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The Hive - Still Savoring Sarah Palin Pick

It seems like people can’t get enough of talking about Sarah Palin.

As always, please keep the discourse on a level you would not mind having your sainted mother read.

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This article was posted by Steve Gilbert on Sunday, August 31st, 2008 at 3:02 pm. You can leave a response.

39 Responses to “The Hive - Still Savoring Sarah Palin Pick”

BillK
August 30th, 2008 at 2:01 am
From the AP, it’s time to go to other women to tell why Palin’s a bad choice to avoid the “appearance” of sexism:

Wis. Lt. Gov.: Palin would be ‘fragile’ president

By Todd Richmond

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin would make a “pretty fragile” president, Wisconsin Lt. Gov. Barbara Lawton said Friday as politicians trotted out their talking points on Republican presidential hopeful John McCain’s surprise vice presidential pick.

In a conference call with reporters, Lawton, a Democrat, said she was taken aback by the choice.

The 44-year-old Palin has served as Alaska’s governor for the last two years. Before that she was the mayor of Wasilla, a town of 6,500 about 30 miles north of Anchorage.

Lawton said Palin has absolutely no national security experience.

“If she becomes president of the United States of America, I think we would have someone who is pretty fragile at the helm,” Lawton said.

Wisconsin Republican Party Chairman Reince Priebus called Lawton’s remark sexist. Palin’s experience leading the largest state in the union and the Alaska National Guard is more than Democratic presidential Barack Obama has, Priebus said.

“She’s, number one, an outsider, smart, articulate governor in a state that couldn’t get further from Washington,” he said. “She’s a person who finally can break that glass ceiling. We’re proud to nominate a female vice president.”

Lawton told The Associated Press after the conference call she meant Palin’s preparation to run the world’s only superpower has been fragile.

“I meant her political background. She has no global experience. She’s been mayor of a town half the size of DePere for two years and 18 months as governor. We are talking about a nation at war,” Lawton said.

“This is a clear measure of John McCain’s judgment of what one needs in preparation to be commander in chief.”

U.S. Rep. Tammy Baldwin, D-Madison, issued a statement saying Palin wasn’t ready.

“This choice calls into question both Senator McCain’s judgment and a McCain administration’s ability to lead a nation in crisis,” Baldwin said.

The GOP’s Priebus said Baldwin and Lawton have the “Barack Obama echo chamber with the blinders wrapped around their heads.”

“That’s all they have. Pretty weak,” Priebus said.

Palin’s political experience might be questionable, but it’s hard to quibble with her toughness.

She has spent summers fishing commercially with her part Yup’ik Eskimo husband, a business that once left her broken fingers. She has welcomed an investigation into whether she orchestrated the firing of a state trooper who went through a messy divorce with her sister.

She also has a child, Trig, with Down syndrome. Pro-life groups are praising her for saying she never considered aborting the child.

She has another child, Track, who serves in the U.S. Army at Fort Wainwright in Fairbanks.

U.S. Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner, R-Menomonee Falls, issued a statement calling Palin a tough executive with high approval ratings.

U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Janesville, chimed in, too, saying in a statement she understands the importance of supporting American troops.

Priebus said Palin could give McCain a boost with Hillary Clinton supporters still bitter Obama beat her out for the Democratic presidential nomination.

“They like this independent maverick governor from Alaska,” he said.

No, they don’t, said Baldwin and Lawton, who were staunch Clinton backers in her primary run.

Palin supports a McCain agenda that’s disrespectful to women by not granting them more health care, Lawton said. …

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/s.....ALIN_WIOL-

The most hilarious thing about these attacks is watching the people who make them dance around the fact that Obama has no more “national security” experience than Palin does, and in fact as a state governor Palin actually has more experience dealing with say, DHS than Obama does, who has been sheltered in the Senate.

It’s also fun to see lesbian Tammy Baldwin discuss how this other woman is such a bad choice.

