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By Job

October 24, 2008 11:14 PM | Link to this

It could just be that Sen. McCain made up his mind months ago to listen to the campaign consultants he inherited from George Bush. They told him to go for Bush-in-a-skirt, so he did.

Maybe what he had in mind was a return to the days when the Vice President got to go to funerals and rubber chicken dinners so the President didn’t have to, and so picked a running mate with talents to match those responsibilities. But we shouldn’t overthink. I like the “let’s do what the consultants want” theory, because it explains so many other things McCain has done this fall.

To think he pays these people to give him advice like this. Not as much as Gov. Palin’s hairstylist, but still.

By RJ

October 24, 2008 11:17 PM | Link to this

The conservative columnist makes quite a statement about the judgement of a candidate for President whom Georgia is about to cast a majority of votes for. She also makes quite a statement about a candidate who questions the readiness of his opponent.

Talk to me about the greatness of America and I’ll listen gladly. Talk to me about the duty of citizenship and I’ll listen submissively. Come talking to me about the benefits of electing John McCain and I will suspect that you don’t understand.

By RJ

October 24, 2008 11:44 PM | Link to this

President Bush’s former Press Secretary has also made quite a statement about John McCain…he’s supporting Obama.

Scott McClellan, who was Bush’s chief spokesman from July 2003 to April 2006, said he’s always planned to support the candidate that has the best chance for changing the way Washington works and getting things done.

In the final stretch a goodly number of people are seeing the light. Why does the dim cloud maintain such a strong grip over Georgia?

By American worker

October 25, 2008 12:49 AM | Link to this

I have the hots for her too.

By The Forgotten Messiah.

October 25, 2008 5:56 AM | Link to this

Cuteness wears off. Obama landslide. 65/35! McCain should get more than MOndale’s four electoral votes, though. He’ll get like 70.

Obama 08: He’s right for what’s left of America.

By old91A10

October 25, 2008 10:07 AM | Link to this

What sexist bull!

But, that’s what you get from the party of democRAT Racists, Misogynists, Elitists, Miscreants, Fear-mongers, Thugs, and Worse.

Ayers, Dohrn, Farrakhan, Wright, Pfleger, Caldwell, McClurken, Daley, Lippert, ….

Rezko, Blagojevich, Auchi, Johnson, Raines, Pritzker, Groelich, Axelrod, Gibbs, Dunn, (Susan)Rice, ….

Obama, Biden, Pelosi, Hoyer, Reid, Frank, Schumer, Brazille, Dean, Powell, ….

McClellan, Olbermann, Maddow, ….

By catlady

October 25, 2008 10:10 AM | Link to this

I have said she came to be picked because she held a trump no one else had: she had obviously refused to abort a retarded child. No one else, no matter how “pro life” could trump that.

Her great figure (how so soon after birth?) didn’t hurt, however.

By kimberly

October 25, 2008 10:17 AM | Link to this

The Republican men I know are also smitten. While I concede that she’s beautiful, with a certain spunk (but not too much independent thought!) they find endearing, I’m aghast at how quickly they defend her utter disregard for intelligent discourse. “She was just explaining it so a third-grader could understand,” one told me. “The word ‘preside’ is confusing.” Are they seriously excusing a complete falsehood about the such an important job expressed unapologetically by the job seeker? And what is to ge gained by dumbing down America’s children even further? The VP is NOT “in charge of” the Senate, even in Cheney’s sick fantasies, and the Constitution does not “offer more flexibility” on that!

The times and our circumstances are too precarious for you to think with your smaller head on something this important. Use the big one now, and let the smaller one decide something less critical, please. Thank you so much.

By A Conservatives said it

October 25, 2008 10:19 AM | Link to this

Hey Old91A10:

You are pretty easy to anger! In all your ranting and raving I guess your brain stopped working and you failed to notice a conservative made the statement, not a Democratic person. You are just like McCain, all anger and no thought.

By James

October 25, 2008 10:41 AM | Link to this

How very typical - petty, homeart women jealous of an attractive and feisty one.
For example, just read the comments here.

By Jealous Woman

October 25, 2008 10:56 AM | Link to this

I AM jealous of Sarah Barracuda! In fact, I’m considering a run for office so the RNC will buy ME a $150K wardrobe (LOVE those boots and leather jackets!) with their campaign donations. What woman isn’t jealous of that?

By old91A10

October 25, 2008 11:10 AM | Link to this

@ A Conservatives said it

Nonetheless, it is still sexist bullcr_p! To be sure, I am angry with my former party. They haven’t merely squandered an opportunity, they are foisting an empty suit, no heavy lifting, candidate on us.

