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DNC Launches New Anti-McCain Website: TheNextCheney.com
August 05, 2008 7:13 AM
Vice President Dick Cheney may not appear at the Republican Convention, the American Spectator reports.
The Spectator reports that "Cheney has not sought a speaking slot at the convention, nor has his staff sought a role for him at the convention. The McCain campaign has not gone out of its way to reach out to Cheney, though a segment of conservative Republicans had been pressing the campaign to include Cheney in the convention agenda."
Why? Is there concern in Camp McCain that playing John Williams' foreboding trumpet-filled Darth Vader theme song will bring gloom into the coronation of Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz.?
Schpritzing McCain with that Cheney parfum is clearly the hope of the Democratic National Committee, which this morning launches a new website, TheNextCheney.com.
The site attacks not McCain so much, however, as much as it goes after potential VP picks for the presumptive Republican presidential nominee -- specifically Rep. Eric Cantor, R-Virginia, Florida Gov. Charlie Crist, former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina, Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, FedEx CEO Fred Smith and Sen. John Thune, R-SD.
Sample rhetoric: "Dick Cheney handpicked Pawlenty as Minnesota's nextgovernor in 2001. Learn more about Pawlenty's ethics violations."
- jpt
UPDATE: In response to the DNC's launch of the new website, Republican National Committee spokesman Alex Conant writes, "While everyone else is debating the all-too-real energy crisis, it's good to see Democrats are obsessing over hypothetical political match-ups. The DNC is having fun with Washington parlor games, but the rest of the nation is debating the merits of McCain's 'all-of-the-above' energy plan versus Obama's 'inflate-your-tires' approach."
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Curious-What would happen if "We the People", did not vote at all in this Presidential election?
Posted by: Keir | Aug 5, 2008 1:32:24 PM
Want to know the "real" Obama.
Obama Nation - every fact documented.
Obama is ruthless and will run over anybody that gets in his wa
Posted by: Mary | Aug 5, 2008 1:30:38 PM
Lets see the Obama/Pelosi sent over their hit group Moveon to protest the Republicans trying to bring down our oil prices!
I love how you libs that call yourselves Dems are so blinded and ignorant that you do not see the Marxist Obama Flipping and Flailing all over the place!
the Dems are sending 700 Billion dollars to the other countries to buy oil when we could be spending it here for our people to drill and get jobs!!
While the elitist libs like Obama and Pelosi take a vacation while American poor and middle class suffer and can not afford to go on vacation.
oil companies make 9cents on a gallon of gas, Government makes upto 70 cents on a gallon
Oil can be drilled within a year off our shores and withing 5 from ANWAR - more oil than all the middle east combined
But thanks DNC if McCain is that close to Cheney he now has 1000% of my support.
The DNC denounce Cheney but no facts no clue do they have!!
Democrats are dangerous for this Country, they will enslave all as they did in the past!!
Posted by: spock | Aug 5, 2008 1:25:16 PM
Oh...lets get this straight... McCain can run funny ads and be sooo sooo stupid but if Obama does it, then it is bad. Shameful... get a life people. I say Obama starts playing the political games, I say bring it on Obama, I will still vote for you, after all the Repubs have been treating us like jokes for 8 years now, anything you say or do will be a vacation.
Posted by: beck | Aug 5, 2008 1:21:54 PM
BIG OIL = GOP
Posted by: Bill | Aug 5, 2008 1:16:23 PM
To put forward an ad that says McCain is just like Cheney is like comparing Obama to Hitler. Hitler was a great speaker and his followers believed his every word until it was too late. The Obama campaign is now getting desperate and stupid since he keeps going down in the polls.
Posted by: Mary | Aug 5, 2008 12:56:18 PM
"My favorite part of the website was: Carly Fiorina?
Fiorina called the overseas out-sourcing of American jobs
"right-shoring.""
He needs to dump her. The queen of off-shoring. They love her in India.
Posted by: Mack | Aug 5, 2008 12:52:18 PM
McCain is just like Cheney - he changed his position on offshore drilling when he was offered a boatload of money by Bil Oil. He's going to let the multinational energy corporations write our national energy policy just like Cheney did in 2001.
Posted by: chattyway | Aug 5, 2008 12:00:04 PM
----------------------------------------So is Obama, He voted for Bush's energy policy. He is much more like Bush than McCain is. You all choose not to see that part of him.
Posted by: Cathy6224 | Aug 5, 2008 12:46:41 PM
Gosh, this is such Big news! Ooh, I wonder if McCain is going to use Cheney a.k.a Darth Vader to go over to the DNC Convention to wreak some havoc!I'm sure those weekly secret meetings they have will come to fruition! Cheney just sits there at his office and counts his money from Haliburton and those EVIL RICH OIL companies!I guess Cheney will get paid after the DNC convention for stealing plates, utensils and food! No WAIT!!! That's the DNC's doing already!!! Yeah, Cheney is getting rid of all the homeless around the convention center! No, wait, the DNC has already done that!! I'm sure Cheney has already taken $10 million from the DNC! NO, wait!!! The DNC is already in debt for spending on WHO KNOW's WHAT? That's right, it was evil Cheney with McCain's help!! That's it! Ooh, let's call the MSM!!!
