NO MONEY FOR YOU!

"I have no interest in pursuing victory by laying the facts before the voting public."
--John McCain

McCain supported Reagan?

John McCain is still stuck on stupid.

McCain has no business discussing "reality" or any other concept with which he has no experience.

Mixed signals? Deliberate deception? Indirect maneuver inspired by Sun Tzu? "Maskirovka"? "Dezinformatsiya"? Or just plain bad idea? Wait and see. Oh well.

"Can't we all just get along?"

Yesterday I suggested that McCain is doing this to give the ad national exposure. At this point, I'm not so sure.

That is because they are "mavericks".

Lincoln, T.R. and Ronald Reagan would all have been appalled by "Rev." Wright's

"God Damn America"

and they would have said so, Mr. McCain.

I have a hard time remaining civil in my comments about BHO and the Democratic Party so I'll quit now.

He won't be happy until Obama is president?

John, get a freakin' clue. Your main plan right now should be to let everyone else attack Obama (especially Hillary). Let them battle it out. Do not jump in. Yet.

This is why I have issues with (as far as I can tell) basically having no choice but voting for McCain. Obama spends 20 years dragging his family to listen to a guy who thinks the U.S. government invented AIDS to get back at black people, and it's not relevant?

mccain is out of touch with conservatives, the Republican Party, and REALITY!

Vote R in your local elections.

What in the wide, wide world of sports is McCain trying to do, pull another Bob Dole?

Well, you have to admit, John McCain is very mature.

Everyday there is less to like about McCain.

Sigh.

Telling them to stop once and letting it rest was a strategy.

Getting into a pissing contest is McCain being a dumb ass

personally i think it's politically brilliant. disavow yourself, giving yourself plausible deniability, while at the same time propelling a state ad to national prominence.

one liberal, one socialist, and one marxist. these are our choices in 2008?

Juan McCain should STFU and let those of us in North Carolina decide what kinds of adds we need for a Gubernatorial race.

one liberal, one socialist, and one marxist, how Effin' disappointing!

Probably a calculated move, the ad will still go out and McCain can claim he's above petty name-calling or some such.

Abraham Lincoln would have been a-ok with Jeremiah Wright's remarks.

/// sarc. off

McCain is right on the edge of senility. I have some concerns that he doesn't disqualify himself between now and November. As to the odds of him making it through even a first four-year term, I dunno.

Yeah, his mother. Would you want her as president?

He is an idiot.

McCain/Obama 08

re: #8 brainsample

Yesterday I suggested that McCain is doing this to give the ad national exposure. At this point, I'm not so sure.

"Senator, can I interest you in some bullet proof shoes?"

"I'm a Republican and I'm a maverick, damn it, and if you don't listen to me and do as I say you're out of touch!"

/Juan McCain

re: #18 beblebrox

personally i think it's politically brilliant. disavow yourself, giving yourself plausible deniability, while at the same time propelling a state ad to national prominence.

See, what's what I hoped at first - it was McCain and the NC Repubs working both sides.

But I don't think that any longer.

. I want more Jeremiah Wright and more cowbell.

The key scene in the film "The Candidate" starring Robert Redford (from the '70s) is when he is talking with a strategist, who informs Redford -- who has been recruited somewhat unwillingly to be a gubernatorial candidate -- that the reason they're conducted such a lame campaign is that the goal is for him to LOSE. I forget the plot intricacies of why, but Redford eventually shakes off his handlers and goes off to actually win.

Watching McCain's campaign, I am reminded of that film -- they seem intent on losing on purpose, as if that was some kind of clever counter-intuitive goal.

I need to find something to cling to.

I heard a sound clip from the head of the RNC in NC this morning say the exact same thing but in reverse. She basically said he doesn't understand the political atmosphere in NC. I'm going to have to obviously side with NC in this case. McCain's idea of 'reailty' is doing whatever he can to keep the dems happy. Hopefully, come the general election, he'll turn on 'em. But I'm definitely not counting on it.

re: #18 beblebrox

personally i think it's politically brilliant. disavow yourself, giving yourself plausible deniability, while at the same time propelling a state ad to national prominence.

I would agree, except I'm pretty sure he's completely serious.

they’re out of touch with reality and the Republican Party.

I believe it's called "projection".

Hold on, I have a crazy theory here.

It is possible, just possible, that McCain is mad because this material was going to feature in some great ads later and springing them now gives the Obama campaign time to wait out the effect?

...Nope.

Not possible, damn, I thought we had someone with a mind, here.

I guess people you associate with and judgment aren't important issues for the PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES!

Give the man a waffle, and leave him in peace.

re: #30 Killgore Trout

I need to find something to cling to.

Atheists tend to have that problem. ;)

What he should have said was, "I am running against Barack Obama, not Jeremiah Wright." The lecture was unnecessary.

re: #24 pat

Spock Yoda '08

re: #19 BulgarWheat

one liberal, one socialist, and one marxist. these are our choices in 2008?

One shot.
One bourbon.
And one beer.

LanceKates: McCain 'Out of Touch with Conservatives'

Another "diss" to the conservatives. McCain better pick a heck of a good VP.

O'Reilly had a couple of mindreaders on last night and these learned Ph.D.'s concluded this is all a nefarious plot by McCain to stay above the fray while tacitly supporting the ad.

/They're not fooled.

How is it worst when Obama called all Republican Voters Racist? If Obama can't take the heat he should get out of the kitchen.

Rush said money was pouring into NC Republican HQ.
I was very proud of Ms Daves for standing up to mccain.

re: #36 rawmuse

...but I'll always have porn.

WTF? Does he NOT want to win?

Like Barry Hussein Osama will respond in kind...

re: #38 Ojoe

Spock Yoda '08

The Doctor/Captain Kirk '08

re: #29 zombie

You'd think McCain would've learned a lesson or two after nearly drowning his campaign last summer.

I liked what McCain said here:

Jennifer Rubin asked if Obama has given an unhelpful signal to Hamas? McCain responded that it’s clear who Hamas wants to be President. So does Daniel Ortega. “I will be Hamas’ worst nightmare,” said McCain. McCain noted that Iran is stepping up their export of explosives to Iraq, and they wouldn’t want him to be President either. New slogan: John McCain: The candidate America’s enemies least favorite.

[Link: www.theamericanmind.com...]

re: #38 Ojoe

Spock Yoda '08

Hear hear! I would vote for that ticket in a heartbeat.

re: #28 Tumulus11

. I want more Jeremiah Wright and more cowbell.

Me too! Especially the cowbell.

re: #47 The Pulchritudinous Patriot

You know they'd be better.

