Congressional Dems Fucking Freaking Over Hussein Crash And Burn…Debate On Killing Palin Rages
The Swamp:
Sen. Barack Obama’s decline in the national polls following Sen. John McCain’s selection of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin as his vice presidential running mate evidently has scared House Democrats who apparently had already started to allow themselves to think about what having a Democrat in the White House would do for their agenda.
The Hill Newspaper Reports:
Democrats say they grew a little complacent over the summer, buoyed by Obama’s glowing media coverage and his lead in the polls.
That has changed since Palin’s emergence, which has energized the Republican base and McCain’s campaign.
“There is concern,” said Rep. Ed Pastor (D-Ariz.). “We were feeling a little laid-back, and now we’re saying, ‘Oh hell, this is slipping away, we’ve got to get to work.’ “
Not sure how the Democrats could have allowed themselves to get complacent. Had they not heard of the Bradley Effect? Did they not remember how much trouble Obama had winning over lower income whites in the states like Ohio and Pennsylvania which just happen to be two of the battleground states that may decide the election?
This race was always going to be difficult for Obama and not just because of his skin color. His newness to national politics and his relative short resume on national security and foreign affairs were always going to be challenges for candidacy, not insurmountable but there nonetheless.
And that was before he alienated many Hillary Clinton supporters by not choosing her as his running mate, which opened up the door for McCain to put a woman on his ticket.
What’s more, most of the national polls that showed Obama leading into the conventions had the race close, within the margin of error or not far outside it. (Did I mention the Bradley Effect already?)
So there wasn’t really a lot of grounds for complacency on the Democrats’ part. But wishful thinking is part of human nature, even with supposedly hardened professional politicians, apparently.
The Hill story indicates that there’s a certain level of obsession with the race on Capitol Hill and that Democrats are split. Should the Obama campaign attack Palin or hope she self-destructs and continue to hit McCain on the issues?
“That’s all people have talked about since we got back,” said Rep. Emanuel Cleaver, a Democrat who represents Missouri, a projected battleground state. “I received a phone call from an Obama fundraiser who said we’re going to have to go back and revisit the strategy.”Since Palin made her national political debut last week, Obama’s campaign and other Democrats have been slow to criticize Palin, preferring to let mainstream news outlets and liberal blogs raise questions about her record.
But Democrats are growing concerned that Obama’s campaign has not challenged Palin’s lack of experience and views on abortion, creationism and the Iraq war more aggressively.
“There’s anxiety developing because of a perceived lack of aggressiveness,” said Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.), an early Obama supporter. “There’s natural anxiety when one feels they’re behind.”
Democrats say that Obama’s campaign should get tougher on Palin and challenge her opposition to the right to abortion in cases of rape or incest, her support for teaching creationism in schools and her characterization of the Iraq war as a “task that is from God.”
Republicans have tried to paint critics of Palin as bullies. Last week, former Sen. Fred Thompson (R-Tenn.) accused The New York Times of “trying their best to drag her down.”
But some Democrats say that Obama’s campaign cannot let itself be cowed.
“They have to be careful of being defensive,” said Rep. Jim Moran (D-Va.). “The best defense is a good offense. She’s probably the least qualified person ever to be picked for vice president.”
Moran makes a good point about Democrats not being too much on the defense. After their unsuccessful presidential campaigns, and there’ve been many, Democrats are usually the ones asking themselves why their candidate wasn’t tougher, why didn’t their candidate hit back harder? Republicans never seem to have to ask themselves such questions.
That’s because they tend not to be complacent when it comes to the White House. They keep their eyes on the prize. They know you can’t govern if you don’t win. So winning, like Vince Lombardi would say, is the only thing.
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Lipstick, hell I remember the macaca incident
September 10th, 2008 at 6:52 amThey can be aggressive all they want, it won’t help them now and from what I’ve seen of their aggressiveness….it’s nothing more than a shit-slinging campaign……they fucked-up big time, and Palin is there to exploit the hell out of it………You go girl!
September 10th, 2008 at 7:11 am…I’m still betting Obama will place third on next year’s Dancing With The Stars
September 10th, 2008 at 7:23 amI think it comes down to one maxim: All it takes to dispel the darkness, no matter how great, is a single light. Sarah Palin is that light. And the Democrats know it, because she by contrast is illuminating them for what they are, for all the world to see.
September 10th, 2008 at 7:25 amMcCain is going to keep smiling all the way to the White House.
September 10th, 2008 at 7:33 am“The best defense is a good offense. She’s probably the least qualified person ever to be picked for vice president.”
So, your offense is to pick the least qualified person ever for President?
Capital idea, keep it coming.
September 10th, 2008 at 7:40 amCensoring my comments, Pat?
Sweet. That must mean I’m touching the exposed nerve. I know you’re not stupid, dude. Maybe a little afraid, but not stupid. Deep down, you know the truth of what’s going on here.
