Sunday, October 5th, 2008
A new land-speed record for swiftboating!
And the award goes to…Gov. Mooseburger! (via TBogg)
Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin on Saturday accused Democrat Barack Obama of “palling around with terrorists” because of his association with a former 1960s radical, stepping up the campaign’s effort to portray Obama as unacceptable to American voters.
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Palin told a group of donors at a private airport, “Our opponent … is someone who sees America, it seems, as being so imperfect, imperfect enough, that he’s palling around with terrorists who would target their own country.” She also said, “This is not a man who sees America as you see America and as I see America.”
Feh! That’s rich, coming from the woman whose husband was a member of the Alaska secessionist movement and who gave the same secessionist movement a warm welcome via video-conference earlier this year!
That would be the same secessionist movement founded by one Joe Vogler, who had this to say in a 1991 interview (via TPM Election Central):
The fires of hell are frozen glaciers compared to my hatred for the American government.
As the late, great George Carlin once said, I’d like to repeat that because it sounds vaguely important:
The fires of hell are frozen glaciers compared to my hatred for the American government.
I don’t know about you, but that sure as heck doesn’t seem to me like someone who “sees America as you see America and as I see America.”
But really, Governor. By your “logic,” Sen. McRove should be disqualified from consideration for POTUS because of his penchant for hobnobbing with wannabe domestic terrorist G. Gordon “Head Shots*” Liddy.
Lots of people smarter than me predicted this ugly turn from the McRove campaign, but I don’t think anyone thought it would come this quickly. Just one more sign of the desperation in the GOP camp.
* Cf.
