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Category: John McCain/Sarah Palin

  • John McCain’s acceptance speech

    Here it is;

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    From the Washington Times;

    Exactly a week after Mr. Obama wowed a stadium filled with fans in Denver, Mr. McCain used a lower-key address to try to re-establish himself in voters’ minds as the anti-Washington maverick who had earned bipartisan appreciation over the past decade.

    Sen. John McCain of Arizona accepts his party’s nomination for President at the Republican National Convention at the Xcel Energy Center in St. Paul, Minn., Thursday, September 4, 2008. (J.M. Eddins Jr. / The Washington Times)

    Rather than youthful vigor, he offered experience and determination forged by torture and five years in a Vietnam prison. Instead of history in electing the first black president, he offered history by delivering the first female vice-presidential candidate. Instead of soaring rhetoric, he offered a plain-spoken promise to end partisanship.

    “I don’t work for a party, I don’t work for a special interest, I don’t work for myself. I work for you,” he said.

    From the Washington Post;

    Here in St. Paul, McCain spoke indoors at a hockey arena and did not even try to compete with Obama, either in theatrics or in oratory. McCain delivered the speech in workmanlike fashion, with both praise and criticism of his rival. But the message was explicit: He has been there for the tough fights all his life, while his opponent has not.

    The conclusion of the Republican convention here Thursday night stood in sharp contrast to the Democrats’ final night in Denver a week ago, when Obama spoke to more than 80,000 people at an outdoor football stadium and delivered perhaps his toughest and most direct criticism of McCain.

    Do I want to vote for the guy who has no proven record but who’s clean and well-spoken (to quote his running mate) or someone who has a history of service and comittment but doesn’t hide his shortcomings behind lofty rhetoric?

  • Governor Palin’s speech at the RNC

    In case you missed it last night, here’s the whole thing. It’s 45 minutes long

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    An emailer sends this about the woman who tried to rush the stage;

    Woman who rushed RNC stage last night during Palin’s speech is Code Pink founder and Obama fundraiser Jodie Evans. Person who gave her the credentials is probably Fort Wayne Realtor Ann Eckrich

    Jodie Evans is a top OBAMA FUNDRAISER….with extreme radical ties

    Jodie Evans, co-founder of the radical group Code Pink, rushed the stage while Sarah Palin was speaking.

    Code Pink has a Flickr account which includes this photo of Jodie being interviewed earlier in the day wearing a name tag “Annie Eckrich, Indiana”

    Code Pink’s press release says they were given tickets by a GOP delegate;

    Co-founders Medea Benjamin and Jodie Evans, who were given their tickets to the speech by a Republican delegate who was frustrated with the Republican party and Sarah Palin, caught the attention of Palin with their banners and shouting about 15 minutes into her speech. Palin stopped talking for a moment to turn to look at them. (Read a Washington Post description of the incident).

    Ann Echrich is an alternate delegate and RNC contributor

    Of course, reaction to Palin’s speech must’ve been resounding because the Obama campaign (David Plouffe) immediately sent out this email;

    Friend —

    I wasn’t planning on sending you something tonight. But if you saw what I saw from the Republican convention, you know that it demands a response.

    I saw John McCain’s attack squad of negative, cynical politicians. They lied about Barack Obama and Joe Biden, and they attacked you for being a part of this campaign.

    But worst of all — and this deserves to be noted — they insulted the very idea that ordinary people have a role to play in our political process.

    You know that despite what John McCain and his attack squad say, everyday people have the power to build something extraordinary when we come together. Make a donation of $5 or more right now to remind them.

    Both Rudy Giuliani and Sarah Palin specifically mocked Barack’s experience as a community organizer on the South Side of Chicago more than two decades ago, where he worked with people who had lost jobs and been left behind when the local steel plants closed.

    Let’s clarify something for them right now.

    Community organizing is how ordinary people respond to out-of-touch politicians and their failed policies.

    And it’s no surprise that, after eight years of George Bush, millions of people have found that by coming together in their local communities they can change the course of history. That promise is what our campaign has been about from the beginning.

    Throughout our history, ordinary people have made good on America’s promise by organizing for change from the bottom up. Community organizing is the foundation of the civil rights movement, the women’s suffrage movement, labor rights, and the 40-hour workweek. And it’s happening today in church basements and community centers and living rooms across America.

    Meanwhile, we still haven’t gotten a single idea during the entire Republican convention about the economy and how to lift a middle class so harmed by the Bush-McCain policies.

    Emphasis is mine, btw. If being a “community organizer” is so important, why isn’t Obama still a “community organizer” since he claims he’s doing all of this for us? I’d like intellectually vacant David Plouffe to explain what attacks were made last night.

    The only people who benefit from “community organizers” is community organizers – it’s an easy way to make a living without actually having to do any work. Let’s see something Obama actually accomplished while he was a community organizer since, apparently, Plouffe wants to credit him with women’s suffrage and a forty-hour work week.

    Added: The updated post is here.

