Politics, Yay

[Jaguär]

Originally posted by Venerable Bede:
   

Originally posted by chimbly sweep:
  wait a minute... somebody thinks that thing is for real?  i mean, gawd, it reads like the Nanny Diaries.  Give me a break.  maybe one or two pieces are true, but this shi*t is mostly made up.

geez, you're almost as bad as the wallflower. . .let's rain on everyone's parade. [/b]

Maybe you should introduce the two.  

[chaz]

Originally posted by chimbly sweep:
  wait a minute... somebody thinks that thing is for real?  i mean, gawd, it reads like the Nanny Diaries.  Give me a break.  maybe one or two pieces are true, but this shi*t is mostly made up.

I know it's for real.  I've been having sex with her.  I'm 'YZ'.

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  Purrrrrrrrrrrr

[keithstg]

Originally posted by chimbly sweep:
  wait a minute... somebody thinks that thing is for real?  i mean, gawd, it reads like the Nanny Diaries.  Give me a break.  maybe one or two pieces are true, but this shi*t is mostly made up.

She was just on CNBC. Still thinking it was fake?

[mankie]

Originally posted by Dupek Chopra:
     
 
 Seriously though...what's all the hoop-la about? All I know is some sex shennanigans were going on with some capitol hill staffers.

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 It isn't Ginger.
 
   <img src="http://media.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/images/I49573-2004May23L" alt=" - " />
 
  http://washingtoniennearchive.blogspot.com/

[Bags]

Aha!  The redhead is Wonkette -- Mank, she's hysterical and quite smart.  Looks like she's married, though, as she said "Mr. Wonkette made us breakfast."
 
 Cool website....
 www.wonkette.com

[mankie]

Originally posted by Bagalicious Tangster:
  Aha!  The redhead is Wonkette -- Mank, she's hysterical and quite smart.  Looks like she's married, though, as she said "Mr. Wonkette made us breakfast."
 
 

See we already have something in common....I'm married also!

[ratioci nation]

Clinton says she could support Republican McCain as Kerry's vice president
 
 Sun May 23, 6:37 PM ET  Add Politics - AFP to My Yahoo!
 
 WASHINGTON (AFP) - Senator Hillary Clinton (news - web sites) said she could support John McCain, a leading Republican senator, as the Democrats' vice presidential candidate in November's presidential election.
 
 "I'm a big admirer of John McCain's," Clinton -- the former US first lady and one of the most prominent Democrats in the US Congress -- told the "Fox News Sunday" program.
 
 McCain, a decorated Navy war hero and prominent senator from Arizona, lost the Republican presidential nomination to President George W. Bush (news - web sites) in the 2000 race.
 
 "I've spoken with Senator McCain and he assures me he's not interested, but you know, we'll see what happens."
 
 McCain has already said that he would not accept the vice presidential nomination if it were offered to him, but his name continues to swirl around Washington as a possible running mate for Massachusetts Senator John Kerry (news - web sites), the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee.
 
 McCain was prisoner of war during the Vietnam War and has strong credentials on defense issues. He has gained a reputation as a tough-nosed, independent voice within Bush's party who is unafraid to criticize the president on high-profile issues.
 
 Although he is perceived as a moderate, he has several key policy differences with Kerry, notably on the emotive and divisive issue of abortion rights -- which Kerry supports and McCain opposes.
 
 "No two people have exactly the same position on every issue," Clinton said.
 
 "These are unusual times," she said.

[ggw]

The Greening of John McCain
 
 Six or seven years ago, when he was a conventionally conservative senator from a reliably Republican Western state, John McCain could never have expected to find himself where he is now, all alone in the political catbird seat. One day he's touted as a possible running mate for John Kerry. The next he's assaulted by his own party with the kind of sputtering outrage that makes the target look good and the attacker look silly. House Speaker Dennis Hastert was so flustered by Mr. McCain's criticism of President Bush's wartime tax cuts that he accused the Arizona senator, a former prisoner of war, of knowing nothing about the meaning of sacrifice. All of which must amuse (when it does not pain) a man who relishes irony, political combat and the maverick's role.
 
 What's going on with Mr. McCain doesn't mean much for the Democrats; the senator seems to mean it when he says he'll support Mr. Bush, that he won't leave the Republican Party and that he doesn't want to be anybody's vice president. What's important is that over the last few years, Mr. McCain has morphed into a different kind of Republican â?? one who's true to the party's most basic values, but with an appeal that transcends the current red-state-blue-state national standoff.
 
 This transformation started with his feisty challenge to George W. Bush in the 2000 presidential primaries, when he drew more support from independents than he did from rank-and-file Republicans, and accelerated when he started veering from the party line on a range of issues. Most notable has been his break with the White House on energy and the environment. Once a reliable oil-and-gas man, he seemed genuinely shaken by evidence of the effects of global warming, and has since teamed up with Democrats like Joseph Lieberman to fight for greater fuel efficiency, cleaner power plants and other environmentally useful objectives.
 
