Does Howard Dean run the RNC?; Update: Jeremiah whines

By Michelle Malkin  •  April 24, 2008 01:36 PM

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1adean.jpg Howard Dean smells an opening.

Seizing on the heavy-handed response of John McCain and the RNC to the completely unobjectionable anti-Obama ad by the North Carolina GOP I spotlighted yesterday, Dean is now pressing McCain further on the issue–and claiming that if McCain doesn’t succeed in forcing the state party to withdraw its ad, it’s a failure of his “leadership” (read: bullying) skills.

The DNC has sent out this e-mail to supporters:

While the McCain campaign made a show of protesting the ad, McCain made no mention of the fact that key officials in the North Carolina GOP are members of McCain’s state steering committee and McCain donors.

Nor did he mention the fact that the state chair who is bucking his leadership is a member of the arrangements committee of the Republican National Convention. Given his ties to state Republican leaders, if McCain is serious about making sure this ad never airs, he should have no trouble making it happen. If not, McCain should return their contributions, remove them from his campaign committees, and strip the state chair from her role on the GOP’s convention committee.

Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean today issued the following statement calling on McCain to exercise real leadership and pull the plug on this ad:

“This is a test of leadership for John McCain. If he can’t pick up the phone and make members of his own party stop airing a television ad he claims to oppose, how can he lead our country through an economic crisis or the war in Iraq? After shifting his positions on gun control, immigration and tax cuts throughout this campaign, McCain should not equivocate on this issue. Making a show of releasing your emails to the press is not leadership. If he is serious, he will get this ad pulled.”

McCain and the Beltway GOP elite have no one to blame but themselves for engineering this debacle. They’re delusional in trying to put a positive spin on the episode. See the RNC’s superiority complex pose at David Brody’s blog. If grass-roots conservatives have been left with the impression that Howard Dean runs the RNC, it’s not because of anything Howard Dean has said and done over the last 24 hours.

NC blogger Katy Benningfield provides some local reporting and insights:

The phone is ringing off the hook at NC GOP headquarters and the money is said to be rolling in, but it’s not enough. Our party needs more and they need YOUR contribution to get this ad off the Internet and ON THE AIR. Contribute online, here.

The state party is apparently receiving threats, as the Raleigh Police Department has been guarding NC GOP headquarters all day. The doors to the Hillsborough Street building are locked. After the firebombing of the same structure by anarchists a few years back, they’ve learned to expect the unexpected.

This is making national news and Katy’s Conservative Corner has never been more proud to be a North Carolina Republican than today.


John Hood
shares more NC analysis.

Meanwhile, TV station WRAL has rejected the ad. The article doesn’t say on what grounds they made the rejection.

Here it is again. Always happy to remind you of who the real extremists are:

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John Hawkins at Right Wing News to RNC: “Weenies.”

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Update: Excerpts of Jeremiah Wright’s therapy session with Bill Moyers are trickling out…

In his first wide-ranging interview since video clips of his inflammatory sermons were aired, the Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr. defended himself over the controversy, saying that his words were twisted.

Mr. Wright, Senator Barack Obama’s former pastor, gave an interview to Bill Moyers on Wednesday, to air on PBS tomorrow.

“I felt it was unfair,” Mr. Wright said, according to excerpts of the interview released Thursday. “I felt it was unjust. I felt it was untrue. I felt for those who were doing that, were doing it for some very devious reasons.”

In Mr. Wright’s sermons, he suggested that Americans bore some responsibility for the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, saying “America’s chickens are coming home to roost.” He also blamed the government for the spread of AIDS among African-Americans, characterized the United States government as corrupt and referred to the “U.S. of K.K.K. A.”

He did not apologize or back away from his remarks in the interview, instead saying that people wanted to paint him as “some sort of fanatic.”

…When asked what the people who aired the clips “wanted to communicate,” Mr. Wright said, “I think they wanted to communicate that I am unpatriotic, that I am un-American, that I am filled with hate speech, that I have a cult at Trinity United Church of Christ. And by the way, guess who goes to his church, hint, hint, hint? That’s what they wanted to communicate.”

Jeremiah Wright did a fantastic job of communicating that all on his own.

Now, everybody hush up. We’re being “not appropriate and helpful,” you know.

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Update: Allah has a vid clip of the Moyers-Wright therapy session.

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  1. #299750
    On April 24th, 2008 at 5:54 pm, rooster said:

    luckybrand if you can’t see the pc’ification, and everything is the race card, then I can’t help you. Nothing has changed and it seems to only get worse.

