Off And Running?

I imagine the Left is able to generate a good deal of enthusiasm around the pending general election. Pajamas Media has a good state of the race post up.

McCain doesn't generate near that much enthusiasm across the Right, leaving them in step with much of the general electorate, which probably isn't focusing much on politics at all right now.

For now, I'd maintain that it's anyone's to win, or lose. And we won't be able to get a good assessment of things before very late Summer, or early Fall.

Any thoughts on the coming race? Frankly, it's been so hot here, it's hard to think about anything besides the air conditioning and a cold drink.

Oh, I saw the Indiana Jones movie yesterday. Eh, I think they've played that string out about as far as it can go. In fact, maybe they made one movie too many. It was standard IJ - which, frankly, is getting old, just like the actor who plays him.

But then, aren't we all? Heh!

Comments

[Totally Heterosexual Conservative]

I predict that the public will enthusiastically embrace a third Bush term.

[JustOneMan]

I predict that the majority of hard core WHITE Dumbocrats---will stay home rather than vote for the Affirmative Action Candidate...proving once and for all the Dumbocrats are a party of racists...who need to keep minorities in their place in order to manipluate and control them...

PS..theres a new movie coming out "Bromley Gonzales" by that great film maker Jack "Tired of Playing Fish" Wolverton...Mr. Shin gives in "Two Kicks Up"!

[chr]

Chin up, 25%ers! Another McSame supporter has been sighted!

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1024927/The-wife-John-McCain-callously-left-behind.html

[seekeronos]

"--- I predict that the public will enthusiastically embrace a third Bush term. ---"

Funny thing, that item. Last I heard, Bush was not able to run for a third term.

Has Bush suspended the 22nd amendment?

Bush != McCain.

McCain != Bush.

[Aaron]

Where did that moron, Harpo, run off to? Or did the guys in white carrying the great big nets finally show up at his home?

[IslamoLlama]

"-- McCain doesn't generate near that much enthusiasm across the Right, leaving them in step with much of the general electorate, which probably isn't focusing much on politics at all right now. --"

Lols. Is this a rather desperate attempt to claim that the Republicans are mainstream? That's good projection, right there. I'm sure Dan has talks about this sort of thing around the water cooler all the time at work. Wait... Dan's unemployed. So maybe not.

[IslamoLlama]

"-- Bush != McCain.

McCain != Bush. --"

I do believe in fairies.
I do believe in fairies.
I do believe in fairies.

Oh, come on Tink. You can pull through this. I know you can.

*Beelieeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeves!*

[SacTownMan]

Aaron,

Not to worry the resident trolls that linger here have no life and will soon be back.

In short order Harpo, Chris, President Carter, Lame-O, Grit Eater and the THC abuser will soon hijack the thread with their BDS rants and worn out talking points. None of these guys would ever think of taking a day off from their on-going moonbat mission.

In a previous post I started a "top 10" moonbat talking points. These loons will seldom deviate from the main 10 unless it is to bash the American Health Care system. They will typically lash out at anyone that doesn't agree with them and in Harpo's case never post a link to the original author.

Here again is the "top 10" moonbat talking points, just look at whatever these losers post and you can usually just attach a number to it.

"Ah the next 5 months should be entertaining. The resident trolls will be repeating their favorite talking points ad nauseam.

So lets make it easier for them and just get the "top 10" list going now shall we:

1. McCain = "Bush 3".
2. McCain wants to keep us in Iraq for "100 years".
3. McCain is too old!
4. Bush lied, troops died.
5. If you don't vote for Barry you're a racist!
6. Democrats are behind the troops. (That's why they continue to try and cut Iraq funding!)
7. Barry will "unite" the country. (As long as you're not one of those 18 million racist's that didn't vote for him or a Republican)
8. We are in a recession.
9. Barry's associations for the past twenty years with various extremists have nothing to do with him.
10.Here's my personal favorite - "That was taken out of context""

Get ready for the Soro's funded $50 million onslaught that is coming, just remember that their key moonbat talking points will be to try and use the "top 10" and tie McCain and Bush in every sentence they can.

[Totally Heterosexual Conservative]

I predict that Rush the Junkie and his merry brood of mouthbreathers will continue to babble on about how Dems are the real racists, despite the fact that the GOP hasn't come within a million miles of ever nominating anyone but a white rich dude for president, and despite the GOP's rich history of race-baiting their supersitious and backward cult of followers into voting for them.

