8 February 2008
News and Comments of the Day - 2/8/08
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Cameron Says:
8 February 2008 at 9:20 am.
This is such a riot. I can’t stop laughing. If we needed evidence that the press was campaigning for McCain but would hit him hard once he was the nominee since they ultimately want a Democrat in office, here it is. They waited one whole day. If they were smarter they would have waited a few weeks so they weren’t so obvious. Don’t be fooled at the lines that might make you think they are only reporting what the Dems want. We were shouting these things about McCain from the rooftops but the press didn’t report the facts, they hid them. They spun them, they made us look like kooks. But they will report everything the Dems say as if it were unbiased, just the facts, ma’am reporting. It is so blatantly obvious. I can’t wait to see how McCain reacts when he finally realizes that his buddies are throwing him to the wolves and were only using him to keep a true conservative out. Here is part of the article:
Gloves off: The Dem plan to hit McCain
With John McCain poised to win the Republican nomination, Democrats are already gathering ammunition to use against him in the general election.
In more than a few instances, the best fodder has been provided by the candidate himself.
A case in point: As the economy was rising late last year as a major issue for voters, McCain in New Hampshire delivered this grenade, with its pin still in it: “The issue of economics is not something I’ve understood as well as I should,” he said. “I’ve got Greenspan’s book.”
Those are not the only words that will come back to haunt him in November.
From the economy to Iraq to immigration to abortion, the Arizona senator’s lengthy voting record and his primary season offerings to the Republican Party’s conservative wing provide a deep vein for opposition researchers to mine for shifting positions and policy inconsistencies.
Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean is already moving to redefine the presumed Republican nominee. In a fundraising appeal sent out Wednesday, Dean called McCain “a media darling” and warned that “from Iraq to health care, Social Security to special interest tax cuts to ethics, he’s promising nothing more than a third Bush term.”
Angela Rogin Says:
8 February 2008 at 9:23 am.
Good morning, Cameron. I wouldn’t have caught on to what they were doing but once you pointed it out it was very obvious. I love this place because it is opening my eyes.
Cameron Says:
8 February 2008 at 9:28 am.
Morning, Angela and thanks. Glad I can help.
With some scientists now worried about global cooling, what will be used as an environmental whip against the Republicans? This issue is so all about control folks.
Global Cooling
To many, those data were convincing. Now, Canadian scientists are seeking additional funding for more and better “eyes” with which to observe our sun, which has a bigger impact on Earth’s climate than all the tailpipes and smokestacks on our planet combined.
And they’re worried about global cooling, not warming.
Matt Says:
8 February 2008 at 9:33 am.
What I can’t figure out is why did they wait til Mitt was gone? They don’t have the same goals as the MSM.
McCain’s Presidential Ambitions Set To Be Swiftboated
Remnants of the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth group that contributed to torpedoing John Kerry’s presidential ambitions in 2004 are set to derail John McCain’s hopes of becoming the Republican nominee by forcing the GOP to jettison the Senator and instigating a revolution within the party to return it to its conservative roots.
It was McCain himself that leapt to Kerry’s defense during the Swift Boat controversy four years ago and now the individuals that started the offensive against Kerry are set to turn on McCain.
http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/february2008/020808_presidential_ambitions.htm
E.E. Says:
8 February 2008 at 11:21 am.
I’m not sure how I feel about all of this so I will just put this clip from the article:
Bush rallies conservatives for campaign
WASHINGTON - Without naming John McCain, President Bush marshaled the conservative wing of the Republican Party on Friday to back the presumed GOP presidential nominee for the upcoming battle against the Democratic Party.
“The stakes in November are high. This is an important election. Prosperity and peace are in the balance,” Bush told about 2,000 people attending the Conservative Political Action Conference. “So with confidence in our vision and faith in our values, let us go forward, fight for victory and keep the White House in 2008.”
Bush spoke to a boisterous crowd shortly after 7 a.m. EST. The ballroom erupted in cheers when someone shouted “Are there conservatives in the house?” When the president walked on stage, they clapped and chanted “Four more years! Four more years!”
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080208/ap_on_el_pr/conservatives_bush
Mac Says:
8 February 2008 at 11:27 am.
Cameron, man are you right on. Rush is talking about that very thing right now. The drive bys are now talking about the issues. Now that McCain is the nominee the media is starting to tell people what the issues are. Glad you said it before him. We are beating the trends here.
Cameron Says:
8 February 2008 at 12:30 pm.
Hat-tip to ERin2008. After reading this I have decided to unsubscribe from AFA.
