Erosion

Missouri will be solid red before much longer. I will be running anti-barky ads in my local paper. I will do whatever it takes to keep that from ruining my country.

All the Democrats needed to do to win was to act like Democrats.

Now all the Republicans need to do to win is not act like Republicans.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AyrMS6MBuSg

Virginia and Indiana will be red. No doubt. John McCain will keep CO and NV red. All he needs to do is pick-up either PA or OH- both would be great! Obama is toast. The DNC should have listened to Hillary, she was telling the absolute truth: “He can’t change the map. He can’t win.”

Sen Jay Rockefeller stated two weeks ago that he thought WV was up for grabs. New survey yesterday says only about half of the state’s democrats support Obama. Don’t listen to Jay. WV stays in the GOP column.

Also. The map in this story has OH and IN grey. I don’t agree with that evaluation. IN has voter ID laws that helped keep Obama from using Gary to steal the primary and OH law enforcement is on high ACORN alert. Any swing state that is launching voter fraud initiatives is a state that Obama and his Al Capones should write off.

Well, I told you so from Day I. We have been consistent supporters of Senator Clinton. Since Day One, when the Dems stared pushing this evil politician of hate mongering and disrepect for our country. We said no way, no how, noobama-Soetoro, Little Boots can go back to Chicago cess pool corruption, the worst in our nation and join his party buds, Levine and Rezko, hopefully in prison.

Obarky can see the handwriting on the wall why else do think he went to Bill C. for help. He even flipped his pride to do it but what’s one more flip. If Hillary has any sense she will stay away from this cancer before it infects her. With him on the ropes it is time for the Repugs to lay the wood to him, and bring in the storm troopers Rev. Wright, Father Pflager, Ayres, Rezco, Micheles whitey tape, Acorn, etc. etc.I just cannot wait.

http://citizenwells.wordpress.com/2008/09/12/obama-lucifer-saul-alinsky-community-organizer-god-damn-america-wright-farrakhan-obama-no-christian-heads-up-from-rush-limbaugh/

The breadth of Obama’s deception is limitless.

And we’ll have fun, fun, fun till the voters send Obama aaaaawaaaaaaay! This election has become soooooo fun watching the new age stormtroopers get their candy asses handed to them by the Pros and good old common sense of the electorate in being able to sniff out a conman.

I predict we are going to see lots of the First Dude Todd Palin speaking directly to his fellow He-men in MI,OH, PA, and CO. And won’t that be great! A real macho guy, works with his hands all day ( but has no problems changing diapers or feeding babies) assuring fellow working class men they have nothing to fear from a strong,competent, working women. That it doesn’t diminish their masculinity to support the achievements of their wives, to respect their accomplishments, to be a real partner in the home and family life. OMG- brought to us by the Republicans! Who would’ve thunk it?

Canadian, dude, unless you’re post is a snark you are one fucked in yer head dude/dudette.

I wrote this on 9/11, after watching it all happen again…I probably should have posted it in the Thank You thread below, but it also seems appropriate here, because the Erosion this thread speaks of is thanks in large part to you all…

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I just watched the Towers fall again.

And the world stopped. It changed. We would never be the same.

Seven years later and here we are. We haven’t had another attack, but we’ve lost thousands of America’s finest. I will not debate the merits of the Iraq war. I believe that I, as a centrist Republican, and all you good people differ on that issue. But that does not diminish my affection for you, and I do not disparage your opinion. The world, and the issues that comprise it, is painted in shades of grey. Like the ash, like the ash that covered the World’s City.

Seven years later and here we are.

Do you know something? My heart is bursting with sorrow…and joy. I love my country. We came together on Sept. 12, after the ‘dust’ had settled, with a resolve that I contend no other nation in the modern world could muster. We were, for a very short and wonderful time, filled with righteous indignation. We were like the Spartans facing the coming hordes of Xerces. There would be retribution. We were angry, and no matter what any Eurocentric appeaser might say, we had EVERY RIGHT TO BE. But on the fringes of society, had we bothered to notice, we would have seen the crazed faces of the tormentors to come, we would have noticed that the Asylum doors somehow slipped open and the untamed frantic specters of our collective Id had coalesced into something nascent, something so horrifyingly ugly that – had we noticed – we would have crushed, swiftly.

Most of us, both parties, put our faith in a man whom I voted for. To lead, to find those responsible and to flush them out. I only wonder what might have been had President Bush had General David Petreus to lead this effort from the start. I only wonder what might have been had President Bush heeded the advice of people who questioned our ‘after-victory’ strategy, people like John McCain. Remember, almost everyone voted for this war, that’s a fact. Barack Obama did not. He did not have to. He gave a speech. What’s new.

Seven years later and here we are.

Our nation has become polarized, the fanatics have escaped the Asylum, and from out of corporate America, Hope emerged. Oh, sweet heaven above us, he could talk. He presented himself as the embodiment of the righteous answer to every wrong ever perpetrated in the history of this nation. He was Stephen King’s Walking Dude, amassing a collective of ideological stalwarts and confirming the worst fears of those of us in the middle of society, that the Asylum had been purchased, the Corporation was in control, and the collected ravings of our emotional insecurities was steamrolling his way to the White House.

In March, I began having trouble sleeping. I am not lying about this. I would toss and turn in my bed, worrying endlessly about the future for my two boys, one nine, one five. You see, I have studied history throughout my life. I thrive on it, on the science of politics and society. There is one undeniable historical fact that holds up to the tests of history, from cause and effect to policy: No nation state or Empire that has ever embraced appeasement and public self-mockery has ever – EVER – survived.

