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Richard
15 years ago
Do you guys and gals here actually think Sarah has a future in the GOP?
I don’t. Obviously, the GOP will rebuild and it’s at that time that I think poor Sarah will be left behind in the rubble.
If I were her, I wouldn’t want to go back to Alaska either. Not a lot of happy folk up there.
Richard: In case you haven’t figured it out, we don’t take advice on which politicians to support from people like you who want us to LOSE!
“Not a lot of happy folk” in Alaska? Yeah… her 80% approval rating sure is damning… Compare it to Reid and Pelosi’s 10% rating…
Richard
15 years ago
How do you know what I want? Just because I like Obama now doesn’t mean that I’ll vote Dem in 2012. I can change my mind, ya know?
Hopefully, that’s one of the things the “new’ GOP does. Reaches out again and becomes reasonable, instead of making it you’re either one of us 100 percent or you’re nothing.
I’ve said it all along. Give me a real conservative and I’ll vote for him or her.
So let me get this straight … you like Obama, yet you want a real conservative and I guess a “real conservative” is somebody who agrees with you 100% of the time on 100% of the issues huh? Well the only candidate you are going to find like that is in fantasy land
SoCal Chris
15 years ago
Go John and Sarah!!! It’s looking better and better every day!! Speaking to many Democrats on the phones at our local phone bank who are saying that Obama is way too far left for them and support John McCain and Sarah Palin instead! I encourage everyone here to make a few phone calls, too, between now and Nov. 4th! Thanks!
Back to Miss Sarah…here’s an excerpt from Elaine Lafferty’s comment on a pro-Sarah website:
[Sarah Palin’s a Brainiac
by Elaine Lafferty
October 27, 2008 | 6:57am
The former editor in chief of Ms. magazine (and a Democrat) on what she learned on a campaign plane with the would-be VP.
It’s difficult not to froth when one reads, as I did again and again this week, doubts about Sarah Palin’s “intelligence,” coming especially from women such as PBS’s Bonnie Erbe, who, as near as I recall, has not herself heretofore been burdened with the Susan Sontag of Journalism moniker. As Fred Barnes—God help me, I’m agreeing with Fred Barnes—suggests in the Weekly Standard, these high toned and authoritative dismissals come from people who have never met or spoken with Sarah Palin. Those who know her, love her or hate her, offer no such criticism. They know what I know, and I learned it from spending just a little time traveling on the cramped campaign plane this week: Sarah Palin is very smart.
I’m a Democrat, but I’ve worked as a consultant with the McCain campaign since shortly after Palin’s nomination. Last week, there was the thought that as a former editor-in-chief of Ms. magazine as well as a feminist activist in my pre-journalism days, I might be helpful in contributing to a speech that Palin had long wanted to give on women’s rights.
Now by “smart,” I don’t refer to a person who is wily or calculating or nimble in the way of certain talented athletes who we admire but suspect don’t really have serious brains in their skulls. I mean, instead, a mind that is thoughtful, curious, with a discernable pattern of associative thinking and insight. Palin asks questions, and probes linkages and logic that bring to mind a quirky law professor I once had. Palin is more than a “quick study”; I’d heard rumors around the campaign of her photographic memory and, frankly, I watched it in action. She sees. She processes. She questions, and only then, she acts. What is often called her “confidence” is actually a rarity in national politics: I saw a woman who knows exactly who she is.
For all those old enough to remember Senator Sam Ervin, the brilliant strict constitutional constructionist and chairman of the Senate Watergate Committee whose patois included “I’m just a country lawyer”… Yup, Palin is that smart.]
Personally, if she chooses, I think Palin and Jindal are GOP faces that offer tremendous future promise. Haven’t got a clue upon what Richard bases his off the wall opines… but then, who the heck cares?
But the one thing Richard has right is if Palin returns to Alaska, there are some uphappy folk up there. And it happens to be the corrupt lawmakers of both parties in the Alaska legislature. If I were them, I’d keep a close watch over their shoulders if Palin returns with her maverick whip, ready to crack.
Leah
15 years ago
Mata: Let’s make sure she DOESN’T have to return. 🙂
SoCal Chris
15 years ago
Amen, Leah! If she returns, it will be as Vice President of the United States of America!!!
By the way, just saw McCain live on Fox in Pennsylvania, and he, and the crowd, were on fire!!!!
Goooooo, John!!
Now, I’m off to the phone banks!!!!!
AF Sarge (Ret)
15 years ago
@SoCal Chris:
I was thinking the same thing SoCal. The John McCain today, isn’t the boring speechifier from a few months ago He really seemed fired up. I like what I see.
If you wanted a candidate who wasn’t a 100 percenter, that would be John McCain. Compromise and Bipartisanship are his middle names. Compared to Obama whose only claim to bipartisanship is that he says “hi” to Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK).
As for wanting a true conservative, you couldn’t do better than Sarah Palin.
