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Sarah Palin is as popular as Diana in the hearts of the American public
DailyMail UK ^ | September 20, 2008 | Staff

Posted on 09/20/2008 9:32:40 AM PDT by bobsunshine

Feminists like to claim that if women ruled the world, there would be no more wars.

Sarah Palin, the woman poised to become the most powerful female politician in the free world, disproves that once and for all.

The gun-toting, Iraq war-supporting Governor of Alaska may decide the next U.S. presidential election. Here is a politician who won't rule out war with Russia.

Here is a mother who waved her soldier son Track off to Iraq on September 11. And here is a campaigner who next week will man the barricades at a public protest against Iran's President Ahmadinejad.

If Palin becomes America's first woman Vice-President, one thing is for sure - there will not be an end to war.

Nor to the war between two cultures she has already unleashed in her own country.

The pro-life, devoutly Christian, happily married mother-of-five has emerged from the political margins to become the most intriguing and divisive woman in today's America.

She has enraged the Left in general and feminists in particular at every turn. What infuriates them most is her rapid rise to the national stage and her ability, like Ronald Reagan before her, to talk to the people in a language they understand with a fundamentalist message many of them want to hear.

It's all so damned reactionary. Heck, the man she admires most in the world is her husband.

There is something almost evangelical about her desire to give voice to the largely unheard folk of America; the ordinary, hard-working, God-fearing majority.

The liberal elite of the East and West coasts despise her, but middle Americans seem to have fallen for Palin as the figurehead of a new kind of politics.

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TOPICS: Extended News; Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Alaska; US: District of Columbia; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: diana; mccainpalin; palin
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To: Jeff Head
If Palin becomes America's first woman Vice-President, one thing is for sure - there will not be an end to war.

"Only the dead have seen the end of war." Plato

L

81 posted on 09/20/2008 6:56:52 PM PDT by Lurker (She's not a lesbian, she doesn't whine, she doesn't hate her country, and she's not afraid of guns.)
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To: CedarDave
How was your ox gored?

Your words:
“Yes, she and her lawyers won that war against the big bad power company (and it may have done some bad things but not necessarily with the environmental consequences claimed)”

That's akin to saying the people of China shouldn't be upset just because the milk they fed their children was intentionally tainted with harmful ingredients by greedy,unscrupulous suppliers. After all, not all of them are sick or dead! sarcasm//

China is the best example of why free market capitalism, uncoupled with law, honor and personal responsibility, may not be a viable system for much of the world. And also perhaps why, we in this nation, are having serious problems right now.

Your own admission that "the big bad power company may have done some bad things" and subsequent willingness to ignore the very serious damage those "bad things" caused many innocent people to suffer, leads me to think you may need a refresher course in Honor 101 yourself!

82 posted on 09/20/2008 7:12:27 PM PDT by sarasmom
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To: Lurker
Well quoted. The best way to avoid war is to be prepared for it and to be better and stronger than those who would be tempted to wage it against you. Either individually or as a nation.

And then if they do anyway, to take it to them so harshly as to make an impression in their, their childrens, their grandchildrens, and their great grandchildren's minds down to the 6th generation that it was a mistake to do so.

Then, once they are sufficently humbled, to help them stand back up and take on republican, constitutional, moral principlas of liberty themselves.

83 posted on 09/20/2008 7:19:21 PM PDT by Jeff Head (Freedom is not free...never has been, never will be. (www.dragonsfuryseries.com))
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To: sarasmom

Why, thank you!


84 posted on 09/20/2008 7:20:02 PM PDT by CitizenM ("An excuse is worse than an lie, because an excuse is a lie hidden." Pope John Paul, II)
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To: Lurker
Since I won't steal your tag line, I am using your post as my new one.
Thanks!
85 posted on 09/20/2008 7:46:39 PM PDT by sarasmom (Only the dead have seen the end of war." Plato)
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To: sarasmom; Jeff Head
Thank you both. While I certainly don't want to seem morbid the point of my response was to point out the abysmal ignorance of this Brit 'reporter' person.

This war, the defining one of this century IMO, will not end no matter who wins this election. Whether or not WE want peace is irrelevant.

What is relevant is whether or not THEY want peace. And the enemy has made it painfully clear time after time after time that they don't want peace. In fact they don't even define peace the same way we do.

We, those of us in the Western world, define peace as the absense of war. The enemy defines peace as the absense of resistance to islam.

The two are not and never, ever will be the same thing.

L

86 posted on 09/20/2008 8:16:46 PM PDT by Lurker (She's not a lesbian, she doesn't whine, she doesn't hate her country, and she's not afraid of guns.)
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To: Lurker
We must abjectly humble the fundamental Islamics and all those people who support them, the same way we did the Nazis and the Imperial Japanese.

