The Man from Acorn and friend of the Weather Underground has a dangerous background. Fortunately, the most Reverand Wright rescued him from rabid extremism. Nevertheless, he is not ready to lead in other than a socialist regime.
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man???? Give me a break. Obama wouldn't be on the ticket if he were white. If Obama were blond and blue eyed Hillary would be running for President. |
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After being presented with the facts and possibilities of action, Obama would make his decision with a liberal heart and Palin would make her decision with a conservative brain. |
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If all you "Palin doesn't know enough" lemmings are not aware of the following, I am truly embarassed for you.
No President keeps track of news/happenings him/herself. They have people appointed /hired to peruse what's going on in the world and inform the Presedent of anything worthy of his/her attention. If the president needs to take action there are again experts hired/appointed to analyze the situation, enumerate the possible responses and identify the likely ramifications of each action or even no action. Therefore the President has no need or ability to make decisions in a vacuum. A President needs the ability to access expert information and make logical choices based on this info. Prior knowledge is, at best, a minor benefit.
Therefore, Obama's supposed command of the facts is totally meaningless. |
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I could literally spend hours defending Sarah Palin, and McCain's choice of her. I can articulate a lot of why I think she's right for this, like exec experience, the guts to take on her own party, her views on family and on and on. But there is something else there that I (we), that is her backers see in her that is almost intangible. It's like a combination of virtues, characteristics, zest for life, toughness and who knows what else. For me it's kind of like the Beatles phenomenon. Those guys came together and it just worked for me. And for about a billion others. Her approval rating is through the roof in Alaska which goes beyond conservative or liberal reasons. She says what she does and does what she says. Nobody gets that kind of approval anywhere else. I am drinking the Sarah Palin koolaid. Many of us saw her and immediately knew she was it. I don't care if she's never been out of the U.S. or can't spell kirjackastan or whatever. My gut says get behind this woman. She will do good things. If she's not scared of the job, then there is no question in my mind that she can do it, and no doubt that she'll redefine it as well. The rest of them are all a bunch of insiders who stand around with their finger in the political wind waiting to see who will still like them if they do the right thing. She'll do the right and people will like her because of it. I think she will also make people take a serious look at the bankruptcy of liberalism as well. Trust me on this. My genuineness detector is ringing like a fire bell. |
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Ignoring Republican pols' left-turning behavior is how we got into the mess we are today. We overlooked every betrayal and sell-out and capitulation for as long as we possibly could, believing that we were just being practical, telling ourselves each time that the concession simply wasn't important.
We have now reached the end of the road. There is nothing left to concede. We have to start cleaning house. It has to start somewhere. It is now either reform, in the only meaningful sense of the word--ideologically--or die out completely. That means censuring people and ideas that are leftist, wherever you find them. It is your choice. Do or die. No one can save you from the consequences of your decision, not Rush, Parker, Will, Krauthammer, and certainly not McCain/Palin. |
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I do think that Rush is basically a good man who cares for his country, but he has a serious problem here. He is putting "The Team" above the truth, people above principle. Am I exaggerating? No--these are Erik Erickson's own words, whom you reference here. He specifically refers to "the team," and states that it is inherently wrong to criticize Palin simply because it is helping the liberal agenda to discredit her.
Rush was horrified that McCain got the nomination. He had let everyone know how leftist McCain was. Now, Rush is in essence shilling for McCain and evading McCain's leftism, simply because he fears the opponent worse and has some sort of fascination with the VP pick. He is treading on dangerous ground. His integrity is now open to question.
What happened to truth and integrity? No one who has paid halfway attention to the news can avoid both McCain's and Palin's leftism. How did you rationalize Palin's leftism when you heard her attack the "Big Oil" companies, increasing their taxes and redistributing the loot to non-taxpayers in Alaska? How did you rationalize Palin's leftism when she talked about being friends with/increasing funding for disabled children? |
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SOMEBODY SUGGEST USING PALIN ON RADIO AND TV ADS IN PERSON."JOHN MCCAIN IS THE ONLY one THAT EVER REALLY FOUGHT FOR YOU" AND THE LIKE ARE VERY POWERFUL MESSAGES COMING FROM HER.
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A witnessed by Kathleen Parker's sniffing, the conservative intelligentsia is certainly not immune to the same arrogant ,supercilious self-importance that infects liberals. Reading George Will, Brooks, Medved, Hewitt, and others, especially on the subject of the blackmail/bailout, and it's readily apparent that a great many of the conservative punditry are members of the same elite political class as the lib-fascists. Which is to say that their actions can reliably be counted on to further the interests of the oligarchy and the political elites, not the people. |
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And not even Joe Biden and his Democrats can make it so. No matter how much of other people's money they tax and spend.
BTW, politics is a rough, dirty business.
Gov. Palin knows this. She's just had to step it up from the equivalent of NCAA Division 1 to the NFL.
Rush is the MVP of all media. A true original. One of the few remaining critical, analytical thinkers. We conservatives will win by the power of our superior ideas.
I'm glad Rush and other conservative pundits make big bucks.
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First off, you people should really wake the f**k up and understand that this is Orwell's 1984 in progress. Rush Limbaugh has been and will always be a drug-addict, a hypocrite, and a liar. The fact that a conservative pundit would criticize other conservative pundits for bucking the system and saying what they really feel is just plain scary. What's hilarious is that you people dance a little jig every time you hear McCain and Palin regurgitate the word "maverick", but then when a conservative pundit behaves like a maverick they are branded as traitors. You people really make me laugh - and then vomit.
