McCain's name nowhere to be seen at Palin rally

[Mark E. Smith]

Source: CNN Politics.com

POLK CITY, Florida - At a boisterous Sarah Palin rally in Polk City, Florida on a Saturday afternoon, one
name was surprisingly absent from the campaign decor - John McCain's.

Looking around the Fantasy of Flight aircraft hangar where the rally took place, one could see all the
usual reminders that it was a pro-McCain event. There were two large "Country First" banners hung on
the walls along with four enormous American flags meant to conjure the campaign's underlying patriotic
theme. Many of the men and women in the audience wore McCain hats and t-shirts.

But on closer inspection, the GOP nominee's name was literally nowhere to be found on any of the official
campaign signage distributed to supporters at the event.

Members of the audience proudly waved "Country First" placards as Palin delivered her stump speech.
Those signs were paid for by the Republican National Committee.

The other sign handed out to supporters read "Florida is Palin Country," but those signs were neither paid
for by the Republican National Committee nor the McCain campaign.

Read more: http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/11/01/mccains... /

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Has Mooselini staged a putsch?

[robinlynne]

1. very interesting....

[UnitedWeStand33]

62. DO NOT UNDERESTIMATE PALIN - populism, nationalism and fear are tactics that work

She may be stupid, yet she is determined.

Voters like to believe, and she will say whatever they want to believe in. She will do whatever, sink as low, betray as much as it takes to win.

The fact that she is racing headlong to join the Washington political elite just as she claims to be an outsider, the fact that ink is barely dry on billions of earmarks for Alaska just as she claims to be against pork barrel spending, does not matter. Voters do not act on fact, they act on spin.

Do not be fooled - populist, nationalist, divisive tactics of fear are effective. They were effective for Hitler, for Bush and they will be effective for Palin.

Even more effective is the Karl Rowe tactic of spreading lies and then playing the victim. Palin uses this too (she is a fast learner!)

Spread the facts about Palin and her tactics. Discredit her at every opportunity - show her for what she is.

[saigon68]

64. She is what she spreads---"SLIME"

[maseman]

2. The election is a few days away

and they have already forgotten about who was running. Huhmph.

[Whoa_Nelly]

3. Bible Spice wants to be Prez

She could give a rat's ass about McLame

[glinda]

13. This is not about the USA

This is about Armageddon. She doesn't nor can't care about her VP position. If she gets in she will throw everyone under the bus including you and me. She will throw the Constitution out. She will stop spending money on Programs. She will push the button. This is why I do not understand the absolute stupidity of the Media for not bringing this up in a substantial way. They are doing the Planet a grave disservice.

[Maureen1322]

33. "Bible Spice" I love laughing out loud at 6AM.

[BrklynLiberal]

4. She's not even waiting for the body to get cold..

[Doctor_J]

5. Barbie has tossed McSame under the bus

Too bad Cheney didn't do that to *

[liberalmuse]

8. Maybe McCain tossed her under the bus...

She's poison to the ticket (as if McCain isn't poison enough to his own ticket) and perhaps he no longer wants her associated with his name? Interesting, no matter what the reason.

[sunnybrook]

38. a little late for that remedy!

He should have done like alot of us were expecting over a month ago, ditch her! He created this egomaniacal monster, now he has to live with it!

[MercutioATC]

6. Caribou Barbie throws Fossil Ken under the bus.

Lesson: You don't pick a (running) mate based solely on youth and hotness.

[corkhead]

7. I've always said that the republicon party is a coalition of the greedy the stupid and the dangerous

Palin is a Frankenstein embodiment of all three. The Republicon "powers that be" will be sure to throw her under the bus and back up on her over and over, once this is all done on Tuesday.

[glitch]

17. Or they will mold her to something they can work with, like "W".

Really all they require is for her to follow script. Can she do even that? Time will tell. She may actually be a true believer, a maverick for armageddon. In which case:
here come the bus.

[corkhead]

18. W has a pedigree that put him into position, that is important to them

she's a loose cannon with nobody but maybe the christofacists to mop up after her when she fucks up, which seems to be even more frequent than Dimson.

[glitch]

22. Yeah, I think one hit "wonder" pretty much on every point. Cringe-making Fail.

Although Amy Goodman thinks they are going to try to run with her. Shudder. Well, this epic level of failure might be what is required to see the last of them for a few generations.
I certainly hope so.

[Tansy_Gold]

36. Not only a pedigree but also a blank slate

The rest of the country hadn't really seen the younger booosh until he ran for prez. 41 wasn't universally reviled, and 43-to-be talked a good talk during the campaign. At the time the BFEE and SCOTUS installed him, the country was in a state of confusion; this had never happened before. And so evenly divided that there was no popular consensus.

The only thing that kept 2004 close enough to get 43 re-selected was 9/11 and the war, which pumped up his abysmal popularity numbers and made the "changing horses in midstream" argument viable.

