Bringing Out the Big Guns

Mitt can reprise his rendition of “Who Let the Dogs Out?” for the partisans. Bible Spice will be right at home.

The GOP will struggle to survive. Obama will struggle to find change that will stand the test of time. ………….

http://thefiresidepost.com/2008/11/06/obama-and-sustainable-solutions/

What about Joe the Plumber?

Isn’t GA technically a revote and MN a recount? Not to be snarky, but…

That seems like a match made in heaven. Mittens has oodles of cash for Palin’s Georgia Peach wardrobe. And loads of the kind of high class credibility that allowed him to rail against East Coast elites at the RNC.

In case you all missed it, and tangentially related to the thread topic, here is a wonderful Fresh Air interviews from the day after the election on the “Future of the Conservative Movement” with Mickey Edwards (ex Repub congressman from Oklahoma, one of three founding trustees of the Heritage Foundation, Obama voter): http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=96648705

wvng, I mentioned that yesterday as I heard it, but the audio wasn’t up then. The interview before Edwards was Bill Moyers who was even better.
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This morning Radio Times had Edwards and Vin Weber. Guess the new fair and balanced will be all Repub commenters because of course the administration is Dem. Although when the admin was Repub… Oh never mind.

Could I be in moderation for saying 00dles?

Georgia is going to envy the peace and quiet Pennsylvania and Ohio had in the last part of the election, over the next few weeks.

I fully expect 50 million dollars spent on this runoff election–and that number is only as small as it is due to the lowish cost of airtime there and the short duration.

This is going to be brutal.

Failure twin powers unite!
Form of: symbol of the party’s abject failure!
Form of: untrustworthy carpet bagger!

ivb: “Guess the new fair and balanced will be all Repub commenters because of course the administration is Dem.” Yep, and CNN is leading the way with all their new hires.
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And, yes, the Moyers interview was even better. To have led the life he has led, and lived to see this happen, must be extraordinary:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=96648963

You mean Sarah and Mittens will be sharing a stage together?!!

I think Mitt secretly hates Sarah.

Hilarity will ensue.

Ok, resending my mod-boted post, with an 00dle bypass.

That seems like a match made in heaven. Mittens has 00dles of cash for Palin’s Georgia Peach wardrobe. And loads of the kind of high class credibility that allowed him to rail against East Coast elites at the RNC.

If Rommey ventures a mile outside of Atlanta, he’ll get Nedbeattied. You sure got a purty mouth, governamor.

What, Joe Lieberman isn’t available?

the RNC is sending a repo man to Alaska!
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http://thinkprogress.org/2008/11/06/palin-gop-clothing/

And, also, is there a Neiman-Marcus or Henri Bendel in Atlanta? I’m sure Senator Chaxy wants her to look her best and about the credit card that would make her attract a lot more attention and that would be great for the campaign you betcha!

Sarah Palin spells it J-O-R-J-A.

Sarah Palin can confront the Russians there.

Sorry to be thick, but I don’t get this post.

Sending them to Georgia to do what?

bbpdx
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To campaign. There will be a runoff election probabaly in December

This ought to be interesting since it is clear like Obama that the DNC is going to push on misleading messages.

The DNC ran ads here in Atlanta for 2 months saying Saxby will raise your taxes 23%. What they didn’t say was that was the fair tax and you would then not pay any other taxes and abolish the IRS.

So I don’t think that outright lying is going to get Martin the seat. Not to mention that Martin when confronted by the lie didn’t denounce it he said that it was “unfortunate” that his DNC colleages were misrepresenting the fair tax. Now that Obama is not running I seriously doubt the afican american turn out will come out for some sleazy white guy, who got fired from his last government job.

Yet another reason to give Alan Colmes a little bit of credit this year. How about after all that ranting Joe The Plumber did about redistribution of wealth and spreading the wealth around and how he has principles and doesnt want to take other people’s money. This fool was grew up on welfare!!! Talk about gl@ss houses. Now just to make it clear I am not ragging on people on welfare because many people need it and with out it the number of homeless people as well as hungry innocent children would sky rocket. The point is the hypocrisy of this idjut just knows no bounds. Here’s the video.
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http://www.newshounds.us/2008/11/06/joe_the_plumber_fox_news_business_expert_again_questions_obamas_patriotism.php#more

What does it say that you can’t ask a question of the left’s canidates without a background check and a smear campaign?

Nobody had heard of Joe until Grumpy mentioned him 21 times in the debate.

Aaaah, a runoff. Well, Palin will be a big hit in the rural parts.
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Y’all following the strange voting stats in Alaska? After record early voting, somehow turnout ended up 14% below 2004 levels. Fishy.

judgementz
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It means if you dont want a background check you shouldn’t go on all the TV shows and give press conferences and make frequent appearances on FixedNews and say that electing one candidate will mean the de@th to Israel. You are on the wrong thread looking for sympathy for Joe who is really Sam the Plumber who doesnt have a license. Kick Rocks Loser

Like I posted in another thread, it’s a bad time to be a low IQ white guy….this is the denial stage, and since denial is the foundation on which the GOP base is built on, I wouldn’t look for them to move on to the grief stage for a couple years at least. By the time this happens, ALL the Palin dirt will be out…I doubt she shows.