  2. #299754
    On April 24th, 2008 at 5:59 pm, luckybrand said:

    rooster, you’re the one that linked OJ and Obama as oppressed minorities benefiting from false guilt. I just asked why you think that OJ’s acquittal is related in any way to Obama’s candidacy.

  3. #299759
    On April 24th, 2008 at 6:00 pm, BrianNY said:

    Mr. Wright said, “I think they wanted to communicate that I am unpatriotic, that I am un-American, that I am filled with hate speech, that I have a cult at Trinity United Church of Christ. And by the way, guess who goes to his church, hint, hint, hint? That’s what they wanted to communicate.”

    Didn’t Wright do a pretty good job of communicating this himself through his own DVDs?

    I think Wright’s gripe is that, once his DVDs were circulated by the MSM, he could no longer control the audience.

  4. #299765
    On April 24th, 2008 at 6:09 pm, rooster said:

    luckybrand,
    The OJ verdict was wholly supported within the black communities. Obama is the messiah of the black communities today and can do or say no wrong.
    I’m not trying to say the “long legged freak” is evil like OJ, just that his shortcomings are overlooked sort of like OJ’s double murder.

  5. #299767
    On April 24th, 2008 at 6:09 pm, Christian Soldier said:

    Informed that NC has pulled the “offending” ad. as of Thurs.

    Is this verified?

  6. #299768
    On April 24th, 2008 at 6:12 pm, rooster said:

    Sorry luckybrand, the oppressed minorities are the templates used by the msm for anyone who is black. The mere fact that B Hussein is half white is easily overlooked to play on the poor minority making it big story.

  7. #299770
    On April 24th, 2008 at 6:15 pm, Mookie said:

    On April 24th, 2008 at 5:49 pm, gayle said:

    I cannot stand WRAL!
    I have sent several links to Michelle regarding issues in this state.

    If you post online at WRAL, they edit before it’s allowed.

    If you use illegals or bash them, you are censored MOST of the time.

    If you speak ill of the liberals, you’re in deep doodoo.

    Everyone here should go visit and try to post! HAHA! A real eye-opener!

    In other words, they have standards?

  8. #299776
    On April 24th, 2008 at 6:21 pm, luckybrand said:

    I got you rooster — my hesitation came from the comparison between a senator and a double murderer/famewhore/batterer/burglar.

    Believe me, I’m not blind to Obama’s shortcomings, nor are some of the black people that know and consult with. I have my doubts that he can handle some of the current problems that the country is facing, and remember, back in January, he did not have the majority of the black vote. However, any misgivings about him pale to the disgust that Billary has engendered other these last few months, and that feeling is shared by a lot of black people. Just as some conservatives feel that McCain acts like he doesn’t need your support, some black people feel that Hillary and Bill treat us the same way. It’s not that he can do no wrong, but we also prefer a candidate that does not take our vote for granted, especially since Hillary cannot win without the black vote.

  9. #299778
    On April 24th, 2008 at 6:25 pm, nbarry said:

    After the famous Scream, Jay Leno said, “Cows in Iowa are nervous about coming down with Mad Dean Disease.”

  10. #299779
    On April 24th, 2008 at 6:25 pm, nyc123me said:

    “Mr. Wright said, “I think they wanted to communicate that I am unpatriotic, that I am un-American, that I am filled with hate speech, that I have a cult at Trinity United Church of Christ.”"

    yes, you are.
    and your point is…?

  11. #299786
    On April 24th, 2008 at 6:33 pm, Nichevo said:

    On April 24th, 2008 at 5:00 pm, franksalterego said:
    How’s this for a plan…

    We’ll have the gov’t subsidize your insurance out of the taxpayer’s pocket.

    Which will mean I, as a resident of Spokane, an area with little risk of hurricanes, will be paying for your insurance.

    YAAAY !!!

    That’s not the plan, Stan, er, Frank. Floridians, in addition to their own home insurance, are also paying a surcharge for state-funded insurance on those in “high risk” areas who insurance companies refuse to cover. (Ain’t collectivism great?)

    I’ve lived here 36 years. After Hurricane Andrew — 35 miles away and no damage here — we got cancelled by a major insurance company, transferred to another “shadow” company owned by the same “major insurance company,” only with a 150% rise in premium. (The alternative was the “risk pool” where we’d be paying 200% more, so we stuck with them, with still no claim, evah.) The insurance company then decided to pull out (shadow company and all) from the state, a few years later, leaving us scrambling for insurance, which we got, and which, when, after 34 years, we suffered a major loss, paid us next to nothing on the claim.

    Do we want you to pay? No, not at all. We know what it’s like to pay for others, dude, same as we know that the incessant whining from people who don’t even own the property they had to be rescued from in NO — in spite of all warnings to evacuate, and the city government’s total cluelessness, is BS.

