McCain, Palin, Joe the Plumber, Joe the Vet,
and now Tito the Builder are the comeback team!
Just like the last minutes of an NBA game
the Presidential Election is finally hitting fever pitch!
Depending on your perspective we have spent the last year or two or perhaps three chasing the election ball around the court, dribbling, stalling, fouling, posturing, substituting, and chalk talking. Now we are in crunch time. Jordan, Magic, Bird, Shaq, West, Kobe, they all shined in the last minutes and seconds of championship games. They were winners because they knew how to win, they did whatever it took, they were winners!
McCain is a winner, a survivor and a strong finisher, Obama is a hanger on and a weak finisher. McCain will shine this weekend right up to Tuesday and make a three pointer at the buzzer with Sarah Palin getting the assist.
So let’s keep cheering and shouting until the buzzer. Let’s throw out a few screens, take a charge, dive on the floor, get charged with a functional technical, dive into the stands, take an elbow in the jaw, get back up and dunk over Obama!
Get out of the way McCain’s coming on strong!
Joe the Vet is a winner too!
How about Tito the Plumber, another winner!
A behind the back pass leads to a dunk!
Maybe this news about his Aunt will change some minds in the last days!
Well now.
Turns out Aunti Zeituni Onyango, one of Democrat presidential candidate Barack Obama’s many relatives made famous in his memoir, is an illegal alien. And not just a run-of-the-mill illegal alien.
She’s one of the hundreds of thousands of deportation fugitives — absconders – whom I’ve been reporting on for the past six years. [...] (More on Michelle’s story)
Take My Poll
NEW ZOGBY POLL
Posted by: Hugh Hewitt at 11:09 PM Yes, it is a one day sample.
Yes it’s Zogby.
But imagine what the number would be if the Los Angeles Times was a newspaper and not a press agent, if the MSM had spent as much time probing Senator Obama’s tax plans as it had Joe the Plumber’s tax liens, and if Obama hadn’t broken his word about public financing.
When Obama declared last night that it was five days until he “fundamentally transformed” America, he let slip just as candid a moment as when he told Joe about his plans to “spread the wealth,” and as when Joe Biden told us to “Mark my words.”
Never have so few phrases moved so many undecided voters.
Will it be enough? Pennsylvania? Ohio? New Hampshire? Every middle class voter who wants their money back and growth to return?
For some weekend reading,try my new Townhall.com column on what Ayers, Rezko, Phleger and Wright might be thinking these days. (More Hugh Hewitt)
And now Tito the Builder from Milkin:
Tito the Builder brings down the house
I love this guy. He makes prime-time cable TV worth watching again.
Best line: “This is to intimidate Colmes.” (more from Malkin)
WE Can Win This!
Quotes of the day
posted at 10:00 pm on October 31, 2008 by Allahpundit
“Green means ‘yes,’ red means ‘no,’ and yellow means you’re a chicken sh*t.”
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“My gut tells me this can be won.”
via Drudge:
ZOGBY SATURDAY: McCain outpolled Obama 48% to 47% in Friday, one day, polling. He is beginning to cut into Obama’s lead among independents, is now leading among blue collar voters, has strengthened his lead among investors and among men, and is walloping Obama among NASCAR voters. Joe the Plumber may get his license after all…
[ I love this comment I found at Riehl World, riggword ]
ON ANOTHER NOTE :
I heard if Osama Obama does not win there will be blood in the streets. LOLAlso,
I found this comment on another site and loved it. Thought I would share it with you all. They could not have said any better.Why are people so concerned with YOUR vote?
So, I couldn’t take it anymore and went in to vote early today. I received the “I Voted” sticker and slapped it on my hat and went about my day. Literally 90% of people I encountered asked me who received my vote. I live in a small town and many people know me or have seen me playing music, so it is not like they are total strangers. I should also mention that I try to stay away from politics as a conversation topic unless I am entirely confident that the discourse will not get heated or out of control (many times it does). Also, at first glance, most people would assume that I am a democrat. I have full sleeve tattoos and am a fairly recognizable musician in the area and when people find out that I lean republican, they are flabbergasted.
But I digress, after about 20 people stuck their nose in my business, I couldn’t take it anymore. In the middle of a fairly crowded restaurant someone asked me who I voted for and I yelled, “Is there even a choice? I voted for the guy who will cut my taxes, kill terrorists and push us towards energy independence.” You could have heard a pin drop. I promptly removed the sticker from my hat and resurrected my privacy.
