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Steyn: Hostess with the Moosest
The Corner ^ | 8-30-08 | Mark Steyn

Posted on 08/30/2008 5:38:54 AM PDT by cgk

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To: big'ol_freeper
Upon reading this early this morning, I sent Steyn this email:
One more point:

The pointy-heads argue that Palin undermines McCain's "inexperienced" charge against Obama.

But isn't it likely McCain had gotten all he could out of that charge? Like generals fighting the last war, the pundits assume that was going to be McCain's campaign theme throughout the fall.

It appears to me McCain is pivoting and will now go after Obama's "change" message. You want change? Look at what Palin has achieved in her (short) time in office! Add her record to McCain's history of shaking up Washington and you get a real potential for "change".

I think McCain is preparing for the next phase of the campaign: who will really take on the entrenched bureaucracies and corrupt practices in Washington? Again, the pundits simply presume Obama owns the change message....another mistake.

Further, as for being inexperienced, why the emphasis on the TIME she's been in office. Republicans should counter that it's more about what one has DONE. Make a list of the reforms Palin has accomplished in the last 2 years as governor. Put those beside what Obama and Biden have done since 2006 (hold hearings, run for prez). She comes off pretty well in that comparison. Jeanne


21 posted on 08/30/2008 6:01:57 AM PDT by Timeout (The Brits have their royal family. We have our privileged "public servant" class.)
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To: All
Hyper-American, indeed!

And here's a video showing that NRA Lifetime Member & Commander of the Alaska National Guard Governor Palin knows what the 2nd Amendment is for:

Sarah Palin Firing a Rifle

22 posted on 08/30/2008 6:03:36 AM PDT by cgk (I don't see myself as a conservative. I see myself as a religious, right-wing, wacko extremist.)
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To: big'ol_freeper

Yes, but Obama has been “thinking” about national security issues for four years. And he has national security “exposure.”

I just worry that Palin might say something that demonstrates her lack of experience, like saying that the President should unconditionally meet with leaders of terrorist nations. Because of Obama’s national security “exposure,” he’d never say something like that. /sarcasm off/


23 posted on 08/30/2008 6:05:49 AM PDT by Rumierules
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To: cgk

I love this. I’m passing it around. Gorgeous is as gorgeous does!


24 posted on 08/30/2008 6:14:39 AM PDT by Mrs. Don-o (A proud, practicing Homo sapiens.)
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To: xzins; Gamecock; MeekOneGOP
This ticket is the first real "Change" ticket to come along in my lifetime. Name one other ticket that had a Governor who sent back Federal Money for a pork barrel project with the functional equivalent of saying "No thanks, we can do without corrupt pork barrel money. Give it back to those you stole it from."?

McCain has been (to his credit) a fighter against government waste, but as a member of the Senate he has been a mere voice crying in the wilderness. We now have two candidates who are willing to buck the system and radically change the way the Government has been working (or not working)

If any ticket represents "CHANGE" it is McCain/Palin. I feel right now that my finanacial contributions to this ticket will be paid back to me tenfold.

I am energized. Palin was the perfect pick!

There truly is "HOPE" for America!

25 posted on 08/30/2008 6:18:22 AM PDT by P-Marlowe (LPFOKETT GAHCOEEP-w/o*)
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To: cgk
What other country in the developed world produces beauty queens who hunt caribou and serve up a terrific moose stew? As an immigrant, I'm not saying I came to the United States purely to meet chicks like that, but it was certainly high on my list of priorities.

Quote of the year!

26 posted on 08/30/2008 6:21:01 AM PDT by nonliberal (Graduate: Curtis E. LeMay School of International Relations)
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To: cgk
Money Quote:

"Governor Palin has run a state and a town and a commercial fishing operation, whereas (to reprise a famous line on the Rev Jackson) Senator Obama ain't run nothin' but his mouth"

27 posted on 08/30/2008 6:23:22 AM PDT by Paladin2 (Huma for co-president! (PUMA))
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To: P-Marlowe; Gamecock

See photos at #22. This is a real person. Say what you like, but Obama is a caricature, so is Biden, the Clintons, and the other insiders of Washington.

