Rage
By Ani on September 3, 2008 at 4:30 PM in Barack Obama, Current Affairs, Democratic Party, Democrats Against Obama, Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden, John Kerry, John McCain, Misogyny, Sarah Palin, Sexism, Wes Clark
These past eight years, every time I saw George Bush on television or heard one of his idiotic sound bytes, I felt the bile rise in my throat. What horrid nonsense is this snake oil salesman spewing now? What other inanity can spring forth to pretend the economy is fine or that we can say “Mission Accomplished” about Iraq? And if he says the word ‘nuke-u-lar’ one more time, I will scream!!
At the start of 2008, I felt buoyed by a sense of hope. I took out the “Bush” countdown calendar someone had given my husband and actually started leafing through it. This was challenging in itself, because, unlike some stand-ups who use Bush-isms to provide endless fodder for their comic diatribes, I could not laugh. What he and his cabal have done to this country is too sad to be funny.
I was elated in January. Change is on the way. Hope is on the way. But hope for change did not come in the package of Mr. Hopey-Changey, Senator Obama, because it took me about ten seconds to figure out he was another snake oil salesman just like George Bush.
Hope for change was my Joan of Arc in a pantsuit, Senator Hillary Clinton.
Let’s not rehash the horror show of the last eight months. You can recite it yourselves in glorious detail, I am sure. My joy at the prospect of good, true Democratic leadership has been ruined. So let’s move on to what’s left and pick up the pieces. I have to look at the Democratic Party objectively, for the first time in my life, I might add, and ask myself if the corrupt fixers who are now in charge of the henhouse have anything to offer me.
Let’s see what they did offer me after kicking Hillary in the teeth in favor of the endlessly dissembling Barack:
1. Get over it.
2. Where else are you gonna go?
3. Vote for us or they’ll overturn Roe v. Wade.
4. Vote for us or they’ll appoint 8 more Scalias to the bench.
5. Vote for us or we’ll call you racist.
Nice.
I’m supposed to vote for a man guilty of filthy campaign tactics who has never governed anything, and spent 143 days in the Senate before running for President; something he said he would not do. I’m supposed to vote for a man who won’t produce his own birth certificate, medical records, senate or college records yet demands everybody else stand up and account for themselves thoroughly. Someone who flip flops on everything he ever stood for and appoints as his VP a good ol’ sexist of the Senate with a lobbyist for a son.
And now I am supposed to stand with a party that is vilifying, demonizing and trashing yet another woman – Governor Sarah Palin. And they are dragging her seventeen year old daughter through the mud. And they are dragging Governor Palin’s child with Down Syndrome through the mud as well.
I may never be a Republican, but both Senator McCain and Governor Palin have already shown they’ve got lots of grit in taking on the big boys and corruption. Whether I agree with their agenda or not, they each have more character in their little finger that Senator Obama does in his whole body.
It is not important to me that our leaders agree with me at all times. It is important that they can and are willing to make a good case to me for what they believe and what they are doing. It is important that our elected officials have a spine, and character to do the right thing when the going gets tough. We don’t have to agree on every issue to move this country forward.
Obama promising to filibuster FISA in February and capitulating six months later told me all I need to know about his grit, his honesty, his character – or his lack of all three.
I don’t need another Bush in office. Guess what? Obama is Bush3, a man lacking in humility. No one is anointed by God. I don’t need someone so arrogant that he does not bother to do his homework and suppresses all dissenting voices by playing the race card continuously. Nor do I need a leader who advocates gutting someone and pretends he had nothing to do with it, standing nobly above the fray with his nose in the air.
Rage. I feel rage.
Senator Obama and Pelosi, Dean, Brazile, Kerry, Richardson, Edwards, Dodd, Kennedy, Rockefeller, Reid, Clyburn et al have accomplished something I didn’t think any Democrat could ever accomplish.
They have enraged me MORE than George Bush.
Impossible you say? Let’s think about it. I expected to be betrayed by George Bush. I smelled that he is not a man of good character, therefore I was not surprised.
I did not expect my ideals to be betrayed by the Party that taught them to me.
We’re supposed to be the good guys: Democrats. Not the sexists. Not the demagogues. Not the liars. We are supposed to stand for something. When any Democrat goes the way of Rove-ian tactics and starts sounding more like Ann Coulter than anybody I’d recognize, I’d say it’s time to leave the Party. And I did.
I will not stand with anyone who stands for this type of behavior. There is an element of this Party that no longer represents anyone’s interests but their own. They have become what they abhor. If I vote for them or with them, then I become what I abhor, too.
