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Palin Bounce Has Democrats Off Balance (Hey, Isn't It Just A Bounce, Hahahaha Alert)
Los Angeles Times ^ | 9/10/2008 | Peter Wallsten And Janet Hook

Posted on 09/10/2008 10:30:49 AM PDT by goldstategop

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To: DallasDeb
This may turn out to be a landslide for McCain/Palin.

I hope so. But it's going to take a massive turnout of Republicans at the polls to offset the votes of the dead, the unregistered, and the non-citizens, who always vote Dem. (not to mention the people who vote more than once)

I'll settle for a decided victory that leaves no opening for a recount.

41 posted on 09/10/2008 12:17:16 PM PDT by Otta B Sleepin (The MSM is legislating from the bench.)
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To: impeachedrapist
I hadn't heard about this one. What happened?

The story is actually very funny. Biden was somewhere yesterday speaking, and he pointed out to the crowd some local political in the audience. Biden told the guy to stand up, but the guy is disabled and in a wheelchair. Here is the thread with a link to the video. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2079099/posts
42 posted on 09/10/2008 12:26:40 PM PDT by snarkytart
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To: snarkytart
Oh my gosh. How embarassing! For Biden and the guy in the wheelchair.

That's an innocent mistake that could happen to any of us, so I'll thank God it was Plugs and not me! Thanks for the info.

43 posted on 09/10/2008 12:31:34 PM PDT by impeachedrapist (On Free Republic PBD [political bipolar disorder] rules!)
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To: Argus
The McCain campaign needs to go directly after Obama’s pretense to being a reformer.

I would keep highlighting the fact that Obama has voted with Harry Reid 92% of the time.

If people like the current Congress, they are going to be thrilled with an Obama Presidency.

44 posted on 09/10/2008 12:49:57 PM PDT by comebacknewt
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To: goldstategop
Duplicate thread:

Palin bounce has Democrats off balance

45 posted on 09/10/2008 1:04:31 PM PDT by Plutarch
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To: Soul Seeker
I just don't see it. I thought before with just McCain and a depressed republican base that it would be a toss up election along with one of the lowest turn out elections ever.

No matter how enthusiastic the young crowd is on the dem side they have historically never shown up at the polls. Secondly, the dem party is built on racism, everything they have ever done has been designed to keep the blacks down and voting dem. That older dem voter 50 and older their most loyal voter is not going to show at the polls for Obama, same goes supposedly for the Hispanic population, and definitely for the Asian's having a black problem then Arab population is very racist but he does have an islamic upbringing on his side so that will be an interesting one to watch, so will the Jewish vote be interesting to watch.

Basically I thought this was a toss up election until Palin, now you have excited a base that will show in huge numbers to the polls against the other party's depressed voters except for their youth crowd (who do not show) and the wacko crowd.

46 posted on 09/10/2008 1:11:37 PM PDT by Lady Heron
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To: goldstategop

Obama is running the WRONG campaign.

McCain has run circles around him, proving he will make a much better President.

The well-telegraphed running against Bush misses a few basic realities:

Pelosi and the 230 Democratic congress-critters in the House that voted her Speaker and the Reid-led Democrat Senate majority are on the ballot. Not Bush.

She promised lower oil prices in 2006 and delivered ... higher oil prices. Bush got ‘blamed’ for it, but Pelosi and the drill-nowhere do-nothing Congress are the REAL problem. (Hence their attempts to at the last minute ‘do something’ with fake half-measures on drilling, they are desperate to get the target off their backs.)

She and the Democrats promised to get out of Iraq ... they opposed the surge that WORKED and proposed alternatives that would have led to defeat, had we not gotten lucky enough to see the incompetent Congress fail to get their way. Bush is still unpopular, maybe, but the confidence about Iraq has had a tremendous turnaround - and why not. Bush and the Surge have finally succeeded in Iraq. Victory is at hand, and men like McCain called it right, while Biden and Obama and Reid and the Dems were calling it a ‘failure’ only 12 months ago.

Bush=Iraq is the real Dem playbook, and as long as Iraq was a failure, running against Bush was smart. Now that Iraq has turned around and Bush has suceeded in winning via the surge, the argument fails. Obama has waffled his way to a position that in terms of troop deployment, is barely distinguishable from what McCain has advocated.

Meanwhile, for every problem the Democrats have proposed spending more and taxing more.

