The memo has gone out: You can't criticie the Obamessiah, otherwise you're racist.

That's sure to win us over.

He actually thinks he can win on policy and experience alone.

McCaine is fine with the ad. He just doesn't want the Dems to be able to associate it with him. But they will anyway.

I'm glad they beeped him.

You gotta know when to hold them, know when to fold them, and most important when shut your run away trap!

McCain is acting like a Wright Winger

Does McCain actually want to win the election?

I am not insane, most Excellent Festus!

There are at least 80% of the democrat voters that will vote for bho because they are inflicted with tunnelvision and mental hardships, but there's still a chance that McCain can lure some over to his side if he opens their eyes on the national stage to what this lunatic has actually done and associated himself with in the past.

Why can't he see that?

This is why McCain is going to get crushed in debates (especially against Obama). He refuses to attack his opponent and is going to look weak, frail and dull next to Obama on stage.

So far McCain has been way too much of a Mr Nice Guy. I can see it as part of a strategy though. He can stay a clean as he wants while Hill and BHO sling crap at one another. Meanwhile, he builds his image as a moderate guy and downplays his reported mean streak.

All that said, kicking a man when he is down is the best time. He's that much closer to your foot.

it's too early for the republicans to be running that ad. it's hillary's time.

but, should McCain still not want to run it come the general election, i can only conclude he doesn't want to win.

Does McCain actually want to win the election?

Snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.

re: #15 Bubblehead II

Does McCain actually want to win the election?

Snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.

Approaching victory, then banking left.

The Evils of Three Lessers

re: #11 Killgore Trout

This is why McCain is going to get crushed in debates (especially against Obama). He refuses to attack his opponent and is going to look weak, frail and dull next to Obama on stage.

I thought that as well, but seeing how atrocious bho is without the teleprompter, I have faith that he'll step on his d!ck MORE than once in the debates.

I wouldn't count McCain out yet

this way McCain gets to take the high ground while disavowing a local ad that has nothing to do with his campaign anyway... and knowing it will run anyway

any way you look at it McCain wins

Settle down folks. This is only the beginning.

Wait till McCain discovers OBM video with a baby goat, in a seedy motel room with his undies on his head.

He'll use it. Count on it. As his should.

re: #14 song_and_dance_man

A less dynamic version of Bob Dole.

GWBush distanced himself from the SBVFT ads too, but they still helped him.
I think this is the right way to go.
McCain is letting others (527's?) do his dirty work for him.
He can't really stop it, but he can (and he probably should) occasionally voice his disapproval.
Surely there are a few NC Republicans who "get'' this, aren't there?

Good for them. The higher ups in the RNC should be worried- many of us are mad as hell and we're not likely to take it for very long.

Your average schmuck on the street thinks Irreverent Wright "criticized American policy". Most voter have never seen or heard this garbage spewed out from his "church" that worships melanin. Please broadcast the hell out of this! The RNC needs to grow some balls and learn something from the grass roots.

I think the nominee has the right to set the tone, and I think it's a right he's earned.

re: #21 Persian Shoe

As he should.

Fixed that

"Does McCain actually want to win the election?"

Maybe McCain is a Real Conservative after all! (and he wants McCain to lose.)

re: #20 sultan_knish

I wouldn't count McCain out yet

this way McCain gets to take the high ground while disavowing a local ad that has nothing to do with his campaign anyway... and knowing it will run anyway

any way you look at it McCain wins

Agreed. Not the way I would play it, but still a valid approach.

Your average schmuck on the street thinks

Did you leave your brain in San Francisco?

[Link: npc.press.org...]

Event Name: Rev. Dr. Jeremiah Wright
Event Date: Apr. 28, 2008
Event Type: NPC Breakfast
Time: 8:30 AM
Sponsored by: Speakers Committee
Event Location: Ballroom
Details: The Rev. Dr. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr., senior pastor of the Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago, will discuss the role of faith in the public square in a presentation entitled, The African American Religious Experience; Theology &Practice, at a National Press Club breakfast on April 28th.
Dr. Wright will also talk about his pastorate, his development as a theologian and teacher, and the how the issues of social justice and global inequities have shaped his faith and his fight for those who are most marginalized in society. He will address the legacy and tradition of education in his family. And Dr. Wright will put into perspective theologically, historically and politically, his ministry and public service that has been so widely discussed in the media.
Dr. Wright will retire from Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago in June, where he served the 8,000-member congregation for 36 years. While at Trinity he developed nearly 100 active ministries/outreach programs and seven separate corporations that continue to serve the greater Chicago community. He is a sought after lecturer and teacher and speaks at some of the nation's most prestigious universities and seminaries.

The National Press Club breakfast will begin promptly at 8:30 a.m. The National Press Club is located at 14th and F Streets, NW, one block west of Metro Center. More information about the Club and its programs is found on its Internet website: press.org.

THIS EVENT IS SOLD OUT.

CREDENTIALED MEDIA MAY COVER WITH PROPER ID.

re: #32 BabbaZee

AAAIIIYYEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!

I want to line up behind the folks who think McCain privately agrees with the NC folks. This may be his way of staying out of the mud.

The link in the post takes me to a 404 Not Found.

I agree with McCain, stay away from the nastiness, let the DEMS be nasty.
The sensible mature people recognize competence, and polish especially when in the presence of the vulgar imitations of statesmen that the DEMS are forcing on us as their nominees.

re: #33 MandyManners

Maybe Cognito will go for us.

LOL!

re: #38 song_and_dance_man

I think it's about time to post Red Rider's Lunatic Fringe.

Great tune....that's one that I won't mind having stuck in my head all day, now.........

re: #38 song_and_dance_man

I think it's about time to post Red Rider's Lunatic Fringe.

re: #39 BabbaZee

Now that is comedy!

re: #31 buzzsawmonkey

Naw Naw Naw! Gaw Dayum America!
--Rev. Wright

.....Least Excellent Infestus

Wright is going to be interviewed by that dope Bill Moyers. That ought to be interesting.

re: #28 Lawrence Schmerel

There is that dichotomy!

re: #42 bushleague

I'm a funny chick

LOL

re: #41 BabbaZee

I was thinking Twilight Zone

McLame is too silly not to push for these stuff. He'll regret being PC if he loses the election.

I think this ad would be better timed in the generals. While I can see that the ad is targeted at getting Clinton nominated... for the GOP, I'd tell them to be careful what they wish for....

re: #4 maddogg

McCaine is fine with the ad. He just doesn't want the Dems to be able to associate it with him. But they will anyway.

I agree 100%. He can come right back at them and say he condemned it before it even aired. Actually pretty sound strategy I think.

re: #39 BabbaZee

Maybe Cognito will go for us.

LOL!

I was thinking something along those lines but, it wasn't as nice.

re: #39 BabbaZee

/Well he IS in an highly (unspecified) posistion in a major (unspecified) media outlet.

This is getting fun.
How about some theme music.
With apologies to Sweet.

