You called my best friend a nasty name! You take that back right now or I'll call you something worse!

It's so nice to have a media full of such mature, thoughtful people.

Was just on Glenn Beck (part 1 & part 2) but for some reason nobody questions if "Dr. No" is an epithet WRT Dr. Paul, probably because it fits too well. And everyone should think about sex or something irrelevant like name-calling & pay no attention to this graph.
JMR

The tax & spend drug war looks racist in the real world.

"The drumbeat of attacks could also undermine his argument that he will champion a new brand of politics."

I don't think that McCain said anything about a 'new brand of politics', what he said was he'll stick with his brand regardless.

Obama is the one who is hawking "change", which appaently refers to his policies and positions on issues being dependant on when he is asked and who is listening at the moment.

The day that "politician" became a career choice is the day we started losing the Republic. Let's get it back! Alan Keyes '08.

“Some Republicans worry …” “risks coming across as …” “in a way that could turn off some independents …” Oh, for God’s sake, get a frickin’ spine!

The problem with political consultants is that they can predict what the obvious voters will do, but they can’t predict what the irrational voters will do. In a close election, though, irrational voters make the difference. The “obvious” voters are the die-hard GOP and Democrat cores. You don’t need a pivot chart to predict who they’re going to vote for. But the election is still in suspense because there’s a whole lot of voters out there who haven’t made up their minds.

And my argument is that they’re not going to make up their minds any time soon. They will make up their minds in late October, or maybe just days before the election. Their vote will swing at the last minute, for any number of emotional and irrational reasons. Sure, if Obama is arrested for child pornography on November 2, that’ll change their minds. But what’s more likely to happen is that all those last-minute voters (if they don’t just flip a coin) will respond to their own individual peculiarities. Some people will be turned off by McCain’s blinking too much during interviews. Some people will be turned off by reports of Obama smoking. There are as many possibilities as there are last-minute voters … millions of possibilities. What I fear, but suspect is true, is that many of those last-minute voters will cast their votes strictly to fit in with the crowd. They will vote for whoever seems ahead at the time, to be part of the winning side.

Who knows? Political consultants will claim they know, but they don’t. They can’t say why last-minute voters decide because, let’s face it, last-minute voters don’t know themselves. That’s why these stories (which were obviously the result of reporters having a few drinks with the professional consultants) are so much deadweight. It’s consultants trying to sound like they know what’s going to happen, when they clearly don’t.

Did the NYT actually say "Tar" and "Obama" in the same story? Remember when Mitt Romney had to apologize for saying "tar baby", and this was headline news in one of the NYTimes papers (the Boston Globe) exactly two years ago today?

My, my -- just goes to show you it's not what you say, it's whose saying it, doesn't it?

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