WOW: The Palin Effect.
From Jim Carson, genius:
And the money rolls rolls rolls in. On the order of $7 MILLION.
Also, if anyone hasn’t already seen this: VPILF.
Is it just me or have the political (and even non-political) blogs in general completely exploded over this? The Corner is going nuts, as is every other site I regularly check.
Good lord. The entire Republican base seems to have a major figurative or literal boner. I’m sorry, that’s crude. The truth hurts.
More on the “first dude.” And how he and their son aren’t even Republicans. Oh God. Just oh God. This woman is freaking everyone OUT. Which makes me love her even more than I did before.
Saucy minx.
Another one from Jim Carson:
The “truth” hurts only if you can’t handle the truth.
August 30th, 2008 at 7:58 pmLOVE the “secret sauce” demotivator. Genius.
And you have to hand it to McCain. Shrewd…very shrewd. Anyone else getting the vibe that maybe SHE should be President and McCain running as VP? Or is that just wishful thinking?
Sara Palin may just be the shot in the arm we, and the Republican party in general, has sorely needed.
August 30th, 2008 at 8:03 pmShe is the new crack cocaine of conservatives. Her son enlisted 9/11/07 and is deploying to Iraq on 9/11/08.
August 30th, 2008 at 8:11 pmGo here for the pics that will melt your cold, cold heart!
Secret sauce? As long as it isn’t in the 57-flavor variety….
August 30th, 2008 at 8:16 pmMichelle Malkin’s first post on Sarah Palin from yesterday now has over a THOUSAND comments. That’s just crazy. What’s even crazier is that I’ve read most of them.
August 30th, 2008 at 9:09 pmHey, there’s good reason. She’s the first time we’ve had a female conservative whose looks were as good as her politics.
August 30th, 2008 at 9:10 pmYou know what is driving me out of my freaking mind?? The people who have concerns about Palin being a mom. I keep hearing “Who is going to care for the children while she’s working?”.
It makes me so angry that these libs who have patted themselves on the back for the work they’ve done on behalf of the womens movement can’t stand the idea of a pro-lfe, successful, working mom in the white house.
August 30th, 2008 at 9:22 pmRachel,
August 30th, 2008 at 9:33 pmI love your blog. Good luck with your schooling.
HT, awesome bit of info there. Many thanks! I will use it henceforth and thank Palin’s detractors for pointing out the legacy she stands so readily to fulfill.
And I LOVE that First Dude and First Son are independents. What a kick in the proverbial asses of those old boy Republican turkeys.
August 30th, 2008 at 9:34 pmI read a lot of center-right blogs - and they are going crazy over the Palin Pick. I also watch some of the PUMA sites - and they are equally enthralled.
The only ones that seem to be disappointed in Palin as VP nominee are on the left - or the right side “insiders”.
I have to admit, in all the years I’ve been following politics (and reading blogs) I have NEVER seen the enthusiasm that I’ve seen over the past couple of days re: Sarah Palin.
August 30th, 2008 at 9:41 pmAmen, Judi! Odd how many of these self-styled feminists and progressives cannot hide their glee when tearing down any woman who has the temerity not to stay on their ideological reservation. Oh, they’re all for “choice”, all right… except when that choice is contrary to their own narrow definitions.
August 30th, 2008 at 9:52 pmContact your doctor if this condition persists more than 36 hours.
I’ve been trying to, er, ’soften’ my enthusiasm for SP by reminding myself of some of her social conservatism which is stronger than mine, past pandering on the Bridge to Nowhere, etc.
But she’s just fundamentally different. Not only is she a Washington outsider, she’s a Republican Party outsider. People told her that you just don’t take on Murkowski/Young/Stevens, but she did it anyway.
Her 80% approval rating, base buzz and $7 million bounce are at least as much a product of conservative desperation for real, honest leadership as it is her looks, record and story.
Clean and articulate, indeed.
EDIT: This prodigal treatment is sweet. Someone once said throwing shit fits was rewarding…
August 30th, 2008 at 9:53 pmJudi,
Even more so than the ‘Who will take care of the children??’ comments are the memory lapses. Apparently folks forgot about Caroline Kennedy and JFK Jr. running around in the Oval Office between their ‘inexperienced’ father’s legs. And I guess they forgot about Chelsea Clinton trying to be a normal kid in the White House, as well.
August 30th, 2008 at 9:56 pmLike a screen door in a Texas thunderstorm.
Oh, I’m sorry. You weren’t asking for more crudity? My mistake.
August 30th, 2008 at 10:06 pmHowever, Roosevelt was Assistant Secretary of the Navy and involved in the Spanish-American war before becoming Governor. He was pretty well versed in foreign affairs. so there are counterpoints to that argument.
One thing I think is that if the left keeps pounding away on her inexperience because McCain is old and might keel over at any moment, a lot of older voters are going to start becoming rather impatient with the Democrat campaign. FWIW, I believe John Glenn was about the same age McCain is now when he last went into space.
I also think that, given the necessary reduction in coverage of the Convention due to events unfolding in the Gulf, the hype generated by the announcement of Palin as running mate is very helpful. What I really hope of course is that Gustav turns out to be less than expected and the Convention more than anticipated.
August 30th, 2008 at 10:13 pmI’m relieved, Mr. Senator McCain. I won’t be holding my nose when I vote in November…
Rachel, its great to not see those skanky move-on ads on your page! It was wierd the last 12-18 hours when visiting here and seeing the commies’ ads plastered up top.
August 30th, 2008 at 10:16 pmI think you’ll see McCain/Palin’s numbers steadily grow relative to Obama/Biden’s - both as to popularity and campaign contributions.
McCain’s pick of Palin for VP has really energized the base:
As you note, $7 million has poured in to the McCain campaign since he picked Palin.
Has money poured into the Obama campaign because of the Biden pick? Not so much.
Conservative/libertarians are greatly gratified by the choice of Palin for VP. And, heck, if she’s going to be in the news cycle a lot once she’s VP, it can’t hurt that she’s smart, conservative, and smokin’…
Mmmm - McCain likey - funny
Biden in the news cycle? Ewww.
Also - Palin has consistently maintained an approval rating of 80-90% (!) as Governor.
At times her approval rating topped 90%. This is unheard-of among Governors - or any politicians.
Governor Palin’s approval rating at 80-90%
The Dems don’t realize what they’ve been hit with yet.
August 30th, 2008 at 10:21 pmI am completely psyched! I smell a winner! I love to listen to all the “progressives” whine about SP caring for her daughter. Their hypocrisy knows no bounds.
August 30th, 2008 at 10:24 pmThis is a working mother who bucked the Establishment. She should be a hero to the left. But since she is a conservative, she must be demonized. Shame on all these so called “feminists”.
My wife and I have decided to donate to the McCain/Palin Campaign.
I took a straw poll on Friday amongst my students and found that they prefer Obama to McCain by a 5:1 margin. Fair enough. Santa Fe is very liberal, and kids usually reflect the political beliefs of their parents.
