The Young and the Very Old

McCain-Plain’08 in trouble already.

The conservatives in the Republican party really got thrown off by John McCain’s curve ball. Waking up in the morning after praying all night for Mitt Romney to find that McCain had selected a virtual nobody from Alaska as his running mate, they are having a real hard time trying to get their minions excited about the pick. Here are a examples of the their talking points -

-She calls her husband “First Dude”

- Her favourite meal is “Moose Stew”

-She’s a lifelong member of NRA

-Former beauty queen.

-Alaska first female governor and youngest ever.

The last one get buried underneath everything else. We wouldn’t want to highlight the inexperience now, would we.

McCain makes a play for Hillary supporters

I can come up with no other explanation for John McCain’s selection of Alaskan Gov. Sarah Palin, as his running mate other then that he is desperately vying for the disgruntled supposedly Hillary, but not-Hillary, supporters.

As a Republican argument for experience, I don’t see anybody as inexperienced as Gov. Palin come as close to being the POTUS as Sarah Palin. Talk about on the job training. The Mayor of Los Angeles has more experience running an institution of much more larger scale then the state of Alaska (no disrespect to Alaskans, but that is how it is). The total population of Alaska is less then 700,000 people. How does that prepare one to be the second in line to be the President ??

In her own words after being elected the Governor of Alaska, Sarah Palin remarked ” The voter’s of Alaska took a chance on a virtual nobody by electing her”. Well if that is the case why are the Karl Roves in Sen. McCain’s trying to scare people about Sen. Obama.

Any Hillary supporters who support Gov. Palin couldn’t have been Hillary Supporters to begin with, since the two are diametrically opposite on issues near and dear to female Democrats. She is not just pro-life, she is anti-choice. She is a moose burger chomping, commercial fisher, animal hunting member of the NRA. I guess it is OK to hunt animals but not OK to destroy a few cells in the human body. How can they even consider voting for somebody like that.

What is even more intriguing to me, is that the same conservative advisers to John McCain, who get so riled up at the suggestion that blacks would be supporting Obama because he is black, calling it reverse racism, have no problem with assuming that women would just vote for women because of gender without regard for issues. Does anybody else see the disconnect?

McCain was for a VP before he was against it.

John Kerry couldnot  have come close to number of flip flops John McCain has done over the past few months. After being against the tax cuts, off shore drilling, immigration reform John McCain has now reversed his positions on all of those issues.

Now reports are emerging that John McCain has decided on a VP but then John McCain say he hasn’t. Which one is it Senator? Have you or haven’t you?

On a more serious note, Karl Rove is reported to be playing a more important role in the McCain Campaign. Jonathan Martin of Politico.com reported that Karl Rove called Sen. Lieberman to ask him to withdraw his name from the pool of McCain’s VP hopefuls. I actually welcome this development for the simple reason that Karl Rove actually motivates Democrats and independents who want to be rid of his style of sleazy politics. If Senator McCain wants to set himself apart from Bush, he will also have to set himself apart from Karl Rove.

Dems worried about Invesco event

I am so tired of the Democratic party acting like a bunch of wimps and allowing the Republicans to dictate the conversation on everything from their patriotism to their machismo.

Here is a sample -

Senior Democratic officials are expressing serious concerns about the political risks posed by Barack Obama’s acceptance speech at Invesco Field at Mile High tonight …

A common concern: that the stadium appearance plays against Obama’s convention goal of lowering his star wattage and connecting with average Americans and gives Republicans a chance to drive home their message that the Democratic nominee is a narcissistic celebrity candidate.

How about telling the Republicans that we are taking this opportunity to celebrate democracy by giving 75000 people an opportunity to participate in a democratic process, unlike the Republicans in their country club atmosphere of multi-millionaires party members and lobbyists at their convention.

How about telling them we are taking this opportunity to celebrate the millions of young people who have been inspired by the Obama campaign and have participated in the Democratic process for the first time.

How about telling the Republicans that they could have has one at the Invesco stadium but they could not find Americans rich enough to become party members considering you need to have 5 million dollars and 4+ houses to qualify for membership.

Barack Obama has inspired millions of people across the world to be less cynical and dare to hope for the first time, but off course the Republicans wouldn’t want that to happen because then we might actually wake up and realize that it is their policies for the last eight years that have made life so difficult for the ordinary American.

Why Obama should not attack John Mccain

Surprisingly almost thirty percent of American still support George W Bush. For these people Bush could do no wrong. That is almost 90 million Americans and they are a vast majority of the Republican party. Comparing John McCain to George Bush just endears him more to this group of people, who any other day would not give him the time of day because he is too liberal for them. I feel by attacking McCain and comparing him repeatedly to George Bush, the Democrats are simply raising his stock among conservatives, who otherwise would never vote for him or his policies.