Why aren’t we discussing zerObama’s covered up, long-time history of radical-socialistic ties?

Why aren’t we discussing zerObama’s deep and tangled ties to ACORN? Voter fraud. Campaign and Federal money fraud. Complicity in the housing crisis.

Why aren’t we discussing the dozen issues that OPRah (Obama, Pelosi, Reid a55h0le5) have double crossed progressives and conservatives on?

I suppose it is time to sic zerObama’s planned Civilian National Security Force on me, pack me off to a reeducation camp.

Why wait until I am totally ‘confused’ about how The zerOne reacts to some unspecified ‘international crisis?’

By old91A10

October 25, 2008 11:34 AM | Link to this

@ Jealous Woman

How about that $140,000 faux-greek column setting paid for with your and lobbyist money? Coooooool.

Did you pay attention to where Governor Palin shops for her children and herself? Did you pay attention to what she plans to do with the wardrobe when finished with it? Do you know how much Obama, Biden, or the like pay for their wardrobes? Last month, blue-dog idiots were talking ‘pretty but frumpy.’

Are you happy with the misogyny, racism, elitism, and thuggishness of demoRAT party, even to their own?

By Women Know

October 25, 2008 3:09 PM | Link to this

Misogyny? You mean like rolling your eyes, sneering, and doing finger quotes around the words “woman’s health” while millions of Americans watch? John McCain knows that the “health of a woman” is not important because if your wife DIES or is permanently damaged or disfigured while performing her reproductive obligations, she can be easily replaced with another who is YOUNGER, BLONDER, and RICHER. John McCain approves that family value. Makes you proud to be a man, huh?

By old91A10

October 25, 2008 4:24 PM | Link to this

@ Women Know

I am a proponent of a woman’s reproductive rights, but I am not a single issue voter as you seem to be. And, I would never put party before country.

For decades there has been a Conservative Judiciary that could have killed Roe vs. Wade, but it hasn’t happened. In fact, that Conservative Judiciary arose with something bordering on acclamation by both parties (and I screamed bloody murder about it — hmmm, to self: interesting choice of words).

You are blindly marching with and touting a radical socialist, a misogynist, a racist, a liar, a thief, and a thug,

Obama and the DNC (and seemingly the entire Democratic Party) have double crossed us on a dozen issues — some, irreversibly undercutting The Constitution of the United States.

This calls for checks and balances. Fortunately, separation of powers will do the trick. Supposedly, a strong Democratic majority in the House and Senate should take care of what you feel the country needs — but, they have proved otherwise — time for a sharp stick in their eye.

Obama and Biden are slime — they will fix nothing — the Democratic Party will continue in a perfidious downward spiral.

McCain and Palin have demonstrated that they will buck their own party, they will cross the aisle, they will cut wasteful spending, they will fight corruption. I am quite sure that they will clean up their party faster than Democrats will. This is a man Feingold would choose to climb the steep hill and fight the tough battle with.

Their proposals do more for the common person and the entrepreneur — healthcare, taxes, advanced studies, energy independence and alternatives, and more.

Obama paraphrase: “stop giving money to the rich and give it to the ….” Crap from the little red book. How did that work for the USSR and China?

Setting aside the greedy executives, the market manipulators, the inside traders, “stop giving” is a blatant deception. The people he is excoriating “earned” their money, and do contribute to the national wealth through jobs, taxes, and reinvestment.

Over three-quarters of them are involved in small business — you know, the stalwarts that see us through thick and thin, inflation and recession — the innovators, the doers, the ones to seek opportunity. They will suffer under the Obama-Biden mantra.

Obama has been steeped in radical socialism his entire life. This is not guess work. His spoken words and vanity publications demonstrate it. The dots are easily connected in spite of his records, transcripts, writings being hidden.

A vote for Obama and Biden is a vote for Ayers, Dohrn, Farrakhan, Wright, Pfleger, Caldwell, McClurken, Daley, Lippert, Rezko, Blagojevich, Auchi, Johnson, Raines, Pritzker, Groelich.

By Anthony P.

October 25, 2008 4:31 PM | Link to this

Watching the GOP implode and starts the blame game while their steely grip is being ripped from POWER is analogous to Charleston Heston “FROM MY COLD DEAD HANDS” Palin is indeed a bad judgement call on McCain’s part but also he has no NEW ideas and would be serving Bush’s 3rd term. People can see through the BS when their pocket books are being ripped apart because of these past atrocious policies of the Bush years that were supported 90% of the time by McCain.