Clinton Blitz

Are you ready, Howard? Aha.
Nancy? Yeah! Chuck? OK.
Alright, fellas, let's go!

Oh it's been getting so hard
Campaigning with the things you do to me, aha
My dreams are getting so strange
I'd see Senators Barack and Hillary
I see a man named Barack
As a matter of fact his ego is as big as the sun
And a girl in the corner lets no one ignore her
'Cause she thinks she's the electable one

Oh, yeah, it was like lightning, everybody was frightening
And the Dems were all seething, and they all started grieving

Yeah, Yeah, Yeah, Yeah, Yeah
And the man named Barack said
Everyone attack and it turned into a Clinton blitz
And the girl in the corner said
Boy, I wanna warn ya, it'll turn into a Clinton blitz
Clinton blitz
Clinton blitz
Clinton blitz
Clinton blitz

They're reaching out for something
She hasn't got the delegates she needs
He softly says she's no good
She claims that he is just to young to lead, aha
Now the man named Barack
Is ready to crack as he raises his hands to the sky
And the girl in the corner is New York's Senator
She could beat him with a wink of her eye

Oh yeah, it was electric, so frightfully hectic
With the delegates voting, so those two would stop posing

Yeah, Yeah, Yeah, Yeah, Yeah
And the man named Barack said
Everyone attack and it turned into a Clinton blitz
And the girl in the corner said
Boy, I wanna warn ya, it'll turn into a Clinton blitz
Clinton blitz
Clinton blitz
Clinton blitz
Clinton blitz

Oh, yeah, it was like lightning, everybody was fighting
And the Dems were all seething, and they all started leaving

Yeah, Yeah, Yeah, Yeah, Yeah
And the man named Barack said
Everyone attack and it turned into a Clinton blitz
And the girl in the corner said
Boy, I wanna warn ya, it'll turn into a Clinton blitz
Clinton blitz
Clinton blitz
Clinton blitz
Clinton blitz

It's it's a Clinton blitz
It's it's a Clinton blitz
It's it's a Clinton blitz
Yeah, it's a Clinton blitz

McCain can't compete with Obamas money and Soros hate campaign . He wants to take the high road so he will have a moral defense against the smears that are coming . It's all he can do.

Somehow McCain is convinced that Americans do not want any attack ad’s period.

I see a good tactic here, we run attack ad’s and McCain pretends not to like them for the cameras.

re: #47 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

Highly appropriate too

re: #54 livetotell

McCain can't compete with Obamas money and Soros hate campaign . He wants to take the high road so he will have a moral defense against the smears that are coming . It's all he can do.

Won't matter.

Even if Obama and Soros weren't engaging in a hate campaign against him, he'd have the MSM dragging up crap like the recent LA Times story saying that he isn't fit for the Presidency because he's drawing a disabled vet pension.

re: #57 buzzsawmonkey

thanks

re: #52 Bubblehead II

/Well he IS in an highly (unspecified) posistion in a major (unspecified) media outlet.

And, he has hung out with terrorists so, he'll be in good company with Jeremiah.

re: #30 chinesearithmetic

Your average schmuck on the street thinks

Did you leave your brain in San Francisco?

Ouch... You are correct! What the heck was I thinking?

re: #24 Sharmuta

Good for them. The higher ups in the RNC should be worried- many of us are mad as hell and we're not likely to take it for very long.

At some point, I can only hope, the RNC will learn that the only thing that you find when you run to the middle of the road, is that the traffic from both sides are now trying to run you down.

re: #47 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

I was thinking Twilight Zone

Not Aldo Nova's Fantasy ?

American history is full of examples of nuanced campaign strategies that failed utterly.

re: #53 CyanSnowHawk

Very nice work indeed!

re: #64 Creeping Eruption

Holy flashback batman

re: #54 livetotell

McCain can't compete with Obamas money and Soros hate campaign . He wants to take the high road so he will have a moral defense against the smears that are coming . It's all he can do.

Money.
That's going to be a big problem for McCain.
A problem partly of his own making (McCain-Feingold.)
But there's no joy in the "I told you so."

Walk right side road, OK
Walk left side road, OK
Walk middle?
SQUISH, just like grape.
~ Mr. Myagi

re: #64 Creeping Eruption

Not Aldo Nova's Fantasy ?

Need to get me a leopard skin suit like that.

re: #65 Charles

American history is full of examples of nuanced campaign strategies that failed utterly.

That's why the old fool has to play smashmouth politics. Hillary will hand his ass to him if he doesn't.

The RNC had better show the dirt on Obama and Clinton

Otherwise I'm voting for Sasquatch.

re: #65 Charles

American history is full of examples of nuanced campaign strategies that failed utterly.

and on both sides of the aisle.

Many in Oklahoma suggest that Democrat Dolt Governor Brad Henry is chiefly the governor because his Republican rival ran a clean campaign against Henry.

re: #70 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

Need to get me a leopard skin suit like that.

Have one.

re: #63 Syrah

Why vote for a republican acting like a democrat when you can elect the real thing?

re: #67 BabbaZee

Holy flashback batman

Well, as soon as I saw "Lunatic Fringe" and "Twilight Zone" a door to my past opened, and I had to share.

re: #70 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

Need to get me a leopard skin suit like that.

Yet another tune that I'm not upset to have stuck in my head.

re: #70 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

Need to get me a leopard skin suit like that.

Can't forget the boots

re: #17 BabbaZee

The Evils of Three Lessers

Babba - what an appropriate comment number.

The schlubs that Dare Not speak His name !

re: #74 coquimbojoe

Have one.

WHY?

re: #71 coquimbojoe

That's why the old fool has to play smashmouth politics. Hillary will hand his ass to him if he doesn't.

Politics is smashmouth. If you're not playing that game you're not playing.

Opiates

Leon Wieseltier

Last week was a good week for Herbert Marcuse. Bob Dylan won a Pulitzer Prize and Karl Marx was published on the op-ed page of The New York Times, and in German.

In America, revolution is a career move.

Marcuse thought this was the bad news, but it is the good news. In any event, it is springtime for repressive tolerance. The plan is working. There, on page A27, right above the Microsoft advertorial, were the surprising words: "Die Religion ... ist das Opium des Volkes." Even more surprisingly, they were rained upon the heads of the paper's breakfasting readers by William Kristol, who graciously provided a translation from an old college paperback: "Religion ... is the opium of the people,"
learnedly adding that "Marx somehow always sounds better" in the original.

No, the English is pretty exact, and the German is not quite poetry. And over on the other side of the page, there was Kautsky, in Bob Herbert's unexpected column on Die Agrarfrage: Eine Uebersicht uber die Tendenzen der modernen Landwirthschaft und die Agrarpolitik der Sozialdemokratie.

I'm kidding, I'm kidding. But not about Kristol's Marx, who was resurrected to establish the culpability of Barack Obama.

[SNIP]

The Hopium of the Asses.

