You know, when the repubs have to drag the transportation secretary out to do their leg work, things must be pretty desperate over there.

I don't think these people have any idea how the internt/blogging works....

(it's a series of tubes you see..)

Al Gore's invention is apparently beyond their comprehension.

(In case anyone is confused: It is my intention here to 1) satire the RW smear of Mr. Gore, 2) Give Mr. Gore the credit he actually desevres, and 3) Portray the Republicans as stupid and out of touch.  Just don't want anyone to misunderinterpricate.)

Why would Palin accept the nomination anyway?  She had to know this was coming and she still put her family through this.

I agree. Not to mention the fact that any serious vetting would have thrown red flags all over the place. Forget the pregnant daughter... Whatshername has political ties to Senator Stevens, and she's under investigation for abuse of power. She was FOR the Bridge to Nowhere before she was against it. She's a political disaster.

The ONLY reason she was even considered is her ability to speak fluent Troglodyte.

The ONLY reason she was even considered is her ability to speak fluent Troglodyte.

Yeah, but NOt being able to 'talk the talk' has been McCain's biggest weakness.  (Or strength depending on you point of view.)

Because her ambitions know no bounds? I'm fairly convinced that the only reason she can claim the "maverick" label of going after someone in her own party was because she will stop at nothing to advance her own political career, even if it means sacrificing her family's privacy or stepping on the backs of her own colleagues.

What is revealing about the Republican party (and self proclaimed Conservatives in the media, print and radio) is that they are portraying this as something great of Palin.

Family values, traditional values, abstinence only, no funding for sex education etc., ALL get thrown out the window and claimed as something every family goes through when the VP candidate's teenage daughter gets pregnant. Instead, we are told to believe that the VP candidate is just like us.

The hypocrisy and self serving nature (without regard for humanity) of these people is mind boggling.

Family values, traditional values, abstinence only, no funding for sex education etc., ALL get thrown out the window and claimed as something every family goes through when the VP candidate's teenage daughter gets pregnant. Instead, we are told to believe that the VP candidate is just like us.

Attempting to follow the right-wing "logic" for a minute here, my daughter did NOT get pregnant at 17.  She's 31 now, unmarried, but still not pregnant.  Does that mean that her mother and I are failures as parents???

Amazing. Why hasn't Grampy put a stop to all those viral e-mails claiming that Obama is a Muslim?

This is very interesting. Will Whatshername withdraw before or after her name is officially placed in nomination?

Why would he? Heck, today he said Obama was a sexist for questioning gidget's experience. I guess using that logic McCain is a racist...

ST. PAUL, Minnesota (Reuters) - Republican John McCain rallied behind his vice presidential pick Sarah Palin on Tuesday and his campaign accused Democrat Barack Obama of sexism for questioning her level of experience.

First off, Obama cannot "put a stop" to private citizens exercising their right on any blogosphere.  It's a ridiculous assertion by Peters.

However, the headline and the implication that Peters "suggested" Obama was responsible for the rumors is also ridiculous.  She never said that, not in the text printed here.  She said Obama should stop it, not that he was responsible for it.

Inflammatory and unnecessary charge by MMFA, headline should be changed.

Maybe MMFA meant "responsible for stopping it."  But yeah, I agree.  It's a bad headline.

I took Obama at his word when he denounced going after candidate's families, his word is good enough for me.

He's been consistent about that too, unlike his critics.

So by saying that Obama should stop it, she was not i"suggesting" that he had nothing to do with starting it?

It's like saying Russia should end the Iraq war.

I agree that MMFA may have headlined it wrong. 

It's no rumor that Palin is a hypocrite who would tell us abstinence is the answer while neither herself, her family or her running mate seem to be able to exercise abstinence.

It's no rumor that Palin supports a rapists bill of rights, in which victims of rape and incest are forced to carry the baby to term.

