GOP demands loyalty
David Oatney:
… if you’ve ever become involved as a conservative activist with Republican politics in any way, shape, fashion, or form, you know that the one thing that the GOP asks of its conservative adherants is loyalty. There is a good reason for this-with rare exceptions, the Democrats fail to offer much in the way [...]
Harold Ford, Jr damns the Dems with faint praise
Via Sean Braisted, we hear what Ford had to say at Vandy last night about the now-three-way race among Clinton, Obama and McCain:
Ford said that he has been impressed with Hillary Clinton’s “fight” and said that in some ways she has more experience than either John McCain or Barack Obama. But whatever happens, the country [...]
Read More..>>So who WILL evangelicals vote for?
Rob Huddleston points to an interesting bit of data:
Here’s a tidbit I pulled from an e-mail from the Family Research Council:
A poll released last month by George Barna revealed that if the election were held then, only 45 percent of Evangelicals would vote for a Republican candidate. That number is down from 85 percent of [...]
Breastfeeding in the Executive Office Building
One of the potential candidates to be McCain’s running mate is pregnant:
Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin and her husband are expecting their fifth child….
Palin, 44, wouldn’t say whether the child will be a boy or a girl, explaining that she had not shared that with their children yet. The baby is due in mid-May.
Palin has been [...]
Wow. Huckabee is actually conceding
Who would have predicted 6 months ago that Huckabee and McCain would be the last men standing in the GOP.
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Tennessee GOP fundraisers surrender to the inevitable
Tennessee’s top GOP fundraisers are beginning to rally around McCain:
Top Republican fundraiser Ted Welch and Tennessee Lt. Gov. Ron Ramsey have joined John McCain’s Tennessee presidential fundraising team.
Welch, one of the top GOP fundraisers in the nation, led Mitt Romney’s national finance team. Ramsey put his name on the ballot as a Thompson delegate to [...]
McCain having a negative impact on congressional fundraising?
David Oatney thinks so:
Watching Minority Leader John Boehner implore his House colleagues to get off their “dead asses” and help raise money for the struggling National Republican Congressional Committee is a helpful reminder of the importance of morale in determining the balance of power in Congress.
And the Republican leader wasn’t the only lawmaker berating [...]
Terry Frank: Prepare yourselves, McCain supporters
Terry Frank says the “slice and dice” of John McCain is just getting started:
Attention Republicans who voted McCain: You allowed the media to pick our candidate. Brace yourself for the upcoming evisceration. It starts with the New York Times.
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Obama’s got the best website traffic
That’s the analysis here:
The Nation’s blog looks at website traffic at the remaining three major candidates over the past three months. It shows a huge increase in Obama’s website traffic since the primary season heated up, a modest increase at Clinton’s site, but hardly any bump in McCain’s traffic.
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Read More..>>A Mark McKinnon mystery
Why would a senior McCain advisor, who previously helmed some of George W. Bush’s most negative campaigning, say this on NPR yesterday?:
… McKinnon also stated that should Obama be the democratic nominee, he will not work for the campaign….McKinnon said he would be “uncomfortable being in a campaign that would be inevitably attacking Barack Obama.” [...]
Read More..>>Where to look for local campaign supporters
So in my quest to find local presidential campaign supporters, I posted a message on Knox Blab, and this was one of the suggestions (from Metulj, who blogs at KnoxViews):
Look in these places:
Huckabee: Luttrell Church of the Almighty Smiting Super Jesus
Clinton: WalMart Regional Management team
McCain: The local Democratic Leadership Council offices.
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Read More..>>Looking for McCain volunteers & supporters
Are you a McCain enthusiast/volunteer living in the greater Knoxville area? If so, I’d like to talk to you today about a possible WBIR-TV appearance.
I am looking for someone who is willing to talk about why he/she is supporting McCain, and offer an East Tennessee perspective on where the campaign is headed.
If you [...]
UPDATE: still not connecting with state presidential campaign organizations
So I have now spent too much time today attempting to connect with area organizations for Huckabee, Obama, Clinton and McCain. Why? because I want to put a local someone from each of these campaigns on TV later this week.
It seems like something they would want to do, right?
I’ve left innumerable phone messages, called [...]
Are they trying to insult McCain or Hillary Clinton?
A local blog I just ran across reports this exchange on Frank Cagle/Kelvin Moxley/Lloyd Daugherty’s talk radio show:
Yesterday on “The Voice”, Knoxville’s premier political talk radio show, State representative Frank Nicely dropped in for a chat, some coffee and homespun humor. As usual, Lloyd Daugherty, Kelvin Moxley, and Frank Cagle hosted the show, along with [...]
Almost as good as that Tom Cruise Scientology spoof
Almost as good as the Jerry O’ Donnell spoof of the Tom Cruise Scientology promo video is this parody of will.i.am’s pro-Obama video:
Here’s the very earnest original:
Here’s the very silly spoof:
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McCain finally gets Fred Thompson’s endorsement
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Fred Thompson, the one-time Republican presidential candidate, endorsed Sen. John McCain Friday, calling on the party to “close ranks” behind the presumed nominee.
“This is no longer about past preferences or differences. It is about what is best for our country and for me that means that Republican should close ranks behind John McCain,” Thompson said [...]
DEVELOPING: CNN reporting Romney is out
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Who would have ever predicted that John McCain and Mike Huckabee would be the last men standing?
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Rush Limbaugh vs. John McCain
I sometimes listen to Limbaugh when I’m out and about around lunch time, and I have been struck in recent weeks with the fact that every time I turn him on - as infrequently as that is - he’s talking about one thing and one thing only: how much he cannot stand John McCain. And [...]
Read More..>>Voting by anagram
If you remain undecided, perhaps a review of the possible anagrams presented by each candidate’s name would be helpful in making your final choice.
For example:
Mike Huckabee: meek hick beau, eke hack imbue, make hike cube, I meek cake hub, heck mike beau, me be khaki cue, eke hi cake bum.
John McCain: non-chic jam, jam in [...]
Conservatives are losing that lovin’ feeling for Huckabee
Terry Frank on Huckabee’s strategy , and how it’s helping McCain:
Now out at polling places around the country, fly into the DANGER ZONE with the long awaited sequel to the 1986 movie hit Top Gun, Top Gun 2: the White House Mission….Starring John McCain as Maverick…And Mike Huckabee as Goose.
Conservatives are not happy with the [...]
