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Sarah Palin Is My Girl
09/04/2008
With grave suspicion and reservations, I nonetheless rejoice that the fading embers of conservatism may have indeed caught fire once more. That fireball is Gov.Sarah Palin of Alaska, I pray the next Vice President of the United States.
Now I know why I have seen no one with any guts in the Republican Party in so long: the governor of Alaska has them all. Her speech last night was clearly a grand slam out-of-the-park home run. America, we have liftoff!
By selecting Gov. Palin to be his running mate, Sen. McCain has finally electrified the conservative base — the very base he desperately needs to defeat Sen.Obama in November. I, for one, am greatly relieved and inspired by her message, delivery, confidence, poise, class and grace.
To borrow a relative quote from Michelle Obama, with the selection of Gov. Palin, it’s the first time in quite some time that I’m proud of the Republican Party.
Gov. Palin is a true outsider, a real maverick. She lacks Washington, D.C. political experience. That’s good. No, that’s excellent. It is her lack of D.C. political experience that is the refreshing outsider change America so desperately needs and wants.
Palin made it clear that she is like the rest of us, noting how Fedzilla is bloated, broken, ineffective, and wasteful. Our professional politicians no longer work for us, but instead represent K Street bandit lobbyists. These scoundrels deserve our scorn, anger and contempt, and, quite honestly, a big, old pink slip, and Sarah appears to be the tough leader we seek to get the job done.
The level of disgust and distrust across America is appalling and, I believe, unprecedented. A recent poll indicated the Nancy Pelosi-led Congress’ approval rating is at an abysmal record low of nine percent. That it is even that high shows how clueless and disconnected the lunatic fringe is.
America needs more outsiders in Washington, D.C. now more than ever.
We need more tough, standup hockey moms like Governor Sarah Palin.
We need more ordinary Americans to springboard from small city councils to the halls of congress and beyond. We need welders, cops, teachers, ditch diggers, business people, construction workers, secretaries, auto mechanics, and guitar slingers to come to Washington, D.C. and replant the good old “We the People” tree.
Americans need to replace the professional politicians who have rigged and ruined the system to exclude ordinary citizens from participating in this experiment in self-government. My advice is to get angry and vote them all out.
The professional punk politicians are the problem, not the solution.
We need fewer lawyers in Washington. Lawyers have created a masturbatory legal system by raping our justice system. It’s refreshing to see that neither Sen. McCain nor Gov. Palin is a lawyer. This could be a good start back towards an experiment in self-government. Count me in.
We need fewer bureaucrats who accomplish nothing but sustaining and growing Fedzilla. Bureaucrats create reams of regulations, rules, and requirements that strangle innovation and punish producers. I expect Vice President Palin to lead the charge with a battering ram to smash in the bureaucratic doors that impede progress instead of enabling it. I had a bumper crop of crowbars this year. I’ll donate them all to those willing to swing them.
It’s wrong to suggest that just because Gov. Palin is not a career D.C. politician that she lacks the experience and intelligence to lead the nation. She clearly has more executive management experience than Sen. Obama, who has zero experience at running anything. He’s not qualified to run an all-night donut shop, much less America.
Gov. Palin is an executive. The mark of an effective executive is to surround herself with bright, talented, capable professionals who share her vision to accurately represent the people they work for: Americans. Chief Executive Officers need to be visionary leaders, not tacticians who micromanage. Her experience demonstrates she is prepared to lead if necessary.
Gov. Palin represents real hope and change. In her case, hope and change are not simply hollow words. As a city councilwoman, mayor and governor, she has achieved tangible results. She exudes energy and passion, has the experience and the skills, and is ready for the job. I couldn’t be more excited for America.
In addition to her executive experience, and based on unbiased, genuine research, Gov. Palin concludes that global warming is a fraud, supports drilling for oil in the Arctic National
Wildlife Refuge, hunts and fishes, and is a member of the National Rifle Association. What’s not to like?
Those pundits and Fedzilla fanatics who proclaim Gov.Palin has no experience to run the country are the very punks who want to continue to feed Fedzilla. They advocate taking more of our paychecks, wasting more of hard earned money, and not being held accountable. I would like to buy these Fedzilla punks a one-way ticket on the express train to Hell.
President Reagan would surely be proud of Sen. McCain’s choice of Gov. Palin to be his running mate. President Reagan’s words so many years ago ring true once again: it’s morning in America.
Last night, a political savior may have arrived.
Ted Nugent at your service,Vice President-to-be Palin. I’m your biggest fan. Let’s rock.