It’s also nice to see that not supporting socialized medicine is now somehow “disrespectful of women.”

Isn’t it amazing that only liberal women can be representatives of their sex, while all conservative women are obvious stooges of the men in their lives?
BillK
August 30th, 2008 at 2:08 am
More in the AP assault plan.

McCain’s veep choice is historic and hardly known

By Steve Quinn and Calvin Woodward

JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — In two short years, Sarah Palin moved from small-town mayor with a taste for mooseburgers to the governor’s office and now - making history - to John McCain’s side as the first female running mate on a Republican presidential ticket.

She has more experience catching fish than dealing with foreign policy or national affairs.

Talk about a rocketing ascent.

In turning to her, McCain picked an independent figure in his own mold, one who has taken on Alaska’s powerful oil industry and, at age 44, is three years younger than Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama and a generation younger than McCain, 72.

Palin’s selection was a jaw-dropper, as McCain passed over many other better known prospects, some of whom had been the subject of intense speculation for weeks or months. “Holy cow,” said her father, Chuck Heath, who got word something was up while driving to his remote hunting camp.

Palin had been in the running-mate field but as a distinct long shot.

She brings a strong anti-abortion stance to the ticket and opposes gay marriage - constitutionally banned in Alaska before her time - but exercised a veto that essentially granted benefits to gay state employees and their partners.

“She stands up for what’s right, and she doesn’t let anyone tell her to sit down.” McCain said in introducing her to an Ohio rally. “She’s exactly who I need.”

Said Palin: “I didn’t get into government to do the safe and easy things. A ship in harbor is safe, but that’s not why the ship is built.”

Democrats seized on the gaping experience gap and said McCain now has no business questioning the seasoning of their nominee. …

http://customwire.ap.org/dynam.....AKES_PALIN

Can you imagine an AP article that included the text:

He has more experience in Black churches than dealing with foreign policy or national affairs.

Talk about a rocketing ascent.

Somehow, I don’t think so.
Liberals Make Great Speedbumps
August 30th, 2008 at 3:36 am
Sarah Palin is McCain’s VP selection!! - http://www.hillaryclintonforum.net
http://www.hillaryclintonforum…..hp?t=26089

SG,

I read through a lot of the posts over there and I am absolutely shocked. This move by McCain looks like it is going to have huge repercussions. I thought it might shake things up somewhat across the aisle, but this might be bigger than anyone foresaw.
BillK
August 30th, 2008 at 5:52 am
More on how “risky” Palin is in an “analysis” from the Los Angeles Times:

McCain’s choice of Palin is a risk

She could attract conservative Christians but not necessarily the women who backed Hillary Clinton. And some voters may question McCain’s decision-making style.

By Peter Wallsten

American voters on Friday began learning about Sarah Palin. But the selection of an obscure Alaska governor as the Republican vice presidential nominee also offers clues about the leadership style of the man who placed her on the ticket.

Though John McCain clearly concluded that Palin could attract female voters and grab his campaign some Barack Obama-style media buzz, he also is taking a risk that in elevating a largely unknown figure, he undermines the central theme of his candidacy that he puts “country first,” above political calculations.

For a candidate known to possess a quick temper and an unpredictable political streak, the decision raises questions about how McCain would lead — whether his decisions would flow from careful deliberations or gut checks in which short-term considerations or feelings outweigh the long view.

“Americans like risk-takers, but they also want to know that in times of crisis, you’re going to be calm,” said Matthew Dowd, who was a senior campaign strategist for President Bush but is neutral in the McCain-Obama race.

“Americans don’t necessarily want somebody in a time of crisis to be overly emotional,” Dowd said. “That’s the balance that John McCain’s going to have to show the public.”

The Palin risk also has the potential to reap big rewards.

Her presence on the ticket as a strongly antiabortion mother of five — her infant son has Down syndrome — promises to energize evangelical voters who have been skeptical of McCain.

