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posted at 9:00 pm on October 25, 2009 by Ed Morrissey
“I think the Democrats have the votes, and in the House, Blue Dogs bark but never bite.”
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Awesome video! Gen. George S. Patton & Mark Levin demand we get off our ass and take this country back!
CultureWar on October 25, 2009 at 10:36 PM
You lie!
Proven below.
The guy McShame said wasn’t a socialist, or any threat to the US, and that everyone could feel good about having in the White House. He still hasn’t corrected himself, the moronic POS … Now, he’s preparing to stab the US in the back on Crap&Trade and Shamnesty, if he can.
His butt-boy Lady Lindsey has just instructed us on how the federal government’s job includes creating jobs, providing health care and dealing with global warming. How much destruction is enough for you guys?
Indeed, but in your mirror.
progressoverpeace on October 25, 2009 at 10:37 PM
They’d better start biting or get bitten in 2010. People will not be happy with their supposedly conservative Dem reps if they actually vote in the health care Obamanation.
ThereGoesTheNeighborhood on October 25, 2009 at 10:38 PM
When you & Levin & Limbaugh & lots of others on our side can learn to persuade rather than insult, that’s when we’ll get better government.
jgapinoy on October 25, 2009 at 10:41 PM
McCain is a dips#!%. End. Of. Story.
HAnthonyWayne on October 25, 2009 at 10:42 PM
Yes, and they had highway funds withheld until they changed their speed limits to 55.
An opt out is a cover to fool the people. Everyone in Congress that uses the opt out as an excuse to support this bill knows that is it a cover too.
DerKrieger on October 25, 2009 at 10:43 PM
Actually, I think the trigger might be the defeat of a couple of Obama’s big initiatives.
The Blue Dogs are in a tough situation – they will determine whether Obamacare, Tax and Cap, etc pass or not. If they derail them to preserve themselves the Left will be livid – obviously those yokels in the red/purple states don’t know what is good for them!
If the price of getting these through is splitting the country, the Left may be willing to do so. After all, according to the Left’s calculus, the blue states are where all the smart people and important universities are…and what more do you need for a country?
Of course, if I am wrong, the economic collapse Obama is causing would be another trigger, but I think that is something the Left has been actively working towards for some time now anyway…
18-1 on October 25, 2009 at 10:43 PM
I ran the numbers on average GOP/Dem voter income from the 2004 election (I think 2008 was an outlier in terms of the correlation between voter income and which party got their vote, due to the BS the media slung about Obama being a moderate) and the average GOP voter has a minimum of a $7K/year income advantage over the average Dem voter. Yeah, the GOP is pretty much useless, but the people who vote for it ARE the people providing the bulk of the tax revenues, at least the income tax, which I’m sure is strongly correlated to other tax payments as well. So, it’s not just the volume of tax receipts, it’s the source of those receipts as well.
The demographics of the Left’s support looks like a barbell, with a lot of the very poorest and a lot of the very richest. If it were its own country, its Gini coefficient would be worse than the US as a whole, I would bet, and it would be very unstable, like some of those Latin American countries that ended up almost going Marxist. So, they need to rob from the GOP’s supporters to placate the poor end of that barbell without spending any of their own money.
I think the more intelligent Dems understand this, but the rank-and-file smug jackass Dem like the type that posts here doesn’t have a clue. If we could get them to support secession, they could be our useful idiots for once.
venividivici on October 25, 2009 at 10:44 PM
ha! um actually it sounds pretty yummy
katy on October 25, 2009 at 10:47 PM
That’s why they oppose federalism. They know the lowest tax, lowest regulation, states with limited social services will draw the most productive people leaving them the non-contributors, the useless, the wards of the state, the lazy, the generational poor, and the rest of the mob that makes up the Left.
DerKrieger on October 25, 2009 at 10:47 PM
That’s wonderful, PoP. Just great.
