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Palin's Social Views Hurt Ticket
Real Clear Poltics ^ | 9/4/08 | Froma Harrop

Posted on 09/04/2008 8:42:02 AM PDT by steve-b

I had dinner last night with a Republican-leaning independent who was despondent over John McCain's choice of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin as his running mate. She had been looking forward to supporting McCain as a fiscal conservative with a deep understanding of foreign relations. But all she could now see was that picture of Palin's pregnant 17-year-old looking defiant and stupid as she held mom's fifth baby.

Many religious conservatives are jubilant. They regard Palin as a swell choice because her high-schooler was going to have the baby. The line sent my friend into shock. This is not a matter of abortion politics, she said, but of managing one's own affairs.

"Don't they have birth control up in Alaska?" she asked....

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Politics/Elections; US: Alaska
KEYWORDS: 2008; 2008veep; barbie; catfight; democrats; dnctalkingpoints; elections; mccainpalin; palin; palinfamily; palinnomination; palinrippedmyflesh; pds; sarahpalinbarbie; stevebgone; supressthevote; troll; zot
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To: steve-b

Yeah, just like the same social views hurt Reagan in 1980 and 1984, Bush in 1988, Bush in 2000 and 2004.

Every election cycle, we are lectured by the Left that these “social views” will hurt the ticket.

And every election cyle they are proven wrong.


41 posted on 09/04/2008 8:51:59 AM PDT by Skooz (Gabba Gabba we accept you we accept you one of us Gabba Gabba we accept you we accept you one of us)
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To: Old Retired Army Guy

Your parents were liberals who considered you a punishment.


42 posted on 09/04/2008 8:52:01 AM PDT by Salamander (Obama hates uppity women.)
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To: steve-b
I had dinner last night with someone who thinks she saw Elvis working at a 7-11 near Lawrenceberg, Kentucky.
43 posted on 09/04/2008 8:52:03 AM PDT by Cedric
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To: steve-b
Palin's Social Views Hurt Ticket

B*## SH^%!

44 posted on 09/04/2008 8:52:04 AM PDT by Bigun ("It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere." Voltaire)
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To: steve-b

But all she could now see was that picture of Palin’s pregnant 17-year-old looking defiant and stupid as she held mom’s fifth baby.”

What is a Froma Harrop and why does such a pathetic, miserable creature want to bore us with her inane rantings?


45 posted on 09/04/2008 8:52:16 AM PDT by bereanway (Sarah get your gun)
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To: steve-b
Stevie, give the bitter case of PDS you are afflicted with, last night's speech must have been really painful to watch.

Here's a thought ,,


46 posted on 09/04/2008 8:52:20 AM PDT by tx_eggman (Privatizing profits and socializing losses is no way to run an economy)
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To: steve-b
LOL. Still posting negative Palin articles, eh Stevo?

I'm sure Palin's views on social issues her her with YOU, but the rest of us love it!
47 posted on 09/04/2008 8:52:44 AM PDT by Antoninus (McCain/Palin -- The winning ticket!)
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To: steve-b

More leftist puke.

Palin’s social views are America’s social views; the only ticket they hurt is the Dummacrap ticket.


48 posted on 09/04/2008 8:52:46 AM PDT by editor-surveyor ( If Obama had Palin's resume and experience Obama would be qualified to be VP too.)
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To: steve-b
hiya steve-b...ltns

I haven't posted much on my favorite forum it seems in a long time.

Anyway, there's a lot of reasons why I cancelled my subscription to the Providence Journal many years ago...and Froma Harrop is near the top of that list. Extremely biased far left hypocrit. ‘Nuf said!

49 posted on 09/04/2008 8:52:50 AM PDT by ThomasMore (Islam is the Whore of Babylon! Vote for John and Sarah!)
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To: steve-b

I’m voting for McCain cause Palin’s daughter is pregnant? When did that happen? How come all the other conservatives get the memo and I don’t?


50 posted on 09/04/2008 8:52:59 AM PDT by BruceysMom (My heart is in Wyoming)
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To: steve-b

I think I would barf if I had that conversation.

.

Here’s how I’ve been bumping Palin/Obama threads.

Sung to the tune of “Oh! Susanna, don’t you cry for me.”

“Oh, no Bama, please don’t lie to me... for I’m off to Free Republic with a laptop on my knee.”

I come from Minnesota with my laptop on my knee;
I’m goin’ to Free Republic my true love for to see.
It rained all night the day I left,
the weather it was dry;
The sun so hot I froze to death,
Obama don’t you lie.