Already, some top conservative Christian leaders who criticized McCain in the past have proclaimed enthusiasm for the pick.

Moreover, as a hunter, a member of the National Rifle Assn. and an avid snowmobiler, Palin appeals to many facets of the GOP base.

McCain’s choice of Palin strikes a contrast with Obama’s running-mate selection of Joe Biden, a longtime U.S. senator whose foreign policy credentials and working-class roots seemed to fill important gaps in Obama’s resume and political style.

That is not to say that voters always want the deliberative approach. McCain’s popularity stems partly from his independent style, whereas Obama has been accused of being too professorial and failing to connect with middle-class voters on a personal level.

Still, for McCain, who turned 72 on Friday and has had bouts with the most serious form of skin cancer, the priority in his running-mate selection was picking someone voters could envision becoming commander in chief should something befall him as president.

Or so it had seemed.

As of midweek, according to GOP sources, Republicans believed that the Arizona senator had narrowed his choices to more-seasoned contenders: Sen. Joe Lieberman, an independent from Connecticut, and Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty.

Pawlenty, popular with conservatives, was viewed as the safe bet; Lieberman, the 2000 Democratic vice presidential nominee, would have angered the party base but was generally considered qualified.

How McCain settled on Palin, whom he first met six months ago, remains a mystery outside his small inner circle of advisors.

She doesn’t seem an ideal fit for a campaign that has focused intensely on foreign policy expertise and has attacked Obama for his relative lack of experience in that area.

At 44, she is three years younger than Obama and 21 years younger than Biden. She was elected governor in 2006 and formerly was mayor of Wasilla, Alaska, population 7,000 or so.

McCain apparently made his decision after a telephone conversation with Palin last weekend and a face-to-face meeting Thursday at his home in Sedona, Ariz.

“On its face, it looks like a gut decision,” said a Republican strategist who requested anonymity when discussing McCain’s judgment. “But it also speaks to a very hyper-political decision. Obviously, he doesn’t have any history with Sarah Palin. He doesn’t know her. It seems to be a calculated push toward gaining women voters.” …

http://www.latimes.com/news/po.....0723.story

See? Unlike Obama’s reasoned decision making, this choice of an obviously unqualified candidate is just pure politics and raises questions about McCain’s decision making ability and his ability to lead.

At least if you listen to the left.

You know, because when McCain’s cancer kills him, do you really want this inexperienced mayor of a town of 7,000 leading the country?

Meanwhile anyone else notice the way the left, you know, the feminist loving left, is spinning Palin?

Hint: Do a Google search for “Palin” and “MILF.”

I don’t recall them reducing Hillary’s qualification to her desirability as a sex object.
BillK
August 30th, 2008 at 6:09 am
Wonder how the Obama-loving “entertainment media” is spinning Palin?

Well, celeb site TMZ has these stories::

The Woman Who Beat McCain’s VP

John McCain’s VP Governor Sarah Palin hasn’t lost the election yet, but she did lose the 1984 Miss Alaska pageant to Maryline Blackburn, coming in second.

According to her website, Maryline “is a singer with a wide spectrum of performing experiences.” Maybe she’ll perform at the RNC in St. Paul on Monday.

http://www.tmz.com/2008/08/29/.....ccains-vp/

Also:

McCain’s VP — Miss Alaska Loser

Before she was named McCain’s Vice Presidential nominee today, no one except for the seven people who live in Alaska ever heard of Gov. Sarah Palin — or that she came in second place at the 1984 Miss Alaska pageant.

Palin did win Miss Wasilla and the coveted Miss Congeniality award. So who cares what her
economic plan is?

http://www.tmz.com/2008/08/29/.....ska-loser/

Wow, what a great opportunity to trash Palin and those rubes up in Alaska!

After all, if they were worth anything they’d be living in New York or LA!

Of course, let’s not forget:

Van Halen to McCain: No You Can’t

John McCain used a Van Halen song during his big speech earlier today and the band wants to make one thing clear — they’re not running with McCain.