But I’m a Republican you understand. And I had no hope. In 2004, I wrote in a man I have always respected named John McCain for president (and his close friend Joe Lieberman for his running mate). It’s not that I hate or disrespect President Bush (I know, this is something we disagree on, hopefully respectfully). But I was watching what was happening in Iraq and was frustrated that too much faith had been put in men who were obviously not up to the task of winning this war. I wanted change, not in America, but in Iraq.

But I’m a Republican you understand. And there was no hope. The man I was supporting was ending his campaign, at least that’s what the media told me. He was carrying his own bags through airports and was, according to some, preparing a press conference to call it quits. It didn’t surprise me you see, my party had been taken over by the extreme Right Wing and was dying. There was no hope in the party, we were failing, even from within.

Then something began to happen. John McCain, never a man to quit in the face of adversity, kept soldiering on. He kept moving forward with a singular, positive message of hope and of the goodness of America. He never talked about appeasing the desires and perceptions of our friends in Europe (and they ARE our friends, but we need not seek their approval). He never talked disparagingly about our great nation. He spoke to what it was to be an American, what it was to fight for something you believe in and what it means, ultimately, to put your country first.

Somehow, whether it be divine providence (I don’t believe in such things as divinity and heaven, but I’m human and certainly could be wrong) or simple attrition, by March my party had chosen its candidate – and low and behold it was my hero, John McCain.

The Democrats laughed. “Lovely! Thanks for the 72-year old gift,” was the essential sentiment. But little did they know, five short months, a scorched earth policy and the most misogynistic primary campaign later, John McCain entered the convention period of this political process within 10 points of The One, The Messiah, The Id.

While my party began to coalesce around John McCain, something unseen had been born in the Democratic Party. It seems that the Id was unmasked, and that the base of the party was fractured. A hunter emerged from the pack of howling insanity, stealthy, enraged…and hungry. Hungry for a future bereft of the screaming cries of self-adulation, self-destruction and self-contempt. This proud brown hunter emerged unscathed from the fires of self-destruction, looked around in contempt at the screaming, wailing lies that propped up The One, and walked away. Proudly holding its head high, for the entire nation to see, it simply said “I am not of you. I am not of this madness. I will go from you, I will collect myself and I will return to this. I will return because I am HUNGRY. I am hungry and when the time is right…

I

WILL

FEED.

The Puma, angry, righteous and glorified, was born out of the ashes of the Democratic Party. With disdain, it flicked the ashes of its shoulders in derision and staked out its territory. It was ready to feed.

I watched in amazement as the Democratic Party split. Stunned and hopeful. “John,” I said to myself. “You have been given a sign, the cat looks West and it looks to you.”

And, ever the wise sage, ever the statesmen and patriot, he reached out his hand to the huntress, never fearful, and offered the nourishment of compromise. “I hear you,” he said. “I hear you and I understand. This is about much more than politics, this is about our nation. This is about our country and this is about ‘us.’

Not ‘me.’

Not ‘you.’

Not ‘the one.’

Us. We differ on so much but we both share the same vision and love of country. I know this. John McCain knows this. You know this. He listened, he offered compromise…

…and the Puma fed.

…and the One blinked.

Faced with the chance to heal the rift, to gather the party faithful, to pull the Ego and the Superego in and make at least an attempt to move on as a whole, the Id faltered. Always narcissistic, the Id would have none of that. You see, when you spend eternity screaming in silence against the roiling mass of nothingness that is self-love, the thought of shared thought, shared vision and shared authority is untenable.

The One chose the Nothing, the Ordinary, the Meek and Vapid. The Puma was enraged, and the hunger returned.

Flash forward, the One ascends from the heavens to the acropolis, and the world watches in awe as the most derivative, pedantic and pedestrian missive ever read to a groveling public is greeted with an orgiastic burst of adulation.

“He is risen, he is here, we are no longer sinners and racists and war fighting heathens. We are enlightened, evolved and progressive. We are the Id. We are the One. We can now like ourselves.”

The Puma was filled with the hunger of indignation. But John McCain remembered and he heard and he knew.

“America is NOT broken. We are NOT the problem.”

“Washington is broken,” he said. And he took the one great leap, the one great step, the one great move towards real hope and real change and chose Destiny.

“World, meet Destiny. Destiny, meet world.”

She was stunning, Destiny, she was nothing that the nation had ever seen. Riding out of the mountains of the last, great frontier, Destiny burst onto the national stage with the steely grace and resolve that has defined this country from its inception.

And with one speech, one simple and authentic life story, Destiny eclipsed the One and now we watch, we watch as the Id flails in insane mockery of everything America stands for. Tears of real and honest joy fell from my eyes as she spoke because she was me. She was my wife, she was my kids…she was America. She slips blithely through life, dealing with every adversity evenly, with the resolve and grace of every man, every woman and every child that ever put its nation in front of itself.

And the Id continues to scream. “Pig! Liar! Cheat! Novice! Whore!…. WOMAN!!” It screams these terms with derision, feeding the lost souls who are forever attached to it, not realizing that those with the ability to reason, those who think for themselves but are nonetheless attracted to the glossy hum of the One, are repulsed. We are all, at once point or another, all of the things he screams, and that fact does not lessen us. We are all Americans…We are all Destiny.

