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The Palin Bounce? Not so Fast
It looks like the Sarah Palin bounce occurred mostly in the South where Obama was not going to win anyway. Some in the East where Obama has it largely locked up, a very little in the Midwest, and Zip in the West. In my opinion this was the 'base' coming home to McCain and unless she gains serious traction in the coming weeks outside the South, McCain isn't really in a much better position than before picking her. Just this once, let me be right:>)
Remember, originally Obama thought he was going to be competitive in all 50 states. The campaign even bragged about taking North Carolina where now McCain has a 20 point lead.
What Palin has done by shoring up the base in the South is allow the Republicans to now focus on the 3 big battleground states of Ohio, Pennsylvania and Michigan instead of having to worry about the South.
We (true Republicans) need to shore up our base in the interior west and we've got this thing won.
We (true Republicans)
Oh, great... Perfect use of the No True Scotsman fallacy to demonstrate your keen appreciation for logical argumentation.
Rino, we get people like you every other day. You're welcome to read up on all the answers to all the previous people who have shown up and said, "what the hell?!" Or you can email questions to John or me or whomever.
I'd like to see you demonstrate how McCain is a conservative, btw.
Obama suggests higher taxes because he thinks we should pay for our program. Obama is a tax-and-spend politician. McCain is simply spend-and-spend, resulting in increased deficit spending and a further deflated dollar.
If you think Obama is a flaming liberal, then you need to disable FOX, shut off Rush, and look for some actual facts. If all you care about is high taxes, fine, but then that means you think it's fine to max out the national credit cards and let someone else pay the bills. As to bigger government, where were you when Bush presided over the largest expansion of government since FDR? Pro choice is the law of the lands and the MAJORITY of Americans want it to stay that way. Gun laws? I haven't heard anything about guns laws at all, just a tired bugaboo squawking again. And the biggie.....sex-ed in Kindergarten. Let me know when it's officially harmfull to tykes to tell them the stork is a fairy tale?
Here's something fun for you, it's an Obama tax calculator.
I don't know about you, aileron, but I have found that trying to employ any logic online is hopeless.
Obama never thought he would be competitive in all 50 states. What he said was he was going to "contest" all 50 states. Big difference.
True that is what he said wcolin.
But is there really that much of a difference in the terms.
In a national political campaign, one does not spend money contesting a state unless they think they have a chance of being competitive.
"But is there really that much of a difference in the terms."
Why, yes, there is.
Gosh Brandon, I like having you around here. You're a good old-fashioned barrel of laughs, for me.
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Cheney/Random Vajayjay 2008
McCain/Palin Deathwatch, September 9 '08: McCain presently has a (partially complimentary) 45% chance of winning the election.What is your comment on my main point:
In a national political campaign, one does not spend money contesting a state unless they think they have a chance of being competitive.
Not interested in that. Was simply speaking to your incorrect assertion above. But if you want to change subjects, it just occurred to me that McCain is no longer riding the Straight Talk Express (if he ever was). I'm gonna start calling it the Trash Talk Express. You know, based on all those ugly, specious ads. If someone here want to snag that and use it as a tagline, that'd be cool. I already have to many taglines of my own to use it.
Cheney/Random Vajayjay 2008
McCain/Palin Deathwatch, September 9 '08: McCain presently has a (partially complimentary) 45% chance of winning the election.Well alright! Hope you don't mind, but if I drop either of the taglines below ("Cheney/Vaj ..." or "Deathwatch"), that I can use it too. Deal?
Cheney/Random Vajayjay 2008
McCain/Palin Deathwatch, September 9 '08: McCain presently has a (partially complimentary) 45% chance of winning the election.Well, you did get one thing right, Brandon. PA, OH, and MI will decide this. Whoever takes 2 of the three, will likely win. And if anyone takes all three, it's lights out!
Back to the post topic...
Some new battleground polls out from CNN/Time/Opinion Research.
-- Michigan: Obama up 49%-45%.
-- Missouri: McCain up 50%-45%.
-- New Hampshire: Obama up 51%-45%.
-- Virginia: McCain up 50%-46%
Mixed news but things will be ok in the end.
Obama/Biden 2008
Just as I thought, like most people on this website, you are not republicans at all. Just stop pretending to be republicans, it is quite obvious this is a phony website.
Rino impersonation:
I hate it when I repeat myself
I hate it when I repeat myself
I hate it when I repeat myself
I hate it when I repeat myself
I hate it when I repeat myself ...
Cheney/Random Vajayjay 2008
McCain/Palin Deathwatch, September 9 '08: McCain presently has a (partially complimentary) 45% chance of winning the election.Here here!
Cheney/Random Vajayjay 2008
McCain/Palin Deathwatch, September 9 '08: McCain presently has a (partially complimentary) 45% chance of winning the election.But what should give you concern Izzy when you say Obama is best for this nation is that you don't really have anything to base that on other than pretty rhetoric.
Obama has little or no experience in governing, so we don't really know. You are trusting his words.
With Reagan, he had been governor of our largest state for 8 years so we had some idea of what he would be like.
Same with Bill Clinton.
I think being a governor generally prepares one for being president better than being a senator.
However, McCain has been in the Senate for 22 years. I don't think anyone but the most partisan liberal hacks would say McCain doesn't have the experience to be president.
Palin is 100% unqualified to be vice president.
Yuh, because someone who's been governor over a bunch of snow, some igloos and a few people for a few months, trumps someone who, for 11 years, has Senatorial leadership over oodles of people in a country that some hockey mom wishes to secede from.
Cheney/Random Vajayjay 2008
McCain/Palin Deathwatch, September 9 '08: McCain presently has a (partially complimentary) 45% chance of winning the election.Now you are right, McCain has considerable experience. But he is also old, broken, and has recurring issues with an extremely aggressive form of cancer (melanoma). Palin, like other VPs must be qualified to be a President, not just a VP. And of course she isn't. She has only managed a relative handful of people, compared to anyone else on either ticket.
Now that's not change we can believe in, Friends.
Cheney/Random Vajayjay 2008
McCain/Palin Deathwatch, September 9 '08: McCain presently has a (partially complimentary) 45% chance of winning the election.Don't worry, Izzy. Your are a true Republican and a patriot. Pay no attention to Brandon or Rino on that score!
kwilsrn I have said many times that Palin is 100% unqualified to be the vice president of the United States.
Matt Damon On Palin: "Like A Really Bad Disney Movie... Totally Absurd," (Video)
"The hockey mom, you know, 'oh, I'm just a hockey mom'... and she's facing down President Putin... It's totally absurd... it's a really terrifying possibility... I need to know if she really think that dinosaurs were here 4,000 years ago. I want to know that, I really do. Because she's gonna have the nuclear codes."
P.S. She never said dinosaurs were here 4,000 ago.
Obama/Biden 2008
But don't you know. Misty, that the earth is only 6000 years old (creationist theory). All of these "scientists" that say 4 1/2 billion years are smoking crack! Haha!
Science is bad! Bush administration rule number 1.
>I think being a governor generally prepares one for being president better than being a senator.<
Yep - and we all see how well it turned out when GOVERNOR George W. Bush became president!! God, what a horrible argument.