Sat 1 Nov 2008
And yet, the Record is nowhere to be seen on the list. What’s the matter, Record editorial board? Afraid of reprisals from David Kane should you declare yourself to be in the tank?
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Sat 1 Nov 2008
And yet, the Record is nowhere to be seen on the list. What’s the matter, Record editorial board? Afraid of reprisals from David Kane should you declare yourself to be in the tank?
November 2nd, 2008 at 9:14 am
Reprisals from me? I am voting for Obama.
November 2nd, 2008 at 11:32 am
David- We know you are voting Obama. Why?
Is it a vote for Obama/ Biden… or more of a vote against McCain/ Palin? The last 8 years? I do not remember you telling us why?
What are your thoughts on Sara Palin? Do you think she is a good candidate? Where do you stand on the University of Idaho v HYP?
November 2nd, 2008 at 2:22 pm
David, I hope you’ll reconsider before Election Day. John McCain needs your support. A vote for Obama is a vote for a filibuster-proof liberal majority in Congress. John McCain is the veto power we need to stop Pelosi and Reid. I’ve read your posts and see that you’re for limited government. John McCain wants a spending freeze to keep social programs in check. Obama says we need to take a scalpel, not a hatchet, to the budget — I say we need a hatchet, and we need John McCain! Vote Yes on One, and Yes on McCain.
November 2nd, 2008 at 3:00 pm
Tom-
Nice talking point rant. Care to back it up with some facts?
The Republicans are responsible for the largest socialist program (830 Billion worth) in our lifetimes… McCain support it, and voted for it. McCain proposes increased spending on this front, and that the taxpayers to pay for individual peoples loans. I’d like you to back up your statements with more than just empty rhetoric, and point to the last eight years of Republican rule, with McCain record. Show us where the Republicans record points to less government, controlled spending and deficit reduction. Anywhere? Give me some good statistics over the last eight years, to prove it.
Bottom line- TALK IS CHEAP. I want you to back up the Republicans record. You cannot post the nonsense above on Ephblog and expect anyone to buy it without some kind of legitimate argument. Sound bites are not going cut it. Records matter. I want to know specifically, why you think the Bush administration and Republican congressional record of the last eight years should lead any of us to believe that a McCain win would lead to controlled spending and a reversal of most of the things McCain himself, has voted for. I am willing to listen, but all I see is empty rhetoric. Very empty, INDEED!
November 2nd, 2008 at 3:07 pm
Surprise! Dog bites man. The Republicans are a bunch of fiscally irresponsible, war mongering Socialists.
November 2nd, 2008 at 3:54 pm
Barack Obama is the guy that bit the dog.
John McCain is the dog’s nominee, and a dog in his own right. The underhanded smear campaign really took a toll on me.
George Bush bankrupted the Republican party intellectually and the Treasury fiscally while the Republican rubber stamp congress was complicit and enabling.
Now a rubber stamp Congress is “conservatives’” greatest fear, assuming of course that the Democratic majority will act as recklessly as they did.
November 2nd, 2008 at 4:19 pm
Why? Mainly McCain-Feingold (campaign finance reform) and Kennedy-McCain (amnesty). McCain is also horrible when it comes to economics, voting against tax cuts, in favor of the bailout and so on. I realize that Obama is little better on these issues, but, if he is elected, I hope (pray) that the Republicans will join together to fight him. If McCain is elected, amnesty is almost guaranteed to pass since it is the only domesticate issue on which McCain will agree with the Democratic majority in Congress.
If Obama wins, I think/hope that he will have other priorities. I also think that Republicans, sensing a winning issue, will rally around the anti-amnesty bandwagon.
There is no worse way to screw over working class Americans than to let in tens of millions of working class foreigners.
I also don’t see much difference in foreign policy going forward. I certainly want to see less than 1/2 or fewer the number of Americans deployed in harm’s way 4 years from now. I think Obama is more likely to get there, although not as quickly as I would like.
November 3rd, 2008 at 4:41 pm
Obama and the Democrat Congress will screw it up because the electorate doesn’t want to subject itself to the daily pain over the long term needed to fix it.
November 3rd, 2008 at 4:49 pm
David, that may be a truly one-of-a-kind rationale for supporting Obama. But I’ll take it.
Speaking of the election, Eph-Senator-to-be Mark Udall is the focus (one pro, one anti) of two of Huffington’s most notable ads of the campaign season:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/11/03/top-60-memorable-campaign_n_140118.html
The pro-Udall ad is at the very bottom of the page, and I love it — clever, memorable, and to the point — well done. Although Mike Graval’s truly bizarre ad is, far and away, my favorite.