Posts Tagged ‘Republican’

Only one Republican we know of, to his great credit then, joined in condemning Chambliss’ ad, calling it “worse than disgraceful” and “reprehensible.” That was Sen. John McCain. Does Chambliss, now destined for a Dec. 2 runoff with his Democratic challenger, Jim Martin, regret this 2002 attack ad?

You might think this is just a site put up by some drooling, beer-sodden creep in a trailer with an old sofa parked outside and plastic bags taped over its broken windows. Well, not quite. . .

“She doesn’t have any foreign policy credentials. You get a passport for the first time in your life last year? I mean, I don’t know what you can say. You can’t say anything.
. . .”I think they ought to be just honest about it and stop the nonsense about, ‘I look out my window and [...]

“On national security, the Republican Party advocates continuing to force thousands of young Americans to risk life and limb refereeing Iraq’s civil war. Though the party’s slogan hearkens back to conservatives’ ‘America First’ isolationism, the GOP nonetheless supports spending $12 billion a month on the war — money needed at home.
“Same story on economics. In [...]

With a cranky, sold-out septuagenarian and his flaky female sidekick to peddle, the McCain campaign has settled on a strategy of flooding the airwaves with falsehoods. Face it, as McCain’s handlers obviously have, honesty and openness will never win the White House for these Republican lamers.

States and companies count on a steady flow of federal highway funds raised through an 18.4-cents-per-gallon tax on gasoline. Cut or stop that money and projects stall, and companies can’t pay suppliers. Worse, up to 380,000 workers could go without paychecks . . .

Bush and Cheney are a sharp stick in our eye, and that’s what really counts with their political base.

We watched the Republican National Convention last night and tonight expecting the usual lies and distortions, and of course, speaker after speaker delivered.
Fred Thompson, fully awake and engaged for once, spouted an especially outrageous lie, saying Democrats in Congress had threatened to cut off funding for our troops. That never happened, it’s just the way [...]

Turns out Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, Sen. John McCain’s vice presidential running mate, has more baggage than an airport carrousel at rush hour. We’re finding out by the day what a slipshod vetting McCain and his people did, and how flaky his judgment is — not what this country needs in a president.

Today, we learn that a year after becoming mayor of small-town Wasilla, Alaska, Palin hired a legal/lobbying firm to seek federal funds. Within a year, federal taxpayers’ money came rolling into Palin’s population 5,000 town, eventually adding up to $26.9 million.