McCain Sells His Soul: Hires Man Who Sunk His 2000 Campaign
John McCain has claimed that he believes "there is a special place in hell" for Tucker Eskew and the others who were behind the push-poll that implanted the idea in S.C. voters' minds in 2000 that he had fathered an illegitimate black child, but that sure didn't stop him from hiring Eskew to help prepare Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin.
Jake Tapper: McCain Hires GOP Operative Who Helped Smear Him in South Carolina in 2000
Former officials of Sen. John McCain's 2000 campaign expressed shock and disbelief Monday to learn than the GOP presidential nominee had hired South Carolina political consultant Tucker Eskew.
Eskew, along with Warren Tompkins and Neal Rhodes, were key members of then-Gov. George W. Bush's South Carolina team during the 2000 primaries. McCain and his team long held Bush, Tompkins, Rhodes and Eskew responsible for the various smears against McCain and his family in the Palmetto state during that contentious contest. [...]
Asked if the McCain campaign would have a comment about hiring one of the South Carolina strategists the senator and his 2000 campaign team once held responsible for smears against him, McCain 2008 spokesman Brian Rogers emailed, "No."
This shouldn't come as much of a surprise after McCain hired Rove's protegé two months ago and began running the negative campaign he pledged not to. There's apparently no depth of depravity that McCain won't stoop to and no issue he won't flip-flop on in an attempt to win this election.
I think McCain meant there's a special place in his heart.
Mental Note -- don't name any of my kids Tucker
Just how many wingtards named Tucker are there!?
J-Mac has learned his lesson well from watching Rove the Master at work these past 8 years - do whatever it takes.
Pandering her foreign travel..............
Palin spokeswoman said trips to Germany, Kuwait, and Ireland made up her foreign travel.
Two details worth clarifying:
The Ireland trip was a refeuling stop on her trip to military installations in Germany and Kuwait, spokeswoman Maria Comella said.
And she's also visited Canada, another spokesman, Ben Porritt, says.
McCain, Bush, Eskew and the rest of them can all follow Bin Laden through the gates of hell.
McCain is pro-environment. Since both he and Eskew "are going to Hell", he decided they'll carpool
Great. As if the McCain campaign hadn't been slinging enough slime. But, wait: MAVERICK!!! But, wait: POW!!!
that alone tells anyone who wants to hear it all about john McCain's character. Yes, he will lose this election. of that, there is no doubt. But in waging his campaign, he has given up any shred of integrity that he had left. He and bush truly are Gemini babies, spearated at birth only by a few years.
Oh, I remember this little gobshite from 2004. McCain's going Nuclear, folks.
Today's National Polls:
Gallup: OBAMA 50% - McCain 42% (First time O has hit 50%)
Rasmussen: OBAMA 48% - McCain 43% (with 'leaners' it's 51% - 45%)
Hotline/FD Poll: OBAMA 48% - McCain 39%
American Research Group: OBAMA 49% - McCain 43%
Is Wolf Blitzer and CNN still misleading their viewers by calling this thing a tie? If so, bombard Jack Cafferty with e-mails.
Tx @ 5:
Pathetic. Her debate experiences include Q&A at the Miss Alaska pageant.
Winning is everything....
and are you ready for this October surprise????
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1220186494776&pagename=JPost%...
Craven. McSame is a craven little man. My flesh crawls at the sight of him, his jerky stabbing gestures, nearly constant blinking, and whinny, pinched voice. Creepy. And now this. He is truly a desperate old man.
Wow....now that guy needs a face punchin...STAT!
I believe what one of the regulars over at Firedoglake said a few days ago. Pallin will most likely drop out and Lieberman or Romney will step in. (in the meantime the Republicans will pick up a few hundred thousand Pallin votes)
Karl rove is driving that bus. Let's hope they go over a cliff
yeah, wtf is it with the name 'tucker'?
i've always thought it was some bulls**t blue-blood family name. i always hear it pronounced with clenched teeth, ala thurston howell...
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he is truly embarrassing. And that is the other side speaking. His pick of the bombshell for his vp without properly researching either her credentials or her baggage is such an embarrassment to the GOP. Now they are tripping over themselves trying to repair the damage. This election is like a grown man beating up on a little kid.
what did you expect? McCain, in effect, told out his own daughter. But he sold her out, Part 1, when he went crawling to embrace George..those sickening photos of McC embracing George tell the whole nauseating story. This is just "sold his own daughter out, Part 2. makes perfect sense to me.
