Duvall/Palin 08
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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!
“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.
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.
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
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.
"What do you know about surfing Major? You're from G__ d____ New Jersey. If I say it's safe to surf, it's safe to surf."
Wow!
What great remarks from a great actor.
Wonder if Bob/Robert would join Free Republic to kick the whining A$$es here, who are nothing but doom and gloom filled with BDS, McCDS and PDS.
George Will is one more country club Republican who prefers to be in the minority so he can secretly agree with most of the Big Government initiatives made by the Democrat majority while publicly decrying them. The bowtie is a dead giveaway that he’s a phony and a poseur.
Exactly what I was thinking!
Democrats never complain or bring down their own candidate duting an election. CNN,NBC,MSNBC...they will pound on McCain and Palin 24/7 never letting up. They go on air and they rant and tear apart the Republican party.
Then Republicans will go on say two good things about the Party or the Candidate and then begin to tear apart the agenda of their own party!! WHAT? What is that!
I listened to two conservative radio host yesterday talk for over 2 hours about how John McCain is not doing a good job...how John McCain is not...... How John McCain lost his message and should fire his campaign.....
COME ON GUYS!!! ONLY 3 WEEKS LEFT...POUND THE DEMS....POUND BARACK ON HIS LACK OF EXPERIENCE AND RADICAL ASSOCIATIONS!
Support your Candidate our Candidate!!!
Go John and Sarah!!!!
Super Nerd really cuts, much more than nerd, to the quick!
Duvall is a good man. Not a Sicilian though ...
The title of this article pissed me off. My brain interpreted it as "Duvall Blasts Palin" when I did a quick scan of articles. I thin the title was written this way on purpose to send a sublimal, erroneous message to those like me who are not yet fully awake.