Truth v. Fiction, Cheating v. Honor

And no one will do a damn thing about it. We have to play nice with Mr. Pussy black guy or else.

If you accuse him of voter fraud, then you are racist and picking on a weakling. Leave the poor nice Black man alone!

Agreed

OT:

here You find the email etc. of that abusive teacher.

http://brianakira.wordpress.com/2008/11/05/dont-let-sick-bastards-like-diantha-harris-abuse-your-children/

Sarah is awesome. If she came on the scene earlier she would have put Mac over the top.
Now we lose. We’ll continue to pay high energy bills when we could have had a Palin Economic & Energy Policy. Rats!

testing…testing…testing…testing…testing…

People voting twice, public officials looking into the records of private citizens, voter registration and fraud, illegal campaign donations, NO BIRTH CERTIFICATE, the list is LONG. I never voted for George Bush. The far right is as kooky as the far left. No matter what Bush did, it was ok because he was so conservative. Now the far left has their own version of Bush and got him in the WH the same fraudlent way, they must be so proud. Republicans didn’t want Hillary to win so they voted for Obama in the primary. then they didn’t want McCain to win because he isn’t conservative enough. And Obama IS?? What a bunch of pathetic, friggin nuts we have pulling the strings in this country.

I can’t prove it, only a theory, but I believe there might have been a very calculated reason for conservatives not to flock to the R ticket. [Saw one report of a voter from the group who explained why she didn't vote in the election: "My pastor didn't tell me to." That's telling. And unfortunate on so many levels.]

Anyway, the theory is this.

The economy’s in the toilet and likely to get worse before better. With the D’s controlling both houses and the White House, they have nobody to blame for anything but themselves. So, they let BHO and the D’s have it, figuring they’ll drown in it and then, in 2012, they get a better candidate and make another run at it. If they support McCain, they’re out of the game until 2016, at least.

They dislike McCain so much, this makes a lot of sense to me. Do I think it’s smart? No. I think they underestimate Obama (though he’s certainly easy to underestimate on policy since he’s never done a thing in his public life, but he’s obviously not one to underestimate when an election rolls around) and underestimate the power of events that we cannot predict. They’re taking a hell of a chance with our nation’s welfare out of spite. Spite is my word. This warped reasoning (if it’s close to right) allows them to redefine spite as shrewd and clever.

They would have helped, for sure. But, the rest of the country should not be let off the hook, either.

Look at Independents, going for Obama by something like, what was it, 6-8 points? And 90% of all D’s going for Obama? They can’t all be Marxists. I sincerely believe two things happened, both related to message.

Remember when “Where’s the Beef?” won an election, and “There You Go Again” and I’m sure some I’ve forgotten. “Lipstick on a pig” was doing the job, until the economy crashed and brought McCain’s campaign down with it. “Joe the Plumber” was a nice try but it was, honestly, too late. The suspension of the campaign that resulted in nothing but a fizzle for Mac, I believe, wounded him deeply, and the failure of him and his party to refute the D’s claim that it was all the R’s fault (it was not).

I’m talking about message. Finding a defining theme for the campaign and sticking to it.

Who’s worked on campaigns before? Remember how, if you’re with your candidate (a good one) for any length of time, you get bloody sick and tired of the speech. Well, you’re supposed to. That’s somebody finding a message and hammering it. Palin did that. She was criticized in the first weeks for rehashing her convention speech or elements from it. Are you kidding? The good ones all do that. It’s called staying on message. McCain tended to say the same thing, over and over, true. But, there wasn’t much there there. Where’s the Beef might have worked against him, actually, if anybody had thought of it. Obama didn’t need it. Nobody ever saw the beef. All they saw was McCain trying to shoot down the Obama 747 with a “He’s Scary” slingshot.

Obama IS scary. I get that and I’ve made myself hoarse telling anybody who would listen. But, your campaign has to have a theme. A message. A right hook to follow the left jab. He’s a liberal. That’s a left jab if nobody got the reference. The right hook is your campaign “hook” that you hit them with after you’ve got them on the defensive.

McCain never threw the hook. Palin’s a pit bull. No doubt about it. But, the head of the ticket has to head the ticket, eventually. He even softened his own signature message by backing the bailout with earmarks dangling from it. His BIG issue (rightfully so) and he pulls its teeth by his own hand.

Stand up!! is supposed to mean something. A great opportunity to stand with the American people. I believe if he had blasted that bill and cast his lot with the American people on the issue, he would have done at least two things. Forever put to bed the McCain = Bush mess. He would be standing up, toe to toe, with his president on the most visible issue of the day. And, it would give teeth to his and Palin’s message that the free enterprise system has to be allowed to work. That he, McCain, was the only candidate who had proposed specific legislation to address the Freddie/Fannie mess (and, yes, I would have waved the bill itself around, on camera, and in the debate), that he was the candidate who had warned what might happen if this thing was not addressed (Obama said he had but he stole McCain’s line again, without a whimper from McCain — ask him to show the people the letter or the bill that he, Obama, is talking about — he doesn’t have one — he made it up — call him on it). And, finally, please, point out that the D’s controlled Congress while they claim the R’s were torching the economy.

