The GOP's Natural

Palin's attack dog speech might energize the rabid, ultraconservative GOP base, but it's not going to win over many indpendent and undecided voters. Perhaps my hearing is not quite waht it used to be, but I missed anything in Palin's speech about health care, the economy, loss of jobs, the mortage mess, etc. These issues matters to average, working class Americans but not to the GOP's core of big business and wealth.

I found the sarcasm very off putting and petty. I really did not her snarky put down of community organisers. I do not relate to her as a woman. She makes Hillary look ans sound fabulous - Hillary is in a different class than this shrill, self serving small town mayor, who has had the good fortune to govern a very wealthy state with a very small population for less than 2 years. I hate the way this race is developing. The choice of Sarah Palin points to a lack of judgement on John McCain's part, and an eagerness to embrace the most unpleasant and unproductive type of campaigning. This choice is not good for America.

As an independent voter in Ohio who still hasn't decided, I thought Palin did a good job at showing the contrast between McCain and Obama when she said, "Some use CHANGE to promote their careers, while McCain has used his career to promote change." After watching Palin's speech, I have to believe Biden is shaking in his boots thinking about their debate. I believe she will eat him alive!

I had hoped that with all of the comments of "freshness" and "down home" that we would get something different. Instead we get the same old mean-spirited attacking and belittling at which the Republican party has come to excel. Humiliate your oppopnent by half-truth and caricature, and you yourself somehow look better. What happened to Mr. McCain's desire to transcend partisan politics and reach across the aisle to work together. The only reach across the aisle here was to flip the other side the bird. Still, one can't help but smile when Ms. Palin talks about tackling corruption and the old guard political process. Don't those cheering nabobs understand that she will be going after Republicans as well as the other patry. She did feast on Republican flesh in Alaska, you know...

Democratic leadership under Barack Obama wanted to cut and run in Iraq now today and just before our successful surge, just as Democratic leadership wanted to cut and run in Vietnam before our 1200 POWs came home in 1973. John McCain realizes he would not be here today if the Democratic leadership had their way back in 1972. Because he spent early years in Indonesia, Barack Obama may not be the Democratic Presidential candidate today but for our efforts in Vietnam in 1972. Richard Nixon a former Navy officer who served before John McCain years in the Navy understood that North Vietnam never returned any of the captured French POWs after their defeat at Dien Bien Phu in 1954. Only the week long bombings of Hanoi including Christmas day in 1972 with our B52 bombers finally convinced North Vietnam that we wanted our 1200 POWs back now. The bombings also convinced the South Vietnamese that we would support them in the future under the Paris Peace Talks agreement. Although the United States lost in Vietnam are efforts there gave other countries time to develop their fragile democracies. Indonesia today is a democratic country today that is friendly to the United States and has a population of nearly two hundred million people, the fourth largest in the world. Barack Obama spent his early childhood in Indonesia attending school with his mother and step-father during the time of the Vietnam War. It has been reported that the former President of Indonesia stated that our efforts in Vietnam although we lost allowed Indonesia to fight off communism and develop as a democratic country. Our efforts in Vietnam bought Indonesia time. Barack Obama could have been caught up in a communist insurrection in Indonesia during his early childhood if the United States had cut and run and had not tried to slow or stop a rapid North Vietnam takeover of South Vietnam. All of Southeast Asia including Indonesia could have rapidly gone Communist if the United States did not at least make a stand to resist the rapid expansion of communism and stand by our ally South Vietnam. Ironicallly both John McCain and Barack Obama would not be the men they are today and John McCain would not be here if we had followed Democratic leadership to cut and run in Vietnam before our POWs were returned.

The speech was well done and it is obvious Governor Palin enjoys the opportunity to counterpunch. My problem is that I already know she doesn't like Senator Obama so the sarcasm was lost on me. I want to know how you are going to help me combat the rising cost of health care. Senator McCain says everyone has access to health care in the emergency ward. That is small comfort to a stroke survivor. I am also concerned about the rabid pro-lifers (not in Iraq I notice). Small government is a good concept but it is hard to imagine a larger government than one that wishes to enter my body. Now that all that is off her chest, please tell me what you will do for middle-class American.

I get really tired of people talking about how Barack Obama stands for change. The only change Obama stands for is MORE socialism, MORE government interference, and LESS liberty, which, excluding the socialism, is exactly what Bush stood for - MORE fredom for government, and LESS freedom for individuals (and states and local governments). Obama may stand for change, but it's not change for the better. And before some snarky Obama suporter tells me that conservatives have been in charge for 8 years, I want to note that Bush has definitely accomplished change for the worse, and none of it has involved Constitutional, limited government. It has instead involved massive government spending and intrusion into the lives of individuals at home and abroad, which is exactly what Obama has to offer and calls "change".

It's time to wise up. Obama isn't going to repeal the Patriot Act - he likes it, though he would never admit. As evidence, witness his vote FOR the FISA revisions in whihc he not only gave telcos immunity for warrantless wiretapping, he removed or weakened statutory provisions that protected citizens from surveillance by police. Under this bill, the President could have all the benefits of Waergate with no risk. Approved by Obama!

Sarah Palin isn't perfect - I'd rather vote for Ron Paul. But at least she's an individualist. At least she's not part of the elites that are fleecing the country under Democrats and Republicans. This is all very simple, really.

Sarah Palin is a pawn and if she's too stupid to figure it out, then let her keep going and fall on her face. She's a joke, just like John McCain. If Obama is criticized for no substance, then these jester Republicans should be criticized for sarcasm and low blows with no awareness of policy or the reality that our current administration has put us so far down the crapper who knows if we can get out.

Sarah Palin's and Rudy Guliani's comments about Barack Obama were spot on.

Sarah Palin has lived a normal American life. She is charismatic in an optimistic, inspirational way with none of the preachy, "there's something wrong with you" somberness of Barack and Michelle Obama. She doesn't TELL us what to do. She just goes out and does it. She leads by example. Barack and Michelle? They TELL us what to do without doing it themselves.