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John McCain is George W Bush's Third Turd!
 

Just Say NO - Vote Obama/Biden in 2008 God Forbid we get 4 more years of this crap! Palin and the Federal Marriage Amendment: Dobson First Sarah Palin breaks with John McCain, telling CBN's David Brody that she would support a "Federal Marriage Amendment" effectively banning gay marriage: I am, in my own, state, I have voted along with the vast majority of Alaskans who had the opportunity to vote to amend our Constitution defining marriage as between one man and one woman. I wish on a federal level that that's where we would go because I don't support gay marriage. I'm not going to be out there judging individuals, sitting in a seat of judgment telling what they can and can't do, should and should not do, but I certainly can express my own opinion here and take actions that I believe would be best for traditional marriage and that's casting my votes and speaking up for traditional marriage that, that instrument that it's the foundation of our society is that strong family and that's based on that traditional definition of marriage, so I do support that. This is how the McCain campaign is using Palin to keep the religious right on board even as he stages a supposedly "moderate" agenda in pursuit of suburban votes. Palin's sending a signal to the Dobson faction that was responsible for her ascension that their agenda is in play.  Desperate is as desperate does! Isn't Sarah Palin a "Socialist" too? click the above icon to watch this pig in lipstick lie and deceive McCain's last ditch effort is too say that Obama is a socialist. Wallace called him out on it. WALLACE: But, Senator, you voted for the $700 billion bailout that's being used partially to nationalize American banks. Isn't that socialism? As we know Conservatism has run up the largest debt this country has ever known, started two wars and destroyed Wall Street under the compassionate one, but be afraid of Obama.I saw Sarah Palin saying the same thing. On Sunday, she went a step further. “Barack Obama calls it spreading the wealth,” she said. “Joe Biden calls higher taxes patriotic. But Joe the plumber and Ed the dairy man, I believe that they think that it sounds more like socialism. Friends, now is no time to experiment with socialism.” Didn't she redistribute the wealth in Alaska? You know, take the oil profits, impose a tax and kick it back to Alaskans?

Palin broke law, abused power - You see, she is Cheney in lipstick and glasses! A legislative committee investigating Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin has found she unlawfully abused her authority in firing the state's public safety commissioner. The investigative report concludes that a family grudge wasn't the sole reason for firing Public Safety Commissioner Walter Monegan but says it likely was a contributing factor. Investigator Stephen Branchflower, in a report to a bipartisan panel that looked into the matter, found Palin in violation of a state ethics law that prohibits public officials from using their office for personal gain.

Iowa newspaper editorial board to McCain: Haven’t you lived your entire adult life with taxpayer-funded health care? Senator McCain sits down with the editorial board of the Des Moines Register and gets stumped by one of the best questions I’ve heard asked of him so far this campaign. “Throughout your adult life, am I right, as a veteran and a member of Congress and now someone over sixty five, throughout your adult life have you been covered by a taxpayer-financed health care plan? Think of the brilliance of this question: McCain has received “government-run” health care his entire life, and I’m sure he’s never had a single complaint. If “government-run” health care is so inefficient and wasteful, how has it served him so effectively for over thirty years? If it’s good enough for him, why isn’t it good enough for the 40 million Americans who desperately need it and are forced to live without it? I’m always amazed at how successful the Republicans are at convincing voters they don’t want something that clearly works well, and something that they themselves have no problem taking advantage of.  Click here to view Father Time mumbling, stumbling and imploding.  Unfortunately, the entire interview is on the video... it will take some time to view all of this gas bag's insincere BS before you get to the question asked about his own government funded healthcare!  Still watching "blinky: lie like a rug is always entertaining! OK, so what does Sarah Six Pack actually read?  When asked she couldn't name one newspaper, or one magazine that she read regularly... Uh oh, I guess we know why she didn't reveal the titles after all.  In a picture supplied by Sarah Palin's family to the Associated Press, Palin appears with some rather odd reading matter: The magazine of the ultraconservative John Birch Society.   Sarah Six Pack, hummm?  More like Sarah Six Pack Extreme!

McCain = One Total Economic Disaster click on image to view video

First he said the fundamentals of our economy were very strong... then.... Let's see now, last week he lied and told us he was suspending his campaign and wanted to postpone the debate.  He was going to ride his white horse into Washington and get the bailout on track.  Uh huh, he failed on both accounts.  No debate win, and no credit for bailing the country out of the economic woes his Repuke buddies got us into.  Funny how no Repuke including McCain, has taken even the smallest of small ownership of this enormous mess.  It just sort of happened.  No big deal that they rolled back any and all oversight of the industry and with every opportunity sided with their lobbyist friends and donors against main street to favor Wall street. Click Here to view this video.

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The Keating Five Scandal in 97 Seconds I’ll admit that although I’m a poltical news junkie, I never really understood the Keating Five scandal as well as I should have.  Jed’s newest video fixed all that, summing up in less than two minutes the scandal and John McCain’s central role in it. The Obama campaign needs to start hitting McCain on this.  And why has not the MSM mentioned this now with our current financial crisis looming?  John McCain a reformer?  John McCain a champion of regulation... yeah right!

I’ll get back to you: When pressed, Palin can’t give specifics on McCain’s “pro-regulation” record  Why can't she?  There are NONE! Sean "Insanity" Hannity’s infomercial notwithstanding, Sarah Palin is now 0-2 in media appearances. When Katie Couric asks her to name specific steps McCain has taken with regard to pushing for more regulation, Palin is stumped and says she’s gonna have to get back to her.  Play  the Queen of White Trash's comments Palin: I can give you examples of things that John McCain has done, that has shown his foresight, his pragmatism, and his leadership abilities. And that is what America needs today. Couric: I’m just going to ask you one more time - not to belabor the point. Specific examples in his 26 years of pushing for more regulation. Palin: I’ll try to find you some and I’ll bring them to you.  Maybe it’s actually smarter to keep her away from the press, no? Check out this report from Politico’s Jonathan Martin: McCain then looked around the room and gestured as if to welcome questions. The AP reporter shouted a question at Gov. Palin (”Governor, what have you learned from your meetings?”) but McCain aide Brooke Buchanan intervened and shepherded everybody out of the room. Palin looked surprised, leaned over to McCain and asked him a question, to which your pooler thinks he shook his head as if to say “No.” As TPM’s Greg Sargent says: Letting Sarah Palin Answer Questions Is Very, Very Dangerous Oh yeah, and Father Time, or as I affectionately call him. Bush's Third Turd, John McCain wants a time out..... talk about a whiner!  Postpone the debate, I'm not ready.... and never will be ready!