Your guy crashed five planes before he got captured in Vietnam. He finished at the bottom of his class at the Naval Academy. Are you an Admiral’s son and grandson, Pat? No one else gets away with that kind of incompetence as a pilot. In your heart, you, as a competent person, know that. And you want this guy to pilot the government? Sheesh.
Don’t go for the nincompoop. It’s all con, and no servative.
September 10th, 2008 at 7:54 amBon, you monkey tool! WTH has your slimey candidate BHO ever done for anyone, anywhere that was not totally self-selving. Face, BHO is far and above the worse offering for POTUS in our country’s history.
September 10th, 2008 at 8:00 amHey, fucking idiot. You, the Kos kiddie. Yeah, you, I’m talking to you, fuckstick.
Four of McCain’s planes were destroyed. Two of them had engine failures. One was blown up on the USS Forrestal by another pilot who accidently fired missiles at him. The fourth was the one he was in when he was shot down over Hanoi.
There was no fifth plane. All of those weren’t due to his piloting skills. In fact, the Navy commended his piloting skills.
http://www.npc.navy.mil/NR/rdonlyres/330F85C7-5982-4B09-A46A-373964430AFB/0/Document.pdf
Stupid fuckin’ idiot. You might want to fix the fuckin’ leak in your sewer. More shit from the cesspool is leaking out again.
Get your ass back over to the fuckin’ Kos.
September 10th, 2008 at 8:58 amhttp://www.liveleak.com/view?i=127_1179823868
September 10th, 2008 at 9:19 am@ Bon
“inane leftist drivel will be deleted”
Your other comment was mainly left there to expose how much of a moron you are.
September 10th, 2008 at 11:08 amBon, Obama is Boondoggling the Democrats, he is only your latest fool. He’s got nothing that America needs or desire.
Just like the liberalism that infects every urban city, Obama has been a cancer that destroys the minorities that he talks down to and about.
On the lighter side, it is good to see a Marxist that has been keeping a eye on things here at Patdollard. Suggest to Bon…………..maybe you want to have your Palestinian buddies join us. Yes, we know that Obama is a sleeper cell senator.
September 10th, 2008 at 1:24 pm“She’s probably the least qualified person ever to be picked for vice president.”
Baraq Hussein Soetoro Obama IS the least qualified person to be nominated for President in the history of this Republic.
There aren’t words to express my disgust for the D’rats of today.
September 10th, 2008 at 5:53 pmWho Am I?
I am under 45 years old,
I love the outdoors,
I hunt,
I am a Republican reformer,
I have taken on the Republican Party establishment,
I have many children,
I have a spot on the national ticket as vice president with less than two years in the governor’s office.
Did you guess?
I am Teddy Roosevelt in 1900
September 10th, 2008 at 6:58 pmCool TB, doesn’t Sarah know this? Could be used when she is attacked on the inexperience point. How can Oduma question her experience when HE HAS NONE? Community organizer zip.
September 10th, 2008 at 7:24 pmHell.. any Repub woman that can send libs bouncing off walls and slitting their own wrists should be made Queen.
ALL HAIL QUEEN SARAH!!!
September 10th, 2008 at 8:40 pmIt was more than not tapping her for VP that got the Hill-ladies ticked. PUMA was enraged at the stifling of free votes at state caucuses and the convention, and most are convinced Hillary could have won an open nomination fight. They think Dean, Pelosi, and Oblabla are the rotting head of the fish (the DNC) that must be cut off.
September 10th, 2008 at 11:37 pmBottom line: You can’t make chicken salad from chicken shit. Or, if you can’t dazzle ‘em with brilliance, baffle ‘em with bullshit. That’s what the dems are trying to do.
September 11th, 2008 at 3:06 amIf becoming POTUS is the chicken salad then yes a chicken shit CAN become chicken salad.
September 11th, 2008 at 4:08 amComplacenecy kills.
This is truly amazing. “She’s probably the least qualified person ever to be picked for vice president.” No mention of the fact that Obabma is probably, no wait, Obama is CERTAINLY the least qualified candidate to ever head a national ticket. I must be on another planet or living in a parallel universe. No on in the MSM calls them on it when they make this ridculously false statement. As “The Great Santini” would say, “God, God, why did you put so many jerks in the world?”
September 11th, 2008 at 5:43 amThe only reason he picked Sarah Palin is to try and steal Clinton supporters. I really don’t care about democrats and republicans, same shit different name. I had the utmost respect for McCain until 2004 when he lost his edge and joined the Bush Flock.
Of the past 3 presidents, 2 have been republican and 1 democrat. During both of the Bush’s terms in office there has been recession and increase in the national debt. During the democrat’s term, the longest period of peace-time economic expansion in American history, which included a balanced budget and a reported federal surplus.
McCain is just another Bush crony, learn from history.
September 11th, 2008 at 9:26 am