Republicans Are Totally Effed
GOP GOES DOWN IN MIGHTY MISSISSIPPI
FITSNews – May 14, 2008 – In the latest example of how Republicans are going to get their asses kicked all over the country this year, the GOP lost a special election in the heart of conservative Mississippi last night … that’s right, Mississippi.
Damn. You know things are bad when Democrats are picking up wins in KKK districts, and it sure doesn’t sound like the GOP has a friggin’ clue how to stop the bleeding:
“The political environment is such that voters remain pessimistic about the direction of the country and the Republican Party in general,” (Republican Congressional Committee Chairman) Tom Cole said. “Therefore, Republicans must undertake bold efforts to define a forward looking agenda that offers the kind of positive change voters are looking for. This is something we can do in cooperation with our presidential nominee, but time is short.”
Umm, yeah … good luck with all that, dude. We hate to be blunt about it, but Republicans had their chance in 1994 to turn the country around and they effed it up completely. Then they had another chance in 2000 and they effed it up even worse, adding $3 trillion to our national debt in the process.
We’re not trying to be pessimistic or anything, but Ronald Reagan could rise from the dead and run for president this year (with Jesus as his VP to get the evangelical vote) and the GOP ticket would probably still get its ass kicked …Â
Comments
By Mattheus Mei on May 14th, 2008 at 9:19 am
and McCain isn’t helping – now his campaign has been discovered to have ties to Vlad Putin! Move over Mark Penn and Rezko! This after last week having to fire people associated with Myanmar’s Junta and before that a finance committee member associated with Hezbollah! Good lord, they’re going down river fast.
By MsSwin on May 14th, 2008 at 12:19 pm
effin A!
great article ;)
By dumbasapost on May 14th, 2008 at 2:35 pm
McCain won’t know what hit him – he has been trying all his career to be the nominee and he finally did it . Problem is now he is simply clueless. Cheney tried the terrorism talk out in Mississippi and it just don’t fly anymore. McCain doesn’t know how to begin to balance a budget- and the voters do not want to hear about how he wants to stay the course in Iraq.
I smell the end of the pseudo republicans .
By GOPer on May 14th, 2008 at 8:18 pm
I know Tom Cole and he is the problem. He is a self interested ass that cares not one whit for the people of this counrty.
We have similar republicans in this state. In public, they talk the talk…in private, the NEVER walk the walk.
I have been laughed at for a year because I think the GOP will have significant defeats in SC…and I give Graham a 50/50 shot in the primary (go ahead and laugh). But the people are pissed…and our leaders have no idea. The GOP primary voter knows what Graham has done to help McCain and those of his ilk….
By MsSwin on May 15th, 2008 at 12:02 am
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By MsSwin on May 17th, 2008 at 4:55 am
The following quotes of John McCain’s concern me. Maybe even more than McCain’s 5X mistake about ‘Shiite Al Qaeda within one month, even though repeatedly corrected.
“And I believe that the success will be fairly easy†and “There’s no doubt in my mind that… we will be welcomed as liberators.†[3/24/03]
“I think we could go in with much smaller numbers than we had to do in the past… I don’t believe it’s going to be nearly the size and scope that it was in 1991.†[9/15/02]
“There’s not a history of clashes that are violent between Sunnis and Shias. So I think they can probably get along.†[4/23/03]
“Overall, I think a year from now, we will have made a fair amount of progress if we stay the course.†[12/8/05 (Exactly one year before violence in Iraq peaked)]
“By January 2013, America has welcomed home most of the servicemen and -women who have sacrificed terribly so that America might be secure in her freedom.†[05/115/08]
While I respect Mr. McCain’s service and what he went through as a POW, I have grave concerns about his actions upon his return. He, with the advantage of having an admiral for a father, was not prosecuted as other returning POW for collaborating with the enemy. Later, Mr. McCain headed the effort the shut down all investigation into remaining POW/MIA in order to open up trade with Vietnam. His father-in-law immediately opened up a multi-billion dollar beer industry there.
http://www.aiipowmia.com/sea/schanberg_mccain.html
I also have concerns about his mental fitness as well, specially since he will not release his old medical records even though the term PSTD was not in use as an official diagnosis when he first returned. The one time he did release these records to a journalist, much was blacked out. He later released them in 1999 to a physician who wrote him a clean bill of health without the benefit of a personal examination but rather on whatever records he was provided.
“Among U.S. servicemen taken captive during the Korean War, as many as nine out of 10 survivors may suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and other mental disorders more than 35 years after their release, psychologist Patricia B. Sutker of the New Orleans Veterans Administration Medical Center and her colleagues report in the January AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PSYCHIATRY.â€
‘Post-traumatic stress disorder, or PTSD, can result from wartime trauma such as suffering wounds or witnessing others being hurt. Symptoms include irritability or outbursts of anger, sleep difficulties, trouble concentrating, extreme vigilance and an exaggerated startle response.’
http://www.reuters.com/article/featuredCrisis/idUSN17282413
I do not say any of this lightly as I have worked with vets for over thirty years to help them get their benefits for PTSD. My father served in the Army for 33 yrs as as CWO4. All three of my brothers also served, two in Vietnam.
But I have even more concerns about his current voting record towards our young veterans of today. His lack of support for their medical care is appalling.
http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org/articleid/9559
On a final note, it is worth reading what Col. Hackworth, the most respected officer to ever serve in Vietnam had to say about John McCain:
http://www.vietnamveteransagainstjohnmccain.com/cin_hacker_2.htm
“David H. Hackworth died in June 2005, he was a much-decorated and highly unconventional former career Army officer who became a combat legend in Vietnam. Col. Hackworth received 78 combat awards — including a Distinguished Service Cross, a Silver Star, a Bronze Star and eight Purple Hearts — during his 25-year military career which spanned the Korean and Vietnam wars..”
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