Category: Republicans
Bill O’ Reilly Unhinged
and who is it, who calls the Liberals Unhinged? Hmph, Looks like that unhinged stuff happens on both sides of the political fence, Michelle.
Unhinged, a disgrace to Conservatism, and to the Republican Party. He should be fired from Fox News, of course, that’ll never happen, he’s too busy keeping Murdock happy…under his desk.
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Can we have a little sanity here, Please?
I seen this and meant to comment earlier. Sorry for the delay.
Why I Believe Bush Must Go By George McGovern (via WaPo)
As we enter the eighth year of the Bush-Cheney administration, I have belatedly and painfully concluded that the only honorable course for me is to urge the impeachment of the president and the vice president.
After the 1972 presidential election, I stood clear of calls to impeach President Richard M. Nixon for his misconduct during the campaign. I thought that my joining the impeachment effort would be seen as an expression of personal vengeance toward the president who had defeated me.
Today I have made a different choice.
I’ve read the reactions, on the left it’s approval and of the right it is, as expected, total rejection.
Here is a little voice of common sense, from a right of center Moderate. (that would be me! )
President George W. Bush is only going to be in office for the remainder of this year. I think, unless some Republicans have a major change of heart. Congress is NOT going to be able to pass a resolution demanding articles of impeachment for the President. They just do not have the votes. The only way that anyone is going to be able to get the President and his staff Prosecuted for crimes committed while in office is to pressure the NEXT President to remove his executive privilege, this would never happen, as it has never happened before and it would be political suicide for anyone to attempt anything of this nature.
Honestly, at this point, I think a impeachment trial would be absolutely pointless and, quite frankly, a waste of time and tax payers money.
As much as I dislike this President, as much as I know of how he bungled the lead up to the war and the response after Saddam fell. As much as I know, that is all true, I’m afraid there it little anyone can do. I mean there are limits on what can be done to him, due to our constitution.
I mean, all this rhetoric sounds good and all. But in reality, it’s all nothing more than, just that, talk and empty rhetoric.
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For some reason, this doesn’t pass the smell test
This smells fishy to me..
For sale: West’s deadly nuclear secrets – (via Times Online)
A WHISTLEBLOWER has made a series of extraordinary claims about how corrupt government officials allowed Pakistan and other states to steal nuclear weapons secrets.
Sibel Edmonds, a 37-year-old former Turkish language translator for the FBI, listened into hundreds of sensitive intercepted conversations while based at the agency’s Washington field office.
She approached The Sunday Times last month after reading about an Al-Qaeda terrorist who had revealed his role in training some of the 9/11 hijackers while he was in Turkey.
Edmonds described how foreign intelligence agents had enlisted the support of US officials to acquire a network of moles in sensitive military and nuclear institutions.
For one, how do we know that this isn’t just some attention seeking woman, looking to make a quick buck, at the expense of our Government?
For some reason, this one just does not pass the smell test.
More here as well. One must know, however, that Brad Blog is a Liberal Blogger, who has tried to defame those like Ann Coulter and many other Conservatives.
It just reeks of the Alex Jones type of nonsense that is found of the Internet.
Cross-posted @ My Blog @ Redstate
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Huckabee a huckster?
Not that it’d surprise me any, But……
Huckabee’s Weight Loss Story Bogus?
He Dieted for Our Sins–Or Did He? Republican Undernews! Did Huckabee go bariatric? Plutarch makes the (surprisingly non-weak) case with photos and graphs. … P.S.: The Arkansas ex-governor’s dramatic weight loss is to his campaign what Edwards’ loyalty to his sick wife is to the latter’s campaign. In each case, there are undernews suspicions. In each case, these suspicions are likely to become overnews–i.e. news–if (as is very possible) the candidate in question emerges victorious from Iowa. In each case, apparently, the suspicions could be dissipated by the presentation of routine medical evidence. [How with Edwards? Just between us–ed Aternity-pay Est-tay] …
Backfill: Jonah Goldbeg has one argument against bariatricity. … Powerline commenters debate here. … Another Huck defense here.
Something the media should look into, in a big way.