I will not do it.
A dear friend, albeit a very apolitical one, just innocently passed along some propaganda about Palin that she received from MoveOn.org. I wrote back and set her straight. It is shocking to me that people who are so used to thinking that EVERY Republican is evil could never believe that ANY Democrat COULD be also. Hopefully, enough people will do their homework and find the real information before it’s too late.
The truth about McCain and Palin’s actions, policies, beliefs and record is nothing like the crap being spewed by the likes of the far left at the moment. But how to convince some of the blinded, kool-aid drinking Democrats, who, desperate for a win at any cost, have decided to adopt the filthy tactics of those such as Rove that got us here in the first place. And those desperate Democrats have taken to eating their own, as in the case of Hillary, or Wes Clark for that matter.
I remember the week before the 2004 Election, Wes Clark, Kevin Costner and Richard Belzer were the panelists on Real Time with Bill Maher – back when I watched that sexist pig’s show – before his sexism was as blatant. Wes took on Bush in a way I had never seen before, which was great and most everyone else was Bush-bashing and encouraging us all to vote for Kerry.
Costner, who I considered at the time to be a bit of an arrogant ass, was advocating voting for Nader and said that he might do so “if he had the balls”. I rejected this notion, saying it would be a wasted vote. He, too, like Nader, felt the parties were too similar and were both corrupt and too beholden to corporate interests.
Wow. If I had known then what I know now!
While I would not vote for Nader then or now, I owe Kevin an apology. He made a very good point: Sometimes you have to lose to win. He also felt that a President should run for only one term – without having the obligation of getting re-elected. That person could just get in there, clean up and be beholden to no one. Ironic that’s what McCain, the conservative maverick, says he wants to do. Picking Palin, the conservative spitfire reformer, was certainly a maverick move, too.
I’m not advocating voting one way or the other. Hey, McCain could be lying, too. But he certainly has a record of working across the aisle and of being a lot more honorable than my other choice.
And my rage tells me that if I acquiesce and vote for the sexist, homophobic, inexperienced liar Obama and put up with the DNC’s treatment of all of us – we render ourselves powerless. Our votes, our participation mean nothing.
We send the message that, not only can the Republicans game an election, the Democrats can do the same. Worse, we send the message that we will put up with it. And just keep bloggin’ on our blackberry and fillin’ up our gas tank and watchin’ American Idol.
No.
That’s not the America I know. That’s not the America I want to live in.
If I have to lose to win, so be it. A lesson must be taught and those with integrity must be encouraged. I can think of no better way to do that than to send every corrupt thug packing on November 4th.
I love the way you said that!
McCain/Palin ‘08
Hillary ‘12
McPUMA member # 11 of 12
Alleged right wing troll and faux Democrat
Here is Newt Gingrich ripping MSNBC hack reporter Ron Allen when Allen tries to play the ‘resume’ card on Sarah Palin.
Barack Obama, you and your cronies at MSNBC are finished:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGJnKl8HTBo
That is great!!! Thanks to Paul V.
Thank you, Mountain Girl.
Here’s another new video from Team McCain for Ohio, ‘Recovery:’
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f69Jqy8meQc
Barack Obama — NOT ready to lead.
McCain/Palin ‘08
With all due respect I do not quite get the connection about drilling and Ohio economic recovery. You could maybe make that argument but it is a stretch. But I like that they are challenging whether O has any ideas.
Please don’t let the US drill for oil off its own coasts. Let the Chinese drill for oil off Cuba’s coast and ship it back to Beijing or maybe sell it back to us if we obey stinky’s New World Agenda.
Thank you Paul!
Yeah, he’s not going to debate because he has nothing to debate with. What’s he going to say? He was a community organizer that ran and took full credit from those that worked their whole lives on the issues he took credit for? That he ran off with 25 bills Jones handed to him he did ZERO of the work on? Irking off those senators so bad they made sure to go public with it. That he campaigned for his cousin in Kenya? Which there is plenty of proof of, and that now his cousin stands accused of genocide because he lost the election and over 600 men, women and children were burned alive….That he claimed Ayers was just some guy in a neighborhood. Whom he helped to distribute more than 100 million dollar with. That there were a ton of articles out on Rezko and that he was being investigated so Obama knew, and still went ahead and did he shady land deal with him…That Farrakhan calls him the savior?? That he sat in Wrights church for 20 years listening to Black Liberation Theology being taught, then subjected his children to it. A belief that hides under the guise of a religion the same as the Skinheads try to do, which makes him just as dangerous. The KKK. That is just as racist. What???
