Friday, August 29, 2008
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Re: Is This a Fight Obama Wants to Have?
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Posted by:
Matt Lewis at
3:00 PM
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I think this is actually the fight McCain wants to have.
Palin is the mother of a soldier, has travelled to places like Kuwait to visit the troops, has been the commander of Alaska's National Guard, and if you care about the foreign policy issue of weening us off of foreign oil -- she is uniquely qualified.
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scarlet-p!mp, we will. But we're not sad at all. In fact, you and your other liberal troll buddies seem to be the only sad one's around here today! The 3-pee's! Saddest most dishonest regulars on TH.
Say why don't you, virgin-pat, and your fellow sad sack, pee-pee find another hang out. We're ecstatic here on TH and all the negativity from you guys/gals/whatever, won't change a thing!
Can you say President McCain? Maybe you should practice along with Vice-President Palin?
Cheers!
Don C
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The VP doesn't do much does she? Well, stay excited you sad sacks. |
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Plugs Biden, the ChiaVeep, better watch out. Sarah can take out a moose, fending off Plugs is even easier. |
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Hurry, go consult your Malcolm X political playbook, to figure out how to counter Palin.
Reverend Wright, how about another white hating, America hating speech to re-energize the democratic base!
Tony Rezko, ohh never mind, he's in the slammer.
William Ayers, help the dems keep their campaign from blowing up.
Barack Obama, how about having your fanatical church burning islamic extremist buddies from kenya go burn down all the churches in Alaska
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LADY SARA IS A CLASS ACT, SHE NEEDS NO DEFENDING!
DON'T BE CONCERNED CINDY YOU'RE PRETTY ALSO, HA
HOWEVER, MICHELLE MAY HAVE SOMETHING TO WORRY ABOUT. HOTLIPS OBAMA PLANTED ONE ON BIDENS WIFE, FOR ALL THE WORLD TO SEE! PLEEEEEE INSENSITIVE, FICKLE OBAMA, NEXT TIME KISS HER CHEEK NOT MOUTH! |
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NO choice the Republican candidate could have made would appeal to "leftist" women or ANY (idiot) who supports a FAR LEFT agenda. Who would expect such a thing?
Both former Hillary supporters whom I call friends are absolutely THRILLED by the choice of Sarah Palin and will support, work and vote for McCain/Palin. One was already onboard for McCain only because she despises Obama, but the other hadn't decided until today. Now both women are enthused and energized.
So, while we can't expect ALL women to move into the light, many will look beyond the superficial Rep/Dem politics to see a female candidate who truly speaks to the heart of America. |
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GunnyG:
Hmmm, I should be the one labeling you as a Democrat. After all, you're advocating holding your nose to win elections--and putting principals on hold just to hold office until an actual Conservative can take the helm.
The Dems are going to score major points by pointing out Palin's recent scandals. Plus, McCain just lost the Midwest and South because he was baited into selecting a woman. This election has just become a hopeless exercise--like Dole-Kemp all over again.
I do not see Mitt Romney or Tim Pawlenty in your GOP roadmap. Instead, you seem to favor women and minority candidates with questionable credentials from states with TINY populations and little overall national appeal. That's a losing formula. Do you have something against white males or populous states?
This entire mess has taken place because the Liberal media performed a pre-emptive strike against George Allen with that ridiculous, contrived "macaca" controversy. And, in the aftermath, Republican voters went with name recognition in nominating a loser such as McCain over Mitt Romney. It's a sad day for the GOP. |
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"So what gives? Is McCain looking for a bathing suit model, or a running mate who could step into his place and run the country?"
You nailed it Isabella! The answer is both and he exceeded that goal by also picking a VP with more experience than oblama!
But then that was not a difficult task since our local mail person has more experience than the Wizard of Uh's.
To borrow from an article I just read on red-state, Govenor Palin has experience running a state, while oblama and biden combined can only run their mouth!
Love it!
Don C
Sgt/USMC |
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Bring on the experience issue, Rookie Obama. Mccain had more sense then you and picked lady Sara, a class act like Hillary! You could have had the best also. Don't worry about Saras lack of foreign expertise, worry about your own! Oh thats right, you can always count on the bottom of the ticket VP Biden to tell you what you need to know and what to do! Whats wrong with this picture? Isn't the top of the ticket the one in charge and the DECIDER? Have no fear, the misguided '0' has a likeable Biden to lean on Ha! God help America if the teflon Obama wins by hook and crook! Go Sara and McCain! Ex Democrat |
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I doubt that you are further to the right than I am but I realize that Palin is the BEST one McShamnesty could pick. So I vote for PALIN this election, knowing it'll set her up in 2012 for the WH.
I dislike McVanity and always have. We have at least one SCOTUS seat open and with a rising Russia and Iran, Team Obongoloid is NOT what we need and to vote third party or write in, to make a point, might screw us up.