Second, I had a question about McCain's health care plan. First of all, we know that he's going to tax health benefits as income since Sarah Palin was deafeningly silent on the issue when Biden pointed it out (OOPS! They didn't give her a script for that I guess!). My question, however, is this - How is McCain's healthcare plan going to cover a family when the average annual health care cost for an individual is over $3,800 and McCain's plan only provides $2,500 to individuals and a paltry $5,000 to families? A family of four would have health care costs around $18,000 and McCain would give them $5,000. Under McCain's plan you'll be taxed more, and receive less benefits. Anyone with half a brain or a calculator can see that. |
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Matt, usually your posts are clear and concise. What's up with this rambling post. Was this a satirical attempt at poking fun of elitist writers? Oh well, maybe you are just too tired. |
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The people that listen to Rush and the other "Conservative" media types have bought into a perception that they are the only true Americans. These "Conservative Teachers" that maintain their grasp on America have made themselves very wealthy "educating" the masses on how a conservative should think and vote.
If a anyone has the audacity to vary from the proscribed marching orders they are considered a "traitor to the cause" and heaped with scorn and vile attacks. Attack is the only language they know.
Blasphemy!! Politically correct? Really? These conservative media types have mastered the art of guilt by accusation. It may not be true but it sure will stick.
Those political entertainers are not interested in the facts or truth.
They are concerned with maintaining their ratings, their audience and their profitability at the expense of what is good for this country. They will spin the truth to meet their own personal wealth and power goals.
When the war was in the tank Rush continued the line that everything was Okay. He has blindly supported this administration without question.
Until it didn't look good to his audience.
Ann Coulter, Medved, Laura Ingram slathering all over themselves about Bush being the greatest president since Reagan.
They have created an image of conservatism that portrays the little guy in the cornfield as the only true American. Anyone other than this contrived chracter is either a socialist or worse, a liberal.
Last time I checked there were Americans in New York city that voted Republican. There are Democrats in Wyoming.
The military has not started checking to see if you are an Republican American or a Leftist Commie Democratic American before you can serve your country.
Please continue to eat your own, it's fun to watch. |
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OK. I get it. You're online thesaurus is working. Now can you rewrite this in English so the rest of us illiterates can understand what the heck you said! |
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Better be careful. You may incur the wrath of the "Conservative Ideologues" who work in a multi-billion dollar industry that values the sensationalist and accusatory rather than the constructive.
This type of "my party or no party" is the real danger in America. As long as people on either side work to demonize their opponents nothing will happen for the good of the country.
Now watch what happens when they start reading this post. They will be coming out of the walls.
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My guess is they weren't really conservatives to begin with.
JoeSixpackAmerican isn't going to sit by anymore and just let influencers and politicians continue to do their damage without being called out. To quote, "we're mad as hell and we're not gonna take it anymore."
If you identify with JoeSixpackAmerican, express your opinion at http://www.JoeSixpackAmerican.com.
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That's a dangerous precedent. You shouldn't check your independent judgment at the door in allegiance to a party.
I was happy to see that Sarah Palin, the only conservative in this race, did well last night. However, it's undeniable that she struggled in the Couric interview. The SNL writers had to change virtually nothing in their skit about it.
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I've been struck by how the MSM has been STRONGLY suggesting that the election is over. It reminds me a lot of the 2000 election when the three main networks tried to manipulate the outcome of the election by suggesting that it was *over* so the western half of the country wouldn't come out and vote.
There is persuasive power in the constant drumbeat of the MSM upon the masses. My suggestion is turn off the pundits.
I talk to an elderly lady every week who is a registered democrat. She hasn't voted for a democrat since before Reagan. She doesn't recognize her party.
She told me someone from Obama's camp called her because she's a registered democrat. The caller was reminding her to vote for Obama. She respectfully said, 'Not until he changes his platform'.
The Obama caller said, "Thank you for not screaming at me. You are the first one who's been nice to me."
It sounds to me like a lot of democrats in fly-over country aren't going to vote for Obama. The MSM would never report that. Instead they report that conservatives are disillusioned with Palin.
That's not true, but if you mention it 900 trillion times a day, the hope is that it soon will be. |
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The Pundit Class will ALWAYS jump ship when the going gets tough at cocktail parties with fellow illiterati.
Palin made all of the naysayers look like witless fools last night.
BUT, will somebody please explain why M&P refuse to use the "smart bomb" of Obama's payola from Fannie and Freddie and the ACORNGATE, that connects Clinton, Frank, Dodd, Obama to tanking the Federal lending system as a means to purchase minority votes?
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She went from "Wannabe" to "Hasbeen" in a nanosecond...What a dopey "person" (read: Metrosexual)... |
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Try as hard as they might, Gov Palin's GOP defenders prove only the intellectual exhaustion of the right. It is pathetic -- almost tragic -- to see the once honorable party of Lincoln, Rockefeller and Goldwater reduced to talking points and missed points. Palin showed herself to be a vapid, coarse and shallow reflection of the GOP standard bearers of old. Even Ronald Reagan would have been embarrassed for her. I'm sorry ... call me an elitist, but she clearly did not even know what the expression "Achilles heel" meant, as she launched into a lengthy spin on the virtues of the Bush years and McCain's promise to continue them. Contrast her response with Biden's, who clearly understood that the moderator was asking about. For an old-timer like me, who once admired some of the intellectually respectable leaders of the right -- even when in disagreement, it is truly sad to see the GOP reduced to the ideologically blindered and academically challenged party of the likes of George W. Bush and Sarah Palin. Even John McCain, while no intellectual giant, seems sadly out of place in a party that has sunk to the level of Rush Limbaugh. |
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If "conservatives" don't know when to hold 'em and when to fold 'em, then the country's left with the lefty whirlybirds.