And I thought that if you have campaigned for someone from a foreign country that this makes you ineligible to be POTUS. Why doesn’t anyone make a deal out of this? I believe that if you really looked into all of this you would find him ineligible, not just unqualified.
The Obots are so ignorant!
They have no idea WHAT they are trying to defend..when they try..mostly all they do is engage in personal attacks.
Keep it coming…they are helping sink the FAKE: OBAMA..The LEAST QUALIFIED INDIVIDUAL TO RUN FOR POTUS!!
And may I add…the LEAST individual I would recognize as being representative of a true AA
Say! Thats a PUMA TALKING POINT NEWT!
“you name one thing for me that Obama has accomplished???”
LMAO
This is powerfully said and if I still had a way with words the way I used to (30 years ago), people would have said I wrote it! Rage on… you’re not alone.
I am with you all the way. This is not the Democratic Pary I knew and it is certainly not the America I thought I knew. Rage and horror and shock - those are the emotions that are roiling and I will not abide these sexist pigs any longer.
Obamacrats must be excised from my Party and all those good old boys put out to pasture. I am working in VT to elect a woman governor and local Dems who remain anti Obama and pro Hillary. All down ticket Dems that are part of this misogyny and sexism will feel my wrath; this is sickening.
Americans must be excised from your party?
This is still America. I am full of rage that people can truly still think that McCain will not be more of the same. Let’s wait four more years and then see what this country looks like. Just because someone does not agree with the McCain/Palin policy does not make them sexist. She is not qualified. Has nothing to do with the fact that she is a woman.
I am outraged at the treatment of Hillary as well but will never vote for another republican at the expense of this country just to try to “send a message”. All that says to the repubs is continue your garbage, we don’t care.
The reformer you talk about, hired a lobbyist to work for her in Wasilla in order to get those earmarks she wanted.
Never mind he was chief of staff for Ted Stevens and was a client of Jack Abramoff. Yes, this is the reformer we need in America. More of the same corrupt hypocrites.
Where’d you get your info seasiren? Did you consider the source?
Yes, I would not have brought it up other wise.In her years as mayor of Wasilla, Palin oversaw the hiring of Robertson, Monagle & Eastaugh, an Anchorage-based law firm with close ties to Alaska’s most senior Republicans: Rep. Don Young and Sen. Ted Stevens, who was indicted in July for allegedly accepting illegal gifts. The Wasilla account was handled by the former chief of staff to Stevens, Steven W. Silver, who is also a client of Jack Abramoff’s now debunked firm. This is all public record and the fact he was able to lbooy for 27 million dollars on her behalf.
I’ve been spending the day reading about Palin at mudflats.wordpress.com, an Alaska blog. She’s an awful person — born again and pushy about it, ruthless, secretive, corrupt, vindictive, a pratitioner of government by crony. A real Republican. (Disclaimer: I am not an Obamacan. But she’s truly awful too.)
I just want to say, don’t fall in love with McCain/Palin. There is nobody to vote for.
What politician have not dealt with lobbyists? Even *gasp* the pretentious one, who got dirty money to buy his own house. Now that’s audacity of corruption. Palin got rid of the old guys, that’s reform enough for someone running for a VP. VP, get it, not the Prez. And don’t give me the “one heart beat” crap. Reagon got through eight years, even though many wished he wouldn’t.
That wasn’t a lobbyist, that was a criminal.
Pull your head out of you tuckus and think for yourself. Sucking the big lie at Daily Kos is not courage, sister.
We have to reclaim our true traditional Democratic Party.
Rid ourselves of these far leftist Hate-all-that-is-America individuals.
As the Repubs must rid themselves of the far right My-God-or-Else nuts.
Country FIRST
Constitution FIRST
Extremists never do anybody any good. The way Obie’s Dems are behaving now is irrational.
Will Women/Men Let This Happen Again?
Watch this video, see how they trashed, insulted and denigrate Hillary
http://countusout.wordpress.com/
We will not forget what they did to Hillary
NEVER
On November 4th..ALL WILL HEAR OUR VOICE
Exactly so.
They showed how they really feel about all women. Dems have been holding women hostage to Roe v. Wade for years.
If they didn’t overturn it under Reagan or Bush I or II, certainly McCain, a more moderate person, will not.
Especially when he knows he will be getting elected on the backs of Hillary supporters too disgusted with their own party and Obama’s lack of qualifications to vote for him.
