Friday, August 29, 2008
McCain hits a home run
A little over a month ago, I endorsed Bobby Jindal for Vice President. 'Bout the time that I endorsed him, Jindal let it be known that he was more interested in being the Governor of Louisiana than the Vice President of the United States. So, the Jindal for Veep effort never really got off the ground.
In my Jindal for VP post, I provided a list of nine additional individuals whom I said would be fine choices for the 2008 GOP presidential ticket. Included in that list was Alaska Governor Sarah Palin. I didn't really explain why Gov. Palin - or any of my other choices, for that matter - would be a good VP candidate; but now that Gov. Palin has agreed to join the 2008 Republican ticket, I'm more than happy to explain ...
Palin is pro-life. I'm a ten-year subscriber to the Human Life Review, so I guess you pretty much know where I stand on the issue of respecting and protecting life.
Palin is pro-gun. I've written extensively about the fact that the 2nd Amendment protects an individual's right to bear arms, which the Supreme Court recently affirmed, and Gov. Palin shares that same view. She hunts and fishes, and she's a member of the NRA. I'd give anything to see her participate in a skeet-shooting contest with either B. Hussein Obama or Joe Biden. Wait ... I wouldn't want to see that. Obama or Biden, both girly men, would be more likely to shoot themselves than shoot a clay target. Indeed.
Palin knows how important it is for the United States to increase domestic oil production. Palin has long advocated putting drills in the dirt to extract the millions of barrels of oil in Alaska's federally owned lands.
Palin is a latter-day Jack Kemp. On taxes, trade, entitlements, earmarks, etc., Palin knows that the free market, when allowed to work, works. As governor, she's cut taxes, cut spending, and put the fear of God into bureaucrats (the bureaucrats she didn't fire). Compare the current economic health of free-market Alaska to union-dominated Michigan, and you'll know ... you'll just know.
All that said, B. Hussein, and Biden, and Oprah, and the left-wing hacks at MSNBC have to sweating like Michael Moore in a sauna right now, for several reasons:
First, Obama really f***ed up by not even acting like Hillary was on his list of possible Veeps. A lot of Hillary Clinton's female supporters were completely driven by the prospect that the United States might elect its first female Commander in Chief. A lot of 'em would've settled for a female VP, but Obama let 'em down in a big way when he put a boring white guy on his ticket. Don't think for a minute that Hillary's "feminist" supporters aren't thinking about Gov. Palin is a "Yes We Can" way right now.
Second, the Democrats did not see Gov. Sarah Palin coming. Give the McCain campaign credit for not allowing Palin's name to be leaked until about, oh, three hours before she appeared onstage with her running mate. All the Dems - read, the Obama campaign - could do was issue an incredibly inappropriate press release denouncing Palin as the "former mayor of a town of 9,000 with zero foreign policy experience." The last thing the Obama campaign needs to do is amp-up the debate about "experience" in this campaign. He's served four undistinguished years in the U.S. Senate (and he's spent the last two years running for President), and she has a four-year record of tax-cutting, and spending-cutting, and reforming government ... you know, executive experience.
Finally, Sarah Palin is raising a special-needs child, a child with Down syndrome. Barack Obama, as a Illinois state senator, would not support a bill protecting children who survived an abortion ... even after he heard testimony from a nurse who, for 45 minutes, cradled a Down syndrome-afflicted gift-from-God until it died. Obama is going to take a beating on the life issue -- you wait and see.
If we attempt to analogize baseball and politics, Obama hit, at best, a double with his angry speech in Denver last night. (Isn't he supposed to be the post-partisan candidate who'll bring us all together?) When McCain announced that he was picking Sarah Palin today, he hit a grand slam. He energized his base and reached out to disaffected Hillary Clinton supporters in one fell swoop.
Mark my words: When the polls come out on Monday, Obama and McCain will be tied (or McCain will have a one or two-point lead). When the Republicans leave Minnesota next week -- that is, after the voting public has witnessed a truly unified, on-message convention featuring government-reforming Senator John McCain and government-reforming Governor Sarah Palin -- McCain will have at least an eight-point lead over Obama.
# posted by Joltin' Django @ Friday, August 29, 2008 
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This is awesome news. For Democrats.
