I really hope they have another go at the Rev. Wright thing ... an opportunity for Obama to make another stunning speech on different generational attitudes toward the race issue (subtext: Rev. Wright is old and busted, McCain more so; I, as always, am the new hotness).

There’s also a chance of a nasty October Surprise courtesy of Cheney, but it’s a slim one. First, the sadistic bullies in the White House would be just as happy to see McCain lose after selling out all his principles to them. Second, I’m half convinced that the GOP is taking a dive this time in order to saddle Obama with the thankless task of cleaning up Bush’s many messes.

For the record, Palin spoke at a baseball stadium in Colorado Springs yesterday, which is about the reddest part of the state, and the home of Fundy Central.

She couldnt fill an 8500 seat stadium.

http://www.gazette.com/articles/height_42120___article.html/security_service.html

“bated” breath… (as in “abated”)

sorry!

If this was a political thriller, I’d say that McCain wants to lose because he’s worried he’ll end like Luis Santiago if he wins.

I mean, Jesse, you almost touched on it in your original post, what’s left?  Will they find a proxy soshulist in each rally community and lynch that person at the end of the rally?  There’s not much left aside from real violence they can do.  Palin must be pissed that she’s most likely ended her political career (aside from brief mentions in People magazine once in awhile).

For the record, Palin spoke at a baseball stadium in Colorado Springs yesterday, which is about the reddest part of the state, and the home of Fundy Central.She couldnt fill an 8500 seat stadium.

Thank you for that. It has brightened my day.

For the record, Palin spoke at a baseball stadium in Colorado Springs yesterday, which is about the reddest part of the state, and the home of Fundy Central.

In talking about “Fundy Central” you are referring to the USAF* Academy, right?  ‘Cause if you aren’t then you should be.

BTW: Just a Canadian’s request, ‘by.  Let’s spell it “Fundie”.  Fundy is this wonderful part of the world .

Bush and Cheney don’t give a shit about McCain. They’re not going to lift a finger.

I remember another guy who risked it all on an attack on Pennsylvania. What was his name again? Oh yeah, Robert E. Lee.

How’d it end? With him losing Virginia.

Go for it, Mac! GO GO!

First, the sadistic bullies in the White House would be just as happy to see McCain lose after selling out all his principles to them. Second, I’m half convinced that the GOP is taking a dive this time in order to saddle Obama with the thankless task of cleaning up Bush’s many messes.

I’ve been looking at it along these lines for a while now.

Nice, Ben D!

I’m extremely optimistic about Colorado. My in-laws live there, and I have long used my mother-in-law as my political barometer. She’s a lot more, to use a phrase, “real America” than I am, and I think she’s voted with the winner in nearly every presidential race in her adult life, something almost no one in my family can claim. She leans Republican, is socially conservative but not obsessive or a single-issue voter about it, is an evangelical Christian who increasingly sees her faith calling on her to think about poverty, is a hospital-based nurse very concerned about health care, I think you get the idea. Anyway, she has been very keen on Obama from the beginning and really wants to punish the Republicans for the mess we’re in. But when I really got hopeful is when my father-in-law, who is much more doctrinaire Republican and who six months ago was making Obama-Osama jokes, said he was leaning toward Obama.

(in which case it’ll actually be for about two days after the McCain campaign spends the next week mumbling about it, releases a web ad, and then McCain is forced to back off it after someone at a rally yells, “Burn a cross, see what he thinks about that!”)

Hmm.  The nasty part of my mind wonders how difficult it would be to print up some “neo-Nazis for McCain” or “Lynch them uppity… socialists!” t-shirts and sneak into a McCain rally with them under your outer clothing…

In talking about “Fundy Central” you are referring to the USAF* Academy, right?  ‘Cause if you aren’t then you should be.

Im talking about Colorado Springs, specifically the norther part of the city, home to both Focus on the Family and the USAF Academy

My father hasn’t voted Democrat since Carter in 1976, and is voting for Obama. I take it as a very hopeful sign.

So McCain is going to combat the Obama and Rendell turnout machines in PA and overturn a 10-15 point deficit in two weeks with his “throw shit at a wall and see what sticks” strategy? He must really be hoping for a bin Laden tape with an overt endorsement of “their Muslim brother Barack.”

http://thesebastards.blogspot.com/

He must really be hoping for a bin Laden tape with an overt endorsement of “their Muslim brother Barack.”

If Bin Laden is alive he’s thinking about this.  A Bush-McCain style foreign policy is wonderful fuel for vicious Islamic fundamentalists everywhere.

Thanks, Broce.  I forgot about about Watch Thou For the Mutant being in the same area.

Should that not be “We’ll be waiting with ‘bated breath” as in abated breath?</pedantic>

It’s also possible that McPalin are giving up on Colorado because they’ve decided the mathematics of voter disenfranchisement are such that there’s no way for Obama to actually win, no matter how many people want to vote for him.

I keep thinking since it doesn’t appear they are trying to win, they’ll be giving up soon.  But then with nothing to lose, and I mean really nothing at all - why wouldn’t they go full-Wright?

I think they are going to go all out Wright. I think the reason they are focusing on PA, despite the poll results that seem to make it look like a longer shot, is they are figuring PA is more racist than Colorado so the kind of attacks they’ll use will get more traction there. I grew up in the Pennsyltucky part of the state, and I have been astounded to watch Obama’s numbers rise there. 538 shared an anecdote from a canvasser in western Pennsylvania who was told cheerfully by an old woman that she planned to “vote for the nigger.” 538 declared that racism is now officially a luxury. I guess we’ll get to find out.

I think they’ve been listening to Murtha and it shows. Will the Obama is a pinko/faggot/commie/muslim/gungrabber stuff work in small, rural white towns in PA? You betcha, unfortunately. But do those towns decide whether PA is red or blue? No. Philly and Pittsburgh do and trust me, our cities are motivated and organized like never before.

I’m in Pittsburgh. I have plenty of anecdotal stories about people who have said racist or racially-tinged comments about Obama. One of my best friends isn’t speaking to his father right now because his dad—a lifelong dem and union member—said he can’t vote for Obama because “this country isn’t ready for a black president.” However, last week when I went to a GOTV meeting for the east end neighborhoods of Pittsburgh there were 500 people there.

I just wish we had early voting because we are likely to see serious voting troubles on election day. They’re reporting that as many as 80% of registered voters in Allegheny County (Pittsburgh and her suburbs, around 800,000 registered voters) are going to show up to the polls.  It’s too late for early voting, so here’s to hoping it is unseasonably warm and sunny!

Early voting should be a federal law. Don’t let the states in on it.