Posted on 09/07/2008 9:58:49 PM PDT by Jim Robinson
EP News--- Family Research Council Tony Perkins said, “It’s obviously an outstanding choice. Very smart. Very strategic. Those who might have voted for Obama only because they wanted to be a part of something historic can now vote for the Republicans for the same reason.”
Richard Viguerie, the conservative icon who has been brutally critical of McCain, was even more effusive, “She’s perfect.”
Setting aside the doctrine of original sin for a moment, religious conservatives do think the selection of Sarah Palin as the vice presidential candidate is pretty near perfect. Richard Land of the Southern Baptist Convention’s Ethics and Religious Liberties Commission, was not the only person to observe that she was “straight out of veep central casting.” She’s active in an evangelical church. She has five children, including one with Down’s Syndrome that she chose to give birth to even though she knew the child would be a Down’s baby. And, of course, she’s a woman.
Even Dr. James Dobson of Focus on the Family, who made national headlines when he said he could not support McCain “under any circumstances” admitted that this was a circumstance that he did not think was possible. Sources close to Dobson told EP News that in a private meeting on the afternoon of the Palin announcement he said he would reconsider his position on McCain.
Dobson called Palin “a genuine reformer. A deeply committed Christian.” On a special Focus Action radio broadcast, Dobson said Palin has helped change his mind on McCain.
“If I went into the polling booth today, I would pull the lever for John McCain,” he said. Dobson applauded the Republican Party’s strong platform plank against destructive embryonic stem-cell research, which uses much stronger language than in years past...
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ROTFLMAO!!!
I understand what you are saying, but it is truly a fool's errand, expecting honor while giving the keys to the head thief... HAHAHAHAHA!
He is the next in the Bakerite Globalist line, and will continue the same doctrine as Bush, and his father before him. Conservatism will be blamed because he has donned the conservative mantle, and the Conservatives rally to support his VP, while he hides behind her skirts. It is doom.
Yeah, well...George Soros and Teddy Kennedy have him by other more critical body parts, so, we'll see who he responds to.
Considering McCain's history of listening to conservatives, it isn't hard to figure out which it will be.
Now that I think about it, he's already telling you flat out which it will be, actually. Do YOU have ears? Have you not heard his pronouncements about picking Dems to serve in his administration, and his promises to "reach out his hand across the aisle"?
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
another reason we need to focus this election on getting control of congress,,, palin can help by stunping for some conservatives running for house/senate seats..... all this hype about Palin needs to be used to take back the Senate.....
I don’t think so my FRiend... I suspect McCain will be getting a LOT of Republican dissent !! — and Sarah Palin will be there to tell him why !!
I haven't. Wagons going over cliffs just don't do it for me.
Regaining a Republican Senate is useless.
A conservative House and Senate, now that’s worth working to bring about.
my FRiend.... it sounds to me like you don’t get the TWO-party system... I am a strong advocate of the two-party system... we need a MAJORITY party and a MINORITY party... THAT’S IT !! your posts seems to suggest that you don’t get this
I am such a strong advocate of the two-party system that I would seriously consider voting for OBAMA to show the Republican Party that the conservative base can’t be ignored.. fortunately Sarah Palin has single-handidly excited the base enough to get a LOT of folks to vote for the “R” ticket that was seriously considering sitting out the election... No Republican party for President can win an election without the conservative base.. McCain needs to be reminded of this on a daily basis for the next four years..
BTTT
That will require some work. ;)
Let's not kid ourselves here. We have all the same ability to focus on the moment and in doing so overlook our anger of the past. Just glance over to our left coast for a moment and remember the great time we all had with Arnold Schwarzenegger beating Gray Davis and how he is regarded today.
McCain wasn't even my third choice by a long shot, and we WILL have many 'issues' with him and a liberal congress. While he has always been a supported of life, he is weak or flat out wrong on guns, free speech, and immigration. Those issues will not go away just because Sara is the one flying off to state funerals and greeting foreign dignitaries not quite up to A-list standards.
I'm cheering, but I'm cheering for 2012, or 2016 more than today.
Dern Speil cheque. ;)
McCain hasn’t done anything to gain my respect since Hanoi—until now...
Hiya, EV!
Yes, McCain is still McCain. Though please remember that it was Ronald Reagan who so disastrously set this nation on its now 20-year course of the east coast liberal Bushes running the party. One of two MAJOR errors Reagan made, the other being amnesty.
John McCain has done the only thing that he could possibly do to EVER coax me to vote for his ticket: he has set the future course of the GOP squarely in the Christian conservative camp. It’s now the Palin party. There may be 4 or even 8 tough McCain years ahead, but the future is on course, EV. It’s Sarah Palin’s to step up and win or lose. I think she’s a winner.
So it’s the future I’m voting for. The years of McCain hell which will hand off the GOP mantle to Sarah as opposed to the years of the Obama/Jimmy Carter kind of hell (that we’re still paying for in Iran and Panama, just for starters) that wouldn’t ground the future of the GOP.
God bless.
I was encouraged by reports of how McCain did at Saddleback, but I was holding my support until he announced his VP choice. When he did and announced Palin, that day I immediately got on board. The convention then only solidified my support.
So, the liberals got you on their team, on the promise of some far off maybe something.
Sounds like a sucker bet to me, but hey, it’s your franchise.
Don’t say I didn’t warn you.
The thought that I would pull the lever for McCain is something that I never thought I could comprehend. And I’m sure most of us here feel that way!
If he had picked Ridge or Lieberman, I would have done a write-in in November.
No. Sarah Palin's got me on her team. And I'll be pushing her and everyone else to hold McCain's feet to the fire to do the right thing for this country.
Sarah Palin is not in charge of anything. She’s reading from a prepared script. One given to her by folks who not that long ago were on the Soros-funded payroll of the Reform Institute.
You’re in for a world of frustration if you think you’re going to pressure John McCain, of all people, into anything once he gains the power he seeks.
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