They are definitely afraid of the "true believers" doing something stupid to the east coast media, or worse saying something stupid...with Palin, they really are scrapping up the worse of the worst...the funny part is I bet half the redneck males at the rally probably aren't even registered to vote.

Posted at October 6, 2008 5:13 PM in response to Flashback: Lawyer Defending McCain On Keating Five: "We Lost The McCain I Knew"

Tosh,

Georgia will go down in flames too...though I would keep an eye out for a trend of voting irregularities there.

But definitely NC and GA will go for Obama, SC may be a lost cause...BUT I believe that the white vote will be down...even southern whites are done with his economics...they just won't vote. This is the only way he BO will win SC.

Posted at October 6, 2008 5:10 PM in response to Flashback: Lawyer Defending McCain On Keating Five: "We Lost The McCain I Knew"

HusseinTenaX:
"Way too late!

He's lost those states - he lost Florida with his "health care plan" which is paid for by medicare cuts -

Who is in charge of this campaign for the love of god? It's ridiculous."

You're absolutely right...a total reactionary candidacy. Hell he skips weekends, read the Rolling Stone article, that should tell you the story, he's basically Bush with a campaign with less drive and no issue to scare the public with...

Posted at October 6, 2008 5:06 PM in response to Flashback: Lawyer Defending McCain On Keating Five: "We Lost The McCain I Knew"

He can forget VA now...

Posted at October 6, 2008 5:02 PM in response to Flashback: Lawyer Defending McCain On Keating Five: "We Lost The McCain I Knew"

Wonderfully put, you may just be a marketing genius...no snark!!!!

Posted at September 25, 2008 11:40 AM in response to Palin Suggests Americans Looking Only To McCain For Leadership On Financial Crisis

"If you attack him that way, McCain's kind of caged in"

Precisely Rorgg!

Besides trying to attack his mental facilities, is like spitting in the wind...when we all know he had no idea who the Zap-man is...he's probably still waiting for the Asnar name to ring a bell.

They will lie to cover the Ambien lapses or whatever the hell is causing his deficiencies, hell personally I think he's just not smart, or curious...let's all be honest here...he's skated for the most part the last 26 to 40 years of his life (save the imprisonment of course). If any other politicians would have made the number of gaffes he's made they'd be practically finished.

Posted at September 22, 2008 1:24 PM in response to Obama Hits McCain Over Zapatero Gaffe, Compares Him To Cheney

Wow...you didn´t have to call him a faux liberal. You kinda lost me with all the ¨denizens¨ talk. Don´t judge a book with hicks out in the west or down east. I´m sure you´d have beef with ¨blacks¨too. But to agree with you, the ´White Flight´vote can not be discounted, but at this point even a red neck ex-farmer in Johnston Co.is not a guaraneteed vote for Hillary. People are more likely to vote their pocket and brains than your average Ohio or PA voter.

Posted at April 27, 2008 2:07 PM in response to North Carolina: overview of the delegates, the primary, the politics, and the likely results on May 6th

I think you hit the nail right on the head. I am born and raised in Raleigh and agree with you on all points. Especially in play in the raleigh-durham area is the exodus of northerners from the states of Ohio, Upstate NY, Michigan especially...years ago they used to just call them Yankees, now people look at you silly when you use that word. More importantly, affluent northerns used send there kids to schools like Duke Wake Forest and UNC, now the affluent and not so affluent send their smart and not so smart kids to UNC Wilmington to enjoy the beach weather, and App-State (yes Michigan fans they canplay football there) for skiing...

At this point those parents dating back a decade have seen their kids remain here and being empty nesters with no desire to suffer the summers of Florida find NC the perfect median with it´s mostly mild summers. Another phenomenon is that half of the people in this stte that consider themselves Conservatives are progressives, centrist in denial...they decry the supposed liberal bastion in Chapel Hill, but will knee cap whoever to get their child in UNC...I guess basketball trumps all in this state.

But to have Hillary going into the Triad area decrying the exodus of jobs and trade imbalance with CHina is the height of hubris.

Posted at April 27, 2008 1:57 PM in response to North Carolina: overview of the delegates, the primary, the politics, and the likely results on May 6th

I agree with her stance somewhat, but if she didn't like the convo with BO, try disagreeing with the Hill. If she thinks that she would be any flexible if faced with disagreement, or even more importantly if she faced the prospect of her plan not working...do you think for a minute that she would open to other opinions?

Posted at April 10, 2008 11:42 AM in response to Elizabeth Edwards: I'd Rather Be An "Honest Broker" On The Issues Than Endorse

And ZERO % chance at a cabinet position in an Obama admin Steve Garrett.

Keen Observation indeed.

Posted at March 25, 2008 5:24 PM in response to Poll: Obama Ahead 21 Points In North Carolina Primary