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Feb. 13, 2000 -- NEW YORK (AmpolNS) -- Negative campaigning in the South Carolina GOP race was the top topic of the Sunday political talk shows.
Fox News Sunday
Courteous Catfight Between Bush and McCain Spokesmouths
Tony Snow and the FOX News gang "took off the gloves" as they gleefully let Bush advisor Condoleezza Rice and McCain campaign honcho Warren Rudman go at it.
It was the most genteel "gloves off" exchange we've seen between supporters of the two GOP presidential wannabes since the campaign went south both geographically and metaphorically.
Rice claimed that Bush was "sticking to the issues," citing his big speech (not) on tort reform, but said that Bush was "responding" to McCain. Rudman slammed a "fringe veteran's group" for attacking McCain and condemned reports of push-polling in South Carolina, saying that there's no proof that Bush did it -- but hinting that Bush supporters were to blame. Rice said that push-pollers would be fired from the Bush team.
Hey, Condoleezza, who says the push-pollers are official Bush campaign operatives anyway? Why no comment on that?
Bill O'Really, fringe reactionary ex-teacher-turned-Fox-host, said that it was okay to go negative -- as part of an effort to put words in Rudman's mouth. Rudman had no problem making O'Really look like the fool he is by specifying what McCain was actually saying.
Rice tried to talk about how people could be brought into the GOP -- and then began spouting about Reagan, federalism, and giving money back to the people (as if Reagan's ideas were actually his own and lower income people didn't end up paying more in taxes). Rice must really think that people are dumb enough to join the GOP if they claim to be "inclusive." Rudman answered by talking about the records of Bush and McCain as the key issue -- and McCain's "unilateral" dropping of negative ads.
In response to a question from Tony, Rudman brought up the issue of the teenager who claimed to have been "push-polled." Tony asked why there had not been a "wave" of such reports after the first incident was reported -- and Rudman mentioned that there were in fact a number of reports of anti-McCain push-polling!
Even we saw them, Tony -- but it's no surprise that we had to dig on the Internet for these stories. And a couple turned up in today's papers.
Rudman turned negative as he called the producers of an anti-McCain commercial "imbeciles" twice! We loved it.
Tony raised the issue of non-GOPers voting in GOP primaries, which gave Rudman the chance to say in so many words that McCain appeals to independents -- and he wants someone who can defeat Gore. The implication -- Bush can't.
Tony gave Rice the chance to reply; Rice said it's not fair to say that Bush "has the same relation to the truth that Clinton has."
Darn right, Condoleezza. When Clinton made a personal mistake and tried to conceal it, he apologized. We're waiting for Bush to apologize for stealing someone's place in the Texas Air National Guard -- and for refusing to answer those "lifestyle" and cocaine questions.
We loved Rudman -- he turned feisty and assertive toward the end of the segment. Rice is well-spoken but too damned polite and scripted for the Sunday talk show circuit; Bush should have sent someone with a more bare-knuckle attitude.
At least he seems to now know better than to send the stammering simp Karl Rove.
Segment two was a two-on-one with one of our favorite outrageous New York political figures, Rev. Al Sharpton!
"What gives [you] the authority to issue demands' of Al Gore," asked Tony!
We'll tell you what, Tony -- that James Brown haircut Sharpton sports!
And Sharpton replied -- he wants Gore to talk about issues that affect the black community! Tony called Sharpton a "boss" (i.e. political boss). Sharpton said that bosses work behind closed doors. Tony asked, "So you've never gone behind closed doors?" Sharpton said that he did meet privately with political officials to work his National Action Campaign's agenda.
Sharpton was on a roll -- we knew conservatives were probably cringing as Sharpton stepped up the energy level as he slammed "Democratic party political bosses." But FNS is the ideal venue for Sharpton's in-your-face, high-octane attitude -- he, Tony and Juan Williams covered a lot of ground in a short time.
Juan mentioned the support Bradley had among leaders in the black community -- and that Sharpton seemed "out of step." Sharpton slammed what he characterized as "premature" endorsements. Juan asked if Sharpton and Gore would meet. Sharpton hoped for it -- but, he added, the issue is not meetings, but getting candidates to debate issues concerning, and answer questions from, the black community.