That's like the pot calling the kettle black.

/Was that racist?

Of note;

No matter if its a R or a D, the next four years America will have one sort of lame duck for a Pres.

too also:

facts

East Texas State Rep. on what will come in Texas this next session

[Link: www.kltv.com...]

and facts on DL's for Illegals in Main.

[Link: www.alipac.us...]

The best:

Obama says to MSM media that "McCain could pull the ad if he wanted to."

Will the MSM remember that when MoveOn.org has an and with McCain, Osama Bin Laden, a goat and three gallons of lubricant?

Sorry for the mental image, but I bet no one would remind Obama about his statement charging McCain with the task of removing an ad by another group.

re: #50 vxbush

Can we have Teal'c as Secretary of Defense?

re: #47 The Pulchritudinous Patriot

The Doctor/Captain Kirk '08

Alienist!

/

Here's an interesting possibility:

McCain is actually signalling to US -- we independent bloggers.

Here's what he's saying:

"I will take the high road -- absolutely no negative ads, and I will not attack my opponents. Strictly a positive 'message campaign.'

However, that means it is up to YOU, my unaffiliated supporters, to be my attack dogs. I want you to take Obama (or Hillary) down, yet I also want to be able to honestly disassociate myself from you."

That way, we get the best of both worlds.

We'll SwiftBlog Obama while McCain keeps his hands clean.

How about it? I'm OK with that.

re: #43 jdun

How is it worst when Obama called all Republican Voters Racist? If Obama can't take the heat he should get out of the kitchen.

If you said that about Hillary, you'd be sexist!

All he had to say was, "The NC Republicans acted independently of our campaign. We had no prior knowledge of the ad and we cannot prevent them from acting as they see fit."

McCain tends to be a little self-righteous about how upright and moral he is, so he felt he had to say something to protect his self-image. This is why even if McCain becomes president, he will never be the leader of the Republican Party.

Hey, I like that ad up top with F. Lee Levin on it.

McCain is the one who is "out of touch with reality ". Senator McCain, let's just think of it as most of us conservative Republicans are just mavericks like you! Yes you are doing a great job of winning back the conservative base - keep up the great work.

re: #58 zombie

From your keyboard to McCain's ears...

Every time I think I can cast a vote for the guy, he opens his mouth and says something stupid.

PLEASE stick to your biography and shut up about politics and policy.

re: #52 Ojoe

You know they'd be better.

Yep.

We have a Time Lord, who doesn't give second chances to anyone and can regenerate, at the top of the ticket, and to charm the wives of foreign leaders as VP.

He bites the hand that feeds him. Again.

This is quite the trend McCain has. He has no problem going soft on his political opponents across the aisle, but will unleash all kinds of craziness on those within the GOP who cross him - even by running accurate ads about Obama and Clinton.

No wonder so many in the GOP are going to be holding their nose when they vote in November. The stink from this election is almost too much to bear.

re: #58 zombie

Fine with me

re: #27 Diamond Bullet

See, what's what I hoped at first - it was McCain and the NC Repubs working both sides.

But I don't think that any longer.

I dunno. I have no reason to not believe it. it would take a lot to convince me that any politician wasn't a conniving S.O.B.

re: #57 vxbush

Alienist!

/

lol

does mccain want to win this thing?
sheesh.

re: #58 zombie

Here's an interesting possibility:

McCain is actually signalling to US -- we independent bloggers.

Here's what he's saying:

"I will take the high road -- absolutely no negative ads, and I will not attack my opponents. Strictly a positive 'message campaign.'

However, that means it is up to YOU, my unaffiliated supporters, to be my attack dogs. I want you to take Obama (or Hillary) down, yet I also want to be able to honestly disassociate myself from you."

That way, we get the best of both worlds.

We'll SwiftBlog Obama while McCain keeps his hands clean.

How about it? I'm OK with that.

Plausible.

Even if not, he's already being accused of it.

So he may as well proceed.

re: #17 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

Sigh.

Telling them to stop once and letting it rest was a strategy.

Getting into a pissing contest is McCain being a dumb ass

agreed .

re: #58 zombie

Swiftblogging -- is that original? I like it very much.

re: #71 JammieWearingFool

Plausible.

Even if not, he's already being accused of it.

So he may as well proceed.

So one can have one's cake and eat it too!

"The last thing he's qualified to give a tour of is reality."
/Seinfeld on Kramer - it works here, too.

The major disappointment that I have seen with the Republican leadership over the years, and I speak as a lifelong Republican, is that they ain't got no fight in them. They don't fight for what they believe in, which probably explains why they keep losing support. All I see from the Republicans are reasons to not vote for them. Where is a third party when you need one?

"Swiftblogging" good rotating title.

re: #58 zombie

I made that observation yesterday, but he's straining credulity by going after the NC GOP in this way.

Hey, Johnny, here's the reality, you are/were one of the worst of the republican candidates. You are only there because independent and Democrats voted for you in open primaries. They are not going to vote for you in the general. And quite frankly, many of us may not either.

I think John McCain simply knows what he's doing.

Obama and Hillary are slapping each other so hard and so fast right now that neither of them -- whoever wins the Democratic primary -- will emerge undamaged. McCain, meanwhile, has quietly taken the high road. Perhaps a bit too high for some people's tastes, but it's a sound strategy nonetheless: Why trade blows with your opponents when they're already pummeling each other?

re: #74 The Pulchritudinous Patriot

So one can have one's cake and eat it too!

Mmm. Cake.

I already had some today!

re: #58 zombie

There is something to that. After all, Bush distanced himself from the Swift Boaters, and they proved to be most effective in defeating Kerry.

BTW: it's good to see you back!

re: #76 hrhamilton

The third party is confined to the Capitol broom closet since that is about how much power third parties have in our "first past the post" election system.

Besides, the Dems should split up before the GOP.

Imagine Democrat Balkanization (without the actual violence)...

C'mon. You folks are all wrong, wrong, wrong. I got this in the mail today. We really need to ponder this.

"We in Holland cannot figure out why you are even bothering to hold an election.

"On the Democrat side, you have a bitch who is a lawyer, married to a bastard lawyer, and a lawyer who is married to a bitch who is a lawyer.

"On the Republican side, you have a true war hero married to a beautiful blond with a huge chest who owns a beer distributorship.

Is there really a contest here?"

re: #58 zombie

I sure hope so.

I'd still rather have a Ted Nugent / R Lee Ermey '08 ticket, though.

re: #18 beblebrox

Bingo.

If McCain, or the RNC, really wanted the ad to be pulled, the ad would be pulled.

