PARTY SWITCHERS-- MEDIA TWISTS REALITY

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It's big news-- the media can never get enough of it-- when Democrats, especially rich Jews and somewhat hysterical (if not deranged) Hillary partisans, declare they're voting for McCain. A few days ago the McCain campaign had suckered the Hill into trumpeting its claims that they had lured a rich Jewish Hillary supporter from-- extra points-- South Florida onto the Double Talk Express. Two minutes worth of googling proved the McCain catch, Stephen Muss, was actually a Rudy Giuliani supporter who, as a developer, has been giving lots of money on both sides of the aisle, including to such right-wing all-stars as Ted Stevens, Conrad Burns, Slade Gorton, Rudy Boschwitz, Robert Bennett, and Frank Wolf. He maxed out in donations to Giuliani this cycle.

The story died with a whimper but today the media was back with another confused, unfortunate Hillary partisan, Debra Bartoshevich from Wisconsin whose understanding of what Hillary Clinton was all about was so shallow to nonexistent that she has decided to vote for John McCain. A friend of mine was at the Republican state convention in Texas this week. He mentioned that there were more than one delegate who just couldn't stomach John McCain. One delegate from Houston, Gregory Banville, was a Ron Paul supporter but plans on voting for Bob Barr. He doesn't think McCain has a chance. Oh, wait; he does think McCain has a chance-- "I don't see how he has a chance at all unless people vote only because they don't like black people."

Now I know nothing at all about Ms. Bartoshevich, except that she was an elected Hillary delegate (since stripped of her delegateship, the same way Joe Lieberman was) to the Democratic convention, and, for all I know she could be the glaring exception to this, but every Democrat I've met so far who claims to be voting for McCain, is a stinking racist. Many are desperately looking for an excuse to vote against Obama that is unrelated to race so that they can look at themselves in the mirror without noticing how repulsively ugly they are. But, like I said, for all I know, Ms. Bartoshevich could be an Ethiopian Jew. Offering no evidence, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel claims "she’s not alone in refusing to support Barack Obama."

In an interview, Bartoshevich expressed lingering unhappiness over the Democratic nominating process, said Clinton was treated unfairly by the party and said she has deep reservations about Obama’s lack of experience and his judgment.

“I’m kind of disenfranchised,” she said.

She said she planned to vote for Clinton at the convention, but in an Obama-McCain matchup in November, “I will not be voting for Obama. I will cast my vote for John McCain.

“I just feel you need to have somebody who has experience with foreign matters.”

She said a series of controversial Obama associations, including but not limited to the Rev. Jeremiah Wright and Chicago developer Tony Rezko, reflected poorly on his judgment. And she echoed the complaints of many of Clinton’s most ardent supporters that Clinton was treated unfairly in the nominating process and by the party.

“No self-respecting woman should wish or work for the success of a party that ignores her-- that’s by Susan B. Anthony,” said Bartoshevich, referring to the suffragist.

Bartoshevich called herself a “devoted Democrat” who had never voted for a Republican for president.

“I’m on a lot of the (pro-Clinton) blogs, and so many people, male and female, feel the same way as I do,” said Bartoshevich, who was listed as a Racine County co-chair for the Clinton campaign and who traveled outside Wisconsin to volunteer for Clinton. “The Democrats jumped on this wagon of Barack Obama, and nobody really knows him.”

Hoping to tap into discontent among Clinton supporters, the McCain campaign is reaching out to them in a variety of ways, including a telephone “town hall” meeting today targeted to non-Republican voters.

And it isn't only McCain's campaign that is swooping in on the overwrought and/or racist Democrats. I mentioned a few weeks ago that a friend's mother and her entire canasta game have decided to revel in their unconscious racism-- each will tell you she "always helps them" and "some of my best friends are"...-- by switching from avidly feminist, pro-choice Democrats to... John McCain, a long-time sexist pig and misogynist. Anyway, her son-- my friend-- sent me a "private e-mail" that seeks to monetize (i.e.- rip off) the foolish ex-Hillary supporters now flirting with McCain. The e-mail:

Hi All: I wanted to update you on what we are doing. In the next few days, you will be ask to donate money. This money will be used to file a lawsuit in Federal court to get a [sic] injunction barring the DNP from making Obama their nominee. I have been in touch with a [sic] attorney who is a PHD [sic], and I am waiting on his reply. It is his belief that under the laws that was in effect at the time of Obama birth, he is a "naturalized citizen", not a "natural born citizen" was is required by law to be president of the United States. Also I am talking to a person about the "whitey tape" and I maybe able to buy them. So once again you may be asked to donate money. We are not sitting around, blogging all day and doing nothing but complaining, like all the other web site are doing, we are attacking and we continue to use all weapon at our disposal. Thanks all. Ed Hale

Hale may be a scoundrel and a shyster but he's smart enough to target a really dumb segment of the population for victimization.

In a democracy, we protect the right of even a moron to participate. And no one can tell the media how to cover a story. Well, you can; but they're not obliged to pay any attention. Nor will they. But... there is a very respected polling firm, Diageo that just published some data that flies in the face of the media spin. Not only is Obama viewed far more favorably than McCain by voters and not only do 68% of Democratic primary voters say they are satisfied with Obama as their candidate (as opposed to 30% who are not), but-- and here's what the media seems hell-bent on missing-- only 52% of Republican primary voters say they are satisfied with him as their party's nominee while a whopping 45% say they are not). Odd how all the stories in the media are about disgruntled Democrats, when there are so many more disgruntled Republicans.

Yesterday The Moderate Voice has a more interesting story for the media-- all the outspoken African American conservative abandoning McCain to vote for Obama. No takers? OK, I didn't think so. I'm going back to The Great Debate-- McCain vs McCain:



An afterthought: Yesterday's Washington Post had a story by Juliet Eiperin about how McCain is refusing to return the money from, Clayton Williams, his rape-lovin' fundraiser. After all, $300,000 is a lot of money to the cash-strapped McCain campaign. He did, however cancel a fundraiser with the rape guy in his Midland, Texas home tomorrow. The party was canceled after the Post and ABC News "questioned what the senator thought of Williams' remarks that women should give in while being raped. 'As long as it's inevitable, you might as well lie back and enjoy it,' he said during his unsuccessful bid for governor against the late Ann Richards." He also said (while campaigning against Richards) that he would "'head her and hoof her and drag her through the dirt' like a cow on his ranch." Welcome, ladies; this is what you're getting into bed with... so to speak.