Palin's had two months in the spotlight. Her popularlity peaked shortly after her debut and has gone down down down down down ever since. There is nothing about her that appeals to the rational mind, only to the emotional gut. How much of the electorate is capable of turning off the rational completely and going only with the gut? I think we'll know on Tuesday.


Tansy Gold

[barbtries]

41. i'm gonna have to remember that

"a coalition of the greedy the stupid and the dangerous" - succinct, and oh so sadly true.

[Melissa G]

9. K&R #4 needs some visibility for it's lack of Mc Lame n/t

[Wilms]

10. .

[Melissa G]

14. With a running mate like Sarah, who even needs an opponent? n/t

[LoKnLoD]

16. She'll shoot her eye out....

from Christmas Story...first thing that popped into my mind when I saw that pic.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

30. Go ahead. Bring it on, you skank...

[Hissyspit]

11. She's delusional and McCain is getting what he deserves. n/t

[trusty elf]

43. The escapee from the McSame asylum

is fomenting at the mouth!

[Shardik]

12. Never in my life have I seen an election season like this one.

It's as if the McCain Campaign was designed by a bunch of stoners trying to make each other laugh.

[acmavm]

15. Yours is by far the best description of that trainwreck I've ever seen. NT

[glitch]

20. Only a stoner could come up with a description so apt.

Perfect, how do we nominate for DUzy? There should be a little button we can push. nt

[I Have A Dream]

27. Send a PM to JeffR with a link to the post. nt

[Omnibus]

32. Perfect description of their campaign, sir!

Made me laugh like a stoner, it did.

[samsingh]

56. that made me laugh out loud.

[CoffeeCat]

19. Sarah Palin's ego is being fed by the...

...neocon psychopaths in the Republican party.

Did you see who was standing behind her at a rally yesterday? Tom Delay?

Who sticks up for Palin...Bill Kristol..Dick Morris...and the rest of the thugs.

Sarah is hanging with a rough crowd. The neocons never had much use for McCain. He
was never "one of them." They tolerated McCain, and they're sidling up to Palin
right now---and letting her know that her future is with them and that McCain is a nobody.

That's why she's bloated with self importance.

[glitch]

21. She deserves the kharma train heading her way. nt

[mascarax]

37. Yep - and it's coming fast! (n/t)

[xxqqqzme]

29. Wasn't mclame a signer to the PNAC letter?

I heard he was. My bad, I haven't researched it. If he was, then he knows the neo-cons.

[WePurrsevere]

42. John McCain's PNAC ties...

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/8/22/19429/5011/554/...

He was also President of it's parent org, New Citizenship Project, which Kristol founded.

[dhpgetsit]

23. She's practicing for 2012, dontcha know?

[704wipes]

52. Maybe by then she will have medical records for us to see...?

Of course this gives her 4 years to scrub them up. Get all the domestic abuse, std's, psychiatric diagnoses, and abortions removed, and the false pregnancies inserted into them.

[Miss Chybil]

24. Amazing. You couldn't make this stuff up. nt

[Solly Mack]

25. Snicker

[pinto]

26. LOL. The GOP may finally see the benefits of RICO statutes.

[Kalifornia.Kid]

28. Preparing for Judgment Day

[xxqqqzme]

31. signs paid for by that little red headed *ass kisser

"...The other sign handed out to supporters read “Florida is Palin Country,” but those signs were neither paid for by the Republican National Committee nor the McCain campaign. In small print, the signs were stamped with the line “Paid for and authorized by Putnam for Congress" — as in, the re-election campaign of Florida congressman Adam Putnam, whose district skirts Polk City..."

[struggle4progress]

34. It sounds as if the thinly veiled subtext is "I ME MINE 2012"

[machI]

35. Palin is being a wee bit presumptuous there isn't she.

It looks like she is implying that SHE is the one people are voting for to be President. This is one more indication, to me anyway, that McCain is not going to be the next President. Even if the Republicans manage to steal this election too, the old goat will be kicked to side, and her empress Palin will wear the crown.

A Republican victory exists only in their dreams because Obama has this one in the bag.

[CrispyQ]

51. She showed her true intentions early in the campaign when she

'accidentally' said, "...a Palin/McCain administration."

If by some chance they steal this one, McCain will not live out a year. The fundies are salivating at the prospect of a Palin administration. Goodbye Constitution, hello biblical law. What's a little murder to them? Plus at his age & in his health, they may not even have to stoop to that.

[tanyev]

39. Gonna be an interesting party at McCain/Palin HQ Tuesday night.

Will the two of them even be in the same room? City? State?

[barbtries]

40. that is bizarre.

what about her speech?

[Lorien]

44. Palin's flight of fantasy at Fantasy of Flight

perfect venue. Way out in the freaking boondocks, like everything about that campaign.

