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CNN: Why is Palin running for VP when she has a kid with Down’s Syndrome?

Apparently, only frumpy liberal women are allowed to have careers.  Conservative women are expected to have the man’s dinner ready when he walks in the door.  From Newsbusters:

CNN’s John Roberts, after briefly alluding to the issue of Republican vice-presidential nominee Sarah Palin’s experience he called into question earlier on Friday’s “Newsroom” program, asked correspondent Dana Bash about how the Alaska governor’s newborn son with Down’s syndrome might be affected if she were elected: “There’s also this issue that on April 18th, she gave birth to a baby with Down’s Syndrome…. Children with Down’s syndrome require an awful lot of attention. The role of Vice President, it seems to me, would take up an awful lot of her time, and it raises the issue of how much time will she have to dedicate to her newborn child?”

At least she didn’t abort her child when she discovered he would have Down’s Syndrome.  Memo to the Obamination: yes, it IS too late to abort him now.

Nope…no liberal media bias.

August 29, 2008 Posted by | media bias, Palin | 9 Comments

Notes on Gov. Sarah Palin

I’ll be the first to admit that I’ve only recently heard of her.  Considering she’s governor of our 56th state (just ask that Magellan guy running for prez on the Dem side), Barry O’s probably not that familiar with her, either.  Anywho, I listened on the radio to her bio, as well as to her speech in Ohio.  Quick notes from around the blogosphere:

  • Ed Morrissey has an excellent must-read post about the differences in experience between Obama and Palin.  Read it, but here’s a great excerpt:  “However, the nature of the experience couldn’t be more different.  Palin spent her entire political career crusading against the political machine that rules Alaska — which exists in her own Republican party.  She blew the whistle on the state GOP chair, who had abused his power on the same commission to conduct party business.  Obama, in contrast, talked a great deal about reform in Chicago but never challenged the party machine, preferring to take an easy ride as a protegé of Richard Daley instead.”
  • You knew this was coming, didn’t you?  The One is criticizing Palin for…I really couldn’t make this up if I tried…having too little experience!  Especially foreign policy experience.  Because as you know, taking a rock star tour of Europe, having a brother he never visits or talks to living in squalor in Kenya, going to elementary school in Indonesia for a little while, and visiting Pakistan once while in college are all awesome nuggets of foreign policy experience!  For those of you on the left, the prior sentence was sarcasm.
  • McCain’s camp retorts: “Governor Palin has spent her time in office shaking up government in Alaska and actually achieving results — whether it’s taking on corruption, passing ethics reform or stopping wasteful spending and the ‘bridge to nowhere.’ Senator Obama has spent his time in office running for President.”
  • Palin credits Geraldine Ferraro and the Hildebeast for “cracking the glass ceiling” for her. Heh.  Well played!  Even Ferraro’s giving McCain mad props for the pick.
  • Big O’s speech from the Acropolis-thingy yesterday just had some of its media thunder stolen.  Double “heh”!
  • Hillary’s campaign head Howard Wolfson thinks that O picking Greasy Joe will, in light of McCain’s pick of Palin, make women supporters of Hillary even madder than they already are.  If Her Former Highness were so supportive of Obama-Biden, then why is she allowing (instructing?) her staff to go out there and foment dissention like this?  Answer: because she’s not supportive, but she has to pretend like she is!  Hill needs Obama to lose in November, so she can try again in 2012.  Whether she can make that happen remains to be seen.
  • O’s team belittles her experience in a ”town of 9,000″, which pretty much keeps pace with their previously stated view of “bitter, clingy” small town America.  Ace observes thusly:

    Just curious: Before Obama was a junior senator for sixteen months before he decided he knew enough to be President, he was a state legislator.

    How many people did he represent? What was the size of his district?

    And note, once again, that Palin’s experience was as the executive of that small town, the leader, the top dog, the decider, the chief law enforcement officer, whereas Obama was… a backbenching nobody in a body of hundreds, none of whom had ultimate responsibility for anything they did.

    She governed that town; Obama merely represented his district in committee.

    Oh, and he was corrupt. She wasn’t.

    I do admit he has more experience dealing with terrorists first hand… but we don’t need to talk about William Ayers and his Manson-enthusiast wife Bernadette Dohrn right now.

    Ouch!

August 29, 2008 Posted by | Hillary, hypocrisy, McCain, Obama, Palin | 12 Comments

UPDATED: Taking informal bets on McCain’s VP today

UPDATES WILL BE THROUGHOUT THE DAY, AND THIS POST WILL BE BUMPED TO THE TOP OF THE PECKING ORDER.

Juanny Mac announces his VP today.  Here are my top three predicted picks, with the odds of being picked beside their names:

1.  MN governor Tim Pawlenty: 50%

2.  AK governor Sarah Palin:  45%

3.  Mitt Romney:  3%

Pawlenty would be a great pick for a couple of reasons: more conservative than McAmnesty; younger and easier on the eyes (so the ladies tell me!); and puts MN into serious play, as most polls show O with around a 2 – 5% lead right now in MN.

