Posted on 09/14/2008 1:40:45 AM PDT by JohnHuang2
Capitol Hill Republicans say a recent swing in polling numbers might translate into fewer losses in November elections - and maybe some unexpected victories - as they recover from massive midterm losses in 2006 that gave Democrats control of Congress.
Republican congressional candidates, who trailed Democrats by double digits in several generic polls during the past year, have drawn to within three percentage points in a recent USA Today/Gallup survey.
"There's no 'generic' vote for Congress. ... These congressional seats are won one at a time," said House Minority Whip Roy Blunt, Missouri Republican. "But there's no doubt that the wind is not in our face like it's been the last three years."
(Excerpt) Read more at washtimes.com ...
Putting lipstick on Obozo
Democrats have spent weeks accusing Gov. Sarah Palin of lying about her pregnancy and accusing her daughter of lying about her pregnancy and attacking Sarah as a bad mother and comparing her to Pontius Pilate, Islamic radicals, a whip-wielding dominatrix and to "lipstick" on a pig. Now Democrats say they're ready to take the gloves off!
After a difficult week for Obama, which followed a difficult week for Obama, Reuters reports that the messiah "fired back" at John McCain with "new ads" mocking McCain as old-fashioned and "out of touch". Obama has been rattled and flustered in the weeks since "out-of-touch" McCain picked young Sarah Palin for VP, eclipsing the messiah's choice of a 66-year-old windbag (whose name escapes me) as his assistant messiah.
Obama campaign honcho David Plouffe, heralding the new ads in a memo sent to "reporters" (or, as I prefer, Democrats with press passes), wrote that "today" was a historic day -- "the first day of the rest of the campaign," in which the effete Ivy League lawyer Obama 'takes off the gloves', which makes this the fourth time this year.
Almost half the voters in a new AP poll say Hussein lacks the proper experience to be president and he now trails McCain in almost every poll despite those Greek columns erected at his Temple coronation, so now his campaign geniuses have come up with another idea -- running ads accusing McCain of not using a computer and not knowing how to e-mail. No doubt this will electrify voters! Accusing someone who can fly fighter jets of being too dumb to use a computer is a real winner.
Plouffe revealed in his memo that the reason they're going after McCain's lack of computer and typing skills is because "this election is too important and the challenges too big to spend the next 54 days talking about trivial non-issues."
But Obama's opposition researchers apparently were so deeply immersed in an even 'bigger issue' -- how long has Bristol been pregnant? -- that they missed the real reason McCain doesn't e-mail or use a keyboard: The barbaric treatment he got at the hands of his Viet Cong captors.
While Obama's oppo A-listers were busy trying to determine the size of Bristol's belly, the Drudge Report on Friday unearthed a Boston Globe article (dated March 4, 2000), which read: "McCain gets emotional at the mere mention of military families needing food stamps or veterans lacking health care. The outrage comes from inside: McCain's severe war injuries prevent him from combing his hair, typing on a keyboard, or tying his shoes. Friends marvel at McCain's encyclopedic knowledge of sports. He's an avid fan -- Ted Williams is his hero -- but he can't raise his arm above his shoulder to throw a baseball." Obama is apparently too dumb to use Google.
Looking at the big picture, meandering from issue to issue aimlessly and tossing laughingly refutable charges against the wall, as Obama's doing, is what happens when your campaign is fully engaged in meltdown mode. And everything keeps backfiring. The dumb, fading celebrity says he wasn't thinking of Gov. Palin when he made his 'lipstick' remark, which got hoots and hollers from his audience. Every major newspaper had "LIPSTICK" in very bold print across its front page the morning after Palin's speech at the convention, but Obama wasn't thinking of Palin at all when he said 'lipstick'! No, no, no -- he was thinking of McCain.
(Back in May, Obambi had a sissy fit because Bush had used the word "appeasement" in a speech before the Israeli Knesset, which Obozo assumed to be an 'attack' on him, even though Bush never mentioned Obama anywhere in his speech. Obama mentioned Palin repeatedly in his speech on 'lipstick' which supposedly was not about Palin.)
At a campaign event in New Hamphire yesterday, Obama had another sissy fit, accusing McCain and Palin of 'distracting' him with lipstick. "They've been talking about lipstick and they've been talking about pigs!", screamed Obama, who can't seem to stop talking about lipstick or talking about pigs.
By week's end, Hussein's lackeys at the New York Times were hard at work investigating Beehive Beauty Shop in Wasilla, which Gov. Palin patronized for the last six years. They're carefully probing and analyzing Palin's hair locks because "hairstyles help answer the voters' throw-down question: 'Who does she think she is?'" (Joe Biden's question: 'Is that her own hair?')
