Townhallers Boo McCain’s Defense Of Obama’s Constitutional Perspective

John McCain gets booed at a townhall meeting when he seeks to defend Barack Obama.

The Wheels Continue to Come Off

The desperation on the left and in the Obama campaign grows more evident by the day. For two weeks Barack Obama’s campaign has been completely reactionary and it seems the problem grows worse by the day. The flap over Obama’s “lipstick on a pig” comment had the candidate address the issue this morning in a campaign speech when yesterday he had no intention of dealing with it.

No one can claim with credibility that Obama’s pig remark wasn’t ill advised. Whether it was an intentional attack on Sarah Palin is debatable but a strong candidate in control of the situation would have known better than to use the line in the first place. That Obama chose that particular line in light of Palin’s repeated use of the hockey mom and bulldog joke reveals his inability to correctly assess the situation in the present circumstances, which in my mind is a good indication as to how Obama might react in a genuine national emergency.

Prior to the announcement of Sarah Palin as McCain’s running mate, the Obama campaign was very disciplined. They tightly controlled what was said not only by the campaign but by campaign surigates. That is no longer the case. Since that announcement the Obama campaign has been unable to stay on message. They have no control over the situation so that are reactive.

Meanwhile democrat leaders continue to make outrageous remarks out of pure frustration. Just today, as reported by Politico.com, South Carolina Democratic chairwoman Carol Fowler said that Sarah Palin’s, “primary qualification seems to be that she hasn’t had an abortion.” I mean really, that’s pretty desparate!

So Obama is today reduced to accusing the McCain campaign of stooping to swiftboat politics. Rather than deal with the reality that, at a minimum, his choice of words was poor, Obama attempts to turn it around a attack the McCain campaign. While I can understand the tendancy to want to take that approach, it is clearly a counter productive approach. Indeed, with every attack, the McCain/Palin brand rises further.

Watching the TV interviews with various Obama spokespeople and surigates has really been entertaining! This afternoon on FOX News, Shepard Smith was interviewing someone with the Obama campaign. Smith pointed out that things have not been going well for the Obama campaign for two weeks and he asked what their plan was to get back on message. The spokeswoman first refused to accept that there was even a problem. Smith, with almost open scorn, asked the question several times, even bringing in the latest polls showing the large swing in McCain’s direction and she claimed that the two campaigns were essentially where they were before the two conventions! She said that with a straight face?

So the Obama campaign and the left continue to spin at a rate that will surely send them running for the nearest trash can. Perhaps they are just toying with us. Perhaps they have a grand master plan that will be apparent to all over the next few weeks, that will make sense. More likely they are twisting like contortionist desperately searching for a plan, any plan, that might deliver them from the hell they’ve found themselves in.

UPDATE:

From an NRCC email this evening

Today, on the floor of the House of Representatives, liberal Democrat Congressman Steve Cohen (Memphis) equated Barack Obama to Jesus, thereby furthering liberals’ absurd belief that Obama is the Chosen One sent to save the world. Then Cohen outrageously compared Sarah Palin to Pontius Pilate.

“If you want change, you want the Democratic Party,” said Cohen. “Barack Obama was a community organizer like Jesus, who our minister just prayed about. Pontius Pilate was a governor.”

Here’s video of the remarks.

It just gets better and better!

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Oh, nooooo, they never meant to liken Palin to a pig

Liberal Self Destruction

I can’t help but be amused at the liberal self destruction going on the last week. The liberal response to Sarah Palin for the last week has been one of the most entertaining things I’ve ever seen.

I’m not a fan of MSNBC and rarely watch it. But for the last few days I’ve found myself switching over to see what new nonsense is spewing from the mouths of the talking heads there. It’s been great fun. Of course, the dishonesty there is nothing short of amazing. For at least the last two days both Chris Matthews and Keith Olberman have asked for information about who in the MSM has gone after Sarah Palin as a mother. Indeed, both have denied that it has happened. It is utterly beyond belief that neither is aware of Washington Post reporter Sally Quinn’s hit piece entitled Palin’s Pregnancy Problem or CNN’s Campbell Brown badgering a McCain spokesman on the subject of whether Palin could be a good mother and be Vice President. The latter caused the McCain campaign to, at least temporarily, cut CNN off from all interviews and McCain himself cancelled a scheduled appearance on Larry King Live. I’m sure Matthews and Olberman Read more

Media Misogyny

Nothing liberals do surprises me but they sometimes amaze me. The misogynistic way the media has treated Sarah Palin is the most recent example. In a post here on FHK a few days ago, Phyllis Chesler made the point that they did the same to Hillary Clinton, though not so overtly.

