We have a big vote for governor here in NC this year. There is a large amount of exasperation with our dear democrat governor re: illegal aliens.

Please, whatever you do….DON’T BE FOOLED BY PAT McCRORY!!! If you don’t live near Charlotte, you may not know how big a RINO he is. Google Lynx Light Rail. This guy is a BIG spender.

And what if that rumored Edwards endorsement suddenly comes through for her?

I live in Charlotte and not many people liked Edwards. Even the liberals have mixed feelings on him. The places he has big popularity, the coast and the wealthy parts of the Triangle (Raleigh-Durham), seem like the two battlegrounds for Hillary. I’d say that the Triad and Charlotte (includes Charlotte, Winston Salem, and Greensboro–three predominately black cities) go pretty big for Obama. I hate to play identity politics and say that most blacks go for Obama, but…..look at Mississippi.

Or maybe I’m a pollyanna.

So long as McCain continues to stay under the media radar with his mouth shut he’ll win by default.

McCain is the new Chancy Gardner.

Yep. And algore and kerry were great statesmen and patriots.

peacenprosperity on March 19, 2008 at 4:52 PM

Granted, both of them were horrible, but neither was an empty suit.

They actually had records of public service and platforms that they ran on. Obama has nothing but the glow. His record is crap and his platform (such as it is) is far left of most of America.

I have been watching Dems screw over blacks for decades now. Keeping them in flailing schools, helping to destroy the black family, disagreeing with them on pretty much every social issue. And I keep hoping that their eyes will open up and they will see on whose side their best interests really lay. But it never happens.

Maybe this time, maybe not. Only time will tell.

(That is, unless even *more* ConPub Voters ‘teach the GOP a lesson’ and stay home).

Tony737 on March 19, 2008 at 3:53 PM

But Mark McKinnon and Senor Juan Hennessey McVain have already said that they don’t need nor want “ConPub” voters…so then we should let “The Party” teach us, we the people, a lesson? I don’t get it.

Without Operation Chaos, Obama might never have been vetted.

*Chuckling*

Well, you guys keep believing that if it makes you feel better.

But it isn’t true.

Who was it that pushed the Wright story up from the depths until it finally had no choice but to break the surface?

Sean Hannity.

You really want to tell me he wouldn’t have done it anyway?

No. Just like the Swiftboats, this would have gotten out, MSM or no. Once again and with feeling: There’s nothing to Obama!

That’s what galls me about everyone who was so scared of him. There’s not one single thing he can fall back on. Nothing.

No record of achievement at all.

I don’t know if Hillary will win, but what I have always been confident of is that we would have beaten Barry like a rented mule.

JustTruth101 on March 19, 2008 at 5:09 PM

That is very well said. I hope you are right.

Republican voters should NOT have crossed over and voted for Hillary. What is happening now was my greatest fear. She is going to win this thing and it is going to be largely the fault of those who thought giving Hillary new life was a good idea. As we are seeing now, Obama is a much weaker candidate then his immense hype initially led the majority of us to believe. He is simply not yet ready for prime time.

Now, not only are we stuck with the Clintons in ‘08, but Obama will be back in 8 years stronger then ever and will have a secure foothold as the front runner in the next election. We should have jumped at the opportunity to face Obama NOW. Eliminate the Clintons NOW. Now its too late.

Zetterson on March 19, 2008 at 3:55 PM

Without Operation Chaos, Obama might never have been vetted. Most dem faithfuls will vote for either one, what Op Chaos does is force the media to stand behind the lib they prefer, which means they take sides and vet all the candidates…a new concept in modern american politics.

Liberals and conservative do not decide elections, independents do. This fight between Hill and Ob shows independents who these two really are. If a dem wins after all, after all the fighting, a dem would have won anyway, only it would have been a landslide, now it won’t be. Op Chaos is all good, we might even win some seats in Congress now.

And what if that rumored Edwards endorsement suddenly comes through for her?

I don’t think it will help her much. The good people of NC don’t think much of Edwards. I’m not sure if he would have carried NC if he was still in.

