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In the wake of the massive BP oil spill, Senate Republicans are disowning the catchphrase “Drill, Baby, Drill,” claiming that Republicans never endorsed it. Sen. Jon Kyl (R-AZ) and Sen. Pat Roberts (R-KS) attempted to distance themselves and their party from the phrase yesterday, pretending not to know who popularized it, and dismissing the slogan as something from “two, three years ago”:
Consider the source. The author implies that it was McCain who brought the phrase to the national stage, when in reality it was GOP Chairman Michael Steele during his speech at the 2008 Republican National Convention. However, that is only when the chant received national attention. The same chant has been used in Alaska, including by former Senator Stevens, Sen. Murkowski (both father and daughter), and Rep. Young since the 1990s, and it is still being used today. The other popular bumpersticker phrase in Alaska since the 1990s is "Those who oppose opening ANWR are just trying to be Sheik."
Consider the source. The author implies that it was McCain who brought the phrase to the national stage, when in reality it was GOP Chairman Michael Steele during his speech at the 2008 Republican National Convention. However, that is only when the chant received national attention. The same chant has been used in Alaska, including by former Senator Stevens, Sen. Murkowski (both father and daughter), and Rep. Young since the 1990s, and it is still being used today. The other popular bumpersticker phrase in Alaska since the 1990s is "Those who oppose opening ANWR are just trying to be Sheik."
It was GOP presidential nominee John McCain, who happened to be a Republican senator.He and vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin made the slogan the “Republican battle cry” of the 2008 campaign, and Palin repeatedlytrumpeted the catchphrase.
In reality, it was actually Michael Steele who made it the "Republican battle cry", not McCain or Palin. They both used it, but neither were responsible for creating the phrase. And that phrase has been around a lot longer locally in Alaska than when Steele used it for the first time nationally in 2008. Alaskans were chanting "Drill, Baby, Drill" back in the 1990s trying to get the anti-American leftists to end their stranglehold on domestic oil production.
In the wake of the massive BP oil spill, Senate Republicans are disowning the catchphrase “Drill, Baby, Drill,” claiming that Republicans never endorsed it. Sen. Jon Kyl (R-AZ) and Sen. Pat Roberts (R-KS) attempted to distance themselves and their party from the phrase yesterday, pretending not to know who popularized it, and dismissing the slogan as something from “two, three years ago”:
In the wake of the massive BP oil spill, Senate Republicans are disowning the catchphrase “Drill, Baby, Drill,” claiming that Republicans never endorsed it. Sen. Jon Kyl (R-AZ) and Sen. Pat Roberts (R-KS) attempted to distance themselves and their party from the phrase yesterday, pretending not to know who popularized it, and dismissing the slogan as something from “two, three years ago”:
In the wake of the massive BP oil spill, Senate Republicans are disowning the catchphrase “Drill, Baby, Drill,” claiming that Republicans never endorsed it. Sen. Jon Kyl (R-AZ) and Sen. Pat Roberts (R-KS) attempted to distance themselves and their party from the phrase yesterday, pretending not to know who popularized it, and dismissing the slogan as something from “two, three years ago”:
Actually, dukester (why did you change your username? I thought that wasn't allowed?) the phrase was never a "Republican" phrase. I don't know who started it, but it wasn't the Republican Party. It was conservatives, yes; but it was never a Party phrase. If you can find where the Party ever adopted it, then fine. But I doubt you can.
Consider the source. The author implies that it was McCain who brought the phrase to the national stage, when in reality it was GOP Chairman Michael Steele during his speech at the 2008 Republican National Convention. However, that is only when the chant received national attention. The same chant has been used in Alaska, including by former Senator Stevens, Sen. Murkowski (both father and daughter), and Rep. Young since the 1990s, and it is still being used today. The other popular bumpersticker phrase in Alaska since the 1990s is "Those who oppose opening ANWR are just trying to be Sheik."
Chant? I never heard anyone "chant" the phrase. And I certainly never heard it attributed to Michael Steele before. I only remember seeing it as a bumper sticker phrase.
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