Faith-Based Voting

Mr. G swallows shit and jumps on the McCain bandwagon. "His speech wasn't flashy," Mr G said. "It wasn't the most eloquent. He didn't give it with the passion some other may have. But it was inspiring." Inspiring minus that whole eloquence and passion nonsense. If this is how a Kool Aid drinking Republican feels then McCain is in trouble.

A presidential nominee that bashed Christian Right leadership and a VP candidate with a looming ethics scandal and a pregnant teen daughter. The GOP hates Christian conservatives and will treat them as such because the Christian Right continue to vote for their candidates. You don't reform a party by keeping in power. The Christian Right doesn't have enough people to make a viable party. David Kuo worked in the Bush administration's faith-based program. Kou wrote that Karl Rove called Christian Right leaders "the nuts."

The faith-based program was nothing more than a PR sham.

Three days later, a Tuesday, Karl Rove summoned [Don] Willett [a former Bush aide from Texas who initially shepharded the program] to his office to announce that the entire faith-based initiative would be rolled out the following Monday. Willett asked just how — without a director, staff, office, or plan — the president could do that. Rove looked at him, took a deep breath, and said, “I don’t know. Just get me a f—ing faith-based thing. Got it?” Willett was shown the door.

The fact that Christian conservatives voters continue to support the GOP says more about their intelligence than faith.

Mr. G left an interesting comment.

This makes absolutely no sense whatsoever. You suggest that the Christian Right shouldn't support the GOP but at the same time that they can't form a viable party because they wouldn't have enough numbers. What on earth do you propose these people do?

I'm saying the Christian Right is screwed. James Dobson is sick and tired of the GOP. He has floated the idea of the Christian Right forming their own party. It was decided the party couldn't win elections.

Don't worry about us. (Editor's note: I never do) The polls are all tied up, we have a VP that is polling higher than the top half of your ticket and we're heading into the final stretch of the campaign where Republicans always shine.

You have a VP that vetoed housing for teen mothers and supports abstinence. Except with her own teen daughter. Palin is refusing to testify in the ethics investigation of her firing her former brother-in-law. Lloyd Bentson polled better than George HW Bush, Michael Dukakis and Dan Quayle. So what. Republicans are rallying behind Palin because they don't believe McCain can beat Obama. Ask Peggy Noonan and Mike Murphy.

The best McCain could do is tie is some polls. The college electoral maps still favors Obama. The Obama campaign has more campaign supporters and money. Democrats have been registering voters in record numbers. McCain's speech was a failure and too long. McCain needed a home run.

The difference between me and you is I can step outside my political bias and honesty assess the political landscape. Sarah Palin is good on the stump and helped the McCain campaign. Politically it was a smart move. She serves well as an attack dog. The Obama campaign can quickly muzzle Palin by having Biden and Hillary say she must testify for the ethic investigation. The experience argument is easy to defeat. Obama graduated magna cum laude from Harvard. Palin went to five universities and received a Bachlors degree for journalism. We all know how much you respect jouralism, G Man.

Palin is the McCain's campaign's best asset and liability. Palin will only do fluff media like Oprah and People because she can't handle questions about her baggage and lack of experience. The most glaring is the McCain campaign was busted for lying about Palin deploying National Guard troops to Iraq. The federal government makes that decision.

This shows what a great job the McCain campaign did vetting Palin.

"Something's kind of changing here in Alaska, too, for being such a red state on the Presidential level. Obama's doing just fine in polls up here, which is kind of wigging people out, because they're saying, 'This hasn't happened for decades that in polls the D' "--the Democratic candidate--" 'is doing just fine.' To me, that's indicative, too. It's the no-more-status-quo, it's change."

Sarah Palin

No astute political observer can look at John McCain and say he is a better candidate than Barack Obama. What person would say that McCain is a better speaker, campaigner, fundraiser or smarter. Anyone that says otherwise is full of shit.

I thought most of the Democratic Convention sucked and I was amazed the Republicans couldn't even fill all the seats at their convention. Obama ran a kids glove convention and the GOP convention was pure boredom. The McCain and Palin speeches were the moment for the GOP to raise money and Obama beat them by getting $18 million in two days.

Palin is a good polititcian. She isn't enough. If she comes out of the ethics scandal clean; Palin has a bright political future.

The experience argument didn't work Hillary. The Vietnam narrative didn't convince voters about Kerry's national security creditials. Bush's neoconservative foreign policy has sunk him in the polls. John McCain answers the question what would happen if you merged the worst aspects of Bush, Kerry and Hillary.