Van Halen management tells us the band had no idea McCain was planning on using “Right Now” during his big entrance in Ohio telling us, “Permission was not sought or granted nor would it have been given.”

For the record, Dubya used the same song during a bunch of his campaign speeches back in 2004, but sources close to the band tell us, “They’re not political, they’re just rock and roll.”

http://www.tmz.com/2008/08/29/.....-you-cant/

Now back to their other important news, like trying to figure out if Jessica Biel is showing a baby bump or not, discussing Hilary Swank’s hard body in a bikini, and interpreting a commercial’s script as sexual innuendo surrounding 16 year-old gold medal gymnast Shawn Johnson.
notsoyoungjim
August 30th, 2008 at 12:16 pm
The MSM suck-ups have visions of Woodward and Bernstein with the story of Sarah Palin’s “Troopergate.”

Palin pick makes Alaska blog a must-read

Posted August 30, 2008 9:58 AM
The Swamp

by Frank James

Now that Sen. John McCain has decided to turn his presidential campaign into a sequel of “Northern Exposure,” the all-things-Alaska hit 1990s TV series, an essential guide is needed to Gov. Sarah Palin’s Alaska and can be found on the Mudflats blog.

Written by an East Coast transplant to Alaska who goes by the moniker AK Muckraker, the blog gives an Alaskan eye view of Palin’s political career and the state’s rather colorful politics.

After McCain announced his pick, a Mudflats post started thusly:

Is this a joke?” That seemed to be the question du jour when my phone started ringing off the hook at 6:45am here in Alaska. I mean, we’re sort of excited that our humble state has gotten some kind of national ‘nod’….but seriously? Sarah Palin for Vice President? Yes, she’s a popular governor. Her all time high approval rating hovered around 90% at one point. But bear in mind that the 90% approval rating came from one of the most conservative, and reddest-of-the-red states out there. And that approval rating came before a series of events that have lead many Alaskans to question the governor’s once pristine image. . .

[I]f McCain had made his selection six months ago, the squeaky-clean governor meme would have made a little more sense. But, Sarah Palin is currently under an ethics investigation by the Alaska state legislature. The details of this investigation read like a trashy novel, and I suspect that the players will soon have newfound celebrity on the national stage. I’ll try to explain for all you non-Alaskans who suddenly have good reason to want to know more about Sarah Palin. For those of you not interested in trashy novels, feel free to skip ahead. Here it is…what we in Alaska call “TrooperGate”.

Sarah Palin’s sister Molly married a guy named Mike Wooten who is an Alaska State Trooper. Mike and Molly had a rocky marriage. When the marriage broke up, there was a bitter custody fight that is still ongoing. During the custody investigation, all sorts of things were brought up about Wooten including the fact that he had illegally shot a moose (yes folks this is Alaska), driven drunk, and used a taser (on the test setting, he reminds us) on his 11-year old stepson, who supposedly had asked to see what it felt like. While Wooten has turned out to be a less than stellar figure, the fact that Palin’s father accompanied him on the infamous moose hunt, and that many of the dozens of charges brought up by the Palin family happened long before they were ever reported smacked of desperate custody fight. Wooten’s story is that he was basically stalked by the family.

[The entired article, along with a rationalization of Trooper Wooten and his beloved yet fired boss Walt Monegan here:
http://tinyurl.com/6cbox9 ]

After extensive news coverage about all this nasty behind-the-scenes scandal, which is definitely NOT squeaky clean, Palin’s approval ratings fell to 67%, still high, but a far cry from the 90% number that’s being thrown around so glibly by the Republicans today. Alaskans are quickly becoming disillusioned once again.

Clearly a blog worth bookmarking, at least through November.

Interesting to note that there are no comments attached to this article in the Chicago
Tribune, which is merely a stone’s throw from Obummer’s headquarters with it’s over 2000 busy bee propagandists-in-waiting.
U NO HOO
August 30th, 2008 at 12:36 pm
“taken aback by the choice.”

