Comments on: Values Voter Summit organizers angry at McCain and Palin’s absence. http://thinkprogress.org/2008/09/12/values-voters-angry-at-mccain-and-palins-absence/ Thu, 26 Nov 2009 21:33:14 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: LibertyLover http://thinkprogress.org/2008/09/12/values-voters-angry-at-mccain-and-palins-absence/comment-page-1/#comment-5225174 LibertyLover Fri, 12 Sep 2008 21:43:53 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2008/09/12/values-voters-angry-at-mccain-and-palins-absence/#comment-5225174 Give them a break. Palin had to go home so she could attend the "pray away the gay" conference at her church this weekend. You guys just don't understand. ?/snark off Give them a break. Palin had to go home so she could attend the “pray away the gay” conference at her church this weekend. You guys just don’t understand. ?/snark off

]]> By: DidHeJustSayThat http://thinkprogress.org/2008/09/12/values-voters-angry-at-mccain-and-palins-absence/comment-page-1/#comment-5224608 DidHeJustSayThat Fri, 12 Sep 2008 18:08:33 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2008/09/12/values-voters-angry-at-mccain-and-palins-absence/#comment-5224608 And what would be the point of a McCain/Palin appearance at a conference discussing values? That's like saying they'll attend a honor, dignity and morals convention. And what would be the point of a McCain/Palin appearance at a conference discussing values? That’s like saying they’ll attend a honor, dignity and morals convention.

]]> By: Laszlo Panaflex http://thinkprogress.org/2008/09/12/values-voters-angry-at-mccain-and-palins-absence/comment-page-1/#comment-5224574 Laszlo Panaflex Fri, 12 Sep 2008 17:59:26 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2008/09/12/values-voters-angry-at-mccain-and-palins-absence/#comment-5224574 So the Family Values people are upset at her because she wants to go see her son off to Iraq. She put her Family before them, so they are furious. The hypocrisy of these people is boundless. So the Family Values people are upset at her because she wants to go see her son off to Iraq. She put her Family before them, so they are furious. The hypocrisy of these people is boundless.

]]> By: Doc Rock http://thinkprogress.org/2008/09/12/values-voters-angry-at-mccain-and-palins-absence/comment-page-1/#comment-5224526 Doc Rock Fri, 12 Sep 2008 17:42:16 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2008/09/12/values-voters-angry-at-mccain-and-palins-absence/#comment-5224526 A little trouble in Paradise? A little trouble in Paradise?

]]> By: joe cantwell http://thinkprogress.org/2008/09/12/values-voters-angry-at-mccain-and-palins-absence/comment-page-1/#comment-5224380 joe cantwell Fri, 12 Sep 2008 16:55:05 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2008/09/12/values-voters-angry-at-mccain-and-palins-absence/#comment-5224380 mcsame's relationship with the religious right is like the frat dude who just loves chubby chicks. * he just doesn't want to be seen in public with them. * and it hurts their feelings. # good luck. # mcsame’s relationship with the

religious right is like the frat dude

who just loves chubby chicks.

*

he just doesn’t want to be seen

in public with them.

*
and it hurts their feelings.

#

good luck.

#

]]> By: ThomasMc http://thinkprogress.org/2008/09/12/values-voters-angry-at-mccain-and-palins-absence/comment-page-1/#comment-5224358 ThomasMc Fri, 12 Sep 2008 16:50:10 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2008/09/12/values-voters-angry-at-mccain-and-palins-absence/#comment-5224358 How DARE they not obey a summons by the Religious Reich! How DARE they not obey a summons by the Religious Reich!

]]> By: spencers mom http://thinkprogress.org/2008/09/12/values-voters-angry-at-mccain-and-palins-absence/comment-page-1/#comment-5224312 spencers mom Fri, 12 Sep 2008 16:18:52 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2008/09/12/values-voters-angry-at-mccain-and-palins-absence/#comment-5224312 Bilbo, please ignore my last post... I just realized that you're saying McStain's people are sending these fake ballots to <em>democrats</em>. Disgusting, but certainly not surprising. PEACE Bilbo, please ignore my last post… I just realized that you’re saying McStain’s people are sending these fake ballots to democrats.

Disgusting, but certainly not surprising.

