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For months, Mark Wagner stuck by John McCain, even as the economy stalled and other Americans came to blame Republican leadership. Then, about three weeks ago, the deepening economic downturn pushed him to reconsider. Now, the Florida salesman and staunch Republican has abandoned the GOP ticket. Sarah Palin, he thinks, looks under-equipped to be vice president. And McCain, he says, displayed an unsteady response to what may be a global economic depression.

Just wanted to post a quick note concerning the voter registration in WV and some more detail. I live in WV, in the northern area where we have our lone Republican representative. Voter registration is about 20% weighted for the dems. But.... you need to know something about WV. While 2/3 of the state is owned locally by dems and our state officials are all dems, it is a different picture in recent years concerning president. I was shocked by this poll that shows Obama ahead by 8 points. I would bet the ranch that is is screwy some way....

My letter to Steve Schmidt..... Dear Mr. Schmidt, Where are you? Where are the ad's showing Farrakan calling Obama the messiah and WHY are you not asking why a radical islamic leader is calling a supposed christian a "Messiah". Where are the ad's showing Flager, Farrakan, Rev. Wright, Odinga and Ayers and why are you not asking America this question: "These men have surrounded Barack Obama during his entire career. What is their vision for America and HOW does Barack Obama fit into their vision?" Mr. Schmidt, this election may be the most important election in the history of America....

Former Michigan Gov. William Milliken backed John McCain when he was campaigning to become the Republican presidential candidate. But now Milliken is expressing doubts about his party's nominee, saying he is disappointed by McCain's personal attacks on Democratic opponent Barack Obama and other aspects of McCain's campaign.

<p>KITTANNING, Pa. (AP) The steel mills and coal mines of western Pennsylvania helped fuel the nation's economic engine. Today, old factory shells and boarded-up storefronts stand as bleak reminders of those once-prosperous times.</p> <p>But the voters in working-class enclaves such as this still are a sought-after prize in presidential politics, and many are belatedly coming around to Democratic nominee Barack Obama.</p>

John McCain: If your campaign does not stop equating Sen. Barack Obama with terrorism, questioning his patriotism and portraying Mr. Obama as "not one of us," I accuse you of deliberately feeding the most unhinged elements of our society the red meat of hate, and therefore of potentially instigating violence. At a Sarah Palin rally, someone called out, "Kill him!" At one of your rallies, someone called out, "Terrorist!" Neither was answered or denounced by you or your running mate, as the crowd laughed and cheered. At your campaign event Wednesday in Bethlehem, Pa., the crowd was seething with hatred...

We, as parents, are well aware of the importance of our teachers who teach and program our children. We also know how important it is for our children to play with good-thinking children growing up. Sen. Barack Obama has grown up with the teaching of very angry, militant white and black people: the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Louis Farrakhan, William Ayers and Rev. Michael Pfleger. We cannot say we are not affected by teachers who are militant and angry. We know too well that we become like them, and Mr. Obama will run this country in their mindset. The Democratic Party,...

A New York Times blogger discovers the news is not good for John McCain in Colorado Springs, where a lifelong Republican on the city council says she is abandoning her party’s nominee to vote for Barack Obama this year. Further endangering McCain’s prospects in Colorado’s largest Republican stronghold, the pastor who replaced former GOP heavyweight Ted Haggard leading one of the city’s largest mega-churches is staying on the sidelines, urging his flock to vote “for any political party.” Seattle-based Timothy Egan visited Colorado Springs, dubbed “the Vatican of evangelical political power,” after the second presidential debate and comes to one...

WASHINGTON — The National Rifle Association is endorsing Republican presidential nominee John McCain despite differences with the Arizona senator on gun-show rules and campaign finance restrictions. NRA Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre and the chairman of the NRA's political action committee planned stops Thursday in Pennsylvania, Missouri, Colorado and Nevada to talk about the move. LaPierre said the two agree on many issues important to the group. "He's cast more than 60 votes in the Senate in support of the Second Amendment," LaPierre said. The NRA's Political Victory Fund has spent more than $2.3 million opposing Democratic nominee Barack Obama....

Please go to the website http://vietland.net look at the top right , it's has the Poll in Vietnamese to select between McCain or Obama . You don't have to be Vietnamese to vote .