By publicly criticizing the NC GOP, McCain offers the appearance of being above dirty politics. It helps to maintain the "Maverick" fiction. By keeping in the news cycle something that would have otherwise been largely ignored nationally, the NC ad gets played repeatedly - for free! - on major media outlets.

Listen to what McCain said. He's disassociating from false accusations of racism which NONE of us need, since they ARE FALSE--i hope we can say that about our lizardly selves.

Since Obama supporters & campaign manager Plouffe have said only racists will vote for McCain, it's good to point out McCain's Republican party IS the party of Lincoln (Emancipators), Teddy Roosevelt (trust busting & national park building & sending the US Navy round the world) & Ronald Reagan (who had democrats defecting to Reagan republicanism).

Republicans had women & black candidates for president first, and they were spirited, respectful candidacies.

Let the Dems wallow in their swillish stuff, WE don't need to go there.

re: #58 zombie

Here's an interesting possibility:

McCain is actually signalling to US -- we independent bloggers.

Here's what he's saying:

"I will take the high road -- absolutely no negative ads, and I will not attack my opponents. Strictly a positive 'message campaign.'

However, that means it is up to YOU, my unaffiliated supporters, to be my attack dogs. I want you to take Obama (or Hillary) down, yet I also want to be able to honestly disassociate myself from you."

That way, we get the best of both worlds.

We'll SwiftBlog Obama while McCain keeps his hands clean.

How about it? I'm OK with that.

Dammit Zombie, you have put truth to the old saying 'a day without zombie, is like a day with out sunshine'. Good to see you back!

re: #31 bosforus...McCain's idea of 'reailty' is doing whatever he can to keep the dems happy. Hopefully, come the general election, he'll turn on 'em...

Why? They're his constituency!

Ain't nobody in the race working for us. Nobody.

I just wish we had a conservative to vote for.

A Conservative is not the same as 'more conservative than a socialist'

Seems like MCCAIN Feingold campaign finance reform has taken leadership ability away from the candidates. If he wishes he were the repub mainly in control of the message (which always made sense to me! before MFreform), then he should get rid of the reform and let the chips fall where they may. To complain now, when it's working just as he set it up, is sort of silly. Freedom, not govt control!

re: #80 Cognito

Somebody get me a drink... I just agreed with a Cognito post!

I wanted to think McCain is being tone deaf to the Right with this move, but I think he's playing this all kinds of smart. He gets to take the moral high ground, ala Obama, say he's running a clean, high-minded campaign.

And everyone talks about the ad, and the news outlets keep playing the clip of that tool saying "G*d D*** America..!".

Bravo sir, I may have misunderestimated you!

/W off

Hello. I'm John McCain and I do not support ads promoting my candidacy unless everybody is smiling, happy, and appear medicated.

re: #85 Fasternu426

I sure hope so.

I'd still rather have a Ted Nugent / R Lee Ermey '08 ticket, though.

Hunting would not only be allowed, but required.

and we'd each get a watermelon to target practice with.

i guess it is racist to even mention the "messiah"? and any 'person of color' connected to him.

re: #58 zombie

Here's an interesting possibility:

McCain is actually signalling to US -- we independent bloggers.

What's the frequency, Zombie?... ;)

(Time to step away from the keyboard for a bit?)

re: #73 doppelganglander

Swiftblogging -- is that original? I like it very much.

Yeah, I just made it up as I was typing!

Cog-ni-to you bs pummel's all reason.

re: #77 Ojoe

"Swiftblogging" good rotating title.

Swiftblog! Swiftblog!

Here is my official I heart McCain T-shirt.

Some people piss ya off so bad ya just gotta love'em!

He certainly does.

re: #41 rageman

Another "diss" to the conservatives. McCain better pick a heck of a good VP.

I fail to see how that makes a significant difference. He won't listen to anyone, not even his VP, who disagrees with him. Other than breaking ties in the Senate, a VP has exactly zero power an influence beyond what the President allows him.

re: #95 LanceKates

Hunting would not only be allowed, but required.

and we'd each get a watermelon to target practice with.

Ted Nugent for Secretary of Homeland Security!

Gog-in-toes, you bs pummeled mirrors.

re: #39 buzzsawmonkey

heh!

If it isn't racist to call David Duke a racist, then it isn't racist to call "Rev" Wright a racist.

That's how it works.

re: #80 Cognito

Why trade blows with your opponents when they're already pummeling each other?

That's all fine and good if he wants to wait until after the convention, but why attack your own supporters? That's suicide.

re: #47 The Pulchritudinous Patriot

The Doctor/Captain Kirk '08

Wait, why am I #2?

re: #80 Cognito

He needs to stay in the fray to remain in the public eye - or else suffer the same problem as all the other politicians who thought they could stay out of the limelight for weeks and months on end and win elections.

Had he stopped with yesterday's comments, that would have been enough (*Dayenu!*) but he's instead chosen to drop 50 and fire for effect on the NC GOP.

He's going to need the state and local GOP to get the vote out for him, and if he's so quick to go after the NC GOP, why would anyone else go out and do work for him?

Consider this ad was targeted for NC only. In years gone by, that's only who would've seen it. Now it's viral and actually it's pointless even paying to air it now.

Obama has already suffered more damage from it, and now it appears he's in trouble in Indiana.

Operation Chaos, baby!

re: #106 LanceKates

If it isn't racist to call David Duke a racist, then it isn't racist to call "Rev" Wright a racist.

That's how it works.

Racist!

Is it not true that he needs disavow connection to this and the future 527 commercials soon to come? Why does he have to own them. He needs deny, to disavow. The goal is to sit them out as bystander and reap reward.

/just a driveby

re: #95 LanceKates

Hunting would not only be allowed, but required.

and we'd each get a watermelon to target practice with.

I hate watermelons!

re: #18 beblebrox

personally i think it's politically brilliant. disavow yourself, giving yourself plausible deniability, while at the same time propelling a state ad to national prominence.

* * *
Thank you. McCain's conserving campaign war chest & staying above the fray, good things in my book. We need decent people to agree with decency & party of Lincoln's better angels of our nature.

McCain today in a blog interview did point out Hamas supports Obama, while McCain is Hamas' nightmare.

We need the American people on board to fight Hamas & Carter's crew.

re: #103 The Pulchritudinous Patriot

Ted Nugent for Secretary of Homeland Security!

I watch his show on the Outdoor Channel.

He's a friggen hoot. I'd vote for "The Nuge"

This must have been the way it happened to the Whigs.

re: #108 JamesTKirk

Wait, why am I #2?

