“When you think of John McCain - think of me, George W. Bush” - The god awful truth!
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This post was written by Bryce on October 24, 2008
GOP spent $150,000 in donations on Palin’s look …
and she still looks like a hockey mom with poor taste in clothing. If this campaign is about character, the GOP clearly loses.
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Associated Press
Originally published 08:35 a.m., October 22, 2008
Updated 08:35 a.m., October 22, 2008
WASHINGTON — John McCain’s presidential campaign said thousands of dollars worth of clothing purchased by the Republican Party for running mate Sarah Palin will go to a “charitable purpose” after the campaign.
The Republican National Committee spent about $150,000 on clothing, hair styling, makeup and other “campaign accessories” in September for the McCain campaign after Palin, the governor of Alaska, joined the ticket.
The expenses include $75,062 spent at Neiman Marcus in Minneapolis Minn., and $41,850 in St. Louis in early September. The committee also reported spending $4,100 for makeup and hair consulting. The expenses were first reported by Politico.com.
“With all of the important issues facing the country right now, it’s remarkable that we’re spending time talking about pantsuits and blouses,” said McCain spokeswoman Tracey Schmitt, who has been traveling with Palin. “It was always the intent that the clothing go to a charitable purpose after the campaign.”
In 2007, Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards sparked Internet derision and jokes from late-night TV comics after his campaign for the party’s nomination paid for two $400 haircuts by a stylist from Beverly Hills, Calif. His campaign said the bill was paid by the campaign by mistake and that Edwards would reimburse the campaign.
The RNC has been helping the McCain campaign financially now that McCain is locked into spending only $84 million for the fall campaign under his agreement to accept public financing. Barack Obama, the Democratic nominee, chose not to participate in the public system and raised a whopping $150 million in September.
The RNC is allowed to spend up to $19 million in “coordinated expenses” with the campaign. In September, it spent a a total of $4.4 million. The clothing and styling was part of that, but most was spent on postage for campaign mailings.
Federal campaign finance law prohibits the use of campaign funds for personal use, but it defines personal use as any expense “that would exist irrespective of the candidate’s campaign or duties as a federal officeholder.”
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This post was written by Bryce on October 22, 2008
Ashland resident warns would-be yard sign vandals
Poor, Old Stupid Lady.
Lena Long doesn’t pull any punches. And it’s not punches she has in mind for the thieves - college students, she thinks - who stole the McCain/Palin campaign signs from her Ashland yard last week a few hours before sun-up.
“They’re going to be in for a surprise if they don’t stop it,” Long said in a phone message Thursday morning to the Tribune. “They might find electric shock, and it might shock some sense into their heads.”
Around noon, when Long picked up her phone to answer a return call, she was closer to making good on that threat.
“I found me an electric fence, and they told me, ‘You’re going to have to have that pole in the ground 6 foot,’ ” she said. “I told them if I had to stand out in the yard and peck all night, I’ll do it.”
At 5-foot-1, Long is hardly the picture of brute force, but the 66-year-old is determined to catch - or zap - the perpetrators. Her husband, Carl, a former city alderman, apparently has his own plans: “My husband is very upset. They might have a little BB stinging them in their rear,” Lena said.
Ashland Police Chief Scott Robbins thinks the culprits are local high school kids “just out messing around.” Although he doubts there are political motives behind the tomfoolery, Long begs to differ.
“They’re getting on the wrong nerve now,” she said. “I think it’s terrible that something like this is going on. They don’t bother the Obama signs. They want to keep a clean campaign, but this is terrible.”
She’s sure there is more than one sign bandit. All four McCain/Palin signs on her lawn, in three different locations at Cottonwood Street and Route M, were heisted.
Long refers to the spot as “campaign corner” where signs touting the candidacies of Ed Robb, Peter Kinder, Kenny Hulshof, Kurt Schaefer and other Republicans were untouched.
But, from one end of the street to the other, “they hit us, and they took everything that had McCain’s name on it - McCain and Sarah’s. That’s the reason I think it’s students.”
Long isn’t a come-lately supporter of the Republican ticket. “I was born and bred as a Republican,” she said. “I go way back to my great-grandpa.”
Robbins said Obama signs have been targeted in Ashland, too.
“It’s been constant for the last couple of weeks,” Robbins said. “I will be so glad when the political process is over.”
If the theft of political signs is a problem in Columbia, local police apparently aren’t hearing about it. Police Sgt. Dan Beckman said it’s possible such thefts have occurred but haven’t been reported.
“I don’t know of anything major,” Beckman said.
In Ashland, Long said she heard cars around 4 a.m. Thursday. The next morning, her husband noticed the signs missing, reported the thefts to police, then went to Columbia to pick up more signs.
Robbins said the local police force doesn’t condone stealing political signs, “but we’re not going to be on yard-sign patrol. It’s really not hard to outsmart one cop in a patrol car in the middle of the night.”
In the meantime, Lena Long will be watching.
“We’re gonna catch them,” she said, recalling a neighbor who once chased someone stealing a Halloween sign at 5:30 one morning in her nightgown. “We have a tendency to do that.”
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This post was written by Bryce on October 21, 2008
Philadelphia Boos Sarah Palin
It looks like Philadelphia hates Palin as much as I do — just take a look at the reaction to her dropping the puck at the Flyer’s game. Also, notice the Obama/Biden signs at the 44-second mark? I guess Pennsylvania isn’t a swing state anymore. 
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This post was written by Bryce on October 13, 2008
Biden and Palin on Gay Marriage
Hey Bitch! You may be able to “tolerate” gay people but gay people can’t fucking stand you! In her interview with Katie Couric Palin said “And she is not my ‘gay friend,’ she is one of my best friends who happens to have made a choice that isn’t a choice I would have made. But I am not going to judge people.”
IT IS NOT A FUCKING CHOICE! HOW MANY YEARS OF RESEARCH HAS ESTABLISHED THAT!?
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This post was written by Bryce on October 3, 2008