I'm a little confused. Let me see if I have this straight..... If you grow up in Hawaii, raised by your grandparents, you're 'exotic, different.' Grow up in Alaska eating mooseburgers, a quintessential American story. If your name is Barack you're a radical, unpatriotic Muslim. Name your kids Willow, Trig and Track, you're a maverick. Graduate from Harvard law School and you are unstable. Attend 5 different small colleges before graduating, you're well grounded. If you spend 3 years as a community organizer, become the first black President of the Harvard Law Review, create a voter registration drive that registers 150,000 new voters, spend 12 years as a Const itutional Law professor, spend 8 years as a State Senator representing a district with over 750,000 people, become chairman of the state Senate's Health and Human Services committee, spend 4 years in the United States Senate representing a state of 13 million people while sponsoring 131 bills and serving on the Foreign Affairs, Environment and Public Works and Veteran's Affairs committees, you don't have any real leadership experience. If your total resume is: local weather girl, 4 years on the city council and 6 years as the mayor of a town with less than 7,000 people, 20 months as the governor of a state with only 650,000 people, then you're qualified to become the country's second highest ranking executive. If you have been married to the same woman for 19 years while raising 2 beautiful daughters, all within Protestant churches, you're not a real Christian. If you cheated on your first wife with a rich heiress, and left your disfigured wife and married the heiress the next month, you're a good Christian. If you teach responsible, age appropriate sex education, including the proper use of birth control, you are eroding the fiber of society. But, if , while governor, you staunchly advocate abstinence only, with no other option in sex education in your state's school system while your unwed teen daughter ends up pregnant , you're very responsible. If your wife is a Harvard graduate lawyer who gave up a position in a prestigious law firm to work for the betterment of her inner city community, then gave that up to raise a family, your family's values don't represent America's. If you're husband is nicknamed 'First Dude', with at least one DWI conviction and no college education, who didn't register to vote until age 25 and once was a member of a group that advocated the secession of Alaska from the USA, your family is extremely admirable. OK, much clearer now. Why the Media Silence over John McCain’s involvement in The Keating 5?  John McCain claimed he learned a lot from the last Financial Scandal... if he did why has he voted for no regulation for the last 18 years? As FOX News tries to link Obama to all sorts of ridiculous things, Jonathan Alter makes a good point with KO. ALTER: [Y]ou remember the Keating Five scandal that he was a part of, which, by the way, it’s crazy but there’s been very little about it in the press in the last few weeks. And McCain thinks he’s getting a hard time, he’s really getting a free ride on the fact that he was in the middle of the last great financial scandal in our country. But his reaction to that, you would have thought, would have been more regulation of the financial services industry. Instead he moved forward on campaign finance reform after being caught in that scandal, but did nothing - nothing -to try to prevent another savings and loan crisis from happening down the road. He was missing in action when it came to even learning the basic lessons of a scandal that he said taught him all kinds of things that he would never forget.  Doesn’t the media believe this is a relevant story being that we’re in a huge economic meltdown? Can you imagine the media scrutiny if a Democratic politician had been linked to this scandal and ran for President? A new movie called Third Term will be released soon which goes into detail about the whole Keating5—John McCain connection. Please read this post (with video) if you missed it and then start demanding that the media cover McCain’s past connection to the Keating scandal and see if the American people want him to lead them out of this chaos. It was the biggest S&L scandal in American history at that time… Filed Under: John McCain, Scandals

McCain: I'm Not For Privatization Of Social Security the King of Flip Flops just keeps on rollng on! McCain 2004: "Without Privatization, I Don't See How You Can Possibly Over Time Make Sure Young Americans Are Able To Receive Social Security Benefits"... Watch The Video

McCain proposes to deregulate Health Insurance—just like the Banking industry How well did that work out the first time? Paul Krugman: Here’s what McCain has to say about the wonders of market-based health reform: Opening up the health insurance market to more vigorous nationwide competition, as we have done over the last decade in banking, would provide more choices of innovative products less burdened by the worst excesses of state-based regulation. So McCain, who now poses as the scourge of Wall Street, was praising financial deregulation like 10 seconds ago - and promising that if we marketize health care, it will perform as well as the financial industry! Mr Deregulator would destroy what’s left of our health care system. For those who have it at this point and can barely afford it, that is.

CNN Demolishes Every McCain Campaign Lie This is by far the most thorough debunking I’ve seen to date on the myriad of lies coming from Team McCain. Obama wants to teach sex to kindergarteners? Lie. Palin opposed the Bridge to Nowhere? Lie. Palin hasn’t taken earmarks as Governor? Lie. Alaska produces 20% of America’s energy? Lie. Palin visited Iraq and Ireland? Lie. HT Jed, who adds:  As the campaign moves towards a focus on the economy, it’s worth keeping in mind that McCain’s lies are relevant because they demonstrate the fundamental emptiness of his campaign. He is devoid of ideas and solutions; lies are the only thing McCain has left.

