Endorsement of McCain alienates Palin supporters
Sen. John McCain, the man who brought Sarah Palin to national prominence, is being challenged for re-election in the GOP primary by former U.S. Rep. J.D. Hayworth. Palin recently announced that she plans to travel to Arizona to campaign on McCain’s behalf, but posters on her Facebook page are not at all happy with their Sarah:
“Sarah, it was fun, but now you are done.”
“Sarah, your support of McCain shows bad judgment and brings into question the validity of your words. You can forget any political ambition if you support Amnesty – which John McCain does. Conservatives don’t forget.”
“You do know Senator McCain is a PROGRESSIVE? It is very disappointing that you are campaigning for him instead of J.D. Hayworth. McCain needs to go!”
“Sorry to hear that you are supporting McCain. Up to now, I thought you were part of the solution, but you’ve shown yourself to be part of the problem.”
“McCain!? Are you kidding me? Time to pick a side, Sarah– Are you with the people, or against them?”
“I agree with those who advise you not to campaign for Senator McCain. He really doesn’t represent the views of grassroot conservatives. He represents those in the GOP who have too often been willing to compromise on principle, or even worse, have failed to really understand basic conservative principles.”
“McCain used Palin like a cheap tool to keep from getting beat worse than Reagan did to Mondale. His staff mocked her and showed no respect. Now McCain is using her again like a cheap tool and this time she is willingly doing it under the guise of loyalty. As long as McCain is the face of the GOP, conservatives are irrelevant. Palin is playing politics and this goes against what she “supposedly” represents. She helps elect McCain, she’s done.”
“I respect your loyalty to McCain, Sarah, but he really is using you. You need to do what you are obligated to do for him, and then run as far away from him as possible. He’s widely despised in the Conservative movement, and you’ll be hurting yourself badly with your support base if you do more than offer your token support or speak on his behalf.”
“McCain is not a commonsense candidate. If you support him your future as a conservative candidate is over.”
“Another day ~ another appeal to our girl from Wasilla: PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE do not follow through with your plan to campaign for John McCain. In the insightful words of Julia Roberts in Pretty Woman: “Big mistake. Big. Huge.” To do so will destroy your credibility, have your enemies carping: “I told you so,” and leave your fans devastated.”
That’s just a small sampling of some 2,500 comments, and I have to admit to being surprised by the vehemence and near-unanimity of that sentiment. It makes me think that McCain might eventually have real trouble in the Arizona primary.
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TaxPayer
January 26th, 2010
7:35 pm
You gotta watch Caprica. They made their first Cylon.
TaxPayer
January 26th, 2010
7:40 pm
Hulu is your friend.
I Report (-: You Whine )-: mmm, mmmm, mmmmm!
January 26th, 2010
7:44 pm
So gitmo, what do you think of obozo applying his magic touch to the Saints, hahahahahaha, oh well, maybe next year…
@@
January 26th, 2010
7:44 pm
josef:
I’m glad you enjoyed it. Being a constitutional lawyer, you would think Obama is well aware of the unintended circumstances. My guess is he’s well aware.
Too many of jay’s progressives surrender their own intelligence in deference to Obama’s….just as he wants.
@@
January 26th, 2010
7:45 pm
Make that unintended consequences.
(IHB)
josef nix
January 26th, 2010
7:51 pm
@@
During the campaign, I kept hearing about how bright and intelligent he was. I kept listening, not looking, but listening, and I never heard it. I read his book. I didn’t find it. It became increasingly evident that he was a puppet. I went looking for the puppet masters and I found them. I didn’t like what I found. I didn’t vote for him.
eddie333
January 26th, 2010
7:55 pm
The Facebook entries on Sarah Palin’s Facebook page are genuine, the sentiment sincere. This should show the world that people are/were in to Palin because of her conservative politics and views, not because of any charm or good-looks that she may possess. The Left has tried to diminish her without success, but one old man who’s best political years are behind him successfully did her in. I’m sure he did it with malice in his heart in order to make sure she is not a contender in any 2010 or 2012 election, either as a candidate or a supporter.
eddie333
January 26th, 2010
8:02 pm
I read online that McCain has already started to run scathing, negative ads against his opponent, JD Hayworth. If only McCain had shown that kind of political venom against Obama in 2008 instead of being a pantywaist who told us we had nothing to fear in Obama as president. McCain, did they pay you mega bucks to throw the 2008 race? You barely made an effort.
