The Irrelevance of the G.O.P.

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“If ever there was an election that was not worth winning, it was the contest of 2008. While it was hard-fought on both sides, had McCain won, it might have spelled the end of the Republican Party. As it is, the party is well-situated to
come back in 2010 and in 2012, if it learns the lessons of this year.”

“Simply put, all hell is about to break loose in the markets and the economy.The mortgage crisis will likely be followed by defaults in credit card debt,student loans and car loans. We will probably be set for two years of zero growth, according to economists with whom I talk. And the federal efforts to protect the nation from the worst of the recession will probably lead to huge budget deficits and resulting inflation. We are in for stagflation that could last for years.”

Oh really? So says political pay-for-play strategist, Dick Morris. Morris is obviously not an Obama fan. He must not have heard that all hell has already broken loose in the markets and the economy. Where has he been this past month? As much as he’d like to blame Barack Obama for the unstable American economy, he has no basis for it. He might want to look back over the past eight years of the Bush-Cheney administration to find answers. I’ll even give him a hint: deregulation.

If Dick Morris really thinks this election was an election not worth winning then he should have told John McCain and Sarah Palin. One look at the teary eyed Palin and the sad faced McCain during his concession speech last week said it all. They tried every dirty trick in the campaign playbook and still lost. Palin clearly doesn’t want to step out of the spotlight. Her fifteen minutes are up but she just keeps talking and talking and talking. The election was worth winning Dick, it’s just that your team lost.

As far as 2010 and 2012 go for the Republicans, they’re going to have to show me something different. If they really want to know why they lost, all they need to do is look at the people attending their last convention, it hardly reflects what the real America looks like. Throw in the Republican trifecta of narrow-mindedness, holier-than-thou-ness and cultural intolerance, then you’ll know why they’ve become irrelevant. America has moved on but the Grand Old Party is firmly ensconced in the 1970s. I wonder what Dick Morris has to say about that.

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The GOP Fall-Out and Sarah Palin

One of the best things about Barack Obama winning the election is that Sarah Palin gets to go back to Alaska. Today her campaign jet landed in Alaska and she emerged with her husband to cheers of “2012″. You’ve got to be effing kidding me right!? Caribou Barbie campaigning was quite enough for me with her ‘g’ dropping, race-baiting, fear-mongering stump speeches. I’m glad those days are over.

Attempts have been made to compare Palin to former Republican Vice President Dan Quayle. If I were Quayle, I’d be insulted. Quayle was infinitely more educated, intelligent and cultured than Palin, who has been called a “Wasilla hillbilly” by a McCain campaign worker. My hope is that she will fade into oblivion never to be seen or heard from again. I’m crossing my fingers and clicking my heels hoping this will happen. 2012 my a**!

The real dirt about the McCain-Palin campaign is slowly oozing out and Palin is being thrown under the bus. She was not only a divisive figure within the campaign but also is a divisive figure within the Republican party. The criticism about her being a “diva” and a “whack job” sounds well deserved. John McCain did the most honorable, gracious thing he has done in this campaign and that was to give one of the best concession speeches I have ever heard. That was the real John McCain and at that moment, I respected him.

Sarah Palin doesn’t know her place and cerainly has no clue as to how much of an embarassment she has been to herself ,the Republican party and smart women everywhere. Her inflated sense of self-importance had her thinking that she should also speak to the American people after John McCain made his concession speech. I’m glad that was vetoed. I am certan she thought about stealng the mic to send a shout out her constituency: the uneducated, xenophobic, patriotic base of the Republican party.

Palin was the wrong choice at the wrong the time, an insult to women and educated people everywhere. Did she cost John McCain votes? You betcha! All of the criticism that Palin has received is well-deserved and had nothing to do with media bias. So she didn’t bother to study for her interview with Katie Couric,? It showed. She was told to buy three suits and get a stylist but spent more than $150,000 on clothes for herself and family. For all of the foolishness that is Sarah Palin, no one deserves any more blame for the Republican’s loss than John McCain.

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Haterade: The McCain-Palin Version

Hate is in the air especially if you’re four years old and your parents support Barack Obama. You get no love on Halloween from this Grosse Pointe, Michigan woman. I wonder what she’s going to do next Halloween when Obama is president?

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God, Energy & Sarah Palin

Oh God! Republican Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin made another one of those policy speeches. Last week it was special needs children where she ridiculed fruit fly research in Paris. I kid you not! Her comments were laced with so much sarcasm that I couldn’t tell whether it was the fruit fly research she didn’t like or the fact that the fruit fly research was done in Paris. Either way, Palin should be embarrassed but doesn’t have enough sense to be. No one bothered to tell her that fruit fly research has been vital to the discovery of diseases in human genes.

Today’s policy speech was about energy, another topic she’s supposed to be an expert on. According to Palin, an evangelical Christian, God has blessed our country with all the resources we need so we don’t have to be at the mercy of Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez or our ally in the Middle East, Saudi Arabia. She offers no alternatives to our dependency on oil but that “everything-but-the-kitchen-sink” energy policy that she and McCain are touting. And don’t forget the vacuous “drill, baby, drill”.

As usual, Palin’s snarkiness got her into trouble. She ridiculed Alaskan Senator and former political ally, Ted Stevens, who was recently convicted of Federal ethics violations, for being a member of the good old boys network. She must have forgotten about her own ethics violation in Alaska over Troopergate and the looming ethics investigation over Palin family travel at the state’s expense.

