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It’s Been a While, But Coulter Nails It

Craigo — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 18:59:57 +0000

There’s so much complexity to this year’s election that analysis will go on for months, and probably none of it get the true meaning. But one thing is for sure, John McCain started the Republicans off without a chance to win. Granted, Republicans had a tough road overcoming Bush and the economy, but I think an articulate candidate who actually held right wing ideas.

This is possibly evident by the fact that green initiatives and gay marriage lost in an election that Obama won. But conservatives stayed home, or held their nose, voted third party…and moderates voted Obama..because you can’t be a Democrat lite and expect to beat a Democrat. You have to offer an antidote to the other side, not a weaker version.

Coulter gets (in rare form lately, unfortunately) it spot on in this week’s column.

Excerpts:

Republicans lost this presidential election, and I don’t blame the messenger; I blame the message. How could Republicans go after B. Hussein Obama (as he is now known) on planning to bankrupt the coal companies when McCain supports the exact same cap and trade policies and earnestly believes in global warming?

How could we go after Obama for his illegal alien aunt and for supporting driver’s licenses for illegal aliens when McCain fanatically pushed amnesty along with his good friend Teddy Kennedy?
How could we go after Obama for Jeremiah Wright when McCain denounced any Republicans who did so?
How could we go after Obama for planning to hike taxes on the “rich,” when McCain was the only Republican to vote against both of Bush’s tax cuts on the grounds that they were tax cuts for the rich?
And why should Republican activists slave away working for McCain when he has personally, viciously attacked: John O’Neill and the Swift Boat Veterans, National Right to Life director Doug Johnson, evangelical pastors Jerry Falwell, Pat Robertson and John Hagee, various conservative talk radio hosts, the Tennessee Republican Party and on and on and on?

….For now, we have a new president-elect. In the spirit of reaching across the aisle, we owe it to the Democrats to show their president the exact same kind of respect and loyalty that they have shown our recent Republican president.

Full article – http://anncoulter.org/

Writer Slams Media (hard) for Lack of Integrity

Craigo — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 03:58:53 +0000

I’ve been waiting for a piece like this for quite a while. This guys’s dead on, and he’s a Democrat newspaper writer to boot, so no right wing conspiracy here. This election and economic crisis has left the media pale shills for the Democratic party, so far gone that they can’t turn back. Which is why the new media will soon take their place. Which is also why talk radio is a target of the Democrat congress in the next few months with the Fairness Doctrine.

Check it out. If you only read one thing this week, this guy’s machine-gun tirade is dead on. Gives the drive-by media a little bit of return fire.

http://www.ldsmag.com/ideas/081017light.html

Bonus – Media Study out today showed McCain getting much more negative coverage than Obama. I was shocked….not by the study, but that they wasted time even doing one.
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/the-trail/2008/10/22/study_coverage_of_mccain_much.html

Favorite quote:
Because that’s what honorable people do. Honest people tell the truth even when they don’t like the probable consequences. That’s what honesty means . That’s how trust is earned. :

The Presidential Debate Drinking Game

Craigo — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 03:54:07 +0000

Main Street, Hope, Golden Parachutes, Change My Friends...

Update: Politico says much better what I’m saying below
“The Worst Debate Ever”

Obama and McCain both are men with large life stories, asking to lead the country at a large moment. With one more debate to go, could someone turn the telescope around?

Original Post – After yet another talking-point filled presidential debate tonight that is occuring during the most troubled era of many of our lifetimes, turning it into a drinking game may be the only responsible thing to do as a citizen.

There’s really no other purpose to these debates, we can read line-by-line their answers on their websites. They are carefully scripted, focus-group tested, and never deviated from. Whatever the question asked was doesn’t matter. The same answer, the same joke, the same one-liner, will be repeated over and over again. Keep those beers and shot glasses handy. If they’re talking about the economy be especially careful about using “Golden Parachutes” or you may end up in the ER before the night is over.

Tonight's Drudge Headline

The only logical solution is to add a third-party candidate into the debate, just to hear one new idea or to have somone challenge someone else on something. Anything. If this is the best America can offer up, we’ll need to start working on better drinking games that last all week anyways.

Politico sums it up pretty nicely with their debate analysis:

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1008/14374.html

These days, it may seem that if your “change” is not “fundamental,” and you do not “fundamentally” disagree with your opponent, then you aren’t running for president.

Fox News’ panel sums it very well here, calling the debate a disservice to the campaigns and an utter waste of our time.