How's this:
Posted on 05/18/2009 10:18:29 PM PDT by Scanian
She's young, beautiful, articulate, patriotic, Christian, and most importantly, courageous. To many on the left however Carrie Prejean, the current Miss California, is a bigoted, shameful, and intolerant homophobe. What Carrie Prejean represents, in other words, is a modern day inkblot test of inestimable value to America's frustrated and exiled GOP. If there was ever a time in this modern day Alice in Wonderland cultural climate for conservatives to take a stand on something and shake the political world upside down, that time is now.
What can Carrie Prejean do for America and the GOP? For starters, she can drive a very deep wedge into the heart of "Generation Y" - those legions of swooning Obama youth who may have single handedly delivered America over to the radical left in the last election. While many liberals fashion their identities by atoning for anything traditionally American, Prejean can help persuade young people that patriotism, faith, marriage and tradition are actually, despite what the left may say, pretty cool.
While Obama and the Democrats actively seek to establish a Big Brother type intrusion of the Federal Government into our daily lives, Prejean can show her youthful cohorts that dependency isn't very hip. She can argue that part of growing up means being self-reliant; it also means that in order to preserve freedom, one's family, friends, and faith should be consulted, not just the federal government.
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I'm not attacking her, but if we make this attractive woman our poster girl, we're done as thoroughly as when we made McCain our nominee.
Articulate?
Carrie Prejean; the anti-Meghan McCain!
yeah, but how many GOP office holders are willing to defend traditional marriage like she did? And many of them sound a little dim when they talk about the social issue stuff, don’t they? And these are the GOP’s best and brightest?
As far as reaching out to the young Obama voters, the only thing that will reach out to them — and it will very soon — is life smacking them upside their heads as they realize just how untenable, unjust and uninformed the Obama worldview really is. The solution is NOT, as this article inadvertently suggests, to fight dumb with dumber. Hearts and minds are changed by knowledge, wisdom and a good deal of grace - not by the poster girl du jour, and definitely not when the target audience consists of cynical postmodernists.
We have to start backing serious people who can hold a conversation and articulate our positions. In this time when we need a GREAT communicator to go up against The Teleprompter, do you seriously think this woman is in the class to go head-to-head with the libs? I thought we were the party of adults--we're going to become the party of traditional values that somehow has a freakin' beauty contestant as a spokesperson? I'd love to hear her ideas about economics...
No, instead make Homowerewolf Hilton Perez the poster queen of the Democratic Party.
Put him up in lights from now until 2012, all his snarks and nastinesses, and show those young people the heart of the Democratic Party, as it really is.
Hear hear to your post. Conservatives are really desperate and grasping for straw like a drowning man when this is what we attempt to raise as a spokesman for the party/movement. God bless her for taking her stand, but when are WE going to get the infection of pop culture out of our systems and start looking for substance with the style? I’ve really lost my faith in movements-faith in political party has been gone-if this is what we’ve sunk to. Credit to her where credit is due, but we can’t make someone what they’re not and never tried to be.
I declare, survivalism is about the only secular “movement”, such as it is, that I have much faith in now.
She stood up for traditional marriage, and the ad hominems, e.g. homophobe, intolerant, etc., started. A marriage of Mr. & Mr. or Mrs. & Mrs., it's absurd. Prejean was a victim of the Gramsci heterophobes in the culture war.
Sarah Palin Defends Miss Calif. Prejean
I don't see much difference from the attacks on Palin.
What's hilarious about this whole thing, to me, is that she took the same position as Obama, yet Obama followers attacked her--which tells you, of course, that they all know Obama really doesn't believe what he says. I have a feeling he will have a "change of heart" about this issue should he win a second term.
Good points. We’re only going to be able to battle the libs if we get articulate people who can back up what they say with reality. This infatuation with celebrity is poisonous.
IF ONLY Carrie had started her answer to that freakish scumbag’s question at the pageant with the phrase, “Oh, on that issue I think I’m going to have to agree with President Obama....”
Right now Carrie Prejean is the only visable person carrying the fight to the other side on this so more power to her. I will stand with her.
Conservatives are like ants pouring out from an anthill when water is being poured straight on it. They run in all different directions. The problem with conservatives is that nobody is good enough. George W. Bush is wishy-washy, Jeb Bush is oh no, another Bush, Newt Gingrich is disgraced, Sarah Palin has been savaged by the media, Carrie Prejean took her clothes off and had a boob job, OH NO!!! Makes me effin’ sick.
Liberals,on the other hand, are able to put their differences aside. Homosexuals and NAMBLA, and the people at Child Protective Services; auto workers and environmentalists; atheists and moslems; liberals, with obvious differences and total incompatibilities, yet they can get together and elect a President entirely on image, with absolutely no other qualification except that he can win.
This is why Republicans are going to be in the minority for a good while. Their core constituencies can’t agree on the importance of compromise amongst the positions they hold sacrosanct.
And anyway, I don’t care that the girl thought she was pretty enough to win a beauty contest. Or if she had a boob job. Or if people want to call her a dumb blond. Those people can go screw themselves for all I care. She’s on my side, and I’m on her side.