Yeah, McCain brought a gun to a knife fight.
1sttofight
August 30th, 2008 at 12:40 pm
Muckraker apparently fits into the Alaskan mind set like that Dr. on Northern Exposure did, ie, not at all.
U NO HOO
August 30th, 2008 at 12:42 pm
“Sarah Palin’s Troopergate”

Hey, there is a skeleton in everyone’s closet.
1sttofight
August 30th, 2008 at 1:43 pm
Just how drunk is he?

http://hotair.com/archives/200.....rn-people/
notsoyoungjim
August 30th, 2008 at 5:18 pm
Some great pics of the Republican ticket here at Meghan McCain’s blog:

http://mccainblogette.com/index.shtml

Palin’s got a beautiful family.
1sttofight
August 30th, 2008 at 5:43 pm
notsoyoungjim,

Nice family on both sides.

God i feel a lot better about the future of our country than I did 2 days ago.
ptat
August 30th, 2008 at 6:33 pm
1sttofight—on that hotair video of drunken Biden–”Where’s Bob Casey? Where is some more hooch? Any body got any more hooch? Let’s get this party started!” Ya’ know–I am starting to think there may be a Howard Dean scream coming soon from Biden…..
1sttofight
August 30th, 2008 at 6:57 pm
ptat, I got a feeling there are a lot more Dean moments coming, but will the MSM report them?

I say no.

forward this to everyne on your list and urge them to do the same.
ptat
August 30th, 2008 at 7:39 pm
will do–good idea
U NO HOO
August 30th, 2008 at 9:19 pm
Biden is a jerk.
U NO HOO
August 30th, 2008 at 9:21 pm
Savage savaged Palin.
wardmama4
August 30th, 2008 at 11:46 pm
-’She has more experience catching fish than dealing with foreign policy or national affairs.’- Shows just how stupid (current events and geography wise) the msm and Dem pundits, politicos, et al are - Ms Palin is Gov. of the only state in the US that is bordered on two sides by foreign countries - one of them increasingly hostile to the US. How are those foreign credentials going for you Obama (or even his trusty sidekick, Biden)? And Gov of the most likely state to actually be able to accomplish that ever promised but always elusive - energy and independence from ME oil.

I can’t believe that two people who have spent their lives talking about doing things, very little of which they have really taken from the starting line (dream) to the finish (implimentation) - are sniping at someone who served in the military - was held captive for years and continued to serve until eligible for retirement and then went onto another career for about the same number of years (longevitiy in just two careers should count for something) - who choses a strong new comer (isn’t that really change in DC?) who has shown in a short amount of time - a lot of valuable things to help the citizens she served can be accomplished.

I’d certainly rather have the second two than the first two. I prefer two people of action (even if I don’t agree with some of McCain’s actions) than two pie-in-the-sky talkers whose only actions seem to increase taxes and line their pockets (or those of their ‘associates’).
navycopjoe
August 31st, 2008 at 11:35 am
‘Yeah, McCain brought a gun to a knife fight.’
Correction, he brought a nuke to a water pistol fight.

This lady is coming to Washington and she has found them wanting.
Its a new era in America.
Conservatives have been looking for a new Reagan and McCain found her.
Sharps Rifle
August 31st, 2008 at 1:02 pm
Got word from a friend that Alan Colmes was spreading the Kosnik claims that Palin’s youngest was actually Palin’s daughter’s baby. Can anyone confirm if Colmes was indeed repeating that slander, and if so, what can be done to get him to retract it?
texaspsue
August 31st, 2008 at 1:06 pm
‘Yeah, McCain brought a gun to a knife fight.’

navycopjoe - or, he brought a Woman with a gun to a knife fight. :-)

This IS a new era for America. Conservatives see a light at the end of the tunnel, just when we thought it would take years for the Conservative Movement to take hold, again. We see “hope” and “change”, for a change. AND PALIN IS A CONSERVATIVE WOMAN!