    But, hey, we’re the bitter working middle class — not the sanctified, carefully cultivated minority poor in NO — and we can go scratch, right?

  12. #299787
    On April 24th, 2008 at 6:34 pm, dejack said:

    How dare you show clips of speeches I made, reduced to dvd and sold on my website as the Best of Rev. Wright! How dare you!

  13. #299790
    On April 24th, 2008 at 6:37 pm, Brian Paasch said:

    Well, if NCGOP pulled the ad, they haven’t said so on their website. At least not as of 6:35PM eastern. I cleared my cache and reloaded a couple of times. Still there.

  14. #299796
    On April 24th, 2008 at 6:43 pm, rooster said:

    luckybrand

    What you wrote is true and very sad. Sad, because the dems really don’t have the best interest of the black communities at heart. They want them to be dependent on their benevolance to give them all kinds of goverment programs to make their life a utopia.

    Considering the dems are the creators of the KKK, I really don’t understand the allegiance, except for the social engineering with goverment programs.

    some black people feel that Hillary and Bill treat us the same way. It’s not that he can do no wrong, but we also prefer a candidate that does not take our vote for granted, especially since Hillary cannot win without the black vote.

    senor McCain has taken his whole party for granted.

  15. #299808
    On April 24th, 2008 at 6:57 pm, gayle said:

    Mookie, you must love me.

    You always comment to my posts.

    What say you?

  16. #299816
    On April 24th, 2008 at 7:07 pm, luckybrand said:

    rooster

    Maybe that’s why I liked McCain back in 2000, when he was more centrist. Now that he is the presumptive nominee, his pandering bothers me, a liberal, just as much as it bothers conservatives!

    As for the Dems, I almost hope that they cave into Hillary and make her the nominee, knowing full well that the math does not support her. Their unwilliness to step in and end this stupidity shows that the party is earning its reputation of being weak. She has made it clear that my vote doesn’t count (black, 31, graduate degree, make over 50K, drink lattes, voted in CT, where she lost, will vote in DC, where she won’t win), so she won’t get it in November. Maybe the Dem Party will grow a spine in time for 2012.

  17. #299818
    On April 24th, 2008 at 7:08 pm, TheOtherSide said:

    Considering the dems are the creators of the KKK

    Are you serious? Neither political party “created” the first iteration nor the second iteration of the KKK. Further, the KKK’s views seem to lean a bit closer to modern day Republicans than Democrats. Next your going to tell me that the CofCC was created by the dems too?

  18. #299825
    On April 24th, 2008 at 7:24 pm, Buckaroo said:

    “the KKK’s views seem to lean a bit closer to modern day Republicans than Democrats”

    hm, lessee, identity politics above all; collectivist, centralized leadership …

    nope, looks pretty donkish to me!

  19. #299829
    On April 24th, 2008 at 7:30 pm, rooster said:

    Had me worried for a second there Buck!

  20. #299831
    On April 24th, 2008 at 7:33 pm, Buckaroo said:

    worried how? u thought i wuz gonna agree?
    :-)

  21. #299832
    On April 24th, 2008 at 7:34 pm, docflash said:

    Howard Dean said,,” how can he lead our country through an economic crisis or the war in Iraq”?
    I thought both Dem candidates promised to pull out of Iraq.Am I wrong?

  22. #299835
    On April 24th, 2008 at 7:39 pm, bear1909 said:

    Who are all of these idiots trying to convince?

    They inspire me to go open the gas line in the kitchen. :D

  23. #299836
    On April 24th, 2008 at 7:40 pm, rooster said:

    luckybrand
    If you can get excited about any of these 3, you’re better than me.

    Both parties are turning into complete failures for those of us they are supposed to represent.

    B. Hussein Obama-Black liberation beliefs and fellowship

    Hildabeast Clinton-Congenital liar (w/hairy back)

    senor Juan McCain-Thinks he’s a democrat courting the illegal vote

    TOS,

    Don’t know, or care how old you are, but I believe Martin Luther King Jr., was a registered republican. Now why do you suppose he would have been a member of the GOP?

  24. #299838
    On April 24th, 2008 at 7:42 pm, TheOtherSide said:

    On April 24th, 2008 at 7:24 pm, Buckaroo said:
    nope, looks pretty donkish to me

    From the KKK platform:

    “The recognition that America was founded as a Christian nation.”

    “Put American troops on our border to STOP the flood of illegal aliens”

    “Abolish all anti-gun laws and encourage every adult to own a weapon”

    “Abolish ALL discriminatory affirmative action programs”

    “Abortion should be outlawed except to save the mother’s life or in case of rape or incest.”

