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Captain America| 10.28.08 @ 9:31PM

Must be all those "cling-to" folks. The double bonus on Gov. Palin is that after this election she will have been fully vetted by the media. I dare say, lied about, minimized, and tarnished. But she is on the ascent. She will make a great vice president and, in the future, president.

james| 10.28.08 @ 9:44PM

I'm not going to listen to a single thing you say. CNN told me that she's a diva, she's a drag on the ticket, and she's stupid and monumentally unqualified for anything other than baby-raising.

Just kidding. Without Palin on the ticket, McCain wouldn't have seen a dime of my money. I was one of the people who had heard of her before he picked her, but never believed there was a chance he would pick her. That would have been too good to be true.

robert verdi| 10.28.08 @ 9:52PM

she is the only one who changed the crooked system she fought against it.

Scott| 10.28.08 @ 9:55PM

Robert McCain is absolutely right. Sarah is a superstar! When John McCain came to my neck of the woods at first it wasn't clear if Sarah was going to be there or not and when some people found out she wasn't, they decided not to go. Although, I'm sure they're still going to vote for McCain, Sarah is the superstar of the future. From my research on Obama, he is definitely a marxist and if they completely take over the government with a filibuster proof Senate majority, we should all beware!

lions| 10.28.08 @ 9:56PM

I was ready to leave the party until she was picked. The party is in for a big fight if she does not become the face and direction of the party.

Julie Hamil| 10.28.08 @ 9:56PM

Sarah will make a wonderful Vice-President and ready for 2012! I'm keeping the faith!!!!

ruth| 10.28.08 @ 9:57PM

Sarah rocks! It's good that she's experienced, smart, a quick study and appeals to the common person; but more important to me is her decency, good instincts and rock solid beliefs. In a nut-shell I trust Governor Palin. Her words and the way inwhich she has lived her life resonate with me.

Becky| 10.28.08 @ 10:02PM

Are political pundits overrated? Do we need someone to explain to us how to "feel" about any candidate or issue? Like Sargent Friday, just the facts, we'll figure the rest out ourselves. Some of us have pretty simple systems, like my brother, who looks to see where unions stand, and then vote opposite.

If her own staffers are stabbing her, it must only mean she is getting better and better.
Calling Dr. Krauthammer! your fellow pundits may need a dose of reality!

J. Landis| 10.28.08 @ 10:02PM

I was there myself. I dragged my poor girls(although my six year old was singing "We're seeing Sarah Palin!" joyfully) all the way across the campus only to find that montrosity of a line in the blustery weather. Needless to say, we didn't make it. But what a crowd!

Everyone of those blowhards is WRONG about her, you're spot on. Sarah's our girl, win or lose. And win or lose, we're going to turn the guns on the traitors, metaphoriclly speaking, of course

aconservativeteacher| 10.28.08 @ 10:03PM

I concur. I went to one of her rally's, and want to go to another one. People were more excited to see Palin than McCain, and liked what she said better than McCain too. Palin represents a lot of great things about our country and about our party- I just hope that Republicans aren't too sexist to overlook that.

Holdfast| 10.28.08 @ 10:09PM

She's sure as hell not perfect, but McCain needs someone to actually turn out the base of the party, and she can do the job. Her role is to make sure the base gets to the polls and he has to win over moderates. Only election day tallies will tell, but it sure looks like she is doing her job - lets see him do his.

I don't doubt that there is tension between Palin and McCain (ex-Bush) staffers, but I can't believe that he doesn't want her to be herself. McCain is a pain in the butt in a lot of ways, but he respects strength.

Martha| 10.28.08 @ 10:10PM

Go Sarah, Go!!!

Paul Gross| 10.28.08 @ 10:12PM

She wont come to Kentucky where I live as McCain has a lock on this state. Tried to get to see her in Indiana and couldnt get a ticket....sold out. My daughters were heartbroken. So yeah, tell me how much she hurt the Party. She will be THE PARTY in the years to come. A real honest to God citizen. Not a denizen of the beltway with a law degree from an ivy league school who doesnt have a clue how most of the country actually lives.

ruth| 10.28.08 @ 10:13PM

Becky, your brother sounds like a smart guy to me! Those 'traitors' can stay in the democrat party. So funny, the democrats don't like those backstabbers, they'll shred them.

Tom| 10.28.08 @ 10:14PM

I don't know, is anyone paying attention to the people saying she is a drag on the ticket?

I for one relish every report of such, knowing that THEY know. The Sarah storm is coming, and there is nothing they can do to stop it.

ruth| 10.28.08 @ 10:17PM

Real conservative men will vote for Palin, at least the conservative men I know. Integrity trumps gender.

News| 10.28.08 @ 10:19PM

Why not start with the first important question, and if the answer is 'Yeah', go from there.
The question is - Would you want to have the Palin family as next-door neighbors?

Blanket| 10.28.08 @ 10:21PM

I figured she cost mccain the election. Probably cost him about 5 points I would venture. I realize that it got the base all excited but the independents said "no way is this lady ready to be leader of free world should Mccain go down". McCain blew it. But, he was never much of a republican anyway so i guess the republican voters blew it. Obama is going to hurt us...ouch.

Julian Sanchez| 10.28.08 @ 10:24PM

So, the plan for 2012 is to pull 30% of the vote, but be REALLY REALLY excited about it? Good luck with that.

Bob Gilkison| 10.28.08 @ 10:24PM

Amen. I was at her rally in Fredericksburg, Va on 10/27. There were lines on each end of the park and the one we were in was four blocks long 1.5 hours before the rally. At the rate people were arriving, I expect it was at least as long when the rally started.

It was cold and was raining steadily by the time she was 1/2 way through her talk. Neither she nor Todd had rain gear, but they did not bat an eye and after her talk she worked the crowd in the rain for several minutes before leaving.

I heard no one complain. Saw no sour faces. Lots of ordinary people who wanted to see, and show support for a special woman. Lots of women with kids--probably not NOW or AUW members.

I hope this campaign does not sour her on national politics. The GOP desperately needs her.

ruth| 10.28.08 @ 10:25PM

I would love to have the Palin family live next door. I would babysit Trig and Piper any time.

Newagegop| 10.28.08 @ 10:25PM

Palin is the ONLY reason I'm voting for McCain. I would take a bullet for that woman.

Blanket| 10.28.08 @ 10:25PM

Any of you dumb enough to think she will win the nomination in 2012 are smoking crack. During the primary process, she will further expose herself as being utterly devoid of economic, fiscal, or foreign policy ability or know how. She will look stupid compared to the Romneys of the world. I like Palin as a person, would love to have her as a next door neighbor, but she represents a "dumbing down" of the republican party. the democrats are supposed to be dumb...now the repubs look dumb too. that sucks

ruth| 10.28.08 @ 10:29PM

Wet Blanket--go away, you are boring and wrong

Michael Andrews| 10.28.08 @ 10:33PM

Elites like the Buckleys and the NY/Washington martini set forget that we have a government of the people, by the people, and for the people. The people. Not the elites. Not the columnists. Not the media, and not the politicians.

Palin is of the people, and that is why she trumps them, and also why they do not understand her or the people who have come to appreciate her.

Tom| 10.28.08 @ 10:34PM

Mr. Sanchez, Mr. Blanket,

I'm pretty sure the Republicans won't be soliciting imput from you all. I guess you should be happy if Sarah is the candidate. So move along, nothing to see here. You might want to head over to the AARP site, I have not seen any of you warning the old folks about Republicans taking away Social Security in at least a day.

gigi| 10.28.08 @ 10:37PM

Blanket,
you've become untucked and your sexism is showing.

Bob Gilkison| 10.28.08 @ 10:37PM

Blanket, with all due respect; your statements are idiotic.

Everyone who has actually come face to face with Palin has been impressed. Conservatives: Fred Barnes, Bill Kristol, Mark Levin Hannity. The former editor of Ms magazine, hardly a Republican but a paid consultant for McCain, just wrote about how smart she is. She said Sarah asks penetrating questions, processes information quickly and thinks before she acts. She allegedly has a photographic memory. All sounds good to me.

Shallow thinking people--I hope I don't describe you--formed an opinion based on two phony, dishonestly edited interviews that took place before she even got her feet on the ground.

But, that is fine. The people who admire, respect and even love Sarah Palin will not be shaken by ignorant rants, nor by vicious attacks.

As I indicated in the post above, if she can stomach national politics, we will be there in our millions to support her.

Newagegop| 10.28.08 @ 10:42PM

Get out from under the Blanket you've inhaled too deeply.

Palin's government has a surplus. Palin gave the money back to the people. Palin stuck it to her own party and the democrats. Palin has an approvel rating of 70%. Palin's son serves his country. Palin doesn't feel punished by a baby. Palin forced the oil companies to pay up and busted up a corrupt deal. Palin's building a pipeline to make us less dependent on oil thugocracies.

Reciting talking points by a terrified media and democratic party doesn't stand up to her accomplishments and living example of conservatism. She is conservatism in action. Self-made and ruggedly individual. She is what the "elites" of the world fear the most. She's someone that doesn't need elites to do anything except get the hell out of the way.

D. R. Castille| 10.28.08 @ 10:46PM

If she is the best that the Republicans can offer, then they can kiss the next 16 years goodbye. Idiocracy!

dinapinoy| 10.28.08 @ 10:47PM

Two reasons why I will not vote for Sarah Palin:

1. "I can see Russia from Alaska"
2. She doesn't even know the duties of a Vice President.

I know she's not dumb. She should have at least researched what a VP does.

D.R. Castille| 10.28.08 @ 10:53PM

Even I knew what the "Bush Doctrine" was when Charlie "In What Regard, Charlie" Gibson asked her about it.