I am strictly non-partisan when I instruct in the classroom. I offered my students a methodology. We identified ten virtues that we agreed were important in a leader: charisma, wisdom, experience, empathy, veracity, fidelity, gravitas, eloquence, perseverence, and magnaminity. I then instructed them to prioritize the list and rank each virtue one through ten. Next I made two columns on the blackboard, one for each candidate, and we listed the virtues for each. I then told the kids to assign their numerical rubric to the list and add the numbers.
The results for the exercise were the same across all five of my classes. McCain scored a 5:3 advantage where the margin between the two candidates was more than 3 points. “Mr. Paules, you tricked us!” No, not at all. I merely offered an analytical exercise to rationally assess the fitness of the candidates for office.
I only wish that I could teach actual voters the same technique. At this evening’s Lions Club social all I heard were talking points from the left. The U.S. desperately needs school reform. By this I mean that our public school system must be dismantled and privitized. Liberalism is a religion, and like religion it is necessary to indoctrinate from an early age. The NEA is a greater threat to this nation than foreign terrorism. It’s time we did something about it.
August 30th, 2008 at 10:35 pmHi!
August 30th, 2008 at 10:36 pmMom is in Sacramento California tonight and she says to tell M. Carson flippin’ A on the comment about the money he said and that thanks for that! She says she can read it but not write anything because of connections when she tries to comment anything.
Awesome with the champ snowmobiler, I like to do that to! my dad reads about Mr. Palin in his magazine; and it is snowgoer if you do not read it you should.
Anyway, I am prettty sure I like Ms. Palin, I am a Catholic with my family and it means alot to me thnt she likes and wants to have her son Trig. That is what God initended to us to do.
Also, thank you Rachel for talking about Ms. Palin. Mom showed me her information and I like her from what I have reaad, she hunts and fishes, and she cares about the things I care about for family issue and she seems like she would really care about America, and that’s good for me.
Good night.
edit, Mom talked me through the edit for my typos, and I hope I didn’t miss anything imoprtant. Also, she says that her language is words, and not midnset, and I should not internalise it. It’s just what she writes, not how she talks, and that is right. Mom is weird, but she soes not say to many bad words, to often. Don’t read this, Mom.
Good night. I like the edit, I can read my comments and fix it to!
Okay, I am sorry if I did something wrong for the moderation thing and I will call mom. I didn’t mean to. I am sorry for that.
Okay, good night again.
She’s the genuine article:
Sarah Palin and one of her daughters with the salmon they caught in Wasilla, Alaska
Gov. Sarah Palin with one of her daughters posing with the caribou she shot in Alaska
Gov. Sarah Palin tests out the Engagement Skills Trainer at the training village in Camp Beuhring, Kuwait, on July 24, 2007
See
August 30th, 2008 at 10:51 pmhere for more.
McCain/Palin…ROCKS,ROCKS,ROCKS. Barack/Michelle are so yesterday. Booounce,..SPLAT. IN the words of Fleetwood Mac, don’t stop thinking about tomorrow, it’ll soon be here, yesterday’s gone, yesterday’s gone.
August 30th, 2008 at 10:56 pmWhen do we get the photos of Obama and Biden riding in a tank with their helmets on?
Obama and Biden make even Kerry and Dukakis look tough.
Democrat girly man #1: Dukakis
Democrat girly man #2: Kerry
Democrat girly men #3 & #4: Obama and Biden
Sarah Palin has more cahones than Dukakis, Kerry, Obama and Biden combined
August 30th, 2008 at 11:08 pm“Bromances” are SO last week. My husband has indulged my enthusiastic girl-crush on Sarah Palin through this creative outlet:
http://brewdog.spreadshirt.com/us/US/Shop/
August 30th, 2008 at 11:08 pm
August 30th, 2008 at 11:09 pmSarah Palin has even got that corpulent mancow Oliver Willis secreting gallons of flop sweat…you know he secretly loves him some Sarah, but won’t admit it.
August 30th, 2008 at 11:13 pmRe: ElvenPhoenix
I’d also add that the ‘wonky’ right-wing sites are also being very cautious about the pick, but then they’ve spent months picking holes in the minutiae of McCain’s body language.
Fact is that most of the hyperpartisan commentators aren’t looking for, and aren’t really seeing the energizing of the ‘Joe/Jane six-pack’ demographic, and if it manages to encourage just a few percent of people who wouldn’t vote normally thru’ apathy, into getting up off their heinies and pulling the lever, there could be a landslide.
What you’re also not seeing much of (I wonder why) is recognition that she took down the Murkowski administration, and is now chowing down on Stevens and Young’s excesses. This redhot momma is cleaning up Washington already.
We’re seeing all sorts of comparisons to Reagan, but this woman seems more like Harry Callaghan.
I haven’t seen her handle a .357 Magnum yet, but her appointment’s certainly made this punk’s day.
August 30th, 2008 at 11:30 pm“One thing I think is that if the left keeps pounding away on her inexperience because McCain is old and might keel over at any moment, a lot of older voters are going to start becoming rather impatient with the Democrat campaign”
And how much experience does Comrades Obama and Biden have in running anything except their mouths? Zero.
August 31st, 2008 at 12:00 amThe great thing about her is that she seems to be very INTOLERANT of corrupt political practices–something that probably makes the good old boys (and they aren’t all boys–look at Red Nan Pelosi) very uncomfortable. There are a lot of things I don’t like about John McCane—but I don’t question his honesty. But when it comes to Obama and Biden, I get the feeling that I’m looking at two junkies who are applying for the job of night watchman at the local drugstore.
August 31st, 2008 at 12:05 amRachel, I have never been so giddy about politics in my life (Reagan was before my time). It’s a strange feeling! I’m used to attacking and mocking liberals, and then getting exasperated by republicans. but Palin is the real deal. i haven’t been able to get any work done in two days. the thing is, no matter how much CNN and co talk about her inexperience (which they always mention about Obama, natch), she seriously has accomplished a HUGE amount. she’s no hillary, marrying her way into the scene. she’s no barack, using a corrupt machine and seedy allies to propel her to stardom. she came from nowhere, on her own, from PTA mom to bane of an entire state’s corrupt political establishment. Here is a great profile of all that from a year ago, before the latest baby. As for that baby and what it demonstrates about her, wow, just wow. And insofar as their bitter obsession with her motherhood is currently demonstrating how completely hollow the MSM’s so-called feminism is and always has been, not too shabby, either!
August 31st, 2008 at 12:08 amThe dumocrats are really desperate. Now they’re saying that Palin faked her pregnancy, and the Down’s Syndrome baby was really Palin’s daughter’s child! How low can you sink? Pleased me to no end to see Zogby polling McCain ahead of Obambi by 2 points!