  • Experience

    Barack Obama has already admitted that he’s less experienced than John McCain for President, that’s why he named Joe Biden his Vice President to overcome that shortfall. So when John McCain named Sarah Palin as his VP, Obama immediately decided he’d run against her instead of McCain by proclaming himself more experienced than Palin.

    The McCain campaign has struck back;

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    Ball’s in your court, Barry.

  • The Palin false outrage continues

    Of course, all of the anti-Palin maniacal false outrage continues, despite Barack Obama’s call for it to cease yesterday. And of course, it’s to make Governor Palin withdraw using the model of the Harriet Meirs crucifixtion. The Wall Street Journal catalogues some of the “inside the beltway” criticism;

    – Eleanor Clift, the McLaughlin Group: “If the media reaction is anything, it’s been literally laughter in many places across newsrooms.”

    – Sally Quinn, Newsweek: “It is a political gimmick . . . I find it insulting to women, to the Republican party, and to the country.”

    (more…)

  • Democrats and women

    I guess the activities of the Democrat sound machine should wake up most women to what Democrats really think of them. Heck, the sound machine of the last six months should have told them something. They’re political pawns in the game of the rich white dudes that run the party.

    As soon as Sarah Palin was named as the Vice Presidential candidate of the Republican Party, she was referred to as a “pawn” in John McCain’s quest for power. She was attacked for being a mother, she was attacked for “choosing” to keep her Downs syndrome-afflicted child, she was accused of the wildest conspiracies ever, even her family was attacked for twenty-year-old DWI cases and for having a bit of belly fat.

    She couldn’t have been choosen for non-gender-related reasons, I suppose. Even though I thought she was an excellent choice as far back as April based solely on her politics – I mean after all that’s why we choose politicians, isn’t it?

    Alan Colmes blamed Palin for her child’s afliction, and this morning, I read Washington Post’s resident partisan hack Eugene Robinson‘s bit this morning indicating that Palin’s daughter should be forced to have an abortion (I had to screen capture it because they’ve moved it around so much, it’s hard to link to it);

    I think Robinson does all of his research exclusively on HuffPo and Daily Kos. I’ve never seen him depart from the party line on any issue. I suppose that makes him think he’s smart – but actually, he’s just a useful pawn. It also makes me think he’s the affirmative action columnist for the Post, seein’s how his only talent appears to be cutting and pasting from the moonbats.

    I’d like to know how Robinson knows that keeping the baby isn’t the “choice” of Bristol. But, then the Democrats have disposable principles and they don’t understand people who live out the principles they stand behind instead of just passing out advice for everyone else to follow – like Democrats.

    Ruth Marcus, in the Washington Post, excuses the media’s overblown coverage of the 17-year-old mother-to-be;

    And it will be that much more difficult in the media glare. “We ask the media to respect our daughter and (the father) Levi’s privacy as has always been the tradition of children of candidates,” the Palins said in their statement.

    As a parent, I sympathize. But as a parent in the media, I also know that the Palins assumed this risk. Anyone who watched coverage of the Bush twins’ barroom exploits knew that the avert-your-eyes stance toward candidates’ children has its limits.

    It’s naive to imagine, in the anything-goes Internet era, that Palin’s daughter’s pregnancy would go unremarked upon. It’s also mistaken, I think, to expect it. Like it or not, Bristol Palin’s pregnancy is intertwined with an important public policy debate about which the two parties differ and on which Sarah Palin has been outspoken.

    I wonder if she was any more forgiving of the media during the Clinton years.

    I remember reading all of the venomous comments that continue to this day about Hillary Clinton from the Obamaniacs.

    Now, I’m not a woman, obviously, but I’m pretty sure if I were and I were to be a Democrat, I’d think long and hard about belonging to a political party that so willingly attacks any candidate based solely on their biological composition and uses the camoflage of a word like “choice” to dictate to candidates of a particular biological composition the future of their families. A party that hides behind a misnomer like “choice” to advocate for the cavalier termination of lives because of aesthetics and political convenience.

    When a woman makes a “choice” that doesn’t fit the narrative of Democrats, she’s shamed into thinking she’s done something wrong. Just like Hillary who decided to fight the campaign out to it’s conclusion was shamed for it. All for the rich white guys of the Democrat Party clinging to their sad little empires built on the backs of minorities and women.

    Heh! Someone just sent me an email warning me that Sarah Palin is a “redneck” whose husband works in the oil fields and races snowmobiles and she hunts beasts in Alaska. I guess because I live in the Metro DC area, this should scare me about our future VP/President. Actually, I envy them. Smoke that.

    Added: Contrast what the Washington Post said about moms in politics before Sarah Palin became the VP candidate at Michelle Malkin.

  • Now, if only we can link her to Haliburton

    If you’re tired of jumping from website to website to track down your favorite and most plausible vitriol to spew at your next Sarah Palin exorcism, you have to go to Protein Wisdom where Jeff Goldstein has catalogued all of the top rumors generated by these supposed intellectuals and scholars. They can’t even coordinate their imbecilic stories because some contradict others.

