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Palin's New Pals

9.2.08 @ 12:01AM

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I am impressed. The lady has a deeper resume', especially in executive levels of government, than Obama, and he is running for POTUS, not Veep. I still do not think that POTUS should be an entry level job. In my humble opinion, the lady is well spoken, and without a TelePrompTer, apparently. As a Golden Eagle level member of the NRA, her life membership, and lifelong history of hunting and fishing, as well as her unqualified support for the 2nd Amendment,.is a HUGE selling point with me. Her pro-life views she has demonstrated in spades within her own family. She walks that talk. A huge plus. SHE IS NOT A LAWYER. Hallelujah and thank you God. I love her husband's background and work history, AND that she is known to help crew his commercial fishing boat in Salmon season. I like the way that she has gone after the corrupt good old boys in her own party that have brought such shame on the whole conservative movement in this country. Can you say "Drill here, drill now, and drill in ANWR? Gov. Palin can, and does. Thank you, God. I am reserving judgment on the kerfuffle regarding her firing of the Public Safety Commissioner, and whether she or her staff pressured him to fire her brother-in-law, although it sure sounds like her brother-in-law is in need of firing. Still it would not be her place to accomplish that. I am greatly impressed by her selling the state jet aircraft that the previous Repub. Gov. couldn't live without, and her waiving of the State Patrol security detail for herself. Oh, and did I mention that she is EXTREMELY attractive. (Yeah, even at my age I noticed that.) All in all, I think that she is a home run, a TD for the winning score.

But I am perplexed. Why is it that so many of the GOP political elite seem to be so eager to showcase her weaknesses? Isn't that the job of the Dems? I am not just talking about GOP elected office holders. I am including GOP campaign advisors, and governmental staffers, and pundits. Could it be that they are afraid that she will blow into the office and upset their rice bowl, like she did in Alaska? Follow the money and influence. Would these same folks be saying the same things, mostly off the record on background, if the choice had been Gov. Jindal? I think not. Now I highly value the trait of being a team player, but sometimes cuts have to be made, for the good of the team. In my humble opinion, if the McCain campaign will let her loose, and not be constantly apologizing for her, she will slice and dice the media Dems, as well as the overt Dems. Incidentally, I would not bet the house on Joe Biden cleaning her clock in the Veep debate. She ain't known as Sarah Barracuda for nothing. (Damn I love that nickname)

I will say that I am not convinced that she will bring in huge numbers of female Hillary supporters. After all, they are devoutly pro-abortion, and she is devoutly pro-life. But that is all right. All that is necessary is that she causes 20 or 30 percent of them to not vote in the contest for POTUS this time. As for the "union" vote, the leadership of the unions will slam her every way possible. The rank and file members will look and her, and her husband's union memberships and background, and pull the lever for McCain. It has almost always been thus.

I had sincerely planned to skip the POTUS line on the ballot this year. I simply can not stand McCain. Then I had become so concerned over what an Obama administration would do to the country, that I had determined to hold my breath and vote for the Devil, himself, John McCain. Now I can go into the voting booth and happily vote for Sarah Palin, even though she brings the liability of McCain with her.
-- Ken Shreve

If Mrs. Palin actually had a socially conservative attitude, she'd be a full time mother. Working a full time job with five children, four of whom are under 18 and especially with one being a Down's Syndrome child under two years of age, is narcissism beyond Clintonian levels and shows a full acceptance of cultural Marxism. This is a truly disgraceful, as well as desperate, move by McCain and the Republicans.
-- P. Jacobs

McCain, unlike a certain well known plagiarist, no names please, admitted he cribbed the line that he used to seal the deal with Governor Palin, "You complete me."
-- Ira M. Kessel
Rochester, New York

Perfect!

That is what I have been saying all along to all my friends. I am feeling the tingle going up my leg! Haha, Chris Matthews
-- Kristi Heft

Can't help but notice that my Letter to the Editor influenced McCain' Veep choice.

My comments, published this past Tuesday in The American Spectator, warned McCain I would stay home if he didn't chose Palin, Thompson or Romney, in that order. Guess I'll be going to the polls this November. Maybe I'll write in a reverse ticket vote, Palin-McCain. In any event I'll certainly contribute a couple of shekels.

Say goodBiden to Obama.
-- Wolf T.

BY HIS OWN WORDS
Re: Philip Klein's Obama's Freudian Slip:

In his rock star speech, Mr. Obama just said, "If you don't have a record to run on, then you paint your opponent as someone people should run from."

Mr. Obama, this must hit close to home, huh? My goodness, you just took credit for national legislation when you were a state legislator, and you are doing your silver-tongued best to create fear in the electorate about Senator McCain. Mr. Obama, you haven't hardly had enough flip in order to flop, so you make it up as you go, taking the "shade of the day" to survive, like a political chameleon.

Enjoy your evening, Mr. Obama. Savor it. Britney's set builders did a great job creating a backdrop that positions you as a Greek deity, coming down from the mountain to save the common man. Lots of lemmings turned out to await your instructions about which cliff to jump off of. Most of your loving celebs couldn't even command such celebrity. Enjoy it. November will not be yours, and I trust in my fellow pragmatists and conservatives to avoid four years of you and the puppeteers who pull your strings.

Letter to the Editor

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