I predict a seismic event greater than has been seen in political history when the circular firing squads take up arms to play the blame game. The Republican party will spew out bodies with volcanic force. I cannot imagine what the party will look like in 2012, but it will not be the same.
The GOP is dumping McCain: what prominent Republicans are saying these days.
The Republican campaign strategy now involves sending their candidates to areas where everybody is a die-hard McCain supporter already. Then they yell about Obama until the crowd is so frenzied people start making threats. The rest of the country is supposed to watch and conclude that this would be an enjoyable way to spend the next four years.
Blame game: GOP forms circular firing squad: “If you really want to see what ‘going negative’ is in politics, just watch the back-stabbing and blame game that we’re starting to see,” said Mark McKinnon, the ad man who left the campaign after McCain wrapped up the GOP primary. “And there’s one common theme: Everyone who wasn’t part of the campaign could have done better.”
“The cake is baked,” agreed a former McCain strategist. “We’re entering the finger-pointing and positioning-for-history part of the campaign. It’s every man for himself now.”A circular firing squad is among the most familiar political rituals of a campaign when things aren’t going well. But it is rare for campaign aides to be so openly participating in it well before Election Day.
"thats the kind of people who really do cling to their guns and their faith."- Karl Rove
Crooks and Liars: Karl Rove Says Rural Pennsylvanians Really DO Cling To Guns and Religion By Nicole Belle
“Well, he's got a problem,” Rove replied. “[..]James Carville once famously referred to Pennsylvania as Pittsburgh on the west, Philadelphia on the east and Alabama in between. I think that was his way of sort of mimicking what John Murtha said. But it's a conservative part of the state. And then if you take the far southwestern corner, over there near Pittsburgh and the suburbs, that's coal country and that's the kind of people who really do cling to their guns and their faith.”
"I Cannot And I Will Not" Vote McCain- James Dobson
James Dobson: "Should John McCain capture the nomination, as many assume, I believe this general election will offer the worst choices for president in my lifetime."..."If these are the nominees in November, I simply will not cast a ballot for president for the first time in my life."
"Life as we know it will end if Obama is elected." - Steve Strang
The evangelical bully pulpit is busy now trying to bully Christians to vote Republican using outrageous and irresponsible rhetoric. Along with "reigning in out-of-control spending" there is also a lot of reigning in of "off-the-ranch" christians who would dare ignore the pulpit and consider voting for Barack Obama.
Steve Strang, Strang Report: Life as we know it will end if Obama is elected. I was amazed that during the presidential debate this week Sen. John McCain didn't make the point that if Sen. Barack Obama is elected, life as we know it in many ways will end. America will be more socialized and have less free enterprise and freedom. ...Meanwhile, Christians seem almost asleep. There is no outcry! And there is a group of Bible-believing Christians who appear to have decided to overlook how dangerous Obama will be and plan to vote for him anyway. ...we must pray as never before. And we must work to wake up Christians. That is what happened late in the 2004 election—Christian leaders rallied believers, and as a result, George W. Bush was re-elected president.
Focus on the Family Action (James Dobson): Letter from 2012 in Obama's America
The 2008 election was closer than anybody expected, but Barack Obama still won. Many Christians voted for Obama – younger evangelicals actually provided him with the needed margin to defeat John McCain – but they didn’t think he would really follow through on the far-Left policies that had marked his career. They were wrong. Read More...
Associated Press. Christian right intensifies attacks on Obama, by ERIC GORSKI and RACHEL ZOLL: Like other political advocacy groups, Christian right groups often raise worries about an election's consequences to mobilize voters. In the early 1980s, for example, direct mail from the Moral Majority warned that Congress would turn a blind eye to "smut peddlers" dangling pornography to children.
"Everyone uses fear in the last part of a campaign, but evangelicals are especially theologically prone to those sorts of arguments," said Clyde Wilcox, a Georgetown University political scientist. "There's a long tradition of predicting doom and gloom." Read more about the outrageous scare tactics targeting Christian voters.
Circular firing squads are starting to form in the blame game.
Ben Smith, Politico: Palin allies report rising campaign tension. Four Republicans close to Palin said she has decided increasingly to disregard the advice of the former Bush aides tasked to handle her, creating occasionally tense situations as she travels the country with them. Those Palin supporters, inside the campaign and out, said Palin blames her handlers for a botched rollout and a tarnished public image — even as others in McCain's camp blame the pick of the relatively inexperienced Alaska governor, and her public performance, for McCain's decline.
Best friends always have your back: Thank God she won't have to be president on day one! - Joe Lieberman
Blame game: GOP forms circular firing squad by JONATHAN MARTIN & MIKE ALLEN & JOHN F. HARRIS 10/23/08 : One well-connected Republican in the private sector was shocked to get calls and resumes in the past few days from what he said were senior McCain aides — a breach of custom for even the worst-off campaigns.“It’s not an extraordinarily happy place to be right now,” said one senior McCain aide. “I’m not gonna lie. It’s just unfortunate."
And now let's talk about the erosion of freedom we have experienced in the past 8 years of Bush.
This will give you pause to think and it will be a lingering affect of George Bush. We can't have four more years of erroding freedom. Our country is now militarized in violoation of our constitution with miliatry troupes our our own soil to police our own people. The Pre-election Militarization of the USA.
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