Frankly, your comments are about as transparent and disingenuous as the typical Obamaton leaving easily spotted code words where they claim to be a “true conservative” or “lifelong Republican.”
Real American Patriot
15 years ago
Sarah Palin is so unqualified it’s laughable that McCain ever picked her.
Let’s see there are those that say she has EXECUTIVE experience… that makes her qualified…
Executive experience for a state that has 1/16th the population of the city of Los Angeles..
Come on…
McCain has to be feeling the drag when republican after republican has shifted to and endorsed Obama.
Sarah Palin. Don’t believe what the media is telling you about how horrible a choice she was. Again, our internal polling suggest that though she has had a minimal impact on pulling disaffected Hillary Democrats to McCain, she has done wonders in mobilizing the base for McCain.
Another thing – we were completely taken by surprise with her pick. In my capacity in the research department, I looked into the backgrounds of Leiberman, Romney, Pawlenty and Ridge, and prepared briefs. I don’t mind bragging that we had pretty good stuff on all of them. With Leiberman, the plan was to paint him as an erratic old-timer who didn’t have a clue as to what he was doing (pretty much a clone of McCain). In Romney, we had him pegged as an evil capitalist who cut jobs. Pawlenty was going to get the “Quayle treatment”, or more precisely: a pretty face, with no valid experience. Tom Ridge was going to be used to provide a direct link from McCain to Bush. As you can see, we were quite enamored of all of them.
Then the unexpected happened – Sarah Palin. We had no clue as to how to handle her, and bungled it from the start. Through through our misinformation networks, we have successfully taken some of the shine off. But let there be no doubt. She remains a major obstacle. She has singlehanded solidified “soft” Republican support, mobilized the McCain ground game, and has even had some appeal to independents and Hillary voters. This is what our internal polling confirms.
Funny how the people who tell us Sarah Palin was a bad choice are mostly Democrats.
Since when do we think they are trying to help us?
And as for C.R.A.P.’s comment that Palin is unqualified: certainly even he/she/it must realize Gov. Palin has more experience than the top of the Dem ticket whose 4 years in the Senate have been spent doing nothing but campaigning for higher office.
sarah I am really sure you’ll win the election, vice president for usa 🙂 , from Gov to vice President 🙂 and what’s next sarah 🙂 running as candidate of president …
Leah
15 years ago
They say Sarah’s unqualified…but they fail to consider Obama’s experience (or lack thereof). Careful – that “inexperienced” remark is a double-edged sword.
I’m truly embarrassed for you, Brandon. That someone has to give you such a basic American history lesson means I genuinely hope you’re a middle school student, dabbling in political blogs.
Sixteen of the 43 POTUS have been Governors. To make that a wee bit clearer for you, they went directly from gubernatorial status to the Oval Office…. not Veep.
This is generally the favored experience because Administrative branch and Legislative branch experiences are completely different in their demands and skills. You might think of a Mayor/Gov/President as the CEO of a company, and the Congressional members as the company’s legal counsel. One runs the daily operations. The other is concerned only with laws and more laws.
The most recent four you may have some knowledge of are Reagan, Carter, Clinton and Dubya 43.
Fifteen of the POTUS have have come from the Congressional ranks. The last Congressman elected POTUS was Kennedy. Two of them, LBJ and Nixon were Veeps first. LBJ, of course under Kennedy. And Nixon was Eisenhower’s Veep.
So if you’re looking at the unusual, Obama should be running for Veep, and Palin should be running for POTUS.
Craig
15 years ago
“Executive experience for a state that has 1/16th the population of the city of Los Angeles..
Come on…” (Real American Hater)
Alaska is the largest state in the United States in land area at 570,380 square miles (1,477,277 km2), more than twice as large as Texas, the next largest state. Alaska is larger than the combined area of the next three largest states: Texas, California, and Montana.
It is also larger than the combined area of the 23 smallest U.S. States and Districts: Washington, D.C., Rhode Island, Delaware, Connecticut, Hawaii, New Jersey, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Vermont, Maryland, West Virginia, South Carolina, Maine, Indiana, Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Mississippi, Louisiana, Alabama, North Carolina.
Also, compared with territory outside the United States, Alaska is larger than Sweden, Norway, Finland, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom combined.
MataHarley wrote
Obama should be running for Veep,
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Lol , why don’t you call senator Obama, I’ve got his phone number 🙂 … gimme your email, I’ll give it to you !
Sarah will win US election, not because of her ability in politics, but because of Obama’s x factor 🙂
and mataharley I ‘m not middle school boy … 🙂 I am a playgroup kid lol 🙂
Craig
15 years ago
Real American HATER,
WHAT DO YOU KNOW ABOUT SARAH PALIN?
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 candidate 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.
Brandon: You have Obama’s phone number? Do me a favor and give him a call and tell him to come on Flopping Aces for a live chat with our readers.
We’d love to ask him a few questions. Apparently, he hasn’t been asked many in recent months.