How else to explain the media frenzy to dig up any dirt, no matter how irrelevant, on Palin? The point has been made repeatedly that the MSM would never ask a male candidate whether his candidacy would be bad for his daughter. Yet that media feels completely justified in asking such questions of Sarah Palin.

That the MSM have a liberal bias is well established. Organizations like Times Watch give daily examples of the double standard when it comes treatment of Republicans vs. Democrats. But the ferocity with which the MSM has gone after Palin is unprecedented. The only thing comparable was the treatment of Clarence Thomas, another minority the MSM seemed to think should know his place. Read more

Night One of the GOP Convention

This commentary on GOP Convention speeches from last night comes from Chuck Muth at Muth’s Truths.  Pretty good commentary in my view.

A tough balancing act faced Republicans with how to handle President Bush. Not the most popular guy in America today, or even in his own party. But the man is the sitting incumbent president. You couldn’t “dis” him and not have him speak at all, much as some may have liked. But giving him a relatively short speaking role via satellite seemed to strike the right balance. Republicans certainly treated Bush tonight better than Democrats have treated Carter for many, many years…and to this day.

* President Bush did throw a little red meat out there, telling the GOP faithful – as well as the rest of the nation watching on TV – that if his captors at the “Hanoi Hilton” couldn’t break John McCain’s resolve, the “angry left” sure won’t. Ya hear that, Michael Moore?

Read more at Muth’s Truths

Palin’s First Appearance as McCain’s Running Mate

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Could Palin be VP? (Update: Yes)

Back in February I wrote a post about Sarah Palin.  I said then that she would be an excellent pick for VP.  She’s attractive, young, decidedly conservative and strongly pro life.  For the last month or more I’ve made the argument that she is far and away the best pick McCain could make.  She could draw women Clinton voters as well as shore up McCain’s support among conservatives.  But I’ve also said there was no way McCain would actually pick her.

Well, the word on the street this morning is that McCain has done just that!  It seems a plane left Anchorage last night and arrived at an airfield about 30 miles away from the site of today’s announcement.  Pawlenty and Romney appear to have been eliminated a possible candidate.  Tom Ridge and Joe Lieberman are also out of the running.  Who’s left?  Apparently Palin.

If McCain actually picks her, he’ll suprise me.  I didn’t give him credit for the smarts to make this pick.  One way or the other, we’ll know around noon today.

UPDATE: FOX News is reporting that a senior McCain campaign official has confirmed that Sarah Palin is the VP pick.

Michelle Malkin has more.

From Mark Levin at NRO:

I should add that if Palin is the choice, this also suggests that McCain may not be as stubborn as portrayed — and that’s a good thing given his positions on a number of issues that have given conservatives heart-burn.  At least it gives us some hope in that regard.

Something to think about.  I may be swayed yet.

Palin bio info at FOX News.

Update – It’s official

Is McCain Going Negative?

I consider myself an average American. Yes, I own guns, yes, I object to Illegal aliens within our borders and yes, I have religion so according to Obama-rama I must be bitter. Well yes I guess I am bitter. I am bitter that a socialist puppet has risen to the level where he can open espouse his socialist views and tell people he is planning on creating an armed “national security force”. As a veteran I am bitter that Obama-rama says the military can’t handle the situation after years of watching the Democratic Party chop-up the military, reduce its size and capabilities to support itself in time of war.

I have watched the Obama-thon spreading lies, innuendoes, and trying to change history. I have watched them espouse their one world one nation platform. I have watched them play the “race card” over and over and try to guilt voters into believing that this is a nation of racists. I have watched them denigrate and slam the door in the face of our military troops. I have watched them try to make victims of every person in this great nation.

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Non-Partisan My @#$

Mayor of Los Angeles, Antonio Villaraigosa, a proud Chicano alumnus of the MEChA indoctrination organization stood up recently at a meeting of his “nonpartisan” cohorts and announced that “12 million illegal immigrants can be brought out of the shadows and into the light” by electing Barack Obama. He encouraged members of NCLR to campaign hard for the presumptive nominee. Just one minor problem… Read more

The Obama Iraq Documentary: Whatever the Politics Demand

Explain this, Barack!

