Well, we have recently been told that McCain is not whining about the media.

Maybe that is so.  

Maybe it is because he doesn't have to bother, since he has Robert M. "Mike" Duncan, Chairman, Republican National Committee to do it for him.

Not only is "Mike" Duncan whining about the media, he is whining about you: "the Democrats and their leftist allies".  Your "radical groups" connected with "Big Labor" and the "liberal Media".

This is what good-ole Mike thinks of you, as of about three minutes ago when it hit my Inbox:

Could it get worse for the NV GOP? Well, yeah. Their wieners could fall off.

Sorry about that. It's the worst thing Zeke can think of. I am a Bad Man.

But with the GOP's 3rd attempt at a State Convention spinning down in flames (Just like Zeke Said So 6 weeks ago), and the Ron Paul gang suing the Party over their plan to APPOINT National Delegates, things are REALLY bad.

Oh yeah, Obama is now ahead of McCain in the Nevada Polls.

And Jill Derby outraised their SITTING Congressman, Dean "Vanilla OutKast" Heller in the 2nd Quarter.

Also Jim "Lost Puppy" Gibbon's approval ratings are approaching PI.

And Zeke is STILL posting this comedic zany picture of their weak ass candidate.

Yeah things are VERY Bad for the NV GOP. Maybe they should just stop trying completely.
They are trying, right?

Ya know, all Zeke can figure is that the GOP "Forgot" to create a plan on what to do about the Latino Vote this fall.

On one hand, we got people like Nevada Congressman Dean "My Party Sucks" Heller, who wants to use Fear of the BROWN Man to split off White Rural voters to his side by doing things like proposing "English Only" Balloting. In other words, Burn the Latino Vote to get the Redneck Vote. Great plan Deaniac. Thanks for being part of the problem.

Then we have John "De-Mavricked" McCain who is actively courting Latino voters here in Nevada by bragging up his Anti-Abortion stance and "Conservative Values". I wonder if Latino voter will figure out that "Conservative Values" include deporting anyone that calls themselves Juan, instead of John.

I subscribe to a few mailing lists, both liberal and conservative. This came from a liberal mailing list. I passed it on to my son and then decided to post it here. One could quibble over a few of these, but most of them hit home. Author unknown.

Note: I know this is mostly a cut-n-paste diary, but it's far too long to go into a comment thread. It's mostly meant in fun. (Sure it is...)

To be a Republican you need to believe that:

1. Jesus loves you, and shares your hatred of homosexuals and Hillary Clinton.

2. Saddam was a good guy when Reagan armed him, a bad guy when Bush's Daddy made war on him, a good guy when Cheney did business with him, and a bad guy when Bush needed a "we can't find Bin Laden" diversion.

JOHN McCAIN
THE MOST FLAWED PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE IN HISTORY

It is now clear that what is left of the Republicon Party, after being fatally poisoned by the Bush administration, intents to commit suicide by nominating Senator John McCain (R-Hanoi) for the presidency. Where do I start?

(cross-posted at Clintonistas for Obama)

I'm surprised John McCain hasn't exhausted himself with his incessant harping on the need to hold ten town hall meetings, to which Obama has no real reason to agree. Much to his delight, he's found something new to whine about: Barack Obama's supposed "flip-flopping" on the public campaign financing issue. He has called Obama's reevaluated stance on accepting public financing "Washington doublespeak", but let's not forget, McCain was sorta, kinda, maybe against public financing before he was for it. McCain's decision to use public financing has always been contingent on the Democratic nominee and exactly how much money s/he could raise. Knowing the disadvantages the GOP faces in 2008, he's been trying to trap Democratic candidates into accepting public financing for months. Now that he realizes what a fundraising juggernaut Obama has become, McCain must be feeling pretty bitter that Obama has decided not to accept his proposal; with nothing he can possibly do to catch up to the Democratic nominee in donations, McCain is trying to get as much leverage as possible out of Obama's decision.

Okay, John. Would you like some cheese to go with your whine?

A year ago, frustrated at the apparent acceptability of Republican candidates in those early head-to-head match-up polls, I wrote:

So my question is why the hell are Republicans doing this well in these match-ups?  Why are they seen as even within the realm of acceptability when in poll after poll people are sending a dramatic message that the country, after 6 years of all Republican rule all the time, is on the wrong track (71% and 69% in the LA Times/Bloomberg and NBC/WSJ polls respectively.) Clearly, Democrats have not made the case that the failures of the Bush presidency are more than the sum of the errors in judgment of one man but rather are the result of Republican policies and governance (or lack there of) at every level. They need to start.