She is America. She is NOT perfect. She is NOT monolithic. She is NOT with you on every issue. You are NOT with her on every issue. But America she is and John McCain had the resolve, when faced with HIS first major decision, to put country first, to put country on the ticket, and to give the middle a place to call home.

“Thank you,” I say to you all. “I’ve said it before, but it bears repeating. Your anger, your hunger for something outside what you were offered did an amazing thing. It gave me my party back, and maybe, just maybe, John McCain will win this thing and help you get your party back.”

Issues count, but character counts more. Policy matters, but courage matters more. Who do you want to face the dark, wailing mass of insanity when the walls of reality start closing in? We know the answer, and America is waking up. Waking up to the Maverick, waking up to Destiny and waking up to the real hope, the real change, the real chance we have

TO

TAKE

OUR

COUNTRY

BACK.

I just watched the Towers fall again.

And I am hopeful because somehow, some way, the Hungry Cat, the War-Ravaged Maverick and Destiny’s Icy Grace have become a force, and my country may one day heal.

Take care,
Patrick

Obama is trying to hold New Jersey! Geez, he may only be able to count on Illinois and TUCC.

But that’s what an empty campaign of condescension will do to you. The little people woke up, and don’t like what they see.

How’d that work out for you Barry? Donna? Telling Hillary voters to just get over it. Stay at home. You don’t need us. Calling us Racist and Bigots day after day. Along with all the other wonderful names you choose for us. What was that you said again Barry? Oh that’s right! “You could get her voters, the question is could she get your’s.” How’s that they’re just a handful of PUMA thing working out for you? How’s that working out for you Dean? Saying that the Republican Party is the party of White People? And just how is that working out for those of you in the MSM, attacking an innocent infant? A teenage mother? Working mothers? Single fathers? Unwed mothers? People’s religious values? Let’s take a look at that map again….Oh my! I’d say not very good and it’s going to get worse.

I get to vote in the 9/16 MA primary to boot jfk from the Senate, O’Reilly has ramped up his insurgent campaign as of late.
Can it happen?
Possible, but doubtful.
If O’Reilly loses the primary, it will be my last vote for a democrat until the party is purged.

More important, can MA, old reliable blue MA, go red?
Not realistic, but stranger things have happened.

Jesus was not a community organizer. Jesus was a teacher. Pontius Pilate was a governor, yes. But remember Pilate could not make a decision to sentence Jesus and so he allowed the community organizers and activist to crucify Jesus.

Pilate is more like Obama because Obama voted PRESENT 130 times and could not make a decision in the Illinois senate.

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Anyone knows what all States have early voting for the general election next week?

most telling about this map is that its the first time I’ve seen where there are more “solid” GOP electoral college votes than solid Dem votes.

I’m in Ohio and anyone who thinks Obama can carry Ohio is crazy. I believe this election will be an electoral landslide. Remember – the main shots on Obama haven’t even been fired yet.

Would love to see NY go red, a nice shade of candy apple red, or fire engine red..

I found this story on againstobama.com It is an interview of Mark Penn by CBS News. Seems like Hillary’s camp is trying to warn the media to back off Palin

CBSNews.com: Your former colleague Howard Wolfson argued that you all unintentionally paved the way for Palin by exposing some of the unfair media coverage that Hillary Clinton received. And, therefore, a lot of the media may now be treating Sarah Palin with kid gloves. Do you agree with that?

Mark Penn: Well, no, I think the people themselves saw unfair media coverage of Senator Clinton. I think if you go back, the polls reflected very clearly what “Saturday Night Live” crystallized in one of their mock debates about what was happening with the press.

I think here the media is on very dangerous ground. I think that when you see them going through every single expense report that Governor Palin ever filed, if they don’t do that for all four of the candidates, they’re on very dangerous ground. I think the media so far has been the biggest loser in this race. And they continue to have growing credibility problems.

And I think that that’s a real problem growing out of this election. The media now, all of the media — not just Fox News, that was perceived as highly partisan — but all of the media is now being viewed as partisan in one way or another. And that is an unfortunate development.

CBSNews.com: So you think the media is being uniquely tough on Palin now?

Mark Penn: Well, I think that the media is doing the kinds of stories on Palin that they’re not doing on the other candidates. And that’s going to subject them to people concluding that they’re giving her a tougher time. Now, the media defense would be, “Yeah, we looked at these other candidates who have been in public life at an earlier time.”

What happened here very clearly is that the controversy over Palin led to 37 million Americans tuning into a vice-presidential speech, something that is unprecedented, because they wanted to see for themselves. This is an election in which the voters are going to decide for themselves. The media has lost credibility with them.

CBSNews.com: Joe Biden said this week that Hillary Clinton might have been a better pick than he was. Do you think that’s true?

Mark Penn: Ask Joe Biden.

CBSNews.com: Well, that’s what he says. What do you think?

Mark Penn: I’m going to leave that one where it is.

Can CA go red? Now that would be a game changer. Ask the Terminator.

Feminist blog:

Obama interview:
http://abcnews.go.com/print?id=5000184

How does it feel to break a glass ceiling?
How does it feel to win?
How does your family feel about your “winning” breaking a glass ceiling?
Who will be your VP?
Should you choose Hillary Clinton as VP?
Will you accept public finance?
What issues is your campaign about?
Will you visit Iraq?
Will you debate McCain at a town hall?
What did you think of your competitor’s [Clinton] speech?

