Dick Morris: Palin is the new Margaret Thatcher
With sass and wit, sarcasm and sincerity, and courage and strength, Sarah Palin last night showed us a new model of female politician.
Her family stories were genuine and real. Her commitment to special-needs children was moving. Her contempt for special interests was obvious. And her putdowns of Barack Obama’s rhetoric and her praise of John McCain’s character and achievements were welcome and well delivered.
Many women look bad when they attack their opponents, too often seeming strident and shrill. But Palin was funny and irreverant, with a biting wit and a joy of combat that was exhilarating to watch.
Sometimes she reminded us of the hockey mom she is. Other times, she was an American Margaret Thatcher — mobilizing humor and biting satire to mock the opposition.
She sure is spunky, and remarkly attractive for having had five children, and having a baby in April. She’s very well-put together, and from what I’ve read about her political career thus far, she is far more accomplished than that “community organizer”.
Now the Democrats are stuck in a trap. They’ve demeaned, patronized and smeared a woman who’s well on her way to becoming very, very popular. Her speech will create legions of fans; the Democratic smears of the last few days will create, for Obama, legions of enemies
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She already has legions of fans; and the Obama campaign created legions of enemies long before the media and blogger attacks on Palin.
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ISNA crescent atop Flight 93 minaret
The Islamic Society of North America (ISNA) is a Saudi funded Wahabbist group. Its logo is in the shape of a mosque with a crescent topped minaret and a crescent topped dome. Here is the ISNA logo juxtaposed to a similarly shaped mosque from Uppsala Sweden:
Both configurations have upturned crescents. The difference is that the arms of the ISNA crescents are lifted symmetrically, while the Uppsala crescents have one arm above the other.
On actual minarets, the Uppsala configuration is the norm, seen also in this photo of the Abdul Gaffoor mosque in Singapore:
There seems to be only one example of an actual minaret that is to be built in the ISNA configuration. That is the Tower of Voices minaret from the planned Flight 93 memorial:
Two views of the Tower of Voices minaret, showing an Islamic-shaped crescent at the top, with its arms reaching symmetrically up into the sky. (Source images here and here, originally from the Memorial Project’s design competition website.)
The up-tower view shows the symbolic Islamic heavens projected against the sky while the symbolic lives of the 40 heroes literally dangle down below. Murdoch had to do this in order for his Crescent of Embrace design (centered around a giant Mecca-oriented crescent) to be a proper mosque. The 40 infidels could not actually be honored in the design. They had to be depicted as symbolically damned.
Murdoch actually repeats this theme in the central crescent, where the 4 extra translucent blocks (one for each hijacker) are all placed in the symbolic Islamic heavens (the crescent and star parts of the structure), while the 40 translucent blocks inscribed with the names of the 40 heroes are all placed outside of the symbolic Islamic heavens.
Do Wahabbists recognize the crescent as a symbol of Islam?
One of the two Muslim scholars who the Park Service tapped for expert opinion on whether claims of Islamic symbolism in the Flight 93 memorial should be taken seriously was a Paul Murdoch classmate named Nasser Rabbat. (Both recieved Masters degrees in architecture from UCLA in 1984.)
One of the excuses Rabbat offered the Park Service for not being concerned about all the Islamic-shaped crescents was to question whether the crescent really should be seen as a Muslim symbol at all:
The Crescent is a debatable Islamic universal symbol. Many groups do not use it. I know in fact of no militant group that uses it. [AHEM.] Islamic modern states have opted to use it, sometimes with the star, which is a modern symbol with no Islamic connotation.
He is right here that the most fanatical Islamic fundamentalists, the Salafists (who model themselves on the first three generations of violent Islamic conquest), are not keen on the crescent, since it was adopted as a Muslim symbol by the Ottomans, long after the time of Muhammad.
The official Saudi state religion of Wahabbism is Salafist. That is why the Saudi Arabian flag is one of the only Islamic flags not to feature the Ottoman crescent and star:
Saudi flag, left, features the Muslim profession of faith, and a sword. Turkish flag, right, features the Ottoman crescent and star.