PEACE

]]> By: Bilbo Hussein Baggins http://thinkprogress.org/2008/09/12/values-voters-angry-at-mccain-and-palins-absence/comment-page-1/#comment-5224304 Bilbo Hussein Baggins Fri, 12 Sep 2008 16:15:42 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2008/09/12/values-voters-angry-at-mccain-and-palins-absence/#comment-5224304 <em>kpaul Says: So the people of the Values Voters summit were upset that Palin would rather be with her son before he goes off to war, than attend their meetings? Typical. It just illustrates what a farce these people are.</em> There is not reason why Palin couldn't have made it to this event. She now has her own jet. She saw her son off yesterday. She could fly to the event today. Neither of them want to show up at an event like this because it would piss off the moderates they are trying to court. For the life of me I don't understand how this can be at all close. Has half this country gone mad? kpaul Says:
So the people of the Values Voters summit were upset that Palin would rather be with her son before he goes off to war, than attend their meetings? Typical. It just illustrates what a farce these people are.

There is not reason why Palin couldn’t have made it to this event. She now has her own jet. She saw her son off yesterday. She could fly to the event today. Neither of them want to show up at an event like this because it would piss off the moderates they are trying to court.

For the life of me I don’t understand how this can be at all close. Has half this country gone mad?

]]> By: spencers mom http://thinkprogress.org/2008/09/12/values-voters-angry-at-mccain-and-palins-absence/comment-page-1/#comment-5224302 spencers mom Fri, 12 Sep 2008 16:15:35 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2008/09/12/values-voters-angry-at-mccain-and-palins-absence/#comment-5224302 Bilbo, having volunteered at our local Dem office, I do know that the Board of Elections provides mailing labels to both Reps and Dems for all absentee ballot applications. These mailing labels are used to send out campaign materials that might normally be handed out at the polling place, and may also include a "sample ballot". But the official absentee ballot comes from the Board of Elections. If Camp McStain is sending out their own, we can only assume that at least some folks will return it instead of the official one, thus invalidating their vote. Not a good strategy, but you'll hear no complaints from me! PEACE Bilbo, having volunteered at our local Dem office, I do know that the Board of Elections provides mailing labels to both Reps and Dems for all absentee ballot applications.

These mailing labels are used to send out campaign materials that might normally be handed out at the polling place, and may also include a “sample ballot”.

But the official absentee ballot comes from the Board of Elections. If Camp McStain is sending out their own, we can only assume that at least some folks will return it instead of the official one, thus invalidating their vote.

Not a good strategy, but you’ll hear no complaints from me!

PEACE

]]> By: Art http://thinkprogress.org/2008/09/12/values-voters-angry-at-mccain-and-palins-absence/comment-page-1/#comment-5224296 Art Fri, 12 Sep 2008 16:12:49 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2008/09/12/values-voters-angry-at-mccain-and-palins-absence/#comment-5224296 I'm sorry, but I think there is too much attention being payed to the vice presidential candidate, and what she does or doesn't do. Let's concentrate on the one that wants to be in charge. The question here should be "Why is McSame not going to this Summit?" I don't vote for vice-president. I don't think many people do. However, I do feel that whoever the presidential candidate chooses does reflect on his judgement and the way he intends to staff and run the White House. We already went through eight years of choosing people for ideology only, rather than for ability. I don't think it went very well. I’m sorry, but I think there is too much attention being payed to the vice presidential candidate, and what she does or doesn’t do.
Let’s concentrate on the one that wants to be in charge.

The question here should be “Why is McSame not going to this Summit?”

I don’t vote for vice-president. I don’t think many people do. However, I do feel that whoever the presidential candidate chooses does reflect on his judgement and the way he intends to staff and run the White House.
We already went through eight years of choosing people for ideology only, rather than for ability. I don’t think it went very well.

]]> By: Mr. Evil http://thinkprogress.org/2008/09/12/values-voters-angry-at-mccain-and-palins-absence/comment-page-1/#comment-5224290 Mr. Evil Fri, 12 Sep 2008 16:08:40 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2008/09/12/values-voters-angry-at-mccain-and-palins-absence/#comment-5224290 Maybe that's why McNeoconwannabe chose her. She does seem to have inflatable qualities. Maybe that’s why McNeoconwannabe chose her. She does seem to have inflatable qualities.