Juan implied that Hillary's visit to Sharpton had "negative" fallout. Sharpton practically laughed in Juan's face as he said that every Dem that's visited Al has gone up in the polls -- citing Chuck Schumer. "Where's the fallout, Mr. Williams?"
Tony said that some characterize Sharpton as a "thug," mentioning a torching of a store following protests organized by Sharpton. Sharpton sharply rebuked Williams for his selective framing of fact as he explained that the torching took place a year after demonstrations began -- and the place was torched by someone that opposed Sharpton! Sharpton said that he advocated anti-violent protests -- and was himself the victim of a stabbing. He said that he even visited his attacker and forgave him.
Juan then raised that old favorite of Sharpton's detractors, the notorious Tawana Brawley incident. And Sharpton essentially slammed Brawley!
We'd also remind Juan that the Brawleys conned a whole slew of black and white community leaders! Juan kept harping on "accountability." He'd ought to consider his own first before calling others on the carpet.
The final segment: cyberattacks on nine ecommerce sites. Okay, it wasn't a political segment, but there were interesting moments. Dan Rosenzweig of zdnet.com said big sites like his were still vulnerable. Superhacker Kevin Mitnick said that big sites need to install good network monitoring tools to find attack origins, "partition" subnetworks, and use robust firewall filtering. He also walked Tony through the fundamentals of how a cyberattack works. Rosenzweig added that the prices of security stocks went up -- but that bump was an overreaction.
Tony tried to "dis" a White House meeting on the Internet as a "photo-op," and Rosenzweig agreed.
Panel time! O'Really said that McCain is winning the personality race in South Carolina, and Tony prompted Mara to say that McCain "has fallen off his white horse." Juan claimed that the Bush negative ads help his numbers -- but watch McCain as he casts himself as a good-guy reformer. Juan also pointed out Bush's visit to racist Bob Junes University. Mara said it would help him in South Carolina.
Right, Mara -- and kill him in states where people can think.
O'Really said that Bush has to "loosen up" a la Louie Anderson -- and focused on Bush's jaw! He didn't go so far as to say "Connecticut lockjaw," but that's what Bush suffers from.
What was going on here? O'Really was actually making sensible observations!
Tony pointed out some pointless Fox poll numbers showing McCain "beating" Gore better than Bush.
Laugh of the week: O'Really saying that the public thinks the Keating Five is a rap group!
Hey, O'Really, pick up the first print issue of American Politics Journal -- and check out our political rap group!!
We loved the video montage of fun and games within the Reform Party that the FOX team cooked up and Tony narrated. O'Really asked, "Do you really want Trump as President of the United States?"
Actually, O'Really, you've given us another reason to plug our print mag -- we will be "endorsing" The Donald in an upcoming issue. Even you'll like it! Juan asked what happens if the Reform Party nominates McCain; O'Really said that McCain would pull 20% as a Reform candidate.
The panel then dissed Hillary for getting a free meal at a diner -- O'Really was screaming about the "fact" that Hillary left no tip, Mara said that "this opens her to a whole lot of trouble," and Tony said she's complaining about the taxes on "her" home.
Jeez, guys -- watch out! You make her sound like a tightwad Republican that tramples over the little guy -- practically a female Pataki! Can you say "crossover appeal?"
The McLaugh-In Group
Splitsville! Is John McLaugh-In Bipolar?
Issue one -- "Splitsville!" (to the tune Breaking Up Is Hard To Do) between McCain and Bush -- it was no surprise, said McLaugh-In, as he ran a reel of negative TV ads.
Question from John: whose negative ads are better? We laughed out loud at that one! Michael Barone, Eleanor Clift and Tony Blankley all gave the nod to McCain! Jim Warren congratulated McLaugh-In for introducing Neil Sedaka into the campaign -- and said McCain was doing better on the ads. Eleanor dissed McCain for the "lying like Clinton" comment -- because Clinton was concealing private conduct.