Maybe one day these guys will get it right...but until then it's just funny to watch. Enjoy... **Visit RUF for the video!!!**

McCain Endorsed by Two Cleveland Browns Wednesday, October 8, 2008 9:12 PM By: Newsmax staff While campaigning in Strongsville, Ohio, Sen. John McCain trotted out two of the most popular players for the Cleveland Browns to praise his candidacy, according to a report in the Washington Post. Brady Quinn, a quarterback for the team, and Joe Thomas, a left tackle, smiled and waved with the candidate as a wall of noise erupted from the assembled crowd. "Too often we label people heroes. Get caught up in the moment. But tonight, we have a real hero amongst us," Quinn said in...

That debate at Belmont University in Nashville, TN, was no town hall meeting. It was highly ritualized Kabuki Theater. To begin with, instead of just letting the first 5,000 people to show up into the Curb Event Center and taking questions from the audience at random, The Gallup Organization hand-picked 80 uncommitted voters from the Nashville area to participate. What’s this fetish the MSM has with uncommitted voters? Allowing a committed voter to ask a partisan question gives the candidate from the opposing party a chance to rebut a claim or make a case for a divergent position – and,...

Sarah Palin is going to be on Laura's radio show TODAY if anyone is interested. List of streaming sites here:http://radiotime.com/options/p_43476/Laura_Ingraham_Show.aspx

McCain/Palin Road to Victory Rally – Strongsville Ohio 7 Oct 08 After Action Report Heavy rains predicted moved the venue from open outdoor common/square venue to the indoor community recreation center. Less people would get into the indoor facility and not easy notification. Doors “opened” at 2:15 and I got to the facility about noon & was about 50th in line. The first picture shows my vantage place to the door. Note also the umbrellas & rain garb. It was heavy misting when I got there but fortunately did NOT rain & cleared up a little by the time the...

Esther, a woman of deep faith, courage and patriotism. The Scriptures describe her as a woman raised up as an instrument God for a great purpose. I read the following email from my sister and wanted to pass it along to you: the incredible first person account of Mark Arnold from Lebanon, Ohio, and his encounter with John McCain and Sarah Palin. This past Tuesday, the McCain / Palin Bus came through a little town called, Lebanon , Ohio . The LORD allowed me to go to the Rally giving them a message that He wanted me to personally deliver....

By WAYNE SLATER / The Dallas Morning News wslater@dallasnews.com AUSTIN – In a significant shift in party support from four years ago, monthly churchgoers are backing Democrat Barack Obama in this year’s presidential race, according to a new poll. Mr. Obama, who has tried to tap faith-based voters, has the support 60 percent of Americans who attend religious services once or twice a month, according to the survey for the nonpartisan group Faith in Public Life. Also Online Evangelical right slow to support McCain Democrat John Kerry lost that group in 2004. At the same time, Mr. Obama has made...

General, It's Time For You To Step Up And Do What You Know Is The Right Thing To Do, Endorse John McCain Now!

RUSH: What a sad state journalism must have to be in. We know it is, but it was on display last night, the sad state of journalism. You know it's bad when they have to drag Tom Brokaw out of Jurassic Park to moderate the debate. What happened to Brian Williams? What happened to Charlie Gibson? What happened to Katie Couric? Why go to Jurassic Park? Folks, I am sitting here, all I can do today is laugh. I've been having so much fun getting ready for today's show and I'm going to share it with you, greetings, great to...

TAMPA, Fla. (Oct. 8) - Democratic vice presidential candidate Joe Biden called Republican John McCain an angry man making ugly attacks against the Democratic ticket to cover up his support for President Bush. "You can't call yourself a maverick when all you've ever been is a sidekick," Biden said Wednesday of McCain. He credited Pennsylvania Sen. Bob Casey with first using the line. Biden's attacks came during an appearance at the University of South Florida's Sun Dome, in the heart of the Tampa Bay area where the two tickets are in a tight race. Thousands waited in a line that...

ABC’s coverage of Tuesday night’s second of three debates between presidential candidates Sen. John McCain and Sen. Barack Obama led the four broadcast networks’ coverage of the 90-minute event, according to overnight data reported by Nielsen Media Research from 55 of the 56 metered markets in the country.

There are other threads here that point out some of the disappointments of this town hall debate. There are other threads that denounce Senator John McCain along with Barack Obama. There are other threads that provide an outlet to cry and declare defeat. Well, Free Republic Folk, I for one, am NOT willing to concede. I am not willing to see just the bad without seeing the good. I am not willing to give ONE inch to that terrorist loving, slim associating, undeserving domestic thug while we still have an honorable man who gave real truth, real character and real...

