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2.12.2008

 

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Faster than you can say John McCain, I was proven wrong on the issue of candidate visits to Vermont.

McCain, the Republican front-runner for the presidential nomination, will be in South Burlington at 11 a.m. Thursday, for a rally next to the airport. Word came this afternoon from his campaign aide, Jim Barnett, the former Vermont Republican Party chairman who latched onto McCain's campaign in the early days, survived a rough ride through the middle, and is flying high these days.

Gov. Jim Douglas will do the introducing and McCain will speak at the rally, which is open to the public.

Democrat Peter Galbraith, the one-time ambassador-turned-potential-candidate-for-governor, had some thoughts today about McCain's surge (pun intended) at the polls. Galbraith has a fair amount of expertise in Iraq, having taken up the issue of Saddam Hussein's genocide against the Kurds some years ago.

Galbraith said McCain's resurgence as a candidate for the Republican nominee has depended on the success of the troop surge in Iraq, and Galbraith's view is that that surge did not really work, and that that's beginning to show, with an increase in car bombs.

"Iraq is going down the tubes," he said. "The surge is beginning to fail."

His suggestion: McCain's timing has been fortuitous.

Galbraith, who was ambassador to Croatia in the Bill Clinton administration, is a Hillary Clinton supporter. He said he did not have the power to lure her to Vermont before the March 4 primary.


- Terri Hallenbeck

Comments:
Johnny Mac sez, "1000 years in Iraq would be fine by me!"
 
From the looks of things, he's hated more by his own party than the Dems.

I'm not gonna vote for the guy, but I don't hate him like the Oxy-moron and the rest of the talk show trash wingnuts.

Dems should save their money, let them kill themselves off and finish off the winner.
 
Conservatives will rally around and elect John McClain because although he may not be the "perfect" candidate for us, he is certainly head and shoulders above either of the two dimocrats. Laws are passed all of the time, and some repealed, depending on who controls Washington; however, what really counts is the Supreme Court. The left is drooling over the possibility of a Hillary or Obama, with the compliance and support of nitwits like Leahy and Sanders, to change the direction of the Court. Without change, their dreams of gun confiscation, removal of any references (abolition) of Christianity, legal flag desecration, fascist thought control (fairness doctrine), and abortion on demand will go down the sewer, where they belong. All one has to do is look to the usually-overturned ninth circuit appeals court in California to see the scum the libs would love to have overturning our Constitution. To me, this is good enough reason to vote in John McCain.
 
Hillary and Obama are more Christian than McCain.

They go to church.

They've never been diviorced.

Johnny Mac is too busy insulting Jerry Falwell to care about Christianity.
 
Nice campaign stop. I'll land at your airport, walk outside, wave and say a few words, then back on my plane and off to bigger and better states. Good to see Douglas will be there to lick his boots. "Gee Johnny, I never supported President Bush's awful smearing of you during the 2000 primaries. I've always liked you better. Really I have. Please believe me."
 
Galbraith can't lure Hillary to Vermont because she's a loser in this state.
 
McCain meets Doesless:

M: Ever serve in the miltary?
D: No sir.
M: Ever work in the private sector?
D: No sir.
M: Ever have national aspirations?
D: Golly no sir.
M: Ever stay at the White House?
D: Yes sir. Twice.
M: Ever work for this clown Bush?
D: Campaign manager. Twice.
M: Did you work at all for me in 2000?
D: No sir. Bush had momentum, so Bush it was. I'm one of those Republicans.
M: Kind of figured that. See ya.
 
I wonder what military experience the 10:39 idiot had? (Not counting video games)
 
I wonder what military experience you had excluding video games and comic books, bubble boy.

Always a pleasure.
 
Douglas Administration has yet to deliver a complete budget proposal to the legislature !

The governor b*tches about the length of the legislative session -- they could shorten the session if the administration could get them needed information in a timely manner.
 
