As the Bigot-Party prepares to descend on Minnesota for the Republican convention, I can’t help but recall the right-wing nutbag Stuart Shepard of “Focus on the Family Action” starring in a video that asked Christians to pray for “rain of biblical proportions,” during Barack Obama’s nomination-acceptance speech. He asked God for “abundant and torrential rain” that would create flash flood warnings and “swamp the intersections..” Shepard said he hoped the rain would start “two minutes before the acceptance speech begins.”

What a colossal waste of GOD’s time!

Well, that never happened and last Thursday Obama delivered yet another masterful speech which was applauded exuberantly by the left and grudgingly by right, and Hurricane Gustav(with speculation that two other hurricanes are right behind Gustav) appears to be on target to mess up the GOP convention — a gathering of Stuart Shepard’s Grand Old party of GOD!

Even “toe-sucking” Dick Morris loved it. “A master was at work last night. A politician who can inspire hope filled in the blanks of his program and articulated his vision with skill and panache,” said Dick Morris, a former Clinton advisor, now a wicked and rascally prime-time analyst for the “snake-pit” news channel — Fox News.

In 2004, when the Republicans couldn’t field a viable candidate (Republican Party challenger, Jack Ryan, was discovered to be a sexual pervert) to run against Barack Obama, they searched all over the United States — all they way to Maryland, where they found Alan Keyes, a “perennial presidential candidate,” and a black ReTHUGliTOM in the Clarence Thomas mold — an Uncle-Tom of “mental illness” proportions.

Alan Keyes — The Black “King of Bull-Shit”

Obama slaughtered him in the election, winning the Senate race to become 5th black U.S. senator in history. Keyes, in a combative speech that Tuesday night, quoted heavily from the Bible, but stopped short of conceding the race, vowing to fight what he called the corrupt politicians of Illinois.

“We are called to go into the ditch, and though we must wade knee-deep in muck we will come out the other side,” said Keyes. “This shall be our cause!” ……whatever that means!

This election cycle, McCain the Republican seems to be doing something similar.

After rejecting a congregation of flawed potential VP partners, he went looking — and snagged the “moose-eating” twenty month governor of Alaska, a former mayor of Wasilla, Alaska (Population 7,738 [2004 Estimate]), husbanded by a career fisherman, Todd Palin.

This condescending and laughable grab for ‘Hillary Voters,‘ will work with the far-right GOP females, who have been luke-warm towards McCain, for not being extremist enough, and some stupid, un-principled “Low Information” Hillary-Voters, but to the die-hard well-informed — angry or not, I think this is a major slap in the face.

Poor John McCain actually believes there’s a large army of bitter Hillary voters who will vote for a right-wing female NUT simply because she’s a woman.

Not only is McCain’s theory ludicrous, but it is every bit as sexist as can be.

Are Democratic women voters that stupid, as to not care about the issues Hillary Clinton stood for?

Yes, some are, especially those turned off by the color of Obama’s skin, but for the majority — I don’t think so.

Jon Stewart’s Take!

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“John McCain’s campaign has asked a Hollywood agent to sprinkle some glitter over his anointment as the Republican nominee - while Barack Obama frets about celebrities stampeding towards the Democratic convention in Denver next week.

Even Arnold Schwarzenegger, California’s Republican governor and former action movie star, has stalled on accepting a prime time speaking slot at McCain’s convention in St Paul next month. He may even skip the event all together because of his state’s budget crisis.” — Quotation from: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/us_elections/article4560381.ece

In the days of “smoke-filled rooms” political conventions were potent dramas full of intrigue, suspense and mystery. Today the conventions hold all the suspense and pizzazz of a birthday party at a retirement home.

At least at the Democratic Convention most people look forward to Sen. Barack Obama accepting his party’s nomination before a crowd of over 70,000 at Mile High Stadium.

But the GOP’s convention promises to be a snooze-fest that will only be watched by political junkies and masochists.

Jeffrey Barry of the William Morris agency has the most difficult assignment of his career: Trying to jazz up the Republican Convention. Frankly, I think it’s mission impossible, the main attraction, John McCain, has all the charisma of Wilfred Brimley on Valium.

Nobody wants to attend the GOP convention, even some high-profile senators and governors have announced they have no intentions of attending the festivities.

Barry is not off to an auspicious start, according to the Times Online article he has hired the Beach Boys for a “kick off” party. The Beach Boys are so freakin’ old that they consider Madeline Albright a hottie.

The Republican convention, with or without the help of a Hollywood agent, promises to be a dull affair. I think I’d rather watch grass grow…

DixieCrat Zell Miller — FearMongering For Bush’s Failed Presidency in 2004

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Writes: Paul Krugman

…… Drill now! Four legs good, two legs bad! — Know-Nothing Politics. Republicans, once hailed as the “party of ideas,” have become the party of stupid.

What I mean is that know-nothingism — the insistence that there are simple, brute-force, instant-gratification answers to every problem, and that there’s something effeminate and weak about anyone who suggests otherwise — has become the core of Republican policy and political strategy.

The party’s de facto slogan has become: “Real men don’t think things through.”

In the case of oil, this takes the form of pretending that more drilling would produce fast relief at the gas pump. In fact, earlier this week Republicans in Congress actually claimed credit for the recent fall in oil prices: “The market is responding to the fact that we are here talking,” said Representative John Shadegg.