Do you really think that people don't realize that if McCain croaks -- which is a real possibility -- that some hot MILF that they've never heard of will suddenly be PRESIDENT?
It's like some comedy starring Reese Witherspoon. It's laughable.
If red-staters didn't want a black guy being pres, what makes you think they'll want to see the hot chick being promoted above more qualified male candidates by the creepy, grinning old boss?
I'm honestly beginning to think that McCain is exhausted and doesn't WANT to win this thing. Like Pat Buchanan said, this is possible suicide.
Do you really think that people don't realize that if McCain croaks -- which is a real possibility -- that some hot MILF that they've never heard of will suddenly be PRESIDENT?
It's like some comedy starring Reese Witherspoon. It's laughable.
If red-staters didn't want a black guy being pres, what makes you think they'll want to see the hot chick being promoted above more qualified male candidates by the creepy, grinning old boss?
I'm honestly beginning to think that McCain is exhausted and doesn't WANT to win this thing. Like Pat Buchanan said, this is possible suicide.
# posted by 
: 29 August, 2008 15:43
: 29 August, 2008 15:43
BRILLIANT. Mccain chose Palin and he competely took Obama's speech off the news cycle. Nobody is talking about Obama's BIG SPEECH. Everybody is talking about the Governor of Alaska.
# posted by : 29 August, 2008 15:46
: 29 August, 2008 15:46
It's funny how the fundies are cumming all over themselves because she has a retarded kid.
Republicans love retard babies, because they inevitably grow up to vote Republican.
Republicans love retard babies, because they inevitably grow up to vote Republican.
# posted by : 29 August, 2008 15:53
: 29 August, 2008 15:53
This is pretty amazing. The big story here isn't Palin (though thats pretty crazy in itself), but rather McCain's judgement - making a completely unserious pick for PURELY political purposes. Nothing in this pick is about governing - it's all about the political ramifications. And it will end up biting him in the ass sooner rather than later. Those that supported Romney and Pawlenty are pissed off and Independents will see this for what it is; pure political gaming, not a decision based on who is the best person for the job.
And when Palin and Biden sit down for their debate it will be embarrassing to watch her she will fail so hard.
And when Palin and Biden sit down for their debate it will be embarrassing to watch her she will fail so hard.
# posted by : 29 August, 2008 16:01
: 29 August, 2008 16:01
Anonymous:
I earned an undergraduate degree in political science, and I earned a graduate degree in political history. I've been actively involved in Republican politics for some 15 years.
In all of my years in practical and theoretical politics, you are a top-ten member of the dumbasses I've come across during that time. Saying sh** like this ...
If red-staters didn't want a black guy being pres, what makes you think they'll want to see the hot chick being promoted above more qualified male candidates by the creepy, grinning old boss?
... just exposes you as an individual who can't in any way be taken seriously. There're a lot of black guys who I'd like to seen sitting in the Oval Office -- Ken Blackwell, Michael Steele, J.C. Watts, among others -- so don't bring that you-a-racist crap in here.
I earned an undergraduate degree in political science, and I earned a graduate degree in political history. I've been actively involved in Republican politics for some 15 years.
In all of my years in practical and theoretical politics, you are a top-ten member of the dumbasses I've come across during that time. Saying sh** like this ...
If red-staters didn't want a black guy being pres, what makes you think they'll want to see the hot chick being promoted above more qualified male candidates by the creepy, grinning old boss?
... just exposes you as an individual who can't in any way be taken seriously. There're a lot of black guys who I'd like to seen sitting in the Oval Office -- Ken Blackwell, Michael Steele, J.C. Watts, among others -- so don't bring that you-a-racist crap in here.
"It's funny how the fundies are cumming all over themselves because she has a retarded kid.
Republicans love retard babies, because they inevitably grow up to vote Republican."
This guy needs help. Help from a doctor who can give him the anti psychotic drugs he needs.
I was for Romney or John Kasich. But Palin is Romney and Kasich times 2.
Republicans love retard babies, because they inevitably grow up to vote Republican."
This guy needs help. Help from a doctor who can give him the anti psychotic drugs he needs.
