Bush To Endorse McCain Today

That's the best news of the day for this Obama supporter.

Let's hope we get a few good pictures to reinforce the truth:

McCain = 4 more years of Bush.

I Don't Heart McCain

For many reasons. The #1 reason is his position on reproductive rights. I can't have an rabid anti-choicer appointing the next Supreme Court justice.

Via feministing, here's a summary of the terrible positions McCain has taken on a woman's right to choose:

* Repeatedly voted for (and cosponsored) the Federal Abortion Ban. After the court upheld the ban, he said, "Today's Supreme Court ruling is a victory for those who cherish the sanctity of life and integrity of the judiciary. The ruling ensures that an unacceptable and unjustifiable practice will not be carried out on our innocent children."

* Supported the Unborn Victims of Violence Act, a law that grants separate legal status to an embryo or fetus

* Voted in favor of four anti‐choice U.S. Supreme Court nominees. "I’m proud that we have Justice Alito and Roberts on the United States Supreme Court. I’m very proud to have played a very small role in making that happen." (May 3, 2007 Republican debate)

* Repeatedly voted to deny low‐income women access to abortion care except in cases of rape, incest, or life endangerment

* Voted to permit federally funded Title X family‐planning clinics to decline to counsel women on abortion services

* Voted against lifting the ban that forbids U.S. servicewomen from obtaining abortion services at overseas military hospitals with their own funds

* Voted to require Title X family‐planning clinics to notify a teen’s parent before providing abortion services

* Voted in favor of the Teen Endangerment and Grandmother Incarceration Act

* Voted against the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act (FACE)

* Voted to terminate the Title X family‐planning program

* Voted against funding teen‐pregnancy‐prevention programs and ensuring that “abstinence‐only” programs are medically accurate

* Voted to uphold the Global Gag Rule

* Voted for the domestic gag rule, which would have prohibited federally funded family‐planning clinics from providing women with access to full information about their reproductive‐health options

* Voted to de‐fund the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), an organization that provides family‐planning services – not abortion – for the world’s poorest women

* Voted to earmark one‐third of all HIV/AIDS prevention funds for abstinence-only programs

* Voted to take $75 million from the Maternal and Child Health Block Grant to establish a new “abstinence‐only” program

* Voted to impose a federal parental‐consent law on teens seeking birth control. Not abortion. Birth control

* Voted against legislation that would have required insurance coverage of prescription birth control, improved access to emergency contraception, and provided more women with prenatal health care

* Voted to allow medical residency training programs in obstetrics and gynecology to receive federal assistance even if they ignore abortion training requirements

McCain: Yes to Waterboarding

And Baghdad is very safe.

And they call this guy a maverick.

ThinkProgress: Maverick Fails The Test: McCain Votes Against Waterboarding Ban

Precisely

REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque

Chesapeake Primary: Early Results

My sister voted for Hillary this morning in Virginia. Here's how she described it:

Just voted....and it was more emotional than I would have guessed, to pull the lever (or in this case touch the screen) next to a woman's name for President of the United States.

MSNBC just called Virginia for Obama.

The good news for Hillary today is the new SurveyUSA poll from Ohio, one of her must-win states (along with Texas), in which she leads Obama 56% to 39%.

So, it looks like Obama will take all three contests today. The fun will come from seeing how many Republican voters stick it to their presumptive nominee, John McCain, by voting for the Squirrel Fryer. Go Squirrel Fryer!

The Next Mittwit Move?

Hilarious.

H. D. S. Greenway, Boston Globe: The comeback kid of 2008

John McCain; No You Can't

The parodies, they are a' flowing:

John McCain's Vision

Hilarious. If you haven't watched the Obama "Yes We Can" video yet, you won't realize how hilarious.


hat tip to Big Blue

Tagg's Inheritance is Saved

BBC News: Romney suspends White House bid
Former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney has withdrawn from the race for the Republican party nomination for the US presidency.

Go back home to Utah, you Mittwit.

Squirrel Fryer to Broker Republican Convention

Republican Party in crisis! Couldn't happen to a bunch of more malevolent, creepy dudes. McCain, the man conservatives love to hate, won 9 states last night, but more importantly, 455 delegates; the Mittwit hung on for seven (including some that he hasn't ever declared his primary residence, imagine that), and the candidate of the religious right, a/k/a "Squirrel Fryer", Mike Huckabee, won five.

So the Republican race goes on, even though Romney is reportedly having "frank discussions" with his staff today ("Don't spend the entire inheritance!" advisor Tagg cries) and McCain has declared himself the frontrunner.

Squirrel Fryer's acolytes, on the other hand, are calling for their man to broker the convention. From your lips to God's ears. I can hear his campaign song now. "We're gonna ban some evolution, yeah, you know we're gonna change the world...."

Campaign Stuff

Library of Congress:
Suffragettes posting bills
[between 1910 and 1915]
Great all-encompassing post reviewing the prospects of Clinton and Obama in each of the 22 Super Tuesday states, Super Tuesday Preview from poblano at dailykos.

New York Times has hit piece on the Clintons on the front page this morning. Here's how it is summarized on the front page of the website: "A Canadian financier who traveled to Kazakhstan with Bill Clinton and won a big mining deal later donated millions to Mr. Clinton’s charitable foundation."