My Take on the Debates
On the Republican Side. I really did not see a clear "winner". I think that the barbs back and forth were totally uncalled for. I mean, They are supposed to be debating issues, not name calling and mud slinging. Although the off the cuff comments by McCain to Romney were great. Although, Huckabee needs to just leave Romney alone. I mean, Romney has him beat money-wise like 10 to 1, he could bury him, if he wanted to.
The Republicans really need to thin that herd out. There’s just too many of them.
Ron Paul is an total idiot, he needs to go to the Libertarian Party. I mean, he’s coming off looking like the resident psycho of the group. He hasn’t got a snowball’s chance in Hades, so, why continue? It just makes the party look bad.
Fred Thompson came off as totally unmotivated, I think he’ll be out by this coming Tuesday.
On the Democratic side, the barbs between Hillary and Edwards and Obama and Edwards looked totally staged.
As far as a "winner" on the Democratic side, I think Edwards and Obama looked good. They did hold the "Change" banner up and defended it well, Hillary started out well, but ended up looking like a "screaming meme" at the end. It was all about her bragging about how much experience she has. I think people will pick up on that come time for the vote.
Richardson is a nice man, too nice for this race, I look for him to drop out, come this vote, he’s already laid off staffers.
And there you have it, the official of center guy’s take on the Debates.
Michelle Malkin trashes the Unions
Go ahead and read, if you can without throwing up.
Two words for you, Michelle.
Union Strong.
We built Detroit
We made it what it is.
But your Republicans and your Conservative greedy company owners who wanted to build products cheaper, sold us out. By sending products overseas.
and of course, you will say, “But the Democrats are the one’s who passed nafta!” True, They did.
But your rich Republican business owners WERE ALREADY sending jobs overseas and they pressured congress to pass nafta with their powerful lobbies.
and, on the behalf of my Father, who’s a retired U.A.W. member, and G.M. Employee. Go Jump in the lake! You feckless witch!
Bill O’Reilly almost gets his tail kicked.
Heh.
Fox’s Bill O’Reilly in confrontation with Obama staffer at rally.
Fox News host Bill O’Reilly got into a confrontation with an Obama aide after O’Reilly started screaming at him as he tried to get Barack Obama’s attention following a rally here. O’Reilly eventually did chat briefly with Obama and asked him to be a guest on his show
I must confess. I would have loved to see the secret service slamming Bill O’s idiot noggin’ on the ground.
I think he should have been arrested. He was breaking the rules, he was not where he was supposed to be. You notice he didn’t challenge the secret service.
Of course, BillO spins it to his advantage. But it’s of course, Bullshit. Something he’s known for.
What more can you expect from a guy who sexually harasses his employees?
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Why they Booed.
I was reading over on Time’s Blog about Hillary getting Boo’ed by the crowd.
Why did they boo? I know why.
Because people want change in this country. Hillary simply does not represent that, period.
She simply represents an extension of the Clinton dynasty. Plain and Simple.
What cracks me up is the Republicans lamenting because they won’t have her to kick around during the general election. They can’t kick around Obama, least they be accused of being racist bigots. It is quite funny.
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Huckabee’s Campaign Manager shows his true Christianity.
-Rollins let the f-bomb fly twice and told his blonde female dining companion a joke about flying the Confederate flag in the South Carolina state capitol.
Hmph, So much for that "Christian" Campaign.
Huckabee and Obama win in Iowa
Wow! What a race!
Huckabee and Obama win in Iowa Via Politico:
Mike Huckabee won a convincing victory among Republicans Thursday night, while Democrat Barack Obama posted a narrow and historic win over Hillary Rodham Clinton and John Edwards as Iowans rendered the first true judgments of the 2008 presidential cycle.
Huckabee was declared the winner at 9 p.m. Eastern time, easily besting Mitt Romney – a storyline that was unthinkable just weeks ago. With 41 percent of precincts reporting, Huckabee led Romney by a 31 to 23 percent margin.
Obama was called the winner just before 9:30 p.m.
Truly this is a political election of change. People are tired of the status quo, and people have voted with change. Huckabee represents that change on the Right and Obama on the Left.
I look for this to be a very interesting race. I look forward to following it.