John brought up the incident of push-polling (did he say "Bush poll"?) -- and then implied that the mother's story was "rigged" by McCain before saying it may have been a Bush supporter! Ooooh -- John's becoming a conspirawacko! Eleanor echoed FNS, asking why we hadn't heard about more such incidents (we have now, Eleanor); Tony said that a fringe group of Bush supporters may be doing it; Warren and John expressed skepticism that a South Carolinian (gasp!) knew what push-polling is.
Nice work, John and Jim -- you've just managed to insult all your South Carolina viewers. What will you do for an encore?
Jim said that McCain would win in South Carolina if the vote were held today -- but hinted that McCain becomes vulnerable as time goes on.
Predictions on South Carolina! The panel was split -- but you had to love John's comment that "predictions change all the time!" Ha, ha, ha, ha -- shows you how much you should trust any of these pundits.
What seemed like ten minutes of tiresome GE commercials preceded issue two: "Holy War!" Pope John McLaugh-In the Last began railing again about a Catholic priest having been passed over as House Chaplain! He said that Speaker Hastert and Majority Leader Dick Armey "regret" the move. What can the GOP do to dispel the claim that they are anti-Catholic bigots, he asked. Tony blamed Democrats -- and said Armey's son converted to Catholicism!
So what, Tony?
Eleanor gleefully said that Democrats will keep pushing this issue. John claimed that the GOP needs that Catholic swing vote -- and Barone said that he really wonders how many Catholics are up in arms over this issue.
Incidentally, Barone looks like he's putting on weight. US Snooze and world retort must be paying him better than Reader's Digest was.
Then McLaugh-In slammed Bush for "kicking off" his South Carolina campaign at "virulently anti-Catholic" Bob Jones University, quoting anti-Catholic screeds posted on the BJU site. Tony said it was a mistake for Shrub to go to BJU -- because of their racist policies. Jim said that Bush's brother and wife would not have been allowed to date at BJU. Eleanor said he DumbellYou was pandering to evangelicals, and Barone said it was a blunder. Jim said that black Catholic Alan Keyes would be speaking there -- and John said that Keyes "can blast" the school and their web site when he visits.
Final prediction: who will be "left standing" after Tuesday's GOP debate?
Tony: McCain
Jim: a tie
Eleanor: no definitive winner
Michael: both left standing
Pope John: Bush
Face the Nation
McCain Emphasizes the Positive, Robertson... Well, Just Who Cares About What He Has to Say Anymore?
Guest one on FTN: John McCain. Bob Schieffer asked John about the ridiculous assertion that Bush made on Eat the Prez that Dems were supporting McCain to "put the weaker candidate" up against the Democrat. McCain practically ignored the Bush claim, instead talking about broader issues before the public.
Bob then ran C-SPAN footage of Bush talking with a South Carolina legislator about "hitting McCain's soft spots," but "not on television." McCain expressed concern, and said that he was disappointed by attacks by Bush's "iron triangle," including tobacco companies and anti-abortion groups.
Hey, J.J. -- watch Bush's whiners claim that this was a "negative attack."
McCain added that he had pulled his "response ad," which allowed Gloria Borger to say he had been engaging in negative campaigning. Was the comparison of Bush to Clinton "crossing the line?" McCain said he is "off of that" and willing to take the risk of going positive. Was it also the result of dropping in the polls because he had gone negative? McCain dismissed that assertion --- then talked about incidents of "unacceptable" push-polling. Is there real evidence that Bush is doing the push polling? McCain made passing mention of evidence of calling coming from a company in Houston (now is that a hint from McCain or what?) -- and that negative ads and tactics depress voter turnout.
Gloria asked McCain if he would speak at BJU, and he said no -- but if he did, he'd call them on the carpet for their "un-American" policies.
Schieffer said that McCain told him that he would "hit and hit back hard" if he were the target of negative ads. Is he going positive just in South Carolina? No, said McCain, this will be for the duration of the campaign. "I want my kids to be proud of the campaign we ran." As if this is the most paramount issue in kids' lives -- puh-leeze!
McCain was then asked about the member of a fringe veterans' group who claimed that McCain had "abandoned veterans." McCain replied by saying that he would repudiate assertions that Bush did not serve honorably as a member of the National Guard.