Blanket| 10.28.08 @ 10:58PM

I dont think she is dumb.

I just dont think being a very short term governor of alaska, with no substantive experience prior to that, was enough to get her educated on important issues.

When the financial meltdown hit, most people who arent die hard conservatives or evangelicals would NOT be comfortable that she knows jack crap about these issues. Then again, neither does mccain. which is why they blame the problem on "corporate greed" which is basically trying to out-stupid the democrats. Not good. not good at all.

kevin| 10.28.08 @ 10:58PM

Dina - Sarah was right about the constitutional duties of a VP. You're the one who needs to do the research. As far as Russia goes - don't you think that the governor of a state bordering Russia, with Russian military bases and missiles just over the horizon, would know more about the nature of the Russian regime than a one year senator from Chicago?

Son of Liberty| 10.28.08 @ 11:02PM

I would crawl through glass to vote for Sarah Palin.

The press has treated her very unfairly, but she has smiled and remained classy. It is obvious she has thick skin, and that will serve her well during her upcoming 2 terms as President.

ruth| 10.28.08 @ 11:03PM

Good thing you knew what the Bush Doctrine was because Gibson didn't. Did you also know that FDR was president during the stock crash of 1929 and that he then comforted millions and millions of Americans watching him on their televisions? Did you know that, hotshot-- because that's what Biden told that little rodent, Katie Couric, and Katie didn't blink an eye. Moron

Mark| 10.28.08 @ 11:03PM

1. "I can see Russia from Alaska"
Yeah, she can see Russia. Why are people painting this as a stupid comment? Putin? Georgia? She can the see country of a potential crazed restore Russia to it's former glory.

Makes sense to me. I'm sure dinapinoy is off doing brain surgery somewhere and won't get to read this.

kevin| 10.28.08 @ 11:03PM

If you remember - she was the only one of the 4 candidates who knew enough about the financial crisis to say that sticking the taxpayers with the bill was a bad idea. Before McCain's team got her on topic that is.

ruth| 10.28.08 @ 11:06PM

Go back to your liberal (marxist) swamps, trolls. You're stinkin' up the place.

Newagegop| 10.28.08 @ 11:06PM

Article 1 Section3 of the Constitution of the United States.

The Vice-President of the United States shall be President of the Senate, but shall have no vote, unless they be equally divided.

Anyone want to guess what the President of the Senate can do? Procedurally? Recognizing speakers perhaps...speeding things along...slowing things down. All sorts of things can be done as President of the Senate.

Read about Aaron Burr sitting as President of the Senate. Many of his rulings are still time honored traditions to this day. dinapinoy maybe you should have researched what the VP does. You certainly don't wish to appear dumber than Sarah Palin!!!

Ricardo | 10.28.08 @ 11:10PM

Sarah Palin has my vote for any position she chooses to run for. It isn't her life experience per se, but it is her absolute principled way of living her life that puts me totally in her court. These are the kinds of people I like to have around me, eager, principled, honest and never-say-die.

The current Republican structure needs to be swept away, whether McCain wins or not. I've looked on Sarah Palin's face, heard her words and felt the electricity she carries with her.

She is Who We Need.

OCPatriot| 10.28.08 @ 11:13PM

Yep, that's what Republicans need. A star, someone who pulls in crowds. Never mind the other qualities, which start to turn your stomach when you look closely at them. TrooperGate, for one, in which she was found to have violated the ethics laws in the state of Alaska. Keeping the Bridge To NoWhere money, while first promoting the bridge and then denouncing it, and claiming she saved the state and the federal government as part of the PR effort. Lying regularly as part of her stand-up speeches as McCain's running mate, distorting almost every claim she makes. Yes, indeed, we need more dishonest liars in the Republican Party because they can attract voters. Certainly we need more of these people as President. Has it ever occurred to you that people flock to see this woman because they're curious about her? Certainly the negative poll numbers might be a clue to how they really think about her. But, as with most Republicans who feel that it's slipping away, you grasp for straws in the form of an attractive woman who can stir up the crowd. Mark this, please, she hasn't shown a shred of decency to anyone, especially when she stirs her crowds up, and when she incites them to hatred and even violence, without even considering the fire she's playing with, it is sickening. A number of well-known dispicable dictators had that star quality and attracted large crowds. We need to look at the whole person, not just the surface.

Dave R| 10.28.08 @ 11:14PM

I agree with James in that I had heard and saw her a few months before her GRAND entry upon the scene.
Thanks Glenn Beck for having the new Governator on your show.

To the point of story.
I would not have given anything to the party if it was not for Gov. Palin.
GO Cuda GO!!!!!
Libs...it is what's for dinner!!!

ginparti| 10.28.08 @ 11:14PM

Dinapinoy, You can see Russia from Alaska. That state is the first line of defense in our missile interceptor defense system. The 49th Missile Defense Battalion of the Alaska National Guard is the unit that protects the entire nation from ballistic missile attacks. It’s on permanent active duty, unlike other Guard units.

Newagegop| 10.28.08 @ 11:17PM

OCComrade

Just vote Obama and shut up.

btw paragraphs good, socialism bad.

got that?

kevin| 10.28.08 @ 11:20PM

OCPatriot - She wasn't found to have violated any ethics laws in Troopergate. One person - the guy who wrote the report you're referring to - accused her of that. The committee who hired him didn't vote to approve the report. If you read the report you will see that the evidence in it actually clears her.

Campbell| 10.28.08 @ 11:20PM

The media has become the new diva and a drag on the American way of life.

Dave R| 10.28.08 @ 11:23PM

Ginparti. You are so right on the money with your last post.
With out the AANG command....we the USA would be sitting ducks.

Ricardo| 10.28.08 @ 11:25PM

OC Patriot, maybe I should call you Good Time Patriot, because you obviously haven't the foggiest idea what you're talking about.

Gov. Palin was NOT found to have violated the ethics rules of Alaska or anywhere else. Even the Weirdo Trooper stated that she didn't try to have him fired, way back when this first started being agitated by that Democrat arse in Juneau.

You're so whacked out that your Bridge to Nowhere diatribe is incoherent, illogical and not one part of it is right. My brother has lived in Alaska for over 28 years and he has told me all the facts about Sarah Palin. She is the real deal and the people truly love her and respect her strength, intelligence and honesty. I'll not refute any more of your drivel, becaue I think your brain just fried a bit when the crack finally struck what few brain cells are left.

With 30 lawyers and 82 support personnel, Obama's Gestapo found absolutely nothing they could pin on Palin. So all the Dems and those like the Good Time Patriot can do is just yell lies long and hard and hope the weak minded amongst us end up believing it. I'd just as soon call you out for your lies and do an Aaron Burr.

Campbell| 10.28.08 @ 11:26PM

Correct OCPatriot. The so-called ethics violation was actually just the opinion of Branchflower, nothing more. This was a staged political hit on Palin.

Ricardo| 10.28.08 @ 11:29PM

I've already posted my vote for Palin/McCain, since I won't be in town next Tuesday. I'm proud that I cast a vote for a rising star in the Conservative Constellation, and against the evil that is the Obama/Biden hit squad.

DEWEE| 10.28.08 @ 11:29PM

dinapinoy: Do a little research. Even Slate acknowledges that you can see Russia from Alaska, here http://www.slate.com/id/2200155/. Little Diomede Island (US) is only 2.5 miles from Big Diomede Island (Russia). They have a webcam, or you can just use Google Earth like I did, and pan up to see the view from Little Diomede.

claypigeon| 10.28.08 @ 11:31PM

Troopergate:

The report found that Palin's personal ties were a "likely contributing factor" to the commissioner's firing. The trooper was never fired, she wanted to transfer his supervisor, not fire him, and it was over budget disputes.

Palin stopped the Bridge To Nowhere and pulled out of the program halfway through it. It became a national embarrassment. Biden and Obama both voted for it, even though it meant taking money from Hurricane Katrina.

I don't know anyone who would drive hours and spend hours in a line to see someone they were merely "curious" about.

You astroturferfing AKP Media temps are boring and trite. Where's the folksy banter, too? Usually, you brownshirts do your best Fred Thompson when you stir up dissent. Tell us how you "don't have a dog in this fight" or that woman makes you "nervous as a long-tailed cat in a room full of rocking chairs" or you slept with your sister and still don't trust Sarah Palin.

DEWEE| 10.28.08 @ 11:32PM

dinapaloy: Or, you can consult the New York Times.
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=940DEFDF103EF930A15753C1A96E948260&sec;=&spon;=&pagewanted=all I guess I wouldn't vote for you.

ruth| 10.28.08 @ 11:38PM

There's no point in trying to reason with the liberal assclowns above. I've read that a lot of them are paid by the Obama campaign to troll websites such as this one just to antagonize and demoralize. I believe that Obama and his thugs are very afraid of Governor Palin. LOL

littleguy| 10.28.08 @ 11:39PM

Governor Palin is the best. God bless her and her family.

Real American| 10.28.08 @ 11:42PM

want to get a lot of hits on your website? post about Sarah Palin.

I just love how the "intellectuals," who supposedly are so worried that Palin isn't the policy virtuosos that they are, are so quick to judge her. Shouldn't they take their time and make a careful evaluation of her talents and abilities after observing her for a good long time? That seems to be the studious thing to do. Instead, we get a visceral emotional reaction from the so-called "learned" elites.

Blanket| 10.28.08 @ 11:46PM

If she runs in 2012, do you think by that time she will have figured out what newspapers she reads? That would be greeaaaat.

