Tuesday, February 12, 2008

Obama The Undisputed Frontrunner

The battle for the Potomac States is over and Barack Obama swept the field, winning Maryland,the District of Columbia and Virginia. With his wins over the weekend Obama has an 8 state winning streak. In one week since he tied on Super Tuesday he has become the Tsunami of 2008 sweeping against and over the immovable object that is Hilary Clinton!

The poll results in Virginia and Maryland must we deeply worrying to Clinton, Obama in Maryland carried the White Male,Black,Latino,Catholic and Women's vote! In Virginia a state that a week ago was considered favorable to Clinton, Obama won with a 2 to 1 landslide.

Hillary Clinton seems stunned she shed another campaign staffer even as the departure of Manager Solis on Sunday damaged her standing with Latino voters in Virginia and Maryland. Senator Clinton has declared Texas and Ohio with nearly 444 delegates on March 4th a Firewall she must stop Obama there! She said it folks!

In her CBS interview Saturday night Hillary seemed to rule out a VP slot to Obama, saying she can live with defeat and a return to New York state.
What a letdown I am sure from just 7 days ago.

I guess it aint over till the former First Lady sings,,,
But Obama is warming up that New Orleans Jazz band to play,,,
The New Second Line!


Democrats


Barack Obama
22 states, 1,223 delegates
Alabama, Alaska, Colorado, Connecticut, DC, Delaware, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Carolina, Utah, Virginia, Washington state

Hillary Clinton
12 states, 1,198 delegatesArizona, Arkansas, California, Florida, Massachusetts, Michigan, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Oklahoma, Tennessee
2,025 delegates needed for nomination. Source AP (includes all kinds of delegates)


On the Republican side John McCain continues to win states while many Conservatives continue to vote for Huckabee, but he has almost no numerical chance of catching McCain. Huckabee will stay in the race long enough to ensure a vice-presidential slot.

Republicans
Mike Huckabee
8 states, 241 delegates
Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Iowa, Tennessee, West Virginia, Kansas, Louisiana

John McCain
16 states, 821 delegates
Arizona, California, Connecticut, DC, Delaware, Florida, Illinois, Maryland, Missouri, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Virginia, Washington state

Mitt Romney
11 states, 288 delegates
Campaign suspended
Alaska, Colorado, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Montana, Nevada, North Dakota, Wyoming, Utah
1,191 delegates needed for nomination. Source: AP (includes all kinds of delegates)
This video was posted a while ago but it sums up the "friction" that would later erupt in South Carolina between the Clinton and Obama camps. A Hilarious video argument between 2 "partisans" One a young white female and a young black man. Enjoy and watch to the end!

written by: Ben Donovan & Lisa Donovan
Jordan Peele as the Obama supporter
Lisa as Hillary supporter



UPDATE;Just added Hillary and Obama 2, it is a riot!



Hands down the Best political ad so far this year! The Ad illustrates if Obama can play up Clintons divisive personality what will the Republicans make of her in a general election?

Saturday, February 9, 2008

Hillary Is losing the race and The Obama Factor

UPDATE; Sunday Feb 10,2008.
Obama adds Maine to his Saturday wins in Washington, Louisiana and Nebraska, Clinton campaign manager out!
Story at the bottom of this post.

I said I would follow up on Super Tuesday with a post on Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, here it is and I am making a prediction right now,,I think Hillary has lost this race for the Presidency.

It has taken a few days from Super Tuesday to make sense of just what Barack Obama has accomplished. After nearly a year of spirited battle in the biggest contest so far, 24 states voting nearly 10 and a half million Democratic votes cast and Hillary Clinton managed a tie!

That is a crushing defeat, she should have been able to seal her triumph Tuesday, instead the young upstart from Chicago matched Clinton nearly vote for vote (less than a 100,000 votes difference) and Obama in the end beat her in the Delegate count by 796 to 794. Sen. Obama won the popular vote in 13 states Tuesday, while Clinton won in eight states and American Samoa. In the overall race for the nomination, Clinton has 1,055 delegates, including separately chosen party and elected officials known as super delegates. Obama has 998. More about the super delegates in a moment, they are going to decide this race.