“Savage savaged Palin.”

I was sooo sick of the MSM and Liberals treating her like the “little woman” and then Savage joined the club by reducing Palin to a mere “beauty pageant” mentality. And I quote: “Why else would he chose an inexperienced woman, whose only apparent qualification is that she won a beauty pageant in the 1980s? ” What a closed minded jerk……. I’m still seething.

I’m just saying…. when all is said and done women will form an alliance in defense of the wronged and treating Palin as if she is unworthy of the VP position, when she IS worthy and qualified, isn’t going to fair well with MOST women in the long run.
sheehanjihad
August 31st, 2008 at 1:22 pm
Everybody just stay tuned…because if Palin was the dunce the left is putting her up to be, they wouldnt be launching the non stop character assassinations they are vomiting up now….they are scared…for the first time actually scared that the messiah is going to be held up to a different scrutiny….

Just watch. Palin didnt get where she got by winning beauty contests, unlike godbama she has the moxy to mix it up and make it count. What the real problem is now, is that since almost all of congress is corrupt in one way or another, they are tacitly hoping she goes away, thus assisting the left in the attempts to smear her.

Washington always fears a popular person in a position of potential power. Palin doesnt have the “owe me” or “power at all costs” mantra of the congress……she isnt an insider, and she isnt a player. They fear her. They know what she can do, so dont count her out. This is nothing more than she experienced when she took down the Alaskan Legislature……they are scared.

So remember! The more they try to mudsling her, the better it is. Can you imagine an entire congress being afraid of a beauty queen? The handwriting is on the wall……………
texaspsue
August 31st, 2008 at 1:57 pm
from CNN:

Palin compared to Cheney

From CNN Ticker Producer Alexander Mooney

Presumptive Republican VP nominee Sarah Palin has been compared to past VP picks Dan Quayle and Geraldine Ferraro for her relatively low profile on the national stage, but now Democrats are likening the Alaskan governor to another running mate: Vice President Dick Cheney.

Speaking on ABC’s “This Week” Sunday, Sen. John Kerry said Palin is a member of the “flat-earth caucus” and her stances on climate change are in lock-step with those of the vice president.

“With the choice of Governor Palin, it’s now the third term of Dick Cheney, because what he’s done is he’s chosen somebody who actually doesn’t believe that climate change is manmade,” Kerry said.

Kerry also said Palin is “Cheney-esque” when it comes to her conservative stances on social issues.

http://politicalticker.blogs.c.....to-cheney/

Whoo hoo…. now she’s got gravitas. :-)
JohnMG
August 31st, 2008 at 2:41 pm
I agree she has gravitas, but not because John Kerry issued a comment about her.

Kerry is failure personified. Even his pumped-up resume can’t hide the fact that he, himself, is lacking in many areas, including the social graces. I wouldn’t be surprised to hear him say he actually thought those comments up before he didn’t think them up, before they short-circuited and came out of his mouth. If he had to run for office in any state other than Massachusetts, he couldn’t get elected refuse director. He’s making pronouncements concerning Palin’s fitness for office while demonstrating to the whole world that he isn’t even qualified to run his own mouth. Brilliant, Kerry. Just brilliant!
notsoyoungjim
August 31st, 2008 at 2:43 pm
“With the choice of Governor Palin, it’s now the third term of Dick Cheney, because what he’s done is he’s chosen somebody who actually doesn’t believe that climate change is man made,” Kerry said.”

Meh, talk about out of touch. Next thing he’ll tell us is that she’s pro-life!

Funny bit on the TMZ site:

It’s My Party and I’ll Be a Little [crybaby] If I Want To

Posted Aug 30th 2008 1:31PM by TMZ Staff

The folks at MSNBC wants us to make them the place to get our info on one of the most important decisions ever. Turns out we’re getting that info from a bunch of whiney, back-stabbing, petty anchors.