Reminds me of the 60's: it took quite awhile to unpack the difference between rejection among the young of the negative exceptions to American principles and rejection of American principles--in the name of "bettering", "progressing", "changing" our Constitutional Republic.
That rift has only deepened and widened with several decades more of the further indoctrination of our youth. That's what Jon Voight's WSJ piece recalled. It is misconstrued as mere "partisanship" that we're instructed to get beyond; but it is the firing line that we refuse to abandon. Steady on, worthy conservatives.
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I like George Will, but he disappointed this time. Kathleen Parker...eh...
Anyway, I did not account for the possibility of any conservative writer wetting his or her finger and pointing it to the sky. Those who did are rats...and they did jump ship...and, per Barbie, they can stay off this ship.
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I agree completely that any and all conservative writers who have either bailed on Sarah, or even suggested the notion, may very well want to log in and recheck their conservative credentials.
Sarah is a conservative, and for anyone to bail on her due simply to a coupla interviews speaks volumes about that individual's conservative convictions.
I am voting McCain/Palin not because of John McCain. Sarah changed the game, not only for me, but for many in this country.
I certainly hope that those on the left keep attacking her and belittling her. The unintended consequences of this could decide the election.
I would suggest to Matt Lewis to take the Sarah approach and keep it simple. |
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Yeah, you are a traitor to Reaganism if you claim to be "conservative" and ask Palin to step down.
Palin is the ONLY Conservative in the Race. To want a Mack the Knife Victory WITHOUT Palin is to buy into the Follow the Moderate Road to the Socialist Abyss Strategic McAin't is the Poster Boy for. It's to enable the agenda of marginalizing Reaganism to extinction in the GOP.
No thanks. I was voting "none of the above" by write-in here in the swing state of VA and will do so again if Palin is dumped. So if you are pushing it you ARE a traitor from my point of view, you have betrayed ME!
As far as Palin's supposed lack of qualification or experience or readyness for the Job.
Hey MORONS! What's the theme of the election?
Who's the ONLY one with an 80% approval rating for PRODUCING REFORM in GOVERNING!?!
What "experience" do the 3 Stooges Bring from the WORST GOVERNANCE in HISTORY???
80% Success to 9% FAILURE!!! An Order of MAGNITUDE BETTER SUCCESS, BETTER EXPERIENCE, BETTER PREPARED, BETTER PRODUCT! Morons!
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McCain is the issue and though he may be experienced (and what does experience in a politician mean anyway but the ability to connive) he is a royal jerk. He would bully and run roughshod over people if he were given the presidency. He would be considerate only to his liberal friends with whom he largely agrees. |
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And, yup, he's right again! |
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Agreed Recovered Lib. Frankly, Palin is overqualified for what the VP job entails and she's far more qualified to be President than obama. |
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"are NOT perfectly rosey"... |
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In today's "sound bite" society, it's not really all that suprising that these so-called "conservatives" are so quick to write off Sarah Palin. The minute things are perfectly rosey, it's: "Out with you!" We have zero patience in this country. We want our candidates to be perfect and correct ALL the time. Sarah Palin is raked over the coals by the MSM, the various leftist organizations and now some on the right. But is BO and Biden called to task for their numerous outrageous gaffes? NO!
For cryin' out loud, YOU take her place and see how it feels! Sarah IS a qualified candidate for VP.
BO Hussein is NOT qualified for President.
And God bless Rush. Tell it like it is, Rush! |
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Sorry, this has been an ongoing theme with Republicans. Outside of Rush, Ann Coulter, Hannity and a few others, there has been little of any defense of Bush. None in Washington that I know of. We could et to Brutus to John McCain and now he's getting a taste with Governor Palin of what the last 7 years that Bush had to endure. Mainly on his own. Republicans (probably myself included), rode the Palin bounce along with the 90% Bush approval rating that Bush had after 9/11. When the going gets tough though, the Republicans run and hide (in Washington, they pretend their Democrats). At the entire Republican convention, we did what the liberal media told us to do and distanced ourselves as far as we could from President Bush. Now, we're doing the same with Governor Palin. Hey, we could at least admit that we haven't been attacked since 9/11 on our homeland. I hope we don't but we deserve to loose. |
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hahahaaa....I have no clue why anybody even bothers listening to rush, the racist liar! isn't he a druggie?
palin- I listened to that radio interview, where she compared herself to 'joe six-pack'. I can hardly see her relating to 'joe six-pack' when she has 5 houses, 2 boats, 1 plane, and family income of $250,000 a year. the real joe six-pack (my neighbor) can barely afford his six-pack these days.
mccain- 7 houses, 13 cars, a sugar mama....yeah, he can really relate to the middle classs.
rush, palin, mccain....they're all liars.
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Anyone who's ever played a game of poker - especially high stakes poker - knows you do not reveal too much about the cards in your hands. If this turns out well for Gov. Palin tonight and I think it will, then George Will and Kathleen Parker can gracefully or ungracefuly bow out of the conservative writer's guild. When the going got tough, the rats jumped the ship - and they can stay off. |
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Sarah Palin will be fine
She has what it takes to Lead and execute her job.
She has had significant experience in Alaska and
has the temperment and personality to take on even more challenges.
