I think that the wheels may have come off the McCain bandwagon already. He trails a pro-abortion,anti-gun, pro-gay, multiple divorcee pretty badly in many polls. His Iraq stance is directly opposite at least 60+ % of the public, he is an old man and he is a supporter of a president witht less than 30% public approval. In short, he is going nowhere fast and in this era of the two year campaign, will probably be a historical detail by the end of summer. And he was their best guy until a few months ago? Face it, the GOP ain't got a creditable candidate at this point. Not one.
Posted by T2 at March 7, 2007 02:53 PMYeah, I think maybe McCain should go have a drink with Kerry and wax poetic about what could have been.
If the goppers want to put Rudy forward I say fine. It will be pretty funny watching him try to pawn himself off as a 'traditional values' guy.
Posted by snark at March 7, 2007 03:03 PMThe fundies are considering not backing Rudy. They are having a problem with his three marriages, and the treatment of his second wife and kids. Seems they feel that taking your mistress to your wife's home, before your divorced, is pretty tacky.
Posted by Judith at March 7, 2007 04:06 PMOT
FREE bumper sticker from MoveOn. It says "Endless War" with 'less' being crossed out and 'this' written above it.
https://pol.moveon.org/endthiswar/?id=9981-3876511-XY9__i&t=2
Posted by Judith at March 7, 2007 04:40 PMI don't follow NY politics and I always thought Rudy was a creepy authoritarian, whatever.
But it seems that in the divorce from the mother of his children the wife had to get a restraining order--to stop Rudy from sleeping with his new mistress while the whole family was present. I guess it was a big house.
Is that true? Does anyone know? That's on a level of blowing up frogs as a kid, and I swear to God this country is not having some obvious sick freak-o in the white house again, no fucking way. No. Never again is sick crap like this glossed over, nuh-uh.
If it's true.
Posted by paradox at March 7, 2007 05:27 PMIn the local (ragwing) dead tree Sunday George Will was saying something about boredom setting in. The election is, like, twenty months out - these guys are no more the front runners than Clinton/Edwards/Obama/Clark*.
M'thinks this is much adeau about nothing.
*Drank the Kool-Aid.
Posted by Thomas Ware at March 7, 2007 06:40 PMObama... From the NY Times
One of the companies was a biotech concern that was starting to develop a drug to treat avian flu. In March 2005, two weeks after buying about $5,000 of its shares, Mr. Obama took the lead in a legislative push for more federal spending to battle the disease.
Uh oh for Obama.
Posted by muckdog at March 7, 2007 09:41 PMFiredoglake is getting very high marks (and I concur) for their reporting on the Libby trial. They took a breath and finally posted their summary remarks for Politics TV today. Marcy and Jane commented that Rep John Conyers has the ball in his court with respect to any follow-up on the Cheney, the leaks exposing Valerie Plame, etc. I visited Conyers website late tonight and found it strangely silent. I searched the net and my favorite blogs---no reference to Conyers.
Now, I would have thought the Dems--and particularly Conyers---would almost immediately have issued a letter to Patrick Fitzgerald saying "By all means, send over anything you have on the involvement of Cheney, Bush, Rove--the whole crew--and at least tell me where your investigation was leading before Mr. Libby decided to obstruct it."
And that is what I would like to know and I am certain millions of Americans want to know too--like those jury-folk who wondered why others weren't on trial.
So why is it we do not have Howard Dean, Rahm Emanuel, Hillary Clinton, Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi--everybody and their brother--now shouting this same question.
Mr. Fitzgerald, what had you been able to conclude about the leak exposing Valerie Plame by the time Libby obstructed your work, and where did you need to go to continue pressing the case?
Firedoglake indicated the window of opportunity to get this information in a useful fashion depends somewhat on whether Scooter decides to flip for the Prosecution or run out the clock in hope of a Presidential pardon. The window of opportunity (I gather) is small.
Rep Conyers, are you listening? Speaker Pelosi, are you listening? Your plate is not so full of ongoing investigations that you can afford to put this off.
Posted by gtash at March 7, 2007 10:37 PMWell, for a Governor who had one of the lowest rates of pardons while in Texas, pardoning Scooter is going to start a firestorm, not that it won't die out fast. Scooter's lawyers run the clock out, then Bush pardons Scooter, and Scooter retires to private life and no jail time.
Posted by Judith at March 8, 2007 03:03 AMGtash, what is so frustrating for me is knowing what would be happening if it were the Democrats facing the same charges.
Posted by Judith at March 8, 2007 03:13 AMNewsweek's Isikoff is reporting Libby does not qualify for a pardon under DOJ guidelines. The President can choose to ignore them I guess, but Newsweek says the Gonzales Administration has been scrupulous about following them because they were developed in an outraged moment after Clinton pardoned Marc Rich.
You suppose Libby has been wrecked by the very pardon he wangled from Clinton?
Posted by gtash at March 8, 2007 04:56 AMUh oh for Obama.
Oooooooo...this is so much worse than Cheney's 433,333 shares of Halliburton and no-bids to Halliburton. Ooooooo...
Just so you know, and before you lie yourself into an orgasm:
But a spokesman for Mr Obama, Bill Burton, said yesterday that his shares had been held in a blind trust. His stockbroker had bought the shares in the two companies and Mr Obama had no knowledge of them.
Mr Burton said Mr Obama had ended the blind trust after receiving a letter in the mail from a company in which he had shares and "realised he didn't have the level of blindness he expected". He sold the stocks in November 2005, losing about $15,000 on SkyTerra and earned a profit of about $2,000 on AVI.
Oooooooo...this is so much worse than Cheney's 433,333 shares of Halliburton and no-bids to Halliburton. Ooooooo...
Come on phid, "you know he's a tall, mulatto, articulating, democrat, present-dentual candidate!" *little boots whispers this to himself everyday*
See, if Senator Obama had just read the stimulating prospectus that the fund managers sent him like eeeeeeevryone else does he would have known what stocks were in the fund. I mean I can't put that stuff down! Talk about page turners!
Posted by snark at March 8, 2007 10:14 AMMucky is getting his talking points from Malkin Ya gotta luv that huh?
Posted by Ga6thDem at March 8, 2007 01:49 PM