McCain also said that his web site was the most specific on policy positions of any Presidential web site in response to a question from Gloria.
Schieffer asked McCain about assertions from the Bush camp that McCain cannot bring people from both parties together, and McCain rattled off areas in which he wants to see reform as he said that both parties were resisting change.
We mostly ignored Bob and Gloria's next guest, the more- and-more irrelevant businessman-evangelist Pat Robertson. Pat unofficially endorsed Bush, and Bob hinted at the waning influence of the Christian Reich... er, right. Pat railed against the McCain-Feingold bill, which would cripple Pat's ability to influence legislation. Pat also said that BJU represents a huge segment of South Carolinians, "fundamentalist Christians."
Somehow, Pat forgot to add the words "bigoted, narrow, fearmongering, ignorant" to the description.
Bob's final word was on Forbes and his withdrawal from the race, and speculated that he did it because of advice from his circle of advisors -- and observed that no one has been able to buy the presidency.
Eat the Press
Russert Trims the Shrub!
A full hour with BushBaby proving he has morphed into an even BIGGER LIAR than ever!
Old pieface Tim Russert traveled -- in bulk -- to Austin, Texas to sit and laugh at George W. for a long hour.
We have to hand it to Russert: this interview sealed BushBaby's fate as a loser.
Bush started off the interview stuttering. He said he will win South Carolina -- even though every poll we've seen shows McCain winning, mostly because all moderate Republicans and Independents are overwhelmingly in support of McCain. This, of course, means that McCain is the best candidate at the national level for the GOP, because GOP registration is less than 36% nationwide and no Republican can win the White House without the independents.
McCain outpolls Bush with these people 3 to 1!!!!
This is why BushBrat is losing and losing big. The only people who support him are climbers-on and prematurely committed fools now trying to find a way out of supporting the Shrub and moving toward McCain. In fact, if you check FEC reports as we do on a daily basis, you will find many NEW contributions from FORMER BushBaby supporters are now showing up on McCain's list -- and big time.
Mark our words: Bush is finished.
The Shrub said, as he has repeatedly, that he thinks he will be a better leader because he is the governor of a state.
Right -- a state where horses or more important than starving Mexicans and Mexican-Americans on the Bush Texas border.
Russert asked why BushBaby and BushDaddy abandoned the veterans. Russert then rolled the McCain ad slamming Bush for "twisting the truth like Clinton!!" Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha.
Bush said that is about as "low as it can git." He claimed voters of South Carolina don't appreciate it either. Bush said, "I don't appreciate bein' called Clinton."
What a moron. Clinton has an 80% job approval rating.
Russert then rolled ShrubBoy's special interest tax cuts spot which slams McCain because lobbyists support him. Bush stupidly kept calling campaign finance reform "campaign funding reform" -- probably another dumb idea from buttsucker Ari Fleischer who looks like the nation's top evil dweeb.
Bush got angry and hurt-looking. Wielding his latest overworn mantra, he claimed he is a reformer.
Yeah, a "reformer" for the funeral industry, allowing them to get away with highway robbery
BushBrat suggested that McCain is a powerful Senate Committee Chairman and uses his position to raise money with lobbyists. But McCain admits this, he know it, and he tells the American people that he will use these lobbies' own money to get them out of politics in the future!
McCain, of course, has raised only 20% of BushBaby's 80 million dollars. BushBaby said that McCain will not end all soft money -- GET THIS -- because he will not end soft money "from unions."
FIRST, THIS IS A LIE. And Russert told him this, but then BUSH stammered that McCain won't stop unions from "taking" money from worker's paychecks and spending it on campaigns in SOME OTHER WAY!!!!
We were roaring with laughter! And what way is that? Some ILLEGAL WAY -- or the way that CORPORATIONS will solve this problem -- by forming "independent" campaign committees on support of people like BUSH BRAT and spending the money themselves -- WITH DETAILED INSTRUCTIONS form the campaign!
Guess what? This is what BushBaby is doing now: forming phony Independent Campaign Operations with Grover "Norform" Norquist -- to escape from SOFT MONEY CHARGES. But he is, in essence, committing a crime that has been made legal by the wimps at the FEC -- not under Clinton, but under Reagan and Bush.