You Palin fanatics remind of the Huckabee supporters who basically ruined the party for this elections cycle, caused the RHINO McCain to get nominated, and assured us of losing the general election to a socialist who will work very well with socialist Pelosi and goof ball Reid.

Nice work, dummies. Bigoted evangelicals splintered the coalition and caused us to nominate the worst republican possible (worst next to Huckabee and Ron Paul).

You dummies need to differentiate your personal excitement for somebody that you "can relate to" from somebody that knows what papers she reads, has a clue about important fiscal and foreign policy issues, has some remedial level of experience, was active enough in her childrens' lives to keep her high school daughter from getting knocked up by the self-described "bad boy of hockey". Like I said, you all remind me of the Huckabee voters...you know, dumb.

miron| 10.28.08 @ 11:49PM

dinapinoy: ang babaw naman ng reasons mo, just my opinion.

ruth| 10.28.08 @ 11:50PM

I don't know if any of these punk posters are elites, but they sure aren't intellectual. Just a few gomer trolls to tick us off. Liberal losers.

Geo| 10.28.08 @ 11:51PM

DID YOU KNOW?

Question: What is America’s first line of missile interceptor defense that protects the entire United States?
Answer: 49th Missile Defense Battalion of Alaska National Guard.

Question: What is the ONLY National Guard unit on permanent active duty?
Answer: 49th Missile Defense Battalion of Alaska National Guard

Question: Who is the Commander in Chief of the 49th Missile Defense Battalion of Alaska National Guard?
Answer: Governor Sarah Palin, Alaska

Question: What U.S. governor is routinely briefed on highly classified military issues, homeland security, and counter terrorism?
Answer: Governor Sarah Palin, Alaska

Question: What U.S. governor has a higher classified security rating than either Hillary or Barack of the Democrat Party?
Answer: Governor Sarah Palin, Alaska

According to the Washington Post, she first met with McCain in February, but nobody ever found out. This is a woman used to keeping secrets. She can be entrusted with our national security, because she already is.

NOW YOU DO!

ruth| 10.28.08 @ 11:53PM

Blanket, go home, your mommy is calling you.

miron| 10.28.08 @ 11:56PM

dinapinoy: i guess i cancelled your vote for someone else. i already voted for mccain and palin. we vote mail-in in our state/county. my wife is voting like me, as well as my two sons and daughter-in-law. we are voting for her because of the principles she holds and the values she promotes. even if she was not the vp candidate, i would not vote for bo.

Blanket| 10.28.08 @ 11:56PM

Wow, that is very interesting Geo. Thanks for the info.

You left out the most important thing though:

She can see Russia from her house.

Who knows, someday, she may even visit another country.

ruth| 10.28.08 @ 11:57PM

May God bless you, Sarah, and keep you strong. Your country needs you.

Ricardo| 10.29.08 @ 12:02AM

What was the foul smelling wind? Did Blanket just make an arse of Self, or was that a dry fart in a gale?

ruth| 10.29.08 @ 12:09AM

Ricardo, what's the difference?

Blanket| 10.29.08 @ 12:12AM

You have to hand it to McCain.

He has been screwing conservatives for 20 years by being a "maverick" AKA going against conservative principals like controlling the borders, free speech (mccain feingold), and voting against the Bush tax cuts, etc.

Then, he screws the party by cheating by teaming up with Huckabee to get himself the nomination even though he is a RINO in every way possible.

Then, he screws the party by choosing the female Dan Quayle, Sarah Palin who he mismanages so she comes across even dumber than she actually is.

Then, McCain's veep is so popular with the nutters that Palin will make sure that the Republican party will maintain its minority status for years and years to come.

In the meantime, McCain will just go back to the senate and do what he does best...reaching across the aisle aka screwing his fellow republicans with some gang of 8 nonsense or something.

Nice work McCain. We know you always hated conservatives...and you sure screwed them over for decades in the past and decades in the future.

Maybe when he was a POW, the commies implanted something in his brain and he is really a manchurian candidate or something.

Socialism starts next week. ENJOY!!!

Barbara| 10.29.08 @ 12:14AM

McCain should have chosen Romney. Picking her just to appease 30% of the population, the alleged base of the GOP, was insane.

If she is the best the GOP can muster for 2012, we are in deep trouble.

Blanket| 10.29.08 @ 12:16AM

Barbara speaks the truth.

Glad there is another non-nutter out there.

All Palin would do is make sure we stay irrelevant.

Barbara| 10.29.08 @ 12:17AM

And fart jokes?? How old are you?

You are common and crass, no real Conservative would talk like that, shameful.

ginparti| 10.29.08 @ 12:20AM

Blanket, Sarah Palin visited Kuwait, and she wasn't even running for President!

How come you read so many newspapers, and yet you're SO STUPID?

peterike| 10.29.08 @ 12:21AM

The woman is simply amazing. A true American gem. If you want to hear a TRUE feminist speech, check this out. Oh, never heard of it? Gosh by golly, could the MEDIA have covered up one of the finest true feminist speeches of the last thirty years? Yup, they sure did.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2008-10-27/sarah-palins-a-brainiac/1/

PS - Dearest little teeny tiny Blanket. There's Tina Fey's imitation of Palin. Then there's Palin. You seem to have confused the two. Let me explain. TV = not the real world. Palin = the real world. I guess the shiny lights from the TV box confused your little shrimpy brain. Poor dear.

Barbara| 10.29.08 @ 12:22AM

Palin was not even John's choice, she was Steve's.

And we shall see what happens with her problems in Alaska.

It's amazing though, those who love this woman really hate the government, this government of the United States of America.

They speak about this government, our government in treasoneous sucessionalistic ways that will eventually undermine the GOP.

Not a good thing.

Blanket| 10.29.08 @ 12:28AM

Peterike,

Thank you for clearing that up for me. I seem to have gotten them confused.

So tell me:

Which one doesnt know what newspaper she reads?

Which one claims her foreign policy experience is the ability to see Russia from her house?

Which one of them has the lowest favorability rating amongst the four candidates?

Which one got married and 7.5 months later, had her first child?

Which one wasnt around her children enough to keep her daughter from getting knocked up by the local self-described "bad boy of hockey".

Please help me out....I keep getting them confused.

Thanks in advance.

Bill Cook| 10.29.08 @ 12:32AM

dinapinoy
Go to Walmart and buy a globe, or buy a ticket to Alaska. You will learn that you can indeed see Russia from Alaska. You may also learn, if you study real hard and eat your carrots, that Sarah was joking when she said she didn't know what a VP's job was.

Barbara| 10.29.08 @ 12:33AM

The way these people are reacting to Sarah Palin you would believe she was a cross between Evita Peron and Amy Semple McPherson.

It's the exact behavior we are accusing the Dems of expressing over The One.

OldSpy| 10.29.08 @ 12:35AM

You Romneybot smear merchants better clean it up - you've been uncovered in your anti-Palin smears, and are showing even more that Romney is Nixon in a nicer suit. Romney is NOT going to be in there in 2012 - we know his dirty tricks from what he did to Thompson, and what you astro-turfers are doing to Conservative/GOP boards.

Blanket| 10.29.08 @ 12:36AM

That is exactly right, Barbara.

The only difference is that The One knows what newspaper(s) he reads.

Even though he is a socialist...which is going to hurt our country.

Blanket| 10.29.08 @ 12:38AM

Oldspy,

what did Romney do to Thompson? I havent heard that one.

I like Thompson. The only problem with Thompson is that didnt want the job enough to put forth some effort. So, you are blaming Romney for his failure? What did he do? I havent heard this one...

Les Hardie| 10.29.08 @ 12:40AM

For every woman with an Ivy-leage degree like Hillary, there are ten thousand women (and men)with degrees from state colleges like Sara. Those women (and men) can relate to Sara because she's genuine and real, not an elitist phony. As a graduate of an elite school myself, I happily cast my lot with authentic people like Sara and Todd, not the Hillarys and Baraks of the east coast snobocracy.

Barbara| 10.29.08 @ 12:44AM

OldSpy - I supported Thompson, not Romney, but Fred just didn't want it enough.

robert| 10.29.08 @ 12:44AM

I have been practically throwing things at my tv every time i hear Pundits bash/questions Sarah.

She is the only reason McCain has a chance. Frankly I cannot stand McLame but I will vote for Sarah and cannot wait for the day that I can vote for her at the top of the ticket.

Blanket| 10.29.08 @ 12:45AM

Les Hardie,

its people like you that will make sure we stay the irrelevant minority party.

I prefer people smarter than the average. You seem to prefer the average. The average doesnt get to be the leader of the free world.

I cant stand Obama and I am upset that he will become POTUS. I blame McCain, Huckabee, and the dumber third of the republican party...i.e. people like you. No offense.

Barbara| 10.29.08 @ 12:46AM

Les Hardie, who here is even supporting Obama & Hillary? I would never support either, especially her.

That was another really crazy thing, all of these Republicans and Conservative supporting Hillary. I didn't get that irrational behavior at all.

Barbara| 10.29.08 @ 12:50AM

Blanket, I agree with what you said. It's a hard raod to haul, becoming the President. She doesn't have what it takes for voters outside of the Right Wing of the GOP.

And that Right Wing is very small, not enough to win elections.

Terry Johnson| 10.29.08 @ 12:50AM

Folks, there are plenty of trolls like "blank head"
out there right now. They're usually trust fund students pretending they're Che by posting rubbish on sites like this. The best way of dealing with these sad, little attention-seekers is to ignore their pathetic comments and just get on with the thread. Imagine them as those dysfunctional drunks that scream abuse at no-one in particular as they stagger down the street and just ignore them. It's an old adage but it makes sense...Don't Feed The Trolls.