When was the last time he held a news conference?
sandormatyo
15 years ago
Here’s a partial list of conservatives/Republicans who consider Palin unqualified for VP/POTUS:
Kathleen Parker – National Review
Rich Lowry – National Review
Philip Klein – American Spectator
David Brooks – New York Times
Lawrence Eagleburger – Secretary of State, Bush #41
George Will – Washington Post
David Frum – former Speechwriter, Bush #43
Se. Chuck Hagel – Iowa
Charles Krauthammer- Washington Post
Ross Douthat – Atlantic (formerly National Review)
Richard Cohen – Washington Post
Michael Wiener, aka Savage – radio host
Apparently I, unlike you sandman, don’t need to verify my own opinions by sheeple mentality.
I’ve said this before here, and I’ll repeat just for you. I wouldn’t care if George W. Bush himself endorsed Obama… it would not change my opinion about Obama one iota.
BTW… you are totally incorrect on Michael Savage. Where did you get that notion?
Nice little cut and paste job but it’s totally inaccurate and not at all a reflection of the true feelings of the persons you cite.
And besides, since when did Richard Cohen of the Washington Post become a conservative or a Republican?
Any way you want to stack it, Sarah Palin is more qualified to be Vice President than Obama is to be President.
Tell me Sandor: Are you getting paid by the Obama campaign, ACORN, Moveon.org, the DNC or some other Dem affiliated group to spread such easily disproven tripe around?
I guess if you got no record of experience on the part of your candidate to point to you have to do something right?
Craig
15 years ago
I will repeat one more time: You let in a moonbat, then comes another one and another one and a another one “ad vitam aeternam… till “ad nauseam”.
Weakness invites agression. By weakness, I mean tolerance.
Yep. Sheeple mentality indeed. Follow what the others say because they MUST be right. Prime example of an uneducated, brainless, brainwashed voter.
Ugh…
Rocky_B
15 years ago
sandormatyo;
There’s an even larger list of Dems that will not be voting for Obama besides Lieberman. I suggest you to check out the Hillary forum posts.
Moonbats bad-mouth Sarah because they fear her. Get used to it. She is only one of many more New Reagan conservatives coming into their own in the political arena. Even the Dems point to Reagan as one of their favorite recent presidents. That’s why their fear is so real and why they must try to take her down.
Sarah doesn’t have to hide her past or invent and re-invent a separate persona to run under dependent on the polls or who she’s talking to. Sarah comes off as the genuine article and people like her. The television ratings prove it. Compare her SNL debut, to Obama’s self-love infomercial ratings or the VP debate to the presidential debates. America loves her and the Obamatrons pretending to be former Republicans here can’t stand it.
And the more often you say, “No Experience” the more often you’ve drawn people into looking into it themselves and comparing her experience to Obama’s. And she comes out the winner every time because he truly is lacking in that regard. They also see, Obama has a history of shadyness and concealing his past, while Palin’s points to being a wholesome girl next door type who went after corruption with those even in her own party. So keep it up, it’s doing exactly the reverse of what you fools want it to.
Moonbats bad-mouth Sarah because they fear her. Get used to it. She is only one of many more New Reagan conservatives coming into their own in the political arena. Even the Dems point to Reagan as one of their favorite recent presidents.
Real American Patriot
15 years ago
Craig,
Just in case you didn’t notice it…. I said Population… NOT square miles….
also I will take Obama’s education (a constitutional Lawyer) everyday over Sara and her journalism degree.
face it she is just not qualified.
Missy
15 years ago
His education didn’t do anything positive for his Illinois Senate district, served for 8 years and left it in a mess. Sarah Palin improved her state in 2 years.
RickZ
15 years ago
“I love America … I love JFK…” ~ brandon alan scofield
If JFK were alive today, based upon his policies and actions, he’d be a Republican. Sure sucks to be you when you don’t understand history, and most likely have never actually studied the stuff.
“also I will take Obama’s education (a constitutional Lawyer) everyday over Sara and her journalism degree.
face it she is just not qualified.” ~ Real American Patriot
Obama is not a constitutional lawyer. He’s a community organizer. The only think Obama knows about our Consitution is that it is ‘fundamentally flawed’. Those last two words could just as easily apply to Barack Obama, the candidate and the man.
Face it, you’re an afroturfer working for the commie douchenozzle, not a real American patriot.
Linda
15 years ago
McCain + Palin + Definite loss for McCain.
Just shows his lack of judgement! My God what was he thinking, she’s an idiot if she thinks she can take on Washington. Caribou Barbie needs to return to her Alaska. I don’t see anything admirable about her, just another unknown looking for her 15 min of fame.
Linda, don’t you know that moonbats only comes out at night! You are the 35th on this site.
How much does THE ONE pay you to perform his vicious tactics on blogs? Just curious.
And BTW, Sarah is the greatest thing that could have happen in this election. She is the reason why McCain will win. Choke on that!