[IslamoLlama]

"-- 8. We are in a recession. --"

http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/06/06/business/jobs-06.php

What's the old saying? A recession is when your neighbor loses his job? Why do I suspect STG won't admit a thing until he's getting handed his own pink slip. Why do I suspect that when STG gets shown the door he'll be blaming Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, Hillary Clinton, and Barack Obama?

"DemoNcRats raised my gas bill and lost me my job at Enron / Ford / Citigroup! Whaaaaa!"

I do appreciate the top ten lists. The majority of us would agree with any one of those issues. But the wingnuts think they can win elections by walking up to Joe American and screaming "YOUR WRONG!"

Maybe you can take that list door to door as you campaign for McCain. I'm sure the folks down in Peoria will love being told that Obama is a terrorist and the 70% of Americans who've become disgusted with the President are idiots. This is going to be a fun election.

[JustOneMan]

Totally Homosexual Conservative

Republicans have appointed more minorities to powerful positions than the Dumbocrats...

JOM

[joeb]

The good new is that there will be no Clinton Presidency. No third term for them. Oh,Happy Day! Hillary is not going to be President.
And look who beat her an inexperienced man who happens to be black. I hear there are a lot of really mad white women who are just waiting to vote for John McCain. And many white men who have been for Johnny Mac from the get go. I have a few names for you to consider:Humphrey, Kerry,McGovern,Mondale,Dukasis,Gore,Obama.

[seekeronos]

Let us not forget Moonbat Talking Points 11 and 12 (you know, because while "10" is a nice round number, "11" is just to funky, and is just a scad short of "12", the number of fulfillment:

11. Bush's disapproval rating is a clear and irrefutable indicator that most Americans are left-wing liberal Democrats.

12. Most of the Middle East's problems would be solved, if you know, those pesky j00s would just stick to a few neighborhoods in Jeursalem and Tel Aviv and let those poor oppressed "Palestinians" have their land back.

[SacTownMan]

Wow just like clockwork THC Lover has already used #1 and then follows up with #5. A very strong opening!

Hey did you guys know that McCain wants to stay in Iraq for 100 years!

Lame-o, let me know when we have 2 straight quarters of negative GDP growth needed to claim a recession. I'm sorry, how many negative quarters are we at now, oh that's right... 0!

http://useconomy.about.com/od/grossdomesticproduct/f/Recession.htm

Unemployment does not = recession!

All of the leading indicators are in place for the potential recession but it will take the Democrats sucking the life out of the economy with their proposed tax increases on business and the "rich" to finish the job.

Imagine what the impact of the housing market, gas prices and other hits to the economy could have had if they came in the middle of weakened anti-business economy that will await us with a Barry administration.

I will give Lame-O credit though, he will spend the time to link sites that help to get to bottom of his thought process. (unlike some others who just cut and paste someone else's thinking and then pass it off as their own)

[IslamoLlama]

"-- Republicans have appointed more minorities to powerful positions than the Dumbocrats... --"

ORLY? I guess we'll just have to agree with you because you say so.

Remind me again, how many minority Republican Senators do we have? How many minority Republican Congressmen? Governors? State Legislatures? Judges? Mayors? City Councilpeople?

If I didn't know better, I'd think all this "appointment" nonsense is nothing more than affirmative action for rich people. The only minorities in power have to be placed their by elected white people. I wonder why that is? Could it be that the GOP voter base is a pack of slack-jawed, red-neck racists? Hmmm... Something to consider.

[ET]

Of course, the looney lefties will keep repeating myth #4 despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/08/AR2008060801687.html

[IslamoLlama]

"-- Of course, the looney lefties will keep repeating myth #4 despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary. --"

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/198873.php

"--
Here are the key points from the reports, according to a press release from Sen. Jay Rockefeller's office:

--Statements and implications by the President and Secretary of State suggesting that Iraq and al-Qa'ida had a partnership, or that Iraq had provided al-Qa'ida with weapons training, were not substantiated by the intelligence.

--Statements by the President and the Vice President indicating that Saddam Hussein was prepared to give weapons of mass destruction to terrorist groups for attacks against the United States were contradicted by available intelligence information.