No mistake folks this is a defeat for Clinton by Wednesday Hillary had to loan her campaign 5 million( and her staff is unpaid) while Obama raised 7.1 million on Tuesday in addition to 30 million in January!

Bill Clinton's polarizing presence in South Carolina (a state she was fated to lose) caused untold damage to the Clinton's reputation among Black voters.
Her attitude has not helped either, she has practically called Blacks disloyal for supporting the first serious black Presidential challenger! Implying after all we have done for you people you Owe me!

How sickeningly condescending can you be!

Black voters are not buying it and neither are the under age 40 voters of all races flocking to the Obama campaign.

Hilliary is even losing the white male vote while retaining women of her generation. More important even some of her Tuesday victory's are suspect. She won in California based on absentee votes (they started sending in ballots Jan 6) but at the polls in California on election day she lost, indicating a late surge for Obama.

Bill Clinton has been muzzled and now sounds apologetic about South Carolina and one thing we know about Bill is he NEVER apologizes! The dust up by the Hillary camp over David Shuster at MSNBC and his comments about Chelsea Clinton (out of line but the Clintons have been too protective the "girl" is now 27) show a campaign staff on the razors edge, grasping at straws, anything that might deflect the press from the real story from the Clinton Camp.
And what is that story?

Fear

Fear that she will lose this race.

Once inevitability flows to a candidate a wave builds, Obama has stalemated Clinton and the next two states are swinging rapidly in Barack Obamas favor!

Super delegates 20% of delegates to the convention are given to Democratic politicos,Governors,Senators,Congressmen,Legislators Mayors people who have won elected office. Most years they vote for the clear winner or the inevitable canidate. Well into January most were leaning as you would expect Clinton's way. Here is the problem for Hillary since Tuesday they are starting to hedge and they are being courted by Obama's people with the line.

Obama is the inevitable candidate.

Is it working?

Obama and Clinton, are competing for 161 delegates Saturday in Washington state, Louisiana, Nebraska and the Virgin Islands, followed by Maine caucuses with 24 delegates on Sunday.
Obama won the last-minute endorsement Friday of Washington Gov. Chris Gregoire, the female governor of the state. Both candidates had courted her, Obama speaking with her four times.

"He is leading us toward a positive feeling of hope in our country and I love seeing that happen," she said. Washington's senators, both women, back Clinton.

In strongly Republican and sparsely populated Nebraska, Obama spoke to the huge crowd at an Omaha arena Thursday, exhorting: "You're here because you don't want to just be against something. You want to be for something.

Chris Slaughter, 20, heard the speech and said: "He's a once-in-a-generation candidate."

Obama was the only candidate campaigning in all four states.

Clinton told a spirited rally of 5,000 supporters at a Seattle cruise ship terminal Thursday night that she's "a fighter and a doer and a champion for the American people." She also planned to campaign in Maine.

Clinton and Obama both have an eye on the round that follows - the trio of races Tuesday in Virginia, Maryland and the District of Columbia - and the New York senator in particular was gearing her campaign toward the high stakes primaries in Ohio and Texas on March 4.

Obama is expected to win in Louisiana and Maryland and D.C. and fight Clinton to parity in Washington state. That leaves Ohio and Texas, Hillary may not do well in Texas except among Latinos who don't particularly care for Obama. The Clinton's have high negatives in Texas among white democrats. Ohio like 2000 & 04 will be a battleground, racially polarized it may be again at best a draw for Clinton.

My Conclusion, there is no way the party establishment wants a brokered backroom convention, not in the 21st century! The super delegates will be under extreme pressure to end this race now and award their votes to Senator Obama.

The next few primary's are very critical, pulling even again will surly finish Hillary Clinton's presidential race.

Can she lose gracefully, a women who has been thinking of this run since Bill was in the White House?

That is the question the always perceptive Peggy Noonan (former Reagan speech writer)
asks. If you are a Clinton supporter you won't like the answer.