But the ISNA is a primary vehicle for the Saudi funded building of Wahabbist mosques in North America. How can this be? Is the crescent actually a universal enough Islamic symbol that even the Salafist Saudi Wahabbists acknowledge it?
Indeed, and for a very simple reason. The crescent is not just the shape of the Ottoman flag. It is also a reference to the Islamic lunar calendar, and it is the shape of the archetypical Islamic mihrab: the Mecca-direction indicator around which every mosque is built. Here are the two most famous mihrabs in the world, the mihrab at the Prophet’s mosque in Medina, and the mihrab of the Great Mosque in Cordoba, seen here in sequence with Barack Hussein Obama’s campaign logo:
Face into the crescent to face Mecca. For the contrast between Murdoch’s intentional use of Islamic symbol shapes and Obama’s unintentional use of Islamic symbol shapes, see our earlier blogburst on Obama’s crescent-topped logo.
So yes, the crescent actually is a universal Islamic symbol. The only people who even question it are the most extreme Salafists, which evidently includes Nasser Rabbat. How did this Paul Murdoch classmate ever get tapped by the Park Service in the first place, so that he could even be in a position to give them his blatantly dishonest excuses for not being concerned about the giant Mecca oriented crescent? Just one of the many things that Congress needs to investigate. (Petition here.)
ISNA big in Murdoch’s hometown of LA
Murdoch could be some kind of nihilistic leftist, but the most likely explanation for his attempt to stab a terrorist memorial mosque into the heartland of America is that he at some point converted to an aggressively hateful, violent and supremacist sect of Islam like Saudi Wahabbism and is acting today as a freelance jihadist.
Such a person would almost certainly be familiar with the ISNA. 80% of American mosques preach the Saudi poison, but often the Saudi funding is hidden. Not so in Los Angeles, where the city’s largest mosque, the King Fahd Mosque in Culver City, is openly funded by the Saudi Government.
We won’t learn Murdoch’s actual associations without a Congressional investigation, but the fact that he used a minaret configuration that is elsewhere seen only in the ISNA logo is mildly suggestive of a Wahabbist connection. For now, the only reason to bring up the Murdoch/ISNA likeness is to clarify that even Salafists accept the crescent as a component of mosque design.
ISNA President Ingrid Matteson spoke at the interfaith convocation of the 2008 Democratic Presidential Convention
They picked a Wahabbist as their representative of Islam? Why not invite bin Laden himself, who is a perfectly orthodox Wahabbist?
The ISNA was founded by the Saudi funded Muslim Students Association (MAS), which has close ties to the Muslim Brotherhood, the progenitor of all modern Sunni terrorist groups, including al Qaeda.
What else should we expect? After all, the mainstream left DID spend the last five years trying desperately to hand Iraq over to al Qaeda and Iran.
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She sure stuck it to the media in her speech the other night.
After all she’s endured in life; with five children and looking hot, and with people making superficial complaints about her hair (because there’s little else they can complain about), and inventing stories about her having an affair (National Enquirer), her covering for her 17-year-old daughter with the amazing made-up allegation that Trig, her downs syndrome son is her daughter’s, troopergate, where a former brother-in-law was threatening family members and tazed his own son - you have to hand it to her.
She said in her speech among other classics, that there is one difference between a hockey mom and a pitbull; liptstick.
It’s not wonder the libs are in such a snit over McCain’s choice.
But notice how the conservative base is so energized and excited!
It’s no wonder the libs are in such a snit over Palin’s joining McCain on the republican ticket.
The dems don’t know what to do; that’s pretty obvious…
I even had someone come to my site saying that when she went into labor with Trig, that she was hoping for Trig to die. What a stupid thought, but leave it to a lib to think that when a woman goes into labor, she’s hoping for her child to die.
The facts, of course, bear witness to a courageous family-oriented woman with a good head on her shoulders; who doesn’t rely on nannies or the nanny state to raise her children; and who doesn’t miss a beat even after having her kids.
The idiot who came to my site made the stupid assumption that Palin WAITED to deliver Trig, hoping that he would die.
In fact, her water didn’t break, it was LEAKING.