The man’s an American hero. You…and heck, me too…might disagree with a couple of his positions here or there, but McCain doesn’t deserve what you call him. Show respect.
JetBoy on October 25, 2009 at 10:50 PM
By Laura T. Coffey
TODAYShow.com contributor
updated 11:20 a.m. CT, Thurs., Oct . 15, 2009
Laura T. Coffey
Who among us hasn’t simultaneously marveled and shuddered over accounts of deep-fried Twinkies? Deep-fried Oreos? Deep-fried bacon?
Well, brace yourself, because a new deep-fried item has been invented that’s so bold, so audacious, so brazen, it’s bound to take your breath away. The invention is none other than:
Deep-fried butter. [snip]
OmahaConservative on October 25, 2009 at 10:51 PM
Government run H1N1 vaccines were going to run to 120 million doses and to date 11 million have appeared, (per Drudge)
Now by my calculations thats a failure of epic purportions and if looked at by a citizenry at all concerned about their health would eliminate any further Government involvement in the HeathCare arena!
Another disqualifier would be that Trial lawywers have run the vaccine Companies and production overseas (France) but no Tort reform is in the bills!
Apparently congress has forced us to go overseas for oil and vaccines, now medicine?
I think not, I believe we need to march on DC again whilst the Bastreds are present!
dhunter on October 25, 2009 at 10:52 PM
Your first option would be the dream solution.
No doubt. No traditional bounds have held them in, so far. I think they get a kick out of passing more and more outrageous bills. Once they got the Porkulus through, by forcing people to not read it and vote on instruction, that was it. They had tasted blood and loved it.
In any event, the monetary disaster is always in the background, as you say. They seem to think that they’ll come out on top after that because they have power going into it, but they underestimate the power of that event and the chaos that will follow, as is true for every childish leftist in history.
Exactly. And I agree that the smarter ones know this.
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DerKrieger on October 25, 2009 at 10:59 PM
You’re kidding right? Palin’s Death Panels rant from a facebook page that caused a political firestorm.
Palin’s endorsement of Hoffman that make him an easy 100,000.00 in 24 hours after she spoke up.
But heh… not being a DC insider does have its drawbacks!
katy on October 25, 2009 at 11:01 PM
I believe one of the Marxist Left’s next targets for “reform” will be the private retirement system, 401k’s, IRA’s, and pensions. Why? Well if you recall last year when the financial meltdown started Rep. George Miller (D-CA) proposed taking over everyone’s 401k’s. This is yet another system they believe is “unfair” and ripe for redistribution.
DerKrieger on October 25, 2009 at 11:02 PM
Ahhh… John McCain, creating a self fulfilling Prophecy?
Give up hope… roll over… play dead… don’t fight…
There are times when War heros should just fade into the sunset…. and I’m afraid John McCain is well past this time…
Romeo13 on October 25, 2009 at 11:02 PM
Oh, come on. Graham just said exactly that (which blew my mind) and McShame is prepping to collaborate on Crap&Trade and Shamnesty. Those are the unfortunate facts.
And you can’t even admit that McShame was terribly wrong when he said that the idiot messiah wasn’t a socialist and wouldn’t be a threat in the White House. I mean, do you believe that McShame was correct when he said that? Do you think he underestimated the threat that such a rabid, ineligible, America-hating leftist would pose as Chief Executive?
progressoverpeace on October 25, 2009 at 11:02 PM
Thes bozos want to tax cadillac plans to pay for their boondoggle but the cadillac plans are UNION plans and they cannot do that. They cannot cobble together any senario that pays for itself and their only hope is to ram it. I think time has run out it could have happened in July – August but the economy is worsening jobs are falling off at a record pace and tax reciepts are in the dumps.
2010 is now 1 year away keep callin writing and yellin!
