Comments on The Road to GOP Victory

You're right. We should all just give up and become conservatives.

The R's seem to forget that perception (and probably reality as well) is that the economy is in the toilet, along with our standing in the world. McCain has directly tied himself to Bush, which is much more of a fucking for him that Obama's crazy preacher.

I hope the R's are gleeful. They will try to play race and "conservative" values with the evangelicals, it will backfire and drive more of the moderates towards Obama.

Please, please, please let that happen :)

the truth hurts. don't make the murkin voters, or the GOP, face the truth. they'll curl into a ball & play dead.

BHO will be the best president of their worthless, selfish lives.

Until the dead hearts of these "people," as they are dubiously called, finally explode with malice and decrepitude, our country--and the world--will suffer. Decayed, depraved, sick, spiritually retarded, slithering blobs of soulless ooze...

Play the crazy preacher card too much and you're going to see evangelicals crossing over for Obama.

Pastor Wright clearly speaks their language.

At the very least, this entirely deflates their Obama is a Muslim whisper-campaign.

Funny thing is, every word out of Pastor Wright's mouth was factually accurate.

Gee, the republicans plan on playing the race card. Big surprise there, huh?

I love that Wilson said the speech was "deeply dishonest." I'm dyin'! That shit is hilarious! Good stuff, Rick, you fucking piece of shit scumbag weasel.

The word "douchebag" doesn't begin to describe the useless stain on the face of the Earth this man represents.

Oh, please, please, please let them try this. Let this be the cornerstone of their attack.

Rev Wright actually has a history of doing outreach with the LGBTC community in Chicago - http://rodonline.typepad.com/rodonline/2008/03/rev-jeremiah-wr.html

How many black pastors do that?

Wayne Barrett of the Village Voice wrote an article last week detailing how the right wing pundits/media hacks have been working against Hillary and promoting Obama until his nomination seemed assured at which time they turned on him.

The only name to have a significant victory over the Republicans since 1960 is Clinton. You really think they wanted to face Hillary?

The insiders have known about Wright for years. Now we get this story to the public when only the super delegates, at great peril, can stop Obama from getting the nomination. Compare this whole story with the so-called negative campaigning of the Clinton campaign.

Well played Rs.

The people who will vote for McCain in the general election because of Obama's pastor would probably have voted for McCain anyway. And when has McCain ever made any speeches disavowing his party's association with the hate filled fundamentalist preachers on the right?

Last night on The Daily Show, they showed the video of Wright saying "God Damn America". However, they showed what he said before that and for his reasons why he damned America made complete sense. Wright: "If the government gives in the drugs, builds bigger prisons, passes a 3 strike law, and then what us to sing 'God Bless America', No No No. ...."

For that reason, I support him for critizing America. This blind patriotism is fucking up this country. Our founders granted us the liberty and right to criticize the country anytime we please. Now that's slowly being taken away from us.

it is hard to be objective when your vision is clouded by your partisan passion

Obama polling is already dropping

1. No, the black church is not allied with white evangelicals
2. From day one of Obama launching his campaign it has been about race, only now, it will be KKK like in the attacks, not just liberal/progressives wool gathering
3. Obama is NOT a seasoned national political leader. How he will fare on the economy is a question- where in the god damned hell is his clearly stated precise brillant recovery plan - aka FDR? Time is wasting.
4. Each time he says it is generational, ie. youth vs. older - he looses support from real voters and long term workers. Mistake. And hardly a unity message.

Many weeks to go - but - Mc McCain is horrid in media on the ground. When he looses his temper on camera it will hurt him big time. Old, feeble, and bad tempered. This is going to be one hell of a political year. Earlier someone said he needs to show his scars, he will. And his metals.

If this is the worst anyone could dig up on Obama, we're in great shape. It must really suck for conservatives to have seen the death of their movement. Now all they stand for is ugly smears and dirty tricks.

Oh, and toe tapping wide stances...

So the super secret ingenious Republican plan is to repeat the same tactics of the last three or four cycles. Hillary will brilliantly repeat the same tactics of the DLC wing of the party of the last three or four cycles. And Obama is going to try something new. Is that basically it?

