"Hearing the distress call of Americans everywhere, Jim Robinson suits up for action......"
Posted on 09/08/2008 12:55:29 PM PDT by Jim Robinson
*yawn* Hardly. And that’s a tired, worn out argument, MY FRIEND.
Look, I don’t know how many votes I’ve left in me, but I can promise you this....this vote will NOT be out of fear of what the OTHER party will do....what they will do is a known given. So, more importantly....nor will it be to REWARD the position of POTUS to THE REPUBLICAN candidate, a man who has hijacked my party and who intends to sell out my country, it’s sovereignty and security, just as fast as any Democrat would.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1VmCHcOy-Y4
>>Even though I’ve stated in the past that I would not vote for McCain, I will be supporting this ticket. <<
That’s where I’m at.
McCain is just the opening act.
To be completely honest, I would have preferred Rumsfeld or Cheney at the top of the ticket and Palin or Jindal as #2. But I am unfashionable.
Mccain/Palin will do - I will support 100%.
I saw this article by Michael Reagan that I would like to share:
Sarah Palin Emerges As New Ronald Reagan
Thursday, September 4, 2008 3:16 PM
By: Michael Reagan
I’ve been trying to convince my fellow conservatives that they have been wasting their time in a fruitless quest for a new Ronald Reagan to emerge and lead our party and our nation. I insisted that we’d never see his like again because he was one of a kind.
I was wrong!
Wednesday night I watched the Republican National Convention on television and there, before my very eyes, I saw my dad reborn; only this time he’s a she.
And what a she!
In one blockbuster of a speech, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin resurrected my dad’s indomitable spirit and sent it soaring above the convention center, shooting shock waves through the cynical media’s assigned spaces and electrifying the huge audience with the kind of inspiring rhetoric we haven’t heard since my dad left the scene.
This was Ronald Reagan at his best — the same Ronald Reagan who made the address known now solely as “The Speech,” which during the Goldwater campaign set the tone and the agenda for the rebirth of the traditional conservative movement that later sent him to the White House for eight years and revived the moribund GOP.
Last night was an extraordinary event. Widely seen beforehand as a make-or-break effort — either an opportunity for Sarah Palin to show that she was the happy warrior that John McCain assured us she was, or a disaster that would dash McCain’s presidential hopes and send her back to Alaska, sadder but wiser.
Obviously unintimidated by either the savage onslaught to which the left-leaning media had subjected her, or the incredible challenge she faced, and oozing with confidence, she strode defiantly to the podium and proved she was everything and even more than John McCain told us.
Much has been made of the fact that she is a woman. What we saw last night, however, was something much more than a just a woman accomplishing something no Republican woman has ever achieved. What we saw was a red-blooded American with that rare, God-given ability to rally her dispirited fellow Republicans and take up the daunting task of leading them, and all her fellow Americans, on a pilgrimage to that shining city on the hill my father envisioned as our nation’s real destination.
In a few words she managed to rip the mask from the faces of her Democratic rivals and reveal them for what they are — a pair of old-fashioned liberals making promises that cannot be kept without bankrupting the nation and reducing most Americans to the status of mendicants begging for their daily bread at the feet of an all-powerful government.
Most important, by comparing her own stunning record of achievement with his, she exposed Barack Obama for the sham that he is, a man without any solid accomplishments beyond conspicuous self-aggrandizement.
Like Ronald Reagan, Sarah Palin is one of us. She knows how most of us live because that’s the way she lives. She shares our homespun values and our beliefs, and she glories in her status as a small-town woman who put her shoulder to the wheel and made life better for her neighbors.
Her astonishing rise up from the grass roots, her total lack of self-importance, and her ordinary American values and modest lifestyle reveal her to be the kind of hard-working, optimistic, ordinary American who made this country the greatest, most powerful nation on the face of the earth.
As hard as you might try, you won’t find that kind of plain-spoken, down-to-earth, self-reliant American in the upper ranks of the liberal-infested, elitist Democratic Party, or in the Obama campaign.