I gotta say I agree with the RNC. That has gotta be one of the weakest attack ads I've ever seen. The Wright clip they chose is one of the tamest, they censored the word "damn", and the condemnation of it is... less than scathing ("too extreme"?).

Besides which, it's an ad for the state governorship, which is really only tangentially related to Obama anyhow. The NCGOP, intentionally or not, is weakening McCain's presidential campaign - the voting public has a short memory and the elections are still a long ways off.

the donk 527's will do this shit and more, we have to respond in kind what ever the canidate does. IT IS OUR COUNTRY TOO!

re: #74 coquimbojoe

Have one.

Do you wear it with the Carmen Miranda hat?

Charles, this is just a bit of "Brer Rabbit" politics. McCain is doing the right thing and allowing others to show Obama doing the Wright thing which they would do regardless of what McCain says about it. The MSM would be all over McCain if he did not do the ethical thing.

Another one; Life during wartime

re: #79 Temujin

Ha! [REDACTED]

Where have you been hiding, on the steppes?

I have read here and there at McCain does not want to directly go after Obama because it lends support to the idea that he is the frontrunner. I expect that when the actual nominee emerges from the current celebrity death match, McCain will attack him or her with gusto.

Having said that, we all know that any criticism of Wright will be seen by the libs as "racist" or "attacking the clergy". We will all be called "racist", which concerns me no in the least. I am already wearing my "Typical White Person" shirt while shopping in Berkeley so I can enjoy the outrage it generates.

Wright and Ayers and examples of Obama's serious lack of the character responsible people want in a candidate. I am personally grossly offended that he assumes that I need "healing" or that I must recognize that we have a problem in this country regarding race.

Sorry, I don't have a problem with race. Most Americans, of all ethnicities don't have a problem with race. A lot of blacks, however DO have a problem with race. They're going to have to get over it themselves without my participation. Sorry.

By the way, I just read online in the Chicago Sun Times that Wright is going to be the guest speaker at the National Press Club and he will also be in Bill Moyer's Journal this Friday.

Wright and Ayers: the gifts that keep on giving.

You see, this is the major defect with McCain. He loves to stick his thumbs in the eyes of his own base. I've had 20+ years of it. The man is a real piece of work, and it is a damn shame that I will have to hold my nose and vote for him.

re: #80 song_and_dance_man

Do you have the shoes to go with it?

Absolutely

re: #81 saberry0530

WHY?

Because my old pink summer unitard wore out.

re: #90 scott in east bay

If McCain engages in ANY negativity in the runnings, there will be complaints that he is being negative despite his Election Financing Reform.

(No, it doesn't make sense, but look for it nonetheless)

re: #88 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

Another one; Life during wartime

Right back at you: Berlin: Metro

Re: #20

You're exactly right sultan_knish.

EVERYTHING Sen. McCain says and does is very carefully inspected and weighed for the maximum political gain. He is taking the high road right now.

The Senator has been working at being elected President for a long time. He will make the low road turn if and when he needs to. But if enough people do it for him, he can stay high and dry all the way to the White House.

Obviously, Sen. McCain is not the ideal candidate for us true conservatives, but he is the right man for the Republicans at this point in time. He has my vote for sure.

In Center County PA two candidates for Congress spent mega bucks; up to ~1.2 million. The 1.2 million was beaten by 19k. the other for less then 19k.

re: #76 Creeping Eruption
[BLINK]

If McCain runs the Jack Kemp "how to run for VP by saying nothing bad about your opponent" playbook, he will end up a loser like Kemp and Bob Dole.

I think I understand what McCain is trying to do. I think he wants to win on his own merits rather than winning based on putting the other candidates down. But, I really don't agree with this strategy. Obama's associations with radicals is absolutely open for discussion and attack. These are the types of people that will have access to the White House and will be advising the administration should Barack win. The people have the right to have this brought front and center by the GOP. The media won't discuss this, so the somebody must. McCain should embrace this.

If mccain doesn't like it- the North Carolina republicans can always tell him they're just being mavericks.

re: #95 Creeping Eruption

Right back at you: Berlin: Metro

Ram Jam "Black Betty"

Possible scenarios:

1) McCain is "above the fray"

2) He's playing "Good cop, bad cop"

3) He's thinking he should let Obama get the nomination so this type of stuff can be used in the campaign.

I sure hope it's (3), suspect it's (1). Bob Dole sucked, don't want no repeat.

McCain: snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.

(sigh)

re: #75 Sharmuta

Why vote for a republican acting like a democrat when you can elect the real thing?

Exactly.

That should be tattooed on the inside of the eyelids of every Republican candidate running for office.

re: #87 gymnast

ethical?

re: #93 coquimbojoe

AHHHHHHHHH, MY EYES!

/

re: #102 Dahveed

I think I understand what McCain is trying to do. I think he wants to win on his own merits rather than winning based on putting the other candidates down. But, I really don't agree with this strategy. Obama's associations with radicals is absolutely open for discussion and attack. These are the types of people that will have access to the White House and will be advising the administration should Barack win. The people have the right to have this brought front and center by the GOP. The media won't discuss this, so the somebody must. McCain should embrace this.

We've elected Bill Clinton, put Dems in the majority in Congress and the left is picking between Hillary and Obama...

Conservative Republicans have no choice but McCain....

When did 'ones own merit' come into play?

I think McCain might be smarter than we give him credit for. As Jim Geraghty points out at NRO, by condemning the ad, McCain has moved it out of NC and made it a national story. The youtube hits on it are growing rapidly.

I knew I was going to have to hold my nose when voting for McLame. Now I think I'm going to have to bring a barf bag in with me.

re: #102 Dahveed

These are the types of people that will have access to the White House and will be advising the administration should Barack win.

No kidding.

re: #109 saberry0530

AHHHHHHHHH, MY EYES!

/

You asked.

re: #104 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

Ram Jam "Black Betty"

Oooh, good one. And now for something completely different: Kraftwerk: The Model

re: #90 scott in east bay

Yes. That is a very good reason for McCain not to attack Obama or Hillary specifically right now. He should wait until he has a specific target before taking shots at it.
And he also needs to save money.
Now is not the time.........And we'll see what he does later.

McCain knows how to fight dirty and get away with it. Don't worry.

re: #103 Sharmuta

If mccain doesn't like it- the North Carolina republicans can always tell him they're just being mavericks.

Does McCain actually want to win the election?

Sometimes, when he realizes that doing so would really upset his Democrat friends, I suspect he might not.

re: #116 Creeping Eruption

Oooh, good one. And now for something completely different: Kraftwerk: The Model

unt now is de time on Schprockets ver ve dansch!

MPH
&
ETA

the only discernible differences
between R & D

today

Linda Daves is the Chairman of the NC Republican Party.

Republican chairwoman Linda Daves said she would not bow to pressure from the Republican National Committee and others to pull the ad.

The URL of the NC Republican Party Leaderhip page is:

[Link: www.ncgop.org...]

There is a link at the end of Ms. Dave's Profile to "e-mail Linda".

