Remember all those “independent” ethics filings against Sarah Palin? We were told they were all private citizens who were just concerned about good government. Turns out: not so much:
This is the Kos crowd coordinating with first the Obama campaign and now administration trying to smear Sarah Palin repeatedly.
Remember this the next time they tell you they’re not afraid of her, that’s she just some dumb snowbilly, and that they’re realling just laughing at her.
Yeah. That’s why they brought an Alaskan guy into Obama’s inner circle to coordinate attacks against her. But remember, they’re not afraid of her at all.
I guess that the inside-the-Beltway crowd still hasn’t figured out that their way is the wrong way. The base tried to tell them in November when they stayed away from the polls - resulting in Democratic victories in previously uncontested Red states. But they’re so disconnected from voters that even messages like that and the Tea Party demonstrations have made only the most superficial impact on them.
Palin excites the conservative base. Even if D.C. Republicans don’t think she’s a viable candidate for 2012, they should embrace her for the simple reason that their base does. Until the Beltway crowd figures out that slipping anonymous quotes to the media in exchange for invitations to the right dinner parties isn’t going to get you votes at the ballot box, they’re condemned to repeat their losses of 2006 and 2008.
FWIW, here’s my prediction of where things go from here:
I think there’s going to be a deal. That deal will include at least a nod to the plan put forth by House Republicans and helps put some of the pain on Wall Street rather than Main Street. [Dems don’t want a deal without cover from House Republicans so they’re going to give them something, maybe not much substantial, but enough that McCain can claim a victory and House Republicans have something to take home to their constituents to say “Hey, we did the best we could for you.]
House Republicans will publicly thank McCain for fighting to make sure that the Average Joe was protected. The MSM will try their damnedest to spin another story, but McCain is able to get his message directly to the people at the debate (which he will participate in Friday night) before they can get their spin machine in top gear and before Axelrod can give Obama a full set of talking points with which to respond.
Expect the Obama campaign to go back into all-day, every-day smear mode (a la the initial reaction to Palin) ASAP. Internal polls are going to look awful for them, so the flop sweat of desperation is going to begin showing in a big way.
I see McCain up in Gallup and Rasmussen by +3 or more by the end of next week….
I may wind up right or wrong, but unlike Obama at least I’m willing to commit to a position one way or the other…
The reason for the “uhs” and the “umms” is that he’s trying to do lawyerly parsing in his head on the fly, and he’s not parsing fast enough to keep up with his mouth.
The conversation goes something like this:
He thinks: “I think…no wait, that’s not strong enough…We believe..yeah, that’s it…”
He says: “We believe…uh…”
He thinks: “Now what? What do you mean now what? Don’t you know? Know what? What was the question? Oh yeah…”
He says “um…”
He thinks “What did Axelrod tell me our position was? He didn’t. Wasn’t there something about ‘Hope’ in the answer? I’m sure there was..’
He says “that we are the hope…”
He thinks “Hope for what? Well I can’t say anything specific, people would be able to nail me down on one side of the issue or another. Better say something noncommittal and give myself plausible deniability no matter what they say I said. What should I say though?”
He says “uh…uh…”
He thinks “But it was a yes or no question…Shut up…Only a racist would ask a yes or no question. Damn racists, trying to bait me like that…”
He says “umm…”
He thinks “I’ll show them who’s smarter. I used to organize communities for God’s sake. I’ll give them the answer I want. What do I want? To not lose, Michelle would be soooo pissed! And she’s not that nice when she’s in a good mood…Yeah, but I mean besides the obvious…”
He says “err…”
He thinks “Hope and change. Axelrod says that’s our message. Forget the policy: if they found out what the policy was they’d never vote for us…Stick with the hope and change, and let ‘em chew on that for a while.”
He says “and change that we’ve been waiting for…”
He thinks “HA! Let ‘em try to figure that one out…::smug internal grin::”
David Axelrod, Obama’s campaign manager, is one of the most vicious, disgusting and vile human beings ever to walk the face of the earth. To even think of some of the smears that have been launched against Sarah Palin, let alone be responsible for spreading what he knows for a fact to be outright lies, takes a level of human depravity that few are capable of.
I state this as fact. If Obama and Axelrod want to challenge me, then let’s take it to court. We’ll go to discovery over their communications with the Winner family, open up the client lists of his AstroTurfing company, and follow the dots throughout the Democratic leadership. Go ahead, I triple dare you….