However Honorable McCain may have once been he has become a buffon, a joke, a man well past his time and too stupid to admit it.
dhunter on October 25, 2009 at 11:02 PM
Yeah, not having a personal tax-payer funded jet/airport comes to mind…
MeatHeadinCA on October 25, 2009 at 11:03 PM
They have to be wrong about having the votes. The blue dogs can’t be that stupid, can they? This just makes me heartsick.
karenhasfreedom on October 25, 2009 at 11:03 PM
Palin’s not in DC politics. There’s the difference.
JetBoy on October 25, 2009 at 11:03 PM
That’s quite clear. Palin is addressing DC politics though.
MeatHeadinCA on October 25, 2009 at 11:04 PM
Yes. I always warned people that what the left wants is redistribution of wealth, not income. We should only thank G-d that the feral government doesn’t have the power to impose property taxes on us! (other than the death tax, which is a very real vulnerability for individual wealth)
progressoverpeace on October 25, 2009 at 11:05 PM
Yep, so instead of the states being “laboratories of democracy”, their autonomy is progressively limited. The EU just went through this issue with Ireland being so out of whack with the rest of the EU on taxation. The whole “tax harmonization” movement wants to eliminate any kind of tax policy arbitrage opportunity, under the guise of protecting us from a “race to the bottom”. As if successful people or people with a high probability of being successful are going to move to a jurisdiction that doesn’t provide the essentials that taxes pay for. I.e., if Ireland had the infrastructure of Albania, it wouldn’t matter how low taxes were, no companies or individuals would have relocated there. Same principles apply in the US. As far as I know, the line marking where the center of the population is is still moving south and west reflecting outflows of people from the north and east.
venividivici on October 25, 2009 at 11:06 PM
But voters do. A lot of Blue Dogs are going to be dog meat a little over a year from now.
ddrintn on October 25, 2009 at 11:06 PM
Everyone must go out and read or re-read ‘Rules For Radicals’, Glenn Beck obviously has. In fact he has elevated it to an art form they couldn’t even dream of. Reading ‘Rules For Radicals’ will serve two very important lessons. The First lesson is; you will instantly realize where everything emanating out of this administration comes from. These people are all radicals; and they have no use or interest in winning hearts and minds for good reason. The dirty secret is they very much still believe in Eugenics. IE. People are genetically predisposed to either be slaves or freedom craving. Freedom Craving people can’t be won over, and more importantly, they just pollute the “good slaves” gene pool. Freedom Craving people must literally be destroyed. And second: Hopefully you will be blessed with the realization that Marquess of Queensberry rules on your part just won’t cut it with these people. There is only one way to destroy them, which is with their own venomous sword. In the war against socialist slavery you must accept that these Un-American Anti-Constitutionalist don’t have the right to even exist let alone govern. These people have no honor so there is no dishonor in defeating them on their own terms. Their only allegiance to this ideology of socialist slavery is of course, if they get to be the MASTERS over it.
Winners Win! Losers Negotiate.
Pole-Cat on October 25, 2009 at 11:08 PM
I’ve never said I agree with McCain 100%. But you can’t say he’s not principled. Cap and Trade is a bad idea. “Amnesty” is widely misunderstood. Even with Saint Sarah on the ticket, you guys couldn’t muster an ounce of support for the Mav.
You guys put The One over the top and into 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.
Hope you’re enjoying it as much as I am. All I know is, no matter who the GOP nominee in 2012 is, my first choice or my last, you can be dang sure I’ll support that person 110%.
JetBoy on October 25, 2009 at 11:08 PM
I like Dave Heineman too. I was at a meeting recently where the Governor was asked if he would run in 2012 and he had a sparkle in his eye when he replied that he was just thinking about his run for Governor.
I’d like to see Congressman Jeff Fortenberry run for Governor if Heineman runs for Senator. He’s a good man too.
yoda on October 25, 2009 at 11:08 PM
Fat on fat….I love it. It’s so American! Screw Obamacare. I want my deepfried butter balls!!!
katy on October 25, 2009 at 11:09 PM
Addressing it from the outside is one thing…playing the game from the inside is entirely different. You know that.