Just thought I'd mention all that ...

re: #99 BabbaZee

Hey Babba, I tried to respond to your email article this morning, and it bounced back in my face saying your email was down.

You notice any such problems lately?

By the way folks, be praying for our friend realwest today please. He's got a very important meeting with his doctors.

re: #111 brainsample

And later on not be able to bring it up in a debate?

re: #107 Syrah

That should be tattooed on the inside of the eyelids of every Republican candidate running for office.

While I'm sure the procedure itself would be a painful enough lesson- this wouldn't be very effective. We don't need more republicans with their yes shut- it's part of the problem. ;)

re: #125 3 wood

I know
His mails came through
Try again

re: #113 braddock

I knew I was going to have to hold my nose when voting for McLame. Now I think I'm going to have to bring a barf bag in with me.

Fair enough, but......
Just do it!

re: #100 Opinionated

If McCain runs the Jack Kemp "how to run for VP by saying nothing bad about your opponent" playbook, he will end up a loser like Kemp and Bob Dole.

* * *
McCain won't end up a loser like Bob Dole, because unlike Bob Dole, McCain hasn't quit his Senate day job, so he'll still be in the Senate, undermining whoever's elected President, should McCain lose to the two leftists whose CARTER 08/McGovern08 POLICIES & PROCLIVITIES alone should cause any thinking American to vote for McCain instead of the pro-caliphate party.

re: #127 Sharmuta

While I'm sure the procedure itself would be a painful enough lesson- this wouldn't be very effective. We don't need more republicans with their yes shut- it's part of the problem. ;)

How does one shut ones "yes"?

*rad*

Biblical Scholars (and me) Challenge Pelosi's 'Scripture' Quote

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) is fond of quoting a particular passage of Scripture. The quote, however, does not appear in the Bible and is "fictional," according to biblical scholars.

In her April 22 Earth Day news release, Pelosi said, "The Bible tells us in the Old Testament, 'To minister to the needs of God's creation is an act of worship. To ignore those needs is to dishonor the God who made us.' On this Earth Day, and every day, let us pledge to our children, and our children's children, that they will have clean air to breathe, clean water to drink, and the opportunity to experience the wonders of nature."

Cybercast News Service repeatedly queried the speaker's office for two days to determine where the alleged Bible quote is found. Thus far, no one has responded.

Distinguished biblical scholars, however, cast doubt on the existence of the passage.

John J. Collins, the Holmes professor of Old Testament criticism and interpretation at Yale Divinity School, said he is totally unfamiliar with Pelosi's quotation.

"(It's) not one that I recognize," Collins told Cybercast News Service. "I assume that she means this is a paraphrase. But it wouldn't be a close paraphrase to anything I know of."

Claude Mariottini, a professor of Old Testament at Northern Baptist Theological Seminary, told Cybercast News Service the passage not only doesn't exist - it's "fictional."

"It is not in the Bible," Mariottini said. "There is nothing that even approximates that."

[SNIP]

re: #129 wolfie

Fair enough, but......
Just do it!

Any shooting plans for the weekend?

I try not to think about McCain. I dispise that he is what the RNC considers a Republican. Another few elections and the Dem will be calling for removal of property rights and the Republican will be calling for us to stick to Universal Healthcare.

Meanwhile, conservatives will be considered mentally ill.

re: #89 BabbaZee

The steppes? Nah.

Imagine Paul Shanklin singing, "In The Gulag" ...

re: #119 FoolsMate

McCain knows how to fight dirty and get away with it. Don't worry.

I'm not. I expect the attacks to begin in earnest on the Dem nominee in August, after he or she is chosen.

re: #59 LanceKates

Now that's absurd. It would mean that every disabled Veteran would be ineligible to be POTUS. I'm not stunned, just disappointed that anybody would think a disabled vet was unqualified simply because he is disabled in some manner.

re: #136 Temujin

The steppes? Nah.

Imagine Paul Shanklin singing, "In The Gulag" ...

ROTF!

You know, there's such a thing as conserving firepower until the crucial time. There's also the concept of employing maximum firepower for effect to eliminate your foe.

The Rev. Wright is powerful firepower against Obama.

Using it judiciously is a good idea.

I think McCain is wondering whether he'd do better against Obama or Hillary in November, and that might be playing into his role here - as is the fact that he can play nice while letting his underlings and independent GOP state organizations do the hit pieces for him.

On the whole, exposing Obama's weaknesses and failings - to say nothing of his connections to odious folks like Ayers and Wright should be highlighted at every turn.

Meanwhile, you've now got folks calling for Obama to step aside and give the race to Hillary.

re: #132 BabbaZee

Pelosi lied and butterflys died!

re: #140 song_and_dance_man

Or some Gramscian Churchianity Pamphlet from the Great Church of the Unrepentant Whore

re: #138 Cap'n DOC

Now that's absurd. It would mean that every disabled Veteran would be ineligible to be POTUS. I'm not stunned, just disappointed that anybody would think a disabled vet was unqualified simply because he is disabled in some manner.

What made the article even more stupid was that the 'point' was followed by questioning whether he should get the pension as I guess he was on some hiking publicity thing.

Frankly, FDR was president. JFK was President.

re: #120 MandyManners

If mccain doesn't like it- the North Carolina republicans can always tell him they're just being mavericks.

That video needed less Kenny Loggins trying to look bad ass, and more clips from the volleyball scene.

[Link: www.wingmusic.co.nz...]

re: #141 lawhawk

How, then, would it look for McCain to talk about Wright after asking the NC GOP to not talk about Wright?

Imagine the news reports about McCain 'grasping at straws' . . .

re: #141 lawhawk

Obama IMHO is profoundly unelectable & I hope he stays in.

re: #137 Honorary Yooper

I'm not. I expect the attacks to begin in earnest on the Dem nominee in August, after he or she is chosen.

* * *
McCain attacked Michael Moore (though not by name) on live tv during McCain's speech while Michael Moore was sitting in at the Republican Convention! Moore got booed!

re: #131 MandyManners

How does one shut ones "yes"?

*rad*

A PIMF upon my comment! "eyes".

re: #129

re: #113 braddock

I knew I was going to have to hold my nose when voting for McLame. Now I think I'm going to have to bring a barf bag in with me.

Fair enough, but......
Just do it!

/ I'm team player but sometimes I want to be traded to another team.

I am afraid we may have another Bob Dole on our hands. Bob Dole might have actually won in '96 (remember, Clinton didn't get 50% of the vote) if he had actually, you know, campaigned for President. He didn't want to be too mean.

Being too mean has never stopped the Democrats from doing whatever it takes to win elections. According to them, Bush lynches black people, and Republicans in general starve old people.

The Democrats want America to lose the war in Iraq. They crave a loss the way an alcoholic craves a drink.