September 6th, 2008 at 9:58 pm
Don’t let her fool you, which she is good at doing. Sarah Palin is not what she tries to portray herself. It is obvious you have not done any research on her. There are tons of info out there talking about what an utterly ruthless woman she can be when people disagree with her. Here is just one view of her from another blog you might find of interest:
Posted by: Taya- Manchester UK | 06 September 2008 at 12:25 PM
I can only laugh looking at how ignorant majority of MCCain-Palin voting conservatives can be. Your unemployment is growing fast, houses are repossessed as people struggle to pay mortgages, your large companies move jobs out of America into India and China through outsourcing, your satellites, civil and military equipment you use have parts made from China and software designed in India and the Republican Party including McCain will do nothing to stop this. When I meet American students, I am shocked to see how poorly majority of them are educated and how they desperately need basic skills. You have in your best universities large foreign students who keep the universities running because the American students are not interested in higher education, and hence America sucks in thousands of new immigrants to fill skills gaps. McCain will not do a thing about this and Palin will not understand this. Get real, otherwise, you are looking at China as the #1 world power.
Posted by: Norman | 06 September 2008 at 02:04 PM
if palin is so great, so uncorruptible, so talented, so experienced as many have claimed then i pose this one simple question: why is it that from here on out she is off limits to any press or questions from them? the fact is the GOP is deathly scared of the answers she may give to ANY questions asked, she’s a nutcase, plain and simple.
troopergate
mat maid gate
bridge to nowhere gate
supports Ted Steven (currently on trial)
entered office as mayor with a $8 million surplus but despite $27 million in earmarks from the Fed (something she and McPOW both claim are totally against) left office 6 years later leaving Wasilla $20 million in debt
she’s for censorship
she’s for having the pill considered abortion
she’s for abstinance only sex education even when her own 16 year old daughter proved it does not work
she knew what the repercussions would be by accepting the VP nomination on her pregnany daughter but selfishly accepted anyway, now becries that her daughter is being drug through the mud
she and her husband have both up until her governatorial run-up, both supported a successionist group
she is a neopentacostal dominionist, believeing that anyone not of their beliefs should be wiped from the face of the earth, those of her belief even produced a video game and distributed it to the kids of the church that depict exactly that.
she claims to have sought office to end the “good old boy” system of corruption but has only replaced a few good old boys with good new boys.
nothing, absolutely nothing she has done in the past equates to anything nearly defining the necessary requirements of possibly running the most powerful office on this planet.
she, like McPOW have not and undoubtedly will not addressed any of the biggest issues we face. their sole tactic is to attack their opponents, period. there is no plan, no ideas, no focus, nothing. they are all hat and no cattle.
the only thing i hear coming from the two of them is this- “yes our party screwed up everything they touched for the past 8 years but i promise, my friends, that the two of us won’t screw up what little is left as badly. my friends, i was a POW, and my friends, Sarah here lives as close to Russia as anyone can in the U.S.. My friends, that is change, i can go to Washington with all of my experience as a POW and maybe change my Depends, Sarah here can go and get one of them there map thingys and figure out were the rest of the world is, i promise. that is real change, have two idiots dumber than the last two, my friends. By the way, did i mention i was a POW, my friends?
Posted by: layton paul | 06 September 2008 at 02:22 PM
September 6th, 2008 at 11:31 pm
The biggest story to emerge from the Republican National Convention was the media’s effort to destroy Gov. Sarah Palin. Members of the Fourth Estate behaved more like a Democratic fifth column this week than they did like honest reporters. Palin’s stunningly effective speech Wednesday night showed they will not easily take her down — but their malicious attacks on Gov. Palin’s family prove that they will stop at nothing to achieve their aim. Since when is the private life of a 17-year-old fair game in a political campaign? Apparently only when that 17-year-old’s mom is a Republican candidate.
Make no mistake — the press outed Bristol Palin’s pregnancy. Reporters descended on Alaska following vile and false accusations on Internet blogs that Gov. Palin faked her own pregnancy and that her daughter was actually baby Trig’s mother. These lies weren’t only spread by left-wing fanatics but by journalists like Andrew Sullivan, whose blog appears on Atlantic.com, the online version of what was once one of the most respected magazines in the country. As the rumors got uglier, the McCain campaign decided they had no choice but to reveal to the world intimate details about Gov. Palin’s daughter. And the media stood by their decision to muckrake by arguing for the public’s right to know.
