Cha-ching! $205,000 and counting...

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From the Times of London:

  

"The revelation that the Republican National Committee spent about $150,000 (£94,000) on Palin's designer wardrobe, $36,000 on her make-up artist and $19,000 on her hairdresser has detracted from the Alaska governor's folksy, moose-hunting image. Her standing among independent women voters, a key target group, has declined by 24 points since the Republican convention in early September, according to a poll in The Washington Post."

  

A dream of every "real-American": A gun-toting, runner-up beauty queen, running after a moose, killing, skinning and cooking him; I fail to understand why liberals want to crush this "real-American Dream".

Republicans gone wild

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Michele Bachmann's comments last week suggesting members of Congress should be investigated for anti-Americanism have already raised her opponent more than $1 million in 96 hours. Now, two more Republicans find themselves in hot water for off-the-cuff remarks that suggest Democrats, well, they just don't see America like the rest of us.

  

"Liberals hate real Americans that work and accomplish and achieve and believe in God," North Carolina Rep. Robin Hayes told a crowd waiting to hear from John McCain. He denied the story at first, in statements to Politico, before later conceding that he did and apologizing.

  

Now, new video has come to light in New York, in which upstate Republican Randy Kuhl tells WHAM-TV he thinks the Democratic majority "wants the American public to suffer and to hurt so that they can make some political gains at election time."

  

All three Republicans are getting seriously negative publicity for their remarks in local papers, and it's making their re-election bids less certain.

  

That's terrible news for both Hayes and Kuhl, who already faced difficult races. Hayes beat Democrat Larry Kissell by 300 votes in 2006 and either trails Kissell by a wide margin (in a Democratic poll) or leads by just three (in his own poll). Kuhl beat Democrat Eric Massa by a 51%-49% margin in 2006 and now trails Massa in the latest Democratic poll.

  

We can only imagine the title of the forthcoming memo from Republican campaign chief Tom Cole: "Shut up!"

  

This is copied from another blog in Politico, The Scorecard 

Ha Ha Ha

Foolish Democracts

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The White House is within sight, as is a filibuster-proof Senate and a handsome majority in the House.

So what are the senior Democrats up to? Running their mouth and tickling their tonsils with their toes. And helping McCain.

Joe Biden is guaranteeing an international crisis if the Obama-Biden ticket is elected. "Mark my words: It will not be six months before the world tests Barack Obama like they did John Kennedy," Biden told the crowd. "The world is looking. We're about to elect a brilliant 47-year-old senator president of the United States of America. Watch, we're going to have an international crisis, a generated crisis, to test the mettle of this guy." Mr Biden added, "He's going to have to make some really tough - I don't know what the decision's going to be, but I promise you it will occur. As a student of history and having served with seven presidents, I guarantee you it's going to happen,".
  
Barney Frank is looking forward to raise taxes.

John Murtha is calling many of the people who put him in office "rednecks." The news comes one week after Murtha claimed the area is racist, then apologized for that comment. Murtha believes there is one segment of the population which is holding on to its racist beliefs and he said it's difficult for them to change. Murtha said it may be even more difficult for them to vote for Sen. Barack Obama for president. "Particularly older people. They want change but they don't want to see things go too far," Murtha said.

John Kerry, addressing a business summit on energy issues, had this joke to tell: "Barack got asked the famous boxers or briefs question," Kerry went on. "I was tempted to say commando." The senator said Obama successfully parried that question but that John McCain, the GOP nominee, had some problems. "Then they asked McCain and McCain said, ‘Depends,'"

McCain was ahead in the polls after he picked the former beauty queen as his running mate and was focusing on his foreign policy and security creds. The financial crisis came as an October sursprise, and Obama started to take over and as of today, the RCP average shows him ahead by over seven points. 

However, Biden is giving an opening to McCain to take the focus back to McCain's comfort zone. Frank is bolstering McCain's argument that Obama will raise your taxes. Murtha is reminding the small-town folks, who Palin thinks are the only patriotic ones, that Obama sees you a bitter guys who cling to God and guns. Kerry is once again trying his hand at comedy after backlash to his comment about the GI Joes made him forget to run again.

It seems that the Democrats may unleash a bigger November surprise: snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.


Are they stupid? Why can't they just shut up?

Who is the REAL Sarah Palin?

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The 'One'

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Teflobama

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After the "throw the kitchen-sink" tactic didn't work, the McCain camp is sowing the seeds of a new one: We can't have the Congress and the President of the same Party.

It is sad to see that the Republicans have given any hope of regaining either branch of Congress; heavy losses are predicted for them in the House, and it is becoming likelier that the Dems will have a filibuster-proof majority of 60 in the Senate.

  

More than anyone, Republicans should know how this could create a mess. For the last eight years, they have controlled all the three branches of government: the Executive, the Legislative and the Judiciary.