Palin, McCain and the Weeks Ahead

The ranting of a hollow head!

The issues of tangible plans are really hurting the republican party. They appear to be a step behind everything. They are running on a maverick platform with no ideas supporting it. The Saudi's met with their enemies the Taliban over the past week. The same surge in Iraq isn't going to work in Afghanistan.

Rove political position is honorable to his party. Rove was involved in so many failed policies is not someone I can find much value in his words spoken or written.

Karl, Americans want to hear about the economy and how it will be fixed. We want a President who makes it his top concern. You propose a sure fire road to John McCain losing the White House. I hope he follows your suggestion because he (so far) does not deserve to win. Here's the thing. You underestimate the voting public's ability to make informed intelligent decisions rather than make them based on nasty and vitriolic rhetoric. The parties will do this at their own peril.

"Posted By: fowlowl @ 10/06/2008 1:46:26 PM
Comment: Any white person who votes for Obama is a fool."
Huh? I am white and no fool. And I probably know a lot more about our country, the world, Obama, and McCain than you do. So maybe you should shut up and take the filters off your glasses. Oops, forgot to say that I will be voting Obama/Biden and I suggest you do too for the better team for intelligence, temperament, and judgment.

Meanwhile, talk about lies, Obama accuses McCain of involvement in this mess. McCain tried fix it while there was still time, but he was blocked by Democrats. Fannie and Freddie are the at the heart of darkness in this crisis. Dodd and Frank and others shielded Fannie and Freddie so their pal Franklin Raines, also an FOB, could cook the books to get big bonuses for himself while continuing to funnel campaign contributions to them and Obama. Obama knows beans about the economy and wants to pass massive new tax increases on individuals and businesses. This would encourage businesses to move offshore, reduce employment , and reduce revenues to the treasury, ballooning the national debt. His massive spending programs would likewise balloon the debt and crush confidence. With the current condition of the economy, this is madness. This is change the econnomy can creash with.

For eight years, Bush and the republicans have conditioned America to be afraid and live in fear. They are now playing Americans for all they can get out of that fear card.

Fear and smear is how the republicans gain POWER and CONTROL OVER THE PEOPLE. LIES, DISTORTIONS AND EXAGGERATIONS are the tools they use to accomplish their purpose. This is what we are seeing right now.

If they make it, once again when the election is over, all the peon voters will be cast to the wayside and power, money and indifference to the middle and lower class will reign once again. We will be stuck for four or eight more years of the past.

I reject these false qualifications for President. I reject the abundance of lies, distortions and complete anti Obama fabrications which are condoned be the McCain campaign and appears on this and other web sites.

No talk on the economy, health care or any of the other issues with respect to what it takes for ordinary people to live and prosper in the reality of day to day.

Only attacks with concocted false relationships on Obamas character, even though the major news organizations have concluded that no real relationships existed or does exist.

HOW MANY OF YOU WILL AGAIN ALLOW YOURSELVES TO BE USED AND MANIPULATED IN THIS WAY?

I for one will NOT bow to their fear. I will NOT vote for the dishonorable one who attempts to GAIN THE PRESIDENCY BY PLAYING US FOR FOOLS THROUGH LIES AND DECEIT.

I will vote for the one who seeks the Presidency VIA THE HIGH ROAD WITH VISION, A COMMAND OF THE ISSUES AND A GENUINE CONCERN FOR ALL PEOPLE IN THE COUNTRY.

My family will vote for Barack Obama.

Karl Rove, no one cares about what you have to say. You should be in jail, and we have you to thank for the disastrous "Bush Years".

GO AWAY!!

Why is anyone reading anything this fool has to say? Shouldn't he be in jail or something?

