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The final person in my dog/candidate comparison.
I don't know exactly who is going to be devoured...perhaps Palin's own family...but this is not going to go well.
Image from the book Fair Tax: A Wolf in Sheep's Clothing by Nelson Warick.
Interesting article by Michael Markarian about where the VP candidates stand on animal rights.
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John McCain has driven his Straight Talk Express into the ditch more than once over his political career, like when he pandered to the Evangelicals, or when endorsed Bush after Rove's ugly smear campaign against him in 2000. But he is as flinty and solid as General Patton's Bull Terrier named Willie. And I think he's going to win the Republican nomination because people in New Hampshire are flinty too.
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I could write a book about why Rudy Giuliani should be run out of politics. Well, I probably couldn't and luckily I don't have to. Wayne Barrett and Dan Collins already did. It's called Grand Illusion: The Untold Story of Rudy Giuliani and 9/11.
Highlights of our "hero of 9/11's" resume include: not protecting firefighters, trying to change NYC elections, Bernard Kerik, ties to a Saudi family of questionable links to terrorists, tangential ties to North Korea, and being best friends with Roger Ailes of Fox News.
Like the Big Bad Wolf, he is full of hot air. As painful as 9/11 was and still is, we need to move on. Go Barack!
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Mitt Romney is still jumping through hoops trying to win votes.
Isn't he exhausted?!
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In 1998, Governor Mike Huckabee's 17-year-old son, David, hanged a stray dog at Boy Scout Camp. Then, Governor Huckabee pressured John Bailey, the director of Arkansas's state police, to deny a local prosecutor's request to investigate the matter under state animal-cruelty laws. Seven months later Huckabee fired Bailey who claims Huckabee told him, "I've lost confidence in your ability to do your job. I couldn't get you to help me with my son when I had that problem." (Huckabee denies this.)
Because of this, and because Mike Huckabee generally creeps me out with his floating cross, and his good-ol-boy-don't-Mormons believe-Jesus-was-the-devil's-brother-I'm-not-going-to-run-this negative-ad-press-conference. I won't compare him to a dog. Dogs are not phony or duplicitous. Instead, I urge voters to take a look at Elia Kazan's 1957 masterpiece, A Face In The Crowd.
* Spoiler Alert* In the film, Andy Griffith plays Lonesome Rhodes a mean Arkansas hobo who becomes a media sensation because of his down-home wisdom and connection to the common man. He also has the help of slick behind the scenes promoters, including the fabulous Patricia Neal as Marcia Jeffries, and sponsors who ride his coattails to a national TV show called, what else, "Cracker Barrel."
Eventually Marcia Jeffries becomes so horrified at the power hungry "monster she's created" she turns on his microphone live on the air as he mocks his viewers, calling them morons, idiots, and guinea pigs. His fans are outraged and Rhodes is finished. But the movie ends brilliantly with another Lonesome Rhodes, played by Rip Torn, waiting in the wings. (Source: IMDB)
P.S. After the dog-hanging incident David Huckabee made Eagle Scout.
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