John McCain of ‘08 is nothing compared to John McCain of ‘00. The John McCain who is considered a maverick does no longer exist, and has been replaced by John McCain who is so lock step with the Bush policies that you would think that George Bush was running for a third term. What they should do is let John McCain of ‘00 attack John McCain of ‘08. McCain of ‘00 is anathema to the base of the Republican party which believes it is taking a chance by nominating him. The best way to discourage that base from turning out to vote for him is by embracing McCain ‘00 and highlighting his maverick streak.

McCain has flip flopped enough this time around that nobody know anymore what he really is. He has sold out his convictions and his principles to get the nomination of the Republican party. The characteristics that endeared him to so many independents earlier have been sold off to get the vote of the conservative base. Can independents really trust him either to follow the middle path and work in a bipartisan manner. I don’t think so.

Let John McCain of ‘00 attack John McCain of ‘08.

How the main street media always screws it up??

I like to think I am fairly independent minded, I like to hear all sides of the argument before I make my mind. I will admit sometime I can never make my mind because both sides are correct in certain aspects. The MSM has shown a fair bit of bias to the democrats in this election cycle, and I’ll be the first to admit that Fox News has for the first time lived up to their claim of “Fair and Balanced” coverage compared to other cable news networks.

When the MSM’s realize their bias and try to pivot to the center and they screw it up again. I am talking about the idiot Jerome Corsi’s recent book about Obama. In their hysteria to correct their Obama leaning reporting, the MSM have now decided to invite this guy on all cable news shows with the full knowledge that half the stuff he is saying is made up crap. Since when did this become responsible journalism, when you try to correct one bias with another bias. I mean when you invite this guy on Larry King Live that is just giving him more room to spew more of his bullshit. I am truly amazed.

John McCain has gone off the deep end

I always knew that John McCain did not always like or trust Valdimir Putin, but the recent statements coming from the Senator from Arizona would have one think that the Russians tanks were sitting just outside of Phoenix. Did I miss something, I know Georgia is very near and dear to Americans being a democracy and all(is it really??), but why is he taking it so personally.

I have heard stories of John McCain’s temper, but could never picture how it could effect his being an effective President. But his recent statements, coupled with his tendency to take unsubstantiated statements from the media and Saakashvilli as facts and his own hot headedness, for the first time I am actually glad that Bush is the President instead of McCain. If he was there we would probably be already preparing for Armageddon.

Here are a few examples of his statements today excerpted from his interview with editors of U.S. News

Republican presidential candidate John McCain kept up his criticism today of the Russian invasion of Georgia, noting that he spoke again this morning with Georgia’s President Mikheil Saakashvili and discussed the latest abuses by Russian troops. “There is a clause in this cease-fire that the Russians are using as a loophole for maintaining their presence there,” McCain said in an interview with U.S. News editors.

No Shit Sherlock, that is why it is called negotiations.

The Arizona senatorsaid he has talked to Saakashvili every day during the current crisis. McCain also referred to media reports that “the Russian troops reeked with alcohol and are looting.

Maybe you should campaign in Georgia for their Presidency and just to show that he has not forgotten about ordinary Americans while he fighting for the Georgians, here is another excerpt -

Pivoting to the presidential campaign, McCain said: “It’s very clear that the overriding issue is the economy. Americans are hurting very badly…but I also think that national security is an underlying issue because we have just found out in the last few days that we live in a very dangerous world and there are situations which can arise which were not readily foreseen, certainly not by average citizens…that require experience, knowledge, and judgment.

Never thought I would say it twice but thank your lucky stars George Bush is the President.

Who let the Dogs out??

Senator McCain proclaimed “Today we are all Georgians” at a campaign stop yesterday in PA. WOW, when did that happen, I did not get any notice of any changes in my citizenship. I am absolutely amazed by this recent revival among the neo conservatives in the last few months. With the Iraq war stabilizing a bit since the troop surge and Barack Obama’s poll numbers stalling since the Democratic primaries, the Neo-conservatives think that that maybe they didn’t screw things up badly enough the first time and are starting to creep out of the woodwork and and have found a ready ear in Senator McCain.

Just when you would think that United States was going to get out of the business of policing the world and focus on the economy at home, Mr. Saakashvilli of Georgia decided to rile Vladimir Putin one too many times. I am surprised at the absolute naivete of this guy to think that he could pull something off like this and not get the reaction that he got from Russia. Russia had obviously been planning this long and hard, not something I can say about Mr. Saakashvilli and his handlers at the State Dept or his advisers in the McCain campaign.

It is with absolutely amazement that I hear the statements coming from this guy, the repeated references to the wars of the past, evoking the invasions of Prague, Poland and Afghanistan, the references to being the beacon of democracy, a free economy, freedom of press, evoke images of Ahmad Chalabi before the Iraq war and his rounds of the cable news networks in 2002. It was as if he was trying to get the United States and West to start a war with Russia. The script was too good, not to have come out of the neo conservative book who want to use the American military and economic power to advance their idea of democracy.

While I still haven’t completely gotten on board Obama train, the rhetoric coming from Senator McCain scares me even more. I don’t think we can have another four years of these idiots in power.