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Monthly Archives: October 2008

Abandon Ship

Virtual open warfare is breaking out between the social conservative and moderate arms of the Republican party. And some big name Republicans like Colin Powell and Scott McClellan are backing Obama (see more at the Republicans for Obama website). And Politico has an interesting article about what is going on inside the McCain campaign itself. […]

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Where did the Capital go?

© David Fitzsimmons

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Andy, Opie, and Fonzie for Obama

Video from Ron Howard, with cameos by Andy Griffith and Henry Winkler: From Funny or Die Did you know that Andy Griffith was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2005 by President Bush? I also find it ironic that the star of Matlock isn’t endorsing McCain.

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Repooblican Party Policy Generator

First there was the Sarah Palin Fictional Quote Generator, then the Snarky McCain-Palin Automatic Haiku Poetry Generator, and now there is the: Repooblican Party Policy Generator Here are some examples: My friends, we will abolish the regulation of the pro-life agenda by cutting funding to Afghan warlords. We will pump billions of dollars into multi-millionaire […]

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No Governors were harmed in the filming of these messages

Terry Tate puts the smack-down on Palin: Don’t make Terry ‘read’ you your rights. Vote, before Terry says dasvedanya to your ass.

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Who the F@#k Is that Guy? Could be you.

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Cracking the ACORN story

Have you noticed how the GOP has stopped complaining about ACORN since the owner of a company hired by the GOP to do voter registration was arrested for registration fraud? The same company has been “slamming” — a term that was invented to describe phone companies switching long distance carriers without the permission of customers, […]

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Greenspan admits derivatives should have been regulated!

This is one of those “hell freezes over” moments that I never thought would happen. Former Chairman of the Fed from 1987 to 2006 Alan Greenspan is testifying before Congress, and has admitted that he was “partially” wrong to oppose regulation of derivatives. But he still blamed the financial meltdown on a “once-in-a-century credit tsunami”. […]

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Late Night Political Humor

Colin Powell “Colin Powell is in the news because he endorsed Barack Obama. I wonder how John McCain feels about Colin Powell endorsing Obama. He’s probably all right with it. Men his age are used to having colon problems.” -Craig Ferguson “The only reason Obama got this endorsement is because Colin Powell is black. Also, […]

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Vote Democratic to save the Republican Party

It turns out that voting Democratic — not just for president, but for congress too — might be the only way to save the Republican Party. Over at the conservative Reason Online, Radley Balko explains: Nothing short of defeat will put the GOP back on its limited government track. … In the last eight years, […]

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PUMA Palin

Remember those (often mythical) PUMA (Party Unity My Ass) voters who claimed they were going to vote for McCain so that Hillary Clinton could run against him in 2012? Well, it looks like it might work the other way around, this time literally with an Ass (donkey). This photo from Newsweek shows Sarah Palin on […]

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Extremely compelling reasons to vote for McCain/Palin

© Tom Tomorrow

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Promoting the American Way

© Matt Davies

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The terrorist endorsement game

Step 1: Hamas says something nice about Obama. McCain says “I think it’s very clear who Hamas wants to be the next president of the United States. … If Senator Obama is favored by Hamas, I think people can make judgments accordingly.” RightWingNews headline “Hamas Endorses Obama? Can Hizbollah And Al-Qaeda Be Far Behind?” Step 2 […]

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Palin’s $150,000 hockey mom makeover

The political parties are required to file financial disclosure reports with the FEC (you can look at them yourself). Politico dug around and discovered that the Republicans spent more than $150,000 on clothes and accessories for Sarah Palin in the month since she was picked to be McCain’s VP nominee. And that doesn’t include $4,716 spent on her […]

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