I Report (-: You Whine )-: mmm, mmmm, mmmmm!
January 26th, 2010
8:12 pm
Sens. Evan Bayh, D-Ind., and Blanche Lincoln, D-Ark. — both face re-election this year in Republican-leaning states — said they would oppose the strategy Democratic leaders are considering to reconcile the House and Senate bills and put comprehensive legislation on Obama’s desk.
Dead!
Ron
January 26th, 2010
8:12 pm
I think Sarah is making a really big mistake lending her support to John McCain. I understand loyalty but he did not stand up for her when the vultures Went after her. Here’s the problem, Sarah’s values are the same as the Tea Party. She is being paid 100K to speak at the Tea Party Convention And I know they will not be pleased that Sarah supported a known Progressive who is more Left than Right. She should have left the baggage behind her.
Scout
January 26th, 2010
8:13 pm
Does anyone plan on watching the State of the Kenyan ….. I mean State of the Union …….. address ?
stands for decibels
January 26th, 2010
8:15 pm
In another edition of Why Nate Silver Makes The Big Bucks–here I’ve been saying “people, you don’t understand, the Senate is Teh Suxxor, it’s anti-democratic, and that boat-anchor of a Constitution of ours ensures that our country can’t move forward without dumbasses from dinky states coming along for the ride and screwing things up on the way” and expecting someone to think I’m anything but some sort of depraved America-hating lunatic.
Whereas Nate says essentially the same thing…
When conservative commentators grumble that “America is a center-right nation,” they are right in one, undeniable sense: The institutional dynamics of American politics favor doing less in general, and yet more in the pursuit and preservation of powerful, monied interests. Nobody familiar with the long, slow, costly political battles for abolition, labor equality, consumer protection, civil rights and women’s rights would dare argue otherwise.
This is why the flip of a single Senate seat means more for obstructionism than it ever could for progressivism.
…but he sounds sane doing it.
I gotta work on that.
steve at High Ridge
January 26th, 2010
8:15 pm
McCain was never there for Palin when his staff trashed her. Now Palin is supporting him and jeopardizing her total career. Palin has done so much good in fighting against the Marxist health care and the job killing Cap-In-Trade. I will not allow the left wing Republlicans change my mind with Sarah Palin. She’s done too much good for the Conservatives. Palin promised McCain she would campaign for him. He’s taking full advantage of her promise and integrity. If McCain was honorable he would release her of her promise to support him. If I was in Arizona I would vote for Hayworth, but I will not allow my support of Palin be compromised because she’s a person of her word. McCain is using Palin to get elected and if this ruins her he could care less. But this won’t work for me. If Palin goes down, I’ll go down with her. This is the second time the McCain Campaign has tried to ruin her and we Conservatives can’t let them succeed. She’s done too much good.
josef nix
January 26th, 2010
8:15 pm
Scout…
i’ll read it…I read Swahili…
Jenifer
January 26th, 2010
8:18 pm
Right-Wing Fringe Rebels Against Palin Over Her Endorsement Of ‘RINO’ McCain
This just begs the question: Is there anyone the right won’t turn on?
We really need them to run things.
http://thinkprogress.org/2010/01/26/right-rebels-palin/
stands for decibels
January 26th, 2010
8:19 pm
We really need them to run things.
Don’t even joke about that ever happening again.
Scout
January 26th, 2010
8:20 pm
josef:
Check this out from MSNBC no less ………..
Headline: “Poll: Public fed up with Washington. Seventy percent say the government isn’t working well, according to a NBC/WSJ survey.”
