The Council For National Policy Meets In Minn, Vets Palin By Max Blumenthal Mon Sep 01, 2008 at 02:48:46 AM EST print story Last week, while the media focused almost obsessively on the DNC's spectacle in Denver, the country's most influential conservatives met quietly at a hotel in downtown Minneapolis to get to know Sarah Palin. The assembled were members of the Council for National Policy, an ultra-secretive cabal that networks wealthy right-wing donors together with top conservative operatives to plan long-term movement strategy. CNP members have included Tony Perkins, James Dobson, Grover Norquist, Tim LaHaye and Paul Weyrich. At a secret 2000 meeting of the CNP, George W. Bush promised to nominate only pro-life judges; in 2004, then-Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist told the group, "The destiny of the nation is on the shoulders of the conservative movement." This year, thanks to Sarah Palin's selection, the movement may have finally aligned itself behind the campaign of John McCain.
ImpureScience
· 1 year ago
Indeed, they're cranking up the bizarre [rich white guys] + [religiously motivated social regressives] coalition for one more grand effort.
MNUSA
· 1 year ago
Well Dobson should recognize that God wants Obama to be president. After all he asked his cult members to pray for rain during Obama's open air speech. Lo and behold, instead the Repubs got a hurricane for their convention. Doesn't that say it all?
ImpureScience
· 1 year ago
I like this: "if McCain and Palin can shift the focus to the future, they may be able to appeal to the "change" voters who will in the end decide the election."
Can't figure out what kind of "change" he's talking about. McCain is more Bush, the same but more violent. Palin is a social regressive, the AntiHillary. The only "change" we'd get out of these guys would be more of the same crap we've had the last eight years, only worse.
Rob Mule
· 1 year ago
The deck chairs would change...Palin has some fabulous fabric ideas!!!
devlzadvocate
· 1 year ago
Broder is simply voting with his peers. Dumb, old republicans.
An_American_Karol
· 1 year ago
I give Palin three weeks before she has to leave the ticket.
devlzadvocate
· 1 year ago
The way McCain is eyeing her, it will be three weeks before she has to leave her marriage.
dad
· 1 year ago
he is so very much, bush
Rob Mule
· 1 year ago
Traditional media types, like Broder, believe their own press
This is exactly what was so clearly illustrated in the C-SPIN press discussion I mentioned in another thread this morning that aired at 10am with A. Huffington, POLITICO's editor, the former ABC Note guy and the current, Tucker Carlson and nutty Peggy Noonan. Tucker, the current Note guy and nutty Noonan couldn't compute a discussion outside the false left/right nonsense that dominated the post regulatory mainstream media...AH was terrific in outlining the false l/r crossfire's and how they hobble discussion. The program didn't acknowledge the lack of regulatory audience monitoring and the fertile nonsense playing field created by the elimination of media regulation.
An_American_Karol
· 1 year ago
i am waiting for MSM to declare Gustov a Cat. 2 not a Cat 4 because McCain was a POW and the Republicans willed it.
tlsintx
· 1 year ago
but, you got to know when to hold em, know when to fold em...
where IS that Singing Troll?
An_American_Karol
· 1 year ago
A pretty good indictment on Broder by Glenn Greenwald 'The Beltway media, as its Dean, David Broder, said, has been nothing over the last seven years but "calm and quiet" -- just like well-behaved, respectful children are expected to be. When Scott McClellan used the term "complicit enablers" to describe our press corps, this is the face of that: soothingly assuring the public that there is nothing at all unusual or radical about what's going on in our Government, that everything from torture to warrantless, illegal spying to process-less detentions and the abolition of habeas corpus and even lying our country into war are just standard "policy disputes"' http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2008/06/...
MNUSA
· 1 year ago
The Repubs never cease to amaze me. One day experience matters. The next day it doesn't matter. One day morality matters. The next day it doesn't matter. Palin's 4 year degree, stint as mayor of a town (it isn't a city) and governor of a low-population state is the same as Obama's 4 year degree at Columbia, law degree at Harvard (graduating magna cum laude), President of the Harvard Law Review, experience at community organizing in Chicago (population 3,000,000), senior lecturer in constitutional law at the University of Chicago Law School, attorney, state senator in Illinois (population 12,900,000) for eight years and finally US Senator. If it wasn't so serious, it would be hilarious to see them do their 180 degree spins. John McCain and the Repubs may want excitement; I'm voting for competence.
adagio
· 1 year ago
OF COURSE
adagio
· 1 year ago
OF COURSE the conventional wisdom types love McCain. He makes good drama for them to talk about. On Friday I thought some of the pundits were going to orgasm right on screen because they got their darling maverick back.
oocman
· 1 year ago
So...do you really want a gambler in the White House?
RaveOn
· 1 year ago
John McCain's pick, "a typical McCain gamble, unpredictable in it's consequences"- David Broder. John McCain likes to gamble in politics. He will roll the dice with your money. He will roll the dice with your security. He will roll the dice with your freedoms. John McCain is a gambler. Vote John McCain for Gambler-in-Chief. Vote Bush/McGambler in 'O8.
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The Council For National Policy Meets In Minn, Vets Palin
By Max Blumenthal Mon Sep 01, 2008 at 02:48:46 AM EST print story
Last week, while the media focused almost obsessively on the DNC's spectacle in Denver, the country's most influential conservatives met quietly at a hotel in downtown Minneapolis to get to know Sarah Palin. The assembled were members of the Council for National Policy, an ultra-secretive cabal that networks wealthy right-wing donors together with top conservative operatives to plan long-term movement strategy.
CNP members have included Tony Perkins, James Dobson, Grover Norquist, Tim LaHaye and Paul Weyrich. At a secret 2000 meeting of the CNP, George W. Bush promised to nominate only pro-life judges; in 2004, then-Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist told the group, "The destiny of the nation is on the shoulders of the conservative movement." This year, thanks to Sarah Palin's selection, the movement may have finally aligned itself behind the campaign of John McCain.
Can't figure out what kind of "change" he's talking about. McCain is more Bush, the same but more violent. Palin is a social regressive, the AntiHillary. The only "change" we'd get out of these guys would be more of the same crap we've had the last eight years, only worse.
This is exactly what was so clearly illustrated in the C-SPIN press discussion I mentioned in another thread this morning that aired at 10am with A. Huffington, POLITICO's editor, the former ABC Note guy and the current, Tucker Carlson and nutty Peggy Noonan.
Tucker, the current Note guy and nutty Noonan couldn't compute a discussion outside the false left/right nonsense that dominated the post regulatory mainstream media...AH was terrific in outlining the false l/r crossfire's and how they hobble discussion. The program didn't acknowledge the lack of regulatory audience monitoring and the fertile nonsense playing field created by the elimination of media regulation.
where IS that Singing Troll?
'The Beltway media, as its Dean, David Broder, said, has been nothing over the last seven years but "calm and quiet" -- just like well-behaved, respectful children are expected to be. When Scott McClellan used the term "complicit enablers" to describe our press corps, this is the face of that: soothingly assuring the public that there is nothing at all unusual or radical about what's going on in our Government, that everything from torture to warrantless, illegal spying to process-less detentions and the abolition of habeas corpus and even lying our country into war are just standard "policy disputes"'
http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2008/06/...