McKenzie| 10.29.08 @ 12:54AM

I LOVE HER! I stood outside for 8 hours and got to meet her. I mean she is a GOP rockstar. She's the biggest ticket out there right now, but she's more than that. For those that don't think she's qualified READ:)
What is America's first line o f missile interceptor defence that protects the entire United States?
Answer: 49th Missile Defense Battalion of Alaska National Guard.

Question: What is the ONLY National Guard Unit on permanent active duty?
Answer: 49th Missile Defense Battalion of Alaska National Guard!

Question: Who is the Commander in Chief of the 49th Missile Defense Battalion of Alanskan National Guard?
Answer: Governor Sarah Palin

Question: What U.S. Governor is routinely briefed on highly classified military issues, homeland security, and counter terrorism?
Answer: Governor Sarah Palin

Question: What U.S. governor has a higher classified security rating than either canidate of the democratic party?
Answer: Governor SARAH PALIN of Alaska!

Blanket| 10.29.08 @ 12:56AM

LMAO!!

Terry Johnson is too weak in her positions to argue any of my points and makes a plea to not engage anybody who isnt participating in an echo chamber.

Dumb people....yep, sounds like a Palin contingency.

I like her as a person...she just ISNT going to be POTUS...sorry to break the news to you.

Barbara| 10.29.08 @ 12:59AM

Interesting how a Right leaning Conservative site would foster the idea of not engaging in debate, but would rather censor "the trolls' or those who disagree.

You usually see this kind of behavior at The Daily Kos and Democratic Underground.

What has happened to the Conservative movement?

Blanket| 10.29.08 @ 1:05AM

Good question, Barbara.

The conservative view is a view that can be argued logically and intelligently and persuasively. But to do so, you have to believe in the conservative position.

McCain doesnt believe in the conservative position, hence, his blaming "corporate greed" on economic issues...just like his fellow liberals in the other party.

McCain CANT articulate conservative positions because 1) he isnt articulate and 2) he doesnt understand conservative economic and fiscal policy.

Palin probably believes in the conservative point of view but, clearly, she doesnt understand enough to articulate it....and really just better stick to speaking to small towns and sean hannity.

old91A10| 10.29.08 @ 1:10AM

Here's a PUMA. My vote for the McCain Palin ticket took out two trolls.

SilentWatcher| 10.29.08 @ 1:14AM

What newspapers does Governor Palin read? Most likely, she reads Canadian ones. Some of their reporters are doing a better job of digging up the dirt on the socialist messiah than our lickspittle media is.

Frankly, Palin should have outright confessed that she doesn't read any damned newspapers. They're a bunch of leftist nuts who won't give the GOP a fair shake. The question was a really moronic one; most likely Gov. Palin got brain lock over the gross stupidity of the question. The implication of the question was likely: how can you be reading the NYT or LAT and be a Republican? That's why Gov. Palin should've answered forthrightly cuz the logical answer is I can think for myself BECAUSE I don't read the birdcage liners.

Me, I read the NY Post and Opinion Journal online cuz they try to present all viewpoints. You wouldn't catch me dead with a NYT or any other newspaper in my hands. Don't read 'em. Won't read 'em. THey're all bullshit artists.

john| 10.29.08 @ 1:15AM

If Obama wins Palin might not get the chance. 3 out of the last 4 Presidents have served the full 2 terms.

Get the word out about Obama: http://www.mofopolitics.com/2008/10/28/obama_carousel_of-terror/

ruth| 10.29.08 @ 1:24AM

Gee whiz, schoolmarm Barbie, looks like you came a little late to our Sarah celebration. You just didn't get here in time to lecture us on the proper etiquette of being a conservative. And you missed the fart jokes. Shameful! You are a fart joke. Sarah's a force to be reckoned with and you know it.

ruth| 10.29.08 @ 1:33AM

God bless you, Sarah Palin, and keep you strong.

Blanket| 10.29.08 @ 1:42AM

Well, I agree with you TJ.

Except, I dont expect Palin to get the nomination in 2012 anymore than Huck could have pulled it off. The best she could do is serve as the republicans Ralph Nader....just somebody to ensure the other side wins.

You see, she sorta draws on the same crowd as Huckabee...the dumb republicans.

So, in 2012, she could possibly split the dumb vote with Huckabee leaving the intelligent vote with somebody else...romney or some other conservative that can think well and speak like an adult......you know, act like a republican candidate that isnt embarrassing.

Smitty| 10.29.08 @ 1:51AM

If you want to blame someone for not getting a better candidate than McCain rest your sites on the GOP state commitees. They allowed us to follow the Democrats norm of Caucusing ifstead of real Primary votes. This allowed a small number of liberal states to move their adgenda by advancing the state caucusses earlier and limiting the vote to those who were able to attend the caucus. Caucusses were held during the week and required participation and attendence longer than a simple vote. This corrupted the vote. We need a system of real primaries and they all need to be scheduled to take place on only one or two dates, like Super Tuesday to eliminate the corosive effect of the media polls and the extreme expense to the candidates that restrict their participation over the longer primary season. This costly restriction is what limited most candidate's ability to stay in the mix long enough to let the whole country have a say.

Smitty| 10.29.08 @ 1:54AM

Ooops! spelling.... (Caucusing ifstead ) Caucussing instead

Joe the Troller| 10.29.08 @ 2:12AM

Hey, Blanket...
I've got some free time on my hands, how much does Axelrod pay you for your astroturfing gig? Seems like easy enough work, just log in and make a series of monumentally stupid comments...

Big Hugh| 10.29.08 @ 2:33AM

Hey Joe, you are so stupid no one would cough up a nickel to get you to type your empty "thoughts" (and I use that term loosely) on a keyboard.

In any case, the McCain campaign has no money left even for discount blatherers like you.

Gary| 10.29.08 @ 2:46AM

It's actually people like Barbara and Blanket who are killing the GOP.
They want to trot out the same old elitist creeps like Romney .
Wee, how original.
Palin's the one who will lead the party out of the mess it's in. She represents the real folks.
She gets us .
I want my 7 year old daughter to grow up to be as strong and independent as Sarah Palin.
Now Barbie and Blankie, who do you think should be the GOP nominee?
I'm really anxious to read your answers.
I'm sure it'll be really original and out of the box.
Oh wait, I just read that you think Romney's the one.
Please. You're joking, right?

julia| 10.29.08 @ 3:03AM

I'm an atheist. I always enjoy Hitchens and Buckly.
But come on.
Hey, Christopher Hitchens. Isaac Newton was a bigger, retro-paleo-eschatological-bible thumper than Palin. His theories on the end of times is a wack job. What do you really think of GRAVITY now? Huh?
Lighten up, elitists. What good is all that education if you throw all the babies out with the bathwater?
Some REAL leaders are grounded by reality, buoyed by faith.

Intellectuals are just grounded these days--and boring--and afraid of women.

RogerCfromSD| 10.29.08 @ 3:23AM

I have to wonder how smart Sarah's detractors are themselves. Have they accomplished even half of what she has? Could they successfully run a state?

Anyone who calls her dumb or questions her suitability because she doesn't carry herself like a Botox-filled, snooty elitist is simply not too bright themselves.

She will absolutely gather the Conservatives back into a unified party come 2012. Will Romney as her V.P. Obama and the Blowhard wouldn't stand a chance.

Of course by then, Obama will have screwed things up so badly, even the libs will be lining up to see Sarah.

Oh, and I most certainly would like the Palins living nearby. They seem like nice, patriotic people. Why wouldn't anyone want them living in their neighborhood?

AMP| 10.29.08 @ 3:33AM

So much delusion, so little time.

I hope you all line up behind Palin. While you're so preoccupied, all the moderate Republicans will be *over there* [i.e., as far away as possible from you all and Palin as possible] figuring out their next move.

Here's a tip: there are more of them than you.

If you cannot see the logic and how this will play out, well then chances are you are a diehard Palin supporter. Best of luck to you! Quite frankly, you're gonna need it.

Cindy| 10.29.08 @ 3:36AM

How amazing to hear so many people loving the honesty and values Sarah stands for! Too bad our own CA owned newspaper up here in AK can only follow the MSM's shame. But, I'll let you all in on a secret - the people know the truth!! The only bummer is, we'll MISS OUR GOVERNOR! She's the best thing that has happened for our state!! She'll be amazing for our nation, but it's hard knowing we'll be losing her from Alaska!

DN| 10.29.08 @ 5:05AM

You guys are somehow confused: she has the highest clearence, and her duty is to get info on POTUS level every day. Why should he read the NYT or LAT junk? To get coupons? What exactly is the value of these half-kilo of wasted paper every day? She get the facts in much cleaner form, without mind-clogging "informed opinion" of these BS pushers. From what we see, she is smarter and better informed than all of them. Phelps diet is completely different than ours, and rightly so.

Wally Ballou| 10.29.08 @ 5:08AM

I am a Palin supporter, and I stood in the cold to hear her, and I am in no way "dumb", or anti-intellectual. Quite the contrary. The assumption that the basis of Palin's appeal rests on a foundation of stupidity and hatred is based on nothing more than self-reinforcing prejudice about the woman and her followers.

Certainly she has a low approval rating right now - she was the target of a concentrated hate-hest from the media of an intensity and ferocity seldom seen. they had to cripple her in a hurry, and it will take her a while to climb back up and show her true face.

A lack of glibness and the inability to "fake it" and BS in a situation where you don't know the answer to a question - skills that come as naturally as breathing to Obama and Biden - may look like stupidity to the shallow observer. This is especially true when the question has no correct answer - such as the one about the "Bush doctrine" - which a commenter above fatuously claims to have known 'the' answer to.

