Thinking Right

By findog

October 29, 2008 8:46 AM | Link to this

Jim,

There is no way the senator will quit. Whether you are talking about the corrupt representative with the cold cash, the bathroom Romeo, or the infamous bridge man they have one thing in common: they will hold on to their seats until the bitter end.

You see they understand the privileged station they have acquired gives them a better standing in the courts. Even locally our elected official who assaulted a utility pole with his car after having a few drinks, even refusing to take a breath test, got special handling. Why don’t you try that and see if you could get away with refusing a test and not get convicted of DUI.

The only recourse is to pray the electorate would vote the bums out. But that won’t happen because Alaska would still like a few more public works projects paid for by Georgian’s.

By GMAN

October 29, 2008 8:46 AM | Link to this

I didn’t want to do this but you namecalling wingnuts have given me no choice. Here goes… Nazi, skinhead, dictator, aristocrat, low-achiever, clueless, petroleum company lover, dummy, bottom of his class, ancient, warmonger, bottom of her class, gambler, daddy’s boy, mentally challenged, hillbilly, Bush’s-butt-boy, secessionist, adulterer, gigolo, ethics violater, hypocrite…

I think that just about covers it.

Bush/McCain - Gambling with your children’s futures… and losing!

By Churchill's Mom

October 29, 2008 8:49 AM | Link to this

Jim Stevens like Saxby is the party’s past, You need to write about our future. Sara Palin 2012

Whether the Republican presidential ticket wins or loses on Tuesday, a group of prominent conservatives are planning to meet the next day to discuss the way forward, and whatever the outcome, Gov. Sarah Palin will be high on the agenda.

Election Guide | More Politics News Ms. Palin, of Alaska, has had a rocky time since being named as Senator John McCain’s running mate, but to many conservatives her future remains bright. If Mr. McCain wins, she will give the social conservative movement a seat inside the White House. If he loses, she could emerge as a standard bearer for the movement and a potential presidential candidate in 2012, albeit one who will need to address her considerable political damage.

Her prospects, in or out of government, are the subject of intensive conversations among conservative leaders, including the group that will meet next Wednesday in rural Virginia to weigh social, foreign policy and economic issues, as well as the political landscape and the next presidential election.

Ms. Palin’s aides insist that winning this time around is her sole objective. But there are signs that she, too, is making sure that she is well positioned for the future if she and Mr. McCain lose.

In a week that most candidates give over to big rallies and closing arguments, she is giving policy speeches, like one on Wednesday on energy security, a move aides say is intended to help her be seen as more substantive.

On Monday, she held a brief meeting with the Israeli ambassador, reflecting an interest that aides say she expresses in intense foreign policy tutorials. She has increasingly separated herself from Mr. McCain’s positions, and this week tried to quarantine herself from the damage caused by news that the Republican National Committee had spent $150,000 on clothing and accessories for her and her family.

More and more, she has broken out of the cloister imposed early on by McCain aides, doing more interviews with local television stations and newspapers, and speaking off the cuff to reporters who travel with her.

Despite all the criticism, she has many supporters among Republicans who see her as bright, tough and a star in a party with relatively few on the horizon.

“She’s dynamite,” said Morton C. Blackwell, who was President Ronald Reagan’s liaison to the conservative movement. Mr. Blackwell described vying to get close to Ms. Palin at a fund-raiser in Virginia, lamenting that he could get only within four feet.

“I made a major effort to position myself at this reception,” he said, adding that he is eager to sit down with her after the election to discuss the future. Asked if the weeks of unflattering revelations and damaging interviews had tarnished her among conservatives, he replied, “Not a bit.”

Brent Bozell, president of the Media Research Center, a conservative group, called it a “top order of business” to determine Ms. Palin’s future role. “Conservatives have been looking for leadership, and she has proven that she can electrify the grass roots like few people have in the last 20 years,” Mr. Bozell said. “No matter what she decides to do, there will be a small mother lode of financial support behind her.”

The presidential campaign has allowed Ms. Palin to develop as a candidate, and to make many useful connections as she travels the country. On the campaign, she has become close to people with extensive experience in Republican politics, including Steve Biegun and Randy Scheunemann, two foreign policy conservatives.

She has received extensive policy tutorials and been briefed on foreign policy almost daily. Aides say she has taken particular interest in Pakistan and Israel and in causes of Islamic extremism, which she has related to the economic despair that plagues parts of Alaska.

People loyal to her say Ms. Palin is well aware of the political job in front of her. One aide said she had “gotten on the offensive,” pushing to include more policy in her speeches. “It’s important for her personally, for how she’s perceived, to ensure that she gets to show her depth.”

In a development that could be telling whether or not she ends up as vice president, she has also been asserting her independence from the McCain campaign. She disagreed publicly with the decision to pull out of Michigan and questioned the use of automated calls and the decision not to bring up Senator Barack Obama’s relationship with his controversial former pastor. She said she would release her medical records after the campaign declared she would not, and has in the past week even wandered over to talk to reporters who travel with her, sending staff members scurrying to cut off conversations.

Ms. Palin’s rallies have drawn many times more supporters than Mr. McCain’s, with people waving eager signs: “Palin Power,” “Iowa is Palin Country,” “Super Sarah,” “You betcha!”

Matthew Dowd, a former Bush strategist, said Ms. Palin’s challenge was to show substance.

“She’s an attractive woman who can give a great speech, but the American public doesn’t view her much beyond that,” Mr. Dowd said. “She’s vastly unpopular among moderate and independent voters, and while she could be in a position to be popular among an increasingly smaller Republican Party, she’s got to figure out a way to extend that and figure out a way to strengthen her weaknesses.”

And should she not become vice president, Ms. Palin will have to navigate a changed landscape in Alaska, a task Les Gara, a Democratic state representative, said could prove to be “a rocky road.” Revelations that she charged the state an expense allowance (generally collected for travel away from home) while staying at her home and for her children to travel with her, and about the clothing, have dragged down her public image and her poll numbers.

And some Democrats who in the past saw Ms. Palin as someone willing to buck her own party say they have been put off by her partisan attacks as part of the national ticket.

At times, Ms. Palin’s family and friends have seemed shaken by the attention. Her sister, Heather Bruce, described recent months as “the most stressful period of my life,” and her father, Chuck Heath, said he felt pure outrage when he saw spoofs involving his grandchildren.

But some elements of the Republican base are already looking ahead to the day, whenever it comes, that Ms. Palin is at the top of the ticket.

“I would hope she would consider running for president,” said Marjorie Dannenfelser, president of the Susan B. Anthony List, which raises money for candidates who oppose abortion.

The group’s donations increased threefold, she said, after Ms. Palin was named to the ticket, and a “Team Sarah” conference call last week among voters who oppose abortion attracted 40,000 women. The group is planning a similar event after the election whether or not the Republicans win the White House.

“We have to get concrete about where we take this energy from here,” Ms. Dannenfelser said.

By Carl Row

October 29, 2008 8:51 AM | Link to this

New OBAMA ADULT VIDS::

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ajPzYKBYFM

By Ned

October 29, 2008 8:54 AM | Link to this

And Saxby Chambliss is running one of the nastiest smear campaigns possible. I thought what he did to Cleland was bad, but the lies he is telling about Martin are worse. I hope there is a “special place” for those who lie like that for their own benefit. Turn the rascal out on his tail and let him and his bad knee and his son actually WORK for a living!

By findog

October 29, 2008 8:58 AM | Link to this

Churchill’s Mom,

I remember the West Wing debate during the fictional reelection campaign. Simple line sealed the deal: “Governor your budget has billions of federal tax dollars.”

Simple retort to Governor Palin’s claim that she gave more money back to the people of her state, “Well as the fattest hog at the federal trough it might have been nice to give that money back to the nation.”

She decries the corrupt senator yet still takes the cash. There are too many good Republicans, who are true fiscal conservatives, available for us to have to accept a gimmick.

By Ragnar Danneskjöld

October 29, 2008 9:00 AM | Link to this

Good morning all. I suspect even our leftists on this blog understand the disasters looming with their candidate’s economic proposals.

(1) Free Trade. Obama is the first post-Hoover major party candidate to suggest restricting free trade; McCain vigorously advocates for free trade, specifically criticizing the PelosiCrats for their failure to quickly ratify the bilateral Columbia free trade agreement. Columbia is the anti-Chavez in South America, and is now seemingly winning its internal war against the leftist guerillas funded by Chavez oil money. Of course the modern democrats always support leftist dictators in their battles against democracies, and the leftist legislative stall – to help Chavez overthrow Columbia – is fully in character.

(2) Taxation. Even Obama reversed course during the campaign. Originally his position was merely opposition to renewal of the Bush tax cuts. Now he promises an insignificant cut for everyone earning less than $150,000, so long as the next reduction of private capital exceeds the cut. This is funny on two fronts: first, for the longest time, the Obama-publicized threshold was $250,000. Now the language is, “well, $250,000 and up will get a tax increase, and $150k - $250 will not get a tax increase but will get no tax cut.” And for a long time nonearners were going to get a welfare check, but Obama has now added a “work requirement.” Sell the sizzle, because the steak is rancid. Secondarily, the economy grows on private capital. Removing that private capital, whether in the form of corporate taxes or personal income taxes, reduces growth; that is a hard law of economics. Obama promises to compensate for the loss by picking winners in the government-spending lotteries – more below.

(3) Government spending. The PelosiCrats, seeing how wonderful the Bush $600 tax rebate worked, now plan to spend an additional $300 billion to get the economy moving. Barney Frank reveals some details – to help defray some of the costs of the stimulus plan, military spending will be cut by 25%, thus strengthening America’s protection against terrorists worldwide, and enhancing our negotiating power with rogue states such as Russia and Iran. (No, of course that makes no sense, but this is democrat logic.) Since free people casting their economic votes on a daily basis refuse to support the appropriate leftist causes, such as ACORN and leftist energy entrepreneurs, the overlords will make the right decisions for us.

Dr. Williams, truly a national treasure, analyzes leftist economics today: Wackonomics. Obama, as all national socialists, does not suffer humor gladly – he will have a spot for Dr. Williams in a concentration camp (I suspect Obama does not tolerate uppity blacks.) In the funniest part of the essay, Dr. Williams parses language of a Nobel laureate straying outside the laureate’s area of expertise. My hero, Dr. Sowell, is similarly inspired by Obama, in that he has now published five sharp essays in the past week. An intellectual freedom arises from being so old that you do not care what anyone thinks, and I love to see that attitude displayed by great analytical minds, minds willing to follow the logic wherever it leads.

