Comments on: President Obama: A Republican Self-Induced Defeat http://themoderatevoice.com/25856/president-obama-a-republican-self-induced-defeat/ An Internet hub with domestic and international news, analysis, original reporting, and popular features from the left, center, indies, centrists, moderates, and right Wed, 15 Feb 2012 20:27:31 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: greenschemes http://themoderatevoice.com/25856/president-obama-a-republican-self-induced-defeat/comment-page-1/#comment-170011 greenschemes Fri, 23 Jan 2009 16:43:45 +0000 http://themoderatevoice.com/25856/president-obama-a-republican-self-induced-defeat/#comment-170011 Im glad to see someone gets it. This is precisely why they have continued to pick on, impugn and villify Sarah Palin. They see her as the GOP rising star hopeful and will have none of it. Im glad to see someone gets it. This is precisely why they have continued to pick on, impugn and villify Sarah Palin. They see her as the GOP rising star hopeful and will have none of it.

]]> By: jeff_pickens http://themoderatevoice.com/25856/president-obama-a-republican-self-induced-defeat/comment-page-1/#comment-169875 jeff_pickens Thu, 22 Jan 2009 17:16:20 +0000 http://themoderatevoice.com/25856/president-obama-a-republican-self-induced-defeat/#comment-169875 Tony I think that for some of us, it wasn't the perception that the GOP didn't come out swinging hard enough on Obama's experience of a "mere" 6 years in a state legislature, or that he had been a national congressman for only a short two years, but it was SARAH PALIN that did it for many moderates. <br><br>This witch-hunting, gun-slinging, Jesus-loving "real" America lady who continues to wag her finger at the evil pundits, bloggers, and media, who promised us she wouldn't "blink an eye" with her decision-making certainty, stammered and stumbling through interviews (when the press was given ANY exposure to her,) a heartbeat away from stumbling into the presidency from a totally unknown political legacy. <br><br>John McCain's first major decision is what turned me away from believing he was capable of putting "country first" with a mouthpiece like Palin telling us who were "real" Americans, and who weren't. Blame the party for not being aggressive enough? I'd say instead that we've had enough of Karl Rove reincarnated. <br><br>GOP will have my respect and vote when/if they can shake the moral majority, the values voters, the Karl Rovers and the nationalistic demonizers who like to describe half the country as being not "real" Americans. Tony I think that for some of us, it wasn't the perception that the GOP didn't come out swinging hard enough on Obama's experience of a “mere” 6 years in a state legislature, or that he had been a national congressman for only a short two years, but it was SARAH PALIN that did it for many moderates.

This witch-hunting, gun-slinging, Jesus-loving “real” America lady who continues to wag her finger at the evil pundits, bloggers, and media, who promised us she wouldn't “blink an eye” with her decision-making certainty, stammered and stumbling through interviews (when the press was given ANY exposure to her,) a heartbeat away from stumbling into the presidency from a totally unknown political legacy.

John McCain's first major decision is what turned me away from believing he was capable of putting “country first” with a mouthpiece like Palin telling us who were “real” Americans, and who weren't. Blame the party for not being aggressive enough? I'd say instead that we've had enough of Karl Rove reincarnated.

GOP will have my respect and vote when/if they can shake the moral majority, the values voters, the Karl Rovers and the nationalistic demonizers who like to describe half the country as being not “real” Americans.

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