WAKE UP, John McCain!!!

Wake up, John McCain! America is under attack and you as a leader are failing to act.

No, I am not talking about Iraq or Iran. America is under attack by Mexico and Mexican subversives within our own borders.

When writing about immigration problems in the past, I have tried to avoid racial profiles because I did not feel it was relevant, but now certain entities within the racist Mexican movements have made it clear that they will twist any words or actions against criminals from their race into a civil rights matter by playing the “race card”.

Just because I see the danger due to the mismanagement of immigration and because I believe not only that National Security is in danger but also that the tenets of our Republic are under attack does not make me, or anyone who speaks out against illegal immigration, a “racist”.

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Time For A Real Change

As I sat reading the news and reading about how John McCain’s staff keeps trying to alienate the conservative base of the Republican by promoting amnesty, excluding evangelicals and closing Guantanamo Bay, I realized why politics is in such a quandary.

Politics has become a business. I know that colleges and universities say politics is a science but science deals with facts. The heart of any science is to prove a theory or theories. Political Science takes suppositions and tries to convince the voting public to believe them or buy into them without real facts. The voting public doesn’t know how an elected official will react to any given situation. All we can do is guess.

The running of the Government is a large job. Any President is only as good as his advisors. Obama has anti-Semitics, Marxists, Socialists, Black Liberationists and anarchists for advisors. John McCain has University indoctrinated libertarians, New World Order, and globalists. Either way we the voting get screwed. Read more

What Does the GOP, and This Country, Need?

It’s an interesting question.  The GOP loses in the ‘06 election were widely attributed, both by GOP leadership and the media, to unhappiness over the Iraq war.  While there was certainly unhappiness over the war, it was clear to most conservatives that the war was not the reason for the loss.  Rather, the abandonment of conservative principles by the Republican Congress was the issue.  Under the Bush administration we saw the largest growth of the federal government since LBJ’s Great Society.

Ronald Reagan wanted to eliminate the Department of Education.  George W. Bush grew it beyond all recognition and Congressional Republicans went right along.  Until the Democrats gained control of Congress the President had yet to use his veto pen.  All the while GOP leadership and President Bush claimed the mantle of conservatism.

When Bush first ran in 2000 I knew he was no conservative.  I voted against him in the primaries.  Compassionate conservatism was nothing but a smoke screen for big government.  Since then GOP leadership embraced this big government "conservatism" and their governance was hardly distinguishable for the Democrats.  With spending out of control and government growing at an increasing rate, the conservative rank and file said "enough."  If the GOP was going to abandon us, why should we support them?

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Does McCain Want to Win?

After McCain won enough delegates to secure the Republican nomination, the general wisdom was that he would have to work hard to bring the conservative core of the Republican Party over to his side. For a while it appeared that he was actually trying to do that. But the honeymoon is over.

Today is Cinco de Mayo and McCain chose this date to unveil his Spanish languish web site. I have my reservations about a Spanish languish site considering American citizens, the only one’s who can vote, should be able to read an English language site. But the site itself isn’t the big problem. What is a problem is McCain’s return to language reminiscent of the McCain-Kennedy debate.

McCain is now saying that Republicans have hurt themselves by opposing McCain-Kennedy and he wants to turn that around. He’ll do so basically by implementing McCain-Kennedy once elected! It makes one wonder how sincere McCain was when he said he was a conservative and wanted to work with conservatives. Clearly he doesn’t think he needs to worry about us too much now. Read more

The Silent Majority Wants Immigration Reform

Immigration is one of the many hot button issues of the ongoing Presidential Campaign. It has been the subject of many polls over the last few years.

What most voters, especially the younger ones don’t realize what the true future impact of immigration is. Today you can’t go into a store without seeing dual language signs because as the Pew Hispanic Center poll in 2006 showed a large percentage of both foreign-born and American-born Latinos do not believe they have to learn English to be a part of American Society. That’s one reason you have to “Press One for English.”

Bleeding heart liberals who think that immigration actually helps other countries should view Roy Beck’s video “Gumball Immigration” explains why this is not just a security problem but it is a serious environmental and economic dilemma. And remember Roy Beck’s numbers deal only with LEGAL immigrants. Read more

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