I’m telling you, Congress had better wake up …………… pitchforks & torches will be next.
josef nix
January 26th, 2010
8:26 pm
Scout—
As long as we keep marching off like good little serfs and vote for one of the two, they’ll not wake up…hopefully there will be a third party alternative and the pitchforks and torches will be metaphorical ones…
mike
January 26th, 2010
8:26 pm
Are we talking about Palin again? Yawn…
tscali
January 26th, 2010
8:27 pm
Spending freeze more talk than action
was anyone expecting more than talk from a prez who has mastered the art?
Scout
January 26th, 2010
8:30 pm
josef:
I think “lemmings” is a better analogy ………….. of course “metaphorically” but tell that to our Founding Fathers ……….. you know, all of that “lives, fortunes and sacred honor” silliness.
Kamchak
January 26th, 2010
8:34 pm
As long as we keep marching off like good little serfs and vote for one of the two, they’ll not wake up…
Well let’s see…the last viable third party candidate got 18.9% of the popular vote in 1992, but zero electoral college votes. Voting third party insures that your vote wont make a difference where it matters
Redneck Convert (R--and proud of it)
January 26th, 2010
8:36 pm
Well, somebody mentioned John Edwards, and all I got to say is, he knows what to do with supporters. The rest of them do it to us anyway, only we don’t notice it much. Maybe because we don’t have babys from it.
Now it’s really good night everybody. I got a load of hauling tomorrow if I’m going to keep you drunks in beer. The missus is snoring good and I can get to sleep. Sort of like hearing the birds singing outside.
josef nix
January 26th, 2010
8:39 pm
scout…
Lemmings? Check out Paul’s link at 6:05…
K’chak–
I would strongly disagree that voting third (fourth, or fifth) party won’t make a difference where it matters. Where it matters is in voting one’s conscience and so long as we keep casting our votes for two-bit wh*res, that’s what we’ll get…
Steel
January 26th, 2010
8:48 pm
Jay – once again, Palin. We’re thinking you’re a bit enamored with the lady….
Jenifer
January 26th, 2010
8:48 pm
Fox News Devastated Over Arrest Of ACORN Pimp
WHODATGATE!
http://thinkprogress.org/2010/01/26/fox-okeefe/
Kamchak
January 26th, 2010
8:49 pm
Where it matters is in voting one’s conscience and so long as we keep casting our votes for two-bit wh*res, that’s what we’ll get…
And not voting will give one the same clean conscience.with the net result being the same.
There is no guarantee that the third, fourth, or fifth party candidates aren’t four-bit, six-bit a dollar wh*res.
Jenifer
January 26th, 2010
8:51 pm
James O’Keefe, WONDERBOY!
Darling of Faux News
How sad!
http://www.ajc.com/news/nation-world/landrieu-phone-allegations-unsettling-283987.html
Jenifer
January 26th, 2010
8:52 pm
This James O’Keefe sure is a pimply faced lad.
josef nix
January 26th, 2010
8:54 pm
K’chak
“And not voting will give one the same clean conscience.with the net result being the same.”
I disagree. The net result of the third, fourth, fifth party vote chalks up as “none of the above” in relation to the two parties’ street walkers…not voting doesn’t show up. And, that, sadly, is over half the eligible voters in the republic…
Kamchak
January 26th, 2010
8:55 pm
Jenifer
More about “independent film-maker” James O’Keefe:
http://www.cnsnews.com/Public/Content/Article.aspx?rsrcid=7753
and
http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared/archives/2009/09/acorn_videomake.php
getalife
January 26th, 2010
8:56 pm
Whodatgate. LOL.
He will have a hard time in prison down here.
Jenifer
January 26th, 2010
8:57 pm
The ACORN tapes were obtained illegally as well. This clown obviously thought he could get away with it again.
I hope they put this piece of sh*t in a cell with the 10 biggest and baddest brothers they can find.
And make sure to tell them O’Keefe is a rightwing bigot who lied to try and destroy ACORN.