The Obama supporters at the Jewish Council on Education and Research (JCER) have their story and they are sticking to it. One would think that during the Aseres Y'mei Tshuva (10 days of repentance between Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur), when kapora (atonement) is the order of the day, that an apology would be in order to Generals Dayan and Halevy. But an apology has not been forthcoming. Instead, we have denial and justification - ah classical Clintonian liberalism at its best. Mechila (forgiveness) is not required when you believe yourself to be morally superior by rite and privilege from...

Note to mods: I didn't see a thread about this yet, if one already exists please feel free to merge or delete this post. We need to band together and begin prayers for tonights debate. We prayed for Sarah Palin and I personally believe that God moved for her. Let's agree together starting now, and not stopping until the debate is over that God will direct John McCain tonight and give him the correct words to speak. Let's agree that God also protects John McCain from those who would see our great nation fail. Maybe it's vanity to ask this...

The reaction to Governor Sarah Palin’s selection by Senator John McCain has been nothing short of epic. From the first moment people saw and heard her, most either hated her or loved her. What made her instantaneously extraordinary to both sides of the political spectrum? It has to be more than the media-driven issues. This election has turned into an unspoken referendum on human nature and the idea of “gender neutrality,” the poster child for the left taught to the past several generations as something real, instead of the imaginary nonsense it is. Men and women are different – not...

Mirror, mirror, on the wall; who's the kookiest HuffPo blogger of them all? Until today, I would have declared former Al Gore fashion consultant, Naomi Wolf, the hands down winner in the flat out nuts department over at the Huffington Post. I thought there was no way anybody over there could exceed Wolf's insanity. Here are some Naomi Wolf gems that any contender for the kooky crown would have to exceed: ..I believe the Rove-Cheney cabal is using Sarah Palin as a stalking horse, an Evita figure, to put a popular, populist face on the coming police state and be...

Wow! Looks like Johnny Mac wants to win this thing after all. He gets cooking at about 7:00 on the video. Here is the link to the video. Here is a partial transcript of the prepared text. My opponent has invited serious questioning by announcing a few weeks ago that he would quote — “take off the gloves.” Since then, whenever I have questioned his policies or his record, he has called me a liar. More . .

You just can't trust these lefties to tell the truth. Having watched the technically well made video, one is left with the impression that all security and military people in the Israeli military and intelligence have strong positive feelings for Obama. While some actually do, others do not. Not one contrary voice is heard on this video. Indeed some of them seem to have a positive impression of Obama, basically because Obama endorses no pre-condition talks with Iran.

On Thursday night, Governor Sarah Palin cleared the credibility hurdle she faced in the estimation of swing voters, even earning some begrudging kudos from Democrats. On Tuesday night, it's John McCain's turn to do the same. The Teddy Roosevelt-style populist rhetoric about earmarks and Wall Street greed is an okay warm-up act, but McCain needs a show-stopper. McCain should speak to Obama in that same father-to-son fashion as to how the world works when it comes to pocketbook issues like he did as to foreign policy in the first debate. Here's what McCain should say: Barack Obama wants to make...

[B]oth Democratic and Republican nominees for President, self-professed agents of reform, followed the cattle call to back the bailout. Sen. Obama, who claims to be the messiah of change, sure is showing his true colors in two huge decisions – first by his appointment of politics-as-usual Joe Biden and now by his vote to pass this economic bailout bill and drive us deeper into debt. And, quite frankly, Sen. McCain is also disappointing me at this point. At the Republican Convention, John talked about bringing the power back to the people. So he chose Sarah Palin, and finally gained my...

Fresh on the heels of slamming Sarah Palin, film documentarian Ken Burns is now upset at John McCain. Why? Because McCain is being too aggressive in waging his campaign and not politely allowing Obama to ride over him to victory in November. Burns begins his New Hampshire Union Leader Op-Ed piece moaning that this is not the John McCain he used to know, the one who would happily allow Obama to defeat him: WHAT HAPPENED to John McCain? What happened to the man so many of us in New Hampshire have admired and respected for so long? The fierce bipartisan...

While John McCain's recent polling data has been anything but encouraging, the GOP presidential nominee is getting some encouraging news from a bedrock Republican constituency. According to a Military Times survey, "career" military personnel are solidly behind Senator McCain, by an almost three-to-one margin. Among the 4,000 who participated in the poll, 68% said they planned to vote for the Arizona Senator, compared to only 23% for the Democratic nominee, Senator Barack Obama. A breakdown of the survey reveals wide support for Mr. McCain among virtually all segments of the military. The Republican candidate had solid majority among every demographic...