She told the local media that she noticed her amniotic fluid was leaking right before she gave a speech in Texas last April. After her keynote address to the National Governors Association, and obtaining the consent of her doctor, Palin boarded an eight-hour flight to Anchorage. She never told the airline she was in labor. She and her husband drove 45 minutes to her hometown medical center; the baby was born seven hours later.
But facts never bother leftists. When i had my second son, my amniotic fluid leaked for a full WEEK before the doctor decided to induce labor. Does that mean I was hoping for my child to die? I don’t think so.
Your pretending that Sarah really wanted Trig’s to die is twisted moonbattery and wishful thinking on your part, I guess…as Obama would say, “punished with a baby”? I suppose she’d be a REAL woman in your eyes if she’d simply aborted that child? Obama is so extreme on this issue he’s voted against using life saving measures for a child who survived an abortion; Jill Stanek, in fact, held a down syndrome baby who’d been thrown away in a soiled laundry area while he died. You pretend to be concerned only when it fits your political purpose.
Women throughout history have had babies without hospitals; woman have even had babies in taxi cabs on the way to the hospital; there is a movement of women, in fact, who have their babies at home with midwives instead of doctors. And what about the ‘natural childbirth’ movement that resists anesthesia during childbirth?
The piss poor attempts at maligning this woman aren’t going to take away from her accomplishments:
Governor Sarah Palin made history on Dec. 4, 2006, when she took office. As the 11th governor of Alaska, she is the first woman to hold the office.
Since taking office, her top priorities have been resource development, education and workforce development, public health and safety, and transportation and infrastructure development.
Under her leadership, Alaska invested $5 billion in state savings, overhauled education funding, and implemented the Senior Benefits Program that provides support for low-income older Alaskans. She created Alaska’s Petroleum Systems Integrity Office to provide oversight and maintenance of oil and gas equipment, facilities and infrastructure, and the Climate Change Subcabinet to prepare a climate change strategy for Alaska.
During her first legislative session, Governor Palin’s administration passed two major pieces of legislation - an overhaul of the state’s ethics laws and a competitive process to construct a gas pipeline.
Governor Palin is chair of the Interstate Oil and Gas Compact Commission, a multi-state government agency that promotes the conservation and efficient recovery of domestic oil and natural gas resources while protecting health, safety and the environment. She was recently named chair of the National Governors Association (NGA) Natural Resources Committee, which is charged with pursuing legislation to ensure state needs are considered as federal policy is formulated in the areas of agriculture, energy, environmental protection and natural resource management. Prior to being named to this position, she served as co-chair of this committee.
Prior to her election as governor, Palin served two terms on the Wasilla City Council and two terms as the mayor/manager of Wasilla. During her tenure, she reduced property tax levels while increasing services and made Wasilla a business friendly environment, drawing in new industry.
She has served as chair of the Alaska Conservation Commission, which regulates Alaska’s most valuable non-renewable resources: oil and gas. She was elected by her peers to serve as president of the Alaska Conference of Mayors. In this role, she worked with local, state and federal officials to promote solutions to the needs of Alaska’s communities.
Prior to taking office, Palin served on numerous boards and commissions throughout the state. She was active in her family’s pursuits - including serving as a sports team mom and school volunteer. She also runs marathons.
Palin is a lifetime member of the NRA and enjoys hunting, fishing, Alaska history, and all that Alaska’s great outdoors has to offer.
Libs are showing they hate women and disabled children - and the family unit with their tirades.
Palin kept her pregnancy secret for seven months, stunning even her staff with the announcement. She pointedly said at the time she would not miss work. “I had Piper on a Monday, and I was back to work on a Tuesday. I even brought her to work with me,” she said, referring to the birth of her daughter.
And, in fact, after Trig’s birth, she was at her desk within a few days, baby in tow and crib in her office.
Johnson said the governor waited to reveal her pregnancy to avoid exactly what is going on now — judgments from strangers saying, “How can you bring a baby into the world knowing how much energy it takes and still think you can run a state?”