SOUTHERN ATL
January 26th, 2010
8:59 pm
Georgia’s stimulus dollars at work….
http://stimuluswatch.org/2.0/performance_places/state/GA
josef nix
January 26th, 2010
8:59 pm
jennifer…
“I hope they put this piece of sh*t in a cell with the 10 biggest and baddest brothers they can find.”
Why is that?
Algonquin J. Calhoun
January 26th, 2010
9:00 pm
“That’s just a small sampling of some 2,500 comments, and I have to admit to being surprised by the vehemence and near-unanimity of that sentiment.”
Just wait until the Dems turn on Barry…you ain’t seen nuthin’ yet…
Josef Goebbels, only idiots would give a damn about whom Sarah Palid would endorse. That political prostitute took her modicum of popularity, quit the governorship of Alaska, scribbled out a large pamphlet about her boring life and lack of sophistication, made lots of money, took a job with the fascist propaganda television nutwork and has now endorsed the man we have to blame for bringing her across the tundra. She’s a simpleton and the Republinazis who support her are even dumber than she!
I Report (-: You Whine )-: mmm, mmmm, mmmmm!
January 26th, 2010
9:00 pm
But as the nearby chart shows, Mr. Obama’s major contribution to deficits has been a record spending spree. In 2007, before the recession, federal expenditures reached $2.73 trillion. By 2009 expenditures had climbed to $3.52 trillion. In 2009 alone, overall federal spending rose 18%, or $536 billion. Throw in a $65 billion reduction in debt service costs due to low interest rates, and the overall spending increase was 22%.
In one year.-WallStreetJournal
Just sayin….
You can be disingenuous if you want, Bookman.
TGT
January 26th, 2010
9:02 pm
Lieberman to run as a Republican?
josef nix
January 26th, 2010
9:03 pm
Algonquin J. Calhoun
Joseph Goebbels? Are you new here or are you just plain stupid?
Jenifer
January 26th, 2010
9:03 pm
“Jennifer…
“I hope they put this piece of sh*t in a cell with the 10 biggest and baddest brothers they can find.”
Why is that?”
Because it would be more excitement for the little twerp. He seems to thrive on it.
josef nix
January 26th, 2010
9:06 pm
Jennifer…
So, i may deduce that you see rape as a fitting punishment for those whom you find distasteful?
Jenifer
January 26th, 2010
9:08 pm
If it becomes known that Breitbart – or his evil twin – Drudge, was involved in any way in this, I hope it explodes in their faces.
If it becomes known that any politician was involved in this, we have another Watergate scandal.
TGT
January 26th, 2010
9:09 pm
“The ACORN tapes were obtained illegally as well. This clown obviously thought he could get away with it again.”
So where was the FBI/Justice Dept. after the ACORN sting went down? Nobody had to lie to show what a fraud ACORN was/is. Little doubt about their legitimacy when the House votes 345-75, and the Senate 83-7, to defund them.
Jenifer
January 26th, 2010
9:09 pm
“Jennifer…
So, i may deduce that you see rape as a fitting punishment for those whom you find distasteful?”
You may deduce any damn thing you want. I could not care less.
josef nix
January 26th, 2010
9:12 pm
Jennifer…
Don’t go into such a snit. You’re the one who said it, not I. I’m not opposed to stocks and egg tossing myself, but this particular wish of yours speaks to something I find disturbing.
I Report (-: You Whine )-: mmm, mmmm, mmmmm!
January 26th, 2010
9:12 pm
Here’s to hoping that all of the Repugs bust out laughing whenever obozo says something ignorant, which should be the majority of the time, just sayin…
Jenifer
January 26th, 2010
9:13 pm
I think it’s safe to say that Faux News is carrying a load in their shorts over this one.
Good Karma.
I Report (-: You Whine )-: mmm, mmmm, mmmmm!
January 26th, 2010
9:13 pm
In the misstatement of the Union, that is..
Val
January 26th, 2010
9:15 pm
John McCain is one of the few voices of reason in Congress. You’re not going to get 100 percent concensus on EVERYTHING, that’s just unrealistic. There will be compromises. John McCain is reasonable, respectable, and a seasoned Senator. I’d vote for him if I could. He’s respected by many of his collegues. More than Jay is giving him credit for.