    “We support a national law against the practice of homosexuality”

    “We support a return to parental authority without government interference in the raising of our children”

    Still sound donkish? No wonder they all voted for Ron Paul (R)

  25. #299841
    On April 24th, 2008 at 7:44 pm, rooster said:

    TOS-Poster child of our failed school system

  26. #299845
    On April 24th, 2008 at 7:51 pm, bit_boy said:
  27. #299850
    On April 24th, 2008 at 7:55 pm, TheOtherSide said:

    Now why do you suppose he would have been a member of the GOP?

    Most African-Americans were Republicans 40 years ago. The southern Dixiecrats back in the day were segregationists, against Civil Rights and – kind of like today’s Republican – socially conservative. Any other questions?

  28. #299853
    On April 24th, 2008 at 8:00 pm, rooster said:

    Any other questions?

    POS TOS, yes, see #124

  29. #299857
    On April 24th, 2008 at 8:08 pm, TheOtherSide said:

    Wow, what a great retort rooster.

    Question for you:
    In 2008, who do you think the KKK, CofCC, and other various neo-Nazi/ White-Supremacist groups will be supporting for POTUS?

  30. #299861
    On April 24th, 2008 at 8:16 pm, rooster said:

    None of the candidates that have any chance of being elected TOS.

  31. #299862
    On April 24th, 2008 at 8:17 pm, rooster said:

    Who is the CofCC?

  32. #299863
    On April 24th, 2008 at 8:18 pm, dejack said:

    Sen. Robert Byrd: Clan member who, as a lwyer, defended a man who murdered a catholic priest for the crime of marrying a black man to a white woman. Democrat.

  33. #299874
    On April 24th, 2008 at 8:33 pm, e.koenig said:

    the greatest country the world has ever known and we are stuck with this bunch of morons. i can’t do anything but bang my head on my desk…

    from the TOS platform:
    atheism
    open borders
    police state
    discrimination
    infanticide
    total government control.

    hey TOS maybe you should run for president

  34. #299876
    On April 24th, 2008 at 8:35 pm, Ignatius Reilly said:

    Anybody catch that lame straddler Bill O’Reilly tonight making excuses for the Ayers/Obama connection? Completely disgusting.

    Fortunately, he had a strong guest who was making the case about what a violent, America-hating scumbag Ayer is. His wife, too. They may have abandoned their violent acts, but they have not abandoned their vile rhetoric against the USA.

    O’Reilly says he wants to let this go because Obama just got caught up in the radical chic atomosphere of Chicago. Absurd. And he was a young guy on the make.

    Here is the reality: O’Reilly is mostly just an act. He made his bones with issues that conservatives like. But he has wanted for some time to expand his franchise. So you see him — from time to time — tack left in a way that seems inexplicable on the basis of the issues.

    But BO is not thinking about the issues. He is thinking about his ratings. And when he feels he had edged too far right, he will lurch left. It is all about positioning the product. He truly sucks.

  35. #299881
    On April 24th, 2008 at 8:40 pm, rooster said:

    O’Reilly says he wants to let this go because Obama just got caught up in the radical chic atomosphere of Chicago

    For 20 frickin’ years chic!

    I quit Oreilly about 8 months ago and love it. Lou Dobbs is the one and only one standing up for all Americans.

    Fox ain’t what the dems accuse it of being.

  36. #299882
    On April 24th, 2008 at 8:44 pm, Surveyor said:

    Lou Dobbs is the one and only one standing up for all Americans.

    Ain’t that the truth! Lou is the man!

  37. #299883
    On April 24th, 2008 at 8:44 pm, dejack said:

    A green hunting cap squeezed the topof the fleshy balloon of a head

    IR you are right. O’Reilly is about pontificating, shouting down, and bullying and not about advancing conservative principals. Ayers and his wife, who incidentially praised the Manson murders when they were discovered, are dispicable people. And I use “people” in the most genrous terms.

  38. #299884
    On April 24th, 2008 at 8:45 pm, rooster said:

    On April 24th, 2008 at 8:33 pm, e.koenig said:
    the greatest country the world has ever known and we are stuck with this bunch of morons. i can’t do anything but bang my head on my desk…

    from the TOS platform:
    atheism
    open borders
    police state
    discrimination
    infanticide
    total government control.

    hey TOS maybe you should run for president

    Danke Herr Koenig
    You pretty much nailed the TOSdem platform

  39. #299892
    On April 24th, 2008 at 8:55 pm, Ignatius Reilly said:

    On April 24th, 2008 at 8:44 pm, dejack said: A green hunting cap squeezed the topof the fleshy balloon of a head…

    Big mistake, dejack!

