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2008-11-09 Home Front: Politix
US Secret Service climbs on ......we blame Palin bandwagon.
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Posted by Besoeker 2008-11-09 08:06|| || Front Page|| [11136 views ]  Top

#1 I don't know if this sh*tstorm is a deliberate attempt to push her supporters out of the GOP (self-selection purge?) or just elitist asses falling back on what they know best, but if this doesn't quit it's going to relegate the GOP to the outer darkness for a long time. I know it's making me think twice about voting GOP going forward (not that I'll ever vot Dem again).
Posted by xbalanke 2008-11-09 12:59||   2008-11-09 12:59|| Front Page Top

#2 Heaven forbid the GOP VP candidate criticize Teh One! Any criticism might raise the negatives on the messiah! That is verboten!

What a piece of journalistic trash
Posted by Frank G">Frank G  2008-11-09 13:22||   2008-11-09 13:22|| Front Page Top

#3 More "anonymous" sources. If real sources and members of Secret Service, they should be fired for unprofessional conduct. If the reporters are lying THEY should be fired.
Posted by tipover 2008-11-09 13:22||   2008-11-09 13:22|| Front Page Top

#4 The Country Club Republicans always felt uncomfortable with Reagan, but couldn't argue with success. They have been trying ever since to take the party back from "the great unwashed" from flyover country.

Sarah Palin is just the latest obstacle to get in their way. These "inside the beltway" Republicans hate Palin just as much as their Democrat counterparts. This is just an attempt to make her radioactive for the 2012 elections.

Al
Posted by Frozen Al 2008-11-09 13:47||   2008-11-09 13:47|| Front Page Top

#5 The country club republorcans not only cost us the election with their bailout crap, they got the knives sharpened for us all beforehand.

We CAN'T work with these people; we're gonna have to start a new party of our own.

And as I said before, I got the _perfect_ name for it.

The Belle Moose party.
Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2008-11-09 14:03||   2008-11-09 14:03|| Front Page Top

#6 The Belle Moose Party--that's funny. Palin was swimming with sharks in both parties. She seemed to me like a good person that didn't know everything but could learn--that was refreshing for a change instead of a lot of blowhard windbags pontificating from D.C.
Posted by JohnQC 2008-11-09 14:43||   2008-11-09 14:43|| Front Page Top

#7 Michelle Obama, the future First Lady, was so upset that she turned to her friend and campaign adviser Valerie Jarrett and said: "Why would they try to make people hate us?"

Gee, I have no Idea.

Posted by bigjim-ky 2008-11-09 16:13||   2008-11-09 16:13|| Front Page Top

#8  Thing From Snowy Mountain,
How about a Nationalist party?
Posted by bigjim-ky 2008-11-09 16:15||   2008-11-09 16:15|| Front Page Top

#9 TFSM - I would be happy to support a new party, but I've got a better name for it - the American Constitutionalist Party, with the primary policy issue the adherence to the Constitution as it was written and amended. Of course, I'd love to do away with several of the amendments, especially the 17th.
Posted by Old Patriot">Old Patriot  2008-11-09 16:33|| http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/]">[http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/]  2008-11-09 16:33|| Front Page Top

#10 I guess it was asking for a diet Dr. Pepper that pissed off anonymous aides. Palin worked hard during the campaign--something that maybe these same incompetent aides should done. She is a good woman that doesn't deserve what she got. These gutless no-name aides should go screw themselves. They are scapegoating and looking for cover for their own inadequacies.
Posted by JohnQC 2008-11-09 16:36||   2008-11-09 16:36|| Front Page Top

#11 I want these anonymous backstabbing c**ksuckers named and banished from all future campaigns. Who needs them? They ran a terrible campaign, including Johnny Mac, who can't bestir himself to defend Palin, but was snap-responding in a nanosecond to anyone who mentioned "hussein", "wright", "ayers", "socialist", etc....
Posted by Frank G">Frank G  2008-11-09 16:41||   2008-11-09 16:41|| Front Page Top