August 31st, 2008 at 12:12 amI thought that the whole feminist line was that “you can have it all”. Wife, mother, career woman, whatever. And now the feminazis are down on Palin for having it all. Did I miss something? This is a woman who is the very exemplar of what the feminists have said they want.
August 31st, 2008 at 12:16 amThe lefties really are melting down over her:)
Alan Colmes asks whether or not she had adequate pre natal care?
It’s bad enough they want to run with the smear that she faked the pregnancy for her daughter. If that just smeared Gov. Palin - its slimy but thats unfortunately politics. However the one it most smears is the teen daughter.
Bill
And if she supported abortion she’d be hailed as the second coming. Since she doesn’t support abortion, she’s beneath contempt.
Stay Classy Libs.
August 31st, 2008 at 12:25 amOK, Rachel, time for a total geek moment. Where’s the Sarah Palin/Laura Roswell Battlestar Galactica ‘motivational’ poster? Maybe something with the phrase: “Sending in the Best, when You Really Need Some A** Kicked”
August 31st, 2008 at 12:35 amJoe” Frenchie ” Biden’s senate seat is in play in this cycle. His competition is CHRISTINE O’DONNELL. He’s actually running 2 races at the same time. His opposition’s bio has some interesting coincidences with PALIN. Hopefully FREDPAC will take a look . I think it would be TRULY SPECIAL if he lost both races on the same day. Just my hope, for a little change.
August 31st, 2008 at 1:05 amTo “Politico” reporter Fred Barbash.
Mr. Barbash may be contacted here:
http://www.politico.com/staffmembersFredBarbash.html
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Mr. Barbash:
This is regarding your article which argues that Governor Palin lacks sufficient experience to serve as Vice President. Here’s the link to your article:
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0808/13001.html
I would respectfully point out the following:
Barack Obama has zero executive experience. Joe Biden has zero executive experience.
John McCain has military command experience. Sarah Palin has executive experience as Governor of the largest state in the Union - and as Mayor of the fastest-growing town in Alaska.
Governor Palin is also the Commander-in-Chief of the Alaska National Guard. Again, Alaska is the largest State in the nation - and it has two international borders. See, e.g., here:
http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=19920810&slug=1506742
I don’t view your “foreign policy experience” argument as serious. What was the “foreign policy experience” of Ronald Reagan or Margaret Thatcher? Since you undoubtedly don’t like Reagan or Thatcher - what was the “foreign policy experience” of Bill Clinton or Tony Blair?
What was the “foreign policy experience” of Obama’s almost-VP-pick, Governor Kaine of Virginia? Did Governor Kaine’s lack of “foreign policy experience” concern you? If not, perhaps you’re not really concerned with experience at all. If you were, you’d also be discussing Obama’s lack of experience.
Leadership skills are most clearly seen in people who have actually led: like McCain and Palin. The person with the best leadership skills would be best for foreign policy decision-making. I’d rather have someone with clear leadership skills as an American chief executive (like Governor Palin) - or military command experience (like McCain) - not someone who sat on some foreign affairs committee in Congress (like Biden).
Of course, it’s unclear what “foreign policy experience” Obama has. He’s sat on a committee during his partial term as a U.S. Senator? That’s not decision-making under pressure - that’s not “foreign policy experience” to be President. That’s sitting in a room and listening. I can listen to speeches by others on foreign policy issues - and I have - does that give me “foreign policy experience” to be President?
To the extent that Obama arguably had any executive position - with the Annenberg Challenge - it resulted in the loss of $110 Million in grant money. This experience also involved Obama’s long-term association with domestic terrorist Bill Ayers.
On personnel decisions, Obama has not fared well either. He oddly chose admitted serial plagiarizer Joe Biden as his running mate.
When Obama’s “experience” is examined it’s all negative.
Also - Palin’s approval ratings in Alaska have consistently been over 80%. She’s a leader. So is McCain. On the other hand, Obama and Biden are legislators - they’ve never held an executive or command position in their lives.
On experience McCain and Palin win.
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August 31st, 2008 at 1:25 am“Scholars question Palin credentials”
By FRED BARBASH & DAVID MARK | 8/30/08
POLITICO
http://www.politico.com/reporters/FredBarbash.html
http://www.politico.com/reporters/DavidMark.html
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0808/13001.html
(My e-mail to Mr. Barbash is copied above).
August 31st, 2008 at 1:31 amWhat the wonky types don’t get is that Palin inspires a gut feeling with most decent people. It’s not always just about the intellect. Besides I don’t trust Pat Buchanan’s intellect anyways.
August 31st, 2008 at 1:50 amOne other point: The leftists always say that they aren’t simply pro-abortion, but are “pro-choice”. However, when Mrs. Palin exercised her “choice” and CHOSE to keep her child rather than have it killed, she is damned by the leftists. So, do they advocate “choice” - or mandatory abortion? If it’s a mandatory thing, there doesn’t seem to be very much “choice” involved.
August 31st, 2008 at 1:55 amChristine O’Donnell for U.S. Senate, Delaware:
http://www.christineodonnell08.com/
Plagiarize something about that, Joe.
August 31st, 2008 at 1:56 amI just contriubed $25 to the McCain/Palin ticket here:
http://www.johnmccain.com/
I view it as a smart down-payment on the Sarah Palin for President 2012 campaign.
Go Sarah “Barracuda” Palin!
August 31st, 2008 at 2:10 amhey guys, if you’re on facebook, please join my new pro-Palin group! It’s a response to the Palin is no Hillary Clinton groups, and the response is basically “well, yeah! and thank god!” And then there are some examples of how Palin is no Hillary Clinton, like:
When Sarah Palin shoots a caribou, she doesn’t make it look like a suicide.
Come on, you know you love it!
August 31st, 2008 at 3:19 amAdian
August 31st, 2008 at 6:19 amI got my Face on
Check, check, check, and check.
August 31st, 2008 at 6:49 amNot only that, but the left side of the blogosphere is in full meltdown mode. I give you the following quote from DU (sorry, I’m too lazy to link it):
To be fair, there are a few DUers who get it, and are having an “oh, shit” moment.
August 31st, 2008 at 7:30 amHeh, love the poster.
You have to wonder, what does McCain think of all this?
I mean, people are making bumper stickers with “Palin” in 32pt font and “McCain” in 4pt, this motivational poster, the fact that he’s suddenly receiving money from conservatives and all the rest.
Poor McCain, his natural constituency has left him (the media) and he needed a strong running mate for his supposed constituency to give him the time of day.
August 31st, 2008 at 8:16 amIt must be rough be Johnny Mac these days.
I’d say the Dems are walking on very dangerous ground with some of these latest disgusting rumors about Palin’s baby. And is Alan Colmes so moronical that he doesn’t understand that Down’s Syndrome is caused by a chromosomal issue and not because of lack of prenatal care? I mean, is he really willing to go there with all the families in America who have Down’s Syndrome children and ask them if they took good enough care of themselves while pregnant? Yeah, that’ll be a winner. It looks as if his website is down on this particular nugget of wisdom. Wonder why? Chalk it up to another so called “progressive” beclowning himself royally.