]]> By: Bilbo Hussein Baggins http://thinkprogress.org/2008/09/12/values-voters-angry-at-mccain-and-palins-absence/comment-page-1/#comment-5224288 Bilbo Hussein Baggins Fri, 12 Sep 2008 16:08:25 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2008/09/12/values-voters-angry-at-mccain-and-palins-absence/#comment-5224288 <em>fletc3her Says: Oh, last Thursday. I thought you meant next Thursday. How does being in Alaska yesterday affect your ability to be anywhere through the weekend? Can’t the McCain’s lend Palin an extra plane or something?</em> She already has her very own plane the Republicans leased from Jet Blue. You know it's her plane because it has her name on it! fletc3her Says:
Oh, last Thursday. I thought you meant next Thursday. How does being in Alaska yesterday affect your ability to be anywhere through the weekend? Can’t the McCain’s lend Palin an extra plane or something?

She already has her very own plane the Republicans leased from Jet Blue. You know it’s her plane because it has her name on it!

]]> By: Bilbo Hussein Baggins http://thinkprogress.org/2008/09/12/values-voters-angry-at-mccain-and-palins-absence/comment-page-1/#comment-5224284 Bilbo Hussein Baggins Fri, 12 Sep 2008 16:06:14 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2008/09/12/values-voters-angry-at-mccain-and-palins-absence/#comment-5224284 A little OT, but needs to be addressed. Why aren't there laws that say that political campaigns can't send absentee ballots to voters? This is the new way the Republicans are trying to disenfranchise voters. They just did it in Ohio. <em>Hundreds of Ohio absentee ballot requests using forms distributed by the McCain campaign have been found invalid, elections officials said. More than 750 applications -- about one-third of the number received so far at the Hamilton County Board of Elections -- have been invalidated because the forms sent to voters by the presidential campaign of John McCain contained a check-off box that was unnecessary, the Cincinnati Enquirer said Thursday.</em> What I don't understand about this is why, if a voter requested an absentee ballot, it came from the McCain campaign. We need to pass a law that says that political campaigns CANNOT send a voter anything that even looks like a ballot. Everyone out there needs to call their registrar of voters and make sure they are registered to vote. Then request an absentee ballot directly from the registrar. We can't let them steal this election. The other "absentee" trick the McCain camp is doing is to send voters in Minnesota and Florida absentee ballots that, if the voter uses the return address on the ballot, will not go where it is supposed to go. They either have PO box on them (not the PO box for the registrar's office) or they have a return address to a different precinct from where the voter lives. A little OT, but needs to be addressed. Why aren’t there laws that say that political campaigns can’t send absentee ballots to voters? This is the new way the Republicans are trying to disenfranchise voters. They just did it in Ohio.

Hundreds of Ohio absentee ballot requests using forms distributed by the McCain campaign have been found invalid, elections officials said.

More than 750 applications — about one-third of the number received so far at the Hamilton County Board of Elections — have been invalidated because the forms sent to voters by the presidential campaign of John McCain contained a check-off box that was unnecessary, the Cincinnati Enquirer said Thursday.

What I don’t understand about this is why, if a voter requested an absentee ballot, it came from the McCain campaign. We need to pass a law that says that political campaigns CANNOT send a voter anything that even looks like a ballot.

Everyone out there needs to call their registrar of voters and make sure they are registered to vote. Then request an absentee ballot directly from the registrar. We can’t let them steal this election.

The other “absentee” trick the McCain camp is doing is to send voters in Minnesota and Florida absentee ballots that, if the voter uses the return address on the ballot, will not go where it is supposed to go. They either have PO box on them (not the PO box for the registrar’s office) or they have a return address to a different precinct from where the voter lives.

]]> By: stateofthedivision http://thinkprogress.org/2008/09/12/values-voters-angry-at-mccain-and-palins-absence/comment-page-1/#comment-5224282 stateofthedivision Fri, 12 Sep 2008 16:05:42 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2008/09/12/values-voters-angry-at-mccain-and-palins-absence/#comment-5224282 Sarah will be speaking to the World Council on Energy Sufficiency. Once they found out an expert existed that could solve both energy and security problems simultaneously, they booked her. That Charlie Gibson interview opened doors! Will she wear her <a href="http://stateofthedivision.blogspot.com/2008/09/lipstick-grants-interview.html" rel="nofollow">pig nose</a>? Sarah will be speaking to the World Council on Energy Sufficiency. Once they found out an expert existed that could solve both energy and security problems simultaneously, they booked her. That Charlie Gibson interview opened doors!

