Laura Ingraham - PALIN: The PERFECT Conservative Choice!!

Townhall ^ | August 29, 2008 | Laura Ingraham

[2ndDivisionVet]

Most conservatives did not think that the selection of Palin was truly under consideration, but we have all been pleasantly surprised. Perhaps “surprised” understates our emotions. How about “shocked”, “awed”, “inspired”, and “thrilled”! It simply doesn’t get any better than the 44 year old Palin. If conservatives were caught off guard, you may rest assured that the Democrats were even more blown away – and in spite of last night’s Obama euphoria, they will lose considerable sleep tonight.

Look at this! Palin is all of:

· A Devout Christian

· Pro-Life & Traditional Family Values

· Fiscal Conservative

· Tax-Cutter

· Business Executive Experience

· Energy Expert & Oil Industry Savvy

· Peace Through Strength Philosophy

· Gubernatorial Experience

· Lifetime Member of the NRA

Her great looks, classy image, poise, grit, and speaking skills will establish her as a dynamo on the campaign trail. It just doesn’t get any better than this! I am almost as excited as I was organizing rallies for Reagan during the 1980s.

This was a hard fight for a high stakes appointment, with much blogging, e-mailing, and lobbying behind the scenes. It’s time to unite, heal the wounds, and defeat the humanist-secularist-socialist-enivironmentalwacko-pacifist-extremist-religionists and further the cause of LIFE, LIBERTY, & TRUTH!

[srmorton]

WELL SAID!!!

[Man50D]

Palin compared to Reagan? I'll take Palin - she has a rock solid understanding of why she is a conservative.

There are two flaws in your thinking. People can only for Presidential candidates, not Vice Presidential candidates. VP running mates are so strictly because the latter has agreed to accept most of the former's positions on most issues.

[Eye of Unk]

For awhile I was a believer that thought experience was the required mandate, now I have seen the light, I fully back Sarah even more than I thought after seeing her public personna in the harsh light of heavy duty politics.

I saw Sarah in a role perfectly suited for her and I am saying this also because I am well aware of her because I happen to live in Wasilla Alaska since 1994, good luck Sarah! hoorah!

[EQAndyBuzz]

“That’s true if you exclude the facts he has sponsored bills with flaming socialists Kennedy, Lieberman and Feingold to grant amnesty to illegal aliens, support the fallacy of human induced global warming and restrict free speech not to mention opposing drilling for oil in ANWR as do the socialist Democrats. “

He is pro military, pro-life, pro-marriage and for lower taxes.

He isn’t 100% Conservative, but he is Conservative on several issues and Liberal on others. Doesn’t make him a Socialist.

What I am getting tired of is this “if you are 99% Conservative you are a Socialist” nonsense. If you are going to call someone a Socialist, use the term correctly.

[Man50D]

McCain is very imperfect.

That understatement is about the biggest line of spin one could say about McCain's socialist tendencies.

But he will give us good SCOTUS nominees

I suggest you give that line of reasoning more thought. He will be facing a socialist Democrat controlled Congress, many of which he has voted with on several key issues and still agrees. Expecting him to oppose his socialist bretheren by providing conservative nominees with this scenario is stretching credibility.

[Ramius]

Heh... Sorry about your panties being all bunched-up. Yer boy Obama is losing and I know that’s gotta hurt. But don’t worry... Everything will work out alright. Don’t worry. :-)

[mad_as_he$$]

Ingraham Supreme Court Justice. Only half kidding.

[mad_as_he$$]

Should be 2012. McCain will be a one termer.

[2ndDivisionVet]

If you know the lady, please post a vanity and tell us more about her. Thanks!

[Man50D]

He isn’t 100% Conservative, but he is Conservative on several issues and Liberal on others.

He isn't even close as his history indicates.

John McCain's Whimsical World of Conservatism
Food for thought for the Hillary Clinton Wing of the GOP

1982/00/00 McCain enters Congress, with his family accepts first of nine trips some aboard Keating's leer jet, three of which include stayovers at Keating's Caribbean resort (goes unreported for up to 7 years)
1983/09/28 McCain joins 26 other Republicans to vote with the Majority Party Congressional Democrats to demand U.S. Troops exit Lebanon, winds up on the losing
” 1983/09/28 Cindy McCain and her father invest $359,100 in a Charles Keating strip mall