 Environmentalism was, of course, a Republican issue first. Mr. McCain has simply rediscovered an old party value. The same thing is true of his longstanding fiscal conservatism. Here again he finds himself at odds with the White House and people like Mr. Hastert, who seem fixated on tax cuts however disastrous their budgetary consequences. Currently, he is part of a lonely band of four Republican moderates in the Senate â?? the others are Susan Collins and Olympia Snowe of Maine, and Lincoln Chafee of Rhode Island â?? who have bravely blocked passage of a budget that fails to balance huge tax cuts with either spending reductions or other revenue increases.
 
 Until Newt Gingrich and his Contract With America gang of rebellious reactionaries roared into town after the 1994 midterm elections, there were quite a few Republicans in Washington like John McCain who thought highly of balanced budgets. There was actually one in the White House, also named Bush, who raised taxes in a necessary if politically painful attempt to bring the deficit under control.
 
 But the McCains of this world are increasingly rare birds, and therein lies the strongest reason why he should resist the siren call of presidential politics and remain where he is and who he is. The gradual disappearance of moderates from the Republican landscape has helped neither the party nor the country. Mr. McCain's voice is more than a voice of bipartisan good sense. In time, it could lead the Republican Party back to where it once was and where it ought to be now.
 
 NY Times

I'd pick McCain over slick-Kerry in a heartbeat.

[mankie]

Originally posted by Dupek Chopra:
  I'd pick McCain over slick-Kerry in a heartbeat.

McCain ain't gonna be nobodys bitch...yo!   :mad:  
 
 Actually, he should run as an independent..that would fuck Dubya up big time!

[godsshoeshine]

mccain would have whiped the floor with gore in 2000, and he would do the same to either major candidate this time around

[Celeste]

Originally posted by pollard:
  Clinton says she could support Republican McCain as Kerry's vice president
 "These are unusual times," she said.

more like desperate times

[ratioci nation]

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/05/26/opinion/polls/printable619786.shtml
 
 Poll: McCain/Kerry Ticket A Winner
 NEW YORK, May, 26, 2004
 
 
 Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry holds an eight-point lead over President George W. Bush among registered voters in the latest CBS News poll, 49% to 41%, but one of the names currently bandied about as a running mate for him - Republican Sen. John McCain - gives Kerry an even larger edge when added to the ticket.
 
 McCain has continued to face questions about joining his fellow Vietnam veteran Kerry on a ticket, despite having insisted that he is not interested in doing so. Americaâ??s voters, meanwhile, do have interest in such a bi-partisan slate: a hypothetical Kerry/McCain pairing holds a 14-point advantage over President Bush and Vice-President Dick Cheney, nearly double the 8-point lead Kerry has alone over Bush.
 
 The Kerry/McCain ticket draws 15% of Republican voters while keeping the same level of support among Democrats - 80% - that Kerry enjoys alone. However, the addition of McCain brings many more veterans to the Democratic camp: tested one-on-one against Bush, Kerry loses to Bush among veterans, 54% to 41%. With Kerry and McCain together, the two tickets split the veteran vote.
 
 Independent voters, too, move to the Kerry/McCain ticket: 51% of them support Kerry over Bush, while 57% would back a Kerry/McCain ticket.
 
 Views of McCain
 
 Among those voters who have an opinion or know of John McCain, opinions of the Senator are overwhelmingly favorable. 46% say they have a favorable view of McCain, while just 9% are unfavorable. Independents hold the most favorable views. Republican voters, meanwhile, are more likely than Democrats to view the Senator in a negative light: 16% of them do, compared to just 4% of Democrats and 8% of Independents.
 
 Moreover, the Republican McCain has far higher favorable ratings than the Vice-Presidential nominee on the GOP side, Dick Cheney. The Vice-President elicits more negative than positive opinions from those familiar with him and, like the President, his negative ratings are up from last month. Despite four years in office, however, Cheney remains unknown to, or elicits no opinion from, more than one-third of voters.
 
 Senator John Edwards
 
 Adding one of John Kerry's former nomination rivals to the Democratic ticket, North Carolina Senator John Edwards, also helps Kerry, though to a lesser extent than does McCain. Edwards' name has also been mentioned by many as a potential running mate, and a Kerry/Edwards ticket would give the Democrats a ten-point margin over the incumbent Republicans, 50% to 40% -- a slight gain for Kerry on his eight-point one-on-one lead over Bush.
 
 KERRY & EDWARDS VS. BUSH & CHENEY: CHOICE IN NOVEMBER
 (Registered voters)
 
 Kerry/McCain
  50%
 Bush/Cheney
  40%
 
 The Kerry/ Edwards slate holds Democrats and draws a few more conservatives and Independents while dropping a bit with liberals. The Edwards addition also closes the gap with veterans.