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Thank you, Sarah Palin.
She’s a rock star of the right (I guess now being a celebrity is ok with McCain?) but she’s scaring the shit out of some independents. And with good reason.
As time goes on, I think more of Palin’s extreme views and associations will come to light making it harder [...]

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Hey brother, can you spare a dime?
McCain would like us all to forget that he once bragged about being the biggest fan of deregulation and spent many years as a Washington insider trying to help Wall Street guard it’s own hen-house, getting rid of all those nasty socialist New Deal worker protections and corporate regulators. [...]

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It’s interesting that we don’t hear about all of John McCain’s flip flops. While I don’t fault a politician for changing his or her mind after considering all the options and upon learning new information, I also remember how John Kerry was brutilized by the political right for his “flip flops” and the media [...]

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Here’s an interesting round-up of conservative pundits and writers who have recently turned on John McCain, criticizing his VP choice and his dishonest campaigning.

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One of the most dishonest aspects of the McCain campaign, is the empty rhetoric about change- because our current Republican President is so unpopular, John McCain and his advisers know that any link between McCain’s policies and Bush’s policies is political suicide. So, instead of offering any real change from the last eight years, [...]

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This comment from the former HP CEO and McCain adviser, Carly Fiorina, kind of blew me away. I don’t really think many will buy that talking point because it doesn’t seem to make a damn bit of sense.

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Note to McCain-Palin- is your campaign about anything other than good theater now that Palin is there? Because it was charge once lobbed against Obama because of his popularity and “freshness”.
All I see these days with the McCain-Palin ticket are carefully crafted half-truths told to friendly crowds where no real free exchange [...]

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Imagine if during a televised interview, it became apparent that Joe Biden was not sure what the Bush Doctrine was? Do you think the media and the pundit class would be making the most pathetic, almost bizarre claim that it is ok because, after all, most Americans aren’t sure what it is either?

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Compiling an accurate statistic about rape is not easy- unless charged under the federal Violence Against Women Act (thank you Joe Biden!), state law controls and they are charged with compiling the numbers. And of course, those numbers don’t take into consideration unreported sexual assaults. As most everyone is aware, there are many [...]

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The Sarah Palin-Charles Gibson interview is coming to us in installments, giving her an opportunity to be prepped by her advisers in between shooting the clips. And despite the political right defending statements that if spoken by a democrat, would have them literally seeing red and decrying her inability to answer very basic questions [...]

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