Posted by: justrighttoo | Aug 5, 2008 12:36:00 PM
Michelle spoke of how Obama mesmerizes people........SCARY!!
Posted by: Scottie | Aug 5, 2008 12:15:22 PM
marylou wrote:
The last thing we need is some Democrat coming in and trying to undo all the progress and success...
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Yes, because the war on the middle class is going so well! In another 4 years, you all will have eliminated them entirely!
Posted by: MI VOTER | Aug 5, 2008 12:05:44 PM
They barely get along.
Posted by: chattyway | Aug 5, 2008 11:48:26 AM
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But then McCain sold his soul to Karl Rove for a chance at POTUS. McCain began his alignment with Bush last year by voting with Bush 95% of the time. In 2006, McCain voted with Bush only 60% of the time. McCain 2008 is not the McCain of 2000. Last summer I thought I could live with McCain because he was different. But he sold out and it shows.
I find it REALLY disturbing that McCain would cozy up to the very man that disparged his daughter during the 2000 South Carolina Primary. Guess McCain would rather win an election and honor his daughter.
Posted by: MI VOTER | Aug 5, 2008 12:00:38 PM
Are we to believe that the DNC actually does a "factual"ad? Please, look who is the head of it! They have to do SOMETHING since the Messiah has lost 10 points in a week. Nor will the MSM report on the interview with Colorado's Gov. Bill Ritter's radio interview that he wasn't experienced enough to be VP. He said he only had 18 months being Governor. A caller asked, "Obama has only 143 days in the Senate, why would he be qualified?" Good question I thought. Ritters' answer was, "you just need to meet him". Well, dang! The personality of a man who goes to an Anti-American church for 20yrs, plays in Chicago politics (red flag), friends of terrorists, and an excellent liar. Not to mention that he threw his grandmother and mentor under the bus! The man is an empty suit and cannot say a complete sentence. Please!
Posted by: justrighttoo | Aug 5, 2008 11:58:00 AM
HAHAHA, That Republican National Committee spokesman Alex Conant is a real hoot!!!!
He writes, "While everyone else is debating the all-too-real energy crisis" blablabla.
Indeed Alex, everyone else is debating real issues; you are debating Paris Hilton and Britney Spears and tires.
What a joker.
Posted by: Willem van Oranje | Aug 5, 2008 11:50:31 AM
I really think it is funny when McCain and his staff try to make us believe that McCain is not tight with Bush, Cheney, Rove ... God how dumb do they really think the United States citizens are? Of course, they must think we are, Bush got back in office for 4 more years.
Posted by: beck | Aug 5, 2008 11:39:35 AM
For Obama,it's called artificial wisdom.
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No one will ever accuse McCain of having "wisdom".
Posted by: MI VOTER | Aug 5, 2008 11:37:12 AM
Someone should create a website called NextKerry.com for Obama for his flip flops. And btw, CNN has reported that Obama's hair has mysteriously grayed. Is he trying to look like McCain now? There's a joke that says: if a blonde dyes her hair brunnette, it's called artificial intelligence. For Obama,it's called artificial wisdom.
Posted by: u_spam_me | Aug 5, 2008 11:32:29 AM
It’s unfortunate that the DNC has now turned to boldface lies and misrepresentation. Take their info on Mitt Romney for instance. They indicate that Mitt Romney has flip-flopped positions to support Cheney/Bush by citing an old quote by Romney and then contradicting it with a newer quote, but with respect to the mismanagement of the war, they start with a newer quote, that the war was mismanaged and then compare it to older quote saying that he wouldn’t second guess Bush/Cheney, implying that he changed his position to support Bush/Cheney, when really he moved to say the war was mismanaged. If someone reading that was not paying close attention to the details, they would be misled (and I would say intentionally so by the DNC) to think Romney does not now believe the war was mismanaged, when that is in fact the more recent quote. Dirty pool.
They also say that Romney increased the state budget each year, which, although true, is misleading. The increase each year was well within a generally acceptable inflation range, 3-5% per year. What, does the DNC want us to believe that inflation does not exist? Newsflash: Prices go up each year. I guess they need an economics refresher course.
Posted by: Jared | Aug 5, 2008 11:24:29 AM
Obama`s only two campaign tactics appear to be smear and me-tooism, both of which he perfected in his campaign`s against two woman, first in his Ill. Sen. race then in his primaries race against Hillary. The Obama whiners can save their breath issuing denials that "Obama never said it." The whole world knows that Obama always makes his supporters say the bad things so that when it backfires they can take the fall. And, we all know that as its Party leader, Obama controlls the DNC. Obama is right when he keeps saying that some will say a vote for him is risky for our country, because that is true. His me-too on off-shore drilling appears to be a trick he learned from John Kerry, "I was against it (too) before I was for it" But, didn`t Obama accuse McCain of flip flopping on off-shore drilling?
Posted by: Luke | Aug 5, 2008 11:04:53 AM
Please articulate a thought other than calling Obama names and making outlandish claims that a few radical conservatives still believe. What happened to you Republicans taking the high road? Same old politics. I guess you can not teach an old dog new tricks.
Posted by: Tom | Aug 5, 2008 11:03:37 AM
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