Bob McCarty Writes

Call me a “Tuesday Evening Quarterback,” but a review of tonight’s election results show the Republican Party team entered its most-important contest ever with little fan support, a poor game plan and the wrong signal caller lined up behind center.
Team GOP’s shortcomings began with the recruiting process.  When loyal fans on the right side of [...]

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After reading the text of an e-mail (Message from David Plouffe: ‘What you just saw’) sent to supporters of Barack Obama by his campaign manager David Plouffe at 2:44 a.m. Eastern today, I must conclude that Sarah Palin’s nomination acceptance speech last night left those in the Democratic Party presidential nominee’s campaign afraid and desperate.
As [...]

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Below are links to transcripts of remarks as prepared for delivery by some of the most well-known speakers in tonight’s lineup at the 2008 Republican National Convention:

Rudy Giuliani

Carly Fiorina

Meg Whitman

Michael Steele

Mitt Romney
Mike Huckabee

Norm Coleman

Sarah Palin

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Hillary Clinton ignited a firestorm of controversy yesterday when she explained why she was staying in the Democrat presidential race and dismissing calls to drop out:
“My husband did not wrap up the nomination in 1992 until he won the California primary somewhere in the middle of June, right? We all remember Bobby Kennedy was assassinated [...]

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“If I endorsed anyone else, you would say I was flip-flopping.”
“I’m going to campaign with John as much as he wants — or not!”

The sound bites above, spoken moments ago by Rudy Giuliani as part of his endorsement of fellow Republican John McCain, may have been well-intentioned, but they missed the mark [...]

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