Palin: Palin's Political Courage Beats DC 'Experience' »
Posted By Karlyc 1 year, 2 months ago in FamilyWhen John McCain selected Governor Sarah Palin, as his running mate, the Democrats and their far-left constituency let out a primal scream that could be heard from sea to shining sea. ... Here was a woman who chose to have children and a career. Aging Washington socialites weighed in with newly discovered sensitivity for mothers with careers outside the home. Here was a woman who became upset because her ex-brother-in-law had tasered her nephew and threatened her father. The Democrats and their friends had to save the country from a woman like this.
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Karlyc1 year, 2 months ago
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Also in the story: For a while there it seems the fact that so many uninformed yahoos (average people) love her was going to drive the main stream media nuts. They had a hard time grasping the fact that people like her because she is precisely the kind of politician that everyone has been saying they’ve wanted: Independent, not a captive of the Beltway including a Congress with a 9% approval rating
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hyperbola1 year, 2 months ago
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Only eight decades ago German oligarchs thought they could control the "crazies" and use them to maintain their own political and economic power. Look where that got them. Too many oligarchs in the US are playing the same dangerous game now. Palin is their pit bull puppet - for now.
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Revenge of the Mutt People
Many years ago I worked at an industrial hog farm owned by the Coeur d'Alene Indian tribe in northern Idaho. The place stank of the dead and rotting brood sows we chopped out of farrowing crates -- bred to death in the drive for pork production. And it stank of the massive ponds that held millions of gallons of hog feces and rotting baby pigs, and every square inch was poisoned by the pesticides used to kill insects that hogs attract and the antibiotics fed to hogs from hundred pound sacks. The Coeur d'Alene Indians refused to suffer those kinds of conditions; they wouldn't even manage the place. They contracted it out. As my friend Walter Wildshoe said: ?Only a white man would work there.? ....
.... My point here is that we rural and small town mutt people by an early age seem to have a special capacity for cruelty, compared say, to damned near every other imaginable group of Americans. For instance, as a child did you ever put a firecracker up a toad's ass and light it? George Bush and I have that in common. Anyway, as all non-whites the world round understand, white people can be mean. Especially if they feel threatened -- and they feel threatened about everything these days...
... About half of the Americans killed in Iraq come from communities like Winchester, Virginia or Romney, West Virginia or Fisher, Illinois or Kilgore, Texas or . . . . About 45 percent of the American dead in Iraq come from communities of less than 40,000, even though these towns make up only 25 percent of our population. These so-called volunteers are part of this nation's de facto draft -- economic conscription -- the carrot being politically preferable to the whip. The carrot does not have to be very big out here where delivering frozen food wholesale to restaurants out of your own car entirely on commission is considered a good self-employment opportunity...
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Dionys1 year, 2 months ago
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She had the courage to do what? Lie, lie again and when called on the lies, lie about lying?
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Or the courage to not actually answer any question given to her with specifice, but instead the courage to blather on and on about something completely unrelated until the journalist asking her questions gets so frustrated they no longer ask questions and expect an answer?-
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tchef1 year, 2 months ago
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I agree, she is just more of the same that we have seen from Bush and Cheney. This is the last thing we need right now. If she has so much courage why will she no longer cooperate with the investigation that she "welcomed" a few months ago?
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rosecityfriend1 year, 2 months ago
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I love how Thompson nails the Dems and the media on what really ails them -- McCain had the nerve to surprise them. Obama's, The Leader's, own words were "If you have no record to run on, you paint your opponent as someone to run from" and that's all they've done with Sarah Palin. It has worked for awhile, but the more she gets out and people get to know her for themselves instead of the edited, biased slant of Katie Couric (so deliciously satirized by SNL), the more people can decide for themselves. Palin reminds me of Truman -- smart in that down-to-earth, common sense way, and courageous.
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gamahuche1 year, 2 months ago
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"the Democrats and their far-left constituency let out a primal scream that could be heard from sea to shining sea"
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Someone should keep this guy as far away as possible from a computer or typewriter or whatever he writes on.
Is there one valid point, one original thought, one felicitous phrase?
Does he do SP any favours with this childish nonsense or address any issue in any relevant or interesting manner?
Presumably if he imagined that he could ever be a President he can imagine Palin as the Queen of Sheba.