Then Russert jumped all over Bush for his bullshit tax cuts. Bush went wild. He defended his proposal giving the wealthy tax cuts instead of paying the debt and funding social security. Bush used his old PHONY excuse that "Washington" will spend all the money. The truth is that BUSH -- if the horror of his presidency ever came to be -- COULD VETO ANY SUCH SPENDING BILLS, with the American People behind him. Congress could NEVER spend it.
Bush is such a liar -- and it is so obvious that he is either evil or stupid that it makes our skin crawl. Bush plans to give tax cuts to the rich -- 80 percent of it.
BushBrat said that is because "the rich" pay the majority of the taxes. What a laugh! That is untrue as well.
He is a goddamn liar -- and that is the only truth -- a liar and a moron. Governor Smirk -- a real jerk.
His Daddy nearly spent us into oblivion with his losing Desert Storm, designed to "save" his presidency. But Americans weren't stupid enough to fall for that trick.
Bush, of course, calls his killer ads against McCain "defense" ads -- another laughable lie.
Russert pointed out that Ari Fleischer said that "[the way Bush wins is we drive McCain's negatives up" -- although McCain has few negatives. He is not a liar, he did not go to Yale as a D student on a rich-kid-affirmative-action legacy from his Hitler-supporting grandfather. Bush hates pro-choice groups and the Sierra Club for coming after him. Tough shit.
Bush said he "put up" a new ad today that TOUTS his record as a REFORMER! Ha, ha, ha, ha -- reforming what? The 1984 Civil Rights Act?
What a loser.
Then Bush lied again and said he is not phoning filthy lies into South Carolina about McCain.
We know he is lying.
We have the proof -- more than 6 people have e-mailed us about this.
BushBrat said he is a "warrior for my dad." Bush went to the racist Bob "Bigot" Jones University campus where the president of the school called BushDaddy "THE DEVIL" because he believed in interracial admitting procedures! BushBaby -- the idiot -- addressed the school. Russert essentially said Bush is a joke -- he asked W. whether he would go to a Klan Rally. He then read a portion of a page on the Bob Jones U web site which says that Catholics are demons and the Pope is Satan!
Instead of BushMoron saying "Look, I would never go there again, I didn't realize they were bigots, racists and horrible people. I made a mistake" -- NO!! -- he defended his speech there and said that even though Bob Jones is insane and hateful that he went there to convince those moronic kids that they should support him.
But the real question is -- why? Why would he want those people on his team? Why? Because he is good ol' "nigra-hating, Jew-baiting, beaner-bouncing" piece of Texas crap. And even that isn't the truth. Bush Brat is in reality a spoiled little Connecticut brat who attended coasted through east coast prep schools and an Ivy League college. He spent no time in Texas at all as a young man except to feed from BushDaddy's Texas trough when it was convenient. As a matter of fact, Bush was known to hate Texas a young man. He went there to fool around in the oil business, to get convicted of coke possession, public drunkenness, and worse. He went there to take $15 million in the Texas Rangers deal -- as arranged by Daddy. He went there because only in Texas are people stupid enough to vote for the baby of a horrible ex-president.
BushBaby then defended his OTHER bigotry -- against gays in the military -- after Russert reminded him that ALL of our allies allow openly gay men and women in their armed forces. Bush said -- as if he is in a debate with Russert -- good point, but I will not change my position.
Bush will not change his position on the death penalty -- although seven people in Texas on death row were later found to be innocent and other states are putting moratoriums on the death penalty. Bush said, "No, I won't." He believes everybody should have "GOOD LAW!" Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha. He was shaken at this point. And it became obvious that he doesn't give a rat's ass if innocent people are put to death -- and he vetoed a bill that would provide death penalty prisoners with appeals counsel.
Bush then defended his PRO-polluting position. Texas has not met clean air standards. He claimed he wants lower sulfur standards for gasoline -- but has never done anything about it. WHY? Because he and Daddy are in the oil business.
Bush has also not been firm with plants spewing garbage into the Texas atmosphere. He claimed he is the first Governor in Texas to say comply with the new laws -- but he didn't make them do that, did he? He just scolded them -- as do all liar pols -- and then winked.