I was for Romney or John Kasich. But Palin is Romney and Kasich times 2.
# posted by : 29 August, 2008 16:13
: 29 August, 2008 16:13
She sounds like a really nice lady, but she sounds like New Coke. I don't plan on voting for the McCain ticket, but I at least had hoped that he would have a VP candidate who could explain why she was on the ticket and what she planned to do. I didn't hear anything like that in her speech. It was essentially just a bio speech, and an attempt to peel away Hillary voters by saying "look at me, I'm a woman!"
When I think of people like FDR or Reagan or Clinton or Kennedy, they were successful because they each had strong, substantive, political narratives. It wasn't about changing the process, but about changing policy. Obama has this. We squabble over what we mean by "change," but Obama obviously is talking about some substantive policies.
Sarah Palin doesn't even come close to this. She seems like nice enough of a person, but I have no idea what she wants to do if elected, and why. McCain doesn't really even offer this. He seems to have some generic procedural changes in government, like eliminating earmarks. That really isn't something to get excited about.
When I think of people like FDR or Reagan or Clinton or Kennedy, they were successful because they each had strong, substantive, political narratives. It wasn't about changing the process, but about changing policy. Obama has this. We squabble over what we mean by "change," but Obama obviously is talking about some substantive policies.
Sarah Palin doesn't even come close to this. She seems like nice enough of a person, but I have no idea what she wants to do if elected, and why. McCain doesn't really even offer this. He seems to have some generic procedural changes in government, like eliminating earmarks. That really isn't something to get excited about.
# posted by : 29 August, 2008 16:25
: 29 August, 2008 16:25
"Obama's TV audience, reaching nearly a fourth of all U.S. households, was by far the largest of the four-day Democratic National Convention, surpassing the addresses by his running mate, U.S. Sen. Joe Biden of Delaware, and his onetime rival for the nomination, Sen. Hillary Clinton of New York.
Obama's historic address, by the first African American chosen to lead a major political party in the race for the White House, averaged 38.4 million U.S. viewers across all major networks, Nielsen Media Research reported on Friday."
--Reuters
Obama's historic address, by the first African American chosen to lead a major political party in the race for the White House, averaged 38.4 million U.S. viewers across all major networks, Nielsen Media Research reported on Friday."
--Reuters
# posted by : 29 August, 2008 16:36
: 29 August, 2008 16:36
At this point, I don't know a lot about Palin so I will reserve judgment on her selection. However, Democrats better be careful. If they go after her because of her perceived lack of experience, it could backfire and shine a big light on Obama's lack of experience. Better tread lightly, Democrats.
I am absolutely astounded that anyone under 40 would think this mom is either hot or a chick. I can sort of see Rush saying it, which he did, and maybe Glen Beck, which he also did. Cute, yes, hot no. She is certainly saying what I want to hear, and I think the whole dynamic has changed on the notion that we ought to be able to drill our own oil. And I agree that the choice preempted the Big O's Big Empty Windbag Speech. And I also would love to see Condie Rice or J.C. Watts run, and of course, win. But they have indicated no desire to do so. Perhaps "anon" thinks these people are not authentically black, in which case the question becomes, "who made you the ethnicity police?"
I'm shocked that Django has missed this, what with all those narrow, one-sided hack books he's seen (yes, seen), and all that experience slumming for rednecked, Bible-thumping politicians, and all the while providing such insightful critical sociocultural assessment from his flag-bedecked room at his mommy's house: McCain picked Palin because she is a woman. That's it. McCain knows, as we all know, that he doesn't have a snowball's chance unless he peels off some of the wavering Hillary crowd before November. Everyone knows this. To impose any other narrative structure on the event is utterly fallacious, as is the characterization of Obama's speech as "angry." Who told you to think that one? Hannity? Bill-O?
It is interesting, though, that you've already begun to distinguish between Obama's inexperience, which has been bemoaned ad nauseam on the right, and Palin's inexperience, which is somehow impervious to the same kind of scrutiny, since...well, since she's a Republican. If we've learned anything from the last 8 years (McCain has not), it's that Republicans are beyond reproach, scrutiny, criticism, even that whole pesky checks and balances thing, which , as we've learned, doesn't really apply when God Himself personally appoints his most privileged and least literate son to lead the free world.
