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Who Does This Sound LIke?

By Ripper on Thu, 09/04/2008 - 4:01pm |

From blood, authority of personality, and a fighting spirit springs that value which alone entitles a people to look around with glad hope, and that alone is also the condition for the life which men then desire. And when that...

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First Impressions of Palin

By Ripper on Thu, 09/04/2008 - 2:09am |

Wonder what others are thinking.I saw a sarcastic, mean-spirited woman who's capable of throwing low blows and slime like a true Republican. But just because she can read a teleprompter doesn't mean she's anything more than a vindictive, ladder-climbing ex-sportscaster....

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Mob Rule

By Ripper on Thu, 09/04/2008 - 12:15am |

The three-day hate.The RNC convention is turning out to be an incitement to riot. Not the protesters outside. The hate mongers inside.One after another, the speakers are appealing to the worst in their party faithful. Hatred of the left. The...

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Reagan Redux

By Ripper on Wed, 09/03/2008 - 10:58pm |

Social super-conservatives. Crusading reformers against Washington politics. Economic idiots. Fear-peddling militarists. Personable liars.McCain and Palin are running as Reagan and are pivoting to sell the GOP ticket as CHANGE X 2, in hopes of besting Obama's message.The key for Democrats...

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Bread, Circuses, and Red Meat Top 10

By Ripper on Wed, 09/03/2008 - 2:20am |

The McCain campaign is tossing goodies to the GOP convention and to the unwashed masses. A top 10 list:1. Try to remember that John McCain was a POW.2. The liberal media hates Sarah Palin's 17-year-old daughter, so it's okay to...

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QUIT HITTING SUBMIT!!!!!!!!!

By Ripper on Tue, 09/02/2008 - 8:27pm |

Thanks to the assholes who don't understand the server is slow and will record their post EVEN IF THEY RECEIVE A SERVER 500 ERROR message!I worked for hours on my post only to see it nearly disappear from the Recent...

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Twilight's Last Gleaming: The Risk of McCain

By Ripper on Tue, 09/02/2008 - 7:06pm |

And I saw another mighty angel come down from heaven, clothed with a cloud, and a rainbow upon his head, and his face as it were the sun, and his feet as pillars of fire— Revelation 10:1NightfallOne autumn evening, when...

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I'm Done, Too

By Ripper on Mon, 09/01/2008 - 4:53pm |

I'll return when the balance of discussion on this blog returns to public policy and McCain. Till then, I'm with Nathan. And, no, I won't be replying to comments, either.In the meantime, I leave you with some food for thought...

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Masturbating Minds Want to Know

By Ripper on Mon, 09/01/2008 - 3:54pm |

So here we are with the fate of the world in our hands, a nation at war and in the midst of economic hardships galore, a Democratic presidential nominee destined to make history and a Republican opponent who would bestow...

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What Does Palin Mean for the Democrats?

By Ripper on Sun, 08/31/2008 - 6:52pm |

Is John McCain's choice of Sarah Palin really the "game changer" he says it is? Not if Obama's campaign is smart enough to game this out and see where it all leads.With his choice of Palin, experience fades as McCain's...

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Police Raid Activists Ahead of GOP Convention

By Ripper on Sun, 08/31/2008 - 4:20am |

Police armed with automatic weapons raided at least six buildings in Minneapolis and St. Paul used by activists and seized a bus carrying others in what one attorney for the National Lawyers Guild called "unwarranted" acts of "preventive detention" to...

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Strawberries

By Ripper on Sun, 08/31/2008 - 1:17am |

John McCain's choice of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin begs a burning question: Is McCain too risky to ever be president?I would submit the answer is "Yes."Palin's biography has already circulated among the blogging community, so I will spare you the...

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TO ALL BLOGGERS: Policy, NOT Misogyny

By Ripper on Sat, 08/30/2008 - 11:39pm |

If you are using misogyny to advance your arguments against John McCain's choice of running mates, you are giving disaffected women every reason to withhold their votes or use them for McCain/Palin.DON'T do it.Write about Sarah Palin's lack of foreign...

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Sarah Barracuda — Expanded Repost

By Ripper on Fri, 08/29/2008 - 8:05pm |

The most salient point for Democrats to consider about John McCain's new veep, Sarah Palin, is that her looks are deceiving. She is fiercely partisan, charming and politically ice-cold and calculating.Exuding what the Anchorage Daily News, in a 2006 profile,...

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Palin Slogans Open Thread

By Ripper on Fri, 08/29/2008 - 7:00pm |

Ready on Day 2,923Putting the C*nt in Country FirstAn American Who Understands Alaskan Foreign PolicyAll the Cheney Without the DickA Heartbeat Away From ImpeachmentPolitics Is a Beauty PageantMeeting the Challenge of Global Swimsuit CompetitionThe Credible Bitch...

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Sarah Barracuda

By Ripper on Fri, 08/29/2008 - 4:52pm |

The most salient point for Democrats to consider about John McCain's new veep, Sarah Palin, is that her looks are deceiving.Exuding what the Anchorage Daily News, in a 2006 article, called an "almost Clintonlike" warmth, former beauty queen Palin has...

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McCain's REAL Short List

By Ripper on Fri, 08/29/2008 - 3:28pm |

While John McCain's team was faking out the media suggesting that Mitt Romney, Joe Lieberman and Tim Pawlenty were under consideration for McCain's veep pick, the real short list was a closely guarded secret.Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin won the day,...

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Three Cheers for the Cavalry

By Ripper on Mon, 08/25/2008 - 9:57pm |

To those who are kicking up the dust as they close the distance, ride hard. To those hastening to the reinforcement of our greater cause, ride hard. To those who served under another commander but recognize our flag is theirs,...

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On Selective Hearing

By Ripper on Mon, 08/25/2008 - 4:42pm |

John McCain tells Hillary diehards what they want to hear: "It's okay to hate Obama."But McCain does not like Hillary. His party hates Hillary and all Clintons. McCain and his party are using women in a cynical gambit to win...

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Three Lessons

By Ripper on Sun, 08/24/2008 - 2:14am |

I can remember watching Bozo the Clown and Three Stooges shorts on the grainy black-and-white TV at the home of my babysitter, Mrs. Eisenbeiss. But I cannot recall any specific images that flickered on that set, except the flag-draped coffin...

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