“She’s heard that her whole life — the challenges of being a female and mother in the workforce,” Palin’s husband, Todd, said in the same interview with People a few days ago. “I remember the first time she ran for mayor one of her fellow council members told her you can’t run because you’ve got three negatives: Track, Bristol and Willow. Those are the three kids we had at the time. So when you tell her that kind of stuff, she just gets fired up.”
Leftists like the commenter at my site who are attacking Palin, are merely showing themselves to be sexist bigots.
Kristi Hamrick, a spokeswoman for the conservative Campaign for Family Values, dismissed as “stupid” any suggestions that Palin’s family choices or her daughter’s pregnancy would make her unsuitable to conservative voters. “This is an American family out there living out their values and doing the best job they can. Values voters understand that women who are mothers make family a priority but that many of us need to work and want to work,” she said.
And I suppose that part about Palin and her family is what they hate about her the most; although I’m sure her record of fighting the status quo has a part in that, too.
For all Obama’s speeches about ‘change’, he’s not about ‘change’ at all; look at Biden who’s got 30 years in the Senate (politics as usual), Obama’s connection to Rezko - who is now a convicted felon - Obama was touring his house with Rezko when Rezko was under investigation. The scariest part about these two is the part that Biden played in excusing the agents involved in the fascist murder campaign against the women and children at Waco and Ruby Ridge.
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Mark Steyn sez in “Credit Where Credit is Due:”
I would like to thank the US media for doing such a grand job this last week of lowering expectations by portraying Governor Palin - whoops, I mean Hick-Burg Mayor Palin - as a hillbilly know-nothing permapregnant ditz, half of whose 27 kids are the spawn of a stump-toothed uncle who hasn’t worked since he was an extra in Deliverance.
How’s that narrative holding up, geniuses? Almost as good as your “devoted husband John Edwards” routine?
I trust even now Maureen Dowd is working on a hilarious new column mocking proposed names for the Governor’s first grandchild. Perhaps Richard Cohen can just take the week off and they can rerun his insightful analysis comparing the Palin nomination to Caligula making his horse a consul. Whereas we sophisticates all know that if McCain were as smart as Obama he’d have nominated a dead horse to be his consul. No wait…
That’s gotta leave a mark! However, the MSM just plasters more makeup on their bruises and proceeds on.
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We have a new “great communicator.” She is a natural at connecting with her audience and this speech was simply awesome. Posting it here in case you missed it.
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Yeehaw! The Black and White Guy, Zo, is back and he’s got some crushing comments for the rap dude:
Bonus: “The Vote Reaper”
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Tippin’ the tam to Cathouse Chat.
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And of course, the media wouldn’t dare cover it…
The bus I was riding was hit with cement bags that the anarchists were throwing off the overpasses down on the interstate. The anarchists missed the bus in front of us and nailed our bus with a direct hit
The Leftist, anarchist, Obama-supporting radicals attacked RNC delegates today at the Xcel Center and sprayed them with a toxic substance.
An 80 year old RNC delegate had to be hospitalized!!
Atlas Shrugs has some amazing photographs.
The AP’s pictures only the the police reacting to subdue the crowd. The slant is sick.
Powerline: Cubs Scouts attacked
Everyday Republican Connecticut delegation spat on and doused with a mixture of chlorox bleach and water
You know what’s really odd about all of this…? These are ANTI-WAR PROTESTERS.
From August 31st at Pam’s Atlas Shrugs see THE LEFT HAS ARRIVED AT THE RNC: “BUCKETS OF URINE, SLINGSHOTS, ANTI-BUS WEAPONS SEIZED IN RAID” ON LEFTWING PROTESTERS.
The point about that is - they’re using warfare techniques to protest, while they claim they’re peaceniks.
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There is something to the associations you have in your life
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And McCain’s incredible introduction before she speaks. I’m not sure I like all that stuff about being a union member…you have to wonder sometimes who McCain thinks he’s talking to.
But stressing that public service is exactly what it says it is - SERVING THE PUBLIC - instead of special interests and leftists and terrorists with deep pockets, this looks pretty good.
But damn, I wish Palin was the candidate for President and not McCain. How much is she going to be able to influence his Maverick-ness?
“challenge the status quo” and “serve the common good”?
