The GOP's Natural

As an independent that leaned with the Dems, I got put off during the Democratic primary by the sexism displayed by the Obama supporters and the dems in general. How nasty it turned out to be. the media too piling on with their grade A sexism. This of course done by liberals. As I watched last night at the Republican delegates, men and women, I was taken by their focus on Sarah. When interviewed they were genuinely impressed by her charm and fighting spirit., unlike the dems who supported Obama who would have been derogatory and alluded to Hillary with the "b" word. Not only have the liberals proved to the world that they are sexist, they now show their negative colors about age. All of a sudden experience is important to the second spot on the ticket but not the first. What logic! Well, Obama with no experience has Biden. McCain with experience is old and may not finish his term so experience is important for Palin. With a 96 year old mother, McCain's odds of finishing out his term are as good as any candidate's. Palin will learn more from working with mcCain in one year than Obama will learn from the 3000 people he needs to talk to before he makes an informed decision. Dems move over. You are showing your true colors and it is not pleasant. Yopur socialistic platform is retro and doesn't promote wealth and prosperity amongst the middle class. Your same old song sounded refreshing after listening to Bush for 8 years, but now that we have a space between the media and Bush, your same old song i has been playing too long. It's a broken record.

REPUBLICANS:



Proclaim - "Left wing" media sexism on Palin
Reality - Audience members wearing "hottie" VP buttons


Proclaim - "We're going to shake up the establishment"
Reality - Isn't McCain the establishment?


Proclaim - Palin's "personal" issues should be private.
Reality - Spend $40 million on a Starr report into BC "personal" life


Proclaim - We're the party of family values, country first, and God.
Reality - Selective memory/unconditional forgiveness when it comes to their members and condemn all others.


Proclaim - Palin: "I guess a small-town mayor is sort of like a ???community organizer,??? except that you have actual responsibilities."
Reality - Do I really need to explain this one?


Proclaim - Palin has more experience than Obama/Biden.
Reality - Passing ordinances for "Moose X-ings" doesn't count


Proclaim - McCain is the change we need in Washington.
Reality - McCain + GW = McSame





p.s. The 80's called. They want their convention back! :)

So she came off as a hero to the far-right conservative base. She came off as a smug, smarmy, well (i dont give a f*ck if it's not pc, cause this is America), bitch to the people already in Obama's camp. The funniest thing is that it made no effort to speak to those in the middle, except to say, "what are you waiting for idiot, John McCain is better, only a fool would vote for OBAMA!!". I'm sorry, but I didnt hear anything about Obama that i hadnt heard before, or McCain, or Palin for that matter. It was basically spit on Obama's life night for the GOP. How does pissing on the work of Community Organizers and volunteers help anyone, and how did it draw laughs? "HAHA, helping the poor, how utterly foolish. Say old bean, would you like to join me in a polo match tommorow?" . There was nothing in any of the speeches that said what John McCain planned to do for the country; hel, even the "specifics" were: cut taxes, create jobs, win the war, defeat terrorism, drill for energy independence. F.Y.I, those arent specifics, they're talking points. So other than establishing that the defeated primary guys and the "hockey mom" know John McCain was a POW, and they don't like Obama, and scoff at every act in his life, while at the same time swiping at his wife, what was the message?

The genius of the Palin pick is that Obama's defenders are now trying to prove that he is more qualified than her, since he can't prove that he's more qualified than McCain. Achilles22: You're seriously suggesting that Obama's experience as a campaigner is what makes him qualified to be President ("for those complaining about Obama's lack of experience as a counter agrument to this valid argument - he has campaigned for 20 months and earned the nomination")? Seriously? The fact that he spent 20+ months of the 46+ months as a Senator on the campaign trail proves that he is experienced enough to hold the top executive office in the country? That's bold! And even by that measure, Palin beats him - she's already won not only a nomination to an executive office, she's won an election! She's been governing almost as long as he's been campaigning!