Wrong again, poop - 3 years US Army. Nothing to brag about except for the fact I never sent some one to do my stretch, unlike some of you scumbags.
 
"I wonder what military experience you had . . .

Always a pleasure"

Always got egg on your face.
 
"Anonymous said...
"I wonder what military experience you had . . .

Always a pleasure"

Always got egg on your face."


Not to mention whatever that is on his shoes
 
You clowns
 
JW...you say the nicest things
 
The voices in his head say the craziest things.
 
Hillary may have never been divorced but considering that marriage - she is a better Christian? You have got to be kidding me right now!
 
I'm surprised that the Senator paid a visit to Vermont given that he is currently trying to woo conservatives and temporarily distance himself from the center/left. Perhaps he has a plan for Jim Douglas?
 
All we hear from Pat and Bernie is how bad the deficit is, ignoring the fact that Hurricane Katrina responses and our war to protect America are large contributers. But when they are caught with their hands in the trough, they start blubbering about how great earmarks are, blah blah blah! What a pair of nitwits!
 
How about all the Republican earmarks when they were in control of Congress? Or don't those count? The problem for them is that they no longer get the larger share of them, not that they actually disavow them.
 
I love the smell of nuked nitwit in the morning. It smells like victory.

As always, bubble boy, whenever I read your totally-unsubstantiated psychotic gop-slop nonsense, I'm always reminded of the words of the Judge upon summarily tossing the billo-murdo nuisance suit against against Al Franken a few years back, your case is "wholly without merit, factually, legally and historically."

Dismissed.
 
Don't confuse the whacks with the facts.
 
Gee, jw, tell us the story again 'bout how you and Al Franken took on Bill and somebody! Every time I hear it, (about 500 times so far) I get chills!

zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.
 
"Gee, jw, tell us the story again 'bout how you and Al Franken took on Bill and somebody! Every time I hear it, (about 500 times so far) I get chills!"

Nice try, spinderella. There's nothing like the facts and a healthy dose of reality to put the lie to your revisionist history and psychotic gop-slop nonsense, so if you're gonna keep spewing that slop, ya best get used to it, little fella.

Always a pleasure.
 
Blah, blah, I'm reminded, blah, blah, the judge, blah, blah, dismissed, blah, blah, Billo, blah, blah, without merit, blah, blah, (I've said this 1,000 times), blah, blah, blah . . .
 
Blah, blah, blah . . .

Get used to it, little fella, 'cause you're gonna see it every time you cough up your ignorant, ill-informed brain-dead bupkis

blah, blah, blah.
 
I am a Democrat but the Billary show is a bit much.
 
JW says you're not a Democrat. He decides who is and who isn't. Why? Cuz he says so, that's why.
 
Anonymous said...

"JW says you're not a Democrat. He decides who is and who isn't. Why? Cuz he says so, that's why."

Once again, little fella, you made that decision when you claimed you voted republican.

I merely pointed it out.

The fact that you kept insisting 2000 was 2006 for a week or so and are constantly calling for the replacement or impeachment of Shumlin and Symington with gops, while singing the praises of the jimi douglas experience and whine and cry when I ask you on what grounds they should be impeached without being able to provide an answer to that or any other question that wasn't wholly without merit, factually, legally and historically were the other 347clues.

Like I keep tellin' ya little fella, if ya don't like having your nitwit nonsense easily shredded, then stop posting nitwit nonsense that's easily shredded.

If you wanna keep digging your own grave, I won't stand in your way.
 
"Once again, little fella, you made that decision when you claimed you voted republican."

No, I didn't make the "decision" to become a Republican when I, and many other Democrats, voted for the excellent Jim Jeffords, over the loony "bulldog" Ed Flanagan, in the general election in 2000.

I was a Dem before I voted for Jeffords. I was a Dem when I voted for Jeffords. And I was a Dem after I voted for Jeffords.

Jeffords was an excellent Senator.

Jeffords won. He couldn't have won without lots of Democratic votes.

Too bad you can't handle it.
 
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