By Thinking LEFT

October 29, 2008 9:08 AM | Link to this

Morning Poll of Polls

http://www.politico.com/convention/swingstate.html

By Ragnar Danneskjöld

October 29, 2008 9:11 AM | Link to this

Item I picked up from Taranto yesterday: Amazingly, the NY Times criticized the presidential candidate for “fostering the idea that there exists a great fund of wealth which has only to be divided more equitably in order to make everyone prosperous” and “permitting important members of his Administration to preach the doctrines of class jealousy and class hatred.” Unfortunately that was in 1940, and object of ire was the president.

By Eli Jones

October 29, 2008 9:23 AM | Link to this

Comrade Obama has big plans for our money not only REDISTRIBUTING it nationally but also WORLDWIDE. I speak of Obama’s current US Senate Bill S2433 (Obama’s First Marxist Act). This Obama sponsored boondoggle will cost American’s an ADDITIONAL 845 Billion with the money not staying in America. Your hard earned money that is squeezed out of you from Obama’s S2433 will be given to the United Nations, specifically for “The UN Global Poverty Act”. Your money will then be REDISTRIBUTED to third world dictators. I don’t owe third world dictators a dime, do you? The rich aren’t rich enough to fund Obama’s massive MARXIST WEALTH REDISTRIBUTION SCHEMES. Comrade Obama and his TAXMEN will be coming for the middle class’s money also, because his TAKE FROM and REDISTRIBUTION PLANS will demand much more than the rich can scrap together. Barack Obama is a MARXIST with every intention of placing the yoke of MARXISM around America’s neck using WEALTH REDISTRIBUTION as a tool toward that end. Google: “Obama’s S2433” and be illuminated about Comrade Obama and his MARXIST SCHEMES.

By ron

October 29, 2008 9:26 AM | Link to this

Good morning,Senator Stevens needs to resign but he won’t.He has reached a point in his life where he actually believes he did nothing wrong.He said that at his trial and he believes it.He’s my poster boy of the moment for term limits.His constituents will re-elect him because he’s doing what they want done.A few gifts here and there won’t deter them.The honorable thing to do would be to go home,but we’re talking elected officials here.and they and honor are soon parted.

Every man jack of us will pay for Obama’s tax cuts through the medium of higher prices.If your money comes from the government you will be awarded cost of living increases to offset.If your money comes from the private sector,you will have to ask for a raise.Therein lies the difference.Someone pays the difference in the tax.The cutoff point has yet to be determined.Cost of living increases cost money.Social programs cost money.Infrastructure is in desperate shape.It all costs money.It all has to come from outside government.Tax AND BORROW.

The White House is beating on the banks to start lending money.Fat chancce.One of the bank’s proposals to deal with mortgage foreclosures is to have the debtor voluntarily relinquish the propery to the bank,thereby saving the bank foreclosure costs. The bank will then lease the house back to the debtor for a period of five years,when ,if the debtor still cannot afford the house,the bank sells.They say this has to do with the sanctity of the contract,which must not be broken,at any cost.By the debtor,that is.The banks are free to set their own standards of ethics.Like they do now.

By Ray

October 29, 2008 9:32 AM | Link to this

What’s to keep Palin from assuming the Senate seat of Ted Stevens if he steps down? Stevens is in his 80s, long ready to call it quits. Four years of Senate experience is all she needs to lead the GOP ticket in 2012. Unless the Annointed One really screws up in his first term, which is entirely possible, Hillary will not have much of a chance at running against a split Liberal majority. But Palin is poised for great things. Stay tuned.

By findog

October 29, 2008 9:33 AM | Link to this

Jim,

Governor Palin has said that she is sure Senator Stevens will do what’s right for the state of Alaska. What is that? Is it your plan to do the same as they did in Missouri in 2000 when the democratic senatorial candidate died a week before the election and the governor promised to send the widow to Washington? Or is it for Senator Stevens to resign and withdraw as he has brought so much shame upon his state with earmarks and graft?

By Adam

October 29, 2008 9:33 AM | Link to this

The looming disaster of the Obama presidency should send chills to anyone who gives a moment of serious thought to the implications of Obama and a 60 vote Senate. In addition to the dangers of trade, taxes and spending, the appointments he will make to the Judiciary are likely to remake our country. There is a WSJ article that makes this point in detail.

Obama promises “Change”. So did Robert Mugabe prior to “changing” Rhodesia.

By Steven Daedalus

October 29, 2008 9:46 AM | Link to this

The looming disaster sits in the White House today. I’m no Obama fan, but no matter what he does, if elected, he in nobody’s wildest of wildest dreams can be worst than Bush. Why do all of you people support this right-wing, bridge to nowhere anarchist Palin, what a disaster she would be if McCain kicks the old proverbial bucket.

By reader110

October 29, 2008 9:56 AM | Link to this

Well, jeez, if Mugabe used the word ‘change’, than I guess Obama is just like him. Thanks for the insight!

Does this also mean that McCain - who is also touting change - is also like Mugabe?

By Redneck Convert

October 29, 2008 9:56 AM | Link to this

Well, Wooten is too hard on the godly Sen. Stevens. I know if I woke up one morning in a new doublewide with no holes shot in it and new chairs and couches and a fancy grill outside I wouldn’t be in a big hurry to ask questions about it.

Anyhow, it’s better to have a godly Republican elected and some shady dealings than turn the office over to a librul Democrat. I know if this Obama gets elected us high income beer truck drivers will get a big tax increase. I won’t even see half of the $20,000 I make. And they can’t fool me by claiming I will get a big tax break. They can’t try and confuse me with facts.

So I say let Sen. Stevens stay in office to put a stop to the libruls. He can help keep old man McCain from using the veto so much. In this case Wooten and Raghead are flat out wrong. Leastwise, help him get reelected before he steps down so Alaska won’t have to put up with a godless librul Democrat senator for six years. Some things are more important to the country than a little lying and stealing and giving our money away.

That’s my opinion and it’s very true. Have a good day everybody.

By Republicans R Crooks

October 29, 2008 9:57 AM | Link to this

I fully agree with Daedalus, except to say that McCain would be worse than Bush….The senile, bad tempered, poor decision making fool is very likely to start a nuclear war in his stupid angry way. As for Evita Palin, her stupidity is on display everytime she opens her mouth, and she is therefor no possible future threat to the Democratic party, but she is quit a liability to the Repukes. As for the ajc, my prediction that it will be HISTORY in five years still stands, and it will vanish in large part because of right wing fools like woodenhead who fill its pages with the propaganda of lying neocons, thieving wall street crooks, and KKK wanna be’s like Dusty and its ilk…

By Dennis

October 29, 2008 9:59 AM | Link to this

Mr. Wooten writes, “The Bridge to Nowhere Republican from Alaska is a reminder to all fiscal conservatives of what’s been wrong with the Republican Party.”

Mr. Wooten, Sir…. That’s what us “libs” have been telling you for the past eight years. Yet you have continued to promote the policies of George W. Bush and his brand of conservative behavior and policies as though they were the Gospel and those of us who questioned and doubted and argued against those policies were the ones out of step with reality.

Your credibility, Mr. Wooten, is shot.

You don’t have to be a blind conservative not to see it, just an ignorant one to deny it.

By kd bart

October 29, 2008 10:12 AM | Link to this

I love the cherry picking of polls. In the same timeframe you chose, Pew has it at 15. Guess what? It is neither. It’s not 2 and it’s not 15. It’s more around 6 where the majority of polls are clustered. BTW, it is 2 using one version of Gallup’s likely voter, 2004 version, model. It is 7 using a likely voter model that conforms to what they think the turnout will be this year.

By Peter

October 29, 2008 10:13 AM | Link to this

Hey Jim…..Another reminder………..

How about your Governor…..

First he CUT EDUCATION SPENDING…….. then has his own SPECIAL PORK PROJECT………

$23 Million for a Fish Hatchery in his own Home county !

THAT Jim is total Irresponsibility !

More Republican CRAP ! No wonder the American Population is tired of getting stepped on by Elephants !

By Peter

October 29, 2008 10:27 AM | Link to this

Hey ……….”By Ragnar Danneskjöld

October 29, 2008 9:00 AM | Link to this

Good morning all. I suspect even our leftists on this blog understand the disasters looming with their candidate’s economic proposals.”

I guess the deficit is NOT a Disaster ?

I guess the WAR is NOT a Disaster ?

I guess letting Bin Laden Go Free is NOT a Disaster ?

I guess sending out Checks to American’s at $600.00 a POP is NOT Socialism ?

I guess telling folks to spend instead of save is NOT a Disaster ?

I guess the Cost Plus Contracts to the Big WAR Players is NOT a Disaster ?

HA HA HA…………Republican’s say stuff like WAR is Good…..KILL, KILL, KILL……….. then say abortion is Wrong !

HA HA HA……….. WE Have a Disaster already because of the Republican’s ……… America wants Positive Change…….

America wants to be a SAFE PLACE !

By Copyleft

October 29, 2008 10:36 AM | Link to this

“The Republican Party, when it governs, fails to delineate a clear difference between itself and the party of favors and pork.”

Stunning revelation, Jim: That’s because they ARE the party of favors and pork.

By ron

October 29, 2008 10:42 AM | Link to this

Dear Ray @9:42——I too an am admitted admirer of Mrs.Palin,but let’s not over do it.I certainly don’t see a great future in the Republican party for her.She was brought forth to assuage the far right and this she may have succeeded at,but I still don’t see a day in the future where a far right candidate has a chance standing alone.A senator,a VP,maybe,but never a President.That all goes out the window if an Obama presidency turns out to be worse than Bush.Which it can,if he works at it.Then she could be elected Queen,even.

By Ragnar Danneskjöld

October 29, 2008 11:03 AM | Link to this

Dear Peter @ 10:27, “I guess the deficit is NOT a Disaster ?” No, “deficits” are not disasters, although excessive spending can be. Excessive taxes, which reduce deficits, are always disastrous.

“I guess the WAR is NOT a Disaster ?” No, it has been nearly totally successful.

“I guess letting Bin Laden Go Free is NOT a Disaster ?” We have properly criticized President Clinton for his failure to accept the Sudan offer. I don’t dwell on past mistakes.

