I'm done with her

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Wed, 10-08-2008 - 2:01pm

Well, I am not defending Sarah Palin anymore.  I have tried to be neutral.  I have suggested that if she did a good job the next 4 years in Alaska, that she might be a great Republican candidate.  But after her attacks this week, I am done.  When I hear interviews with people leaving her rallies saying they are "afraid" of Barack Obama, saying they were on the fence before, but now they are "terrified" if Obama elected.  More and more people are calling him a terrorist.  We've seen these changes on this board this week.

She's either an idiot, or she is content to lead with fear and further fracture our country.  If she believes that for a second that Obama has a terrorist agenda, she's a dummy.  I don't think she believes it, however.  I think she is just throwing out the insinuations, letting people connect the dots, and come to the most vicious of conclusions.   I've heard her lastest battle cry referred to as "red meat" speeches, where she is throwing raw meat to the savage dogs to work them into a frenzy, throwing chum in the water to stir up the sharks. 

I can take this kinda crap from Hannity or Rush or Savage or any of the others.  But she is trying to be the VP - NOTHING about her this week has been either Presidential or remotely classy.   Will she use this same language about world leaders?  Will she say the same about our Secretary of State when they meet with "unfriendly" leaders?  Did Colin Powell or Condy Rice "pal around with terrorists"?  They have certainly met with some of the most controversial leaders in the world. 

I won't defend her any more.  I will not, as a Republican woman myself, support her if chooses to run on '12.  I will leave her to the dogs and let them attack.  I am ready for REAL change, and this type of race baiting, this type of insulting, unpatriotic dialogue about a STANDING US SENATOR, is beyond insulting.  I'm disappointed in her, in myself for supporting her, and this morning, as I listened to part of her speech, I actually threw up in my mouth a little.  Her words, her tone, and the response she created was disgusting.  I am done with her.




Edited 10/9/2008 4:00 am ET by lj_jacieb

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Fri, 10-10-2008 - 10:29am

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Fri, 10-10-2008 - 10:31am
I was thinking the same thing!
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Fri, 10-10-2008 - 11:09am
I voted for McCain in the 2000 primaries too... I wanted him over Bush... I have very little respect for him right now as he is not the same as he was back then. He's employing the same Rovian tactics that were used against him & I find that disgusting.


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Fri, 10-10-2008 - 12:08pm
What were you going to say?
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Fri, 10-10-2008 - 12:29pm

Too bad you can't see what sign I am giving you!!!!!!!!

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Fri, 10-10-2008 - 1:18pm

It appears that a former McCain strategist shares our concerns about the hateful direction of the campaign.


John Weaver, McCain’s former top strategist, said top Republicans have a responsibility to temper this behavior.

“People need to understand, for moral reasons and the protection of our civil society, the differences with Sen. Obama are ideological, based on clear differences on policy and a lack of experience compared to Sen. McCain,” Weaver said. “And from a purely practical political vantage point, please find me a swing voter, an undecided independent, or a torn female voter that finds an angry mob mentality attractive.”

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Fri, 10-10-2008 - 1:59pm

I wrote him in.

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Fri, 10-10-2008 - 6:55pm

A couple of follow-up articles to this week's nasty turn.

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Fri, 10-10-2008 - 7:04pm

This just in:


http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20081010/pl_afp/usvotemccain_081010224742;_ylt=As9uNuD7UoqZMIwX1VRN_UDCw5R4


LAKEVILLE, Minnesota (AFP) - Republican John McCain Friday urged his supporters to stop hurling abuse against Barack Obama at his rallies, saying he admired and respected his Democratic rival.


"We want to fight, and I will fight, but we will be respectful. I admire Senator Obama and his accomplishments and I will respect him," McCain said at a Minnesota rally.

"I want everyone to be respectful and let's make sure we are, because that is the way that politics should be conducted in America."


The tone at the rallies of McCain and his running mate Sarah Palin has become increasing inflammatory in recent days with shouts of "terrorist" and "liar" from the crowds directed against Obama. At one Florida rally, someone even shouted "kill him."


The stream of vicious attacks against Obama, who has left McCain trailing in the polls ahead of the November 4 poll, was ramped up at the weekend by Palin who accused the Chicago senator of "palling around with terrorists."