A beautiful woman, at once a scheming, ambitious right-wing ideologue, and the powerful, evil forces behind her, plot to seize the presidency from the man—foolish enough to have made her his running-mate—who may be concealing just how seriously sick he is, both physically and mentally! As the stuff of straight-to-video filmmaking, not bad, perhaps. But as the theory of an ostensibly serious column in America's newspaper of record? And yet, that is the paranoid picture that Frank Rich paints today in Pitbull Palin Mauls McCain. Annotated excerpts: "[T]he 2008 election is now an Obama-Palin race . . . and the...

Englewood, CO—With the polls showing an Obama lead, and the desperation mounting in the McCain camp, Governor Sarah Palin, R-AK, ramped up her criticism of Obama in a nasty attempt to accuse him of being friendly with terrorists. The lascivious remarks came while speaking at a fundraising in Englewood, Colorado, turning the bipartisan effort on Capitol Hill into a laugher for many Americans. “This is just typical gutter politics,” remarked Senator Barack Obama, D-IL. “What else would you expect from Governor Palin. She is what I would refer to as ‘the white trash’ of the McCain campaign.”

Sounds like moonbat paranoia. After all, McCain is either in or out of Michigan, and everyone is watching. According to the L.A. Times, not exactly part of the right-wing machine, Obama is the Magic Negro. McCain, rest assured, is not the Magic Hero. So since McCain is not magic, I am not sure how the Obamabots think McCain is going to pull this off. But they are awfully suspicious. On the day after John McCain scratched Michigan from the battleground state list, Barack Obama's campaign said it would pretend the whole announcement never happened, Democrats wondered if it was all...

To me it is clear that Americans love Gov. Sarah Palin or at the very least a majority of Americans are inclined to love her. I know polls are just polls but I think there is something to be learned by some of the polls that have come out recently. While people want to love her they are somewhat fearful of having her be a "heartbeat away" from the Presidency. I believe that many undecided’s’ and a lot of women want to vote for her (ticket), want to believe she is ready but because of the job the MSM has...

At the official John McCain website: http://www.johnmccain.com/HomeLogged.aspx You can transport your E-mail contacts and then send anyone you choose a personal e-mail explaining why you are endorsing John McCain on Nov. 4th and encouraging them to do so as well. http://www.johnmccain.com/ActionCenter/ ... eWord.aspx Here's the E-mail I just sent to about 30 different people I know - I'm making this public use, so you can put them into your own words if you wish and send the letter to all your friends. I know some of you haven't heard from me lately, and I'm sorry about that. I'm contacting you...

The Rolling Stone has a long attack piece on John McCain in its October issue that really rakes the GOP presidential candidate over the coals. The piece indulges in quite a lot of name-calling and dismisses his patriotism, bravery, and integrity in nearly every paragraph. It's quite a vicious attack piece, really. This slanderous piece doesn't even take a little time to get warmed up as it emerges, guns blazing, in the first few paragraphs by calling John McCain an "undisciplined, spoiled brat" and insisting that he once went to Rio to "get laid" despite being married, with three kids...

One of the most basic ways in which a candidate can demonstrate the integrity voters are looking for is to build a record of standing up to corruption and waste - and doing so even when it appears in his or her own party, or on the part of his or her own allies or backers. This is not just a matter of honesty and prudence, but of toughness and courage. Let me offer a contrast between the two tickets on this issue - an Integrity Gap that Obama simply can't surmount and can only hope to obscure.

Everybody on the right is itching for McCain to destroy Obama and the Democrat Congress on this Fannie and Freddie scandal. There is the explosive video seen more than 1 million times on YouTube showing exactly how the Democrats are solely responsible for this mess. Here is a damning video showing Democrats from a couple years ago saying that everything was fine and dandy with Fannie and Freddie while Republicans and regulators pleaded for reform and oversight. Here is Bill O'Reilly from last night absolutely losing his mind yelling at Barney Frank for trying to cover this up. Even Britt...

I'm up for another couple of bucks after Saracuda rolled over Joe. How about you?

The piece of excrement that passed the Senate last night was another orgy in the mud for those sows on Capitol Hill. They are nothing but a bunch of crack-whores who simply cannot resist spending hundreds of millions of dollars of our money on ridiculous projects in a time of economic hardship. And the only unanswered question is what the hell do these projects have to do with bailing out the mortgage industry that the Democrats f'ed up in the first place. This bill is a made-to-order issue for McCain. He is not the president, so he had to...

