Replies to post #372895 on Zeev's Turnips Talk Politics (ZTTP)

[overachiever]

Alaska, under Palin, accepted more earmarks per capita than any other state in the Union. She hired lobbyists to get those earmarks for her State. This hasn't stopped her from lying to the American public and from claiming that she is against earmarks.

When are ignorant people going to wake up and realize that the Republican Party under Karl Rove's direction has consistently lied about almost everything while involved in campaigns?

[laurap]

"John has made a pact with the devil," says Lincoln Chafee, the former GOP senator, who has been appalled at his one-time colleague's readiness to sacrifice principle for power. Chafee and McCain were the only Republicans to vote against the Bush tax cuts. They locked arms in opposition to drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. And they worked together in the "Gang of 14," which blocked some of Bush's worst judges from the federal bench.

"On all three — sadly, sadly, sadly — McCain has flip-flopped," Chafee says. And forget all the "Country First" sloganeering, he adds. "McCain is putting himself first. He's putting himself first in blinking neon lights."