Mary Matalin: "Thinking Democrats" know that 2008 election "is not about Bush...people are over it"

[Amerigo Vespucci]

Video clips @ URL below.

Meet The Press: Lady McCheney Says It’s Not About Bush
By: Nicole Belle on Monday, February 4th, 2008 at 6:38 AM - PST

Well, what do you expect her to say?

http://www.crooksandliars.com/2008/02/04/meet-the-press-lady-mccheney-says-its-not-about-bush/



When asked for her take on Hillary Clinton’s big laugh at the Democratic debate that it took a Clinton to clean up after the first Bush presidency and it may well take another Clinton to clean up after this one (good line, but in reality, I think we’ll be cleaning up after Bush for a very, very long time.) Republican hack…er, apologist, hmm…strategist Mary Matalin starts whining that every thinking Democrat knows it’s not about Bush:

MATALIN: You know, this…even Democrats—thinking Democrats—this is not going to be a race about Bush. They have united, this party’s been united under one organizing principle for eight years: it’s anti-Bush. People are over it.

RUSSERT: But in a Democratic primary?

MATALIN: Even Democrats are over it. What are you going to do? What are you going to…and always, elections are about the future. They’re not about the past. She’s just…it’s just a…it’s cute, it was clever, but in the end, it was sophistry.

Sorry, Mary. As I look at the tatters of the Constitution whose bright promise brought my grandparents here many years ago; as I look over pictures of the horrors and brutality done in our name in the Middle East and places like Guantanamo; as I read over the decisions made by the Roberts Supreme Court that value corporations over citizens and read that in a time of war Exxon has posted record breaking earnings yet again; as I realize that most Americans are just one tragic circumstance from being homeless and bankrupt from medical bills, I must tell you that we are most assuredly NOT over Bush.

The candidate who can convince me that they can undo this damage is the one who will get my vote. YOUR opinion, Mrs. Iraq Study Group–given your enabling of all that I’ve listed above–disqualifies you from saying what is sophistry or not.

[Hoof Hearted]

1. She's DUMBER than I thought!

Holy crap.

[kikiek]

2. Oh doesn't she wish. The elections are about the future? That comment is hilarious coming from her!

Suddenly they want to forget the past. Oh god they are so screwed. I love it.

[AlCzervik]

3. she's mental and so off base it's not even funny.

[tridim]

4. Then what are these pics about?

[redwitch]

7. Those pictures should be plastered on every billboard everywhere.

McCain and Bush. Also, the Bush and Saudi royal holding hands. Maybe a combined billboard, one side Bush/Mc, and one side Bush/Saudi.
In case there are a few slow people who haven't connected the dots.

[The_Casual_Observer]

5. No, it's about bush's economy, bush's war, bush's health care, & so on.

Bush "the man" is a meaningless footnote.

[Joanne98]

6. MORAN!

[tularetom]

8. You could have made your point without that f**kin picture!

God is she fugly.

[SeattleGirl]

9. People are OVER IT????

Mary, go take a nap. You don't get it at all, do you?

[book_worm]

10. What would Mary Matalin know about "thinking people"??

[Bongo Prophet]

11. Is there a phrase more enraging than a vicious pubdog asying, "Get over it!" ??

My friends, the TRUE enemy.
Vile, just vile.


Get. Over. It. circa 2000.
How has that worked out for the world?

[dbackjon]

15. How about DU'ers telling GLBTer's they should "Get over it"??

[Bongo Prophet]

19. That is also despicable, dbackjon.

I am not sure of the specifics of your statement, but people here, as elsewhere can be real asses.
I can only say that I am on the side of my GLBT brothers and sisters - and have your backs to the extent that I can.

We need to all communicate better.
If I see you being harassed, I will jump into the fray with ya!
There is no your fight- my fight.
It is OUR fight together.
And if we disagree? Let us do so respectfully.

[bunnies]

12. Mary Matalin sleeps with Skeletor.

nuff said.

[TheCowsCameHome]

13. I don't know how Carville does it - I just don't know.........

[NanceGreggs]

14. There, there, Mary ...

... you just keep wishin' it wasn't about Bush.

I wonder what Mary's explanation is for the fact that all of the GOP candidates have steadfastly stayed away from discussing Bush, or even mentioning his name in public forums.

If the Democrats are over it, why are the Republicans steering clear of his name, his image ... and, oh yes, his outstanding achievements while in office?

[Bongo Prophet]

21. AS we stumble through the rubble, they say

"Let's not dwell on how it got this way.
The past is gone!
Our side won!
Now let us guide you to a brand new day."


bad poetry for bad players.

[lisa58]

16. she is such an an asshole...

...enough said.

[dbackjon]

17. We Dems need to make sure the public understands

That no matter how far the pukes try to distance themselves from Bush, they were in lockstep with him, enabling him to do his best to wreck the country, and that a vote for a Puke is the same as voting for Bush again.

[JCMach1]

18. As much as it pains me to say it, she is right in this sense...

the tipping point for opinion on Iraq happened about 15 months ago when the first polls began showing 60% or so of America believing that the war was not worth it.

Opinion has been consistent since then REGARDLESS of the news coming out of Iraq. National news agencies seem to reflect this as less and less time is devoted to the subject.

He words were poorly chosen, but she's right... America has already decided about the war. It's much the same for America's opinion of Bush. Literally, he could turn water to wine at this point and we would say what an idiot, he could have made V8.

In the minds of a majority of Americans these are no longer opinions, they are facts...

-Bush is an idiot
-The war was not worth fighting (in any sense of the word worth)

This is the corner McCain will be backed into... he cannot acknowledge the facts. Instead, he will have to change the topic with pithy phrases like...

the surge is working
the president is an honest man
we are fighting terrorism... blahblahblah

[Mz Pip]

20. Okay, we've moved on

We want to be damned sure we don't get 4 more years of Bush's policies. A Bush 3rd term with another turkey continuing the agenda.

A turd is still a turd even if it comes from a different dog.

Mz Pip
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