Good Morning America has acquired tapes of WalMart corporate board meetings where union busting was discussed while Hillary Clinton sat silent. (Or as one wag on dailykos noted, she "voted present" on union busting.) hat tip to redglare at dailykos.

Much speculation about what has been dubbed "The Snub", Obama refusing to shake Hillary's hand at the SOTU speech. Coverage collected here at Tennessee Guerrilla Women. Are these really the things we should be basing decisions on? Of course the corporate media loves this crap.

On the Rethugs side, AP is reporting the the Mittwit isn't buying ad time in the Super Tuesday states. Saving Tagg's inheritance and throwing in the towel. hat tip to Talking Points Memo.

Bye Bye Rudy

Rudy Giuliani (noun) is dropping out (verb) despite the broad appeal of his heroic mayoring on 9/11. Now the Republican field is down to the Mittwit, St. John McCain (the "less jobs, more wars" candidate), and Huckleberry Huckabee. Choices, choices.

AP: Giuliani to Exit Presidential Race Today

NYTimes: For Giuliani, a Dizzying Free-Fall

The more that Republican voters saw of him, the less they wanted to vote for him.

Republicans Embrace Iraq War and Bush

Only the Republican field for the 2008 election can make batshit Ron Paul look reasonable. From last night's debate, aka Beddy-Bye in Boca:



hat tip to Hullabaloo

Everybody Hates the Mittwit

Even the other candidates.

NYTimes: Romney Leads in Ill Will Among G.O.P. Candidates

The Mittwit Gets Down

Some of his best friends are black! That's why he's comfortable enough to sing them a song he thinks they'll appreciate.

The man is phonier than a three-dollar bill.

CBSNews: "Who Let The Dogs Out?” Mitt Romney Wants To Know

As he posed for a picture with a group of young people, the typically old-fashioned Romney was relaxed enough to quote from a popular hit single from a few years back.

“Who let the dogs out?” he called out, as he stood there beaming in his shirt and tie. “Who! Who!”

Rudy "Petty" Giuliani

Good thing he's imploding.

NYTimes: In Matters Big and Small, Crossing Giuliani Had Price

This sentence, about Richard L. Murphy, a man whose reputation Rudy bludgeoned to take the heat off a scandal in his own administration, could end most of the Rudy-Gets-His-Man-or Woman stories in the article:

But Mr. [fill-in-the blank]’s professional life was wrecked.

Republicans and Martin Luther King: The Unvarnished Truth

wikipedia

They weren't that into him. They're still not, but they don't say so as blatantly any more.

* St. [John] McCain, a leading Republican presidential candidate, voted against the 1983 law to make King's birthday a national holiday

* Ron Paul, another Republican presidential candidate, published a newsletter that referred to the holiday as "Hate Whitey Day"

* Mitt Romney lied about seeing his father march with King [and, truth be told, also lied by saying he himself marched with MLK: "My father and I marched with Martin Luther King Jr. through the streets of Detroit."]

* 18 of the 22 senators who opposed that 1983 law -- including Trent Lott and Orrin Hatch -- were Republicans

* Vice President Dick Cheney, as a congressman, voted against a 1979 measure to make King's birthday a national holiday

* The red states of Arizona and New Hampshire, didn't recognize the King Holiday until 2000

* It took until 2000 for [Mitt] Willard [Romney]'s beloved Utah to finally change their "Human Rights Day" to officially honor Martin Luther King

* South Carolina, the reddest of red states, was the last state to recognize the holiday as a paid holiday for state employees

* Right-wing and Republican activists continue to peddle smears of Dr. King (see here, here, here, here, and here)

- Go to the original post by Blue Texan at firedoglake for links to all these Republican truths.

Republicans Play Limbo

If the question is: How low can you go? Rudy Giuliani wins every time.

He's using actual video footage of 9/11 in a Florida campaign ad. You can watch his sick campaign video at the link, at Talking Points Memo Election Central. I won't link it here. I gasped when I watched it.

Truly despicable.

Time to repeat this sick Rudy Giuliani joke:

Q: What's the difference between a cow and 9/11?

A: Rudy Giuliani doesn't know how to milk a cow.

Huckleberry Huckabee Stoops, Again

wikipedia
Huckabee wraps himself in the Confederate Flag. What, squirrel frying didn't cement the South Carolina redneck vote? His statement on the South Carolina flag also appeals to his homophobic base. A twofer from the candidate of the last century. I place him squarely in the 1920s, frying squirrel before donning his white hood.

“You don’t like people from outside the state coming in and telling you what to do with your flag,” Mr. Huckabee, a former governor of Arkansas, told supporters in Myrtle Beach, according to The Associated Press.

“In fact,” he said, “if somebody came to Arkansas and told us what to do with our flag, we’d tell them what to do with the pole; that’s what we’d do.”

Check out this hilarious dailykos diary: Huckabee Attacked by Disgruntled Squirrel over Views on Confederate Flag

Huckabee Brags About Eating Fried Squirrel

Does he think this will endear him to South Carolina voters? Is there a big constituency in South Carolina for fried squirrel eaters? Every time I hear this clip played on TV I think of Sharon Stone's description of Dwight Yoakum: "A dirt sandwich." And this joker won the Iowa primary? Watch and be amazed.