Not Your Sweetie

Response to the DU Mccain for VP:

robbedvoter  (1000+ posts) Sat May-22-04 09:43 AM
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11. I want an anti-war liberal for VP (and will get him too)
"I am a liberal. We live in a liberal democracy... This country was founded on the principals of
the Enlightenment.
-- Wes Clark
As for the McCain brainwashing....it scares me what the media can build. Does anyone remember when 2 dem reps (McDermott and ? )went to Iraq - before the war and reported that this was a poor battered country - no threat to us?
"centrist" McCain called them TRAITORS (they spoke from Bagdad).
And if "centrist" means to be one of the 2 senators (with Nickles) to refuse NYC 911 recovery funds, well then i am probably a very extremist left.
repeat after me: SOMEONE WHO OCCASIONALLY TELLS THE TRUTH IN THE GOP IS NOT A GOD! (but it is an anomalie - which speaks more about the GOp than for the OCCASIONAL truth teller)
As W gets more and more extreme, you'll hear wingnuts scratching their heads. Alterman chronicles some of it:
Hawks Eating Crow
http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20040607&s=alterman

he Bush Administration has not made it easy on its supporters. David Brooks now admits that he was gripped with a "childish fantasy" about Iraq. Tucker Carlson is "ashamed" and "enraged" at himself. Tom Friedman, admitting to being "a little slow," is finally off the reservation. Die-hard Republican publicist William Kristol admits of Bush, "He did drive us into a ditch." The neocon fantasist and sometime Republican speechwriter Mark Helprin complains on the Wall Street Journal editorial page--the movement's Pravda-...
It is a good thing. But it does it mean that I will want David Brooks for Press secretary, Ticker carlson for speechwriter or Tom friedman for foreign policy advisor.
Snap out of it!