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[TheFourthMagi]

Video here. Feel the edge of electric excitement as you get to stand in the shoes of good Pennsylvania people welcoming political phenomenon Sarah Palin.

[lieutenant columbo]

No, abortion is not a huge issue for me with regard to Palin. I am concerned about her intellectual and educational capabilities for this office. She seems to lack some basic knowledge and thus far cannot manage herself in even relatively simple interviews at the level we should expect from a Vice Presidential candidate.

She would never have been chosen without pressure from the religious right. That is my issue: that many other, far more qualified candidates were passed over purely to pacify the fundamentalist segment of this Party. It is a recipe for disaster, and McCain will likely lose on Tuesday because of it.

I vote on strong defense and a conservative fiscal policy. I am doing everything I can locally to help ensure that conservatives return their focus to these core issues.

I am not at all surprised at all by what you tell me. There are all sorts of Republicans in the Party, and that is the way it should be. I did not leap to conclusions about you. You can certainly see by all the accusations in this thread (I have already been accused of being a troll, an atheist, a homosexual, and an Obama voter!) that people are leaping to conclusions about me.

[Globalist Goon]

“The lesson of this election is that McCain would be winning today if he hadn’t picked Palin and alienated so many of the moderate voters he needs.”

You have lost all credibility with that statement. Palin gave his campaign a much needed charge.

[Globalist Goon]

I suppose you are OK with the religious left?

[houeto]

Sorry, this is my party, too, and I have a right to express my opinion here.

That is about the most liberal statement you could possibly have made.

To think that you have a RIGHT to do as you please in another man's house.

I can hardly believe you got away with that one!

[HalfFull]

She would never have been chosen without pressure from the religious right. That is my issue: that many other, far more qualified candidates were passed over purely to pacify the fundamentalist segment of this Party. It is a recipe for disaster, and McCain will likely lose on Tuesday because of it.

I vote on strong defense and a conservative fiscal policy. I am doing everything I can locally to help ensure that conservatives return their focus to these core issues.

The fact that Sarah is a conservative Christian is a plus in my opinion. That aside, you say you look for someone who is for strong on defense and has a conservative fiscal policy. Well Sarah Palin certainly fits that bill. You obviously feel she will drag the ticket down on Tuesday. I say, "hogwash"...she is the sole reason that McCain will win. IMO, the other choices were losing choices.

I believe leaders are born, not made. You either have the judgment to surround yourself with good advisers and make good decisions, or you don't. Based on what I have seen and learned about Sarah Palin, she is a born leader and is capable of making wise decisions. At the risk of being called "the religious right", I think that is a very good quality to make even better decisions. I'm sure you probably disagree.

[houeto]

They come here, and never think to research our principles. Instead, they assume FreeRepublic is their own soapbox, pushing their own platform/agenda.

This person went so far as to tell the mod that they had a RIGHT to their opinion here. Unbelievable. See post #16.

[trisham]

Ah, now you join your friends in crudeness and hatefulness with that parting shot. And I see you and your rabid friend circling around Deborah now, too, purposely twisting her words and spewing bile.

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I need do nothing to twist COD's words. They speak to us all without any mistranslation.

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You honestly don’t realize how you come across to potential voters reading here, do you?

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I can only hope that I do.

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Your brand of hatefulness is an aberration, a tiny minority in this Grand Old Party, no matter how loudly you can type. I bet even some of your fellow fundamentalists are cringing now at having you as their representative.

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I'm a Catholic, thank God.

[vox_freedom]

RG, TA and vox, if I haven't said it before, I think you are stellar human beings. You are great representatives of what it means to be Catholic. I hope that your example will be the one people see when they look at what it means to be a Catholic in words and in action.

Thank you, for the kind words CoD, and I think it is despicable that some on this thread came here only to be divisive, bringing up issues from long ago topics, misconstrue the facts and bait, then attempt to play the victim. If it weren't so sad, it would be disgusting. I understand your frustrations and hope you will reconsider and post again when perhaps the atmosphere will change for the better. Until then, take care and don't worry about this place and posters that must live with themselves and the consequences of their actions. May God bless and keep you.

I am afraid that our world is about to be brought into a time of chastisement. Having an Obama as POTUS and super majorities in both houses of Congress will change our lives in many ways. None of them positive. If only divisive forces among us would come to recognize the consequences caused by bitter and shameful disputes of their own making, rather than focusing their wrath on true enemies of our Faith and our Country.

[lieutenant columbo]

Deborah,

My respect goes to you. You took the time to counter the vitriol, and you exit at the perfect time, refusing to pretend that insults and disingenuous baiting constitute real responses. New voters ARE watching, and they saw you stand up against the cancer of hatefulness and intolerance that threatens our Party. That is the very best medicine for this Party right now.

Thank you.