    Hell will freeze over before you get one of those delicious little weenies that I reserve for customers who meet my standards. {grin}

    (My advise is that you stop paying attention to that ignorant tool who ripped off my life story!)

  40. #299904
    On April 24th, 2008 at 9:10 pm, Buckaroo said:

    # 123

    i suppose you could paint them as ronulans with even less tact — ‘course, those folk are about as rational as koslambs, so, not sure how that bolsters yer case …

  41. #299907
    On April 24th, 2008 at 9:11 pm, Buckaroo said:

    # 125

    whatever your current dosage is …

    it needs to be increased …

  42. #299909
    On April 24th, 2008 at 9:12 pm, Buckaroo said:

    BOR is for BOR 1st, 2nd, and 3rd. how he treated MM during the geraldo debacle told us pretty much all we needed to know …

  43. #299911
    On April 24th, 2008 at 9:16 pm, TheOtherSide said:

    On April 24th, 2008 at 8:33 pm, e.koenig said:
    the greatest country the world has ever known and we are stuck with this bunch of morons. i can’t do anything but bang my head on my desk…

    from the TOS platform:
    atheism
    open borders
    police state
    discrimination
    infanticide
    total government control.

    hey TOS maybe you should run for president
    Danke Herr Koenig
    You pretty much nailed the TOSdem platform

    You gotta love the absolutist black-and-white nature of the right. I’m for gun restrictions, thus I must be for a police state. I’m pro-choice, I must be for infanticide. No wonder absolutists groups like the KKK, CofCC (look it up rooster…I guess I got something out of my education), and other various neo-Nazi/ White-Supremacist groups flock to the right.

  44. #299912
    On April 24th, 2008 at 9:17 pm, Bob in Myrtle Beach said:

    Let Screamin’ Dean scream, he’s naturally just doing it for the publicity, but what is happening is his protestations will actually draw focus to a ad campaign that would normally only draw attention in a regional domain…give him room…he’ll make it go national.

    And as for Rev. Wright, I’d like to see him plastered on every TV screen on Prime Time, on all the talk shows, on all the talking head interviews…the more we hear from him the worse for Barack. Let that skeleton get out and shamble around in the spotlight for all to see…Obama will never be able to distance himself far enough to survive.

    The real battle is now all about “electabilty”…Obama has all but the nomination to lose, if he can’t get shed of the “Wright Stuff” he’ll be the Screamin’ Dean of 2008.

  45. #299913
    On April 24th, 2008 at 9:17 pm, Jim M. said:

    Nice to know that Howard dean believes that a party nominee has the obligation to stifle and destroy the freedom of speech.

    I was a little late to this thread, so i don’t know if that was mentioned earlier. My apologies if it was.

    Also, Dean has a little of the “kettle/pot” syndrome going here. Since he obviously feels that the Party leader has the ability to approve or restrict the activities of the party’s members, I take it that he wholeheartedly approved of Carter’s recent love fest with Hamas. And the man can’t even get control of his franken-delegates to prevent a convention battle. And there’s still the little matter of all those disenfranchised voters in Michigan and Florida who just happen to be members of his own party.

    Howard Dean chastising any Republican about controlling their own party is like Iran’s I’m-a-diddy-job lecturing other countries on gay rights. Sounds like it is getting close to the time for another Dean Primal Scream…

  46. #299914
    On April 24th, 2008 at 9:20 pm, mistressjustice said:

    Rev. Wright is killing Obama every time he speaks. The man has too much arrogance, and selfishness to help himself.

    Anyone disingenuous to say the southern Dixicrats didn’t become Republicans, retire, die off, or become Robert Byrd isn’t worth arguing with. Does anyone think their are any current Democrats in the KKK, Aryan brotherhood and the like? Get real. #123 or 128 anyone?

    The lack of honesty reminds me of when people like Hannity quote and claim to admire MLK. Truth is, if MLK were around today, or if people like Hannity were around in the 60s, MLK would be branded a commie, radical, America hating menace of a socialist changing the fabric of American traditions.

  47. #299915
    On April 24th, 2008 at 9:21 pm, Buckaroo said:

    # 142

    yeah, ’cause BESIDES elf, sds, the morons threatening the gop convention in MM’s latest post today, etc. etc. the left doesn’t have ANY radical absolutist groups running around …

    /eyeroll

  48. #299916
    On April 24th, 2008 at 9:22 pm, mistressjustice said:

    there are any

  49. #299924
    On April 24th, 2008 at 9:26 pm, changer1701 said:

    This whole episode is just pathetic. There is nothing wrong with that ad, and its absolutely asinine for the RNC and John McCain to be piling on like this. “Oh, I condemn it”, he says. Condemn what? The NC GOP showing video of a Wright sermon with a picture of Barack Obama, calling into question the judgment of 2 NC Democrat gubernatorial candidates who endorsed Obama? I question why McCain offers stonger condemnation of a third-party GOP ad then he does of the pastor’s comments.

