I’ll admit to being a bit hesitant when first hearing that John McCain had picked Sarah Palin as his running mate. Shades of Mondale/Ferraro I thought. Gimmick. Desperation.
Boy, was I wrong!
The more you learn about this lady, the more you realize that, win or lose, she is exactly the right choice at this time. There is more to ‘experience’ than sitting in a committee chair in the Senate. The question is, how is your experience, be it great or small, going to affect your decisions?
And it is clear that Sarah Palin’s experience will lead her to make solid, fact based decisions, not knee jerk reactions such as Joe Biden had to the events of 9/11, when his ‘experience’ led him to propose sending $200 million to Iran. Sarah might send a gunship but she sure as heck wouldn’t send money.
All around the country, people are talking the speech. And what a speech it was! If you sit back and think about the bar that was set, a bar set so high that Ronald Reagan would have had a tough time reaching it, and the way she not only reached it but hurdled it, you’ll begin to understand why the country is abuzz.
Even Slow Joe Biden had to admit it was very, very good.
Biden repeated praised her speech, noting she made “good, funny lines, . .. I’m glad they weren’t about me, I was sitting there thinking whoa, zinger.”
And he even embraced the GOP charge that Palin has suffered from sexism since she was chosen last week by Republican presidential nominee John McCain to be his running mate.
“The truth is some of the stuff the press and the others have said about the governor are outrageous,” he said. “This stuff about how can she be a governor and a vice-president and raise three kids, come on. Whoever those folks are don’t know any strong women. .. . Some of the stuff said has been over the top, totally unfair, and I think it has been sexist.”
And to reiterate that point, the Boston Hearld runs a column on her hair.
But must her hair suffer? With her long, straight, often pinned-up locks, Palin looks one humid day away from fronting a Kiss cover band.
“It’s about 20 years out of date,” said Boston stylist Mario Russo of the Alaska governor’s ’do. “Which goes to show how off she might be on current events.”
The LA Times goes deep into the feminist well and runs a column by Gloria Steinem, who runs off the cliff trying to explain why women won’t vote for McCain/Palin.
Selecting Sarah Palin, who was touted all summer by Rush Limbaugh, is no way to attract most women, including die-hard Clinton supporters. Palin shares nothing but a chromosome with Clinton. Her down-home, divisive and deceptive speech did nothing to cosmeticize a Republican convention that has more than twice as many male delegates as female, a presidential candidate who is owned and operated by the right wing and a platform that opposes pretty much everything Clinton’s candidacy stood for — and that Barack Obama’s still does. To vote in protest for McCain/Palin would be like saying, “Somebody stole my shoes, so I’ll amputate my legs.”
Hey, it could be worse! She could have said something about amputating Sarah’s legs! But Barbara Kay of the National Post debunks the old school feminist.
Palin is a real problem for the feminists, who are tearing their hair out trying to find a *** in her armour. Her life narrative reads like a 1950s woman of the patriarchy, but her accomplishments are those of a totally emancipated woman who broke through the glass ceiling on her own merits, hard work and determination. You can’t say the same for Hillary, a playbook feminist in theory who rose to eminence on a man’s coattails.
Heh. Couldn’t have said it better myself. Chicago Sun Times columnist Mary Mitchell gets to the heart of the matter.
Palin’s on the ticket because she’s a woman and she isn’t afraid to engage in the Republicans’ mean-spirited personal attacks.
No, she isn’t on the ticket because she isn’t afraid to engage in ‘mean-spirited personal attacks’. These aren’t personal attacks, Ms. Mitchell.
On Wednesday night, Palin showed the nation how a female fighter throws a punch:
“They loved their country in good times and bad, and they are always proud of America,” Palin said an obvious dig at Michelle Obama, during her remarks about her small-town roots.
“I love those hockey moms. You know what they say the difference is between a hockey mom and a pit bull — lipstick,” Palin said.
And then she showed us what she means:
“In small towns, we don’t heap praise on working people when they are listening and talk about how bitter they are and they cling to their religions and guns when those people aren’t listening,” she said.
“We prefer candidates who don’t talk to us one way in Scranton and another way in San Francisco.”
That is called telling the truth and not being afraid to tell it publicly. Unlike your Messiah, who leaks back channel stories such as the one that claimed Trig Palin was not Sarah’s son. Sick little wimp your Messiah is.
As for me, I’ll take the lipstick wearing hockey mom with the heart of a pit bull for my candidate.
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The media is simply nauseating, and every last wretched attribute of their hate-filled bias against Palin is on full display here.
As many here know I’m no John McCain fan. But she is definitely the stronger of the two on that ticket.
Joe BADen had better hope they get away from investigating a candidate’s family, given some of the members of his family. But “double standard” will prevail in this liberal guided media. The liberal media’s attack on the “hockey” mom will back fire on them as the “soccer” moms realize they are being attacked, too. Women in Palin’s position as a working mom, will eventually say, “Hey, I’m doing it, why can’t she.” and hopefully turn on the liberal media.
Also, to any of the media types who think the so-called Troopergate probe is a negative on Palin, they’re dead wrong.
The brother-in-law cop in question was a trigger happy hothead with multiple reprimands on his record and a history that involved tasering his own son. If Sarah Palin tried to get him fired that, in my mind, is among the strongest reasons possible to vote FOR her.