The intelligenscia and elite liberals and Lame Stream folks - including the RINO's can critique
Sarah all they want.
The Woman has heart and spirit that wont quit or give up
Has integrity and honesty and God.
She will survive and this blown out of proportion
controversy will pass.
She is EXACTLY what we need
while most Democrats including Gwen Ifill have dismissed her as small town - small time
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As a Republican and a supporter of Sen McCane (vet) same as I am. The Obama crew is using all the media out lets to win. They use anything even if it not true. Now they have stated that if anyone in MN who makes a statement against Obama might face a lawsuit or arrest. He has even used a group of school kids to make a youtube video, singing his song of change.
You have to see this one.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gH-2Fwx5RU0&feature=related
History has away of repeating itself!
If you want McCane to win you are going to have to get out and use the same weapons of the media Obama uses. |
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[If Gov. Palin were...
...a man, think there would be as much animosity (and stupid questions) from the media and the liberals (to say nothing of the disappointed Romney supporters)?]
Yes.
Have you so soon forgotten the ghost of Dan Quayle. The treatment he got (often for far less policy related gaffes) is worse than any of the softball stuff that's been pitched at Palin. |
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As far as the interview with Hugh goes. It WAS a very short interview, just what was he supposed to do? Come out with both barrels blazing?
If Palin were a man and she said stupid things she would be Biden and the MSM would give her a pass. |
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If Palin were a man, we wouldnt be talking about her because he wouldn't have been chosen.
And if she were a he, he would have been laughed out of existence by now for the bizarre,incoherent and downright silly responses during 3 interviews.
Palin is being coddled, protected in a transparent and ridiculous fashion. Just look at Hughs pathetic interview the other day. Can you imagine him asking the same questions to Rudy or Romney? Heck no ~ |
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Sorry, I'm not an English major. :/
The way I looked at it it just seemed wrong. I guess I should have just left my statement to the advice of leaving the flowery rhetoric to Rush. Thanks for the correction.
Metastasizing means to spread (as in a cancer) not to change. Should he have written....
"On his popular radio show, conservative Sherpa Rush Limbaugh has recently been inveighing against the "conservative" panjandrum who have 'metamorphed' into nothing more than a bunch of skeevy scribblers who have quickly jumped ship on Sarah Palin." |
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in that first paragraph - jump ship. |
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she will if she gets the time. She needs to win and she needs a nanny. If she reads 2 or 3 magazine articles every day and THEN creates her own talking points - she then develops a frame of reference. She hasn't done this because she is working while raising a family - she's booked up. She knows her specific job - but not beyond that. In a few months - that will change dramatically.
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Kill the messenger thing. So lame. Just goes to show you that the right simply refers to their minions as automotons. Do as I say. Do not criticize. I will tell you what to think. No wonder the conservative movement is going down in a flaming wreck. |
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...a man, think there would be as much animosity (and stupid questions) from the media and the liberals (to say nothing of the disappointed Romney supporters)? |
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Angel writes: Thursday, October, 02, 2008 1:05 PM
Kathleen Parker
"Kathleen Parker is a third-tier Peggy Noonan wannabe. She bashed Palin for attention. Kathleen, you don't deserve your column. Please tell the syndicate that you need to spend more time with your family and stop writing your silly column."
ASLAN WRITES:
Angel is right! Kathleen Parker should step down as a syndicated columnist to spend more time with her kids, husband and all those pets she has....
Thanks Angel...never thought my prayers were answered that fast!!! hehehe!! Just shows you folks what prayers can do sometimes...hehehe! :O)
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"What about the question on the bailout?"
What about it?
"what about the ridiculous assertion that she has foreign policy experience because Russia is a neighbor of Alaska? (PS you can see alaska from about a few remote towns in Alaska, she ahs been to none, trade missions? she has been on NONE) Whomever in the McCain campaign tells her to keep pushing that is an idiot!"
I actually agree with this. But how does this disqualify her?
"Ignore reality to protect your ideology if you feel like it............at your own peril LOL"
Based on what facts do you allege that I ignore reality?
"I refuse to drink Kool aid and demonize people I disagree with. She made Couric look like a damn pro.........LOL"
Couric can be entertaining. But in regards to politics, she's tremendously biased. Go back and compare her interviews with liberals, moderates, and conservatives through the years. Couric only "looked" like a pro because the media (and CBS video editing) portrayed her as such.
"Its sad what happens sometimes when people fall in love..........they lose all sense of reality."
It's sad you don't have a sense of humor beyond repeating "Kool-Aid" a million times. But I digress...
"I am not trusting my country to a flimsy love affair who is clearly not ready."
I'm not trusting my country to a man who inspired Hillary Clinton to say: "I know Sen. McCain has a lifetime of experience that he will bring to the White House. And, Sen. Obama has a speech he gave in 2002."
Nuff said. |
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Become a genuine conservative, hahahaha! |
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Angel writes: Thursday, October, 02, 2008 1:05 PM
Kathleen Parker
"Kathleen Parker is a third-tier Peggy Noonan wannabe. She bashed Palin for attention. Kathleen, you don't deserve your column. Please tell the syndicate that you need to spend more time with your family and stop writing your silly column."
ASLAN WRITES:
I somehow felt that my prayers were being answered by an Angel...hehehe! But not this soon...just goes to show you folks!!!!