“I guess sending out Checks to American’s at $600.00 a POP is NOT Socialism ?” Agree, total waste. Don’t look now, but the PelosiCrats are upping the ante. Or at least they’ll up yours.

“I guess telling folks to spend instead of save is NOT a Disaster ?” You quote Keynesian theory, the basis for Obamanomics. I agree, only slow-learners so-think.

“I guess the Cost Plus Contracts to the Big WAR Players is NOT a Disaster ?” No, mostly looks like money well-spent.

“HA HA HA…………Republican’s say stuff like WAR is Good…..KILL, KILL, KILL……….. then say abortion is Wrong !” We would agree that Republicans believe in killing the bad guys, and Democrats believe in killing the innocent.

“HA HA HA……….. WE Have a Disaster already because of the Republican’s ……… America wants Positive Change…….” Actually things ran pretty well from 2002-2006, when the republicans were totally in charge. 2000-2002 and 2006-date pretty well reflect the screwed-up influence of democrats.

“America wants to be a SAFE PLACE !” Sure, elect someone named Hussein. Even Joe Biden warns us that there will be a challenge, and that Obama is likely to mess it up.

By HavingMySay

October 29, 2008 11:04 AM | Link to this

The Republican Party is the party of favors and pork barrel spending, as long as it benefits them.

If the spending benefits others, they are the biggest cry babies.

The people in Alaska would be crazy to elect Palin to replace Stevens. The only thing that Palin has done for Alaska is to show what a ridiculous governor they elected to represent them.

I cringed every time President Bush addressed the nation, from Day 1, and I still cringe everytime to this day. I have always known that he was the wrong man for the job. He just sounds like an unintelligent person.

By Chad Harris

October 29, 2008 11:20 AM | Link to this

Be sure to tune into Obama’s prime time infomercial tonight. It will show you what a childish understanding Wooten has of Obama’s tax plan.

McCain won’t win. This country is not stupid enough to put the moron Palin a heart beat away with a 4 time metastatic melanoma 72 year old who is a moron himself, shaky, with terrible insight and judgement, and has made a fool of himself in the face of the banking crisis.

Stevens will be pardoned by the moron Bush. Stevens’ lawyer has written Mike Mukasey asking for a probe into the prosecution, and to pull the prosecution team from all further involvement in the case. This will be placed on the bridge to nowhere. Mukasey is battered by all the Sylvio Dante moves he has already pulled covering for the Bush-Cheney crooks. He is a very shortimer. He will not get involved in protecting Stevens, but Bush will.

Stevens’ layer, Brenden Sullivan stole a ppage from former Alabama Governor Siegelman whose conviction will probably get a rare reversal from the Eleventh Circuit. They are not the same thing at all. Siegelman’s prosecution came straight from Rove and was tainted.

Wooten is confused as usual. It has not become obvious that the tax proposals of Obama are anything other than what he is said.

Wooten’s childish reading of the polls is regretable and pathetic. While this election may not be a landslide as to the Presidential race, it will be decisive and the large number of Republican voter supression/vote caging efforts like the one in Georgia that was defeated, will all be crushed.

Handel is blaming Baker and Baker is blaming Handel now for the joint violation of Title 5 that they participated in and the3 Judge Court found them to have committed.

Funny Wooten should mention Thompson. The RNC has completely scrubbed Palin and McCain from their web pate already but has a reference to Thompson who doesn’t even have a TV show now.

First Wooten beat the Ayers mantra and now in the last losing days, he is clinging to the Redistributor mantra. If you want to see redistribution in action at the expense of the lower 48, take a look at the Bank and Auto bailouts by Paulson or what the moron Palin did in Alaska.

Another day, another land deal. In the late 1990s, John McCain tried to get the U.S. Forest Service to exchange part of the Tonto National Forest for land partly owned by a billionaire McCain contributor connected to Charles Keating. McCain was spurred to action by a developer, who wanted to turn the 2,154-acre Spur Cross Ranch — desert home to Hopi Indian artifacts and special cacti — into a golf course. (McClatchy)

Best of Sarah Palin

[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NrzXLYA_e6E}

This is the moron who is the moronic choice of the Republican party.

Specific exampls of McCain trying to push for regulation:

“I’ll try to find some and I’ll get back to ya.”

“I told Congress thanks but no thanks to the bridge to nowhere.”

(She also pushed to waste $25 million on a road to the bridge to nowhere)

Mating habits of crabs earmarks don’t help research on trisomy children. But money she whizzed on for fruitfly research is the basis of genetic research.

If it’s medically stupid, it will come from the Republicans.

Sonny Purdue, acting like a true medical moron, spent about $6 million of Georgia taxpayer money on Tamiflu. Tamiflu does nothing to treat H5N1, and in fact the medical and specifically infectious disease literature is replete that it enhances immunity of mutating H5N1.

Purdue is a licensed vet and he may be the dumbest licensed vet on this planet. His purchase and stockpiling of Tamiflu is a medical embarassement to Georgia and purdue consulted no knowledgable physician when he made this moronic move.

This is Wooten, Dick Williams, and Phil Kent science and medicine at its dumbest.

Wooten is naive about Stevens. He will refuse to quit. The Senate will expell him. He will lose the election to the mayor of anchorage but remain in the Senate and they will expel him.

Bush will pardon Stevens along with Libby.

The Republican principle is it’s okay to break the law as long as you are a rich patrician Republican.

Take the example of drug lawbreaking at the Atlanta airport.

Senator Shelby’s (Alabama) son Claude was caught bringing 13.6 gms of Hashish into the Atlanta Airport from Heathrow in London. The DOJ turned its back on this. It was thrown away in Clayton State Court. Anyone else would have been held by the feds and sentenced in the Northern District of Georgia.

Shelby has been one of the biggest advocates of long sentences for minor players in drug deals or possession in the federal system—except when it’s his son.

Under the “Drug Importer Death Penalty Act” (HR 41), introduced by House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-GA), which would mandate a life sentence without parole for offenders who import “100 usual dosage amounts” of a controlled substance, and a death sentence for such offenders with a prior conviction for a similar drug offense. The measure does not define what amounts constitute “100 usual dosages.” “Under this broad definition, Claude Shelby’s 13.8 grams of hashish could be enough to qualify him for life imprisonment. The U.S. Sentencing Guidelines provide that 1 gram of hashish is the equivalent of 5 grams of marijuana and that 1 gram of marijuana is two doses.

By Chad Harris

October 29, 2008 11:29 AM | Link to this

Little — if anything — is known about a mysterious GOP donor, Shi Sheng Hao, who has given over a quarter million dollars to John McCain’s campaign and the RNC. Hao’s residence, occupation and current whereabouts are all unknown. But here’s what we do know: he declared bankruptcy in 1995, registered to vote after his massive donations began, doesn’t live at any of his listed addresses, and eight associates and relatives of Hao have given $130,000 to the RNC since last year. Curiouser and curiouser… (The Chicago Tribune)

Of course AJC has not reported the above story.

Both The Chicago Tribune and The Chicago Sun Times both very conservative papers throughout their entire existence have endorsed Obama the first time in history they have endorsed a Democrat.

Did I mention Palin is a moron who refuses to run a full scale press conference with the press corps who follow her? This is because the campaign fears more stupid answers like the ones with Gibson and Couric.

By Ragnar Danneskjöld

October 29, 2008 11:34 AM | Link to this

Dear Chad @ various times, your case of PDS looks pretty severe, suggest counseling to work it out.

By Peter

October 29, 2008 11:37 AM | Link to this

Hey……….By Ragnar Danneskjöld …….The only thing we agree on is the $600.00 socialistic Program………Bush started……

Socialism in the USA starts with Bush………and the REPUBLICAN’S…..

The other stuff is a bunch of crap……. Killing is Killing no matter what the age !

We INVADED another country under False Pretenses……. Remember…… “Faulty Intelligence” ?

Giving Away Taxpayers money with Cost Plus Contracts are NOT working out, with exception of making a FEW RICH !

Lack of Intelligence should be a better way to put it…….that would be about what we would get with McCain……. more stupid Republican’s in the White House !

Yes graduating at the Bottom of your class, would say very Poor intelligence, or lack of trying……… OR perhaps McCain “Partied too much to really CARE” about his Personal Education…..

That attitude is NOT Presidential Material PERIOD !

You arguments don’t hold water counselor…..America will tell you that come November 4th !

By Chad Harris

October 29, 2008 11:44 AM | Link to this

A big shoutout to the Alaska Republican Party who continues to back Ted Stevens for re-election so that they can hold onto the seat.

It won’t matter. Stevens will be defeated by the Democrat Ancourage Mayor Mark Begich who is pulling away by even more points after the conviction.

@Ragnar like most Wingnuts, instead of taking issue with a point I make, you’re directing your attention to me.

Focus on the points, not the person but I know it’s difficult because you’re a wingnut and wingnuts don’t have a grasp of current events, the issues, and they hate to read like Palin and McCain.

By Republicans R Crooks

October 29, 2008 11:44 AM | Link to this

Good news, many more mid size law firms are folding, firing all their junior lawyers, creating a glut on the market and driving down wages for all lawyers. See todays wsj, a far and away better paper than the ajc….2 million plus in circulation….the ajc is like a pre school publiction compared to a major university newspaper….fire all the GD lawyers…NOW

By jm

October 29, 2008 11:46 AM | Link to this

when the republicans agreed to the elimination of the requirement that new tax cuts had to be offset by spending cuts, they lost the right to call themselves “fiscal conservatives”.

By J

October 29, 2008 11:48 AM | Link to this

Chad, Really? Two Chicago papers endorsed a native son? Shocker!

By GeezG

October 29, 2008 11:55 AM | Link to this

@ R R Crooks 11:44a - you finally said something I actually agree with!!

By Republicans R Crooks

October 29, 2008 11:55 AM | Link to this

The ajc endorced Obama….NOT McCancerFace…ha ha ha….The WashintonPost endorced Obama, Not McCancerFace…ha ha ha…The LATimes Endorced Obama….need I go on, fools….

By Chad Harris

October 29, 2008 12:01 PM | Link to this

@J

Apparently you didn’t read. Those two Chicago papers have been consistent endorsers of Republicans in every election for nearly a hundred years. They are clearly very conservative papers.

