Palin, and the circus she's brought to town, are a bountiful collection of small lies deliberately designed to distract the country from one big truth: the havoc that George Bush and the Republican Party have wrought, and that John McCain is committed to continuing. Every second of this campaign not spent talking about the Republican Party's record, and John McCain's role in that record, is a victory for John McCain. Her critics like to say that Palin hasn't accomplished anything. I disagree: in the space of ten days she's succeeded in distracting the country from the horrific Bush record -- and McCain's complicity in it. My friends, that's accomplishment we can believe in.
Just hours after the Democratic Convention, the Obama campaign had forgotten everything it should have learned from its success of Denver--and had returned to the same failed strategies that gave us Presidents Dukakis, Gore, and Kerry.
Hiding behind the skirts of Sarah Palin, the GOP is swift-boating the truth once again. And Democrats should be ready with an overwhelming counterattack.
Why is it that a Republican campaign filled with blunders, chaos, gimmicks, an out-of-touch candidate, scandals, and lies succeeds? The answer just might be found in a political ad -- from 1984.
We are looking at someone completely new to the national stage being asked to present herself for the first time to millions of Americans.
One of the largest financial decisions of the last 100 years -- the decision to essentially nationalize elements of the mortgage market -- was driven by outside (non-US) investors.
Grab some good foreign policy experts on the Right. Contrary to popular opinion, they do exist. Or if you are being briefed by Randy Scheunemann, take everything he says, reverse it, and you'll be just fine.
The US market for oil should no longer be available to all suppliers irrespective of their adversarial policies and their pricing strategies.
If McCain is able to merely hold the states that Bush won in 2004 -- and even if he loses one or two of the small or even medium-sized states -- he could still become president.
"Stop saying that!" my wife says to me. But this is not a high school football game and I'm not a cheerleader with a bad attitude. This is an election and as things stand now, we're gonna frickin' lose this thing.
Since Sarah Palin refuses to have a real conversation about herself, her record or her behavior, it's up to the rest of us to begin that dialog.
In a major break with tradition, in a year when tradition counts for naught, he should show us the depth of the Democratic bench and show us the role that powerful women will play on his team.
I don't like raging at women. I am a feminist and have spent my life trying to help empower women and stop violence against them. But everything Sarah Palin believes in and practices is antithetical to feminism.