Then the NYT drops this bombshell: "During Palin's appointments, Mrs. Steele [the beauty salon owner], divorced and financially stressed, confided in her client. 'Sarah was always saying that GOD WAS IN CONTROL and to HAVE FAITH THAT THERE IS A REASON FOR EVERYTHING'"!!! And, in even further horror to the NYT, Mrs. Steele said "'We would say it together.'" S c a n d a l o u s! Worse than Palin's war crimes against courageous moose.
Things lately have been going so swimmingly for McCain/Palin, even totally 'unbiased' and 'impartial' Charlie Gibson is frustrated, the poor little thing. Billed as Palin's first solo interview, Palin was so in command that by the end of the thing it looked more like Charlie Gibson's first solo interview, ever. Gibson flubbed the Bush Doctrine, blundered through Palin's past statements, and had not yet found out that Reagan won the Cold War. But! Too scripted; no foreign policy experience; a paltry two years in the current job -- but enough about Charlie Gibson.
The problem with the Democrats' lame-o 'inexperience' meme is that Palin has gobs of executive experience, in contrast to Obama, whose primary qualification for president is that he voted to stack up hospital utility rooms with dead babies who initially survived abortion. Yet another reason why Obama will be giving a concession speech next November.
Anyway, that's...
My Two Cents...
"JohnHuang2"
More “Sarah Surge.”
Now that conservatives are finally motivated to vote,they will not only elect her but that near useless McCain on HER ticket.While in the booth they will vote GOP as well so that when she becomes president she will have a majority on Capital Hill to make her Reagan reforms law—forget the RINOs in congress—it’s now only about getting the GOP numbers for Sarah.
A one term and,hopefully,restrained McCain then off to the races for a rebirth of American glory!
Excellant point. The Senate is packed with elitist spinelessrepublicans. They need to be reminded...over and over that their re-electiion hinges on the “Sarah Surge”
Our Senator Dole is in a tough fight and her only chance is the Palin effect.....not her record.
don’t forget that more repubs in congress will prevent any non-conservative things mccain may want to push for
Filled with truths and a hoot to read! Thanks!
One technicality...
Are there any conservatives to vote for for congress?
Look for the Gang of Pu$$ies to pull this election out of the fire for the Democrats. Grahamnesty, et. al. are more impressed with Washington parties held by Sally “Homewrecking whoreslut” Quinn than they are in helping the country and working to win in the arena of ideas.
And I hope that McCain takes advantage of this golden opportunity to remind voters of just who is responsible for their pain.
Correcto! Graham, Chambliss, Dole and on and on actually think they are somebody. The Republican senate, with the exception of a few, has done NOTHING to warrant a conservative vote. They owe Palin big time and will resent her forever.
Great post, and as always, nail meeting hammer!
If the Dem candidate's record is better than Dole's, why vote for her? She's another RINO and I would just as soon see that breed replaced by a Democrat so a REAL Republican can run against them in the next election. If her record is better, then we're stuck with her for another six years.
Outstanding column, JohnHuang2. You should be syndicated.
Kudos to your creative talent.
There ya go...Dole’s record is mixed but her opponent is a hard core commie. Dole will win on Palin’s skirttails but it will be close. NC Republicans has a chance of picking up the guv’s seat thanks to Palin also. Maybe Dole and our other spineless senator...lil dickie burr can resign afterwards and the new guv can appoint conservatives that walk the walk.
Don’t forget,in 2006 enough Dems won on pledging to be more “conservative” than their RINO opponents they took Capital Hill..
Then they elected socialist Pelosi and Sophist Reed to run congress.
These same liars having again to run as “conservatives” in order to win had Pelosi tell them to blame her if they have not or can’t fulfill their “conservative” promisses.The far-left leader is a typical Frisco fascists so she ain’t worried about HER seat.
If your Dem congreesman does not vow in no uncertain words to remove Pelosi and Reed from leadership positions then go for the Republican no matter what.
BTW,I wonder if,in 2012,the RNC will support or at least not hinder,our efforts to get Vice President Palin to run against McCain in the primaries.
If RR had RNC support in 1976,the Carter nightmare years would have been avoided.
I don’t know if an active VPOTUS has ever run against an active POTUS,but if not we are darn due for the precedent!
I wouldn’t look for Mayor Pat to be selecting “true” conservatives.
I’m all for Mayor Pat as Perdue is as dumb as a box of rocks, though. There has been enough corruption in the NC government that Republicans should do well enough in the state pulling on the Maverick capes.
Good point....but boxes of rocks will be very angry with you.....
“Are there any conservatives to vote for for congress?”
YES! Michelle Bachmann of Minnesota!
OK, thanks for the update. I'm not from NC but I never liked "Libbie" as she seemed to be another elite who always was taken care of by the same old bunch. If the Dem is a closet red, how in the world is he so close? Mebbe it's all the academics in the Triangle.
Good luck to the Pubbies there - I am beginning to think there is a coattails effect coming.
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