Posted on 09/15/2008 12:21:21 PM PDT by presidio9
Ours is a country capable of almost constant surprise, especially when the chips are down. That is why the appearance of Sarah Palin is the most startling thing to happen in American politics since Barack Obama took Iowa last January.
Give them a reason, and they will gather behind you. John McCain gave them Sarah Palin and they gathered.
Whether through a combination of desperation, condescension and sheer lucky nerve, or something else altogether that no one can explain, John McCain and the Republicans have taken charge for the moment. They finally have succeeded in completely appropriating and redefining all of Obama's campaign themes of change while pretending 24 years after Geraldine Ferraro that the elephants are far more willing to shake things up than the donkeys have ever been.
Sarah Palin even lifted Obama's unprecedented theme of embracing miscegenation, perhaps to fight liberal stereotypes of conservatives as white racists. Plucky to nearly the bursting point, Palin observed her husband was proud of his Alaskan Indian blood, which was another way of saying, "Hey, guys and gals, our kids are all American and they aren't pure white, either! Barack Obama, you can sit down and stop bragging."
Yes, Sarah Palin comes from the kind of women who helped win the West, no doubt about it. They walked next to wagon trains across the country, had children under the most hazardous circumstances imaginable and lived through weather as bad as the country could be beautiful. They fought, killed or were captured and enslaved by the Indian tribes who resisted the expansion of the United States. If her membership in the NRA did not imply all of that, Fred Thompson did when he asserted that she would be the first VP candidate capable of correctly dressing - meaning butchering - a downed moose.
These are the kinds of things that make Palin more one of the boys than even most of the boys are. So while remaining the loving mother of five, Palin also has the credentials to be a proxy male who can go in the door of the men's club and not be sneered at unless one is willing to take her on in a target shooting contest.
Like it or not, that is a big step.
But hunting moose, owning a firearm and being opposed to abortion are not the things that bother me most about Palin.
Here's a short list: It can easily be proven that she did not lead the fight against "the bridge to nowhere"; that she is not opposed to pork-barrel earmarks and has actually fought for them; that she seems to believe as much or more in a Christian theocracy than in American democracy. And in one of the most well-received moments in her RNC speech Palin made it quite clear: Terrorism is a good enough reason to destroy or ignore the Constitution.
"Al Qaeda terrorists still plot to inflict catastrophic harm on America ... he's worried that someone won't read them their rights," she said in ripping her Democratic rival.
She might be pretty enough for Rush Limbaugh to call "a babe"; she might shoot well enough to be nicknamed "Annie Oakley" and she may even have squeaky clean but gritty charm. But, when the sun goes down and nobody else is around, Sarah Palin kneels to and bows low before the language that can prepare the way to totalitarianism. Always a dangerous thing.
She does not seem to realize - though all of our friends and every last one of our enemies do - that the constitutional rights at which she sneers are what separate this nation from the totalitarian regimes in most of the world.
Changing from what we are into one of those kinds of regimes is not what I believe the American people want and that is what I believe will save us from embracing a self-described pit bull with lipstick.
For all of the indications to the contrary, I think that Barack Obama is right when he says that the American people are not stupid. They might not be able to dress a moose, but they can usually recognize a pig in a poke. With or without lipstick.
Email Stanley: crouch.stanley@gmail.com
Oh.
Those unconstitutional parts.
“perhaps to fight liberal stereotypes of conservatives as white racists”
Hey, we promoted Colin Powell, Condy Rice, Clarence Thomas, and Alberto Gonzales. They can keep Ferraro; we’ll have the first chick to win.
“perhaps to fight liberal stereotypes of conservatives as white racists”
Hey, we promoted Colin Powell, Condy Rice, Clarence Thomas, and Alberto Gonzales. They can keep Ferraro; we’ll have the first chick to win.
Sarah's got them tied up in knots! They're like leeches just feeding off one another...first Charles Grodin, now Stanley Crouch!
The Frenzy continues...
Suddenly I realize why most liberal men hate her! All those scared little girlie boys are afraid their being outmanned!
susie
“that she seems to believe as much or more in a Christian theocracy than in American democracy”
WTF? How does he think he can get away with this? What is he basing it on, the let’s pray that we’re doing God’s will speech? Wasn’t that speech basically Lincoln’s Second Innagural?
Well STANLEY, until very recently, terrorists (enemy combatants) did not HAVE “constitutional rights”, AMERICANS did.
The Second Amendment is what stands between us and totalitarianism, yet Obama, this writer, and the rag he writes for wants to eliminate it.
That miscegenation comment is repugnant.
So what?
Hillary Clinton can moose a dress!
So there.
She can 'moose' a pantsuit too.
liberals just can’t get Palin out of their heads. she’s not going away
He better send some of that snake oil he’s trying to sell to O BamBam — the snake is running a couple of wuarts low.
Notice that anyone attempting to live THEIR OWN life according to biblical standards is seen as
“a theocrat trying to force their religion down our throats”.
No, people, the discomfort you feel is INTERNAL, no one is forcing anything on you.
What is he basing it on, the let’s pray that we’re doing God’s will speech? Wasn’t that speech basically Lincoln’s Second Innagural?
And it’s an very similar to Obama’s Wailing Wall Prayer...
I was in the Cow Palace in San Francisco in 1964 when Senator Margaret Chase Smith's name was placed in nomination for President of the United States. Of course, Barry Goldwater had the delegate votes, was nominated, ran with William Miller, and got clobbered. But that's not what I came to talk about.
I came to talk about the fact that women are about 52% of all who cast votes, women are steadily rising in percent of seats held in the state legislatures, the House, the Senate, and the Governorships. And women who are not blinded by ideology would like to see an intelligent, well organized, able woman be elected as either President or Vice President.
And as the father of two daughters who have excellently balanced the requirements of wife, mother, and capable executive in the private sector, I say, it's about time. Of course this yoyo, being blinded by ideology, can see none of that.
Congressman Billybob
Hahahahahahahahahahahaha! Good one~~~!!
I love Governor Palin. Ya just have to love a woman that can dress herself AND a moose “to the nines”!
What a completely asanine comment. The Constitution is reserved for citizens of these United States. To extend the protections to everyone in the world is preposterous.
Further, his adolescent comment of "at which she sneers" is nothing more than him shouting from the rooftops just precisely how ignorant and intellectually challenged this "journalist" happens to be.
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