And then we get to the utterly disgusting rumor about Trig being the daughter’s baby and not Sarah’s… Wow. How quickly the Libs have sunk to the lowest muckraking possible, so blinded by their hate and partisanship that they can’t even see how badly this rumor will blow up in their faces. (Can anybody already hear O’Reilly gearing up the “Talking Points” memo?)
But they have to go after the baby, don’t they? They’ve got nothing else. Every time they hammer on Palin’s inexperience, it only brings attention back to the fact their Boy Wonder has even less. Snicker at the backwoodsiness of Alaska and risk losing the more outdoorsy voters of Michigan and Pennsylvania (bad idea), Minnesota, the Dakotas, Idaho, Colorado, Vermont, Maine, New Hampshire, and upstate New York. Cast aspersions on her small town background and risk pissing off what few gun clinging Christianists they have left. Stupid, stupid, stupid.
So, they must go after the moving picture the Palins paint of a loving family rallying proudly around the disabled child they chose to keep. (Fuck you, women! You’re only allowed to make the “choices” that feminists approve of.) They must sully the beauty of that image by suggesting that the Palin’s are a family of liars, so fundie and small-minded as to hide their dirty-dirty fornicating daughter from the public eye and “fake” Sarah’s pregnancy to save face. I especially like the Democratic Underground troglodytes who are trying to spice things up with the incest angle, as well.
See? All this time we shouldn’t have been “questioning their patriotism”. We should have been questioning their SANITY!
But what can we expect from our oh-so-feminist betters? Afterall, Sarah Palin gores so many of their sacred cows. The pro-abortion at all costs natterers just LOVE to throw the old shibboleths of, “Well, what if you knew there was something wrong with the baby? Would you have it then?” or the just as popular “Well, are you gonna adopt all those unwanted babies?”
Question 1.) Sarah Palin CHECK
Question 2.) John McCain CHECK
And of course we all know that beauty queens are stupid bimbos who have sold their feminist souls to be able to trade solely on their looks… except for Palin who helped run a commercial fishing company with her husband, chaired the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission, became a mayor and then a wildly popular governor, and cleaned up corruption in her own party. Man, what a fuckin’ idiot she must be!
Sarah Palin causes a cognitive dissonance overload in their peasy little heads to the point of explosion. Beautiful feminine woman out there gutting the critter she’s about to feed her family and possibly wear? Ka-boom! Beauty queen with brains? Ker-splat! Actual equal partner to her husband who didn’t climb up the political ladder on the back of a rich or influential man? Grind-grind-thunk. Pro-life Christian walking the walk? Sputter-sputter. Family woman successfully juggling five children and a responsibiity-laden career — without the state stepping in with paid maternity leave and mandated job site day care? But, but, but… she’s a republican! All republican women are like those bun-wearing, “plain” clothed, Stepford wives in that incestual Texas religious cult! How can this be possible?!? Lies, all lies! This cannot be true! (Classic Feminist-bot melt down, including screws-going-loose sound effects and puffs of smoke.)
Poor babies. Look at them slumped there, not unlike Ash in “Alien” — white hydraulic fluid dribbling from their trembling lips, they’re unstrung bionic guts ringing their heads like a wreath. Of course they had to attack the baby and the teenage daughter and the happy marriage and the beautiful picture Sarah Palin’s family paints. They had no choice. They had their orders, afterall.
You must admire the “purity” of their philosophy, “unclouded by conscience, remorse, or delusions of morality.”
Sarah Palin represents everything they despise. She stands in the way of their “rescuing our dying planet” fantasies. Her presence shines an unflattering light, by comparison, on their hero. And worst of all, she boxes them into rhetorical corners where their only out is to dive headfirst into the slime and come out slinging.
Good luck with that.
August 31st, 2008 at 8:29 amShe’s giving ME a boner too (only figuratively, Sha, if you’re reading this *ahem*), and I’m not even allowed to vote yet.
It’s down to some technicality about me being born a Brit who has to spend some time in the US before being considered as a naturalized citizen.
I’m being discriminated against because of my race! Discriminated against, I tell you!
Anyways, I might not be able to vote, but I can still say : Sarah Palin RAWKS!
EDIT: Rickl, I haven’t read all the comments yet, but thanks for posting that. I have those quiet, reflective moments sometimes when I wonder about my own sanity. Then I read a comment from the DU or the Daily Kos, and all of a sudden I have confidence in my brain, again!
August 31st, 2008 at 8:30 amShe’s anti-sex, but she has 5 children. Yeah…right.
August 31st, 2008 at 9:23 amI’ve never contributed to a political campaign and I was wondering if it’s possible to make an anonymous contribution?
August 31st, 2008 at 9:48 amMark, I don’t know how it’s possible to make an anonymous contribution. I’ve viewed a couple of different candidates’ websites, and even if you just buy a five-dollar button from them (as a memorabilia collector might), it’s reported as a campaign contribution.
August 31st, 2008 at 10:27 amOK, so I’m maybe hopelessly unhip and/or have led a pathetically sheltered life, but I just have to ask: what does this MILF/VPILF thing mean? I’m scared to google it for fear of what might turn up as the top hits…
August 31st, 2008 at 10:36 amYou’re right to be fearful, Wolf
It’s VP I’d Like to …. ummm … pick the last word yourself.
Anyway - it seems Obama himself is now throwing all his ‘trusted advisors’ under the bus (again) …Obama vs. his staff … .
Trying to be somewhat objective, I think it’s spot on that Obama’s trusted advisors are just a bunch of wannabe tabloid reporters with no ability to predict how normal people will see their attacks. Stay classy guys, and Barack? Order yourself a fleet of buses. You’re gonna need ‘em.
August 31st, 2008 at 10:42 amThanks Don. I want to make a contribution, but don’t want to end up on mailing lists. I live about three blocks from the Xcel Energy Center (site of the convention), so maybe I can just walk down and toss some money their way.
August 31st, 2008 at 10:45 amWell, I bet she doesn’t enjoy it!
August 31st, 2008 at 11:03 amOn the first Sunday after the first black man to get a major party nomination to the Presidency of the United States, Meet the Press’ opening intro by Brokaw was not about Obama, but Palin.
Take. The. Wind.
August 31st, 2008 at 11:03 am“Good lord. The entire Republican base seems to have a major figurative or literal boner. ”
like thats a BAD thing?
August 31st, 2008 at 11:06 amSarah……I think I have my first lesbionic crush.
August 31st, 2008 at 11:19 amAdd 1 more to the “literal” tally!
Sarah Palin — the miracle cure for Electile Dysfunction.
August 31st, 2008 at 11:21 amIf Rachel can have a girl crush on Sarah, is it OK to have a guy crush on the first hubby?