Palin would also be a great pick: a female on the ticket, which could attract more women voters (especially Hilldawg supporters still chapping over her defeat and subsequent VP snub); plus, being a hottie doesn’t hurt the ticket!  Hey, I am a red-blooded American male, OK?  :D

I like Romney, and it wouldn’t bother me if he were chosen.  But I do fear that putting a Mormon on the ticket would bother (whether fair or not, rational or not) many in the Christian community.  After his great performance at Saddleback, McCain can’t jeopardize those gains.

As for the other 2%, that would be left under “Someone else who is likely to underwhelm me.”  Please, God: do NOT let it be Lieberman, Rudy, or Ridge!

What say you?

UPDATE #1 (08/29/2008 – 08:20 A.M. EST): No sooner had I finished typing this post when NBC reports that it will not be Pawlenty.  Palin, Romney, or someone else?

UPDATE #2 (08/29/2008 – 10:15 A.M. EST): FNC is reporting that Romney is supposedly out, and that a McCain supporter’s charter plane from Alaska arrived at Mac’s campaign stop in Ohio.  Read into that what you will.

UPDATE #3 (08/29/2008 – 10:26 A.M. EST): Now CNBC is reporting that a “Republican strategist” is saying that the pick is definitely Palin.  Nothing official yet, but the trend is leaning that way for now.  I do get a kick out of CNBC’s characterization of Palin as “a self-styled ‘hockey mom’ who has only been governor for a little over a year“.  Technically, it’s almost two years, but why quibble over three months? In other words, the VP candidate has been an executive for only a slightly less amount of time than a certain achievementless presidential candidate has been a federal legislator.  Presumably that extra 6 – 9 months or so makes all the difference in the world to the MSM.

UPDATE #4 (08/29/2008 – 10:36 A.M. EST): Now the Chicago fishwrap is reporting that the pick is definitely Palin.  Again, nothing official yet.

UPDATE #5 (08/29/2008 – 01:06 P.M. EST): Back from lunch, so you already know by now: it’s Gov. Palin.

August 29, 2008 Posted by | McCain, Palin | 6 Comments

Another Dem talking point destroyed: Bush McCain

Excellent piece by Dick Morris:

That’s what the Democratic convention has been doing in Denver. They are so anxious to run against Bush, their animosity is so pent up, that they persist in running against a man who is not seeking a third term. In speech after speech, the Democrats knock the Bush record and then add, lamely, that GOP candidate Sen. John McCain (Ariz.) is the same as Bush. Or they call the McCain candidacy Bush’s third term. It was no accident — or Freudian slip — when vice presidential nominee Sen. Joseph Biden (Del.) spoke of John Bush instead of George in his litany of attacks.
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The truth is, of course, that McCain is the most unlike Bush of any of the Republican senators. (When Obama’s people claim that Bush and McCain voted the same 94 percent of the time, they forget that most of the votes in the Senate are unanimous.) The fact that McCain backs commending a basketball team on its victory doesn’t mean that he is in lockstep ideologically with the president.

The issues on which McCain and Bush differ are legion:

• McCain fought for campaign finance reform — McCain-Feingold — that Bush fought and ultimately signed because he had no choice.

• McCain led the battle to restrict interrogation techniques of terror suspects and to ban torture.

• McCain went with Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) on a tough measure to curb climate change, something Bush denies is going on.

• McCain opposed the Bush tax cuts when they passed.

• McCain urged the Iraq surge, a posture Bush rejected for years before conceding its wisdom.

• McCain favors FDA regulation of tobacco and sponsored legislation to that effect, a position all but a handful of Republican Senators oppose.

• McCain’s energy bill, also with Lieberman, is a virtual blueprint for energy independence and development of alternate sources.

• After the Enron scandal, McCain introduced sweeping reforms in corporate governance and legislation to guarantee pensions and prohibit golden parachutes for executives. Bush opposed McCain’s changes and the watered-down Sarbanes-Oxley bill eventuated.

• McCain has been harshly critical of congressional overspending, particularly of budgetary earmarks, a position Bush only lately adopted (after the Democrats took over Congress).

So much for that “McSame” meme.

August 29, 2008 Posted by | McCain | 4 Comments

Economy grows at 3.3% in Q2, MSM yawns

That “recession” keeps getting put on hold, doesn’t it?  ABC News gave the story a scant 13 seconds, which as it turns out, was 13 seconds longer than the NBC and CBS nightly news broadcasts gave it.

At least the AP reported it…in a manner that describes such a robust jump as the second coming of the Great Depression.

Nope…no liberal media bias!