--Statements by President Bush and Vice President Cheney regarding the postwar situation in Iraq, in terms of the political, security, and economic, did not reflect the concerns and uncertainties expressed in the intelligence products.

--Statements by the President and Vice President prior to the October 2002 National Intelligence Estimate regarding Iraq's chemical weapons production capability and activities did not reflect the intelligence community's uncertainties as to whether such production was ongoing.

--The Secretary of Defense's statement that the Iraqi government operated underground WMD facilities that were not vulnerable to conventional airstrikes because they were underground and deeply buried was not substantiated by available intelligence information.

--The Intelligence Community did not confirm that Muhammad Atta met an Iraqi intelligence officer in Prague in 2001 as the Vice President repeatedly claimed.
--"

But, you know, if Fred Hiatt says so. Nice to know he's penning this in an editorial and not an actual news article. Real journalists get canned for being so blatantly dishonest. He doesn't give a single page number, a single link to the report. Relying on pure balls, Hiatt lies through the entire piece on the assumption that no one will ever actually read the Phase II report.

Flip over to TPM. They've got links to the PDFs of the actual reports. Then perhaps you can come back and quote some page numbers that substantiate Hiatt's claims of vindication. Beyond that, we can just throw Fred in as a liar. A blatant, unequivocal, and near treasonous liar.

He and the Bush gang deserve each other.

[ET]

Typical non-sequitor response, LLame-o. You read Hiatt's list, then Cherry-pick one of your own. You miss Hiatt's point that the situation was much more complex than "Bush Lied". The Rockafeller report does not contend that...some of the evidence leading up to the war was "substantiated" by the CIA, some of it came from sources outside the CIA and they couldn't "substantiate" it (that doesn't mean it was false).

Subtlety isn't your bag, I guess. Keep shouting slogans. We are all so impressed.

[jharp]

I think the GOP put forth their most electable candidate.

And I also thought McCain was a straight shooter who made a decent of of sense until he won the nomination.

I am against his policy on the war, healthcare, and tax reform foremost.

Secondly I'm against his policy on warrant wiretaps on Americans, torture, and equal rights to gay Americans.

[jharp]

Aaron,

"Where did that moron, Harpo, run off to?"

I played golf today you douchebag.

You got any other stupid comments.

[SacTownMan]

Hey Lame-O,

Do you ever look beyond the obvious. Just why would a partisan hack like Rockerfeller release a report that would continue to provide you with your BDS fix.

http://mypetjawa.mu.nu/archives/192944.php

Your response to all of the points raised in the editorial is to just say "He's a Liar". That's it! That's the best you can do?

Just ignore the notes that Rocky and company excluded from the report.

http://www.nysun.com/editorials/the-senates-intelligence/79553/?print=7075103121

So, whenever you see a story like this that questions your perspective you just through up your hands and say Liar, Liar!! (I'm suprised you didn't just add "pants on fire")

Are you really so naive that you can't see past the fact that this story is a complete slant designed to keep the BDS crowd slapping each other on the back saying "See I told you Bush Lied, troops Died" (see #4).

[BobInStamford]

I always wondered what went on in 25%er-land. Now I know.

http://www.wistv.com/Global/story.asp?S=8451232

Complete the Mission! Hide your guns, patriots! B. Hussein is coming!

[SacTownMan]

Hey Harpo when you golf you must not ever hit a slice! That would mean you were hitting it to the right and we can't have that!

I will bet that you can't score your I.Q. though, cause that would make you a scratch golfer

[jharp]

Sac,

Good ones. You are quite the wit.

Hey Harpo when you golf you must not ever hit a slice! That would mean you were hitting it to the right and we can't have that!

I will bet that you can't score your I.Q. though, cause that would make you a scratch golfer

Actually I'm pretty good at it and bet I could kick your ass.

Bring. It. On. Golf, of course.

[WAHOO WILLIE]

"I always wondered what went on in 25%er-land. Now I know."

Yeah but it's safer to cross a street in Columbia, SC than in Hartford, CT.....course you probably wouldn't dream of walking down a Hartford street, huh?

[WAHOO WILLIE]

"I played golf today you douchebag."