If you don’t think this reflects media bias, contrast this insatiable prying into Bristol Palin’s life with the press’s lack of curiosity about the behavior of another 17-year-old — one whose story would seem to have more relevance to this year’s presidential election.
In his memoir “Dreams from My Father,” Barack Obama describes his troubled teenaged years. “Pot had helped, and booze, maybe a little blow when you could afford it. Not smack though,” he recalls, though he admits he came close to trying heroin at the urging of a friend who shot up in front of him. He was deterred by the image “of an air bubble, shiny and round like a pearl, rolling quietly through my vein and stopping my heart,” he says. “Junkie. Pothead. That’s where I’d been headed: the final, fatal role of the young would-be black man.”
Obama’s drug use went on for at least a few years, though he is noticeably vague in describing exactly when it began, how extensive it was, or when it ended. At least one of his friends was arrested for drug possession; another had a mental breakdown after one too many acid trips. But Obama has been reticent to reveal the extent of his illegal activities — and the media haven’t cared enough to pursue the question.
Past drug use by presidential candidates was considered a legitimate subject of inquiry for Bill Clinton (who, famously, “didn’t inhale”) and George W. Bush. News organizations devoted considerable investigative resources in 2000 to track down unsubstantiated rumors about Bush’s alleged cocaine use — and printed the accusation, even when there was no credible evidence that it was true. Yet those same news organizations treat Obama’s admitted — and apparently heavy — youthful drug use as if it were off-limits.
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September 7th, 2008 at 9:43 pm
What a candidate did as a young man — even if it was illegal — should not necessarily disqualify him from becoming president. But shouldn’t we want to know a bit more than he’s volunteered to date before we make a final judgment? Did Obama ever sell drugs to anyone? When was the last time he used cocaine? What other illegal drugs has he used? As an adult, has he been present when others were using illicit drugs?
Why is it reporters who were willing to pursue Bristol Palin, who isn’t on the ballot, somehow think it is unseemly to ask Sen. Obama tough questions about his drug use? Oh, that was a long time ago, they’ll argue. But a 1986 arrest for driving while impaired by Gov. Palin’s husband — not the candidate — is somehow worthy of extensive front-page coverage?
The double standard is shocking — but perhaps not to Sen. Obama. In his memoir, he gives the most telling explanation of how he has gotten away with avoiding discussions of his drug use. It was the same technique he used on his mother when she confronted him in his senior year of high school: “I had given her a reassuring smile and patted her hand and told her not to worry, I wouldn’t do anything stupid. It was usually an effective tactic, another of those tricks I had learned: People were satisfied so long as you were courteous and smiled and made no sudden moves.”
With two months left to Election Day, it will be a test of the media’s integrity to see if they devote as much time delving into Sen. Obama’s drug use as they did into Bristol Palin’s sex life.
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Linda Chavez is the author of “An Unlikely Conservative: The Transformation of an Ex-Liberal.”
COPYRIGHT 2008 CREATORS SYNDICATE, INC.
September 7th, 2008 at 9:45 pm
Hey Bea, How about another read. What ideas are promoted in these statements that we don’t understand??!!
* Our opponents say, again and again, that drilling will not solve all of America’s energy problems — as if we all didn’t know that already. But the fact that drilling won’t solve every problem is no excuse to do nothing at all.
* It’s easy to forget that this is a man (Obama) who has authored two memoirs but not a single major law or reform — not even in the state Senate.
* This is a man who can give an entire speech about the wars America is fighting, and never use the word “victory” except when he’s talking about his own campaign.
* But when the cloud of rhetoric has passed … when the roar of the crowd fades away … when the stadium lights go out, and those Styrofoam Greek columns are hauled back to some studio lot — what exactly is our opponent’s plan?
* What does he actually seek to accomplish, after he’s done turning back the waters and healing the planet? The answer is to make government bigger … take more of your money … give you more orders from Washington … and to reduce the strength of America in a dangerous world. America needs more energy … our opponent is against producing it.
* Victory in Iraq is finally in sight … he wants to forfeit.
* Terrorist states are seeking nuclear weapons without delay … he wants to meet them without preconditions.
* Al-Qaida terrorists still plot to inflict catastrophic harm on America … he’s worried that someone won’t read them their rights?
* Congress spends too much … he promises more.
* Taxes are too high … he wants to raise them.
* And then there are those, like John McCain, who use their careers to promote change. They’re the ones whose names appear on laws and landmark reforms, not just on buttons and banners, or on self-designed presidential seals.
