Republicans: Win at all costs
Monday, September 08, 20081 comment(s) | Default | Large
Now I see just how low the Republicans will stoop to try and stay in power. Just because Hillary Clinton ran for the presidency, John McCain has now chosen an unknown woman as a running mate.
I believe they got her only to try to take all of those perceived disenfranchised women voters off the table from the Democrats who voted for Hillary. It’s clearly a move to thwart the steam roller of emotions the country is now feeling toward change and a better and a fairer government for all Americans.
Didn’t these same Republicans disenfranchise many black voters in Florida and Ohio before for two terms, or am I remembering something from another country? Don’t you all forget that!
Are you better off now that you were when Bill Clinton was our president and we had a surplus and a balanced budget?
It is a cheap, underhanded move by the Republican Party bringing in this woman to shoulder their miserable platform.
I’m feeling a personal undercurrent of telling the truth about this group of supposedly good Americans. I know it and they know it, but we won’t get into the specifics. They even had a Carl Rove call Joe Lieberman to ask him not to accept the VP nomination if it were given. Isn’t he that same guy who lied about giving out the name of Valerie Plaim because her husband refused to lie to get America into this war, but they did it anyway? Didn’t he also have to leave his position in disgrace? Now he’s pulling strings from behind the walls of the Republican Party.
This proves to me that the same old players are behind the scenes doing all they can to maintain status quo, keeping a strangehold on us. So for John McCain to say that he is for reform, you had better think twice America. Because under that disguise of change and reform is the next four years of George W. Bush and his cohorts. Haven’t they screwed this country up enough?
Governor Palin should be appalled that they even asked her to be the poster child for reform just because she’s a woman and they want to steal votes again. They’re reaching into the bottom of the barrel for an 18-month governor and former small town mayor. How pathetic! Think about it!
− Harry Coles Jr., St. Matthews
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jdtd wrote on Sep 8, 2008 3:28 PM:
I thought it was the Democratic Party that celebrated when women were elevated to positions of high leadership. But now, when it turns out that Senator McCain has elevated America’s most popular governor as nominee to the VP position, we find out the true nature of the Democrats’ attitude about women in high leadership positions. They don’t want family values women in those positions…they only want LIBERAL women in those positions. Apparently, you believe that it is inconceivable that a pro-life, pro-family, pro-gun rights and pro-oil drilling woman governor even existed. But now we know that as governor of Alaska she has passed more positive reform in the last 12 months than the previous male-run administration had accomplished in the last 12 years. She reformed her own state Republican Party and worked with state Democrats to get the legislation done.
So Harry, I guess you’re impressed with how she whipped those evil oil companies into shape to get that $40 billion natural gas pipeline approved. Speaking of approval, I believe about 80 to 85 percent of Alaskans approve of Governor Palin which is a far cry from the 9 to 15 percent who approve of the do-no-drilling Pelosi/Reid Democratic Congress.
Speaking as a Republican man, I’m going to work my tale off to get the McCain/Palin ticket elected. And by the way we’re going to elect another great woman, Nancy Harrelson, to US House District 6 in SC.
Get used to it Harry…in the Republican Party we love and respect our women, not as figureheads, but as real leaders.
John Nelson
Sandy Run
Chairman, Calhoun County Republican Party "