To the point that the support base is completely and utterly fractured and those ideologies are annihilated and become a hiss and a by word to their own people as the Nazi and Imperial Japanese are today.

87 posted on 09/20/2008 8:57:27 PM PDT by Jeff Head (Freedom is not free...never has been, never will be. (www.dragonsfuryseries.com))
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To: sarasmom; CitizenM
Your own admission that "the big bad power company may have done some bad things" and subsequent willingness to ignore the very serious damage those "bad things" caused many innocent people to suffer, leads me to think you may need a refresher course in Honor 101 yourself!

Insults this evening?? I think not.

I deal in these matters daily and have been on both sides of the fence. I have advised companies when they have a problem and that they have to take action. If they don't and if they're violating the law, they deserve what they get. On the other hand, I know when environmentalists are crying foul to bring in a few more members and they don't care if it causes businesses to be shut down. I get tired of enviro-nutters who shout chicken little at the drop of a hat and then go to the jury and cry harm and play upon their emotions. What's most important are the facts in the case and not the emotionalism.

Here is a little primer on the case and the lady. Take it for what its worth but know that there are two sides to these issues and that elevating one figure to a place on the high pedestal may be doing the actual facts a disservice.

Erin Brockovich Story Largely Fiction

88 posted on 09/20/2008 9:31:03 PM PDT by CedarDave (Gloom and doom Democrats cheer for financial despair, losing wars and hurricanes. That's leadership!)
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To: CedarDave
Spare me the spin.
This is me, you are talking too...
Yes, the delusional,rabid “environmentalists” are wrong.
As are the unethical, rabid, pseudo “Conservatives”.
89 posted on 09/20/2008 10:09:03 PM PDT by sarasmom (Only the dead have seen the end of war." Plato)
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To: CedarDave
??? I am sorry you have an axe to grind and perhaps you are right. However, I was not making a statement about the value of Brokovich's cause. If you interpreted it that way you were mistaken. My point in using her as an analogy to Palin was to compare her rise to success (whether you approve of her or not) to the rise of Palin's career. From a feminists viewpoint, the admiration of these women's achievements should be considered equal. My complaint is that they are not considering Palin a success.

It was not the cause that Brockovich was fighting that I was promoting...it was that she took up the fight with little background and education. Please re-read my post without thinking that it was a comment on the worth of Brockovich's attempts. This thread is about Palin and not Brockovich, and I merely made a comparison of their similar paths. I believe others "got it." Please don't be so offended and make an issue of something that was not intended and does not pertain to the subject of the thread.

90 posted on 09/20/2008 10:28:37 PM PDT by CitizenM ("An excuse is worse than an lie, because an excuse is a lie hidden." Pope John Paul, II)
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To: CitizenM
Please don't be so offended and make an issue of something that was not intended and does not pertain to the subject of the thread.

Forgive me if I do not agree with you. I believe there are other role models for women that can be better compared to Sarah and her rise. While Brockovich may be admired by feminists is is likely more for her politics than her accomplishments.

On the other hand, several women who had to overcome racial/ethnic challenges come to mind and I could likely name others if it were not so late. Two are black - Condolezza Rice and Oprah. The third is Hispanic and like Palin was a mayor and has a son with Down Syndrome. Rosario Marin was appointed treasurer of the US by President Bush but resigned to run for the US senate from California, a race which she lost.

91 posted on 09/20/2008 11:49:13 PM PDT by CedarDave (Gloom and doom Democrats cheer for financial despair, losing wars and hurricanes. That's leadership!)
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To: bobsunshine

Their problem is that they - like many liberal commentators - just can’t fathom why Palin is so popular.


Including the risible Liz Trotta, who was chortling on Fox earlier today about how “seeing Russia from her house” would doom Palin.

Go water Biden’s hair, Liz.


92 posted on 09/21/2008 12:24:14 PM PDT by Senator Goldwater
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iowapresidentialwatch.com


93 posted on 09/21/2008 12:48:34 PM PDT by IPWGOP (I'm Linda Eddy... I'm the cartoonist for iowapresidentialwatch.com)
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To: BenLurkin

If Diana had been born in Iowa rather than as Lady Spenser, she would have ended up working at the Dairy Queen or as a receptionist at the local accounting firm or something similar. She might have been very happy as a very ordinary woman. Sarah, on the other hand, is a woman of exceptional talents who has risen from humble beginnings because of talent, hard work, and strong values. No comparison at all.


94 posted on 09/21/2008 6:01:12 PM PDT by maro (Repeal the 8th Amendment)
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