As for Romney being a better choice - dream on! The media and dems would have been unembarrassed to stir up anti-Mormon hysteria until his approval ratings were in the cellar, too. They were fully prepared to paint him as a racist cultist kook and the so-discerning booboisie would have bought into the portrayal as readily as they have into the anti-Palin hysteria.

Palin-Jindal 2012! (if the Republic survives)

John the Libertarian| 10.29.08 @ 5:25AM

Reagan in a skirt!

Go Sarah Go!!

John the Libertarian| 10.29.08 @ 5:32AM

Of course they're going to call her an idiot.

It's their only weapon.

They called Dutch an idiot, too.

Liberal intellectual is an oxymoron.

Mike Vincent| 10.29.08 @ 5:38AM

I attended several McCain/Palin and McCain rallies. At the McCain only rallies the people in the line and in the venue continuously asked if SARAH was coming. She is truly a superstar.

I LOVE SARA PALIN!

alp deniztekin| 10.29.08 @ 5:56AM

I made my first ever campaign contribution (age 68) after I heard her convention speech. I think she is the real-deal!

Paul L| 10.29.08 @ 6:15AM

This article is right on! If there's one good thing about this election cycle, it's helped flush out the spineless "moderate" Repubs who are backing Obama. As far as I'm concerned, good riddance! Let's rebuild around Sarah and make this the party of Reagan again!

mndasher| 10.29.08 @ 6:27AM

dinapinoy | 10.28.08 @ 9:47PM:"Two reasons why I will not vote for Sarah Palin:
1. "I can see Russia from Alaska"
2. She doesn't even know the duties of a Vice President."
1. Well actually you can see Russia from Alaska. (2.5 miles http://www.gov.state.ak.us/trade/2003/tad/russia/facts.htm)
2. She knows the duties of the VP better than Joe Biden. The VP's duty is to the president over the Senate. Just like she claims. (Art I Sec 3)

Koblog| 10.29.08 @ 6:48AM

Note to Katie Couric: I don't read newspapers. I canceled my last subscription soon after discovering the internet. I quit that paper when I realized I could read what I "needed" from it in about five minutes. The rest was junk.

I don't need newspapers, an I ESPECIALLY don't need CBS and Katie Couric (or NBC, CNN NYT, LAT or MSNBC) to tell me what to believe.

Neither does Sarah Palin.

MP| 10.29.08 @ 7:05AM

Sarah will do quite a bit to bring the party back to the principles/fundamentals that produced two landslides in the '80's. I know that many of you have doubts/issues about her, but we can all agree on one thing: THE OBAMA BULLCRAP MUST BE STOPPED! Let's put aside our doubts/issues with Sarah and unite to STOP THE OBAMADNESS!

MP| 10.29.08 @ 7:05AM

Sarah will do quite a bit to bring the party back to the principles/fundamentals that produced two landslides in the '80's. I know that many of you have doubts/issues about her, but we can all agree on one thing: THE OBAMA BULLCRAP MUST BE STOPPED! Let's put aside our doubts/issues with Sarah and unite to STOP THE OBAMADNESS!

Frank| 10.29.08 @ 7:30AM

Sarah Palin is the greatest political gift the Democratic Party has received since Richard Nixon. By all means, promote her, push her to the hilt and stand in the way of any GOP candidate who tries to challenge her. At 44, the Dems can look forward to at least two or three election cycles of conservative irrelevence. Y'all just keep listening to Rush and thinkin' just like he says you should. Much obliged.

Doug Gambrell| 10.29.08 @ 7:40AM

Who are you people? Are you serious? Sarah Palin is completely unqualiied and unprepared to be Vice President, to say nothing of President. John McCain made a huge mistake choosing her, in a blatantly cynical attempt to capture the "Hillary" vote. Yes, millions of Americans like her and think she is great, but then again, millions of Americans don't practice good hygiene either.

paulejb| 10.29.08 @ 7:43AM

The left HATES Sarah Palin because she is NOT one of those go along to get along republicans that they have so helped to advance the socialist cause. They fear this woman because she is not one of the useful fools they are used to dealing with in the republican party. I look forward to a future with Sarah Palin as the new leader of the conservative movement. God bless her!

amyloo| 10.29.08 @ 8:00AM

Love Sarah, hate Hillary ... now shut up and vote!

tridog| 10.29.08 @ 8:07AM

You people who are all worried about if Sarah is qualified to be POTUS should the need arise - WAKE UP. The real fact is that Obama is NOT qualified - and he IS running for POTUS. 2 years in the Senate and a stint in the IL legislature? Please. The biggest thing he has run is his campaign - and, truth be told, his staff did that. And Biden? He has a lot to SAY about foreign policy - but what he has said the past 20 years has been uniformly wrong. Nice ticket

eric| 10.29.08 @ 8:12AM

You really should edit your own work better.

What you said: "...if Sarah Palin is enough to make you decide you're not a Republican, you're not a Republican."

What you should have said (because it would have actually meant something instead of being a silly tautology): "...if Sarah Palin is enough to make you decide you're not a Republican, you never were a Republican."

Not only would it mean something, it would be true: Buckley never was a Republican. Neither, really, was his father.

They were Conservatives.

I was raised by Buckley Conservatives. I know the difference. I know one when I see one. And you, Madam, are no Buckley Conservative. The Conservatives I knew as a kid treasured their freedom of thought and wouldn't have even considered doing something they disagreed with out of party loyalty. (That could be why the farthest they ever got in NY politics was electing Bill's brother Jim to the Senate before the Republicans co-opted/corrupted them.)

eric| 10.29.08 @ 8:12AM

Pardon me: "You, sir..."

Dirtywelshjpirate| 10.29.08 @ 8:13AM

Barbara -

" Palin was not even John's choice, she was Steve's.
And we shall see what happens with her problems in Alaska.
It's amazing though, those who love this woman really hate the government, this government of the United States of America.
They speak about this government, our government in treasoneous sucessionalistic ways that will eventually undermine the GOP.
Not a good thing. "

You sound like you think you're a conservative. Let me ask you this: Do you realize that one of the fundamental pillars of conservatism is a dislike for large, all powerful, federal government?

YES. We hate the government, because it has strayed SO FAR from it's original form. We hate the government, not for what it stands for, because all that it stands for is good, and right, but we hate it because it dominates every aspect of our lives in a way that it never should have. We hate the government because it is illegal. Half of the things the federal government does are blatantly against the constitution, yet congress uses the elastic clause to do whatever it wants.

This is why Conservatives support Sarah Palin: She represents all that is conservatism. Rugged individualism, federalism, morality, and fiscal responsibility.

PS: The reason some of us talk of secession is the same reason the south talked about it in the 1850s: Not because of racism and hatred for our country, but out of fear, because the Federal Government has overstepped its bounds, and blackmails the States into doing whatever it wants.
The Federal Government seems to forget that the States are in charge, and it is, in fact, the State's right to secede from the Union.

LogicalUS| 10.29.08 @ 8:44AM

Why are all the Obama-morons, like Barbara, Blanket here still trying to damage the "drag" on the Republican ticket? I thought the election was already over and Barry had been coronaded Obama the Unquestionable I.

I think we know, Sarah changed the game and, that waif, Obama isn't ever going to get anywhere near the White House unless he pays for a tour. He and his media lovers can go back to Chicago with his American-hating, racist "pastor", neighbors and associates.

Go Sarah!

Pavel| 10.29.08 @ 8:53AM

I'm old enough to remember quite well when Ron Reagan was running in 1976, then again in 1980. The Dems slammed his intellect and education. They sneered that America would never elect a mere B-Movie actor. Their comments were not much different than what we're hearing about Palin today: "Who are you people? Are you serious?"

We're the people who put Ronald Reagan in the White House, Doug. We'll put Sarah there, too.

Obama's probably going to win this election. This is true not because of his "qualifications" - he is at bottom a deceitful socialist radical - but because the GOP has lost its way.

Sarah knows the way. Just watch. And pray that the damage Obama, Pelosi and Reid will do to the republic will not be irreversible.

Ivor the Engine Driver| 10.29.08 @ 9:18AM

This is why Conservatives support Sarah Palin: She represents all that is conservatism. Rugged individualism, federalism, morality, and fiscal responsibility.

Close, in that she does represent all that is modern conservatives: stupidity, deliberate ignorance, racism/bigotry, hatred of science, fear of education, criminality, immorality and a passion to impose their mental illness on the rest of us.

Mark| 10.29.08 @ 9:20AM

Can anyone commenting on just how qualified Palin is please tell me in what way she can be considered conservative? What conservative would issue a windfall profit tax as she did? What conservative would put a town of 5k people in debt the way she did? What conservative would ask a local librarian about banning books, even if rhetorical? There is nothing conservative about her. On top of all this, in her brief time as governor, she's already demonstrated her abuse of power. She is unqualified as a candidate can get. Good luck in 2012 if she's the GOP candidate. That's a surefire way to ensure a Democrat majority.

