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Sprouse just doomed the McCain campaign in West Virginia

by: Carnacki

Tue Jul 22, 2008 at 21:34:16 PM EDT


(Bumped for the update. - promoted by Carnacki)

Vic Sprouse, who predicted fellow Republican serial adulterer Rudy Guiliani would be the next president of the United States and he's now a "motivational speaker," is now predicting John McCain will win West Virginia by 25 points.

Other forecasts made by Sprouse: each of his 22 marriages would be the last, victory would be achieved in Iraq in 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, the Republicans would win enough victories to take over the State House and Capitol Hill in 2006, George W. Bush would go down in history as a great president and WVU Mountaineer Coach Turncoat Rich Rodriguez would win his legal fight.

WhooHoo!

We should just call Sprouse's predictions the Sprouse Curse.

UPDATE:

It is amusing how after Sprouse writes a blog post that tries to tie Barack Obama to all of Al Gore's positions since he's his "advisor" that Sprouse spends the very next column whining that Gazette columnist Phil Kabler ties Sprouse's candidates to Sprouse's less-than-pro-family values since Sprouse is their political advisor.

Sprouse should take it up with Gary Abernathy, who played the "guilt by association" card earlier this summer.

Here's what Kabler wrote July 14:

Republican attorney general candidate Dan Greear might want to rethink his choice of campaign consultant, given the outrage over the latest chapter of the Vic Sprouse - Amy McKinley divorce saga.

Seems Sprouse is trying to get his child-support payments reduced on the grounds that his son, Maxwell, who has CHARGE syndrome, is not in a vegetative state.

Sprouse also has a contempt hearing pending for failing to pay alimony.

While that fight has nothing to do with Greear, I've had several people tell me they won't consider voting for him as long as Sprouse is affiliated with the campaign.

If Greear is running on a pro-adultery, pro-child abandonment platform, I see no reason why he should fire Sprouse. The same with Jonathan Miller and the other Republicans who have hired him. Some might question them for taking anti-family stances, but that's their business. Because under Sprouse's own rules, what ever position he takes as their advisor should count against them completely.

Sprouse had just claimed in the previous post to his whining one that Gore's position on coal (Sprouse left out the part where Gore said every person employed in coal mining should be guaranteed a job in the clean-fuel industry) would cost Obama the election by 25 points in West Virginia.

Surely Sprouse isn't adding hypocrisy to all of his many other sins and saying the people he advice as a paid consultant should be held to a different standard than the very standard he had just set for Obama?

We were able to obtain videotape from the NSA of Sprouse at his home telling PHIL KABLER TO LEAVE HIM ALONE! Warning, Vic is very emotional here and some might not consider his appeal to Kabler as safe for work.

Now that is creepy!

And no, I don't know why he keeps referring to himself as Britney. Strange, though.

Carnacki :: Sprouse just doomed the McCain campaign in West Virginia
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Laughing so hard! (4.00 / 2)
I just spit Dr. Pepper out my nose!

Reliable (0.00 / 0)
dude, please email me:
pdawv at gmail dot com

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Little Vicky Today (4.00 / 3)
Getting ripped by the Gazette gives you street cred if you are a conservative.

Yes Little Vicky, it does.

But as the newly minted #2 republican consultant in the State, shouldn't you be more concerned about getting your clients votes, not "street cred?"


spruceshoe (4.00 / 2)
Is his goal getting wins for his clients or ripping them off for every dollar he can get out of them? Considering how the Curves' business model works, I'd say he's most experienced at the latter.

When a man embarks upon a crime, he is morally guilty of any other crime which may spring from it. Sherlock Holmes.

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Apparently Sprouse never heard of the West Virginia saga of Don Blankencheck and the GOP media blitz. (4.00 / 2)
What Sprouse is relying on is that McCain, like Bush and Capito, have before, will rely on a last minute advertising blitz by the RNC and/ or some Swiftboating surrogate corporate sponsored outfit like "Freedom's Watch" to spread lies about God, guns and gays yet again.

Then we'll get to see just how smart West Virginians really are.

And if West Virginians as mad about gas prices as I am, they'll realize that Shelley Capito's taken $257,995 in campaign contributions from the oil & gas industry while John McCain's received more than $549,712 from the oil and gas industry over the years.

I imagine that former oilmen Bush and Cheney feels all that industry money was well invested, considering the over-inflated price we're now paying at the pump.


Like Wabi-Sabi said back 1MAY08, Mission Accomplished! (4.00 / 2)
In chaos we can steal. Before he wrote a book Gen. Smedley Butler was giving speeches.

I spent 33 years and four months in active military service and during that period I spent most of my time as a high class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street and the bankers. In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism. I helped make Mexico and especially Tampico safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefit of Wall Street. I helped purify Nicaragua for the International Banking House of Brown Brothers in 1902-1912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for the American sugar interests in 1916. I helped make Honduras right for the American fruit companies in 1903. In China in 1927 I helped see to it that Standard Oil went on its way unmolested. Looking back on it, I might have given Al Capone a few hints. The best he could do was to operate his racket in three districts. I operated on three continents.

At some point I have to track down the 1935 book, War is a Racket.

War is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives. A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of the people. Only a small 'inside' group knows what it is about. It is conducted for the benefit of the very few, at the expense of the very many. Out of war a few people make huge fortunes.


NFTT: Support My Team or I Will Dance

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The complete online version may be found (4.00 / 1)
here.

I've posted a few ideas about how to go about fixing that problem permanently, offering them as suggestions here.


Speaking of "rackets", here's my graphic concept of the GOP's take on ol' Uncle Sam. (4.00 / 3)
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Isn't the biggest difference between John McCain and Barack Obama 98 years in Iraq?
 

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So who's ahead in the inaccurate predictions game at this point: Don Surber, Vic Sprouse, Pat Robertson or Bill Kristol?

heath (4.00 / 2)
Tough choices. That's some field of ineptness there.

When a man embarks upon a crime, he is morally guilty of any other crime which may spring from it. Sherlock Holmes.

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SURBER WINS IT ALL! (4.00 / 2)
It never stops, does it? Novak put someone in the hospital!
http://blogs.dailymail.com/don...

The left hits the venerable conservative reporter for hitting a pedestrian.

For wrong, mine goes to that Bill Kristol, another legacy hire. I am exposed to him more. I guess to up my enjoyment quotient, I have to read Surber? Charleston Daily Mail online?

I don't think I could find time for Sprouse, so I'll take you paint the picture for me.

NFTT: Support My Team or I Will Dance


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Experts (4.00 / 2)
It is funny what the standard for so called political experts are in West Virginia.  

or anywhere for that matter. (0.00 / 0)


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