Off-topic: There was a lot of talk yesterday about McCain’s concession speech, here’s Michael Scherer’s concession interview w/ Mark Salter in which Scherer concedes that he’s not a journalist:
http://www.time.com/time/politics/article/0,8599,1856960,00.html

PS Still no correction? It’s a re-vote and not a re-count right?

No he didn’t seek out Obama, he just asked him a question and put Obama off message and had it happened a lot earlier then a lot of these center left people everyone talks about may not have liked that.

Also, aren’t Dems are supposed to be the party of free speech, how ironic since Jeff Bingaman, Obama, Pelosi, and Reid are all for reinstituting the Fairness Doctrine.

So it seems that they only support free speech when it is politically expident for them.

They had info on him the day after the comment sgw, it was only after it resinated with people that he started to get appearances. What about Obama kicking the reporters off the campaign trail that supported McCain. You can say that McCain did the same to time but, that is because they are a pundit rag. I have never seen a favorable article about republicans in the last couple of years.

Judgementz–
I agree, people shouldn’t be looked into for asking questions. If Joe had remained just a guy who asked a question, that would have been it; he’d be a youtube moment and then gone back into anonymity.
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Instead, the first thing he did was call Fox News and get interviews, press interviews, and allowed McCain to lift him up as the central focus of his campaign. I don’t care who you are or how innocuous your question, that will get you looked at under a microscope. Its what Americans do to their men-of-the-moments–we burn them under magnifying glasses. Its a cultural thing, not a political statement.

Yargh, Moderati0n. Take two:
Judgementz–
I agree, people shouldn’t be looked into for asking questions. If Joe had remained just a guy who asked a question, that would have been it; he’d be a youtube moment and then gone back into anonymity.
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Instead, the first thing he did was call Fox News and get interviews, press interviews, and allowed McCain to lift him up as the central focus of his campaign. I don’t care who you are or how innocuous your question, that will get you looked at under a microscope. Its what Americans do to their men-of-the-moments–we burn them under magnifying gla5ses. Its a cultural thing, not a political statement.

judgementz, did you see the entire original meeting between Obama and Joe or only the Fox edited version? It makes a difference.
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It was linked in the comments here at the time. I’m sure you can find on YouTube if you care to have an unbiased version. He didn’t put Obama off message. The phrase that was endlessly splattered around by the right about “spread the wealth” is very different in context.
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The fact that the guy originally posed a question about a business that he said he was thinking about buying that was simply a lie caused some questions to be raised. The fact is that even if there were a business that he was going to buy that was worth $250,000, there would likely not be tax due on that amount because of business write offs. The story immediately became confused with a personal income of $250,000 or more and a business worth that. Even with personal income over $250,000 you would only pay an additional 3% on the amount OVER $250,000.
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Of course facts aren’t nearly as much fun as smears.

Romney and Palin (who will work so well together) vs. Every Democrat in the World. Somebody give me the remote and a beer.

Where is your proof as soon as he asked the question he called Fox. It better not be from some pundit site. If you are right I will concede the point that his asking the question for political reasons.

However, as many have stated here they don’t want government looking into their lives, and many went out of their minds when the president passed monitoring calls overseas. So now it is politically fine to be intrusive into someone’s life that asks a tough question? So am I now to understand that liberals are fine with more intrution into their personal life?

However, is that what we can expect going forward. I mean liberal, conservative, republican or democrat that when we ask a public official a question we have to endure media scrutiny into our background and our lives?

I don’t condemn liberals that ask my candidate a hard question because I feel that these are questions that need to be asked because a president doesn’t serve just conservatives or liberals or whatever your affiliation is he represents us all. I am an independent conservative and the reason that I didn’t support Obama was pretty clear. I only liked McCain a little more than I disliked Obama. I still felt for where we are going that McCain had the better ideas.

Because that worked out so well last time.

Sarcasm aside, it did work out in Georgia.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TtYMcMYvW9Q — this was on the same day as his conversation with Obama, IIRC.
So either he called into Fox, or Neil Cavuto contacted him and got the ball rolling. He certainly didn’t shy away from the limelight once it was on him, however–quite the opposite.
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I dislike the cultural rubber-glove delving into the guy’s life as well, but some aspects were relevant–like the facts that he totally fabricated his situation and was speaking not from experience but from an uninformed hypothetical position. Had he known anything about basic business tax handling, he would have realized how weak his question was.
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The lesson to be drawn here, is to either stay anonymous, or at the very least don’t attempt to piggyback the question to fame if you’re being intellectually dishonest. As far as the illegal/warrentless wiretaps go, I sincerely hope Obama axes that program to hel1.

Additional supporting: unless Joe left his full name or contact info with the press present, the speed at which Fox got his identity/contact info, and then arranged for the call with the show, is interesting and impressive.

Sarah Palin is obviously qualified to help in a Senate race. Just recently, she saw the Capitol.

I’ll bet Saxby Chambliss is on his knees right now, thanking God.

Good god, is it possible to be more giddy!? The internecine GOP show. Gloves off, on FOX!!!, re: Palin. And she and Romnoid are the big guns going to GA to save scum of the Earth Chambliss? Somebody pinch me.

Obama should be down there at some pt. with Martin and Max Cleland. For once and for all, rebranding democratic patriotism as the real love of country.

What will Sarah wear?

Obama will NOT likely campaign in georgia–his position as president-elect and his calls for bipartisonship will preclude his direct involvement.

That said, he DOES have a lot of spare cash lying around (probably)…

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