    Baldilocks says it’s how we know McCain made the right choice;

    All Moonbattery is screeching in protest and in…something else.

    Can you smell that? I can. There’s not enough Right Guard in the world to hide it.

    Big Dog writes;

    It is important to repeat anything and raise FALSE concern. In other words, keep telling lies over and over until people believe them. To them it is important to shape the message even if the message is false. These are the same people who foam at the mouth every time someone mentions Obama and Muslim in the same sentence. When people called Obama a Muslim or showed him in Muslim garb (some of which were sent by the Clinton campaign) the same people did not call this modern political warfare. Instead, they called it a smear campaign.

    From Morrissey;

    If this is what the opposition comes down to, McCain made the wisest possible choice, and in the process exposed the opposition in a way that could never have been possible with any other running mate.

    From Irish Cicero at Liberty Peak Lodge;

    Authenticity is the One-Word Threat to the Obama-Biden Ticket

    So what they concerned about over at the Washington Post? Well, won’t Ann Coulter ever stop calling the Democrat nominee B. Hussein Obama?

    EJ Dionne is doing what he does best…telling Republicans how we should think about our party’s choices;

    By all rights, there should be a revolt at this week’s (now-delayed) Republican convention against John McCain’s selection of Sarah Palin as his running mate — for the same reasons so many Republicans opposed President Bush’s selection of Harriet Miers for the Supreme Court.

    You can watch that political deep thinker Jon Stewart try to dissuade women from voting for the McCain/Palin ticket by making fun of them.

    I’m with Baldilocks. We know she’s a safe bet because the only stuff they can dredge up on her is from their own imaginations, and we know she can help McCain win because they’re working so hard at being dolts.

  • Palin’s “Troopergate” non-scandal

    Of course, it doesn’t take any real evidence for the Democrats to create a scandal out of nothing, but Mata Harley at Flopping Aces has put together a timeline of the events that the Democrats plan to use against our newest rising politicial star;

    The investigations against Wooten started more than a year before she was elected governor, and about two months before launching her campaign”.

    Mata Harley does an excellent job of getting ahead of the Obama attack machine on this non-scandal. But of course we’ve had to listen to crap about George Bush’s drinking and cocaine habits for eight years without any evidence, we’ll probably hear about this for the next twelve years of the Palin VP/Presidency.

    UPDATED: As a precursor to what we’re in for in scandal area, here’s the top search terms from search engines on this blog last night. Apparently someone is searching for information on Palin being Jewish and a Zionist;

    Like I said yesterday, they’re just throwing stuff at the wall hoping for something to stick. My buddy/alter ego Robin at Chickenhawk Express has some more of the classless things they’re throwing at the wall. Ace of Spades and Michelle Malkin catch them looking for bikini pictures.

  • Left flailing around

    To continue along the same line as COB6’s post below, this is what passes for journalism at Associated Press;

    In the first few lines, AP calls Palin “inexperienced”, “risky”, “a governor for less than 20 months”, and a “darkhorse”. Obama spokespeople have been on Fox News the last hour beginning each of their memo recitations with “let’s be real”…that seems to be their line for Palin.

    They claim that Obama has “a decade” of experience. As a leader? Nope as a legislator. As a “community activist” whatever the Hell that is.

    Sarah Palin’s 20 months as governor is more experience than Obama’s 3 years in the Senate – half of which he’s been campaigning for the presidency. Sarah Palin has commanded her own state’s National Guard and she’s been to Iraq as many times as Obama – visiting her own troops and not on a campaign swing.

    Will men jump to Obama? The men who end up the subject  of a Lifetime Channel movie, maybe. No conservative I know would jump to a socialist just because they won’t vote for a woman. How many times have you heard men admit that they’d “vote for a woman, just not that Clinton woman”? No thinking independent would jump to Obama just because of gender issues – that’s shallow.

    How does McCain choosing Palin negate the McCain line that Obama is inexperienced? Obama is running to be President – he’s admitted that he doesn’t have time for on-the-job training. Palin is ready from day one – she’s had more experience leading our largest State, operating the same mechanisms of our federal government on a smaller scale…she’s already had her on-the-job training. She’s no less experienced than Bill Clinton or Jimmy Carter were on their first respective day. Obama, on the other hand, is less experienced than Clinton or Carter.

    Palin and McCain compliment each other…each fills the other’s shortcomings. All of this flailing around the Left is doing is just throwing stuff against the wall hoping to find something that sticks. But it makes them look foolish while they highlight the shortcomings of their own ticket.

    UPDATE: And that excitement thing for the McCain ticket that our resident troll, has been flapping his gums about for the last several months. Well, now it’s there. I’ve been getting emails from bloggers and others expressing the same level of excitement as Rachel Lucas.

    Michelle Malkin asks her readers if they’re pumped for McCain now. The results will send a certain troll to his closet rocking in the fetal position in the dark.