Well said. We may have to lose to win, but at this point, what do we have to lose?
Bravo! You have put into words what I (we) feel. I am sending this article to my sister-in-law, a die-hard democrat who supported Hillary but will vote for Obama. My brother is so upset with me that I am not supporting Obama, saying we will lose the Courts if all dems do not vote for him (he too supported Hillary but is okay with Obama). I have not been able to get through to them how I (we) feel about Hillary losing the election. It is so much more than that. If she had lost fairly, that would have been different. But to have had to watch this horror show the past 8 months is beyond sickening. Having worked as a volunteer for Hillary and seen things “behind the scenes” so to speak, many average voters still do not have a clue as to what went on. How the DNC sunk to Rovian style depths to steal the primary and annoint their favorite son. If Obama had any qualifications I might even consider voting for him even after all that. But he is my senator from IL and I know first hand how totally useless he is and how incompetent, deceptive, and deceitful he has been. THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THIS ARTICLE. It is good, and sad, and awful that we have come to this place where we are actually considering voting for John McCain, or not voting, in this election.
DITTO!!!!
Thank you so much for putting EVERYTHING in an easy read post! I will be sending this out to MANY people…to explain what I feel.
This I hope will influence people.
McCain ‘08 (or Hillary by an unknown yet to be identified force - I can never give up)
Hillary ‘12
Might be interesting in 2012 to have Hillary and Palin running for the first Woman President!
McCain will be one term.
Susan B
I so agree with you about BO. He is my senator as well. I am completely disgusted with the deception and bad behavior he has engaged in. I decided that the Green Party - Cynthia McKinney/Rosa Clmente - has my vote.
I have a friend who has tried to tell me about the ugliness of both the Dems and the Reps. It took this year, and this candidate in particular, to teach me the lesson my friend had been attempting to teach me all along. And I am enraged beyond all words. Enraged at the Democrats who stood behind the smears and the lies and the marginalizing, and the blatant disrespect and disregard shown toward you and me and Hillary and our nation.
So this Illinois voter will thumb my nose at Obama and Biden. And I will cast the vote that I own for the Green Party and the candidates who represent it.
(see themountainsage.wordpress.com for August 30)
As Morris says..
The backlash will be massive!
Well stated. I cannot in good conscience vote for Obama. After what I saw first hand at my caucus…they resorted to what amounts to dirty pool. I thought we were the better party because we didn’t roll around in the mud like the Rovian Republicans. Republicans in my view, should have punished Rove for his behavior. Well Axelrod and Barky are about to get spanked. No Obama, no how, no way.
they resorted to what amounts to dirty pool.
I think bambi has to run the table in the swing states, and I don’t think this is likely to happen.
To use another pool analogy.
I’m a Democrat from Virginia, BTW.
I think the Democratic Party shot itself in the head last week.
His foolish minions just demonstrated the meaning of new politics and bipartisanship for the whole country to see. Who’s going to believe his talking points after that? Except for the Obots, that is.
I may have considered voting for him if he had Hillary on the ticket as VP. I’m not sure. But, he and the DNC shut her out completely, now I’m voting for McCain. I actually heard some of his surragates saying Michelle wouldn’t hear of having Hillary included. My husband watched FOX this morning and he told me there was a whole line of Obama’s supporters saying they didn’t approve of the attacks against Gov. Palin. I don’t believe them. I wonder if it is getting through to them how much damage they have done? The juxtaposition of the attacks on Hillary with the attacks on yet another woman exposes them like nothing else could have done. McCain is a willy old fox, isn’t he? They’ve underestimated yet another as they did with Hillary and her supporters. The Republicans are not having any of it. I saw an interview with one of the editors of US mag. and this woman on Fox was all over him for the lies in their edition about Palin.
His campaigners obviously thought they could get away with this shit a second time. But I get the idea that they have been exposed for the trash they are. Sorry, they’re just trash. They need to be relegated to the nearest landfill, preferably RCRA-licensed, since they’re also hazardous waste.
Therein lays our greatest disappointment…WE thought that our Democratic Party was better than the Republicans…but in this year..we have witnessed that they have acted worse than our worst nightmare.
We cannot..we will not..condone!
Take our Party back..or we will start a new TRUELY DEMOCRATIC PARTY!!
Count on it
good post…well said…you hit the nail on the head, it’s about character and principle.
The Republicans are SUPER CHARGED up about Sarah Palin.
They just showed the cover of US magazine,cripes, what a rag!
