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With all the putdowns, the backhand slapping of the Obama followers, Hillary Clinton supporters go forward. People said we would "get over it", "game over" etc and any number of insults they could think of. Instead of "getting over it", more people realized that they actually didn't have to vote for the party's nominee. The Democratic Party made it easy. We realized that we didn't have to be beholden to them and didn't really want us anyway. We are insulted constantly and are expected to see the candidate we voted for insulted many times. Her husband gets the same treatment.
We will not vote for Barack Obama and he is not getting our vote. The "show" that the Democrats are spending millions on in hard times makes quite a statement about their ability to control the economy. The fact that many are seeing us and we are still out there makes us even stronger. I was unable to go to Denver so what you are seeing on the streets isn't the number in total. Keep up the insults Salon and Obama supporters, we know by the polls we are getting to you and Obama will not win in November.
After seeing a highly unqualified Democratic nominee be selected by acclamation by the Democratic party. I hardly need to look at Sarah Palin as tokenism. She has only a little experience as a public official but actually did something for the time period in office and was not running for VP or any other position the whole time. She also wasn't getting by on speeches and hoarding crowds around her to shout her name. I disagree with her politics but I say McCain made a very good choice. If the Democrats want to decry her lack of experience, they need only look in the mirror at the PRESIDENTIAL nominee and wonder what on Earth they have done.
The idea that the party is united is a farce. Obama and the tactics the Democratic party used was out right thuggery. I am still a Democratc until I can change my registration after the November election but I have never seen such an anti-democratic convention in my life. All to force upon the party a highly unqualified candidate who has no ethics and little regard for the rights and opinions of others. The Democrats are the real Fascists and the label applied to Republicans is a joke. What the Republicans started in taking the rights of others away, the Democrats will complete if allowed to get into power. Fascism began as a social movement developed by those who had no regard for the rights of others and believed that unity was "their unity". It is different from a dictatorship. What we are seeing in the Democratic Party is true fascism.
It looks pathetic to have Hillary trotted out for Obama so that women will vote for him. She is supposed to attack another woman in the campaign. If she were the candidate she probably could, but this just looks bad. The DNC mistreated women and said some pretty bad things during the primary and now want to attack the Republican woman. We need the ERA now.
After having had to watch total idiots gather into large groups listening to the latest guru's speech of Yes, we can! Yes, we can! for months, people are finally are hitting back. The way Hillary Clinton was treated by the Democrats and women in general it is refreshing to have the Republicans treating them much better. Does Palin have the right wing politics and beliefs? Yes, but she has also worked and done some very big things in her short time in office. Obama doesn't do much than speeches and hang out with some shady leftist people and spent 4 years as Sam Alinsky type Community Organizer???? While Salon and other media outlets unleash their woman hate on Palin. Many women and men are going to turn away and vote for McCain and Palin even if they have never voted for a Republican in their lives before. It will be refreshing never having to hear Barack Obama's name mentioned on TV after this election is over. I'm sure he'll find someplace other than Washington D.C which he hates so much anyway to live.
You wonder what to make of the McCain Palin "bounce"? Obama is going to lose. Even Democrats are going for the Republican ticket. MoveOn.org can have what's left of the Democratic party now. Maybe Neil Lamont could be their next candidate.
Many Democrats aren't fighting against McCain/Palin at all. Many are supporting them. The "unity" forced upon the party is a fake and was done by the side of the party who wanted to pretend there was unity. The Democratic party has proved itself to be a great bully without rules and regulations and that the people in power were willing to do anything to get into power. While the DNC worked hard to keep a woman in the White House only as a First Lady and a man as President, the RNC actually offers opportunity to real power and prestige in the White House. Yes, she has "Republican values" but she is a Republican, my party had an opportunity to something great for women this year and fought hard to keep women from power. The Republicans and John McCain proved to be of stronger stuff.