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- The "Tea Party" folks are going to be vewy, vewy, vewy angwy at CBS after this "60 Minutes" program airs.
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- Since Halperin is apparently assigning motives without bothering to research or think, I'm going to point out that (1) as an unbiased reporter (insert sarcasm icon here) it is his job to ask why and (2) in all likelihood the potential problem that Hillary forsaw was the republican party's never ending attacks on Bill Clinton. As it is, I can only believe that Halperin's reporting skills were inadequate to the task.
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- by CBSDrool January 9, 2010 2:10 PM EST
Palin didn't screw up in the debate at all, BIDEN did!
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I guess you watched the debate ....
WITH THE SOUND TURNED >> OFF <<. - Reply to this comment
- by P0ST1ING_AWAY January 10, 2010 2:20 PM EST
by TommyTheTeacher January 9, 2010 12:41 AM EST
Thomas - I have already figured out (by reading another one of your posts)
that it is obvious that you do not teach math. - Reply to this comment
- Palin is skipping C-PAC to make money off the tea party protest group. $350 bucks a head to hear the dim wit speak. Mrs. Palin is one of the most truly delusional politicos in modern history. She makes it up as she goes along and the dim wits follow her lead. Reality is not a concept to the far right. Palin is the dim wit leader.
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- Palin did not lose the election. McCain did not lose the election. It was lost by Bush. The people wanted a change in party regardless of who it was and the republicans never had a chance. The press had been blaming everything on Bush, right or wrong.
This "after the game is over" coaching is fruitless. Look at what we elected. Are we any better off? Doesn't matter does it? Both parties suck and we as a country have to deal with it. - Reply to this comment
- Palin didn't screw up in the debate at all, BIDEN did!
Why has it taken CBS well over a year to discuss the only VP debate yet, still not a single word of the no less than 15 gaffes and outright lies by Joey Biden??
Don't worry, we know the answer and we WILL make all Pravda press accountable! - Reply to this comment
- Up is down, black is white, left is right, etc., etc., etc....
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- These guys (Mark Halperin, John Heilemann, Steve Schmidt, Anderson Cooper, John McCain, etc...) just don't get it. That's why they're gonna get their political ***** handed to them in the next few elections. The Obama-Biden "lopsided victory?" If the media would have just reported fairly, instead of taking sides, those morons wouldn't have stood a chance in hell of winning-even with McCain's pisspoor campaign.
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- Thank you for that post and an excellent explanation!!!!
I could never understand how the Democrats ended up being called ?liberals? and how that usage hasn?t been questioned.
When I came to the States, The Washington Times was still a young newspaper. One had difficulty buying it even in the DC vicinity, because the unions made it difficult to distribute it. The Washington Post read to me more like, well if not like Moscow?s Pravda then for sure like Warsaw Daily (Zycie Warszawy).
What was even a bigger surprise for me was that the Democrats sounded and acted like the Polit Bureau style apparatchiks from my old country .
The statists and apparatchiks are the opposite of ?liberalism?, as so well explained in the post above. To call the Democrats ?liberals? is a serious misnomer.
The Democratic party appeared to me to be a combination of those apparatchiks and the feeble minded 60?s leftover ideologues. Today, it?s still the same; they have been just reenergized lately (maybe it has been Starbucks coffee?)
On the other end of the spectrum, the Republican Party has been high-jacked by the hyperactive ?out of the reservation? ideologues and people who think they have been ordained by God or History (depending on the point of view) and thus, responsible only to God or History (as you said: ??the mandate of heaven?) . Hyperactivity, doctrinarism and zealotry, the usual characteristics of converts and neophytes (e.g.: the neo-cons.)
I don?t have any hopes on the side of the contemporary Democrats. From experience I know only too well that you can?t reform an apparatchik ? forever red on the outside but white on the inside.
The Republicans? Lost in the wilderness. The GOP?s only hope seems to be that the Dems will self combust. The GOP hasn?t been able to propose anything even half sensible, regarding the health care or the economy, in response to what the Dems are doing.
The system clearly needs a RECALIBRATION, aided by a good ol?fashion populist pitchfork work. As someone put it so well: "America is at that awkward stage. It's too late to work within the system, but too early to shoot the *******s."
As to Mrs. Palin, she has to been given a LOT of credit for her performance and abilities, considering that she was pushed on a big stageso unexpectedly. She availed herself very well in the Convention and in the debate. Not so well in the later TV interviews an dlater stege of the campaign. I think that a lot of the blame for that should go to the campaign handlers. They weren?t able to take advantage of the boost from the Convention and roll on with it. They were only able to resort to having Palin and McCain repeat ad nausea a few simple, trite, scripted formulas.
Is Mrs. Palin the GOP?s hope? She certainly can play a role in a drive for the populist Recalibration of the System.
However, I think that the GOP will need new people, and not just the candidates but also the intellectual resources, and a generational transformation. GOP needs new ideas for these times. For now, they are stuck in the stale and the trite. - Reply to this comment
