Posts tagged ‘McCain’
Meghan McCain rips Gingrich’s wife (and her own Mom?)
Of course, she doesn’t rip her own mom…because “that’s different”. Like when a pro-lifer’s 19-year old college freshman daughter gets pregnant and has an abortion. Like when a conservative’s child announces she’s gay and they suddenly start supporting alternative lifestyle (for their own kids, not yours).
“As much as you don’t like talking about Calllista Gingrich,” [Meghan] McCain told the panel of guests on “Now with Alex Wagner,” “I think the fact that she was a third wife and a mistress and is coming off somewhat icy and [her] reputation of being somewhat controversial within their campaign is doing damage. Maybe just to politicos, but I think it’s something that people, and especially values voters, will bring into the race.”
But those criticisms could equally be applied to [Meghan] McCain’s mother, Cindy McCain, who was subjected to intense media scrutiny during Sen. John McCain’s 2008 presidential campaign.
Cindy McCain began dating Sen. McCain in 1979, nearly a year before he filed for divorce from his first wife, Carol McCain.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/12/20/meghan-mccain-unleashes-o_n_1161179.html?ref=politics
Sarah Palin – what a mistake
Successful campaigns are what one team did right, combined with what the other side did wrong. As I mentioned, I think the Palin choice was the biggest mistake. Here’s what Julian Zelizer has to say:
Team McCain ran a campaign that ranks on the bottom of this list. This was an aimless and chaotic operation made worse by poor choices at key moments.
Their first mistake was picking Gov. Sarah Palin. Though in the first week following her selection, Palin energized the conservative base of the GOP, she became a serious drag on the ticket.
This turned into one of the worst picks since McGovern selected Thomas Eagleton, a Missouri senator who withdrew after revealing that he had gone through electroshock therapy and suffered from “nervous exhaustion.” By picking Palin, McCain simultaneously eliminated his own best argument against Senator Obama—the limited experience of his opponent—while compounding his own most negative image, that of someone who was erratic and out of control. The pick also fueled the feeling that grew throughout September and October that the Republican candidate was willing to take any step necessary to win the campaign. The Palin pick made every decision that followed seem purely political.
Hate Mongering
McCain and the politics of hatred, fear, and prejudice: http://therealmccain.com/mob/ (2 min)
And this next one…it’s about a large group of hate mongers being catered to right now….Wow.
(The 60 seconds is an introduction (a little slow, IMO), but it picks up quickly)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGn9F1Jw24U&NR=1
It reminded me of this video from 50 years ago – it’s the exact same group of people, just a generation removed:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgH7WgtIU2k (15 seconds).
You can sign a petition to be sent to John McCain after watching the video. And, if you’ve got $5 you can fight against this political campaign:
http://my.barackobama.com/page/contribute
Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time.
We are the ones we’ve been waiting for.
We are the change that we seek.
— Obama
He’s Never Seemed Smaller
This is the intro to an essay by Susan Estrich, click the link below to read the whole thing:
Smear Campaigning Should Be Beneath John McCain
Friday, October 10, 2008
By Susan Estrich
FOX NEWS
Imagine that. We’re in the midst of an international economic crisis and the McCain folks are trying to make hay out of what a guy who hosted a reception for Obama 13 years ago was doing 20 years before that.
Is William Ayers the best the McCain camp can do? The ads claim that Obama’s relationship with Ayres is somehow proof of his dangerous ambition. But it’s McCain’s blind ambition, or his campaign’s bad judgment, that is painfully on display in the newest ads.
U.S. Senator John McCain tried to use his influence to help a crook named Charlie Keating, one of the worst of the saving and loan robbers, a man who ripped off everyone in sight, including American taxpayers. That’s OK. Forgive and forget. But serving on a foundation board with a guy who engaged in radical politics decades ago? That’s a voting issue? Desperate. Dumb. You want to convince voters that you’re totally out of touch with their lives, and their fears, this is the way to do it.
nBy the Numbers: Palin’s Record
It appears it may have come from the greatness of the Huffington Post. Here’s a sampling, see the whole list at the great Huffington Post website. |
Sarah Palin may lie, but numbers don’t. Her record speaks for itself. 2007: the year in which Sarah Palin first obtained a passport (Source) $453 million: the total amount of earmarks Palin has asked U.S. taxpayers to fund for Alaska projects over the past two years, despite McCain’s insistence that she hasn’t sought earmarks or special-interest spending from Congress (Source) $500 to $1,200: the fee that Wasilla charged rape victims to pay for post-sexual assault medical exams, after the city cut funds during Palin’s tenure that had previously covered the exams (Source) 25: the percentage by which Palin raised the sales tax in Wasilla to pay for a sports center, despite claims that she cut taxes (Source) 0: Wasilla’s long-term debt when Palin took office in 1996 (Source) $18.6 million: the long-term debt Palin racked up by the time she left office in 2002, amounting to about $3,000 per resident (Source) $150: the cash payment offered by the Palin administration to hunters who turn in legs of freshly killed wolves gunned down from airplanes (Source) 500: the number of Fortune 500 companies Sarah Palin is not qualified to run, according to McCain adviser Carly Fiorina (Source) 15: The number of minutes McCain and Palin spent together during their only meeting prior to the interview in which McCain offered her the vice presidential slot (Source) 50: the number of days after Palin announced she “will fully cooperate” with an ethics investigation into the “Troopergate” scandal that the McCain campaign announced she was “unlikely to cooperate” because it had been “hijacked” by Obama operatives. The probe was unanimously authorized by a bipartisan panel of eight Alaska Republicans and four Democrats. (Source) http://www.huffingtonpost.com/daniel-kurtzman/sarah-palin-by-the-number_b_127355.html
How Palin became VP: http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/6bda020b0f (McCain cites PTA experience). Right to Know: http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/03d0f10a32
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McCain’s Questions
Why did I have to write down the 3 most important domestic issues Tom asked about? Why did Tom have to repeat them for me?
Barack looked like an vibrant, energetic man ready to take on a grueling job. Did I look like that, too…or did I look like a wind-up robot hobbling around?