McCain needs to call off his "pitbull" and show some class

[mossyhead]

Thanks Andy A for your service to our country! Everyone who gives themselves in service to our country especially in time of war should be honored!

 

[GoodWitch58]

Even the democrats who might be "liberal"???

 

[mossyhead]

Of course! If a man or woman serve our country they deserve honor. Unless they do something to dishonor.

 

[GoodWitch58]

Thank you. There are some who have implied otherwise.

 

[30A Skunkape]

At McCain-Palin rallies, the raucous and insistent cries of ?Treason!? and ?Terrorist!? and ?Kill him!? and ?Off with his head!? as well as the uninhibited slinging of racial epithets, are actually something new in a campaign that has seen almost every conceivable twist. They are alarms. Doing nothing is not an option.
You know, I have a problem with this lead. I don't think there is a movement of budding assasins percolating in the McCain/Palin crowds. I wonder how many times the above quoted words have actually been yelled at one of their events.:roll:

Well, well, looks like the Skunkape was right
Apologies for quoting myself

SCRANTON ? The agent in charge of the Secret Service field office in Scranton said allegations that someone yelled ?kill him? when presidential hopeful Barack Obama?s name was mentioned during Tuesday?s Sarah Palin rally are unfounded.
http://www.timesleader.com/news/breakingnews/Secret_Service_says_Kill_him_allegation_unfounded_.html

 

[Rita]

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http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/16/opinion/16Cohen.html?ei=5070&emc=eta1
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Presley, Palin and the Heartland
By ROGER COHEN
Published: October 16, 2008
BRANSON, Mo.
I never imagined that a Republican mayor from Bible-belt Missouri would revive my faith in American democracy, but Raeanne Presley did just that. ..........................

............... I came to Branson and its mayor with my liberal prejudices and was disarmed. Presley reminded me of my ex-mother-in-law, another brisk, pragmatic, funny, no-nonsense Republican Midwesterner with little tolerance for debt, delinquency, dumbness or dereliction of duty. She also reminded me of a great American virtue: getting on with it.

And it dawned on me that Palin, with her vile near-accusations of treason against Barack Obama, her cloying doggone hymns to small-town U.S.A., her with-us-or-against-us refrain, is really an impostor.

She’s the representative of a kind of last-gasp Republicanism, of an exhausted party, whose proud fiscal conservatism and patriotism have given away to scurrilous fear-mongering and ideological confusion.

It’s a party in need of a break from power after the Bush years in order to re-learn what Presley represents: the can-do, down-to-earth, honest, industrious, spend-what-you-earn civility of the heartland. That civility has been usurped into Palin’s trash talk.

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[30A Skunkape]

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http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/16/opinion/16Cohen.html?ei=5070&emc=eta1
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Presley, Palin and the Heartland
By ROGER COHEN
Published: October 16, 2008
BRANSON, Mo.
I never imagined that a Republican mayor from Bible-belt Missouri would revive my faith in American democracy, but Raeanne Presley did just that. ..........................

............... I came to Branson and its mayor with my liberal prejudices and was disarmed. Presley reminded me of my ex-mother-in-law, another brisk, pragmatic, funny, no-nonsense Republican Midwesterner with little tolerance for debt, delinquency, dumbness or dereliction of duty. She also reminded me of a great American virtue: getting on with it.

And it dawned on me that Palin, with her vile near-accusations of treason against Barack Obama, her cloying doggone hymns to small-town U.S.A., her with-us-or-against-us refrain, is really an impostor.

She?s the representative of a kind of last-gasp Republicanism, of an exhausted party, whose proud fiscal conservatism and patriotism have given away to scurrilous fear-mongering and ideological confusion.

It?s a party in need of a break from power after the Bush years in order to re-learn what Presley represents: the can-do, down-to-earth, honest, industrious, spend-what-you-earn civility of the heartland. That civility has been usurped into Palin?s trash talk.

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I hope this is what the Republican party returns too. Too bad the term applied to people like this is something akin to 'hick' in lefty circles.

 

[Jdarg]

I hope this is what the Republican party returns too. Too bad the term applied to people like this is something akin to 'hick' in lefty circles.

Not true, Skunky. It is people in the current Republican Party who have pimped out these hard working people.

 

[30A Skunkape]

Not true, Skunky. It is people in the current Republican Party who have pimped out these hard working people.

Explain.

 

[Miss Kitty]

I hope this is what the Republican party returns too. Too bad the term applied to people like this is something akin to 'hick' in lefty circles.

hick up

Amazing what eight years will do to a party and a country. IMO, it's time for an overhaul and a housecleaning...and perhaps a third party. Yes, they can. The times they are achangin'.