Craig: If these loonies really did think Palin was such a drag they would be cheering her on.
We can spot these liars a mile away.
They are soooo transparent.
RickZ
15 years ago
voter,
The head of Obama’s campaign, David Axelrod, is famous for having supposed grass-roots comments posted all over the internet, when in fact they are fake, part of a coordinated plan to make it appear that Obama has so much popular support. Axelrod calls it ‘astroturfing’, making fake grass roots level comments. I just turned it into what it is, afroturfing for The One. And we’ve seen the gloom and doom posters all over the place basically stating that, as ‘a republican’/’conservative’, the election is in the bag, that Obama wins/McCain loses. It’s all a part of Obama’s, and Axelrod’s, internet campaign strategy: Disinformation and confusion, causing one to become disheartened, and thereby not vote for McCain, which then helps Obama.
RickZ
15 years ago
Oh, and voter, I’ll add that many of these astroturf comments come with nicks like ‘Real American Patriot’ and somesuch.
snookered
15 years ago
When gov. Palin was announced as the VP pick the only thing I new about the gov. of Alaska was that she was for drilling for oil and the state was suing the feds for trying to declare polar bears are an endangered species. I was very excited. Then I read more about her and actually started to believe there was hope for the republicans and began to believe that sen. McCain was not just a get along with the democrats guy.
Here in Minnesota we have senator Coleman who voted against drilling for oil in Anwar every chance he had. Only someone as despicable as Franken could get me interested in voting for Coleman.
Gov. Pawlenty has recently been pushing 20% ethanol in gasoline and the state government ran a study to show that it would perform OK in cars that was found to be totally corrupted by the ethanol industry. In the meantime impoverished nations are starting to have starvation while America burns food for fuel. Thank God Pawlenty was not picked for VP.
Governor Palin is the only hope for the Republican party other than the stench from the democratic party.
The head of Obama’s campaign, David Axelrod, is famous for having supposed grass-roots comments posted all over the internet, when in fact they are fake, part of a coordinated plan to make it appear that Obama has so much popular support. Axelrod calls it ‘astroturfing’, making fake grass roots level comments.
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you are making an accusation !
You mean all persons posting comment to support Sen Barrack Obama are fake,
you wrote ” it is PART OF COORDINATED PLAN TO MAKE IT APPEAR that OBAMA has so much popular support”
ricks! obama IS POPULAR …
RickZ
15 years ago
brandon alan scofield,
Listen up, oh braindead one. Of course I’m making an accusation, because I know it to be true. You can see it here with the Obamabots posting talking points, and I’ve seen it other places — often. And, yes, it is an Obama campaign strategy, no matter how much you deny or lie (lie like your man, the Magic Negro). Why is it that after The One speaks, then those talking points are blasted all over the internet? It’s all Disinformation 101 right out of the Alinsky school. Sorry that you cannot see that or admit it. Well, no, I’m not sorry after all. Too many people know about this astroturfing now, and aren’t buying it.
Oh, and popularity is a real good way to elect a President, or is that the winner of American Idol? Barry Boy’s going down, big time. I would not be surprised if Tuesday’s a Reaganesque whipping of Barry in the Electoral College, either. Americans really don’t like Commies, no matter how commies like Barry dress it up with an Ivy League education. Still makes him a commie in an empty suit.
A friend in Washington DC emailed this to me this morning:
Sarah Palin is invited to meet with the Pope while he is vacationing north of Rome in Venice.
The liberal press reluctantly watches the semi-private audience, hoping they will be able to allot minimal coverage, if any.
The Pope asks Governor Palin to join him on a Gondola ride through the canals of Venice.
They’re admiring the sights and agreeing on moral issues when, all of a sudden, the Pope’s hat (zucchetto) blows off his head and out into the water.
The gondolier starts to reach for the Pontiff’s cap with his pole, but this move threatens to overturn the floating craft.
Sarah waves the tour guide off, saying, ‘Wait, wait. I’ll take care of this. Don’t worry.’
She steps off the gondola onto the surface of the water and walks out to the Pope’s hat, bends over and picks it up. She walks back across the water to the gondola and steps aboard.
She hands the hat to the Pope a mid stunned silence.
The next morning the topic of conversation among Democrats in Congress, CBS News, NBC News, ABC News, CNN, the New York Times, Hollywood celebrities, and in France and Germany is:
‘Palin Can’t Swim.’
voter
15 years ago
@RickZ:
So, kind of like how special interest groups sent identical letters to the editor, to many newspapers around the country, in support of Bush’seconomic policies?
Also, in comment 36 you said AFROTURFER, which is a racist term, must have been a Freudian slip.
In comment 41 you were explaining ASTROTURFER, which is something totally different, than what you said previously.
Yeah, I was just waiting for “Voter” to sling around the “racist” label. That’s the first refuge of every socialist scoundrel.
Besides voter… you do realize you are commenting on a Mike’s America post do you not? This after your pledge to avoid my posts?