Of course, Romney remains optimistic:
"Congratulations for the first round to Mike," Romney said on Fox News just before 9 p.m. Romney said that despite the disappointing results, he still felt that he would ultimately "be the one with the nomination”
Translation: Congrads, But I’m still going to win!
I have seen on MSNBC and I have read that turn out was doubled this time. Where there were like 80 people in a district in 2004. There were hundreds this time. This is good, it seems that the American people are interested in this Election. This is such a good thing.
I just look forward to the spin that Hillary and the other candidates that didn’t do so well, spin this to their advantage.
NBC News is declaring Mike Huckabee Winner of the G.O.P. Winner
Politico says Romney is offering his congratulations to Huckabee.
Updated: Fred Thompson will possibly drop out. Campaign says "Um, No."
Say goodnight Fred!
Fred Thompson may drop out (H/T Politico)
Several Republican officials close to Fred Thompson’s presidential campaign said they expect the candidate will drop out of the race within days if he finishes poorly in Thursday’s Iowa caucus.
Thompson’s campaign, which last spring and summer was generating fevered anticipation in the media and with some Republican activists, has never ignited nationally, and there are no signs of a late spark happening here in Iowa, where even a third-place finish is far from assured
Honestly? I do not see why it took him so long to do this. I mean, the guy didn’t strike when the iron was hot. He fiddled around and didn’t get his campaign started quick enough. So, I hate to say it. But the guy screwed up big time, and this is the result. A dud campaign.
The Corner says he is a Ronald Reagan Conservative. That’s laughable, as Reagan WON the election!
Oh well, there’s always Huckabee!
It goes on to say that he’ll most likely will support McCain. That I feel, was quite the wise choice, because John McCain, is the best qualified amongst that group running for President.
Update: Thompson’s Campaign Manager says. "Not true!" Via The Corner
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Romney will Stop the Gays….
This comes via Think Progress:
Today on MSNBC’s Hardball, former senator Jim Talent, now an adviser to Mitt Romney, discussed Romney’s record on gays. Talent maintained that Romney has never been inconsistent on gay rights and has “always” wanted to stop the influence of “the militant gays”:
He’s always had the same position as to regards to the gay agenda. Look, he wants to know people to know he values gay people as people, okay? But he doesn’t want the militant gays to be able to change the cultural institutions of the country.
That is unless he’s gay himself.
I can almost hear the collective scream from the right.
“He’s not gay, he’s married!”
Neither was Larry Craig. He just had a wide stance.
The Video:
I wonder there are any gay escorts in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, that could give us some juicy information? Hey, it pays to ask the question.
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Liberal Blogs Readership down and Conservative Blogs Readership up.
I have a Opinion as to why this is.
It has long been understood that the largest liberal blogs have generally produced more web traffic than the largest conservative blogs. But I have noticed a general trend over the past few months that I didn’t want to write about until the end of the year. After surveying the traffic stats of many major political blogs, I found that web traffic for several major liberal blogs either declined sharply or stayed the same while major conservative blogs saw a sharp increase in traffic.
The very plain and simple reason that this is, is because people are tired of Propaganda. Some progressive minded people do not want us to just pull out of Iraq and leave that country in total tatters. Some of us, believe that there is a real war on terror and that it is not a figment of our imagination. While I am not a fan of Faux Noise, aka Fox News and their Republican Neo-Conservative Propaganda. I am also not a fan of DailyKos and their far lefty loon nonsense either.
People want facts, and not political agendas. Period. Plain and Simple.
Others: The Daily Dish and Donklephant
On the Republican Side: Huckabee Leads over Romney.
On the other side of the political fence. The Polls show that Hackabee still has a lead of Mitt Romney.
Hackabee is at 32% and Romney is right behind at 26%.
The sick and sad part is, neither of these guys are even remotely true Conservatives. With Romney’s Flip-flopping, and Hackabee’s skeletons in his closet, his tax hikes. They’re both just Conservative in name and not in deed.
If I were voting Republican. The only person I would vote for, who I feel is even remotely qualified for the job and that is John McCain. He sits at 13%, and that my friends, is a shame, A damn shame.
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