Chris "Tweety Bird" Matthews Asks McCain Proxy How They Can Run Away From GOP Policies That Caused The Economic Meltdown    Listen to the windbag from the McCain camp try and squirm her way out of it.... OK, finally we can give Chris Matthews credit for one…he is absolutely GOBsmacked that the McCain campaign can try to posture themselves as being for change and reform when it is the Republican policies that have put us in such a tremulous position economically.  McCain Sr. Policy Advisor Nancy Pfotenhauer (herself a HUGE proponent of these failed policies and a lobbyist–along with her husband–to push these corporate first, country last policies) tries to put her best face on it, predictably claiming it is Democrats AND Republicans, but Matthews isn’t having it. MATTHEWS: But I don’t understand…John McCain is the nominee of the Republican Party. PFOTENHAUER: Yes. MATTHEWS: He’s going to stand in that debate next Friday night on the 26th, because he is the nominee of the Republican Party. That’s why he has a 50/50 chance of winning this election. Because he is the nominee of the Republican Party and the other guy is the nominee-Barack Obama-of the Democratic Party. How can you run away from the party whose platform you’re running on? I don’t understand how you can deny that you’re the in party, you’re the incumbent party. Well, exactly.  This is the meme with which the Democratic Party ought to hit back hard.  The Republican Party has had the better part of the last 30 years being in charge of Legislative or Executive branches, often both.  THEY DO NOT GOVERN WELL.  The country is much poorer for Republican policies.  Why in the hell would we give another Republican a shot?

Imagine this... "Father Time" Once Gave Journalists Goose Bumps Washington Post columnist Richard Cohen admits that in the past he - along with other members of the press - sometimes metaphorically experienced goosebumps every time Senator John McCain opened his mouth. Not any more. In an op-ed entitled "The Ugly New McCain," Cohen complains that the Republican presidential candidate has now "become the sort of politician he once despised." "I am one of the journalists accused over the years of being in the tank for McCain," Cohen writes. "Guilty. Those doing the accusing usually attributed my feelings to McCain being accessible. This is the journalist-as-puppy school of thought: Give us a treat, and we will leap into a politician's lap." According to Cohen, McCain has "soiled" his integrity by capitulating to the right and for standing by his false political advertisements. "His opportunistic and irresponsible choice of Sarah Palin as his political heir -- the person in whose hands he would leave the country -- is a form of personal treason, a betrayal of all he once stood for," Cohen writes. "Palin, no matter what her other attributes, is shockingly unprepared to become president. McCain knows that. He means to win, which is all right; he means to win at all costs, which is not."

“Technical difficulties” shut down damaging McCain interview McCain flack Tucker Bounds was getting grilled about the campaign’s pathological lying on MSNBC today when the video feed suddenly died. It’s of course impossible to know if there was any foul play involved, but the “technical difficulties” couldn’t have come at a more convenient time.  Watch the liar lie..... O’DONNELL: “Let me as you specifically about the comments on ‘The View’ because John McCain was asked about Sarah Palin and earmarks. He said, ‘no, she’s not taken any as Governor.’ The Wall Street Journal today has a story that in fact Palin’s project list totals $453 million dollars. Will we hear John McCain admit that he was wrong? BOUNDS: “Well, the first part about that Wall Street Journal piece that you should understand is that they don’t use the accumulated earmarks that Barack Obama lists on his own… [FEED GOES DEAD] STRAIGHT TALK my ass, this SOB and Father Time wouldn't know the truth even if it walked up and gave them a big Ole Sarah Palin lipstick kiss!

Palin won't meet with 'Troopergate' investigator GOP vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin will not cooperate with "tainted" Alaska probe into firing of state commissioner, a McCain campaign spokesman says.  What has the Liar got to hide?  Why not, you're a MAVERICK aren't you Sarah?  Who in their right mind would believe anything this woman says now? A campaign spokesman says Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin won't speak with an investigator hired by lawmakers to look into the firing of her public safety commissioner. The campaign insists the investigation has been hijacked by Democrats. It says it can prove Public Safety Commissioner Walt Monegan was fired because of insubordination on budget issues -- not because he refused to fire a state trooper who had divorced Palin's sister.

McCain's Largest Contributor: Associates Of Failed Bank Merrill Lynch Phil Gramm must have advised them too! While Mr. McCain has cited the need for additional oversight when it comes to specific situations, like the mortgage problems behind the current shocks on Wall Street, he has consistently characterized himself as fundamentally a deregulator and he has no history prior to the presidential campaign of advocating steps to tighten standards on investment firms.  Oh my, how simply Palin... say it often enough and many will believe it it even if it's just a PIG wearing lipstick! And of course, his record on the issue/s, and the views of those he has always cited as his most influential advisers, suggest that he has never departed in any major way from his party’s embrace of deregulation and relying more on market forces than on the government to exert discipline.   McSame is right though.  The Bush/McCain is fundamentally sound... oil is at 92.00 a barrel!

McCain's Soulmate Lies and Lies Again! Sarah Palin's visit to Iraq in 2007 consisted of a brief stop at a border crossing between Iraq and Kuwait, the vice presidential candidate's campaign said yesterday, in the second official revision of her only trip outside North America. Following her selection last month as John McCain's running mate, aides said Palin had traveled to Ireland, Germany, Kuwait, and Iraq to meet with members of the Alaska National Guard. During that trip she was said to have visited a "military outpost" inside Iraq. The campaign has since repeated that Palin's foreign travel included an excursion into the Iraq battle zone. But in response to queries about the details of her trip, campaign aides and National Guard officials in Alaska said by telephone yesterday that she did not venture beyond the Kuwait-Iraq border when she visited Khabari Alawazem Crossing, also known as "K-Crossing," on July 25, 2007. Asked to clarify where she traveled in Iraq, Palin's spokeswoman, Maria Comella, confirmed that "She visited a military outpost on the other side of the Kuwait-Iraq border." It was the second such clarification in as many weeks of the itinerary of what Palin has called "the trip of a lifetime." Earlier, the campaign acknowledged that Palin made only a refueling stop in Ireland. In her interview with ABC News Thursday night, Palin did not mention Iraq in describing the visit, saying only that she went to Kuwait and Germany to meet with US forces. According to an itinerary obtained from the Alaska National Guard, the Republican governor visited troops and airmen at a series of bases in Kuwait, including Camp Buehring, Camp Virginia, and Ali Al Salem Air Base. Her visit to Iraq itself was during a short stop at Khabari Alawazem Crossing on the second day of her two-day trip to the region. John McCain's Soultmate - Sarah Palin the ‘Earmark Queen’ of AK Left Wasilla $20 Million in Debt After finishing as a runner up for Miss Alaska 1984, Sarah Palin went on to be crowned the state’s Queen of Earmarks and its Empress of Fiscal Irresponsibility. Wonk Room: Sarah Palin: Earmark Queen Of The Earmark State In 2000, Sarah Palin, as mayor of the Alaskan town of Wasilla, hired a Washington lobbyist to secure federal earmarks for her community. This is not totally atypical in her state. Alaska’s government receives more money per capita in federal earmark money than any other state, despite being the only state in the union with no income tax and no sales tax. They fund their government primarily with petroleum money, and recently distributed oil profits to its citizens in the form of rebate checks. But even in her heavily earmarked state, Sarah Palin was the earmark queen. From 2000 to 2003, she secured over $27 million in earmarks, averaging $6.7 million in federal money every year for her town of about 6,700 people. …(read on) As mayor, Sarah Palin managed to secure a thousand dollars a year per person in her city in earmarks, yet… When Palin left office in 2002, Wasilla had “racked up nearly $20 million in long-term debt,” or roughly $3,000 of debt per resident. …(more) Asked in 1996, her first year in office, about her ability to “effectively run” the city, Palin claimed: “It’s not rocket science,” Palin said, “It’s $6 million and 53 employees.” Only “$6 million and 53 employees” and yet she managed to bury it $20 mil. in the red in just two-terms. How very Bush-like. And she wants us to trust her to be a heartbeat away from the national budget?

