Posted on 10/13/2008 6:13:39 PM PDT by DocT111
Of course, this is a Democratic year. The public is tired of George Bush and eight years of an incumbent administration. War, Wall Street, and the absence of a conservative Reagan-like charismatic figure should make it easy for a Democrat to win the presidency. After a nearly miraculous McCain surge in September, following the Republican Convention and Palin nomination, the Republicans are once again floundering — and a sense of utter despair has now set in among conservatives.
Wall Street melted down. The New York–Washington media elite went ballistic over vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin. The Alaskan mom of five in near suicidal fashion was ordered by the campaign to put her head in the Charlie Gibson-Katie Couric guillotine. A trailing McCain — while sober and workmanlike in the first two debates — failed to close the ring and hammer the agile Obama as a charismatic charlatan.
The result is that with not much more than three weeks left in the campaign, a number of conservatives have all but accepted (if a few not eager for) an Obama victory. Others are angry at the McCain campaign’s supposed reluctance to go after Obama’s hyper-liberal, hyper-partisan Senate record, his dubious Chicago coterie, his serial flip-flops, and his inexperience. And how, most wonder, can McCain regain the lead lost three weeks ago, when the media has given up any pretense of disinterested coverage, time is growing ever more short, prominent conservatives such as George Will, Charles Krauthammer, David Brooks, and Kathleen Parker have suggested Sarah Palin would be unfit to assume the presidency, and former Romney supporters are raising again their unease with the once again too moderate-sounding McCain?
Yet for all the gloom, there are several reasons why this race is by no means over.
(Excerpt) Read more at article.nationalreview.com ...
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Victor, if you can hook me in the prolog, you have no hope of me botering to read the rest. Not all of us have sold out McCain/Palin. Not by a long shot!!!!
Good article. Thanks.
Crap, posted before I fixed the typos
Victor, if you CANNOT hook me in the prologue, you have no hope of me botering to read the rest. Not all of us have sold out McCain/Palin. Not by a long shot!!!!
Victor, if you CANNOT hook me in the prologue, you have no hope of me getting me to read the rest. Not all of us have sold out McCain/Palin. Not by a long shot!!!!
” Not all of us have sold out McCain/Palin. Not by a long shot!!!! “
Got that right.
It’s time we fought for our Soldiers as they’ve been doing for us.
Love it!
And a vote for anyone else or staying home is tantamount to a vote for Hussein.
You must be another disgruntled Romneybot, or worse, a Paultard.
But obviously you’re NOT a team player, and you haven’t yet learned to sacrifice your so-called “principles” for the good of the country.
Obama will ruin this nation just like that Austrian corporal with the funny mustache ruined Germany. And when it happens, look in the mirror when you wish to blame someone.
Correction, I was angry and typed too fast, hehehe.
That “YOU” is a rhetorical question to Hanson, not you BTBA.
I’m voting for Sarah, regardless of what these supposedly conservative pundits think...assuming they can think.
"The odds always were against McCain. And the outcome in these last few days may be seem contingent in large part on breaking news beyond the candidates’ control. Yet McCain still has it within his own power to win the election. Obama’s view of America is mostly rosy emulation of the European Union; McCain’s is to restore fiscal sanity, keep our defenses strong, and ensure that American exceptionalism remains a fact, rather than descends into an empty slogan. In that context, it makes no sense to sneer at McCain for being behind, but a great deal to hope that he isn’t.
Bush as an issue is gone. The rest of the campaign is about defining obama and everyone will know his name.
Kerry Leads Bush 49% to 43% In Ohio (October 22 2004)
Scripps Howard News Service ^ | October 13 2008 | Scripps Howard News Service
Posted on Tuesday, October 14, 2008 10:49:59 AM by jveritas
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2104826/posts
Yeah. hahaha!
Let me know if you want in or out.
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Polls Tightening, Political Industrial Complex Off It’s Collective Rockers
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It seems we have a tightening race, if one looks at the daily tracking polls out there today. But first I want to focus on a couple of polls out recently for what they indicate about the lack of quality in the polls.
Hey, let's have a little Freeper Fun and think up a definition for this fascinating word !
Hmmm...
Botering: (def) Persevering to read a post on FR while also watching Fox and Friends and listening to Rush.
You two: get yourself to the Free Republic canteen and get yourself some coffee!
Happygrl has the winner - botering. I happily join my fellow FReepers in botering passionately.
Thank you...takes a bow~
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