This is a gun-totin’ frontier woman from Alaska, and I’m willing to fight for this ticket.


28 posted on 08/30/2008 6:25:48 AM PDT by xzins (Retired Army Chaplain -- Those denying the War was Necessary Do NOT Support the Troops!)
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To: xzins
See photos at #22. This is a real person. Say what you like, but Obama is a caricature, so is Biden, the Clintons, and the other insiders of Washington. This is a gun-totin’ frontier woman from Alaska, and I’m willing to fight for this ticket.

As Governor of Alaska, she is the "Commander in Chief" of the troops she is seated with there. That was not a "Photo Op". That was the visit of a Military Commander with the troops under her command.

29 posted on 08/30/2008 6:39:46 AM PDT by P-Marlowe (LPFOKETT GAHCOEEP-w/o*)
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To: cgk

Cool! No climb at all on a one second burst—now there’s a lady that knows all about the proper definition of “gun control”!


30 posted on 08/30/2008 6:45:12 AM PDT by L,TOWM (If the GOP is this desperate to lose, who am I to stand in their way?)
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To: L,TOWM

Time for a tagline change...


31 posted on 08/30/2008 6:47:13 AM PDT by L,TOWM (Mcwhathisname/PALIN, '08!!!)
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To: xzins; P-Marlowe

Palin represents the kind of woman that built this great country.

Tough at nails and keeps the home fires burning.

Smith grads will detest her, but fly over country women will go gaga.


32 posted on 08/30/2008 6:49:38 AM PDT by Gamecock (1000!)
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To: cgk

I liked this one on Biden-—

“Third, real people don’t define “experience” as appearing on unwatched Sunday-morning talk shows every week for 35 years and having been around long enough to have got both the War on Terror and the Cold War wrong.”


33 posted on 08/30/2008 6:54:12 AM PDT by John W
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To: P-Marlowe

This ticket says 2 things:

1. Energy Independence (or closer), and
2. Earmarks must die


34 posted on 08/30/2008 6:54:24 AM PDT by Cletus.D.Yokel
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To: Gamecock

35 posted on 08/30/2008 6:55:15 AM PDT by 4Liberty (discount window + moral hazard = bank corporate welfare + inflation tax)
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To: Gamecock; P-Marlowe

As Governor of Alaska, Sarah Palin has a long ocean interface with the 200 mile boundary of Russia in the Bering Sea. She and her husband are also part of a commercial fishing business. We have a picture above of Palin raising the antlers of fresh-killed dinner.

I’ll bet she has personal opinions about fishing operations with many international competitors, to include Putin’s fisheries. And the willingness to take down an elk says that she’s not afraid to shoot to kill.


36 posted on 08/30/2008 7:00:22 AM PDT by xzins (Retired Army Chaplain -- Those denying the War was Necessary Do NOT Support the Troops!)
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To: 4Liberty

(OK, so this is Photoshop, but so what!)

37 posted on 08/30/2008 7:01:23 AM PDT by Gamecock (1000!)
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To: Nipfan

Bump


38 posted on 08/30/2008 7:01:29 AM PDT by Nipfan
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To: cgk; All

And .. as usual .. Steyn weighs in with the substance and the real reasons the liberals won’t like her and will be willing to tell whopper lies to destroy her.

As for the “brother-in-law” she purportedly fired - I say more power to her for sticking up for her sister - and why was it a bad thing to fire a guy who was a wife-beater ..??

I am very pleased with Gov Palin already .. I admire women who are strong enough to do what needs to be done and who are not afraid of what people might say.


39 posted on 08/30/2008 7:02:19 AM PDT by CyberAnt (Michael Yon: "The U.S. military is the most respected institution in Iraq.")
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To: cgk

Steyn BUMP!


40 posted on 08/30/2008 7:06:04 AM PDT by Gritty (Palin has run a state, town and a fishing operation. Obama ain't run nothin' but his mouth.-Mk Steyn)
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