No offense, but I think The Doctor is a hottie. I mean, dude, he can travel in time!

re: #108 JamesTKirk

Wait, why am I #2?

because sleeping with green women doesn't trump having the Tardis and a sonic screwdriver.

Gag-neet-too, go snowboarding with Al Bonehead.

[Link: www.timberlinelodge.com...]

by Monday, 800 inches in one season

400 normal
so
400 more

nice, this "snowboarding" of the dumb ass commine msm
bunch of low classed liars and frauds supporting lower life scum

re: #103 The Pulchritudinous Patriot

Isn't "Pulchritude" the same as er, what the germans call
"Grossebusten"?

What was the expression (I saw here yesterday)?

If your opponents are busy trying to eat each other, pass the salt and excuse yourself from the table..(?)

re: #111 BeerDrinking_VictoryMonkey

Racist!

NO, not racist.

Typical White Person.

Oh wait.... racist. nevermind.

*grin*

re: #80 Cognito

I think John McCain simply knows what he's doing.

Obama and Hillary are slapping each other so hard and so fast right now that neither of them -- whoever wins the Democratic primary -- will emerge undamaged. McCain, meanwhile, has quietly taken the high road. Perhaps a bit too high for some people's tastes, but it's a sound strategy nonetheless: Why trade blows with your opponents when they're already pummeling each other?

Exactly.

The time to go negative is late in the campaign. By doing it too early, you look mean-spirited and like you have no positive message of your own.

Also, there's little purpose to attacking the Dems until they have chosen a candidate. McCain may as well hold his fire and save his money until H or O is selected at the Dem convention. THEN start pummeling the nominee in September and October.

re: #117 The Pulchritudinous Patriot

No offense, but I think The Doctor is a hottie. I mean, dude, he can travel in time!

So can Kirk - just ask Joan Collins

re: #102 JamesTKirk

I fail to see how that makes a significant difference. He won't listen to anyone, not even his VP, who disagrees with him. Other than breaking ties in the Senate, a VP has exactly zero power an influence beyond what the President allows him.

According to liberal democrats, our current VP is the devil himself... able to do all kinds of crazy stuff!

I think it does matter, though. AGE. The presidency can have an impact on his health. I'd much rather see a Fred Thompson VP than a Mike Huckabee. Whoever it is HAS to have more conservative credentials than McCain. I wouldn't put anything past that guy... McCain/Feingold 2008?

Sorry for the hit and run post (and I haven't had the chance to read the thread, either) but I'm running late.
I have to say, as a North Carolina Republican, that John McCain is the one who is out of touch with reality.
Lincoln, Teddy and Reagan would ALL have jumped over that "Goddamn America" sermon with both feet - not because of race or religion, but for the sentiments expressed ABOUT AMERICA by a long term, extremely close associate and self-confessed spritual advisor of one of the three remaining folks who may be elected President of the United States.
Senator McCain may feel that running that ad (which I haven't seen down here in N.C. btw) is hitting someone below the belt; I think it's hitting someone in their heart. Whether or not Senator Obama, as his wife has explicity said, HATES or DOES NOT RESPECT, The United States of America is a very valid and straight to the point question of a candidate for POTUS.

re: #118 LanceKates

because sleeping with green women doesn't trump having the Tardis and a sonic screwdriver.

Got it in one!

Although the lazers are kinda cool, too. But the sonic screw driver has so many, many uses.

re: #113 Fasternu426

no youtube at work.

re: #94 badsysop

LOL!

re: #125 badsysop

McCain / JC Watts!

re: #106 LanceKates

If it isn't racist to call David Duke a racist, then it isn't racist to call "Rev" Wright a racist.

That's how it works.

Has anyone out there read Obama's first book, Dreams of my Father? I'm on page 130 in the paperback and cannot believe what I am reading! Obama thinks Macolm X had it right. If I inserted the word "white" everywhere "black" is used, the book would be banned. Please, get it, read it and pass it along. We have to stop this creep!

re: #84 toomanysnax

On the Democrat side, you have a bitch who is a lawyer, married to a bastard lawyer, and a lawyer who is married to a bitch who is a lawyer.

On the Republican side, you have a true war hero married to a beautiful blond with a huge chest who owns a beer distributorship.

Is there really a contest here?

Worth repeating.

re: #130 Fasternu426

McCain / JC Watts!

My dream team.

Where on earth is Watts, anyway?

re: #110 JammieWearingFool

This ad is for the North Carolina Gubernatorial race and is not at all associated with McCain's run. Trust me, we have some tax and spend marxists down here that need to be called on the carpet.

McCain needs to get his nose out of this one.

re: #113 Fasternu426

I hate watermelons!

What do you got against watermelons?

re: #117 The Pulchritudinous Patriot

No offense, but I think The Doctor is a hottie. I mean, dude, he can travel in time!

Heh; I just watched "City on the Edge of Forever" last night. Cosmic timing, I tell ya.

re: #128 LanceKates

Was a Mail Call commercial... had watermelons. Did I mention I hate watermelons?

re: #114 alegrias

* * *
Thank you. McCain's conserving campaign war chest & staying above the fray, good things in my book. We need decent people to agree with decency & party of Lincoln's better angels of our nature.

McCain today in a blog interview did point out Hamas supports Obama, while McCain is Hamas' nightmare.

We need the American people on board to fight Hamas & Carter's crew.

So.... NC GOP playing clips of Obama's Spiritual Mentor = Bad

Saying that Obama is Hamas' pick = Good.

?

re: #64 Cicero05

Every time I think I can cast a vote for the guy, he opens his mouth and says something stupid.

PLEASE stick to your biography and shut up about politics and policy.

* * *
McCain is the only one out of the three who wants to WIN against terrorists.

Why would you reject the one candidate who backed the surge in Iraq, and supports our troops, and wants our country to unite to WIN, if you are on this anti-terrorist website?

re: #133 Cognito

Earning money like a good American!

re: #117 The Pulchritudinous Patriot

No offense, but I think The Doctor is a hottie. I mean, dude, he can travel in time!

So can I. Want to meet my humpbacked whales?

re: #135 Kenneth

What do you got against watermelons?

I stand corrected...

re: #120 sojerofgod

Isn't "Pulchritude" the same as er, what the germans call
"Grossebusten"?

I don't understand German, but I somehow got the gist of the meaning of the word "Grosebusten", and no. In my case Pulchritudeinous is defined as: (adj) Characterized by or having great physical beauty and appeal.

An old boyfriend of mine suggested the nicname when I was angsting over what to call myself.

re: #127 The Pulchritudinous Patriot

Got it in one!