Tom Ridge Sums Up The McCain Platform: "John Bush" Well, that's the end of the Republican National Convention. Quite a night! Quite a message! That's a lot to absorb, but let's let Tom Ridge summarize the big takeaway from four days of McCain's coronation. TOM BROKAW: But the fact is, governor, that you have had eight years of a bush administration and a lot of Republicans in Congress for the last eight years, so why wouldn't the american people say, look they had their shot we're going to change? TOM RIDGE: Because John Bush - because John McCain is very much his own man...  Hear that? John BUSH. Bet all you people calling him "John McSame" feel pretty stupid now! FOUR MORE YEARS!

Lies, lies and MORE lies - that's the Republican Way! ANCHORAGE, Alaska (Reuters) - It garnered big applause in her first speech as Republican John McCain's vice presidential pick, but Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's assertion that she rejected Congressional funds for the so-called "bridge to nowhere" has upset many Alaskans. During her first speech after being named as McCain's surprise pick as a running mate, Palin said she had told Congress "'thanks but no thanks' on that bridge to nowhere." In the city Ketchikan, the planned site of the so-called "Bridge to Nowhere," political leaders of both parties said the claim was false and a betrayal of their community, because she had supported the bridge and the earmark for it secured by Alaska's Congressional delegation during her run for governor. The bridge, a span from the city to Gravina Island, home to only a few dozen people, secured a $223 million earmark in 2005. The pricey designation raised a furor and critics, including McCain, used the bridge as an example of wasteful federal spending on politicians' pet projects. When she was running for governor in 2006, Palin said she was insulted by the term "bridge to nowhere," according to Ketchikan Mayor Bob Weinstein, a Democrat, and Mike Elerding, a Republican who was Palin's campaign coordinator in the southeast Alaska city. "People are learning that she pandered to us by saying, I'm for this' ... and then when she found it was politically advantageous for her nationally, abruptly she starts using the very term that she said was insulting," Weinstein said. Palin's spokeswoman in Alaska was not immediately available to comment.  Well what did you expect?   Republicans are simply nothing less than hypocrites the whole lot of them....  "Karl Rove bitterly divided on the experience issue" And it's not just Rove who is a hypocrite. This is freakin' brilliant. By the way, in that clip, Rove calls Wasilla Alaska's 2nd largest city. Based on current estimated population, that would actually be Fairbanks ... at 31,142. Juneau comes third at 30,737. Wasilla is fourth, believe it or not, at 9,236 today. When she was mayor, it had a population of 5,469. Richmond, VA, which Rove mocked earlier when he was taking aim at Tim Kaine, has a population of 200,123.  There are public school teachers with nearly that many students... ok, I'm exaggerating, but really national security credentials because of Alaska's proximity to Russia?  The McSame campaign, and even John MCain himself has called Palin a populist, a centrist and a reformer yet here is but a few of her hard held stubborn beliefs: Here are a bunch of points you might want to include in your letter: Palin recently said that the war in Iraq is "God's task." She's even admitted she hasn't thought about the war much—just last year she was quoted saying, "I've been so focused on state government, I haven't really focused much on the war in Iraq." 1, 2 Palin has actively sought the support of the fringe Alaska Independence Party. Six months ago, Palin told members of the group—who advocate for a vote on secession from the union—to "keep up the good work" and "wished the party luck on what she called its 'inspiring convention.'" 3 Palin wants to teach creationism in public schools. She hasn't made clear whether she thinks evolution is a fact.4 Palin doesn't believe that humans contribute to global warming. Speaking about climate change, she said, "I'm not one though who would attribute it to being manmade." 5 Palin has close ties to Big Oil. Her inauguration was even sponsored by BP. 6 Palin is extremely anti-choice. She doesn't even support abortion in the case of rape or incest. 7 Palin opposes comprehensive sex-ed in public schools. She's said she will only support abstinence-only approaches. 8 As mayor, Palin tried to ban books from the library. Palin asked the library how she might go about banning books because some had inappropriate language in them—shocking the librarian, Mary Ellen Baker. According to Time, "news reports from the time show that Palin had threatened to fire Baker for not giving "full support" to the mayor." 9 She DID support the Bridge to Nowhere (before she opposed it). Palin claimed that she said "thanks, but no thanks" to the infamous Bridge to Nowhere. But in 2006, Palin supported the project repeatedly, saying that Alaska should take advantage of earmarks "while our congressional delegation is in a strong position to assist." 10 The plain fact of the matter is that Sarah Palin did a bang-up job delivering a Karl Rove-style political attack speech last night. That makes her a skilled politician but it doesn't make her views any more palatable for voters. Americans don't really want another far-right, anti-science ideologue in the White House.

