here are some quotes about governor sarah palin:
"she's either a scripted robot or an unscripted ignoramus"
"palin simply knew NOTHING about foreign and international issues"
"palin is a whack job"
what makes these quotes kind of surprising is that they came from
some of mccain's staff and advisors.
i still have no idea how the election will turn out, but it's interesting that the republicans
are basically in the midst of a gop civil war.
so many republicans are defecting and now endorsing obama.
and so many other republicans are just dismayed at mccain's irresponsible choice of palin as his vp nominee.
i mean, conservative republican columnist david brooks called palin "a fatal cancer on the gop".
in an odd way i hope that mccain loses so that the republican party will re-invent itself(hopefully
in a moderate, small-government, rational way).
the 'creationist/anti-science/anti-harry potter/anti-immigrant/anti-everything' wing of the republican
party has completely marginalized the republican party(unless you live in alabama, i guess).
i actually like the dialectic between the two parties, especially when neither party is in the grips
of extremists and ideologues.
as odd as it sounds, i don't even like the democrats when they're too far to the left.
the middle of the road may be boring, but rational and moderate governance seems to serve the needs of the people the best.
that's my biggest complaint about the last 8 years of republican rule(well, that and the ineptitude...).
that the republicans have governed from a place of ideological extremism, which has led them to make egregiously wrong-headed choices and led them to advance policy initiatives that are baffling in their short-sightedness.
hopefully the republicans will lose big in 2008 so that they'll be forced to reinvent themselves in a more moderate, mose sensible, more viable way.
and hopefully if they win the democrats won't get too cocky and swing back to the extreme left.
moderation just makes sense, ultimately. at least that's what i believe.
and i can't imagine it's too much fun being on mccain's campaign bus these days...
apparently things are, uh, frosty between the mccain camp and the palin camp.
moby
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Alabama
For the record there are blue folks here in Alabama - I personally know many people here that are voting for Obama -people who are in need of change. Yes Alabama is written off as a bunch of red wack jobs, but keep in mind stereotypes are a narrow minded point of view and there is a spot of blue in the red state of Alabama.
The thought that this person
The thought that this person could possibly be our vice president scares the shit out of me. Even polar bears have a campaign against her: polarbearsagainstpalin.wetpaint.com
They'll be in denial
When/If McCain loses, I don't think they'll be all that reflective and move towards a more moderate stance in the GOP. I think they'll just blame it on not being conservative/neo-con/theo-con/extremist enough. I hope I'm wrong, though.
neoconservatives=war criminals
" it's interesting that the republicans
are basically in the midst of a gop civil war."
this is perhaps your most devastatingly accurate political rumination during this contentious election.
while i am in agreement with this thesis, i feel the blame for the division lies not with the evangelical christians since many of them have long given up on mccain. this is a common misconception floated out there by the left wing.
the real source of division lies with the hawkish, big government, deficit-happy, nation-building group of wilsonian ideologues occupying positions of power and influence in the beltway, the neoconservatives.
contrary to much belief and despite its namesake, neoconservatives are not actually "conservatives". rather, they are former militant left-wing radicals of the democratic party.
they want nothing short of a new and reinvented pax americana by controlling the world's energy resources. when their lofty goals failed to materialize due to a gross miscalculation of internal and external support, the bush administration imploded.
whoever takes office will likely resume with the grand designs of the luciferian architects who actually call the all the shots. hint: it's not the white house.
don't be surprised if obama declares a preemptive, unjustified and unconstitutional war on iran since he's guided by the tutelage of Zbigniew Brzezinski, a hawkish neoconservative by another name.
few reporters or scholars have the journalistic integrity and the intellectual honesty to explain to the majority that our once fine republic has become a police state.
former Georgetown professor and clinton academic advisor caroll quigley revealed in two different papers that the left-right paradigm is a deliberate lie intended to mask the identity of the puppet masters.
democrats and republicans are one and the same. they represent central banks and fiat money, think tanks, oil cartels, military contractors, technology juggernauts and wall street, not you.
while obama supporters are mesmerized and enchanted by his array of trigger words like "hope" and "change", understand that 43 u.s. presidents from george washington to george walker bush descended from european royal bloodlines. obama and mccain share this lineage.
if this doesn't alarm you, nothing will.
Alan Greenspan
I actually really admire Alan Greenspan for not wavering through it all...what he had to say was very important for the coming election.
...like what you said about not a democrat far left just like not republican far right.
...and Palin's plans for anti-abortion legalisation once in office makes me ill being that she is a woman with a position of power. -J