Well, I guess the McCain campaign really did get tough on the New York Times. Yesterday, leftist columnist Maureen Dowd was told she was no longer welcome on McCain's campaign plane and had to go home with her tail between her legs. Tim McNulty of the Pittsburgh Post Gazette reports that Mo's parting shot was a charge that because of this incident McCain is somehow against the First Amendment like she imagines Dick Cheney is. Rather amusingly, she was dumped in the middle of Pennsylvania, too. After an August 30 rally in Washington, PA, she was told she could not...

John McCain has been suffering in the polls for the past couple of weeks. There's a myriad of reasons for his decline. But the most concentrated cause is the media's focus on the financial crisis. When the economy goes awry, middle class Americans naturally look to Democrats for help. Democrats are generally friendlier to the little guy. They adopt the liberal belief that government should play a major role in providing assistance to Americans. Millions of Americans living paycheck to paycheck yearn for some relief and thus lend their support to Democrats. For those struggling to pay the rent, Obama's...

Dear Mainstream Media, Formerly respectable news organizations have spent the last month exploring the vast Alaskan frontier-land, diminishing themselves into nothing more than scum-seeking parasites, desperately lusting for the blood of Sarah Palin. Alas, finding nothing of circumstance they could use to bring Gov. Palin down, all these journalists could do is resort to repeating bizarre internet rumors and picking on a pregnant 17-year-old girl. On the way to Alaska, most of these so-called journalists flew directly over a place in the heart of the lower 48. A place called Chicago; a place that apparently hasn’t seen an investigative journalist...

How unbalanced was MSNBC's "Race for the White House" panel this evening? The two Obama-friendly panelists—Eugene Robinson of the Washington Post and Richard Wolffe of Newsweek—were ostensibly offset by Philly radio talker Michael Smerconish and Independent Women's Forum head Michelle Bernard. But channeling Dem congressman James Clyburn on this morning's Today, Smerc called the House Republicans "sophomoric." That was nothing. One-upping Smerconish in the pejorative department, Bernard said that every recent McCain move has been "like an epileptic fit." Joe Scarborough, putting in a long day's work and subbing for regular host David Gregory, teed up Bernard's snipe with a...

Let's award a point of light to Matt Lauer. On this morning's Today, he called out Rep. James Clyburn (D-S.C.) for calling for an end to the blame game . . . right after the congressman blamed John McCain for failing to rally his Arizona troops to vote for the bailout. But that didn't stop Clyburn from continuing to try to pin the tail on the elephant. JAMES CLYBURN: We promised 50% of our caucus; they promised 50% of their caucus, or their conference. We produced 60%, and they produced 33%. MATT LAUER: Yeah, but in fairness, Congressman Clyburn, the...

"Thor's Hammer", according to Wikipedia is "Is depicted in Norse mythology as one of the most fearsome weapons, used to slay any challengers." The time has come for John McCain to unleash the hammer. The polls appear, at least according to the MSM to be trending toward Barrack Obama. The election is on the brink, again according to the MSM. As Americans have voiced their overwhelming opposition to the Wall St. bailout the time has come for John McCain to call up the ghost of Reagan and take the fight to John and Jane Joe America. Barrack Obama has proposed...

Like an MSM version of Nancy Pelosi, whose hyper-partisan floor speech reportedly angered many GOP members, Chris Matthews wasted no time in trying to pin the blame for the defeat of the bailout plan on John McCain. Appearing during MSNBC's 2 PM hour, the key to Matthews' argument was his assertion that Dems "overwhelmingly" supported the measure, whereas McCain failed to rally a sufficient number of Democrats. Love the bailout or hate it. Decry its defeat or rejoice in it. But one thing is clear: Matthews grossly misstated the facts. Far from supporting the plan "overwhelmingly," fully 40% of House...

Ron Paul’s Party Daniel McCarthy While twitchy cops and party hacks congregated in St. Paul for the Republican Convention, 12,000 Ron Paul supporters assembled for the Rally for the Republic in Minneapolis. The counter-convention featured a dozen speakers—from libertarian luminaries Bill Kauffman and Lew Rockwell to ex-governors Jesse Ventura and Gary Johnson—plus musical acts Sara Evans and Aimee Allen (the freedom movement’s answer to Avril Levigne, with more talent and less tolerance for the Bilderberg Group). Barry Goldwater Jr. introduced Paul’s keynote. John McCain’s big tent across the river brought together hawks of all persuasions, from Joe Lieberman to Sarah...