Obama said drop the daughter baby issue. Families are off-limits!!

There are plenty of other real issues to slam Palin on.

but this does beg the question...was she fully vetted...and I am 100% sure she was not...but im sure reporters are digging hard right now...so we will hear about it soon.

when Bush said kerry served admiralty..during the swift boat thing...it really helped..:sarcasm:

I suspect they are freaking now trying to figure out what to do next.

I know at this point that the people posting it have read the 700 other threads saying the same thing.

Time to move on to legitimate issues.

The fact that she is running on her parenting skills while preaching all of the James Dobson, abstinence only family values bullshit while her underage Daughter is pregnant is an issue. If she didn't want to make family values an issue maybe she shouldn't have ran with family values as her platform.

Here are a few to get you started:

-- abuse of power/troopergate
-- failed mayor/20M in debt
-- bridge to nowhere
-- connections to Ted Stevens' 527 organization
-- member of a radical political party that wants Alaska succession
-- wolf bounty and aerial hunting

those bible thumpers are too stupid to be anything but corrupt

when it comes to bedroom stuff, they are as pure as the driven snow

right?

Remember the awful stuff they were saying about Michelle. That seems to have calmed down a bit. I suspect Obama and McCain have made some sort of private agreement to try to squelch the family attack stuff. Lets respect that.

I'll respect that it was your fault

we are not going to let you republiCONS get away with anything so I say attack,attack,attack.

Probably longer than you. I signed the original petition to persuade Obama to run back in 2006. Your attitude is not helping Obama.

the rest of us are just shit.

I am a new member here but one thing that is disturbing is that so many DU folks are quick to attack each other. We are supposed to be on the same side -- right?? Surely we can disagree without claiming the other person is a Republican. I know there may be some here but I think we should give each other the benefit of the doubt.

People will treat you better.

Right??

Duly noted.

But for Moderator acting, amendment one hating douche-bags I'll make an exception.

if you can find any room!! :rofl: Real issues are cluttered up already.

I would love to be able to read his mind.

In fact, here's another bloody bucketful! Leave that alone too!
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let this one blow up in the McCain camp, not ours.

where's the jugular?

His family is perfect in every way and the Republican Party's Vice Presidential nominee's family is in crisis. Even Governor Palin's own spokesperson doesn't know what is going on. I think 48 more hours of the family stuff then we drop the policy issue stuff on her.

When you have this much, you fling it all at once, not in sequence. When you fling it all at once you overwhelm. When you parcel it out, you take away from the totality of its impact.

While I don't care much one way or another about Bristol being pregnant (it doesn't carry a big political kick, though it does contribute to the WTF? factor regarding Palin's selection -- my big concern is that it will become the only "scandal" the media cares to look at, in which case McCain/Palin get off scot-free), I do think the question of what was going on with that plane flight after the water broke has some merit, and the AIP story is just priceless. But the whole pile sould be pushed at once.

One qualification: if we were the campaign, and we found something really precious, like corruption amounting to a felony, I'd hold it back for about three days, and release it just as the initial pile was fading from the news. But we're not the campaign, and anything we find is, perforce, released to the public, so that tactic won't work for us.

The candidate and campaign can never come near the hot topics until the story has completely blown up. That doesn't mean to abandon them.

You and others who are timid souls should go back now, and leave the hardnose opposition work to those who have the stomach for it.

when I read what Obama said on this about famalies being off limits it hit me as one of the reasons why I support this guy. You need to get over the attack-mode and focus on what we are really fighting for. This is not about tearing down the opponent but more like converting the opponent.

I am a Honest_Abe a long time poster on WashingtonPost. I often repost DU material there so please don't criticize me for that -- it is for a good cause. Here is one of my posts from earlier today:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/01/AR2008090100710.html

Is that good enough?

thanks for your concern

it's duly noted

Hopefully all DUers will read it.

I'm sure if I really dig, I could find some examples of DUers being disrespectful towards Palin's family, but by and large, people are bringing up completely legitimate issues. Hell the news media is all over it (thanks in part to lefty blogs), and from what I've seen, this "bombshell" isn't spinning well for McCain/Palin.

If she can't stand the heat, she shoulda stayed the fuck out the kitchen. The "family values" crowd loves Palin and her family; if we can knock her down a few rungs by simply exposing the facts, I'm sure 17yr old Bristol will be fine.

He is our candidate and he wants us to drop it. This is not the style of politics that he wants to bring to this country.

He is doing the right thing. She is imploding all her own and in the process bring down McCain with her.

I asked you not to look. D'oh! You looked again!!