The Palin choice is a shameless ploy to sucker those left behind when Hillary dropped out. What pigheaded chauvinists like you and John McCain don't seem to realize is that these swing voters are a hell of a lot smarter than that. Unlike Django, but like everyone else with a pulse, they know it's cheap, shameless, and purely political.
Good luck with that 8-point thing.
It is interesting, though, that you've already begun to distinguish between Obama's inexperience, which has been bemoaned ad nauseam on the right, and Palin's inexperience, which is somehow impervious to the same kind of scrutiny, since...well, since she's a Republican. If we've learned anything from the last 8 years (McCain has not), it's that Republicans are beyond reproach, scrutiny, criticism, even that whole pesky checks and balances thing, which , as we've learned, doesn't really apply when God Himself personally appoints his most privileged and least literate son to lead the free world.
The Palin choice is a shameless ploy to sucker those left behind when Hillary dropped out. What pigheaded chauvinists like you and John McCain don't seem to realize is that these swing voters are a hell of a lot smarter than that. Unlike Django, but like everyone else with a pulse, they know it's cheap, shameless, and purely political.
Good luck with that 8-point thing.
# posted by : 30 August, 2008 03:02
: 30 August, 2008 03:02
One of your co-workers really doesn't like you.
"Yo,
A few days ago, you said that you couldn't fathom why any single person, anywhere, would vote for McCain instead of Barack Obama....
....i wish i could still say that. For the last few months, i have become an avid reader of a certain conservative blogger in Nashville. His page can be found at: http://nighseencreeder.blogspot.com/
If you can stomach this guy's stupidity, he really is good for some laughs. He's a typical racist, sexist, homophobic, red-meat Republican redneck dunce. In other words, a useful idiot for the conservatives to exploit.
But after reading this guy's creepy and unhinged rants for a good while, i now finally understand these people, and why they can vote for an obvious psycho like McCain. You see, they aren't voting for McCain, or against Obama... they're voting for their entire twisted fundamentalist worldview. They see the world as two opposing camps. Real americans vs. Everyone else.
As evidence...
...in one of his recent rants, he recounted this human interest story about a Little League player who is apparently such a good pitcher, that the other parents lobbied to have him removed from the team because none of the other children could match his insane pitching skills. You know, one of those awful "everybody should get a trophy" moments. Does this have anything to do with politics? Not one iota. But this Creeder fellow actually declared something to the effect of "if Barack Obama is elected, you can expect a lot more of this type of thing!"
Isn't that cute? This man-monkey is somehow able to suppress the logical centers of his brain which should be telling him that, hey, the President has better things to worry about than Little League rules. Also, the screamingly obvious fact that Obama -- a talented sportsman and A-student -- would be the last person to want to STIFLE high achieving youngsters. Obama is the fucking epitome of the kid who got ahead in life through being better than his classmates. Fairly obvious to anyone with two brain cells to rub together.
But somehow, Obama is the enemy of kids who play sports. Because Obama is simply "the enemy."
In another hilarious post, the Creeder opined....
"As I watched that jet fighter pass overhead, I had to resist the urge to raise my arms and shout, "U.S.A.! U.S.A.! U.S.A.!"
Reckon what B. Hussein Obama and Nancy Pelosi would say if they they were standing in a parking lot and looked up to see a military aircraft noisily passing overhead? Given what I know about Mr. Obama and Ms. Pelosi, I gar-un-damn-tee that neither of 'em would be tempted to shout, "U.S.A! U.S.A.! U.S.A.!"
See?
This is how these people's brains work. When this Creeder clown votes for McCain in November, he's not voting for a man. He's voting for fighter jets, baseball, steak and potatoes, his old pappy and grandpappy, big trucks, rodeos, John Wayne, cowboys, big boots, Lynyrd Skynyrd, and Larry the Cable Guy.
He could never vote for Obama, because that would be like voting for arugala, vegetarians, expensive coffee, the French, scary minorities, rap music, angry feminists, art house movies, Keith Olbermann, the gay people that bother him, and the smart girls who never date him.
It's sad, but it's the truth.
