The McCain campaign has mailed more than a million absentee ballot requests. Unfortunately their mailings have return mail addresses that will return your ballot to the wrong county, invalidating your vote. We are certain that this is a mistake, McCain would never willfully commit felonies on such a large scale in order to invalidate an election. Unfortunately the McCain campaign is refusing to compensate the state for their mistaken mailing, so the Obama campaign urges you to verify the return address on your absentee ballot request or to only use state provided forms. Once again, be sure to verify the return address on your ballot request so that the felonious mistakes the McCain campaign made will not invalidate an election.”

OT: FreePat @63, BradFriedman has found even more counterfeiting on the Republican absentee ballot request mass mailer, namely, some of the courtesy return envelopes mail your request to the Wrong County, oh my, say you never got your ballot? Brad thinks it only a dirty trick but not punishable under federal or state law. I suggest he tell that to SoS Brunner and the OH attorney general; they have less than 3 weeks to act before absentee ballots are mailed by state officials.

They are idealizing her as an embodiment of Purity.

Facts to the contrary mean nothing to those who want to Believe. They aren’t looking ‘down the road’ in their consideration of her.

In general, rational and sensible people – not blind followers – are much less susceptible to this phenomenon, but it does still work on them, at least for a time, until Cognitive Dissonance breaks up the spell of ‘flawless Idealization.’

Rational and sensible people like us, that frequent this blog, however, are not only less susceptible to getting lost in fantasy, but tend to ’see’ beyond the myth.

What We Fear – is that – once she’s elected VP – Sarah will take her ‘Purity’ mandate and become The Moral Scourge over all of US, using the Bush UE Super-Powers:

- Do as I say, not as I do
- What I say goes
- No back talk

to ‘Reform’ the Country according to Her Values.

We should understand that Sarah, in that Role, makes 30% of America feel ’secure’.

The rest of US – the 70% Majority – have to ‘wake-up’ to the Irrationality of Choosing Bush III for Four More Years of the Same.

It’s entirely possible that turnover in the Supreme Court during the next four years could drastically alter the rights and freedoms of Citizens, as We thought we knew them.

We should be patient and steady, imho, not hysterical – even though plenty of people find her downright scary.

We’re in an Election, imho, to determine if the Rule of Law serves US All, or is to be transformed into a Tool for Social Engineering and Control by the few – the Privileged and Unprincipled few.

Are We going to validate ‘the South Rising Again’ – this time to Stealthily Supercede Our Government, and US, with their Plantation Mindset, in the guise of the Unitary Executive? Or, will the best aspirations of the Founders for Our Freedom – Liberty and Justice for All – prevail against the relentless 8-year assault of the Craven-but-Monied few?

What we know is: She’s a Fraud, and he manifests Instability.

We’ve got 50 days to act like caring neighbors and help make what we know clear to the rest of the rational and sensible people out there, regardless of their Party affiliation.

There’s a lot hanging in the balance.

jmvho

someone needs to ask either john mccain or palin, (or both);

“you do know alaska recieves more earmarks per capita then any other state in the union, and we also know that john plans on cutting earmarks to help ballance the budget

how do you think the new governor of alaska is going to take that and do you think the state is going to be happy with either the former governor or mccain?”

oh baby

talk about turning their state against them, that will do the trick pretty nicely

we also need to do some kind of obama add that points out;

“alaska recieves more earmarks then any other state in the union, yet candidate palin tells us she cuts earmarks, will she cut those earmarks to her native state when vice president?…if so, why hasn’t she cut them yet?…and if not, what does that say about her promises and integrity?”

that add would have lots of layers

http://www.nytimes.com/aponlin…..Palin.html

Find any quote from any person who can even confirm that she appeared to be pregnant on that flight, let alone in labor. It’s not as though she’s not a recognizable public figure.

Palin = “Promise Breaker”

Don’t believe a word this liar says!

ANCHORAGE — A few months ago, before she was selected as the Republican vice presidential nominee, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin promised complete cooperation in the legislature’s investigation into whether she improperly fired her public safety director.

How things have changed.

A joint legislative committee Friday voted to subpoena Palin’s husband, Todd Palin, and a dozen others as part of its probe into whether the Alaska governor used her office to settle a personal score.

Lawmakers took that step because several members of Palin’s administration in recent days canceled interviews with the legislature’s investigator, former prosecutor Stephen Branchflower. In a statement, Palin’s second in command, Lt. Gov. Sean Parnell, called the investigation a “complete farce.”

http://www.usatoday.com/news/p…..robe_N.htm

Here’s Rep. Gara’s take on McCain’s spin and interference with the bi-partisan “Troopergate” Investigation.

This is one of those cases where there’s a clear truth. It’s a clear truth – about a bi-partisan investigation – that I hope McCain’s operatives will ultimately fail at spinning into a “partisan” plot against his running mate.

*snip*

So what about the claim that this investigation is some sort of partisan plot against a Republican ticket? A legislative committee of 8 Republicans and 4 democrats asked former Assistant District Attorney Hollis French, a Democrat – to hire a legislative investigator in July. He did. He’s not doing the investigation. So the complaint that he’s a Democrat who supports Barack Obama is, well, weak. He’s a Democrat who supports Barack Obama, who was appointed before Governor Palin was a VP candidate. More importantly, he’s a Senator who has the confidence of a majority Republican Senate.

He once said to the press the results of the investigation are likely to be troubling. He shouldn’t have said that. But the Governor’s said it too. The newspapers have said it. We all know it. The public record already contains evidence that the Department of Public Safety was contacted roughly 20 times by Palin senior staff, and her husband Todd, about firing Trooper Wooten. The Governor has conceded that based on this evidence, the public could conclude the Department could have felt pressure from above to fire Trooper Wooten.

The investigator, Steve Branchflower, is a former DA and Office of Victims Rights head (a job he was appointed to by a Republican Legislature). He’s actually conducting the investigation. Attacking Senator French doesn’t really work if he’s not investigating the case, or making any findings. So the McCain folks have attacked Mr. Branchflower. And they’ve tried to stop him from issuing subpoenas to the witnesses now directed not to talk. Today the McCain folks suffered a setback. A bi-partisan committee of Republicans and Democrats authorized Mr. Branchflower to move ahead to subpoena those witnesses.

And for good measure – the McCain folks are attacking Walt Monegan – the Public Safety Commissioner Governor Palin fired. The Troopergate investigation involves claims that Monegan was fired for not agreeing to fire Trooper Wooten, the Governor’s brother in law involved in a very ugly custody dispute with the Governor’s sister.

I don’t begrudge the Governor for not liking her brother-in-law. I don’t really like him either, from what I’ve read. I do begrudge those who’d attack Commissioner Monegan, a quintessential public servant who’s worked for both Republican and Democratic heads on the state and local level.

These three public servants deserve better. What they’ve received so far, is a little dose of ugly Washington politics in a state where we don’t see that stuff too often.

*snip*

I stood on the sidelines when this investigation started. When Governor Palin fired Commissioner Monegan, my advice was to end the flap and just hire him back. He does good work. He’s well respected. Unfortunately, my advice sometimes isn’t that good, and the Governor didn’t agree.

Then McCain’s staff of outsiders came to town. And they began to launch personal attacks on people I respect. They started proving that the same old politics that have caused dissatisfaction with Washington insiders these past 8 years are going to be the bread and butter of the McCain campaign.

*snip*

In small states, like small towns, people who act like the McCain folks apologize. Until that happens, I’ll keep defending 3 public servants who deserve better.

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