Farewell. The Flying Pig Has Left The Building.

Steve Hynd, August 16, 2012

After four years on the Typepad site, eight years total blogging, Newshoggers is closing it's doors today. We've been coasting the last year or so, with many of us moving on to bigger projects (Hey, Eric!) or simply running out of blogging enthusiasm, and it's time to give the old flying pig a rest.

We've done okay over those eight years, although never being quite PC enough to gain wider acceptance from the partisan "party right or wrong" crowds. We like to think we moved political conversations a little, on the ever-present wish to rush to war with Iran, on the need for a real Left that isn't licking corporatist Dem boots every cycle, on America's foreign misadventures in Afghanistan and Iraq. We like to think we made a small difference while writing under that flying pig banner. We did pretty good for a bunch with no ties to big-party apparatuses or think tanks.

Those eight years of blogging will still exist. Because we're ending this typepad account, we've been archiving the typepad blog here. And the original blogger archive is still here. There will still be new content from the old 'hoggers crew too. Ron writes for The Moderate Voice, I post at The Agonist and Eric Martin's lucid foreign policy thoughts can be read at Democracy Arsenal.

I'd like to thank all our regular commenters, readers and the other bloggers who regularly linked to our posts over the years to agree or disagree. You all made writing for 'hoggers an amazingly fun and stimulating experience.

Thank you very much.

Note: This is an archive copy of Newshoggers. Most of the pictures are gone but the words are all here. There may be some occasional new content, John may do some posts and Ron will cross post some of his contributions to The Moderate Voice so check back.


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Sunday, August 24, 2008

Hillary Supporters

By Ron Beasley



We see the Republicans are going after the Hillary supporters. 



McCain Tries to Rile Up Clinton Voters Against Obama

SEDONA, Ariz. -- A new television ad by Sen. John McCain aims to tap into anger at Sen. Barack Obama among the legions of Hillary Clinton supporters by suggesting that the Democratic nominee dissed his one-time rival.



Erasing any doubt that McCain has his sights set on Clinton voters, the new ad uses Clinton's own words to suggest that Obama passed her over because of the tough campaign she waged. The ad is titled "Passed Over."



"She won millions of votes. But isn't on his ticket," an announcer says. "Why? For speaking the truth."



The ad then shows Clinton criticizing Obama for speaking generalities ("You never hear the specifics); for his connections to Tony Rezko ("We still don't have a lot of answers."); and for being too negative



The announcer comes back on. "The truth hurt. And Obama didn't like it."

And of course the man who has been wrong about everything, Bill Kristol, weighs in with The Democrat's Glass Ceiling.  Well let them waste their money.  Sure there are a few bitter dead-enders but how many Hillary supporters are really going to vote for someone who is against everything they are for?  Not many I would guess.  A good example is Taylor Marsh.  It would have been difficult to find a more enthusiastic and vocal Hillary supporter a few months ago.  I became so upset with her that I dropped her from the MEJ blogroll.  But when it was over Taylor Marsh knew it was over and gave her support to Obama.  When it was announced that Joe Biden would be Obama's VP she praised the decision.  Taylor Marsh puts the country first and knows that means John McCain must never set foot in the White House.



She picks up on something I felt  yesterday as well - Biden is the McCain campaign's worst nightmare.

The truth is that Lunch Bucket Joe Biden is the biggest threat to McCain's candidacy since Hillary Clinton wasn't chosen as veep. They didn't expect Lunch Bucket Joe to come out swinging on economic populism. With roots in Scranton, PA., plus a long record of fighting for cops and firemen, as well as women, having authored the Violence Against Women Act, Lunch Bucket Joe has a natural affinity with the blue collar crowd, like me and my husband, as well as Catholics and a whole host of voters the O-Biden ticket needs in order to win. You know, HRC supporters who get the importance of this election.



If Republicans are fighting this hard to attack the Obama - Biden ticket on the first day, one thing is clear. Lunch Bucket Joe scares the McCain crowd. He's got the right kind of stuff, adding to what Obama already brings.



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  1. xenophonAugust 24, 2008 at 10:21 PM

    I just can't see the Hillary supporters being fanatical to the point of irrational impracticality.
    I doubt there is any division in the Democratic party big enough for the Republicans to exploit.
    I don't think Hillary, being the total pro that she is, would support, or play into the hands of, such an obvious ploy.
    I hope every Democrat sees the urgent need to send the neo-cons packing for the good of the country.
    Over the past eight years I have slowly reached the conclusion that Republicans can no longer be trusted to "preserve, protect, and defend" democracy, or the Bill of Rights, or the Constitution.
    This election is very important, and I hope no Democrats are stupid enough to lose sight of that.

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