JetBoy on October 25, 2009 at 11:09 PM
Nahhhh. McCain’s right. The Blue Dogs were always going to vote for it, for the most part. Team Obama doesn’t care what happens to the BDs next year. They just want to use their tools to get the agenda through.
ddrintn on October 25, 2009 at 11:09 PM
Some find the concept of an American hero hard to understand…
I’m not one to agree with his politics, but won’t malign the man.
disillusioned on October 25, 2009 at 11:11 PM
Define “principled.”
MeatHeadinCA on October 25, 2009 at 11:11 PM
You’re spinning in cirlces Jetboy. Your argument was, how can anyone outside of DC make a difference. I answered you. Perhaps this kind of mental gynastics you play is why you defend McCain.
sheesh!
katy on October 25, 2009 at 11:11 PM
Yes, uh yes… I do realize that. I think that was my point.
MeatHeadinCA on October 25, 2009 at 11:12 PM
Jet, this is what “Playing the game” looks like. Sad isn’t it?
portlandon on October 25, 2009 at 11:12 PM
You may say “sad,” Maverick says “bi-partisan.”
MeatHeadinCA on October 25, 2009 at 11:14 PM
They own big auto, big banks, big investment, Insurance Cos. are the next target through HealthCare. Insurance Cos. have tremendous assets an must be very inviting to the Marxists. They are out to destroy the wealth and make all equally poor and beholden.
The way to destroy the IRA and 401K values is to start by means test SSI. If you have x number of assets you get no SSI payments. Guys like me who have contributed the max since joining the workforce get screwed by a government who changes the rules at will and redistributes the wealth to the irresponsible and lazy.
The stock market crash took care of some of those values 30- 40% in some cases.
I am trying to figure the next safe investment I dodged the crash by using annuities and now I’m wondering if silver or platinum would be the next move since inflation will necesarily occur due to huge deficits and a declining dollar as government overspends and prints money to cover?
dhunter on October 25, 2009 at 11:14 PM
Democrats should be careful about what they wish for. They may get the public option, but it may cost them dearly in the long run. Too many Americans are too stupid to realize what they have been cheering for will bankrupt the country and ruin the futures of their children’s children.
Of course, it took decades of suffering for people behind the Iron Curtain to correct the mistakes of their parents, but what the hell, they felt good when it happened. You know; “Change” and all that….
Star20 on October 25, 2009 at 11:15 PM
dhunter on October 25, 2009 at 11:14 PM,
Duncan Hunter?
Star20 on October 25, 2009 at 11:16 PM
Yep. The woman quoted below is one of the most ardent proponents of this policy. Notice, again, that they want more money flowing into government bonds to support vote-buying programs.
The 401(k) system was never really designed to be the primary vehicle for individual retirement savings BUT the private account, tax-deferred framework it sets up is a heck of a lot better than Social Security. We should be fixing, not scrapping, the 401(k) framework.
http://www.newschool.edu/cepa/news/Ghilarducci_20090505-msnbc-nssr.pdf
venividivici on October 25, 2009 at 11:17 PM
Good night ladies and gents…
I hope and pray we can come together as a party…unified…by 2012. We have to.
Cheers.
JetBoy on October 25, 2009 at 11:18 PM
o’t argue with that, I, too like Jeff. I would be wonderful to retire ol’ Ben for good.
OmahaConservative on October 25, 2009 at 11:19 PM
Star20 on October 25, 2009 at 11:16 PM
Nope Deer Hunter
dhunter on October 25, 2009 at 11:20 PM
Must be getting late and I am getting tired.
OmahaConservative on October 25, 2009 at 11:21 PM
Okay, if it makes you feel better, it’s our fault.
progressoverpeace on October 25, 2009 at 11:23 PM
Deer Hunter,
An actual “Deer Hunter” or a Nam vet that liked that sick movie?
