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Callin' It Quits

10.8.08 @ 12:02AM

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What a defeatist! Has the author considered the sampling of those polls he refers to? They are overwhelmingly Democrat! Has the author been around for 2000 and 2004, where the polls pointed to a Democrat victory as well?

Does the author know that most pollsters are owned by the media? And that said media is 80% in the tank for Obama? Early voting is commencing in several states, and the polls are slanted to discourage votes for Senator McCain, and to coincide with the meme that the Wall St. crisis is the fault of the Republicans.

I wonder what excuse the author will make if he is proven wrong? If he is proven wrong, I would like to offer him a scoop of Moose Tracks ice cream to top that slice of humble pie.

Really, such a myopic article is not worthy of this journal.
-- Catherine Alling

I share Robert Stacy McCain's frustration, but will not join him in writing John McCain's political obituary. Not yet anyway.

First off, I just don't trust all the polls. Regardless of who they say is up or down in the current news cycle.

But most importantly, I simply do not believe the American people will vote into office an anti-American radical. I realize Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton were elected, but I think it is indisputable that neither of them stepped-up to the plate with an America-despising biography like Obama's.

If I am wrong, then I will mourn the loss of the once-great America. Until then however, I cannot fathom anything but a McCain victory.
-- Dave Mills
Rolla, Missouri

If indeed Americans elect Obama, despite his inexperience, despite his contempt for America, despite his ties to a domestic terrorist, and despite the Democrat-caused financial collapse that is evicting hundreds of thousands of American families, the conclusion must be that democracy -- and, by extension, our republic -- is a failure, since it would demonstrate that the American electorate is incapable of rationally selecting the president, choosing instead to award the presidency as the political equivalent of the American Idol or Oscar.

Perhaps this ignorance is the inevitable result of decades of teachers failing to teach and journalists failing to report the facts. Perhaps it is because the Democrat party has been relentless in its attack on the family, religion, and the military.

Whatever the cause(s), Obama's election would demonstrate the inherent self-terminating nature of democracy, in the absence of a rational electorate. It would demonstrate, also, the ultimate success of the radical left's long march through the institutions, and their ultimate and perhaps permanent control of not only the media and schools, but also all three branches of government as well as the private lives of us hapless Americans.

All too soon, those of us not on the government payroll will look back upon November 4, 2008 -- not September 11, 2001 -- as the pivotal moment in the decline of the United States and, perhaps, its dissolution into two countries, ironically red and blue.

Two hundred and thirty-two years. Almost one quarter of a millennium. Thank you, Founding Fathers. It was quite a country, while it lasted.
-- David Govett
Davis, California

Robert Stacy McCain reveals what is wrong not only in the mainstream/Democrat media, but much of the conservative alternative media -- a hubris that they know everything and we the people are merely their pawns. Swallowing hook, line and sinker Democrat media predictions is a dangerous game for conservative prognosticators. Way back in 1980 the pollsters told us the election was a tie -- Reagan won in a landslide. Jeffrey Lord's insightful "In the Tank for President Kerry" is a goldmine of wisdom. Yesterday, CBS led with this headline "CBS Poll: Presidential Race Tightens." Obama's lead had shrunk by 6% from their poll last Wednesday and now its 48% Obama, 45% McCain. The RealClearPolitics average has Obama up by 6%. The problem with polls is they are not factual information, but media tools to promote Democrat candidates. Even when polls favor the Republican the media will spin it for the Democrat every time.

What should McCain do? Dig deep and go after Obama. It is time to take the gloves off and start punching. McCain has nothing to lose as history has proven "dirt sticks to dirty candidates" and Obama is as dirty as they come. His ties to corrupt bankers who caused our current financial downturn are real and should be exploited. The Obama camp has already dug up the ancient "Keating 5" so McCain should tie Franklin Raines and the current financial mess to Obama. That would knock the feet out from under Obama on the one real issue that's helping him the economy. When voters realize Obama is a major part of the problem he's history, but is up to McCain to make that link, because the Democrat media won't.

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