1988/02/11 McCain votes to affirm Anthony Kennedy as a justice for the SCOTUS
1993/10/10 McCain co-sponsors an unsuccessful bill to cut off funding of United States troops in Somalia
1993/08/10 McCain joins the Democrats and most Republicans voting to confirm Ruth Bader Ginsberg, the worst justice on the court today. Three Republicans vote Nay.
1993/01/13 McCain and Kerry release the Select Committee report urging the MIA issue be put to rest so that Vietnam could be granted normalized relations with the U.S., over objections by MIA family and veterans groups. Video1 Video2 ( I do not endorse all of the information presented in video1 here. The video does touch on a number of topics, and I think most are germane ) If I could have found video that contained most of this information without touching on McCain's POW experience I would have posted it instead. Still, there are parts of McCain's POW experience that are troubling. I'd just rather not go there. Video2 shows how one MIA family rep is treated, confirming some of the reports in Video1.
1994/07/24 McCain joins with the Democrats to confirm nominee Stephen Breyer to be an Associate Justice on the SCOTUS. Nine Senators voted Nay...
1997/00/00 McCain leads the opposition to the Coats Amendment, preventing government funded fetal tissue research ( derived from "a legal act" [abortion] ) Amendment defeated!
1999/08/19 McCain stated, ""Certainly in the short term, or even the long term, I would not support repeal of Roe vs. Wade,"
John McCain: George Soros' Useful Idiot? McCain joins Democrat Russ Feingold to introduce Campaign Finance Reform, an effort funded by George Soros Article
2000/00/00 McCain was the keynote speaker at the ultra-liberal Philadelphia convention sponsored by George Soros while John F. Kerry keynoted at another Soros event on the same day...
2000/11/20 McCain participates in the production of a gun control spot for Oregon's Proposition Five. (Circa this date, prior to the November election.) Article
2001/00/00 McCain founded the Reform Institute funded by George Soros
2001/05/15 McCain introduces the Gun Show Loophole bill S890, with Carper, Lieberman, DeWine, Clinton, and Schumer co/sponsoring Analysis
2003/03/19 McCain joins Democrats to vote against drilling in ANWR
2003/10/30 McCain joins Lieberman again, this time to introduce the Climate Stewardship Act (Gorebal worming et al) Thomas Bill S139
2004/06/04 McCain signs letter with 58 Senators, "We write to urge you to expand the current federal policy concerning embryonic stem cell research."
2004/08/05 McCain announces he deplores the Swift Boat adds against Senator John Kerry, and asks the White House to refute them
2005/00/00 McCain resigns from the Reform Institute he founded with Communist billionaire George Soros
2005/01/28 McCain declares, "I want us in the ICC (International Criminal Court)", but I would like to see more safeguards first.
2005/05/12 McCain joins Ted Kennedy to introduce McCain/Kennedy immigration legislation that would wind up making illegal immigrants citizens.
2006/04/28 McCain states, "I would rather have a clean government than one where quote First Amendment rights are being respected that has become corrupt."
2006/09/06 McCain joins Dole to write op-ed for the Washington Post, states in part, "We should publicly remind Khartoum that the International Criminal Court has jurisdiction to prosecute war crimes..."
2007/02/17 McCain states he will close Guantanamo Bay terrorist detainment center on his first day in office video (same as date link on the left)
2007/03/22 McCain gets the pledged support of Chuck and Sue Cobb, Jeb Bush's Florida Director of the Free Trade of the Americas Agreement effort
2007/06/00 McCain joins Baldwin, Shays and Meehan to file an amicus brief against the Wisconsin Right to Life organization brief The wrong side of a pro-life issue, helping pro-abort Feingold
2007/06/18 McCains Gitmo problem, close the base, grant Geneva Convention status, stop water boarding...
2007/10/25 McCain still wants us to sign the L.O.S.T. treaty in time, but does have concerns over sovereignty issues.
2008/03/00 McCain makes his first attempt to tell a state (North Carolina) Republican Party what to do. The RNC joins him.
2008/03/24 McCain hires Meg Whiteman to cochair his Presidential campaign. Whiteman is another wishy washy at best Independent, who has donated to leftist candidates and still doesn't have a clue what side to come down on with regard to illegal immigration. She is leaning toward running for Governor in California and being courted by it's Republican leadership. Links to CalCowGirl's comments regarding Whiteman's donations. Article above.
2008/03/26 McCains speech to the World Affairs Council, Europe may get veto power over some of our foreign policy...
2008/04/08 McCain casts last Senate vote during his Presidential Campaign. By the EOBD 06/24/08, he has missed 367 votes or 61.4% of the Senate votes in the 110th Congress. His last vote before the one he cast on April 8 was cast on 03/14/08. Link
2008/05/09 McCains interview with O'Reilly... I won't drill in ANWR... it's pretty... I'm an environmentalist.

