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Famous Screams, Gaffes or Ads -- Always End Campaigns

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Remember the famous scream by Howard Dean in Iowa, the famous comment by John Kerry about having been for it before being against it (flip flop), remember the famous picture of? 

Remember Michael Dukakis' famous ill-fated staged gaffe of sitting and riding in an Army tank?  How about the Willie Horton ad, remember that?

How about George HW Bush's lack of knowing how much a gallon of milk cost, remember that?  Or the 'read my lips' comment.

And of course there's the famous ad paid for by George W Bush about John McCain fathering a black baby.

All these comments, actions or ads pretty much caused the candidates to lose their race for President.

Well, it appears John McCain and Sarah Palin have both made their own famous - boo boos - this week.

John McCain announced that he felt the "fundamentals of the economy are still strong" and just yesterday he announced he would fire the SEC chairman even though he can't.  Not to mention the gaffes about Iran and Al Qaeda.

Sarah Palin says she's got foreign policy experience because she can see Russia from the coast of Alaska.  Her plans for women's rights is to keep Title nine going (sports for girls) in high schools and colleges -- because it helped her get where she is today.  Last but not least, and possibly worst of all, at a rally yesterday she used the following to describe a McCain/Palin administration ----- it is the Palin/McCain Administration.

It would appear that John McCain and Sarah Palin have LOST this election -- if history has any say in the matter.


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Do we dare hope it is this simple?

Another aside might be his 'country First' shattered by selecting her in the first place, THAT upset what I call thinking republicans, while making gleeful the wingnuts. Oh well, we'll know soon if our nerves hold out.

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I agree with the Picking of Palin -- not being Country First

I'd forgotten about that one.

You can add the Spain - Zapatero gaffe to McCain's list of DUH'S? And this is the foreign policy expert ?

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