    McCain continues to demonstrate that he’s more interested in pandering to his real “base”, left-leaning independents and Dems, than he is trying to shore up the GOP one. I’m sorry, but a mediocre speech at CPAC and flip-flopping on the Bush tax cuts isn’t enough. He, and the national party, are basically flipping us off…to hell with you, we’ll win by attracting the other side. They might as well BE the other side at this point. I think they’re in for a surpise this November when lots of conservative Republicans just stay home. They’re not providing any reason to go ahead and support a nominee many dislike in the first place.

  50. #299925
    On April 24th, 2008 at 9:29 pm, Buckaroo said:

    # 148

    GET.A.GRIP.

    /my new unofficial logo for handwringing, whiny mm.com posters …

  51. #299928
    On April 24th, 2008 at 9:35 pm, rooster said:

    Anyone disingenuous to say the southern Dixicrats didn’t become Republicans, retire, die off, or become Robert Byrd isn’t worth arguing with. Does anyone think their are any current Democrats in the KKK, Aryan brotherhood and the like? Get real. #123 or 128 anyone?

    Byrd – Former Grand Wizard and current ranking dem in the senate

    Al Gore – Mentored by his anti-civil rights act father

    Bill Clinton – Mentored by William Fullbright who supported segregation and opposed civil rights in the 50’s, 60’s

    These are just a few and surprise, surprise, surprise. They are pretty high up in the dem food chain.

  52. #299932
    On April 24th, 2008 at 9:37 pm, changer1701 said:

    RE #149:

    Tha’s akin to McCain declaring that everyone should just “calm down”, is it not? Oh, just stop criticizing me and fall in line like good little Republicans.

  53. #299936
    On April 24th, 2008 at 9:43 pm, Buckaroo said:

    “current ranking dem in the senate”

    annnd, senate president pro tem — i.e. 4th in line for the presidency .. .

    /there’s a cheery thought

  54. #299939
    On April 24th, 2008 at 9:45 pm, Trollman said:

    changer1701 said:

    Tha’s akin to McCain declaring that everyone should just “calm down”, is it not? Oh, just stop criticizing me and fall in line like good little Republicans.

    That’s cuz Buckaroo is just like his candidate – he enjoys insulting and trashing conservatives.

  55. #299943
    On April 24th, 2008 at 9:49 pm, rooster said:

    I feel your pain Buck.

    I really would like to get behind senor Mccain, I just don’t trust him on nearly every issue.

    The more he talks, the worse it seems to get.

  56. #299949
    On April 24th, 2008 at 9:58 pm, dejack said:

    Ah I.R. Sad life story for the unfortunate author. However he lives again in skewering hate mongering pastors and messiahs with glass jaws.

  57. #299950
    On April 24th, 2008 at 9:58 pm, changer1701 said:

    #153:

    And that’s fine. I just hope no one expects those same conservatives to follow such a candidate to the ballot box. This is a man who flirted with the idea of leaving the GOP, of joining Kerry on the ticket…and now all of us are supposed to put our serious misgivings aside and march to the polls for him just because he has a big “R” next to his name?

  58. #299951
    On April 24th, 2008 at 10:00 pm, havok said:

    From what I am seeing McCain will end up voting for Obama. He is such a weenie and totally gives in with the slightest edge of someone yelling ‘racism’.

    Say hello to President Barak Hussein Obama folks.

  59. #299952
    On April 24th, 2008 at 10:00 pm, tbear44 said:

    At least we are having fun now watching the dems show us who they really are. I’m afraid after November i won’t be laughing anymore. but who knows? Ugh what a sorry bunch running for POTUS

  60. #299956
    On April 24th, 2008 at 10:09 pm, rooster said:

    Living through the Clinton years as a Soldier and his slashing of the military, I despise Billy Boy. I have equal disdain for the Hildabeast and her policy of no military uniforms or eye contact in the white house.

    What the hell is the matter with me that I view the Hildabeast as the best stooge left?

    I think it is the pseudo-fight she is putting up that I like???

