view/457/74/
Turns out it’s McCain who needs the help, not the RNC. And $7M is an impressive two-day total, but it’s likely not going to close the gap after the Obama performance Thursday night.
What I had been reading was that the RNC wasn’t going to have money to be compeitive in all the races they wanted to be competitive this fall. But they were just poor-mouthing themselves and really picked up the pace lately.
On the other hand, I notice no one wants to try to defend the Republican brand and how awful it is.
Oh, and as for the junior-high quality insults from ANC/DNC… ByteMe!
By AJC/DNC Management
September 1, 2008 6:41 AM | Link to this
Conflict could revive separatists The crisis could give a jolt of energy to other breakaway regions, especially those with links to Russia, or embolden China to pursue a tougher line in Tibet and Taiwan in the absence of tough Western measures.-Urinal/Jihad
So which one is it, oh brilliant and all knowing Urinal, will the “separatists” or the Commies start rampaging around the world? Apparently you have forgotten to distinguish between the two, as though there are any differences.
Those quickie holiday anti American propaganda scare stories don’t get the same level of editing as they would on a business day, do they?
And what, pray tell, do you mean by “forceful measures?”
Would you like a full scale nuclear holocaust to commence?
By AJC/DNC Management
September 1, 2008 6:45 AM | Link to this
Speaking of quickie editing:
GEORGIA DEVELDOPMENTS-Urinal/Jihad
By AJC/DNC Management
September 1, 2008 6:55 AM | Link to this
Thee Urinal/Jihad bit on Taliban propaganda hook, line and sinker, got called on it, now listen to them try to babble their way out of it:
Evidence from all sides regarding the raid has been scant, with no conclusive photos or video emerging to shed light on what happened. But the claim of 90 civilian deaths by the Afghan government and U.N. has caused new friction between Karzai and his Western supporters.-Urinal/Jihad
If these &8%#! maggots had any proof whatsoever, it would be splayed across your TV screen and the front page of this rag, know this like you know the sun will come up this unusually cool early September morning.
You lie, Urinal, like a rug.
By AJC/DNC Management
September 1, 2008 6:59 AM | Link to this
Let’s all play guess the dishonored politician’s political party association game:
Lawyers for Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick have proposed a deal under which he would resign, plead guilty to two felonies, make restitution and serve five years’ probation in exchange for avoiding jail time, The Detroit Free Press reported Sunday.-Urinal/DNC
By "The Corporal"
September 1, 2008 9:26 AM | Link to this
All the polls are showing that Obama got no bump from his convention. Very interesting.
By Slick
September 1, 2008 12:02 PM | Link to this
AJC/DNC
Since it is obvious that you hate the AJC, and never miss an opportunity to insult Jay and any other blogger here who disagrees with you - Why don’t you find another news paper to read, and another blog to infect with your juvenile rant and endless name calling?
You can probably find some suggestions on the wall inside the stalls in the men’s room at the airport.