Comments on: Gallup: Obama’s 4% lead stable http://liberalconspiracy.org/2008/09/23/obamas-4-gallup-lead-stable/ Left-wing news, opinion and activism Sun, 12 Feb 2012 09:44:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: Aaron Heath http://liberalconspiracy.org/2008/09/23/obamas-4-gallup-lead-stable/#comment-21403 Aaron Heath Wed, 24 Sep 2008 08:34:01 +0000 http://www.liberalconspiracy.org/?p=1316#comment-21403 As you point out, Will is hardly a Obama-nut either. He is a conservative, after all. As you point out, Will is hardly a Obama-nut either. He is a conservative, after all.

]]> By: Aaron Heath http://liberalconspiracy.org/2008/09/23/obamas-4-gallup-lead-stable/#comment-21402 Aaron Heath Wed, 24 Sep 2008 08:26:42 +0000 http://www.liberalconspiracy.org/?p=1316#comment-21402 Palin is a powerful mix. Attractive, forthright, religious, and gun-totting. She's like catnip to conservatives, but I think the rump of the undecided will see through her. Or at least I hope they will. She seems to have a serious problem with the truth - constantly spinning lies around her past record. And she is woefully ill-equipped to stand up if McCain was incapacitated. I think the erosion of John McCain's reputation is one of the saddest stories of this year. While he's <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keating_Five" rel="nofollow">never been whiter-than-white</a>, he was someone who broke with Beltway bullshit, at least occasionally. This is one of the filthiest election fights since LBJ <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xov0PWCm_vc" rel="nofollow">poured manure</a> on Barry Goldwater's chances in 1964. Palin is a powerful mix.

Attractive, forthright, religious, and gun-totting.

She’s like catnip to conservatives, but I think the rump of the undecided will see through her. Or at least I hope they will.

She seems to have a serious problem with the truth – constantly spinning lies around her past record. And she is woefully ill-equipped to stand up if McCain was incapacitated.

I think the erosion of John McCain’s reputation is one of the saddest stories of this year. While he’s never been whiter-than-white, he was someone who broke with Beltway bullshit, at least occasionally.

This is one of the filthiest election fights since LBJ poured manure on Barry Goldwater’s chances in 1964.

]]> By: Mike Killingworth http://liberalconspiracy.org/2008/09/23/obamas-4-gallup-lead-stable/#comment-21394 Mike Killingworth Wed, 24 Sep 2008 07:16:33 +0000 http://www.liberalconspiracy.org/?p=1316#comment-21394 Just read the link to the George F Will article. His conclusion reminds me of the famous conservative journalist T E Uttley's summation of the 1969 Mid-Ulster by-election: "Bernadette Devlin is not yet ready to be an MP - and the Unionist candidate never will be". And Ian Hislop's comment that, alone amongst politicians, Sarah Palin has celebrity quality, merits reflection, too. Just read the link to the George F Will article. His conclusion reminds me of the famous conservative journalist T E Uttley’s summation of the 1969 Mid-Ulster by-election: “Bernadette Devlin is not yet ready to be an MP – and the Unionist candidate never will be”. And Ian Hislop’s comment that, alone amongst politicians, Sarah Palin has celebrity quality, merits reflection, too.

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