[Rhodes22-list] POLITICAL: Another Class Act from the GOP

[Herb Parsons]

So Ben, would you write Collins and ask if the folks stealing McCain 
signs, defacing election centers, etc are "Joe Biden's Real Americans"?

I think the funniest thing from the left is that while they do 
everything they can to talk about what a poor choice Palin was, they 
work tirelessly to try to discredit her, and attribute all evil to her.

I think they recognize who the strength of the ticket is, and it scares 
them.

How about it Pete, you scared of the little lady? I think so!!

Ben Cittadino wrote:
> Gail Collins had the following column in the NYTimes today.  It struck a
> chord with me.  My Obama sign was stolen from my yard (not a particularly
> brave act as you can barely see my house from the road).
> I took it as a "sign" that Jesus wants me to keep talking politics, at least
> until after this election.  If I can convince one "lurker" on this forum to
> vote for Obama, or at least give the guy a chance, it will be adequate
> revenge for the theft of my "freedom of speech" by one of Sarah's Real
> Americans.
>
>
> "October 23, 2008
> Op-Ed Columnist
> Confessions of a Phone Solicitor 
> By GAIL COLLINS
> Word comes from Madison, Wis., that a telemarketer named Ted Zoromski quit
> his job this week over John McCain’s message.
>
> Zoromski was prepared to interrupt people during their dinner hours to
> encourage them to vote Republican. But when he got the script saying “you
> need to know that Barack Obama has worked closely with domestic terrorist
> Bill Ayers, whose organization bombed the U.S. Capitol, the Pentagon, a
> judge’s home and killed Americans,” he packed it in.
>
> “Even though I was paid to do it, I didn’t feel comfortable,” Zoromski told
> WKOW-TV. 
>
> This story, relayed via Mike Allen on Politico.com, struck me because I once
> worked as a telemarketer, and it is an occupation so soul-numbing that it is
> hard to imagine that anything could make it worse. I woke up people on the
> overnight shift who had just managed to fall asleep for the first time in
> six days. Sometimes, when there was clearly nobody at home, I would just let
> the phone ring and ring in order to avoid having to call anybody else. Once
> after about 30 rings, I heard the breathless voice of a man who had climbed
> down off the roof in hopes that this was the critical business call he had
> been waiting for all year, the one that was going to change his life
> forever. Imagine his joy when he discovered that it was, instead, an
> exciting opportunity to purchase an entire packet of portrait photographs of
> his loved ones at a special discount price.
>
> So truly, if you can come up with something that would send a telemarketer
> over the edge, you have really overachieved on the offensiveness front.
>
> For a while, John McCain and Sarah Palin were so over-the-top about Barack
> Obama that people in the crowds started yelling death threats — sometimes
> while simultaneously begging McCain to “take the gloves off.” The idea of
> what they were hoping to see in a post-glove era scared everybody so much
> that the campaign tamped things down.
>
> Opening for a McCain rally in North Carolina last weekend, Representative
> Robin Hayes said he wanted “to keep the crowd as respectful as possible.”
>
> In order to pursue that goal as efficiently as possible, Hayes then
> announced that “liberals hate real Americans that work and accomplish and
> achieve and believe in God.” This was an especially unfortunate turn of
> phrase given the fact that he had begun his remarks by saying he wanted to
> “make sure we don’t say something stupid.”
>
> All this was a direct outgrowth of Sarah Palin’s own comments in North
> Carolina, in which she praised the “pro-America” areas of the country. But
> Hayes had clearly been absent for the day in scurrilous campaign school when
> they explain that you aren’t supposed to specifically name the anti-American
> parts.
>
> Meanwhile, over on MSNBC, Representative Michele Bachmann of Minnesota was
> launching into the Obama/terrorist spin when she suggested that the news
> media should investigate “the views of the people in Congress and find out:
> Are they pro-America or anti-America.” So far, the only person who’s felt
> the impact of her call to reinvent McCarthyism for a post-Communist planet
> has been her opponent, a hitherto totally ignored Democrat named Elwyn
> Tinklenberg, who was stunned to discover in the following days that he had
> received close to $1 million in donations. 
>
> When reporters first began covering political speeches in the 19th century,
> politicians were so appalled at the idea that somebody planned to write down
> what they said that they would stop speaking if a reporter showed up along
> the campaign route. Today, in the post-macaca era, you’d figure that
> politicians would be so sensitive to the perpetual presence of recording
> devices that they’d censor their comments even while muttering to themselves
> when taking a shower. Not to mention comments made right after they have
> been made up, offered coffee in the MSNBC green room, had a technician
> install three different recording devices under their clothing and given a
> seat in front of a large camera.
>
> But the tone of this campaign has given some of the Republican faithful,
> even those who are members of Congress, the impression that questioning the
> patriotism of large groups of the population is now O.K.
>
> Right now, all the polls predict that in less than two weeks, Barack Obama
> is going to be elected president. The McCain campaign disputes this. Large
> numbers of Obama supporters are also in doubt, possibly because they keep
> getting e-mails from their relatives in Toledo revealing that Obama has gone
> to Hawaii not to visit his ailing grandmother, but to destroy evidence that
> he is not actually an American citizen.
>
> For John McCain, the best question now is not whether he’s going to lose,
> but what kind of a country he’d wind up with if he won after a campaign even
> a telemarketer can’t love. "
>
> Ben C.
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