ApocaLypstick

While the Neanderthals in the Republican Party want to keep the majority of women chained to the bed or the stove, they apparenly can't keep their own womenfolk in check. After throwing a virtual straitjacket on über-bitch Ann Coulter during the past year, the GOP now has to deal with new shrieking harpies who have emerged to take her bat-shit crazy place.

Sarah Palin has become kryptonite to John McCain's campaign. Her unrepentant ignorance, incendiary rhetoric, and airheaded know-nothingness are proving to be a huge millstone around the Republican ticket's neck. When it comes to The Sea of Stupidity, she has on deep-water diving gear and weights.

• These are a few of the laughers gathered by (gasp!) Fox News.
• Another site, 23/6.com, has been keeping a videolog of Sarah's deer-in-headlights comments and rants.
• Here is her infamous checkbook online statement.
• On Wednesday, she proclaimed that "the vice president is in charge of the Senate." Oh, really? I leaned in fourth or fifth grade that the VP merely casts the deciding vote whenever there is a 50-50 split on a vote, which rarely happens. I guess they didn't show Schoolhouse Rock in beauty-queen school.
• She couldn't come up with one coherent idea when asked for examples of man-made causes of global warming.
• During a recent campaign rally, she asked notorious bigot/homophobe Rev. James Dobson to assemble "prayer warriors" to ask God to intercede on her ticket's behalf.
• She referred to certain parts of the country as being "pro-American" and others as being "anti-American."

Then, on the heels of all this verbal quicksand, comes Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann, who last week called for an investigation into the "anti-American" connections of Barack Obama in particular and Congress in general. Amazingly enough, the MSM actually did their jobs and got on her like ugly on an ape. The GOP has since disingenuously denounced her and pulled its money and campaign ads on her behalf. At the same time, her Democratic opponent, Elwyn Tinklenberg, is being showered with donations as a result of her fanatical comments. A seat that the Republicans considered safe is now very much in play.

Thanx loads, girls! Hugs and disses!!!

Maybe they should have stuck to just lipstick

My friend Brian once said of Tori Spelling, "All her daddy's money and the best plastic surgeons in the world--and that's all the ugly they could get rid of?"

I could say the same of the Republican National Committee's spending more than $150,000 American dollars on making over Sarah Palin. The frivolous expense is bad enough, but--for the love of Coco Chanel--is that the best they could do? She still looks as if she shopped at WalMart...during a clearance sale...with an extra 75% off.

Good Gucci...is there a stylist in the house?

George Voinovich is a liar

It seems that our senior Senator is going around calling Barack Obama a "socialist." This is just one example of the ugly desperation of the Republican Party at this point. Well, I decided to call dear old George out on his lie:

Dear Senator Voinovich:

I am writing to tell you that your characterizing Barack Obama as a "socialist" is unacceptable. Using such partisan lies as scare tactics should be beneath a U.S. Senator. Apparently, they are not. I am truly disappointed in you. For my part, I will make sure that everyone I know--Democrats, moderate Republicans, and undecided voters--is aware of your unseemly statement.

Just remember: you represent ALL Ohio citizens, not just the Republican ones. Those of us who will vote for Senator Obama will not forget that you tried to disparage him. We will use our votes this year and in 2010 to grant him the largest Democratic Congress possible. With a friendly Congress, he can try to undo all the damage that your party has done the last eight years.

If you want to challenge Senator Obama on real issues, fine. But the mudslinging will come back to haunt you and your party on November 4.

Best regards,

Veronica C. Johnson

I sent this message through his Senate website's contact form. I will also be calling his Cleveland office and his Washington office. I urge you to do the same. Be civil, but don't let Republican lies go unchallenged!

Washington Office
524 Hart Senate Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20510
(202) 224-3353

District Offices
Click here. Go to the bottom of the page to the map of Ohio, then click your area of the state.

Help beat Mean Jean!

Victoria Wulsin, the Democratic candidate trying to oust Ohio U.S. Rep. Jean Schmidt, (R-02) needs help. The Repugs have launched a vicious ad campaign against her in an attempt to retain "Mean Jean." Below is a request from EMILY's List, an organization that aids progressive, pro-choice women candidates.