Typical.  McCain can't stop the CT? Republican party from running ads equating Obama to bin Laden or whatever it was yet Obama is somehow supposed to snap his fingers and make the entire liberal bloggosphere forget that Palin's teenage daughter is pregnant.

Cry me a River

While Sarah "believes that Iraq was a mission from God" Palin gets a free pass for her outdated, statistically failed abstinence only beliefs and her Dukakis "even if my own daughter were raped" moment, her daughter faces some unwarranted media scrutiny...lucky for her she's not a Democrat's kid or she'd have been skewered.  The media, ignoring that McCain himself mocked Chelsea Clinton allows him to make a baseless assertion that mean ole Obama is behind this...not to mention Cindy "First was a Mistress" McSame started the family attacks by lashing out at Michelle.

BIZARROWORLD ELECTION '08

Isn't it some funny shit, I mean heinous hypocrisy, that all these cons are saying Palin's family should be off limits while they use her family to paint her as a hero?

Punks.

I mean its almost on par with the Rightwingnuts glee over the Edwards fiasco while championing McTorture who also cheated on his hospitalzed wife...these freaks know no shame

 

 

I know you're no more surprised than me, because we both know sociopaths have no shame.

How about the police state the GOP has implemented in St. Paul? Republicans are a blight on the Constitution.

I want Obama to run a video of unemployment lines, flag draped coffins, people losing their houses, Katrina, Bush aides being supeoned, Abu Gahraib, allies we've lost, billions of dollars flowing to Iraq, Osama still making YouTube videos, gas prices over four bucks and in the forefront- WIngNuts- chanting 4 more years, 4 more years

I'd approve that message

This is from memory, forgive the potholes, I just heard a new Obama ad on the Jeff Farious show. It used McCain's own words, "I've voted with the president 90% of the time. I've voted with the president more than many of my Republican colleagues."

The ad continues, as Jeff described the visual, to fade to McCain hugging Bush as the narrator repeats McCain is for more of the same Bush policies that has destroyed the middle class. More of the same tax cuts that benefit the wealthiest 1%...more of the same...more of the same.

It was pretty good and represented a good departure from the mild mannered campaign Obama has run so far.

Police State?

Vandalism, assault? All things that no doubt Democrats find accepatble in a modern society I suppose? Minnestoa is notably a blue state and has been for a long time. But your ideological fervor no doubt allows you to easily transcend thought processes that masked, rioting, vandlaizing rebels without a clue aren't the thugs they are, but somehow better than republicans?

bah!

 

And somehow a few a-holes represent our entire party all of a sudden? Yeah, OK. I wouldn't be surprised if the people starting trouble were republican plants. It's not as if they haven't done it before (Florida, 2000).

You're full of bull chit, misdeed.

Politically targeted, pre-emptive house raids, where phones and computers are seized, based on mere suspicion. Then to have the "suspects" later released with no charges are police state tactics.

Now, you need to get yourself to St. Paul with the rest of your authoritarian brothers and bask in the glorious Republican police state.

Punk.

Having it both ways is like oxygen to these people.

oh and this is a must see video

Palin says God wanted the Iraq War

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/02/palins-church-may-have-sh_n_123205.html

Pass this shizz on!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Just in: Palin's visit to Ireland last year? It was a friggin' refueling stopover! She never deplaned! God, how does someone who claims to be a christian lie so easily?

Are you kidding? It's what some of them do best. I guess they figure that God thinks it's okay to lie, as long as it helps get Republicans elected.

O'Donnell left unchallenged Bush Cabinet member's suggestion that Obama was responsible for rumors about Palins.  That was the headline!  I think it's a little nitpicky by Tommy but she did imply that he wasn't stopping it, and thus supported it.  Others from the "right" have tried to pin it on someone in his campaign or on the Daily Kos, and this womens implication could have been a dogwhistle to futher those rumors. The reality was it seems that this was released either by her or McCains staff to disquiet the talk that Palins own 5month old baby was actually her daughters.  I do find it troubling that someone who professes abstinence only education has proff of its ineffectiveness in her own household and still refuses to see the light .  Leaders that refuse facts and act on rigid ideological beliefs, isn't that what we've had for the last 8yrs? 

