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Gatsby
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Well, I think McCain-Palin have the redneck vote pretty much sewed up, judging from recent posts.
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| Palin has backed the pipeline link that goes through Alberta and favors Trans Canada Pipeline as the carrier. |
So did Jimmy Carter. Permits were issued during his administration for a pipeline down this route.
But then he was a pro-choice liberal commie by some poster's standards, so not worth mentioning, I suppose.
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mithridates
Joined: 03 Mar 2003
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| Posted: Wed Sep 03, 2008 6:24 am Post subject: |
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| mises wrote: |
It fits more than that. The religious fundamentalism, the personable and very public persona, outdoors type, out of the mainstream, from the middle of nowhere, poorly educated, loose ties to separatist organizations and a good amount of popularity in their home province/state.
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Good point. I guess my analogy was even more apt than I realized. |
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mises
Joined: 05 Nov 2007
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| Posted: Wed Sep 03, 2008 6:28 am Post subject: |
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Day has been a reasonably good minister with what I'm sure is very aggressive handling from his buddy Harper.
Anyways, back to Palin.
http://www.reason.com/convention2008/show/128537.html
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Sean Hannity, referring to the attacks on Palin on his show Monday night:
...they tried to make the attack that she has a young daughter, pregnant and engaged. Is that fair that they would attack that? I mean, I don't remember Chelsea Clinton being attacked. I don't remember Al Gore's children being attacked. I thought there was a general rule that children of candidates ought to be left alone.
Here's none other than John McCain, wowing them at a GOP fundraiser, circa 1998:
Why is Chelsea Clinton so ugly?
Because Janet Reno is her father!
Chelsea Clinton was 13 at the time. Going to need a new set of talking points, Sean. |
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contrarian
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| Posted: Wed Sep 03, 2008 6:32 am Post subject: |
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Idiocy - Drew Cary - 'nuff said.
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Gatsby
Joined: 09 Feb 2007
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| Posted: Wed Sep 03, 2008 6:39 am Post subject: |
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Wow! Levi Johnston's coming to the convention?
Who's Levi Johnston?
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Levi Johnston is on his way to join Palins at convention
By RACHEL D'ORO
The Associated Press
(09/03/08 01:50:37)
WASILLA -- The boyfriend of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's unwed, pregnant daughter will join the family of the Republican vice presidential candidate at the GOP convention in St. Paul, Minn.
Levi Johnston's mother said her 18-year-old son left Alaska Tuesday morning to join the Palin family at the convention where Sen. John McCain will officially receive the Republican nomination for president. The boy's mother, Sherry Johnston, said there had been no pressure put on her son to marry 17-year-old Bristol Palin and the two teens had made plans to wed before it was known she was pregnant.
"This is just a bonus," Johnston said.
The young man's presence could set off a media frenzy around the young couple as photographers and cameramen scramble for pictures of the two teenagers. On Monday, Palin and her husband, Todd, said their 17-year-old daughter, Bristol, planned to have the baby and wed a young man identified only as Levi. The family asked the media to respect the young couple's privacy as has been the tradition with children of candidates. |
http://www.adn.com/sarah-palin/story/514171.html
I don't get it. I thought knocking up a teenage girl out of wedlock is something to be ashamed of.
I have nothing against sex. But you don't go getting high school girls pregnant. And you don't wait five months to talk about marriage. This guy is pure redneck scum. I can't believe the Republicans would let him within a thousand miles of the convention. |
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mises
Joined: 05 Nov 2007
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| Posted: Wed Sep 03, 2008 6:47 am Post subject: |
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| His myspace says "I'm a fucking redneck!". "If you *beep* with me I'll *beep* you up" etc. I'm surprised this stuff was not vetted and deleted. A white trash Brady Bunch. |
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contrarian
Joined: 20 Jan 2007
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| Posted: Wed Sep 03, 2008 6:50 am Post subject: |
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| A redkneck is defined in Alberta; as a man that works for a living and pays his taxes. I wonder why so Many Canadians get so worked up over the American election. |
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mises
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| Posted: Wed Sep 03, 2008 6:52 am Post subject: |
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| No, in Alberta that is a bluecollar man. A redneck is uncultured, uncouth, unwashed and ignorant. Drink some beer and kick some ass. ATV trips with a fordy pounder eh! |
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contrarian
Joined: 20 Jan 2007
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| Posted: Wed Sep 03, 2008 6:53 am Post subject: |
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| mises you have no concept of the real Alberta. What's a rig pig? |
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Gatsby
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mises
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| Posted: Wed Sep 03, 2008 7:03 am Post subject: |
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| I'm from Alberta. Lived on a ranch for 14 years. Was in 4-H. A rig pig is the hairy redneck that ruins an otherwise good night in the pub with his hootin' and hollarin. |
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contrarian
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Oh wow! 4H and 14 years? Me BS detector is a twitchin'
a rig pig is a guy that works on the rigs. My middle son, who is in the Canadian Army and scheduled for Afghanistan in January, worked on the deep hole rigs in the foorhills. |
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bucheon bum
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So I was reading comments to Maureen O'Dowd's latest column and found this gem:
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| I think, as far as the McCain campaign goes, the pregnancy of Bristol Palin means one of two things: 1) McCain didn't know about it and Palin didn't tell him, so he's less than brilliant and she's less than honest; or 2) Palin did tell McCain, and they both decided it was OK to expose a 17-year-old kid to the ensuing publicity, which makes them both disgustingly selfish. |
Think that sums it up well. |
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Joo Rip Gwa Rhhee
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September 3, 2008
NYT Issues Retraction
Posted by BLAKE DVORAK | E-Mail This | Permalink | Email Author
ST. PAUL -- Yesterday the McCain camp hit back hard on this front-page NYT story by Elisabeth Bumiller reporting that Sarah Palin had been a member of the Alaska Independence Party in the 1990s. Today, the paper writes:
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A front-page story in The New York Times on Tuesday and articles in other news media reported that Ms. Palin was a member of the Alaska Independence Party for two years in the 1990's.
The information in the Times article was based on a statement issued Monday night by Lynette Clark, the party's chairwoman, who said that Ms. Palin joined the party in 1994 and in 1996 changed her registration to Republican.
On Tuesday night, Ms. Clark said that her initial statement was incorrect and had been based on erroneous information provided by another member of the party whom she declined to identify. The McCain campaign also disputed the Times report, saying that Ms. Palin had been registered consistently as a Republican.
After checking the party's archives, Ms. Clark said that she could find no documentation that Governor Palin had been a member of the party. She said Ms. Palin attended the party's 1994 and 2006 conventions and provided a video-taped address as governor to the 2008 convention |
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However, Bumiller, according to Howard Kurtz today, remains "completely confident about the story."
To which McCain blogger Michael Goldfarb responds:
She is completely confident in the word of a single source who has since retracted her claims? What kind of operation are the editors at the Times running?
http://time-blog.com/real_clear_politics/2008/09/nyt_issues_retraction.html |
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On the other hand
Joined: 19 Apr 2003
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| Posted: Wed Sep 03, 2008 9:34 am Post subject: |
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I think McCain has no choice but to keep Palin now. If he ditched her, all the evangelical Christians would sit this one out -- unless he could find someone even more conservative.
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I'm not as up on the GOP aftermath as I should be. Can anyone explain why Huckabee wasn't a viable option? He's evangelical, and has way more experience than Palin, albeit all at the state level. Plus, he was well-liked, and relatively hip as I understand.
Maybe McCain really did want a female to poach disgruntled Hillary supporters. But the more I see of Palin, the less it seems plausible that McCain could have believed she would appeal to feminist Democrats. |
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