You should have seen US Weekly Sr Editor Bradley Jacobs on Fox a little while ago trying to say that the article is “balanced” and that the reference to lies is in regard to the left-wing blogosphere. He started jabbering when the host asked him if he honestly believed that that’s how people would interpret the headline.
Yep. Megan Kelly toasted him good. She has been furious about this whole smear Palin thing but has been careful not to be too outspoken about it. This interview allowed her to unload on this idiot who didn’t have anything intelligent to defend himself with. Go Megan!
Not outspoken? The woman is foaming at the mouth. She has the IQ of a flea. I saw the Megan Kelly piece and she did not toast anyone. Talk about ignorant.
Gee. I thought you were too smart to be taken in …
I agree! Megan is great. I just hope that cover backfires on Jann Wenner.
You make excellent points, and Lieberman made alot of sense in his speech, vote for the person not the party!!!
This election is completely bizarre & the actions of the dnc need to be punished, IMO. Not to mention the faux news coverage.
I’ve come to appreciate Lieberman.
Just checking in with my daily greeting for Obombo and Ol’Biddy - Fuck you.
A new non-partisan group for women’s rights at
http://thenewagenda.net/
“Mission Statement
“The New Agenda, through its members and partner organizations, seeks to advance women’s rights.
“The New Agenda will bring about a systemic change in the way women are treated in the media, by the government, at the workplace, and at home. To achieve our goals, we will empower women by working towards parity in the government and in the workplace. The New Agenda will also formulate an agenda based on core women’s issues which we will promote in a non-partisan fashion. The New Agenda will speak out for the millions of women in this great country who often have no voice.”
A 31 Aug 08 press release:
“THE NEW AGENDA to Serve as Watch Dog for Women Candidates
“The New Agenda (www.thenewagenda.net), a non-partisan women’s rights advocacy group with men and women members nationwide, recognizes the history making selection of Governor Sarah Palin as Senator John McCain’s running mate. As Governor Palin hits the campaign trail, The New Agenda members will serve as watch dogs monitoring news coverage and statements by political pundits, campaign surrogates and other commentators for any sexist bias.
“We cannot and will not sit idly by while another qualified candidate goes through what Senator Hillary Clinton had to endure. Issues are fair game. Sexist treatment is no longer fair game,” said Amy Siskind, a co-founder of The New Agenda.
“The New Agenda members are monitoring the airwaves, blogs, and print reports for derogatory language, misogynist attacks, and denigrating statements. The New Agenda will respond swiftly against any perpetrators of such attacks.
“Our members were outraged that within 24 hours of Governor Palin’s historic candidacy she was dismissed as “tokenism,” she was referred to as a “MILF” (mother I’d like to f*uck), and chuckling male commentators said:” The only thing she didn’t say was who needs some pie I baked this morning?” added Siskind.
“The New Agenda members are committed to promoting women’s leadership and ensuring that women candidates are treated with the respect they deserve. We are confident that the media, the campaigns, and campaign surrogates can turn this historic election into one we can look back on with pride.
“For more information contact:
newagendapress@yahoo.com“
I’ll be joining them. Thank you very much for the link!
Thank you Sally. I am going to check this out. I am very unhappy with NOW, Emily’s List and Naral. I believe they sold Hillary (and me) out. Those organizations have become too much a part of the system and were too afraid of being labeled racist to stand up against the sexism.
Thank you for a great post. Brava!
No more!
I tell you what, the Obama thugs are now in full-fledged swarming rage mode. Out in the chatrooms and discussion groups, the Obama thugs are swarming like cockroaches, throwing every possible smear and largely targeting Governor Palin. They are now going after Alaska for being the “meth capital” of the world, and have also released Governor Palin’s SS#. This is just a small list of horrors being perpetrated by the angry left Obama thugs.
It seems like when Obama is facing a serious challenge, as what happened with Senator Clinton, the viciousness among this group elevates to an extreme. There is nothing that they will not do. And they revel in the grossest and basest forms of misogyny against female candidates I’ve ever seen. They have no shame. They are frankly a menace to society.
Wow, no wonder I left the Democratic Party. If this is what it has become, I must be as far away from it as possible. The stench is overpowering. This may be the death of politics. This may be the end of civil political discourse as we have known it.
I lived in Dallas. Trust me. It would be hard to argue that anyone can beat Dallas for the title of “meth capital.”
Well Bush scammed the elections in 2000 and 2004 and we all know Obama did it in the Primary our votes probably won’t count anyways, but I will be voting republican for the first time in my life and it is a Protest vote of Betrayal but with lots of satisfaction of voting for Sarah. Then Independence will be my stance for the rest of my life.