Blockbuster NY Times piece on the Sarah Palin vetting disaster
http://www.americablog.com/2008/09/ny-times-on-sarah-palin-vetting.html
Is this Tucker replacing the last Tucker who got his ass handed to him by Campbell Brown last night?
WTF..
Tucker is a horrid name... It must of been the CARTER of the late 60's and 70's.
Or it is as we have always suspected and these freaks are cloned in labs.
and then mcsame wonders why the press is starting to sour on him. moves like this only make it crystal clear that he has abandoned any pretense of character he once had.
No... he meant "hell."
As in hell = McCain's 2008 Campaign.
Birds of a feather...
Country Last.
The Bridge to Nowhere, traffic is a bit light today.
http://www.bgladd.com/McSameStore/McSameBridgeToNowhere.jpg
I swear McCain is a pod person.
new word otter @ 15:
clenched teeth, AKA "Larchmont Lockjaw", just like William F Buckley...
Just change the T to an F and there you have it...
"There's a Tucker born every minute."
I think that's how it goes.
no longer a proud american @ 8:
I still don't understand why so many people are convinced that McCain has already lost this election. Have you learned nothing from the last 8 years?
Ashbot put it very well -- McSame has become just a a desperate old man.
And I would almost feel a bit of pity if was not for the fact that the folks were not
reaping exactly what they have sown.
Boy, McKeating sure has a lot of class and self respect as well as respect for his family. These people have no ethical or moral standards.
Oh, as for the VP pick by the "experienced" and gifted McBush, my comments are as follows:
HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA
new word otter @ 15:
HEY! Thurston was cool. I'm willing to bet he was banging Ginger and Mary Ann on the side. Would explain why he was so relaxed most of the time.
rduke @ 20:
Or the name Parker...And Jameson...these names will always be associated with mean and petty people.
No...they're not cloned....they spawn like gremlins.
I've heard this guy on NPR. What a tool! BTW- Is the name Tucker now the admission price for getting into the Republican media-Tucker Carlsen, Tucker Bounds, and now Tucker Eschew! LMBO!
desperte times call for desperate measures.
winning is the goal.
country first. believe it.
Hahahahaha! McCain made some slimy remark a few months saying Obama wants the presidency at all costs. I don't remember the exact qoute but that is what it inferred.
Now who wants the presidency at all costs? That you would hire the man that smear your name AND probably emotionally hurt your adopted black daughter is down right despicable. Wait, despicable and desperate.
BTW why have there been no family photos of McCain? Could it be he that his campaign will go into full racist rants closer to the election and showing a family with a black child might make him appear callous?
Ya know...there really is no reason to comment today.
I'm just sittin', readin' and laughin' my ass off. The McCain campaign is going down in flames. Apropos.
Meet the Tuckers!
Another sign that your party is dominated by EWM disease (Elite-White-Male) disease is that they have like 10 guys named Tucker on staff.
Proves the total desperation, paranoia and real fear that is driving Reslugs now with McBush's horrible VP pick.
SARAH PALIN KILLED A MANS FAMILY!!!I HAVE PROOF HERE!!!
http://img166.imageshack.us/img166/7499/bullwinkleig5.jpg
Epic. Fail. McCain has no shame, zero.
You know it's a desperate move when you call in the scum who smeared your family and adopted child. McCain's choice of VP was his a signature moment proving HIS ability to make GOOD choices for THIS nation's future and HE FAILED MISERABLY. Now, they struggle to polish another turd, but they can't get rid of this stink! McCain couldn't make his own decision for VP and his lobbyist campaign advisor Charlie Black FIXED the Lieberman problem. Who doesn't think Karl Rove wasn't managing this all behind the scenes?! If McCain's elected, you'll know exactly who will be running the show and it won't be John McCain.
Sam are I @ 28:
Nobody is convinced McCain has already lost....liberals have been unbelievably restrained in these last couple of days. I don't know if it's down to past experiences or the the fact that Palingate still has people scratching their heads.
Once Obama crosses 50%...it is allll over.
The 29%ers have marginalized and destroyed the Republican Party. My heart goes out to true conservatives everywhere. You have my empathy...but not my sympathy.
You allowed this to happen. You let the lunatic fringe take over your Party and to drive it into ideological bankruptcy...and now the bill is due.