Check out this article about this year’s Iron Dog race: http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/021808/sta_248201772.shtml
He hits a buried drum at 60 mph, flies 70 feet through the air. After the crash, races the remaining 400 miles with a broken arm to finish fourth. My goodness, that puts Chuck Norris to shame.
August 31st, 2008 at 11:25 ammark: you cannot make an anonymous contribution. You could probably find ways to lie about who you are (although that’s also illegal), but transparency about donations is required by law. For another thing, it is necessary for enforcing donation limits and contributions by ineligible (e.g. foreign) individuals.
August 31st, 2008 at 11:26 amWhile her husband and son aren’t Republicans, the headlines omit that they aren’t Democrats, either. They’re both Undeclared, an option available in Alaska.
August 31st, 2008 at 11:30 am“North to Alaska!
They’re goin’ North, the rush is on!”
Via Volokh.
The GOP base is ecstatic with Palin. If Gustav doesn’t mess up the convention too bad, the convention members may be singing “North to Alaska” in unison when Palin steps up to speak. Already at GOP rallies around the county, when other speakers are at the podium, the crowds yells out “We want Sarah!”
See, e.g., here:
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“There is an electricity going through the social conservative crowd right now; it’s unbelievable,” said James Muffett, head of Michigan’s Citizens for Traditional Values, who had met with McCain in the weeks leading up to his selection of a running mate. “Especially given all the set-ups and head fakes — it’s amazing. A lot of people were sure he was going to show his more moderate colors.”
Muffett said the effect on his conservative comrades in arms has been immediate and visceral.
“My wife and I watched an MSNBC special on her last night,” he said. “My wife knew nothing about this woman. But she was in tears listening to her articulate the views she had.”
Since the pick, Muffett said, he’s gotten “dozens of e-mails and the phones have been ringing off the hook”…
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August 31st, 2008 at 11:41 amwolfwalker:
Mother (or vice president) I’d like to fornicate (with). A more earthy term is usually substituted for fornicate.
August 31st, 2008 at 12:08 pmBlackspot,
August 31st, 2008 at 12:23 pmJust OMG Awesome post!
A few thoughts on Palin’s national security cred.
This is a post 9/11-world, folks.
August 31st, 2008 at 1:09 pmSarah Palin — the miracle cure for Electile Dysfunction.
Like Viagra for electoral ennui.
(In moderation–heh. I used the V-word! No no, the other one…)
August 31st, 2008 at 1:13 pmLike Ted Nugent…with titties.
August 31st, 2008 at 1:18 pmThe above post has been echoed at Blackfive, the premiere milblog: http://www.blackfive.net/main/2008/08/commanding-the.html
She is the business.
August 31st, 2008 at 1:18 pmAh, I see… There may be a touch more nuance than first reported regarding Colmes’ Liberaland post (which has apparently been flushed down the memory hole, but can be found screencapped here: http://wizbangblog.com/content/2008/08/31/you-stay-classy-alan-colmes.php ) Perhaps Dr. Colmes (an experienced OB/GYN, apparently), understands that Down’s Syndrome actually is a genetics based birth defect, afterall. In which case, all he’s accusing Sarah Palin of here is being an irresponsible, careless, more-worried-about-birthing-her-baby-in-the-great-state-of-Alaska-than-about-said-baby’s-health fool who dribbled her way (screaming, sweating, and being coached to “Breathe, breathe!” by her hubby, no doubt), onto a flight from Dallas to Anchorage, and threw her unborn son’s well-being to the winds.
One can only suppose Doc Al would have been a bit more understanding of the circumstances if Sarah were a 15 year old, fresh from an abortion without parental consent, dribbling her way out of a Planned Parenthood clinic, with a prescription in her clenched fist, heading home with her 23 yr. old boyfriend (who was, helpfully, not reported to the authorities for statutory rape), to face recovery alone and in secret. Now there’s the kind of woman being responsible with her own body that Colmes could get behind!
And we must be sure, of course, not to mention that Gov. Palin was in close contact with her own Obstetrician, who advised her she was not in active labor and could therefore travel. Neither shall we mention that Gov. Palin stopped in Seattle, en route to Anchorage, to check with her doctor once again. And definitely DO NOT mention that Palin was so very much “in labor” while in flight that, once arrived in Alaska, her labor had to be INDUCED (all over again?), in order to bring Trig into the world.
Naughty, selfish Sarah… shame, shame, shame. Obviously, this aging beauty queen doesn’t care a whit about her baby, all appearances to the contrary.
Are you listening to all of this yet, ladies?
And as if that is not enough ass-hattery for one man, apparently Colmes’ latest little “Nudge-nudge, wink-wink, snicker,” is to suggest that the Palin’s older son, firstborn Track, may have arrived a little early to have actually been conceived after the Palin’s trip to the Justice of the Peace.
(Ooh! I think he may have tinkled just a little bit with that innuendo. Mmm, it tingles!)
I see… So it’s not enough to go after the baby with Down’s Syndrome. It’s not enough to call the mother irresponsible and uncaring about her unborn baby’s health. Now we have to suggest that the brave son, soon to be on his way to Iraq, might have been the shotgun put to his daddy’s back. (Titter! Isn’t it rich! Republicans having SEX before marriage! Gotcha, you repug bitches! GOTCHA!)
Whoo-ee! Like I said, Cognitive Dissonance at it’s best. Golly, but the democrats must really be worried to be clutching so desperately at these straws. Or maybe they just don’t care if they look like the world’s most puritanical, judgemental, hypocritical assholes.
Either way, I’d call Sarah Palin’s pick as VP a win.
August 31st, 2008 at 1:49 pmI am overjoyed at Sarah Palin for Vice President. At last, I have someone to vote FOR.
I’m even getting a bumper sticker. I wasn’t before, but I am now.
August 31st, 2008 at 1:50 pmGotta admit…I joyfully screamed out loud in my office at work when I read the VP pick. I had read up on her several weeks prior and was impressed. Never in a thousand years would I have dreamed that McCain would have picked her, but I’m so tickled that he did. As my husband said, “She’s a babe!” Yeah, with brains and nerve. Hey, whatever, as long as he’s impressed enough to vote for her too. BTW, I loved Reno’s take on her being Ted Nugent with titties. That’s doggone funny but spot on!
I’m not seriously jazzed about this election and have hope for better days ahead.
August 31st, 2008 at 1:57 pmGot this in the mail today:
Send your contributions payable to RNC Victory 2008
VP8
August 31st, 2008 at 2:14 pmRNC Victory 2008
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Washington DC 20077-7252
I think McCain’s choice was actually brilliant. Cynical, but brilliant.
This way, any Republicans or independents that were attracted by Obama’s “We’re making history here” meme, can participate in history of their own.
Palin has no political coat-tails, mentors, connections. While that might be bad, Hillary had all of those, and look where it got her.
Anyone who attacks her lack of experience has to swallow Obama’s lack of same.