It turns out that the high-paying, super-important job that Barack Obama gave up in order to pursue a short stint as a “community organizer” was far less than he made it out to be. In fact, it was so much less than he made it out to be that it was: nothing at all like what he described whatsoever.
He was a low-level flunky at a research sweat-shop - nowhere near the mover and shaker he made himself out to be in order to show what a swell guy he was to give it all up in pursuit of his ultra-altruistic goal of organizing communities.
So now that this vital and revealing part of his biography is revealed to be a complete fabrication, we’re going to see the media get right on investigating how much of the rest of that biography is a work of fiction too, right?
Over at Patterico, he reports on the latest Presidential polls which includes a Rasmussen report showing a dead heat between McCain and Obama.
But as I commented there, there’s a big problem with Rasmussen’s methodology in this poll:
If you read the full Rasmussen report, you see the following caveat:
For a variety of reasons, the Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll is less volatile than some other polls and always shows a somewhat smaller convention bounce than reported by others. This is primarily because we weight our results by party identification (see methodology). Looking at the data before adjusting for partisan identification, the Republican convention appears to have created a larger surge in party identification than the Democratic convention the week before. If this lasts, it could have a significant impact on Election 2008.
After running it through the secret decoder ring, this reads:
we’ve seen a significant swing in party self-indication towards the GOP since the convention, but we’re going to wait and see if that continues before we start including that factor into our regular polling adjustments.
Basically, they’re admitting that their current poll results aren’t accurately reflecting what the mood in the country is right now: rather it’s a projection based on a “what if” scenario that requires the Republican base to return to its previously demoralized state. Unlike Gallup, they’re actively factoring out the uptick in Republican enthusiasm rather than simply reporting it.
Barring some major problem with Palin, I’d bet that the Rasmussen polls start moving towards McCain as they will have no choice but to accept that the swing in party self-identification isn’t just a one week phenomenon and correct their current “tweaking” of the raw data.
I know it’s thin gruel, but I can’t help but speculate if Andrew Sullivan’s bosses at The Atlantic have suggested that he take a few days off - whether he likes it or not…
After a week of breathlessly “reporting” every kind of speculative slur against Sarah Palin at the behest of David Axelrod and the Obama campaign - each and every one of which was subsequently debunked with some actual fact-checking, his blog has gone uncharacteristically silent for over 24 hours now. His last post was a view from a window with the simple title “The View From Your Window” - reminiscent of the kind of pouting a child does when his mother grounds him and sends him to his room.
The Atlantic has been taking some well-deserved abuse from bloggers for continuing to write paychecks for a guy whose writing tends to remind one of a gossipy teenage girl engaged in a verbal slapfight with her rival over the star quarterback (that is when he’s not indulging himself in outright anti-Semitism or narcissistic back-patting). The only thing which separates him from those anonymous Kos diarists whose work is periodically disappeared down the memory hole after it becomes an embarrassment even to them is The Atlantic masthead.
It would show the first moment of good judgment from The Atlantic’s management since the Palin onslaught began if this is indeed the case, but only time will tell if this is anything more than rank speculation on my part…
Your mileage may vary, but I think it’s the most thoughtful examination of Obama this election cycle…While I happen to think that he vastly overestimates Obama’s brainpower (which certainly hasn’t been much on display especially of late), I also think he’s got it mostly right….
Joe Biden lost his wife in a tragic car crash some years back, and now he’s trying to drum up sympathy for himself and Barack Obama by peddling lies that she was killed by a drunk driver, causing no end of grief for the family of the man who is no longer alive to defend himself
In that interview, Herlihy said Neilia Biden either accelerated or drifted through the intersection, and Dunn could not stop. The truck driver said she was not looking at him, her face turned away, and the state police thought she was distracted by one of the children in the back seat.
Note that this doesn’t in any way lessen the tragedy that happened that day. What matters is that Joe Biden is yet again attempting to advance his political career by lying through his teeth about his personal life. If this was an isolated incident in which a man’s memory might be understandly muddied by a personal tragedy, it might be forgivable; but he has a long history of serial exaggerations, plagiarizing, and outright lies that date back at least as far as his college days.
And they’re worried that Sarah Palin might wind up a heartbeat from the presidency?