I firmly believe Senator Barack Obama will be the Democratic candidate for President.

And the Next President of the United States.

It is Inevitable!

Would Hilliary accept a Vice Presidential slot?
Hillary swallow her pride and accept second place? Obama would likely accept her so it will be her call.
If not John Edwards will be the likely V.P.

DeWayne H


Can Mrs. Clinton Lose?
By PEGGY NOONAN
February 8, 2008;

If Hillary Clinton loses, does she know how to lose? What will that be, if she loses? Will she just say, "I concede" and go on vacation at a friend's house on an island, and then go back to the Senate and wait?

Is it possible she could be so normal? Politicians lose battles, it's part of what they do, win and lose. But she does not know how to lose. Can she lose with grace? But she does grace the way George W. Bush does nuance.

She often talks about how tough she is. She has fought "the Republican attack machine" that has tried to "stop" her, "end" her, and she knows "how to fight them." She is preoccupied to an unusual degree with toughness. A man so preoccupied would seem weak. But a woman obsessed with how tough she is just may be lethal.

Does her sense of toughness mean that every battle in which she engages must be fought tooth and claw, door to door? Can she recognize the line between burly combat and destructive, never-say-die warfare? I wonder if she is thinking: What will it mean if I win ugly? What if I lose ugly? What will be the implications for my future, the party's future? What will black America, having seen what we did in South Carolina, think forever of me and the party if I do low things to stop this guy on the way to victory? Can I stop, see the lay of the land, imitate grace, withdraw, wait, come back with a roar down the road? Life is long. I am not old.
Or is that a reverie she could never have? What does it mean if she could never have it?

We know she is smart. Is she wise? If it comes to it, down the road, can she give a nice speech, thank her supporters, wish Barack Obama well, and vow to campaign for him?

It either gets very ugly now, or we will see unanticipated--and I suspect professionally saving--grace.

I ruminate in this way because something is happening. Mrs. Clinton is losing this thing. It's not one big primary, it's a rolling loss, a daily one, an inch-by-inch deflation. The trends and indices are not in her favor. She is having trouble raising big money, she's funding her campaign with her own wealth, her moral standing within her own party and among her own followers has been dragged down, and the legacy of Clintonism tarnished by what Bill Clinton did in South Carolina. Unfavorable primaries lie ahead. She doesn't have the excitement, the great whoosh of feeling that accompanies a winning campaign. The guy from Chicago who was unknown a year ago continues to gain purchase, to move forward. For a soft little innocent, he's played a tough and knowing inside/outside game.

The day she admitted she'd written herself a check for $5 million, Obama's people crowed they'd just raised $3 million. But then his staff is happy. They're all getting paid.

Political professionals are leery of saying, publicly, that she is losing, because they said it before New Hampshire and turned out to be wrong. Some of them signaled their personal weariness with Clintonism at that time, and fear now, as they report, to look as if they are carrying an agenda. One part of the Clinton mystique maintains: Deep down journalists think she's a political Rasputin who will not be dispatched. Prince Yusupov served him cupcakes laced with cyanide, emptied a revolver, clubbed him, tied him up and threw him in a frozen river. When he floated to the surface they found he'd tried to claw his way from under the ice. That is how reporters see Hillary.

And that is a grim and over-the-top analogy, which I must withdraw. What I really mean is they see her as the Glenn Close character in "Fatal Attraction": "I won't be ignored, Dan!"

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Mr. Obama's achievement on Super Tuesday was solid and reinforced trend lines. The popular vote was a draw, the delegate count a rough draw, but he won 13 states, and when you look at the map he captured the middle of the country from Illinois straight across to Idaho, with a second band, in the northern Midwest, of Minnesota and North Dakota. He won Missouri and Connecticut, in Mrs. Clinton's backyard. He won the Democrats of the red states.

