First, Governor Palin is not merely, as Jay describes her, "all-American", but hyper-American. What other country in the developed world produces beauty queens who hunt caribou and serve up a terrific moose stew? As an immigrant, I'm not saying I came to the United States purely to meet chicks like that, but it was certainly high on my list of priorities. And for the gun-totin' Miss Wasilla then to go on to become Governor while having five kids makes it an even more uniquely American story. Next to her resume, a guy who's done nothing but serve in the phony-baloney job of "community organizer" and write multiple autobiographies looks like just another creepily self-absorbed lifelong member of the full-time political class that infests every advanced democracy.
Second, it can't be in Senator Obama's interest for the punditocracy to spends its time arguing about whether the Republicans' vice-presidential pick is "even more" inexperienced than the Democrats' presidential one.
Third, real people don't define "experience" as appearing on unwatched Sunday-morning talk shows every week for 35 years and having been around long enough to have got both the War on Terror and the Cold War wrong. (On the first point, at the Gun Owners of New Hampshire dinner in the 2000 campaign, I remember Orrin Hatch telling me sadly that he was stunned to discover how few Granite State voters knew who he was.) Sarah Palin and Barack Obama are more or less the same age, but Governor Palin has run a state and a town and a commercial fishing operation, whereas (to reprise a famous line on the Rev Jackson) Senator Obama ain't run nothin' but his mouth. She's done the stuff he's merely a poseur about. Post-partisan? She took on her own party's corrupt political culture directly while Obama was sucking up to Wright and Ayers and being just another get-along Chicago machine pol (see his campaign's thuggish attempt to throttle Stanley Kurtz and Milt Rosenberg on WGN the other night).
Fourth, Governor Palin has what the British Labour Party politician Denis Healy likes to call a "hinterland" - a life beyond politics. Whenever Senator Obama attempts anything non-political (such as bowling), he comes over like a visiting dignitary to a foreign country getting shanghaied into some impenetrable local folk ritual. Sarah Palin isn't just on the right side of the issues intellectually. She won't need the usual stage-managed "hunting" trip to reassure gun owners: she's lived the Second Amendment all her life. Likewise, on abortion, we're often told it's easy to be against it in principle but what if you were a woman facing a difficult birth or a handicapped child? Been there, done that.
Fifth, she complicates all the laziest Democrat pieties. Energy? Unlike Biden and Obama, she's been to ANWR and, like most Alaskans, supports drilling there.
Sixth (see [here]), I kinda like the whole naughty librarian vibe.
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I wonder how many of you recall my comments here. I had registered my displeasure with McCain for what I called a calculated dissing of his conservative base to curry favor with the MSM.
I am astounded, and pleased, to have McCain's VP choice neatly resolve my main concern: by picking a solid conservative with such credentials, he's leveraged the fact that that constituency takes the long-view. I am more than willing to take 4 years of McCain for 8 of Palin/Jindal, since the end result will be a lot better than 4 years of Carter followed by Reagan's 8. NO, I don't think it'll be Gipper II: It'll be Maggie II.
By picking Palin, he's also immunized himself against shitting on conservatives (again, my main cocern about him), since everyone will drop on top of him like a ton of bricks if he does, since she IS one.
"All our base now belong to us." I was in walmart and had a discussion with an elderly and clearly "deer hunter" couple: the wife was grinning like the cat had eaten the canary, and her husband was enthusiastic, and in downright awe of Maverick's political balls.
I just sent $100 to McCain, and plan to follow up for the next two months with the same.
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Fifth, she complicates all the laziest Democrat pieties.
Damn, Steyn has a way with words. Wish I had said this. Laziest Democratic pietics--almost poetic. Democrats always have such self-righteous indignation for everyone but themselves.
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McCain revolts me, and once he is elected I fully expect him to betray me, conservatives and the Republican party as frequently and as egregiously as possible.
But, he has finally given me a reason to vote for him. Well done.
Here's hoping McCain gets elected, then promptly drops dead.
Lefties are furiously scouring the internet for Sarah Palin's old position papers on NAFTA.
Just kidding. They say they want to keep the debate elevated and discuss the issues, but that is, of course, like so much of what they say, an utter lie. Mitigated only by the fact they're so self-deluded about their own righteous virtue and lofty intellectualism they almost believe it themselves.
got a be a pic out there somewhere. Will the religious hardliners vote for a woman that was in a swimsuit competition?
Their counterpart taliban wouldn't.
But the lefty blogs are alive with the hopes of a swimsuit pic that will disgust all of us crazy vagina-fearing right-wingers.
Stay classy, left wing. Stay classy, and stay deluded.
Do you honestly fucking believe anyone's going to be put off by a young woman wearing a fucking swimsuit? I'd consider it a positive.
Projection ain't just a river in Egypt.
The Obamabots really aren't going to try to reverse that reputation for misogyny any time soon.
I have to point out these are all different searches, conducted at different times. The same idiot can't keep clicking on my site thinking suddenly I'm going to have the bikini pics I didn't have the other three times.
