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One of Them and One of Us
Human Events ^ | September. 9, 2008 | Patrick J.Buchanan

Posted on 09/09/2008 8:43:00 AM PDT by Reagan Man

One wonders: What did Sarah Palin ever do to inspire the rage and bile that exploded on her selection by John McCain? What is there either in this woman's record or resume to elicit such feline ferocity?

What did we know of her when she was introduced?

That she was a mother of five who had brought into this world a baby boy with Down syndrome, thus living her Christian beliefs. That she was a small-town conservative who had risen from mayor of Wasilla (Pop. 9,700) to be governor of a state twice the size of Texas.

That she was a reformer who had dethroned an Old Boys' Network by dumping a sitting Republican governor. That she had taken on Big Oil, taxed the companies and returned the money in $1,200 checks to every citizen of Alaska. And that she had cut a deal with Canada to build a pipeline to bring natural gas to her fellow Americans.

And, oh, yes. She was "Sarah Barracuda" -- a fierce high school athlete, a runner-up in the Miss Alaska pageant, a Feminist for Life and lifetime member of the NRA. Introduced by McCain, she praised Hillary Clinton and pledged to finish her work by smashing through the glass ceiling in which Hillary had made 18 million cracks.

What, in any or all of this, is there to justify the feral attacks within minutes of her introduction? What had she done to cause this outburst? Answer: absolutely nothing.

No. Sarah Palin is not resented for what she has done, but for who she is: a Christian conservative who believes unborn children are gifts of God, even those with birth defects, and have a God-given right to life.

Normally, the press is reluctant to rummage into the private lives of public servants, unless their conduct affects their duties or they preach virtues they hypocritically do not practice.

Yet, no sooner was Palin introduced, than the media went berserk over the news that her 17-year-old daughter is pregnant. As one in three births in America is out-of-wedlock and Hollywood celebrates this lifestyle, why did The New York Times and The Washington Post splash this "news" on page one above the fold?

How does Bristol Palin's pregnancy disqualify Sarah Palin to be vice president? Why is it even relevant?

They did it because they thought it would damage Sarah Palin in the eyes of a Christian community they do not comprehend.

So out of bounds was the media that Obama, in an act of decency, declared Palin's family off limits and reminded the media that he was himself born to a teenage single mom.

If one would wish to see the famous liberal double standard on naked display, consider.

Palin's daughter was fair game for a media that refused to look into reports that John Edwards, a Democratic candidate for president, was conducting an illicit affair with a woman said to be carrying his child and cheating on his faithful wife Elizabeth, who has incurable cancer. That was not a legitimate story, but Bristol Palin's pregnancy is?

Why did the selection of Sarah Palin cause a suspension of all standards and a near riot among a media that has been so in the tank for Barack even "Saturday Night Live" has satirized the infatuation?

Because she is one of us -- and he is one of them.

Barack and Michelle are affirmative action, Princeton, Columbia, Harvard Law. She is public schools and Idaho State. Barack was a Saul Alinsky social worker who rustled up food stamps. Sarah Palin kills her own food.

Michelle has a $300,000-a-year sinecure doing PR for a Chicago hospital. Todd Palin is a union steelworker who augments his income working vacations on the North Slope. Sarah has always been proud to be an American. Michelle was never proud of America -- until Barack started winning.

Barack has zero experience as an executive. Sarah ran her own fishing fleet, was mayor for six years and runs the largest state in the union. She belongs to a mainstream Christian church. Barack was, for 15 years, a parishioner at Trinity United and had his daughters baptized by Pastor Jeremiah Wright, whose sermons are saturated in black-power, anti-white racism and anti-Americanism.

Sarah is a rebel. Obama has been a go-along, get-along cog in the Daley Machine. She is Middle America. Barack, behind closed doors in San Francisco, mocked Middle Americans as folks left behind by the global economy who cling bitterly to their Bibles, bigotries and guns.

Barack has zero foreign policy experience. Palin runs a state that is home to anti-missile, missile and air defense bases facing the Far East, commands the Alaska National Guard and has a soldier-son heading for Iraq.