Another Dem/socialist/racist flip flop.
voter
15 years ago
@Mike’s America: Just couldn’t help myself. It’s not that its the title that caught my eye, it was the racist remark. It IS a racist term. I’m not slinging out a racist label, it is what it is. Rickz is the one who said it, not I. And if the shoe fits….
RickZ
15 years ago
voter,
“Also, in comment 36 you said AFROTURFER, which is a racist term, must have been a Freudian slip. ”
No slip about it. Axelrod started astroturfing when he was with his Chicago PR firm and working for an Illinois power company. Now, with the Magic Negro running, and he is magic, I mean he’ll part the seas and he’ll the planet, the term has morphed into afroturfing. Racist? You might think that, but I think mockery. Barry is the most unqualified Presidential candidate in the history of the United States. And he deserves to be mocked mercilessly for it, even more so if he somehow gets elected (which I doubt, but we can still mock him all the way back to his Hyde Park mansion).
Do you guys and gals here actually think Sarah has a future in the GOP?
I don’t. Obviously, the GOP will rebuild and it’s at that time that I think poor Sarah will be left behind in the rubble.
If I were her, I wouldn’t want to go back to Alaska either. Not a lot of happy folk up there.
Richard: In case you haven’t figured it out, we don’t take advice on which politicians to support from people like you who want us to LOSE!
“Not a lot of happy folk” in Alaska? Yeah… her 80% approval rating sure is damning… Compare it to Reid and Pelosi’s 10% rating…
How do you know what I want? Just because I like Obama now doesn’t mean that I’ll vote Dem in 2012. I can change my mind, ya know?
Hopefully, that’s one of the things the “new’ GOP does. Reaches out again and becomes reasonable, instead of making it you’re either one of us 100 percent or you’re nothing.
I’ve said it all along. Give me a real conservative and I’ll vote for him or her.
So let me get this straight … you like Obama, yet you want a real conservative and I guess a “real conservative” is somebody who agrees with you 100% of the time on 100% of the issues huh? Well the only candidate you are going to find like that is in fantasy land
Go John and Sarah!!! It’s looking better and better every day!! Speaking to many Democrats on the phones at our local phone bank who are saying that Obama is way too far left for them and support John McCain and Sarah Palin instead! I encourage everyone here to make a few phone calls, too, between now and Nov. 4th! Thanks!
Back to Miss Sarah…here’s an excerpt from Elaine Lafferty’s comment on a pro-Sarah website:
[Sarah Palin’s a Brainiac
by Elaine Lafferty
October 27, 2008 | 6:57am
The former editor in chief of Ms. magazine (and a Democrat) on what she learned on a campaign plane with the would-be VP.
It’s difficult not to froth when one reads, as I did again and again this week, doubts about Sarah Palin’s “intelligence,” coming especially from women such as PBS’s Bonnie Erbe, who, as near as I recall, has not herself heretofore been burdened with the Susan Sontag of Journalism moniker. As Fred Barnes—God help me, I’m agreeing with Fred Barnes—suggests in the Weekly Standard, these high toned and authoritative dismissals come from people who have never met or spoken with Sarah Palin. Those who know her, love her or hate her, offer no such criticism. They know what I know, and I learned it from spending just a little time traveling on the cramped campaign plane this week: Sarah Palin is very smart.
I’m a Democrat, but I’ve worked as a consultant with the McCain campaign since shortly after Palin’s nomination. Last week, there was the thought that as a former editor-in-chief of Ms. magazine as well as a feminist activist in my pre-journalism days, I might be helpful in contributing to a speech that Palin had long wanted to give on women’s rights.
Now by “smart,” I don’t refer to a person who is wily or calculating or nimble in the way of certain talented athletes who we admire but suspect don’t really have serious brains in their skulls. I mean, instead, a mind that is thoughtful, curious, with a discernable pattern of associative thinking and insight. Palin asks questions, and probes linkages and logic that bring to mind a quirky law professor I once had. Palin is more than a “quick study”; I’d heard rumors around the campaign of her photographic memory and, frankly, I watched it in action. She sees. She processes. She questions, and only then, she acts. What is often called her “confidence” is actually a rarity in national politics: I saw a woman who knows exactly who she is.
For all those old enough to remember Senator Sam Ervin, the brilliant strict constitutional constructionist and chairman of the Senate Watergate Committee whose patois included “I’m just a country lawyer”… Yup, Palin is that smart.]
Right On. Right On. Right On!
2008. The Year The One … Lost.
Richard, stop smoking that dope and quick drinking those cocktails at RINO parties!!!!
Personally, if she chooses, I think Palin and Jindal are GOP faces that offer tremendous future promise. Haven’t got a clue upon what Richard bases his off the wall opines… but then, who the heck cares?