On the wires Wednesday her staff was all but conceding she is not going to win the next primaries. Her superdelegates are coming under pressure that is about to become unrelenting. It was easy for party hacks to cleave to Mrs Clinton when she was inevitable. Now Mr. Obama's people are reportedly calling them saying, Your state voted for me and so did your congressional district. Are you going to jeopardize your career and buck the wishes of the people back home?

Mrs. Clinton is stoking the idea that Mr. Obama is too soft to withstand the dread Republican attack machine. (I nod in tribute to all Democrats who have succeeded in removing the phrase "Republican and Democratic attack machines" from the political lexicon. Both parties have them.)

But Mr. Obama will not be easy for Republicans to attack. He will be hard to get at, hard to address. There are many reasons, but a primary one is that the fact of his race will freeze them. No one, no candidate, no party, no heavy-breathing consultant, will want to cross any line--lines that have never been drawn, that are sure to be shifting and not always visible--in approaching the first major-party African-American nominee for president of the United States.

He is the brilliant young black man as American dream. No consultant, no matter how opportunistic and hungry, will think it easy--or professionally desirable--to take him down in a low manner. If anything, they've learned from the Clintons in South Carolina what that gets you. (I add that yes, there are always freelance mental cases, who exist on both sides and are empowered by modern technology. They'll make their YouTubes. But the mad are ever with us, and this year their work will likely stay subterranean.)

With Mr. Obama the campaign will be about issues. "He'll raise your taxes." He will, and I suspect Americans may vote for him anyway. But the race won't go low.

Mrs. Clinton would be easier for Republicans. With her cavalcade of scandals, they'd be delighted to go at her. They'd get medals for it. Consultants would get rich on it.

The Democrats have it exactly wrong. Hillary is the easier candidate, Mr. Obama the tougher. Hillary brings negative; it's fair to hit her back with negative. Mr. Obama brings hope, and speaks of a better way. He's not Bambi, he's bulletproof.

The biggest problem for the Republicans will be that no matter what they say that is not issue oriented--"He's too young, he's never run anything, he's not fully baked"--the mainstream media will tag them as dealing in racial overtones, or undertones. You can bet on this. Go to the bank on it.
The Democrats continue not to recognize what they have in this guy. Believe me, Republican professionals know. They can tell.


DeWayne here above I was talking about Fear and Inevitability, look below and tell me what you think. The Republicans have a lot to worry about this November and Karl Roves dirty tricks bag will prove useless against Obama. McCain can beat Hillary Clinton but he cannot win against Barack Obama!

We have met the next Ronald Reagan and John Kennedy and he is Black and a Democrat!

The New Kennedy
The Noble Patriot


After Losing New Hampshire(he had won Iowa) Barack Obama gave a concession speech.
Only this was not a "concession" but a call to arms! A Masterful performance and any Republican that says this is all flash and no substance, nothing to worry about, well the voters will not care anymore than the last time we had such a stark choice!



Remember the last time Flash,Youth and Inexperience won out over the Establishment guy? 1960 48 years ago.



Update; Sunday February 10


Maine caps Obama Weekend Sweep
Obama Takes Delegate Lead With Wins In 4 States; Clinton Manager Steps Down

(AP/CBS) Illinois senator Barack Obama finished a series of weekend primary and caucus contests undefeated as he bested Hillary Clinton in Maine today, according to CBS News estimates.

Obama’s victory in the Maine caucuses follow on the heels of his Saturday sweep in which he won Louisiana’s primary contest as well as caucuses in the states of Washington and Nebraska.

His winning margins ranged from substantial to crushing. In Maine, he led 59 percent to 41 percent with 87 percent of the precints reporting. In Louisiana, Obama defeated Clinton, 57 percent to 36 percent. He won in Nebraska by a 68 percent to 32 percent margin and in Washington 68 percent to 31 percent.

Obama's victory in Maine -- and the ease with which it came -- actually exceeded expectations, even though he swept the caucuses held on Super Tuesday. Clinton had the backing of the state's governor, John Baldacci, and its proximity to New Hamsphire and Massachusetts, both of which Clinton has already won this year, led some analysts to expect a close race.