I'm a staunch Constitutional Conservative who would rather HUNT RINOs than vote for one. |
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...keep it up. The Republican V.P. candidate has MORE experience than the Dem's pick for Prez. Heck, McCain's "underbelly" has more experience than B.O.'s whole body!
And please DO keep harping on her looks - that's always a great way to alienate women from your point of view. How shallow can you get? Your ugly comment about thinking with the other head demonstrates the shrill, desperate foot-in-mouth reactions we're hearing from even official O-spokespeople today. Tsk. Tsk. |
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Hey, GunnyG:
Nice try at the name-calling. I can't imagine anything worse than being called a Democrat. Actually I am a hard-core Conservative--probably well to the right of you--who despises McCain for being too liberal and self-centered. His VP selection did not improve my opinion of him. He is a loser, through and through--a maverick first and a party man second, and NEVER a true Conservative. This weak VP selection WILL affect voter turnout. California has a very important vote on same-sex marriage in November, but the top of our GOP ticket is pathetic. The base will NOT be energized.
Check Alaska's population count. Will Palin bring in votes around the nation? Will she energize the base? I HOPE so, but I won't hold my breath. |
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I am STILL against McShamnesty but I vote for PALIN in 2012 not McVainty. With a McShamnesty presidency, we get conservative SCOTUS judges, NO socialism, and Palin set up for 2012 with Jindal as veep. If we have to hold our nose NOW for massive gains THEN, so be it. I myself was withholding judgement to see which way McShamnesty went. He went conservative not RINO.
Give him the kudos he rates on this one. |
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Making women jealous will work real well for you. Heh. Such a typically doltish comment from the rightwing male species.
Any RW modern thinking woman or Hillary's unconverted PUMAs are NOT going to look at Palin and be "jealous". Instead, what they are going to see is a choice for VP that defies logic, that was most likely guided by male ego and a perplexing parallel to McCain's relationship choices in women.
Did he pick an experienced running mate who will help pad his own resume which is sadly lacking in economics and foreign policy know-how? He's ran his campaign message citing "experience" as his big trump over Obama - only to tag team with a virtual unknown and untested choice.
Face it, eddie. This woman looks like a choice guided by something other than professional qualifications, and more about the pretty face for extra coverage. Putting lipstick on a pig, for lack of a better metaphor. And to any woman on the fence for McCain, it could be the issue that knocks her off to Obama's side.
Just saying. And BTW, she is very attractive for a Cheney-in-a-dress type.
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I love to see that the debate is Palin's executive experience vs. Obama's! Obama will be exposed more than ever -- and he's the presidential candidate!
Dems a quivering. Obama's criticism of Palin will come back at him ten-fold! |
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Ole McIdiot has done it again. He is reacting to Obama's "Change" template rather than pro-acting with his own "Ready to Lead" message. Sarah Palin? Are you kidding me? Two years as the governor of a NOTHING state does not qualify one to be a heartbeat away from the Presidency. Sorry, Johnny Maverick, but you are not going to pick up any disillusioned Hillary supporters by selecting a PRO-LIFE woman; it's not GENDER that matters to leftist women so much as it's the FAR-LEFT AGENDA itself. Plus, this selection does nothing to appease or energize hard-core Conservatives such as myself. This is a completely stupid, election-losing move...but then again that's what I've come to expect from McIdiot. The consolation prize for me, however, is that Mitt Romney may very well run for governor of California in a couple of years. |
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"Pasadena Phil writes: Friday, August, 29, 2008 12:04 PM
Joe
She is not pro-choice, she is pro-ABORTION! Since you never substantiate anything to anyone, I won't bother either. Do your own homework."
Are you ready to admit you made a mistake with that statement Phil? |
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1. Steps on the story of Obama’s speech (and convention), and possibly the bounce coming from them, and wipes them off the news cycle. The Sunday news shows will be all-Palin, all of the time.
2. Sends Republicans into their convention on a huge head of steam.
3. Wipes out the image of McCain as the crotchety elder and brings back that of the fly-boy and gambler, which is much more appealing, and the genuine person.
4. Revs up the base AND excites independents, which no one else in the party, or perhaps in the world, could have accomplished.
5. Puts youth, change, and history on both of the tickets.
6. May detach some young people, especially women.
7. May attach some women pissed off about Hillary.
8. As a pro-life super-achiever, puts feminists in a tizzy.
9. Revives some of the double-edged nature of the Democratic primary, which featured a black vs. a
female trail-blazer, and put both sides on notice on sensitivity issues. Democrats used to raising charges of racism against Obama’s critics may face charges of sexism and/or condescension if they try to diss her.
10. Steps on Obama’s claims to have been a reformer, as he reformed nothing (much less the corrupt mare’s nest of Chicago arrangements), while she was a dragon-slayer up in Alaska.
11. As a mother of five, one a Down Syndrome baby, helps her side take on the Democrats on abortion extremism and the Born Alive bill.
12. Reignites the deep and unhealed stresses inside the Democrats, some of whom will now wonder more loudly than ever why they didn't pick Hillary.