Like Rush was saying about the economy the other day life gives you teachable moments and the GOP just seems to keep dropping the ball each time it is handed to them.
Instead of catching the wave when it comes by and riding it to victory the GOP and members in it are "Stuck on stupid!" and to busy arguing over who has the coolest ride and miss getting to the beach.
When some punk with an agenda asks us a tough question, we should look him in the eye and give him the answer we know is true, rather than the answer we “should” give.
If Republicans did this one thing, they would go a long way toward solving their problems.
Excellent and...Ewwww...
I agree. This simple girl with silicone boobs and a collection of topless pix ought to be the poster girl for...dorm room posters.
Yeah, file this one under “You know your party is desparate for leadership if...”...
OK fundamentally but you should consider that today image is important even if it’s not,conservatives know that, the whole reallity...
But Conservatives must not stay “THE KILLJOY” old party but on the contrary the way to prepare a better future .
Meanwhile libtardism refusing to face reallity tries to make people believe that everything is cool and are leading the world down and backward.
Carrie PREJEAN or hese kinds can help? Why not!
> This is why Republicans are going to be in the minority
> for a good while. Their core constituencies can’t agree
> on the importance of compromise amongst the positions
> they hold sacrosanct.
Ah, but THAT is the KEY DIFFERENCE between Conservatives and Collectivist-Statists.
Conservatives are principled and tend to be uncompromising. After all, a principle is not a principle if it can be compromised, no?
For example, there can be no compromise on abortion. According to conservative principle, abortion is better understood as prenatal infanticide.
There can be no compromise on “homosexual marriage”. According to conservative principle, it is a contradiction in terms.
There can be no compromise on national defense. According to conservative principle, enemies must be subdued and threats must be neutralized, whatever that entails. Diplomacy must be conducted from a position of strength and invincibility.
There can be no compromise on spending. You do not spend what you cannot afford. Times are tough. It is time for the government to be tightening its belt, not tightening its grip on the freedoms of the people.
There can be no compromise on Liberty. Either we are a free people, or we are the subjects of a whimsical collectivist, totalitarian state.
According to conservative principles, one man’s freedom ends where another man’s freedom begins. That is the only limit on Liberty that can be legitimately enforced by government.
There is much more, but conservatives must not waiver on principle. It makes them look like liberals.
Just because liberals can win elections, it is no reason to surrender our principles. When people get sick of the antics of the collectivists, statists, liberals, and sheer lunatics that comprise the DemonRAT party, they will turn to people of principle, not to another flavor of wishy-washy, doubleplusgood touchy-feely, “big-tent” liberalism.
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Obama Says A Baby Is A Punishment
Obama: “If they make a mistake, I don’t want them punished with a baby.”
That’s why in 2010 we need to go around the leadership and send money to the people we want elected, not the ones Steele and the others want to shove down our throats. It may even take some candidates switching to independent for a time, like Lieberman did, in order to win a few local elections. We either MUST take back our party from the RINOs or start another party. There are no other options.
The woman's position is fine, but please, let's not make out like she's a martyr.No offense my FRiend but technically she is a 'martyr'. And has been since she told that pervert in panties her true beliefs. And she continues to be 'martyred' by the deviates on the left.
Granted she hasn't literally been put to death for her faith. but the perverted left wishes she were. And career wise in Hollywwod or the MSM, she is 'dead' because of her faith.
She lost a beauty pageant, fer pete's sake, and labels traditional marriage "opposite".Yes. That "opposite marriage" answer was extremely inarticulate (dumb?). But she lost that beauty pageant solely because she refused to deny her true beliefs in family and faith. And the attacks on her because of that continues on (she's being 'martyred').
I'm NOT saying the GOP put her on a pedistal or make her the face of the GOP. But she's sticking to her guns better than a majority of 'our' weasels in politics (from local to DC).
The funny thing is that everyone knows who Carrie Prejean (Miss California) is, but nobody knows who Miss USA is.
Meanwhile, we have a certain element among the Christian fundies who would vote for Satan himself if it would prevent a Mormon from getting elected, even though politically the two groups are 90% in agreement. Until we learn to put religious, ethnic and other differences aside and start supporting the most viable candidate rather than looking for the perfect candidate, we'd better get used to being backbenchers.
Note: This is NOT to advocate more watered-down RINO candidates. In some areas (Maine), RINOs may be the best we can do, but on a national level, we can do better. Too many people on our side are fond at taking cheap shots at Sarah Palin because they think the enemedia damaged her beyond repair.
Personally, I will mistrust any candidate which the enemedia does not seek to destroy. Have we learned nothing from the McCain experience? Yeah, the enemedia turned on him in the end because he was the opponent of their candidate Oba Mao. But don't forget that the New York Times and the rest of the enemedia endorsed him early on and promoted him from the get-go.
How's this:
I can't remember what it was, something is interfering with my memory, although the "OMG" idiot light on my dashboard is still blinking.
"Lipstick on a pig" seems somehow inappropriate here!
Seriously, it's an ugly subject...
But good poster (from what I can see of it while squinting to protect myself).
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