They refused to endrose Adlai Stevenson when he ran against Ike and Stevenson was “a native son” and Governor of Illinois. Try reading. These are conservative papers who have never endorsed anyone from Illinois in any election who was a Democrat. That clear enough for ya? (as Sarah the moron would say).

What is hilarious is normally in Alaska a convicted felon can’t vote (but they can when they complete probation and their sentence). Stevens wants to vote, but legally he can’t. The Republican Elections Director of Alaska is reviewing whether Stevens’ 7 federal felony convictions fall under the stupid phrase that Georgia uses as well in its constitution “moral turpitude.” There would be no review if it were any other of thousands of Alaska felons. It’s a Republican Elections Supervisor reviewing it for King Ted.

Short version. Stevens will not be elected and that will save everyone the trouble of trying to save his seat in the Senate for Republicans by getting him to withdraw or the 2/3 vote it would take to expel him from the US Senate.

John McCain faces the same charges as Stevens because he has not declared any of his his gambling winnings in Vegas and other locals as taxable assets. Ditto for Moron Palin who did not report her $17,000 from the State of Alaska in per diems as she is required to do by federal law. Palin has not paid these back taxes yet.

By getalife

October 29, 2008 12:15 PM | Link to this

Gergen: Now, one of the most effective popular programs we’ve had in the last three decades. It’s called the earned income tax credit. It’s a program whereby, if you’re a working person, a working couple and you’re below the poverty line, the government will actually give you money. That’s a redistributed program. It’s a program which takes money from the upper classes and gives it to the lower — to the working poor.

Now who started that program? The earned income tax credit? Ronald Reagan. It was one of the — it was an achievement of the Reagan administration that Bill Clinton then built on.

The Republican Party has been dancing on Reagan’s bones for some time now as THE conservative to emulate. Well,* he did raise taxes when he had too and after this tidbit of information I guess he’s just a typical socialist after all.*

By Obama/Damien

October 29, 2008 12:30 PM | Link to this

I will turn all of you weak minded, uninformed fools to my blind, welfare minded politics. I will pander to the poor and promise them anything they wish. I won’t tell you that you can’t uplift the wage earners by destroying the wage payers. I won’t tell you that higher business taxes will decrease jobs and raise unemployment. Just ask anything from me and I will promise it to you. That doesn’t mean you will get it. No income taxes for 4 years? Suuuureee…if that’s what it takes to get you to vote for me. Ask me if my platform is Marxist and you will mot receive my mark. Try and find out about my past and associates and you will be dismissed. As long as you keep your eyes focused on the fact that I will PROMISE you tax cuts, even when 40% of you already pay no taxes. I will make all of you financially equal even though the large proportion of you do nothing to earn a living or do anything to change that fact. Do your drugs, have babies and buy material items when you can’t even pay your mortgage or pay bills. I’LL GET THE WEALTHY TO PAY IT FOR YOU! Let all of you who have wisdom pay heed. My name has a number and that number is six hundred and sixty six.

By Hypocrisy101

October 29, 2008 12:32 PM | Link to this

By Ragnar Danneskjöld October 29, 2008 11:03 AM

“I guess the WAR is NOT a Disaster ?” No, it has been nearly totally successful.

“I guess the Cost Plus Contracts to the Big WAR Players is NOT a Disaster ?” No, mostly looks like money well-spent.

So let me get this straight….at 5 years and over 10 billion $$ a month, you think this war is “nearly totally successful”?

And you also think cost plus contracts are “money well spent”?

You, sir, have lost all credibility. And you can’t possibly be a fisical conservative.

By Chad Harris

October 29, 2008 12:39 PM | Link to this

As the week winds down, McPalin are stupidly reduced to trying to scare poorly educated, elderly whites in Ohio, Kentucky, West Virginia, Virginia, Pennsylvania and Jews in nursing homes in Florida that Obama is a terrorist sympathizer/aka Palestinian Marxist Madrassa Child.

They have also tried to distort a tax proposal, conveniently forgetting that it has to pass a Congress that will be closely divided whether the Dems achieve a supermajority or not with some help from Ted Stevens who is going to lose his election, that simply seeks to make taxing more equitable, as it was in the Clinton administration, into all kinds of delusional permutations of Communism and Socialism.

Republicans are poor readers and basically the fraternity boys and girls who liked to drink all night and cram with Monarch Outlines preferring easy state schools like the University of Georgia or the crap school where Palin went to learn to be a sports personality, so to compensate for their failure to read and learn they have run a campaign of lies.

It’s blowing up in their faces.

They have also sought to run a choriographed campaign to vote cage or steal hundreds of thousands of votes like the now failed campaign of Karen Handel in Georgia and this is blowing up in their faces.

Here’s a key for you Republicans to remember:

Early voting has been off the wall. In one state, and one state only, the early voting numbers are divided between Republicans and Democrats. But in every other state, early voting has been heavily skewed to Obama and the Democratic downticket candidates—and in Georgia that’d be Jim Martin.

You arrogantly thought you could get America to be suckers for a moron who doesn’t know who Berlusconi is, but has learned who Valenition and Manolo Blahnik are.

Make sure you put this moron up in 2012—it will be a pleasure decimating her again.

By Chad Harris

October 29, 2008 12:51 PM | Link to this

I should have made clear that early voting in Florida is divided between the parties, but in every other state it is skewed heavily towards Democratic.

By Ragnar Danneskjöld

October 29, 2008 12:58 PM | Link to this

Dear Peter @ 11:37, you are correct, we agree on almost nothing.

“Socialism in the USA starts with Bush………and the REPUBLICAN’S…..” Actually it goes back to FDR.

“The other stuff is a bunch of crap……. Killing is Killing no matter what the age !” Who is Obama bin Laden? Desperately sought for patty-cake?

We INVADED another country under False Pretenses……. Remember…… “Faulty Intelligence” ? Notwithstanding that you obviously do not know the meaning of “false pretenses,” the Iraq war was effective in eliminating both the #1 killer in the world and wiping out al Qaeda. Not sure what false pretense you see there, as that was the intention.

Giving Away Taxpayers money with Cost Plus Contracts are NOT working out, with exception of making a FEW RICH ! The “cost plus” contracts have been an integral part of the success in the Iraq triumph. I understand leftists think there are businesses out there that would do it at a loss, or that would willing bear the risks otherwise. That is awfully naïve.

Lack of Intelligence should be a better way to put it…….that would be about what we would get with McCain……. more stupid Republican’s in the White House ! Suggest you study up on “fox and hedgehog theory.” Hubris is the common downfall of those with Messiah complex, not that we have One (whom we have awaited) with such a syndrome this year.

Yes graduating at the Bottom of your class, would say very Poor intelligence, or lack of trying……… OR perhaps McCain “Partied too much to really CARE” about his Personal Education….. Right, learning ends in college. Obviously did for most leftists on this board. I’d say McCain has gained a great education in the past six months, and is clearly more qualified therefore than his opponent.

That attitude is NOT Presidential Material PERIOD ! But The One is? How silly.

You arguments don’t hold water counselor…..America will tell you that come November 4th ! Being right is not a function of popularity. I’ll still be right, win or lose. You’ll still be wrong, win or lose.

Dear Chad @ 11:44, your intellectual content seems to be limited to, “Did I mention Palin is a moron who refuses to run a full scale press conference with the press corps who follow her?” I see the usual leftist logic on display there. I understand cultism infects your every thought, otherwise you would not be a leftist. Suggest you try to get past personalities and discuss principles, not that you presently have any. But you are partially correct, I did focus on you and called you out for mere spewing.

Dear jm @ 11:46, I partially agree. While tax cuts are always beneficial to commerce and generally increase tax revenues due to the improved business environment, I agree that spending should be constrained. The jbmlaw Constitutional Amendment of the day is, “Gross Federal outlays shall be restricted to an amount equal to the revenues of the previous year. The Executive branch may use discretion to reduce any Federal spending to fulfill this Constitutional duty, and shall not be otherwise limited to such spending reductions. This Amendment shall have no effect for any period after a Congressionally approved declaration of war until that war ends.”

Dear Crooks @ 11:55, how about those circulation numbers? Think there is a cause and effect there? I do.

Dear Hypocrite @ 12:32, “You, sir, have lost all credibility. And you can’t possibly be a fisical conservative.” As I am not a cultist, I care little for others perceptions of my arguments. I am satisfied being correct. As to the “fiscal conservative” stuff, that is leftist code for “unwilling to raise taxes to equal the amount of money we want to waste.” I am more conservative on spending than any other on this blog.

By Chad Harris

October 29, 2008 1:02 PM | Link to this

The only wingnuts who say the 3 trillion dollar hemorrhage on the economy in Iraq has been successful are the chickensh*ts like Chambliss and his son who don’t go anywhere near serving in the war. Rethugs are great at War bumper stickers as long as they don’t have to take any risk like Chambliss.

Iraq has wasted 5000 American lives; it has severely crippled nearly 40,000 and growing either by paralysis, amputations, or irreversible neurological disorders for whom care is spotty and often incompetent and inadequate.

By Over It

October 29, 2008 1:05 PM | Link to this

You know I’ve read about all the disgusting diatribes on these blogs as I can stand. If anyone needs to understand what’s wrong with this country, just read these blogs. Here are so called adults calling each other names and talking flith to those who have a differing opinion than their own.

Disgusting.

By Do the Math

October 29, 2008 1:12 PM | Link to this

The only worse thing to raising taxes during a recession is cutting them while fighting a war that you are unwilling to bring to a logical conclusion.

Remember that Osama Bin Laden is only trying to bankrupt Anmerica, that is his measure of winning the war. He is winning by his accounts.

McCain wants to keep occupying Iraq while cutting taxes which makes the American public the loosers.

By Macy

October 29, 2008 1:14 PM | Link to this

under the Democrats in the 90’s I got taxed more, it really wasn’t that much more of a difference. but I had a lot more extra money in my pocket too to offset any minor tax increase, jobs were plentiful, promotions were available and employers had to treat their people good and give good raises to keep them from changing jobs because of all the employment opportunities. if I’m going to get taxed a little more that’s ok with me if I’m going to have all that extra money still.

By fearless fosdik

October 29, 2008 1:17 PM | Link to this

Even if Ted Stevens is not re-elected he will still wander away with the remodeled cabin and a pension of $122,000 per year!

Not such a bad deal…Ya think?

Duke Cunningham another REPUBLICAN crook makes $64.000 a year!