Midori
January 26th, 2010
9:15 pm
TGT,
You are seriously misinformed.
So where was the FBI/Justice Dept. after the ACORN sting went down? Nobody had to lie to show what a fraud ACORN was/is. Little doubt about their legitimacy when the House votes 345-75, and the Senate 83-7, to defund them.
The House and Senate had their “reasons” for their disgusting actions, but this turd’s legitimacy wasn’t among them.
Jenifer
January 26th, 2010
9:16 pm
“Jennifer…
Don’t go into such a snit. You’re the one who said it, not I. I’m not opposed to stocks and egg tossing myself, but this particular wish of yours speaks to something I find disturbing.”
josef,
It just does not matter to me what you find disturbing.
Kamchak
January 26th, 2010
9:17 pm
Hi Midori
getalife
January 26th, 2010
9:17 pm
They don’t listen to him anymore Andy.
Both parties are too busy fundraising for unlimited donations.
Priorties.
Midori
January 26th, 2010
9:18 pm
Whoa Jen —
Allyson
January 26th, 2010
9:19 pm
Sarah is completely ignoring her supporters on this issue. There are hundreds of comments on her Facebook page begging her to drop McCain, but she has not said one word about it…very sad. I was a huge fan, but I have lost all hope in her. PRAY THAT J.D. WINS!!!
I am pretty sure Glenn Beck has lost her trust as well.
Jenifer
January 26th, 2010
9:19 pm
I’m so enjoying the heaping helping of barbecued crow that the Faux News folks are snacking on.
Jenifer
January 26th, 2010
9:20 pm
Hey Midori, how are you this fine evening?
Midori
January 26th, 2010
9:20 pm
Hi Kamchak!!
Hi Getalife!!
Sending good vibes to your Saints
josef nix
January 26th, 2010
9:21 pm
Val…
“More than Jay is giving him credit for.”
“Thomas, it doesn’t really matter much, as far as I can tell. The political McCain I once admired — the maverick — disappeared beneath his ego some time ago.” Jay @ 5:24
He gave him credit. He feels he overspent it.
Midori
January 26th, 2010
9:22 pm
Jen,
I’m like you – thoroughly enjoying the predictament of this lame brain idiot of a “plumber”.
G. Gordon Liddy must be soooooo jealous!!
josef nix
January 26th, 2010
9:23 pm
Hi, midori., glad you’re feeling better.
Is that smile Jen’s direction in approval for her support of rape as a punishment?
John Carpenter
January 26th, 2010
9:24 pm
This shouldn’t be hard to understand: Palin only gets a shot at governing according to her values if she wins the White House. Right now there are simply not enough voters or movers and shakers on her side to accomplish that. She HAS to play the tried and true game of “both ends against the middle.”
One more thing: Roger Ailes is calling every shot. If you don’t know what the significance of that is google his name. He’s forgotten more about campaigns than Karl Rove ever learned. If she’s going to Arizona it’s because it’a no brainer–even if it’s a cause of furor for the groupies with no brains.
Jenifer
January 26th, 2010
9:25 pm
The AP reports that a magistrate set bond at $10,000 each after they made their initial court appearances wearing red prison jumpsuits…
because the pants they were wearing when they were arrested were so befouled, they had to be destroyed.
TGT
January 26th, 2010
9:26 pm
Midori: So the O’Keefe/Giles video had nothing to do with the congressional actions? Riiiight.
Also: The Census Bureau severed its ties with ACORN for the 2010 national census.
Kamchak
January 26th, 2010
9:27 pm
Is that smile Jen’s direction in approval for her support of rape as a punishment?
This may be a case of making too much stew from no oysters. Jenifer never said anything about rape.
TexMilan
January 26th, 2010
9:27 pm
SARAH PALIN doesn’t have a choice.She is obligated
to help John McAmnesty.She has NOTHING in common with that old,mean,nasty RINO.
She will campaign for him,and John McRino will still lose.People know that she’s helping him only because it’s the only decent thing to do.
