Flashing back to John “Can I get ME a huntin’ license here?” Kerry

Did he really say that?!

2. Palin was supposed to be here today, but cancelled due to a scheduling conflict (I’m guessing that means they wanted her in a real swing state) Cindy was here instead.

3. Washington elections have become crooked as hell, both Slade Gorton and Dino Rossi have had victories stolen from them by Democrats Maria Cantwell and Christine Gregoire respectively. Even if McCain won Washington, Democrats would suddenly “find” enough previously unknown ballots in Seattle to put Obama over the top. They “found” batches of pro-Democrat ballots 16 times in 2004. every time it was clear they hadnt “found” enough, they suddenly “found” more. They also sued to have inelligible ballots counted.

By the way, expect to see a great deal of these exact tactics by Democrats this November — and not just in swing states. Mark my words.

Depends on how the MSM would react.

If the front pages of all the papers were of Palin next to the bloody carcass of the moose she killed, and the press went into a frenzy of “look what a monster she is!!!” — I’m still not sure. Just how many serious hunters are staunch democratic voters?

If it pulled Obama and Biden to reveal their anti-gun bias blatantly, it might be worth it. Otherwise… it might end up turning off the suburban soccer moms who don’t know anyone who hunts…

Sen. Obama has not done a campaign hunting trip and has no revealed plans to do so, right?

Give him time. He will. They always do, though maybe Obama will have his picture taken in a tank.

I just hope her aim is better than Dick Cheney’s.

Aim doesn’t matter when somebody walks in front of you.

If I’m not mistaken, Sen. Obama has not done a campaign hunting trip and has no revealed plans to do so, right? Assuming that is the case, it represents one of the very few things I can respect about Sen. Obama’s campaign—it doesn’t seem like he is trying to pretend he’s someone other than a Ivy league lawyer/community organizer. By that, I don’t mean he’s not disingenious in how he campaigns; I think he absolutely is. I’m just saying though that it seems he always stays in Hyde Park mode and is much less likely than past candidates to pretend he’s a fisherman or hunter or farmer or whatever. Know what I mean?

Anyway, is a hunting trip likely to flip one electoral vote to McCain/Palin? Wouldn’t it just be better to campaign there rather than hunt there? I think this election is ultimately going to be won or lost in Ohio, Florida, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, and Michigan. Even if Maine, Minnesota, New Hampshire, Oregon, Washington, or Wisconsin flip from the 2004 election, I don’t think they will make a difference. If I were the McCain campaign, I would just concentrate on holding Virginia, Colorado, Ohio, Florida, New Mexico, and Nevada and putting a lot into flipping Michigan and Pennsylvania just in case they lose a few of the Bush states. Pennsylvania and Michigan are the only two Kerry states I think McCain might win while losing some Bush’s 2004 states (not including Iowa, which seems to have drifted away from McCain).

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RUSH: Do you remember Naomi Wolf? She is this extreme wacko feminazi who got hold of Algore’s wardrobe in 2000 and said, “Earth colors, earth colors.” She has posted a statement about Sarah Palin on the Huffington Post. Let me give you just some highlights of this, because Naomi Wolf is one of those that Democrats turn to for policy advice on women’s issues.

“Please understand what you are looking at when you look at Sarah ‘Evita’ Palin. You are looking at the designated muse of the coming American police state. … I realized early on with horror what I was seeing in Governor Palin: the continuation of the Rove-Cheney cabal, but this time without restraints. … I saw that she was even styled by the same skillful stylist (neutral lipstick, matte makeup, dark colors) who turned Katharine Harris from a mall rat into a stateswoman and who styles all the women in the Bush orbit — but who does not bother to style Cindy McCain. … She uses mafia tactics against critics.” This is Naomi Wolf talking about Sarah Palin. “The riot police wore the black S&M gear of the Rovian fantasy life and carried the four foot batons cops carry in North Korea. All this is not John McCain’s imagery or strategy: it is Karl Rove’s. In McCain-Palin’s America, citizens who are protesting are being charged as terrorists. This means that a violent war had been declared on American citizens. A well known reporter leaked to me on background that St Paul police had dressed as protesters and, dressed in Black — shades of the Blackshirts of 1920.”

You don’t understand how Sarah Palin has driven these people whacky. Here’s the thing. They don’t know anybody like Sarah Palin. Nobody in the media, nobody in the liberal elite knows anybody with five kids, they don’t know anybody that’s shot a moose, they don’t know anybody when to owns a gun, they don’t know anybody that loves God, celebrates God, they don’t know anybody with a husband who can run snow machine races and race dogs and so forth and work on a pipeline and wear a hard hat, they don’t know anybody like her. They don’t know anybody that has five kids. They don’t know anybody that has a kid with Down syndrome. They don’t know anybody like her. They think that people like her are so far way beneath them and that there are so few people like Sarah Palin, they are totally, totally blown off their equilibrium here. But this gets even better, Snerdley. I barely scratched the surface of this post from Naomi Wolf.