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late to do anything. They can't replace her, they can't drop her, they're stuck with her right now. And there's also some suspicion, as one of the McCain advisors raises with me yesterday, there's some suspicion that they had dumped McCain, that basically they're now just proceeding to develop Palin as their candidate, as somebody they want to bring up in 2012, as the neo-con favored Republican. And I think that really has some of the McCain old school advisors bristling right now.

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I DONT UNDERSTAND.

"Every sperm is sacred, every sperm is great. When a sperm is wasted, God gets quite irate."

This cracked me up - Joe Klein:

Ronald Reagan used to say that the most frightening nine words in the English language were "I'm from the government and I'm here to help." That is no longer true. This year, the most frightening eight words are "I'm John McCain and I approved this message."

You Say that Like It's a Bad Thing

Amendment 48 in Colorado is a controversial ballot measure that would make the term "person" "include any human being from the moment of fertilization", with all the constitutional rights that confers.

I'm with Allyson, that's insane. Should sex only be allowed in very controlled circumstances to make implantation as likely as possible? If not, you are putting the lives of people at risk.

Speaking of the issue, I was very annoyed with Palin when she was asked about abortion by Katie Couric and didn't want to be pinned down as wanting to make abortion illegal. I mean c'mon, just say it.

The supreme court justice thing in the debate was, I thought, a real mess for McCain. He's not going to apply a litmus test for justices, but any justice you doesn't pass the test is unqualified. He also said he approved Ginsberg because she was qualified, but according to his own statement later, she is unqualified.

So, last night we were having a conversation about conservatives and the republican party.

I don't get it.

I don't get how the current incarnation of the Republican party could possibly be thought of as conservative.

From legislating when life begins to where prayer should occur to funding a fucked up war that is not working to wanting to be interventionist around the world to nationalizing banks.... it's all about MORE government.

I'd love for conservatives to take BACK their party, because the current Republican party is not quite the bastion of conservatism.

If, God Forbid, McCain/Palin get elected to the White House, I'ma start hadning out copies of The Handmaid's Tale as a primer on the New American Life.

Joe the Plumber not actually licensed to practice plumbing. (Also, a tax cheat, a fairly hardcore wingnut rather than the undecided voter he was first said to be, and some say a GOP plant. But the "not a real plumber" part somehow amuses me the most.)

The airquotes thing set off white hot rage I haven't felt in a long time.

I've decided to just throw in quotes ANY time he mentions health.

That would make a great Obama commercial. The McCain "Health" Plan, McCain's concern for the "health" of our economy...

Joe the Plumber not actually licensed to practice plumbing.

Professional licenseing? That's just gummint interference in the lives of hard working murricans.