And deliver her there in person.
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antibrainwasher1 year, 2 months ago
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I just had an inspiring email, which prodded me to action. I donated 25 dollars to planned parenthood, and made the donation in Sarah Palins Name, and the thank you card will be addressed to John McCain/Palin's election headquarters.
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25 dollars to a great cause, in Sarah Palins name, and a thank you card sent to the regime who is trying to set womens rights back to the stone age. The misogynist repugnicon teliban creationist evangelicals won't stop until gays are burned at the stake and women wear burkas. The model of economic and social and political state is Saudi Arabia for the willfully ignorant religious zealots of the republicoward party.
Why not support womens rights and send a thank you card to Palin, let her know what a ignorant unqualified hate mongering moron she is.-
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Georgia501 year, 2 months ago
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Yeah, idiot...one look at Palin and sure, uh huh...burkhas are here to stay!
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In passing Roe v. Life, your ilk turned upside down over 2000 years of medical ethics and common law. And in case you haven't noticed, millions of Americans are opposed to abortion. Who the hell are you to declare to us that we have no place electing those who support our views?
But let's just say your paranoia has a grain of substance. You know, there was a time when there was no Roe v. Life. Any of your hysterical rants true back then? No. Of course not. But what place does reality have in the life of some poor emasculated liberal whose testosterone has to be ladled to him by NOW and NARAL ???
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HateKoolAid1 year, 2 months ago
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Are you kidding me?? The republicans always reduce everything to 'family values'. Whatever you have to say about Karl Rove, he knows what gets the vote out. Every damn election it always comes down to....if you vote democrat your voting for same sex marriage,abortion and gun control. He knows that is all it takes to get people to vote for a republican even though he will vote against their own interests (economically) in congress. It's called "wedge issues" and the right wingers have it down to a science.
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tiredofwhiners1 year, 2 months ago
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I like Palin because she isn't an old veteran of politics as Biden and McCain are. Obama shares some of her good points but also has some scary friends he is gradually trying to distance himself from. He also has had a lot more time to bone up on foreign policy and the economy since he decided to run for President. Palin has not had the time and, of course, she is running for Vice President, not President. As long as McCain picks good advisers, I think she has the common sense to make decisions based on that advice. Give McCain a year or so before he kicks the bucket and she will be well informed and as ready as anyone to replace him. If he dies sooner, then she has the morals and principles to guide her as well as anyone, along with the advisors every President always depends on.
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tiredofwhiners1 year, 2 months ago
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What is funny to me is all the hullabaloo about her not knowing everything when most of these posters don't know much either. I'll bet most of them think they would make a better Vice President than Palin. But she has the perseverance and self confidence and personality we need for a politician. She doesn't know all that the beltway old timers know and therefore is not hardened into the preconceived ideas they have. Good! She is likely much more open to new ideas and strategies than Biden. And she didn't help start or support the sub-prime and free wheeling corrupt Fannie and Freddie Maes like most of the old time politicians did that got us into today's mess.
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tiredofwhiners1 year, 2 months ago
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It's all political. If Palin was a liberal Democrat and was Obama's VP choice I'll bet the same liberals here would be looking for her good points, defending and supporting her big time.
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I feel that a fresh outlook from way outside the Washington crowd is a good thing.
As far as experience and knowledge goes, the Presidential nominees should have been Clinton and Romney or Giuliani (do it, get it done men) or Huckabee. They all have leadership abilities far greater than Obama and, sorry to say, McCain.-
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antibrainwasher1 year, 2 months ago
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You seem a little fearfull that some rationality will return to the political process, whiner. Here's a little ditty you can sing to yourself, cause we know how scary change can be to children, expecially ignorant racist greedy pathetic status quo greedmongering moron repugnicon inbred evangelical creationist children:
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Whenever I feel afraid
I hold my head erect
And whistle a happy tune
So no one will suspect
I'm afraid
While shivering in my shoes
I strike a careless pose
And whistle a happy tune
And no one ever knows
I'm afraid
The result of this deception
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Georgia501 year, 2 months ago
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For once I agree. It's going to be an Obama landslide. McCain does not have a snowball's chance in Alaska...er...Florida. So now that it's official, I guess all you liberals can just stay home on Nov. 3 and enjoy your victory. No need to stand in long lines while poll workers stuff themselves with Krispy Kremes. Take a load off. Do something with the kids. That's legal.