After old Johnny loses,Saracuda will be in her
element,campaigning strictly for common sense conservatives,ONLY
true conservatives,period.
Jenifer
January 26th, 2010
9:29 pm
Midori,
Sounds like, looks like, smells like, feels like, tastes like
************************WATERGATE****************************
Goodnight.
ChuckS.
January 26th, 2010
9:29 pm
Face it, she has to do pay-back somehow. He’s the one who gave her, her start.
Jenifer
January 26th, 2010
9:31 pm
Thanks, Kamchak.
I don’t know why some folks try to put words in a person’s mouth. Geez…
josef nix
January 26th, 2010
9:31 pm
K’chak..
“This may be a case of making too much stew from no oysters. Jenifer never said anything about rape.”
Go back and read her 8:57.
Just what would you call it? Get real.
Pokey
January 26th, 2010
9:31 pm
Another Palin Post? Slow day JB??
josef nix
January 26th, 2010
9:34 pm
Jennifer…
So, you’re not calling it rape? What would you call it?
Midori
January 26th, 2010
9:35 pm
no Josef – you know better than that!!
I’m laughing at the guy who was busted, that’s all.
He deserves to be locked up – for a very long time.
Dusty
January 26th, 2010
9:35 pm
Ah, such civility. If Bookman were awake, he might “vacation” dear Jenifer for not playing nice.
Ah..but Jenifer is a far left liberal. What a differance a …political leaning makes. OH yes. Rave on, Jenifer. Be rude as possible. You are in safe territory. Lousy lib leniency by a liberal editor of blogs and etc.
Did I mention that LA was a polite conservative blogger. Yes indeed he was. Hi LA, how ya doing? Many here miss you.
Midori
January 26th, 2010
9:36 pm
TGT,
Only in your world
Jenifer
January 26th, 2010
9:37 pm
Kamchak
January 26th, 2010
8:55 pm
Thanks for the links.
O’Keefe’s a real winner, isn’t he?
Algonquin J. Calhoun
January 26th, 2010
9:38 pm
Josef Goebbels, from reading your incessant, boring and predictable posts, I’d say it would be a stretch to label you a moron. Keep spewing the Nazi bull fool!
Del
January 26th, 2010
9:40 pm
Police,
Yeah…worked some with 3-3, “America’s Battalion”
Algonquin J. Calhoun
January 26th, 2010
9:40 pm
Krusty, you want freedom of speech for only those of a like Nazi persuasion? still a clown!
Jenifer
January 26th, 2010
9:40 pm
“Jennifer…
So, you’re not calling it rape? What would you call it?”
A good old fashioned @ss whupping.
Dusty
January 26th, 2010
9:40 pm
Midori,
I gather you think that Acorn approving people to run a whore house was AOK? Because someone gathered evidence in a sort of “citizen’s arrest” made Acorn into some kind of ethical model? The fact that Acorn was doing something against the law doesn’t seem to bother you. How come???
Midori
January 26th, 2010
9:41 pm
Dusty,
that’s not what happened.
Jenifer
January 26th, 2010
9:41 pm
Oh, and josef,
My 8:57 does not mention rape. Brush up on your reading skills.
TGT
January 26th, 2010
9:41 pm
I’m not sure about “barbecued crow,” but “Faux News” is enjoying this:
Most Trusted Name in News.
Doug Klindt
January 26th, 2010
9:43 pm
Sarah,
This is a big mistake on your part. He is a PROGERSSIVE, not a Republican.
I HOPE this doesn’t hurt your plans for the future.
josef nix
January 26th, 2010
9:43 pm
midori– thank you for the clarification. I believed you were a better woman than that. That’s why I asked.
Dusty–
This is a prime example of what brings out the knee-jerk in me. I don’t think Jenifer needs a vacation but she, like Algonquin, should be more judicious in what she says. I don’t think Jay would take her to task. What she said would go unnoticed. It’s not that he would agree rape is a fitting punishment, but, snicker-snicker…this is just a joke, you know, don’t get bent out of shape or make oyster stew…well, I’m sorry, rape is nothing to make light of in any circumstance…
Kamchak
January 26th, 2010
9:44 pm
Jenifer
January 26th, 2010
8:57 pm
The ACORN tapes were obtained illegally as well. This clown obviously thought he could get away with it again.