In fact I hope and pray that she’ll go after the hothead jackbooted thugs in the TSA and BATF with the same wrath she supposedly directed at that trooper.
The fuel and ammo a gun ship uses cost money. In that sense, I’ll be glad to see Palin send some money to Iran. Billions of dollars worth of money.
A new term for what is going on. h/t Dr. Sanity
http://drsanity.blogspot.com/
More on the so-called Troopergate:
http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/090408/sta_328511946.shtml
If anything, this Wooten thug sounds like he needs a friendly little visit from the Secret Service. There’s more though…
As far as I’m concerned, this man has no business being on a police force in any capacity anywhere. Wooten should be in JAIL right now for all these transgressions. So what did the Alaska state police brass do to him after their own investigation turned up all these plainly illegal transgressions, threats, abuses of power, and drunk driving on the job? Here’s what they did:
Ten freaking days suspension for a renegade trooper who was found to be drinking in his patrol car and making multiple threats of violence against the family of the Governor of the state! But wait, it gets better…
Of course. The union complained. And right now John Cyr, the head of that same plainly corrupt cop union, is the one driving this pseudo-scandal and accusing Palin of acting unethically.
If Sarah Palin got her aids to pressure for Wooten’s termination from the force, good for her! If Sarah Palin herself pressured for Wooten’s termination, then more power to her! And if Sarah Palin personally marched down to the police commissioner’s office and threatened to throw his own lousy @$$ out of the street after his “investigators” and his union covered for this thug with a badge, then God bless her for it many times over and give her the fortitude to stand up against these shameless political attacks.
I agree with you on that Troopergate thing, Phil_M. Nice recap.
I loved the quote about how she as mayor is kinda like a community organizer with responsibilities.
And while we’re on the subject, can anyone else show me any job other than a police force where you can:
1. Drink beer on the job while sitting behind the wheel of your company-owned vehicle
2. Unload an electro-shock torture device into a 10 year old boy to help you “train” for your job.
3. Go hunting without a permit and in violation of the laws of the state because you feel like it.
4. Make threats of violence against the father of the sitting governor of your state.
….and only get a 10-day suspension from your job, which is later reduced to 5 when the union steps in on your side and asks for lenience?
Wooten should be rotting in a damp, putrid jail cell right now. And as far as I’m concerned, so should the police brass that let him off the hook and the union thugs who covered for his illegal behavior.
Can’t stop myself
Palin definitely has big b*lls, hopefully she can withstand this onslaught from the left and the media, both of which have been disgusting in their attacks on her.
She’s definitely overshadowing McCain, but that might be a good thing, because it seems like folks who were on the fence or not voting for McCain are changing their minds because of Palin.
Need a bumper sticker: “Lipstick”
I do hope that there is some bite to go with the bark. Her record would indicate this up to this point.
I am going on the assumption she can back up her words with deeds. My concern is that McCain my try to neuter her if she gets to far right.
Time will tell.
And on top of everything else in her favor….she’s hot!
I thought Donkey meat was going to be tough…it just tastes like Chicken
I hear Jon Voight has agreed to return as agent Phelps in “Mission Impossible 4 - Recovering from Barracuda Bites”
Our own Rockets are used to the expression “One and Done” but they are happy to give up this slogan to the BO campaign…
Ow! I rolled my eyes so hard in response to the hairdresser comment that now I have a headache.
I guess Mario Russo thinks only hip people can know important stuff, like the Russian navy buildup. Oh, wait - for Mario it would be who X celebrity shacked up with this week.
I was wrong about Sarah Palin and didn’t want her as his pick. I want to chime in about her wardrobe and hair. It was masterful. She wore black and white. Because right and wrong are black and white. And I might add, she was slim and trim. Women needed to see a strong woman, and not hair hanging in her face, that she had to brush away. No time for pesky hair when conducting the work of the nation. Men love long hair on women. So, rather than wear her hair completely up, as she often does when working, she chose to wear the back down and long. I know y’all will think I am wacky, but I think it was masterful.
I think we agree Palin’s speech was excellent, but I have to say that Rudy G’s speech was one of the clumsiest I have ever seen…there were reports that his teleprompter was broken, but in any case his delivery, timing, emphasis, etc., were terrible, all of which made it less effective.
#17 AW
I think you are right about her appearance. And I would also bet the chignon hairstyle she wears will find a resurgence of popularity in America because of her.
I also wanted to mention that those who have met Mrs. Shannon will notice a remarkable resemblance to Sarah Palin even including the hairstyle. That extends also to Mrs. Shannon’s skills and accuracy with firearms, fishing rods and field dressing large dead animals.
Texpat I agree. Shannon’s wife does resemble Sarah Palin. I don’t know about her fishing and hunting experience, but know she is a strong woman.
Community organizers fight back!
Wotta buncha maroons. Read some of the comments. These clowns are pathetic.
Did our beuty queen pit bull make Obama more conservative?
Well, not quite I guess.
Thus, Obama felt the heat put on him by Palin.
Article.
He’s the clown that said a couple of weeks ago that knowing what we now know about the surge and its effectiveness, he would have voted against it. It was so bad that the haircut who was interviewing him asked him the same question a couple more times to give him a chance to bail himself out.
VP Palin made a good comment when she talked about the part of BOs speech that addressed the war in Iraq but at no time did he say the word VICTORY except in reference to his campaign.