  61. #299957
    On April 24th, 2008 at 10:09 pm, Buckaroo said:

    # 153

    piss off — I AM a conservative, simply a pragmatic one …

    get a grip, and make a choice for the autumn — the dude you enjoy holding a childish grudge against or the 2-headed marxist machine — for me that’s a very simple choice …

  62. #299959
    On April 24th, 2008 at 10:11 pm, rightwingnutjob said:

    I just donated $50.00 online to the NC Republican Party. Rather than spending so much energy POSTING, POSTING, POSTING and ranting, DO SOMETHING. You can donate as little as $10.00 online on their site. SEND THEM SOME FREAKING MONEY. Ranting online on Michelle’s site really, in the end, does NOTHING. Put your money where your mouth is and DONATE to keep the ad on TV.
    If this offends you, tough.

  63. #299960
    On April 24th, 2008 at 10:12 pm, Buckaroo said:

    # 157

    piss off twice …

    /from another blog — “MM doesn’t get her commenters from mensa, eh?”

  64. #299963
    On April 24th, 2008 at 10:16 pm, mistressjustice said:

    Rooster- I have no defense for Robert Byrd.
    Obviously, Gore and Clinton failed to carry on the racist tradition.

    Now do you want me to list the Republicans who were mentored by dixiecrat bigots. And again, do you really think yesterday’s dixiecrat KKK are democrats in today’s KKK? Really? You can see the KKK platform above. Take the KKK out of him, do you think yesterday’s segragationists whose attitudes haven’t changed are voting for the Democrat next November? I mean Really?

    On a side note look up some of the old racists writings of former Supreme Court Justice William Rehnquest, may he not rest in peace. He had a lot more power than Robert Byrd, may he croak any day.
    This debate may seem petty, but I just think it’s really intellectually dishonest when conservatives argue that Blacks, and anti-racists should be Republican, based on party history. Gid outa here with that craziness. Both parties have blood on their hands.

  65. #299965
    On April 24th, 2008 at 10:16 pm, rooster said:

    roger dodger nutjob, I’ll give $10. I would give more but I trust our party very little to keep this type of attack going. This type of behavior if continued, could result in large contributions to our party!!!

  66. #299969
    On April 24th, 2008 at 10:19 pm, rightwingnutjob said:

    Amen Rooster. We spend so much time typing on our keyboards and yet, if the 160+ posters would give them some freaking money, they could keep the ad going. Meanwhile, we spend electricity, time, energy, typing away here and elsewhere about how mad we are… but *many* of us won’t give a nickel. We make excuses, come up with reasons, but freaking SOROS is sandbagging us and we do, often, *nothing*.
    Thanks for listening to my rant.

  67. #299973
    On April 24th, 2008 at 10:26 pm, changer1701 said:

    #160:

    A “childish grudge”? Please…what is childish about not wanting to vote for a candidate who goes out of his way to demonstrate he will accomodate and pander to the Left whenever he has the chance? Pragmatism is what Newt was doing when he was sitting on that bench with Pelosi…excuse me if I’d prefer a candidate who’ll fight the Left on these issues.

  68. #299978
    On April 24th, 2008 at 10:28 pm, Buckaroo said:

    um, no, $$ is what got newt to sit with san fran nan …

    /yer looking in the wrong direction if yer lookin’ for a newt defender …

  69. #299979
    On April 24th, 2008 at 10:29 pm, rooster said:

    Mistress you are right about both having blood on their hands. Thinking that Gore and Clinton put their racial upbringing behind them I don’t agree. The whole party just changed strategies to be the paymaster.

    I see the dems as the ones who discovered a way to keep the black community in bondage…welfare. After they lost the filibustering on the civil rights act, they came up with their war on poverty to save face for their evil ways during the civil rights fight.

    They care more about votes and what easier way to get votes than to give free housing, free money, free child care, free, free, free. All at the expense of us, the actual US citizens who pay taxes.

    As far as the KKK platform, I don’t know it and have never heard any stories of the KKK for years.

    I only brought up the KKK, because I hear it often from people on the left(usually blacks)and wonder why I don’t see anything on the news about all this KKK activity?

  70. #299980
    On April 24th, 2008 at 10:32 pm, Republicanvet said:

    Haven’t read all the comments yet but,

    “I felt it was unfair,” Mr. Wright said, according to excerpts of the interview released Thursday. “I felt it was unjust. I felt it was untrue. I felt for those who were doing that, were doing it for some very devious reasons.”

    Yet he cannot comprehend why all of this pertains to his own words.

  71. #299983
    On April 24th, 2008 at 10:35 pm, rooster said:

    Republicanvet,
    Sometimes when preacherman speaks, he speaks in tongues. Give him a break, it wasn’t really him.

  72. #299984
    On April 24th, 2008 at 10:40 pm, Republicanvet said:

    On April 24th, 2008 at 10:35 pm, rooster said:

    Republicanvet,
    Sometimes when preacherman speaks, he speaks in tongues. Give him a break, it wasn’t really him.

