Since they cannot fix the situation without raising taxes on the wealthy, instituting universal health care, returning equity to the middle and lower classes (that they just finished raping) and in general violating their entire platform,they probably wanted a Democrat in the white house so he could take the blame!

Since McCain was owed favors by Bush for support in recent years, they let him be the sacrifical candidate. It is apparent that he is addled and egotistical enough to want the title even though he doesn’t have a clue of how to fix the problems but I think the Neo-Cons misjudged how faithfully unquestioning and obedient the conservative base is.

They Gave him Phil Gramm, the architect of the current disaster as his economic advisor and the failed Carly Fiorina as a campaign manager to ensure he would be embarassed. These two millstones would be fatal to any campaign being examined by any voter with an ounce of awareness, but this is the loyal “Base” we are talking about and they are religously opposed to asking tough questions of their revered leaders.

To Compensate for their misjudgement, they had to do something fast!

This week Karl Rove essentially violated long standing Regan Republican standards by calling McCain in essence a liar! While he was right, he is also right wing and this can only compute if you offer that it was said to torpedo McCain because he is getting too much support!

While I cannot express without a large exponent how much prevarication it takes to get Rove to be disgusted by a political lie,it seems that he felt compelled to at least feign indignation to achieve a result.

I think if Rove calls McCain a liar there is an ulterior motive and setting up a Democrat to be the clean up man is probably their plan.

The problem they have is that this time we have a brilliant Democrat for them to contend with and when Obama wins, he stands a very good chance of exposing the Neo-Con leaders for the greedy crooks they are! When he does, the Neo Con followers will finally realize how much they were duped by these unprincipled theives.

I hope they all wake up fast so we can rebuild whats left of the American Dream!

Lipstick on a pig? Are you serious are we still trying to get that one up and running? McCain himself yesterday after his “rally” was asked if he thinks Obama was calling Palin a pig and he said “no.” You guys will believe anything. Howard you’re the type of person who would rather believe a lie than just except the truth. And the sexist remark is just laughable, the republicans have just figured out the term sexist without even knowing the meaning. When has anyone ever been sexist toward you HOWARD? I think you guys are grasping for straws and its pathetic.

The McCain campaign thought it could pull Obama off his game and forced him to respond to in kind with negative ads against McCain. That way the Republicans could ignore their own conduct and hold up Obama’s negative ads and say, “See, he is a dirty rotten angry ****** after all. It was just a matter of time that he would show us his dark side and true self.”

But it didn’t happen. Obama plays his own game. Now the McCain campaign is left out there with only his negative lying ads and then the smack down — the ladies of THE VIEW told him to his face that his ads were untrue and lies and everyone knows it. Joy Behar asked McCain when was he going to return to being his old self?

God, even when telling the truth Rove is pathologically incapable of actually doing it simply.