Barack, says the National Journal, has the most left-wing voting record in the Senate, besting Socialist Bernie Sanders. Palin's stances read as though they were lifted from Reagan's 1980 "no pale pastels" platform. And this is what this media firestorm is all about.


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KEYWORDS: affirmativeadvantage; mccainpalin; obamabiden; rmthread; sarah
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"Palin's stances read as though they were lifted from Reagan's 1980 "no pale pastels" platform. And this is what this media firestorm is all about."
1 posted on 09/09/2008 8:43:01 AM PDT by Reagan Man
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To: Reagan Man

“One of Us”

Gabba Gabba Hey!


2 posted on 09/09/2008 8:48:41 AM PDT by Flash Bazbeaux
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To: Reagan Man

Right on Pat!


3 posted on 09/09/2008 8:49:40 AM PDT by Gerish (Feed your faith and your doubts will starve to death.)
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To: Reagan Man

Well, well, well. First article by Pat Buchanan that I have agreed with—every word—in at least ten years.

How about that? “Sarah Palin, bringing us together again.” Or maybe that should be: “Nasty Media Smears and PDS (Palin Derangement Syndrome), bringing us together again.”

Thanks, Pat. Have a good day.


4 posted on 09/09/2008 8:49:46 AM PDT by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: Reagan Man

Buchanan is a compelling writer and for once I agree completely with him.


5 posted on 09/09/2008 8:51:32 AM PDT by arrogantsob (Hero vs Zero)
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To: Cicero

LOL. I was thinking along the same lines. When Pat is wrong, he’s really wrong. When he’s right, he’s dead on. One thing is for sure with him, you never have to read between the lines to know what he’s saying. I get a kick out of him.


6 posted on 09/09/2008 8:52:37 AM PDT by Trust but Verify
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To: Reagan Man
"Because she is one of us"

Brigader is outed. Go Pat Go. Republicans are even talking cultural revolution again, opposing illegal immigration, bringing jobs to Main Street, getting bin Laden dead or alive. Pat is always ahead of the curve. The Republican Party is becoming Conservative again. Happy Days are Here Again. Well maybe. There is still a lot of Kristols and Giulianis around.

7 posted on 09/09/2008 9:02:19 AM PDT by ex-snook ("But above all things, truth beareth away the victory.")
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To: Reagan Man

I heard somewhere that Buchanan is supporting Obama. Is that true?


8 posted on 09/09/2008 9:03:41 AM PDT by Unam Sanctam
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To: Squantos; Gilbo_3; NFHale
A couple of weeks ago, we were cutting wood. It's a weekly "thing" here at the farm. We cut with a friend who also heats with wood and "tag team" the job between him and me and my two sons. Anyway, we went to a spot and were busy cutting and loading and me and one of the young men heard, "*pop*, *pop*, *pop*..." We turned and my buddy was leaned over shooting something very close to the ground with his little .22 Barretta semi-auto pistol. So of course we jogged over to him to see what he was shooting. It was a decent sized Copper Head snake. The snake was about two feet long. But anyway, a dead viper is a good viper, so one of the young men carried it carefully over to a stump and draped it over where it was plainly visible. Then we went back to cutting. About 15 minutes later, we heard the same, "*pop*, *pop*..." only to see our friend shooting something else, in nearly the same place as the first snake! We trotted over and sure enough, there was a SECOND Copper Head! It was the same size as the first. One of the young men carried it carefully over to the first and then the same young man stood to one side with a Mossberg 500 shotgun while we rolled the remaining logs out of the way looking for any more of these vile creatures that might be lurking around. We didn't find any.

As we were loading up to finish, we let the lady of the house know that we killed two Copper Heads just on the edge of the yard (they have small children!) and we decided to just take the snakes with us. One of my sons went to the stump and threw the snakes toward the back of the truck about 40 feet away. I picked one up by the tail, and even with three .22 holes in its head it did its best to rear up toward my hand to bite me. I dropped it and put a .45 ACP hole in its head. Then I cut the heads off of BOTH of those snakes.

