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A Masterful Stroke

9.4.08 @ 12:02AM

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Tell me, Mr. McCain, why all the angst? Why regurgitate all the smug, elitist, clueless pap, emanating from the leftist media? What exactly don't you understand here? Governor Palin is head and shoulders above both Messrs. Obama and Biden in experience and class. She is well above both their pay grades. Her debate with ole foot in mouth Biden will be a hoot. The MSM are beside themselves in their vitriol, as demonstrated by the mean spirited Andrea Mitchell of CNBC. Andrea & Co. might be laughing in the newsrooms, but then again, they thought McGovern had it in the bag, same with "reporting for duty," John Kerry. It's all good.

What the rest of us figured out days ago, is that Gov. Palin and her 17 year-old daughter have demonstrated more responsibility and class, than the Democrats, the MSM, and the once Democrat heartthrob and presidential candidate, John Edwards, ever could. And speaking of Mr. Edwards, when last we saw Mr. Two Americas, he was exiting from the men's room at the Beverly Hills Hilton, preparing to whisk his paramour out of the country by private jet, in order to avoid the same elite media that refused to report the story. Ah, but Gov. Palin's daughter, now there's a story only Dan Rather and his ilk, can really get excited about. Seems to me, Ms. Palin's daughter has more common sense and moral fiber to be president than slick John, Esq. ever had. Wake up Mr. McCain, this choice is perfect. Gov. Palin will energize the Republican Party and other thinking individuals, like they haven't been in years. The MSM will choke on their bile, as they fade into oblivion. John McCain has finally procured many of our votes and money.

Don't tell Obama and Biden, but that light at the end of the tunnel, well, it ain't gonna be pretty...
-- A. DiPentima

Robert McCain lamented the potential comedic attacks on Bristol Palin regarding her youthful pregnancy:

"Most to be feared, however, is the ridicule the story will generate. Maybe Leno will consider a pregnant teenager off-limits for his Tonight show routine, but don't expect Comedy Central's Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert to avoid jokes at Bristol Palin's expense. And Saturday Night Live will surely pounce on the subject with satirical glee."

I doubt there's anything to worry about here. Stewart and Colbert's audiences are typically minuscule because they're on cable. Their popularity is based solely on the props they get from the left. Stewart's "best selling" parody book on America can now be had in the Barnes and Noble remainder bins for about four bucks. The audience for those two clowns are already chuckling over the Palin pregnancy, and would be too stoned to vote for the Republican ticket, anyway.

As for Saturday Night Live, the only reason the show is still on the air is as a breeding ground for unfunny comics who eventually make a career out of making bad comedy movies. Either that or the network simply can't find anything else to stick in that time slot. The show hasn't been funny in decades, and any Palin-based satire is going to be low-brow and sophomoric, since that's all they're currently capable of producing. Besides, nobody's watching.
-- Joe Dougherty
Orange Park, Florida

AS PER USUAL
Re: Mike Roush's letter (under "Down With P. Jacobs") in Reader Mail's The Leave Baby Alone Coalition:

It is puzzling that Mike Roush has remained so incurious about the Obama's near 20-year membership in a racist and anti-American church and the Senator's association with an admitted home grown terrorist. I guess when he has important issues like Governor Palin's seventeen year old daughter he can't be sidetracked.
-- Clifton Briner

Once again we are treated to Mr. Roush's undergraduate-debate-team-level "intellect" enlightening us on concepts which he does not understand. Up until now I have ignored him, based on my belief in the expression, "Just because there's a fish in the barrel doesn't mean you have to shoot it." Mr. Roush, it is not "spin" or "twisting" for us not to accept your childish definition of ideas -- i.e., "family values" -- which you clearly know nothing about. Family values are what they are; they are not what you say they are in order to create shrill straw man arguments.

Family values -- and evangelical Christianity, for that matter -- are simply about striving for the best of ourselves, spiritually, morally, emotionally, even physically and intellectually. They are about understanding that actions have consequences, not just to ourselves, but to those around us. Further, they are about the understanding that humans are fallible, so when we make mistakes, as we must, we forgive, and support, and help our loved ones take responsibility for those mistakes. Surely that is what Bristol Palin and her family are doing. And Mr. Roush, surely you understand -- or perhaps not -- that young Miss Palin has never, that I am aware of, made any public statements about her own belief in abstinence-only education, or "family values," so no hypocrisy can be attributed to her. And what hypocrisy, or lack of judgment, therefore, can be attributed to Governor Palin herself? That her adult daughter did not live her life according to her mother's public policy statements?

Mr. Roush, can you be sure that this pregnancy was not intentional -- that is, two adults made the conscious decision, as is their right as adults, to create a life in light of their impending marriage, and that they made this decision privately as a couple -- again, as is their right -- completely removed from your political views? You simply cannot know the facts of this private matter, Mr. Roush. Sir, reasonable people, when confronted in an international venue with the fact that they do not know -- indeed, cannot know -- all the facts of the situation they are opining about, reasonable people shut their mouths at that point, lest they appear even more foolish than they already have. What will you do, sir?
-- Michael Jasper
Amman, Jordan

Mike Roush, like the rest of the bigoted left, is disgusting. In typical Obama fashion he sinks into the liberal gutter and bashes the girl. I hate to say it, but Hillary's supporters are right about how Obama/Biden are typical Democrat male chauvinists. I'm sure he'd like Bristol to murder her baby, but thank God she's been raised by such wonderful and supportive parents. I'm not a McCain fan, but I'm proud that he had the moral courage to nominate such a fine woman as his running mate.

Let's talk about a really ethically challenged Vice Presidential nominee -- Joe Biden. As a law school student he was caught plagiarizing/cheating and was saved from expulsion by bawling, and promising he never do it again -- he lied. His plagiarizing is as well known fact as is his callous racism that mirrors the hate filled Obama's. As for his great foreign policy credentials this is the genius who told Israel to learn to live with a nuclear Iran (since Biden's a notorious liar I believe the Israeli report and not his flimsy explanation). Notably one of the few accomplishments in Obama's record is funneling a $3.4 million earmark to Joe Biden's son. Oh, let's not forget Biden's brother and son are in the midst of a lawsuit regarding fraud. Rather than rolling around in the liberal sewer would be better served trying to defend the corruption of his candidates.

Democrats like Mike Roush are panicking and so ashamed of their weak and corrupt Presidential ticket and Congressional delegation that all they can do is lie and smear. Keep it up Democrats and watch McCain/Palin sweep this election. The only thing better will be Republicans doing better in the Congressional elections than the Democrat MSM is trying to orchestrate.
-- LCDR (Chaplain) Michael Tomlinson

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