It is time the RNC stepped up to the plate and actually ran a campaign. All they have to do is tell the fucking truth, and the American people will reject the Democrats. As it is, I have to wonder if the Republicans want to win. That's why, BTW, I've stopped contributing to the Republican Party. If they don't want to win, there's no point in my giving them my hard-earned money.

re: #93 coquimbojoe

Because my old pink summer unitard wore out.

You know, I could have gone my whole life without seeing that.

/dang, brain bleach, where is it? Need to start getting the industrial size jugs.

re: #144 LanceKates

What made the article even more stupid was that the 'point' was followed by questioning whether he should get the pension as I guess he was on some hiking publicity thing.

Frankly, FDR was president. JFK was President.

They also tried to make it seem like he was cheating on his taxes by receiving it but not claiming it, even though they later admit it is tax-exempt. They just wanted to make it sound crooked.

re: #152 Iron Fist

I am telling you the truth.......

{Fist}

re: #155 BabbaZee

I am telling you the truth.......

{Fist}

Smile ya said?

re: #148 Ojoe

You have to take into account there are many profoundly ill voters.

re: #11 Killgore Trout

This is why McCain is going to get crushed in debates (especially against Obama). He refuses to attack his opponent and is going to look weak, frail and dull next to Obama on stage.

McCain has been nicer to Obama than is he to us conservatives (he told our Sen. Cornyn to f-ck off). There's something wrong with that, IMHO.

re: #132 BabbaZee

Biblical Scholars (and me) Challenge Pelosi's 'Scripture' Quote

[SNIP]

Letter of the Watermelon of the Apostle Pelousy to the Church of Algore.

re: #156 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

I dig it

re: #159 jcm

Letter of the Watermelon of the Apostle Pelousy to the Church of Algore.

Ahhhhhahahahahhaaaaaaaaaaaa

re: #138 Cap'n DOC

Now that's absurd. It would mean that every disabled Veteran would be ineligible to be POTUS. I'm not stunned, just disappointed that anybody would think a disabled vet was unqualified simply because he is disabled in some manner.

* * *
Compared to Obama, McCain can't play basketball as the North Vietcong tore him new shoulder sockets while torturing his with his already broken arms from ejecting his airplane, nor can he raise his arms very well for that reason.

McCain can play chess with opponents very well however.

I liked 2 things:
1. The ad had the GD bleeped out. Sounds more sinister that way. Plus, when was the last time your pastor had to be bleeped?

2. The blogger said something like "Obama is multiracial so dont call me racist" Very interesting approach.

re: #152 Iron Fist

one of my complaints about the RNC is that they never seemed to WANT to be in power.

They seemed to prefer to be in the minority so that they weren't held accountable for anything and could just sit and whine about Democrats.

I see no passion in the RNC and those who show some sort of passion are wholly ignored until they drop out of the race.

re: #132 BabbaZee

Busted!

Did she get that out of the same Bible that Samuel L. Jackson used in Pulp Fiction?

re: #149 alegrias

* * *
McCain attacked Michael Moore (though not by name) on live tv during McCain's speech while Michael Moore was sitting in at the Republican Convention! Moore got booed!

Exactly. McCain picked the opportunity to deal with Moore. McCain's not stupid, and surly did not keep his Senate seat by sitting back and doing nothing. He'll deal with the nominee when he or she is chosen, and not a minute sooner.

Wait until AFTER Obama get the nomination then unload all of the attacks on him.

re: #154 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

They also tried to make it seem like he was cheating on his taxes by receiving it but not claiming it, even though they later admit it is tax-exempt. They just wanted to make it sound crooked.

And people think that McCain will get a fair shake by the MSM once the mess with Hillary and Obama is settled? heh.

There are times for playing chess
and then again
there are times for making whips,
screaming and yelling,
and chasing the assholes out of the temple courtyard

re: #165 Ward Cleaver

Busted!

Did she get that out of the same Bible that Samuel L. Jackson used in Pulp Fiction?

HAHAHAHAHA

re: #132 BabbaZee

Maybe it is in the Constitution, next to where it talks about separtation of church and state.

re: #157 Roger

Unfortunately this is true.

re: #138 Cap'n DOC

Now that's absurd. It would mean that every disabled Veteran would be ineligible to be POTUS. I'm not stunned, just disappointed that anybody would think a disabled vet was unqualified simply because he is disabled in some manner.

* * *
Exactly!

Democrat FDR was Secretary of the Navy and a WAR president in a wheelchair for heaven's sake, and re-elected three times and would have been President for Life had democrats been able to make it so!

re: #132 BabbaZee

I dunno, but here she is saying it three years ago.

Sounds like some sort of Green Tikkun Olam. Maybe she should wear a green thread on her wrist.

re: #160 BabbaZee

I dig it

One of the few new bands I like

Mccain/Palin 2008
See Sarah Palin, athlete, beauty queen, eats mooseburgers. No mention of lizard eating.

re: #172 Silhouette

Maybe it is in the Constitution, next to where it talks about separtation of church and state.

OH hohohohoho!

SYRIA, IRAN, N.K. nuke axis is the main story today

re: #31 buzzsawmonkey

Reminds of Bugs in drag.

Bowregaad!

Tha yankays aw en chatanoogi!

re: #170 BabbaZee

There are times for playing chess
and then again
there are times for making whips,
screaming and yelling,
and chasing the assholes out of the temple courtyard

I love that video. Kickin' ass and takin' names. Did you see the comment, "You go Jesus!"?

Could we get the NC Republican leadership to replace the RNC leadership. They act like they want to win.

Good Ad!

re: #175 itellu3times

I dunno, but here she is saying it three years ago.

Sounds like some sort of Green Tikkun Olam. Maybe she should wear a green thread on her wrist.

I'm gonna go find the corrupt pamphlet of Stan this crap came from.

BBIAFM

re: #181 Ward Cleaver

lol yup

re: #177 faraway

Mccain/Palin 2008
See Sarah Palin, athlete, beauty queen, eats mooseburgers. No mention of lizard eating.

ALASKA - 3 Electoral Votes. Dark horse.

re: #181 Ward Cleaver
I hope he hasn't been paying attention to the subprime lenders:)

re: #177 faraway

Mccain/Palin 2008
See Sarah Palin, athlete, beauty queen, eats mooseburgers. No mention of lizard eating.

His VP is going to be a governor (current or past) from a state that he might not otherwise win.

I'm thinking Romney or Huckabee.

Not a chance in hell of Jeb Bush.

Charles, you got a point there...

And the odd thing is that the media did not hound Obama with his 20 yrs mentorship with Rev Wright.

Compare with the MSM hounding McCain with Pastor Hagee...and all what Pastor Hagee was doing was ENDORSING McCain....and the media jumped all over McCain over that...

So what about the Hamas endorsing Obama? Huh ?

How about that, MSM?

re: #177 faraway

Mccain/Palin 2008
See Sarah Palin, athlete, beauty queen, eats mooseburgers. No mention of lizard eating.

Cool!

I fixed an error there (changed "snowmachines" to snowmobiles).

Jenna Bush Doesn't know

Really from that's all I got from this article.