I am going to love watching you fawning sycophants squirm so much when your golden boy goes down in flames.

Bomb bomb bomb, bomb bomb Iran....

McCain's a wuss. He didn't even try going for the high notes.

If they can't make us live in Fear for the War on Terror ... they'll make us live in Fear of the Black Man.

Mind you, a lot of swing voters are especially gullible on this one, even if they fear women more ...

Matthew: "spiritually retarded" = brilliant.

I can't say I'm surprised at the negative response from the right (and some, though not all, Clinton supporters). Sour grapes make the best whine.

The fact is that they were already going to try and portray him as unpatriotic (ala the flag pin nonsense and the pouncing on his wife's gaffe). They were already trying to stir up the racial divide (hence the 'secret Muslim' whisper campaign). Well, now they've seen how he handles the worst of their smear attempts, and unlike John Kerry he isn't going to sit passively by and take it. If they try and make a fight out of this, I don't think they'll like the results very much. They might make people that were already eating up the ridiculous 'secret Muslim' rumors cackle with glee, but somehow I don't think those folks were going to be voting for him anyway. I think after Tuesday this will backfire on them with the moderates, though.

McG, you are seriously so fucking up the ass of hillary that you think that the republicans feared her running? how do you even form such a basis of thought that confirms that republicans are squealing in terror of hillary running?

you just invent theories that confirm what you already want to believe.

@ 5, I think Napolean is on to something here. There's alot of style (rhetorical amplification and histrionics) that come out of ANY pulpit set in an evangelical congregation, whether it's white, black, brown or some other mix of evangelicals. Push on this style-thing too hard, and you end up dis-ing envangelical preaching.

I note that so far they're trying this experiment on youtube. I think the Black Eyed Peas video demonstrates that there are some rather media savvy-Obama supporters out there, to say the least. And it's not like his supporters don't have his own words to take clips from (I'm guessing the "we can chose to play those clips every day from now until the election...or we can chose something else" is going to be a favorite). I'll put our collective savvy and message oh hope against their scare tactics and ham-handed Malcolm X references any day.

No, it's not a wild Sermon or 10 that will take Obama down, it's the "youth" vote once again staying home because, like, ya know, old dude, whatever...

why of course Archie Bunker type swing voters are going to go "hurray ! Obama will enable us to finally deal with race in America!" and "hooray! Amnerica caused 9-11!" They will say "Go Obama, it's great to have a pastor that accuses the USA government of inventing AIDS!"

Then, they will all vote Democratic in the Fall. Even conservative evangelicals will respond to the Almighty Obama's Gospel.

hallelujah! change is at hand!
America sucks! That's our new winning platform ! Hallelujah!!!
Praise be to Almighty Barack, now all those conservatives and moderates and Archie Bunker type swing voters, those younstown OH steelworkers who no longer have jobs, they will get it that we on Capitol Hill, and Berkeley and in Manhattan, we've been right all along and not only that -- everyone will be like us!

Pass the lattes and the joints and the kool aid and the Nietzche! Liberation theology will prevail -- just you wait and see! Everything will change overnight! The revolution is here!

Oh and that average of real clear polls showing OBama is now losing to McCain -- DO NOT LOOK AT THAT. Those mainstream blogs full of comments where people are disgusted with Obama for tolerating hate speech and racist speech and anti American speech -- DO NOT LOOK AT THAT STUFF.

Hallelujah!!

Meanwhile, China owns more of the US, we're in a Recession that may be a Depression, the US dollar continues to devalue every day, more US jobs are exported overseas using our own tax dollars, and we're still stuck in a War of Lies for nothing.

Oh, yeah, sure, the GOP is going to win ... NOT!

The truth don't matter. What IS the truth, what you KNOW is the truth, what you THINK is the truth... don't matter. Votes matter. Votes come from people (sorta). People vote based on ?

Of course Wright is ammunition for the right. If they use this ammunition "wisely" they'll get some good shots on Obama. If not, they may shoot themselves in the foot - or the head. And, don't worry, if the Wright thing doesn't pan out they'll have something else for whoever the dem nominee is.

Shocked. I'm... shocked. I tell you, SHOCKED!