Rostenkowki a Democratic crook pulls down even more than Stevens will…

It’s time that public servants convicted of a felony forfeit their pensions!

By Mongo

October 29, 2008 1:19 PM | Link to this

to all the Scaredy Cats that shouldn’t be living in the Home of the Brave that think their guns are going to be taken away from them, BE A MAN IN 2012, and apologize and admit you were wrong when it doesn’t happen! besides if someone can take your gun away from you, you shouldn’t have one int he first place. more disgusting, dividing, un-American scare tactics.

By Chad Harris

October 29, 2008 1:21 PM | Link to this

Wooten and his shills have insisted that the “surge” is a success and “we are winning in Iraq” and as usual never get specific.

Actually, the slight reduction in bomb attacks, and the relative stabiity is due to thousands of paid Iraqis who were insurgents and will be again if the US stays.

Tension between Kurds and the central government could not be higher, and the key issues to be settled by the Iraqi government remain postponed such as oil sharing.

As the US reels from financial turmoil caused by Greenspan, Graham, and Paulson among other Republicans, their remains $79 billion of Iraqi oil money in US banks that the Iraqis refuse to spend as long as the American suckers continue to pour in $12-15 billion per month.

Articles the Wooten wingnuts won’t discuss or are completely ignorant of:

Rejection of Oil Law and Move to Create Tribal Councils Add to Tensions With Kurds http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/28/world/middleeast/28iraq.html?_r=1&scp=3&sq=kurds&st=cse&oref=slogin

Fractures in Iraq City as Kurds and Baghdad Vie

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/28/world/middleeast/28mosul.html?scp=2&sq=kurds&st=cse

By Ragnar Danneskjöld

October 29, 2008 1:23 PM | Link to this

Dear Mat @ 1:12, the flaws in your statements are

(1) your refusal to contemplate other spending cuts as a full offset for the necessary costs of war;

(2) your assumption that bin Laden’s intention was to bankrupt America. His intention was to kill as many infidels as possible.

(3) your assumption that tax policy has any relevance to the necessity of a post-war “occupation” of Iraq. Perhaps you actually prefer raising taxes to cutting non-essential spending?

By Peter

October 29, 2008 1:36 PM | Link to this

Pretty Funny Stuff………By Ragnar Danneskjöld ……

” the Iraq war was effective in eliminating both the #1 killer in the world and wiping out al Qaeda. Not sure what false pretense you see there, as that was the intention.

I guess we should go and invade EVERY country that has a Bad guy at the TOP…..?

Thank God that is Not the case…….if it was We would get invaded !

Al Queda is getting STRONGER…….. not waeker !

That is what the Generals have been saying, did you not get the MEMO ?

Afghanistan is where the NEW WAR is…….because of Al Quaeda…..so Your statement makes ZERO sense !

By CommunistAJC

October 29, 2008 1:38 PM | Link to this

Expect the Worst From an Obama Administration.

By: John LeBoutillier

If Barack Obama wins this election, what will the next four years be like in this country?

Obama and the Democratic supermajority in the Congress, led by Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid, will certainly move to the extreme left.

There will be no one to check their most liberal instincts, and that will be reflected in the types of new programs we will see.

They will try to move the nation to Western European-style socialism. Hillary would have done this, too, had she won. Each had dozens of new FDR-style spending programs they featured during their campaigns.

This means heavier federal involvement in healthcare; perhaps the federal government will eventually take this over and nationalize it.

All aspects of our lives will be affected by federal programs � from schools to energy subsidies to doctors� salaries to regulation of hospital costs to corporate governance to federal mandates on states and municipalities to a federal takeover of many pension funds.

Yes, these unrestrained liberals, drunk with power, will impose the incorrectly named Fairness Doctrine to nail Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity and Michael Savage and their local acolytes. The left sees talk radio as the one bastion of the media they can�t penetrate, so they�ll simply neutralize it with this doctrine.

They will cut defense spending � perhaps by up to 25 percent � as a quick way to move money into social programs.

They will create massive new government spending programs, supposedly to rebuild our �crumbling infrastructure,� but as a payoff to their labor pals.

Whenever someone in the media dares to question what they are up to, they will say, Look what Bush and the Republicans did? Socialism? It was the Republicans who took over the banks and pored over one trillion dollars into bailouts!

They will go after corporate pay and try to legislate limits on CEO salaries. For the first year or two, the so-called mainstream media will remain totally in Obama’s pocket, shilling for this leftist agenda. Some writer will coin a phrase, i.e. the “Square Deal,” the “Real Deal,” or the “Great Society,” which will describe what Obama is trying to do.

The idea of sending U.S. troops to hot spots such as Darfur and Kenya will come up soon after the inauguration.

Michelle Obama will quickly become the most unpopular first lady ever. Some people will almost miss the days of Hillary Clinton. Stories will abound about how she is hurting her husband�s political standing. His staff will try to muzzle her, and stories will then surface that there is a war between the Obamas inside the White House.

Pakistan will deteriorate and almost fracture, and Obama will be more aggressive toward al-Qaida and the Taliban than Bush.

Obama will tilt pro-Palestinian, and his relations with Israel will deteriorate. No American president will have had such bad relations with our staunchest ally.

By the Fall of 2009, Obama�s approval rating will be down to 42 percent; his disapproval rating will be 45; the nation will � again � be divided.

Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson will not be frequent visitors to the Obama White House; the savvy Obama staff will try not to allow the Obama administration to be tainted by the two.

Teddy Kennedy will die, and the funeral will be a “Who�s Who” of the left. His funeral will be on national TV, and his �accomplishments� will be touted for weeks, while the death of Mary Jo Kopechne will be a small footnote. The media will fawn all over the Kennedys again.

Iran will smell weakness in Obama and make a move of some sort, perhaps in Lebanon. Or, possibly, Tehran and Obama will make peace first and have a summit, and then Iran will take advantage of a weak Obama.

Leftists of all stripes will emerge as new “stars” in the Obama era. They will be products of today�s “progressive,” race and gender-based education system, and they will flaunt their arrogance.

All sorts of crazy ideas will surface, from nationalizing certain companies and industries to God knows what.

Capitalism will be seen as an evil; the anti-capitalistic nonsense taught in our colleges and universities will rear its ugly head in statements, confirmation hearings, and interviews with new administration figures.

The Congress will try to free hundreds of thousands of prison inmates who are serving time for drug and non-violent offenses; and then they�ll try to register them to vote for the Democrats in the 2010 mid-term elections.

Most of G.W. Bush�s executive orders regarding family planning, stem-cell research, and foreign aid, coupled with family planning, will be reversed.

Obama and the Democrats will grant amnesty to the 12 million to 30 million illegals already here, and the border fence will never be completed. Millions of new illegals will continue to stream into our nation, and the Democrats will try to register these new voters as Democrats, of course, and that will alter all our politics for years to come.

The Obama-Democratic congressional axis will nominate and confirm the most left-leaning federal judges in our history as payback for what G.W. Bush and the GOP did in 2001-2007. Watch out � some real whackos are coming onto the bench.

The Obama years will be the culmination of the last 40 years of horrendously biased education coupled with a climate of liberal guilt and political correctness.

Here’s a quote from the Oct. 14 British Spectator that sums it up perfectly: “You have to pinch yourself � a Marxist radical who all his life has been mentored by, sat at the feet of, worshiped with, befriended, endorsed the philosophy of, funded and been in turn funded, politically promoted and supported by a nexus comprising black power anti-white racists, Jew-haters, revolutionary Marxists, unrepentant former terrorists and Chicago mobsters, is on the verge of becoming President of the United States. And apparently it’s considered impolite to say so.”

By getalife

October 29, 2008 1:48 PM | Link to this

Looks like Obama’s calm, cool demeanor has rubbed off on KO.

Well said but McCain will not address this race baiting race card.

It is just too ugly even for his ignorant base.

By Algonquin J. Calhoun

October 29, 2008 1:50 PM | Link to this

Thanks for the pile of drivel. You really stacked it up. Obama is going to win and the Republinazis can start serving sentences. Chief among these is George W. Hitler. He will be tried for his many crimes against Humanity!

By Copyleft

October 29, 2008 1:53 PM | Link to this

Commie: I see you’re spamming this article across multiple blogs.

Still hoping against hope that your boy Johnny McWhatsisname has a chance in a country that’s rightly disgusted with Republican failures?

By hotlanta

October 29, 2008 1:55 PM | Link to this

Wooten I am still waiting on the headlines to read “White Male TERRORISTS had plot to assasinate Barak Obama. Make my day and do it since no one else will.

By hotlanta

October 29, 2008 1:55 PM | Link to this

Wooten I am still waiting on the headlines to read “White Male TERRORISTS had plot to assasinate Barak Obama. Make my day and do it since no one else will.

By Cornbread Fred

October 29, 2008 1:55 PM | Link to this

Hello, Jim! Hey “CommunistAJC”: Kudos to your extensive (albeit somewhat excessive) literary skills! However you have a long way to go before you get invited to join the Jim Wooten/Cornbread Fred stand-up comedy troupe. Hey “Over It”: Thank you, you said it well - but lighten up! These people and their lockstep opinions are a great source of comedy. Have a laugh!

By bobs

October 29, 2008 2:01 PM | Link to this

The Iraq War is costing us $700,000,000 per day. The federal budget deficit is at record levels.

Please o great and wise conservative, tell us how we are going to pay for the war with McCain’s tax cuts.

By Clint

October 29, 2008 2:08 PM | Link to this

Do you ever “grow,” Jim?? What “experiene” does McCain Have? He spent an entire lifetime being pampered and despised everywhere by his peers. A losy pilot (Read “Naval Archives”) and an undependable one. The ONLY man in U.S. history to ride the sled of being a phoney “war hero” for 36 years and a career. Forever in bed with Bush and his legacy of staggering social ineptitude combined with shocking success at serving his corporate masters. A legacy that is soaked to the bone with the blood of…others. No president in history has done more to unravel the American identity, to dumb down the populace and cater to the basest instincts of man, and with vast support of intellectual/moral/ethical insects like McCain.

And yet you and the other cowardly weaklings on this blog and others have still not had enough..YET! You want more. Watching a once-mighty nation in its death throes. Your collective ignorance is…magnificent. Yes indeed, you Little People ARE Joe SixPack and Joe The Plumber. Duhhh.

By fearless fosdik

October 29, 2008 2:08 PM | Link to this

Cornbread Fred

You say commie has literary skills!

