Posted on 09/02/2008 9:53:33 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Palin (and McCain) have my vote.
But let’s see how she fairs over the next ten years.
Then we’ll see if it is “alright now, baby baby, it’s alright”.
I watched the Palin speech from Dayton live last week. For the next 24 hours my head was spinning trying to put it in perspective. I lost sleep. The author here nails it as well as anything I’ve read since.
Perhaps 2008 will be the new 1968 in terms of political impact.
C2K (head still spinning)
Excellent article - I really do think that the tide is turning right now before our eyes.
I am female....I consider myself conservative/progressive.....I like what she stands for.....I've been reading about her for a few months and I have to say I am just STUNNED.....STUNNED! at her nomination.....what a brilliant move.....
Prayers being answered.
I got another one of those “We need you back now more than ever, please donate money to the Republican Party” letters in the mail the other day, and like all the others that I have received these last 4 years, I tore it up and threw it in the trash can. I have vowed, no more contributions to the party who lately I do not see as coming anywhere close to reflecting my views of conservatism.
But, these past few days I have begun to see a tiny ray of hope and if McCain (and that is a big “IF”)actually follows through with his promises and they don’t end up being just campaign rhetoric, then my shunning of the Party may come to an end. Bush, too, promised us a lot that he never lived up to. And then there is the Illegal Immigration problem which was not really mentioned in the article. And I think it a problem just as serious as Islamic Terrorism and the Economy, promising doom to our nation if we do not get a handle on it.
Bump to an excellent article full of hope.
In the big picture this is what’s important.
I had also wanted to see Palin on the ticket, but thought that was just a dream. When she was announced, I could hardly believe it! Even my husband was crying! We had decided to vote against Obama, for McCain, mainly because we didn’t like Ron Paul or anybody else. We were disappointed when Hunter and Thompson did so poorly in the primaries. My first response to the news of Sarah’s pick was, “McCain delivered!!” I am so thrilled and everybody that I know who are strong conservative/born-again believers are thrilled beyond words! Energizing the electorate? Nah...electrifying the electorate! In spite of the polls seeming to still give Obama a lead, I think that come November we’ll see something quite different.
Suddenly a song began: a cold murmur, rising and falling. The voice seemed far away and immeasurably dreary, sometimes high in the air and thin, sometimes like a low moan from the ground. Out of the formless stream of sad but horrible sounds, strings of words would now and again shape themselves: grim, hard, cold words, heartless and miserable. The night was railing against the morning of which it was bereaved, and the cold was cursing the warmth for which it hungered.
Frodo was chilled to the marrow. After a while the song became clearer, and with dread in his heart he perceived that it had changed into an incantation:
Cold be hand and heart and bone,
and cold be sleep under stone:
never more to wake on stony bed,
never, till the Sun fails and the Moon is dead.
In the black wind the stars shall die,
and still on gold here let them lie,
till the Dark Lord lifts his hand
over dead sea and withered land.
Sounds pretty much like the left...in particular Ayers and some of Obama's ("God D#mn America!") backers.
Cheers!
Palin-Jindahl in 2012!
This is great stuff! I had no idea he was committed to all this:
- Phase out the Alternative Minimum Tax outright
- Increase the tax exemption for children from $3,500 to $7,000
- Keep the Internet tax free
- Make the Bush tax cuts permanent, with the top individual income tax rate at 35%
- Keep the capital gains at 15%
- Continue phasing out the death tax
- Freeze all federal discretionary spending outside of defense and veterans benefits for one year
- Limit overall federal spending growth to 2.4%
- And my favorite, “veto every pork-laden spending bill and make their authors famous.”
Nobody, but nobody, takes Eleanor Clift seriously.
Nice! I like it....I could also deal with Palin/Santorum. Jihndal is still very young, I love him, but, we need to devolope a new/deeper bench. At least things seem to be looking good for us.
Clift’s pedestrian journalism career consists mostly of reciting Democrat party issued talking points in braindead prose.
Great catch, grey_whiskers. Describes the left perfectly - dead people railing against the living.
bttt
Perhaps there is a more concrete current example of the folly in Obama's approach: the space shuttle. We're shutting down the shuttle and the means to maintain it, even in an emergency for only "a few years" until it's replacement is ready. What will we do during that gap? Why, we'll rely on the good will of the Russians! What is telling is that everyone (even Obama) is realizing the folly in that approach and are working to correct this.
My thoughts also, Monica.
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