We knew it was coming, but now that John McCain is plummeting in the polls, we’re seeing a renewed attack on Barack Obama and his “associations.”
It’s amazing that in these tough times John McCain is unable to engage in a principled debate on the economy. Commentators on this blog have put up conservative arguments, yet McCain seems to be completely unable to offer a coherent argument as to why he is the better choice when it comes to the economy. Sarah Palin can barely utter a coherent sentence at all. Instead, McCain sends out Palin to make personal attacks on Barack Obama. The strategy is clear – change the subject and hope that the fickle electorate will turn on Obama.
It doesn’t help, of course, that Obama has been calm and steady thoughout this crisis while McCain has acted like a desperate fool. It also doesn’t help that these disgraceful attacks will now give the press an excuse to look at John McCain’s past and Sarah Palin’s past. They each have their own questionable associations, and we will be hearing more about them.
We’re also seeing the fruits of McCain’s ugly campaign, as taunts like “kill him” and “sit down boy” come from their frenzied audiences. I guess this is what happens when you whip up fear and hatred.
Further, these allegations are not brought up in news conferences or in interviews, where McCain or Palin would be forced to answer tough questions about their allegations or about their own records. Palin has yet to conduct a single news conference. Yesterday, the press was also prevented from speaking with Palin supporters at a campaign event. Unbelievable.
Conservatives need to look in the mirror. Is this what you want from your candidates? Is winning at all costs worth it? Can you defend candidates who can’t even enunciate or defend conservative principles?
If this doesn’t work, this will be a fitting end to the Reagan conservative movement. By embracing a mediocre intellect like Sarah Palin, following the disaster of the George W. Bush presidency, conservatives will have proven that identity politics, cronyism and the politics of personal destruction have replaced conservative principles as the driving force of the movement. In many ways, today’s conservatives are the mirror opposite of Ronald Reagan, who relied on ideas and a sunny optimism to lead our country.
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This is despicable. It’s not enough to simply disagree with a candidate’s stance on the issues and therefore not vote for him. Instead, you’ve got to HATE him, despise him, and even in some cases wish him bodily harm. Even worse is that a so-called American hero and his phony running mate are fanning the flames of hatred and trying to tear down another man’s character to win an election.
This country is more divided than ever, and McCain is making it worse. Conservatives defending McCain’s actions at this point are only part of the problem.
Hey,Gerardo, I love what you’re doing with your political blog– going to humor I mean, because this is the funniest thing you’ve ever posted.
Just imagine for one second, if McCain started his political career in the basement of David Duke over cans of Schlitz beer. This would have been front and center in your beloved main stream media from day one with at least 30 above the fold headlines in the NYT. The dishonesty on the left is mind numbing- but everyone is now used to it.
BO’s “associations” as you like to call them (I call them political comrades) is enormously pertinent to his character and the way he thinks- you’re telling me it not? My goodness. Liberal thought needs it’s own ICD 9 code for insurance companies to have to reimburse psychiatrists for their time in dealing with them
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And Palin not doing interviews– good for her. Katie Couric was a walk in the park next to what other main stream media would TRY do to her. She doesn’t need to waste her time with them.
BO MUST be defeated in this election. The race is a dead heat now, in the next 30 days middle America will figure out the truth and we’ll elect McCain/Palin- then we’ll work on the House and Senate.
An Obama/Biden Presidency will absolutely and horribly change the country you and I grew up in–It’ll make the Carter Years look like Camelot.
Gerardo: are you in LaLa Land or what?
CBS Poll: Presidential Race Tightens
Survey Shows Obama Leading McCain 47 Percent To 43 Percent Among Registered Voters Nationwide Following V.P. Debate
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Oct. 6, 2008
Obama, McCain On The Attack
With only a month to Election Day, both presidential campaigns are accusing the other of ties to questionable characters, reports Chip Reid. Harry Smith talks to advisers from both
Search for results from the latest CBS News national polls on the president, the campaign and more.
(CBS) In a sign that the race for president has returned to about where it was before the first presidential debate, the Obama-Biden ticket leads the McCain-Palin ticket 47 percent to 43 percent among registered voters in a new CBS News poll.
The Obama-Biden ticket led by a wider margin, nine percentage points, in a CBS News poll released last Wednesday, before Joe Biden and Sarah Palin faced off in the vice presidential debate. Obama-Biden led by five percentage points on Sept. 25.
In the new poll, the Democratic ticket leads by 3 percentage points, 48 percent to 45 percent, among likely voters.
This is not disgusting??
I’m sure this can be excused as poor little Obama was so innocent that he didn’t know that all his tutors were commies,liars,and Chicago politics embedded people. If he was that stupid he definetly will be conned by any slick talker in D.C.
http://www.wjno.com/cc-common/news/sections/newsarticle.html?feed=2
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David Duke was a kind and gentle voice of reason. The liberal press has destroyed this sweet man’s image. McCain should be proud be to a fellow republican of Duke’s
Great point, JP– compared to the “rev” Wright, Louie Farhakhan, and old Billy Ayres (aka hometown terrorist extraordinaire) David Duke is like Pope John Paul II.
You’re starting to make some sense
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Dream on guys.
Nick – you argue this is a conservative country, yet McCain can’t win on the issues and has to resort to this crap. So much for conservative America.