WHY ISN'T ANYONE FUCKING BASHING MCCAIN?

Please, people, tell me where the anti-McCain 527 is, so I can start donating to that while the Democrats hurl feces at each other.

Honestly I'd be much happier debating health care plans or exit strategies for Iraq and flinging dirt at anybody, including whatshisname, that old guy who you never see on TV anymore.

...than flinging dirt...

BA, I made up this theory of the Republicans working against Hillary? Really? Do you think I'm Wayne Barrett of the Village Voice? Or maybe I control him. Or maybe I made Hannity, Wills, York, Crystal, Limbaugh and Bennett say what they did against her. The Obama supporters have been touting the Republican vote, no chance that some of that vote has come from Republicans that didn't want to face Hillary?

Read the fucking article: Hillary and the Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy. You should be able to find it using that new tool: Google. Or just dig deeper in your sand pit.

What happened to your theory he'll win GA, SC and VA so he doesn't need MI or FL?

Patience. The McCain bashing will begin soon enough. Either Clinton or Obama (and a bunch of 527s) are going to hit him hard. In addition to being one of the Keating Five and admittedly having no clue about how to manage the economy, the man lobbied to have the next series of refueling jets be built in FRANCE of all places! And he's supposed to be President National Security?

In the meantime, I am loving watching the right wing nutcases blather on and on about how associating with a controversial pastor is so, so bad. The irony is almost too rich to digest.

Wow. Who would have thought the republicans would use this to get their racist base to vote against Obama. Does that mean the racist base was supporting him before they found out about the preacher?

The only way to beat this kind of reactionary politics from the GOP smear machine is to go through it. I think Obama stands a better chance of doing that than Clinton.

Hope everyone saw Huckabee defending Rev. Wright this morning on MSNBC!

Wait, I'm confused.

Do you mean the GOP, the party of Pat "God hates New Orleans for tolerating Gays" Robertson, James "God hates America for tolerating Gays" Dobson, and Jerry "God hates gays, and if we don't stop them they'll take over America" Falwell, has SUDDENLY come to the realization that preachers saying "God hates America because we tolerate ___" is now a BAD thing?

Well, I guess that's progress - of a sort.

The Grandchildren need to show their Grandparents up.

Wait, wait people. The racists don't want Obama so we should stop supporting him. Don't you understand?

Clintonistas really appeal to our noble side, don't they?

again McG you're attributing something you see to something you want to believe; that republican commentators are orchestrating a master plan to get obama to run against a republican. and this is why we should choose hillary. get off it and come back to reality. you'll make up anything to try and discredit obama and it's looking pathetic.

It's sad that you're resorting to fear and conspiracy to garner support for your candidate. it's sad that you believe in a vast right wing conspiracy.

and the theory still stands. he doesnt need to win MI or FL. it isnt a theory, it is factually true, he just needs 270 votes to win wherever they come from.

Fuck every Hillary supporter posting. Fuck you cynical political bullshit. Wanna be realpolitik fucks with your idiotic DNC "masterplan." I'm so fucking tired of this cynicism. We should support Clinton because a black man has no chance of winning? Fuck you with a spiked dick you worthless politico cunts.

#42, Jay

what an amazing strategy you propose for winning this election

thanks

seven long months and this is your best? some of us will work out guts out for either Democrat, we hate Mc Cain and his war machine agenda. He and his crooked and lying buddies are the enemy, but where the hell are you in the long term?

just curious, gonna stick around and do the hard work to save America or just spout a lot silly and stupid fuck you blather to your comrades?

hang in there, this will be decided in plenty of time for the real campaign

in the mean, get a grip

Just read online that PA registration is booming, and Obama's got Clinton's 20 point lead down to 12 points in "likely voters".

Not bad, considering most of his voters are "unlikely voters".

These so called christian conservatives would crucify Christ all over again. Welcome to America, the new Roman empire.

Worried about the Wright effect? I've got 1 word for you. Hagge! The beauty is that while Wright came out in the primary and everyone will be over it by November. Hagge's not out of the closet yet, so to speak, so he's potential ammunition for the general election.

Bring it on, GOP muthaf**kas!