The DNC video Countdown to America's Future (who came up with that terribly ominous-sounding title?) is ... well, interesting, so far.
They have their fake "reporter" talking about states that have shifted their governor from Red to Blue in the last few years: Montana, Wyoming, Kansas, Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado ... but they leave out Massachusetts switching from Red to Blue (as well as Louisiana, Hawaii, etc. going the other way).
Why? Because this is not about giving you actual information, but about convincing you that The West is awesomely Democratic.
And how awesomely Democratic is The West? Colorado's Governor, Bill Ritter, and Junior Senator, Ken Salazar, give us basically just two ways in which the Democrats and the West are compatible: Democrats love the environment, and Democrats love to help people.
Apparently Republicans don't. This should come as news to most of us. Well, OK, not really, since we know the Democrats have been trying to sell this for decades. But what's striking to me is that they had nothing else. They had only two ways in which they think the Democrats are better for The West, and both of them were lies.
The Democratic Convention is off to a great start!
Cross-posted on <pudge/*>.
Posted by pudge at August 25, 2008 09:01 AM | Email ThisYou are predicting Sam Reed and Rob McKenna will lose in November?! Wow.
You heard it here first, folks!
And how was I not clear on the lies? I was very clear: it is a lie to say that Democrats care more about the environment and helping people than Republicans do.
Hope you can break your habit before it breaks you.
Posted by: ctmohr on August 25, 2008 09:52 AMHope you can break your habit before it breaks you.
Posted by: ctmohr on August 25, 2008 10:01 AMBoy, talk about a couple of airheads. They both looked and sounded like they were in junior high and answering questions in order to get elected to junior high council. Their goal was to fake an intelligent answer. The truth was when they thought they faked a good answer or at least one that sounded good.
One thing for sure, they were empty suits and the DalaiBama should be proud to be members of the Empty Suit Brigade.
Posted by: swatter on August 25, 2008 10:11 AMOr, in an era when people are having to budget and go without (as compared to McCain's elitism in the eyes of the Democrats), can not someone point out their hypocrisy? Or, how about when they decided to blow their budget and run a deficit for the convention that this is not what America wants. Spend and hope for more money.
Posted by: swatter on August 25, 2008 11:23 AMPudge, you really mean to say that Republicans care more about the environment and helping people than Democrats do?
If I had meant to say that, I would have said it, so, no. I said Democrats do not care MORE about these things, which is true.
Did you really mean to say Sam Reed and Rob McKenna would lose in Novemeber? You actually DID say THAT.
PC that's fantastic!
http://www.nypost.com/seven/08252008/news/nationalnews/new_york_delegates_warned_not_to_drink_a_126034.htm
"Please monitor yourself, and remember that drinks may go to your head faster than you're used to in New York," ... welcome out west kiddos!
Acid Brain: Pudge show me where I DID say anything of the sort.
Sure. You wrote, "more than half the voting residents in this state won't vote for a Republican this year based on the party association alone." If that were true, then Sam Reed and Rob McKenna would lose.
perhaps you did mean to say that neither Republicans or Democrats care more or less about the environment or helping people than each other. Not sure what the point of that is.
The point is obvious: I was rebutting the Democrats, who gave as the ONLY REASONS WHY the Democrats are better for the West is that they care more about the environment and helping people. Not sure how you don't get that point.
'More than half' = 50%+1
Ergo, McKenna (R) and Reed (R) lose.
Wanna bet on that? Or are you going to claim you don't even understand what you write?
Posted by: jimg on August 25, 2008 01:50 PMYou're wrong. IN FACT, it WAS the Democrats who came up with the process of putting a monetary value on a human life, in order to push through their agenda. Yes, really. The EPA didn't start this under Bush, it's a means for socialists to say, "this will cost this much, that will cost that much, so we should do this, not that."
It goes back a hundred years and more to when socialists actually called themselves socialists, where they said that there was a science that could be used to manage society. They use formulas and numbers -- including the value of human life -- to determine public policy. This is socialism, this is Democratic, and this is not Republican.
Republicans in general do not do that. They instead fall on the side of liberty -- which cannot be bought -- rather than trying to weigh the value of lives.
Other than having it completely backwards, you're correct.
Posted by: jimg on August 25, 2008 04:45 PMHow sincere are christians supposed to take this, when it's clear that the dems pretend to stop hating them (remember what ol Howard said..) just because they need a few more votes here and there?
Posted by: Michele on August 25, 2008 05:37 PMhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8Ep1tkNOUU&eurl=http://nwrepublican.blogspot.com/
These extremists need to be exposed and brought to justice, as they will do anything illegal to sway the election, with illegal votes as they did here in 2004. I understand that the OBama campaign donated $850K to this effort.
Posted by: KS on August 25, 2008 09:18 PMDimocrats will say absolutely anything in their attempts to deceive prospective voters. The truth is that the Dimocrat platform trumpets legalized murder of unborn children and the desire to allow sodomites the right to marry, both totally adverse to the beliefs of mainstream Christians. Obama and Dimocrats, however, have been granted a pass by the mainstream media and thus allowed to freely lie in their ongoing attempts to confuse ungrounded and foolish "Christians".
Posted by: Saltherring on August 26, 2008 07:03 AMMock him if you will, but that will absolutely not win you elections.
This from a guy who wants to see Rossi, Hope, etc win.
Posted by: Andrew Brown on August 26, 2008 08:42 AM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m89m0pC_bpY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m89m0pC_bpY