But the one thing Richard has right is if Palin returns to Alaska, there are some uphappy folk up there. And it happens to be the corrupt lawmakers of both parties in the Alaska legislature. If I were them, I’d keep a close watch over their shoulders if Palin returns with her maverick whip, ready to crack.
Mata: Let’s make sure she DOESN’T have to return. 🙂
Amen, Leah! If she returns, it will be as Vice President of the United States of America!!!
By the way, just saw McCain live on Fox in Pennsylvania, and he, and the crowd, were on fire!!!!
Goooooo, John!!
Now, I’m off to the phone banks!!!!!
@SoCal Chris:
I was thinking the same thing SoCal. The John McCain today, isn’t the boring speechifier from a few months ago He really seemed fired up. I like what I see.
Sarge
Richard: Your arguments lack credibility.
If you wanted a candidate who wasn’t a 100 percenter, that would be John McCain. Compromise and Bipartisanship are his middle names. Compared to Obama whose only claim to bipartisanship is that he says “hi” to Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK).
As for wanting a true conservative, you couldn’t do better than Sarah Palin.
Frankly, your comments are about as transparent and disingenuous as the typical Obamaton leaving easily spotted code words where they claim to be a “true conservative” or “lifelong Republican.”
Sarah Palin is so unqualified it’s laughable that McCain ever picked her.
Let’s see there are those that say she has EXECUTIVE experience… that makes her qualified…
Executive experience for a state that has 1/16th the population of the city of Los Angeles..
Come on…
McCain has to be feeling the drag when republican after republican has shifted to and endorsed Obama.
@Real American Patriot:
Obama isn’t anything to brag about. Here’s how he works:
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2008/06/27/grim_proving_ground_for_obamas_housing_policy/
Good place to quote that Obama staffer who has left the campaign:
Thanks Curt, I have been looking for that.
Funny how the people who tell us Sarah Palin was a bad choice are mostly Democrats.
Since when do we think they are trying to help us?
And as for C.R.A.P.’s comment that Palin is unqualified: certainly even he/she/it must realize Gov. Palin has more experience than the top of the Dem ticket whose 4 years in the Senate have been spent doing nothing but campaigning for higher office.
sarah I am really sure you’ll win the election, vice president for usa 🙂 , from Gov to vice President 🙂 and what’s next sarah 🙂 running as candidate of president …
They say Sarah’s unqualified…but they fail to consider Obama’s experience (or lack thereof). Careful – that “inexperienced” remark is a double-edged sword.
I’m truly embarrassed for you, Brandon. That someone has to give you such a basic American history lesson means I genuinely hope you’re a middle school student, dabbling in political blogs.
Sixteen of the 43 POTUS have been Governors. To make that a wee bit clearer for you, they went directly from gubernatorial status to the Oval Office…. not Veep.
This is generally the favored experience because Administrative branch and Legislative branch experiences are completely different in their demands and skills. You might think of a Mayor/Gov/President as the CEO of a company, and the Congressional members as the company’s legal counsel. One runs the daily operations. The other is concerned only with laws and more laws.
The most recent four you may have some knowledge of are Reagan, Carter, Clinton and Dubya 43.
Fifteen of the POTUS have have come from the Congressional ranks. The last Congressman elected POTUS was Kennedy. Two of them, LBJ and Nixon were Veeps first. LBJ, of course under Kennedy. And Nixon was Eisenhower’s Veep.
So if you’re looking at the unusual, Obama should be running for Veep, and Palin should be running for POTUS.
“Executive experience for a state that has 1/16th the population of the city of Los Angeles..
Come on…” (Real American Hater)
Alaska is the largest state in the United States in land area at 570,380 square miles (1,477,277 km2), more than twice as large as Texas, the next largest state. Alaska is larger than the combined area of the next three largest states: Texas, California, and Montana.
It is also larger than the combined area of the 23 smallest U.S. States and Districts: Washington, D.C., Rhode Island, Delaware, Connecticut, Hawaii, New Jersey, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Vermont, Maryland, West Virginia, South Carolina, Maine, Indiana, Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Mississippi, Louisiana, Alabama, North Carolina.
Also, compared with territory outside the United States, Alaska is larger than Sweden, Norway, Finland, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom combined.
MataHarley wrote
Obama should be running for Veep,
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Lol , why don’t you call senator Obama, I’ve got his phone number 🙂 … gimme your email, I’ll give it to you !
Sarah will win US election, not because of her ability in politics, but because of Obama’s x factor 🙂
and mataharley I ‘m not middle school boy … 🙂 I am a playgroup kid lol 🙂
Real American HATER,
WHAT DO YOU KNOW ABOUT SARAH PALIN?
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 candidate 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 know!
http://www.stoptheaclu.com/archives/2008/10/17/what-you-dont-know-about-governor
Brandon: You have Obama’s phone number? Do me a favor and give him a call and tell him to come on Flopping Aces for a live chat with our readers.
We’d love to ask him a few questions. Apparently, he hasn’t been asked many in recent months.
When was the last time he held a news conference?
