Yeah, I believe this poll…Just like the one about Hillary being the inevitable dem nominee of about a year ago…Obama has only just begun to wish he had not spent twenty years in Rev “goddamn America” Wright’s church. Bitter small town America types are going to put down their bibles and guns long enough to go to the polls and send his political corpse back to Washington…

Nozzle on May 13, 2008 at 10:59 PM

That’s something that kind of bothers me about this election. Bob Dole resigned his Senate Seat to run for President, yet we don’t hear anyone calling on McCain or Obama to do that. I understand in the case of Obama, but his Governor is Democratic. So is McCain’s, which means that the appointed replacement would be a Democrat. Even in Hillary’s case, the Governor would appoint another Democrat, so why isn’t the NY Times demanding that they leave the Senate and focus on the campaign?

They couldn’t wait to scream that at Bob Dole could they?

When the chips are down and the decisions are made as to who the candidates will be, then the 11th commandment prevails and everybody goes to work, and that is: Thou shalt not speak ill of another Republican.
–Ronald Reagan

Chakra Hammer on May 13, 2008 at 2:24 PM

I am not a registered Republican. I’m a Conservative. I supported Zell Miller, who’s a Democrat, and so far is more Conservative than just about any Republican we had running this election cycle. I am a Conservative, who rejects liberalism, no matter what party it wraps itself in. I am not a Republican, and especially not a McCain Republican. If your candidate was perhaps Herman Cain, I’d consider it, because he’s a Conservative. If your Republican Candidate was a Conservative, and not a Country Club Blue Blood Republican, I’d be happy, thrilled to support him. I won’t support a holier than thou sanctimonious asinine jackA** like McCain under any circumstances.

The same reason Velcro shoes are more popular than laces.

No kidding, if Iraq collapses and Turkey and Iran move in the price of oil could hit $200 a barrel in less time than it takes to tell about it.

A) Have NO meaning———–73%
B) Have a JOT of meaning—–12%
C) Have a TITTLE of meaning–10%
D Have SOME meaning———–4%
E) Have PREDICTIVE meaning–1%
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The real deciding factor is character.

McCain, as flawed as hell as he is, has PLENTY.

Obama a smarmy, two-faced, pompous weasel, has LITTLE.

I’ll stand by that poll of one.

What exactly do people think Obama is going to do about gas prices? Bitching about oil company profits will not bring down the gas prices.

In fact I think that is what really has people steamed. More than anything else. They can not drive down the street without seeing a gas station and being reminded.

Terrye on May 13, 2008 at 4:31 PM

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What is worse is that they don’t remotely understand the relationship between policies and prices. If Obama wins the election and pulls our troops out of Iraq, we are going to look back fondly at the days we only paid $3.50 per gallon.

I wondered the same thing.

When the Democrats took control of Congress they promised to bring down oil prices. The price of oil has doubled. In fact it went up again today because of Iran’s threat to cut production and because of demand for diesel or some such nonsense. Anyway, these prices vary day to day on the market. The only way to bring down prices is to increase supply or decrease demand. So what is the plan for that?

And health care? Well in another poll I saw that only 29% supported nationalized health care and yet that is what they would get with Obama, or some variation like that.

So it does not make sense to me either.

What other message can they offer?

Conservatism. I generally trust Rasmussen, and don’t imagine them doing dishonest push-polling, but I have absolutely no point of reference which would give Obama a 48/28 advanatage over McCain on “gas prices” or 55/31 on “health care”. What can that possibly mean?

Obama doesn’t even know how to pay his own health insurance, much less fix yours. He doesn’t know how to put gas in his car, much less control the price of gas. That’s just stupid.

What the fuck can people possibly mean with those numbers?

In fact I think that is what really has people steamed. More than anything else. They can not drive down the street without seeing a gas station and being reminded.

I don’t know, every liberal I know thinks that Bush is the second coming of Hitler.

Maybe it had something to do with corruption and infighting and disloyalty and backstabbing and constant bitching.

But why blame Bush or McCain? It is not as if they are the whole party. In fact Bush not only won two terms he had high ratings and coat tails. So things went to hell after that.

Maybe it was the fact that the GOP went overboard over immigration. Or that they went after Bush on extraneous stuff like Miers and Dubai and helped create division in the party.

Or maybe people just want something different. That happens.

He isn’t ‘out there running for office’?

Do you think McCain is actually going to take Oregon (scene of his now-famous global warming speech) in the general?

Better question: Does McCain actually think he’s going to take Oregon in the general?

In any case, your choice is clear–you gonna vote for the American Allende or not? I’m guessing about half of America will vote not. And that’s all it will take.

Put another way, cranky old bastard doesn’t seem to want the Presidency. He isn’t out there running for office the way he should be. As a result he’s going to lose in November just as surely as GHWB lost when he pulled the same stunt in 1992.

Actually, I think this article stands as a pretty good example of what National Review the GOP has become in the past year 4 years — scatterbrained, incoherent, amateurish.
BigD on May 13, 2008 at 3:32 PM

The devil made me change it.

Nichevo on May 13, 2008 at 3:38 PM

Well, if you’re going to go that way I would have to add tone-deaf and oblivious.