Sarcastro @ 3:
2 many.
listening to ed schultz, who is talking with richard vigary, who is extolling palin's promise for the party and how excited and happy the party is and all the money's just rollin' in...
and now this news... ... very worrisome, is all i can say at this point.
the only upside, maybe? if it really is "the fix is in" as i suspect, would they be working so hard?
good gawd... we've got to get the dems to the voting booths... in mass quantities...
OVERWHELMING DEMOCRATIC VOTER TURNOUT.
masha @ 34:
George Bush's historical epitaph will be defined by the size of the landslide in November.
Oh, I remember this little gobshite from 2004. McCain’s going Nuclear, folks.
Today’s National Polls:
Gallup: OBAMA 50% - McCain 42% (First time O has hit 50%)
Rasmussen: OBAMA 48% - McCain 43% (with ‘leaners’ it’s 51% - 45%)
Hotline/FD Poll: OBAMA 48% - McCain 39%
American Research Group: OBAMA 49% - McCain 43%
*****************
and this is cbs's new poll:
New CBS Poll… September 1st… Good news…
Poll: Obama/Biden Take Eight-Point Lead
(CBS) Democratic nominee Barack Obama’s lead over Republican John McCain has grown after the Democratic convention, which 71 percent of Americans say they watched. Obama and his running mate Joe Biden now lead McCain and Sarah Palin 48 percent to 40 percent, according to the latest CBS News poll.
This is the first CBS News poll to include the vice presidential candidates in the horserace question.
The eight-point lead for the Democratic ticket is up from Obama’s three-point lead before the convention. But there are still a significant number of voters who have yet to firmly make up their minds.
Before the Democratic convention, McCain enjoyed a 12-point advantage with independent voters, but now Obama leads among this group 43 percent to 37 percent. Obama’s lead among women has also grown to 14 points (50 percent to 36 percent), and the Democrat maintained the lead he had before the convention among voters who supported Senator Hillary Clinton in the Democratic primaries.
The poll shows an increase in the number of Obama voters who are enthusiastic about him. Sixty-seven percent of Obama voters say they enthusiastically support him, which is up from 48 percent who said so before the convention. About a quarter of McCain’s backers are enthusiastic about him–unchanged from before the Democratic convention.
Sixty-three percent of registered voters say Obama understands their needs and problems, while just 41 percent say that about McCain. And after the Democratic convention, 58 percent of voters say Obama is “tough enough,” which is up from 48 percent in early August.
************
Is Wolf Blitzer and CNN still misleading their viewers by calling this thing a tie? If so, bombard Jack Cafferty with e-mails.
yes, they are by the way ......... blizter was just spotted hysterically running to the local 7/11 because he ran out of his DEPENDS...that's why all the shuffling feet of his ... he ran out cause he has been using them overtime because he is literally scared to 'shit' that he will have to pay more taxes .. won't get his millionaire's tax break
Sarah Palin is a secret Muslim.
Pass it on.
John McCain is Bill Lumbergh
-GSD
PorridgeGun @ 9:
Let CNN continue putting the fear of god into America with this claim. If we relax and let up the pressure the cockroach could squeeze past Obama in November.
Palin is a nut job -War "task that is from God"
"Pray for our military men and women who are striving to do what is right. Also, for this country, that our leaders, our national leaders, are sending [U.S. soldiers] out on a task that is from God," she exhorted the congregants. "That's what we have to make sure that we're praying for, that there is a plan and that that plan is God's plan."
Great it's a "Holy War"
It all just gets better and better.
*cue banjoes
Marvin El Canucki @ 2:
Other really tacky names are "Track" and "Trig".
But apparently Palin believes, or told the press at least, that "Trig" is a Norse name that means 'strength'.
Which came as a great surprise to me, since I happen to know a bit of the language and couldn't recall any word meaning 'strength' that remotely resembles 'trig'. There is however the name, "Tryg(g)ve". From the adjective "trygg". Meaning 'secure' or 'loyal'.
What we have here, is an equivalent for names, of the person who goes and gets a tattoo of a badly-drawn chinese character that doesn't mean what they thought it did. Only the real victim is the kid who has to live with it..
Btw, Joe Biden is really getting under the skin of right-wingers, particularly Karl Rove and the FReeptards.
That's saying a lot considering nobody has seen much of Biden on the campaign trail since the convention. But apparently he's getting his little digs in.
Hiring this lying thug only reinforces the fact that McCain has no scruples. He cares about nothing but the task at hand and it's win at all costs, no matter who lies, cheats, steals (votes, tax money, retirement funds, anything really).