Although the lazers are kinda cool, too. But the sonic screw driver has so many, many uses.

It's nice to have another Dr. Who fan around.

:D

What exactly is supposed to be wrong with the ad? I have seen it and it is nothing but the truth. I guess it hurts.

re: #131 toomanysnax

Read the section about how his grandmother was harassed by an aggressive pan-handler at the bus station. It contradicts the version Obama gave in his "race" speech about his grandma being a "typical white person" (ie. afraid of Negroes)

re: #133 Cognito

My dream team.

Where on earth is Watts, anyway?

He pulled out of Politics and is living a nice life, quiet with his family.

Question:

Who won NC in 2004? Bush or Kerry?

re: #18 beblebrox

personally i think it's politically brilliant. disavow yourself, giving yourself plausible deniability, while at the same time propelling a state ad to national prominence.

I want to believe that.

Maybe he has a strategy. Time will tell.

re: #109 lawhawk

He's going to need the state and local GOP to get the vote out for him, and if he's so quick to go after the NC GOP, why would anyone else go out and do work for him?

Exactly. True to his maverick image, he doesn't want our help. Fine by me- he can do it himself.

McCain's the one out of touch with reality. By pissing off the very people he needs to be elected, he's guaranteeing that this time next year, he'll be sitting in his living room in Arizona writing his memoirs and crying in his beer.

re: #137 Fasternu426

Was a Mail Call commercial... had watermelons. Did I mention I hate watermelons?

I've eaten watermelons busted apart in many ways, but never one that was shot apart...

hmm...

re: #139 alegrias

McCain is the only one out of the three who wants to WIN against terrorists.

He wants to win by closing Gitmo, by failing to secure our borders, etc. Not a plan that fills me with confidence.

it is very relevant who obama associated w/. all these unsavory people reflect on his character. the voter has a right to have this information.
btw,is it also 'racist' to discuss william ayers. a terrorist who wished he could have bombed more. and a good friend of abama's.

re: #124 BeerDrinking_VictoryMonkey

So can Kirk - just ask Joan Collins

I don't get it. Sorry.

Speaking of Star Trek...did you see the article about the glasses that help blind people see? It's so Geordi LaForge! Which is the first thing I thought of when I read the article.

re: #141 JamesTKirk

So can I. Want to meet my humpbacked whales?

Does that pickup line even work?

re: #135 Kenneth

Man that's an old pic!

Today all the skinny minnies would be calling that chick a fat pig!

give me a girl with meat on her bones any day,
Don't need no ribs to display.

re: #141 JamesTKirk

So can I. Want to meet my humpbacked whales?

ROFL

re: #134 BulgarWheat

This ad is for the North Carolina Gubernatorial race and is not at all associated with McCain's run. Trust me, we have some tax and spend marxists down here that need to be called on the carpet.

McCain needs to get his nose out of this one.

That's true. It still does Bambi damage though.

re: #123 zombie

Good to see you back, zombie.

re: #156 LanceKates

Does that pickup line even work?

You'd be surprised.

a quick thought on this...maybe McCain is thinking cankles still has a chance and why waste time on obamaman? personally I still think thats why cankles is in the democrat fray still, something or a combination of things may be coming up to sink the hope & change ship of obama.

/probably off base, but who knows?

McCain worries me, he has since his last run in SC when he ripped the religious right. Without them he loses.

re: #153 JamesTKirk

He wants to win by closing Gitmo, by failing to secure our borders, etc. Not a plan that fills me with confidence.

exactly. fighting overseas loses its umph if we leave the backdoor open and allow congress to disarm civilians.

re: #144 LanceKates

It's nice to have another Dr. Who fan around.

:D

It is! I don't feel like a geek anymore.

Have you seen any of the new season yet? I just love Donna!

RIGHT NOW
no reason for John McCain to attack obama the hildabeast is doing it right now. Fox and others are carrying the water on the rev wright issue.

Well I'm glad J.C. Watts is making mad cash and all that -- I'd love to give it a whirl myself -- but I do hope that if McCain calls on him, he answers. It seems to me that at some point a sense of duty to country could preempt money-making for a little while.

And let's be honest here. Becoming VP never sent anyone to the poorhouse.

re: #161 JamesTKirk

You'd be surprised.

I need to rehab my stuff then.

I'm still using "Nice shoes, wanna breed?"

re: #168 LanceKates

I need to rehab my stuff then.

I'm still using "Nice shoes, wanna breed?"

~snort~ lol

re: #165 The Pulchritudinous Patriot

The most current one I've seen was the December 2007 Christmas one with the "Titanic"

I tend to watch it on BBC America and they just finished the episodes with Master.

For those of you who don't know or may have forgotten--how media, leftists, centrists and democrats never forgave George Bush for what some racist South Carolinians said in February of 2000 about John & Cindy McCain's adopted daughter from Bangladesh, to win that primary in South Carolina.

President Bush however innocent of the charge of racism, will have it go down in history as the dirty South Carolina primary of 2000.

Please understand why McCain prefers to remain above-board.

re: #166 yochanan

RIGHT NOW
no reason for John McCain to attack obama

No reason for him to attack the NC GOP to this extent either; except that, in any given conflict, he'll always target the GOP before the Dems.

re: #168 LanceKates

I love men! Ya'll are so entertaining!

John,.....John. Try not to work so hard at fucking up your chances.

Try, instead, to get your head out of touch with the inside of your ass..

re: #167 Cognito

I really really really would love to see him on the ticket!

I'm sure had McAmnesty sat in the pews before David Duke or Mitt Romney sat in the pews of the child rapist church in Texas for the past 20 years, it would also be considered a non-issue by snOb Hussein and his leftist slime.

The only tactical move I can see of this is when the inevitable MoveOn and other lefty lib 527 attack ads come, McAmnesty, having disavowed these can with credibility call on snOb to have them shut down.

re: #168 LanceKates

I need to rehab my stuff then.

I'm still using "Nice shoes, wanna breed?"

"Do you sleep on your stomach? Can I?"

re: #166 yochanan

RIGHT NOW
no reason for John McCain to attack obama the hildabeast is doing it right now. Fox and others are carrying the water on the rev wright issue.

There is also NO REASON for him to attack his base. He doesn't want to go after obama now- fine, but why attack republicans?

re: #169 The Pulchritudinous Patriot

~snort~ lol

oddly enough the women I use that on don't snort and laugh.

rings make those slaps hurt.

