Now if we can get McCain to start wearing a moose hat, I would be even happier.
I’m not sure I disagree with him. McCain had me at hello, but to be frank, I’m sick of the cult of Palin. I just don’t get the attraction. I’m voting for McCain here in a few weeks, but I don’t ever see myself directly casting a vote for Palin, for anything.
“Offending stupid people since 1963”
But how long have you been offending smart people?
Yes it could lead to the same results as the Cult of Reagan.
Now if we can get McCain to start wearing a moose hat, I would be even happier.
> I’m voting for McCain here in a few weeks, but I don’t ever see myself directly casting a vote for Palin, for anything.
Fair enough. Why?
Sorry I disagree. I don’t get McCain, and McCain is lucky to be this close thanks to Palin.
Unless you’re a plant (it’s been known to happen ;) the only reason you are sick of the Cult of Palin is because you’re riding the wave - rather than researching why you should like her.
I’ve been following her career since she took on the corrupt establishment in Alaska three years ago. If McCain didn’t pick someone with her abilities, and credientials (basically her or Bobby Jindal or maybe Rick Santorum) there was NO WAY I was going to waste my vote on him.
After clicking on your name I have to agree with you Motto,.., nothing to see in you, so move along............................
No wonder you are sick of the cult of Palin, what with the great press and kind words of MSM. s/
Actually, McCain and the rest of the carreer politicians ( both R & D ) are the cancer of the nation. Palin fought back in Alaska and that is why many Republicans want her brought down. However, I am also "voting for McCain here in a few weeks."
McCain is camel fecum without Palin.
Actually, I wish Palin was running for President and McCain as VP.
Palin represents a young vigorous conservatism that hasn’t been seen or felt since Ronald Reagan. And no she isn’t Reagan...but none of the candidates for the Republicans were either.
Her beliefs, as far as we know, are as close to Reagan conservatism as I’ve seen since 1980 in a Republican candidate.
My PREFERENCE would have been for her to stay a governor for a few more years before being brought onto the national stage, but she came up early. She and Bobby Jindal (and Michael Steele) have the POTENTIAL to thoroughly change the “white male” stereotype of the Republican party...while keeping its core conservative values—and that just must irritate the hell out of the Blue Blood East Coast R’s.
I am glad Palin is around.
Should McCain have chosen someone such as Lowell Weicker, Chuck Hagel, Michael Bloomberg, or Lincoln Chafee to be his running mate?
Did you ever think maybe you’re the stupid one, and it’s smart people you’re offending?
I'm not saying she doesn't have some promise, but at the moment she's far from perfect even many conservatives are worried about whether she's ready for the position. The Republican party has done little to show it's capable of effectively running the country over the past eight years and Palin doesn't help change that image.
“Stupid is as stupid does”.
LLS
“I’m sick of the cult of Palin. I just don’t get the attraction.”
Well, Melas, 80% of Alaskans get it. When Americans see Palin, they get it! She is what we are. What are you?
I’m just the opposite. McCain never had me until he picked Palin. McCain could drop dead today and I’d pull the lever only because of Palin.
Truth plainly spoken cannot be overcome. That is the secret to her success.
Are there gaps in her knowledge? Indubitably. But her instincts and guiding principles are without fault, and those are far more important. She is, I think, heiress to the tradition of Reagan, Truman, Lincoln, and Jackson, all of whom were ridiculed for their lack of education and sophistication, yet achieved success beyond the dreams of any intellectual.
Look, I went to an Ivy League grad school. I know who Reinhold bloody Niebhur is; I wrote a term paper on his attempts and ultimate failure to synthesize Marxism and Christianity. I'm an economic conservative and social moderate, who has never been red-hot on abortion. I'm nominally Catholic but skating dangerously close to agnosticism. I speak three languages and am unbeatable at Trivial Pursuit. I've read Marx, Herodotus, Burke, Joyce, Gibbon, Rousseau, Hayek, Plato, Machiavelli, Rabelais, Friedman, Popper, Darwin, Sartre, Montesquieu, Woolf, Kierkegaard, Boorstin, Locke, and the Federalist Papers.
In short, I could sit with David Brooks and Chris Matthews and Kathleen Parker at a Manhattan cocktail party and give them all tingles up and down their legs for a week if I were a candidate for President. But I'm not, and never will be, and never would want to be, because I know that at my core I do not have what it takes. She does.
No politician in my lifetime save Ronald Reagan has awakened my desire to fight for the American dream quite like Sarah Palin. Beneath the accent, and the sometimes fractured syntax, and the grins and winks, there is a voice that speaks with the accumulated courage and wisdom of four hundred years of the American experiment. Everything this woman is and does and has done, she accomplished by her own pluck and native intelligence. She is utterly fearless, with a pitch-perfect balance between compassion and ruthlessness, and an immense gift for speaking to and for the common man and woman.
It is only by an accident of birth that she grew up in a little hick town with less than sterling educational opportunities. If her father had been able to send her to Wellesley and Yale like Hillary Clinton, I tell you that Hillary could not now dare to stand on the same stage with her. I know that she is a quick study who will rise to the occasion, absorbing all she needs to know for a successful Presidency in the first six months on the job.
If you've seen her pre-campaign interview with Maria Bartiromo, you've seen how well she can speak extemporaneously on topics she knows well. If she seemed to stumble a few times over the past six weeks, I think it is because she was over-programmed and over-scripted by the campaign staff, and (at least at first) scared to say anything that would contradict something McCain may have said on the Senate floor six years ago. Silliness like the "maverick" meme or Alaska's proximity to Russia sound like words that were put in her mouth by the Bush/McCain morons. When she speaks her own words in her own voice, it is far more authentic.
I do not presume to know the nature of the Divine, but I cannot help but think that we owe it to the hand of Providence that she was raised up to fight for us at this time of great danger. If McCain wins, as I expect, I believe it will be she who has carried him across the finish line, she who has energized him and roused the masses, she who is to be thanked for rescuing us from the most dangerous Gramscian termite ever to foul our national political stage.
I would follow her banner to the gates of Hell. She is magnificent.