Angel is right! KATHLEEN PARKER should give up her syndicated columns and especially in my wifes hometown of Findlay, Ohio....I will be pushing it Kathleen...you can bet on it. You deserve to spend more time with your kids and your husband and ...........all those pets you have...hehehehe!! :O)
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McCain had to pick a female if he wanted a chance to win. Palin was a superb political pick, and still has value in rallying the base...but her interviews with Gibson/Couric were absolutely horrible. A breathtaking lack of knowledge; both breadth and depth.
But...the die is cast and she must remain on the ticket. After tonight's debate, McCain must keep Palin away from all interviews aside from softballs from Rep supporters. The criticism from the Left will be tremendous, but there's no choice.
And McCain continues to plummet in the polls. He pulled his team out of Michigan today! If he can't win MI with its 9% unemployment, Dem Governor, 2 Dem senators and corrupt Detroit mayor, then I don't think he can win at all. |
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**Folks...we are talking about Reagan Democrats too...Hillary tapped into that vein just as Bill Clinton did before her and thats how he won.
**Voter Registration surge in Ohio, Michigan, Pennsylvannia and Indiana among the Amish....already Obama's people are registering low income people for him and the Ohio Secretary of State just won a ruling from the Ohio State Court which makes it possible to register and vote the same day....now 34 days away from the election....we all know that she is a democrat and this is strictly to get more people to vote for Obama. Holmes county, Ohio has largest population of Amish is Ohio followed by Lancaster, Pennsylvania
**Let Sarah Campaign by herself too...........she brings in the crowds.........
**Voter guides........need to be in all the churches to let America know how the candidates voted on the Bail out and what their beliefs and votes are on Abortion.
THE LIBERALS ARE SCARED AS HELL OF SARAH !! EVEN THE ONES WHO WRITE FOR TOWNHALL.COM TOO !! I THINK ITS SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO FUNNY!!
**JOHN MCCAIN NEEDS TO STEP INTO THAT MAIN STREET TELEPHONE BOOTH AND BECOME THE MAVERICK...SUPER MAN OF MAIN STREET AMERICA!
**WE ALREADY KNOW THAT LADY SARAH IS WONDERWOMAN!! HEHEHE!! :o)
WATCH THE BAILOUT GO DOWN ON FRIDAY AND EVERYONE CALL YOUR CONGRESSMAN AND KEEP THE PRESSURE ON!
THIS ONE IS TRULY FOR THE GIPPER !!
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Gov Palin suddenly thinking her "special" baby needs more mommy time wouldn't be clearly seen as the desperate ploy it was, they are gullible enough to believe Obama's twaddle. |
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First of all, its obvious that the Liberals are scared as hell of Lady Sarah! Tonight she will rock tha house show America what she is made of.
If Mccain unleashes her she will FIGHT! She is the biggest and best weapon that Conservatism has as this moment and strangely enough...she is John McCains biggest and best weapon too!
If McCain wants to win he must do the following:
**reassert himself as the champion of Main Street and side with the Conservative House republicans against the Bailout Bill which we do not need. As Wendy stated on another post...this whopping 800 billion dollars is not for Wall Street or Main Street but rather for European Banks. The Bill will go down into defeat just as the Amnesty Bill went down to defeat. At that time, I was proud of Rush too because he stuck with us little guys and help squash it.
**Unleash Sarah and let Sarah be Sarah. Remember..Sarah stole everyones heart when she got off that plan....she was her true self. Shes a FIGHTER!!!!
**McCain needs to help restore the American Dream for America. He needs to listen to what Bill Clinton is saying too because Bill Clinton is actually talking truth to power when it comes to Main Street America.
**Dance with the folks what brung you! If he is elected...don't go up their to the White House and forget about all of us.
**Give credit to God! For God is the ultimate ruler and in all things give him credit in hard times as well as good times.
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Sure, I've got nothing better to do than go on TH for a year and pose as a conservtive so that I can object to a VP pick I had no idea was coming.
But just keep those eyes and ears closed, it's working out real well! Me, I prefer McCain makes a bold move and we suddenly find that Palin needs to be with her special baby.
It's not too late.
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someone please ban the racist crazies from these postings! elections always bring out the crazies from both ends........
Thank you
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What about the question on the bailout? what about the ridiculous assertion that she has foreign policy experience because Russia is a neighbor of Alaska? (PS you can see alaska from about a few remote towns in Alaska, she ahs been to none, trade missions? she has been on NONE) Whomever in the McCain campaign tells her to keep pushing that is an idiot!
Ignore reality to protect your ideology if you feel like it............at your own peril LOL I refuse to drink Kool aid and demonize people I disagree with. She made Couric look like a damn pro.........LOL
Its sad what happens sometimes when people fall in love..........they lose all sense of reality.
I am not trusting my country to a flimsy love affair who is clearly not ready.
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I support Palin, and I believe that her detractors are all Moron's, maybe not a dumb as Olbermann, but getting there.
So Palin isn't good at doing interviews. Big deal. Perhaps she should have had the Interviewers submit their questions in advance like most Dems do. As it is, the MSM doesn't like her, well, let's just say that they prefer Obama. That said, they're going to give her "gotcha" quesstions that they wouldn't give Obama. Heck, they haven't even vetter him yet.
I'll tell you this. The Vast majority of American's can care less if Palin can pick out a Supreme Court stand that she didn't like. I sure as heck don't, and as mentioned above, she's not a Lawyer . . . which IS a good thing. I think that one of the main problems with this country is the Lawyers. The U.S. probably has more Lawyers per capita than any other profession, 1 for every 265 folks. How many of them are in Politics? How many of them are the cause of High Insurance costs, and High healthcare costs? Yea. Get the picture.