Shame on the DEM/DNC for not standing up for Women and tearing down Hillary and Sarah.
Touché Ani
The thing that is different here, the Republicans are standing up for Gov Palin, and I know many think Democratic women should stand up for her as well, not on a political stand, but a female stand. I don’t think they can come out as Democrats against this amount of lies, but they could preface anything with, “As a woman, mother, daughter, etc. I find this offensive and unnecessary, and not part of any political process”. I agree with Republican Chick on this, it is the Republican Party’s responsibility to defend Gov Palin, however, it also needs to be said, the only Democrats that defended Senator Clinton were her supporters. The Republicans are protecting their own, compare that to the Democrats, right now. IT’s as historic as Obama’s nomination
ani…well said!
when my partner and i watched obama way back in 2007, after considering the wealth of candidates at out disposal, we couldn’t believe the gut feeling that sprang from an intuitive sense of, as you put it so well…snake oil salesman.
we just kind of looked at each other and shook our heads. from that moment on we were for Hillary. and rightfully so, it turns out.
as a result of the great travesty against Democracy during the primary season and the truly corrupt outcome of a “selected” nominee, i have left the New democratic pahtee.
i am rooting for the obamcan coup to go down in flames.
i feel your rage.
Your message should be broadcast to all. Unfortunately, the free ride press are giving Obama the ride they gave Bush for awhile. Those that we rely on for free speech and the truth are betraying us again. The 9/11 honeymoon for Bush went on an unbearably long time, and now this. It’s attrocious.
Wednesday, September 3, 2008
Cristi Adkins Reports on Minnesota Press Conference
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Carly Fiorina Announces Democrats for McCain
September 2, 2008 Carly Fiorina, Cynthia Ruccia and their team held a press conference to introduce the Citizens for McCain Coalition, a group of Democrats and independents who plan to vote for John McCain in November.
Six prominent Democrats and former Clinton supporters joined Fiorina for the conference in Minnesota. Included in this group of outstanding citizens was a fundraiser for Hillary Clinton, two elected Democrats, and a former Clinton-era ambassador to OPEC. Individually, they explained how the anti-democratic campaign of Barack Obama and his Chicago style, worse-than-usual-politics, disillusioned them and drove them to support McCain.
· Ambassador Mark Erwin
· John Coale, former fundraiser for both Clintons
· Silver Salazar, Hispanic community leader in Colorado
· Brian Golden, former state representative from Boston and an Iraq War veteran
· Jennifer Lee, a Hillary Clinton campaign worker from California
· Cynthia Ruccia, women’s rights activist and former Congressional candidate from Ohio.
This fascinating group of activist and savvy business people certainly could help the McCain campaign with centrists and independents come November.
Other coalitions intend to join the Maverick Ticket, such as Cristi Adkins of Clintons4McCain who states that she “intends to throw her full support behind this active group.”
Cynthia Ruccia states that “the Citizens for McCain has received over 50,000 new members in the last two weeks. As the word continues to get out about McCain’s Maverick spirit and moderate ideology, the more people are coming out in droves to support the Maverick ticket, IE: McCain/Palin.”
Shockingly, the reasons for these individuals’ flying to the other side are as varied as those speaking them, but that won’t necessarily delight the Democratic base. They not only discussed the unvetted executive test of Barack Obama, but stressed how disrespectful the media was to Senator Clinton in the primaries which went largely uncontested by the DNC or by Obama. Expressing extreme unhappiness, Coale, Lee, and Ruccia specifically mentioned the sexism of the Obama campaign and the Democrats in general.
Cynthia Ruccia added this morning, “The gross misogyny that occurred in the primary season was rampant and had the potential to set women back nearly 20 years. What’s worse, for those of us who supported Hillary, its Déjà Vu all over again. However, the real news that Senator Obama and the DNC need to understand is that this time women in America of all political parties will stand up for the women in politics; or in the public eye for that matter and we will fight this disgraceful Chicago style tactic tooth and nail.”
While those ‘angry female’ issues won’t give the democratic hierarchy pause apparently as evidenced by the Palin attacks, which continue to show the Obama machine as meaner-than-usual, a few of the other reasons the Clinton supporters (and other fellow dems) gave for now throwing their weight behind the Maverick team might just wake up the rest of America.
These feisty Democrats also pointed out the positive aspects of John McCain’s fighting spirit and touted ‘Country before Party’ as they also praised McCain’s moderation ideology.