*grin*

(I don't use pickup lines on women.... I"m a hermit. Gotta go out to meet women to use lines on them.)

re: #88 coquimbojoe

Dammit Zombie, you have put truth to the old saying 'a day without zombie, is like a day with out sunshine'. Good to see you back!

i second that.

re: #173 The Pulchritudinous Patriot

We get bored easily, 'splains lots.

re: #172 JamesTKirk

GMTA!

re: #155 The Pulchritudinous Patriot

I don't get it. Sorry.

Speaking
of Star Trek...did you see the article about the glasses that help
blind people see? It's so Geordi LaForge! Which is the first thing I
thought of when I read the article.

It's a reference to the classic episode "City on the Edge of Forever," in which Kirk & Spock travel back to Depression era NYC. Kirk falls in love with a beautiful social worker, played by Joan Collins. It turns out that she will start a pacifist movement which delays the U.S. entry into WWII & thereby let the Nazis conquer the world. Joan had to die to save the future from Nazi rule.

The evils of three lessers, day 199....

sigh

#155 Kirk / Collins..

Kirk / Spock went back to pre-WWII earth, met Joan Collins... He had to let her get hit by a car, or else the Nazis would have won the war.

"I'm attempting to make a computer using bearskins and stone knives"....

I am so embarrassed I remember that much....

I saved an op-ed reprinted from The State, of Columbia, S.C., regarding McCain's loss to Bush in the 2000 S.C. primary. A Wall Street Journal columnist on The Capitol Gang dismissed Bush and urged his fellow pundits to look to Michigan, a "more real slice of life" than the Palmetto State, and the State man let him, and McCain, have it. Sad to say that McCain didn't learn that reality isn't just everybody like you. That's strike out in April. He gets three.

re: #178 Sharmuta

There is also NO REASON for him to attack his base. He doesn't want to go after obama now- fine, but why attack republicans?

It is a long and well-documented habit with him. At his advanced years, I doubt if he will change now.

re: #182 Sharmuta

GMTA!

And so do ours!

re: #157 sojerofgod

It's actually a fairly recent picture of a model in Vancouver. She specializes in old-style cheescake and hippy-chick stuff. Typical Canadian left-coast culture.

But I do share your opinion on ribs.

re: #143 The Pulchritudinous Patriot
angsting?
I always knew you could have it, but I didn't know you could Do it, like that...

Perhaps in the grip if enuui?

Tell enuui to keep his filthy hands to himself!

Rush just played the ad again.

Saturation coverage.

Oops, strike one in April! (Now batting, Sigmund Freud!)

re: #170 LanceKates

The most current one I've seen was the December 2007 Christmas one with the "Titanic"

I tend to watch it on BBC America and they just finished the episodes with Master.

BitTorrent.

That said. I thought the last three with the Master were some of the best ever done. Way better than Rose's departure. Still, end of the first season (9 regenerating) was awesome too. You can't beat an episode with the Daleks. I thought that the whole Dalek/Cybermen thing was almost over the top.

I did cry when Rose said good bye to the Doctor on the beach, though. Even if she was getting annoying as a companion.

re: #171 alegrias

For those of you who don't know or may have forgotten--how media, leftists, centrists and democrats never forgave George Bush for what some racist South Carolinians said in February of 2000 about John & Cindy McCain's adopted daughter from Bangladesh, to win that primary in South Carolina.

President Bush however innocent of the charge of racism, will have it go down in history as the dirty South Carolina primary of 2000.

Please understand why McCain prefers to remain above-board.

For those of you who don't know or may have forgotten -- how media, leftists, centrists and democrats never forgave George Bush for winning. Twice.

re: #143 The Pulchritudinous Patriot

Grossenbusten goes "hand in hand" with that.

re: #188 JamesTKirk

LOL!

"The Republican Party. Snatching defeat from the jaws of victory for twenty years."

re: #179 LanceKates

oddly enough the women I use that on don't snort and laugh.

rings make those slaps hurt.

*grin*

(I don't use pickup lines on women.... I"m a hermit. Gotta go out to meet women to use lines on them.)

Don't use lines...they don't work. Just be your clever self.

re: #173 The Pulchritudinous Patriot

I love men! Ya'll are so entertaining!

I do try.

*bows*

Now where'd I leave that Tardis?

stupid cybermen.

re: #184 BabbaZee

Babba! Mah Feral Remnant Sisstah!

Ol Mama Wheat is coming home today. I'm at home watching a tummy ache mini-wheat and the lovely and formidable Mrs. Wheat is picking up the MIL to break her out.

Insane week.

one liberal, one socialist, one marxist......

the clock is indeed ticking as TFK would point out.

re: #168 LanceKates

I like the line in the movie A Beautiful Mind:

"I'm trying to think of what to say to make you want to have sex with me."

It didn't work.

They’re not listening to me because they’re out of touch with reality and the Republican Party

THANK GOD- they're not listening to you!

regardless of his intent on this ad, for those of you considering either not voting, or voting for a 3rd party protest candidate; i have one sentence for you:

"Middle East Special Envoy Jimmy Carter"

OK? If that isn't enough to make you not want to get out and cast a relevant vote, i don't know what will.

re: #183 BeerDrinking_VictoryMonkey

It's a reference to the classic episode "City on the Edge of Forever," in which Kirk & Spock travel back to Depression era NYC. Kirk falls in love with a beautiful social worker, played by Joan Collins. It turns out that she will start a pacifist movement which delays the U.S. entry into WWII & thereby let the Nazis conquer the world. Joan had to die to save the future from Nazi rule.

Oh. I didn't see that one. Thanks!

re: #187 rawmuse

It is a long and well-documented habit with him. At his advanced years, I doubt if he will change now.

Oh- I know, believe me. Sure hope the people who voted for him in the primaries are happy with themselves.

President Bush however innocent of the charge of racism, will have it go down in history as the dirty South Carolina primary of 2000.

Please understand why McCain prefers to remain above-board.

The odd thing is that McCain turned around and hired the same team that ran that campaign for Bush. I'll be surprised if they play it all above board.

re: #109 lawhawk

He needs to stay in the fray to remain in the public eye - or else suffer the same problem as all the other politicians who thought they could stay out of the limelight for weeks and months on end and win elections.

Had he stopped with yesterday's comments, that would have been enough (*Dayenu!*) but he's instead chosen to drop 50 and fire for effect on the NC GOP.

He's going to need the state and local GOP to get the vote out for him, and if he's so quick to go after the NC GOP, why would anyone else go out and do work for him?

* * *
McCain needs John Edwards' disaffected bitter voters to be able to vote for McCain without reservations, after their dem choices have proven themselves scoundrels.

re: #145 kahall

What exactly is supposed to be wrong with the ad? I have seen it and it is nothing but the truth. I guess it hurts.

