With time running short, Team McCain wants to cover as many fear bases as possible. So along with evoking the Cuban Missile crisis yesterday, the McCain campaign also rolled out a new round of robocalls designed to convince voters that Obama would be soft on "sex offenders, drug dealers, and murderers." Unfortunately for McCain, playing the Be Afraid game has gotten a lot more complicated. A new study published this month suggests swing voter reactions to terror warnings may, in fact, have the opposite impact on McCain than they had on Bush, whose numbers always went up after a terror alert. It would be the best news to come out of the campaign so far if the American voter is no longer willing to buy into the spec market on dread.
People of faith, and all of us, should be "values voters" but vote all our values, not just a few that can be easily manipulated for the benefit of one party or another.
In a previous post my niece CC implied that the Goldwater family would support Obama. I don't resent my niece's beliefs -- she is entitled to the freedom of choice. However, I do resent what she has done.
Being Barry Goldwater's granddaughter and living in Arizona, one would assume that I am voting for John McCain. However, nothing about McCain compares to the ideology my grandfather stood for.
The Innocence Project, which I co-founded with Peter Neufeld in 1992, advocates for legislation that improves the accuracy of the criminal justice system by addressing the root causes of the problem.
If The View is truly like women friends getting together to chat, discuss, dish -- whatever you want to call it -- Ms. Hasselbeck wouldn't be included.
There's nothing new about Republicans claiming that a significant portion of their fellow citizens are somehow not "real" Americans.
Yesterday Sarah Palin did a phone interview with James Dobson of Focus on the Family. Most of it went pretty well -- lucky, he's a creep who likes children -- but there was one ugly gotcha question.
This is like waiting for the results of a biopsy. Actually, it's worse. Biopsies only take a few days, maybe a week at the most, and if the biopsy comes back positive, there's still a potential cure. With this, there's no cure. The result is final. Like death.
Major retailers had been plummeting all day but staged a stunning comeback when Gov. Palin told a reporter in Ohio, "Election Night is just eleven days away and I have nothing to wear."
"If you choose to exercise your right to vote, your opinion matters. A banker's vote carries the same weight as a skateboarder, a farmer or someone who is unemployed."
Gays being married is destructive -- it sends the message that fellatio is an accepted part of marriage. What could be more ridiculous?
Before Sarah Palin, I was a stubbornly proud non-voter, a 41-year-old patriotic American unwilling to tie any of my identity to a political party or ideology.
