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So, this is where we are.
I have to tell you, it’s a place where I never thought we would be. I remember lying in bed with a broken back, notepad in hand, taking notes during the first Republican presidential debate. It was summer then, and yes, I am that weird.
I remember seeing a frail, rambling John McCain insisting he would be the nominee of the party. I laughed. No way that would happen. The old man was still full of himself. We’d rejected him in 2000 because of his loose grip on reality, and we would most certainly do so again. He’s the black sheep of the GOP after all. He supported amnesty for illegal aliens, opposed tax cuts, and limited free speech with his campaign finance reform act. His candidacy was to be nothing more than an exercise in his own vanity. John McCain has never met a TV camera he didn’t like, and he uses his exposure by the mainstream media to actively stab the conservative base of the party in the eye. “The Maverick”, they call him.
Continue reading ‘This is My House. Get the Hell Out!’
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“MySpace, MTV and The Associated Press today announced Senator Barack Obama and Representative Ron Paul will join Senator Hillary Clinton and Governor Mike Huckabee in ‘Closing Arguments: A Presidential Super Dialogue,’ on Saturday, February 2, 2008 at 6PM ET.”
According to the press release, ‘Closing Arguments’ “Will give each candidate 15 – 20 minutes to individually address unfiltered questions from the highly engaged and coveted youth voting bloc just before Super Tuesday. Youth votes in Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina have hit record highs this year, and the trend is expected to continue in Super Tuesday states.”
Well, isn’t this just special? As if our political system hasn’t already been irreversibly damaged by our newly minted obscenely early and oh-so-open primary system. I absolutely love the fact that I can have members from the opposing party vote for my party’s nominee in January. That way, when my turn comes on Super Tuesday, I’m left with a choice between a crap sandwich and a turd taco. Thanks a bunch, Bush haters. Your zeal to get him out of office has rendered my vote all but meaningless, but no, no, that’s not enough. MTV just won’t leave us alone.
Continue reading ‘MTV and Politics: Try, Fail, Repeat’
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