Beam me to Planet Gore !
Posted on 09/05/2008 1:19:12 AM PDT by nickcarraway
As Ed Craig notes here, Palin’s home-run speech not only raised her market value, but the value of energy common sense as well.
Palin offers conservatives (if the Goracle disciple at the top of her ticket agrees — a big “if”) a real opportunity to bring the dangers of green extremism home to Joe Sixpack.
Here in Michigan, two counties are key to winning this swing state (they are national bellwethers too): White-collar Oakland and blue-collar Macomb which sit shoulder to shoulder north of Detroit. Palin’s personal story will be a powerful magnet for Oakland’s decisive soccer/hockey mom electorate.
But heavily union Macomb is the real prize for McCain. Home to the famous “Reagan Democrats,” Macomb should be fertile ground for straight-talking, military vet McCain.
Stan Greenberg, Bill Clinton's pollster in 1992, is an authority on Macomb County. This election year, Harold Meyerson reports in the Detroit News, Macomb unionists’ “ideal presidential candidate, Greenberg says, would be an ‘outsider, middle-class’ senator who expresses their anger at their betrayal by America's economic and political elites.”
But Obama doesn’t fit that description and union leaders “are painfully aware of the challenge they face.” As a result, McCain is running ahead in Macomb, but his support is soft due to his green, anti-auto rhetoric — not to mention Bushitis.
Enter Palin to seal the deal.
She apparently understands why developing domestic natural resources is a jobs engine. Teamsters jobs. AFL-CIO jobs. Union workers know that pipeline development brings trucking and construction jobs. All Palin has to do is connect the dots for Macomb’s working class. And her United Steelworker Union husband puts a human face on how oil is not only a strategic argument but an economic one as well.
Contrast the Palin family with elites like the Obamas and the Gores and you bring the climate debate to a human level. So you want to ban oil drilling? And deny my husband a job?
The Left understands the political danger of making American sacrifice for green ideology through higher energy costs. That is precisely why they have pursued a stealth campaign of renewable portfolio standards, restricting oil and coal development, fuel mileage regulations, and so on.
Politics matters. By “humanizing” oil production, Palin can help make energy policy a pocketbook issue.
Go Sarah, Go Sarah . . . the left is going to try everything to destroy her until the election. I hope I am wrong, but we must be prepared to fight to the hilt for her and give her and McCain our full support.
Picking up Michigan would be a HUGE victory for McCain. But as of right now, today, I dont see it happening unless the polls have a big shift.
McCain was very shrewd in picking Palin and stealing the "change" mantra from Obama. His pick of Biden was a joke.
One other beautiful thing about the Palin pick is that it kills Hillary's 2012 bid also.
The Leftists are idealists with their own view of what to them is a perfect world. They would like to force the rest of us to conform to their version; they are Fascists, Communists, Marxists, and Socialists who have taken over the Democratic Party. Nevermind the fact that their system has failed 100% of the time it has been forced upon the people; they have disordered minds.
They have been chipping away at our freedoms for fifty years; they are embedded in our institutions and government offices. The current Administration contains many operatives. They are cunning and well-funded. Only the people of the country can push back and take our country back.
Why? Because they cannot handle the real nature of most of mankind. They are selfish, lacking any compassion, and elitist in perspectives because they think they are educated, when actually they have been brainwashed and are too stupid to think about that being a real fact.
Worried?
If Joe Sixpack in Michigan cared about jobs and unionists opposed the rat green agenda, the communist governor granholm wouldn’t have got 57% of the vote last election.
Joe Sixpack has fled the state of Michigan by the hundreds of thousands and has been replaced by Socialist Sam and Welfare Wendy.
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