Bush is for combating cyber-terrorism!!! "There's gotta be minds in Silicon Valley or Austin (ha ha ha) that can stop these hackers," he said, " and make them accountable." He moved from this issue to globalization and capital markets -- something he has memorized obviously but has nothing much to do with the topic of cybervandals.
He then began to attack "peoples in this world who hate us and everything we stand for." Well, that's true -- but only since the GOP began to control the Congress with scum leadership like the womanly Trent Lott, the crooked Newt Gingrich, and the vicious Jesse Helms, now the laughingstock of the globe since his notorious speech before the UN.
Russert then asked him if he has the fire, does he want it, did things come too easy? Russert read a Piggy Noonan (Reaganette) editorial which said the BushBaby doesn't want it bad enough. Bush said, "She's right, she's right. she's right.... Let me say something about 'desperately' running for president. That's not me. I am not so desperate as to sacrifice principal." Which? The principals of Satan? He said his priorities are "my faith and my family." He said that he hadn't done such a good job conveying who he is.
Bush is not concerned that McCain has a better story. He thinks that his slamming people on welfare and protecting corporations from being sued for purposely harming people with faulty products is his history of REFORM. He thinks that allowing illegal and legal alien children to starve in Texas border slums called Colonias is his history of REFORM. He thinks that killing more people in Texas prisons than any Governor in history is part of his REFORM.
Hey, BushBaby -- we have news for you. McCain has a longer and much more compassionate history of reform than you'll ever have. You won't be Governor or Texas again -- and your chance to President will NEVER, EVER come again.
Put that in your peace pipe and smoke it!
Sheesh!
This Geek!
Sam and Cokie Have Got to Go... and Soon
After Tim Russert's roast of Bush Baby we couldn't wait to see what Spam Donaldson and Cocky Roberts had in store to compete with that circus.
Spam, of course, begins with the timely death of Charles Schulz -- the man who created and bored us to death with those horrible Peanuts cartoons which invaded our very toilets.
The first story was the meltdown of the REFORM PARTY, who ousted its Chairman Jack Gargoyle (Gargan) who was a talentless, moronic Ventura sycophant. Minnesota Governor Jesse Ventura had already left the party that made him famous because he couldn't stomach the little Nazi Pat Pukeanan getting the party nomination.
Of course, the idiots nominated the ne'er-do-well cretin Pat Choate, who is so desperate to do something -- anything -- that his number is even listed in the DC phone directory. Choate, the jerk that ran with fellow nut and founder of the party Ross Parrot (Perot), is now in control of $15 million of YOUR money to foist psycho candidates on the American public. If you saw their meeting yesterday, you might agree that the Reform Party resembles a tribe of capuchin monkeys with rabies.
Spam actually asked this question of Ventura, his first guest: "What’s the problem with David Duke?" He actually asked it twice after the stunned Ventura repeated the question to make certain he had heard Donaldson correctly.
Ventura said the Reform Party of Minnesota will continue to exist as the Independence Party of Minnesota and he seems to hope that other Reform Party State organizations will go to the Independent Party with Ventura.
Talk about the blind leading the blind!
Spam said he actually wants to know how quickly other State Reform Parties will follow Ventura to HIS third party movement.
Well, the answer is probably PLENTY because everyone in that weasel party are also Ventura sycophants. We still can't see how this sorry excuse for a politician defeated little Hubert Humphrey last election.
Spam, of course, couldn't get a class act guest because no one watches This Geek anymore. So he had to settle for Ventura, who has a high IQ but a lowball education.
Ventura is not stupid. He knows damn well that he'll take at least half -- and maybe more -- of the Reform psychos away from Perot. But he won't have that $15 million.
When Spam came back, he actually asked Ventura "What's The Donald gonna do now!!!" Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha -- what a joke.
However, we ARE supporting Donald if he wins -- as we've told you before -- because he represents everything bad about America: greed!
Ventura quoted Martin Luther King -- "free at last" -- from the Reform Party.