Apparently she has challenged the status quo in her own state of Alaska, by taking on people in her own party ‘for the common good’ of Alaskans.
Boy, I’ll bet the Obama/Biden camp are having conniption fits right now; they won’t be able to attack Palin on very much, considering her experience and record.
Hat tip to Cathouse Chat.
See also this insightful article by Ed Morrissey: What Palin does for McCain, and to Obama
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Thomas Sowell has a great piece up on “Change in Politics” -regarding Obama and why the “change” rhetoric is merely repeating the failures of FDR regarding the economy, but points out that at least FDR had the sense to be strong on national security.
Obama doesn’t have FDR’s sense, although he shares the love for social programs.
Obama’s minions have been busy creating obfuscations regarding Sarah Palin, which is a good sign. LGF pointed out the connection to “Fight the Smears” and anti-Palin websites, which seems to indicate that “fightint the smears” involves inventing smears against political opponents. Their hysteria has involved a number of insults to McCain, as well.
Obama doesn’t have any women in his organization, he didn’t chose a woman as veep, but what his campaign has been fighting for was to prevent Hillary Clinton from getting into the Oval office, and now to prevent another woman from having a role in this, -Sarah Palin.–with women’s votes.
The Obamanazis have been searching for a picture of Sarah Palin in a bikini. Why they think that would be disparaging, I don’t know - she was formerly at one time Miss Alaska; a beauty queen. But as see-dubya has pointed out, they tried that same bikini schtick with Michelle Malkin, and it didn’t work.
But they don’t realize that their disgusting ploys rarely work; it just goes to show that they’re bereft of class and civility.
Take a look at this post again and notice how many insults there are in it - without a shred of evidence or fact; it’s complete spin!
Mooseburgers for Everyone to Celebrate Palin, McCain’s VP Pick!
By Tracy DC ☮DC T☮ YesWeDid - Aug 30th, 2008McCain chooses Sarah Palin for VP spot (after meeting her once) to woo disgruntled Hillraisers, to get financial support from his heretofore unexcited conservative base who was gonna vote for him anyway, as an attempt to reignite his fading image as a maverick, and because he fantasizes what the former beauty queen looks like when the hair comes down and the glasses come off.
That part about the hair coming down and the glasses coming off has been edited out if you go there now. The depiction of conservatives’ being disgusted with McCain up until this point, though, is completely true. But it’s about the only shred of truth in this blog posting at myobama.com
Moreover, I’m sure McCain is trying to figure out if she can be paid less for being a VP than his other strung-along would-be male picks since he’s against equal pay for women. The above must be the reasons since Palin’s experience does not qualify her to potentially be a heartbeat away from being the Leader of the Free World, even more troubling, when you consider whose 72 year old little off beat heart we’re talkin’ about, here.
He’s against equal pay for women - what? Where’s the proof of this? Palin’s experience is similar to that of Obama’s in years, and if you’re going to compare the two and call Palin inexperienced, then you’ll have to admit that Obama is, too. In fact, Obama’s veep choice Joe Biden, demonstrates Obama’s insecurity on the ‘experience’ issue, but also demonstrates that Obama is about politics as usual because Biden has a breathtaking 30 year career in the Senate - having accomplished a number of things during that period which are hardly items to brag about - such as defending the agents that murdered the people at Waco and a young boy, Sam Weaver. and a young mother holding her baby at Ruby Ridge, Vicki Weaver.
All this while completely disregarding Cindy McCain who is very accomplished in her own right, this person depicts McCain as a man who would not treat Palin equally, despite the fact that McCain - not Obama - chose a young woman running mate. Obama was fighting Hillary, and now he’ll be attempting to use women’s votes against Palin. Democrats don’t REALLY believe in ‘equality’ that’s why they have different rules for different groups. And the attack on Palin’s experience reflects this individual’s disconnect from reality, since although Palin’s inexperience is comparable to Obama’s, she has 7 years of executive experience, and being the governor of a state that is flanked by two foreign countries, Canada on the one side and Russia on the other. So she has an awareness of the threat that Russia poses moreso than Biden or Obama, despite Biden’s 30 years of politics as usual. That’s not to mention Biden being a barrel of gaffes. (Recall “you cannot go to a 7-Eleven or a Dunkin’ Donuts unless you have a slight Indian accent.” and “I mean, you got the first mainstream African American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy.” )
They’re making points for the other side with this stuff.