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Took real guts to put her on the ticket. I, and many other "regular" Americans thank you John McCain.
All we want is for someone to be genuine, to be "real". Someone who lives life like we do, who strives to get ahead, works hard, is loyal to country and countrymen.
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of your candidate but a totally different thing to join the attack. If someone is prepared to accept an unqualified Presidential candidate like Obama because they think Gov Palin is unqualified to be the VP it makes me wonder if they really aren't a troll astroturffing for votes.
Exactly what purpose does attacking Gov Palin serve other than encouraging leaners to vote for Obama? Does anyone actually think there would be positive consequences if Palin dropped out?
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Kathleen Parker is a third-tier Peggy Noonan wannabe. She bashed Palin for attention. Kathleen, you don't deserve your column. Please tell the syndicate that you need to spend more time with your family and stop writing your silly column. |
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I suspect most folks never heard of The Man in the Arena, but T. Roosevelt and J. Kennedy did -- Kennedy used it in a speech at one time. Basically, it has to do with lesser folks critizing folks who are actually doing/done something.
Any Delta Alpha can critique anybody -- even a better person. Notice the talking heads -- virtually all of 'em -- saying what Sarah should do in the VP debate. As if right thinking person gives two whoops in hell what the media thinks. The person who believes the opinion section in newspapers or talking heads on TV rank with mentally-retarded, three-toed sloths in brain power.
I won't say that Obama will not be elected because it is a possibility. Why? Because there are folks in this country ignorant enough to vote for a political party, rather than a person. Both parties have good folks -- and bad folks. Obama's background as a highly educated chicago ward heeler who trained ACORN folks to protest in banks and harass bank employees at their homes is enough to turn me off. ACORN is one of the prime movers in the problems with Fanny Mae/Mac -- they shamed banks into making housing loans to folks who couldn't have qualified to buy a broken motor scooter!
Sarah did a lot of good in Alaksa. I heard last night (on CNN?) that she greatly increased funding for education and health -- never heard that before. She also stashed seven billion Yankee Green Dollars in the kitty even though oil money was flowing into the state. She understands "saving for a rainy day." I doubt that any of the fern bar media folks who bad mouthed her understand that -- and I can't think of any POL. who understands that either. |
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WHAT THEY SAID ABOUT FAN AND FRED: The Wall Street Journal rounds up some pre-meltdown quotes on Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac from the likes of Barney Frank, Maxine Waters, and Charles Schumer. My favorite: "Rep. Frank: I do think I do not want the same kind of focus on safety and soundness that we have in OCC [Office of the Comptroller of the Currency] and OTS [Office of Thrift Supervision]. I want to roll the dice a little bit more in this situation towards subsidized housing."
Well, roll the dice we did . . . .
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Lady Sarah is a Class Act!!!
Okay, I don't agree with you guys on this Fabian Socialist Globalist stuff but one thing I can agree with you on is Lady Sarah Palin.
Sarah is not a product of Washington D.C. and this is precisely why I like her.
Think about this: Abraham Lincoln is regarded by many as America's greatest president who has written words that will live for generations and I don't think he ever travelled to any foreign country during his lifetime. In fact, I don't think he knew anything about foreign policy but rather was born in the Kentucky back woods and later moved to illinois.
Abraham Lincoln walked to school and was determined to get his law degree. He split log rails and did all kinds of stuff that the common folk could identify with. He never travelled afar like Jefferson, Adams, or Franklin and didnt speak another language yet there was something about this man.
Sarah Palin is a genuine lady who has genuine beliefs. This is precisely why the news media wanted to interview her was so they could denounce her. They have been unable to denounce Sarah because they have not been able to get an interview with her so they could edit and turn her words around and use them against her. This is why they all had such a hissy fit about not being able to get to her...
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Thanks. But actually, I was not responding to anyone in this thread in particular. I was talking to the conservative writers with the chance of their reading it at some point.
Getho: It was a bad interview. But the DISASTER was Katie Couric's questions. If Couric would have asked me where I get my news from, I would have said, "Oh yes, Katie. I'm one of the FOUR people who watch your show. I watch it all the time! *smile* ).
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Words matter? How about these words?
“I guarantee you, Barack Obama ain’t taking my shotguns, so don’t buy that malarkey,” Biden said angrily. “They’re going to start peddling that to you.”
“I got two, if he tries to fool with my Beretta, he’s got a problem.”
Or these: "G-d Damn America! G-d Damn America! G-d Damn the U.S. of KKK-A! The white man's greed runs a world in need!" |
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I'm a registered Republican, I'd describe myself as right-leaning centrist (very similar to McCain ideologically)...and I guess I disagree. I don't think I have any particular duty to "get behind" someone I don't think is a good choice. This is a point Mark Levin has made several times on his show, as well as Rush, ironically. I don't think any purpose is served by people supporting someone they don't particularly support in their minds or hearts. I like McCain, will vote for him, but I think Palin was a bad choice. I think it was a gamble that paid off initially, but all the attention to things that don't really matter will turn out to have been a distraction when everything is said and done. I really doubt if he had picked Pawlenty, for instance, that a month after the pick there would even be this discussion going on. It wastes campaign energy. To me, the first rule of a VP pick is "do no harm". It seems that McCain chose instead to swing for the fences, and I think that choice was, admittedly in hindsight, not wise. |
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Hutchinson would of been a way better pick! but I guess she no shiny enough..........its such a slap in the face to all the qualified women in the republican party! I know they are soldiering on now.........but I know they got that permanent hand print on their cheeks.....hiding it with make up(political necessity) I guess. |
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Don't believe PC. PC isn't a conservative, neither does PC "love Rush". At best, PC might be a neocon.