Barack Obama's particular reluctance to speak in partisan terms and to brand the GOP as unacceptable -- and in fact, on the contrary, his willingness to promote a unity message as though Republicans are interested in anything other than obstruction -- was especially frustrating to me, so when he became the nominee I was even more concerned that our Democratic standard-bearer would roll over when it came to branding the opposition. I was wrong.

Not only, as I wrote yesterday, has Obama been effectively and swiftly returning fire against McCain and company on their claims that he is "naive" when it comes to terrorism, but try googling "Obama GOP" and you get a sense of how Obama's position is generally being framed by the media:

The Chicago Tribune's The Swamp:

Obama: GOP Not Credible On Terror

Barack Obama told reporters today that he would take no lectures from Republicans on which candidate would keep the nation safer from terrorism, rebuking John McCain aides who tried to portray him as naive on the struggle against Al Qaeda, according to the Associated Press.

The AP via HuffPo:

Obama: GOP Tactics The Reason Bin Laden Is Still Free

A defiant Barack Obama said Tuesday he would take no lectures from Republicans on which candidate would keep the U.S. safer, a sharp rebuke to John McCain's aides who said the Democrat had a naive, Sept. 10 mind-set toward terrorism.

WNBC:

Obama: GOP Lacks Post-9/11 Credibility

Democrat Barack Obama has signaled that he'll take no lectures from Republicans on who will keep America safer. [...]

Obama shot back to reporters that the Republicans have no "standing to suggest that they've learned a lot of lessons from 9/11."

He said they "helped to engineer the distraction of the war in Iraq at a time when we could have pinned down the people who actually committed 9/11."

He said Osama bin Laden is still at large in part because of their failed strategies

So, has Obama become some partisan warrior all of the sudden, railing against the opposition party? Hardly. Look at his comments to reporters over the past couple of days and you won't find one criticism of "Republicans" or "the GOP" anywhere. In fact, the only time he does use the party name is to indicate where he has agreed with them:

I have made the same arguments as Republicans like Arlen Specter, countless Generals and national security experts, and the largely Republican-appointed Supreme Court of the United States of America - which is that we need not throw away 200 years of American jurisprudence while we fight terrorism.

But when he is being critical of Republicans, he uses phrases such as "the other side," specifies "George Bush and John McCain" or uses a "the people who..." formulation like so:

Well I refuse to be lectured on national security by people who are responsible for the most disastrous set of foreign policy decisions in the recent history of the United States. The other side likes to use 9/11 as a political bludgeon. Well, let's talk about 9/11. [...]

...George Bush and John McCain decided in 2002 that we should take our eye off of Afghanistan so that we could invade and occupy a country that had absolutely nothing to do with 9/11. The case for war in Iraq was so thin that George Bush and John McCain had to hype the threat of Saddam Hussein, and make false promises that we'd be greeted as liberators. They misled the American people, and took us into a misguided war.

Here are the results of their policy. Osama bin Laden and his top leadership - the people who murdered 3000 Americans - have a safe-haven in northwest Pakistan, where they operate with such freedom of action that they can still put out hate-filled audiotapes to the outside world. That's the result of the Bush-McCain approach to the war on terrorism.

Obama's true message, however, as the above media reports reflect, is crystal clear: it is the Republicans that got us into this mess and it is the Republicans who have no credibility on national security. And because Obama has the reputation for not being a partisan flame thrower, the media's framing of what he said in this way is actually likely to have more impact than it might coming from, say, Hillary Clinton.

Well played, Senator.

I think we already are seeing the GOP strategy against Barack Obama.  It seems it will be difficult to paint Obama as an "out of touch elitist", a man with "questionable ties", or a person "who doesn't love his country".  Thanks to a hard fought primary between two of the best Presidential candidates in decades, many of the "issues" about Barack Obama have already surfaced and have been analyzed, debated and MSM'd out.

His San Francisco remarks, Jerimiah Wright, Tony Rezko, flag pins, and Bill Ayers just won't have the same shocking effect anymore.  Sure they will be used in 527's, by Faux News, and will be listed as "talking points" by the GOP, but the effectiveness will be limited.  The American public does not like "old news", they thrive for something new and want something to hang their hat on.

Well, the GOP thinks they have found it...Michelle Obama.