He is in plain truth, sociopathic if he can't see that there is anything wrong with this constant lying, killing, destructive; behavior.
Sociopathic. Another one. Bush Three.
I don't believe that McCain had any choice in bringing in Tucker Eskew anymore than I believe that Sarah Polin was his choice to be his running mate. At this point, McCain's ambition and desperation has caused him to sell his soul to radical religious nutjobs. Karl Rove is now in charge of damage control. Eskew was Rove's choice!
You can't make this stuff up. Watching the McCain campaign it looks like a train wreck in slow motion. Oddly though, when you watch the SAME McCain campaign through the eyes of the Lamestream Media (kudos IceStationTango.blogspot.com for that term) everything seems to be going perfectly smoothly.
America is simultaneously more connected and less connected than it has ever been.
EGAD, McCain!!! Battered Spouse Syndrome much? I almost feel sorry for you, Grumpypants!
McCain would hire the devil himself if the guy really existed. This bullshit about McCain being a fine person who would run an honorable campaign is just that, bullshit.
He is just as low down and cunning as any other republican has ever been. He does his grandpa act but beneath that he's just another crook who would do anything in the world to feed his own fu*king ego.
Palin was a gift from the gods. Now all we have to worry about is Diebold.
Tx @ 53:
Everyone in the country should see this little gem:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/02/palins-church-may-have-sh_n_123...
Let's see Tucker #12 spin this baby!
PorridgeGun @ 56:
Joe Biden is down here in Florida today. Sadly he's not near where I live. C-span carried a lot if not all of his speech today. The people in the room looked to be elderly but they sure did seem to like him. He didn't talk down to them at all. He was himself and it seemed to play real well with the crowd.
Seriously --- must watch this and pass it on. This little video makes it clear just how "fit" this woman is to be Commander in Chief.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/02/palins-church-may-have-sh_n_123...
The American PEOPLE...the middle class will be heard this November...and the sound of their voices will be Democratic.
After these hurricanes, the fallacy of offshore oil drilling will be revealed. There is no way to safely secure oil rigs and pipelines in major storms such as this. The oil companies will come to the government...for assistance...crying poverty...and they should be told to go fuck themselves. Energy prices will rise just in time for the start of the home heating season and just in time for the election. Gas will be back over $4.00 and Americans will be deciding between buying the Krispy Kreme donuts for the kids, or paying to have their home oil tank filled.
The pain will be real...and the cause of that pain is obvious. When Ronald Reagan came into office...he and the GOP Congress eliminated ALL the incentives for research into alternative fuels. Symbolically, he removed the solar panels which had been placed on the White House by the Carter Administration. The ensuing 28 years have been dominated by GOP Congresses in conjunction with 8 years of Reagan, and 12 years of Bushes...sucking the dick of the oil companies giving them everything they want. It has seen American manufacturing destroyed, jobs lost and never to return, higher education costs, the literal destruction of healthcare in America to the great joy and enrichment of doctors, lawyers and insurance companies, the destruction of unions which were one of the engines for improvement in workers' rights, fair pay, decent hours and working conditions...yes...I know...the trolls are going to start screaming about Clinton...well...I would point out that even with HARSH GOP opposition in the Congress...Bill Clinton reformed welfare (WITHOUT destroying the poor), created jobs in numbers that George Bush can only dream of, mixed military strength with diplomacy to expand American influence throughout the world, and eliminated the single greatest budget deficit in the history of the country...WITHOUT bankrupting business...and created the greatest budget surplus in the history of our country.
Anyone that thinks that more GOP policies are the solution to all our problems (which the GOP CREATED) are sadly, desperately in need of psychological assistance. But...they are entitled to their opinion. I say...fine...vote Republican...you will deserve everything you get.
If the public who support Obama think that he could win by a landslide, many of them might not show up to vote. God, we don't want that to happen. So if everyone thinks it's a tight race, that's fine by me.
........16 no longer a proud american Says: he is truly embarrassing. And that is the other side speaking. His pick of the bombshell for his vp without properly researching either her credentials or her baggage is such an embarrassment to the GOP. Now they are tripping over themselves trying to repair the damage. This election is like a grown man beating up on a little kid.......
