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Beck: Conservatives voted for McCain hoping he’d die in office so Palin could take over.
Think Progress —
Today, radical right-wing blog Red State launched “Project Leper,” an attempt to professionally punish McCain staffers whom Red State’s Erick Erickson perceives to have wronged Gov. Sarah Palin (R-AK). Erikson told Glenn Beck today, “Palin was the best thing that happened to” the McCain campaign. To which, Beck agreed, saying many conservatives told him they supported McCain in hopes he would die in office:
BECK: I mean, I have to tell you if I heard once, I heard 1,000 times from people, and I never said this, never said this on the air because you just don’t say these things, but I heard a million ...
Beck: Conservatives Voted McCain Hoping He'd Die
Drudge Retort —
Right-wing radio and talk show host Glenn Beck said this week that many conservatives told him they supported McCain in hopes he would die in office. "If I heard once, I heard 1,000 times," Beck said. Posted by redneckville at 08:50 AM | 5 COMMENTS | permalink | Comment on This Entry |
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Computers of Obama, McCain campaigns hacked —
CNN Political Ticker 11/6/2008
Computers at the headquarters of the Obama and McCain campaigns were hacked CNN confirms.
WASHINGTON (CNN) – Computers at the headquarters of the Barack Obama and John McCain campaigns were hacked in mid-summer by a foreign government or ...
Do guns still matter? —
First Read 11/6/2008
From NBC's Carrie Dann During the Democratic primary, when Barack Obama told donors in San Francisco that "bitter" voters in hardscrabble Pennsylvania "cling to their guns and religion," the words rang like music in his political opponents' ...
Obama, McCain campaigns' computers hacked —
CNN.com - Politics 11/6/2008
Computers at the headquarters of the Barack Obama and John McCain campaigns were hacked during the campaign by a foreign entity looking for future policy information, a source with knowledge of the incidents confirms to CNN.
GOP casts about for answers —
msnbc.com: Politics 11/6/2008
John McCain and Sarah Palin may be getting most of the blame for Republicans’ losses Tuesday, but at the local and state levels, Republicans say their problems run deeper.
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