Sarah Palin didn’t go to Harvard, or fiddle around in urban neighborhood leftist activism while engaging in opportunism within the ranks of one of the nation’s most corrupt political machines, never challenging it and going along to get along, like Barack Obama.
Instead she took on the corrupt establishment in Alaska and beat it, rising to the governorship while bringing reforms to every level of government she served in on her way up the ladder.
Welcome back, Dad, even if you’re wearing a dress and bearing children this time around.
Thank you, Jim. This means a lot to many of us. It’s further proof of the solidification of the Conservative base.
Jim, are we gonna have a FREEPER BALL if McCain/Palin wins??
Here is a good site, too.
To Jim through dead—Ditto. Was not gonna vote for McCain. Palin changes everything. Could it be that McCain was rope-a-doping the dems all these years? In any event, by design or not, the result is that they have never demonized him. Indeed, he was their darling off and on. Big plus when trolling for cross over voters. Just sayin..........
My point was (is) that Santorum's loss seems to fly in the face of Limbaugh's (and others) insistence that a true conservative candidate will "win every time it's tried."
The majority of Pennsylvania governors and US Senators the past 30 years have been Republican... (with Casey 1988-1994 being the one exception).
REPUBLICANS: Gov. William Scranton 1963-1967, Gov. Raymond Shafer 1967-1971, Gov. Dick Thornburg 1979-1987, Gov. Tom Ridge 1995-2001, Gov. Mark Schweiker 2002-2004
Sen. Richard Schweiker 1969-1981, Sen. Hugh Scott 1970-1981?, Sen. John Heinz 1976-92, Sen. Rick Santorum 1994-2006, Sen. Arlen Spector 1980-current, .
The ONE Democrat US Senator, Harris Wofford, was appointed by a Democratic Governor in 1992 and promptly lost the next election to Republican Santorum in 1994.
All of which leaves me perplexed as to why Santorum, who continues to be my favorite conservative, lost so badly in 2006.
The Democrats in 2006 sneakily put a pro-life candidate (Bob Casey Jr) who literally kept his mouth SHUT on all issues during the campaign, and he thrived off the name of his father, Bob Casey Sr., who was a conservative and popular Democratic governor in 1990.
Santorum was targeted big time by most all newspapers and TV reporters in 2006 over Iraq, Terri Schiavo, the War on Terror, etc.
But then again, ALL REPUBLICANS are constantly hounded by major metropolitan and suburban newspapers and TV.
Yeah, but, I’m scared that his supprters suffer from the same affliction and still have to power to elect him.
Raising a glass to you, Mister Robinson!!
And thanks for this wonderful website. You truly do the Republic a great service.
Thanks Jim!!!
I’m one of the ones that has always considered myself “conservative” and was not gonna vote for McCain. Gov. Palin has changed that: I plan on voting for the lady...McCain gets my vote by “default”... :))
Welcome to the cause. BTTT.
There were times when I didn’t know for sure if I was going to vote for McCain but it always came back to the dismal thought of a Obama win. I had heard Sarah Palin’s name mentioned and looked up some info on her and found I liked her but I couldn’t really believe that McCain would be wise enough to pick her for his running mate. I prayed and asked God to have Sarah on the GOP ticket! When she was announced all I could think of was,Thank You God. I pray she will be the blessing for seeds of faith to come back and bless this country in the right direction. I read a wonderful article about the abortion issue and women,women being kept in line so that the democrats could keep their vote safe to count on. I don’t like Hillary but I do believe she was the better candidate than Obama and I don’t think she was treated right by the MSM or her own party and the women know it. these same women are now cheering for Sarah Palin,not the hard core leftist fem-nezi’s. I have prayed that God could use the pride and arrogance of Obama to be used against him. We must always try to pick the best candidate we can,anyone is better than Obama,but we must always pray,pray,pray,because mankind is corrupt. I think McCain has seen how excited the party is for Sarah and that should tell him what he NEEDS to know and the direction to lead the country. Well hopefully and prayerfully.
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