If Palin has nothing to hide in Troopergate, then why did she hire a lawyer and try to have the case moved to a much friendlier jurisdiction? EAGLE RIVER, Alaska, Sept. 3 - Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, the running mate for GOP presidential candidate John McCain, wrote e-mails that harshly criticized Alaska state troopers for failing to fire her former brother-in-law and ridiculed an internal affairs investigation into his conduct. The e-mails were shown to The Washington Post by a former public safety commissioner, Walter Monegan, who was fired by Palin in July. Monegan has given copies of the e-mails to state ethics investigators to support his contention that he was dismissed for failing to fire Trooper Mike Wooten, who at the time was feuding with Palin's family. "This trooper is still out on the street, in fact he's been promoted," said a Feb. 7, 2007, e-mail sent from Palin's personal Yahoo account and written to give Monegan permission to speak on a violent-crime bill before the state legislature. "It was a joke, the whole year long 'investigation' of him," the e-mail said. "This is the same trooper who's out there today telling people the new administration is going to destroy the trooper organization, and that he'd 'never work for that b****', Palin'.)" 'No evidence' Asked about the e-mails, Palin's campaign spokeswoman, Maria Comella, said that Palin was merely alerting officials to potential threats to her family and that there is no evidence that Palin ever ordered Wooten to be fired. "Let's be clear, Governor Palin has done nothing wrong and is an open book in this process. Mr. Monegan even stated himself that no one ever told him to fire anyone, period," Comella said later in a statement. "The Governor was rightly expressing concern about Mr. Wooten." Palin is under investigation by a bipartisan state legislative body that was authorized last month to look into whether Palin pressured Monegan to force Wooten from the state police force and whether his failure to do so led to his dismissal. Palin had promised to cooperate with the legislative inquiry, but last month she hired a lawyer to fight to move the case to the jurisdiction of the state personnel board, which Palin appoints. Her attorney, Thomas V. Van Flein, challenged the jurisdiction of Stephen Branchflower, the retired prosecutor hired to investigate and report back to the legislature by the last week of October. When Palin entered the governor's office in late 2006, Wooten already had been reprimanded, reassigned and suspended for five days for incidents reported by Palin's family. They had filed complaints in April 2005 after her younger sister's marriage fell apart and the couple battled in a bitter child-custody dispute. Palin has said previously that she discussed Wooten with Monegan only in the context of security concerns for the family. Monegan has said that Palin never directly told him to fire Wooten but that the message was clearly conveyed through repeated messages from Palin, her husband and three members of her Cabinet. "To allege that I, or any member of my family . . . directed disciplinary action be taken against any employee of the Department of Public Safety, is, quite simply, outrageous," Palin said in a statement in mid-July after Monegan's dismissal. In August, Palin acknowledged that "pressure could have been perceived to exist, although I have only now become aware of it."

OK, some actually watched the BS the Republican National Committee produced tonight.  They gave the Pawlenty, er ah the Palin lady a standing O, but what do they really think about her selection?  Well two wise well known and respected Republican operatives revealed a lot when they didn't know their microphones were live.  Chuck Todd: Mike Murphy, lots of free advice, we'll see if Steve Schmidt and the boys were watching. We'll find out on your blackberry. Tonight voters will get their chance to hear from Sarah Palin and she will get the chance to show voters she's the right woman for the job Up next, one man who's already convinced and he'll us why Gov. Jon Huntsman. (cut away) Peggy Noonan: Yeah. Mike Murphy: You know, because I come out of the blue swing state governor world: Engler, Whitman, Tommy Thompson, Mitt Romney, Jeb Bush. I mean, these guys -- this is how you win a Texas race, just run it up. And it's not gonna work. And -- Mike Murphy: You know, because I come out of the blue swing state governor world: Engler, Whitman, Tommy Thompson, Mitt Romney, Jeb Bush. I mean, these guys -- this is how you win a Texas race, just run it up. And it's not gonna work. And -- PN: It's over. MM: Still McCain can give a version of the Lieberman speech to do himself some good. CT: I also think the Palin pick is insulting to Kay Bailey Hutchinson, too. PN: Saw Kay this morning. CT: Yeah, she's never looked comfortable about this -- MM: They're all bummed out. CT: Yeah, I mean is she really the most qualified woman they could have turned to? PN: The most qualified? No! I think they went for this -- excuse me-- political bullshit about narratives -- CT: Yeah they went to a narrative. MM: I totally agree. PN: Every time the Republicans do that, because that's not where they live and it's not what they're good at, they blow it. MM: You know what's really the worst thing about it? The greatness of McCain is no cynicism, and this is cynical. CT: This is cynical, and as you called it, gimmicky. MM: Yeah. Wow, that's a much different take from the convention standing O... so which is genuine?  My guess?  That would be the off mike remarks.

Wow, so Father Time, John McCain isn't the only REPUBLICAN suffering from dementia or Alzheimer's.  RNC Co-Chair: We are proud to be nominating Sarah Pawlenty!  Talk about being out of touch... with reality!  Those gray haired, wrinkly people of the GOP sure are confused. I don’t know what scares me more: That Ann Davidson doesn’t realize she screwed up, or the thought of a hybrid Republican VP candidate.  Listen to granny say, “We are holding a convention that will nominate a Republican woman governor, Sarah Pawlenty, as our next Vice-President.” That Sarah Pawlenty (PALIN) is so well know in her party that the co-chair doesn't even know her name... ha ha they are cute!  Here's a couple of question that need answers:  Can the mainstream media actually get to the bottom of the unfolding "Troopergate" scandal as well as her newest concern one?  Ok, did Palin inquire about banning books at a local Alaskan library?