If your idea of copying and pasting from MEWSMAX are literary skills .. albeit!

By tcoach

October 29, 2008 2:11 PM | Link to this

any of those truely criticizing the act of ever going into Iraq should also condemn Obama as well.

Obama said in the debate that a reason to go to war is when genocide is taking place.

Does anybody that is an Obama supporter care to tell what it was Sadaam was doing to the Kurds in the North?

With that said would all of you supported going into Iraq if Bush had of said it was because of Sadaam’s acts of genocide?

By Disgusted

October 29, 2008 2:13 PM | Link to this

Hey, AJCCommunist, you forgot an important consequence of Obama’s election: lining up every citizen and placing a tattoo of the Mark of the Beast on every forehead. It would do wonders to improve the appearance of @@, Dusty, and Raghead.

By Republicans R Crooks

October 29, 2008 2:28 PM | Link to this

If McCain is elected president, regardless of the outcome in Congressional races, expect the worst. The senile, bad tempered, poor decision making McCain WILL start a nuclear exchange with the Russians….Remember, as one ages, the oldest memories persist the longest. McCain’s oldest memories are of the Russians as a Primary Enemy….Hence, when the foreign test of the new president comes, John will launch first, secure in the knowledge that he and his family and friends will be safe in Federal Government underground shelters. The rest of us will be like the 29 fellow sailors on the Forrestal that John McCain burned to death attempting to duplicate an old nave prank….the wet start of a jet engine…What the poor decision making fool failed to take into account was that all the jets on the flight deck were armed with live bombs, at least one of which exploded. McCain does not deny this act, but has moved on to greater things, like complete control of the American nuclear arsenal…..IF YOU WANT YOUR FAMILY TO SURVIVE THE NEXT FOUR YEARS, DO NOT VOTE FOR CRAZY JOHN, THE POOR DECISION MAKER….HE KILLED MORE AMERICAN SAILORS IN VIETNAM THAN ANY SINGLE NORTH VIETNAMESE, VIET CONG, OR RUSSIAN SOLDIER, SAILOR, OR AIRMAN…..

By Cornbread Fred

October 29, 2008 2:30 PM | Link to this

Hey Fearless Fosdik - thanks for pointing that out. Most of these lockstep opinions might as well have been copy-and-pasted from the different leftie and rightie sources of “wisdom”. Free America from the oppressive two-party system and free your minds!

By Republicans R Crooks

October 29, 2008 2:33 PM | Link to this

YO, tcoach, don’t you have a home economics class to teach? Stop stealing from the students, do your job, you know, the one that pays your salary….THIEF

By Sally

October 29, 2008 2:46 PM | Link to this

Nobody on the Right has any tax-cut credibility or any believable economic policy because of the bailout. You Keynesian Keystoners couldn’t smell it, or stop it, or even explain it. You dont even know who to blame, and that’s a first.

And now the voters are expected to understand and support your chicken little warnings of economic disaster for events that haven’t happened yet? Disasters not intrinsic to what the GOP has already wrought upon us all?

Dont ever ask why conservatism is dead again. Ever.

Try addressing the credit crunch in a professional way and maybe we’ll listen to your Greenspan double talk about the budget forecasts.

Like you stall warts know anything.

I speet on conservatism.

By cc

October 29, 2008 2:57 PM | Link to this

republicans raised my taxes, around 2003 george and the rest of the republicans raised my taxes, that’s right, republicans raised my taxes. of course they did it in a sneaky con man way. i own my own business and my tax deductions were reduced. that’s right, i was limited the amount of write-offs i had from the previous year. so what happened? i paid more in taxes the following year. i don’t think the liberals or democrats or boogeyman made george do that. or how ‘bout the republican party touting themselves as the party of the working man like joe the idiot and also plumber. the same party, yes, the republican party that tried to eliminate overtime pay for working people. could you even imagine how your company would change it’s treatment of you and your family time and your weekend without the worry of time and a half? brutal stuff. but their the party of the working man.

but really what we all need to worry about is becoming socialists, so don’t anybody patronize any socialistic institutions ok? like say, the military or maybe UGA or maybe the boy scouts. and don’t let that clean water come into your house, or maybe you should collect and discard all your own sewage. and remember, don’t dare send your child to a public school or drive on a public road, ‘cause if you do, you’re just another lenin.

By getalife

October 29, 2008 3:00 PM | Link to this

When a top McCain adviser labels Palin a “whack job” and yet they still vote for them, are they “real Americans” putting “country first”?

By AnonyMoose

October 29, 2008 3:01 PM | Link to this

Unfortunately, after reading Jim’s post about the polls of likely voters, etc., there appears to be a need for a reminder that this is not a national election, but rather a series of state elections. Doesn’t Jim remember 2000 when Gore won the popular vote but lost the electoral vote? Being ahead in national polls doesn’t equate a win and Obama is ahead or tied in EVERY battleground state.

By findog

October 29, 2008 3:07 PM | Link to this

Latest crisis: Obama is a Palastinien supporter. And the LA Times has a tape to prove it as reported in April. Now the LA Times will not release the tape per a usage agreement and Governor Palin ia all over the MSM, “It must be nice for a candidate to have major news organizations looking out for their best interests like that. Politicians would love to have a pet newspaper of their very own.” As with most inhabitants of glass housing she forgot about Fox News, I’m sure she’s grateful to have a filter-free outlet for her views…

By cc

October 29, 2008 3:12 PM | Link to this

re-post of my idea to end the iraq war to everyone’s satisfaction. a way that we could all agree and we could even let the republicans make ALL the decisions. a way that would even have the republicans saying stuff like ‘well we would’ve ended the war a lot sooner but the liberals wouldn’t let us’. what we do is have everyone who is still in favor of this war and their military age children be the only ones serving in iraq. could you imagine how quickly this war would be over? and the reasons given why it was such a good idea. my goodness, it would be a laugh riot. to see the bush daughters, mccain’s daughter and the romney kids in uniform on a hum-v. that would be a definite kodak moment. then we could take all the money we are giving to ungrateful iraqis that are still going to work to hurt us one day to our own people. bridges, schools and even healthcare could be paid for over and over again and all for america. the marines have a saying ‘we take care of our own’. it brings pride and teamwork and a healthier marine corps to our country. now go call a member of our standing army military, a marine, go call a marine a socialist, i dare you.

By Saxby Chambliss Thief

October 29, 2008 3:16 PM | Link to this

Saxby Economics in action

Representative Henry A. Waxman, who is leading a House investigation of the financial crisis, asked nine big banking companies on Tuesday to explain why they are paying billions of dollars in compensation and bonuses after they accepted cash injections of $125 billion as part of the government’s $700 billion bailout program.

“While I understand the need to pay the salaries of employees, I question the appropriateness of depleting the capital that taxpayers just injected into the banks through the payment of billions of dollars in bonuses, especially after one of the financial industry’s worst years on record,” Mr. Waxman wrote in letters to the chief executives of the nine banks, which include Citigroup, Bank of America, Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan Chase.

“Some experts have suggested that a significant percentage of this compensation could come in year-end bonuses and that the size of the bonuses will be significantly enhanced as a result of the infusion of taxpayer funds,” Mr. Waxman wrote.

Mr. Waxman asked the banks to provide considerable details on their employee compensation, especially for people paid more than $500,000 a year, from 2006 through 2008.

By paul

October 29, 2008 3:18 PM | Link to this

The Republican Party is not the fiscally conservative party anymore. John McCain’s vote record is more Liberal than Hillary Clinton. (Ann Coulter verified this). If you are a real Conservative we need a new party. We won’t get a new party by always voting against someone (like Obama). You can vote for Bob Barr as I did or the New Constitutional Party. We need to get behind these new parties for our kids and grandkids, even if Obama gets in to office. The Republicans have deserted the Conservatives AND John McCain is lying about his new (changed positions on 81 different issues for conservative voters) conservative image. He is a Liberal as proved by his historic voting record.

By Sally

October 29, 2008 3:18 PM | Link to this

And YOU, Mister Wooten, could be more pertinent. The bridge to nowhere is the least of our national malaise.

I wish pork was our problem. Abolish pork, and our economic crisis lives on, sir. End pork today and for all time, and the next four years wouldn’t change.

McCain’s credibility has been KO’d by himself. Joe the Plumber is now his entire campaign platform, and the only voter who thinks Sara Palin is qualified to be Vice President is Joe the Plumber. (Is he even registered to vote? Check it out. I doubt it.)

Watching McCain’s campaign is like watching a slow motion cartoon train wreck, with each compartment car accordianed against the center with each passing frame.

By paul

October 29, 2008 3:23 PM | Link to this

The Republican Party is not the fiscally conservative party anymore. John McCain’s vote record is more Liberal than Hillary Clinton. (Ann Coulter verified this). If you are a real Conservative we need a new party. We won’t get a new party by always voting against someone (like Obama). You can vote for Bob Barr as I did or the New Constitutional Party. We need to get behind these new parties for our kids and grandkids, even if Obama gets in to office. The Republicans have deserted the Conservatives AND John McCain is lying about his new (changed positions on 81 different issues for conservative voters) conservative image. He is a Liberal as proved by his historic voting record.

By paul

October 29, 2008 3:23 PM | Link to this

The Republican Party is not the fiscally conservative party anymore. John McCain’s vote record is more Liberal than Hillary Clinton. (Ann Coulter verified this). If you are a real Conservative we need a new party. We won’t get a new party by always voting against someone (like Obama). You can vote for Bob Barr as I did or the New Constitutional Party. We need to get behind these new parties for our kids and grandkids, even if Obama gets in to office. The Republicans have deserted the Conservatives AND John McCain is lying about his new (changed positions on 81 different issues for conservative voters) conservative image. He is a Liberal as proved by his historic voting record.

By paul

October 29, 2008 3:25 PM | Link to this

The Republican Party is not the fiscally conservative party anymore. John McCain’s vote record is more Liberal than Hillary Clinton. (Ann Coulter verified this). If you are a real Conservative we need a new party. We won’t get a new party by always voting against someone (like Obama). You can vote for Bob Barr as I did or the New Constitutional Party. We need to get behind these new parties for our kids and grandkids, even if Obama gets in to office. The Republicans have deserted the Conservatives AND John McCain is lying about his new (changed positions on 81 different issues for conservative voters) conservative image. He is a Liberal as proved by his historic voting record.

