Posted on 09/12/2008 10:00:09 AM PDT by IrishMike
Once upon a time it was inevitable that Hillary Clinton would be the 2008 Democratic presidential nominee. It didn’t work out that way.
A few weeks ago, it seemed inevitable that Barack Obama would win the presidency handily. It isn’t working out that way.
A few weeks ago, it seemed inevitable that John McCain was in for a drubbing. It hasn’t worked out that way.
In political campaigns things can always change, of course, but as of now it appears that John McCain is headed for the White House. That’s not inevitable, but at the moment it looks as if he’s headed for the winner’s circle, thanks largely to his choice of a running mate who has electrified most of the electorate.
The Obama campaign’s stunned reaction to this totally unexpected development has been at first to ridicule McCain’s choice of Sarah Palin, then to underestimate the effect she was having on the McCain campaign, and now to go all-out in attacking her.
Obama’s reaction to this sudden turn in his fortunes has been nothing less that sheer and visible disorientation. It’s obvious that he simply doesn’t know which way to turn, and his confusion has led him to launch a sleazy campaign to destroy Gov. Palin’s reputation -- no matter what it takes -- before she destroys his presidential hopes.
A prime symptom of his disorientation was the ill-advised comment about putting lipstick on a pig. The old self-confident, sure-footed Barack Obama, safe in the cocoon woven about him by a worshipful media, would have understood the consequences of making such a remark and the almost certain probability that it would be a boomerang that would smite him on its return trip, and would have thus avoided it.
This disaster, however, is nothing compared to the catastrophe that is waiting in the wings as a result of his scorched-earth attack on Sarah Palin. Unable to grasp the obvious fact that the media’s ongoing effort to slander Palin is backfiring, he has allowed his campaign to dispatch an army of lawyers and private investigators to Alaska to dig for dirt in Palin’s backyard.
Obama must understand that Gov. Palin, with a favorability rating in excess of 80 percent, is unpopular among the old-boy’s network she has uprooted, and has easily fended off their attempts to damage her reputation.
Turning to these malcontents for ammunition, when their arsenal of anti-Palin weapons has proved worthless, is a massive waste of effort that is certain to backfire again. They haven’t made a dent in her popularity.
Nor will Obama’s scandal mongers. Try as they may to make a mountain over the so-called “troopergate” molehill, for example, they will have a hard time explaining why it would be wrong to want to see a four-times married and divorced law enforcement officer kept on the job when he had tasered his 11-year-old stepson, illegally shot a moose, drank beer in his patrol car on one occasion, and told others his father-in-law would "eat a f'ing lead bullet" if he helped his daughter get an attorney for the divorce.
According to the Anchorage Daily News: "Col. Julia Grimes, then head of Alaska State Troopers, wrote in March 1, 2006, ‘The record clearly indicates a serious and concentrated pattern of unacceptable and at times, illegal activity occurring over a lengthy period, which establishes a course of conduct totally at odds with the ethics of our profession.’"
She warned that if he messed up again, he'd be fired.
"This discipline is meant to be a last chance to take corrective action," Grimes wrote. "You are hereby given notice that any further occurrences of these types of behaviors or incidents will not be tolerated and will result in your termination."
This is the man the media and the Obama gumshoes want to pillory Sarah Palin for wanting to have stripped of his badge and gun, and portray him as a victim of heartless Sarah.
Talk about panic.
Pssst... Obama... Over here. Listen... Hitch your wagon to “Troopergate.” That’ll work. You can trust me, I’m not like your other stupid advisers.
Exactly. Hard work and a positive attitude.
Obama is totally negative about this country but at the same time is only where and who he is because of the limitless opportunities open to ALL Americans.
He NEVER is positive about the greatness, abundance and strength of America or the unconditional, open-handed generosity of Americans. Every single day, thousands of foreigners risk their very lives to reach this country (legally or not)!!!!
If this country is the rotting, dysfunctional, oppressive, racist, ‘broken’, black-hole of iniquity Obama, his wife and their ‘Reverend’ so repeatedly claim it is…. ask Obama why so many different people struggle with such unbelievable desperation to come here.
I am actually sending $25 to McCain/Palin today. I figure a $25 investment in MCCain will save me thousands in taxes if Obama gets in power!
Unbearable to think about.
For some reason the DNC thinks that Obama can win with the same rhetoric and posture that scuttled the Kerry campaign. Go figure.
Believe me, Kerry sealed his own doom with his insistence on that BS ‘global test’ for US foreign policy and also, with his perpetual assertion of guilt over American preeminence in the world…the VERY preeminence which remains the definitive court of appeal and virtual safety net for so much of humanity everywhere.
a bunch of pro 2A patriots already did this to the VPC
His national service idea boils down to a mandatory draft of college students to tell us all to watch our weight, eat more arugula, vote for progressive candidates, abort “defective” babies, and of course worship at the Temple of Obama every Tuesday (that day’s not taken by any other religion, right?). In a nutshell: Obama Youth.
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