MEDIA WHORE John McCain is furious at the media for asking tough questions - Oh my.  He doesn't do a good job of vetting his VP selection and gets angry when the media does!  Apparently he interviewed her for the job the day before he announced that decision... mighty thorough McSame.  You sir are not ready to even follow and least of all LEAD! John McCain's campaign on Wednesday angrily called for an end to questions about its review of Sarah Palin's background, deriding a "faux media scandal designed to destroy the first female Republican nominee" for vice president. "This nonsense is over," declared senior campaign adviser Steve Schmidt in a written statement. The statement stood out for its admission that Palin is under siege _ it condemns "this vetting controversy" _ and for its attempt to blunt questions about how rigorously McCain and his campaign explored the background of a candidate who may get the nation's second most powerful job. It also suggested that Palin is a victim of gender bias in the media. "The McCain campaign will have no further comment about our long and thorough process," Schmidt said, lashing out at "the old boys' network" that he says runs media organizations. Top McCain advisers said they welcome and expect a review of Palin's mayoral and gubernatorial record but that the media has crossed that line with its inquiries. "Certainly, her record deserves scrutiny, but I think we ought to look at her record," campaign manager Rick Davis told reporters on a conference call. He condemned "the salacious nature" of some news stories designed to "throw dirt at our candidate." Ah yes, REPUKES can dish it, but obviously can't take the hot seat.  He also lamented a "frenzied" mentality on Palin and urged the media to "dial it back."  What a joke, these are the facts:  All of this is just more lies by the Republcans that go completely unchallenged by the media. Her approval rating in Alaska is sinking like a stone. When will a reporter point this out?   Has she really "taken on" Big Oil, as McCain also has supposed to have done? Both have pushed for everything Big Oil wants. When is the media going to call them on this?   She is no more an expert on energy than McCain is an expert on security after supporting the Iraq fiasco from day one. And yet these blatantly false and orchestrated claims are being put ot into the media by the Republicans with impunity.

Alaska First, Republican Party Second and America...? Well whatever... Members of 'Fringe' Alaskan Independence Party Say Palin Was a Member in 90s; McCain Camp Denies Charge* The campaign of Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., likes to herald the independence of its new running mate, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin. Officials of the Alaskan Independence Party say that Palin was once so independent, she was once a member of their party, which, since the 1970s, has been pushing for a legal vote for Alaskans to decide whether or not residents of the 49th state can secede from the United States. And while McCain's motto -- as seen in a new TV ad -- is "Country First," the AIP's motto is the exact opposite -- "Alaska First -- Alaska Always." After refraining from commenting on the charge for a day, the McCain campaign on Tuesday asserted that Palin was never a member of the AIP.

Yes Indeed, Father Time and His Running Mate, er ah, SOULMATE are a pair. It's Family Values the McCain Way. 1).  A senior adviser to the McCain campaign confirmed Monday that Todd Palin, husband to Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin, was arrested for driving while intoxicated in 1984.  "Yes, 24 years ago he had a DWI," senior McCain adviser Steve Schmidt told reporters in St. Paul. Schmidt was asked if he was worried about the news, and replied, “I was not.”  (Well of course not, it didn't hurt Bush did it?)  The story was first reported by David Brody, a CNN contributor and Christian Broadcasting Network News Senior National Correspondent. 2).  Republican Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin and husband Todd are talking directly about their 17-year-old daughter's pregnancy.  (Just say NO... Uh oh, didn't someone tell her that?)  In a joint statement released by the McCain campaign, the Palins say their daughter will keep the baby and marry the father.  So Palin family, how's that abstinence thing going for you? Full statement from Sarah and Todd Palin:  "We have been blessed with five wonderful children who we love with all our heart and mean everything to us. Our beautiful daughter Bristol came to us with news that as parents we knew would make her grow up faster than we had ever planned. We’re proud of Bristol’s decision to have her baby and even prouder to become grandparents. As Bristol faces the responsibilities of adulthood, she knows she has our unconditional love and support. "Bristol and the young man she will marry are going to realize very quickly the difficulties of raising a child, which is why they will have the love and support of our entire family. We ask the media to respect our daughter and Levi’s privacy as has always been the tradition of children of candidates."  Oh really?  Can you say Chelesea?  Isn't the Repuke double standard a thing of beauty?

Its Cruella In Waiting - no wonder McSame likes her.... now if she could just learn a couple of crude, disgusting RAPE jokes, she'd be perfect... huh John? Early this year, an op-ed in the Anchorage Daily News ripped into Gov. Sarah Palin's appearance on a morning "shock jock" radio show as "plain and simple one of the most unprofessional, childish and inexcusable performances I've ever seen from a politician." So what happened? Palin has repeatedly feuded with the state's Senate president, Lyda Green, over a wide range of legislation. Last January, Palin appeared on "The Bob and Mark Show," whose host Bob Lester despises Green. That's when the trouble started: Early on in the conversation before Palin started to crack up, Lester referred to Sen. Green as a jealous woman and a cancer. Palin, who knows full well Lyda Green is a cancer survivor, didn't do what any decent person would do, say, "Bob, that's going too far." But as the conversation moved on, Lester intensified his attack on Green. Lester questioned Green's motherhood, asking Palin if the senator cares about her own kids. Palin laughs. Then Lester clearly sets the stage for what he is about to say by warning his large audience and Palin. He says, "Governor you can't say this but I will, Lyda Green is a cancer and a b----." Palin laughs for the second time. What were teenage boys thinking when they heard the governor laugh at someone being called a b----? How about the teenage girls who look up to Palin. What did they think when they heard her laugh? But there is more. Lester then describes Green's chair as big and cushy. A clear reference to the senator's weight. Palin laughs a third time. She's just having a grand old time. Palin was clearly enjoying every second of Lester's vicious attack on her political rival.