In addition, one or two of the coalition members specifically mentioned immigration as a reason to support the Maverick McCain/Palin ticket.
On the other hand, Ambassador Erwin gave a great response to a question at the end about foreign policy and how Obama is hopelessly naive. It makes a great sound-bite.
Megan Kelly, on Fox, just had the editor from US weekly on and ripped him a new one for the cover of their magazine. They have gotten alot of bad publicity and I suggest they get even more. Also, she mentioned that while O’Reily is having Obama on tomorrow night before McCain’s speech, that it wasn’t going to be the whole hour. Seems they’ve gotten a lot of mail about that and I say they should get more. McCain didn’t do anything to take away Obama’s speech. In fact, he did a commercial congratulating him. I say continue the e-mails.
I voted for Hillary in the Ohio primaries, but I didn’t really pay attention to the sexist remarks. How I wish I had, but I am paying attention now. I worked as a union rep for over 10 years representing women’s rights. I did it for all women, whether they agreed with my personal views or not. You see, just like the constitution, there are also by-laws for the unions. The union boss can’t overturn any of those by-laws just like the vp can’t overturn any laws. I wish women would understand that instead of being held hostage by their womb. I’m pro-life, conservative, yet I voted for Hillary because she was the most qualified on the democratic ticket. I’m an independent and I knew that R v W wouldn’t be overturned now or in the near future. I have no problem voting for McCain/Palin because McCain was always my second choice. And I am becoming ashamed that I worked my ass off all those years for some women who truly don’t get it.
Thanks so much for your post. I so agree with it.
Within the past four minutes an Obama supporter on another blog tried to take me hostage over Roe v. Wade. No reward, not vote for Obama the cheating sexist.
The MSM attacks on both Senator Clinton and Governor Palin may have produced enough bipartisan outrage to generate a purge of the media by Democrats and Republicans.
Senator Clinton said she would have more to say later about the media so let her bring it on. I suspect it will not happen before the general election and am sorry she dared not do it during the heat of the primary battles when the culprits would have welcomed another opportunity to bash her.
Yes, for sure. You do know why Senator Clinton did not give a big time speech on sexism after Obama’s speech on racism, right? Well, in a nutshell, she would have been accused by the mainstream media of “whining.” Yep. That’s the sexist double standard operating in today’s political climate. It’s disgusting and highy offensive. I think it was brilliant in many ways that Senator McCain chose a woman as his running mate, to open up once again the gaping maw of sexism and misogyny that is the overriding strategy of Obama, his supporters, and the left mass media. I have never been so outraged in my life.
The ONLY positiveness that I can possibly see..is that this prevalent widespread sexism and mysogeny is being exposed and discussed.
With my love and respect for the American people..good will inevitably result.
[...] Hillary in the teeth Posted on September 3, 2008 by budwhite Ani at No Quarter [...]
If McCain/Palin don’t get into the White House, I hope Palin would run president someday. That’s if there is a United States left after Bo gets into office. I think Hillary Clinton is a cope-out. The hell with your political career…you need to stand up for what is right. America won’t elect a 72 years old man, why in the hell does she think they are going elect a 65 year old woman for president in 2012. It is now or never.
Rage. I feel rage.
They have enraged me MORE than George Bush.
Once again Ani, we are in complete agreement. I was feeling that today, and I am so tired of being this angry. I have felt this way for months, and instead of finding peace, Obama and his cabal (including the media) just keep upping the ante, finding new and improved ways to infuriate and insult large blocks of the American public. Those of us that are paying attention to the reality behind the technicolor Barack display that is.
Well said!
pal3, I am disappointed that both Clintons didn’t blow the whistle on the Dim’s theft of her nomination. If she had stood her ground, a mass of people would have stood with her. Doing the right thing is its own reward, even/especially in politics.
There is nothing I can say here, but from everything we have all learned, I can assure you too much was going on behind the scenes for her to have been able to do anything like that.
Recent history also shows us this would not have worked. Her own horrid party and ALL of the media were screaming bloody murder that she did not shrivel up and die the night of the June 3rd primary and get the hell out of the way for “his” historic candidacy. That she even took a few days to suspend was the subject of endless vitriol. When you have the bulk of the mainstream media against you and [corrupt] members of your own party, along with Obie and his supporters — and certainly the Republicans were fraid of running against her in the GE so they were not going to help — where was she to turn? Of course we would have stood with her - and we did. But that was not enought to stop the back stage arm twisting.
