In Alaska at 3 am its sunrise and combat fishing has already started.
Posted on 09/02/2008 5:07:12 AM PDT by Invisigoth
Sen. John McCain changed the entire dynamic of the presidential campaign with his selection of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin as his vice-presidential running mate. For the first time, there is an excitement about the Republican ticket. And judging by the most telling barometer – how much Democrats hate the choice – he could not have chosen better.
Tactically, Palin is the perfect help for the three constituencies McCain needed to reach out to the most – women, conservatives and rural blue-collar men.
Women. Many supporters of Sen. Hillary Clinton are still very unhappy she didn't wind up on the Democratic ticket, and Palin made a direct appeal to these folks in her speech on Saturday, all but inviting them across the aisle. Her experience of handling the jobs of mayor and governor while raising five children will appeal strongly to them.
While I'm sure that many liberal women will ultimately put their liberalism ahead of their gender wishes come Election Day, any money and votes that McCain and Palin get from this group will come right out of Obama's hide. That makes it doubly painful for him.
Conservatives. McCain had a very hard sell to pull off with his own base, given how frequently he crossed them over the last eight years. He mended that bridge as much as he possibly could have and ensured that both money and turnout on the right will be as plentiful as he could have hoped for. Palin has impeccable credentials on the pro-life issue, having given birth to her son Trig, who has Down Syndrome. And she's an NRA member. She's strong on energy and can effectively take on the radical environmentalist lobby.
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Ohio (which Bush won narrowly) is a blue-collar white men strongold. Who will they support in November?
Palin was a good choice, and has changed the election dramtically. But it’s still McCain, who pushed for amnesty. Hopefully McCain will see the light.
In Alaska at 3 am its sunrise and combat fishing has already started.
Beautiful pic!
“Trying to question her experience only boomerangs back on him twice as hard. However little experience he wants to claim she has, he has even less. However unqualified he claims she is, he’s even more so. The last thing the Obama campaign should want is to have the experience angle highlighted any more than it already has been, when it doesn’t serve him at all given his complete absence of accomplishments”
This is the Rove line, and I completely agree with it. And those dopes on the Left keep taking the bait.
We have tides over 30 feet here in Alaska, second highest in the world.
I race motorcycles. Todd Palin is a snowmobile racing champ. His wife is an outsider Baberaham Lincoln. Why would I vote for Superfly?
I, too, was ecstatic about the choice on Friday, though I tried to contain myself somewhat to see if my wife would think I was just enthralled by a nice looking woman, but she seems to understand that it’s ideology and record that have me most excited.
I also considered the venom-spewing spittle-flecked reaction of the collectivists to be the best indicator of the rightness of this pick.
Politics don’t get dirtier than smearing pregnant girl
John Kass
September 2, 2008
BLOOMINGTON, Minn. — Have American presidential politics become so hateful that a pregnant 17-year-old girl has to have the intimate details of her life exposed to the nation by character assassins?
Ask the left-wing Internet haters, the anonymous propagandists who call themselves bloggers on the Daily Kos.
And ask Bristol Palin, who didn’t deserve it, and was a victim of the rumor-mongers consumed with attacking her mother, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, the Republican running mate of Sen. John McCain, because the mother is a conservative and opposes abortion.
The Internet rumors claimed that Sarah’s baby, Trig, born four months ago with Down syndrome, wasn’t really hers but her daughter’s. They plucked some photos from the Internet, photos out of sequence, to make it appear as though Gov. Palin hadn’t been pregnant, proving once again that on the Internet, the casualties are credibility and civility. Reading it, you could almost hear the saliva dripping from their teeth as they typed anonymously...
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On friday, I was repeatedly seeing the talking point from the left about “this negates all of McCain’s claim of superior experience”,
and I was thinking - do you dumb masses on the left really want to make this election about experience?
It is essential that McCain/Palin carry Ohio. It will be close, and Democrat voter fraud has already been exposed in Ohio.
Can you use bigger fonts?
Go yell at someone else.
Anchorage Alaska boasts the world's second highest tides: varying over 40 feet, low to high tide! Bore tide (one of the three highest in the world, and a weird phenomenon: capillary action on a gigantic scale!) occurs 2 hours 15 minutes after low tide; best viewed between Mileposts 101 and 90 Seward Highway (26 to 37 miles from Anchorage). For details see the website http://hometown.aol.com/akvisinfo/data/general/scak.htm.
"Our beautiful daughter Bristol came to us with news that as parents we knew would make her grow up faster than we had ever planned. We're proud of Bristol's decision to have her baby and even prouder to become grandparents."Bristol and the young man she will marry are going to realize very quickly the difficulties of raising a child, which is why they will have the love and support of our entire family," the parents said.
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"I don't want my daughters punished with a baby."Romans 8:28
God's calling attention to the difference between the candidates.
“Palin was a good choice, and has changed the election dramtically. But it’s still McCain, who pushed for amnesty. Hopefully McCain will see the light”
...we’d all better get used to “shamnesty”. It’s coming either way, no matter who gets in. The point is, in what way will it come? Across the board amnesty? Or a slow, methodical process that pushes some illegals back to Mexico?
It’s too late for McCain to “see the light”. He’s already committed himself.
Every step since then has been a positive. Better ads, better focus, more clarity to the message. Was McKinnon a double agent?
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