She just doesn't know

so far I am seeing similar phrases used by this group:

European Christian Environmental Network

and here

[Link: 64.233.169.104...]

Gaiababble appropriating Christianty

re: #20 sultan_knish

I wouldn't count McCain out yet

this way McCain gets to take the high ground while disavowing a local ad that has nothing to do with his campaign anyway... and knowing it will run anyway

any way you look at it McCain wins

Indeed. McCain's letting his eventual opponent be ripped to shreds by the other one. He needs to keep his mouth shut, eyes open, and get ready for the real campaign that will begin after the Dem convention.

This election will be a sprint, not a marathon.

This reminds me of a old episode of "The West Wing". President Bartlet 'accidentally' makes a open microphone comment about how the other party's candidate wasn't that bright, at first the media was questioning the president about it, but then they start looking at the other guy and realize the president is correct.

I do think McCain is being sly about this. i agree with a above comment that by speaking out against a local commercial McCain is making it go national. He is a ex fighter pilot. he is good in terms of thinking both strategically and tactically

re: #134 LanceKates

Any shooting plans for the weekend?

I try not to think about McCain. I dispise that he is what the RNC considers a Republican. Another few elections and the Dem will be calling for removal of property rights and the Republican will be calling for us to stick to Universal Healthcare.

Meanwhile, conservatives will be considered mentally ill.

Yes! I am going on Saturday again!
Then the big test for my little nerves will be the next weekend, when I will go alone.
I am actually enjoying this and am amazed that I finally am doing it!

The problem with "progressivism" is that it is inherently totalitarian. There is no limit to what you are going to get the government to do for you. The minute we "re-interpreted" our Constitution to allow this, the game was up.
We're on that train whether we like it or not, and the only question is how far and fast we're going. Sigh.
I am not an optimist.

re: #94 LanceKates

If McCain engages in ANY negativity in the runnings, there will be complaints that he is being negative despite his Election Financing Reform.

(No, it doesn't make sense, but look for it nonetheless)

I have a theory about "Negative Campaigning." We always hear (via the media) just how much Americans are supposedly turned off by negative ads and attack ads, but are we really?

I don't know if that really is true. For myself, I'd much rather watch an attack ad than one of those saccharine ads showing the candidate as the family man playing with his kids and the dog in the yard. Borrrring -- seen one, you've seen a million. Attack ads are much more original and directed.

My theory about attack ads is that the media wants people to believe that we don't like them because it usurps the media's monopoly on telling us bad news about candidates. The media wants to be the only bearer of bad news so that it can tell you bad things about the candidate they're against, and withhold bad info about the candidate they support.

McCain should shut up and eat his pancakes

let others voice what he is unwilling to speak of

all he has to do to win in November is stay quiet
no talking to anyone
no debates
no interviews
no questions

just shut up and let the voters ponder who B. Hussein Obama is and who he associates with and his got it in the bag

but you speak up like this Senator McCain
and you can watch it slip away
like the memories in the mind of an old man
with dementia

re: #182 mattm

Could we get the NC Republican leadership to replace the RNC leadership. They act like they want to win.

* * *
Then why did North Carolina have John Edwards as one of its senators? How moonbatty/leftist is NC?

re: #132 BabbaZee

They should have asked "which bible" rather than "where in the Bible"

re: #187 faraway

I hope he hasn't been paying attention to the subprime lenders:)

I hope he has.

/in other news, the corporate headquarters of several mortgage companies who made billions in the subprime mortgage business were wiped out today, by freak tornadoes

For many years, churches and groups of Christians have been seeking to address the environmental concerns implicit in the biblical command to work and to care for God's creation. The nature and extent of this work of this varies greatly in countries and different localities, but in recent years, those working on environmental issues in the churches have become increasingly aware of the need to share and work together. The First European Ecumenical Assembly in Basel in 1989 alerted many in the wider church family to the importance of environmental issues. The CEC/CCEE Mulheim and Crete conferences in 1995, the EECCS Ecology and Economics working group (1993-98), and the 1996-7 WCC petition on climate change all represented stages in a greater working together.

It was at the Second European Ecumenical Assembly in June 1997, however, that the key steps were taken to bring about the goal of a pan-European churches' network on the environment. Following Graz, a series of meetings of an ad hoc working group were held from 1997-8. These led to a proposal to invite churches across Europe to send representatives to what became the inaugural Assembly of ECEN in Vilemov in October 1998.

re: #186 jcm
She's a firebreathing conservative, though.
She's a pro-life, anti gay marriage,budget cutting, veto-wielding conservative machine.

re: #191 Shug

Jenna Bush Doesn't know

Really from that's all I got from this article.

She just doesn't know

* * *
John McCain's daughter Meghan, who campaigns with her dad fulltime, voted for John Kerry in 2004 as she admitted recently to media.
(Wonder if little Ms. McCain saw John Kerry trashing her father last week on Chris Wallace's Fox Sunday talk show)

re: #165 Ward Cleaver

Say what one more time.... Did I break your concentration....

re: #199 incanus

They should have asked "which bible" rather than "where in the Bible"

mmhmmm

re: #188 LanceKates

His VP is going to be a governor (current or past) from a state that he might not otherwise win.

I'm thinking Romney or Huckabee.

Not a chance in hell of Jeb Bush.

I would love for him to tap Jindal, Gov. LA. However Jindal just took office, I'd rather have Jindal get 1-2 succeful terms under his belt and run for the top slot in '12 or '16 if McCain goes two terms.

re: #201 buzzsawmonkey

Every year, the University of Chicago holds a Latke/Hamentasch Symposium.

Maybe there needs to be a pancake/waffle symposium between McCain and Obama.

* * *
Invariably the Republican pancake flipper falls off the stage backwards. Remember this happened during primaries to several!

I warn everyone who hears the words of the prophecy of this book: If anyone adds anything to them, God will add to him the plagues described in this book.
~ Revelation 22:18

Woe unto her ass.

re: #188 LanceKates

His VP is going to be a governor (current or past) from a state that he might not otherwise win.

I'm thinking Romney or Huckabee.

Not a chance in hell of Jeb Bush.

You're not thinking Pawlenty?

re: #194 chicagodudewhotrades

Good point, dude.

re: #196 SeafoodGumbo

BINGO !

Er,.......you got any gumbo? I'm kinda hungry.
Sorry. I guess that was rude.
But if you did have some,.......

re: #174 alegrias

* * *
Exactly!

Democrat FDR was Secretary of the Navy and a WAR president in a wheelchair for heaven's sake, and re-elected three times and would have been President for Life had democrats been able to make it so!

Well, that, and he died.

re: #204 faraway

She's a firebreathing conservative, though.
She's a pro-life, anti gay marriage,budget cutting, veto-wielding conservative machine.

I'm not dissin' her, or her conservative creds. Other factor she just had a kid, would she campaign with an infant at home?

re: #201 buzzsawmonkey

Every year, the University of Chicago holds a Latke/Hamentasch Symposium.