Is anyone surprised? This is standard Bush style incompetence. By election day, Joe Biden will have hammered their incompetence into our heads -- just like THEY hammed Abu Musab al-Zarqawi into our heads.
pissed off patricia @ 66:
Largest turnout in Presidential election history. Mark my words.
katy @ 47:
Couldn't agree more. If nothing else, the Supreme Court and women's right to privacy is at stake. If it were Joe Lieberman at the top of the Democratic ticket it would still be important to get out and vote in record numbers.
Okay, maybe that's pushing it, but you get the gist.
I honestly think the Dems can get a Super Majority this election. At the very least they'll come extremely close.
"When a man has so far corrupted and prostituted the chastity of his
mind, as to subscribe his professional belief to things he does not believe; he
has prepared himself for the commission of every other crime."~Thomas
Paine "The Age of Reason" 1793
Hypocrisy thy name is republican!
enor @ 11:
Not yet sure this is what they have in mind, but there will be some reason to postpone or cancel the election.....Cheney forever....>
Dear Sarah,
Evangelicals keep reminding us that all sickness, disease, and suffering are the result of man's sin. It's the lord's punishment.
So tell us what you did to deserve a child with Down Syndrome. God must have been really pissed off at you.
PorridgeGun @ 69:
We have majorities NOW...we need to play the GOP game...screaming for "up or down" votes when necessary.
Play THEIR game...and watch THEM start whining like little bitches about "the rules".
srlsy
Dudes, ya'll are gonna stop calling this a trainwreck when you see how BRILLIANT the plan is. See, how it happens is this:
1. Sarah Palin's kid gets knocked up.
2. Wait a few weeks for every media outlet to soak up that juicy tidbit
3. Then a teary eyed Bristol Palin appears on every TV network (even Entertainment Tonite!) and says that thanks to her mother's careful guidance she found Jesus and will have that baby and marry the baby's daddy.
4. McCain/Palin win by a landslide.
Sheer genius I tell you.
Nothing personal....just business....
There's a common belief among human behaviorists that about 3% of males and 1% of females are sociopaths. Basically, they lack the ability to feel empathy, sympathy or remorse. Right and wrong are relatively meaningless so many end up in our prisons.
Those that don't... ;)
In the meantime, check out this post from Glenn Greenwald about the cops in Minneapolis going gestapo on Amy Goodman of "Democracy Now".
This is John McCain's convention folks. Greenwald has a video of Goodman being arrested and he said there is the biggest military presence there he's ever seen or heard of:
http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2008/09/01/protests/index.html?so...
Palin makes her speech tomorrow night at the convention. Will she the be the preacher, the hockey mom or the champion for drilling all over the freakin' country world?
......56 Porridge Gun says: Btw, Joe Biden is really getting under the skin of right-wingers, particularly Karl Rove and the FReeptards.......
Awwwww too bad for poor Duke Rove. He'll just have to live with it, now won't he?
In the interest of being fiscally responsible...the GOP is planning to announce that they will be replacing Sarah Palin as the VP nominee with Michael Palin.
pissed off patricia @ 78:
All of them...she's gonna talk about her views on teen pregnancy!
Have you guys noticed how often Palin is referred to as Senator Palin? I don't know if it's just an honest mistake or what. Thing is I never hear dems make the mistake.
I mean seriously, what is there to say?
WHITE TRASH ALERT!!! WHITE TRASH ALERT!!! WHITE TRASH ALERT!!!
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Centrocitta @ 79:
Joe Biden was the perfect choice. He is driving the loons to distraction.
What are the chances that McCain's soul mate has been living in Alaska all this time and he just now finds her?
WHITE TRASH ALERT!!! WHITE TRASH ALERT!!! WHITE TRASH ALERT!!!
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I'm not familiar with the culture of the Conservative Cult.
Tucker.
Anyone know how the 'T' is pronounced?
mcfuckhead and palin
trailor trash is trailor trash.
America is better than the gop picks
and America knows OBAMA is RIGHT for America.
Palin , the gift that keeps on givin...
Drip, drip, drip...
Palin's Lobbyist Has Abramoff Ties
Instead of helping the GOP, she's shining the light on the business-as-usual of the GOP. Liability?! McC: "Please Mitt, come back, come back!!"
dan @ 6:
all of them would have to follow bin laden, they
sure as hell have no directions......notice the bones in
their noses, the new reichwingneocon style.
Liberal AND Proud @ 68:
Hmm.. wouldn't go so far.. I'd settle for recent history. If for no other reason than unenthusiastic Republicans.
Turnout records were broken in state after state last spring. Amazing. Just look at the figures..
