Comment from timr
Time: September 6, 2008, 8:44 am

Josh, I give you the Palin portfolio. Ripped from the pages of the Anchorage newpaper-owned by McClatchy. links to 61 articles.
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/election2008/story/51888.html

Comment from I.B.Lever
Time: September 6, 2008, 8:59 am

CHANGE MY ARSE …

In an August 13 Wall Street Journal article, Elizabeth Holmes and Amy Chozick reported that the Republican National Committee (RNC) “criticized” Sen. Barack Obama “for, in its view, his lack of bipartisan accomplishments.” The article continued: “They made note of Sen. Obama’s party-line votes. During the 109Th Congress, which was in session in 2005-2006, Sen. Obama voted along party lines 97% of the time. Sen. McCain voted with his party 81% of the time, according to Congressional Quarterly.” But in citing only the Congressional Quarterly 2005-2006 “party unity” scores provided by the RNC, Holmes and Chozick failed to note that according to a 2008 Congressional Quarterly study, McCain voted in support of the Bush administration’s position 95 percent of the time in 2007, making McCain the administration’s most reliable supporter in the Senate that year. Indeed, in a January 13 article (accessed via Nexis), CQ reported that “McCain’s 95 percent support [for Bush] score for last year was the highest in the chamber.” Moreover, CQ also found that McCain has voted with Bush 90 percent of the time over the seven-and-a-half years of Bush’s presidency.

In addition, discussing the establishment of “Republicans for Obama,” Holmes and Chozick wrote: “Despite Sen. McCain’s bipartisan activity, including on campaign finance and immigration, the Republicans behind the Obama support group express dismay with how his candidacy has evolved.” But in citing immigration as an example of McCain’s “bipartisan activity,” Holmes and Chozick did not note that, under pressure from the Republican base, McCain reversed himself on a key component of immigration reform, now saying that “we’ve got to secure the borders first” — a position at odds with his prior assertion that border security could not be disaggregated from other aspects of comprehensive immigration reform without being rendered ineffective. McCain further stated during the January 30 Republican presidential debate that he would not vote for the comprehensive reform bill he co-sponsored with Sen. Edward M. Kennedy (D-MA) if it came to a vote on the Senate floor.

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The dip shit can’t make up his own mind on troublesome issues and he and his “Alaskan Tart” are attempting to hoodwink all of us into believing they can repair the “two term” Republican damage.

McCORPSE (as we witnessed in Viet Nam sir) YOU AIN’T GONNA FLY…. NO WAY … NO HOW … you’re a deceitful , dishonest and repulsive individual. …. I’m sure we’ll get to the facts about the AlaskanTart and “her dishonesty”, in the weeks to come.

Comment from Mad Trapper
Time: September 6, 2008, 10:27 am

ST. PAUL, Minn. — The announcement Monday by Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin and her husband that their 17-year-old daughter is pregnant out of wedlock ( if they went after Wooten the way they did, this kid Johnston better watch his back-side), raised new questions about how thoroughly John McCain investigated the background of his vice-presidential pick.

Whether the 72-year-old McCain’s selection of 44-year-old Palin as his running mate was carefully considered or impulsive is a matter of growing interest.

Although the Palins made their announcement in response to Internet rumors, McCain advisers said that he knew about the pregnancy before he settled on Palin, and said that Palin had been thoroughly vetted. In Alaska, however, there’s little evidence of a thorough vetting process.

While it’s possible that some people in Alaska were called during the process, there was no sign of it. The former U.S. attorney for Alaska, Wev Shea, who enthusiastically recommended Palin back in March, said he was never contacted with any follow-up questions.

Chris Coleman, one of Palin’s next-door neighbors, said that no one representing McCain spoke to him about Palin. Another neighbor also was never contacted, he said Monday.

Republican Gail Phillips, a former speaker of the Alaska House, said that she was shocked by McCain’s selection of Palin and told her husband, Walt, “This can’t be happening because his advance team didn’t come to Alaska to check her out.” She said she would’ve heard had someone been poking around.

“We’re not a very big state,” Phillips said. “People I talk to would’ve heard something.”

Walt Monegan, the commissioner of public safety whom Palin fired in July, said that no one from the McCain campaign contacted him, either. His firing is now the subject of a special legislative investigation into whether Palin or members of her administration improperly interfered with the running of his department by pushing for dismissal of a state trooper involved in a divorce and custody battle with Palin’s sister.

The FBI declined to say whether it conducted a full-field investigation of Palin’s background before McCain tapped her as his running mate. FBI spokesman Richard Kolko referred callers to the McCain campaign.

Previous vice-presidential picks — even those with long records in national politics — have come under much closer scrutiny. In 2000, Democratic nominee Al Gore picked Joe Lieberman after a vetting process that lasted about 10 months, including poring through some 800 legal opinions Lieberman had been involved with as Connecticut Attorney General.

Rick Davis, McCain’s campaign manager, was asked Monday as he walked through the Xcel Center in St. Paul if he was satisfied with Palin’s vetting. “I’m not gonna get into that,” he said.

Comment from Mad Trapper
Time: September 6, 2008, 11:45 am

McCain To Send Self Back To Vietnamese POW Camp To Revitalize Campaign

PHOENIX, AZ—In what insiders say is an attempt to revitalize his flagging campaign and convince voters that he is still a straight-talking maverick, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) announced Sunday that he will subject himself to the same mental torment and physical abuse he endured nearly 40 years ago at the same Vietnamese camp where he was once held as a prisoner of war.

“On Saturday at approximately 2:40 a.m. I will fly over the capital city of Hanoi and have my plane’s right wing blown off by a Russian missile,” said McCain, adding that the force of the ejection from an aging A-4 Sky hawk should render him unconscious and break both of his arms and “preferably [his] right leg.” “I will then be taken to a bug- and rat-infested cell where, with both nobility and grace, I will suffer the worst forms of human indignities.”

McCain, a shoo-in for the Republican presidential nomination, insisted that his upcoming stay at the Hanoi torture facility was simply a late addition to a previously planned trip to Southeast Asia, and has nothing to do with his faltering campaign.

But a source close to the campaign said the senator’s decision to revisit his indescribable degradation at the hands of the Viet Cong was prompted by a desire to “get back to his roots,” and “reconnect with the struggles that defined him as a leader.”

“The fact is, Sen. McCain feels that he’s changed somehow from the independent, eternally haunted outsider that he once was,” the source said. “He hopes that revisiting the extraordinary horrors he endured so many years ago will re instill in him the sense of purpose and commitment he is so respected for. And what better way to reignite the political fire within than by having sharpened rods of bamboo jammed under his fingernails?”

“With both nobility and grace, I will suffer the worst forms of human indignities.”
According to campaign documents released to the media, the visit will cost more than $10 million, most of which will go toward acquiring a Grushin S-75 surface-to-air missile, renovating McCain’s cell to its exact 1970s-era condition, paying medical personnel to provide inefficient and cruel treatment, and hiring Vietnamese citizens to act as the Viet Cong.

I guess to rejuvenate her sense of being, Sarah will go north and shoot a polar moose or a Grizzly Wooten ?

Comment from Pat
Time: September 7, 2008, 8:18 am

BTW, Sarah Palin seems to have gone missing. I think Nancy Grace should be notified.

Comment from timr
Time: September 7, 2008, 10:34 am

the repigs have decided that until the MSM becomes respectful and kisses the ground that she walks on that she will not answer any questions from the press-not even faux spews-so, this vote will be on character not issues-so says Davis head of the repig campaign-but we will have to assess palins knowledge by her ability to read a TelePromTer.