The Palin Problem

Her's a little something for you mouth-breathing Republicans. Go to Realclearpolitics.com. Ckick on the Map with no toss up states. Next change Ohio, Florida, Virginia, North Carolina missouri and Nevada from Blue (Obama) to Red (McNutty). Obama is left with 270 electoral. So all McSame has to do is to win all of those states above he's losing in the polls and win one more. Maybe New Hampshire or Iowa where he's been campaigning trying to lessen the double digit deficits he has in both.

I'm going to help you extreme cases with this info. Realclearpolitics isn't a polling site. It just lists every poll such as Gallop, Rassmussen etc. At first, knowing you wouldn't check the site out and call it a commie plot, I'll save you the embarassment. After all you've got enough to bear as it is. Being tied to a party that would sacrifice our troops to hold on to the white House and steal from the poor and give to the rich is a heavy enough burden.

I'm out don't fret, it will only be 9 days before you can deny you ever heard of Bush, Cheney, McCain and Palin.

I think Palin needs to keep quiet about Rev. Wright. Her own religion would be a very good topic for others to discuss too. There has to be a clear separation of church and state. Again she doesn't understand. She needs to go home. Thanks to Palin I am now a former republican.\\

Palin is a fraud. She is a politician without even a basic knowledge of Civics, a Christian without compassion, and a leader without ethics. And the very people who buy into her simple little miss rural American act are the very same people who bought into the story of the poor little white girl who was attacked (and, gasp, sexually assaulted) by the black Obama supporter. For the sake of you who restrict your contact with the outside world to Rush and Fox news, I must inform you that it was all a terrible hoax. But the rush to judgement was quick and relentless by the hate-mongers whose whole political platform is centered on an irrational fear and hatred of Senator Obama. Gullible and willfully obtuse, they drag the political discourse into the mud. It is encouraging to see that the great majority of decent Americans, Republican, Democratic, and Independent alike are rejecting this assault on America.

There is no stronger Nation than one with a well run economic engine. One that is fairly and sensibly regulated. One that shares the wealth equitably. One that is built on morally sound incentive systems for its operators. One with a collective advancement and support system for all its members.

Republicans as much or more than any others will tell you that you don't send into battle men without protection and weapons. You don't send men that are unskilled and untrained in the use of weapons. You don't win battles by leaving your compatriots unprotected. And you don't leave the weak and wounded behind. Their rescue is the mark of heroes. If its heroic in the battlefields of war, why not so in the battlefields of life?

America is indeed headed for a brighter future with Obama than with McCain.

I believe that Republicans do not have a lock on conservatism - indeed, Obama is a true pragmatist and he knows that you need to be fiscally conservative to be more socially liberal. Otherwise it does not add up. He is not really a liberal. Obama and the Democrats also understand you can't let the Foxes run the Hen Houses, and certainly not under self policing policies. And certainly not with limits on liability if they eat all the Hens and can't replace them when caught.

Republicans today do not understand the concept of collective. This is mostly because they are the ones that are benefiting from the Caveman's survival of the fittest ideas and the "ownership" society. They have the money and the power and they view and work politics to maintain it. They feel entitled and they pay lip service to social policies while generally demonizing them as being something unAmerican. When, indeed America needs to shift away from the extreme right wing to a more common sense approach.

Republican Party leaders and their rich backers want to keep giving the mainstream masses a wind up toy. A Bush, a Palin, a McCain or any Barbie or Ken will do. Just dress 'em up and get 'em talkin' just like ole "Joe Six Pack" and "Joe the Plumber" whoever that is. Its sure not you or me. Let them think their leaders are just like you. This has kept the masses happy, while Republicans and cronies eat the Hens.

Of course, when the Hens are noticed missing, it will be someone else' fault. Probably the Democrats somehow, it does not matter how, or someone in Iraq. No wait, it might be Putin, or possibly its Castro, no wait he's almost dead, okay then, Chavez ...... Or maybe that Muslim Arab Socialist African Malaysian Hawaiian and UnAmerican Obama...... And so the tomfoolery goes........

Liberals are not socialists. The latter is a word sullied by dictators and megalomaniacs. Theirs' is a false concept of socialism, used for selfish gain and to keep the masses poor and in chains. As McCain has said - strong backs, or the backbone of America is that American laborer. A back strong enough to carry the malarkey called Republican Conservatism or, I think, Piratical Conservative is more fitting.

What would be new in a Palin attack on her own party? Nothing, for she would have learnt that from the ultimate anti-party maverick that picked her as a running mate. What is so ironic, that it's almost funny, is that the student maverick has already turned on the teacher maverick himself, even while he's still standing, unable to defend himself from the consequences of having tried the ultimate maverick conning of the American people, in selecting Palin as his veep, in the first place. What Palin will never say to herself is that it was her presence on the ticket, more than anything else, that led the American voter to see McCain as the maverick danger he represented, in having exposed America to the incalculable danger of an accidental Palin Presidency. Maybe the mirrors in Saks, which go with fancy clothes, are too fancy to reveal the ordinary truth.

For certain, the Republican party must re-design, if you will, their ways and establish
major changes in their ideologies; however, Palin would not be the right candidate
for such change. She leans too much to the right, which is not good for Republicans
on the whole.

For example, overturning the Roe -vs- Wade abortion issue, where she wants to
bring back what was legislated by government 35 years ago and force it into today's
social climate. It will not work. Palin must realize that this is the 21st century and
women's rights greatly impact today's society. Much has transpired over the years.
The social structure will not allow us to go back and live "what used to be", despite
religious beliefs (where, by the way, religion has taken a back seat on many
issues, one of which is abortion). Both parents work to make ends meet, to name
but a few subjects.

Palin is not running a small town Wasila-type environmental philosophy of limited
mind-structure, (like hers). She is ill-prepared to the realities of what constitutes
human rights; her lack of general political knowledge, sensitivity and understanding
is a weakness, much too evident to ignore. Her knowledge on world policy is zero.

Having a pretty face will not do the trick. She lacks too much substance to make
her way through this jungle of heavy politics. She would embrace a minute few;
but, to the majority, the country would be in dangerous peril to take her on seriously.

Having said that does not deprive her of the desire to attempt her involvement
which does not mean, however, that she will win enough to make a major
difference. Nobody will fall for her tactics. She is viewed as a liar and a
manipulater; her image is tarnished, just after 2 months of appearing on stage.

As a former Republican, now an Independant, I have to take issue with your take here. Palin has already ruined her brand, the average thinking American will never believe that she is anything but empty rhetoric now. The Republican party has gone wrong in that they don't understand that many of us real conservatives just want the government out of our lives. We want you to keep your god out of our government, we want you to keep your gay-bashing and race-baiting to yourselves. And we don't believe that immigrants are the source of all of our society ills. When you continually appeal to the least common denominator amoung us, you do us all a disservice. Barry Goldwater must be spinning in his box.