Palin interview:
http://elections.foxnews.com/2008/09/11/raw-data-palins-interview-with-abc-news/

Do you have enough qualifications for the job you’re seeking? Specifically have you visited foreign countries and met foreign leaders?
Aren’t you conceited to be seeking this high level job?
Questions about foreign policy
-territorial integrity of Georgia
-allowing Georgia and Ukraine to be members of NATO
-NATO treaty
-Iranian nuclear threat
-what to do if Israel attacks Iran
-Al Qaeda motivations
-the Bush Doctrine
-attacking terrorists harbored by Pakistan
-Is America fighting a holy war? [misquoted Palin]

Posted by: oy at September 13, 2008 07:08 AM (IHRfl)

Obama may lose WA andf NJ!!!!!!! I wonder how his money machine is doing. Tehy keep pouring money into a losing effort.

this is an example of polls and stats being skewed or not complete. I have lived in Indiana my entire life. We haven’t went Dem for President since 1964 and I guarantee you it won’t be this year either. Obama is the most liberal Senator in Congress. Add to that the Republicans have McCain a war hero and Sarah Palin a conservative, christian hockey mom…so move Indiana to their column because Obama is not going to win here.

Erosion of credibility Palin vs MSM smears – Earmarks. The media has no shame in its objective to smear Gov. Palin by accusing her of requesting 256 millions in earmarks for her state and labeling the state one of the most successful in obtaining earmarks. Here is a great example of smearing: This one is totally the height of shamelessness.

Jonathan Martin in Politico today says, “It’s earmark abuse that is the problem, suggests Palin.” Then my friends, look at the quote that supports his arguments, “Palin told Gibson that she “drastically reduced our earmark request since I came into office,” but when pushed on her states request for $3.2 billion for researching the genetics of harbor seals and the mating habits of crabs, the governor became defensive.”

http://www.politico.com/blogs/jonathanmartin/0908/Its_earmark_abuse_that_is_the_problem_suggests_Palin.html

Notice the unabashed figure of 3.2 billion given on September 12.

But on Sept 10 they had this article in Ben Smith: “Palin, meanwhile, has requested $3.2 million to be spent in part researching the “genetics of harbor seals,” in one of the state’s many requests for federal funding of research into Alaska’s fauna.”

http://dyn.politico.com/printstory.cfm?uuid=4E2E5BFD-18FE-70B2-A815903CFF648F68

I undertook this little research, even when I do not like to do them because any little brain knows that 3.2 billion for research on seals is an aberration. But Jonathan Martin has not the decency to adhere to any ethical standard, preferring instead to help the crowd of smearing media disinformation.

Please notice that in Smith’s article, Alaska’s earmarks request amounts are tied to Sen. Stevens. “[A]laska has indeed been spectacularly successful in getting earmarks, largely through the efforts of its senior senator, Ted Stevens, who is now fighting corruption charges. (Stevens’ requests include far more than those listed by Palin.) And Palin’s office has actively backed some of its legislators’ requests….”

As you can see clearly, 1) Palin would not entertain for one second spending a minute with Stevens for the purpose of getting earmarks. 2) It is clear that her office actively backed some of its legislators’ requests, and not necessarily Stevens’.

In Smith’s column the earmarks mentioned pertain to grants given to the universities for funding their academic research programs. And most importantly, these are geared towards conservation and environmental studies. These request are routine activities of academic programs. True or false?

I’ve been keeping an eye on Washington and Oregon. I think that’s the canary in the coal mine. Republicans have been whining about “The Left Coast” for years. That’s because it’s a Dem stronghold that threatens them. But McCain was brilliant picking a VP from the Pacific Northwest. This is Palin territory. (Well, she cost the GOP the vegan vote,LOL, but other then that, people around here can relate to her.)

In Wa, Obama had a 17 point lead a few months ago. In some polls it’s now been reduced to 2 points. For this state to become a funny shade of purple would defy the laws of physics and history, but it’s not beyond the realm of possibility. Without a united “Left coast” he’s toast.

I spend a lot of time in NC. since my daughter lives there…there are a large numbers of evangelicals in that state, and not just in rural areas. Even so, that 20% surprised me!
Our local paper editoralized Thursday on the “community organizer vs the governor”, and wow, I was glad! Their readership extends into rural areas of VA.and I don’t think these down to earth people will be receptive to those comparisons!

[...] posted it in the Thank You thread below, but it also seems appropriate here, because the Erosion this thread speaks of is thanks in large part to you [...]

Go to
http://www.intrade.net/

and look at Realtime Electoral Vote Predictor

Obama 268 McCain/Palin 270

Looks like best toss up for Obama is Nevada where McCain/Palin have under 60%
Obama 44% McCain/Palin 59%

IMHO Obama simply can’t win even with Pennsylvania.

cheers PUMA

sure would be great to see washington pay obama back for his caucus fraud here.

the loudest got to be delegates.

I have truned my family and and working on my obama friends.

Here is some analysis from Gerard Baker in The Times in London, apparently some Europeans are incredulous that the dumb white trash in America could even consider not voting their favorite candidate:

“Thoughtful people cannot get their head around the idea that Mr Obama, exciting new pilot of change, supported by Joseph Biden, experienced navigator of the swamplands of Washington politics, could possibly be defeated . . . .

The essential problem coming to light is a profound disconnect between the Barack Obama of the candidate’s speeches, and the Barack Obama who has actually been in politics for the past decade or so.

