Sen. John McCain celebrated locking up the Republican Presidential nomination by getting thumped by the ballot box in most states over the weekend. If ever there was an indication of the lack of support for a nominee, that was it.
The only bright spot was Washington where McCain won by 242 votes. Well he won in a George W. Bush sense of the word. See, according to the Washington Post, they stopped counting with 87 percent of the votes completed. The state Republicans didn't see a problem saying they would go ahead and count the rest of the votes but was certain the totals would hold up.
So Repubican, why bother counting ALL the votes when you can get the result you want by only counting SOME of the votes. Hell, it worked for Bush in 2000 in Florida and now Bush has come out for McCain, saying McCain is a true conservative.
With rigging the Washington election, McCain is on his way to becoming like Bush. The next step may be harder. The only way Bush was able to get close enough to the White House in 2000 was to rely on lying radio, television and newspaper commentators. Today many of those are fighting McCain, leaving McCain to be his own liar.
The question today is whether the right will rally around McCain and join in on the expected series of campaign lies. It is hard to imagine if the Democratic nominee is Sen. Hillary Clinton that right wing radio won't go after her with their lies, its what they live for.
Sunday, February 10, 2008
Friday, February 08, 2008
McCain locks up party of hate nomination
One of the biggest questions of 2008 is why Sen. John McCain is going after the nomination of a party that basically hates him. One only has to look at the booing he received at the CPAC meeting on Thursday to see how out of touch with reality these people are.
The booing and criticism came after the CPAC's chosen candidate; Mitt "Flip Flop" Romney announced he was no longer running. Romney, in a statement reminiscent of the type of disgusting and disingenuous comments made standard by the Bush-Cheney "Cheat to Win" team, said he was bowing out to avoid "aiding a surrender to terror."
Even Howard Kurtz didn't swallow that line, saying Come on! He's getting out because he got his butt kicked, had no chance of winning and didn't want to spend any more of his children's inheritance on a hopeless task.
In reality, getting the Bush-Cheney team out of the White House in January 2009 will be the biggest, and most effective, anti-terrorist tactict the United States has taken in years.
With no leadership shown by the current administration, Afghanistan, the country that actually attacked the United States on September 11, 2001, is sliding back toward Taliban control and NATO countries are losing interest in helping the U.S. because it isn't a priority for us.
Just think about that. The greatest attack on the United States in more than 50 years has been met by indifference, or noncaring, by the administration and Republican Party. If there is a lesson for terrorists, it is that we are not serious about fighting back. Go ahead and attack us, we won't go after you, unless it it fits in some larger geopolitical scheme.
For all those who cried when Romney gave up the fight for the Republican nomination, those tears would be better spent over your party giving up on the fight against terrorism.
The booing and criticism came after the CPAC's chosen candidate; Mitt "Flip Flop" Romney announced he was no longer running. Romney, in a statement reminiscent of the type of disgusting and disingenuous comments made standard by the Bush-Cheney "Cheat to Win" team, said he was bowing out to avoid "aiding a surrender to terror."
Even Howard Kurtz didn't swallow that line, saying Come on! He's getting out because he got his butt kicked, had no chance of winning and didn't want to spend any more of his children's inheritance on a hopeless task.
In reality, getting the Bush-Cheney team out of the White House in January 2009 will be the biggest, and most effective, anti-terrorist tactict the United States has taken in years.
With no leadership shown by the current administration, Afghanistan, the country that actually attacked the United States on September 11, 2001, is sliding back toward Taliban control and NATO countries are losing interest in helping the U.S. because it isn't a priority for us.
Just think about that. The greatest attack on the United States in more than 50 years has been met by indifference, or noncaring, by the administration and Republican Party. If there is a lesson for terrorists, it is that we are not serious about fighting back. Go ahead and attack us, we won't go after you, unless it it fits in some larger geopolitical scheme.
For all those who cried when Romney gave up the fight for the Republican nomination, those tears would be better spent over your party giving up on the fight against terrorism.
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