I think that's what they call being Swift Boated.

re: #200 BulgarWheat

{Bulgarity}

I am glad she's coming home

one liberal, one socialist, one marxist......

clop, clop, clop.....

tick tock!

Wow, I go from hatchling to witnessing the birth (perhaps) of "swiftblogging" in a week.

Talk about 0-60.

re: #36 rawmuse

Atheists tend to have that problem. ;)

No, actually, we don't.

re: #193 The Pulchritudinous Patriot

BitTorrent.

That said. I thought the last three with the Master were some of the best ever done. Way better than Rose's departure. Still, end of the first season (9 regenerating) was awesome too. You can't beat an episode with the Daleks. I thought that the whole Dalek/Cybermen thing was almost over the top.

I did cry when Rose said good bye to the Doctor on the beach, though. Even if she was getting annoying as a companion.

I thought the creepiest thing about Rose was how young she looked compared to how old 9 looked.

I did like how Martha left though, in comparison to Rose. You are definately correct there.

I've been watching Torchwood as well, and Martha made some appearances there. Kind of interesting to see the Dr. Who references.

This North Carolina Republican is very much in touch. The way I see it we have 3 democrats running in this election, the only reason I'm voting for McCain is because he's the most conservative of the 3 democrats. I also changed my party affiliation to participate in operation chaos. Since the Republican party has imploded nothing will make me happier than to see the democrat party follow suit.

Does he actually think the Dems and their MoveOn base will abide by the same standards?

Charles, maybe if you'd stop with all the tinkering I'd stay signed in occasionally. No. It is not me.

Anyway, I wish John would be quiet. I am really not a McCain fan, and it is hard enough to support him for his good points, backs the surge and knows this country must win that war...and all that. That trumps the very long list of stuff I don't like about John.

re: #163 scrapiron

McCain worries me, he has since his last run in SC when he ripped the religious right. Without them he loses.

* * *
McCain GOT RIPPED by the RELIGIOUS WRIGHTS in South Carolina who said horrible things about his adopted daughter.

Besides, Mike Huckabee's going to campaign for McCain, & Huckabee's not a baiter is he?

re: #201 Kenneth

I like the line in the movie A Beautiful Mind:

It didn't work.

Heh. I'll stick with my plan:

Don't try to have sex with females unless they're hitched to me.

Eh, I can't get fired up over this story.

If the everyone in the GOP agrees on everything, the LLL/MSM sneer that they are in lockstep and no one thinks for themselves.

If they disagree over a tactic, the LLL/MSM sneer that things are falling apart, in-fighting, or that McCain clearly lacks the strength to "control" his underlings.

The NC GOP thinks the Rev. Wright angle is worth an ad; McCain doesn't. So what? Either way, the MSM will paint McCain/the GOP as in the wrong, probably both at the same time.

re: #195 Endangered in MASS

Grossenbusten goes "hand in hand" with that.

Ahhh.

This is the official McCain campaign website. If you mouse over the "Get Involved" over his head, there is a "Contact Us" option in the pop-menu that you will see. Tell him how you feel. I already have.

As I said yesterday, McCain can kiss my conservative NC Republican ass.

re: #204 The Pulchritudinous Patriot

Oh. I didn't see that one. Thanks!

Probably the best episode of the original series - yes, even better than the one with Space Lincoln!

re: #210 brainwizard73

Ya gotta keep up around here or you'll get left behind in a flash.

I been here a while and just found out who 'stan' was.

I thought he was somebody's brudder!

re: #211 Tigger2005

No, actually, we don't.

Tell Kilgore.

re: #213 cjstavern

cj, there's only one problem with operation Chaos in NC. We don't have a solid Republican Gubernatorial candidate yet. We need to firm that up,.....

crap, just vote against Perdue.....I guess she'd be in prison in a year or two, but think of the damage she could do.

Bolton/Petraeus 2008. Screw both loser parties. They've both screwed us over long enough. We need a party with the guts to stand AGAINST people like the one McCain hasn't got the stomach to stand against.

If McCain hasn't the backbone to take the fight to the enemy,he needs to do us all a favor and get out of the running and let someone in the running who does. Yes, our nation needs a Bolton or Petraeus to step up and kick these wussy politicians out of the picture.

re: #222 sojerofgod

Stan is allan.

re: #217 LanceKates

Heh. I'll stick with my plan:

Don't try to have sex with females unless they're hitched to me.

I take it, then, that you are in favor of the whoresless carriage?

re: #212 LanceKates

I thought the creepiest thing about Rose was how young she looked compared to how old 9 looked.

I did like how Martha left though, in comparison to Rose. You are definately correct there.

I've been watching Torchwood as well, and Martha made some appearances there. Kind of interesting to see the Dr. Who references.

9 is my fave and Christopher Eccleston is on my crush list. I liked Martha because she was strong. She was great in Torchwood. Torchwood is an awesome show as well. I cried at the end of the season finale of that one as well. I've been watching it since show one.

re: #185 brent

#155 Kirk / Collins..

Kirk / Spock went back to pre-WWII earth, met Joan Collins... He had to let her get hit by a car, or else the Nazis would have won the war.

"I'm attempting to make a computer using bearskins and stone knives"....

I am so embarrassed I remember that much....

I *loved* that line.

re: #195 Endangered in MASS

Grossenbusten goes "hand in hand" with that.

/no actual link to the song available

re: #125 badsysop

According to liberal democrats, our current VP is the devil himself... able to do all kinds of crazy stuff!

I think it does matter, though. AGE. The presidency can have an impact on his health. I'd much rather see a Fred Thompson VP than a Mike Huckabee. Whoever it is HAS to have more conservative credentials than McCain. I wouldn't put anything past that guy... McCain/Feingold 2008?

* * *
Fred Thompson said NO WAY is he running for VP last night.

Feingold wants to lose the war & run. Sorry, McCain won't ask a cut & runner to be his possible replacement.

re: #227 buzzsawmonkey

I take it, then, that you are in favor of the whoresless carriage?

I bow before you!

re: #221 BeerDrinking_VictoryMonkey

Probably the best episode of the original series - yes, even better than the one with Space Lincoln!

No...!

Is it even better than Mudd?

re: #135 Kenneth

What do you got against watermelons?

EAT THE DAMN WATERMELON

OT:

Who is 'Rogue198', and why are they dinging down when I can't even find a post from them in the last 6 months?

re: #219 The Pulchritudinous Patriot

He means like, in the song Yankee Doodle

where the line goes,

And with the girls be handy

re: #227 buzzsawmonkey

I take it, then, that you are in favor of the whoresless carriage?