My guess? PC is just another Obama sycophant like OR Elephant playing an agent provocateur.
However, how weak is John McCain to be in a position in which his VP may save his election? Palin could advocate the murder of people with blonde hair which would for sure cost them the election, but McCain by himself would have lost it anyway.
All Palin has to do is NOT call for the murder of towheads, and McCain is no better or worse off than he'd of been otherwise.
OMT: Romney? Class warfare arguments are used because they work. Todd Palin's 401K took a hit this week, is there any doubt that this connects better coming from Palin than Romney? |
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"one bad inteview" RFLOL
I have had bad interviews lol this was a disaster. Again, it showed not just nervousness and lack of political know how.....it showed a baffling lack of knowledge, coherence (cant even string verbs and nouns) and a shocking lack of intellectual curiousity (if you are running for this position please tell me you have at least pondered on the major issues of the day)!
Did you even see the couric interview(disaster)? such easy questions......such jarring answers.
Get real people! Put the Kook Aid down! its embarassing! |
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The left (and all the Moveon morons) have been pushing for McCain to push Palin aside from the first day -- okay maybe the second. Even a few conservatives suggesting Palin's dismissal plays well to their base. (the writer was wise for not linking to it) Who can trust McCain's second pick as much? (Lieberman)
The left always wants to pick the Republicans' candidates. I don't support McCain, but Palin is getting a real bum rap -- now from both sides, just the way the left wants it. |
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For God's sake people... what do you expect from a woman that has been thrown into the biggest political battle this country has ever seen? I think she is going to be fantastic. Do YOU know everything there is to know about the Supreme Court? No you don't, and what does it matter anyway?
And her war experience has absolutely nothing to do with how she and John McCain will turn this country around. Yeah, we're in the middle of a huge mess that George Bush got us into, and now somebody has to clean it up. I would much rather see an experienced war vet in office, than some Islamic African idiot, that is bent on selling us out to the Arabs!
And Obama's so-called "change" means that every African in this country will be driving a brand new automobile that most "middle class" White people can't afford. But then we don't have the government paying for OUR cars either!
If you are of the White race, and you vote for that radical Islamic African, you should be run out of this country, and sent to Africa, or any place that ends with "stan"!!
If "Osama bin 'Bama" gets elected because of the Bleeding-Heart "White" vote, then this country truly IS done for. I will get on the first available plane outta here, and head to Belgium where WHITE people still live!
I'm not a Bible thumper, but I suggest you grab that Bible, and pray real hard that it doesn't turn into the Koran come January! If Barack Obama is elected to the Presidency of this once proud and powerful country, we are in for the awakening of our lifetimes. And it ain't gonna be pretty. |
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oblama was a bumbling idiot when he first ventured out on the campign trail and sloe-joe-biden still is. oblama now has two years of practice and the improvement is obvious.
The point being, if you are a Conservative or a Republican, Governor Palin is our nominee. Give her the support she needs and the benefit of the doubt she deserves. I don't think Sarah will require two years to get up to speed.
If you're not a Conservative or Republican, then be honest and say so. The candidate of corruption and dishonesty is on the left!
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I won't sink to your level by name-calling. There's a reason many politicians are lawyers...they're good with words. Words are a politician's tools. Most of the presidents we remember, said memorable things. In other words, eloquence matters. And no, I'm not an Obama sycophant any more than Bill Kristol, editor of the Weekly Standard, son of one of the conservative movement's pioneers, who called Obama one of the most amazing politicians he's ever seen, and that conservatives underestimate him at their peril.
The bottom line is in the polls and the results. I don't agree with Obama about much of anything and would never vote for him, but does anyone seriously think Sarah Palin could have negotiated competing against the Clintons...and won?
Does anyone seriously think she is better suited to VP than Mitt Romney, or Tim Pawlenty, or Rudy Giuliani? Or Fred Thompson, or Mike Huckabee, or a dozen other people? |
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This has been a targeted campaign to rid Washington of ALL conservatives from day one! You guys nominated a TROJAN HORSE DEMOCRAT to head your ticket for God's sake! Palin is now going to take the blame for McCain's catastrophic landslide loss? Release your nose's already! McCain and the entire liberal GOP leadership is THE problem! Palin is the ultimate "throw all conservatives under the Straight Talk Express bus victim! |
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I am really proud that Rush came up to the Plate and decided to go to bat for small town America. He hit this one out of the Ball Park!
I remember on several occassions when I met Rush here in Atlanta and on one occassion I helped him catch up with a three legged dog that got loose...hehehe....
Rush is a very decent and down to earth person if you meet him in person....and funny too! I have not always agreed with him but his ability to change his mind on things is one of his great strengths and is a sign of great leadership and thats actually one thing he and Sarah Palin have in common. Its not flip-flopping...its changing your mind in the heat of battle to do what is right! This is one sign of true Leadership! Don't forget about that awful column Steve Chapman wrote on Townhall.com too. :O)
I am proud of you today Rush! Great Job....
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I write much of it off to so-called conservatives buying propaganda the left packages every day. It eventually seeps in till one day you have a room full of stench. |
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I respect every writer's right to free speech, so long as they adhere to journalistic integrity. What I take issue with the conservatives who no longer back Palin is that the issue has NEVER been about how well a candidate talks.