This guy didn't even like McCain before he became the nominee. He was rooting for Romney. But now that McCain is the anointed tribal leader, he magically becomes the Savior, the Manly Man, the Great Western Cowboy. Ever notice how sports fans will hate a player on the opposing team, but then suddenly love the guy once he's traded to "their" team? Pretty much the same thing. Monkey brains, murky thought, emotional baggage, illogical idiocy.
You and i, we instinctively like Obama because he reminds us of the smart kid in class who has a foreign name and doesn't fit in, but blows all the C-students away on Presentation Day. We like and respect that.
The Nigh Seen Creeder instinctively dislikes Obama because he reminds him of the smart kid in class who has a foreign name and doesn't fit in, but blows all the C-students away on Presentation Day. He hates and fears that, and is also a bit jealous.
So.... sorry for the long and depressing email.
Check that Creeder guy out if you want some laughs, or want to view the twisted depths of redneck "thought" that allows them to vote for fools like Bush and McCain.
Ciao!"
"Yo,
A few days ago, you said that you couldn't fathom why any single person, anywhere, would vote for McCain instead of Barack Obama....
....i wish i could still say that. For the last few months, i have become an avid reader of a certain conservative blogger in Nashville. His page can be found at: http://nighseencreeder.blogspot.com/
If you can stomach this guy's stupidity, he really is good for some laughs. He's a typical racist, sexist, homophobic, red-meat Republican redneck dunce. In other words, a useful idiot for the conservatives to exploit.
But after reading this guy's creepy and unhinged rants for a good while, i now finally understand these people, and why they can vote for an obvious psycho like McCain. You see, they aren't voting for McCain, or against Obama... they're voting for their entire twisted fundamentalist worldview. They see the world as two opposing camps. Real americans vs. Everyone else.
As evidence...
...in one of his recent rants, he recounted this human interest story about a Little League player who is apparently such a good pitcher, that the other parents lobbied to have him removed from the team because none of the other children could match his insane pitching skills. You know, one of those awful "everybody should get a trophy" moments. Does this have anything to do with politics? Not one iota. But this Creeder fellow actually declared something to the effect of "if Barack Obama is elected, you can expect a lot more of this type of thing!"
Isn't that cute? This man-monkey is somehow able to suppress the logical centers of his brain which should be telling him that, hey, the President has better things to worry about than Little League rules. Also, the screamingly obvious fact that Obama -- a talented sportsman and A-student -- would be the last person to want to STIFLE high achieving youngsters. Obama is the fucking epitome of the kid who got ahead in life through being better than his classmates. Fairly obvious to anyone with two brain cells to rub together.
But somehow, Obama is the enemy of kids who play sports. Because Obama is simply "the enemy."
In another hilarious post, the Creeder opined....
"As I watched that jet fighter pass overhead, I had to resist the urge to raise my arms and shout, "U.S.A.! U.S.A.! U.S.A.!"
Reckon what B. Hussein Obama and Nancy Pelosi would say if they they were standing in a parking lot and looked up to see a military aircraft noisily passing overhead? Given what I know about Mr. Obama and Ms. Pelosi, I gar-un-damn-tee that neither of 'em would be tempted to shout, "U.S.A! U.S.A.! U.S.A.!"
See?
This is how these people's brains work. When this Creeder clown votes for McCain in November, he's not voting for a man. He's voting for fighter jets, baseball, steak and potatoes, his old pappy and grandpappy, big trucks, rodeos, John Wayne, cowboys, big boots, Lynyrd Skynyrd, and Larry the Cable Guy.
He could never vote for Obama, because that would be like voting for arugala, vegetarians, expensive coffee, the French, scary minorities, rap music, angry feminists, art house movies, Keith Olbermann, the gay people that bother him, and the smart girls who never date him.
It's sad, but it's the truth.
This guy didn't even like McCain before he became the nominee. He was rooting for Romney. But now that McCain is the anointed tribal leader, he magically becomes the Savior, the Manly Man, the Great Western Cowboy. Ever notice how sports fans will hate a player on the opposing team, but then suddenly love the guy once he's traded to "their" team? Pretty much the same thing. Monkey brains, murky thought, emotional baggage, illogical idiocy.
