Duvall/Palin 08
Posted on 10/14/2008 5:59:20 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
Actor Duvall Blasts Palin Critics at Fundraiser
October 14, 2008 8:24 AM
ABC News' Imtiyaz Delawala Reports: Introducing Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin at a GOP fundraiser Monday, actor Robert Duvall blasted conservatives who have criticized the McCain-Palin ticket in recent days, calling conservative columnist George Will a "super-nerd" and former Wisconsin governor Tommy Thompson a "block of wood".
At an RNC fundraiser in McLean, VA, Duvall introduced Palin for the third time since her nomination to the Republican ticket, taking the opportunity to accuse Republicans critical of the McCain campaign as giving "credence to the other side."
"It bothers me that certain people in the Republican Party are attacking the McCain-Palin ticket, like super-nerd George...What's his name?” Duvall asked, prompting a few attendees to laugh and shout out George Will. “George...George, I can't even think. George Will," Duvall said, referring to the Washington Post columnist who has been critical of Palin.
The legendary actor then attacked former Wisconsin Governor Tommy Thompson, who campaigned with McCain last Friday in La Crosse, Wisconsin. Thompson had expressed unhappiness with the McCain campaign in an article that appeared in Sunday's New York Times. Asked if he was happy with Sen. McCain's campaign, Thompson told the paper, "No," adding, "I don't know who is."
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Duvall is absolutely correct: I have spoken to Tommy Thompson, on multiple occasions, and he is indeed a block of wood.
I knew I liked that guy!
Tommy Thompson’s brother gave WI a Dem governor (Doyle).
LOL!
“Duvall... saying of Obama, “we gotta keep this guy out of the White House.”
BUMP!
Almost no one even remembers that you ran for president, Tommy, so I'm not sure you would be one we would look to for campaign advice.
I agree that George Will is a supernerd. He has to throw baseball references in every other sentence - George, please stop it. You are more annoying than Ken Burns.
BUMP!
I’ve loved him in every role he’s ever played, from Boo Radley to Lucky Ned Pepper to Augustus McRae, and now this icing on the cake!
I love the smell of testosterone in the morning...it smells like....victory.
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Always did like this guy. Now, I like him even more. It’s about time some conservative man has enough stones to come to the lady’s defense. If she’s not the new face of the Republican Party, we can all expect blank stares for the next four years.
Will should just stick to writing about baseball now. I think these years next to Stephanopoulus have corrupted him.
Duvall/Palin 08
Duvall is the sh!t. Do not mess with him. Do not mess with Sarah.
Kind of an insult to Blocks of Wood??
Pray for W, McCuda and Our Troops
Sectioned, he would consist of concentric rings of blandness.
Mr. niteowl77
A lot of the “smart” people on our side figured out early on that the Republicans were going to lose this time around. They looked at the generic ballot numbers and the popularity rating of President Bush, and figured it was a Democrat Year, and the best thing the Republicans could do about it was to lose quietly.
So John McCain - 2000 Edition, is their ideal candidate. In 2000, McCain was upright and positive, didn’t make any waves, and lost with class. Kind of like the New York Yankees for the past eight years. This was the country-club, blue-blood prescription for 2008 from the git-go. McCain was supposed to run a nice, quiet, centrist campaign, and move the center of the Republican Party over to the Left. In doing so, he would get pasted by whomever the Democrats ran, of course, but to the Centrist Wing of the Republican Party, moving their own party to the Center was the only thing they thought they were likely to achieve this time around.
But nobody told John McCain that he was supposed to lose. John McCain is out there trying to win this thing, and John McCain is no fool. McCain realized that the Center means defeat, and that the only way to win this thing was to give people a reason to vote Republican by promoting Conservative principles of thrift, strength and family values. So he skipped over all of the boring Centrist get-along types, and for his biggest decision, he tapped Sarah Palin.
Now, McCain is being soundly criticized for this choice. But when you hear this criticism, you should apply this simple test: Would John McCain be anywhere near competitive in this race if he had picked Tim Pawlenty for a running mate? Or Olympia Snowe? Or Mitt Romney? These picks would have signaled to one and all that McCain was happy to lose with class to Barack Obama, and it would have been broadly acceptable for that very reason. But when McCain picked Palin, he signaled that he was not ready to lose with class, and that he was, in fact, not ready to lose at all. That is the real reason people got enthusiastic about the Republican ticket for the first time. Because with the choice of Palin, McCain signaled for the first time that he would not be happy to lose.
Now, I have a lot of Democrat friends, who have picked the name next to the (D) in every election all their adult lives, who are complaining that John McCain is not the John McCain of 2000. They say that they might have actually voted for McCain if he had run a Centrist, dignified campaign. This is complete nonsense, of course. In November, they are going to pick the (D) just as they have for the past 30 years, and just like their parents did the 40 years before that. Gaining their vote was always a mirage, and John McCain is smart enough to know that.
No, Duvall’s helping finish the job McCain IS doing.
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