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Ivy league grad and retired Army Captain, deal with it…
Ohio and Pennsylvania in play
RealClearPolitics HorseRaceBlog
By Jay Cost
« McCain Putting Ad Dollars Into Pennsylvania | HorseRaceBlog Home Page
October 31, 2008
McCain-Palin Focus on Ohio and Pennsylvania
As the campaign enters its final days, we can develop a good sense of where the campaigns think they stand. That’s because campaigns have two scarce resources. The first is money. We can’t track money directly, but we can track what it is buying – namely, television advertisements. Thanks to Nielson, we know that McCain-Palin has recently focused its ad buys on Florida, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Virginia. Meanwhile, its ad buys are being scaled back in Colorado.
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More Joe the Plumber investigation uncovered, Malkiin:
New report: Ohio employee was ordered to snoop on Joe The Plumber
It keeps getting uglier. The Columbus Dispatch is reporting tonight that an Ohio state employee is contradicting her superiors; the worker says she was ordered to rummage through Joe The Plumber’s records — and she stated the blindingly obvious truth that such searches had never been done before simply because a citizen had come to public light.
Hot Air poll: Who’s going to win?
posted at 12:48 pm on October 30, 2008 by Allahpundit
In which a blogger strapped for content goes gimmicky. Fear not, we’ll have an official predictions thread on Monday. I’m just curious what people are thinking at the moment — and whether I can predict the final results.
My guesses, in order: 55/14/30/<1. Go for it.
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By: Webloggin » Obama’s Aunt: Illegal Immigrant, Campaign Donor, Public Aid on November 1, 2008
at 10:55 pm
Yes, but sometimes even Magic and Michael lost!
We need to be the 12th man out here.
Get out and do something this weekend.
Phone banks, donate, call-ins, hit blogs,
McCain Palin on to victory!
By: Noriko on November 1, 2008
at 11:18 pm
No intention to have you folks despair (it wouldn’t be effective in any way I could imagine even if it was my intention).
But I certainly do have the hope that, post election, you folks will be compelled to reflect on certain ideas you appear to hold to with, I’d argue, a deeply mistaken tenacity.
This morning, Peggy Noonan wrote in her WSJ column that “a new liberal moment” has arrived. The election will, it seems very clear, bear out her notion.
As you all are aware, the conservative movement is fracturing. Perhaps you wouldn’t admit that to someone like me but I’m certain you speak of it amongst yourselves. Michael Gerson, on NPR yesterday or the day previous, said…
“Usually, a loss results in a circular firing squad of recrimination and anger — not a healthy discussion of the directions of the future,” Gerson says. “And the reality is that we’re already beginning to see that right now.”
So, one of the serious questions in front of you folks is how ‘conservatism’ ought to be defined and how it ought to go forward.
One option, the one preferred by some or many of you, will be to cast out from among your number those who, like Noonan or Parker or Buckley or Powell etc, have become critical of what they see as the movement’s excesses and extremisms. Another option will be for you to listen to their criticisms and, in a spirit of inclusiveness and openmindedness, negotiate ideas and concepts and policies.
I hope you take the second option. If you do not, I think, you will end up further fracturing your movement and party to the point where a third party may be all that is left to you. If that happens, or if you remain a single party but in deep philosophical dissary, it will surely be a long while before you might have electoral clout again.
And that would not be a good thing. This system will not function in the direction of a vital democracy where only one party or one philosophy reigns supremely.
If you consider (or perhaps continue to consider) that a ‘liberal’ viewpoint is fundamentally unAmerican and, therefore, must slso be considered illegitimate as a version of governance, regardless of the majority voice of the people, then I think you will remain for a very long while outside of consensus and outside of power.
By: blatham on November 2, 2008
at 1:29 am
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By: Webloggin » Obama Throws Illegal Immigrant Aunt Under the Bus - Must Be A New Record in Bus Throwing on November 2, 2008
at 2:11 am
Blatham: Your comments are well taken and articulated well. I would disagree, however, with many of your points. Conservatism is the issue and not the Republican Party. The core and soul of conservatism in essence is conserving our rights under the Constitution. Most values stem out from that whether it be the right to self protection, freedom of speech, etc. and the way to achieve the same exact goals want to acheive but with a small governance method.
