Posted on 03/20/2008 1:06:03 PM PDT by pissant
The ongoing saga of the McCain Campaign’s effort to keep the political discourse respectful added another chapter today. As reported by Jon Martin, the campaign has suspended a junior staffer, Soren Dayton, a conservative blogger/consultant who worked in McCain’s political department.
His crime: Distributing, via Twitter, a smarmy Youtube video that mashes together the words of Barack Obama, Jeremiah Wright, a photograph of the 1968 Olympics black power salute and a Public Enemy song, among other things. The video suggests, in a rather crude fashion, what conservative commentators have long held: That Wright’s inflammatory rhetoric is a key clue into the secret radical agenda of Obama.
But the McCain campaign still ain’t gonna playing that game. As Communications Director Jill Hazelbaker told Martin, "We have been very clear on the type of campaign we intend to run and this staffer acted in violation of our policy." Dayton’s suspension comes just a week after the McCain campaign sent reporters a opinion piece from the Wall Street Journal suggesting that Obama’s relationship with Wright showed his radical agenda. The McCain campaign later said that the article was sent out in error, and McCain told Fox News’s Sean Hannity that he does not hold Wright’s inflammatory statements against Obama. “I do know Senator Obama,” McCain said. “He does not share those views.”
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You are free to vote for McCain. I’m not stopping you.
I am sure that McCain thinks Obama and his pastor are nuts, but he would be NUTS to jump into the middle of this thing right now. Even Hillary knows not to touch it. Don't need to. Obama is doing just “fine” on is own.
McCain needs a good VP,nickel to a doughnut he won’t make it 4 years.
I think he is senile.
I am serious.
And you are free to sit back and allow Hillary or Obama to waltz into the Whitehouse. I'm not stopping you. ;-)
You have a point to which I agree.
And the GOP was free to pick a lemon like McCain who scads of conservatives won’t vote for.
Regarding McCain, conservatives should always remember: He will never fail us. That is, McCain will never fail to disappoint us. He will raise our taxes, encourage and broaden immigration, push for and grant Amnesty to illegals, strangle businesses with environmental regulations and legislative restrictions, continue to abridge our freedom of speech with ever more campaign finance reforms and nominate liberal (Souter like) judges.
This is going to be one miserable election. Gawd, this is awful!
Did the GOP pick him or the MSM? It’s a serious question. I still am not sure how he came out on top.
Who actually sits down and WRITEs this drivel?
Don't know about senile, but I've said this for some time now ... this guys elevator doesn't go all the way to the top floor. McCain, as he's done so many times before, will disappoint conservatives in the months leading up to the fall election. My take on McCain, he really doesn't want the job ... he lacks the fire and the discipline (not to mention the intellect) it requires to win in November.
If he were running on the Democrat ticket, I would consider him the lesser of evils. Being on the Republican ticket, with the ability to remake the Republican party in his vision and push a liberal agenda in the name of Republicanism relatively unopposed, is a whole different dynamic. It's not black and white.
A whole bunch of Dems are gonna vote our side, because of this dust up...
With the Dems, one side is gonna lose.... we benefit either way.
I am in the energy industry so you can only imagine how I feel when McCain gobbles down that global warming crap. My skin crawls. Nothing I can do about it but hope the weather patterns continue to show a cooling trend to prove these kool-aid monkeys as the buffoons they are. But as you say, he's our only horse and we need a Commander in Chief who respects the military and who understand Islamic fascism and who is pro-life. If that's the least we can get then the rest we have to fight for by hounding our Senators and Congressmen for the next 4 years to hold McCain's feet to the fire. It's the cards we are being dealt and we have to make good on them. No time for crying hissy fits.
They are killing themselves. It’s fun to watch, would be more fun if we weren’t killing ourselves too.
So apparently what we have to do with McCain is elect him, then cut him off at the knees every single chance we get. I agree, the VP is key with him. How can we make him select a conservative?
Hear! Hear!
You would be amazed at the access you can have IF you just go to your local party meetings. Our congressman attends most of ours. And he does hear our voices.
What if McCain McGovernizes the party, and we have no party to represent “the other side?” Besides, with Bill Clinton, the GOP Congress actually acted a little GOP. We may get more conservative government under Hillary, than we would under McCain, because Congress will actually fight. Under
No one is crying or throwing a hissy fit. I never have voted GOP just for the sake of voting GOP. I vote for conservatives.
