You might have the wrong candidate IF....

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Wed Apr-30-08 09:02 AM
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You might have the wrong candidate IF....

Edited on Wed Apr-30-08 09:31 AM by dmsRoar

Your candidate might not be as different from the republicans as you think she is IF....

Rupert Murdoch donates to her campaign.
Her campaign in fact is funded PRIMARILY by big money donors and special interests.
She voted for the war in Iraq.
She voted for Kyl-Lieberman.
She voted against the ban on funding for cluster bombs, which often are used in civilian areas.
She voted against a ban on torture.
She voted with republicans for the expansion of off-shore drilling.
She favors nuclear obliteration, if necessary, of Iran.
She has a worse senate voting record on Civil Liberties, Civil Rights, and the environment than her democratic opponent.
She was endorsed by Richard Mellon Scaife.
Osama Bin Laden has appeared in one of her ads.
She push polls.
She stirs the Wright pot to attract voters.
Her husband says the African-American candidate running against her will brag next that "he doesn't steal cars."
Exactly one-sixth of her voters in the last primary were whites who said that race was important in their decision.
She's banking on a Florida 2000-style overturn of her opponent's lead in delegates, popular vote, and states won.
She says a hawkish flip-flopping double-speaking republican with no new ideas is qualified to be president.

Your candidate might not be as trustworthy as you think she is IF....

She agrees that two states' delegates won't count, then blames her opponent for not agreeing to count them.
She says a routine landing on a tarmac actually was a duck and run event under sniper fire.
She says she didn't know that her staff in her husband's White House would fire the travel office staff after she told them to do so.
She says voters will decide the primary until she falls behind and then says super delegates should decide the primary.
She advocated consistently for the passage of NAFTA and then said she didn't.
She says she's experienced because of her time as first lady, but limited records of that time show she gained little real experience.
She says shaking MLK's hand changed her life, right before she became a Goldwater Girl.
Her campaign robo-called voters to lie about her opponent's position on hunting and guns.
She says she was named after Sir Edmund Hillary, who became famous only after climbing Mt. Everest five years after she was born.
She says she didn't know that her brothers were being paid to secure pardons that President Clinton granted.
She says she was instrumental in the Northern Ireland peace talks when she really was at best a bit player.
She says she was the first sitting senator to criticize the war in Iraq, when her opponent really was.
Her campaign says she was the first senator to call Darfur "genocide" two years earlier than she actually did, and after other senators already had.
She suggests she has a popular vote lead in the democratic primary when by all reasonable considerations she trails by hundreds of thousands.
She had to try to back-room negotiate her enormous policy failure in the nineties--health care reform--behind closed doors.
Her campaign lies about its campaign debt by $5 mill.
She says she's firing a strategist but keeps him on the payroll.

Your candidate might not be as electable in the general election as she thinks she is IF....

Most of the electorate thinks she is untrustworthy.
The only G.E. electability argument she can muster centers on two swing states, ignores several others, and discounts a handful of red states her opponent can carry, by most polls.
Her core constituency in the democratic primary is white working class voters itching to vote for McCain instead of McCain-lite.
Her persona plugs into a preconstructed sixteen-year-hardened smear-machine's framework to fire off slander against her.
Fox News, Joe Scarborough, Rush Limbaugh, and Pat Buchanan largely have held their fire against her during the primary season, because republicans can't wait to run against her.
Fox News, Joe Scarborough, Rush Limbaugh, and Pat Buchanan have hammered her opponent non-stop during the primary season, because republicans don't want to run against him.
Rush Limbaugh has organized a massive and at times effective campaign to pad her primary vote, because republicans can't wait to run against her.
She's won hardly any urban centers throughout the primary season.
She's broke.
Her right-wing media allies during the primary season would all dry up her screen-time in the general election.
She trails the candidate she calls "unelectable" by 150 pledged delegates, hundreds of thousands of votes, and states won.

BARACK OBAMA 08.