McCain's Running mate

[lookout123]

yeah, that could be it too. i wasn't there personally so just basing my statements on what is readily available. Now that I've thought about it a little more I think you're probably right.

Palin is a republican so the chances of her sister being honest are next to nil. And really, I seriously doubt a cop would ever hit his wife. This all started as a plot to invade another country. Chances are he came home and caught that whore he'd married banging some republican stooge so he'd vote for her sister. The upstanding cop was so sickened at the thought of republican corruption that he had no choice to speak loudly at his wife while admonishing her republican whoring about. She, being a republican and a whore, (probably a crackhead and parttime lesbian too, but I digress) quickly seized at this opportunity and called Karl Rove to come hit her a few times so she'd be able to convince her sister that the husband was in fact an abusive bastard who she caught trying to sell Uranium to the...

oh fuck it, i'm just not as good as you at hating. Radar, you talk as if truth and facts are all you and right thinking libertarians care about but you spread more bullshit and innuendo than even most D's and R's.

[Radar]

Originally Posted by lookout123

oh fuck it, i'm just not as good as you at hating. Radar, you talk as if truth and facts are all you and right thinking libertarians care about but you spread more bullshit and innuendo than even most D's and R's.

Don't blame yourself. Few have my capacity for hate. Also, don't hate the player, hate the game. The Democrats & Republicans invented smear campaigns. I'm just using their own tactics against them.

Seriously though, I've seen people make up terrible things during a divorce... like allegations of abuse (sexual or physical) on the wife or kids.


Let's look at the two stories and see which seems more logical from an objective viewpoint.


1) A cop beat his wife and abused her, and her sister just happens to be governor and she attempts to get him fired only because of this alleged abuse and not because he was in a nasty divorce with her sister.

or


2) A cop and his wife were getting a divorce and things got ugly, so she called her sister, the governor, and asked her to get this guy fired on the grounds of spousal abuse.


I think option 2 sounds more believable. Not because this women is a bible-thumping, disgusting neocon who stupidly believes evolution is fake, but simply because it's just more plausible.


Perhaps the truth lies somewhere between. In either case, it is an ethical violation for her sister to try to get the guy fired.

[lookout123]

if that's the way it went down it's an ethical violation. ok? next.

obama couldn't afford to buy the mansion he wanted so he entered into a shady real estate deal. ok? next.

neither of these issues is enough to eliminate them from public office. politicians aren't squeaky clean. life isn't black and white like you want to believe, so it's up to us to look at the whole picture and weigh out the pros and cons we see with a candidate and sift it through our own priorities and values. At the end of that process you'll find you can only support one of the candidates and you'll probably have to hold your nose a little while you do. welcome to politics. what you fail to accept is that 2 reasonably intelligent, rational people can look at the same information and come to different conclusions without any mental defficiency. that blindness is a problem that afflicts an awful lot of hardcore, rabid party desciples whether they be R,D, or L.

[Undertoad]

Originally Posted by Radar

The Democrats & Republicans invented smear campaigns. I'm just using their own tactics against them.

And how's that work on the Cellar and in real life? Now your credibility is shot. Where do you go from there?

[warch]

I doubt they could be too much more evil than Cheney's though could they?

Yeah, but sometimes you risk not overt evil, just incompetence. Which is worse? The whole election circus should work to help voters weigh and balance ideologies with the skills of practice in reality-based sausage making of governance, particularly during a time of global war. Obama/Biden seems more balanced in that regard to me, than McCain/Palin.