Speechmaker Obama has built his campaign on the promise of reform, the need to change the culture of American political life, to take on the special interests that undermine government’s effectiveness and erode trust in the system itself,

Politician Obama rose through a Chicago machine that is notoriously the most corrupt in the country. As David Freddoso writes in a brilliantly cogent and measured book, The Case Against Barack Obama, the angel of deliverance from the old politics functioned like an old-time Democratic pol in Illinois. He refused repeatedly to side with those lonely voices that sought to challenge the old corrupt ways of the ruling party.

Speechmaker Obama talks about an era of bipartisanship, He speaks powerfully about the destructive politics of red and blue states.

Politician Obama has toed his party’s line more reliably than almost any other Democrat in US politics. He has a near-perfect record of voting with his side. He has the most solidly left-wing voting history in the Senate. His one act of bipartisanship, a transparency bill co-sponsored with a Republican senator, was backed by everybody on both sides of the aisle. He has never challenged his party’s line on any issue of substance.”

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/gerard_baker/article4735295.ece

Is this the DNC’s idea of ‘change we can believe in?’ It must be, because it is definitely not change you can actually see.

Democrat Barack Obama’s once double-digit lead in Washington state is no more, according to this latest SurveyUSA poll conducted exclusively for KING-TV Seattle and KATU-TV Portland Oregon. In an election today, eight weeks till votes are counted, it’s Obama 49%, McCain 45%.

update

Obama/Biden 217
157 Solid 60 Leaning
McCain/Palin 227
172 Solid 55 Leaning
Toss Up 94
94 Toss Up
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McCain’s gains in Washington state are encouraging. If Obama travles to Washington state in the coming weeks, there’s a good chance that Washington state will go for McCain-Palin.

And why shouldn’t they? I think people in washington appreciate McCain-palin for their straight talk. They trust them. More and more people do not trust Obama.

Obama is a radical. He could care less about the women in Washington satte. Obama just wants the votes of women as long as they do what he tells them to do.

Obama is a control freak. He’s absolutely obsessed with Sarah Palin.

I hope the good folks in Washington state will stand up and fight and tell Obama to shove it with their votes!

Obama belongs in Chicago with his band of criminals.

On Election Day, Americans will make sure he stays in Chicago.

McCain’s gains in Washington state are encouraging. If Obama travles to Washington state in the coming weeks, there’s a good chance that Washington state will go for McCain-Palin.

And why shouldn’t they? I think people in Washington state appreciate McCain-Palin for their straight talk. They trust them. More and more people do not trust Obama.

Obama is a radical. He could care less about the women in Washington satte. Obama just wants the votes of women as long as they do what he tells them to do.

Obama is a control freak. He’s absolutely obsessed with Sarah Palin.

I hope the good folks in Washington state will stand up and fight and tell Obama to shove it with their votes!

Obama belongs in Chicago with his band of criminals.

On Election Day, Americans will make sure he stays in Chicago.

The latest poll out of Michigan according to real clear politics has McCain up by 1 in Michigan.

It looks like Michigan will be a real battleground state this year ….

Since the 12th of September, McCain, who was behind Obama for months on end, moved ahead to a 270 – 268 lead at http://electoral-vote.com/evp2008/Pres/Maps/Sep12.html.

Today’s polls did not change the picture. McCain loses a point in Oklahoma (64%), remains 5 points ahead in Missouri, wins a point in New Jersey (only 5 behind), wins a point in Ohio (2 ahead) and remains just 4 points behind in Washington (they put together Rasmussen, Elway and SurveyUSA).

I personally like the development in New Mexico where McCain turned a 41-50 into a 49-47, so from 9 behind to 2 ahead. Hope the numbers hold and that McCain can make headways into the Great Lakes States Michigan, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania.

I will be voting for a Democratic president in 2012 so it pains me to repeat what I had been saying ever since Larry started this website: B.O.W.L.* Big Time in November!
*Barack Obama Will Lose

Zerobama’s support is eroding in Minnesota as well.

The latest Survey USA (a very good pollster) poll has Obama up only 49-47.

http://kstp.com/article/stories/S578323.shtml?cat=1

A recent CNN/Time poll had Barry up 12.

Delayed response on Gibson’s interview and dissemination of misinformation. All of these reporters and pundits want to give the public the impression that Governors like Palin are elected to exercise their authority as DICTATORS. That they can just exercise their beliefs and objectives as dictators and in one swipe of the pen delete all the earmarks presented to them by those representing their constituency. Governors have to also act as agents of democratic institutions where the people’s needs and request are honored.

I think this guy nails it for me:

The monsters from the id that now control the Democrat Party have transformed that party into a mob of undead extras from The Dawn of the Dead. It’s an indecent and disgusting spectacle and I suspect there’s more than a few million long-time Democrats who are revolted by it. That certainly seems to be creeping into the polls. No matter the good it once did, the Democrats today present as sick and crazed political party that is so greedy and hungry for power that it will do anything, including selling its country down the drain, to get it back.

Until 2004, with the exception of Guiliani’s second term as mayor, I voted the Democrat ticket in every election since 1967. In 2004, offered the Insane Clown Posse of John Kerry and John Edwards, I voted for George Bush. The spectacle of the last four years of various Democrats reaching for the gold ring did not inspire me to change my view. Only the dead enjoy parties in a crypt. Not even Roman columns improve the Charnal house atmosphere that fumes through the party today.

http://americandigest.org/mt-archives/bad_americans/goodbye_to_all_1.php

Truthteller:

RCP has just changed the Electoral Map (with toss ups). Indiana is now “tilting Rep.” to McCain has 227 to Obama 217.

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/maps/obama_vs_mccain/

It’ll come down to Ohio and Michigan (imho).