Even Obama's own campaign said they didn't expect to win Maine, according to a document the campaign said was accidentally leaked earlier in the week.

In the delegate chase, Obama has pulled ahead of Clinton, even when the support of uncommitted super delegates is figured in. According to CBS News estimates, Obama holds a razor-thin lead with 1,134 delegates overall to 1,131 for Clinton.

The results in Maine came in the wake of a shake-up on the Clinton campaign. Sunday afternoon, Clinton campaign manager Patti Patti Solis announced she was stepping down from that post. She will be replaced by senior advisor and longtime Clinton confidant Maggie Williams.

Campaign spokesman Mo Elleithee said Solis Doyle was "not asked to step down," reports CBS News' Fernando Suarez. Elleithee said the change in leadership was not due to this weekend's losses.

Wednesday, February 6, 2008

Super Tuesday Still a 4 Man and 1 Women Race

Wednesday 5:55 A.M. Pacific

Clinton and Obama nearly tied (delegate and popular vote) while McCain polls more than Huckabee and Romney Combined!

Clinton can claim a slight edge from Super Tuesday but she has not Stopped Obama by any measure. Hillary won more Delegates but Obama picked up more states. The Democratic race may well go to the convention for the first time since 1948.

The GOP is just as divided with McCain winning the big important states and Huckabee is solid in the south. Romney is in third place but not out of the race picking up 5 states and he is ahead of Huckabee in the Delegate count.

Missouri *Obama 49% Clinton 48%
McCain wins with
Missouri 34% Huckabee 33%
DeWayne's Rant Angry Bouncing (enlightened view of the election is below the LA Times article)

CLINTON: AR, AZ,CA, MA, NY, NJ, OK, TN Delegates 872

OBAMA:AK, AL, CT, CO, DE, GA, ID, IL, KS, MN, ND, UT Delegates 793

HUCKABEE: AL, AR, GA, TN, WV Delegates 190
McCAIN: AZ, CA,CT, DE, IL, MO, NJ, NY, OK Delegates 613
ROMNEY: CO, MA, MN, MT, ND, UT Delegates 269

Battle continues
Dean Hare / Associated Press
Supporters of Sen. Barack Obama outnumber supporters of Sen. Hillary Clinton and former Sen. John Edwards at the 2008 Idaho Caucus at the Latah Country Fairgrounds in Moscow, Idaho.


With no losers, the fight goes on
From the Los Angeles Times

By Doyle McManus and Peter Wallsten, Los Angeles Times Staff Writers
February 6, 2008
WASHINGTON -- Not long ago, political strategists viewed Super Tuesday as a day that would likely crown the Republican and Democratic presidential nominees, a 24-state extravaganza that would bring the long primary campaign to an orderly conclusion.

They were wrong. Instead of producing nominees, Tuesday's voting revealed the fault lines for a continuing fight within each party.

The crazy quilt of primary and caucus results gave Republicans a clear front-runner in Sen. John McCain, but no sign that his rivals, Mitt Romney and Mike Huckabee, would drop out soon and no sign of peace among the party's divided factions.

Democrats who once thought their race would wrap up early instead face a potentially long duel between Sens. Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton, with votes divided not by ideology but, in many states, by race and ethnic group.

Clinton and Obama divided the nation almost down the middle, with Clinton winning at least eight states, including giants California and New York. Obama won at least 12 states, including Illinois and Georgia. The close result guaranteed days of uncertainty over the delegate count, followed by weeks more of renewed campaigning.

With the two candidates separated by only modest policy differences, Tuesday's results illuminated divisions of what scholars call "identity politics." Latinos turned out in large numbers and mostly supported Clinton; African American voters turned out too and voted overwhelmingly for Obama; and white voters divided, giving pluralities to Clinton in some states, to Obama in others.

McCain advanced significantly toward his party's nomination, winning nine states, including delegate-rich California, New York and Illinois. But exit polls showed that he had still not won the hearts of the party's most loyal conservatives, who divided most of their votes between Romney, the former governor of Massachusetts, and Huckabee, the former governor of Arkansas. That left the GOP closer to making McCain its nominee but no closer to joining ranks behind him.