Careful those new water hazards Harpie

[WAHOO WILLIE]

"Remind me again, how many minority Republican Senators do we have? How many minority Republican Congressmen? Governors? State Legislatures? Judges? Mayors? City Councilpeople?"

Pookie, sometimes you're so funny you make my day. Now, according to you and a few more here...and Jerry Springer....there aren't enough Repugnicans to carry an election anywhere. Yet you deride them for not electing any "minority" governors, dofg catchers or whatever.........There aren't enough, how can they elect anyone? Which begs the question: I demonrats are the majority, why aren't there even more "minority" dog catchers and such? We probably shouldn't bring up the fact that so very few "minorities" run as repugnicans and so we dont REALLY know how many R's vote for the ones who runs as demonrats. It's strange that people who've been IN politics for ages can't explain why blacks (most of whom are quite conservative on many issues)vote demonrat in droves. But you, you Savior Faire who probably never really talked to a black person have all the answers. You so freekin' cute..........stick to tax math.

[jharp]

Willie,

"I played golf today you douchebag."

Careful those new water hazards Harpie

Quite a sight around here. They got 11 inches just south of me on Sat. We got 6 over Friday and Sat. Then another inch today.

More expected tonight.

And it mucked up my golf today. A 95. Tough tough conditions.

I'm going to try it again tomorrow.

[WAHOO WILLIE]

"I'm going to try it again tomorrow."

Hmmm.......You *do* realize your neighbors need help....right?

[jharp]

"I'm going to try it again tomorrow."

Hmmm.......You *do* realize your neighbors need help....right?

Yeah, but what's a man to do. You can't drive to the area.

I figure I've got two choices. Give em some dough which is probably unlikely. Or let the guys whose salaries I pay, EMT, firefighters, National Guard, take care of things much more efficiently than I handle it.

Raining again.

[BobInStamford]

The thought of that broken old man 'running' anywhere is laughable. Grandpa needs a nap.

[seekeronos]

"--- ...broken old man ... ---"

Chalk up a number 3 for our resident Trool.

[WAHOO WILLIE]

"Or let the guys whose salaries I pay, EMT, firefighters, National Guard, take care of things much more efficiently than I handle it."

Very telling........BTW, you probably didn't know that over 70% of my country's firefighters and EMTs are volunteers? Oh yeah, the paid people are pretty much in urban and large suburban centers. Even some of those are places where you only get paid if you have a call. Indiana for instance has far more volunteers than paid folks. Check this guy out:

http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2001/HRESP/HR0089.html

[seekeronos]

Heh. Now there's a real American and pillar of his community, that Mr. Burkhardt.

70 years of service as a volunteer.

May the Lord bless him, and by His grace, let that man's soul be saved.

[BobInStamford]

Relax, Lord-loving investment tycoon. Why not try hard to put in a full day's work today for a change? I know it's only government work, but still...

Maybe then you could afford to drive to NJ for rice balls.

[Fred Beloit]

This may have some impact on the election. One of the criminally insane has escaped from the asylum.

"An Ohio Democratic lawmaker and former presidential candidate has presented articles of impeachment against President George W. Bush to Congress.

Thirty-five articles were presented by Rep. Dennis Kucinich to the House of Representatives late Monday evening, airing live on C-SPAN."

But here you can read the real culprit of deceit about Iraq and about who should be impeached for the second time. Clinton and company lied, people died.

http://www.floppingaces.net/2008/06/10/how-pres-clinton-marketed-the-invasion-of-iraq/

[Fred Beloit]

Do re mi mi mi.
Something's happening here,
What it is ain't exactly clear...

Obama has a senior moment. From Powerline:

http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives2/2008/06/020720.php

[Fred Beloit]

"Justice Department Official Awards $500,000 Grant to Golf Group
Former Staffer Tells ABC News Anti-Crime Funds Given to Programs With The "Right" Connections." From ABC.go.com

Bush should fire this guy. Oh no. He can't. The Dems will raise hell about the "independence" of the Justice Department. (The Dems are so crazy, ever since 1968.)

[Fred Beloit]

I'm beginning to understand what Obama means by change. It means he can keep changing his mind. New thoughts on lapel pins, by B. Obama:

http://proteinwisdom.com/?p=12462

[Fred Beloit]

Your candidate intends to rob you, yes, you, if you are a Dem who is receiving a non-government pension of any kind of if you have any investments in oil companies.