An epic feud has erupted on the air between Joe Scarborough, Keith Olbermann, Chris Matthews and David Shuster. They’re all accusing each other of being bias, partisan and all around D-bags. They can no longer hide their contempt for each other on the air. The deal is that Scarborough is odd man out because he’s a former Republican congressman. The others are known Democrats, except for Shuster, who claims he’s never had an affiliation with anything except Just For Men haircare.

Has a poll here that lets you pick the biggest [crybaby] among the four mentioned.

http://tinyurl.com/5dwat5
1sttofight
August 31st, 2008 at 3:12 pm
I don’t know if yall have seen this yet, but I fell in love all over again this morning. Sarah not only hunts and fishes, She rides a Harley.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=quvBbcFDPI0
BigOil
August 31st, 2008 at 3:43 pm
Who would have thought the “old man” would so thoroughly out-maneuver the Messiah on his VP selection. A conservative woman with executive experience a heartbeat away from the Presidency. Brilliant.

1st - PETA is gonna love the pictures of Palin wearing the ~~murdered animal skins~~ furs.
Zilla
August 31st, 2008 at 3:54 pm
Hey, where is DW? Haven’t seen him in a while.
1sttofight
August 31st, 2008 at 4:05 pm
Don’t know for sure about DW, but if I were in his shoes, heading to Alaska.

Bigoil,

Not only does she kill a Bull Moose every year but she skins it using only her teeth and fingernails. Reminds me of Mrs. 1st in her younger years…
sheehanjihad
August 31st, 2008 at 5:03 pm
I think DW is up to his rear in work…plus, new digs, dial up service, global warming, you know, the same ol…. Rumor has it he is in the Bahamas with Ann Coulter though….
DW
August 31st, 2008 at 5:39 pm
Hi guys. I’m still here -but thanks for thinking of me.
SJ pretty well nailed it, I’m working far more overtime than I really want but we’re chronically shorthanded (start people at 25 bucks an hour, spend tens of thousands on recruiting fairs across the country, can’t get people because there are far greener pastures out there - yup, sounds like a recession to me…). The money’s nice though.

As to the lady in question, I think the choice was a brilliant one on the part of McCain and his team. This is the first time I’ve not been firmly convinced that Obama’s going to win the election in November.
I hope McCain makes wise use of her after they’re in office.

I do think it might be just a wee bit early to start comparing her to Reagan. For sure she seems like a real keener, a solid conservative, and she even offers (dare I say it) “change” from the usual tired old suspects, but it worries me a bit to see conservatives almost swooning over her the way the lefties do over Obama.
Still… at least we have far better reason to.
I think you’ve got a winner there, my friends, so by all means enjoy the moment.
Hopefully it’ll be an eight (twelve?) year moment.
JohnMG
August 31st, 2008 at 6:04 pm
DW; I guess if you must, keep working and save the money for a winter vacation. The Bahamas are a far nicer place in the winter than your present digs. Ann will probably appreciate the warmer weather, too. ;-}
notsoyoungjim
August 31st, 2008 at 6:43 pm
The artist known as “diddy” (formerly p diddy, formerly Puff Daddy) expounds on his take of the McCain/Palin ticket while riding his phat personal merry-go-round.

http://tinyurl.com/5tzb9m

(afterwards you can see some vid of Sarah Palin doing the sports up nort’ dere)
sheehanjihad
August 31st, 2008 at 9:25 pm
Just a quick note…I wonder where the Snag is going to set up Camp Casey IV? Where is the VFP going to set up another fake relief site? Oh? They wont?

You mean their being exposed as thieving grifters after Katrina means nobody will send any money? Malik’s flat bottom boat is still in the showroom!

Squinty Blanco obviously isnt around either…..and Nagin got a phone call from Bobby Jindal telling him to get his ass out of bed, and get his chocolate city prepared, or he could evacuate his office for good.

