Day: June 26, 2007

CNN Reporting Republicans Finally Oppose Iraq Occupation

Trish

It’s finally happening. Republicans are starting to join the rest of us traitorous terrorist-loving surrender monkeys in opposing the ongoing occupation in Iraq.

Anti-war sentiment among Republican poll respondents has suddenly increased with 38 percent of Republicans now saying they oppose the war.

In the latest CNN-Opinion Research Corporation poll released Tuesday, 69 percent of those polled believe things are going badly in Iraq. Seventeen percent think the situation is improving.

Thirty percent of Americans polled say they favor the war, the lowest level of support on record. Two-thirds are opposed.

Anti-war sentiment among Republican poll respondents has suddenly increased with 38 percent of Republicans now saying they oppose the war.

Moreover, 63 percent of Americans are ready to withdraw at least some troops from Iraq. Forty-two percent of Republicans agree.

Fifty-four percent of Americans do not believe U.S. action in Iraq is morally justified.

The telephone poll of 1,029 adult Americans was conducted between June 22 and 24, 2007, and has a sampling error of plus-or-minus 3 percentage points.

Coulter Tries to Bait Terrorists into Killing Edwards

Trish

The bitch is back, and “bitch” is not a word I use often, believing both it sexist and insulting to female dogs. After all, “asshole” or “total fucker” will usually suffice and both are non gender-specific. But Ann Coulter, who said yesterday on Good Morning America, of all the inappropriate places, that she wishes John Edwards had been killed in a terrorist plot, fits the bill.

After famously calling Edwards a “faggot” in March, Coulter reached new lows even for her. And when Elizabeth Edwards was allowed to call in live to Hairball with Chris Matthews, Coulter showed herself painfully uncomfortable trying to defend the indefensible. How many times can one person toss her hair back or shift in her seat and recross her legs?

Rudy’s New S.C. Chair Caused Controversy with Racist Statements

Jon Ponder

One week ago, Rudolph Giuliani’s finance chairman in South Carolina, Thomas Ravenel, had to step down because he was indicted by the feds who accuse him of distributing massive amounts of cocaine.

In 2000, Arthur Ravenel referred to the NAACP as the “National Association of Retarded People.” Then said he was being “lynched” because of the controversy.

Today, the Giuliani campaign announced that Ravenel’s father, Arthur, would serve as a state co-chair. They either did not vet the elder Ravenel’s reputation in South Carolina, or they simply did not care that he has a history of creating controversy by making racist statements, including this beaut from January 2000:

Republican state Sen. Arthur Ravenel told the crowd at a Statehouse rally that lawmakers should not cave into the pressure of outside influences when they return next week for a legislative session that is certain to take up the divisive issue.

Ravenel told the crowd that he was recently confronted with questions by an out-of-state reporter who asked: “Aren’t you people in South Carolina worried about what the people in the rest of the country think about you?” To which the crowd shouted back with a resounding “No.”

“Can you believe that there are those who think that the General Assembly of South Carolina is going to . . . knuckle under, roll over and do the bidding (of) that organization known as the National Association for Retarded People?” lawmaker Ravenel asked the cheering crowd.

Later, reacting to the controversy, Ravenel proved how truly tasteless he is. “I made a rhetorical slip,” he told a Charleston newspaper, “and they want to lynch me for it.”