Remember how the Iraq war was sold. The stuff about aluminum tubes and mushroom clouds was just window dressing. The main political argument was, “They attacked us, and we’re going to strike back” — and anyone who tried to point out that Saddam and Osama weren’t the same person was an effete snob who hated America, and probably looked French…..[MORE >>]

SPECIAL — LISTEN TO: BIG GAY GOP FEAR FACTOR FEVER

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For the last couple of months all the major polls have consistently shown Sen. Barack Obama with a 4-7 point lead over Sen. John McCain. The general election is three months away, and polls are just a snapshot in time. But when all the snapshots show Obama in the lead, it’s not a good omen for the McCain camp.

McCain is desperate to close the gap, and he is clutching at straws to come up with an issue that will resonate with the electorate. The desperation of the McCain campaign is manifest in their commercial comparing Obama to Paris Hilton and Britney Spears.

Sen. Barack Obama is a Harvard educated lawyer, a brilliant orator, an accomplished author, and the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee. To compare Obama to the vacuous celeb twins is sinking to the gutter; McCain should be ashamed of himself.

That abominable political ad backfired — it made McCain look like a frustrated, jealous and bitter old man.

Recently Obama mentioned that if folks kept their tires properly inflated it would improve their gas mileage. That’s practical advice and it shouldn’t have caused a ripple in the political landscape, but that innocuous remark unleashed a tide of heated rhetoric from the Republicans.

McCain seized upon the “tire gauge” comment as if it were a political lifesaver. McCain has not missed an opportunity to mock Obama for his comments. You would think that Obama had advertised his tire comments as his complete energy conservation plan.

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The Republican’s ally in the media, Fox News, has joined the crusade to mock Obama’s tire gauge remark. Recently FOX News listed gas saving tips, and keeping your tire pressure correct was at the top of the list.

“Florida Gov. Charlie Crist also believes keeping tires inflated is important.

Third Update: Not too long ago, NASCAR told fans, ‘With escalating fuel prices, the time is now for drivers to focus on simple things like proper tire pressure to maximize tire performance and increase fuel economy.’” — Quotation from the Carpetbagger Report/Steve Benen

How low will the Republicans sink? Britney Spears and Paris Hilton and tire gauges. Will the GOP claim that Barack Obama is responsible for the Montauk Monster?

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   THE REPUBLICAN HATE-MACHINE — NOW HEADED BY JOHN MCCAIN
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   Glenn Beck, Greta Van Susteren]

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The McCain campaign – in a rerun of Hillary Clinton’s frustrations – are still searching for an effective formula for countering Obama’s appealing personality and fearsome political machine.

Too often, GOP insiders grumble, McCain’s strategy seems simply reactive. On Sunday, Obama announced he’d be meeting with his economic advisers on Monday. On Monday morning, the McCain campaign announced a conference call with his economic advisers.

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McCain’s bitterness, frustration and near-obsession with Obama are on plain display: He even gave some free advertising to his opponent’s book the other day, complaining about the Illinois Democrat’s headline-grabbing trip.

“We rejected the audacity of hopelessness, and we were right,” the Arizona Republican said Friday, playing off the title of Obama’s book “The Audacity of Hope.” …[ MORE >> ]

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The BUMBLING senator from Arizona is feeling the heat, and has resorted to what amounts to hurling insults via un-coordinated TV ads and stupid “I am more patriotic” statements in Town Hall meetings. For example, the one below in which he accuses obama of not visiting the troops in Germany — using footage of Obama with the troops in Kuwait!!:

Obama — We are one America

Perhaps the most stupid of McCain’s current Ads — is the one in which, a narrator ominously intones that gas prices have gone to “$4, $5 [with] no end in sight, because some in Washington are still saying no to drilling in America. No to independence from foreign oil.” Then the announcer asks, “Who can you blame for rising prices at the pump?” A crowd chants, “Obama, Obama,” and Obama’s face appears.

McCain TV Ad — “Pump”

Typical Republican poison — that will escalate as these THUGS become more desperate, as the campaign finale approaches.

The notion that Obama is singlehandedly responsible for rising gasoline prices is ludicrous.

The war in Iraq and Afghanistan, increasing demand from emerging powers like China and India, “big-Oil-business” manipulations by the current and previous Republican administrations, and the extravagance and greed of Americans — are responsible for the current crisis.

Not Obama, Mr. McSAME!!!

It is my opinion that the only reasons why McCain has survived this far are:

1. The damage Hillary Clinton inflicted on Obama during their brutal primary contest

2. A good chunk of America is still fearful of a black man ruling them, even if he is 50% white and 50% black. As high-octane as Obama is — if he were 100% pure white, McCain would have been dead-meat as early as the first day he became the presumptive nominee of the ReTHUGlican party.

The problem of racism in this election (conveniently camouflaged as “cultural differences” by right-wing pundits like Pat Buchanan - a racist “Nazi-Idealogued” white nationalist or the toe-sucking pervert, Fox analyst Dick Morris) looms large over this election — and might just tilt the election in favor of “Dead-Man-Walking” — John McBOMB McCain.

Meanwhile, the criminal cabal of George Bush and Dick Cheney have their guns “fully loaded” in support of John McCain — A fusillade of “500 LB” bombs aimed squarely at Obama.

We will see.

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