I feel like Mitt Romney's outsider, anti-Washington message on display right now in his speech is a pretty good message. And as I've said before, I think he'd be a better president than John McCain (see also Poulos' endorsement). There is an opening here for someone to point out that McCain is a kind of empty suit -- a heroic biography followed by an extended legislative career that's been long on Sunday morning show appearances and short on worthwhile accomplishments.
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Romney as Outsider
29 Jan 2008 09:35 pm
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Looks like John McCain will be the GOP nominee -- which means we all have to work our asses off to make sure Obama is ours, because he has the best chance to take down that empty suit. And it's clear from the Florida exit polling that Obama still needs to figure out how to improve his margins among Latino, female and older white voters. They just aren't biting his message . . . yet.
I've got a bad feeling about how things are shaking out.
Did Mittens just say "countries like Asia and India"? Yikes.
Mitt has really been pilfering Obama's themes and even some fragments of hiw wording. "...Sanding the same people back to Washington..." .. there were a couple more fragments that were lifted right from Obama's speeches.
Wish I could recall them but I was cooking when I heard it on the radio and it didn't register beyond how similar it was to Obama's messaging.
Romney was doing his white boy version of Obama's message.
Looks like Mitt Romney has the old Vulcan mind meld with his buttboy Matthew:
"At a time like this, America needs a president in the White House who has actually had a job in the real economy," he told supporters in St. Petersburg.
Hee hee hee
Yeah, Romney should repeatedly ask: what has McCain actually done in ..oh ..the last 40 years?
A question which also points out to the voters that, if you take McCain's makeup off, he looks kinda like Tutankhamun. But without the rosy glow in the cheeks.
Great, Obama vs McCain: the fight of the empty suits.
Great, Obama vs McCain: the fight of the empty suits.
Was that a crack about Hillary's weight?
Re BryklynLibrul's "it's clear from the Florida exit polling that Obama still needs to figure out how to improve his margins among Latino, female and older white voters. They just aren't biting his message "
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Yeah, Matthew's earlier post re Obama stealing Hillary's water in New York looks like fantasy.
Or strong drink. Probably both.
The New York chapter of NOW wants to rip Ted Kennedy's dick off and feed it to the dogs:
http://www.nownys.com/pr_2008/pr_012808.html
An excerpt:
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"Women have just experienced the ultimate betrayal. Senator Kennedy’s endorsement of Hillary Clinton’s opponent in the Democratic presidential primary campaign has really hit women hard. Women have forgiven Kennedy, stuck up for him, stood by him, hushed the fact that he was late in his support of Title IX, the ERA, and the Family and Medical Leave Act to name a few. Women have buried their anger that his support for the compromises in No Child Left Behind and the Medicare bogus drug benefit brought us the passage of these flawed bills. We have thanked him for his ardent support of many civil rights bills, BUT women are always waiting in the wings.
And now the greatest betrayal! We are repaid with his abandonment! He’s picked the new guy over us. He’s joined the list of progressive white men who can’t or won’t handle the prospect of a woman president who is Hillary Clinton (they will of course say they support a woman president, just not “this” one)."
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Ha ha ha ha
Well, at least the silly bitches aren't 10 feet under water, trapped in a car and gasping for air.
Why any woman would expect fidelity from a Kennedy escapes me. Next, they will be complaining that Bill Clinton ..uh..trifled with their affections.
Some more great insights from the New York Chapter of NOW:
http://www.nownys.com/pr_2008/pr_011108.html
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"Psychological Gang Bang of Hillary is Proof We Need a Woman President
January 11, 2008
by Marcia Pappas, President NOW - New York State
We've all witnessed scenarios where, on the playground little girls are being taunted by little boys while both girls and boys stand idle, afraid to speak up or even cheering. Or, in the workplace males tease young and older female co-workers; make obscene gestures, inappropriate comments, laughing and expecting (often correctly) that everyone will join in. Then there was that movie where Jodie Foster portrayed the true story of woman who was ganged raped in a bar while others looked on and encouraged the realization. Still others pretended the rape didn't happen. In short, gang raping of women is commonplace in our culture both physically and metaphorically.
This past week, we witnessed just such a phenomenon involving men who are afraid of a powerful woman. Hillary Clinton, in her quest for her Presidential nomination, has in fact endured infantile taunting and wildly inappropriate commentary. Indeed we have witnessed almost comical attacks by John Edwards who in turn sided with Barak Obama as both snickered at Clinton's "breakdown," which consisted of a very short dewy-eyed moment. Now John Kerry, who should certainly know better after his own "swiftboating," has joined the playground gang.
But here's the news. Every woman knows how it feels! There are those who will dismiss, defend or even shame those around them into believing that we progressives are making a mountain out of a mole hill. But that’s the game plan of the patriarchal system that has persisted for millennia. Because they can't frighten Hillary they've decided to control her with the time-old trick of patriarchal ridicule. Women, you know what I mean! "
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Ha ha ha ha.
I was about to call up Marcia and ask her how a bruised flower like Hillary could command our military in the war on terror.
Then it occurred to me. Translate the above screed into Arabic, broadcast it into the Middle East via Al Jazeera, and Al Qaeda's head will explode.
It's like that Star Trek trick of ordering the demon-possessed computer to compute the value of pi.
McCain may not be Ted Kennedy, but he is a LOT more than an empty suit. At times (with help from Chuck Hegel and Colin Powell) he's been the conscience of his party.
McCain has put himself on the line repeatedly for righteous causes. No one was a bigger critic of the way Bush/Rumsfeld was waging the occupation. No leading figure has spoken out more passionately against torture. No leading politician has spoken out more against the corrupting influence of money in politics. No leading politician has decried wasteful spending more. No leading Republican has evinced more compassion for illegal immigrants. McCain/Feingold, McCain/Kennedy, McCain Lieberman...all of these bipartisan bills are used now as talking points against him within his own party.
McCain is respected by independents and moderates of both parties for a lot more than his biography. He's not perfect, but on the whole he is one of the most honorable public figures in this country. Disrespect for him ("empty suit," etc...) will backfire in the general election.
Don Williams disses women in order to diss Kennedy and Clinton. The irony.
It's been said above, but while you can criticize his positions, you can't accuse McCain of being an empty suit - at least no more than any other Senator of any party ever to run for either Pres or VP over the last hundred years. I mean, the empty suit thing, as opposed to the the stupid swift boat thing, was an actual valid criticism of Kerry. And if Kerry would have been able to run on stuff he did in public life, vice his pre-thirty years of age biography, he might be running for re-election now.
McCain may not be Ted Kennedy, but he is a LOT more than an empty suit. At times he's been the conscience of his party.
But time and time again the Republican Party has demonstrated that it has no conscience, hence, empty suit.
Presidency most of the time is about rhetoric. McCain has been on the right side on most issues that an independent like me would want.
1. Campaign Finance
2. Environment
3. Immigration
4. Torture
5. Although I do not think this war is justified, I think his stance has been principled.
6. Strong advocate for finacial restraint
He does not think conservatism is about war and tax breaks unlike most of the republicans.
Why does everyone think he is an empty suit.
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Heads in the Sand
I guess I support Mitt now over McCain because I am assuming Mitt won't have as big a hard on for war.
But Mitt’s speech was shockingly weak. A bunch of disjointed slogans strung together. The fake smile, no real sense of any conviction for anything-- pathetic really.
Posted by larry | January 29, 2008 9:51 PM