Oh! No Bama, don’t you lie to me;
I come from Minnesota,
with my laptop on my knee.

I had a dream the other night,
When everything was still;
I thought I saw Obama dear,
A-coming for The Hill.
The smearing lie was in Duluth,
The tear was in his eye,
Said I, I’m coming for the truth
Obama don’t you lie.

Oh! No Bama, don’t you lie to me;
I’m off to Free Republic,
with my laptop on my knee.

I fight in my pajamas,
It’s plain for all to see.
I aim to be the next Buckhead;
The media all hate me.
I fell in love with Sarah
When my sister bit a moose.
The Guvnor’s family ate it up
And then they set it loose.

Oh! No Bama, don’t you lie to me;
I’m off to Free Republic,
with my laptop on my knee.

She loves her sons, she likes her guns,
and Trigonometry.
The media will jump the shark
When Juan makes history.
Well, JimRob knows she’ll pave the trolls
So controversially,
And Berg will knock Obama down
With friends of Hillary.

Oh! No Bama, don’t you lie to me;
I’m off to Free Republic with a laptop on my knee.

I soon will be in Hawaii,
And then I’ll look all ‘round,
And when I find his birth record,
I’ll fall upon the ground.
But if I do not find it,
This Freeper’ll surely die,
And when I’m dead and buried,
Obama don’t you lie.

Oh! No Bama, don’t you cry for me;
I’m off to Free Republic with a laptop on my knee

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51 posted on 09/04/2008 8:53:32 AM PDT by Kevmo (Obama Birth Certificate is a Forgery. http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/certifigate/index?tab=articles)
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To: steve-b
Anybody that gripes about this obviously has never raised a teenager in this century. I think most of them are lucky to survive with all their limbs to get married.

By the grace of God I was spared. This is the "socialization" that the home schoolers miss.

52 posted on 09/04/2008 8:53:36 AM PDT by chuckles
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To: steve-b
"Don't they have birth control up in Alaska?" she asked....

Birth control only works when you use it, and even then, not always. Two of my bro-in-law's five kids are condom babies.

53 posted on 09/04/2008 8:53:48 AM PDT by Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus (Here they come boys! As thick as grass, and as black as thunder!)
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To: steve-b
Make that HURTS her...
54 posted on 09/04/2008 8:53:51 AM PDT by Antoninus (McCain/Palin -- The winning ticket!)
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To: broncobilly
I apologize for the generalization. I have nothing against Romney, would have supported him on the ticket.

Peace? ;)

55 posted on 09/04/2008 8:54:03 AM PDT by Perdogg (Maverick - Barracuda 2008)
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To: steve-b

To accept Froma’s “logic”, we must assume that:

1) No one who is unmarried EVER has sex. You are a psychological deviant if you do;

2) Electing to keep the child of a premarital sexual relationship (rather than have an abortion) is a social view that will “hurt the ticket”;

3) Ditto marrying the father;

4) You are a cretin who deserves no forgiveness, ever, if you make a mistake. In fact, you are defiant and stupid for even trying to support your mother during her internationally-televised speech at the Republican National Convention. Go get back in your cage.


56 posted on 09/04/2008 8:54:33 AM PDT by snowrip (Liberal? YOU ARE A SOCIALIST WITH NO RATIONAL ARGUMENT.)
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To: wardaddy

“There he goes again.”


57 posted on 09/04/2008 8:54:36 AM PDT by To Hell With Poverty (If you rob Peter to pay Paul, you can always count on Paul's vote. - Howie Carr)
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To: steve-b

As I read this article, I couldn’t help thinking of Dan Aykroyd on Saturday Night Live “Point/Counter-point” chiding Jane Curtain with “Jane, you ignorant slut.”


58 posted on 09/04/2008 8:54:57 AM PDT by swift15 (Not actively enabling the grievance industry or advancing world socialism.)
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To: broncobilly

If advising McCain I would have told him to pick Romney, I now note Romney’s speech sucked. I still like him but it was flat.

I probably would not have picked Palin but the day they started saying it was her there was an emotional “Mrs Smith Goes To Washington” reaction. There still is.


59 posted on 09/04/2008 8:55:17 AM PDT by Williams
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To: steve-b
"Don't they have birth control up in Alaska?" she asked....

Too bad this waste of oxygens mom didn't use it.
60 posted on 09/04/2008 8:56:32 AM PDT by Kozak (Anti Shahada: There is no god named Allah, and Muhammed is a false prophet)
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