I just went and looked at.. Missouri. A pretty solid red state. But in their super-tuesday primary, both Obama and Clinton got more votes than the top two Republicans (McCain and Huckabee) combined. That would scare the shit out of me if I was a Republican!
In an even race, a 10% higher turnout on one side means a solid 5% advantage. I think it's quite possible a state or two might be taken by the Dems thanks to turnout alone.
Our media's eyes and ears (the MSM is not reporting about this) knocked to the ground and a police boot put on it's back. Our media's nose bloodied.
Democracy Now's Amy Goodman interviews journalist thrown in jail for doing their jobs. Pre-emptive raids. Break up protest before they happen. WTF
http://www.democracynow.org/
this is important. Great footage
Kathleen @ 95:
alert Crooks and liars bloggers
.......87 Liberal and Proud says: Joe Biden was the perfect choice. He is driving the loons to distraction.......
They ain't heard nothin yet! BTW Joe Biden has amazing "insight".
enor @ 12:
try to vote democrat this nov and the bush/cheney
blackwater gestapo will check your required voter
ID and if it's democratic, you will be immediately arrested.
*sigh* A man this stupid really shouldn't be in the office of the President delivering bottled water or sharpening pencils let alone sitting behind the desk with his finger on the OMG_WTF button.
If Grandpa McSame wasn't man enough to punch cowboy Bush in the face during the 2000 smear campaign, he won't have the cajones to deck the brains behind that smear. So, your children are fair game as well, McGranpa?
I've been waiting for this!
Soon, they'll try and smear Obama by whispering that he fathered a BLACK BABY!
Amitola @ 73:
I do think that this is bigger than 'troopergate','babygate', or the other issues we are all focusing on. This* will rip the whole thing apart.
Remember; winning is everything, even if another 200,000 or so have to die to keep them in power.
( I really didn't used to be so paranoid. )
How many douchebags named Tucker does the GOP have in politics?
I think McCain sold his soul earlier, when he voted to allow torture, but perhaps there are some shreds left he has left to sell, case in point...
Another "Tucker" to add to the list of idiots for the repugs; Tucker Carlson, Tucker Bounds, and now Tucker Eskew.
Centrocitta @ 97:
Just watch him. He is so much smarter than any of the reporters he faces and certainly knows the enemy very well and how to turn their own attacks on them.
When I see him smirk...it makes me smile...you can almost hear him thinking..."This is like shooting fish in a barrel".
In some ways, I am starting to feel sorry for McCain (but not enough to vote for him).
He wants to be President and has been on the campaign trail for years. He is really selling his soul to get there, an yet everything is going against him. Frankly, if he had run as who he really is (a socially liberal fiscal conservative with an outsider approach to Washington) he might just have had a chance. Rather, he embraced the dark side of the Force and is now caught. He must go forward and cannot go back and if, by some miracle, he wins he will discover that being President without a Soul is not to be desired (look at what we have now and consider his legacy).
ashabot @ 13:
And the ghastly forced smile.
Kathleen @ 96:
Yes, EVERYONE should take the time to either read the transcript or view the video
of Amy Goodman from Democracy Now...when she was trying to cover the protests
in Minn. Are we now becoming a "Police State?"...sure looks/sounds like it..Well, at
least when attending a Repug Convention..
GSD @ 52:
John McCain is 'Levi' -- Palin blackmailed him to giver her the VP slot.
Pass it on.
McCain is a coward. Sad really.
There is literally no stone left unturned that McCain will not embrace in order to fufill his delusional dream to occupy the White
House. While the voice in his head keeps screaming "eject, eject, eject!", against all reasonable and measured consul, he'll
keep it full throttle and plow into the nearest obstacle somehow believing that since it worked before, it'll work again.
kdaDDY @ 111:
And become a prisoner of his own delusions.
First the Palin pick (that panders heavily to Hillery-ites and the Religious Right), and then the hiring of Eskew.
McCain and (especially) Rove claimed Obama was someone "who'd do anything to get elected, even putting his own self interests ahead of the country".
Who does this describe NOW?
Dale @ 1:
Don't know why any of us should be surprised. McCain said 3 years ago in an extensive article on him in The New Yorker that he was going to use Rove in 08....
Sue @ 114:
"Keep your friends close, but keep your enemies closer...."