If Biden’s supposed to be Obama’s fount of experience, two words: Dick Cheney.
Al Gore had grown up in DC, around power. Fat lot of good it did him as VP. He could have had a day job.
Her non-name brand education, beauty pageant stuff, mom of 5 is as non-elitist as it can be, and takes the curse of McCain’s zillions of wifely $$.
August 31st, 2008 at 2:21 pmNow I might even vote sober.
August 31st, 2008 at 2:40 pmI must disagree. Sarah Palin represents everything they want, except She did it the hard way. She earned it. The Feministas want it given to them by Government fiat.
Maybe not, but I bet Todd does!
August 31st, 2008 at 3:18 pmAnd as if that is not enough ass-hattery for one man, apparently Colmes’ latest little “Nudge-nudge, wink-wink, snicker,” is to suggest that the Palin’s older son, firstborn Track, may have arrived a little early to have actually been conceived after the Palin’s trip to the Justice of the Peace.
Either Colmes is a total idiot who can’t do simple math, or he’s an intentional sleazy slandering liar. Or both–they’re obviously not mutually exclusive.
Track Palin’s age is reported as 18 as of this month. His parents were married August 29, 1988…they were celebrating their 20th wedding anniversary the day her veep selection was announced, Friday. Even if Track’s currently 18 years and 364 days old or just turned 19 in the last couple of weeks since his age was reported, his parents were married at least three months before he was conceived.
Compare that to someone whose parents were married on February 2nd and whose normal-birth-weight child was born August 4th of that same year, a mere six months later. BTW, that would be Barack Obama I’m talking about. (And no, that’s not Obama’s fault. He had no say in the matter.)
August 31st, 2008 at 3:55 pmSarah makes them cry.
August 31st, 2008 at 4:34 pmLMAO, Rickvid. That’s been my computer “wallpaper” the last couple of weeks.
August 31st, 2008 at 4:35 pmAPOD, baby!
August 31st, 2008 at 4:46 pmBill (Mamba1-0) Says:
“I thought that the whole feminist line was that “you can have it all”. Wife, mother, career woman, whatever. And now the feminazis are down on Palin for having it all. Did I miss something? This is a woman who is the very exemplar of what the feminists have said they want.”
It’s because she’s not a anti-Constitution, pro-abortion, nanny state liberal.
August 31st, 2008 at 5:39 pmI think you guys might like this post, too
August 31st, 2008 at 6:08 pmAnd just a little while ago Biden decides the most important thing to say about her is to talk about her looks.
Just like the first thing Biden would say if it was any man picked as McCain’s VP no doubt.
August 31st, 2008 at 6:15 pm
August 31st, 2008 at 6:59 pmBreakin’ it down for all y’all…
Biden = Old and busted.
August 31st, 2008 at 7:06 pmPalin = New hotness.
For those getting all hot and bothered, thought I’d throw some more gas on the fire:
August 31st, 2008 at 7:09 pmMy mom sent this in an email to me.
edit: She said I had to maybe put in quotes, okay.
August 31st, 2008 at 7:16 pmI can see it so I think it is working now.
@fargus: WOW. Michelle Obama may be “beautiful”, but Sarah Palin is beautiful.
@ZK: Brilliant! I so want that on a bumper sticker.
Please, Photoshop jockeys — can one of you put that together? This image of Palin next to an image of Biden bloviating at some Senate hearing, with the “New Hotness” / “Old and Busted” caption? Please?
August 31st, 2008 at 7:33 pmAs a young nurse, I was dutiful, receptive and obedient. Then I took 10 years off to have children and devote myself to starting them off. When I came back to nursing after that hiatus, even though the pressure increased, the responsibility was enormous, and the physicians were bossily reacting to the loss of their handmaidens/servants, nothing at all phased me. I was all “I survived a marriage and a husband and two kids and you think I’m afraid of YOU?”
I recognize that same thing in Sarah. Until Friday, I didn’t really have someone to vote for who represented me. Now I do.
August 31st, 2008 at 7:51 pmI bet that is some full-bodied cabernet she’s drinking!
August 31st, 2008 at 7:53 pmAPOD, baby!
You bet.
August 31st, 2008 at 8:06 pmfargus, I’m not suggesting that that pic is photoshopped, but if it’s not she’s so hot even I’d do her–and I’m straight!!
August 31st, 2008 at 8:15 pmI saw this on Sundries:
I want one. Now.
August 31st, 2008 at 8:35 pmYou can bet that hot shot with the wine glass and slight boobage is going to be a huge issue with the Leftardists. Now, if it was Helen Thomas, they might like it.
August 31st, 2008 at 8:43 pmEhhh. Michelle Obama is NOT beautiful. She’s thin and well-groomed. That’s it. She’s no different than the homely chicks I used to see at the Neiman Marcus makeup counter.
I’m so stoked. I was talking to my dad, a poli. sci prof. at a Texas college, and we’re in agreement inour pleasure that we had a ticket of reformist non-lawyers, and one of the two candidates is a ‘normal’ person with a normal background. I hope she doesn’t prove to be a bufoon, but you know that’s what the MSM is gonna say about her.
August 31st, 2008 at 8:44 pmHot libertarian chicks with guns: ya gotta love it.
REC, can you put that onto a website and link it so we can get a bigger image of it? I like the imagery. Maybe photoshop a faint Obama face onto the T?
August 31st, 2008 at 8:45 pmMy mom can. I think? She does that at her work sometimes. I’ll ask her for you when she gets back from her trip, okay.
edit: I texeted her and she said sure.
August 31st, 2008 at 8:50 pmAwesome image Sparrow.
I have stealed it.
August 31st, 2008 at 8:57 pmTully - I had that APOD image for a background for a while, but I kept losing work trying to figure out how it came to look like that, and trying to imagine the actual 3D shape of it, to look like that, so I had to replace it. I think I replaced it with the Cat’s Eye Nebula, but it’s been a while.
August 31st, 2008 at 9:44 pmI donated and may again. First time since Reagan. Days later I’m still excited. Hot - irrelevant to me. I like principled, non-hypocritical, values akin to Libertarianism.
This year the choice is clear. If Obama wins it will reflect a true loss of fundamental American values in the population, something that would depress me beyond words.
August 31st, 2008 at 10:26 pmFound this quote on a youtube omage to the future VPILF:
Obama wants to raise taxes and kill babies.
Palin wants to raise babies and kill taxes.
Is it that simple? Umm,,,, Yes, Yes it is.
As a different Palin might say “Intercourse the Nuance” [yes it was graham chapman that said it, but hey]
She resonates with us because she is one of us. No Ivy League degree here.
August 31st, 2008 at 10:30 pmTest message.
August 31st, 2008 at 10:37 pm14 Karat, I hope you’re doing something fun right now, but if you’re instead in a hotel room with a crappy internet connection and you’re jonesing for discourse, try this:
http://youhide.com
The link is to a proxy server which might allow you to comment again. Some ports (kinda like channels) are closed by semi-public networks like hotels, which prohibits submitting comments. By using the proxy server, it might force your comment through the wide-open port 80 (which no one closes.)
