Please read, & then go hug your children tight -- "The Palin-Whatshisname Ticket" by Frank Rich

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Please read, & then go hug your children tight -- "The Palin-Whatshisname Ticket" by Frank Rich

In her acceptance speech, Palin quoted "a rabid Joe McCarthyite who loathed F.D.R. and Ike and tirelessly advanced the theory that American Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe (�geese,� he called them) were all likely Communists."

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No longer able to remember his principles any better than he can distinguish between Sunnis and Shia, McCain stands revealed as a guy who can be easily rolled by anyone who sells him a plan for �victory,� whether in Iraq or in Michigan. A McCain victory on Election Day will usher in a Palin presidency, with McCain serving as a transitional front man, an even weaker Bush to her Cheney.

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http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/14/opinion/14rich.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

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Rosa Luxemburg

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Sat Sep-13-08 09:58 PM
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1. Has Anyone asked McCain/Palin about their proposed draft?

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GreenPartyVoter

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Sat Sep-13-08 10:00 PM
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2. Someone better do it soon. That might wake up a few of their voters

(not many, but a few)

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Rosa Luxemburg

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Sun Sep-14-08 08:19 AM
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6. this would certainly scare

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lonestarnot

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Sat Sep-13-08 10:05 PM
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3. Or who is in their axis of evil?

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csziggy

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Sat Sep-13-08 10:19 PM
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4. We need to pay attention to the quote from Karl Rove in the article

How do you run against that flashy flimflam? You don�t. Karl Rove for once gave the Democrats a real tip rather than a bum steer when he wrote last week that if Obama wants to win, �he needs to remember he�s running against John McCain for president,� not Palin for vice president. Obama should keep stepping up the blitz on McCain�s flip-flops, confusion, ignorance and blurriness on major issues (from education to an exit date from Iraq), rather than her gaffes and r�sum�. If he focuses voters on the 2008 McCain, the Palin question will take care of itself.

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ColbertWatcher

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Sat Sep-13-08 11:02 PM
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5. At some point we have to look at GOP candidates and say enough is enough.

We know they're liars and thieves and sociopaths.

They're going to continue to lie and steal.

Question is: what are we going to do?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=3994682&mesg_id=3994682

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eleny

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Sun Sep-14-08 02:03 PM
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7. recommended - for one of the most important columns of today

Thanks so much for bringing it to our attention. I had no idea who she was quoting in her acceptance speech except for the Truman reference. The ideologues behind Palin make my blood run like ice.

:cry:

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Rosa Luxemburg

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Sun Sep-14-08 07:40 PM
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8. I'm surprised people here haven't recommended this post

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