Map is old. This AM Indiana moved to McCain/Palin leaning. 227 now to 217. 94 tossup

PUMAs, take nothing for granted.

We must keep working our “asses” off. Pardon the pun.

McPalin08
Clinton12

The NYT is screaming about negative ads from McCain, barely mentioning the negative ads from Obama.

Charlie Gibson’s Gaffe

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/12/AR2008091202457.html?nav=hcmodule

The “Still” ad debacle will give McCain and the RNC the freedom to go even MORE negative on Barry (i.e., tell the truth about him).

If Obama tries to take umbrage, all McCain’s people have to do is say, “Excuse me, you run an ad mocking the injuries a war hero received as a POW and you are whining about “negative” campaigining.”

I think Sarah Palin should be the point person in responding to this horrendous insult to not only John McCain, but all veterans, elderly Americans and disabled Americans.

The media would be forced to listen if she delivers the response.

Today Republicans have something to be proud of: John McCain and Sarah Palin. John McCain has demonstrated leadership. Nothing is won yet, but the games have surely begun and McCain has shown us his grit and game face. Anything can still happen and I think a fatal mistake is to loose the sight of the prize and more importantly the enemy. Obama may be bleeding right now, but that is more the reason to be aware of him. We PUMAs know how deadly he can be when wounded. And unlike Obama, I do not want to underestimate my enemy.

One ardent Obama supporter is already trying to pin the blame on Senator Clinton:

“It’s not just that Clinton continued to battle for the nomination beyond the point at which her winning became impossible and the major political damage to the Illinois senator became inevitable . . .

It’s now obvious that Palin has left Obama badly rattled and his campaign flailing. It must stick in the craw of a man brought up by a single mother, who married a strong woman and adores his two daughters but he stands accused of being sexism not just once but twice.

The “lipstick on a pig” slip-up was no more intended to be sexist or demeaning than his ill-judged “likeable enough, Hillary” quip in the New Hampshire primary debate. But it illustrated once again the perils of a rookie on the national scene jousting with a female politician who has passionate supporters and is poised to make history.

It’s folly, of course, for Obama to be engaging with Palin. It diminishes him by equating him with the number two on the other ticket. And far from neutralizing the question mark over his experience, the discussion of her qualifications has ensured that his thin resume will remain front and center.

Obama should be giving Palin a good ignoring while his campaign hammers away at her record and McCain’s linkages to President George W. Bush – not his vetting process (a Beltway preoccupation of no relevance beyond whether it missed anything damaging) or her family.

Clinton has made clear she won’t be attacking Palin. And why should she? A McCain-Palin victory would make Clinton the Democratic front runner in 2012. It would vindicate everything she said about Obama during their primary battle.

Palin, and what picking her telegraphed about McCain, could be Obama’s nemesis. Hillary Clinton brought us Palin. The Alaska governor is her gift to Obama.”

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2008/09/palin_is_hillarys_gift_to_obam.html

As fall approaches, there is a faint “whiff” in the air of a McGovern moment. The MSM and Obama have picked it up and they are almost in a panic mode. This is not going to be pretty. The 527’s and the RNC has not even started on him yet. I am almost afraid that they will reduce him to the weeping wimp that he is and as I mentioned, it will not be a pretty sight. I expected Obama to lose all the south and border states, the normal red states, but to see some of the blue states starting to look a little purple is a surprise.

Add Pa to the leaning McCain column- here is a link to a poll conducted by JET TV in Erie- http://yourerie.com/content/poll/?poll_id=1191 (Poll- “who do you think will win PA in the presidential race?” McCain 46.4, the selectee 37.9, not sure 15.8)
As I am sure you all remember- the I-79 corridor from Erie to the WV line went heavily for Hillary in April. Looks to me like the bitter folks clinging to their guns and religion are going to soundly reject the selectee. Philly is not going to be enough to override the rest of the state.
A few reminders of how he really feels about us in the week before the election should be all it takes to turn PA red.

ACORN, Voter Fraud, and the Mortgage Meltdown

When they were busy telling Hillary its the delegates, its the delegates and she was telling them no its the map!!!

Donna Brizille and crew could not care less, Donna was busy sending off emails to voters telling us if you don’t like what I am saying or doing leave the party, oh well I wonder what Donna, Dean and others are saying now when they are looking at the MAP!!!!

Please can someone else go to

http://www.intrade.net/
and look at Realtime Electoral Vote Predictor
and
http://www.politico.com/convention/swingstate.html
Swing State Map

I can’t see any difference in both maps. Still politico site have
Obama 273 McCain/Palin 265
and intrade site
Obama 268 McCain/Palin 270

Is it me who is blind?

Bill Clinton has the gift that after people listen to him, they not only feel better about him, they feel better about themselves. When people are done listening to Obama,they come away filled with anger at somebody, anybody, and they never seem to be very happy. Their faces are all twisted in snarling anger.

The Consequences of Rejecting Hillary

Fred Barnes
Thu Sep 11, 2008

Washington (The Daily Standard) – IT’S WIDELY ACCEPTED now that Barack Obama would be better off if he’d picked Hillary Clinton as his vice presidential running mate instead of Joe Biden. Obama had his reasons, particularly his discomfort with her as his actual vice president if he’s elected. Still, Obama sacrificed a stronger ticket by rejecting Clinton.

Absent Hillary, the contest between Obama-Biden and the Republican ticket of John McCain and Sarah Palin is throwing the Democrats into disarray. The consequences of Obama’s veep decision appear mostly to favor McCain. And if Obama had picked Hillary? Here are a few of the differences.