Here’s a partial list of conservatives/Republicans who consider Palin unqualified for VP/POTUS:
Kathleen Parker – National Review
Rich Lowry – National Review
Philip Klein – American Spectator
David Brooks – New York Times
Lawrence Eagleburger – Secretary of State, Bush #41
George Will – Washington Post
David Frum – former Speechwriter, Bush #43
Se. Chuck Hagel – Iowa
Charles Krauthammer- Washington Post
Ross Douthat – Atlantic (formerly National Review)
Richard Cohen – Washington Post
Michael Wiener, aka Savage – radio host
Apparently I, unlike you sandman, don’t need to verify my own opinions by sheeple mentality.
I’ve said this before here, and I’ll repeat just for you. I wouldn’t care if George W. Bush himself endorsed Obama… it would not change my opinion about Obama one iota.
BTW… you are totally incorrect on Michael Savage. Where did you get that notion?
Nice little cut and paste job but it’s totally inaccurate and not at all a reflection of the true feelings of the persons you cite.
And besides, since when did Richard Cohen of the Washington Post become a conservative or a Republican?
Any way you want to stack it, Sarah Palin is more qualified to be Vice President than Obama is to be President.
Tell me Sandor: Are you getting paid by the Obama campaign, ACORN, Moveon.org, the DNC or some other Dem affiliated group to spread such easily disproven tripe around?
I guess if you got no record of experience on the part of your candidate to point to you have to do something right?
I will repeat one more time: You let in a moonbat, then comes another one and another one and a another one “ad vitam aeternam… till “ad nauseam”.
Weakness invites agression. By weakness, I mean tolerance.
WSJ article is a keeper. Sarah Palin pick was a home run … tape measure variety 🙂
PALIN SPEAKS IN RALEIGH (NOVEMBER 1, 2008)
http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/politics/2008/11/01/sot.nc.palin.raleigh.cnn
Yep. Sheeple mentality indeed. Follow what the others say because they MUST be right. Prime example of an uneducated, brainless, brainwashed voter.
Ugh…
sandormatyo;
There’s an even larger list of Dems that will not be voting for Obama besides Lieberman. I suggest you to check out the Hillary forum posts.
Moonbats bad-mouth Sarah because they fear her. Get used to it. She is only one of many more New Reagan conservatives coming into their own in the political arena. Even the Dems point to Reagan as one of their favorite recent presidents. That’s why their fear is so real and why they must try to take her down.
Sarah doesn’t have to hide her past or invent and re-invent a separate persona to run under dependent on the polls or who she’s talking to. Sarah comes off as the genuine article and people like her. The television ratings prove it. Compare her SNL debut, to Obama’s self-love infomercial ratings or the VP debate to the presidential debates. America loves her and the Obamatrons pretending to be former Republicans here can’t stand it.
And the more often you say, “No Experience” the more often you’ve drawn people into looking into it themselves and comparing her experience to Obama’s. And she comes out the winner every time because he truly is lacking in that regard. They also see, Obama has a history of shadyness and concealing his past, while Palin’s points to being a wholesome girl next door type who went after corruption with those even in her own party. So keep it up, it’s doing exactly the reverse of what you fools want it to.
Craig, I AM NOT AMERICAN hater …
I love America … I love JFK and I love Peace, America ! say no to war ! say yes to Obama to end the war !
Moonbats bad-mouth Sarah because they fear her. Get used to it. She is only one of many more New Reagan conservatives coming into their own in the political arena. Even the Dems point to Reagan as one of their favorite recent presidents.
Craig,
Just in case you didn’t notice it…. I said Population… NOT square miles….
also I will take Obama’s education (a constitutional Lawyer) everyday over Sara and her journalism degree.
face it she is just not qualified.
His education didn’t do anything positive for his Illinois Senate district, served for 8 years and left it in a mess. Sarah Palin improved her state in 2 years.
“I love America … I love JFK…” ~ brandon alan scofield
If JFK were alive today, based upon his policies and actions, he’d be a Republican. Sure sucks to be you when you don’t understand history, and most likely have never actually studied the stuff.
“also I will take Obama’s education (a constitutional Lawyer) everyday over Sara and her journalism degree.
face it she is just not qualified.” ~ Real American Patriot
Obama is not a constitutional lawyer. He’s a community organizer. The only think Obama knows about our Consitution is that it is ‘fundamentally flawed’. Those last two words could just as easily apply to Barack Obama, the candidate and the man.
Face it, you’re an afroturfer working for the commie douchenozzle, not a real American patriot.
McCain + Palin + Definite loss for McCain.
Just shows his lack of judgement! My God what was he thinking, she’s an idiot if she thinks she can take on Washington. Caribou Barbie needs to return to her Alaska. I don’t see anything admirable about her, just another unknown looking for her 15 min of fame.
@RickZ: Just wondering what is an “afroturfer” ?
Linda, don’t you know that moonbats only comes out at night! You are the 35th on this site.