What happened to my republican party. how did such a great party get hijacked by so many right wing evangilical idiots? This party will pay a heavy price next month and for the next generation. It will be a well deserved beating.
Gerardo, this is a conservative country. If it wasn’t, Obama would be up 30 points.
The Republicans were not hijacked by the right wing, they were hijacked by neo-conservative phonies would could care less about big government. The choice of these two nitwits McCain and Obama, and these two parties, is like the choice between a big steamy pile of shit or a medium-sized one.
SRG and Nick — you guys can diminish what Obama is doing all you want, but the fact is he’s tapping into what a lot of voters are looking for in this election while McCain continues to sound out of touch. This dichotomy was on display again last night, and it’s front and center whenever the hate-spewing Sarah Palin steps to the podium at one of her events.
For proof, consider that a recent poll shows that 58% of Obama’s supporters in Ohio are “very enthusiastic” about his candidacy, compared with 30% of McCain’s. You can spin that however you want (and I’m sure you will), but Obama clearly “gets it.”
“Gerardo, this is a conservative country. If it wasn’t, Obama would be up 30 points.”
Obama would be up 30 points if the right didn’t demonize the left and make people think they’re anti-American if they vote for a liberal.
Jamey, stop just spewing forth the same crap you just read on a left wing web site. Obama is outspending McCain 3-1, the mainstream media is completely liberal, and yet the “right” – whoever that is – is the reason Obama is not up 30 points. Check again. He’s not up because he’s an empty suit that gives a great speech. He hasn’t done shit in his life to garner the presidency. If McCain wasn’t such a horrible candidate, he would be toast. And he’ll get his 4 years and people will see the true “Obama”, whatever that happens to be.
By the way, real classy of Keith Olberman to make fun of Trent Edwards having a concussion by saying “I see Russia from here”. Now that’s a guy I want to align myself with…
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, since your ability to retain information seems sketchy at best, SRG: I’m not an Olberman fan. He annoyed me on ESPN, and he annoys me even more now. He’s an egomaniac who is every bit as much of a blowhard as Rush is.
And please enlighten me as to why you spout off about me just regurgitating someone else’s opinion whenever I post a comment. I guess it’s because you think that any liberal-minded person couldn’t possibly be capable of an original thought. After all, anyone who disagrees with you must either be stupid or a “liberal media” droid. Get over it.
You’re delusional if you don’t think the endless attacks against liberals have had an effect on this race. People like you have convinced others that liberals are anti-American, communists, socialists and, now, even terrorists. It’s how Bush beat Kerry in ’04, and it’s the only bullet McCain and Palin have left at this point.
Jamey: While I have trouble understanding conservatives intolerance, what really mystifies me is how in God’s name conservatives ever bought into the con about how less government is somehow liberating and in their interest.
We are seeing right now who is served by less government, it is the people who want to stack the decks and steal our money. Less regulation of Wall Street created this mess.
I have never understood how masses of Americans simply never take an hour or two to sit down and study what government does for them and does not do. If they did that they would realize that Reagans less government message was a simple con job designed to redistribute wealth to a handful of people.
In the end, the middle classes move to the right was superficial and I guess as much as anything, people needed to feel superior even at the expense of their own personal interests and that in the end is what drove masses of intellectually lazy white middle class folks into the arms of their enemy.
The ironic thing is that perhaps Bush Jr. was the first conservative politican who really bought into the whole con himself and hence, drug the entire nation down the toilet, rather than maintain the con job.
**By the way, real classy of Keith Olberman to make fun of Trent Edwards having a concussion by saying “I see Russia from here”. Now that’s a guy I want to align myself with…”**
You completely missed the joke. He wasn’t making fun of Trent Edwards, he was making fun of Sarah Palin (as if only someone with a concussion can think that seeing Russia from Alaska somehow gives a person foreign policy experience).
I like KO – he has a big ego (and is the first to admit it), but he actually deals in facts, something that Rush, Bill O and Hannity do not.
Keith Olberman has one of the best collections of baseball cards in the world, that alone makes him OK with me. I believe I actually bought a decent set of 1965 Topps cards from him once on ebay. The guy is honest whether you agree with him or not.
No Tall Man, I got “the joke” if that’s what you want to call it. I just don’t think making a political point by using a guy who just suffered a head injury is funny. As you can see by his ratings, he’s a “wild” success…
Aw, SRG, your compassion warms my heart, especially in light of the fact that you’ve referred to Sarah Palin’s “retarded baby” in several posts. You’re just a big softy, aren’t you?
I referred to her “retarded baby” – so? I just thought it was sick how that’s one of the things the liberals went after her for. Sorry you can’t comprehend a lot of what goes on here, Jamey…
Yeah SRG, you’re far too highbrow for me.
Oh, when you said that KO wasn’t classy to “make fun of Trent Edwards” I thought you were saying that Edwards was the butt of the joke. In my world (where the sky is blue), that’s what making fun of someone means.
Football players get concussed all the time. As long as it looks like the guy is going to be okay, I don’t think it’s in poor taste to imply that the guy is a little dazed and thinking like Sarah Palin.
No, it wasn’t really incest or anything like that contrary to internet rumors. That retarded Palin baby is actually a result of KARMA! Enjoy!