Will she wear her pig nose?

]]> By: The Republic of Stupidity http://thinkprogress.org/2008/09/12/values-voters-angry-at-mccain-and-palins-absence/comment-page-1/#comment-5224278 The Republic of Stupidity Fri, 12 Sep 2008 16:02:51 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2008/09/12/values-voters-angry-at-mccain-and-palins-absence/#comment-5224278 misshusseinmolly Says: They could accomplish much the same with a two-dimensional cardboard cutout. _______________ Or an inflatable doll... misshusseinmolly Says:

They could accomplish much the same with a two-dimensional cardboard cutout.
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Or an inflatable doll…

]]> By: The Dogfather http://thinkprogress.org/2008/09/12/values-voters-angry-at-mccain-and-palins-absence/comment-page-1/#comment-5224268 The Dogfather Fri, 12 Sep 2008 15:58:42 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2008/09/12/values-voters-angry-at-mccain-and-palins-absence/#comment-5224268 Nail on the head, spencers mom -- your work here is done! Nail on the head, spencers mom — your work here is done!

]]> By: fletc3her http://thinkprogress.org/2008/09/12/values-voters-angry-at-mccain-and-palins-absence/comment-page-1/#comment-5224262 fletc3her Fri, 12 Sep 2008 15:58:03 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2008/09/12/values-voters-angry-at-mccain-and-palins-absence/#comment-5224262 Oh, last Thursday. I thought you meant next Thursday. How does being in Alaska yesterday affect your ability to be anywhere through the weekend? Can't the McCain's lend Palin an extra plane or something? Oh, last Thursday. I thought you meant next Thursday. How does being in Alaska yesterday affect your ability to be anywhere through the weekend? Can’t the McCain’s lend Palin an extra plane or something?

]]> By: owlbear1 http://thinkprogress.org/2008/09/12/values-voters-angry-at-mccain-and-palins-absence/comment-page-1/#comment-5224258 owlbear1 Fri, 12 Sep 2008 15:57:07 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2008/09/12/values-voters-angry-at-mccain-and-palins-absence/#comment-5224258 Tony, your people aren't singing loudly enough about Sarah, AND the babbling is costing Johnny the Paleos AND the Moderates. NO DANCE FER YOU TONY!! Tony, your people aren’t singing loudly enough about Sarah, AND the babbling is costing Johnny the Paleos AND the Moderates.

NO DANCE FER YOU TONY!!

]]> By: carsick http://thinkprogress.org/2008/09/12/values-voters-angry-at-mccain-and-palins-absence/comment-page-1/#comment-5224252 carsick Fri, 12 Sep 2008 15:56:35 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2008/09/12/values-voters-angry-at-mccain-and-palins-absence/#comment-5224252 I'm pretty certain they'll get over it by Monday. Their grumbling gets them press and makes them seem more important but McCain knows he already has their votes. They know it too. I’m pretty certain they’ll get over it by Monday. Their grumbling gets them press and makes them seem more important but McCain knows he already has their votes. They know it too.

]]> By: fletc3her http://thinkprogress.org/2008/09/12/values-voters-angry-at-mccain-and-palins-absence/comment-page-1/#comment-5224250 fletc3her Fri, 12 Sep 2008 15:56:27 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2008/09/12/values-voters-angry-at-mccain-and-palins-absence/#comment-5224250 Wait, wait, wait, her son is deploying on Thursday?! I thought for sure she said her son was deploying on 9/11? Was the whole thing yesterday was just a P.R. stunt? McCain and Palin will take the Family Research Council people's votes for granted. McCain talks like a bigot, but I'm not convinced he really feels it in his heart. He votes against equal rights for gay people, but does he truly hate them? He supports overturning Roe vs Wade, but is he willing to chain himself to an abortion clinic? I hear Palin supported teaching kids about contraception! Wait, wait, wait, her son is deploying on Thursday?! I thought for sure she said her son was deploying on 9/11? Was the whole thing yesterday was just a P.R. stunt?

McCain and Palin will take the Family Research Council people’s votes for granted. McCain talks like a bigot, but I’m not convinced he really feels it in his heart. He votes against equal rights for gay people, but does he truly hate them? He supports overturning Roe vs Wade, but is he willing to chain himself to an abortion clinic? I hear Palin supported teaching kids about contraception!

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