No Palin. Okay, McCain might have picked her anyway. He was looking for a running mate who would help him shake up the campaign. And Palin has delivered spectacularly on that. But choosing her would have seemed far less of a game-changer had Obama picked Clinton. Palin would have been merely the second female running mate in 2008. And her appeal to those who had voted for Clinton in the primaries would have been reduced if not nullified altogether.

As a result, the prospects of the other potential game-changers McCain was considering–Democratic senator Joe Lieberman and pro-choice ex-Pennsylvania governor Tom Ridge–would surely have risen. And while it’s unknowable whether McCain would have picked Palin if Obama had gone with Clinton, selecting Palin would have been a lot less likely.

No Biden. He’s not an albatross, but he certainly hasn’t given Obama a boost. He has brought no balance to the ticket, not in regard to class, gender, ideology, or anything except longevity in Washington. Worse, unlike Palin, he’s generated no enthusiasm or excitement. Biden has little appeal to the working class voters, especially women, who swarmed to Clinton in the primaries. He lacks the populist streak that Clinton had fashioned for herself. Biden is simply a weaker running mate.

Party unity. Democrats have come together fairly well behind the Obama-Biden ticket–but not as well as they would have if Obama had chosen Clinton. We still hear from disgruntled Hillary backers. Reporters have discovered they’re easy to find at McCain-Palin rallies. Polls can’t tell us how many will ultimately vote for McCain and Palin. But a chunk of them will–perhaps a few million–which means that Democrats aren’t as unified as they might have been.

Ohio and Pennsylvania. Republicans figured these states, notably Pennsylvania, were all but goners if Clinton won the Democratic nomination. Even as veep, she’d have had a favorable impact. When she was passed over by Obama, Republicans jumped for joy. Ohio, which a Republican presidential candidate has to win, now leans McCain. Pennsylvania, which is crucial to a Democratic candidate’s chances, has become a ripe target of opportunity for McCain.

Arkansas. As a Southern state, Arkansas is inclined to vote Republican in presidential races unless there’s a compelling reason not to. One of those reasons: a Clinton on the Democratic ticket. Without Clinton, Arkansas moves into the leaning (strongly) McCain camp.

Vice presidential debate. This is a no-brainer. Who would be the easier opponent for Palin to face in the nationally televised debate on October 2? Clinton or Biden? The tough woman or Senator Windbag? Biden will have to be on his best behavior and treat Palin gingerly. Clinton wouldn’t have had to.

Republican women. Mark Penn, chief strategist in the Clinton campaign, once insisted that 25 percent of Republican women were ready to vote for her for president. Many crossed party lines and voted for her in the primaries. Many of those women might have voted for an Obama-Clinton ticket. But how many Republican women are going to reject Palin and vote for an Obama-Biden ticket? Mighty few.

Because of all the problems associated with the Clintons–husband Bill, her relatively high unfavorability in polls, Clinton fatigue–Hillary Clinton appeared to be the wrong running mate for Obama. I thought so. I was mistaken. As Clinton won primaries in big states and developed a populist appeal to downscale white voters, her political value soared. As it turns out, Obama needed her. McCain is lucky Obama missed his chance.

Fred Barnes is executive editor of THE WEEKLY STANDARD.

The map was updated to

227 McCain
217 Oblahbla

They now place Indiana in McCain’s column.

The telegraph has another great article about how Obama is losing. It seems like the only good stories are in foreign newspapers.

Following are some statements:


Peggy Noonan, the former Reagan speechwriter, blamed the defection of women voters from Mr Obama on the atom bomb of ritual abuse by left-wing bloggers and Democratic officials, painting Mrs Palin as a bad mother and religious weirdo.

Party elders also believe the Obama camp is in denial about warnings from Democratic pollsters that his true standing is four to six points lower than that in published polls because of hidden racism from voters – something that would put him a long way behind Mr McCain.

The strategist said: “I’ve seen memos where they’ve been told to factor in four to six points for the Bradley effect, but they’re in denial about it.

The Sunday Telegraph has learned that senators, governors and union leaders who have experience of winning hard-fought races in swing states have been bombarding Obamas campaign headquarters with telephone calls offering advice. But many of those calls have not been returned.

A Democratic National Committee official told The Sunday Telegraph: “I really find it offensive when Democrats ask the Republicans not to be nasty to us, which is effectively what Obama keeps doing. They know thats how the game is played.”

Mark Cunningham of the New York Post summed up the private views of many: “If it suddenly seems like the Obama campaign doesn’t have any idea what it’s doing, maybe that’s because it doesn’t.”

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/uselection2008/barackobama/2909844/Barack-Obama-under-fire-for-ignoring-advice-on-how-to-beat-John-McCain.html

We just had our primary for our governor in Washington state and Christine Gregoire (D) who backed Obama at the last minute, and Dino Rossi (R) were neck and neck. They are both on the ticket for the Nov. election. Our state is pretty much split down the middle. The presidential primary we had after the caucus in February did not reflect what really happened in Washington State. The primary was 47% Hillary and 50% Obama.

I am one of those who voted for Hillary and was a delegate at our state convention. I can say first hand that those bots were crazy at our caucus and the delegate convention for our state. They even booed the speaker for Hillary.

Three reasons:The Clintons.

Hillary Clinton:Obama’s arrogance not to pick H Clinton as his running mate showed his lack of good judgment. I guess he is not John F Kennedy. The only comparison with JFK is he is young and inexperienced.