And McCain has taken to asking, "Who is the real Barack Obama?" leading one supporter in Pennsylvania to shout back, "he is a bomb."


THANK GOODNESS THE REAL JOHN MCCAIN FINALLY SHOWED UP AT A JOHN MCCAIN RALLY....


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LAKEVILLE, Minn. - The anger is getting raw at Republican rallies and John McCain is finally acting to tamp it down.


McCain was booed by his own supporters Friday when, in an abrupt switch from raising questions about Barack Obama's character, he described the Democrat as a "decent person and a person that you do not have to be scared of as president of the United States."


A sense of grievance spilling into rage has gripped some GOP events this week as McCain supporters see his presidential campaign lag against Obama. Some in the audience are making it personal, against the Democrat. Shouts of "traitor," "terrorist," "treason," "liar," and even "off with his head" have rung from the crowd at McCain and Sarah Palin rallies, and gone unchallenged by them.


McCain changed his tone Friday when supporters at a town hall pressed him to be rougher on Obama. A voter said, "The people here in Minnesota want to see a real fight." Another said Obama would lead the U.S. into socialism. Another said he did not want his unborn child raised in a country led by Obama.


"If you want a fight, we will fight," McCain said. "But we will be respectful. I admire Sen. Obama and his accomplishments." When people booed, he cut them off.


"I don't mean that has to reduce your ferocity," he said. "I just mean to say you have to be respectful."


Presidential candidates are accustomed to raucous rallies this close to Election Day and welcome the enthusiasm. But they are also traditionally monitors of sorts from the stage. Part of their job is to leaven proceedings if tempers run ragged and to rein in an out-of-bounds comment from the crowd.


Not so much this week, at GOP rallies in Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Florida and other states.


When a visibly angry McCain supporter in Waukesha, Wis., on Thursday told the candidate "I'm really mad" because of "socialists taking over the country," McCain stoked the sentiment. "I think I got the message," he said. "The gentleman is right." He went on to talk about Democrats in control of Congress.


On Friday, McCain rejected the bait.


"I don't trust Obama," a woman said. "I have read about him. He's an Arab."


McCain shook his head in disagreement, and said:


"No, ma'am. He's a decent, family man, citizen that I just happen to have disagreements with (him) on fundamental issues and that's what this campaign is all about."


The anti-Obama taunts and jeers are noticeably louder when McCain appears with Palin, a big draw for GOP social conservatives. She accused Obama this week of "palling around with terrorists" because of his past, loose association with a 1960s radical. If less directly, McCain, too, has sought to exploit Obama's Chicago neighborhood ties to William Ayers, while trying simultaneously to steer voters' attention to his plans for the financial crisis.


The Alaska governor did not campaign with McCain on Friday, and his rally in La Crosse, Wis., earlier Friday was much more subdued than those when the two campaigned together. Still, one woman shouted "traitor" when McCain told voters Obama would raise their taxes.


Volunteers worked up chants from the crowd of "U.S.A." and "John McCain, John McCain," in an apparent attempt to drown out boos and other displays of negative energy.


The Secret Service confirmed Friday that it had investigated an episode reported in The Washington Post in which someone in Palin's crowd in Clearwater, Fla., shouted "kill him," on Monday, meaning Obama. There was "no indication that there was anything directed at Obama," Secret Service spokesman Eric Zahren told AP. "We looked into it because we always operate in an atmosphere of an abundance of caution."


Palin, at a fundraiser in Ohio on Friday, told supporters "it's not negative and it's not mean-spirited" to scrutinize Obama's iffy associations.

But Kathleen Hall Jamieson, director of the Annenberg Public Policy Center at the University of Pennsylvania an author of 15 books on politics, says the vitriol has been encouraged by inflammatory words from the stage.

"Red-meat rhetoric elicits emotional responses in those already disposed by ads using words such as 'dangerous' 'dishonorable' and 'risky' to believe that the country would be endangered by election of the opposing candidate," she said.




Edited 10/10/2008 7:39 pm ET by lj_jacieb
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Fri, 10-10-2008 - 7:18pm

Thank you for saying that.

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