The irony of the whole Iowa push polling mess - and Romney blaming it on the McCain-Feingold campaign finance law is that it was John McCain who was victimized by push polling in South Carolina in 2000:
In South Carolina, Bush Republicans were facing an opponent who was popular for his straight talk and Vietnam war record. They knew that if McCain won in South Carolina, he would likely win the nomination. With few substantive differences between Bush and McCain, the campaign was bound to turn personal. The situation was ripe for a smear.It didn't take much research to turn up a seemingly innocuous fact about the McCains: John and his wife, Cindy, have an adopted daughter named Bridget. Cindy found Bridget at Mother Theresa's orphanage in Bangladesh, brought her to the United States for medical treatment, and the family ultimately adopted her. Bridget has dark skin.
Anonymous opponents used "push polling" to suggest that McCain's Bangladeshi born daughter was his own, illegitimate black child. In push polling, a voter gets a call, ostensibly from a polling company, asking which candidate the voter supports. In this case, if the "pollster" determined that the person was a McCain supporter, he made statements designed to create doubt about the senator
Push polling undid McCain, will it make Romney?
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Donny, you should come visit us in our libertine hellhole sometime. :-)
Maybe you can come and find the time to discuss actual pederasty with our fine Archbishop. And proper teaching of children with the fine two people who compose "MassResistance". Apparently they're having some trouble lately raising their own children as straight. Since you know as a certainty that homosexuality is taught rather than congenital, and your wideranging experience is a font of knowledge, maybe you can give them a few pointers....
Btw, you might want to mark your 2009 calendar for further legalizations of gay marriage, in New Jersey and likely New York. California is probable for 2011. I even hear talk of a civil unions bill in Illinois in the next year or two. ;-)
Absolutely right, Adam. The narrative is always that, though isn't it? I always thought fables should have talking animals and be told by pagans.
Donny, you might note that Massachusetts has the lowest divorce rate, highest scores in education, most advanced health care system, education system and if - you have severe disabilities - there are services that actually care for you. I wish my state had the moral forethought to do what Massachusetts has done in many areas.
By the way - my brother and his wife live in Massachusetts. Have lots of neighbors including gay couples. Their neighborhood is strong, the children are happy, the schools work. Your obsession with hating gay people is not healthy. What would you do if one of your children or close friends came out to you. I suspect you would love them because you have shown yourself to be a loving man - at least most of the time. I have learned that God does not hate what I hate. God loves. the hatred and vitriol doesn't belong to God. It belongs to us.
You have to ask yourself if America would be better off if it were more like Massachusetts, or more like (let's say) Arkansas or South Carolina or Mississippi.
That's a no-brainer.
I've never understood the pride that comes with being backwards - having terrible schools, huge issues with crime, deprivation, and domestic violence, large prison systems rather than good schools. I am embarrassed for my own state. Massachusetts just keeps taking care of its people regardless of their ability, disability, race, sexual orientation. And Massachusetts has an extraordinarily productive economy as opposed to at least two of the states you mentioned SkipChurch.
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