Yup. heh. Those pesky 'prudish' morals of mine.

re: #222 sojerofgod

Ya gotta keep up around here or you'll get left behind in a flash.

I been here a while and just found out who 'stan' was.

I thought he was somebody's brudder!

ROTF!
now you'll know what
Lizards are clam in the face of Stan!
means

(calm)

re: #178 Sharmuta

There is also NO REASON for him to attack his base. He doesn't want to go after obama now- fine, but why attack republicans?

Who is McCain's base? I don't think he has one except by default.

They’re not listening to me because they’re out of touch with reality and the Republican Party

How the Hell did we end up with this old Gluehorse?

re: #226 Silhouette

Stan is allan.

and allan is molech

re: #235 RickZ

OT:

Who is 'Rogue198', and why are they dinging down when I can't even find a post from them in the last 6 months?

I haven't dinged anyone down today...and I'm a longtime lurker, few poster...though I post spinnoffs quite often...

re: #228 The Pulchritudinous Patriot

9 is my fave and Christopher Eccleston is on my crush list. I liked Martha because she was strong. She was great in Torchwood. Torchwood is an awesome show as well. I cried at the end of the season finale of that one as well. I've been watching it since show one.

I didn't cry, but I did stare at the tv with my mouth open in shock.

Of course, I have a thing for Tosh.

The part, though, that I thought was most emotionally moving was Jack letting them bury him.

re: #236 sojerofgod

He means like, in the song Yankee Doodle

where the line goes,

Got ya...so in order for a woman to be Pulchritudinous, she must also be Grossebusten? (or am I mis-translating the word?)

re: #233 The Pulchritudinous Patriot

No...!

Is it even better than Mudd?

The Mudd episodes were great for their humor, City on the Edge of Forever was great for it's poignancy (and as a veiled slap against pacifism in the middle of Vietnam).

re: #217 LanceKates

Hitched to you?

I guessing you're talking about something more permanent than an ISDN internet connection...

re: #151 Vinegar Joe

McCain's the one out of touch with reality. By pissing off the very people he needs to be elected, he's guaranteeing that this time next year, he'll be sitting in his living room in Arizona writing his memoirs and crying in his beer.

* * *
Even if you choose to sit it out & pout & let Totalitarian take over, McCain will still be in the Senate, back benching & supporting our troops and our fight against terrorists.

So relax, take another vacation from history and enjoy Obama/CarterII

re: #240 Maximu§

They’re not listening to me because they’re out of touch with reality and the Republican Party

How the Hell did we end up with this old Gluehorse?

The Dems had a little Operation Chaos of their own going on.

re: #243 LanceKates

I didn't cry, but I did stare at the tv with my mouth open in shock.

Of course, I have a thing for Tosh.

The part, though, that I thought was most emotionally moving was Jack letting them bury him.

Jack is da bomb! I liked Owen, but then I'm partial to men who need saving.

re: #240 Maximu?

They’re not listening to me because they’re out of touch with reality and the Republican Party

How the Hell did we end up with this old Gluehorse?

The Democrat version of Operation Chaos, mixed with MSM's rooting for the most liberal candidates (I.e. Rudy, McCain, Romney, anyone but Hunter)

re: #155 The Pulchritudinous Patriot
Got a link?

whoever gets the nomination is going skewer mccain w/ the help of the msm.
he is going to look like a stunned old fool wondering why the jackals are surrounding him.
how much does he think he can heap on his own party until they just decide to leave him to a fate he has created.

Gotta go...work is calling. BBL

Lance...we must chat about Torchwood and Dr. Who later.

re: #246 Kenneth

Hitched to you?

I guessing you're talking about something more permanent than an ISDN internet connection...

lol... Yes, I'm looking for a relationship with the speed of a 33.6k modem and the lasting power of gold.

re: #225 WayDownSouthInBama

Bolton/Petraeus 2008. Screw both loser parties. They've both screwed us over long enough. We need a party with the guts to stand AGAINST people like the one McCain hasn't got the stomach to stand against.

If McCain hasn't the backbone to take the fight to the enemy,he needs to do us all a favor and get out of the running and let someone in the running who does. Yes, our nation needs a Bolton or Petraeus to step up and kick these wussy politicians out of the picture.

Well, if McCain would announce that Bolton would become Secretary of State, and Petraeus Secretary of Defense...
Bolton survived the UN brain rot; I think he can deal with the State Department.

re: #251 newsjunkie_ky

Got a link?

Let me look....

re: #58 zombie

Here's an interesting possibility:

McCain is actually signalling to US -- we independent bloggers.

Here's what he's saying:

"I will take the high road -- absolutely no negative ads, and I will not attack my opponents. Strictly a positive 'message campaign.'

However, that means it is up to YOU, my unaffiliated supporters, to be my attack dogs. I want you to take Obama (or Hillary) down, yet I also want to be able to honestly disassociate myself from you."

That way, we get the best of both worlds.

We'll SwiftBlog Obama while McCain keeps his hands clean.

How about it? I'm OK with that.

But is it really the moral high ground to ignore those aspects of Obama?

I HAVE NO USE FOR DEFEATISM IN ANY OF ITS FORMS.

re: #235 RickZ

OT:

Who is 'Rogue198', and why are they dinging down when I can't even find a post from them in the last 6 months?

There is several lurkers / dingers.

Ignore 'em if they haven't got the guts to come out and play.

re: #253 The Pulchritudinous Patriot

Gotta go...work is calling. BBL

Lance...we must chat about Torchwood and Dr. Who later.

Anytime!

It is a nice departure from politics and gun control!

heh.

re: #244 The Pulchritudinous Patriot
Well actually.....no.

I think i like your definition better anyway cuz, while there is something to be said for the buxom class, the body of the beauty remains in the mind's eye. Afterall, the eye of the beholder is the determinant of the scale of the attraction.

(I'm trying to talk like Obama here)

re: #257 Eagle

But is it really the moral high ground to ignore those aspects of Obama?

Nope.

All it takes for Evil to prosper is for good men to do nothing.

re: #178 Sharmuta

There is also NO REASON for him to attack his base. He doesn't want to go after obama now- fine, but why attack republicans?

* * *
McCain asked them to cease and desist. That's not attacking but asking politely--since he can't control the RNC/GOP.

Who will McCain pick for his VP?

Not Fred Thompson: too old
Not Mitt: won't get the religious conservative vote
Not Rice: too much a Bushbot

McCain will pick somebody younger, more conservative and from a must-win state.