The RN convention has banners stating "Reform". O.K. You admit that it is necessary. Lets start now. Join the Democratic Party in enforcing the subpoenas to Rove and others. Show us this great commitment to "reform". Seriously, its just the ability to obfuscate the issue by the Repuglicans.
It would have been a bit more believable had you started earlier.
I don't mean to be unkind (yeah, sure), but do this man's eyes show there is no soul in there?
Tucker Eskew? Now the Republican are just trying to make me vomit.
Dave
Viet Nam Vet
McCain would throw his elderly mother under the bus if it meant winning. He claimed Obama wanted to see defeat in Iraq to insure his election. What a poor excuse for a human being. He could never understand that what he spouts is nothing more than projection of the idiot inside his being.
McCain has just gone from whore to super-whore. This is whoredom to truly heroic extremes. Henceforth, he shall be known as McSlut.
Is Tucker gay? If he isn't he should be, cause he's gotten gay written all over his face!
I will admit that the term "operative" has a certain sinister flavor but is it really sufficiently descriptive. Wouldn't "douchbagitive" or perhaps "scumbagitive" be a more appropriate neologism.
Not important, but I'm pretty sure that the past simple tense of "sink" is "sank" . . . not "sunk".
Well, due credit, he is hiring people who ran successful campaigns in 2000 and therefore have a proven track record. Even if he was the loser (still is, but that's another story ...). Also an indictment of his ethical code, given their tactics back then, but we knew what that code is anyway so no surprise there.
Widespread @ 124:
Ya think or thunk?
Sure, now we're going to hear that Obama's wife has a black baby.
Maybe not such a big deal. For McCain to benefit from this fixer he'd have to listen to him. I've got a feeling it's cracking through a hard shell to get past McCain's "maverick spontaneous" (but not very bright) ego.
He sold his soul a long time ago. Ralph Wiggum cowers in his presence.
Kathy in St. louis @ 118:
Get Dubya to check -- he did a heckuva job with Pooty-Poot.
Jess @ 128:
My favourite Wiggum clip -- April Fools when Homer opens a well shaken beer.
Eddie: That sounded like an explosion at the old Simpson place.
Chief Wiggum: Forget it. That's two blocks away.
Eddie: Looks like there's beer coming out of the chimney!
Chief Wiggum: (Gets out of car) I am proceeding on foot. Call in a Code 8.
Eddie: (Into radio) We need pretzels. Repeat, pretzels.
e.c. @ 22:
Move on people, nothing to see here. @ 116:
Their idea of 'Reform' means to make things worse, not better.
What's with all these f*ckers named 'Tucker'?
This is a great choice. If he sunk McCain's campaign once, he can do it again!
I absolutely hate pink skinned, fat faced, future double-chinned white guys with collegiate haircuts, not a hair out of place. they give people like me, pink skinned, fat faced, future double-chinned white guys with collegiate haircuts, not a hair out of place, a bad name.
I am not like him!
"Tucker" as in tuck it to the Democrat Party.
McToast, and good riddance.
This just shows there is no limit to how low McCain will stoop to become president. Disgusting and predictable. How does this instill faith in his leadership?
John McBush sold the tattered remnants of his soul long ago. This new development is not surprising in the least.
I'm really not a violent person but I'm afraid that if I was to ever meet Mr. Tucker Eskew in public, he'd go away missing a few teeth. Anyone who targets children for their own profit or pleasure deserves no less than a severe @ss kicking.
Make stuff up and lie and then do whatever it takes to win at all costs. The republican way. McSame is no different than W. McSame is more of GWB.
Republican talking point: Sarah Palin has more executive experience than Barack Obama.
Democrat counter point: Bush won his 1998 reelection race with a record 69 percent of the vote, becoming the first governor in Texas history to be elected to two consecutive four-year terms.
So, Palin has less executive experience than the popular two-term governor George Bush.
Bush's executive experience helped nothing. President Bush is now our most incompetent and failed president in modern history. Bush will not be welcomed a returning hero to Texas, because he is our most unpopular president in modern history.
Palin's executive experience means nothing. Palin = Bush
Republicans are continuous masters of distortion and misdirection.
Palin is another republican fabrication of distraction and lies.
Marvin El Canucki @ 126:
I thank.
OK, if you're stuck in quicksand, you don't struggle, which is what he's doing. He just hastened the process. What a moron!
Will there be a pro-Obama 527 group to run a push-poll to ask voters how they would feel if they knew McCain divorced his first wife after she was disfigured in a car accident, and then he married his adulterous lover?
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