No More Excuses Available For Not Having A Republican Party Convention

The Republicans are going to try again. The ratings were so low last night-- like worse than when Rush Limbaugh had his cable TV show for a week and a half, that Nielsen decided not to publish the results. Meanwhile, Mark Sanford, everyone's first choice to replace Palin when she bows out of the race, has told CNN he doesn't want the job. Who would? They say they'll get their convention going today, "Who Is John McCain?" Night. They even have Bush speaking today (although via satellite, not in person)-- along with Holy Joe Lieberman and method actor Fred Thompson. (What happened to Rudy? They didn't approve of his new outfit?) So how's it going so far? Intrade now has a wagering proposition on whether Palin will be withdrawn as veep before election day. The bid/ask is now at 17/18-- not very attractive odds this morning. Worse yet, some of the very groups McCain had hoped to rally to his banner with her selection, are turning away from the GOP in greater numbers.

He has consolidated his support among hard-right evangelicals who would like to see the U.S. slow things down and get back into the 1950s... or 1350s. Right-wing Jews, always a tiny minority inside a tiny minority, on the other hand, are having some second thoughts. Ben Smith detects a backlash. "Some, on little evidence, paint her as a Buchanan acolyte; others accurately point out that she, unlike McCain, hails from the evangelical Christian wing of her party, which would like to see more overt displays of Christianity in the public square."

I don't personally know many Zionists who put Israel's well-being before America's the way Lieberman does. But I know one. And he knows many and he wrote to me this morning. We'll keep him anonymous by referring to him as "Eve." Eve, a severely brainwashed Fox News addict, is in contact with the whole network of Hillary supporters for McCain and with Zionists and self-proclaimed Mossad agents. "My Zionist friends and former Israeli intelligence community friends are (to my surprise) turning on McCain," he write to me this morning-- at 3:04 AM. (He's also a "recovering" drug addict.) He then shares an e-mail he asked me not to quote directly but claims that "the gist of the message is something you can use. I am astonished by this; this is a reflection of the entire community, this means that McCain picking Palin has caused him to lose both sides of the Jewish vote potentially!" Here's some commentary (cleaned up and made intelligible) from one of the supposed Mossad agents or ex-Mossad agent:

I am dismayed at McCain for picking a Woman with the credentials of Gov. Sarah Palin. Where was Her Background check?? Who screwed up???

Supposedly (she denies it) she was a backer of Pat Buchanan, a misreable Anti-Semite of the worst  order who respected the Monster Adolph Hitler of all people. When Buchanan went to Alaska she was wearing a Buchanan button (when he ran for President).

A point was brought up to me about several vacancies that will be happening on the Supreme Court in the next several Years. The Conservative supreme Court will overturn Roe vs Wade, which could very well deny a woman an abortion even through rape or incest.

Jews have never done well under extreme right wing governments anywhere. [I've been trying to explain this to Eve for 5 or 6 years but, like I said, he's addicted to Fox News and nothing penetrates. He's also a devoted follower of John Hagee.]

We, my friend, are caught in a dilemma. Who do we choose?? McCain has had cancer and survived. What would happen if for any reason Palin became President whose accomplishments include starting off the idederod Dog Race in Alaska. This is a TERRIBLE CHOICE FOR VP. With 5 children she could never handle the presidency and we would be in a terrible quandary.

The truth be told. What Biden has forgotten, she will NEVER know!!! As Governor of Alaska, she cannot handle her children, daughter Pregnent-Being forced to have the child-- what does the child have to say?? Does she want the baby?? Her Son has a record of drunk driving and who knows what else. I am telling you she cannot handle 5 kids and this!!

Of all the people he could have chosen, why her???. This brings up decision making? Is he (McCain) fit for the presidency? Let us see the developments and how the Republicans package her.

We must always question both parties, especially on the most recent developments. STAY TUNED.

This wasn't sent to Eve in secret code or anything and Eve's subject line was "Zionists and former Mossad agents turning against McCain because of Palin." But I think McCain has more to worry about than Zionists and the ex-Mossad agent community. USAToday just reported that two-thirds of Americans link him to the policies of the most detested president in American history.

They are "very" or "somewhat concerned" that John McCain "would pursue policies that are too similar to what George W. Bush has pursued" say 64% of those surveyed in the latest USA Today/Gallup Poll. Specifically, 47% fall in the "very concerned" category and 17% rate themselves "somewhat concerned."

Eventually these people are going to find out that his selection for a running mate, was a member of a fringe group of exrtremists advocating Alaskan secession, that despite her scripted anti-earmarks statements now that she's on the Straight Talk Express, she was a virtual earmark queen and an advocate for the Bridge To Nowhere that McCain has railed against in every speech he's made in the past 3 years.

Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin employed a lobbying firm to secure almost $27 million in federal earmarks for a town of 6,700 residents while she was its mayor...

And now people are referring to her embarrassingly messy personal life as a White Trash soap opera and calling her-- h/t Jane-- Sarah Springer.


Although the McCain camp has started hiding Sarah from public view-- and even from far right supporters like an irrate lunatic fringe Phyllis Schafly (who threatens that McCain's lobbyists don't "understand where the votes are coming from")-- Us Weekly features the entire sordid Palin drama on the cover of the issue that hits checkout stands across America starting tomorrow. Cover above; poll below:



And there's a far more disturbing poll just out-- at least from McCain's POV. Diageo just measured the Obama bounce and is showing a 9 point differential. Obama bounced up to 48% after his speech (as of today) and McCain is back in the 30s. In fact McCain only has the support of 33% of self-described independents.

UPDATE

And-- you knew it was coming-- now the ultimate White Trash newspaper has a Palin "exclusive."