Subsunk| 10.29.08 @ 9:25AM

OCPatriot | 10.28.08 @ 10:13PM
..........................
"Mark this, please, she hasn't shown a shred of decency to anyone, especially when she stirs her crowds up, and when she incites them to hatred and even violence, without even considering the fire she's playing with, it is sickening. A number of well-known dispicable dictators had that star quality and attracted large crowds. We need to look at the whole person, not just the surface. "

Of course, the exact same thing can be said of Sen Obama, with much greater weight behind that charge. The "get in their faces" admonition to his supporters to accost and proselytize voters who lean towards McCain. The indoctrination of children and exhortations on the Obama campaign website to make Granny and Gramps vote for Obama because "he would be so much better for the country when I grow up". The intimidation tactics already being practiced by his supporters who enter Republican campaign headquarters and assault the workers there with mace and foul language. Who attack McCain stickered vehicles and vandalize signs because they are so 'tolerant" of the opinions of Republicans in this country, they can't bear to have our words heard in a fair forum. The almost total control of the news media by one side, not seen since Hugo Chavez shut down disagreeable news radio and tv stations, and since Stalin and Hitler seized the press in their countries. The absolutely Communist-like direction and religiously rapturous quality of the news coverage of The ObaMessiah and how he makes adolescent news reporters swoon with lust over his workout regimes, his tight blue jeans, and his handsomeness, and the corresponding denigration of McCain as a tired old warmonger....with fangs and gore galore. Why Obama's coverage in the US and European press is almost like... the coverage of Dear Leader Kim Jong Il in the NoKo press. How strikingly similar they are, indeed.

Like the Greek Parthenon built for the Greek God Os acceptance speech, and his desire to sell himself to the Europeans by making personal foreign policy pronouncements and initiatives outside the auspices of official US government positions to people who now send him illegal campaign contributions which his campaign uses to buy an election and news coverage....an entire half hour of news set aside solely for the One to preach to us on his policies and why he is smarter than anything or anyone to come along, when it comes to governing the country, albeit with a velvet fist in an iron glove.

Is the ObaMessiah the second coming of Jesus Christ, that he deserves such adoring praise from the press and from foreigners and from minorities who see their chance to make gobs of money off reparations, and wealth redistribution (it has worked out so well in Zimbabwe, hasn't it?), and a chance to finally crush all dissent against their way of thinking? To eliminate the soul of American enterprise by gutting it and forcing it to carry the load of millions of non productive lazy people who choose to ride dirt bikes instead of work, or spend their (stolen) money on crack cocaine, or go to the movies instead of working to earn their living like those who built this country and pay our taxes. People who go to work and surf the Internet all day instead of doing their jobs and making those of us who do the rest of the work pull double our weight, and yet think they are being treated unfairly because they won't do anything extra to get ahead, and the real workers get promoted.

You mean like the guy who believes America hasn't done any of its foreign policy correct in the last 70 yrs and who believes the US military is incapable of putting down an insurgency? Who believes it is better to allow Saddam Hussein to live and control the price of oil in the region due to his aggressive actions than to allow Nuri al Maliki to rebuild that country and keep radical Muslims busy killing themselves instead of us. The guy who was incorrect, wrong, stupidly unacceptably Defeatist in his pronouncements of the capabilities of the American government and the United States Military in prosecuting and winning a war that was unwinnable only in reporters and Dhimmicrats minds. Like the guy who believes his friends who believe killing policemen and soldiers inside the United States and fomenting a revolution in which those who do not agree with his way of thinking are to be put into re education camps, maybe up to 25 million of us, and who still thinks that guy is a good friend, even though he "doesn't advise the Obama campaign". You mean that guy is SOOO much better than Sarah Palin?

Oh, thanks for clearing that up, then.

Moron.

Subsunk

skeptical| 10.29.08 @ 9:34AM

An energetic and shrewd politician, no doubt, but what do her fans make of repeated and constant lying? Thanks but no thanks to that bridge to nowhere, if we want a bridge we'll build it ourselves? But keep the money in other earmarks? The report shows she didn't have any legal or ethics violations? She sold he jet on Ebay? She fired the cook? What state scientists have said about polar bears (sheesh!)? Russian trade missions? Divestment from Sudan? 20% of America's energy?

Let's assume, as people often say, all politicians lie. I just wonder how Christians justify excusing lie after lie after lie. She has international experience by being close to Russia. How do Christians overlook Palin's deceptions and lies? I know how Republicans do, she looks like a winner, and a political party wants a winner. How do Christians?

puma| 10.29.08 @ 9:37AM

im casting my vote on my bday nov 4 and it for mccain/palin

Kemphd| 10.29.08 @ 9:40AM

I find the comments from Blanket and Barbara amusing because they know nothing of Palin's real record. I just recently moved from AK and I was there for Palin's challenge to Murkowski and then run in the general election. She is very smart, very competent and experienced. Yes, she did a couple of bad interviews with people who were deliberately trying to make her look foolish. But that shouldn't define her. I listened to her call the Dan Fagan show and not tell the producer that it was the governor. And then Sarah would argue with Fagan over the pipeline. She always made a good case and argued coherently. Fagan never changed his opposition to her, but the arguments were fun and enlightened and allowed people to hear the real intelligence Sarah possesses. The Dems and media were instantly scared of her and so had to turn her into Quayle in order to try and remove her from the equation. Quayle too was a smart man who was an up and comer in the Republican party. Well, the media and Dems can't have new blood appear so they turned him into a buffoon. Yes, he made a spelling mistake, but at least he didn't put FDR in the White House in 1929 (which would have been the death of FDR's political career if he had been). The media and Dems want the GOP to remain the party of old white men and hope that they will die off and no one will be left to keep things going. You can be sure that they will do the same thing to Bobby Jindal when he enters the national scene as well.

james23| 10.29.08 @ 9:41AM

Dead on post by the other mccain. Sarah is a star, THE star in the party. Watch all the checkered pants phonies cutting her up now start begging her to appear for fundraisers after the campaign.

EricJ| 10.29.08 @ 9:44AM

The trolls and Axelrod people are getting really creepy. The Chicago political machine has always been a soul-less creepy group as well.

I just pray that the American people will not submit--the last thing anyone should want is the entire country looking like Chicago. All of the cities run by Political machines are hell holes only comparable to the Eastern-Block countries suffering under the Soviet regime. Only the party get to have a piece of the pie--the rest live in a gritty world of gray. The weathy can protect themselves--the party apparatchik enrich themselves from the bowed backs of the people.

Every time this has happened, the sheeple voted for it. They hailed the future tyrant as a savior of the people; they proclaimed his eloquence, they savored his 'intellect'. Then they moved to escape what they created. Where are they going to move after this?

Marcus| 10.29.08 @ 10:27AM

She needs experience handling a real budget, not a training-wheels budget where the government gets a stream of free money from the oil companies and can give out welfare checks to all instead of making tough decisions about taxing and spending.

The REAL Captain America| 10.29.08 @ 10:28AM

Please--you commie pretending libcon republicrats need to stop masquerading as me. The fact you distinguish between the so-called "liberal democrats" and "conservative republicans" proves your lack of pure American Spirit. The true American knows that the real distinction is between the bin laden sympathizers (which you all are) and the bin laden haters (which I am). Until you call out the bin laden family of terror (you all call 'em "al quaeda," which is yet another example of your lack of true American Spirit) and their supporters (bandar and the saudi royals, al-maktoum, al-nahyan and the other uae royals, etc.) instead of pretending that these guys have disavowed osama and are our allies in the "war on terror," you will continue to lack the true and pure American Spirit.

EricJ| 10.29.08 @ 10:34AM

Well, Sparky,
Since a Governor (like a POTUS) can only SUGGEST a budget--and the Legislative body must actually create and pass the budget. . .
Maybe you should study American Government rather than a Polit Bureau?
And, you are already admitting with your stupid argument that Gov. Palin has more executive experience than Sen. Obama (perhaps you should read a bit more.)

Funkhauser| 10.29.08 @ 12:42PM

Dear Republicans,
Please please please nominate Sarah Palin in 2012! She'll be fantastic! She's just what the Republican Party needs! Thanks.

-Your public-transit-taking, liberal, Ivy-League-educated, cohabitating-with-my-partner San-Francisco-dwelling neighbor

PS - It's once again foggy and mild in the City by the Bay. Come visit.

Wally Sandaber| 10.29.08 @ 1:52PM

" Sarah's our girl, win or lose. And win or lose, we're going to turn the guns on the traitors, metaphoriclly speaking, of course"

"you commie pretending libcon republicrats need to stop masquerading as me. The fact you distinguish between the so-called "liberal democrats" and "conservative republicans" proves your lack of pure American Spirit. The true American knows ..."

" You astroturferfing AKP Media temps are boring and trite. Where's the folksy banter, too? Usually, you brownshirts do your best Fred Thompson when you stir up dissent. "

So this is the type of discussion encouraged here at American Spectator and proudly spouted by Palin supporters? Full of hateful, divisive accusations of treason, Nazi tendencies and anti Americanism? And these attacks are made because about 55% of Americans think that Sarah Palin is not qualified to hold national office? (Right now, around 35% do).

It did not seem that long ago that someone could vote for Jimmy Carter and not Ronald Reagan or for John Kennedy and not Richard Nixon and not get a stream of invective from the Reagan or Nixon supporters. What happened? Why are so many of you so hateful and angry? So you like Palin and I don't. I like Obama and you don't. How does this turn into such vicious slurs?

This country has some serious, serious problems right now. Vicious smears of 55%/120 million Americans are probably not going to help get people back to decent jobs, health care for 45 milion people and the financial system functioning again.

Jeebus| 10.29.08 @ 2:07PM

Dayum...I can honestly say I have never seen so many morons in one place. It must suck soooo bad to have to cling to an ignorant piece of white trash as your parties last hope. Woohooo! I love it!