Bingo! congero.

I was intrigued by some posters theories that Palin might be a decoy, to be replaced before the election, but watching the ConCon, it looks like she's the one, and they're selling her hard. The freshest talking point re: her "executive experience" seems to involve the Veto Pen, which the PTA leader/sausage maker is apparently qualified to operate.

I really like the foreign policy selling point. I first heard Doocy say it, then it eventually made its way to Cindy McCain's mouth. That Alaska is really, really close to Russia, so ya know, Palin has all the foreign policy experience she needs. It sounds desperate but it will be effective on the people who think Hawaii is some foreign place.

Hey, wait a second, maybe Obama could use his vacation on his foreign policy resume'...

You know the reasons given why she(SP)has foreign  policy and executive experience gets more ridiculous by the minute especially as more evidence mounts to the contrary...checkout this reasoning I picked up from "Washington Monthly":  Frank Gaffney:

"Speaking of geography, Alaskan territory is also along the trajectory of ballistic missiles launched eastward out of Stalinist North Korea. For that reason, among others, Alaska's Fort Greely was selected as the site for the principal U.S. ground-based defense against such missiles. As that state's governor, Sarah Palin would know more by osmosis -- if nothing else -- about the necessity for U.S. anti-missile systems than either Messrs. Obama or Biden."  Theres alot of Polar bears walking around with some serious Russian-American foreign policy experience, they can't help it they get it naturally by osmosis.  Also dont forget inthe 20 months that she's been governor Alaska has not been attacked by Russia!  But on the other hand I don't think we should take her nomination lightly.  She has brought the right wing of the Republican Party together , the Evangelicals with their extensive network and social organizations into line behind McCain like they weren't before, along with their money.  Never underestimate the rush to ignorance that drives so much political discussion today.  If reason and thoughtout policy were practiced we would not have had the last 8yrs. of GB., and people wouldn''t believe that drilling is the answer to our energy problems, unfortunately the reverse is true.  So I think SP will probably keep it simple , appeal to the evangelicals and throw red-meat to supporters without saying anything of substance.  This was clearly a choice made for politcal reasons indicative of the way we have been governed under the Bush Admin., decisions made with eye not on whats best for the common good but whats best for maintaining political power.  Conservative Republican political power that is, and John McCain with this choice of VP has sold his soul to the devil with the hope that he would gain the Presidency by appealing to the most backward white chauvinistic militarist sections of the population.  We gotta keep the light on them, this move by McCain was also made out of desperation and maybe with some persistent fight back this desperate move will be the start of the end of Republican rule and a OBAMA/BIDEN victory in NOV.

Of course. This is a coldly calculated move on Karl Rove's part. Apparently he thinks she can survive the Media sh*tstorm, which will only serve to endear her to the Troglodyte base. The scary thing is that it may work. Then you've got an Evangelical Nutbag one 72-year-old heartbeat away from the Nuclear Button. Anyone who thinks the Constitution, and not the Bible, is the supreme law of the land should be very afraid of the Troglodyte Princess.

The Enquirer is taking credit for the pregnancy announcement, and they are about to break a story about an affair Palin supposedly had with her husband's business partner.

It's going to be hard for the GOP to blame all this on Obama since they recently praised the Enquirer for breaking the story about Senator Edwards that helped the GOP.

McCain has threatened a lawsuit, so a CBS artcile says " the McCain camp has knocked down the Enquirer's Palin Rumor". Can they have their scandals  both ways?

Enquirer: "The ultra-conservative governor’s announcement about her daughter’s pregnancy came hours after The ENQUIRER informed her representatives and family members of Levi Johnston, the father of Bristol’s child, that we were aware of the pregnancy and were going to break the news.
In a preemptive strike Palin released the news, creating political shockwaves. "