By Saxby Chambliss Thief

October 29, 2008 3:47 PM | Link to this

Saxby Economics in action

Samuel Israel III, the hedge fund manager who faked his own suicide after being convicted of swindling his investors out of $450 million, will spend 90 days in a medical prison.

By Peter

October 29, 2008 4:07 PM | Link to this

Gosh…………By tcoach……

IMAGINE if BUSH told the Truth ?

Then he would have said it like Greenspan said……

We went to WAR for OIL !

By rick

October 29, 2008 4:14 PM | Link to this

obama / biden supporters.

vote now if you can, don’t wait.

we can’t be complacent about the poll numbers. votes are what get counted in this country. the victory must be overwhelming so republicans have no way to steal this election.

YES WE CAN !!!!!

By getalife

October 29, 2008 4:18 PM | Link to this

From deep in McCain country, Bartcop:

“The 25 Worst Quotes about Palin by my good friend Dan Kurtzman

Excerpt: (my favorites)

How in the world can “real Americans” vote “country first” for another “whack job”?

By Mark

October 29, 2008 4:21 PM | Link to this

I finally get it. The difference between parties. It’s so simple.

I make lots of money, and I consider myself conservative (at most times Republican). You make very little money, and you consider yourselves liberal (at most times Democrat).

It all comes down to wanting to sit around on your duff and collect my money while I bust my arse to make it for you.

If I was uneducated and made very little money, I can certainly see how I’d be a Democrat. sigh

By Tuffy, the Airborne Soldier

October 29, 2008 4:28 PM | Link to this

Ted Stevens, be honorable and resign. Then take your dumb a** to jail.

Jim, please. Slap yourself up side the head and come to your senses…John McCain is toast. Who would want a President who has no clear message. For his entire campaign he has spoken only of Obama and has not put his plan for our nation forward. And everything that I have seen, looks like something out of the Bush Presidency. That, my friends, is laughable.

If it ain’t a landslide, I’ll be amazed.

By Peter

October 29, 2008 4:42 PM | Link to this

HA HA HA………Mark…….YOU are so funny……..

“If I was uneducated and made very little money, I can certainly see how I’d be a Democrat. sigh”

I guess Matt Damon is Poor…….. I guess Colin Powell is Poor……. I guess Opra is Poor……..

Finally ………I guess Warren Buffett is Poor…….

Gee Mark what do all these POOR folks have in common November 4th…….?

They are all SMART enough to vote Obama !

Republican Party the New Socialist Party……..

Did you get your Socialist REPUBLICAN $600.00 Check yet Mark from the Government ?

Speaking of Education……….tell me again what was McCain’s rank when he Graduated from the Academy Mark ?

Was he NOT at the bottom of his class…..did you get the MEMO Mark ?

Speaking of DUMB……..heck he picked Palin……..no other words need to be said !

By say Howdy

October 29, 2008 4:47 PM | Link to this

hey Mark, these liberals who you so often describe as wimps are kickin’ your a$$! how ‘bout that Mr. Neanderthal?!

By Sally

October 29, 2008 4:50 PM | Link to this

Liberalism is about justice. Conservatism is about ensuring that one millionaire is created for every 100 slaves. The only way to the millions is through injustice, fraud, conspiracy, and and grandfather’d networks of connected cronyism. Look at the state road building contracts for the past fifty years and you see only cronyism. Look at any federal defense contract and it’s the same bunch of connected fat cats. That ends with Obama.

Obama 08: America takes over.

By cc

October 29, 2008 4:58 PM | Link to this

mark thinks somebody who loses one of our multi-million dollar aircraft, surrenders to the enemy and then is used as a liability against america by the north vietnamese is a hero. honorable, tough service, yes, hero, no. for hero see somebody like audie murphy. i know mccain was told he could leave and didn’t. but to me if someone had told me that long after the fear of being new was over, long after they had tortured me and i broke and told all violating the ucmj, long after i had made friends and settled into pow camp life, i would have stayed too. just thinking about how could i live my life after leaving there and leaving the guys. the guilt would ride me for the rest of my life. it really wouldn’t be a life. more like a guilt ridden drunken whiskey binge. i would have stayed. but if you had made me and john the offer when we were starting to head into those prison gates, we both would have chosen the way out. i like what i heard the other day, if abuse makes you a hero and we should vote for our next president based on that, i’m voting for tina turner! mccain is not a hero. he served his country, many of us have done that.

By dave

October 29, 2008 5:03 PM | Link to this

Sally, justice - is getting you getting what you deserve not what I deserve. But only those of us who believe in personal responsiblity understand that - liberals never will.

By Comicus

October 29, 2008 5:03 PM | Link to this

this is a tough one so hang on:

what was Ike Turner’s greatest hit?

his left hook!

By catlady

October 29, 2008 5:03 PM | Link to this

Hey, NED, should I write something else for you to copy without attribution? (re the disgusting dirt of Saxby Chambliss’ campaign?) I got 2 more “informational postcards” today with more lies. Unfortunately many in my area will believe them without even checking out the claims. This man does not represent the average person, and he needs to be given his walking papers so he can get a real job and learn a few facts of life!

By Say What?

October 29, 2008 5:03 PM | Link to this

I have 9 years of post-graduate education, earn a high six-figure income, a wife, two young sons, and an optimistic outlook on life.

I vote Democrat for many, many reasons. First and foremost, the Republican Party is all talk and no walk. That’s hypocrisy, folks, and I’ll have none of it, thank you. I don’t believe that the members of that Party are morally superior to members of the other Party. I don’t believe in abortion, but in a land of freedom, I don’t believe that a political party has the right to dictate to a woman what she is allowed to do with her body. I think handguns should have been banned generations ago. I think that wars should be fought when America is threatened, and any other use of our armed forces is an egregious abuse of privilege. If my tax dollars can be used to fund a dubious war and I have no say in the matter, your tax dollars can be used to help out the needy and you have no say in the matter. I believe that greed is the fundamental enemy of capitalism, and that conservatism is grounded in greed. I believe that the working class deserves the same rights as the conglomerate multi-nationals, and we have been duped into thinking that organizing workers is antithetical to economic prosperity. I believe that small business owners are the true underpinning of America, and should be allowed to grow and prosper without undue government influence. I believe that the first order of national security is the protection of our borders, and any war on terror that does not place that on the top of its agenda is a farce. I believe that illegal immigrants need to be returned to their native countries.

Needless to say, there are many areas where I digress from the Democratic Party. But it stills suits me more than the lying, arrogant and hypocritical Republicans.

By Chad Harris

October 29, 2008 5:04 PM | Link to this

As far as “soookooority” history has shown the McCain Bush administration’s neglect and derilection caused 3000 people to burn or jump from over 80 stories, and Guilliani’s stupidity helped over 300 firemen die and NYC still doesn’t have communication between EMTs, Fire, and Police.

Republicans panic and pee in their pants when there’s stress as Bush did and the Stratetic Air Command did on 911.

And what about those poll lines? Republicans are the ones who do valet parking, have maids clean for them, and have services cater for them.

Who’s going to stand in line for all those white Patrician Republicans who aren’t used to any manual labor?

By Mark

October 29, 2008 5:08 PM | Link to this

Note I never said I support McCain, or I despise Obama. I just mentioned the biggest (obvious) difference I see between the two parties, not their leaders.

That being said, Obama scares the hell out of me, and McCain doesn’t exactly put a smile on my face.. but I earned my money, and don’t want you to have it, so I’m voting for McCain.

(On a side note, I just drove by the DeKalb County Jail on my way home. How many McCain/Palin supporters do you think are in there?)

By dag

October 29, 2008 5:15 PM | Link to this

Last night I noticed that Joe the Plumber, who was campaigning with Senator McCain, decided to pontificate on foreign policy. Then just this morning I heard that Joe the Plumber, Tito the Builder and others were going to go on the straight talk express bus tour. They will be speaking in many of the swing states. Joining them on the tour will be the following McCain supporters:

Mr. Goodwrench will discuss transportation issues and will be named Secretary of Transportation in a McCain/Palin administration.

Mr. Clean’s son (Mr. Clean passed away recently) will discuss environmental issues and be named head of the EPA.

Popeye the Sailorman will discuss naval strategy in the middle-east and be named Secretary of the Navy.

Betty Crocker will discuss food safety and will be named head of the food and drug administration (additionally, Popeye’s girl, Olive Oil will join the tour to discuss healthy eating habits)

Mr. Peanut will discuss farming issues and be named Secretary of Agriculture.

Mrs. Butterworth will discuss early education and head up the free breakfast in school program.

Barney Fife will discuss crime control and be named head of Homeland Security.

Gomer Pyle will discuss McCain’s future strategy for Iraq and be placed in charge of the Marine Corps.

The old woman in the shoe will discuss abortion and be in charge of Health and Human Services.

Zsa Zsa Gabor will discuss marital issues and head the family first initiative.

Despite this positive news, the McCain campaign ran into another problem, that being simply bad timing. As much as they would like to distance themselves from President Bush, it turns out that this coming Saturday both Governor Palin and President Bush were scheduled to attend the same event. Both were scheduled to attend and address the National Association of Village Idiots. Naturally Governor Palin will be the representative from Alaska. However, there was some discussion of whether President Bush would represent the nation as a whole or could he also represent Texas. The Texas legislature, meeting in special session decided that President Bush was a big enough imbecile to represent the both the Nation and Texas.

By cc

October 29, 2008 5:21 PM | Link to this

got a good one for ya mark, how obama supporters do you think there were among all the financial corporations in this massive trickle up socialistic bailout? how many?

By Peter

October 29, 2008 5:22 PM | Link to this

Hey there……….By Say What? …………. I love what you wrote…….

Did I get my Republican Socialist Check……..NO !

WHY……… I make way too much money !

I would bet Mark got his !

Funny we have such Poor Education in Georgia, as we are told each year ranking so poorly with the rest of the country !

So the REPUBLICAN Answer is……. cut the education Budget…….. then create a $23 Million Dollar Pork Project because we need a new Fish Hatchery ?

People Please do we really need more small Fish….!

Gee where is the “Conservative” thinking there ?

By Mark

October 29, 2008 5:25 PM | Link to this

And.. to Say What?

I agree with quite a few things you have written. (Remember, I said I was conservative, not a straight-ticket Republican.) I don’t believe in name calling, though. I have opinions of Democrats, too, but realize not every Democrat is what I believe most to be. I also don’t believe I am a liar, arrogant, or hypocritical as you choose to call me, and wonder how you know I am, since we’ve never met, much less spoken before.