2008/05/12 McCain Joins the Goreball Worming Cult, sounding more like Al Gore every day... McCain's Oregon add Video
2008/05/13 2008/05/13 McCain takes an Environmental walk, with the leader of the Cascade Land Conservancy
2008/05/15 2008/05/15 McCain states he will appoint Democrats to his administration, during a Republican teleconference and during a Columbus stump speech
2008/05/27 McCain announces support for severe cutbacks on our nuclear weapons, withdrawing battlefield nukes from Europe and giving our nuclear waste to an international body
2008/06/04 McCain states, "I disagreed strongly with the Bush administration's mismanagement of the war in Iraq."
2008/06/14 McCain tells Clinton supporters they should back him because he voted for Ginsberg and Breyer Said this to Conservatives on 2008/05/07
2008/06/21 It is announced McCain and Obama will address open borders group in Los Angeles on July 18th, 2008, Communists and worst of U.S. Illegal Alien apologist groups...

2008/06/21 McCain and team realize he has so little credibility on judicial appointments, that they announce he will let Fred Thompson vet his judges. That's 06/21/08's version of truth...
2008/06/28 McCain declares, "I will make comprehensive immigration reform my “top priority,” during my first 100 days in office. He assures Latino leaders that they will have an ally in the White House.

What I am getting tired of is this “if you are 99% Conservative you are a Socialist” nonsense.

By all means let's keep incrementally changing conservatism to the point where it includes everyone including the Hillary supporters who are actively supporting McCain.

[Man50D]

What I am getting tired of is this “if you are 99% Conservative you are a Socialist” nonsense.

Another poor ploy to deflect from McCain's destructive appeasement of the socialist left over the years. As I have been stating in various ways throughout this thread that you either refuse to or can't grasp, I hope both he and his fellow socialist Obama go down in flames.

[Humble Servant]

So are you voting Obama, voting for someone else who has no chance of winning anything, or staying home? What I’m asking is, WHAT ARE YOU DOING TO MAKE THIS A MORE CONSERVATIVE COUNTRY? Because holding your breath till you turn blue doesn’t work for your kids (unless you’re a very bad parent), and it won’t work here.

GROW UP!!!!!

[EQAndyBuzz]

“1988/02/11 McCain votes to affirm Anthony Kennedy as a justice for the SCOTUS”

Who nominated the LIBERAL Kennedy for SCOTUS? You don’t have to answer.

McCain is the reason why Senator’s shouldn’t be Presidents. Their job is to create laws. Some are good. Many are bad. While McCain isn’t an ideologue,( neither was Romney, nor Huckabee, nor Thompson) he does have some values that Conservatives support. If he was in every way Conservative except for being pro-gay marriage, someone here would be calling him a Socialist.

[Texas Songwriter]

Thank you Laura. Laura is not threatened by Mrs.Palin. Both of these women are made of substance while the dems are made of ether. Laura is grateful for McCain thinking enough of this country to go for substance, who happens to be easy on the eye. Should that be a disqualifier in the eyes of anyone but the dems?

[Sun]

Yes, she’s the next Reagan we’ve been looking for, but the female version. :)

[Man50D]

WHAT ARE YOU DOING TO MAKE THIS A MORE CONSERVATIVE COUNTRY?

That is the very question you should be asking McCain!

Because holding your breath till you turn blue doesn’t work for your kids (unless you’re a very bad parent), and it won’t work here.

GROW UP!!!!!

Won't work here? Where do you think you are? I'll let you in on a little secret. This is a conservative website, not a GOP website. Incrementally succumbing to socialism and responding to Conservatives with insults isn't exactly a sign of maturity.

[Man50D]

Their job is to create laws. Some are good. Many are bad. While McCain isn’t an ideologue,( neither was Romney, nor Huckabee, nor Thompson) he does have some values that Conservatives support. If he was in every way Conservative except for being pro-gay marriage, someone here would be calling him a Socialist.

A quote from Ronald Reagan addressing a CPAC convention in 1975:

"A political party cannot be all things to all people. It must represent certain fundamental beliefs which must not be compromised to political expediency or simply to swell its numbers."

That is precisely what the GOP leaders, including McCain, have been doing for decades and the GOP grassroots have been following them like lemmings to the sea.

[Humble Servant]

You haven’t responded to my question: What are you doing to make it better? All you’re doing is pouting. It’s self-indulgent and destructive. Answer the question.

[Ramius]

I’m not sure why you quoted somebody elses’ comment to reply to me... But whatever...

So, you hope that both McCain and Obama go down in flames in this election... Do you know how elections work?

[jveritas]

This was a hard fight for a high stakes appointment, with much blogging, e-mailing, and lobbying behind the scenes

As I predicted a while ago the talk show hosts on our side would try to make them relevant by telling us that they forced McCain to pick a conservative running mate when McCain has always wanted to pick a conservative running mate like Palin. These talk show hosts are super legend in their own minds and the minds of their choir. Really pathetic.