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2008-09-04 Home Front: Politix

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Posted by GolfBravoUSMC 2008-09-04 02:11|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [11128 views ] Top

#1 Those zingers about "Styrofoam Greek columns", and "self-designed Presidential seals" have to hurt a bit...

Posted by BigEd 2008-09-04 02:39|| 2008-09-04 02:39|| Front Page Top

#2 "People who like this sort of thing will find this ... the sort of thing they like."

Clearly, for Olbermann, that's speechless.

Posted by Bobby 2008-09-04 06:00|| 2008-09-04 06:00|| Front Page Top

#3 Sarah is a total game changer. Brought to you by McCain the maverick RINO. What an INTERESTING world!

Posted by Minister of funny walks 2008-09-04 06:26|| 2008-09-04 06:26|| Front Page Top

#4 Sarah-cuda. What a lady. Game on.

One of my favorite parts of the evening: the television camera cuts to young Willow (?) holding her baby brother Trig. The child is seen grooming her baby brother by slicking down his hair with spit. I'll wager she picked that up from her mom. So simple. So authentic. So sweet.

Kudos to Mr. McCain. He wasn't my first, second, or even third choice in the primaries. But he picked a winner to ride shotgun. My gut says this lady is destined for greatness. Thank you, Mac, for bringing her to our attention.

Coincidently, the lady is married to a guy named Todd.

At the end of her speech I recalled the words of another Todd from just a few years ago.

"Are you ready? Okay. Let's roll".

Posted by MarkZ 2008-09-04 07:37|| 2008-09-04 07:37|| Front Page Top

#5 She represents small-town America, America of 100 years ago. Today a majority of Americans live in big cities, dependent on government rather than themselves. The question is how many city people still wish they were independent, small-town 'hicks' vs. cosmopolitan 'elite.' How many suburbs are built on subdivided farms surrounded by working farms? How many of those suburbanites soon start demanding the surrounding farms be shut down because they don't like the smells and sounds that go with livestock? While I am impressed by Palin, I have little confidence in the majority of Americans these days. Useless, pseudo-intellectual twits and government dependents.

Posted by Glenmore 2008-09-04 08:12|| 2008-09-04 08:12|| Front Page Top

#6 Glenmore, I sometimes think like you do but on reflection I usually end up changing my mind. I truly do think that Americans, when properly apprised of the facts and presented with a real choice, will almost always make the right call, even if it's a tough one.

The problem comes when Americans don't have all the information they need to properly choose, or have the wrong information. Both of those problems are directly attributable to the MSM, which has deliberately lied to Americans for political gain for at least fifty years.

When the people who are delivering a country's news hate the country in question, it's not likely they'll do much to help that country's citizens make choices that will benefit them and their nation. Ernie Pyle and Ed Murrow would take up arms against their press brethren these days, and for good reason.

Posted by Jolutch Mussolini7800 2008-09-04 08:50|| 2008-09-04 08:50|| Front Page Top

#7 Much to be said for small town America and it's heros. Our village had one Doctor, the late Paul Silus Nurenberg. He was a surgeon and a veteran of the US Army and the Euopean Theater of Operations in WWII. He kept a framed photograph of his fellow Army Combat Field Hospital colleagues on the wall of his office. You could call Doc Nurenberg at his residence any time, day or night. And for those who remember the term, he frequently made house calls.Yes, Doc and his lovely family were Jewish. The Nurenbergs were the only Jews in the entire town. He was, and remains an icon of the community. Give me the small town and small town folks anyday.

Posted by Besoeker 2008-09-04 08:52|| 2008-09-04 08:52|| Front Page Top

#8 City and suburbs are two very different cultures, Glenmore. Among other things, city voters are generally Democrats, suburban voters generally Republican. Most small towns, as far as I can tell, expanded into the nearby countryside and now function as suburbs of nearby cities. I live in one of those. We're soccer and softball families rather than hockey, and none of us would rather be country hicks, but we don't want the problems of the cities, either. Suburbanites are people with real jobs, accomplishing greater or lesser things, but those who don't work lose their houses. And the majority of Americans on government assistance? Where'd you get that?

Posted by trailing wife">trailing wife 2008-09-04 09:00|| 2008-09-04 09:00|| Front Page Top

#9 TW I'll agree that most don't want to be "hicks" but most also don't disparage the concept knowing that "hicks" are just as capable and intelligent as anyone.