Of course, his inexperience is not as troubling as his disingenuousness.
* He proposes raising taxes and handing out money to people who don't pay taxes, then calls it "cutting taxes". He needs to either (a) get comfortable with the idea of raising taxes and redistributing wealth and not mislabel it as a tax cut, or (b) needs to propose an actual tax cut instead of an increase.
* He talks about post-partisanship and new politics, even though his record is coming straight through the Chicago Political Machine without ever challenging it, and then voting on straight party lines as a legislator (when he bothered to attend and vote or to attend and vote something other than "Present"). That's not post-poartisanship and it's not leadership. If he believes in old-school politics and liberal orthodoxy, he should proudly say so, instead of pretending to be something he isn't.
* In the primaries, he ran hard as being an unwavering opponent of the war in Iraq and being committed to immediately withdrawing troops, but in the campaign he is changing his position on keeping the troops in Iraq (not to mention immunity for telecom companies that helped the government investigate terrorists).
* He talked big about unilaterally renegotiating NAFTA, while sending his economic advisor to reassure the Canadians that he was just saying what he thought he needed to say to get elected, and then telling the labor unions that he was just misleading the Canadians because he was really really serious about dramatically reducing free trade.

Palin is not perfect. Neither is McCain. But Obama is inexperienced, more concerned with campaigning than governing, and willing to say anything to get elected. Which is he? A hardcore liberal who is lying about the policies he will pursue as President, or a committed post-partisan moderate who has been unwilling to challenge his Democratic Party on any serious legislative vote in his 12 years of state and federal office? His rhetoric doesn't match his reality, and that's either scary or sad.

REPUBLICANS:



Proclaim - "Left wing" media sexism on Palin
Reality - Audience members wearing "hottie" VP buttons


Proclaim - "We're going to shake up the establishment"
Reality - Isn't McCain the establishment?


Proclaim - Palin's "personal" issues should be private.
Reality - Spend $40 million on a Starr report into BC "personal" life


Proclaim - We're the party of family values, country first, and God.
Reality - Selective memory/unconditional forgiveness when it comes to their members and condemn all others.


Proclaim - Palin: "I guess a small-town mayor is sort of like a ???community organizer,??? except that you have actual responsibilities."
Reality - Do I really need to explain this one?


Proclaim - Palin has more experience than Obama/Biden.
Reality - Passing ordinances for "Moose X-ings" doesn't count


Proclaim - McCain is the change we need in Washington.
Reality - McCain + GW = McSame





p.s. The 80's called. They want their convention back! :)

JMont: McCain did something when he was 26. He got shot down then beat up by those he was bombing. I might just do the same if I was being bombed. Nothing much else ever since. He's a cancer patient, 72 and didn't know there was a country between Iraq and Afghanastan. He picked a Sportscaster, Governor who's into big oil's pocket and you call it experience & wisdom. Good thing there's an election in November.

Beyond the Palin

When Palin can win a national primary (over a political dynasty no less), then she will have the standing and credibility to be mentioned in the same breath with Obama. This woman is not anywhere near the most qualified person to be tapped for the VP slot. Again, for those complaining about Obama's lack of experience as a counter agrument to this valid argument - he has campaigned for 20 months and earned the nomination with over 18 million votes from the American people (not to mention an 11 year record as a State and U.S. Senator from a state with an actual population to manage).

Sarah Palin is no leader of a movement - she was Governor of Alaska for 18 months - which is the equivalent of a kid running a lemonade stand and claiming to have the experience to run Wal-Mart. How many states could she win in a primary?

She was abrasive at best last night, and showed she could effectively read a teleprompter. The fact these Republicans can actually (pretend to) get behind her exposes a far more troubling issue for them; Poor judgement and desperation. In private, they freely admit that this was terrible for this campaign but are playing the only cards they have - Culture wars, Fear, and running to the right.

It saddens me that McCain has turned in to such a sad, old puppet of the right. How could he name her as VP when he's met her once? Judgement? Country First? Really? One heartbeat away from the leader of the free world? Cute story, but let's get back to reality folks. The Republicans should be ashamed of themselves, and have lost any credibility they might have been clinging to.

As far as the sexism claims - please get real. If She wants to throw her 19 year old heading to Iraq in our face, and her special needs baby, then she will need to field questions about her pregnant daughter as well when she wants to ban sex education......So I say to her stop using the kids and the media will stop asking, which is as it should be.