Cruella DeVille sometimes known as Cindy McCain Touts Palin’s Experience: The PTA and Proximity To Russia  Listen to Cruella sing the praises of Palin Good God, the Republican Party takes the second highest office in the land very seriously, don’t they?  First, they play the experience standard with Obama and then seem surprised that we would question it with the choice of the political neophyte Sarah Palin.  She has LOTS of executive experience, Cindy McCain would like you to know.  After all, she was President of the PTA…and then mayor and then governor.  My gosh, what more do you need? From Wikipedia (I know about its credibility, but Palin’s scrubbers have made sure that it’s very positive, so if anything, it’s giving her more credit) In 2006, Palin was sworn in as the 11th governor of Alaska, becoming the first woman and youngest person to hold the office. She defeated incumbent governor Frank Murkowski in the Republican primary and former Democratic governor Tony Knowles in the general election. Palin served two terms on the Wasilla, Alaska, city council from 1992 to 1996, then served two terms as mayor of Wasilla from 1996 to 2002. After an unsuccessful campaign for lieutenant governor of Alaska in 2002, she chaired the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission from 2003 to 2004 while also serving as Ethics Supervisor of the commission.  Yeah, that’s a whopper of a resume: four years on city council, six years as Mayor, one year as an oil commissioner and 18 months as Governor.  How silly of us to not see it.  Far be it for me to mention that she couldn’t pass 18 months as Governor without triggering an abuse of position investigation, something that also plagued her years as mayor of Wasilla, population 6,715. But then Cindy really goes off the deep end and channels that deep thinker, FOX & Friends Steve Doocy, and touts Alaska’s physical proximity to Russia as evidence that she understands the world scene. And, also, remember, Alaska is the closest part of our continent to Russia. So it’s not as if she doesn’t understand what’s at stake here.  *Double take* Huh????  I guess for the wife of the man who doesn’t remember that there is no shared border between Iraq and Pakistan, this would seem logical.  Please tell me that there aren’t that many low information voters that buy that line.

McCain Camp’s Overplaying of POW Card Called to Account From All Corners Watching this two-minute bio-ad from John McCain’s first campaign (1982), “you don’t exactly get the impression of a candidate reluctant to discuss his war experience” As evidenced by the ad above, McCain has relied on his service and sacrifice to his country as a major campaign asset from day one, and repeatedly ever since despite claims to the contrary. Not that there should be anything wrong with that in that context, but, as Steve Benen pointed out: Four years ago, when John Kerry campaigned in part on his military service, McCain criticized him for it, saying he was “sick and tired of re-fighting the Vietnam War.” McCain even disparaged Kerry personally, saying his emphasis on his military record is “clearly a tactical or strategic move.” What makes McCain’s claim all the more hypocritical is the fact that his campaign has recently been invoking the ‘POW card’ anytime their candidate is questioned, not just biographically for political benefit as the senator did over and over during pastor Rick Warren’s Saddleback Presidential Candidates Forum, but quite literally offering it as an excuse for anything and everything to the point many in the media have begun questioning the tactic: Whether he’s deflecting criticism over his health-care plan or mocking a tribute to the Woodstock music festival, Senator John McCain has a trump card: the Hanoi Hilton. … That was followed by Newsweek’s Howard Fineman, Politico’s Ben Smith, and Time’s Ana Marie Cox (h/t Greg Sargent) all calling foul. The Washington Monthly’s Steve Benen inferred that McCain is becoming the new 9iu11iani, and that’s not all. McCain even caught the ire of Brandon Friedman at VetVoice and then Lt Gen Robert G Gard really took him to task in posts at DailyKos and Huffington Post: We obviously honor and respect McCain’s service and the five-and-a-half years of horror that he went through at the hands of the North Vietnamese; but it’s not an excuse for everything. He has already used it to explain away his infidelities in his first marriage. He’s used it to defend his healthcare plan. He just the other day used it to deflect accusations of having skirted the rules of the Saddleback forum. It’s time for the Senator to stop cheapening the war experiences of thousands of vets and his fellow POWs, and his own as well, by stretching the boundaries of logic to make his POW status a wild-card rebuttal to all accusations or an answer to all difficult questions. And in today’s NYT, Maureen Dowd hits on all of the above and goes even further by questioning whether what has been McCain’s ‘get out of gaffe free card’ could actually be considered a handicap: … While McCain’s experience was heroic, did it create a worldview incapable of anticipating the limits to U.S. military power in Iraq? Did he fail to absorb the lessons of Vietnam, so that he is doomed to always want to refight it? Did his captivity inform a search-and-destroy, shoot-first-ask-questions-later, “We are all Georgians,” mentality? More of John McCains Hypocrisy McCain’s “Outrageous” Exaggerations: Voted for earmarks he now rails against - Its Standard Operating Procedure for Father Time! My, my. FactCheck.org does what their name implies and finds that one of McCain’s recently resurrected talking points, first featured in an aptly titled ad called “Outrageous,” is filled with some rather dubious claims. John McCain’s ad, “Outrageous,” which began running November 12, touts the Arizona senator’s long-standing fight against pork-barrel spending. The ad includes three examples of projects that McCain deems unnecessary and claims that “one man” has “the guts to stand up to wasteful government spending.” But the three examples of spending highlighted in the ad – a “bridge to nowhere,” a study of bear DNA and a museum dedicated to Woodstock – seem chosen more for their impact than for any direct involvement McCain had in attacking them. In fact, he voted in favor of the bill that included the bear study funding; he was absent for key votes on the Woodstock museum (including one on an amendment he co-sponsored); and he never specifically tried to eliminate the bridge earmark and missed some crucial votes on that one, as well. John McCain exaggerating his record, hoping people won’t notice because the establishment media won’t report it? You don’t say…

Apparently 10 homes isn't enough for the elitist so-called maverick John McSame.  He is trying to get wife Cindy to shell out more for another house... and she appears to be happy to do so. Jon Stewart: I’ve got as much authority as McCain in the Georgia situation. Jon Stewart mocks President Bush’s lack of short-term memory about when it’s OK to invade other countries, as well as McCain’s presumptuousness for dispatching “Droopy-Dog and Howdy Doody” (Lieberman and Graham) to Georgia, despite his status as candidate for President.  Listen as Jon make more sense than the Alzheimers Poster Boy ever will... Do you guys have any short term memory? Do you have anything? You just said, yeah let’s be clear about it, you can’t just overthrow a government, occupy a capital, knock over their statues, stack their prisoners, refer to the, refer to the horrific level of civilian casualties as birth pangs of democracy. Of course obviously this situation isn’t just the dangerous escalation of once mordent cold war hostilities. It’s a chance for our Presidential nominees to get inside the Commander in Chief simulator, and play a little make believe.  Question who was it that called the idea of Obama giving a huge speech in Germany arrogance and pretentious?  I remember gramps saying, " I'd rather give a speech when I'm the President not just a candidate... " or words to that effect... remember that BS?  John McCain, you are an absolute ASS! John McCain Takes A Maximum Contribution from the Owner of Gay Sex Site - Manhunt McCain Takes $2300 Contribution from Manhunt.net founders Larry Basile and Jonathan Crutchley Owners of Gay Sex Site Manhunt.  I guess gramps was just seeking out the base, you know the Republican male vote!  At least he didn't go from Airport bathroom stall to stall to get it!  Interestingly, this is just a case of two huge hypocrites giving to another.