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antibrainwasher1 year, 2 months ago
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I just had an inspiring email, which prodded me to action. I donated 25 dollars to planned parenthood, and made the donation in Sarah Palins Name, and the thank you card will be addressed to John McCain/Palin's election headquarters.
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25 dollars to a great cause, in Sarah Palins name, and a thank you card sent to the regime who is trying to set womens rights back to the stone age. The misogynist repugnicon teliban creationist evangelicals won't stop until gays are burned at the stake and women wear burkas. The model of economic and social and political state is Saudi Arabia for the willfully ignorant religious zealots of the republicoward party.
Why not support womens rights and send a thank you card to Palin, let her know what a ignorant unqualified hate mongering moron she is. Vote Republican, cause the rich areen't rich enough, and the usa is not yet a Teliban right wing Christian Witch burning book burning Theocracy. -
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fishifanb1 year, 2 months ago
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So Fred Thompson has proved once again what a tool he is.
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He complains that the economy is in the tank because of entitlement programs but makes no mention of the 3 trillion we are expected to spend on the boondoggle in Iraq?
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joeblowe1 year, 2 months ago
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Folks, I'm sorry to trample your highly partisan, preconceived notions, but the FACT remains that Sarah Palin IS, by any measure, MORE qualified to be President than ANY of the other 3 running. John McCain comes closest, but still not that close. She is the ONLY one with any actual executive experience - no, shut up... she IS the ONLY ONE with ANY executive experience in running a government - of ANY size. And let's see now, which is the LARGEST state? A hint: it is NOT Texas. Sarah is the ONLY one to have successfully negotiated a deal with a foreign government. That's right, Canada is a foreign government. She has MORE experience at commanding military forces than Barak Obama - even though it's only the Alaska National Guard. Which, when you get right down to it, is more command experience than John McCain. She has MORE experience in government finance, being the ONLY one who has been responsible for a state budget. Which, I believe, is BALANCED! In fact, if I read the balance sheet correctly, she showed a $682M budget SURPLUS for 2008. She CERTAINLY has more experience fighting corruption than the others all put together. Serving on committees is just NOT the same as being at the top, sorry all you fools, it just isn't. She is also the ONLY one, in fact possibly historically, who enjoys an 80% - that's right fools, an 80% approval rating from the people she governs. Now, let's see, what's the approval rating of Congress - which is where the OTHER 3 are "working?" 9%. That's right, close to a factor of 9 to 1 LESS popular. Anyone who claims she is LESS qualified than anyone else running is too foolish to pay any attention to.
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joeblowe1 year, 2 months ago
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I don't necessarily think she is dumb, I think she is trying to comply with her handlers and be polite and demure. Maybe, if she turns back into the "barracuda" tonight she'll look a little brighter. One can hope.
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It's also true that she has NOT been working inside the beltway for years (which, I would claim, is a GOOD thing.) , so she DOES need to do a little "catch up" on national issues. Being IN CHARGE OF the issues of the largest state in the union, perhaps she hasn't had much time to keep up on the fools in D.C.? Let's see ANYONE try to deal successfully with a hostile press do a lot better. Denying that the press has been hostile to her would be completely disingenuous, so don't even try. If the MSM had treated Barak 1/2 as tough as they have treated Sarah, he would have withdrawn in disgrace by now.
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lloydm651 year, 2 months ago
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Please,never ask a democrat to save this country from anything,or anybody.The only thing the democrats are good is flat out lying day in,and day out lie,lie.They sucker some upstanding person to run for office,and corrupt them with their vicious rhetoric to the point the voters who put them in office wonders why
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antibrainwasher1 year, 2 months ago
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Of course you're speaking of the majority of the armed forces of this country, chickenhawk coward republiscum. The majority of those who you say cant save anything or anyone, the majority of the armed forces are Dems, not the children of ;the rich chickenhawk war profiteers who are in college getting degrees in finance so they can take over the subprime mortgage scams.
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agoodlibertian1 year, 2 months ago
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How about Bush, Mccain, Cheney all they do is lie. Republicans have all but ruin this once
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great country with their lies and propaganda, and anybody that still defends them, well I would have to question either their intelligence or their patroitism (spelling could be wrong).
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