So, I guess I'm going to keep getting hits for Sarah Palin swimsuit competition searches, with people searching for hot pictures of Sarah Palin in a bikini, or even totally hot gubernatorial action.
It's ridiculous. It's not like Governor Sarah Palin once posed for Victoria's Secret wearing nothing but high heels and a clown nose or something.
I'm just saying, whatever you do, if you want to avoid unwanted Google interlopers, don't post anything about Sarah Palin and her secret bikini pictures,Sarah Palin and the "Air Force Two," or homoerotic pillowfights between Governor Sarah Palin and Smurfette.
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Okay, Democrats are lying, classless criminals who would do or say anything to get power. In other news, the sun will rise in the east tomorrow, it will rain somewhere on the planet, the tide will come in and go out. What else is new?
Come on, you know these are DEMS we're talking about. You expect decent behavior from the people who defended Clinton against impeachment for felonious perjury and who bitterly attacked General "Betray Us?"
Saying you're a Dem voter is, in effect, publicly admitting illiteracy and inability to assess information. You're best if you simply accept them as the hypocrites, racists, thugs and liars they are and go on. You're not likely to change them with facts. They've got too much emotional capital invested in their supposed, but demonstrably false, moral superiority.
That's the left mindset exposing their own Freudian projection behavior. The new Puritans are the one banning foods, drinks, and other common human behaviors. Those just happen to be - the nannyist left and their own 'virtue' police. And who is pushing PCism to ban such displays of the female human body - but the Womyns Studies fronts, hardly a cabal of uptight Baptists. They have absolutely no concept of 'irony'.
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THe only people put off by pictures of her in a bathing suit would be the gay liberation/gay rights/same sex marriage crowd on the far left.
Just like having sex and having children puts them off.
Trust me, I lived in SF for a few years and was called a "breeder" by more than a few of those tolerant and open minded gay libers.
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I appreciated Obama doing my work for me. They don't realize no one is going to hold being a babe against her. In fact it's another point in her favor. Love to see her negotiate with Sarko. Or Pooty. heh.
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Someone here yesterday said Mr. Palin is a real, live Esquimaux. A very handsome one, I agree, and clearly comfortable in a role that has been driving Mr. Senator Hillary Clinton bonkers.
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AlanC: "can't wait for the womens reaction to her (according to my wife) super hunk husband Todd. She saw a picture of him last night on my computer and I had to spend the next hour cleaning up the drool."
I just looked at a closeup of him. Hot-double-damn! Cowzabungie! Hubba hubba!
What's the best method of cleaning up drool, again? :-D
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Wet wipes work, I discovered. ;-)
That is one masculine man, comfortable enough in his own skin and achievements. A really perfect match for a feminine, high powered woman. 20 yrs together and you know they'll be together for the next 20 too.
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you know they'll be together for the next 20 too.
DC is a tough town and VP is a tough job. If it does work out that way, it will be an even bigger win for them. But I wouldn't underestimate either the challenges nor the challengers.
Obama Distances Self From Campaign Spox Attack on Palin
Jake Tapper, "Political Punch" @ ABC
August 29, 2008 4:41 PM
Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., was just now asked about the conflicting statements from his campaign on Sen. John McCain's, R-Ariz., pick of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin as his running mate -- first, an attack by a spokesman, then a congratulatory statement by Obama and running mate Sen. Joe Biden, D-Del.
"I think that, you know, campaigns start getting these hair triggers," Obama said at Pennsylvania Biodiesel Inc. in Monaca, Pa. "The statement that Joe and I put out reflects our sentiments."
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Well, you know, it wasn't Obama who said those things. Oh, nope, no how, no way. Heavens, no.
It was the icky subordinates who just got a little, you know, carried away by all the excitement over Obama's acceptance speech. Yep, that's it!
I mean, Obama loves women! Why, he was birthed by one! And he loves it when little sweeties like Taylor Marsh go and get him his coffee in the morning after bashing his opponent on MSNBC!
(Just ignore all those PUMA sites that are so freakin' happy about Palin. All the Democrats adore Obama, just like all the baby duckies, kittens and puppies do.....)
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"The statement that Joe and I put out reflects our sentiments."
These are not the sentiments you are looking for.
/waves hand
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What makes this even more hilarious are all the libtards that are now claiming that Obama got plenty of executive experience by running his campaign. (Actually I thought that credit went to Axelrod)
So, will O'bwank step up and take responsibility for all the things said by his campaign, or, will he now throw the bus under the bus?
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What makes this even more hilarious are all the libtards that are now claiming that Obama got plenty of executive experience by running his campaign.
Surely 'a foreign policy team of 300' has to count for something on a resume...
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I don't know. I followed this PUMA site because they were dumping all the dirt on Obama and they really believed that they could get the superdelegates over to her side.
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Howls of outrage from the NAACP in 5...4...3...2...1...
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It was wonderful, and the audience wasn't quite sure what to make of it. But last night he went after Governor Palin with both barrels blazing, the entire Obama first reaction meme list, and the laughed on cue.
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