To end on a positive note with regard to Palin, you can’t deny her superwoman status–three days after giving birth to her son with Down Syndrome (now 5 months), she was back in the office trying to make sure that polar bears aren’t considered an endangered species, that BIG OIL rules, that incest and rape victims do not have a right to abortion, and that creationism will be taught in school, that is, if one can’t home-school.
No worries about missing dinner for her big family of 7, she’s got that handled too. She’s a moose hunter and has enough frozen microwavable mooseburgers to feed an army stored up for a year! Can’t wait to debate her myself!
quite a bit of stereotyping going on there, heh?
Polar bears are not an endangered species. Palin is not about “big oil” but about energy alternatives. Taking our dependence off of foreign oil is something we should be actively seeking - and of course we won’t see the benefits of doing it for at least 5 years; that’s a given. We should also take proactive measures in order to activate dormant refineries.
How many incest and rape victims are impregnated by rape? She should examine her statistics. And what is wrong with creationism being taught in schools when there is no evidence of evolution in the fossil record, and evolution has never been witnessed? There is certainly more evidence for creation than there is for evolution; what that individual is doing is railing against Christianity as most ’scientific’ socialists do. The problem is when you look at the science, science backs up the biblical version of how the earth came into being; and is extremely scientific.
I would look forward to Palin debating this moonbat, that post demonstrates how moonbattery involves no rational thought.
As a commenter said in my comments section–at Obama rallies, they’re yelling O-ba-ma! And at McCain rallies, they’re chanting U-S-A! That’s about all you need to know about the two campaigns; one is to coronate a socialist dictator, the other is for service to our country. One is for strangling the taxpayer with blinding taxation, the other is for cutting the pork and special interests and returning us to representative government.
Should that happen, I can see the ancient carreers of people such as Dick Durbin and Joe Biden going by the wayside. I’d like to see a change in the rules for representatives - in that they have limited terms, and would not be allowed to behave as though they’ve been given a lifetime appointment.
Sarah Palin is about REAL CHANGE. She’s fought for it within her own party. She represents all that is good, and is a mother of five children, a lifetime NRA member, hunts and fishes, and loves moose stew.
She is refreshing and as Uncle Jack said in this post, Palin is turning the conservative base who was formerly disgusted by McCain, –around to voting for him.
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I’ve had a full 24 hours to digest the news about McCain choosing the Alaskan governor, Sarah Palin, as the choice for his Vice Presidential running mate. While I like to focus on markets, homebrewing, and my running (something I haven’t mentioned much lately), my blogging career, if you want to call it that, was launched on the eve of the last general election so I want to say a few words about this election and then move back to my center. Thanks for bearing with me.
The initial reaction that I saw and read was one of disbelief, mostly from women, who were saying that McCain must think that women are stupid for thinking this choice will win over women voters. I was traveling to see clients yesterday so I got an earful of pundits on the radio and the television channels (I have XM radio in the car so I can hear the t.v.), who all had a different and very incorrect take on McCain’s selection.
The last election in which Bush beat the socialist senator from Massachusetts (not Kennedy, but the other socialist) was won by energizing the conservative base, not, as some have incorrectly said this weekend, by pandering to the “undecided middle.” It irks me to no end that the undecided middle of this country has so much pull in politics, but my lack of patience for people who cannot make simple decisions is a subject for another post.
While I was catching up on my reading this morning, I found that a trader that I occasionally read actually had the nerve to say that McCain’s choice was irresponsible given his age and the likelihood that this inexperienced governor of Alaska might have to takeover office before his term(s) expire. While some centrist and leftist women in this country may be upset with McCain’s choice, seeing it as some sort of ploy to win their votes, the trader’s “irresponsible” comment was over the top.