Stand and deliver. This is a stickup: From Reuters

RALEIGH, North Carolina (Reuters) - Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama said on Monday he would impose a windfall profits tax on U.S. oil companies as he sought political gain from Americans' pain over high gasoline prices.

[Fred Beloit]

Bandito Obama is just trying to divert the attention of the voters from one simple fact. The Dems, their environmentalist wacko friends, and a few RINO Repubs are responsible for today's oil crisis by stopping oil drilling years ago in North Alaska and the Gulf. These clowns have also made it almost impossibleto build new refineries.

Hands up, you. I've got a gun.

No drilling, no peace.

[Fred Beloit]

Bush reduces violent crimes. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080609/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/fbi_crime

Since he gets the blame for everything, Bush should get credit for any good news too. Isn't that right Worst/Totally/Harpo/chris-Boob/LOL?

[Fred Beloit]

This is clear as crystal. From Bernard Chapin, Pajamas Media:

"Yet, even though the mainstream media refuses to add the name of Obama to the thriving partnership of hate speech known as Wright, Pfleger, and Moss, there is no reason to think the Democratic nominee views his homeland through a different lens than the one they use. Logic dictates that nobody would ever spend that long in a den of zealotry if they were not at least sympathetic to the opinions of those who dwelled there.

When one removes the glitz from this scenario and contemplates it in the context of their own mundane life, its fallacious nature becomes readily evident. For example, were readers to discover that I subscribed to National Review, attended National Review events, termed William F. Buckley a “spiritual mentor,” and donated thousands of dollars to the magazine’s not-for-profit foundation, could they safely assume I was a conservative? To pose the question is to answer it."

[IslamoLlama]

Holy shit, Fred. That's eight posts in a row. Who the hell are you even talking to anymore?

[IslamoLlama]

"-- Your response to all of the points raised in the editorial is to just say "He's a Liar". That's it! That's the best you can do? --"

If I read the Starr Report, turned to you, and said, "This report indicates that Bill Clinton did not have sexual relations with Monica Lewinsky", you'd call me a lying piece of shit.

Now replace "I" with "Fred Hiatt", "Starr Report" with "Phase II", "you" with "you", and "Bill Clinton... blah blah" with "Bush and Cheney never lied about WMDs in Iraq". That's basically what you've got.

The Phase II report contains 137 pages. Every other page spells out at least one lie by a member of the Bush Administration. Hiatt is full of shit.

[chris]

Looks like Fred's Metamucil is kicking in hard this morning! Better ease up, cowboy!!

[IslamoLlama]

"--

Bush reduces violent crimes. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080609/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/fbi_crime

Since he gets the blame for everything, Bush should get credit for any good news too. Isn't that right Worst/Totally/Harpo/chris-Boob/LOL?
--"

http://www.fbi.gov/headlines/uscrimestatistics010708.jpg

Bush should only get credit in the blue states, though. The Northeast was the region with the largest crime decrease. The South flat-lined or rose. So New York should be trending towards the GOP in the fail while Alabama and Florida should start throwing those GOP bums out.

It only makes sense.

[IslamoLlama]

Sorry. That should be "in the fall".

[seekeronos]

One thing is becoming apparent with the global crop failures - drought in Australia, which has largely forsaken her God, and much climate change and disastrous weather phenomena, and now massive flooding in the American Midwest: the very bread basket of much of the world:

God is in fact judging America, He is executing terrible and fierce judgments of famine (by high gas prices, high transportation costs, and finally, a famine of our staple foods themselves) as He rains down hail and waters and send His awful winds upon dark storms to strip away our skirts of comfort and break our staff of bread.

He is doing this to you, O Nation, that you may return to your God in reverence and humility of heart.

Behold, the floods and winds are come, and behind it shall be illness and a lack of food, unless this nation repents.

Repent, O Nation, and return to your God, that He may relent from the evils He is bringing upon you for your stubborn rebellion and your witchcraft and idolatries and sexual immorality!

"----- If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land. -----"

(2 Chronicles 7:14, KJV)

[chris]

Geez, what a nut. Maybe the rain and tornadoes are just payback for voting for Bush twice.

Don't vote for an incompetent fool twice, O Nation!!!