John Balliet| 10.29.08 @ 2:35PM

D.R. Castille and Blanket,
Thank God we live in a free country when we can disagree, something we will still have under a Mc Cain Palin ticket.
DR -in reference to the "Bush Doctrine" , what kind of idiotic remark are you trying to foist off? Palin caught Gibson and he refused to clarify what he meant. Their is no mspecific Bush Doctrine-He was asking about the Doctrine of Preemption. Do you work for ABC or did you write the poorly wrtitten question? The man who first fcoined the term Bush doctrine coincided with Gibson's lack of clarity.
Two years isn't enough experience? Look at BHO, he is going for the big chair and has no executive experience and no military experience.
Biden doesnt even know what terrorist group is where and tells the world that Roosevelt was President during the depression and went on tv to calm the panic and that a mark of a leader in doing so is to instill confidence in them. Of course, Katie doesnt know her history so didnt edit out the remark, as Hoover was the president and television was not broadcast tv.
It may not be much, but at least she done it.
Biden was just another example of a poor choice by Obama, Mr. Corporate donation selling out the american people====Joe Biden D-MBNA

Betsy| 10.29.08 @ 2:42PM

God Bless Sarah Palin. She knows where true patriotism lies in this country. She knows how to fight the terrorists and those who support them - like Obama. She will end abortion once and for all in this country, and makes sure God saves everyone of us. She knows oil drilling on our shores is the only thing that will lead to energy independence. Palin for 2012!

neil wilson| 10.29.08 @ 2:47PM

I am against the windfall profits tax.

I think that means I can no longer be a Republican.

I am against people with as little experience as Obama or Palin being President.

I guess that means that I am not a Republican.

It is sad when being a conservative means that I am not a Republican.

Job Creation| 10.29.08 @ 2:47PM

She is a drag - she has scared off moderates and independents, which is crucial to most elections.

Davelowe| 10.29.08 @ 2:49PM

Sarah Palin first needs to be able to speak her thoughts clearly. Scratch that.... FIRST she needs to be able to have some thoughts about domestic and foreign policy issues. Then she needs to be able to articulate them.

If she can't, she'll get eaten alive by her own kind in the GOP primaries.

But even if she can, she's topping out at 40% of the national vote.

Matt| 10.29.08 @ 2:49PM

Wow. Wanting Palin to lead the party after this election is just about the dumbest thing ever. The party needs to get back to some true Goldwater conservative principals, not be lead by a half wit.

Jason| 10.29.08 @ 2:50PM

Huh. And all these years, I *thought* I was a Republican, but it turns out I'm not.

davelowe| 10.29.08 @ 2:52PM

I love the circular logic in his last paragraph.

Basically what you're saying is "If you think the Palin choice was a mistake, go ask someone who doesn't think the Palin choice was a mistake."

Huh?

oddjob| 10.29.08 @ 2:53PM

If Mr. McCain hopes the future of the Republican Party is defined by someone whose strongest appeal is to the descendants of the Dixiecrats I hope he understands irony, and I hope he enjoys the minority status in which he will find himself for the rest of his life. He will have earned it.

bigtinkler| 10.29.08 @ 2:53PM

Please, PLEASE put Palin out front in the future. I say that as someone staunchly against today's crazy Republican party..

Sarah| 10.29.08 @ 2:53PM

She's scared off the women I know who vote Republican sometimes. She's a huge drag when it comes to what used to be called soccer moms. She's considered to be a terrible role model for their children, particularly their daughters. In the real world, young women need to get a good education and not think they can wink their way through the professional world.

soupy| 10.29.08 @ 2:55PM

"Palin immediately becomes the GOP front-runner for 2012."

God, we can only hope so.

Obama/Biden'08
Obama/Biden'12

Jake T.| 10.29.08 @ 2:55PM

Sarah Palin, the new litmus test on party membership. Sounds like a winning strategy.

Billy S.| 10.29.08 @ 2:59PM

She has not held any press conferences because she could not reply in any credible manner to the range of normally expected questions, nor to the follow-ups. There has never been such a 'shielded' national candidate before. She has a poor education, lacks a professional outlook (she appointed unqualified high school classmates to Alaskan state offices!), and knows very little about the world or how it works. She is a disastrous VP candidate and would be a disastrous President. Her choice shows how desperately ambitious John McCain has become.

Mr. Right| 10.29.08 @ 3:01PM

Yay, Palin! She's our 'celebrity' !
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"I saw the Republican Party today, standing in line to see Palin at Shippensburg University. The line stretched for more than half a mile -- people waiting outside for hours on a windy 40-degree day -- and though the doors opened more than two hours before the event, security still wasn't able to get everyone through the metal detectors by the time the rally began. Let's see Buckley or Kathleen Parker or Ken Adelman draw a crowd like that."
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... but wasn't that was our first argument against Obama?...

Oh well, like you say, she's AWESOME. She's a celebrity well worth standing in line for. CELEBRITY... kinda like CELEBRAL... AWESOME!

Ryan| 10.29.08 @ 3:05PM

She the perfect symbol of the complete vacuousness that is the modern Republican party.

RobertSeattle| 10.29.08 @ 3:05PM

Yes GOPers - please push Palin in 2008, 2012, 2016, 2020, and on and on! Please continue to believe your own BS - it's making us Democrats very happy.

Paul| 10.29.08 @ 3:07PM

I say, the dumber the better. Who needs those smug elites!

nick| 10.29.08 @ 3:12PM

palin is a lying, corrupt, unethical , book burning creationist.

Marc J. Randazza| 10.29.08 @ 3:17PM

Then screw you, I'll leave the party. I proudly donated to McCain in 2000. I proudly volunteered to work for his campaign in 2000.

I'm disgusted with this "party". All that is left of it is the neocons, the superstitious-right, and the refugees from the democrats who left that party when Harry Truman decided to back the cause of equality for all races.

You neo-nazis can have your little purge. All that will be left is skinheads, klansmen, and witch doctors. Good freakin riddance.

nancy| 10.29.08 @ 3:21PM

GOP senator pressler voted for Obama

says hes still a GOP after palin superstitious-right leave

as did GOP gov arne of minnesota, and Gov weld of Mass

Filecabinet| 10.29.08 @ 3:26PM

Dear Republicans,

As a staunch Democrat, I humbly beg you to please, please, please make Palin your ideological litmus test.

Good luck with that, and see you in about 28 years!

Three Oranges| 10.29.08 @ 3:28PM

Okay, then. I guess I won't consider bringing my vote, which has always gone straight Republican ticket for my entire voting life, back to the party in 2012. And you thought it was bad for the party when a handful of Republicans jumped ship for Perot ...

TH| 10.29.08 @ 3:29PM

The GOP has become some kind of anti-intellectual, dishonest, Christianist mess. The fact that the people supporting Palin think an Ivy League degree is somehow a BAD thing tells you pretty much everything you need to know.

Hopefully these idiots split off into their own party, or enough people are disaffected by the current GOP to start their own party.

I want the party of Lincoln and Eisenhower back.

John the Fireman| 10.29.08 @ 3:32PM

Sarah Palin would be a great Vice President! I don't want no white-haired Senator as VP who talks just to hear his own voice…Hell no! I want Sarah Palin as my VP, cause she's like a superhero mom with a hockey stick and a retarded baby on her hip, showing a little leg as she hunts down ARABS from a helicopter and then arm wrestles Afghani Warlords until they give up their Taliban insurgents to Navy Seals. Plus she's got a college degree in Sports Journalism, so maybe she could give color commentary from the sidelines of the SuperBowl…with a little cleavage showing…;-)… Sarah Palin is totally the future of the Republican Party! McCain's great, but he's got liver spots and he's old, and I trust Sarah Palin more when she says we're bombin' the right places. She knows that America's the best place in the world, and she even made the government in Alaska give money BACK to each citizen! Every man woman and child got like 3 grand from the government! That's what I want from my government, I don't want no socialist like Barack Obama, who wants to redestribute weath!!! C'mon, wouldn't you rather have some hot log-cabin MILF action winking at you from the TV for the next four years, or would you rather listen to some uncle Tom immigrant lawyer giving speeches at you? If you want to hear that for the next four years, you must be some kind of queer, or you're an elitist liberal, or you hate America and want the terrorists to win!

theod| 10.29.08 @ 3:39PM

THE LORD OF THE FLIES, starring remnants of the GOP has begun. I'm buying a jumbo box of popcorn and will enjoy the bloodfest for the next few years. Romneyites vs Palinites vs Country Clubbers. Should be fun!

1armywife| 10.29.08 @ 3:47PM

We are in the middle of two wars. Our troops are stretched thin and are facing violent uncertainty on our behalf every day. They need our support more than ever!!! A vote for the McCain/Palin ticket would put our troops in more danger. Why? Because McCain's congressional votes prove that he isn't willing to go the distance to support the troops, because he picked Palin who is ill-prepared to lead our military, because he fails to recognize that the surge is not completely successful, and because he has not shown us that he actually has a plan to achieve victory. I have lost friends to car bombs, and my husband just returned from Iraq. Please do what is best for our country and put your party's interests aside. Vote for the presidential ticket that offers a fresh new face to the world and has a strong steady hand that can inspire and lead our troops. If you know hope, you can stand up to fear.

DARKSTAR| 10.29.08 @ 3:57PM

YES! Palin for VP! Palin for president 2012! Palin for president 2016! Keep nominating her my dear Republicans. She'll get annihilated every time. You people have no idea what you've done to your party. The longer you keep this woman around, the longer you'll have to see footage of her over and over again race baiting, exaggerating her record, lying about Obama, lying about joe the plumber being a vet, saying patently untrue things, etc. She's horrible! She is exactly the kind of negative and divisive pol people are going to the polls in droves to vote against! But you're all distracted because she looks good in a skirt and talks like you. You think you lost because you weren't right wing enouph? You lost because you are too right wing. You are destined to be a minority party because of people like her turning off so many minorities and independents. If you can't win some of them over, you're going to keep losing. You will never win with her. Ever. Not that you'll even listen to reason, so please, be my guest, nominate her again. And again. And again....