I hope they put this piece of sh*t in a cell with the 10 biggest and baddest brothers they can find.
And make sure to tell them O’Keefe is a rightwing bigot who lied to try and destroy ACORN.
Sorry josef, still no mention of the word rape. Lotsa very bad things happen in prison/jail, not all of them rape.
Midori
January 26th, 2010
9:45 pm
I think Jen was advocating a beat down (at the most)……….
TGT
January 26th, 2010
9:46 pm
And this: Fox News Finishes Week #1 in All of Primetime Cable
josef nix
January 26th, 2010
9:47 pm
Well, Algonquin, glad to know you read them…that puts you in a category of one! I’ve been called a lot of things, but a Nazi? That’s a new one… anyway, I’ll ignore you in the future and feel free to return the favor…
Jenifer
January 26th, 2010
9:47 pm
Thanks again, Kamchak. I have found that a lot of people only see what they want to. Sad, but true.
TaxPayer
January 26th, 2010
9:47 pm
Just what would you call it? Get real.
A good whooping behind the tool shed, for one.
josef nix
January 26th, 2010
9:48 pm
K’chak–
Oh, for the love of Pete…! That’s what it is and you know that.
Jenifer
January 26th, 2010
9:49 pm
josef,
Maybe you’ve been incarcerated. I have not.
Midori
January 26th, 2010
9:50 pm
Hi Amvet
josef nix
January 26th, 2010
9:50 pm
Okay, fine, defend it all you want. Y’all know full well what you’re defending. So go for it.
AmVet
January 26th, 2010
9:51 pm
Kam (at 8:34), for now.
And yes, those stats are for a candidate that was essentially a GOP-lite/pre-Libertarian. (BTW, I voted for him.)
(Also, (from Wiki) Ralph Nader did not formally run in 1992. Rather, he tried to make an impact in the New Hampshire primaries, urging members of both parties to write-in his name. As a result, several thousand Democrats and Republicans wrote-in Nader’s name. Despite supporting mostly liberal legislation during his career as a consumer advocate, Nader received more votes from Republicans than Democrats.)
But until very recently no one who has run in a big way, said he would try to fundamentally change the status quo. Just a little tweaking here and there. But nothing encompassing and certainly nothing “radical”.
It is too safe and too popular to not to. And who among us, is really willing to do what is said in that beautiful and sacred quote Scout referenced from the Declaration of Independence?
But… there are more and more Americans looking at the man behind the curtain/flag now.
And there are vanguards and we will keep trying.
This is the most powerful shared monopoly in the history of mankind. It will not be threatened or taken down easily.
But one day hopefully (and changefully?), enough people will no longer tolerate it’s entitled failures.
This duopoly, which has in my opinion, abdicated its sacred duty to “us” has surpassed it’s role as the only acceptable option for “we the people” to govern ourselves.
And to keep losing in this attempt is honorable.
How can I change the world when I can’t change myself…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZEDyjrnpqQ
josef nix
January 26th, 2010
9:52 pm
Jenifer…
No, I haven’t been incarcerated nor have I ever been raped. But I’ve known and tried to cousel those who have.
getalife
January 26th, 2010
9:52 pm
Thanks Midori
Jenifer does bring it and if he can’t do the time he should not do the crime.
He can use the state secrets defense and try but he is not a politician.
The house gop gave him a resolution for pimping.
Dusty
January 26th, 2010
9:52 pm
Kamchak
I guess if you walk through fire nobody should say you were burned. Right?
I mean that would be wrong to say they were burned. If victims in Haiti were crushed nobody should say they are dead.
In case you haven’t heard, prisons are famous for male rape. It is reported by prison officials and such stories made into movies . Where have you been?. Off making excuses for liberals?