Funny how things can happen when a Republican is in charge, isnt it? No big screen TV’s for the locals this time around it appears……..
Zilla
September 1st, 2008 at 1:14 am
sj
Any word from your buddy Gordo? Did he make it out? Does he have enough Ipods to get through this?
sheehanjihad
September 1st, 2008 at 3:18 am
As we speak, Gordo is in a special room at the half way house, furiously banging out requests for more computers, stereos, plasma televisions, iphones, ipods, and thousands of lithium batteries on his etch a sketch with a long dead Sony Walkman still hooked to his belt and one earphone with an earbud duct taped to it on his head.

His repeated calls to the Snag have gone unheeded due to her congressional bid’s feverish pace keeping her too busy to worry about hurricane donations that wont be coming in due to people’s habits of not being burned more than once every five years. Her campaign sent a bottle of jamba juice to the ninth ward where is still sits in the post office because most people thought it was a urine sample and wouldnt touch it.

Gordon is on his sixth try to graduate from the seventh grade level in grammar, and has given up trying to learn to spell, writing his inability off to global warming and racism. When contacted for a statement, he released this short but terse reply: ” ew beddu step peckin own my!” at which time he stooped back down to inhale another long sniff of bus fumes from the “A” bus which stops by his refrigerator box in the alley on fifth street.
artboyusa
September 1st, 2008 at 7:03 am
I’m loving this Sarah Palin pick -just loving it. Libs everywhere were all happily jerking themselves off over Obama’s nomination and then pow! - out of nowhere McCain puts a torpedo right into them! Alarm! Consternation! How do you fight this unexpected threat? With personal abuse and innuendo, of course, those great liberal standbys. The hysteria of their reaction is a measure of their secret fear: despite everything, they know they’re gonna lose in November.
texaspsue
September 1st, 2008 at 2:09 pm
Dang! I just heard a panel discussion held by Politico on CSPAN. (Tucker Carlson and Ariana Huffington were among those on the panel, also.) Peggy Noonan spoke about Palin and referring the momentum she has received. She said, “If I were a Democrat operative I would be thinking how do I kill her and kill her fast”. Is she crazy? Is Noonan using reverse psychology? Is she rooting for the other Party? Is she just spurring dialog? Does she not agree with a Republican outside of the Beltway? SOMEONE PLEASE EXPLAIN THIS MADNESS TO ME!

I find the words unfortunate and I swear sometimes the Republicans are their own worst enemy. To use the word “kill”? ( How about, “stop the momentum”?) Can you imagine if someone said that about BO? (Being a lifelong Conservative, I don’t understand the lack of support for each other, the tacky comments and the slander that goes on between members of the Republican Party.) I give up.

Maybe it’s time I quit listening to the news from the MSM. …..I’m still seething…. :-)
texaspsue
September 1st, 2008 at 2:59 pm
From Newsweek:

A Leading Hillary Supporter Defects to McCain

By Tammy Haddad

John Coale, a prominent Washington lawyer, husband of Fox TV host Greta Van Susteren and a supporter of Sen. Hillary Clinton, announced today that he was supporting John McCain for president. Coale, who traveled with Sen. Clinton, President Clinton and her family through out the primary season, complained of sexism, and said the Democratic Party is “being taken over by the moveon.org types” in an exclusive interview with Newsweek.com’s Tammy Haddad. He said he tried to prevent Clinton’s brother, Tony Rodham, from attending an August 18th meeting in Scranton, Pa. with McCain campaign surrogate Carly Fiorina. “I urged him not to go and told him it would embarrass his sister, but he has a mind of his own.” Coale says Mr. Rodham asked Ms. Fiorina “about McCain’s Supreme Court picks.”

VIDEO http://www.blog.newsweek.com/b.....ccain.aspx

Now Greta’s husband? “And another one bites the dust”. McCain/Palin may just win the election in spite of their fellow Beltway Republicans.

H/T THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS

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