The overall outcome: These primary races are not over in either party. The battle between Clinton and Obama will continue, probably through the March 4 primaries in Ohio and Texas and possibly beyond. McCain appears almost certain to win his party's nomination, but only after battling Romney and Huckabee for delegates in more states.

For Democrats, Tuesday's results showed both candidates strengthening their natural bases of support, with Clinton exerting dominance among Latinos and Obama beginning to show progress among white voters.

In fact, Obama proved, just as he did in last month's Iowa caucuses, that many whites will vote for a black candidate.

After winning just a quarter of the white vote in South Carolina's heavily black primary last month, Obama needed to show that his support spanned the races. On Tuesday, he made that point decisively, beating Clinton in states with tiny minority populations: Connecticut, Minnesota, Utah, North Dakota, Alaska and Idaho. He won nearly half of white voters in California.

Those numbers could help Obama's campaign convince potential donors and voters in future contests in the coming weeks that he can go the distance, particularly with important primaries coming up in Washington state, Texas, Ohio and Pennsylvania.

For Clinton, Tuesday brought a clear consolidation of her strength among Latinos, a bloc she dominated in California. But exit polls showed Obama narrowing the gap in Arizona, where he won about 4 in 10 Latinos, and his victory in the Colorado caucuses suggests he mounted a successful courtship of Latinos in key areas of that state as well.

There were, however, some danger signs for Obama.

In Oklahoma, for example, an overwhelmingly white state won easily by Clinton, CNN exit polls showed that Obama won just 28% of whites. The result was similar in Tennessee, another so-called red state that Obama strategists have pointed to as a general election battleground should the Illinois senator win the nomination.

And although his campaign devoted a great deal of time and money courting Latinos in California, it seems he did not make much progress, losing the state's Latinos across all age groups.

Strengthening a Latino-black coalition could be crucial in a big upcoming primary in early March -- in Texas -- that many strategists now believe could be decisive.

Strategists for both Democratic campaigns said Tuesday they were encouraged by the results, but both said they expected the race to continue for weeks if not months as the campaigns scrap for delegates to the nominating convention.

"We're both prepared for a long, drawn-out affair," said Obama campaign manager David Plouffe.

The Republicans' divide was ideological -- and familiar. It was the same division between moderates, most of whom favor McCain, and conservatives, most of whom don't, that marked the results in earlier primaries from New Hampshire to South Carolina.

Across the nation, McCain led among Republicans who identified themselves as moderates or liberals, but Romney led among the larger group who called themselves conservatives, according to exit poll results published by the Associated Press.

In California, McCain won only a third of the vote among conservatives, who made up most of the Republican electorate; Romney won a plurality of conservatives' votes. That result was repeated in most other states; even in Arizona, where McCain won overall, he lost among conservatives.

That suggested that the Arizona senator has not yet won over substantial numbers of his party's most loyal supporters, despite weeks of effort on his part to show that he is as conservative as his rivals.

"McCain wanted to use Super Tuesday to silence his critics and become the consensus nominee, but he fell a little short," said Neil Newhouse, a Republican pollster. "McCain moved the ball forward, but he didn't score a touchdown. It's not a bad showing, but it's not especially strong."

Romney won primaries or caucuses in six states on Tuesday; Huckabee won four.

As a result, Newhouse said, there is no reason for Romney or Huckabee to get out of the race at this point. "They can't look at these results and say, 'I've had enough, I'm throwing in the towel,' " he said.

McCain's poor showing among conservatives "is a formidable number to overcome," agreed veteran GOP strategist Eddie Mahe. "If Romney comes close in California,(He didn't) I think the conservatives will push to keep him in. They do not want McCain to be the presumptive nominee. . . . The animosity toward McCain [among conservatives] is very broad and very deep."


