Holy crap.
Senator John McCain is on my television box on Meet the Press, and he actually just said, “oh, I don’t know if it’s a promise,” when asked if Sarah Palin quitting the Alaska Governorship was a breach of the promise she made to Alaska voters.
Yes, it is. If I vote for someone, I don’t expect them to quit unless they’re dying or mired in scandal. It’s also telling of just what a bullshit artist John McCain is that he won’t endorse her.
Late Update: Jane Hamsher of FireDogLake provides the video:
Yeah, I know: Conservatives think other nation’s opinions are for pussies. Still, the last I knew, the bipedal creatures this world is largely populated by are for the most part humans. Knowing what they think and seeing how they interpret the election and the response of the loonies in the McCain concession speech audience is probably not entirely without merit.
And I say it again: none of the people so disaffected by McCain’s loss were people who voted for McCain in the primaries. In fact, they will soon be spitting vitrol about McCain’s pussy-ass bipartisanship as often as they spit vitrol about Obama’s family. Good for them.
Well, the campaign is over and the back biting will begin in the Republican Party and the McCain/Palin Campaign specifically. Newsweek has a story, summarized nicely by the Huff Po, about what the real cost of the Neiman Marcus shopping spree was. And her coming out to speak with McCain advisers in a towel. People, everybody knows no woman does that sort of thing accidentally. She was attempting to use sex to get something over on McCain advisors, and I think we all know now why the media in Alaska loved her. . . .
I was about to post an article about McCain’s strategy for winning this election. It involves winning New Hampshire. Well, it’s not looking real good so far:
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This is another place Bush won in 2004.
What’s more, no Democrat has ever won here. And Obama’s margin is the most since they started.
A video blog. Looks crowded at the polling stations, people, get the hell out there and vote your asses off! Plus, don’t forget about the state ballot initiative to allow veterans to get a few extra points on their civil service applications. As it stands now, only injured vets get those added points, and only if they’re getting benefits from a specific agency. The ballot initiative seeks to widen the program to all veterans, which seems only fair.
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John McCain’s latest ad goes all-in on white fear of black welfare mamas. It uses the word “welfare” in relation to Obama no less than three times and then follows up with, “Just as you suspected, Barack Obama is not truthful about taxes.”
So to recap, Barack Obama’s the lyin’, welfare-takin’ baby daddy you always knew hung out in places in the city you’ve never been. No reason to trust that sort of thing, now, is there?
It occurs to me that most of the people in the audience for McCain/Palin rallies – those waving “Little Hussein” monkeys, those shouting about Arabs and Mooslums, those standing up to shout that they’re “really mad” – have got to be people that voted against John McCain in the primaries. Why would these guys ever have supported John McCain the Campaign Finance Reformer? John McCain the Bipartisan? Does that even seem credible?
Meanwhile, any reasonable reading of the poll numbers to this point reflects how much of the original Maverick Fanbase has left him. In particular, I’m thinking of all those Independents, especially those who voted for him in the primaries of states where they were able to. I’m not sure enough has been made on this point: what got him to the Republican nomination was independents and moderate Republicans, all of whom are now either abstaining or voting for Barack Obama.
What must it be like for John McCain to be conducting his final political act before a house of hostile strangers?
John McCain’s sleaze festival is in full swing with two weeks to go. How’s it working out for him?
Well, according to recent polls, not very well in terms of public opinion. Voters fairly widely reject the William Ayers line and seem to have grown to hate Sarah Palin. Too bad for her, because her performance on SNL was actually quite good. Shucks.
But of course, as the media is pounding the so called Bradly Effect – that theory that says white voters will say what they think you want to hear in polls but will vote differently in the booth – the McCain Campaign’s attempt to smear Obama may just be working in that same quiet way. There has been a marginal shift in the TPM Tracking number that puts Obama below 50% for the first time in about a week. Could this be a subtle shift that represents a more fundamental shift just below the water line? Its hard to know, but it’s troubling.
As I keep saying and as gets repeated year after year, it’s all going to come down to GOTV. Whomsoever is able to muster the largest support at the polls will probably be the winner. Irrespective of whom is in the lead and irrespective of the relative sleaziness of the campaigns, it is quite normal to see some tightening of the polls right before an election. Once the moment becomes real, I think voters tend to pull back from their previous enthusiasm for whomever their candidate is in these last few weeks.
So, Obama supporters, make sure you’re not getting lazy. Make sure your friends aren’t getting lazy. College kids who sleep through Election Day could cost us this thing.
I wanted to write one last post for the evening to mention one relatively minor point brought up towards the end of the debate. It was not something that affects me directly, but since my wife is a teacher who deals with these types of issues, it still offended me. I’m hoping to update this post with the video. I may have misheard.
Sarah Palin has a child with Down’s Syndrome. John McCain said she knows what it’s like to have a kid with Autism. Autism and Down’s Syndrome could not possibly be more different. One is a physical developmental disabiility and one is a mental developmental disability. They have about as much in common as a club foot has with color blindness. Even that comparison is simply inadequate.
I find it quite offensive that John McCain chose to use this line of discourse when he clearly does not understand either issue. It has the effect of drawing a line of false equivalence between two barely understood disorders when I’m sure those who deal with Down’s and Autism on a personal level would prefer clarity.
But again, this is not a personal issue and I don’t want to come off as too shrill. I just think it’s important to bring up.
Update: Here’s the video. He starts in at about 4 minutes, while swerving wildly between the lines trying to make his case for education reform. I’m not entirely sure what he thinks Autism necessarily has to do with education reform in the first place. It is true that Autistic kids have some extra needs in terms of their education, but it’s not because Autism is any kind of learning disability, specifically. And it certainly isn’t Down’s Syndrome, though McCain clearly seems to think it is:
