Good ad in response to McCain’s sleaze.
Category: Republicans (Page 17 of 40)
Do we really want someone this extreme in the White House? ABC reports how Sarah Palin asked the librarian at a city council meeting what she would do if Palin asked her to remove certain books from the library’s collection. The librarian made it clear she would not remove any books. Several months later Palin fired her, but then reinstated her after an uproar in the town.
Hat tip: AmericaBlog
She’s quite a reformer! Sarah Palin’s earmarks rank up there with some of the stranger ones we’ve seen.
According to Alaska’s 2009 catalog of earmark requests the state’s sea life are in great need of federal money. As Politico points out, Palin’s office requested $2 million in federal monies to study crab mating habits; $494,900 for the recreational halibut harvest and $3.2 million for seal genetics research.
Again, this stuff is very routine, but on a daily basis they are repeating the lie that she is a “reformer” when it comes to earmarks. It doesn’t pass the smell test.
If you voted for George W. Bush, and now realize his campaign promises were mostly BS, how can you believe the BS coming from this campaign, which is being run by the same people?
This campaign is no different from a campaign for low-fat potato chips. The marketer hypes up lower fat content, and gullible consumers think they’re eating health food. Then they look in the mirror and wonder why they’re still fat.
Look in the mirror, and ask yourself if you’re buying their bullshit.
You know things are getting bad when Fox News gets in on the act. John McCain has not held a press conference for one month. Sarah Palin has held a single press conference. They cry about attacks, but they are unwilling, or unable, to defend their own positions.
For a candidate who once railed against “stale soundbites, staged rallies and over-managed messages,” John McCain seems to have turned over a new leaf.
Today marks the four-week anniversary since McCain held his last press conference (8/13 in Birmingham, MI) and three weeks since his last public town hall meeting (8/20 in Las Cruces, NM).
McCain’s new campaign strategy: staged rallies with thousands of supporters. Since announcing Sarah Palin as his VP choice on August 29, McCain’s has appeared at 11 rallies with his new running mate where both members of the ticket delivered a 10-15 minute stump speech.
While shifting to rallies is inevitable for any party nominee during a general election, McCain has always touted town hall meetings and interactions with the press as reasons for his success.
Throughout the spring and summer, then-presumptive nominee McCain enabled the public and the media an opportunity to question him on an almost daily basis, holding town hall meetings open to supporters and critics and conducting press conferences and media sessions aboard his bus.
Though he was also criticized at the same time for lacking a coherent message and constantly undercutting his own message by reacting to the news of the day and sometimes critiquing his own campaign. Even during interviews with national press in recent weeks McCain has been thrown off message (e.g. the houses controversy and an awkward TIME Magazine interview).
The McCain campaign is doing everything they can to control the message. McCain and Palin and just repeating the same simple script every day, even though much of it has been debunked. Meanwhile, conservatives sit back and drink up the story that the McCain campaign is peddling. All the McCain campaign has to do is attack the media, and conservatives fall right into line.
It’s embarassing to have people defend a politician who keeps lying about her record and refuses to give interviews. On the Sarah Palin campaign plane, reporters are instructed that all conversations are off the record. Here’s a video of her ridiculous claims about earmark reform in Alaska. It’s easy to be popular when your state gets more federal pork dollars on a per-capita basis than any other state.
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