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Palin's New Pals

9.2.08 @ 12:01AM

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Semper Fi
-- Michael Tomlinson
Habbaniyah, Iraq

W. James Antle III replies: True to form, Michael Tomlinson sees the name "Pat Buchanan" and loses all reading comprehension ability. Missing from his irrelevant review of Buchanan's latest book and his standard form letter about Blue Dog Democrats is something virtually every other letter writer seemed to understand: that my column was a defense of McCain's choice of Palin.

LEG TINGLES
Re: David N. Bass's And Along Came Palin and Jay D. Homnick's The Others Palin in Comparison:

Yo editors! I have one slight addendum to the Bass and Hornick comments on Sarah Palin. Stop the presses! She needs an instantly new moniker! First, I take back everything I have ever said (or thought) about John McCain. He's not only a hero; he has impeccably good political sense. Second, here is Sarah's new moniker: PALADIN! I hereby charge all conservative commentators to take up the new banner. With Paladin, we CAN'T LOSE!

Paladin, Paladin, where do you roam? Feared by the bad, loved by the good--Paladin, Paladin!

Finally, the campaign gets interesting!
-- John R. Dunlap
San Jose, California

In our small East Texas town there have been many folks looking peaked, as my mama sometimes says, this August. The reasons for this look could have been anything from the last of summer blues, to getting the kids ready and started in school, to just plain nothing to look hopeful for. But that all changed on Friday morning. In fact, it changed so much I heard someone singing 'Happy Days Are Here Again', and realized it was me!! By noon, smiles were had all up and down of East Texas Highway 154, and the reason was a woman from Alaska.

What is it about Sarah Palin that has these folks, including me, so happy? I will tell you. It is that this woman is us. She comes from roots of hardship and plain living. She hasn't left common sense behind in her journey in life. She isn't, thank God, a product of the Beltway, from the Chicago politician machine, or any other machine. She has cleaned up after the dirty big good old fellows, taking names and kicked butt. She knows right from wrong, good from bad, and is smart. She knows what to do and let's God help her do it.

Give me a person like that, allow her to surround herself with wise discerning counselors, and I'll be proud if my son has to call her Commander-in-Chief someday. I won't worry one wit about her not having "genuine" experience. Heck, I'm glad she doesn't. I don't want a arrogant and stupid Joe Biden, or an even more arrogant fool, like Obama. I am sick of elitism and so are many others. We need to have someone who comes fresh from living a plain, not luxurious lifestyle, one who knows that the government needs to save, not spend, and one who double checks to make sure our we course correct, for the way we are headed we will self destruct, if God doesn't send someone in to reconstruct a plumb line of common sense and right thinking.

And the best part for me is that you can see this is so obviously the right candidate, and the one about to be elected by the shrill meter going off at nutroots headquarters. You nutroots go look for a bikini shot, as you faked for Michelle Malkin. You go try to prove that her precious baby Trip belongs to her 16 year old daughter (what absolute and sincere proof do you need to know how insane some have become) that this! Not only will you not get anywhere, you amuse us, and her approval numbers continue to grow.

Sen. McCain, you hit this one out of the ballpark. And you standing next to her could let us see deep into your heart that you knew it. As I said, "Happy Days Are Here Again!"

We are energized!!! Faces are smiling from north to south and east to west. The election is over.

A Very Happy Texas Rancher who's praying for her son this morning...
-- Beverly Gunn
East Texas

First, let me say that I would never have picked Gov. Palin for Veep because I knew next to nothing about her. The same could have been said for most of the voters in America. Yes, some politics junkies did know her, but not the general public. But that simply shows that I shouldn't run for POTUS, and we already knew that. I would have picked someone safe, like Romney, for instance. But of course the downside to Romney is that so many GOP leaning evangelicals would not vote for him on the one issue of his being a Mormon. Oh, they would come up with some other excuse, but that would simply be a smoke screen.

Over the last few days, I have read about everything that I could read about Gov. Palin on the Internet sites that I visit, even the ones that I rarely visit. I have read several articles and columns in the general circulation news sites. I have not bothered with the left-wing sites, because they are completely predictable, as is the fact that I will completely disagree with them. I have read sites such as Politico that purport to call it down the middle. I have listened to the news on TV, something I rarely do anymore. I even watched the introduction of Gov. Palin, and the speeches from Dayton. That is more than I have watched of McCain's speeches in the last 12 months.

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