August 29, 2008 Posted by | economic ignorance, media bias | 1 Comment

Humor of the day

This was given to me by a Democrat friend of mine (yes, I have Dem friends!):

Research has led to the discovery of the heaviest element yet known to science. The new element, Governmentium (Gv), has one neutron, 25 assistant neutrons, 88 deputy neutrons, and 198 assistant deputy neutrons, giving it an atomic mass of 312.

These 312 particles are held together by forces called morons, which are surrounded by vast quantities of lepton-like particles called peons. Since Governmentium has no electrons, it is inert; however, it can be detected, because it impedes every action with which it comes into contact.

A minute amount of Governmentium can cause a reaction that would normally take less than a second, to take from four days to four years to complete.

Governmentium has a normal half-life of 2-6 years; it does not decay, but instead undergoes a reorganization in which a portion of the assistant neutrons and deputy neutrons exchange places.

In fact, Governmentium’s mass will actually increase over time, since each reorganization will cause more morons to become neutrons, forming isodopes.

This characteristic of moron promotion leads some scientists to believe that Governmentium is formed whenever morons reach a critical concentration. This hypothetical quantity is referred to as critical morass.

When catalyzed with money, Governmentium becomes Administratium, an element that radiates just as much energy as Governmentium since it has half as many peons but twice as many morons.

August 29, 2008 Posted by | humor, non-political | Leave a Comment

Washington comPost: GOP may delay convention due to Gustav

That sure is newsworthy…but the comPost just couldn’t help itself with this crap:

For Bush and Republican presidential candidate John McCain, Gustav threatens to provide an untimely reminder of Hurricane Katrina. A new major storm along the Gulf Coast would renew memories of one of the low points of the Bush administration, while pulling public attention away from McCain’s formal coronation as the GOP presidential nominee.
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Staging a convention during a major natural disaster would be a public relations challenge for either political party. But GOP officials say the burden could be especially heavy for their party, whose reputation was tarred by the Bush administration’s bungling of Katrina and its aftermath in 2005.

One narrative the left and the MSM (pardon the redundancy) still clings to is that the Katrina mess was Bush’s fault.  It has been shown exhaustively that La. Democrats (then-governor Blanco and N.O. Mayor Ray “School Bus” Nagin) dropped the ball with that.

I mean, Katrina flattened south MS and south AL, but their Republican governors implemented their plans, and it worked out fine.  Plus, Hurricane Wilma did more monetary damage to FL right after Katrina, but FL’s Republican governor had prepared well and executed the plan flawlessly.  It’s clear that incompetence struck La., but it wasn’t Bush’s.

(Sidebar: “Hurricane Andrew struck South Florida as a Category 5 storm in August 1992, and the sluggish federal response was castigated by state leaders as well as then-candidate Bill Clinton in his successful bid to defeat President George H.W. Bush that fall.” Florida had an anemic plan for Andrew, and its governor in ’92 was Lawton Chiles…a Democrat. Go figure. It’s as if Dems are so betrothed to a big federal government that that abdicate all decision-making to the feds.)

But anywho, read that excerpt again, though.  It reads like a Team Barry press conference: “For Bush and Republican presidential candidate John McCain, Gustav threatens to provide an untimely reminder of Hurricane Katrina.”  Exactly WHAT did McCain do wrong during the Katrina fallout that makes Gustav an “untimely reminder”?  WHAT did McCain do with regards to Katrina that Gustav would remind people of?  Barry O and the Dumbocrats try this whole “Bush-McCain” link, and we’re used to that, but now the comPost is getting on board.  Howard Dean must have faxed them their talking points a little late.

Nope…no liberal media bias!

August 29, 2008 Posted by | hurricanes, Louisiana, media bias | Leave a Comment

Observations from the Obamessiah’s speech

According to The Hill, members of the MSM went into Barry O Cheerleader mode during The One’s speech last night.  CNN’s Wolf Blitzed said that “everyone will remember where they were when Obama made his speech.”  But no, no liberal media bias!

During O’s speech, he offered that “If John McCain wants to have a debate about who has the temperament, and judgment, to serve as the next Commander-in-Chief, that’s a debate I’m ready to have.”  Sure, it’s a debate he’s willing to have…so long as it’s not a town hall format or on a military base.

The Obamination also said “So I’ve got news for you, John McCain. We all put our country first.”  The nominee of the party that has been so heavily invested in defeat; that has so loudly overplayed our country’s setbacks in war; that has so quietly downplayed our country’s victories in war…yeah, sure they put their country first.

You guys remember that liberal bedwetter Andrew?  He was the guy who actually said that there is no “Obama as Messiah” phenomenon going on.  Add this to the pile of proof that already exists to the contrary:

Delores Register, of Oak Park, Ill., took in the scene from the back of the hall, as Obama was encircled by adoring supporters.

“It’s very emotional,” she said. “Very meaningful. Here we were eating lunch, and it was like the clouds parted and the sun was shining in.”

Pitiful.

August 29, 2008 Posted by | hypocrisy, media bias, moonbats, Obama, shameful | 2 Comments

   

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