What has been extremely frustrating in this particular presidential race is that the exact people who have been strong supporters of more liberal, less conservative views, who convinced the Republican Party to choose a moderate candidate have all jumped ship, most of whom for politically opportunistic reasons. To add to that frustration the MSM, in this election, finally came out of the closet once and for all and openly and unashamedly endorsed a candidate and purposely abandoned journalistic codes of ethics in an attempt to sway the masses for their candidate. Trust me when I tell you that if not for Sarah Palin most of the McCain conservative voters would have stayed home in protest.
Real conservatives have always been very suspicious of “democracy.” We don’t live in one. We live in a constitutional Republic and thank God we do. If we didn’t, blacks wouldn’t even have a vote and like one of our forefathers said “Democracy is two wolves and a sheep deciding what to eat for dinner.” 51% male populations could suppress a woman’s vote and so on. That’s why we don’t like judges legislating from the bench, why we don’t want to put ourselves in a position where the people inside the cart outnumber the people pulling it and keep voting for them to keep pulling it.
I think most people are patriotic and love America. Instead of calling liberals “unAmerican” we would be better served “Constitutionally challenged Americans.”
A pox on both houses as far as I’m concerned. Ronald Reagan didn’t move one inch to the center, he convinced the center to move towards him by pure common sense and persuasive arguments for achieving the exact same goals with a different method.
It’s nice to read a person on the left that can argue sensibly without resorting to hateful remarks. We’re not used to that around here.
By: Dave B on November 2, 2008
at 10:31 am
Noriko, Blatham and Dave B,
Thank you all for your comments. I’ll let you all sort out the details for now, I have another batch of posts to write by Tuesday.
For now I’ll just say,
Dave B.
I love the “Constitutionally challenged Americans” line!
One comment to Blathm,
When it comes to your old school Democrats like Zell Miller or Joe Lieberman or even the more Liberal Clintons, I say we can discuss and debate issues. The differences between moderate liberals and moderate conservatives is like the difference between the American League and the National league; they are at least still playing the same sport of baseball.
But when it comes to “Fundamentally Changing America”, reparations for foreign countries, redistrabution of wealth and weakening the military as Obama promises we are talking about a whole different ballgame. We are talking about the difference between the NFL and tiddlywinks.
Obama’s form of liberalism takes us into the murky waters of socialism. Socialism is not Capitalism. Socialism is closer to Communism than Capitalism. These are fundamental issues. The difference between John McCain, on some issues liberal, and Obama, always a radical leftist, is huge. There is little room for compromise.
If the “will of the people” (See ACORN’s antics and Soros’ money etc.) elect Obama, then we will all have to live through this slide into socialism. If the electorate want to try this leftist stuff like the Europeans, who are now just realizing it doesn’t work as demonstrated by all of the conservatives coming to power in Europe, then I guess that is a lesson that many need to learn the hard way. I just wish the rest of us didn’t have to go along down that slide into the mire.
As for not winning elections; If I have to compromise on the killing of unborn babies and with Obama the killing of live born babies to win than I’ll take losing elections every time.
Thank you all for your comments and
God Bless
riggword
By: riggword on November 2, 2008
at 3:04 pm
It just astounds me that an ordinary citizen like Joe is scrutinized more than the man who wants to be in the oval office. Absolutely pathetic!
By: Chrissi on November 2, 2008
at 10:50 pm
Thank you for the comment Chrissi,
We are in interesting times aren’t we.
I thought the double standard had hit its zenith with all of the President Bush bashing.
But Obama and his gang are reaching new hights in scandalizing every one of their opponents.
If he wins on Tuesday then we will all need to watch our backs, our bank accounts, our tax returns, our histories, our blog posts, our daily freedom of speech rights. our Church sermons…etc, etc, etc…..
Look out “Big Brother” is on the march.
God Bless,
riggword
By: riggword on November 3, 2008
at 12:26 am
Blatham Ol’ pal,
You are just going to have to wait until I can read all of your posts and discern your meaning.
I am off to Church right now and the rest of the day is a day of rest.
Thank you all for your comments, keep em coming.
God Bless,
riggword
By: riggword on November 3, 2008
at 12:28 am
Blatham,
You make a mistake that many liberals make.
My Tuesday will be one with God as my center no matter who wins. God is my source of strength and joy, not the President.
I think that is one of the biggest differences between most liberals and most conservatives, we do not put our hope and faith in our leaders. At best we put part of our trust in them to do the will of those who put them there.
I think you would have to agree that many Obama supporters see him as their Hope and Dreams.
As conservatives we know that we are the ones who are responsible for achieving our hopes and dreams, not a politician.
God Bless,
riggword
By: riggword on November 3, 2008
at 6:27 am