Spam wanted to know why Ventura is giving up control of the $12.6 million it is going to get from US. Ventura says that "Donald" doesn't need that money. What a moron -- so now he telegraphs us that Donald put him up to this. We wonder at what price. Did Ventura run from the Reforms just for the ethics of it -- or was there a payoff? This payoff could simply be political power -- or maybe a position for
Ventura in the Trump Cabinet!
How about Secretary of Defense!
Spam said he thinks Jesse wants to run for VP under Trump -- but we think Jesse wants to run for Prez and that Donald may finance him, just to stick it to Washington, which has been socking it to Trump every chance they get on his gaming enterprises.
Spam wanted to know what the emblem ON JESSE'S LEFT BREAST was. It turned out to be the logo for a bar!
Cocky then began a report on the "Do or Die" race in South Carolina. What a joke. Can you imagine a bunch of bigoted hicks from the Carolinas dicktating (sp. purposeful) to Amurrica who our choice for President might be?
That's almost as laughable as pig farmers in stretch jeans from Iowa.
Roberts should know about screwball politics. Her parents represented and her mother yet represents the scummiest of Louisiana pond politics. What we want to know is how Her Grace the Ambassadorette to the Vatican, Mother of Cocky, got SO RICH -- and got her ambassadorship. We'll tell you one thing: she made sure Jesse Jackson got the shaft at the 1992 Democratic Convention. The entire thing was plotted at her multi-million condo in DC with one of our writers present -- and who walked out in disgust.
Stupid ABC actually formed a focus group -- who all knew they would nationally televised to discuss the Bush v. McCain race. Of course, none of them said what they meant. They were all too busy trying to be erudite and good looking. They all had different answers. The panel was sick of the confederate flag discussion -- except to say it should fly over the White House. The Bush backers were far more vocal -- because they are, of course, far more stupid. The McCain voters were far more intelligent -- one man saying that the party hierarchy has brought them losers like George Bush Senior in 1992 and that idiot Bob "Viaggrevate" Dole in 1996. Now they bring George W.
George "Staphylococcus" was next. infecting the airwaves by asserting that Bush will use oxymoronic Black Republican nobody Alan Keyes to "stomp" McCain from the right. Sure Staph, but haven't you read your polls, or simply the voter rolls. Americans are not RIGHT-WING RELIGIOUS FANATICS like Keyes who think they were put on earth to call every White Man a cracker.
So far This Geek -- as usual -- was not only a bore, but totally fraudulent and idiotic to boot. No wonder Fox Spin Sunday is gaining on them in New York and other markets where they go head to head.
Yes, we know. We are being negative and infantile. Well, if that's your definition of the truth - then live with it.
Spam and Cocky - of course -- support the fraudulent "Bi-Partisan" PAC for Drug Pricing Reform -- BACKED BY THE PHARMACEUTICAL INDUSTRY!!!! Another fraud, just like Sam and Cokie.
Up next was one of my favorite people -- Ralph Reed -- supporting Bush, and the despicable Congressweasel Lindsey Graham, who will hopefully lose his seat in Congress for his LARGE part in the Clinton Witch Trials.
McCain would do well to dump Graham at his first opportunity.
Graham started off with the story that some 14 year got a call from Bush stormtroopers who told him that McCain was a liar -- and that he began crying and went to his Mama and said, "It is true Mama, Is it true."
Sure, and bagels are made of dirt.
Ralph Reed said that they are saying nothing like that on the push poll scripts. He says he released them. He claims that they are not calls from the Bush campaign. Yes, but we can guarantee you that they are from someone aligned with Bush and someone with a lot of money. What would it take to trace the numbers those calls came from? Surely, of the dozens of McCain people who claim this, one of them must have caller ID.
Bush all but admitted this on video, and Cocky showed the C-SPAN clip in which Bush is caught talking to some Cracker state legislator in South Carrylina and telling him he will hit McCain hard - BUT NOT ON TELEVISION. Ralph Reed is a genius -- and infamous for his tough push-polling phone banks among bible-thumpers. We are sure he is now stalking McCain for Bush.
But so what? Whoever said politics is fair? It is the most corrupt occupation on earth -- including organized crime.