Maybe there needs to be a pancake/waffle symposium between McCain and Obama.

* * *
Obama would win the Pancakes Flip-off. Pancake flipping might be hard if you're disabled thanks to 5.5 years of communist torture to the shoulders.

re: #205 alegrias

It's been done before. The media are trying to question their qualifications by pointing out that "even so-and-so isn't supporting them." Always done on an anecedotal level.

But when it is something large scale, like Al Gore not even winning his home state, it is ignored.

re: #145 Sharmuta

That video needed less Kenny Loggins trying to look bad ass, and more clips from the volleyball scene.

Abs you could shred cabbage on!

European Christian Environmental Network:

Ecology and Ecumenism in Europe : A Way Forward

re: #63 Syrah

At some point, I can only hope, the RNC will learn that the only thing that you find when you run to the middle of the road, is that the traffic from both sides are now trying to run you down.

The middle of the road is where you find the yellow streak.

re: #201 buzzsawmonkey

Every year, the University of Chicago holds a Latke/Hamentasch Symposium.

Maybe there needs to be a pancake/waffle symposium between McCain and Obama.

* * *
Is this the same school where William Ayres the weather underground unreconstructed vile & violent hippie teaches?

re: #213 song_and_dance_man

{song}

re: #186 jcm

ALASKA - 3 Electoral Votes. Dark horse.

looks like a MILF to me.

re: #195 wolfie

Great news about the shooting. Just stay calm and remember the rules of firearm safety. You'll do fine. :D

Be sure to keep your wedding ring where it can be easily seen. You're likely to have some guys winking at you.

As for giving up our rights, you're wholly correct. Once people learn that they can vote themselves free money at the cost of their freedoms, they never seem to miss the freedoms (until they're in jail for complaining about the 4 hour line to get bread from the government-controlled grocery store)

I don't understand why calling Barry a radical is out of bounds.

re: #203 song_and_dance_man

Joe's only conservative trait is the defense of Israel and the US. I can live with that, plus he's a good man otherwise.

Ecotheology!

Unholy crap.

re: #221 JamesTKirk

The middle of the road is where you find the yellow streak.

Just ask W how the middle ground is working out for him. Approval rating lower than Truman's. If he had stuck to pleasing conservatives, his approval rating would be about double.

re: #216 jcm

I'm not dissin' her, or her conservative creds. Other factor she just had a kid, would she campaign with an infant at home?

She can take the baby with her on the road.
Then she can play victim! (baby=punishment)

re: #196 SeafoodGumbo

I have a theory about "Negative Campaigning." We always hear (via the media) just how much Americans are supposedly turned off by negative ads and attack ads, but are we really?

I don't know if that really is true. For myself, I'd much rather watch an attack ad than one of those saccharine ads showing the candidate as the family man playing with his kids and the dog in the yard. Borrrring -- seen one, you've seen a million. Attack ads are much more original and directed.

My theory about attack ads is that the media wants people to believe that we don't like them because it usurps the media's monopoly on telling us bad news about candidates. The media wants to be the only bearer of bad news so that it can tell you bad things about the candidate they're against, and withhold bad info about the candidate they support.

America loves Attack Ads, almost as much as they love talking about how much they hate attack ads.

It is like rubbernecking at traffic accidents or watching Reality Television.

People don't look or watch to see uplifting things, they want to see mud flying.

July 7 Bomber's Goodbye To Daughter

When it's Britian, it's news.

re: #155 BabbaZee,

Ain't it the truth.

{BabbaZeeeeeeeee}

Why are McCain and the RNC such cowards?!? The biggest problem with conservatives is that they refuse to roll up their sleaves and fight for what they believe in. Playing Mr. Niceguy doesn't win elections or ideological battles. Obama is an extremist and John needs to grow some stones.

re: #221 JamesTKirk

The middle of the road is where you find the yellow streak.

Also, if my musical memory serves me, the dead skunk.
(Wish I knew how to find/do links. Also wish I could figure out the microwave.)

re: #229 rawmuse

Just ask W how the middle ground is working out for him. Approval rating lower than Truman's. If he had stuck to pleasing conservatives, his approval rating would be about double.

Perhaps history will be as kind to GWB as it has been to Truman.

re: #226 Ben Hur

I don't understand why calling Barry a radical is out of bounds.

* * *
Because democrats think radical is chic, and naive people will think radical is a good thing. Remember their marxista kefiyyeh fashions & marxista flags are OK; but American flags are not to be worn or displayed.

Hey whaddya know, Obama finally agrees to go on Fox.

World Council of Churches Climate Change Petition

The WCC has had a substantial programme addressing the issue of climate change. After a consultation in Driebergen in 1993, a discussion document (ref. 7) was widely circulated, with a follow up work in 1996-8 (ref. 8). With its global constituency, the emphasis was especially on the impact on communities in the South. This work was done somewhat independent of the above European initiatives until the launch in 1996 of a petition campaign on Climate Change, which called on churches of all industrialised nations to urge their governments to set serious greenhouse gas emission targets beyond 2000. Many European churches took part, but the number of signatures was relatively small. In the UK, the "top-down" approach from the church administrations tended to work well only where there were local activists within a congregation. Nonetheless, the formal presentation in March 1997 of the combined petitions to the UN co-ordinators of the climate change negotiations in Bonn was a notable event, which significantly raised the seriousness of the moral dimension of the issue to the delegates.

Just cause we are just now waking up and smelling these deceptions does not mean they are "new"

BTW: WCC is a commie infiltration group

re: #203 song_and_dance_man

I still champion Lieberman as veep. Pull votes from the (D)'s and piss off the Muslims in one fell stroke.

Plus, Joe is somewhat a conservative (D), as if that means anything nowadays.

/Romney bow your head

Lieberman IS more conservative than McCain when it comes to stances on gun control (despite McCains WORDS as of late)

However, it would be the nail in the coffin. As much as I admire Lieberman's stances on opposition to islamic terror (in conflict with the Democrat party line), he is a liberal fellow on most everything else.

I'd vote third party LONG before I'd vote McCain/Lieberman.

I don't want the RNC to be rewarded for moving to the Left.

re: #211 incanus

You're not thinking Pawlenty?

Not a chance that McCain could win MN.

That's the state that, despite the rest of the country, still voted for Humphrey.

re: #234 davenp35

Why are McCain and the RNC such cowards?!? The biggest problem with conservatives is that they refuse to roll up their sleaves and fight for what they believe in. Playing Mr. Niceguy doesn't win elections or ideological battles. Obama is an extremist and John needs to grow some stones.

The problem with McCain and the RNC is that they are NOT conservatives.

"Mayday" McCain may turn out to be just another empty chute.

re: #234 davenp35

Why are McCain and the RNC such cowards?!? The biggest problem with conservatives is that they refuse to roll up their sleaves and fight for what they believe in. Playing Mr. Niceguy doesn't win elections or ideological battles. Obama is an extremist and John needs to grow some stones.

