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The Reps know they may well be screwed.  It's not a mystery.  Gingrich is now out telling them that not even McCain can save them, and with the help of his own fuck-ups they may well actually sink him and hand victory to Obama on a silver platter.  Another prominent Republican noted that the current polling numbers for McCain -- taken at a time when Dems have been tearing into each other, and when issues like Wright have been big -- may be about as good as it gets for him, and that he has nowhere to go but down.  I'm not sure I buy that, because his "maverick" status has been built up by the press for so long, but it's possible.  Their one bullet was Wright, and it has been dodged.

I saw that Liddy Dole is losing her race with Kay Hagan in the North Carolina Senate race now, and that Obama and McCain were tied in NC at the peak of Pastorgate.  (O's poll numbers are now close to full recovery.)  That would be huge.  And, if Dems can pick up this House seat in Mississippi on Tuesday, the Reps are going to be in panic mode.  The Dems could pick up a huge, and growing, number of Senate seats, because so many are in states that Obama plays well in (especially the Plains and the Mountain West).

With the Dem primary pretty much finished, the Reps are going to be freaking out.  Their hope was an increasingly bitter and protracted primary that led to a fight on the floor in Denver.  I was betting they'd get that, but with Wolfson, Chief Clintard Strategist, now shopping for book deals; with Terry McAwful admitting it'll be done by early June; and with the DLC crowd now whining constantly about Hillary having earned the right to be asked on the Veep slot; I'm inclined to think the Clintstones know it's over.

Oh, and the GOP is broke.  The Dems are swimming in cash.

Run the "100 Year in Iraq" ads nonstop, slam any ad about Wright with a "Catholicism is the Great Whore" ad about Hagee, and continuously point to The Iraq Recession.  McCain will snap, and the Reps will squeal like the pigs they are.  And when they do that, run the ads more.

Where's your motherf*%&ing flag pin?

by Drew J Jones (blahblahblah@blahblahblah.com) on Sat May 10th, 2008 at 11:23:11 AM EST
The lobbyist McShitforBrains chose to run the Republican Convention in September, Doug Goodyear, just resigned after Newsweek published a story about the Myanmar junta paying him $350,000.

The Republican Party: Because you can't make this stuff up.

Where's your motherf*%&ing flag pin?

by Drew J Jones (blahblahblah@blahblahblah.com) on Sat May 10th, 2008 at 08:52:30 PM EST
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Better yet: He was paid that amount to make the junta look better with a PR campaign.  The message?  That Bush was a liar.

This is just too good.

Where's your motherf*%&ing flag pin?

by Drew J Jones (blahblahblah@blahblahblah.com) on Sat May 10th, 2008 at 09:06:24 PM EST
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But with the tradmed doing a love-in for McCain he doesn't really need money. He just tells them the stories he wants to read and they yuk it up for him.

They'll hide his every inconsistency, his every misstep, mis-speaking. You name it, whatever we learn on dKos will remain largely unknown to the american public.

They'll lie and lie to venerate him whilst trashing Obama with every smear and invention Drudge and Rove can conjure up.

keep to the Fen Causeway

by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Sun May 11th, 2008 at 09:22:07 AM EST
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The love-in is as expected.  It's no different from 2004, except to say that we have a lot more money than McCain.  And we nearly won in 2004 in a much less favorable climate.  We can beat the love-in.

I'm also telling you that McCain is going to be in deep shit once we start ramping up those "100 Years" ads that Dean has been stockpiling.  Those ads, according to his research, send McCain's favorable down the toilet with Indies and even many Reps once they see them.

And we've got Wright covered.  It's played-out.  As I said, that was what the Reps were hoping would be the magic bullet against Obama, and it failed miserably at every point, whether in the primaries or in special elections at the congressional level.  All that, and the issue of Hagee keeps hanging over McCain's head.  Trust me when I say a 527 is going to pick that "Great Whore" comment up and club McCain with it from Indiana to Michigan to Pennsylvania.

McCain may also catch some very bad press for this Goodyear/Myanmar thing, which only hit the news media last night.  If that has legs, it's going to shine a massive light on his lobbyist ties.

Where's your motherf*%&ing flag pin?

by Drew J Jones (blahblahblah@blahblahblah.com) on Sun May 11th, 2008 at 12:07:59 PM EST
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100 years? Wud?



When the capital development of a country becomes a by-product of the activities of a casino, the job is likely to be ill-done. — John M. Keynes

by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Sun May 11th, 2008 at 12:37:04 PM EST
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Nope, this is it:



Where's your motherf*%&ing flag pin?

by Drew J Jones (blahblahblah@blahblahblah.com) on Sun May 11th, 2008 at 01:57:00 PM EST
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That ad, by the way, is why I suspect you've seen McCain's polling drop to 40%, while Obama's back into the high-40s to low-50s.  And it's only running in a few markets with little regularity.

Where's your motherf*%&ing flag pin?
by Drew J Jones (blahblahblah@blahblahblah.com) on Sun May 11th, 2008 at 02:02:11 PM EST
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The camera angle is brilliant, it makes Mc Cain look like the hunchback of Notre Dame.

When the capital development of a country becomes a by-product of the activities of a casino, the job is likely to be ill-done. — John M. Keynes
by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Sun May 11th, 2008 at 02:17:17 PM EST
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Yes, and the images of the war with the costs running across the screen are very good.  The ad could be even more hard-hitting, but this is a very good start.

Where's your motherf*%&ing flag pin?
by Drew J Jones (blahblahblah@blahblahblah.com) on Sun May 11th, 2008 at 02:39:05 PM EST
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