Has not anyone told Gramps about the You Tube, 24 hour cable news, The Daily Show, or for that matter just telling the truth? McCain: "In The 21st Century Nations Don't Invade Other Nations"

EXXON John - John "In the Pockets of Big Oil" McCain  The DNC made a new ad that easily connects McCain to his "my friends" good buddies at Big Oil. No doubt, he’s Exxon John!

Between John McSame, George W Bush his idol and the other GOP fools tied to the hip of Big Oil, there's been a lot of pressure lately to open up protected areas for oil drilling.  No doubt that pressure is fueled by stampeding lobbyists and oil companies who benefit the most from America's addiction to oil.  What's their solution to our oil addiction?  More oil! And pay for us to DRILL it!  Why should poor oil companies have to pay... you know?  Common sense says drilling in protected areas is not the answer. Switching is.  Switching to 100% clean, renewable electricity within 10 years.   Check out this video to see what I mean: http://www.wecansolveit.org/repowernow We can strengthen our economy, lower fuel costs, free ourselves from our addiction to oil, and help solve the climate crisis. We can do this by switching to clean, free energy sources like the wind and sun -- and to do it within 10 years. Meeting this ambitious goal would create millions of new jobs, lead to permanently lower energy costs for families and help America lead the fight against global warming. Jack Cafferty on McCain: “This maverick stuff is a lot of hooey” Jack Cafferty injects some much needed sanity into the conversation as Gloria Borger and Michael Gerson seem to still be living in the 20th century, when John McCain used to be somewhat independent from the rest of the bottom-feeders in the Republican Party.   listen to the old fart (Cafferty) sort thing out about the wrinkly white haired dude McSame CAFFERTY: John McCain was opposed to the Bush tax cuts until he decided he was for them. John McCain was opposed to offshore drilling before he decided he was for it. John McCain, in his years in the Senate, has voted with the Bush administration between 90 and 95 percent of the time. So this…this maverick stuff is a lot of hooey. And for him to claim that he’s some sort of Washington outsider who has — who’s divorced from the Bush administration is the ultimate hypocrisy.  If any Republican can overcome the wretched stain of eight years of George Bush and win the White House, we deserve whatever bad things will happen to us. After his flip flop on the Bush tax cuts, offshore drilling, campaign finance, immigration reform, the religious right, negative campaigning, torture, etc., etc., I don’t see how it’s possible for anyone to go on television and say with a straight face that McCain is still the “maverick” of the 2000 election. Perhaps his adoring fans in the media are just having a tough time coming to grips with the fact that their old buddy is no longer recognizable.

Watch Paris's video from Funny or Die: Her response to the white hair dude.  (this may take a while to load)  Hilton Responds To Wrinkly White-Haired Dude   After listening to her thoughts its a little scary because she actually sounds smarter than the guy who has been in the Senate for 20+ years.  Her energy plan is a lot more comprehensive than that of the wrinkly white hair dude's!  Of course new off shore drilling won't produce much if anything for up to 10 years.. but hey, who cares the Oil Companies love hearing it.. right wrinkly white hair dude? As Usual, McCain Lies About His Support For MLK Jr. Day in Arizona another Crooks and Liars story Liar, liar, Grampa McSame pants on fire. Clearly, McCain is not used to the YouTube generation where you can no longer lie without a bunch of bloggers furiously fact-checking.  And the facts for McCain, they don’t look so good. Progressive Accountability:  McCain Defended Opposition Of Federal MLK Holiday By Saying He Supported Arizona’s State Holiday. During a press availability in Panama City, Florida, John McCain said, “I have supported hundreds of pieces of legislation, which would help Americans obtain an equal opportunity in America. I am proud of that record, from fighting for the recognition of Dr. Martin Luther King’s birthday in my state to sponsoring specific legislation that would prevent discrimination in any shape or form in America today.” [McCain Press Availability In Panama City, Florida, 8/1/08] FACT: McCain Supported Republican AZ Governor’s Decision To Rescind MLK Holiday. ABC News reported, “In Arizona, a bill to recognize a holiday honoring MLK failed in the legislature, so then-Gov. Bruce Babbitt, a Democrat, declared one through executive order. In January 1987, the first act of Arizona’s new governor, Republican Evan Mecham, was to rescind the executive order by his predecessor to create an MLK holiday. Arizona’s stance became a national controversy. McCain backed the decision at the time.” [ABC News, 4/3/08] FACT: McCain Supported Gov. Evan Mecham’s Decision In 1987 To Rescind Martin Luther King Jr. Day. As reported by the Philadelphia Inquirer, “In a vote likely to haunt him for the rest of his public career, McCain voted against 1983 legislation establishing the third Monday in January as the federal holiday marking King’s birthday. Back home in Arizona, he supported Gov. Evan Mecham’s decision in 1987 to rescind an executive order creating a state holiday for King, but later reversed his position.” [Philadelphia Inquirer, 6/16/08] FACT: McCain Voted Against Creating Martin Luther King Holiday. In 1983, McCain voted against a motion to suspend the rules and pass a bill to designate the third Monday of every January as a federal holiday in honor of the late civil rights leader, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. The motion passed 89-77. [HR 3706, Vote 289, 8/2/83; CQ 1983] He’s tried to back pedal that this was some youthful ignorance on his part, but he w