Comments on: Rank And File Anger Out Of GOP Hands

The Nation: After Inspiring The Worst In Its Base, Republican Party Cannot Control Irrational Fear And Resentment

[jsl45]

I consider myself a conservative, but I plan to vote for Obama...it will be difficult. I can''t support McCain who voted with Bush 90% of the time and supported the worst President in our history. What makes it worse is that McBush is now using the same negative tactics that Bush used on him in the election in 2000....his decision to use these tactics will cause me to vote for Obama. I firmly believe the Republicans need to have their "head" handed to them in this election so they will get their principles back. They have no one to blame for the coming landslide but themselves.

[irmcvet97]

This is simple economics. Red states, low unemployment, lower taxes and conservative control.

Blue states, higher unemployment, higher taxes, liberal control.


Posted by danielle_mom at 08:25 AM : Oct 20, 2008

I''ve traveled extensively throughout the entire South and YOU are about as WRONG as WRONG can get!!

[danielle_mom]

This is simple economics. Red states, low unemployment, lower taxes and conservative control.

Blue states, higher unemployment, higher taxes, liberal control.

[bnuckols]

Will you cover the .22 shots that knocked out a window on the McCain/Palin Straight Talk Express?
http://www.sacunion.com/mark/

[brianbwb-2009]

"If Obama wins, and the barbarians do not show up to rattle the gates, what will the conservatives do next? For them, the barbarians were a solution, of sorts."

They conservatives are the barbarians, they will rattle the gates themselves. We can expect acts of domestic terrorism, blamed on the "them" of the day, but actually committed by neocon agents.

But they always are too stupid to pull it off without leaving obvious connections back to themselves, so the game won''t work even then.

[gingersnap19]

Actually, a Kansas attorney, whose father worked on behalf of both Bobby Kennedy and JFK before they were assassinated, has already filed a lawsuit citing the potential for violence and asking that the RNC and the McCain-Palin campaign tone down the rhetoric.

[brianbwb-2009]

Posted by gingersnap19

While the "robo-calls" you quote may not constitute criminal offenses, they do constitute an attempt to slander, actionable in a civil court.

It would be a proper response to file a civil suit for damages, and not unreasonable to ask for the total campaign budget for the Democratic presidential candidate, plus punitive damages, I would say a total of about $350 million.

To use a strategy common to neocons, the suit should be filed in a heavily democrat state, with jurors select from a pool of people from all ethnicities, religions, and representatine of the general population''s economic status, 20% wealthy 30% middleclass, and 50% lower class.

Hit the GOP in the pockets, the only place they can actually feel pain, and they will be more careful in the future.

[ramos937]

One cure - reinstate the Fairness Doctrine by Executive Order. This would put Rush, Fox, etc out of business by requiring a host that champions one political point of view to also present the opposite side at the same time.

[gingersnap19]

Ausus, here is part two.

Now, let%u2019s look at other McCain-Palin ads, many of which ask %u201CWho is Barack Obama?%u201D and then flash across the screen: How Dishonorable, How Dangerous, and Too Risky for America.

Now, let%u2019s look at Sarah Palin who told supporters that Obama %u201Cpals around with terrorists,%u201D and that she is %u201Cjust so fearful%u201D that Obama is %u201Cnot a person who sees America like you and I see America.%u201D

Now, let%u2019s look at YouTube videos of supporters waiting to enter McCain-Palin events at Strongville, Ohio and Bethlehem, PA. These normal, regular Joe Americans know they are being filmed and have no problem stating that Senator Obama is a Muslim and a terrorist.

Now, let%u2019s look at the fact that President Bush declared a War on Terror after 3,000 Americans lost their lives on 9/11, and that %u201Cterrorists%u201D are either locked up in Guantanamo Bay or killed.

When your country is at war, it is no small thing to state that your political opponent works closely with your country%u2019s enemy.

Should the barbarians ever turn violent, the above is just a sampling of how a prosecutor could lay incitement of a hate crime at the feet of the McCain-Palin campaign.

[gingersnap19]

Ausus, sorry for not seeing your request earlier. I will probably have to split my answer into two posts.

In this one, let''s look at the robocall of the moment. "Hello. I''m calling for John McCain and the RNC [Republican National Committee] because you need to know that Barack Obama has worked closely with domestic terrorist Bill Ayers, whose organization bombed the U.S. Capitol, the Pentagon, a judge''s home and killed Americans. And Democrats will enact an extreme leftist agenda if they take control of Washington. Barack Obama and his Democratic allies lack the judgment to lead our country."

The Weather Underground liked to take credit for their horrible work but they did not claim responsibility for and were not convicted of the bombing of the judge''s house. Their crimes were many and indefensible, but the robocall does not stick with the facts, it adds an unproven allegation.

The second problem is that this statement does not identify how Obama and Ayers "worked closely together," thereby implying that Obama somehow participated in the same organization that "killed Americans." It also does not clarify that Obama was 8 years old when Ayers was making bombs. As a result, this robocall contains both an unproven allegation and attempts to mislead. It reinforces this attempt to mislead by referencing an %u201Cextreme leftist agenda%u201D in the second sentence.