The fact that "hick" is still a pejorative for the left shows how out of touch they are and how the force field of their narrative excludes any other views.

Posted by AlanC 2008-09-04 10:38|| 2008-09-04 10:38|| Front Page Top

#10 Think Electoral College. Let the Democrats keep their islands of ideological purity. For one, Virginia is no longer in play.

Posted by Minister of funny walks 2008-09-04 10:41|| 2008-09-04 10:41|| Front Page Top

#11 virginia is still in play, AFAIK. The kinds of folks who are wild about Palin werent that keen on Obama to begin with. Its the metro area suburbanites the GOP has lost here, and I dont see Palin as helping much there.

Posted by liberalhawk 2008-09-04 10:49|| 2008-09-04 10:49|| Front Page Top

#12 majority of Americans on government assistance?

Not just WIC, or Social Security, but jobs, grants, student loans, farm subsidies, FEMA trailers, tariff protection, even tax deductions. The goal of government is to make everyone beholden to government somehow, and they have essentially succeeded.

Posted by Glenmore 2008-09-04 11:03|| 2008-09-04 11:03|| Front Page Top

#13 It's drizzling here in Chicago and the burbs today..
Kind of appropriate.

Posted by 3dc 2008-09-04 11:23|| 2008-09-04 11:23|| Front Page Top

#14 I don't think she represents small town 100 years ago, though flattering considering how many volunteered to fight in Europe in 1914.

I think she represents so much of what the movie Bulworth tried to cash in on only without the debauchery of the in-line.

In fact, all across our litl ol town last night people stayed up to watch her speak.

Posted by swksvolFF 2008-09-04 11:29|| 2008-09-04 11:29|| Front Page Top

#15 She brought humor to the campaign. Humor has been missing for a long time and she had impeccable delivery. Jab, jab, jab. Beautifully done.

Posted by rjschwarz 2008-09-04 11:37|| 2008-09-04 11:37|| Front Page Top

#16 LH - I disagree. I am a "metro suburbanite" (Chicago, go figure) and folks in my 'burb are nuts about her. People everywhere appreciate authenticity. Obama bin Biden got none.

Ooohh - Sarahcuda!

Posted by Spot">Spot 2008-09-04 11:48|| 2008-09-04 11:48|| Front Page Top

#17 I suspect even the Obamessaih chuckled a time or two. Probably did him some bloody good with all his constant fretting about... my pension, my social security, everyone's kids graduating from Harvard, midnight basketball, wat the Euro's are thinkin, Annenberg Papers, Pastor Jeremiah, criminal charges against "W", etc. Poor bastard, I doubt he gets much humour from across the breakfast table.

Posted by Besoeker 2008-09-04 11:48|| 2008-09-04 11:48|| Front Page Top

#18 A lot of the suburbanites I know just want to be thought of as being on the side that's with the in-group (although many others are ideologues of one or another side).

If you can change the conversation from "isn't that Obama guy inspiring" to "what does that Obama guy really think", you've accomplished a lot.

Posted by mhw 2008-09-04 12:11|| 2008-09-04 12:11|| Front Page Top

#19 This election is over. McCain needed to excite the base. He's done that. He's also expanding the party with women voters and parents of handicapped kids. Remember that Bammo was having trouble sealing the deal *before* the Palin pick. Now where will he go?

I suspect we'll continue to see close polls right up through the election, but those will be meaningless. Everyone knows you can construct a poll to return whatever answer you want. The media want a horse race, so that's the story we'll hear.

Once elected, McCain will disappoint early and often. Note that last night no one mentioned anything McCain's done after the war -- except supporting the surge, which is one thing he got right. McCain picked Palin because he wants to be president and he needs us to get there. The morning after the election the Republican party will wake up alone with a sore ass, a sticky back and $20 missing from its purse.

Posted by Iblis 2008-09-04 12:28|| 2008-09-04 12:28|| Front Page Top

#20 Bammo was having trouble sealing the deal *before* the Palin pick. Now where will he go?

Straight into the gutter, that's what Dems do. But as I noted Friday: Palin is a tar baby, her selection invites condescending attacks from Obama and his bastions of elites and thus far they've shown that they just can't help going after her and her family on every level. The harder they hit her and the lower the blows are, the more popular she'll become.