Star20 on October 25, 2009 at 11:26 PM
We’ll also take the blame for Graham voting Sotomayor out of committee so quickly. We messed that one up too. We really have to learn to stop controlling Lindsay.
progressoverpeace on October 25, 2009 at 11:26 PM
Yep, I remember her from last year.
God I hate these people. They are always wanting to confiscate ever larger sums of our incomes in order to provide us with “services” or programs we don’t want. Just leave me the Hell alone to take care of myself. These elitists, however, don’t think we can take care of ourselves.
DerKrieger on October 25, 2009 at 11:26 PM
Fat on fat….I love it. It’s so American! Screw Obamacare. I want my deepfried butter balls!!!
katy on October 25, 2009 at 11:09 PM
katy: The year is 3009,the Food Nazi’s are in your neighbor
hood,*wink-wink*,the fat free zone,
I hopenezee you havz zee proper her paperwerks for
zee illegal foodz you are her cooking in zee her re
stricked zone,
hehe(Snark):)
canopfor on October 25, 2009 at 11:27 PM
Nite JetBoy:)
And I’m off as well,
Nitey Nite Katy!:)
canopfor on October 25, 2009 at 11:29 PM
So let me get this straight…. Twinkies and ding dongs will be illegal and pot will be legal…
Welcome to Obama’s Amerikka!
Exit question-
what will we have to eat after a few bong hits sink in?
Now I’m really pissed
katy on October 25, 2009 at 11:31 PM
nighty nite canopfor…. and yes you too jetboy.
katy on October 25, 2009 at 11:32 PM
+1 ;)
OmahaConservative on October 25, 2009 at 11:33 PM
This, this and this. The official ObamaCare sanctioned diet.
OmahaConservative on October 25, 2009 at 11:37 PM
They seem to operate with a very Manichean worldview. Either you are smart enough to be able to and want to control others or you are stupid enough that you need to be controlled. The idea that someone can be smart enough to be able to control others, but not want to, seems to elude them. I went to the same universities as these people, but I don’t want to spend my life administering some supplemental Social Security retirement program or devising cap and trade schemes, although I’m sure I could, if I set my mind to it. I want to work in the private sector, invest in my 401(k), pay a moderate tax rate that gives me approximately as much back in benefits as I pay in and take care of myself, my family and my friends, when necessary. Nothing that Teresa Ghilarducci, John McCain or Barack Obama or anyone in the entire Federal government could ever come up with will be better than what I can accomplish on my own.
venividivici on October 25, 2009 at 11:39 PM
I think that Juan McCoot used up all those chits, and then some, years ago.
MB4 on October 25, 2009 at 11:41 PM
Precinct Committeman is one of the keys. Start getting organized at your local level very intensely, it’s there where we are going to have to pushback once socialized medicine, cap and trade, card check, and amnesty are passed.
True_King on October 25, 2009 at 11:43 PM
If we have Mademoiselle Lindsey French policies, which even the French are turning against, we will have French levels of unemployment.
MB4 on October 25, 2009 at 11:45 PM
It amazes me how the unconstitutionality of forcing people into health care is ignored by the people who are supposed to uphold and defend the constitution.
csdeven on October 25, 2009 at 11:45 PM
If we’re going to have 1970s French policies, we’re going to have 1970s French unemployment.
- Peter Morici (referring to government direction of investment that many people blamed for chronically high unemployment in Europe)
MB4 on October 25, 2009 at 11:49 PM
I’ve got no constitutional strings
To hold me down
To make me fret, or make me frown
I once had some small constitutional strings
But now I’m completely free
There are no longer any constitutional strings on me
Hi-ho the me-ri-o, I won!!!
That’s the only way to go
I want you to know
Nothing constitutional ever worries me
Hi-ho the me-ri-o, I won!!!