Hillary Clinton:David Axelrod specializes in winning against a Democratic opponent in a Primary. I guess Sen Clinton should really have been the Democratic presidential nominee. She knows how to win a Presidential election against the Republicans.

Bill Clinton: Obama cannot use racism anymore to play the role of the victim. The electorate saw how arrogant he really is and the racism charge is unfounded. Just to think of it, President Bill Clinton, the person who worked a lot for the betterment of the black people being branded a racist.

I also live in the battleground state and I will do my outmost, with the help of my friends and relatives to keep Obama out of the White House.

Let us work together to rid the Democratic party of Undemocratic leaders. The Democratic party is Clinton’s party not Obama’s, Dean’s, Kennedy’s or Pelosi’s party.

Can’t wait for 2012 but for now, McCain/Palin 08.

Very well-done post. Thanks for the up to date info.

I remember during the Democratic primary, Obama was boasting that Republican voters were whispering to him that they are they supporting him.

Where are they now?

Bottom line:

McCain is a hero who has served his country. The only reason a person will not vote for him is either he doesn’t know anything about Obama or he hates Bush and the Republican brand so much.

But then again McCain is not Bush.

From Victor Davis Hanson (who said during the primary season that Obama is the only democrat who could lose this election and that McCain is the only republican who could win):

“Unless Obama’s team can get a handle on this self-induced and paranoid madness, they risk turning a small, natural, and probably temporary 2-3 point bump—quite normal in such a tight see-saw race—into a permanent and insurmountable 5-6 point McCain lead, as the quiet swing voters shrug and say to themselves, “Hmmm, liked that Obama, but if he and his supporters panic and go wild and vicious like this, what in the world would they do when elected?”

Hate to be a broken record, but old pro Hil as VP at this fire would have had an extinguisher in hand (Bill manning the hose), not a Biden match and more Axelrod fuel.”

I just checked the RCP map link (1:39 pm CDT), and it showed Indiana in the McCain/Palin column giving the GOP a lead over Obama/Biden.

Obama’s Lost Years
September 11, 2008; Page A14
Barack Obama makes his first campaign visit today to his alma mater, Columbia University. Just don’t ask the prolific self-diarist to talk about his undergraduate days in Morningside Heights.

The Columbia years are a hole in the sprawling Obama hagiography. In his two published memoirs, the 47-year-old Democratic nominee barely mentions his experience there. He refuses to answer questions about Columbia and New York — which, in this media age, serves only to raise more of them. Why not release his Columbia transcript? Why has his senior essay gone missing?

Now in our view, the college years shouldn’t normally be used to judge a politician’s fitness for office. We’re not sure the transcripts of Al Gore, John Kerry and George W. Bush — which showed them to be C students — illuminated much for voters. The McCain campaign won’t release his records, but we know he graduated at the bottom of his Naval Academy class.

But Mr. Obama is a case apart. His personal story, as told by him, made possible his rise from obscurity four years ago to possibly the White House. He doesn’t have a long track record in government. We mainly have him in his own words. As any autobiographer, Mr. Obama played up certain chapters in his life — perhaps even exaggerating his drug use in adolescence to drive home his theme of youthful alienation — and ignored others. What’s more, as acknowledged in “Dreams From My Father,” Mr. Obama reconstructed conversations and gave some people pseudonyms or created “composite” characters.

Voters and the media are now exercising due diligence before Election Day, and they are meeting resistance from Mr. Obama in checking his past. Earlier this year, the AP tracked down Mr. Obama’s New York-era roommate, “Sadik,” in Seattle after the campaign refused to reveal his name. Sohale Siddiqi, his real name, confirmed Mr. Obama’s account that he turned serious in New York and “stopped getting high.” “We were both very lost,” Mr. Siddiqi said. “We were both alienated, although he might not put it that way. He arrived disheveled and without a place to stay.” For some reason the Obama camp wanted this to stay out of public view.

Such caginess is grist for speculation. Some think his transcript, if released, would reveal Mr. Obama as a mediocre student who benefited from racial preference. Yet he later graduated from Harvard Law School magna cum laude, so he knows how to get good grades. Others speculate about ties to the Black Students Organization, though students active then don’t seem to remember him. And on the far reaches of the Web can be found conspiracies about former Carter national security adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski, who became the candidate’s “guru and controller” while at Columbia in the early 1980s. Mr. Brzezinski laughs, and tells us he doesn’t “remember meeting him.”

What can be said with some certainty is that Mr. Obama lived off campus while at Columbia in 1981-83 and made few friends. Fox News contacted some 400 of his classmates and found no one who remembered him. He had transferred from Occidental College in California after his sophomore year because, he told the Boston Globe in 1990, “I was concerned with urban issues and I wanted to be around more black folks in big cities.” He got a degree in political science without honors. “For about two years there, I was just painfully alone and really not focused on anything, except maybe thinking a lot,” he told his biographer David Mendell.

Put that way, his time at Columbia sounds unremarkable. Maybe that’s what most pains a young memoirist and an ambitious politician who strains to make his life anything but unremarkable.

WHO IS THIS GUY ANYWAY?

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McCain/Palin will take Cailifornia!

It’s so exciting to be an x – democratic puma voter watching “THE ONE” go down in defeat like we have never seen in politics before this cycle. Obama will make McGovern look like a winner.

Can’t wait for McCain/Palin to work wonders on our economy and health care needs.

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