Crushed by the Elephant

Let's face it, McBush is toast! He's loosing in both the popular vote and the electoral vote, the voting trends show Obama increasing his lead, McBush's campaign is schizophrenic at best, and his running mate has just been caught in a big lie in troopergate. All Obama has to do is to keep the states he is already winning in and he's got the election. McBush is in the same place HiIllary was 4 months ago, between a rock and another rock. Checkmate Obama!

McCain seems to have suddenly realized his base is largely a bunch of nut jobs.
It is interesting that McCain got booed when he said Obama was a "Decent family man"
It has to be difficult to risk loosing support if you say something nice about someone but that is the point the GOP has reached.
If you peruse the posters who purport to be Republicans it becomes evident the GOP is the anti everything party.
These people are anti abortion, anti science, anti global warming, anti entitlements, anti black, anti liberal, anti change, anti labor, and on and on.
It seems they believe if they are in opposition to an issue people will believe they know something about that issue no one else does.
What is troubling is they represent a very large group of voters that McCain is trying to hang on too, and will lose if he comes out pro anything. He should be given credit for admitting global warming was real, at the risk of losing the Dobson followers no doubt.
But it's clear the Republicans have no vision for the future other than the self serving posture they have had for a very long time and cannot see it as the problem it is.
But if they come out pro anything they are likely to be called a liberal or a socialitst or worse.

The problem wasn't McCain. It was a nowhere opportunity. In fact the reality is that McCain should be down to Obama by 60%. The Republicans are mirred with Bush (below 25% approval) and Congress (below 20% approval). They dislike McCain and have been against him all along. Money has been short and most of them have been absent in support and financial support.

Even as the country moves to the left, the Republican's have ruined their chances in the white house. It may not have been all of them, but the far right who have run the party for years continue to run the party into the ground.

The beauty of it is that McCain was able to stick with Obama for so long. That is even with the stabbing from the right.

The article repigs do not want you to see

http://www.rollingstone.com/news/coverstory/make_believe_maverick_the_real_john_mccain/page/1

The McCain campaign is the same combination of hate and fear and tax cuts that all Republican candidates have used for the past 50 years. Hate is great because it unifies the base. Fear keeps the voters focused on the danger of other people and ideas. Tax cuts serve as one size fits all economic policy that have resulted in a borrow and spend, public and private culture. Over the years McCain has used all three of the Republican themes in campaign after campaign. They are part of his DNA as they are part of the DNA of all Republicans throughout the country. After 50 years of the same message is it really a surprise that many members of the Republican base are hateful, intolerant, and paranoid? Is it any wonder that the only economic plan they understand is tax cuts, tax cuts, and tax cuts? They know that because they are right nobody else deserves any rights. They know God's will and only they speak for God. They know the only good opposition is the dead opposition. Sen. McCain is the follower of this ideology , not the leader of it. The financial crisis ruined a conventional Republican campaign by a conventional Republican politician which probably would have worked another time. Most of the time: hate works; fear works; and tax cuts work. It could still work this time.

The Republican party's leaders decided months ago to "throw John McCain under the bus." And this choice makes me wonder what I and other Republicans must do to rescue our party from the likes of Tom Delay and George Bush. Yes, Obama will win in November, and I am voting for him. But that's just the beginning of the fight to take back the Republican party.

Its interesting to note how many themes this political campaign has had. 1) Get us out of Iraq was the main reason to vote for Obama. He now wants to invade Afgahinstan, Pakistan, possibly Iran, several African countries. 2) Drill - Drill - Drill (and that disappeared when the Middle East lowered their price of gas. 3) Foreclosures - Obama is not for renegotiated mortgages. Obama sounds so Republican....its odd.

I know and admire John McCain. Yet, for only the second time since 1968 I???m not going to vote for the Republican standard bearer in a presidential election. The party has abandoned the people who made it grand (as in grand old Party) and crawled into bed with the fundamentalist Christian right; willingly and without coercion. All because it won a couple of elections and provided a basis for governing that promised so much more. While there may be some omissions and stretch in this article, on the whole it pretty well sums up the current shipwreck and the fact that the GOP needs to look deeply and reflectively at itself and its bed mates. I was asked recently what could scare me more the radical left? My answer; ???the radical right aided by radical Christian fundamentalists.??? One (1), they have more guns than the left and, two (2), they want to usurp Democracy and the Constitution and replace them with a conservative Christian theocracy. Which brings me to my closing; we have more to fear from the fundamentalist Christian right than we do fundamentalist Islam. Why? They are over there and our Christian brethren are right here in the good old USofA, spreading their vitriol and hatred and wondering why their adherents call for death to the other presidential candidate, Barak Obama. That scene is the one that made up my mind as to whether I could, in good conscience, vote republican this year. Sorry John, but the Genie is out of the bottle and now you???ve got to ride the whirlwind!

I hope if your candidate wins you get the position offered in the new goverment... BIAS

ha ha ha ha !! BIAS

In a few weeks we will make a choice that will decide our future.
I follow an economist named Bob Proctor. He has called the top and bottom of every market crash since the 70s correctly.
Also, he perfectly predicted the current real estate market meltdown and the picture he paints about what will happen in the next couple years
is terrifying.He thinks it will be worse then the great depression.
The banks in the U.S. are going under one after the other. Countrywide ,Bear Stearns, Lehman Brothers and Merrill Lynch , Fanny and Freddy Mae ,AIG
The government took them over because they are essentially bankrupt. Even with the goverment nationalizing hundreds of billions of dollars in debt the stock market is crashing
the credit markets are frozen and all of us may suffer beyond anything in the last 80 years.
McCain just like Bush " doesn't understand the economy".
That not just my opinion its his own words. Not only does he not understand how to fix it but he does not understand exactly what is broken.
It is no surprise that he doesn't. The people that make up these securities use complex mathematical models very few people understand.
Bush and McCain both can take the credit for this mess since they helped deregulate the laws that were protecting us.
Bush's economic advisor Phil Graham wrote the deregulation bill that allowed banks to take huge risks with all of our future.
Now, Phil Graham is the head of McCain's economic policy.He is also McCain's choice for the next secretary of the treasury.
No one in this country can afford for that to happen. The last time Bush met with his economic advisors was in March. He didnt realize that anything was wrong. Phil Graham had the guts to say that we are in a mental recession after he helped create the worst economy meltdown in our lifetime. Check out this link to the truth http://my.barackobama.com/keatingvideo
It will take the best and brightest minds in the world to get us out of this nightmare. As bad as Bush has done, McCain would be
even more destructive because things are in much worse shape. The next president will not inherit a surplus like Bush did but a crashing economy and a 11,600,000,000,000 (trillion) dollars deficit. Most of it Bush created and it will take decades to pay it back.
If you do what you have always done then you will get what you have always got.
When it comes to policy Bush and McCain are the same 90 percent of the time.
So why are the polls even close then ?
Mccains team just said they no longer want to talk about the economy.Instead they would like to spend time talking about obama
which means running the biggest smear campaign in history.
They think they can just tell you lies and you wont be smart enough to see through it
Let's teach him we are smarter than that .
Elect Obama Biden 2008


Check out this video of sarah palins interview and ask your self if she understands what she is talking about.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r36Xc0GG4iQ