Truly, she stood up as long as she could and then some. The amount of pressure this woman was and is under is staggering.
I wish that were not the case.
But the party may have destroyed her dream of serving this country as the President. By not standing up against the internal corruption now, she might be seen as too timid or calculating when 2012 rolls around. We needed the bad-ass Hillary who spoke up for human rights in Beijing, but we got the party loyalist who demurred to the bullies at the darkest hour of the party history. Not a confidence booster for her future candidacy. But of course, things can change by 2012.
I think more will be revealed later on.
This stuff cannot come out now - there is no environment for it with the press so fixed for him.
kc there is not a damn thing timid about Hillary Clinton and it is pathetic for anyone to say such a thing. She has been under attack, not for fifteen months, but for fifteen years most of it by Republicans. I am planning to vote for McCain and I’m very happy he chose a woman to run with him, but I will take on anyone who has the nerve to suggest Hillary doesn’t have more guts than any woman in this country. I intend to do my best to support Sarah Palin against sexist attacks just as I did with Hillary, but make no mistake about this: There was nothing else Hillary could have done. The media eviscerated her every time she or her husband or daughter opened their mouths and she had no one fighting for her from the DNC or the media. Just eighteen million who believed in her and whose protests were ignored. Toward the end of the primaries, voters began to see what was happening and that is why she won most of the final primaries. You sound like someone who never would have voted for her. Well, she’s not on the ticket thanks to Obama. He is going to lose and Hillary’s power in the party will increase in direct propotion to the size of McCains win. Then we can look for Hillary and her defenders to get rid of the coruption which may be a more important outcome for her and for those who supported her. She will go down in history for her accomplishments and if she is denied the biggest prize we can comfort ourselves with the eighteen million cracks that let the light shine on another woman.
Beautifully stated, Elise. Thank you.
Great post Ani. And the title really speaks to me right now becasue I just received an email from Ricki Lieberman about the Denver Convention and the ‘roll call vote.” And RAGE it is!!!!!!
As we all surmised, it was all a set up and contorlled by the big -0-, Dean, and Pelosi. But to read the reports and comments from the delegates just broke my heart. And that is happeneing a lot lately. They were railroaded and states were threatened that the DNC would give them no money for their down ticket candidates if they did not vote for the -0-.
Well, the Democratic party is finally the UNdemocratic party and is fascist in nature.
We have got to stop this and put an end to it this election cicle. Obama’s defeat must be massive. We have to speak loudly and clearly at the ballot box this November or we may not have an America left. Obama and the DNC MUST BE STOPPED. NOW!!!!!!
lol Imagine if Sarah Palin survies and actually win in November. She would have taken down the most powerful media network in the world. This woman is somethign special. First she takes on her own party now she is taking on the liberal news networks.
I love Politics agian!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
We all hope Sarah is someone special. That she has a backbone of steel. That she has compassionate heart. That she has her own principles that she lives by, but won’t force them on others. We hope, just as we hoped for Hillary to rise up, and was saddened that she didn’t. So we hope Sarah will rise and triumph in the biggest fight of her life.
I have nothing to say after your post. You said it all I have been feeling.
I live in Texas and I feel safer with Texas not going for that idiot Obumer.
It’s interesting that when Obama compromises on FISA he’s a sell-out and a flip-flopper, but McCain has an honorable record for “working across the aisle.”
Double standard?
NO. Obama made a declarative statement that he wouldn’t support FISA. Then he did. Oops.
And he did it on a very scary basis… He looked at the bill and said HE found it to be a real compromise, in short “it’s ok because I say so!”
The real difference here is that the Dem Party leadership has made Obama the moral barometer
This was evident when Obama gave his speech on racism. He became the voice for determining what is racist in this country. when Obama equated the bigotry of that from his grandmother to that of his spiritual mentor and pastor for over 20 years (a man whom others believe to be speaking the words and moral code of God) that’s when I knew he was a snakes oil salesman, and Liberals had to stop this insanity.
The point was well-made that there are other Black pastors and churches that do not share these beliefs of his pastor and church. His church is not representative of all black churches. Just because Obama says it is so does not make it true.
The Democratic Party has always been one of ideas NOT morality. No one decides our morals for us, we are after all a party full of thinking people. Or has that stopped now?
Personally, I don’t want a party telling me how to think or deciding my morals for me! The Democrats lost me when they started saying that my being a true Democrat depends upon me voting for their particular selected candidate Obama.
Thank God some Democrats have the courage to stand up and do what’s right — to stand up for principle and the very life of the Democratic Party.