I’m as happy as can be
I want you to know
Nothing constitutional ever worries me
I’ve got no constitutional strings
So I have fun
I’m not tied up to the constitutional strings of anyone
They’ve got constitutional strings
But as you can plainly see
There are no constitutional strings on me
Cheshire Cat on October 25, 2009 at 11:54 PM
Awesome, awesome photo of a Blue Dog Dem. LOL!
Scranton on October 25, 2009 at 11:58 PM
Would that comment be a silent jab at French immigration policy?
disillusioned on October 26, 2009 at 12:16 AM
It is intensely disturbing that in the last 9 years the left has crossed barrier after barrier in what is considered within the range of political competition. There was the attempted election theft in broad daylight in 2000, the Rathergate forgeries in 2004, the normalization of sedition in 2005, the complete co-option of the media into the press arm of the Obama campaign in 2008, and the politicized theft on an unheard of scale in human history in 2009.
And this is but a quick review, we could fill in many more exampled…I certainly expect nothing will stop the left from proceeding in this fashion in the near term…
18-1 on October 26, 2009 at 12:36 AM
Not quite. Presuming you are a middle class private sector employee the Left has very little interest in giving to balance that desire to take.
18-1 on October 26, 2009 at 12:41 AM
Tofu and seaweed.
You’ll live to 100 and hate every minute of it, well, presuming the socialized healthcare doesn’t kill you first.
18-1 on October 26, 2009 at 12:43 AM
McCain
uknowmorethanme on October 26, 2009 at 12:45 AM
I’d rather die happy at 65.
uknowmorethanme on October 26, 2009 at 12:46 AM
I think Allah went to work for Levin. They deserve each other. Both are jealous of Glenn Beck.
mobydutch on October 26, 2009 at 12:49 AM
He’s also the one who had the sense and guts to put on Palin to the VP slot. Without him, she would be in Alaska right now, a governor unknown to a lot of people, and America would have had ObamaCare (with bonus death panels) rammed down its throat long ago.
Roxeanne de Luca on October 26, 2009 at 12:52 AM
McCain chose Palin because he knew he had to have some conservative backing. Then, he could not get any loyalty from his own staff for Palin. What a leader!!!!
mobydutch on October 26, 2009 at 12:59 AM
He could have chosen any number of other conservative candidates to get that backing, but he chose Palin.
Roxeanne de Luca on October 26, 2009 at 1:30 AM
Palin was female. What were his options for a female conservative, pro-life, reformer, populist? Bachmann? There are some out there, but they didn’t have “fame” that Palin had with the NRO crowd. This is of course assuming (as was perhaps assumed above) that McCain chose Palin to appeal to certain voting blocks. Perhaps he chose her simply because he liked her as a person and was willing to fight side by side with her till the end.
MeatHeadinCA on October 26, 2009 at 1:55 AM
I think you’re wrong, factually, not morally, to impugn Allahpundit’s conservatism. He seems to be sufficiently cruel actually to restore the “federal” government to its constitutional limits, if he had the office and the army the job seems to require. Ed seems too decent to do any such thing. Recall that he almost burst into tears a few weeks ago, when he learned Social Security recipients won’t get a COLA (cost-of-living adjustment) for a year or two. Some Hot Air readers seem to think Allahpundit is not sufficiently socially conservative and, especially, not sufficiently god-fearing. But it seems to me that social conservatism and even good religion will re-assert themselves as soon as the money is cut off or runs out. Allahpundit seems sufficiently cold to cut it off, while Ed seems more likely just to dither and let it run out, ruinously. The difference is between cruelty well used and cruel pity, the sort of pity that is ruinous because it precludes harsh but effective actions.
I’ll admit that Allahpundit might crumble if one showed him pictures of children suffering because of dislocations caused by his dragging the “federal” government back within sustainable constitutional and fiscal limits. But he wouldn’t crumble just because “seniors” weren’t going to get their f*cking COLA. In fact, he strikes me as a man who would sacrifice ten grannies to save one baby. It seems the Americans need more such men who know the comparative worth of grannies and babies.