DeWaynes Rant/View of Super Tuesday

Just my Observation the animosity toward McCain is deep rooted precisely because he is a true Goldwater Western Republican! He is also an independent thinker, he has a military strategic mind. Which means if an idea, a program or a war strategy proves wrong he is quite willing to "tear up" the playbook and write a New One!

McCain does not give "lipservice" to anyone which means he can and has told Evangilicals to taking a flying leap. He has called Bush on the Liberal spendthrift ways of his administartion while spouting Conservative claptrap. If Bush ANY Bush Dad or Son is a conservative I am a Heterosexual!

What Rush Limbaugh can not abide is the thought of a man in the White House that his corporate paymasters cannot control and manipulate.

The Big Looser Super Tuesday was the Howard Beale of the Late American Empire, Rush Limbaugh the gaseous pontiff of Palm Beach, Minstrel to Nero while he fiddles like the Devil down Georgia way!

Rush has been spouting drivel,hate and aspersions to McCain's patriotism (indeed ANY Veteran who disagrees with the Chicken Hawk) for weeks, determined to see Romney (former Liberal Gov of Massachusetts) or Huckabee (darling of the American Taliban)get this nomination.

What does Rush care anyway he is NOT a Republican!
or a Conservative!

He is a Demagogue just like another famous "commentator" who rode his racist/bigoted rheyoric into the US Senate. Limbaugh should be thrown from the top of Mt RUSHMORE,,the American Tarpeian Rock!

Lets not forget the pearls of wisdom from ole Howard oops Rush,,

Rush Limbaugh on Bush’s legacy:

“Long after we’re all dead and gone, when historians who are not yet born begin to write about this era, they’re going to place George Bush in the upper echelon of presidents who had a great vision for America, who looked beyond our shores, who didn’t just restrict himself to domestic policy niceties.”

Rush may not know it,(he wouldn't care if it did not come from his mouth) but there is already a debate going on among historians. “Many historians are now wondering whether Bush, in fact, will be remembered as the very worst president in all of American history.”

Enough of clueless, heaving gasbags!

John McCain is an American Patriot, he is a True Republican and Fiscal Conservative. McCain believes in the Libertarian ideas of Limited Government. He is a Strict Constructionist in his views of the Judiciary.

The most important issue for John McCain in the last decade has been this,,

John McCain believes that a government "of the people, by the people, and for the people" must remain ever faithful to that noble charge. America needs leadership devoted to the public interest, not the special interest, and a government that fulfills its duties with unfailing integrity, accountability, and common sense.

Those who serve in positions of public trust have a patriotic duty to serve the national interest with integrity and accountability, to conduct ourselves in a manner worthy of the people we are privileged to serve, and to devote ourselves to America's agenda, not that of narrow special interests.
This philosophy is what gives Rush Limbaugh and Karl Rove nightmares after 8 years of Howdy Doody in the White House, a complacent malleable schlemiel who has catered to the Fortune 500, His Corporate String pullers are scared to death of John McCain and his "maverick nature"

Its why in one of the most shameful episodes in American Political History George Walker Bush attacked John McCain in 2000 (after Michigan) as "Mentally unfit for public office"
because he had been a "Prisoner of War"

Only a Dishonorable man heaps Scorn and Aspersion on an Honorable Man!

McCain did not directly reply to Bush in 2000 but a political enemy was made. The two men Loathe each other! Last year when McCain maneuvered against Bush making him squirm and writhe to defend the right to employ Torture McCain allowed Bush to impale himself I have to admit I deeply enjoyed the show.

This election is about a battle for the Soul of the Republican Party, for the values that Barry Goldwater and Ronald Reagan espoused. Unfortunately I feel it is for naught the Reagan era is long past and there is really no one not even John McCain who will be able to resist the

Winds of Change (had to say it) The Clinton/Obama juggernaut.
More on my view of the Democratic race in a future post.

DeWayne Tongue Out 11

Last Edit I was thinking of that great Charlie Daniels song The Devil went down to Georgia and I found this hilarious Muppet version look closely at the Devil and tell me who it looks like! The show is from 1978! Who would have thought Jim Henson was such a Psychic!