The only thing more pathetic than Palin being named is that so many will actually vote for these clowns.

Palin and these goons don't think we're stupid............They know we are.

Obama / Biden 2008

I think the "double standard" by the Media, and Jeremy McCarter is comical. Mr. McCarter states in his article, "How will the nation deal with somebody like this, a politician who addresses the multitudes while her six-year-old licks her palm to smooth the hair of the special-needs four-month-old right offstage?" And "How much deeper in the insult barrel will Palin reach? There was no mention, for instance, of Obama's snoring." McCarter states that Palin is snarking Obama, but yet, when McCarter does it to Palin, it's considered "unbiased, good journalism". Why?? That's not unbiased, good journalism: that's a liberal media who's furious that she's everything they wish Obama was and isn't! The so-called "unbiased" media is leaning so far left, they're practically horizontal! And where is the NOW group? They're strangely silent thru all of this! If all they're for is women, then why aren't they supporting Palin? One last thing.....Palin got where she is on her OWN merit! The only reason anybody knows anything about Hillary, is because she's
married to Bill. Do you think anybody would've voted for her if she'd run for office before Bill became President?

Okay, so she's a competent public speaker. Whoopie. Isn't that what the GOP has accused Obama of being? Just a good speaker? Everyday, the GOP does something to kill one of their own arguments against the Democratic candidates. Nice work...

3k to say this in?

In short, Sarah Palin is a place holder. A ???bright shiny thing??? to distract and draw fire and to make everyone who opposes her look bad. For shame on anyone who attacks this hard working mother of five. One a soldier, another an infant with a terrible a malady, and yet another who has made a terrible mistake but will be doing the right thing. All fantastic fodder for the media machine. Get it while you can, she will not be around long. At least not in the role of VP nominee.

I may be wrong, but I have a lot of money riding on the fact that in a few short weeks, Sarah Palin will step up to the microphone and step down from the position of the VP nominee. It may be because her young son, three month old Trig needs his mother???s time. Maybe it is because her 17 year old daughter will need her mother during this very trying time of teen pregnancy. It may even be that as a good woman of strong family values, her family is more important than the position as Vice President of the United States. It might be a combo of all three, which still would not have stopped her from being an excellent VP, but the constant attacks of the press have just worn her down, (Bad Media, go lie by your dish!!) and this good family woman just needs to have priorities.

Boy oh boy. Governor Palin stepping down is sure going to put presidential nominee John McCain in a tight spot. He is going to need a new running mate, stat!! And I suspect Senator McCain will step up to the plate with a rapid replacement. It may not be some one he would have chosen originally, he/she may not be what the party wanted. But time is short, and this person is a damned good option at the last minute.

I am putting my money on Senator Joe Lieberman from Connecticut. You know, that independent politician who has plenty of experience. He was incredibly supportive of John McCain at the convention a few days ago. Heck, he even has experience running for Vice President of the United States. He did it in 2000 on the democratic ticket, and we all know how close that election was.

So if it is Senator Joe Lieberman, the detractors of the republican ticket can no longer play the ???lack of experience??? card on the VP nominee. Not only that, Senator Joe will likely carry a lot more of the undecided democrat votes with him than a little known Governor of a sparsely populated state.

In the end, I have not yet made my decision on who I will cast my vote for this year, I am holding off until I see who our true choice is for the Republican ticket.

One final comment to the left, right, and center. Back off with the negative comments and attacks on Governor Palin. If they continue, she will be so busy responding with righteous indignation that we will never get a chance to see who she really is in the time she has to show us. Be kind and give her that brief moment in the sun.

With all that being said, this is a wrap.

Douglas Sonora

"Star power to match Obama's" - excuse me - there is NO comparison between someone who barely has an undergraduate degree and someone who went to Harvard Law and graduated at the top of his class and was the president of the Harvard Review! He got there, remember, and it doesn't happen to people who barely have undergrad degrees. Her rhetoric was predictable, boiler-plate, anyone could have written that speech, with it's low inuendos and absolute lies, broad brush strokes with no explanations!

As a writer, please don't compromise yourself in this way by comparing prize apples with under developed fruit and an underachiever!