Jackson Free Press

Politico is reporting that third-party smear groups, such as the Swiftboat crowd, aren't likely to step forward to fill in McCain's money gap with ugly ads—and resurrect Rev. Wright so McCain doesn't have to—in the next two weeks:

For the GOP, the cavalry apparently isn't coming. Republicans attuned to conservative third-party efforts say that with less than two weeks to go until Election Day, the prospects for any 11th-hour, anti-Obama ad campaigns are highly unlikely. Many in the party, including inside the McCain campaign, have held out hope that a deep-pocketed benefactor would emerge to bankroll ads in the campaign's final days — spots that might, for example, resurrect the most incendiary clips from the Rev. Jeremiah Wright.

But thanks largely to lack of passion for McCain within the conservative base, diminished hopes that he can win and a sharp decline in the stock market that has badly pinched donors' pockets, veteran Republican operatives say it appears almost certain that what could be the most damaging line of attack against the Democratic nominee will be left on the shelf.

"It's Oct. 21, and if you can't say it by Oct. 21, then chances are you're not going to say anything," said Chris LaCivita, the strategist behind the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth in 2004. LaCivita has been working for a new conservative third-party group this year, the American Issues Project.

That group, known in the political community as AIP, was eyed by some in the GOP as a potential major player in taking on Obama. It spent nearly $3 million in key states in August on a tough ad tying the Illinois senator to '60s-era domestic terrorist William Ayers and promised additional spots in the fall campaign.

That never happened.

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139537

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I actually grew to know mcCain a little bit during the election. I admit he's smarter than I expected or thought. How bad or low down do you have to be or become to win over the movement of fanatics, racists and devils called conservatives or republicans? I know McCain has to be wondering this too. He became another McCain altogether and they still weren't satisfied or happy with him. I don't know what else McCain could have done to show them he was low enough to earn their support. What a great day it will be when these low life conservatives and repugnants suffer the consequences of their evil acts some day. I could almost stand a stock market crash or world wide crash of some sort just to see them in the soup lines with me and sitting in their mansions without any lights or running water. Anyway, I'm glad money is keeping these mendacious people from interfering. Too bad morality isn't the real reason.

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Walt

Date

2008-10-22T13:42:18-06:00

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139607

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I have had the very same exact thoughts about finding myself in a soup line. Quite frankly every day I see the stock market go down..I rejoice!! Does that seem odd to anyone? I have known ever since I was old enough to read Scripture what the 'root of all evil' is. The "love" of money. I am not against wealth. I am posting to underscore what has happened while the "root embracers" have been having themselves a good old time with the US economy. One financial analyst has called it "Casino Capitalism' and rightly so IMHO. Scripture says (paraphrased) 'we will know them by the fruit they bear.' Well the harvest is here!! Thanks to the "root embracers" thier evil-rooted 'fruit' is turning the economic world in a tailspin. I am NOT surprised....because I read my Bible. SO...I rejoice in seeing confirmation of Scripture in our current world-wide financial distress. FINAL THOUGHT: The 'root embracers' have had ample opportunity to know and practice the truth. EVERY dollar they handle and hoard has printed on it "In GOD We Trust" They chose to misread it as "In the Almighty Dollar We Trust" thus embracing the root of all evil from which our present day financial market "fruit" has sprouted and (unfortunately) flourished. What's the good news? Jesus is still Lord.

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Little Charlie

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2008-10-24T06:14:39-06:00

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139635

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Amen, Charlie. I was once an employee of the Texas Employment Commission and I noticed these guys laughing at other people in the unemployment line with them back in the early eighties when things were tough. I asked one how could he laugh at another person in his situation, and he said, "We worked at the same place, but our situations were quite differently, he was a vice-prsident and made over a $100,000, I was low-end employee whose butt he chewed out daily and unnecessarily therefore it's worth losing my job too just to see his butt in the same situation." I'm still trying to finish reading Shock Therapy, Disaster Capitalism by Klein. What an ugly picture of a bunch of no good jokers who need stopping or erasing desperately before their methods and the attending stress caused by them kill us all. It's survival of the fittiest, by any means necessary. I always suspected this happened on a large scale level.

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Walt

Date

2008-10-24T11:53:35-06:00

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139640

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With no TV ads I guess they had to resort to T-shirts.... I got this in an email today.

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WMartin

Date

2008-10-24T12:29:55-06:00

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139652

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Well, this offensive shirt made me think of another thing that happened while I was on this job in Texas. A young white guy who I grew to like as a relative or young brother sat in the office seeking help for almost 8 hours. He eventually asked me and the security guy what do you have to do to get some help around here. I ignored him, but the security guy told him that if he lost that rebel flag from his bike things could speed up quickly. He asked what was wrong with that flag and the security guy told blacks didn't care for the flag at all and that all the people who could help him get unemployment were black people. He had no clue the flag offended black folks. Upon being enlightened he left and came back without the flag. Seeing his empathy and newfound respect, I immediately pulled him from the long line and gave him every thing he asked for and more.

Author

Walt

Date

2008-10-24T13:43:58-06:00

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139681

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That's a good story...and I think pretty fair treatment for that 'rebel biker' in that situation and evidently it was a lesson taught -and- learned. I love the south and came to MS to live out my retirement years as a 'yankee transplant' from Arizona. I'm white and I have been very well accepted by -all- folks here except for other whites that have what I call a 'raging red-neck rebel mentality'. Once these types discover that I am not a racist like they are I have had real trouble to deal with. Give em' a little meth and you got a problem looking for a place to happen. I do not condone any kind of 'vigilante justice' but that fool with the T-shirt needs a wake-up call!

Author

Little Charlie

Date

2008-10-24T16:23:43-06:00