George Will, an out-and-out whore for BushBaby, claimed that McCain is not a true Republican in his insipid questions to Lindsay, a traitor to America and the Constitution because of his foul deeds on the House Judiciary Committee. McCain is so conservative that he votes lockstep with Jesse Helms -- so watch out. He may look good now -- but he isn't.
Will then turned to Reed for help. Reed did his job, saying "I don't believe McCain will be the GOP nominee."
Reed says the only way McCain will win is if their is AN INFLUX of independent voters. What they hell does that mean? Are South Carolinian independents some kind of disease or second-class voters?
Graham says that if McCain wins it's because he is the new Ronald "Regain" -- "He wants to lead this country and get your kids out of debt." He's no Dole or Bush Senior. He's a winner.
And no one could be more of a motha Republican than the great crybaby deceiver -- Lindsey Graham.
Do you remember what a phony he was during the Clinton debacle? Recall him in tears about how terrible Bill Clinton was! What an actor. He ought to be in porno films, he's so dirty.
John McCain, GET RID OF GRAHAM. He is a slimeball. Only he could tell the story of the 14-year-old wimp crybaby and not start laughing on camera.
Next came the Spam and Cocky Square Table, where four idiots trade lies.
This time they couldn't get a real guest. So it was just Spam, Cocky, Will and Staph.
Cocky and Staph were nearly orgasmic in their discussion of McCain leading Bush now in Michigan!
Will stupidly said that if Bush loses in South Carolina, it ISN'T over.
What a moron. If Bush loses, he is dead as a candidate -- and as Governor of Texas. He cannot win anywhere. His money will dry up and his supporters will flee to McCain like the rats they are.
Even if Bush wins, but wins SMALL, he is a dead duck.
We predict Bush will lose and lose big in a state tailor-made for a racist, moron, skulk, smirk, do-nothing jagoff.
Spam said she "wonders" why McCain pulled his negative ads. Will says it was because they were not working. Of course, Will read that the other day in the Washington Post in an article concerning the ad in which McCain called Bush as bad as Clinton -- which might backfire.
But there is no evidence that the ad did backfire. We are glad he pulled it, though -- because Bush is so much dirtier than any of the other candidates and certainly not as
honest as Bill and Hillary Clinton.
Swill then said that GOP Governor support for Bush will help him elsewhere. Yet he corrects his own statement saying that Gov. Engler of Michigan can't even save him.
Staph talked about the Reform party. What a waste of time.
Will says rightly that the Reform Party is a mailing list and a testament to the folly of public financing of elections. THIS IS THE FIRST THING WE EVER HEARD WILL SAY (except for his very fine baseball books) THAT MAKES SENSE.
Spam asks if Clinton's budget is dead on arrival. Staph says yes, it is.
We agree.
But the GOP will be dead on arrival in November and then we'll see how the budget looks!
Will tried this, if you can believe it: he said there are only two presidents that served when the per-capita spending in America went down -- FDR and Bill Clinton. Ha, ha, ha -- is Will for real? This nation is the richest it has ever been, and FDR left a legacy that sponsored the wealth we experienced in the 1950's. And then to compare Clinton to FDR -- the most beloved President in history! What a compliment! And what a stupid man George Will is.
Will thinks the Congress will be in gridlock and that's good. Well, what about seniors and children with no medical care or pharma coverage, you piece of crap? What about bigotry -- on the rise precipitously since Newt Gingrich arrived on the scene and since you, George Will, assumed a position of power with television media? If we were you, we'd take a long walk off a short pier.
That was it for these four morons.
Missing In Action
If it weren't for the passing mention of the President's budget, this key issue would have been drowned out by all the blather about the GOP presidential race.
There was also hardly any mention of the Gore-Bradley race, but that's no surprise.
And the Rudy-Hillary race was ignored completely -- probably because the more reliable polls show Hillary gaining in a big way on Rudy. To top that off, Rudy is in hot water over his "carpetbagging" for campaign funds with out-of-state mailings that falsely imply that Hillary is anti-religion. The talking heads and their handlers wouldn't be caught dead saying anything that might hint that Hillary's doing a helluva lot better than they've been implying.