Dear All,
I got real mad when I saw the AFA (American Family Association’s) 2008 Presidential voter guide ( http://www.afa.net/pdfs/08vg.pdf )
This is a powerful organization who boasts nearly 3.5 million members that subscribe to their e-mail listserve. They’ve been listed as the Fifth most powerful organization of the “religious right.” http://www.counterpunch.org/boston07122006.html
No where on their website (or in their email sent out to members with the voter guide) could I find any disclaimer that the AFA president, Don Wildmon, has endorsed Mike Huckabee. http://www.mikehuckabee.com/index.cfm?FuseAction=Newsroom.PressRelease&ID=351
The flier is incredibly misleading:
1) It has cherry picked issues that favor Huckabee over Romney (who are both strong social conservatives). They leave out every issue where Romney is a solid social conservative as well as those issues where Huckabee is strikingly un-conservative. It actually makes McCain and Ron Paul look more conservative than Romney, who gets a similar scorring to Rudy Giuliani. No objective observer would agree with this kind of “conservative ranking” among those five candidates. Something fishy is going on.
2) It’s factually incorrect. Romney has said he’d sign a Human Life Amendment as President if it made it to his desk, he is definitely not against it. Romney also continually railed on education that promoted homosexuality and homosexual marriage contrary to what the flier says. Additionally, he has said that he would not seek or support any new legislation regarding gun rights/restrictions.
That’s a horribly slanted flier and the AFA should be ashamed. I’ve unsubscribed from AFA and I recommend all Romney supporters do the same after this horrible action.
Please forward this post to any Romney supporters and to any AFA members that you know. Also, when unsubscribing make sure to send a seperate email telling them why you’re unsubscribing. They seem to love boycotting anything they find objectionable . . . Time to give them a dose of their own medicine.
If you are not a member/subscriber you can still leave them a message at this contact form link http://www.afa.net/contact.asp Or contact them some other way:
AFA
P.O. Drawer 2440
Tupelo, MS 38803
Phone:1-662-844-5036
Fax: 1-662-842-7798
AGAIN, MAKE SURE TO FORWARD THIS TO EVERYONE YOU KNOW! MAKE IT VIRAL! THEY NEED TO BE HELD RESPONSIBLE FOR THIS SLANTED AND PROBABLY ILLEGAL FLIER! IT’S DISTORTIONS LIKE THESE THAT LIMITED ROMNEY’S ABILITY TO SECURE MORE OF THE CHRISTIAN CONSERVATIVE VOTE WHICH WOULD HAVE MADE HIM THE NOMINEE.
CindyL. Says:
8 February 2008 at 1:44 pm.
Oh I cannot believe this. All these religious leaders are coming out suddenly and endorsing Huckabee. Why??? Because they couldn’t do it with Mitt in the race. Why??? Because Mitt stood for the same values and principles they did but he was a Mormon. If they picked the Mormon they would be criticized and they were not tough enough to take it. If they picked Huckabee everyone knew they would have done it only because they were prejudice against Mormons since Huckabee isn’t a true conservative in most issues. Okay I started to write some more but I am going to be respectful and not name call. Everything I wrote up there is true and not name calling. They are prejudice and it makes me sick.
T. Fan Says:
8 February 2008 at 3:12 pm.
Sean Hannity says there is an orchestrated political attack against talk radio the last few days. I guess they got a taste of blood destroying Fred and then Mitt. They are getting bold. We can see that. If they succeed in marginalizing talk radio, we are going to be in real trouble to we need to let the radio hosts feel our support. I don’t agree with everything they do and I don’t like the ones who are really rude to liberals but we need them.
E.E. Says:
8 February 2008 at 3:21 pm.
Personally, I didn’t really think Mitt wanted us to support John McCain. He has to support the party or he would be committing political suicide but we need to understand that and then make our own decision. If McCain wins and it is a bad four years, which everyone thinks it will be, then Mitt wouldn’t get in for 2012. Here is a part of the article:
Why Romney Might Not Be Rooting for McCain
By David Corn | February 8, 2008 11:28 AM | Permalink | Comments (3)
I’m Ronald Reagan, and John McCain’s not.
That was Mitt Romney’s not-so-implicit message, as he announced the suspension of his presidential campaign on Thursday before the audience at the Conservative Political Action Conference. In a fiery speech, Romney hammered the point that he’s a rock-hard conservative when it comes to all three legs of the great stool of the GOP: social issues, economic issues, and national security issues. At least now he is. He decried “government welfare” as a “threat to our culture.” He essentially called Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama surrender-monkeys in the fight against radical jiihadism. He denounced regulations that choke businesses and called for lower taxes. The crowd lapped it up.
Romney knew that in a few hours McCain would appear before the same audience and try to appease those conservative activists who consider McCain an ideological turncoat. (How dare he care about global warming!) Though Romney was departing the race, he seized the moment to present himself as the real thing. Perhaps McCain will eventually be able to reach a detente with some of the conservatives who despise him (even if Rush Limbaugh, Ann Coulter, and James Dobson don’t sign any peace treaty). Regardless of that, Romney was attempting to position himself as the true leader of the movement.
Which caused me to wonder: maybe Romney doesn’t want McCain, the presumed Republican nominee, to win in November.
http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/davidcorn/2008/02/why-romney-might-not-be-rootin.html
Carrie Says:
8 February 2008 at 4:05 pm.
I’m glad I read this because I was not real comfortable thinking that Mitt wanted us to vote for McCain. I know he had to say it but I bet that is right and he would rather we didn’t.
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