An interesting and somewhat compelling article by Mr. Rove. Unfortunately, I agree with Charles Krauthammer's recent column in the Washington Post where he asserts that McCain has thrown one 'hail Mary' pass too many. As serious as it may be to be governor of a large state, the selection of Palin was merely a ploy. The selection of Palin was a simple one--it was a method to pander to the far right of the Republican party and distract the rest of the country. She is simply window dressing on the McCain campaign and would not be a serious contender. Palin is certainly appealing, when scripted is well spoken, and has strong and resonant opinions. She has the personality to fill a stadium where before Palin McCain would have had a hard time filling a phone booth prior to her selection. The Palin wave appears to have crested, however, and is on the way down. She is certainly as much (if not more) of a representation of middle Americans as Biden. But her initial controversy, her windfall speech at the GOP convention, and her success in the recent debate are now overshadowed by more sobering thought for the American public. Domestic economic problems, in particular the economic crisis, have replaced Palin in the headlines. Had the economic crisis not come to a head when it did, Palin could possibly have ridden McCain to victory. Polls about Obama's readiness aside, all the general polls asking who people would vote for have favored Obama since the economic crisis became front page news. Palin and Biden are now side issues. Whether he is ready to govern or not, Obama represents a change in political parties. Polls favor him because McCain still has to convince America that somehow he is so different from the Republican administration over the past eight years. McCain also has to ratify the notion that his experience counts--something that he wasn't able to do when it came to the vote on the bail out in Washington. Neither candidate really showed much leadership, but clearly, Obama has an easier job. He simply has to prove that he is competent and convince people that he has the ability to lead. Readiness at this moment is a side issue. People want 'change.' Both candidates promise this but it is far less credible from McCain than Obama. That credibility--real or imagined--is the key to the election. The choice of Palin was an act of desperation--one that payed off in the short term. With the downturn in the economy coming the the fore, the cult of personality is now marginalized. So now Rove and company will have to stick with a strategy that is old hat for them and that they do better than the Democrats. Follow the ads on TV over the ensuing weeks. They'll be getting ugly...

Any white person who votes for Obama is a fool.

Huh! Not a single mention about honesty or integrity here. Not surprising I guess given who wrote it.
How does being branded a habitual liar play into the tactic of repeating the same lies day after day?
So McCain/Palin can repeat the same thing day after day. Will it be another lie? There seem to be alot of those coming from McCain's camp.
What will it say about the character of McCain/Palin? What will it say about honesty? What will it say about the economy? Will they face the problem head on? Or will they turn tail and run to the Karl Rove tactics of lies and deception?

Like everything else our politicians say, I plan to hold them accountable for what they say; even if it is about Obama and not the national crisis from which he wants to run.

I don't want to hear excuses either. On this issue, I don't care if he was a POW years ago. That is no reason to resort to lies and deception today. I don't care if he didn't get his way with the Town Hall meeting format. That's no excuse either.

So frankly, I don't know what good it will do. How many elections in a row is the GOP going to treat Americans like they are stupid and can't find the truth? (I admit it has worked in the past, but we also know about that past.)

The author showed once again how delusional the Republican leadership around this living embarrassment of a president was and is. Karl is a personification of a very curious kind of wishful thinking that was/is running the White House, wasted hundreds of billions of our money in the desert, ignored all the warnings of the political and economic fall-out (see impact on energy prices), turned Wall-Street over to the reptiles, and lies to the public when it opens it???s ugly mouth. Thanks Karl, but No Thanks! I???m so glad the days of your kind are counted!!!

The author showed once again how delusional the Republican leadership around this living embarrassment of a president was and is. Karl is a personification of a very curious kind of wishful thinking that was/is running the White House, wasted hundreds of billions of our money in the desert, ignored all the warnings of the political and economic fall-out (see impact on energy prices), turned Wall-Street over to the reptiles, and lies to the public when it opens it???s ugly mouth. Thanks Karl, but No Thanks! I???m so glad the days of your kind are counted!!!

Karl:
We're still waiting for a lesson in 'THE math' you cited in declaring the republicans were going to hold onto their majorities in Congress in 2006.
I doubt Sarah even knew Alaska had 29,000 employees! She is an idiot who cannot even name a major newpaper in the US, let alone read one! Listening to the even bigger idiot who implored him to make Sarah his running mate was the biggest mistake McSame made.
If she is a rising star for the republicans, I am truly excited because we are in for a long period of Democratic domination in the WH, Congress and the courts!
Karl, you may not 'get it' but you sure can carry the water, I'll give you that.
Hope you enjoyed your power while you had it.

Karl:
We're still waiting for a lesson in 'THE math' you cited in declaring the republicans were going to hold onto their majorities in Congress in 2006.
I doubt Sarah even knew Alaska had 29,000 employees! She is an idiot who cannot even name a major newpaper in the US, let alone read one! Listening to the even bigger idiot who implored him to make Sarah his running mate was the biggest mistake McSame made.
If she is a rising star for the republicans, I am truly excited because we are in for a long period of Democratic domination in the WH, Congress and the courts!
Karl, you may not 'get it' but you sure can carry the water, I'll give you that.
Hope you enjoyed your power while you had it.