What Do Republicans Really Think?
Before I start, a quick question: Does anyone know if Mike Castle has reacted to his moderate buddy, McCain picking a certified right-wing wack job for Veep? He was outraged right? Probably.
Now then…The Palin spin is dizzying because most Republicans know what a huge screw-up the pick was. It is circle the wagon’s time and Republicans sure know how to do that. However, there are still a few honest Republicans around. Listen to Norm Ornstien, resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research.
I am troubled by (McCain’s choice), not the least because of the way it was done — last minute, impulsive, with the presidential candidate barely knowing his choice and without an extensive vetting done well in advance. The ethical issue is also troublesome, just from what we know on the record. Gov. Palin is by all accounts honest when it comes to money and taxpayer dollars, but either she or her close subordinates used government power to try to settle a personal vendetta — if she did not do it, but her subordinate did (from the audio tape on record), she clearly should have fired him and did not. Given the Patriot Act, the enhanced surveillance and other powers being exercised by the federal government, having someone willing to use or tolerate the use of the power of the state for personal vengeance is pretty unsettling.
Here is what wikipedia says about the AEI:
The American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research (AEI) is a conservative think tank, founded in 1943. According to the institute its mission is “to defend the principles and improve the institutions of American freedom and democratic capitalism — limited government, private enterprise, individual liberty and responsibility, vigilant and effective defense and foreign policies, political accountability, and open debate.”[1]
AEI has emerged as one of the leading architects of the second Bush administration’s public policy.[2] More than twenty AEI alumni and current visiting scholars and fellows have served either in a Bush administration policy post or on one of the government’s many panels and commissions.[3]
this guy norm sounds like a liberal pussy to me.
Beyond the Palin. Editorial from Front Page a right wing blog.
Editors admit “its true she has no experience in foreign affairs”. VP Palin would have time to learn on the job”?
Palins plan in the debate against Biden. She will say that Biden has been in Senate 35 years in Senate “In 2006 he wanted to partition Iraq, his plan was strenously opposed by military leaders and the Iraqi government”.
“Biden’s opposition to the surge in Iraq does not recommend him as a foreign policy expert”.
“Palin will borrow Obama’s line that little experience in foreign affairs is important, and no guarantee of good judgement”.
“No matter how compelling democrats attempt to portray Palin as a servant of big oil–she has actually taken them on”.
They admit she is vulnerable on many fronts–inexperience with foreign affairs.
.support for Buchanon in 1999
.creationism alongside evolution
“There is plenty in Palins record that deserves scrutiny”.
Sr. Editor of Page: Jacob Laskin.
So there you have it folks…if Biden is smart he will pay attention to the right wingers and their plans to go after his foreign policy experience….while admitting she has none!
The fight is on!
Wonder who is caring for her children while she is prompted and brought up to speed on all the issues of this nation and the world?
There are plenty of republicans who are not supporting of this “chick pick”. Joe Scarborough, Pat Buchanon ripped McCain on it.
Yesterday on the Rush show, a caller said that “Palin is another Ronald Reagun”. I almost ran off the road. 24 hours after the pick and she is already a Ronnie repeat?
The political spin of this no nothing will be unbelievable. Get ready for the AEI, and the neo cons to wrap themselves around her, even they know McCains judgment has been questioned.
I pulled this from WMDT’s website:
Representative Mike Castle of Delaware said, “We’re all gonna spend this next week getting to know her as much as anything else. I look forward to it and I trust John McCain’s people have made a good choice and feel that she will be a good candidate.”
Congressman Castle says that as long as he has known Senator McCain, he’s always been unpredictable.
I actually think it is a stretch to call Norm Ornstein a conservative. Norm was a regular guest on Al Franken’s Air America Radio show. He is also a regular writer for WaPo.
It is important to note that he also helped craft the McCain-Feingold Campaign Finance Reform bill. So it would seem that he does know McCain pretty well.
I have no idea what “Republicans” really think. I can only tell you what my republican friends and family think. They think McCain just lost the election.
News coming out of Minn: Cops/repression/kicking in doors with battering rams. Is this the democracy the republicans want us to believe in? Green Party activists have been arrested, homes invaded. (cspan this am).
Veterans are there in full force. Veterans affairs has just delivered the truth about the number of vets killed in Iraq….not 5000, but 73, 846 and 1,000,000 vets with disabilities.
We knew BOTH parties were lying about the dead soldiers. They are also not telling us that there at least 127 suicides every month. Is it time to end the war, or continue the “surge” the republicans want us to believe in.
Republicans don’t think thats the problem. They will create more war, hide facts and do it all waving the flag.
RE: Rep. VP Selection….does this mean Castle will consider resigning as Chair of McCain’s Campaign Committee? He can’t affort too many big blunders this election cycle……..he’s on his way out.
Run, Karen, Run.