September 7th, 2008 at 10:27 pm
Bravo, George, bravo! That was quite a treatise, and a tasty one, I might add…(don’t think you’re going to convince the “Beas”, though, (they’re not the reasoning kind of people)…..
Like your comparison with Reagan, since he WAS the last time I was inspired by a politican…….I felt much the same way for her….and hope she can stand above it all like he did, and in a way everyone (almost) could appreciate with some humor….
September 7th, 2008 at 11:05 pm
Have to take note of your post where Obama states: “It was usually an effective tactic, another of those tricks I had learned: People were satisfied so long as you were courteous and smiled and made no sudden moves.”
That sounds like his overall tactics when it comes to the media, as well, and for some strange reason….it’s working!!
The trouble is, when people stop to think about what he is saying, instead of simply following along….you start to see the gaps in his confidence, and his arguments fall to pieces!
September 7th, 2008 at 11:14 pm
Better take another really good look at Sarah Palin. You’re doing yourself a disservice to only read positive articles about her.
http://www.goarticles.com/cgi-bin/showa.cgi?C=1106896
Regardless, our political machine in D.C. has been broken for a long time. Dems or Repubs, it makes little difference. We’ve gotten into and out of wars with both Dems and Repubs. We’ve had our taxes raised by both Dems and Repubs.
When people say you’re wasting your vote if you vote 3rd party, I venture to say we’re wasting our vote if we vote anything but 3rd party.
Right now, if I had to choose, though, I would steer far away from McCain-Palin. McCain has admitted he is clueless about the economy (voters #1 concern) and Palin is mostly intent on shoving her personal morals down our throats.
September 8th, 2008 at 10:03 pm
The real scoop behind “the bridge to nowhere.”
Palin lied about her plans for the “Bridge to Nowhere”
When accepting the GOP’s nomination for vice president, Sarah Palin took credit for killing a controversial bridge project in Alaska dubbed the Bridge to Nowhere: “I told Congress, ‘Thanks but no thanks on that Bridge to Nowhere,’” she exclaimed to a cheering audience in Ohio. But it turns out that her relationship with the bridge wasn’t that cut and dry.
The Gravina Island Bridge would have linked the town of Ketchikan to its international airport, which is extremely difficult to get to by car, as it is on Gravina Island (there is currently a ferry in place to shuttle people to and fro). The bridge was to be federally funded but was quickly labeled a pork barrel project by many conservatives in Washington, including McCain.
So maybe it was an eagerness to please her new boss that caused Palin to lie to the American people right out of the gate. Who can say? But thanks to reports from the Washington Post and the Anchorage Daily News, we are now aware that that is exactly what she has done.
It turns out that initially Palin was a big fan of the bridge — although it could be that Palin wasn’t so much a fan of the bridge as she was a fan of telling Ketchikan’s 14,000 residents that she was while on the campaign trail in September 2006. “She was the only candidate who was saying, ‘We’re going to build that bridge,’” former governor Tony Knowles, a Democrat who lost to Palin in the 2006 general election, told the Washington Post. “She’s taking a position now which certainly wasn’t what it was when she was campaigning.”
After a long fight about how much federal assistance should be granted to Alaska for the bridge, Congress decided to grant Alaska a lump sum of $454 million to spend on general infrastructure projects, instead of specifically earmarking federal money for what had become a very unpopular project.
Even then, though, there where plans for the bridge. It wasn’t until September 2007, a year after her promise to the people of Ketchikan, that Palin finally shut down the project, citing overspending. As Keith Ashdown, an investigator with Taxpayers for Common Sense, told the Post: “She made the final decision to kill a very bad project, so she deserves credit for that. But she didn’t do it as an ideological opponent of earmarks. She did it as someone who had to balance the books.”
Palin lied to her constituents about getting the bridge done, and now she is lying to the American people about what her position was in the first place.
It looks like Palin isn’t the type of politician who would clean up Washington after all.
September 9th, 2008 at 1:07 am
Sorry, Bea, but I’m not wasting my vote on a third party, like you are, “SUPPOSEDLY”…To tell you the truth, I don’t think you are either..But to get the truth out of you, is one area I’m not going into! But to “redirect” voters is one ploy that the opposition uses exclusively. And you are definately the liberal, animal rights, big government, Obama mindless opposition follower if I have ever read one!
If you think I’m going to read any of your prescribed sources, think again…
Maybe its time for YOU to read outside your mindset, improve yourself!
September 9th, 2008 at 6:46 am