13. Counters Michelle in a way Cindy couldn’t.
14. Counter-intuitively, makes the issue of Obama’s light resume more potent than ever. Her lack of experience is no more than his is. And he’s--to use a term from Alaska, and the Iditarod--their lead dog.
http://www.weeklystandard.com/weblogs/TWSFP/2008/08/what_pa lin_does.asp |
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your lie that Sarah Palin is pro abortion. Or are you still standing by that falsehood? |
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Empty state?
You know how much seafood and oil we get from Alaska? Not to mention gold and other minerals.
Go back to dummycrats underground little boy, you're outclassed here. |
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Ole McIdiot has done it again. He is reacting to Obama's "change" template rather than pro-acting, yet trying to look like a Maverick. Sarah Palin? Are you kidding me? Two years as the governor of a NOTHING state does not qualify one to be a heartbeat away from the Presidency. McIdiot just blew any chance of capitalizing on the "Ready to Lead" slogan, given that half of his ticket falls sadly short. And, he's not going to pick up any disillusioned Hillary supporters by selecting a PRO-LIFE woman. I'm glad that she's pro-life, but he's pretty stupid if he thinks that this is going to appeal to Hillary supporters--or to a hard-core Conservative such as myself. It's not GENDER that matters to leftist women so much as it's the FAR-LEFT AGENDA. This is a completely stupid, election-losing move...but then again that's what I've come to expect from McIdiot. |
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This is a fight Obama does not win. Bring it on. |
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McCain stated clearly that he was looking for someone who could step in as president from day one because of all the concern over his age and health. She is not a "maverick" in the same way as he is. But she just boarded the GOP Titanic and will now be expected to fight for a platform that is too "mavericky" in the McCain sense. McCain has pledged that he will re-define conservatism. I'm afraid that he will do for conservatism what William Shatner did for popular music with this:
http://www.amazon.com/Transformed-Man-William-Shatner/dp/B 0000014WS
Just like Shatner re-defined "popular" music by making it "unpopular", McCain will re-define "conservatism" by making it "not conservative". Exactly how stupid ARE you nose-holders? |
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I love you. Gov. Palin has no foreign policy experience is what I'm reading on liberal blogs. So how much foreign policy experience does Obama have to be our president not our vice president? |
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I'll say it again - McCain is the one who MADE "experience" a campaign tactic, to some success. Now he's using it against himself? It makes no sense from a man who is 72 and suffers from skin cancer to position an inexperienced running mate a heart beat away from the top spot.
Not only that, but this woman is Cheney with a Y chromosome on the same old Bush policies like oil dependency and using her office for ethically suspicious dealings - of which she's under investigation for. She is part and parcel of the most politically corrupt state in the US - an albatross that is going to hang around her neck as she debates Biden.
But hey, she's good looking, and that may bring in the pretty-face-renders-men-stupid vote. Of all the much more experienced and qualified GOP women out there to chose from, it is odd that McCain chose this one, but judging from his choice of women who tend to be of the bathing suit model, blonde beauty queen mode, it is reminiscent of Carol, Cindy, Vicky and now Sarah. Makes you wonder which head McCain used to pick this one.
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she is pretty enough to make many women envious!!! |
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How long did Palin also run her own businesses. This certainly counts as executive and economic experience far beyond that of either Bambi or Biden, both of whom have never run anything besides a campaign staff. |
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because of Alaska's strategic importance, I believe Sarah Palin (as head of the Alaska National Guard) has been briefed more often and in far more depth on National Security matters and issues than has Bambi (Barack Obama, Bambi just seems so appropriate and descriptive). |
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This is the fight McCain used to some effect against Obama. Obama is merely throwing it back at him, and exposing McCain's underbelly on this one.
Why would McCain chose a woman of so little experience? KB Hutchinson was a likelier choice if he was trying to garner the Hillary vote (although she's no Hillary) - she is far and away more seasoned in economic and foreign policy than a woman who was mayor of 8000 people, and a governor of one of the most politically corrupt states in the US for only a year and a half. She is also under investigation for using her position for ethically suspect purposes.
So what gives? Is McCain looking for a bathing suit model, or a running mate who could step into his place and run the country? He looks right now like a man who's desperate for a "hail Mary" and went with his *other* head on this one.
Sorry, but this seems at first blush like a losing ticket for sure. |
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As I watch all the political hacks and read many different blog sites, I see that Palin is absolutely the right choice. After working my way thru my route this morning and hearing both men and women in East Central Illinois basically say the same thing, she is a great choice, smart choice, give McCain a great fallback person, great mother, pretty damn good VP choice. Well I see all that and more.
Is this the step necessary to win the election for MCain? I hope so, for if he governs with a firm hand and she learns and follows suit, we could see her as the President following McCain. |
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I see a HUGE bounce for McCain coming out of the RNC!
The liberals attacks on her have been petty so far. The more people read, see and hear about her this weekend the more they are going to like!
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