Posts from ‘August, 2008’

Suggestion from our friend Adam…

George Stephanopoulos interviewed Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) this morning.  Graham almost immediately trotted out the Republican claim that Sarah Palin bravely opposed the bridge-to-nowhere.
What Graham genuinely didn’t seem to realize was that she was first in favor of the project (and campaigned in for it) in 2006.  She changed her position only when a national [...]

Apparently, the talking points go both ways between Fox News and the Republicans.  Today on This Week with George Stephanopoulos, Cindy McCain took a cue from Fox world affairs genius / weatherman Steve Doocy.  McCain defended Sarah Palin’s readiness to run our foreign and military policy by noting that Alaska is right next to Russia.  (Video [...]

Apparently, the talking points go both ways between Fox News and the Republicans.  Today on This Week with George Stephanopoulos, Cindy McCain took a cue from Fox world affairs genius / weatherman Steve Doocy.  McCain defended Sarah Palin’s readiness to run our foreign and military policy by noting that Alaska is right next to Russia.  (Video [...]

According to Republicans, fitness for office is determined by the size of your jurisdiction.
Defending Alaska Governor Sarah Palin from charges that she is unprepared to become leader of the free world, Wisconsin Republican Party Chairman Reince Priebus (Prince Incubus? Rinsed Preus? Prepubescent Renis?) cited her experience in “leading the largest state in the union. . [...]

“Change we can believe in.”

http://frgdr.com/blog/2008/02/16/mentch-white-house-2/

In 1992, George H.W. Bush and the Republicans referred to Bill Clinton as “the failed governor of a small state”.  Because of that, they argued, he was not fit to be president.
The words “small state” weren’t used by accident.  The implication was that executive experience in a place with so few people couldn’t translate into [...]

Florida has been trending red since 2000.  (You may recall that Bush v. Gore was something of a squeaker that year.)  Since then, Republicans have more or less gained the upper hand — but it’s still within reach. 
Cubans and Jews are critical Flordia voting blocs.  As USA Today reported just a month ago
Jewish voters, traditionally Democratic, [...]

PUMA (Party Unity My Ass) and Just Say No Deal are groups of alleged Hillary Clinton Supporters who can’t seem to understand that she lost.  These groups’ sole cause appears to be pushing the candidacy of Hillary Clinton, despite the fact that Hillary Clinton is, well, uh, no longer a candidate.
They’ve pledged that under [...]

John McCain, in an attack on Barack Obama’s patriotism, says that Obama would rather lose a war than risk losing an election.  He also frequently says that he’s so patriotic that he doesn’t care about any particular election — he always puts country first.
Nobody who lives permanently on planet Earth believes Sarah Palin is qualified [...]