Anyway, just go to the site and manually type in ‘rachellucas.com’ after the ‘http://’ Good luck.
August 31st, 2008 at 10:45 pmI really loved the Mc whatis name logo. I started a cafe press deal, if anyone wants the t-shirt or whatever. I’d like the image larger, but it only wants it one size. Any cafe press experts out there? I only joined it so I could make myself a t-shirt
August 31st, 2008 at 10:49 pmhttp://www.cafepress.com/MrBrickhouse
Heres two more things from my mom.
Good night.
edit: this is fun! I am playing WOW and then my mom’s emial pops up and I am learning all about html codes. Cool!
August 31st, 2008 at 10:53 pmPalin interview on CNBC:
http://www.cnbc.com/id/15840232?video=836384597&play=1
August 31st, 2008 at 11:04 pmI see the fake pregnancy conspiracy has made the Drudge Report…
August 31st, 2008 at 11:06 pmWell at my friend’s BBQ last night we got around to talking about the Palin pick and what surprised me was the almost universal reaction from the crowd, they love her. The crowd consisted of 13 adults in attendance and I know from previous discussions with all of them that 2 were committed Obama voters, 2 were Anti-Obama voters, and 9 were non-committed (including myself and three others who had been Hillary supporters). We talked and much to the shagrin of the two dedicated Obamamaniacs, we were ALL planning on voting for McCain now, enthusiastically so, because of Sarah Palin. The woman is out-freakin-standing. She hunts, she fishes, she rides snow-mobiles, and she’s got the whole hot librarian thing going.
Story of my life, I find the perfect woman and she’s already taken. Damn it all, at least I can still vote for her.
August 31st, 2008 at 11:40 pmI am STILL excited!!! =) It’s cracking me up to read all the stupid blog posts by lefties and even the main righties who are worried about the choice. Do they NOT get it? The “regular” folk are completely jazzed about the pick. And it’s the regular folks who win elections. =)
I have a total girl crush on her!!! I want to be Sarah Barracuda when I ‘grows’ up.
August 31st, 2008 at 11:54 pmrachel,
For the love of God, please do not go looking around the interwebs until after the election.
You will be so appalled by the Lefties, that you won’t come back online.
And, I like having you online.
August 31st, 2008 at 11:55 pmTHE BALLAD OF SARAH PALIN
(Sung to the tune of Davy Crockett)
Born in
the northern part of Idaho,
Destined for fame, she just didn’t know.
Learned
to hunt and fish, even in the snow,
Never was one to just go with the
flow
Sarah, Sarah Palin, lady from “The Last Frontier.”
Moved to the
North before she was one,
Landed in the “Land of the Midnight
Sun.”
Beautiful and strong, she likes to have fun,
She always works hard,
but her work is never done.
Sarah, Sarah Palin, lady from “The Last
Frontier.”
With her five kids and a man named Todd,
They carved out a life
eatin’ moose and cod.
Alaska had some waste and a lot of fraud,
So she went to
work and laid down her fishin’ rod.
Sarah, Sarah Palin, lady from “The
Last Frontier.”
http://palinforamerica.com/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nOF4cq6qNc
September 1st, 2008 at 12:11 amWow! I just tipped $250 into McCain’s donation link because this is The. Perfect. Woman.
Totally infatuated with her, and I have a bit of a mancrush on her husband too. Think they’ll mind?
I’m 25 and I feel like an adoring puppydog with this couple
September 1st, 2008 at 2:04 amI can’t believe the lefties and the way they are completely humiliating a teenager by analyzing her belly. Do they think this is endearing to the American people? This is WHY Democrats loose elections!
September 1st, 2008 at 7:21 amAnd then thy argue that Palin isn’t a good mother because she flew from TX to Alaska while her amniotic fluid was leaking. Okay, so the lefties think it would have been Palin’s right to kill the kid in utero but they don’t think it’s her right to choose to have the child with her own doctor at her local doctor. Amazing!
They have shown the world their true colors. Andrew Sullivan is such a dick. I am never reading his blog again. I told him he is like Fred Phelps now. I didn’t agree with Alan Colmes’ opinions but I respected him. Not anymore. I hope Sean Hannity kicks his alien faced ass.
heh, heard this line comparing Biden to Palin
“Sara Palin got more votes for Mayor than Joe Biden did for President.”
Last odd attack I saw was about her earring choice at a speech. The post (at americablog) was titled, “What earrings would you choose for visiting a national disaster?”
September 1st, 2008 at 8:19 amOK, after digging in and doing some research it appears that the miniskirt photo is indeed a P-shop job. The lighting and shadows had me fooled, it’s a pretty good job.
September 1st, 2008 at 8:35 amhttp://www.museumofhoaxes.com/hoax/weblog/permalink/sarah_palin_in_a_miniskirt/
Well, of course the kitchen shot is not Sarah Palin. Neck, arms and shoulders are far too slender. In addtion, most women retain some body fat after pregnancy. Sarah’s face is somewhat fleshy, rather normal for middle-age. The face in the photo simply doesn’t match the body it’s attached to. A woman who puts the effort into slimming down after pregnancy will lose the baby fat from her face as well. I’m surprised anyone took the time to do a technical p-shop analysis. The fake should be obvious to anyone knowledgeable about the aging process.
September 1st, 2008 at 9:32 amPaules
In my case, it was my libido doing the analysis.
September 1st, 2008 at 9:45 amYep, Ronald Reagan is back — this time as a woman!!!! WooHoooo!!!
September 1st, 2008 at 10:40 amJim Carson — awesome! Here’s a supporting response, since addition of the secret sauce really validates the turd sandwich:
Totally sweet.
Oh and as far as those horrible rumors, here’s an alternate explanation, because, you know she wasn’t pregnant at the governor’s meeting in April or anything.
Did anybody mention yet that the baby was a month early?
September 1st, 2008 at 11:06 amUh Oh…I just heard “breaking news” on Fox that Sarah’s 17 yo (unmarried) daughter is pregnant. *sigh* I’m sure the nutters in the left will have a field day. And it won’t make the right so happy either. But they also said she was going to marry the father. Interesting development.
September 1st, 2008 at 11:21 amOh, shit. Damn.
It’s just not right how the liberals did this. Thanks castrocreations for the information (I think).
September 1st, 2008 at 11:33 amI need to stew on this one. I’ve been in Bristol’s shoes, but have avoided being in Sarah’s because my kids are smarter and better raised than me. As a voter, I would hope Sarah’s would be raised the same. As a parent, it makes me want to simultaneously smack her upside the head and give her a hug for support.
Goddammit, all to hell.
I will not get my hopes up.
I will not get my hopes up.
I will not get my hopes up.
Oh heck. Who am I kidding?