U.S. House, Ohio - District 2 -- Vic Wulsin
Republican to defeat: Jean Schmidt

A chance to finally beat "Mean Jean." Democrats have in Vic Wulsin an incredible opportunity to unseat anti-choice zealot Rep. "Mean Jean" Schmidt, a former Right to Life of Greater Cincinnati president who barely won re-election in 2006. Schmidt, who famously called Vietnam veteran Rep. John Murtha (D-Penn.) a "coward" on the floor of the House, has been joined in her usual nasty campaign rhetoric by the National Republican Campaign Committee, now on the air with a nasty -- and completely ridiculous -- attack blaming physician Wulsin for the nation's economic woes. Wulsin, meanwhile, has been endorsed by the Dayton Daily News as the "best bet" for the district and recent polling shows this race is in a dead heat. The race for this district in presidential battleground Ohio will go down to the wire -- Wulsin needs our help to raise $215,000 to st ay on television fighting "Mean Jean" and her attack machine.

Click here to make a direct and immediate contribution to Vic Wulsin.

Hell hath no fury like neocons turning on their own

Last month, The National Review’s Kathleen Parker called for Sarah Palin to step down in order to save the Republican ticket. Since then, Parker has been deluged with emails—12,000 at her last count—which have covered the gamut from calling her a traitor to outright death threats. One enlightened person suggested that Parker’s mother should have aborted her. How classy!

Not even the scion of TNR’s founder William F. Buckley has been spared. Christopher Buckley, in his blog on the website The Daily Beast, wrote that, for the first time in his life, he will vote for a Democrat. He purposely avoided saying so in his column in TNR because he wanted to spare the publication the grief. Nonetheless, no sooner than this entry was posted at the Beast, he started receiving the same sort of filth that Parker had: “In fact, the only thing the Right can’t quite decide is whether I should be boiled in oil or just put up against the wall and shot.” Buckley submitted his resignation to TNR s editor, which Buckley said was “briskly” accepted.

Parker and Buckley are just two of the traditional conservatives that have come out against the McCain/Palin ticket—something that the frothing-at-the-mouth neocons cannot abide. So much for free speech.

They are far from being the only conservatives jumping ship—or coming to their senses. Christopher Hitchens, David Brooks, Frank Schaeffer, Matthew Dowd, Ken Adelman, and Francis Fukuyama have railed against the ticket, saying that McCain does not have the temperament to be President, that Sarah Palin is not qualified to be Vice President, and that neither displays true conservative values—one of which is appreciation of intellect. That anti-intellectualism has become a rallying point for the GOP does not sit well with traditional conservatives. Gay conservative Andrew Sullivan, who seems to have come to the center over the past decade, excoriated Palin for her out and out lies. Even acid-tongued curmudgeon Robert Novak saw defections in the ranks on the horizon back in June.

But the most damning blow came this past weekend when Colin Powell endorsed Obama on Meet The Press. Powell “had been disturbed in recent weeks by the negative tone of Mr. McCain’s campaign, particularly its focus on Mr. Obama’s passing relationship with William Ayers.” He said that he feels that Obama is what America needs now. He also bemoaned the ever-more-rightward shift of the Republican Party as a whole.

Predictably, the neocons descended on the whole lot of them, particularly Powell, using the “blacks stick together” meme. Rush Limbaugh, George Will, Pat Buchanan, and “journalist” Mark Halperin ludicrously tried to insinuate that Powell is supporting Obama because they are both African American.

Step out of line, and the GOP neocons will mow you down. Nice bunch to associate with, huh?

The Republican Party and its ticket are unraveling faster than thread on a cheap shirt. Still, we cannot let down our guard. They pretty much have no choice but to try and steal this election. Let’s keep out wits about us—only fourteen more days until liberation!

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The Vanishing Republican Voter

How Anti-Intellectual is Sarah Palin?
The Class War Before Palin
Palin’s Failin’
The Right Choice?: The Conservative Case for Barack Obama
A Conservative Case for Obama

Blame game: GOP forms circular firing squad

Republicans Voting for Obama: In Their Own Words

Why McCain has lost our vote (Barry Goldwater's granddaughter)

Conservatives in crisis

GOP Sleaze-a-thon

AlterNet.org has a list of the ten sleaziest tactics that the Republicans have utilized so far in trying to steal this election. Learn to recognize and fight back against them. Even though there are only 15 days left until the election, don't let your guard down for a minute!