Fooey
1781
Meanwhile, Obama tears up the 50 state strategy, pulls advertising in Georgia (http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5ghb-cUeWpvC77LS_S8tI4aB7ENIQD930VL000), realizes he’s in trouble now in Michigan and Pennsylvania, and that his hopes of flipping Colorado are fading fast.
“Just listen to the crowd. I’ve honestly never seen anything like this for a conservative politician before.” Not since Reagan maybe. If we lose this time, you’re looking at the Republican nominee in 2012 after four years of Carter like stagnation. If McCain loses this election, he still has a great legacy from this.
Just listened to Palin’s RNC speech. People clapped when she said the word “God”. That’s probably enough said about convention speeches right there.
Actually:
Fooey, you’re like the kid who happily digs around in a room full of horseshit because he’s certain there’s a pony in there somewhere.
The “50 state strategy” was never to campaign up to the deadline in unwinnable states - it was to spread the campaign across all states during the early days, then when you enter the home stretch, shift your resources to the winnable states.
Clearly, there are states where Obama can’t win, in the same way that there are states that McCain can’t win - I haven’t seen a single McCain ad up here in Washington State, for example. The fact that the campaign is focusing on 16 swing states (4x the number of states in play than we had back in 2004) is great news for the Democrats.
I find it amusing that you think somehow it’s bad news, when that article is overwhelmingly positive for the Democrats. Can you even read?
It’s amusing that the poster expects 4 years of Carter-like stagnation, as opposed to 8 years of Clinton-esque growth, prosperity, and peace. It’s telling that you guys have to reach back 30 years to find a Democratic bogeyman. I mean, Democrats stopped talking about Nixon back in the 80s.
I hope that the GOP does nominate Palin in 2012. I think it’d be good for both parties, although I suspect the GOP really needs a philosophical retrenching rather than a more-charismatic carrier of the same, tired old social-conservative agenda.
bago
1784
By carter like stagnation, do you mean interest rates adjusting to the monetary policies and bailouts and the inflation of our currency?
Mordrak
1785
That was a problem with both conventions. A politician would go on and on about whats going wrong and people would clap. They really need applause cards.
Wow, Dirt, you’re making quite a name for yourself on the internets.
Edit: Damn, why do so many of my posts end up being the last post on a page? Nobody ever reads those.
Lum
1788
Jason McCullough never got that memo!
jeffd
1789
Most people who are well informed about political history didn’t get that memo. Nixon and his politics have very heavily influenced our modern day politics; especially with regards to GOP campaign strategy. You can hold a mirror up to Nixon’s campaigns and you’d see McCain’s.
I’m not saying that Nixon wasn’t influential - just that we stopped using Nixon as the yardstick by which to measure our GOP opponents long ago (in the same way that people are comparing Obama to Carter - wtf? Carter?)
Of course, it may be 20 years before we stop referring to Bush that way…
Anything to avoid comparing him to a two term president that brought us peace and prosperity, and erased the national debt.
Correction–the current deficit, not the national debt. But still, no mean feat.
Clinton brought us peace?
Definitely planes didn’t fly into the WTC during his presidency, but I’m not sure he did anything to prevent it happening eight months after he left office.
Flowers
1794
Yeah, Bill Clinton only used his time machine for fun stuff, and America paid the price that day. FutureBush probably went back and was like, “PastClinton, you must use the Oval Office’s Temporal Displacement Generator to warn be about Osama bin Laden!”
And President Clinton was probably all like, “Whatever, I’ll just have one of my guys send him a memo, I’m going back to when RATT was famous, see if I can get backstage and grab me a titty or six.”
His first mistake? Not trying harder to talk a spastic Alaskan Beauty Pageant also-ran into snorting a lethal dose of blow off of his time-travelling cock.
His second? Assuming that George Bush can read.
NWJ, will you please go educate yourself before opening your trap?
Dick Clarke’s book “Against All Enemies” is a good place to start. Or, just, you know, anything not written by a GOP tool would be fine.
I mean “I’m not sure [Clinton] did anything to prevent it happening” is such a stupid fucking statement. The reason you “aren’t sure” is because you clearly haven’t even tried to educate yourself about what Clinton did to thwart Al Qaeda. Do you not even remember when he fired cruise missiles at Al Qaeda bases, and all the Republicans were prattling on about “Wag the Dog! Wag the Dog!”?
God, I need to take a break from this board, I think - I can handle folks with different points of view, but the willful ignorance is really starting to get to me.
Aww bigdruid, it sucks being always right doesn’t it?
It must be such a burden on your soul how you are never wrong and have the entire world figured out. Everything you believe in is correct and everything someone else believes is totally wrong.
I am weeping for you right now.
Remember that “Bin Laden plans to attack US” was an historical document!
Correction–the current deficit, not the national debt. But still, no mean feat.
Flowers
1800
How would you know what it’s like to be right? Honestly, you talking about how it feels to be right would probably be like talking to that weird kid in junior high who tells everyone that he’s had lots of sex, but everyone listening already kinda knows that, well, this kid ain’t ever gonna get laid, least not til someone invents a hooker without a sense of smell, or decency, for that matter.
Anyways, you talking politics, especially from a supposed position of moral rectitude or superior judgmental abilities is like that. We listen, and we ask you questions, and we press you sometimes, because it’s fun to listen to you say things that are the analog of, “Yeah, and the inside of a girl…it smells like berries, and yeah, girls can get boners too, but they still have to pee out of their buttholes.”