Aside from that, your well-gathered thoughts made sense. It’s just a shame I have to discount them because of the way you smack me in the face, even as I start to agree with you.

Ah, politics. Regardless of the winner, I’ll be SO happy when this election is over. (In case of an Obama win, I did start Googling Swiss bank accounts today….)

By cc

October 29, 2008 5:25 PM | Link to this

how many greedy corporate execs are liberals? none how many are obama supporters? none how many have hurt this country (and you’ll love this one) and our children and our children’s children? all of them. like i said before, personally, i care about our children but not our children’s children, because i don’t think kids should be having sex! but you do know who thinks it’s ok for kids to be having sex? sarah palin and her loose daughter that can’t keep her dress down.

By Peter

October 29, 2008 5:32 PM | Link to this

Hey by Mark…….

“It’s just a shame I have to discount them because of the way you smack me in the face, even as I start to agree with you.”

WOW ……..was it not YOU who mentioned being a Democrat, was to be lazy and wait for a Republican to pay you ?

Did you read actually what you wrote…..it is on the blog guy…….?????????

“It all comes down to wanting to sit around on your duff and collect my money while I bust my arse to make it for you.

If I was uneducated and made very little money, I can certainly see how I’d be a Democrat. sigh”

Are you Flip Flopping NOW……..or did someone else type the above ?

By SayNo2McCain

October 29, 2008 5:33 PM | Link to this

Mark,

Tell me, are you Oprah rich or are you Joe the Plummer rich? Are you Ron Howard rich or are you “I have a HOT DOG stand” by the side of the road rich?

Are you Andy Taylor (Mayberry) rich or are you Andy Griffith rich?

Are you John/Cindy McCain rich or are you Barack/Michelle(Obama) rich?

You have me confused, because there are never any POOR people running for President. Sarah maybe a hillbillie, but that doesn’t qualify as POOR.

By AGTFan

October 29, 2008 5:45 PM | Link to this

I read parts of the AJC website every day because I really miss living in Georgia. But when I read the posts on the 2 opinion blogs I become ashamed of being a Georgian. If anyone wants to find the total idiots of the right and left, all they have to do is come here.

By Mark

October 29, 2008 5:48 PM | Link to this

Actually, not everything on this board has been posted by me. It seems that every time I try to write something on a blog (usually Wooten’s), someone comes back and uses my name. I give up.. this is a waste of my time, and I’m not going to sit here and let some neglected child throw me into an argument for which I’m not prepared. (At least use MY own words against me. sigh)

The first comment was from me. Nothing like stirring the pot a little bit when you’re home from work early and bored, you know? Heh. Not that I believe in my exact words (although somewhat close).. just something to excite the likes of Peter and cc. This is better than television, although the novelty lasts approximately seven minutes.

Regardless of your affiliations, I hope everyone has a pleasant evening. I’m off to enjoy a weeknight out with friends. I’ll toast one to each of you. Yes, Peter, even you and cc :)

By Dusty

October 29, 2008 6:10 PM | Link to this

Democrats are getting desperate…

Look at their posts here. Some are two feet LONG on a blog!!NOW that is desperation. Not to mention the material. Cut’n’paste is rampant. False info is plentiful. Nasty suppositions are numerous. Name calling has reached a new high. (What is a whack job anyway? Some of you name callers want to spell it out since you are familiar with insults?)

Never has there been so many lies, misconceptions and plain nonsense from American Democrats.

Jim Wooten, how about starting a temporary blog called “Dem Desperation” where libs can post miles of propaganda while designing a CROWN for their KingoCrat. After their elction loss, they can pawn it and spread the wealth.

In the meantime,Jim, you can continue your fine column and we’ll try for an actual discussion with those who Think Right..(and any lefties who behave.)

I look forward to seeing the new blog Dem Desperation tomorrow and not find it spread out all over this good Thinking Right blog.

By Peter

October 29, 2008 6:11 PM | Link to this

Mark……… Have a wonderful EVENING……

Remember we are American’s first, and I would go to battle for an American no matter what the Political Affiliation…….

I just want a different Guy in the White House……

By spankmonkey

October 30, 2008 9:28 AM | Link to this

“Asked if the weeks of unflattering revelations and damaging interviews had tarnished her among conservatives, he replied, “Not a bit.” “

Hmmm… seccessionist who put’s “America First”, with a pregnant teenage daughter, and who is totally immersed in the GOP way of doing things (cronyism, and using office for personal gain.), pile on to that the ineptness and general cluelessness of this individual, and 2012 is looking VERY scary… As the “conservatives” have proven, not once, but twice, they love a nitwit, who has no real acheivements to call thier own. Maybe a McCain win is for the better… it would give Palin 4 years to hang herself and we woudn’t have to worry about having another intellectually devoid “cowboy” in the oval office.

By Keeping It Real

October 30, 2008 4:37 PM | Link to this

Hopefully Ms. Sarah will assume the vacated seat of the other crook from Alaska, Ted Stevens. Then we can see if she is as incompetent as she appears to be. The thought of her being president is indeed scary.

By John Warren

November 1, 2008 3:52 PM | Link to this

Our beautiful soon to be Vice President Sarah Palin is the best future leader for this nation, not Senator Barak Obama. Our beautiful soon to be Vice President Sarah Palin is also would be better at leading our nation in the future after a McCain Presidency than Senator Barak Obama would be in leading our nation in the future starting in January 2009. There are great reasons our soon to be Vice President Sarah Palin would be a better future leader than Senator Barak Obama. The greatest reason for our soon to be Vice President Sarah Palin’s is ideology. Our soon to be Vice President Sarah Palin is conservative in that she is pro life, marriage, guns, low taxes, low government spending, small government, unintrosive government, traditional and judeo Christian values, Bible reading and prayer in our public schools, and military spending.She is also pro free and private enterprize. Senator Barak Obama is a liberal who is anti every thing that I have described that our soon to be Vice President Sarah Palin is pro about or for. A second reason that our soon to be Vice President Sarah Palin is superior is because of experience. As a governor she has two years of executive administrative governing experience that Senator Barak Obama does not have. A final reason that our soon to be Vice President Sarah Palin is superior is because of political accomplishments. When our soon to be Vice President Sarah Palin came to office she accomplished 3 major things which are as follows: she showed great leadership in the 3 following areas: government reform, the state budget and the economy, and wise use of natural resources. She reformed government by standing up to the big oil companies by breaking up the monopoly on power and resources. She insisted on competition and basic fairness which ended the control that the oil companies had on the state, and thereby returning control of the state back to the people. She also stood up to the special interest and lobbyist, and produced major ethics reform. She lead well in the state budget by generating a surplus which came about by vetoing a half billion dollars of wasteful spending, ending the abuses of earmark spending by congress, and by getting rid of the private jet, the chef, and the chuffer. Economically under her leadership she brought about the largest private-sector infrastructure project in North American history. She also suspended the state fuel tax, and when oil and gas prices went up dramatically, and filled up the state treasury, she sent a large share of that revenue back where it belonged - directly to the people of Alaska . On natural resources she has shown great leadership by beginning a nearly forty billion dollar natural gas pipeline to help lead America to energy independence. When the last section of the pipeline is laid and its valves are opened, will lead America one step farther away from dependence on dangerous foreign powers that do not have our interests at heart. Senator Barak Obama has done nothing, so please vote John McCain for President and give to our beautiful soon to be Vice President Sarah Palin the opportunity that she deserves leading the nation into the future after a John McCain presidency. When our soon to be Vice President does lead the nation as President after a John McCain presidency,she will be the greatest President that we have ever had. Finally she is smarter than Senator Barak Obama

Thank You

John Warren

By John Warren

November 1, 2008 3:55 PM | Link to this

Our beautiful soon to be Vice President Sarah Palin is the best future leader for this nation, not Senator Barak Obama. Our beautiful soon to be Vice President Sarah Palin is also would be better at leading our nation in the future after a McCain Presidency than Senator Barak Obama would be in leading our nation in the future starting in January 2009. There are great reasons our soon to be Vice President Sarah Palin would be a better future leader than Senator Barak Obama. The greatest reason for our soon to be Vice President Sarah Palin’s is ideology. Our soon to be Vice President Sarah Palin is conservative in that she is pro life, marriage, guns, low taxes, low government spending, small government, unintrosive government, traditional and judeo Christian values, Bible reading and prayer in our public schools, and military spending.She is also pro free and private enterprize. Senator Barak Obama is a liberal who is anti every thing that I have described that our soon to be Vice President Sarah Palin is pro about or for. A second reason that our soon to be Vice President Sarah Palin is superior is because of experience. As a governor she has two years of executive administrative governing experience that Senator Barak Obama does not have. A final reason that our soon to be Vice President Sarah Palin is superior is because of political accomplishments. When our soon to be Vice President Sarah Palin came to office she accomplished 3 major things which are as follows: she showed great leadership in the 3 following areas: government reform, the state budget and the economy, and wise use of natural resources. She reformed government by standing up to the big oil companies by breaking up the monopoly on power and resources. She insisted on competition and basic fairness which ended the control that the oil companies had on the state, and thereby returning control of the state back to the people. She also stood up to the special interest and lobbyist, and produced major ethics reform. She lead well in the state budget by generating a surplus which came about by vetoing a half billion dollars of wasteful spending, ending the abuses of earmark spending by congress, and by getting rid of the private jet, the chef, and the chuffer. Economically under her leadership she brought about the largest private-sector infrastructure project in North American history. She also suspended the state fuel tax, and when oil and gas prices went up dramatically, and filled up the state treasury, she sent a large share of that revenue back where it belonged - directly to the people of Alaska . On natural resources she has shown great leadership by beginning a nearly forty billion dollar natural gas pipeline to help lead America to energy independence. When the last section of the pipeline is laid and its valves are opened, will lead America one step farther away from dependence on dangerous foreign powers that do not have our interests at heart. Senator Barak Obama has done nothing, so please vote John McCain for President and give to our beautiful soon to be Vice President Sarah Palin the opportunity that she deserves leading the nation into the future after a John McCain presidency. When our soon to be Vice President does lead the nation as President after a John McCain presidency,she will be the greatest President that we have ever had. Finally she is smarter than Senator Barak Obama

Thank You

John Warren