Allan| 10.29.08 @ 4:01PM

I'm with you, theod. I'm bookmarking the Spectator so I can watch the Republican Party implode in a civil war between the corporate charlatans and the Rapture-Ready.

It will be a nice break from celebrating the accomplishments of President Obama and the Democratic Congress.

Alan| 10.29.08 @ 4:17PM

I for one am sick of being told by certain other Republicans that if I disagree with them on some one issue, then I am not a Republican. I'm not leaving the party. But this election, my vote is.

If the response to dissent is a purge, this party is in big trouble.

Why are traditional political conservative Republicans (as opposed to Christian social conservatives) leaving the party?

1. We're sick of the hateful, divisive and polarizing Rovist politics. Democrats aren't "the enemy". There is no "real America" - all American is the real America. Democrats are generally not radicals or terrorists; they are our siblings, our parents, our friends and neighbors who happen to have a slightly different political philosophy. Stop telling me that they are unamerican marxist traitors.

2. The Christian Right. They aren't traditionally conservative in any way shape or form. Governmental authority comes from the consent of those governed, not from God. It is not conservative to sacrifice individual liberty to use government to enforce one religion's moral code on an entire nation. It is not conservative to expand governmental power to control the morality of citizens. These people are dangerous and true political conservatives should not let their ideals influence the Republican party.

none of your biz| 10.29.08 @ 4:37PM

The first commenter is clinically delusional if he thinks Sarah was vetted. What a joke! She has not given ONE single REAL press conference. By REAL, I mean follow-up questions (some of which may even be NON-SCRIPTED -- oh the horror!). You may choose to vote for her, like her, whatever, but you may not without delusion claim as a FACT that Sarah was vetted!

DARKSTAR| 10.29.08 @ 4:53PM

subsunk lives in his mom's basement.

Obama's going to win and cut your taxes next year bro, calm the F down and just deal with it. It really won't be that bad. I promise.

Jordan| 10.29.08 @ 4:55PM

When John McCain loses on 11/4 it will be because the party saddled him with Sarah Palin instead of letting him pick whoever he wanted (Joe Lieberman).

Palin attracts the 30-percenters. The head in the sand Republicans who still think Bush did a great job.

The rest of the country recognizes that Sarah is as much of an empty hat as Bush is and that's why the McCain/Palin ticket is going down.

In the run up to 2012 Palin will attract the same people who voted for Mike Huckabee. Yeah, remind me again how that turned out?

Dale| 10.29.08 @ 5:40PM

In a way I'm glad most people here are thinking Sarah Palin will be the future of the Republican party, since this means they will be sidelined for a couple of decades at least, until the infighting dies down and Republicans find their way again.

The kind of hard right wing narcissist "Christians" who adore Sarah Palin have all but destroyed the Republican Party, as they will soon find out, and they will continue to weaken it over the next decade.

But I trust that over the next 25 years or so the true Republicans will finally rid themselves of the most wild-eyed of these radicals, and the Party will gravitate back to the now centrist seeming ideals of paleo-Republicanism.

Who would have thought that centrist Democrats of the millennium would be pining for the the likes of Barry Goldwater?!

Conservative| 10.29.08 @ 5:57PM

So if I believe in a small federal government, low taxes, strict constitutionalism, state's rights, a strong military and a very clear line between religion (any) and government - to which party do I belong? Once, it was the Republican party, but today it seems I must also accept a very intolerant Christian right-wing as well, and that's not what I believe in.

dj spellchecka| 10.29.08 @ 6:21PM

quote: "-- if Sarah Palin is enough to make you decide you're not a Republican, you're not a Republican. "

kool...litmus tests!

that's the way to build the big tent....or make the pie higher....

look, it's palin intolerance to reality that's the issue here, not buckley's intolerance to stupidity....

Barbara| 10.29.08 @ 7:03PM

"So if I believe in a small federal government, low taxes, strict constitutionalism, state's rights, a strong military and a very clear line between religion (any) and government - to which party do I belong? Once, it was the Republican party, but today it seems I must also accept a very intolerant Christian right-wing as well, and that's not what I believe in. "

Amen Conservative. I do not take well to Governors who deal in blessings from black witchdoctors who make Jeremiah Wright look normal.

Did you know Pastor Muthee made a documentary about how he exercised the state of California?? He went after the Church of Scientology and Transendental Meditation and God only knows what else.

I would love to hear Greta Van Sustern's remarks about the attack on her Church - The Church of Scientology.

A real Conservative does not hook up with religious loons.

nick| 10.29.08 @ 7:14PM

OOOOH THE Raputre - ITS COMING i FEEL IT. oh it was just the pizzza

PatricktheRogue| 10.29.08 @ 7:19PM

This is really not unprecedented. National Review, in the '60s, used to haul itself up as the judge of all "true" conservatives. They made sure to loudly denounce Birchers on the one hand and Randites (Objectivists) on the other. They were quite the opposite of the big tent. So, I suppose it is fitting that the son of the great purger himself (WFB) finds himself purged. And for what better reason than a completely arbitrary one? Notice, it is not about principle, not about small government, or the free market, or protection of private property...nope, it just comes down to whether you can swallow hard and vote for a clearly unprepared candidate. That's it. That's the new shibboleth.
So, I hope Republicans and Conservatives, now that you have purged me and all other libertarian leaning voters from the GOP, that you have great fun by yourselves in the loser's column, because that is where you have consigned yourselves for the foreseeable future.
Still, 'tis a strange standard to raise, this Sarah Palin test. I remember seeing the women of the right in the '80s, when I came to the movement, women like Margaret Thatcher and Jeane Kirkpatrick and Peggy Noonan. These women were full of substance and presence. They were not vapid cheerleaders who could mouth a bunch of rightist platitudes with a smile and a wink. They didn't wail against the media and cry about being misportrayed as lightweight. They didn't need "fair treatment." They went into the fray and gave better than they got. Who here thinks that Jeane Kirkpatrick could be set on her heels by Katie Couric? This is what we have been reduced to, defending a third stringer who has no business at the national level. I am not waiting to be purged. I'm out. Will the last libertarian turn off the lights, please?

Barbara| 10.29.08 @ 7:25PM

God love William F, he ran the loons out on a rail.

Who is left to do it now?

otto| 10.29.08 @ 7:25PM

All I can say Mr McCain is go knock yourself out. As one of those who believes the GOP has left him rather than the other way around I can't imagine anyone more likely to ensure Republican party stays out of power for a very long time. The mere fact that you attempt to make comparisons between the crowds that she turns out and that say Adelson could turn out really indicates you don't know much about much. But go ahead, there basically needs to be a nasty little civil war in the GOP when this over if we're ever going to get our party back from the far christian right.

PatricktheRogue| 10.29.08 @ 7:35PM

Barbara, I should note that I am not defending either the John Birch Society or Ayn Rand's Objectivists. I had deep disagreements with both of these groups, but, at the same time, I realize that politics is all about gathering disparate groups together to accomplish the things they can agree on. For example, both the Birchers and Randians could likely have been convinced to vote for a Republican with the idea that they were voting for the lesser of two evils. It's not pretty but that is how you win. You do not win by saying, "If you disagree with me at all, you are a kook, go away and take your vote with you." And that is why the Republicans are done winning for a while.

Steve J.| 10.29.08 @ 7:45PM

As a committed liberal, I really hope Palin is the "future" of the GOP.

ghost| 10.29.08 @ 11:07PM

Newsflash: The culture wars are OVER.

Welcome to the 21st Century. Republicans are obsolete.

Buh-bye.

paradoctor| 10.30.08 @ 5:41AM

One thing this thread has proven beyond doubt:
Sarah Palin is a divider.
Some adore her, some detest her, and unfortunately for her, the ones in the middle do not respect her.

Yowza| 10.30.08 @ 9:56AM

I love Gov. Palin. She instituted an excess profits tax on oil exploration companies doing business in her state and distributed the proceeds to the citizens of Alaska, just like the Dems in Congress want to do! She is also a big supporter of underage, unwed teenage mothers, just like all those inner-city kids some people look down upon as being immoral. She's the perfect bridge between the far right and the far left.

Patrick S. - Richmond VA| 10.30.08 @ 8:26PM

Sarah Palin is the next great one. I saw her at Richmond International Raceway a couple of weeks ago. And I will be seeing her again at a Rally here in Richmond tomorrow night. She's the best candidate I've ever seen since Reagan.

Reagan Rocks| 11.1.08 @ 7:17PM

Goodbye Republican Party. I am no longer one of you.

Tom| 11.2.08 @ 7:04AM

I'm coming on here to thank you guys for following Sarah Palin. She's amazing! She's exactly what the Republican Party needs!

(I'm a Democrat by-the-way, and I'm coming here to tell you that other than extreme conservatives, the rest of the nation will vote against her. I VERY MUCH want to see her run in 2012, that means a guaranteed victory)

Hubert Samm| 11.5.08 @ 11:17AM

I'm a fiercely independant voter, and believe me, I can see how Palin definitely HURT the party. She indeed is a "Post Turtle" (google it if you don't know what that is). She had / has no place in national politics! Plus McCain did himself no favors by doing the negative campaign ads.

John Brown| 2.22.09 @ 9:56AM

How did Sarah work out for you LOSERS?

LMAO, ROTFL!

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both the Birchers and Randians could likely have been convinced to vote for a Republican with the idea that they were voting for the lesser of two evils. It's not pretty but that is how you win earth eternal gold

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