Calling for a scaled-back Monday agenda at the Republican convention, Senator McCain said that Republican delegates should “take off our Republican hats and put on out American hats."
Wow. I know how hard it is to find my winter cap after a few months. How hard will it be for these people to find clothes they haven’t worn in eight years?
For what it’s worth, what do the two candidates feature on their web pages today?
Senator McCain:
Senator Obama:
Sarah Palin, maverick candidate for Vice President, on Friday:
And I’ve championed reform to end the abuses of earmark spending by Congress. In fact, I told Congress thanks, but no thanks, on that "Bridge to Nowhere." If our state wanted a bridge, I said, we’d build it ourselves.
That’s rugged mooseburger-eating individualism, right? Well, it would be, if she hadn’t told the people of Ketchikan that she supported the project (Ketchikan Daily News, September 28, 2006):
‘We need to come to the defense of Southeast Alaska when proposals are on the table like the bridge and not allow the spinmeisters to turn this project or any other into something that’s so negative,’ Palin said.”
What does the Anchorage Daily News say?
But Palin was for the Bridge to Nowhere before she was against it.
The Alaska governor campaigned in 2006 on a build-the-bridge platform, telling Ketchikan residents she felt their pain when politicians called them "nowhere." They’re still feeling pain today in Ketchikan, over Palin’s subsequent decision to use the bridge funds for other projects — and over the timing of her announcement, which they say came in a pre-dawn press release that seemed aimed at national news deadlines.
Maybe I don’t understand the mindset of a maverick, but if a person’s sole qualification for national public office is her tough-minded, truth-telling independence, shouldn’t she really have those qualities?
In a nation filled with reactions ranging from “really?” to “No, you’re not serious” to “Who? WHO?” only one person is unreservedly happy today.
Dan Quayle: no longer the least credible candidate for Vice President in American history. Maybe he can fit that on a campaign sign in 2010. God know the Republicans are getting pretty desperate for candidates.
Say your job (or one of them—it’s hard to tell where one begins and the other ends) is defending Dennis Rehberg to the people of Montana. Do you have any credibility attacking someone as partisan? Especially someone like Governor Schweitzer, who has a proven record of working with Republicans?
Well, I guess credibility is one of those things you throw out the window when you work in Dennis Rehberg’s office. Erik Iverson, on a day, when Governor Schweitzer made a strong national impression with a speech at the DNC, could, as is the only strategy for the Montana GOP lately, be critical:
“I think that (Schweitzer’s) role was to be the partisan attack dog, heading into Hillary Clinton’s speech,” Iverson speculated. “His role was to go on the offensive and get the crowd riled up heading into Hillary’s speech.
Maybe the person who represents Dennis Rehberg and represented Conrad Burns ought to choose his words a bit more carefully. Intoxicated?
I’m still waiting for a positive GOP message-and a reason to prefer the negative, sniping, critical, cynical candidates they have chosen to offer Montana. I suspect I’ll be waiting a long time.
I was reading this morning about wind farms… and how they are lethal for bats. I am just wondering though – out of all the options we have, which is the lesser evil: coal and oil or air, water, and solar power? As I was reading about the cons of wind farms, I did get a little disheartened. Apparently, when the huge arms of the wind turbines rotate they change the atmospheric pressure in front of them. Birds are not affected by this pressure change, but bats are. When bats fly near them, the don’t get hit, they just die from internal hemorrhaging (um, ouch). But let’s think about it – there are plenty of ways to deter bats from wind farms. Bats rely on an echo navigating system, and some research groups have supported a radar system that would act as a bat scare. Granted, it’s not natural (nothing really is), but in my humble opinion, it’s a lot better than burning ancient mulch and dead dinosaurs. We can save the bats! No matter who wins the election this November [Obama, please], both are campaigning for more green energy . With science and time, perhaps he can earn the name Batman for his efforts to save our furry little blind friends.
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