Posted on 08/30/2008 3:52:32 PM PDT by wagglebee
Call it the Palin effect -- John McCain's choice of Alaska's governor Sarah Palin has motivated many conservatives previously reluctant to support his candidacy to surrender their enthusiastic support.
Notably among them is Dr. James Dobson, the very influential conservative leader, who heads the nationwide Focus on the Family organization. Dr. Dobson, who has flatly declared that he would not vote for McCain now says he will, and attributes his change of mind to the senator's choice of solidly conservative pro-life Gov. Palin to be his running mate.
Earlier this year, Dr. Dobson had announced on the nationally syndicated “The Dennis Prager Show” that he “cannot and will not vote for Senator John McCain.” Friday on Prager's Show, he changed course and announced his enthusiastic support of McCain on the heels of the announcement by McCain of Palin as his vice presidential running mate.
Speaking with Prager, Dr. Dobson said he now feels the same excitement he felt when Ronald Reagan was inaugurated.
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I think a lot of us feel this way.
Amazing how much clarity on the issues changes opinions and perceptions, isn’t it?
Before, John McCain seemed a ship with a faulty rudder, steering by an uncertain compass. Now, suddenly he has the absolute pinpoint accuracy of GPS guidance, and a whole new steering mechanism has come online and is righting the course to destination determinate and proclaimed.
Doesn’t hurt that Sarah Palin is a pretty remarkable force of nature, either.
I was voting against Obama my wife was maybe staying home, now she is excited by this ticket and has now voluntered to help in the election
“We knew through early testing he would face special challenges, and we feel privileged that God would entrust us with this gift and allow us unspeakable joy as he entered our lives. We have faith that every baby is created for good purpose and has potential to make this world a better place. We are truly blessed.” (April 18, 2008, Anchorage Daily News)
(Sorry, I know I've been posting this all over the place, but the window of opportunity is quickly closing. Strike while the iron is hot!)
The Rats will lose this election.
I was willing to vote AGAINST Obama as long as McCain didn’t pick a pro-abortion running mate. Palin changes EVERYTHING, she had been my first choice but I didn’t think she had a chance. Now I am genuinely excited about the election. I think there’s a very good chance that McCain will retire in 2012 and Palin will be perfect to run then.
my thoughts too and I hope that does happen.
How the Dems would go mad seeing a woman as vice president and then going for president on the next term and she is republican
As a man I would love to see that and se the party get the majority of women on board
Thank you, Dr. Dobson.
I was going to sit out the pres vote, or vote 3rd party.
There wasn’t one single person he could have picked that would have persuaded me to vote for Mr. CFR.
Not Pawlenty, Hunter, Thompson, Romney. Not Ridge, Kay Hutchinson, Condi Rice or Rick Santorum.
Not one person would have persuaded me to vote in the pres election...til now.
Palin convinced me otherwise.
I used to live in Alaska, in Moose Pass, and I have followed Governor Palin’s career as she fought the entrechced corrupt old-money GOP, and won, and I admired her almost more than any other politician.
I will not only vote for Palin/McCain, but I will do my usual conservative-activist folderol of manning phone banks, walking precincts and putting up signs.
Not only that, but of all my friends who are conservative, pro-life and pro-gun activists, ALL of whom had strongly told me they would NEVER vote for John McCain, they are all ecstatic about Palin and will all vote for her now.
I know there’s someone else on the ticket, but...he can hitch a ride along with her, too!
Ed
congratulations, the chattering class says you do not exist.
This is actually the first GOP national ticket that has excited me since Reagan.
they are going mad because they have worked overtime to say that NO woman is pro second, NO woman is really pro life, NO woman is not a rabid feminist (though I am a tad concerned about her feminists for life memebership. the feminist part not the life part), and NEVER takes her husband’s name. (the last a HUGE plus in the character dept)
The heads of the dems are exploding because they are screaming “YOU ARE SUPPOSED TO BE DEAD!” to all the conservatives.
I wager more then a few RINO skulls are in that explosion as well.
Dead, no, to their chagrin. In hiberation until someone worthy came along, yes.
I had to listen so I had the right letters together. If Dobson's in, he is very impressed by McCains' choice.
Yep, there have been more than a couple FRiberals the past two days who are mortified about having a genuine conservative on the ticket.
“He now feels the same excitement ... “
I was absolutely ecstatic. I got teary-eyed. Formerly a reluctant McCain supporter, I am now an enthusiastic Palin-McCain supporter.
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