Even after cutting the heads off, they're STILL dangerous. I tell you this story, because right now, at this juncture in time, the leftists in America are like these snakes. They're fatally wounded with respect to the elections of 2008, but they're also still very dangerous. Those in our camp need to be wary and aware of this. Anybody who's ever been bitten AFTER cutting a snake's head off will attest to this! The dims have lost this one. But they'll wriggle and do their best to spew venom and do damage like a dying snake....which everybody knows, "doesn't die until sundown".

Pass it on gentlemen. This is a message for sheepdogs, both sanctioned, and unsanctioned alike. We're going to be dealing with a lot of dying snakes soon.
9 posted on 09/09/2008 9:06:46 AM PDT by hiredhand
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To: Unam Sanctam

Pat’s remarks in this piece seem to support Sarah Palin.

Dontcha think?


10 posted on 09/09/2008 9:08:21 AM PDT by Reagan Man (McCain Wants My Vote --- With Palin on the ticket, MOST conservatives should be satisfied.)
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To: Unam Sanctam
"I heard somewhere that Buchanan is supporting Obama. Is that true?"

Nah. You probably got that from some Buchanan smear poster who call Pat a Nazi or a terrorist supporter too. Pat never supports Democrats.

11 posted on 09/09/2008 9:26:07 AM PDT by ex-snook ("But above all things, truth beareth away the victory.")
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To: Reagan Man
Barack was a Saul Alinsky social worker who rustled up food stamps. Sarah Palin kills her own food.

Møøseburgers, anyone?

If nothing on my plate had parents, then it ain't dinner!

12 posted on 09/09/2008 9:55:03 AM PDT by thulldud (All your rumor are mong to us.)
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To: hiredhand

Why did I know where this story was headed........:o)

Good points all and very very true........We are always taking taking time to stay prepared for the worst of times and the best of times will be ......:o)

BTW is it wrong to take a dyslexic kid to Fuddruckers for lunch ?


13 posted on 09/09/2008 10:28:54 AM PDT by Squantos (Be polite. Be professional. But have a plan to kill everyone you meet)
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To: hiredhand
Great analogy...

Indeed the dying viper is more dangerous than the one hiding under the log...

I seem to recall the term 'eternal vigilance' from somewhere 8^}

Glad you didnt pay fer yer complacency on that wood load...

14 posted on 09/09/2008 10:33:59 AM PDT by Gilbo_3 ("JesusChrist 08"...Trust in the Lord......=...LiveFReeOr Die...)
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To: Squantos

LOLOLOL...thanks for the funny, I needed it...


15 posted on 09/09/2008 10:35:20 AM PDT by Gilbo_3 ("JesusChrist 08"...Trust in the Lord......=...LiveFReeOr Die...)
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To: Gilbo_3

Oh I have a bunch of em......:o)

Like “you” are the only thing missing when eating chicken at at KFC !


16 posted on 09/09/2008 10:41:04 AM PDT by Squantos (Be polite. Be professional. But have a plan to kill everyone you meet)
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To: Squantos
BTW is it wrong to take a dyslexic kid to Fuddruckers for lunch ?

BWAH! That's just plain wrong! ...ha! ...ha!...ha. :-)
17 posted on 09/09/2008 10:49:04 AM PDT by hiredhand
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To: Gilbo_3
Glad you didnt pay fer yer complacency on that wood load...

You said that right! Copper Head snakes blend in VERY well too! They're very difficult to see in leaves! Getting snake bit would have really ruined the "mood" for wood cutting!
18 posted on 09/09/2008 10:51:03 AM PDT by hiredhand
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To: hiredhand

Told a good ole gal buddy of mine that I really like to joke with at work today it was my Birthday . She gave me a hug as I ran my hands up her side and I asked her ....can ya feel old age creepin up on ya ?

She squealed and about died of a laugh attack........:o)


19 posted on 09/09/2008 10:53:35 AM PDT by Squantos (Be polite. Be professional. But have a plan to kill everyone you meet)
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To: Squantos

SP and SoapGirl here laughed good over the Fuddruckers funny! :-)


20 posted on 09/09/2008 11:20:26 AM PDT by hiredhand
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