    …and Obama and the rest of the drive-by media are interpreting…now I get it.

  73. #299997
    On April 24th, 2008 at 10:59 pm, Pixel_Dust_1776 said:

    Citizen McCain had courage to fly over the most heavily defended airspace during the Viet Nam war, and got shot down by triple A or an SA-6 SAM……..if he capitulates to Dean “The Scream” demands, we have a term for people like that in Hispanic culture: PENDEJO!!!!!!
    Sick and tired of the GOP cowards!!
    Rio
    Semper Fi!

  74. #300005
    On April 24th, 2008 at 11:16 pm, juliesa said:

    When’s the last time anyone saw a NCGOP ad, outside of NC? Never, right?

    This ad is being seen and heard all over tv, radio, and the internet because of this controversy. It’s getting a huge amount of free airplay. I don’t know if it was planned or not, but many more people have been exposed to the good reverend’s rhetoric than if this mess hadn’t happened.

  75. #300008
    On April 24th, 2008 at 11:20 pm, Trollman said:

    I said:

    That’s cuz Buckaroo is just like his candidate – he enjoys insulting and trashing conservatives.

    Buckaroo responds:

    piss off

    What are the words I am looking for? Oh yeah, “calm down.”

  76. #300009
    On April 24th, 2008 at 11:21 pm, vatodio said:

    Ok,

    North Carolina State Republicans are trying to link the local Democractic opponents to Obama who refuses to disown his relationship with a racist preacher.

    McCain has no control over what the State GOP operatives do for their local contests.

    But if McCain doesn’t stop the commercials from airing, somehow he is responsible for airing them.

    The moral of this story is: it is ok for Obama to have association with a racist preacher, but it is not ok for anyone else to use the facts against him.

    Now that I have labeled Obama and Wright as racist cohorts, does that make me a racist too!

    I guess I will have to live with the stigma for the rest of my life.

  77. #300017
    On April 25th, 2008 at 12:00 am, tbear44 said:

    i have a hankerin for a waffle

  78. #300033
    On April 25th, 2008 at 1:11 am, puhiawa said:

    McCain-Obama. The dream team.

  79. #300046
    On April 25th, 2008 at 3:00 am, Ombre Rose said:

    On April 24th, 2008 at 10:29 pm, rooster said:

    BOY HOWDY, did you ever nail that one down solid!!! And I do mean!!! Rock Solid!!!

  80. #300048
    On April 25th, 2008 at 3:12 am, Ombre Rose said:

    On April 24th, 2008 at 9:26 pm, changer1701 said:

    I question why McCain offers stonger condemnation of a third-party GOP ad then he does of the pastor’s comments.

    McCain continues to demonstrate that he’s more interested in pandering to his real “base”, left-leaning independents and Dems, than he is trying to shore up the GOP one. I’m sorry, but a mediocre speech at CPAC and flip-flopping on the Bush tax cuts isn’t enough. He, and the national party, are basically flipping us off…to hell with you, we’ll win by attracting the other side. They might as well BE the other side at this point. I think they’re in for a surpise this November when lots of conservative Republicans just stay home. They’re not providing any reason to go ahead and support a nominee many dislike in the first place.

    That is why I plan to hike their irritation at me to as high a pitch as I am able, by going to the polls to vote for a VERY CONSERVATIVE Write-In candidate for President.

    It causes them a lot more work and aggravation and irritation. ESPECIALLY when they barely lose.

    They don’t only have to count it, they also have to individually LIST it, and it stares them in the face til the whole thing is cold and buried.

    THINK how long McNasty will curse every Conservative Write-In vote. He is so self-consumed, he’ll do that for ETERNITY.

  81. #300053
    On April 25th, 2008 at 4:07 am, Buckaroo said:

    # 179

    remeber when i used “childish” earlier? i may have to amend that to “infantile”

    get.a.grip.

  82. #300218
    On April 25th, 2008 at 9:43 am, Fester said:

    The Rev is a Racist. It is just that simple. There is video of him BEING a Racist. He doesn’t like it. His Chickens have come home to roost.

  83. #300241
    On April 25th, 2008 at 9:52 am, Fester said:

    Ombre Rose #179
    Sounds like you know quite a bit about being “self-consumed” yourself. What the hell, go ahead and waste your vote.
    We will forget to invite you to the Victory Party.

  84. #302400
    On April 27th, 2008 at 4:06 pm, IndependentTom said:

    I kinda think that we could actually influence our country by taking a long term look than wasting rhetoric on what we can do in the short term. JMHO

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