Nov 04 2008
John McCain has conceded, so it looks like like we’re in for our first socialist president. Any guesses how much the Obamessiah will raise taxes in the first year alone? I don’t even want to contemplate it.
I guess that means I have to actually return to substantive blogging now…
Oct 31 2008
Not that it should be a surprise, but for all the right reasons I hereby publicly endorse John McCain to be our next President and Sarah Palin to be our Vice President. There is simply too much at stake to allow this country to fall into the hands of dangerous radical socialists.
Sep 29 2008
For the record, John McCain is the Republican nominee for president. I support John McCain because Fred Thompson decided that running for president wasn’t worth his time and the Republicans couldn’t find any decent social conservatives. McCain’s (or Karl Rove’s, depending who you ask) stroke of genius was to bring Sarah Palin onto the ticket, thereby garnering the social conservative vote and the Hillary/PUMA vote. Despite my misgivings about McCain, he stands head-and-shoulders above the Obamessiah, and I will gladly vote for him.
(Sticker courtesy of five feet of fury and e-junkie.com)
Sep 16 2008
Tim Blair has noticed a common theme in remarks about Gov Palin. See if you can make it out:
John McCain’s heart has completed about 1,800,000 successful beats since he named Sarah Palin as his running mate. The politico-commentary community sweats on a failed heartbeat:
• “John McCain put the former mayor of a town of 9,000 with zero foreign policy experience a heartbeat away from the presidency.”
• “Is this really who the Republican Party wants to be one heartbeat away from the Presidency?”
• “I’m stunned (and insulted as a citizen) that McCain feels he can place a heartbeat away from the Presidency a hard-core creationist with NO foreign policy experience or even positions.”
• “If McCain wins, the next vice president would be a heartbeat away from a man in his seventies.”
• “It’s stunning that someone with so little national and international experience might be heartbeat away from the presidency.”
• “If a vice-president is by destiny a heartbeat away from the presidency, what are we to make of a person who is not known to the public at large?”
• “No remotely serious politician—no honest patriot—would think of placing this individual a heartbeat away from the Oval Office.”
• “Do we really want her a heartbeat away from a 73 year old president with a history of skin cancer?”
• “This is the person who is to be one heartbeat away from the Presidency?”
• “If the Republicans win the general election in November, she will be just the proverbial heartbeat away from replacing Mr McCain, 72 and a cancer survivor, as president of the USA.”
• “It is frightening that John McCain would select someone one heartbeat away from the presidency who supported a man who embodies vitriolic anti-Israel sentiments.”
Continue reading “Just a Heartbeat Away”
Sep 15 2008
It’s obviously premature to pop the corks on the electoral champagne, but it looks like the Obama campaign’s death spiral keeps deepening. This is the latest RealClearPolitics Electoral College map showing the number of electoral votes from each state, and which way the state is likely to vote, based on recent polling data. In the past, many of the now toss-up states were leaning to Obama. Many states that were solidly Obama’s are now only leaning that direction. The reason so much of this map is red is that the Obama campaign is hemorrhaging dramatically. Gov Palin’s popularity and Obama’s/Biden’s/MSM’s missteps are threatening to turn Obama into a modern-day Michael Dukakis.
Sep 12 2008
Here’s the latest Intrade chart on the probability of each candidate winning the presidential election. My, how things have changed. Is it any wonder the Left has become so intolerably shrill and confused recently?
Sep 08 2008
The Palin for President blog has links to all sorts of McCain/Palin, Palin/McCain, and Sarah Palin goodies at CafePress (here and here). Here are a few of my favorites:
Sep 08 2008
Well, we tried to get to the McCain-Palin event at the Colorado Springs airport this weekend, but the fire marshall shut the doors before we got in. We ended up catching both Palin’s and McCain’s speeches on the radio. McCain’s was pretty good, while Palin’s was mostly a retread of what she said at the RNC (“I sold the plane on ebay”, etc.) Both were good stump speeches designed to fire up the base, which was something that I didn’t think McCain had in him. It’s comforting to see the huge bounce in the polls (USA Today, Zogby, Gallup).
While I wasn’t overwhelmed by her speech, Gov Palin is very clearly turning this race around. The title of a recent MSNBC article speaks for itself (McCain-Palin becoming Palin-McCain). Already there are Palin for President: 2012 websites popping up. That’s a good thing for McCain, but I’d like to see how she handles the rough-and-tumble world of presidential campaigning and then the day-to-day politics of life in DC. I’m confident that she will rise to the occasion, but Washington, DC isn’t Juneau.
An interesting side note is that several of my posts on Sarah Palin are getting notice from the fringe left, including the Daily Kos. If we’re stirring these guys up, that’s probably a good thing. One of my favorites is this one, which for some reason gives me credit for this graphic. It’s not mine, and I’ll reserve judgment on the good governor before I decide whether she’s presidential material, but it’s pretty cool, nonetheless. [UPDATE: see attribution in picture caption.]
Palin 2012 Graphic created by J Wilhide, Liberally Beautiful Blogs (http://www.liberallybeautiful.blogspot.com) For fair use, it is not to be reproduced in any fashion without permission of the author.