[HughBeaumont]

45. Lest anyone forget, McCain is only the nominee because he sucked the LEAST.

Out of a group of Republicans that featured Mitt Romney, Rudy 9iu11iani, Mike Suckabee and Ron Paul.

They never wanted Old Man River. Their idiot supporters are pissed because their Bush Brand Name is gone and never coming back.

They got NOTHING.

They don't even have any rising stars waiting in the wings. Well, except Fundie Spice, who is rapidly being exposed for the sorry opportunist she is.

But then again, isn't that JUST like a Repuke to be that way?

[radfringe]

46. heh

she's looking at brochures for a Bus to Nowhere 2012... lol

[crikkett]

47. I wonder if McCain's campaign ran out of money for signs

Isn't his campaign running on fumes?

[happygoluckytoyou]

48. dad-burn problem with having a headstrong TEENAGE DAUGHTER...dadgum it...no respect...goshdang it...

HEY GET OFF MY LAWN

[scarface2004]

49. she s set to announce her candidancy for 2008!

a day before the vote!

[DeepModem Mom]

50. K&R

[kmdemqueen]

53. one has to wonder

if she is going to have a career after this. hay maybe obama will hire her has Michelles hand maiden. There you are ditsy bitch. I was talking about Sarah

[Piewhacket]

54. Whoa.That is one COLD Bword.

Musta learned that trick in her "beauty pageant" days.
Rough biz, them beauty pageants.

[Towlie]

55. But here's the best part! Check out the 79 comments that were made before the comments were closed.

Out of the 79 comments that were entered by CNN readers:

One, about the 40th down from the top, is a criticism of CNN itself by a user signed "No Hillary = No Obama", who is apparently bitter about the fate of Hillary Clinton.

77 are pro-Obama, anti-McCain comments.

And one, number 70 out of the 79 comments, represents the lone anti-Obama comment in the entire list. It's signed by "Bob from S S" and is written in all upper-case.

This is how McCain's supporters are represented in that list of nearly 80 comments from CNN readers:

MANY DO NOT HAVE TO BE REMINDED , WHO IS BEST FOR THE COUNTRY.

THEM, PEOPLE CAME TO SUPPORT SOME , ONE AT LAST IS STEPPING UP AN TELLING THEM WHAT THE OTHER SIDE IS LIKE.

OBAMA, PROMISE ONE THING TODAY , CHANGES IT TOMORROW . NEXT DAY STANDS UP AND SAY'S " I NEVER SAID THAT "

ONE THING HE DID SAY" ON MEET THE PRESS , WHEN I GET IN , THE NATIONAL ANTHEM HAS TO BECHANGED, ALONG WITH THE FLAG , " MAKE IT MORE ISLAMIC , SO MICHELLE AN I CAN ENJOY IT. YES, WE HAVE WENT TO MANY FLAG BURNINGS IN OUR DAY'S.

WAKE UP AMERICA , THIS IS UN WARRANTED , WHAT DO ALL OUR VETERANS THINK OF THIS . I FOR ONE DISSAPROVE , OF SUCH A STATEMENT , AN THIS MUSLIM IS TRYING TO ENTER THE WHITE HOUSE. IF IT HAPPENS IT IS A END OF AMERICA ERA. OUR FOUNDING FATHERS WOULD LIKE TO COME AND FACE SUCH . A LOW BLOW . YOU COULD NOT GO MUCH LOWER.

NO NO OBAMA , ANOTHER LIE JUST OUT HE DIDN'T KNOW HIS AUNT WAS AN ILLEGAL AN WHAT NEXT????.

IT IS TIME TO STAND UP , PUT DOWN THIS DNC CHOICE , CLEAN UP HIS BACK GROUND AND TRY 50 YRS FROM NOW.

GOD BLESS AMERICA. - SHE IS NOT FOR SALE.
GIVE EM HELL MAVRICKS , MAKE EM EAT THERE OWN WORDS.

[madhawk]

57. sic

it looks like she is running for presedent an vp in 2012. is that called "the queen"?
hawk
hawk

[sakabatou]

58. I guess they really did divorce

from each other AND reality.

[MineralMan]

59. Sounds Like The End

It sounds to me like it's becoming recognized by most Repubs that the McCain/Palin ticket is going to go down in defeat, so they're pumping Palin for 2012.

How many losing VP candidates have gone on to win a Presidency? Not many. Sarah will go under the bus long before 2012.

[paparush]

60. "I'm Voting for Palin and the Old White Haired Guy" - tshirt at my 8th grade son's school

[Olney Blue]

61. Maybe explains why the old man threw her under the bus on SNL.

[Oddball]

63. I was recently in North Florida...

...and saw several Palin-McCain (pointedly not McCain-Palin) bumper stickers. The fundies are really working for and pulling for their candidate, Palin. They see McCain as incidental, maybe even a nuisance, that their God can providentially move out of the way to allow this fanatical and evil woman to become president.

Palin-McCain is the way they see this race.