29Victor on March 19, 2008 at 4:45 PM

That is all true 29Victor, but we are in different times now then we were back then (during the time of the Civil Rights Act). Sure, our candidate opposing the Civil Rights Act planted the seeds that have grown years and years of political support for Dem candidates amongst black voters but now black voters support Dems for different reasons. Now the Dems pimp the politics of entitlement and handouts via gvt programs and services that give rise to a population of victims bereft of any personal responsibility whatsoever. They have put a ton of effort into making African Americans dependent upon government. Now they are addicted to it like a drug. The civil rights act is a thing of the past. Now when black voters go to the polls and cast their votes in favor of the Dem candidate they are not doing it because they are still holding a grudge against Barry Goldwater. They cast their votes for Dems because they want the government to give them stuff. Believe me when I say, they may pound their fists against the table and stomp their feet for a few days, but as soon as Hillary starts dangling those beautiful taxpayer funded “presents” (remember her Christmas advertisement?) in front of their faces, they will be back in her corner faster then you can say the words “crack addict.”

Obama is all pop and no kick. He’s the stock market bubble just waiting to burst

Yep. And algore and kerry were great statesmen and patriots.

Lots of us did

Yep. Obama is all pop and no kick. He’s the stock market bubble just waiting to burst. The best thing that he had going for is him was that no one knew anything about him.

the time of the whole keep-Hillary-alive frenzy

Another factor ignored by the media, half those polled usually say they will never vote for her. Keeping her alive will just afford her more time for missteps and for that old arrogance to show itself. If this knocks barry out of the race, just wait and see what kind of condescending, backhand insult bubba gives him that will alienate black voters further.

Easy to predict the ouccome.

The next Prez will be Obama, Hillary or McCain.

We are scroomed.

MB4 on March 19, 2008 at 4:41 PM

Grrr. Yup. As usual MB4. You are correct.

The collective memory is far too short.

I don’t know that I agree with that point.
One reason that blacks overwhelmingly vote Democrat (and why many turned from the Republican party in the first place) is that somewhere, in their collective subconscious is the fact that (the perhaps ironically named Barry) Goldwater, the Republican nominee for president, opposed the Civil Rights Act.

While this may be expressed and remembered and understood as “Republicans opposed the Civil Rights Act” (when actually, more Democrats did), what they mean is that our nominee opposed it. And the memory of that one perceived betrayal has overridden 100 years of Republican pro- and Democrat anti- civil rights legislation.

If the DNC scuttles the nomination of the first serious black candidate for president, for whom black Democrats overwhelmingly voted. Thus depriving blacks simultaneously of both their vote and of the highest office in the land. That betrayal is not quickly going to be forgotten.

Who would have known that barry would implode like this? He was looking more dangerous then she was and had to be slowed.

peacenprosperity on March 19, 2008 at 4:34 PM

What made me begin to realize that the Obama star was fading was the piece written by Charles Krauthammer a few weeks back (around the introduction of operation chaos). It really got me thinking. His thesis was that the Obama implosion was only a matter of time and he predicted it would happen shortly after he received the nomination. It seems to have started a bit earlier then C.K. thought it would. The red flags were there. Signs of vulnerability began to pop up and I wish we had taken immediate notice of them because now Hillary would be dead and Obama would be fading fast. Its too late for that now though.

Who would have known that barry would implode like this? He was looking more dangerous then she was and had to be slowed.

peacenprosperity on March 19, 2008 at 4:34 PM

Lots of us did. I think I’ve been pretty consistent and said at the time of the whole keep-Hillary-alive frenzy that–if memory serves: Come November, Obamamania’s going to be about as fashionable as the Macarena. We don’t vote for gods in this country, we vote for Presidents, and to average voters, his worshipful crowds are going to seem just plain creepy.

Plus he’s always been nothing but a doctrinaire liberal.

We really should have more faith in our own message.

There are many moving parts at work and the outcomes are very difficult to predict.

Zetterson on March 19, 2008 at 4:37 PM

Easy to predict the ouccome.

The next Prez will be Obama, Hillary or McCain.

We are scroomed.

Obama will be back in 8 years stronger then ever and will have a secure foothold as the front runner in the next election.

Not so sure about that. In 8 years, Obama will have developed a much more extensive voting record than the one he has now. He’s an ultra-liberal (e.g., supports partial-birth abortion, supports gay marriage, supports affirmative action and racial preference programs, supports giving @ $1 Trillion U.S. tax dollars to the U.N. to combat global poverty, etc.), and when voters see his actual record, it’s going to turn a lot of them off.

Also, he’s been campaigning on the promise that he can “unite” people and get things done — even though he has absolutely no record (so far) of doing so. In 8 years, he won’t be able to use the rookie Senator defense anymore.