#12 I think the insiders know who the unnamed aides are, and I don't think they'll work a national campaign ever again.
Posted by Steve White 2008-11-09 17:43||   2008-11-09 17:43|| Front Page Top

#13 Give this one a try.

http://www.americanconservativeparty.org/
Posted by Hellfish 2008-11-09 19:15|| http://www.americanconservativeparty.org/]">[http://www.americanconservativeparty.org/]  2008-11-09 19:15|| Front Page Top

#14 Third parties only ensure that the other side wins. You have to work to take control of one of the two dominant parties. That's what the Marxists and Socialists did with the Democratic Party.
Posted by ed 2008-11-09 19:26||   2008-11-09 19:26|| Front Page Top

#15 I'm guessing that the Axle-guy and the In-the-tank-media have absolutely nothing to do with these anonymous sources....because if the 2012 campaign has already, commenced, then the Jindal smears are pending.

The Palin slime attacks are a measure of just how much any Repub candidate will have to endure.

The Tank has already decided that their candidate will bear no scrutiny, while the opposition must be destroyed.
Posted by Skunky Glins 5***">Skunky Glins 5***  2008-11-09 19:51||   2008-11-09 19:51|| Front Page Top

#16 "Why would they try to make people hate us?"

Maybe because YOU hate US! Stupid bitch.

Posted by OldSpook 2008-11-09 22:11||   2008-11-09 22:11|| Front Page Top

#17 Bottom line for the GOP:

It turned out a far LOWER percentage and a far lower NUMBER of its voters than 4 years ago.

REpublicans simply did NOT show up.

Thanks JOhn McCain - and thank you RNC f***wits for letting New Hampshire Democrats and the MSM choose our candidate for us.

NO MORE OPEN PRIMARIES!

Put New Hampshire at the BACK of the line, and put important swing states like PA, OH, FL, CO (and now VA) first.
Posted by OldSpook 2008-11-09 22:14||   2008-11-09 22:14|| Front Page Top

#18 OK, I'm officially extremely skeptical about the USSS advising the Obama family as claimed. It doesn't pass the smell test - how would the USSS actually assess the motivation of threats? Did people making threats cite (incorrect) reports of shouted statements at Palin rallies? Excuse me? Just doesn't add up.

To make things far, far more bitter - in the '04 campaign, I have heard from a friend who shared sat at a luncheon next to a high-ranking USSS offical in October of that year, the presidential protection operation faced the most severe threat environment it has ever faced. Spending and personnel were surged to deal with it.

That's right - the national hysteria of BDS, whipped up by a despicable irresponsible opposition, and a contemptible media, and a demented popular culture, resulted in a hot environment for GWB during his last campaign. If you were in the US that year, this DOES pass the smell test.

I don't doubt that Obama will bring out a particular element of insane idiots (as opposed to other elements, who other president would bring out), and I hope/trust the USSS will squash them like bugs. Obama's security, like that of his predecessors, remains a vital national interest.

But it would be nice if a former USSS official would blow the whistle on this B.S., and let people know how their casual adoption of BDS helped result in a real threat to our president four years ago.
Posted by Verlaine 2008-11-09 22:22||   2008-11-09 22:22|| Front Page Top

#19 That's what the Marxists and Socialists did with the Democratic Party.

A minor quibble, it is NOT the Democratic Party. It is the Democrat Party, big difference.
Posted by Gomez Unusoting2230 2008-11-09 23:05||   2008-11-09 23:05|| Front Page Top

#20 The revelations, contained in a Newsweek history of the campaign,

Consider the source - Newsweek - the propaganda arm of the Socialist Democratic Party. Must be feeling the pressure of competition from MSNBC for Leftist of the Year award so had to come up with something!
Posted by CrazyFool 2008-11-09 23:31||   2008-11-09 23:31|| Front Page Top

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