[tomymind]

As Palin is married to a union steelworker who has also worked on a salmon fishing boat and is a snowmobile racing champion, and both handle firearms well and hunt regularly, this demographic is there for taking. Of the five husbands of female governors, Alaska's “First Dude” is the only blue-collar one of the bunch. That fact should appeal very strongly to this group.

Ohio (which Bush won narrowly) is a blue-collar white men strongold. Who will they support in November?

[Damifino]

I was ecstatic about this choice on Friday mostly because her family and lifestyle is something I can relate with. Now that I have heard the “attacks” I really can relate. This couldn't be better.

[mefistofelerevised]

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.

[Eye of Unk]

In Alaska at 3 am its sunrise and combat fishing has already started.

[Eye of Unk]

[Senator Goldwater]

“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.

[Eye of Unk]

We have tides over 30 feet here in Alaska, second highest in the world.

[KeyLargo]

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...

Excerpt

Read more here:

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/chi-kass-rnc-0902sep02,0,246215.column

[Eye of Unk]

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.

[fortunate sun]

I believe I have to disagree with this. I think much of McCain's success can be traced back to the resignation of Mark McKinnon, the advisor who refused to campaign against Obama.

Every step since then has been a positive. Better ads, better focus, more clarity to the message. Was McKinnon a double agent?

[wbill]

Pretty hard for Obama to talk about "Change" with Palin on the ticket.

It would be hard to find a pol in really any national-level race more different than her. She's not a political insider, hasn't been in DC for 30 years, has real executive as well as real-life experience, and she's not a g*damn lawyer.

The fact that Dems hate her, and the best that they can come up with is to attack her kids, speaks volumes for the woman. I feel sorry for her husband, though. It will take a very strong man to bite his tongue while a bunch of know-nothing "journalists" go after his wife and kids.