He never threw the Right. Or, maybe he doesn’t have a Right to throw. Who knows.

My point is, message matters. Words matter (if you have deeds to back them up, which Mac did/does).

Obama had a message. McCain didn’t. People might really be voting against somebody, but they don’t want to think they are. They want to vote FOR something. Obama gave them something. Actually he gave them whatever he thought they wanted to hear, but he did give it to them. McCain didn’t.

And, yes, the MSM played straight man/woman. To their never-dying shame (whether they feel shame or not is an open question, but they should). But, McCain did not help himself, either.

Obama was allowed to say anything and never get called on it (by the media OR by McCain, he left Palin to do all the dirty work) so he could tout his 95% tax cut without ever getting serious tied down on it, or change positions daily. It started with the campaign financing issue. McCain should have nailed him to the wall and never let up. Obama hadn’t even started campaigning yet and had already brazenly broken a pledge that he had been bowing to the day before. Okay, so Obama was given a free ride on his message and he kept hammering it.

And McCain never even found his message.

The comment of commentators after the R convention were telling. One of them noted that Governor Palin had just done the best job they had heard of defining the R agenda and message in terms that people could understand. Well, that’s not great if the head of your ticket has not done that and, frankly, never did. Obama’s scary. That was his mantra.

An example. I heard Palin state twice, in little covered speeches (they refused to cover her, amazingly, unless the media thought she’d done something they could “use”), that she and McCain believed the federal government should have to live on a budget just like ordinary Americans and that they pledged to balance the federal budget by the end of McCain’s first term in office. I had to check with others to make sure I’d heard this correctly because it’s the only time I heard it mentioned in the entire campaign.

Balance the budget. With a deadline.

Nice issue. Where did it go?

What did McCain say he would do if elected? He’d “Shake up Washington” and stand up for his country. Well, that’s okay, nothing wrong with it. But, he’s part of the Washington old guard. Hard to make that sale (though Palin helped) but okay, not a bad thing to say. But, it can’t be your entire message.

Obama’s scary. And I’m not.

Hell of a tactic.

So, yes, the conservatives might have gotten too clever for their own good (and ours).

But, I would not discount the degree to which McCain, never a great campaigner, was the architect of his own downfall. At the end, he was drawing 1,000 people to Palin’s 15,000. Not a good sign. And, I think it was because he’s not a great messenger (nothing he can do about that; he’s a solid guy in a lot of areas, just not an orator), and because he didn’t have a clear, compelling message.

But, hey, this is all speculation.

Let’s call it an informed guesstimate.

Just read a news article on Google saying Gov. Palin has only been home in Alaska for less than 24 hrs and there’re already interview requests piling up in her office from Barbara Walters, Oprah, Larry King, ….. and more. Weren’t all these people in the tank for the Messiah before the election. Trashing McCain/Palin on The View, etc… Oprah refused to interview Palin before the election, but now that her guy has won, she wants Palin on her show now. Give me a break! They only want to exploit Palin to get big TV ratings for themselves. I hope Gov. Palin just ignores all these requests. Turn them all down! She’s got more important things to do now like run the state of Alaska.

Does anyone honestly believe that Indiana went blue, especially for an apparent radical like Bobo? Look at all the illegalities that Bobo’s camp practiced against Hillary! Busing in out-of-staters, coersing caucus voters, conspiring with the DNC to twist rules, etc. There have been accusations that votes were counted more than once in the NC primary, so it’s not going to happen in the general? In any solidly Bobo areas like ghettoes or youth enclaves, does anyone think the O-bots acted in above-board manners? Some of these folks think slavery and Jim Crowe make any-means-necessary actions okay. The Stalinists among them concur. Many states with large cities squeaked to Bobo, and I believe this is why. And the MSM has to suspect it. Either they agree with the mercenary O-bots, or they’re afraid to rain on the historic parade. Eventually, it will all start dribbling out, and we have a drop with this video. The cause of minorities running for high office will only be damaged by it all.

To My No Quarter family
As a Chicago female AA supporter of John McCain and Gov. Palin, I share your hurt and disappointment with this election loss. My heart is so heavy and I am so hurt that Obama got this position. What a sad day for America. I had a heated discussion with my husband who called Sen. McCain a racist. I told him that I have no pride that a person like Obama did what he and his supporters did to gain the presidency. My heart is still heavy and I will never support him. I told my husband that anyone Black, White or Biracial who uses race baiting or any kind of racial division to gain political power is the true racist. I am ashamed that AA’s judged Sen McCain by the color of his skin and not by the content of his character. To me it is not the AA’s who have come a long way. Clearly, as a group we cannot be trusted. I think the AA almost total support for Obama was more about revenge than about racial pride. That hurts. By the way, Obama is not this nation’s first AA president-elect. He is the first Biracial president elect. There is a big difference.