How much does THE ONE pay you to perform his vicious tactics on blogs? Just curious.
And BTW, Sarah is the greatest thing that could have happen in this election. She is the reason why McCain will win. Choke on that!
Craig: If these loonies really did think Palin was such a drag they would be cheering her on.
We can spot these liars a mile away.
They are soooo transparent.
voter,
The head of Obama’s campaign, David Axelrod, is famous for having supposed grass-roots comments posted all over the internet, when in fact they are fake, part of a coordinated plan to make it appear that Obama has so much popular support. Axelrod calls it ‘astroturfing’, making fake grass roots level comments. I just turned it into what it is, afroturfing for The One. And we’ve seen the gloom and doom posters all over the place basically stating that, as ‘a republican’/’conservative’, the election is in the bag, that Obama wins/McCain loses. It’s all a part of Obama’s, and Axelrod’s, internet campaign strategy: Disinformation and confusion, causing one to become disheartened, and thereby not vote for McCain, which then helps Obama.
Oh, and voter, I’ll add that many of these astroturf comments come with nicks like ‘Real American Patriot’ and somesuch.
When gov. Palin was announced as the VP pick the only thing I new about the gov. of Alaska was that she was for drilling for oil and the state was suing the feds for trying to declare polar bears are an endangered species. I was very excited. Then I read more about her and actually started to believe there was hope for the republicans and began to believe that sen. McCain was not just a get along with the democrats guy.
Here in Minnesota we have senator Coleman who voted against drilling for oil in Anwar every chance he had. Only someone as despicable as Franken could get me interested in voting for Coleman.
Gov. Pawlenty has recently been pushing 20% ethanol in gasoline and the state government ran a study to show that it would perform OK in cars that was found to be totally corrupted by the ethanol industry. In the meantime impoverished nations are starting to have starvation while America burns food for fuel. Thank God Pawlenty was not picked for VP.
Governor Palin is the only hope for the Republican party other than the stench from the democratic party.
Professor Rickz wrote
The head of Obama’s campaign, David Axelrod, is famous for having supposed grass-roots comments posted all over the internet, when in fact they are fake, part of a coordinated plan to make it appear that Obama has so much popular support. Axelrod calls it ‘astroturfing’, making fake grass roots level comments.
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you are making an accusation !
You mean all persons posting comment to support Sen Barrack Obama are fake,
you wrote ” it is PART OF COORDINATED PLAN TO MAKE IT APPEAR that OBAMA has so much popular support”
ricks! obama IS POPULAR …
brandon alan scofield,
Listen up, oh braindead one. Of course I’m making an accusation, because I know it to be true. You can see it here with the Obamabots posting talking points, and I’ve seen it other places — often. And, yes, it is an Obama campaign strategy, no matter how much you deny or lie (lie like your man, the Magic Negro). Why is it that after The One speaks, then those talking points are blasted all over the internet? It’s all Disinformation 101 right out of the Alinsky school. Sorry that you cannot see that or admit it. Well, no, I’m not sorry after all. Too many people know about this astroturfing now, and aren’t buying it.
Oh, and popularity is a real good way to elect a President, or is that the winner of American Idol? Barry Boy’s going down, big time. I would not be surprised if Tuesday’s a Reaganesque whipping of Barry in the Electoral College, either. Americans really don’t like Commies, no matter how commies like Barry dress it up with an Ivy League education. Still makes him a commie in an empty suit.
A friend in Washington DC emailed this to me this morning:
@RickZ:
So, kind of like how special interest groups sent identical letters to the editor, to many newspapers around the country, in support of Bush’seconomic policies?
Also, in comment 36 you said AFROTURFER, which is a racist term, must have been a Freudian slip.
In comment 41 you were explaining ASTROTURFER, which is something totally different, than what you said previously.
Yeah, I was just waiting for “Voter” to sling around the “racist” label. That’s the first refuge of every socialist scoundrel.
Besides voter… you do realize you are commenting on a Mike’s America post do you not? This after your pledge to avoid my posts?
Another Dem/socialist/racist flip flop.
@Mike’s America: Just couldn’t help myself. It’s not that its the title that caught my eye, it was the racist remark. It IS a racist term. I’m not slinging out a racist label, it is what it is. Rickz is the one who said it, not I. And if the shoe fits….
voter,
“Also, in comment 36 you said AFROTURFER, which is a racist term, must have been a Freudian slip. ”
No slip about it. Axelrod started astroturfing when he was with his Chicago PR firm and working for an Illinois power company. Now, with the Magic Negro running, and he is magic, I mean he’ll part the seas and he’ll the planet, the term has morphed into afroturfing. Racist? You might think that, but I think mockery. Barry is the most unqualified Presidential candidate in the history of the United States. And he deserves to be mocked mercilessly for it, even more so if he somehow gets elected (which I doubt, but we can still mock him all the way back to his Hyde Park mansion).