[John W]

I can only speak for myself, but, I came to this thread because of the title and got involved briefly in a dust-up over things having nothing to do with the title. I came here for Sarah and ran into a know-it-all disparaging her. Downhill from there.

[jacquej]

After posting, I read more of the posts, and finally realized where “columbo” found fault with the rest of us.

I am 65 years old, friends, and homosexuality actually was known to most of us, and our parents & grandparents way back then. There really is nothing new under the sun, you know.

I feel compassion for homosexuals, but I do not believe their predicament is genetic.

We are all born with sexual feelings and urges, but these can get misdirected in a child’s development, and those who end up choosing homosexuality as a “lifestyle” somehow got “stuck”.

How this happened really doesn’t matter.

What does matter is how we respond to those suffering with homosexual urges, for they are far from “gay” people. They do not need to be persecuted, condemned, and ridiculed for these feelings, however, and no true follower of Christ’s teachings would engage in these judgmental behaviors.

That said, It is normal to want to protect our children from the illnesses, both emotional and physical, that result from indulging in homosexual ACTIVITIES.

It is ridiculous for homosexuals to try to present these activities as normal human behavior, and we have every right to condemn, judge, and ridicule them for demanding that we agree that these activities are socially acceptable sexual behavior.

In my opinion, this is not a religious issue as much as a common sense issue. That various religions have condemned homosexuality is a simple recognition of basic common sense.

[vox_freedom]

Good post, and on target nickcarraway.

I'm giving you the spinning blue globe award for insight and clarity.

[Dajjal]

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[houeto]

Nick, this whole thing was started by lieutenant columbo saying how horrible a pick that Palin was. That the religious right was tearing down the Party. see post 6 & 16.

Folks struggled to understand the logic and queried lc hard.

Then it came out in a later post that lc was standing up for homosexuality, even to the point of adamantly insisting adoptive children SHOULD be placed with homosexual 'parents'.

Things rightly exploded from there.

C_o_D came in defending the defender of homosexual adoption and in doing so, invoked the name of Catholics. That's something that's not going to be let go of, as you may well know. It just isn't!

We do not need a Log cabin Republican (lc) telling the 'religious right' that we are the problem.

The GOP can exist as a bonafide Party without Log Cabin Republicans. The GOP cannot exist without the 'religious right'.

[jacquej]

I do not understand why you see Governor Palin as a “lesser choice”.

To me, she is far more qualified for the Executive Office than any of the Senators running. She has run a small business, and understands those challenges. Her husband is a union member, and I am sure she understands that side of the business environment.

She has been on a local school board, and has first hand experience with the issues involved in public education. She has been the Mayor of a small city, and knows how state and federal budgets affect our towns and villages.

She has been the Governor of one of our largest states, and understands state budgets, the problems of states relating to federal mandates, etc., and finally, she has a good understanding of military issues from her role as Governor of Alaska, which placed her in direct contact with all the branches of the military under her jurisdiction.

Besides, she can field dress a moose!

Compared to her qualifications, the Senators have only endless “speechifying” as their qualifications, with Senator McCain having fighter pilot experience and prisoner of war experience to put him on a higher level than Biden or Obama.

I am a pretty intelligent woman, and know how to recognize intelligence, common sense, integrity, and character in other women. (We women are pretty good at sizing up each other, just in case you didn’t know)

Sarah has it all. And, I ‘ll “betcha” she is a quick learner on the job. I actually can’t think of any other candidate that McCain could have picked that would be better, and I preferred Romney in the early primaries.

Think it over, Columbo. You do know he was prone to ponder things, when presented with interesting information, don’t you?

[wagglebee]

Actuarial tables suggest that this particular VP choice has a pretty significant chance of landing in the Oval Office before McCain’s term is up.

Actuarial tables change significantly when a person's mother is still alive. McCain's father's death is most likely attributable to alcoholism (though he died sober) and depression.

[lieutenant columbo]

To quote the Great One, “There you go [again].”

My husband will be very surprised to hear that I am a Log Cabin Republican! I will add that to the list of other credentials people here have pulled from their fertile imaginations and applied to me: Obama voter, troll, atheist, Log Cabin Republican...

Please note that I did not come into this thread to talk about gay adoption. I was asked about the two percent, and I responded. I should have seen that the question was not asked honestly, but was only a prelude to baiting.

McCain is probably going to lose on Tuesday, which will be a tragedy for this country. It is perhaps not a good idea to target those who attempt to figure out what might have gone wrong.

[lieutenant columbo]

That was a great response.

I am hoping that you are right...that she will shine beyond my fears and expectations. I am guided very much by what I have seen of her, but I hold out hope that there is more unseen.

Let’s hope that Americans surprise the pollsters on Tuesday...

[lieutenant columbo]

That is good news. Thanks.

[trisham]

My husband will be very surprised to hear that I am a Log Cabin Republican!

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LOL!