September 1st, 2008 at 11:36 amI know 14k…I don’t think it’s a deal breaker but it did make me curse. I still think SP rocks.
September 1st, 2008 at 11:37 amNot a dealbreaker for me, at all castro … but this is going to detract from her legitimacy with the conservative coalition; hopefully McCain can offset that (did I just f**kin SAY that? I plead jet lag …) and she’ll pick up some of the centrist voters who recognize that her kids are just as susceptible to teenage hormones as the next dumb kid.
I have to admit, the timing of the announcement was a stroke of genius. It was going to come out anyway, and making the announcement in order to quell rumors of an even bigger scandal portrays the rumormongers as exactly what they are — hateful scumbags — while elevating Sarah to the level of an honest and supportive parent/person and making Bristol a sympathetic victim of a media gone wild.
While aspersions can, and will, still be cast upon her character (mostly, I believe, by the ultra-conservatives), the libs look like assholes for harassing an innocent, pregnant 17-year-old. Not that they care (and probably even pride themselves on Bristol’s forced outing), but since people who are still on the fence DO care, I foresee a swing of support for the Palin camp because of the stalkeratzi and invasion of privacy of a minor aspects of this situation.
I’m too tired to articulate my point well, but you get the jist of it.
McCain/Palin ‘08
September 1st, 2008 at 11:46 amAll right, hold on a second before everyone panics. A few things come to mind:
1. The pregnancy (or a suspicion thereof) was revealed to the McCain camp during the vetting process. It had to be. The news has come too soon after Palin was nominated to be a surprise.
2. The family is being upfront and honest about it. There’s no attempt to hide the fact or excuse it away.
3. If the MSM attempts to use this, and they will, they’re venturing into the den of a lioness defending her cubs. I guess we’re gonna see how tough Sarah really is.
4. The young father in question has to answer to Todd on this. The boy is shaking in his boots. Likely the young couple will be sequestered until well after the birth.
5. Just got news . . . breaking, the young lady is 5 months pregnant. No surprise. Back to point one. Cool. I think we’re okay.
Yo, Todd, you have leave to punch the first reporter who asks an inappropriate question about your daughter, but please don’t shoot him.
September 1st, 2008 at 12:04 pmThis news is going to hurt a little with the older end of the socially conservative side.
As for me,
September 1st, 2008 at 12:05 pmMILFGMILF.14K:
I beg to differ. Bristol’s decision to engage in premarital sex and to deal with the consequences by keeping the child and marrying the father show that she was raised with her mother’s values.
Teenagers do not always make good decisions when it comes to sex - those raging hormones are very powerful. My eldest is 21, became a mother at 19 and married my grandson’s father. The only reason that she didn’t become pregnant at 17 is that I SAW the energy between them, knew what was either happening or going to happen in short order, and made her get on birth control.
I could not control her decisions regarding whether or not to have sex. All I could do was try to prevent a pregnancy that she was unready for. I was just happy that she waited until 17, since all her friends became “active” MUCH earlier.
The fact that Bristol may have made a “mistake”, shall we say, but chooses to deal with it in a very mature manner, says to me that her parents have raised her right and should be proud of her decisions. And according to what I’ve read it was Bristol’s decision to keep the baby and marry the father.
Kudos to her!
And those scumbags on the left that have been spreading the nastiest of rumors about Sarah and her daughter just got plastered with egg on their face, showing exactly how noxious they are.
September 1st, 2008 at 12:07 pm~Paules - ROFL @ note to Todd. Yes…a father is going to want to defend his daughter. =)
The McCain camp (one of his rep’s on Fox) said that they were aware of the situation and did not feel it was a deal breaker (not exact words of course).
I know several couples who were married very young and one who had their first baby just days after their marriage. So I know that these things happen (and even work out for the best) but we know that it’s going to be a big deal in the news. They’re probably salivating. Which is sad. Being a pregnant teen has to suck … but then being in the public eye. Major suckage.
It doesn’t change my view of SP at all though. She’s tough as nails, kick butt, take no prisoners. And she has a daughter with hormones…shocker!
I’m lucky I wasn’t in her daughter’s position at that age and my mom raised me “right” too. Teens are stubborn creatures.
September 1st, 2008 at 12:11 pmUm, elven, check below. I didn’t say she wasn’t. Please clarify what we are differing on : )
Oops, I see it — forgive me, I have been in airports and convention halls for the last three days … I am missing a couple of sentences there that said something about society and her mother’s values … please see my addition two or three comments later.
And don’t worry about me “judging” I just turned 38 and my daughter is 21. Easy math there!
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September 1st, 2008 at 12:12 pmYa know, I don’t buy for a minute that the so-called “fundamentalists” will now turn away from the Palin family in droves. As Michelle Malkin, I believe it was, presciently pointed out, this is the group who would/should embrace the Palin family even more warmly because this young girl “chose life”.
Contrary to what the Rosie O’Donnells and Andrew Sullivans of this world like to pretend, fundamentalist christians are not the Taliban. They do not go around stoning women for adultry or fornication. Rather, they support women in difficult situations who choose to bring their unplanned for babies into the world. While they may “hate the sin” they’re not as big on “hating the sinner” as some would have you believe.
I think that most of the conservative church leaders in this country will have praise for the Palin family and will be supportive of Bristol’s decision to keep her baby and (eventually) marry its father.
I do look forward, though, to our feminist betters making the case for how, if Sarah had stayed home and raised her children instead of spending her time playing governor (like a good little woman should), that this would never have happened. The gloaters and screamers screeching, “Hypocrite!” and “Abort!” should add a nice touch of the putrid to the mix as well. It might even bring up Obama’s reference to his own daughter’s hypothetical baby being a “burden” as opposed to a blessing. That ought to play well in ther Heartland, too.
As Jesus said, “Let he who is without sin cast the first stone.” It’ll be interesting to see just who, out in the democratic fever swamps, believe they are so very spotless as to pick up this particular rock.
September 1st, 2008 at 12:18 pmI think once the decision was made to go with Palin, they should have let it be known that Bristol was pregnant (I’m not sure how you would go about doing that). There’s no way they could have kept it quiet for a couple of months. It would have removed the doubt that Palin was properly vetted for the position.
September 1st, 2008 at 12:30 pmActually, I will be very interested to see from where more condemnation comes: disapproving ultra-conservatives, or run-of-the-mill vicious lefties delighting in what they think is some sort of hypocrisy.
Myself, I don’t have any great problem with the pregnancy. It’s disappointing because it will be used to cast aspersions on Sarah Palin. But I remember very well (and with some embarrassment) how I was at 16 and 17. Between hormones and being utterly convinced of the depth, permanence and previously-unknown-magnificence of my love, I am not sure how I managed to stay out of trouble.
Really, I think it’s the assbags who try to make something of this that are going to be the ones who come off looking bad.
September 1st, 2008 at 12:36 pmMy contribution. Apologies if someone else has thought of this already.