Posted by AzCat 2008-09-04 12:54|| 2008-09-04 12:54|| Front Page Top

#21 Once elected, McCain will disappoint early and often.

Disappointed... I can be. A phueching socialist I cannot!

Posted by Besoeker 2008-09-04 12:59|| 2008-09-04 12:59|| Front Page Top

#22 Down into the gutter goes the Obama campaign: Axelrod just said that Palin was merely, "... parroting what she'd been told." He doesn't get it, bad enough when the lefty bloggers and lefty media go after her but Obama's campaign calling her stupid completely destroys their carefully crafted "different kind of politician" message. And this guy thinks he's smart enough to run the country?

Posted by AzCat 2008-09-04 13:03|| 2008-09-04 13:03|| Front Page Top

#23 Axelrod just said that Palin was merely, "... parroting what she'd been told."

Considering how The Obama can't even order at the drive-through window without the likes of Axelrod telling him what to say and how, I find that a particularly tasty irony.

Posted by Grenter, Protector of the Geats 2008-09-04 13:14|| 2008-09-04 13:14|| Front Page Top

#24 This just in (for what it's worth): My better half (high school teacher in a very blue state and NEA member) reports that among her Democrat friends (we're both unenrolled), Palin's speech was very well received. This from the heart of an NEA citadel in a very blue state!

Posted by Minister of funny walks 2008-09-04 13:59|| 2008-09-04 13:59|| Front Page Top

#25 Of course Palin said nothing about immigration.

and also, I've been looking into her comments about that $40 billion pipeline; it seems that while there will be little in the way of federal subsidies during construction, the price of natural gas may have to be guaranteed; that's a possible subsidy for the next generation

Posted by mhw 2008-09-04 14:01|| 2008-09-04 14:01|| Front Page Top

#26 Disappointed... I can be. A phueching socialist I cannot!

Damn right.

Posted by Spot">Spot 2008-09-04 14:10|| 2008-09-04 14:10|| Front Page Top

#27 Did anybody else notice that McCain was wearing an orange tie? ;)

I'm wondering if that was a shout-out to the PUMAs.

Posted by Swamp Blondie in the Cornfields 2008-09-04 14:12|| 2008-09-04 14:12|| Front Page Top

#28 Put up a yard sign ... and help out...

Posted by 3dc 2008-09-04 14:26|| 2008-09-04 14:26|| Front Page Top

#29 Well, how much of her straight-from-my-innocent-little-heart speech was written by the same ELITIST snots that she - or they - condemn, rhetorically? The Dems dumped Sen Eagleton AFTER the convention; the GOP still has that option, should Palin have too many skeletons to ignore. She is already looking like a player piano, and they don't play on their own.

Posted by Mad Eye Angert7845 2008-09-04 18:22|| 2008-09-04 18:22|| Front Page Top

#30 Where'd ya get that little tidbit of info MEA7845, the editorial section?

Along the lines of 3dc I will be for the first time breaking my visible neutrality and putting up a sign. There are just too many reasons too and the left's since of maturity has put me over the edge. In fact it has inspired me to actively show the bo supporters around me what is being said and whether they agree with it or not, "Hey, this is the company you keep" and all.

And you know what, people can be writers without being elitists, and people can be elitists without any idea how to write, isn't that so MEA?

Posted by swksvolFF 2008-09-04 18:38|| 2008-09-04 18:38|| Front Page Top

#31 Mad Eye come across more like Brown Eye.

Posted by Rex Mundi 2008-09-04 19:41|| 2008-09-04 19:41|| Front Page Top

#32 Mad Eye: You're right, what about Palin's husband getting that DUI. Now there's a skeleton.

Of course he was 22 and at about the same time the Obamesiah, by his own admission, was snorting coke. You know, "support your local narco-terrorist".

Maybe a Community Organizer is someone who pumps money into the community by frequently purchasing cocaine from the local dope dealers.

Posted by GolfBravoUSMC 2008-09-04 20:05|| 2008-09-04 20:05|| Front Page Top

#33 MarkZ,

Piper Palin was grooming the baby.

Posted by Eric Jablow">Eric Jablow 2008-09-04 21:31|| 2008-09-04 21:31|| Front Page Top

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