By old91A10

October 25, 2008 4:55 PM | Link to this

For the moment, economics, taxes, and wealth redistribution seem to be the big issues.

http://www.lynettelong.com/my_weblog/2008/10/bar-stool-econo.html?cid=136226061#comments from: David R. Kamerschen, Ph.D. Professor of Economics University of Georgia

By the way, the publisher, Lynette Long, is a stalwart progressive and supporter of women’s rights.

Also, the McCain and Palin families far exceed the Oacorn and babbleBiden families in charitable generousity.

By Senator Fairness

October 25, 2008 5:00 PM | Link to this

Is there any truth to the rumor that Obama had a crack cocaine induced gay sex affair with a limo driver named Larry Sinclair in 1999, in Chicago. How about the rumor that the Clinton camp started in New Hampshire that Obama sold cocaine to his roommates and others while in college? How about the rumor that Obama sat in an anti-American church for 20 years lapping up the hate speech like a lap dog of Satan? Is there any truth the rumor that Obama helped train and legally represented ACORN in hopes of making voter fraud a regular part of the American Presidential election cycle. Is there any truth to the rumor that Obama is a Muslim and joined a “Christian” church to further his political goals?

Since we are guessing what McCain has been thinking and projecting our theories on him, I thought it only fair to do it to the Messiah, the most Lefty of Lefties, the Chosen One, Our Hope and most Changeable, Obama.

By old91A10

October 25, 2008 5:19 PM | Link to this

@ Senator Fairness

That’s easy. Yes!

I suppose we both must go into hiding from Obama’s Civilian National Security Force.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=igDoHZ0hVUY&eurl=http://stuckon-stupid.com/2008/07/17/what-barack-obama-proposes-formation-of-civilian-army-equal-in-size-to-us-military/

By Rev. Wright

October 25, 2008 5:23 PM | Link to this

This is not the Obama I used to know. The Obama I know hates white people and Jews just like I do. After all, Obama was a member of my church for 20 years and gave me and my church tens of thousands of dollars. Why has Obama forsaken me?

By Rarl Kove

October 25, 2008 5:39 PM | Link to this

Looks like Obama has some Roosting Wright wing chickens.

By Listen to Joe

October 25, 2008 6:02 PM | Link to this

Sen. Joe “Gaffeman” Biden said that if Obama is elected this country will be tested or attacked. Let us all listen to the “Gaffeman” and vote for McCain to save American lives. If you vote for Obama and Americans are killed as a result of the test, Obama voters will have blood on their hands. Vote for American Lives. Vote against Obama!!!

By Sissy Saxby

October 25, 2008 6:04 PM | Link to this

Of course he was smitten … just like Sissy Saxby was smitten whenever a lobbyist opened his wallet.

By Carl Row

October 25, 2008 6:14 PM | Link to this

Obama Man Tapes

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cK5TprmkgRw&feature=related

By old91A10

October 25, 2008 6:39 PM | Link to this

@ Listen to Joe

Not merely tested by an international incident, but

we will be confused about Obama’s reaction, and

we will be expected to stand behind him.

In the words of drinkingwithbob.com/
Wake up! What’s next!

By Carl Row

October 25, 2008 6:46 PM | Link to this

Where Saxby gets his money,, Guess why he voted for the $700,000,000,000.00 Wall Street Bail out and added $153,000,000,000.00 of PORK for the LOBBYIST.. Fire Saxby NOW, Fire SAXBY Here, Pay less

Agribusiness $1,390,331…

Communic/Electronics $271,104…Construction $318,237… Defense $146,650… Energy/Nat Resource $286,055… Finance/Insur/RealEst $1,352,121… Health $475,759 Lawyers & Lobbyists $652,285 Transportation $251,500… Misc Business $682,499… Labor $16,000… Ideology/Single-Issue $491,240… Other $601,332…

By The Forgotten Messiah.

October 25, 2008 7:32 PM | Link to this

Conservatism is dead. Senator Craig sounded taps, with his flag at half mast.

Answer: Sarah Palin, her daughter Bristol, and John McCain.

Question: Name two hockey moms and a puck.

Obama 08: America takes over.

By Aaron Burr V. Mexico

October 25, 2008 7:58 PM | Link to this

*Remember Democrats and all other Obama supporters that Tuesday is republican voting day. Even if you vote on that day for Obama, the man will steal that vote for McCain. Join me and vote on Democrat voting day, Nov. 5th. Help me and vote on Wednesday for Hope, Change and Our Obama. *

By Manny

October 25, 2008 7:59 PM | Link to this

I don’t think that she was brought in just because she’s pretty. I mean, even though they dressed her in clothes, hair and makeup that totals over $150,000… And when they asked McCain about it, he said “She needed some clothes.”

