More like a
of salt. Sheesh.
Posted on 10/11/2008 7:29:03 AM PDT by rabscuttle385
Harry Brighouse hears some murmuring: So I hear (via a prominent member of the sane Republican faction) that the word on the right side of the street is that the Republican National Committee is about to pull the plug on its joint ads with the McCain campaign, and devote its resources instead to trying to save a couple of the senators who are at serious risk of losing their seats. Now this is gossip, albeit of the high class variety; take it with the requisite pinch of salt.
(Excerpt) Read more at andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com ...
When I read the title I thought it was about Joe Biden.
Well, what *I* heard is that Hillary wants to pull Plugs and step into the VP slot instead of him, but take that with a grain of salt too. Merely rumormongering and gossip, all of it.
Don't you think that kind of gloom-and-doom gossip --- it's not backed by a single shred of evidence --- would be better posted on a site more congenial to such silly gloom-and-doom speculation? I myself fail to see how this adds any value to Free Republic.
I would stop posting Andrew Sullivan’s screeds; they add nothing to our knowledge other than that he is viciously biased and a genuinely nasty sort. I do agree that McCain has run a downer of a campaign over the past three weeks; but don’t forget how all the “pundits” said he was finished back in February and he was reduced to flying by himself commercially up to New Hampshire. More respected commentators are starting to note Obama’s friends and the thuggishness of his Chicago-based campaign. These are good signs, despite the uproar in the world economy.
Probably the best thing the RINO’s could hope for at this stage is for McCain to step aside and let Palin become the candidate for POTUS. Short of that I think McCain is going to lose and lose big. But by a landslide? Who knows?!
I am starting to make peace with the idea of Obama. Not that I like it but that its out of my hands and I’m not going to have a nervous breakdown over it.
All along we didn’t like McCain and it was only until he selected Sara that we came onboard 100 percent.
HE has run a shotty campaign from the beginning but picking Sara gave us some hope.
Unless a huge October surprise comes along which I doubt, then I think its over.
In the meantime I will continue to pray for that October surprise and/or the serenity to accept the things I cannot change.
Come on, people!
There is no way that a switched ticket would win.
The race isn’t over yet.
I've supported several candidates this year and even sent money to the joint Rnc group, expressly to help McCain so if they do stop funding McCain, that's the last they will have of my money....
“take it with the requisite pinch of salt.”
Mr. Sullivan: There isn’t enough salt in the ocean for me to take seriously anything you say.
Hey, Andy...still looking for Trig’s real mother?
I’m not advocating a switched ticket. That would be ludicrous!
See also THIS thread:
Victor Davis Hanson:
Not Over Yet -- Reasons for hope on the first Tuesday in November
The National Review ^ | October 10, 2008 | Victor Davis Hanson
Posted on Friday, October 10, 2008 12:43:48 PM by 2ndDivisionVet
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...
CLICK HERE for the rest of that thread
RINO's will never learn. They haven't yet.
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