Looks like you can get a Barr bumper sticker for $3, a hat for around $20 or a pack of 100 Barr Issues Trifolds for $25. I’m thinking about ordering the trifolds and then going to the next McCain event in my area so I can pass them out to the Troo B’Leevers.

Four wingnut stars. OB says check it out.

http://www.bobbarr2008.com

Here in elitist liberal San Francisco, Ron Paul has a lot of fans in the “clueless hipster” demographic, but I don’t think it would be enough to shave off much of the Obama vote. So, yes please, bring it on!

If Paul accepts, then McCain loses the election. With Paul onboard, Barr’s chunk of the vote would easily climb over 10% in multiple states, and he wouldn’t be getting that support from Obama voters.

Guess I’ll be sending Barr another check today. I’m not going to vote for him, but I’ll send him money to help him convince Ron Paul to join up.

Indiana: Amazing that Obama has come anywhere close to doing well in a state that was run by the KKK within living memory.

“socially conservative” = stone racist

Well, that’s because you’re not actually looking at the numbers. But I can help you with that.

“There is no way McCain is gonna lose North Dakota a solid red state that Bush won with 63% of the vote in 2004 and hasn’t gone blue since 1964.”

He already is losing it. The only polls that show his ahead are Rasmussen’s, which are known to be partisan, and are almost always outliers when compared with other polls and with final election results.. There’s a reason the Freepers are in love with Rasmussen. Too bad he’s not very accurate.

“Virginia the same as North Dakota, hasn’t gone blue since 1964,”

And which has been too close to call for the entire summer. You rely too much on the goodwill of the voters that your party has been fucking over.

“has a large population of military veterans who tend to vote Republican and has a higher than average percentage of gunowers, you know the people who are bitter.”

They also don’t like racist and sexist language, which is what cost Republican Felix Macacawitz a Senate seat in 2006. They have also installed two consecutive Democrats in the Governor’s Mansion in Richmond (Mark Warner and Tim Kaine) and of late, have also installed a Democrat in the US Senate (Jim Webb). Quite frankly, VA has been trending Democratic for quite some time, and there’s not much your party’s been doing to change that.

“Indiana, a very rural Midwestern state that is socially conservative and a Republican stronghold, Obama’s in dreamland if he thinks he stands a chance their.”

IN was solidly in the Obama column all summer long. It didn’t flip until after Palin was named as McCain’s running mate, and even now, McCain’s only ahead by a point or two there. His grasp on that state’s EVs is tenuous at best. And McCain absolutely cannot lose IN if he is to win the election.

“Bush carried Indiana with 60% of the vote in 2004”

Which means nothing when McCain’s only ahead by 2-4 points today.

“and Obama running on a platform that advocates abortion rights, gay marriage and gun control won’t do any better their than Kerry did.”

I knew it. You haven’t even read Obama’s platform. I bet you call him a nigger in private, too, don’t you?

“Ohio is now in McCain’s column by around 4 percentage points”

In polls of likely voters. Do you even know what that means? It means ‘people who voted last time.’ Given that the Democrats have registered thousands of new voters in key states (including OH), Obama’s support in many of those states is significantly understated. Plus, I’m looking forward to seeing the new Republican vote-caging strategy backfire on them.

Oh, yes, and any Ohio Republican who ever shook hands with Bob Ney should sit down and shut up if they want to keep their seat.

“and his lead will continue to grow in this socially conservative state thanks to Sarah Palin.”

Unlikely, given the shitty economy there. Ohio’s not an especially socially conservative state, but it IS a strong labor state — and if all Palin’s got to offer is her one single stump speech and her lipstick, the people of Ohio will see right through that. But just as with Indiana, McCain absolutely must hold Ohio. If he cannot, then he cannot win the election.

“Florida has been in McCain’s column by around 3-5 percentage points since June and shows no signs of tilting.”

You are just simply wrong. Florida has been even up (within a point or two) since Labor Day. Even now, conservative pollster Rasmussen has FL as a dead heat between Obama and McCain.

“Nevada and Colorado two states with high levels of gunowership and a libertarian streak of low taxes and limited government will not go for tax and spend gungrabber Obama.”

Wrong answer. They’re already IN Obama’s column.

“McCain on the other hand has a very good chance of carrying the swing states of Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, New Hampshire and Pennslyvania, all states that are socially conservative with a tradition of gunownership.”

Not likely on any count.

MI: Michigan has been very, very hard hit by the Bush economy. Voters in this state are going to want to know what McCain’s going to do to help them, and he simply hasn’t got an economic plan. McCain’s not going to win here. Plus, there’s a good chance the GOP will lose as many as two seats in Congress just in this state.

WI: Well, if we were to adopt your ignorant-ass methodology of ‘they’re going to vote for the same party they’ve always voted for in the past,’ then this state’s going for Obama. Besides that, partisan pollster Rasmussen hasn’t even had the race closer than Obama by 5-6 points all year long. At any rate, Wisconsin is another economically hard-hit state, and face it — McCain’s got no economic plan. And he wants to tax your employer-provided health-care benefits, which means that working Americans get a tax increase under a McCain Presidency — while millionaires get more tax breaks. Yeah — sure, Wisconsin will go Republican.

Not.

MN: The state GOP has done an awful job running the state, and stands a good chance of losing significant numbers of seats in the state assembly. The GOP is also losing ground in state polling at the Federal level, and the split has never been closer than 10% all year long. McCain will be unable to carry this state.

NH: Bob Barr is polling at 11% there, and you can count on all that support coming from disaffected McCain voters. McCain will not carry this state.

PA: As Wisconsin above. In fact, almost exactly like Wisconsin above.

McCain’s chances are remote and he knows it. His only chance is to keep Sarah Palin away from the press, to keep the public conversation away from the real issues and to make the election about personality. If McCain lets himself (or worse, Palin) get drawn into a debate about actual issues, he’s sunk and he knows it. That’s why he and Palin will be hiding out in Cheney’s bunker until Election Day.

Although, again to be fair – it’s not like I was using these BRRRRAAAIINNZZZZ.

http://www.brains4zombies.com/

I think your relatives would probably be better choices than Palin. If you love them, I’m guessing they’re much nicer people than she is, at the very least.

We have 300 million citizens. Does Bobo really think she is the best amongst us? (or 2nd best as in the case of the VP?).

As Seen On TV. And all for almost free. No refunds.

Well Duh, cuz they’d be zombies and shit.

HST got a few good ones off, and he’s Gonzo so that’s cool. Papa Hemingway could write, no doubt, but, well.

Is that so bad of me?

I’ve had friends in trouble with the law or battle substance abuse and I am there for them and I love them and I accept them, but I do not want a president who breaks the law and/or is addicted to drugs!

Is it elitist to think that our president should be amongst the best of us and simply in line with the lowest common denominator? If it is, God help us all.

I don’t fault anyone for sucking at baseball, but if they want to play in the majors, I expect them to be able to hit a 90 mph fastball even if no one I personally know is capable of doing that.

This is common sense. Somehow that eludes David Brooks. No surprise there.

Great way to summarize this idea.

Somehow the notion of mixing Republicans in with the government makes me think of the old saying:

If you add a teaspoon of wine to a barrel of sewage, you get sewage.
But if you add a teaspoon of sewage to a barrel of wine, you get sewage.

Maybe I dreamed it.