Kralizec on October 26, 2009 at 1:55 AM
I don’t know if you were addressing me, but my post was not really about how conservative (socially or fiscally) AP or Ed were.
This is a different story. I’d also add that the lack or abundance of compassion that an individual may possess, use when making an argument, or what have you does not imply “conservative.”
Ed and AP will get bashed (by me at least) on their conservative credentials based on their arguments, not how teary eyed they may be when making their arguments.
MeatHeadinCA on October 26, 2009 at 2:00 AM
So was Benedict Arnold! Things change.
I respect McCain for what he did back then, but that was a lifetime ago. He’s lost his war hero sheen by selling out America time and time again.
McCain, and those like him are poster boys for term limits.
You realize that Palin is one of the most influential people in politics, right?
Real leader don’t need some sort of title or position to lead. Palin has done more since she became a private citizen than anyone else in the nation to advance the cause of liberty against tyranny, and she’s just getting warmed up.
We need to all get behind Chris Simcox 100 percent, and send the “old soldier” off to his retirement.
gary4205 on October 26, 2009 at 2:05 AM
One Blue Dog that has more bark and bite than conservative Dems.
Left Coast Right Mind on October 26, 2009 at 2:18 AM
Lots of reasons, actually. There was a very serious Draft Sarah Palin effort that started up about the time the primary season kicked off. Sarah might not have been a household name, but astute observers knew exactly who she was and why she was the right choice, well before there was a nominee.
According to A.B . Culvahouse, the D.C. lawyer, and former Reagan adviser, who vetted McCain’s potential picks, all 25 of them, it came down to national security.
McCain had three questions for Palin, including one on the use of nuclear weapons. Whatever her answers were, Culvahouse says she “knocked it out of the park.” He told McCain, “high risk, high reward.”
Culvahouse knew Palin somewhat, as his firm had represented Exxon-Mobil, thus going up against Palin.
Honestly, I think McCain, in some strange way, thinks he is actually a Reagan conservative. I think he actually thinks he he truly is being a conservative. I think he saw Sarah as a fellow Reagan conservative in his clouded mind, and that’s why he picked her.
Also, she is incredibly likable, and most certainly had made an impression on him when they had met some time ago.
Who knows, but like many things in life, the choice of Sarah as VP wasn’t a simple thing. It had a lot of elements to it.
As sick as I am of McCain, I do have to say one of the few things in his political life he got right was choosing Sarah Palin.
gary4205 on October 26, 2009 at 2:20 AM
Yes, it wasn’t a simple choice. I’m sorry if I made it seem that way.
MeatHeadinCA on October 26, 2009 at 2:24 AM
When you & Levin & Limbaugh & lots of others on our side can learn to persuade rather than insult, that’s when we’ll get better government.
jgapinoy on October 25, 2009 at 10:41 PM
___________________________________________________________
Rush and Levin tell it the way it is. If telling the truth is perceived to be an insult, then so be it. We have turned into a country of panty waists who cannot listen to two sentences without finding at least one of them offensive. Toughen up and get a backbone; we don’t need pansies in the party.
Dopenstrange on October 26, 2009 at 2:50 AM
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yoda on October 26, 2009 at 3:09 AM
There’s a lot of talk about McShame being a war hero. Can someone explain to me how blowing up the flight deck of your carrier and killing American seamen, or getting your a$$ shot down and captured makes you a hero? You’re not a hero because you do your job poorly and get captured. You’re a hero when you do your job well, save others’ lives, and cause the decimation of the enemy. Call him a survivor, but save the hero talk for those who earned it.
Crusader Rabbit on October 26, 2009 at 7:20 AM
You are scum
CWforFreedom on October 26, 2009 at 7:34 AM
So let me see . If someone gets shot on the battlefield they did their job poorly….gotcha…you are sick.