* * *
Independents & hawkish bitter democrats need to agree that Obama is not presidential material. The case has to be made so people will agree this is a fact.

It is the job of people who care about the country, not JUST conservatives, to make the case.

We can help make the case by word of mouth, the web, etc. It's not just TOP DOWN from campaigns, but bottom up.

re: #203 song_and_dance_man,

Lieberman's a Liberal on everything but the War. Pick Lieberman as VP, and you might as well tell the Conservative base to go fuck themselves in exactly those words. They'll just stay home. No real point in voting.

No, McCain has to pick a conservative VP. The question is who.

re: #235 wolfie

Is this what you are looking for?

Dead Skunk

re: #239 rawmuse

Hey whaddya know, Obama finally agrees to go on Fox.

* * *
Hillary's been on Fox & Friends lately.
Terry McCauliffe praised Fox news recently.

It's where the bitter voters are!
/sarc

re: #246 Iron Fist

Lieberman's a Liberal on everything but the War. Pick Lieberman as VP, and you might as well tell the Conservative base to go fuck themselves in exactly those words...

...again.

re: #235 wolfie

Which browser are you using?

John McGeritol doesn't excite me. We're getting a Senator for President. Whoopeee!

/

re: #247 Bubblehead II

Is this what you are looking for?

Dead Skunk

You are an angel !
Yes indeed!

I'm a NC girl and yes, it's like that! :)

McCain/Dole 2008

Not Bob, of course.

re: #250 Roger

Which browser are you using?

Er,.....um............I'll have to wait until Mr. Wolf or one of the children come home to answer that! (Yes, I'm that pathetic.)
Actually the 6 yr old next door might know. His cat is named Browser.

The only Democrat VP that I"d accept for McCain is....

... wait for it....

Zell Miller.

THis is a PDF
but I think her bullshit quote is here somewhere

I'm getting close

Send the 527s after Obama now, but let McCain stay out until the Democratic nominee is settled.

re: #237 song_and_dance_man

The Harlot takes shape.

The Great Whore is not what many think it may be. It is a corporate conglomeration of many political and 'so called' religious entities that seek to replace the true bride from it's marriage to the True Host.

/yeah this will be lost on many, and yes it sucks.

DING! DING! Just as the bride is a conglomeration of the the faithful, who have prepared themselves spiritually.

This ad looks to me like a perfect example of judging "a man not by the color of his skin, but by the content of his character"......ironic, no?

re: #158 Ward Cleaver

McCain has been nicer to Obama than is he to us conservatives (he told our Sen. Cornyn to f-ck off). There's something wrong with that, IMHO.

Yep. While I believe many conservatives will vote for McCain this election simply because the alternative is too horrible to contemplate, I'm beginning to wonder whether we aren't about to see a split in both parties.
On the Democrat side, look who they've been nominating and who their choices were, nothing but hard-left socialist (to be kind) radicals as far as the eye could see. If you are a Kennedy era, "vote Democrat because my daddy and grandpa were democrat" union member who hunts, goes to church, and has a semblance of moral foundation, you've got to be cringing at what the democrat party has become, the positions it champions, and the people leading it. They stand for everything you oppose with the exception, perhaps, of "sticking to the man and the rich". The current party has drummed out the likes of Zell Miller and other southern conservatives (unless they need them to win an election to gain control of congress). Given this case, I would think that a Zell Miller like party could easily split off from the bunch of stalinists running the party.

On the Republican side, similar issues exist. There isn't a single real conservative (with maybe the exception of Fred) who was running. We now have the Rockefeller republicans back in power. It's pretty hard to tell what difference they have from the majority of democrats. It's certainly not lower taxes, less intrusive and smaller government, or getting government out of the way of the people so they can excel. Democrat-lite is about the best that can be said of them, their motto seems to be "we won't be quite as intrusive as those on the other side of the aisle." I mean even Newt is making commercials with Nancy Pelosi saying "they have come together" to take on man-made global warming. Bull*, Nancy didn't go anywhere, Newt caved, surrendered and capitulated to the hoax of man-made global warming -- the commercial was just the confirmation of the surrender. Other examples abound, I believe GW was probably the last statist one-world candidates that conservatives could support because he still held to some conservative principles and demonstrated them. The current candidate and others are actually doing their pest to poke a finger in the eyes of solid conservatives. All that is needed is a strong conservative voice, and a viable conservative, constitutional party could easily emerge from the modern republican party.

I just don't see either party as fully representing their constituencies anymore. A split won't happen now, neither side wants to lose this coming election -- but following this election, it sure seems like the seeds are there.

re: #262 song_and_dance_man

The greatest threat America (think of the principles of freedom and liberty) faces is the advance of fascism. It comes in many forms - from the socialist ideals from the likes of Cackle Rodham and B. Husseim, who seem to slouch toward that aim, to the very clear and present danger that Islam poses.

Carter, a former president, meets with the terrorist org Hamas. What does this mean to the left?

Joe, although a vote casting member for the left, holds to need to stop terrorism, and I think he gets it.

That's fine, but when he supports every other leftist agenda of the DNC, how does he help conservatives or America?

It doesn't help to protect our outsides if we're going to slide into socialism from within. If you have a cavity, you don't make sure to use toothpaste that builds up enamel.... you have to take care of the rot on the inside as well.

We talk about fighting islamic terror in order to protect America and the freedom she provides..... Shouldn't we also protect America and those freedoms from the socialists that make up the DNC?

Instead, we reward the RNC's movement to the left by supporting people like McCain.... who is only called a maverick, instead of a traitor, by the MSM because he is siding with Democrats instead of against them. (i.e. Zell Miller being called a backstabbing trator)...

Remember that when Lieberman was booted from the DNC, he DID win as an Independent, then immediately buddied up to the DNC again.

Despite any romanticized conservative bend in him regarding the war on terror, he is a liberal nonetheless.

OH GTFOH, dig this

PANTHEISM RECONSTRUCTED: ECOTHEOLOGY AS A SUCCESSOR TO THE JUDEO-CHRISTIAN, ENLIGHTENMENT, AND POSTMODERNIST PARADIGMS

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Have a seat
Someone from our Feral Jewtian dept will be with you in a moment

re: #252 wolfie

Your welcome. Anything for the Lady holding a gun, :-)

McCain can kiss my NC Republican ass...

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I. can. not.

Wow, glad to see that at least somebody here in NC has some sense!

The Shrewd Play Behind McCain's Disavowal of the NC GOP Ad, from Jim Geraghty:

Does no one else see what's going on here?

How many other North Carolina Republican Party ads have you heard about this year? Last year? The year before that?

By criticizing the ad, McCain turned it into a national story, which means the ad is likely to be replayed on the cable networks and linked on YouTube and discussed on the talk shows and talk radio and written about in newspapers and magazines. This ad has 76,000 views on YouTube already, and it was posted online Tuesday.

And McCain gets to take the high road, saying he doesn't want to see negative campaigning done on his behalf.