I won’t even go into how she ragged on Congress for thirty years of failure since they couldn’t pass an energy independence policy. She must have forgotten that John McCain has been there for at least twenty of those years. So much for the meat and substance she promised the Wall Street Journal. If she is elected Vice President, God help us!

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The Best Obama Ad Yet

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John McCain Could Still Win

While campaigning in DesMoines, Iowa last Saturday in her fancy designer clothese, Republican Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin accused Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama of being a communist. Yes, the dreaded “c” word. Palin brought it up before a crowd of cheering supporters in a no-doubt “pro-America” part of the country.

Nothing is more threatening to Joe Six Pack than communism. Communism is just downright evil and an anathema to our democratic form of government, it’s right up there with patriotism, jingoism and the Bible. Palin told the crowd:

“See, under a big government, more tax agenda, what you thought was yours would really start belonging to somebody else, to everybody else. If you thought your income, your property, your inventory, your investments were, were yours, they would really collectively belong to everybody.“

The quickest way to get people who live in the “pro-America” parts of the country all riled up is to accuse the front-runner with a funny sounding name of being a communist and even worse, a Muslim. Evidently these are the people who rely more on rumor, innuendo and hate-mongering to decide who they’ll vote for on November 4th.

Although Obama is leading in just about every poll, do not for a minute believe he has the election won. This is the most important election of our lifetime which makes it imperative that everyone who is registered to vote does so. Do not underestimate the likelihood that John McCain and Sarah Palin could wake up on November 5th as our President and Vice President elect.

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What Not to Wear: The Sarah Palin Edition

I couldn’t resist joining the choir about Republican Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin’s $150,000 wardrobe. It must be a pageant contestant’s dream to be given free reign at some of the toniest department stores in the country like Saks, Neiman-Marcus and Barneys. I guess Payless and Wal-Mart will have to do with one less customer.

While this spending spree tells you something about Palin, it tells you more about the Republican National Committee. We’re supposed to be so distracted by Palin’s beauty pageant looks, shiny new shoes and fancy designer suits that we really won’t be paying attention to what she says. They were wrong about that. Palin is a huge liability according to the latest polls. If Palin really was qualified, I doubt that the RNC would have shelled out a dime to dress her in designer clothes. You can dress a turd up in a tuxedo, but it’s still a turd.

The media and Democrats are all over this one. Meanwhile, some Republicans have expressed their disgust at the expenditures, for good reason. At a time when people are losing their jobs, homes and most of their retirement in the stock market, $150,000 is a whole lot of money to spend on fancy threads.

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Observations from Debate #3: McCain v. Obama

I watched the debate on my network of choice, C-SPAN, they have this wonderful split-screen approach of covering the candidates. Barack Obama was on my left and John McCain on my right. Of course, John McCain was as stiff and robotic as ever. Was he erratic? You betcha! Barack Obama was cool as a cucumber. As in previous debates, he behaved presidential. McCain sat there grimacing, making weird faces and smiling inappropriately.WTF!?

Other observations:

• The winner of the debate was Joe the plumber, he was mentioned over twenty times.
  I guess John McCain saw this as an opportunity to relate to everyman but it got to be downright annoying after the third time Joe was mentioned.
• McCain delivered the best line of the night, “I’m not George Bush” but blew it by delving into the quicksand of a mother’s health with regard to a late term abortion later in the debate.
  He didn’t win any votes on that one but it does go to prove my theory that abortion and a woman’s right to chose are personal issues, not political ones.
• I didn’t learn anything new about either candidate that I didn’t learn in the first two debates. It was just more of the same issues rehashed.
  It was almost as if on cue when talking about health care, McCain was going to tell us about his $5,000 tax credit. That put me to sleep. I fail to see how a $5,000 credit is going to help me afford health insurance when I don’t have it. I sure as heck am not going to be crossing state lines to get some cheap healthcare. How ridiculous is that?
  
• For all that talking McCain did, he accomplished very little.
  He skirted around his accusations about Obama’s paling around with terrorists. This was a non-issue and nothing said that more than McCain’s approach. It was more ‘Much Ado About Nothing’ than ‘Gotcha’. Obama neutralized him.
• I didn’t buy McCain’s phony outrage about negative campaigning and Obama’s unwillingness to repudiate John Lewis’ criticism.
  It was as if he himself was the victim of the attacks and smears. He wasn’t.
• Ask any American what her concerns are and I guarantee you that Bill Ayres and ACORN won’t make the top five.
• Michelle Obama redeemed herself by wearing a beautiful purple dress with gorgeous accents.
  Yeah, Michelle!
• Obama let the opportunity to criticize Sarah Palin pass him by.
  The barn door was open on that one. Obama was gracious and classy and didn’t say a critical word. He was right, she is a politician but she is also a bunch of other things too.
  

After watching all three of these debates, I’m not convinced this is the best format for people to find out where the candidates stand on the issues. Neither candidate changed my mind about anything. I voted yesterday.

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Link of the Day: Straight Talk on McCain

Being a one-woman crusade against divisive politics, hate-mongering and hypocrisy can seriously tire a sister out. I’m still appalled at how low John McCain has sunk in this campaign. He appears to be riding an escalator going straight to hell. The man has no soul.

To find out what happened to John McCain, please visit ‘Straight Talk on McCain‘, a blog devoted to this very subject. It smart, well-written and offers some thought provoking insight into what went wrong. It’s great reading!

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Thanks Keith Olbermann!

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