CWforFreedom on October 26, 2009 at 7:40 AM
I had the honor of shaking his hand in Pristina a couple of years ago, and although I do not care for his politics, my only words were “Sir, it is an honor to meet you.”
The man did five years in the Hanoi Hilton. Other POWs pointed to his conduct there as an example that helped them survive. Hero.
Doorgunner on October 26, 2009 at 8:02 AM
When you get past all the smiling, gladhanding BS, a blue-dog Democrat is just a Democrat. Trusting them to be anything other than a Democrat is foolish at best. The difference between them and a “regular” Democrat is the difference between being stabbed by a bayonet or a Bowie knife. Take your pick.
SKYFOX on October 26, 2009 at 9:05 AM
“McCain, and those like him are poster boys for term limits.”
Indeed. As for “heroism,” I can think of a man whose battlefield heroics actually -created- this country. If you’re up by Saratoga, NY, you might stop by and see the monument to those events. For some reason, his name is nowhere on the monument:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boot_Monument
ebrown2 on October 26, 2009 at 9:07 AM
Newt’s right about one thing for sure…let the Dems pass a bad health care Bill and conservatives will run on an “appeal the Bill” platform next year. Maybe the best thing that they could do,for the sake of the future of the country, is pass it.
orlandocajun on October 26, 2009 at 9:33 AM
So, if the “bite” he’s referring to is voting against Dem leadership…
why has Pelosi been having trouble rounding up votes to complete her agenda in a Dem- majority House?
Hmmm. Logic fail?
cs89 on October 26, 2009 at 9:51 AM
Obama: incarnating the bankruptcy of America.
A three dollar bill in a thousand dollar empty suit.
profitsbeard on October 26, 2009 at 10:13 AM
Blue Dog = a Communist who votes against the Politburo about 15% of the time… but never on any issue of national importance.
mankai on October 26, 2009 at 10:15 AM
… in the final analysis, enough will vote with the leadership to Nancy her victory. They just want money and cover.
mankai on October 26, 2009 at 10:16 AM
This is what I’ve been saying for more than a year.
They will be lined up in order of how much trouble they’re in next November. The ones in the most trouble will be allowed to vote no, withholding just enough to get ObamaCare and CnT passed. It’s what the Poodles have done since day one: mount token resistance to the socialism of the Democrat party, vote no on meaningless procedural votes and eventually facilitate its passing.
spmat on October 26, 2009 at 10:18 AM
I hate to say it, but we are better off with the full bill rather than a portion of it. With the full bill, we can get enough support to remove it from the books before it even takes effect in 2013. With a partial bill trhat has no pulblic “mandate”, then conservatism will control congress again, but probably not to the point that we can completely remove this garbage.
jeffn21 on October 26, 2009 at 11:17 AM
Right, I mean he took an oath to defend the Constitution; and decided to do so by working for his McCain-Feingold Speech limitation bill… and suing the FEC in 2005 to try to get it applied to all internet communications.
So I’m thinking I don’t want him defending me. He doesn’t seem to understand the concept all that well.
And I wouldn’t defend him on the internet… it might look like an “in-kind” contribution; and I’d hate to have to both defend him, and pay money, fines, or jail time to do so.
Oh, and violating freedom of speech and trying to silence political discourse? That isn’t a minor disagreement in my book… maybe you take this less seriously than I do though.
gekkobear on October 26, 2009 at 11:54 AM
So saith John McCain, as he crouches like a dog under O-Bambi’s table, begging for whatever crumbs and scraps of recognition he can receive.
Loser.
GrannyDee on October 26, 2009 at 3:17 PM
UPS must’ve delivered their dead fishes to ‘em.
Actually, I can only imagine that they were:
1. Bullied.
2. Cajoled.
3. Bribed.
4. Consoled (about not actually risking their seats).
One or more of the above depending on the particulars of each “blue dog”.
Dr. ZhivBlago on October 26, 2009 at 4:11 PM
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