I do not plan to be a vocal supporter of Sarah Palin, but the research that I have done regarding this choice for V.P. actually had me excited for the conservative party yesterday. A few bullet points may help you understand my view, as this choice fits right in with my view of who would be a perfect choice for high office. Otherwise I was likely to throw my vote away on Ron Paul, who is actually on record as saying that writing his name in for President would be irresponsible because he stands no chance of winning against the monstrosity we call the two-party political machine.
Of the four candidates for high office, McCain, Obama, Biden, and Palin, Sarah Palin is the only one with executive experience. The other three have merely been senators, and regardless of how long they have been in Washington, they are still merely elected officials who have been sucking off the gubmint teet in various lengths of service. Not one of the other three has ever held an executive office, elected or otherwise, as head of their own company or at the top of a government organization, let alone a State in these United States.
McCain, while I’m sure he would love to woo the undecided women in the center of the political spectrum, was more concerned about the missing conservative base that elected George Bush. Without that base, no amount of disenchanted Hillary voters or undecideds would ever carry McCain to the White House. Palin, as his pick for V.P., wins back and energizes that base. The wife and I, and a client who I visited with yesterday, before yesterday were all going to throw away our vote on Ron Paul in protest. By choosing Palin, McCain just brought us back under the conservative tent.
A few qualities to note about Palin that McCain knew conservatives wanted, or at least knew that most of the conservative base wants:
Executive experience.
A firm backer of the Second Amendment.
Pro-life, and a working mother of five.
A steam roller over corruption, she vetoed several pork barrel spending bills brought to her by her state legislature.
And, the winning note comes in the form of her decision making regarding legislation, she actually checks the constitutionality of a bill before signing it into law or vetoing it.
You undecideds should check your inability to make a decision at the door, as Sarah Palin is actually a woman that you could respect (if you could make up your darned mind) because she speaks her mind and stands up for the right thing, all the time. She does not pander to polling data, or vote according to whatever political winds may be blowing or in which direction they may be headed. This pick of McCain’s was not only a stroke of political genius in the big chess game of getting elected to the white house, but he doesn’t have to rely on the undecideds to get him there.
Congratulations Senator, you won back a very big portion of the conservative base with your choice, which includes many of my friends and me. To finish this rant I’d just like to borrow and rephrase a ridiculous comment that I heard during the last two elections, If Obama wins the election, then I’m moving to Alaska.
Cheers, and Godspeed to John McCain and Sarah Palin.
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I saw this at Michelle Malkin’s, where she put up a post celebrating McCain’s choice for VEEP.
I’m just wondering if McCain’s choice is going to make that much of a difference, considering his history as far as working with John Kerry to normalize relations with Vietnam at the expense of POW/MIA families by burying that issue forever, and numerous other things - such as preferring to work with democrats rather than people in his own party.
If Palin was running for President, though, I’d vote for her in a heartbeat.
But…she has a 4-month old downs syndrome baby at home. As VEEP, how much attention will she be able to give this newborn child with a disability? The flipside of this, of course, is Obama’s reaction to Jill Stanek’s testimony of holding a downs syndrome baby for 45 minutes while it died - after picking it up out of a soiled laundry area of the hospital she was working in. Jill Stanek’s testimony about children born alive after their mothers attempt to abort them–is sad and compelling. Obama had little sympathy for the downs syndrome child whose mother didn’t want him; while Palin fairly recently gave birth to one with the same defect.
This is one tough cookie in my estimation, a brand new mother like that, joining McCain as his veep candidate….
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OBAMA ANTHEM LYRICS
All hail the messiah
Obama, Obama
The path to the new socialist motherland
Our savior, our savior
Obama, Obama
The leader more famous than Lindsay Lohan
Bow down and praise the one
Give him your money and your guns
Give us a country
That makes your wife proud
Lord Barry heal the bitter ones
White and Clinging to faith and to guns
Hope for the change of the hope of the change!
Hat tip Beagle Scout and Glenn Beck. This is the Glenn Beck Parody base on the Hymn “Gimn Sovetskogo Soyuza” (The National Anthem of the Soviet Union)
I don’t really think it’s a parody; the campaign and Scott Covington and his sychophants should use it. 
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