You and i, we instinctively like Obama because he reminds us of the smart kid in class who has a foreign name and doesn't fit in, but blows all the C-students away on Presentation Day. We like and respect that.
The Nigh Seen Creeder instinctively dislikes Obama because he reminds him of the smart kid in class who has a foreign name and doesn't fit in, but blows all the C-students away on Presentation Day. He hates and fears that, and is also a bit jealous.
So.... sorry for the long and depressing email.
Check that Creeder guy out if you want some laughs, or want to view the twisted depths of redneck "thought" that allows them to vote for fools like Bush and McCain.
Ciao!"
# posted by : 30 August, 2008 05:24
: 30 August, 2008 05:24
Dismissing Palin as a "MILF" and a "hot chick" is pretty hostile. Whether or not she (or Obama) has the experience to run the country is a legitimate concern, but in either case, we have to remember that there will be an entire administration in office, not just that one person, so lack of experience can be made up for with smart delegation.
I will be interested in hearing what Palin has to say as the discussion shapes up. She doesn't have much experience, but she does have more executive experience than anyone on the Democratic ticket. She is very sympathetic as a pro-lifer for having chosen to give birth to a disabled child (i.e., she walks her talk.)
And speaking of walking the talk, a major part of Obama's speech was about glass ceilings and women's rights (and some of us listening were still a little miffed at our felow Dems for choosing the flashy new guy over the much more reasonable and qualified woman) and then McCain turns around and says, "Nice speech and by the way, I've chosen a women as my VP." I'm not saying I'll vote their way, but politically, I'd say that was an ace. They've definitely got my attention.
I will be interested in hearing what Palin has to say as the discussion shapes up. She doesn't have much experience, but she does have more executive experience than anyone on the Democratic ticket. She is very sympathetic as a pro-lifer for having chosen to give birth to a disabled child (i.e., she walks her talk.)
And speaking of walking the talk, a major part of Obama's speech was about glass ceilings and women's rights (and some of us listening were still a little miffed at our felow Dems for choosing the flashy new guy over the much more reasonable and qualified woman) and then McCain turns around and says, "Nice speech and by the way, I've chosen a women as my VP." I'm not saying I'll vote their way, but politically, I'd say that was an ace. They've definitely got my attention.
I like the move ... I thot Barry O had more sense than to sabotage his ticket with that hack Biden; I did NOT think Old John had the cojones (or the wits?) to pick a complete outsider, who has even in her short political career shown consistency (as a conservative, on ALL levels?), clarity (with tax cuts & rebates, not growing gummint, when faced with a budget surplus) and her own level of "cojones" (facing down the state legisthugs when they tried to stop her giving back to the taxpayers, and even vetoing some of their pork).
I'm still not voting for that ticket, but then since I'm not voting for the other one (and I like Creeder live in frickin' Tennessee, which only figures in national results when Gore can't win his "home" state) ... that's pretty irrelevant, anyway.
The combination of gridlock, the limitation of incumbent Senate-thugs running for the two tickets, her attitude in general (a lot less about "running things" than about serving as a states(wo)man, and the chance that she might take over when Old John kicks off in office ... I like it (as long as they can keep McC from starting WWIII during his brief stay in the WH!).
worst-case scenario: whoever wins gets one term and one term only, starting a new tradition of NO DYNASTIES NO WAY ...
meanwhile, she IS "hot" ... tho from my 59 years I've learned to appreciate a wide variety of womankind. ;}
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I'm still not voting for that ticket, but then since I'm not voting for the other one (and I like Creeder live in frickin' Tennessee, which only figures in national results when Gore can't win his "home" state) ... that's pretty irrelevant, anyway.
The combination of gridlock, the limitation of incumbent Senate-thugs running for the two tickets, her attitude in general (a lot less about "running things" than about serving as a states(wo)man, and the chance that she might take over when Old John kicks off in office ... I like it (as long as they can keep McC from starting WWIII during his brief stay in the WH!).
worst-case scenario: whoever wins gets one term and one term only, starting a new tradition of NO DYNASTIES NO WAY ...
meanwhile, she IS "hot" ... tho from my 59 years I've learned to appreciate a wide variety of womankind. ;}
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