The Democrats are trying to run against the status-quo by running against Bush, but thats hardly an inspiring campaign. The Bush-bashing DNC convention missed the whole point. If it’s change you want - “What will you do differently?” not differently from Bush “What will you do differently from the Republicans running on the ballot now?”

McCain has brilliantly stolen the playbook, while the Dems are stuck fighting the last war (2006). I believe that when a candidate or a party tries to win based on false premises, they usually lose and deservedly so. The “change” message of Obama is a hollow one, he promises a continuation of the current failed Congressional policies, not change. Obama deserves to lose so long as he fails to be honest and acknowledge that Obama and McCain are just different brands of ‘change’.

The voters are not all dumb. (”You can fool some of the people some of the time, but not all of the people all of the time ...”) Candidates are dumb for thinking they can win on false hype. The more Obama campaigns, the more hollow and flawed a candidate he becomes. Change is coming, either via far-left inexperienced junior Senator Obama or the center-right bipartisan reformer McCain. Who can deliver a better future for most Americans?

We are back to a more real and more honest set of choices: What will we do in the next 2 to 4 years. The Congressional Republicans can run on the same themes of Real Change (kudos to Gingrich who saw this well before others) - drill now for energy independence, keep the tax cuts for economic health, say no to earmarks to reduce the sway of special interests, fight and win the war on terror and return with honor from Iraq ... oh and defend families, marriage, personal responsibility, and the unborn.

In other words, a conservative center-right issues campaign, with a dash of populism, is a winning campaign. Bush-bashing and liberal elitism will win New York and Hollywood, but not the Presidential election. Sure the Dems can run on some things, spend more on SCHIP, giveaways for College kids, but their very panders telegraph that they cannot also talk fiscal responsibility. They cant add.

McCain’s election to lose if he starts focussing on that future and what good things he will try to deliver in the next 4 years: Complete the mission in Iraq and bring the troops home honorably while fighting to win against terrorism; move to energy independence and post-fossil-fuel economy; end earmark and corporate welfare; advance the ‘Real Choice’ agenda - school choice, health care choice, retirement choice. That plus a ‘real-world’ perspective to appeal to the ‘small-town clingers’ will win the election.

In the end, this election is not about a lame duck President, its about America’s future.


47 posted on 09/10/2008 1:32:33 PM PDT by WOSG (McCain/Palin 08)
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To: Breyean; goldstategop; All
"Maybe it’s time for another photo of Obama shirtless like the one of him in the surf a while back."

I kinda like these:

Obama Lipstick Pig Pictures, Images and Photos

Obama Shovel Pictures, Images and Photos

Obama Sweat Pictures, Images and Photos

Obama Shovel Pictures, Images and Photos

Obama Sinking Feeling Pictures, Images and Photos

No Obama Lipstick Sign Pictures, Images and Photos

Democrat Tombstone Pictures, Images and Photos

Looney Tunes Pictures, Images and Photos

48 posted on 09/10/2008 2:03:09 PM PDT by musicman (Sarah Palin Runs A STATE - Barack Obama Runs His MOUTH)
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To: goldstategop
It's beginning to look like:

Maybe even:


49 posted on 09/10/2008 3:12:06 PM PDT by ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas (I want to "Buy American" but the only things for sale made in the USA are politicians)
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To: goldstategop
Trains will be on time???????.....Photobucket Image Hosting
50 posted on 09/10/2008 3:41:41 PM PDT by GitmoSailor (AZ Cold War Veteran====McCain/Palin 2008)
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To: Lady Heron

Good analysis.


51 posted on 09/10/2008 9:24:24 PM PDT by an amused spectator (That would be... harsher punishment for parole violators, Stan.)
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To: NavyCanDo

A telling anecdote.


52 posted on 09/10/2008 9:28:00 PM PDT by an amused spectator (That would be... harsher punishment for parole violators, Stan.)
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53 posted on 09/10/2008 9:32:48 PM PDT by Eye of Unk (Its Wasilla, NOT Wasilia, Wassala or Wasalia.)
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To: Argus
The McCain campaign needs to go directly after Obama’s pretense to being a reformer

I saw a McCain ad tonight that did pretty good at showing how Palin had experience enacting change, as McCain did - and pointing out that Obama only talked about it. Great ad. (My favorite ad so far showed Obama at a podium giving a speech. It said if you take away the big speeches, take away the audience, take away the spotlights, what do you have left. it took those things away one by one, leaving him on an empty stage - it was very visually dramatic. GREAT ad.
54 posted on 09/10/2008 10:14:11 PM PDT by CottonBall
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