OK, I need a "reality check." You mean to say that McCain beats Obama on ability to handle the situation in Iraq by only 2 points?????

Here's the scoop on the bitter primaries:  The NYT’s stock price has been in decline since W took office in 2001. Why? Because liberalism’s shrill voice grates on the American Public. No one likes to listen to angry people rant all the time about how bad everything is without any hint of good news or solutions with positive outcomes. Negative gossip and salacious stories must be balanced by positive outcomes and the knowledge that despite everything all will turn out well in the end. The NYT had that balance when Clinton was in power because they could at least propagandize “for” the Clinton admin even while covering “problems”. During the last 7 years with W, the NYT had no one to really propagandize for in government so they were left with only negatives.

Human nature is to turn away from hearing a continual stream of negatives when you are not personally involved in the outcome. Doom and gloom sells for the short term but it does not sell for the long term, people tune out. The NYT and the rest of the MSM’s only hope for survival is a Democrat President in the WH to propagandize for in a positive manner to balance off the doom and gloom.

Now on to McCaingate: The reason for the NYT hit piece on McCain is the liberal principle of “false moral equivalence”. We already know the Clinton’s scandal ridden history, Obama with virtually no record, a blank slate if you will, gave the Dems something to latch onto and propagandize without the baggage of the Clintons. The problem is the Clintons are not ready to go along with the program, they want 8 more years and are willing to sacrifice the Dem party future if necessary. The Clintons believe that the Dems will vote for anyone with D behind their name because of pride, so in their mind no matter how ugly the primary is and how sleazy they act, they will get votes in any event. The Clinton opposition research has dug up so much dirt on Obama that once all released, Obama will be no better than the Clintons.

The Dems were left with a problem, both of their candidates have major baggage which can not be swept back under the rug because we nasty Repubs won’t let them play the revisionist game without challenging it. So out comes the NYT hit piece on McCain to lower him to the same level of disrepute as Clinton and Obama. Once the public buys into the “all politicians are the same” premise then the negatives of Obama get cancelled out for the general election. The NYT fell on it’s sword in the hope that their actions would tip the balance enough that a Dem would win in 2008 and thus set the stage for financial recovery of the paper. Yes folks, the NYT made a crass financial gamble. If McCain wins in November the NYT is going belly up in 2009 or Sulzberger and the editors will be sacked to save the paper

 Lord Sidious / Darth Vader 2008  Long Live the Empire!  Come to the Dark Side, it is your Destiny.

Of course Dr. Paul's supporters don't support (*nod*) this kind of behavior (*wink*):

There are at least half a dozen examples of Paul graffiti in the city, and three more that have been scrubbed off already: on the
Penn Square monument, 3-foot-tall letters on the Lititz Pike bridge
near the Lancaster Stockyards, and on the concrete walls high up on
Lancaster Square.

...

Similar graffiti has been reported in Bentonville, Ark., where cops are on the lookout for someone who stenciled "Who is Ron Paul 2008?" on the National Guard Armory. Paul's name was also sprayed on
the Thurgood Marshall Middle School in San Diego, a train bridge in
Austin, Texas, and scores of other public places across the country,
according to media reports.

It's unclear whether the campaign is organized, but a blogger nicknamed "saveamerika" is running what he calls The Ron Paul Spraypaint Revolution, and has posted stencil images of the candidate to download and cut out.

Of course, these folks are the same ones who assure us they never spammed internet polls.

Fox News.com is reporting that Conservative writer William F. Buckley has died at age 82. 

No further details at this point.

*****

"People only insist that a debate stop when they are afraid of what might be learned if it continues." - George Will 

McCain appologizes for a conservative refering to Obama by his middle name.

http://ap.google.com...

"McCain wasn't on stage or, he says, in the building when Cunningham
made the comments, but he quickly distanced himself from the radio talk
show host after finishing his speech. McCain spoke to a couple hundred
people at Memorial Hall in downtown Cincinnati.

"I apologize for
it," McCain told reporters, addressing the issue before they had a
chance to ask the Arizona senator about Cunningham's comments."

How can he be this weak? Does Hillary or Hussein say they are sorry when someone slams McCain? NO they say they have nothing to do with it, and that person can say what they want.

Why is Hussein off limits anyway? It IS his middle name!

Let me get this straight, things off limits to talk about Obama:

His Name

His background growing up

Drug use

His political votes while a state politician

Possible Ties to Al Qaeda donors

Corruption ties to donors

His Patriotism

His stance on radical Islam

ect...

McCain WAKE UP! We Americans have things called rights, and free speach, you don't have to apologize for things others said! Besides that, maybe you should ask some of these questions yourself!

Things we can talk about:

Change

Hope

Terrorists want change too