Every politican talks. Some talk better than others. Obama is a great talker. Biden is hit and miss with his never-ending gaffes, but he is a talker. McCain isn't all that great a talker, but he does it. Palin clearly proved she has the ability to blow everyone away, whether they like her positions or not.
But conservatives are not voting for Palin because she can talk. Talk, as we all know, is cheap. They're voting for her because of her RECORD. For those of us who place our confidence in the Bible, it's rightly said: "You shall know them by their FRUITS."
Obama= no worthy record as a politican, and bad judgement as a community organizer.
Biden= lots of experience...of being WRONG numerous, numerous times.
McCain= hit and miss. And his character-forging in the military is untouchable.
Palin= has a record, after record, after record of successes.
So I'm supposed to abandon Palin because she had a bad interview? Are you handful of conservative naysayers serious? |
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Have for 18 years. But his no questions asked support for the "babe" from day one was over the top.
I understand it's important to win this election, but not at the expense of propping up and ignoring the obvious flaws of an unqualified candidate.
McCain made a huge mistake in the selection of Palin and we're going to have to deal with it. It's not too late to dump her if she stumbles again tonight. |
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"Keep in mind, there is a vast difference between asking a conservative to be blindly loyal to the GOP -- something neither Rush or I would suggest -- and asking a conservative to simply not become a liberal. In my estimation, Limbaugh is rightly doing the latter."
What hilarious hogwash. Gradually and increasingly during the past 8 years, any Conservative who came on this board and argued conservative principles has been called a liberal.
The fact that Ron Paul, a bedrock Conservative, was labeled a kook says it all.
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...because it was El Limbo himself who most pushed for the Palin pick -- despite her obvious lack of qualifications. In essence, Rush's ego is in the way of reality again and he's going to take it out on all those "fake" conservatives. Bring it! |
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Even after Rush admits to "carrying water" for the GOP and its bad choices, he comes out attacking those who maybe kinda sorta don't have the same drug-addled insight as this hypocritical dough boy.
But boy, Lewis is on his knees for Rush. I love it. |
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"I can guarantee you if he was asked the supreme court question, he could have come up with a well-articulated, thought-out answer."
He's a lawyer. Ask him a question about energy and he says things like "I'm not opposed to nuclear waste!" Oops. If a Republican had said that...
I've seen your comments on TH before. You are not a conservative or a Republican. You are an Obama sycophant and a liar.
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I have been trying to get the exact same message across to the writers at National Review Online. Perhaps more people need to read Teddy Roosevelt's "The Man in the Arena".
McCain and Palin have enough troubles fighting the Left wing media why does the Right wing media want to join in? |
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Just drink the Kool-Aid, folks.
Mmmm... Grape with a hint of almond. My favorite!
Don't question the choices of your leaders. They know best.
Palin is immensely qualified to be President, and anyone who disagrees is just a no-good, dirty, latte sipping, teh gay marriage lovin', leftie, Commie, Muslim Hippie, darn it.
Drink it. Drink it now! |
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crying for Hillary to resign as well because she was a threat to Obama. I also seem to recall that with all the hyping for Hillary to resign all it did was re-inforce people to support her.
Is there some reverse psychology going on here? I don't recall anyone telling Obama to resign when in fact he should be the FIRST to resign. If we could get Fitzgerald to investigate Obama I feel sure he would get an indictment against Obama.
Some of the "conservatives" calling for Palin to resign must be afraid when McCain names names their cronies will be in the mix first. |
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Rush is 100% correct! We live in the era of 24/7 media and although we conservatives have been able to combat much of the liberal media bias via the internet, it still does exist. America loves Sarah Palin. One bad interview and the liberals and the fake conservative writers are calling for her head. Sarah has more experience than Obama and has actual accomplishments as well.
This election since the last week in August has gone from in the bag for Obama to likely McCain and now back to in the bag for Obama.
This past week has been Obama's best week yet. There is nowhere for him to go from here but down. This is going to be a close election once again.
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Thats right attack people who don't toe the line!
This is pretty disgusting! I am ashamed by the demonizing of people who just the other day you would quote and praise.
This is a tunnel vision that is pervading the conservative movement right now. Conservatism is being held ransom by zealots who look down on anyone who thinks and does not agree with them 100%.....this is truly Un-American!
I have seen no one refute coherently and without spitting ridiculous venom the arguments made by the so called "judas".........instead they have relied on ad hominen attacks!
Truly disgusting! If you disagree with their assesments fine..........don't demonize people just because they come to different conclusions then you. And frankly speaking.........Palin's performance in which she shows a baffling lack of knowledge, coherence and intellectual curiosity has contributed to these people's assesments. They did not come to their opinions in a vacuum.
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a writer is not a traitor to conservatism just because they disagree with you. This cannibalistic behavior has got to stop. Are you also going to rip into George Will, who is as true a conservative in the Burkean sense as there is?
Here is my take: I agree with Palin on most issues. She is definitely a good conservative. She's also woefully unqualified to be president (or vice president). The difference between her and Obama isn't experience...they're both fairly inexperienced. But Obama has command of the issues...I can guarantee you if he was asked the supreme court question, he could have come up with a well-articulated, thought-out answer. She mumbled and looked lost. That's why she is a terrible nominee. If you're a politician and you can't stand up for yourself in a hostile environment and look good doing it, you don't belong. She doesn't belong. |
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panjandrum: a powerful personage or pretentious official. M-W Online Dictionary.
Matt your first paragraph is a mish-mash of mixed metaphors. I mean, I agree with you but leave the flowery rhetoric to Rush. |
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