Oh, and that her hair stylist makes more money than her foreign policy advisor. Her being pretty is really not the reason why she is the nominee…

By Aaron Burr V. Mexico

October 25, 2008 8:01 PM | Link to this

Check out this video of that detestable Palin wench.

http://longleggedfreak.com/

By Sam1234

October 25, 2008 8:04 PM | Link to this

Obama is a sleeper Muslim. He even admitted he was a muslim when HE referenced his own “MUSLIM FAITH” on that Sunday show hosted by that dwarf Clinton hack.

By old91A10

October 25, 2008 8:49 PM | Link to this

t bears repeating:

The democRAT party: Misogynists, Elitists, Miscreants, Fear-mongers, Thugs, and Worse.

Ayers, Dohrn, Farrakhan, Wright, Pfleger, Caldwell, McClurken, Daley, Lippert, ….

Rezko, Blagojevich, Auchi, Johnson, Raines, Pritzker, Groelich, Axelrod, Gibbs, Dunn, (Susan)Rice, ….

Obama, Biden, Pelosi, Hoyer, Reid, Frank, Schumer, Brazille, Dean, Powell, ….

McClellan, Olbermann, Maddow, ….

Why aren’t we discussing zerObama’s covered up, long-time history of radical-socialistic ties?

Why aren’t we discussing zerObama’s deep and tangled ties to ACORN? Voter fraud. Campaign and Federal money fraud. Complicity in the housing crisis.

Why aren’t we discussing the dozen issues that OPRah (Obama, Pelosi, Reid a55h0le5) have double crossed progressives and conservatives on?

Scum!

By Laura

October 25, 2008 10:27 PM | Link to this

This columnist, usually a favorite, is beginning to sound shrill about Palin. Let’s quit analyzing the woman’s physical attributes and discuss Obama’s illegal fundraising and credit card fraud. What percent of his money is dirty? 10%, 50%? And WHY hasn’t the media reported his website’s donation irregularities that allow people to donate under false names?

By Aaron Burr V. Mexico

October 25, 2008 10:43 PM | Link to this

*Remember Democrats and all other Obama supporters that Tuesday is republican voting day. Even if you vote on that day for Obama, the man will steal that vote for McCain. Join me and vote on Democrat voting day, Nov. 5th. Help me and vote on Wednesday for Hope, Change and Our Obama. *

By old91A10

October 25, 2008 10:47 PM | Link to this

A vote for Obama is a vote for Ayers, Dohrn, Farrakhan, Wright, Pfleger, Caldwell, McClurken, Daley, Lippert.

I’m ready for radical socialism. How about you?

By Middle-Aged White Lady

October 26, 2008 12:25 PM | Link to this

Wow, and I thought all the wingnuts lived over on Bookman’s blog! Looks like they save the nuttiest of them for Political Insider.

Or maybe it’s just silly me, fooled by the same wingnuts using different posting names? Ya think?

The raving paranoia about the Democrats winning the Presidency and larger majorities in Congress is amusing. My gosh, you might think that half of our country is composed of seething, closet socialists, yearning to be free. Not even close, folks.

See, the Republicans were fine when they held all the cards. That didn’t turn out too well, I might add. There has been some interesting discussion on the web by some (true) conservative pundits about how the Republican Party has disintegrated, lost its way, sold itself out to the extreme right wing, and now must find itself again, redefine it self again. That will be a good thing. As one of the regulars on Bookman’s blog signs off…. “God, I miss the real Republicans.” Indeed.

And God help whoever wins this election. They will have not only the great good pleasure of attempting to build consensus with these “nattering nabobs of negativism” that inhabit this and so many other blogs, but the incomprehensible tasks of righting this massive, diverse, MULTIRACIAL, MULTICULTURAL, MULTI-RELIGIOUS ship of a country that is the United States as it is now, not as it was in 1980.

Obama/Biden 08-16 - they look like America to me!

By the Snark

October 26, 2008 6:23 PM | Link to this

Sarah Palin is not that good looking. Lotta shiny makeup there and expensive clothes. Get a life, people.

And all you so-called “conservatives” who think the ACORN shennanigans gives you the moral highground: All ACORN does is collect registrations. It doesn’t mean a thing. None of those registrations can turn into a real vote unless the Secretary of State approves them.