I dunno... pressure on the RNC and all our local Republican affiliates. Make your wishes known.
You would be amazed at the access you can have IF you just go to your local party meetings. Our congressman attends most of ours. And he does hear our voices.
The tee shirts are all ready to go...just a matter of who the Dem nominee is. Obama...McCain wins. Hitlery, he loses, I'm afaid...
McCain: “If I tell the truth about them in a funny way, they won’t like me and I won’t be able to walk over my own Republicans and walk across the aisle and get the warm body hugs from my distinguished democrat colleagues.”
“Don’t you remember I said in 2005 Hillary would make a good president? Don’t make me out to be a liar!”
That’s a whole lot of “ifs.”
Are you counting the 2 or 3 LIBERAL ANTI Constitution Judges we are guaranteed to get under a President Hillary?
Do you really want to take a chance on that?
Do you really believe you could get the 2nd Amendment back after her judges are done shredding it?
McCain is trying to remain a candidate who is “above the fray” and who is taking the high-road. This can be a smart strategy as it makes him look more presidential.
But it also has the possible disadvantage of making him appear too weak, if he goes too far in trying to be the nice guy.
McCain’s campaign doesn’t have to keep this Obamie thing in the forefront - we can handle it.
Define 'scads'. Like what percent of conservatives?
When a guy like Rush is hesitant to vote for McCain, you can be sure folks more conservative than Rush are more than hesitant.
I hope this “suspension” also includes a behind the back promotion and raise.
Such ethical folks! I guess she changed her stripes?
Hazelbaker served as a campaign spokeswoman for the 2006 US Senate campaign of Republican Thomas Kean Jr., who was ultimately defeated after a hard-fought campaign against the incumbent, Democrat Robert Menendez. Charges against Menendez of past corruption formed a centerpiece of the Kean campaign. [1] [2]I'm still wondering what her FR screenname(s) are.New Jersey grad student Juan Melli, founder of a weblog and online forum called Blue Jersey, noticed that between July and September one IP address had registered four different accounts, each one claiming to be a Democrat but posting multiple anti-Menendez comments using pseudonyms like usedtobeblue and cleanupnj. This IP address had also been used to send emails signed by Hazelbaker to other correspondents, according to the New York Times. [3][4]
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Firstly, ALL candidates for elective office select themselves, with or without the encouragement of supporters in their circle of family, friends, and associates. After a group of people puts themselves forward as candidates, the formal political parties (meaning the RNC and DNC) do not select their party candidates. Primary voters do.
Secondly, the current primary system for both parties is broken thanks to the very stupid open primary system several state parties adopted in order to be more inclusive and democratic. Instead of doing that, the only thing open primaries have done is to increase the opportunity for mischief and manipulation thanks to cross-over voters intent on trying to pick the worst candidate for the party they oppose. Add the open primary system to easily manipulated caucuses, and to the rush by several states to hold theirs as early as possible, and we see how cross-over manipulation affects who wins a nomination.
Thirdly, the Dim's primary process is even more broken than the Rep's process. This is due to the fact that Dims really dislike our American system of elections and want to toss it out for proportional representation. They introduced proportional elections into their primary process, making it extremely difficult for candidates to get the total pledged delegates necessary to win the nomination outright. If they had only one dominant candidate, this wouldn't be a problem. However, this campaign shows what happens in a proportional system when two candidates divide the Dim constituency almost exactly in half. It's a cautionary tale for the rest of us to never, ever let the Dims change our Constitutional system of elections.
McCain's nomination is the result of the following combination of factors:
-- Cross-over Dims voting in early Republican primaries.
-- Independents voting in early Republican primaries.
-- Early concerns on the part of many conservatives regarding Mitt Romney's Mormon faith.
-- Early inability of Republicans to coalesce around any one candidate.
-- The total stupidity of Giuliani's campaign strategy.
-- The circular firing squad tendency of far too many conservatives, who see a "RINO" around every corner.
All of these factors combined to let McCain survive the early primaries and caucuses long enough to be the last man standing.
“They are chomping at the bit just HOPING that the Repubs will run with this so they can lay it all at our feet and once again blame us for what is their own shortcomings!”
This is exactly why McCain can not be allowed in the White House. We would get the blame for everything. We already got the blame for a liberal immigration policy.
“we need a Commander in Chief who respects the military and who understand Islamic fascism and who is pro-life.”
Yeah, too bad that’s not McCain.
Whatever helps him to sleep at night. ;)
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