UPDATE: Hmmm. Maybe I had the wrong Cheney. New Cheney Taking Stage for the G.O.P.
Cheney Palin 2012
(Oderint dum metuant: ‘Let them hate, so long as they fear’)
Nov 12 2008
Sarah Palin 2012?
It was simply a matter of time before rumors started flying that Sarah Palin was seeking to run for President in 2012. In an interview with Greta Van Susteren, Gov Palin said,
VAN SUSTEREN: I would be remiss if I didn’t ask this — 2012, you know what’s going to happen. We’re going to have a 2012.
PALIN: We are going to have a 2012. I don’t know who is going to be a part of it.
You know, I have — faith is a very big part of my life. And putting my life in my creator’s hands — this is what I always do. I’m like, OK, God, if there is an open door for me somewhere, this is what I always pray, I’m like, don’t let me miss the open door.
Show me where the open door is. Even if it’s cracked up a little bit, maybe I’ll plow right on through that and maybe prematurely plow through it, but don’t let me miss an open door.
And if there is an open door in ‘12 or four years later, and if it is something that is going to be good for my family, for my state, for my nation, an opportunity for me, then I’ll plow through that door.
But I can’t predict what’s going to happen. I can’t predict what’s going to happen a day from now, much less four years from now.
Refreshingly, Palin makes no bones about being a social conservative, something John McCain was definitely not. Looking back at election stats since the Reagan years, it’s clear that when Republicans run as conservatives, they win. When they move to the center, they don’t. And when they get in power and then spend like drunken sailors, they lose dramatically. (It’s also interesting to note that when Republicans put together a ticket, they take the big tent, all-things-to-all-people approach, whereas Democrats go for the as-liberal-as-humanly-possible approach.)
I sincerely hope Palin runs, and that she is able to create the grassroots and Republican National Committee support that she will need to put her over the top.
For now, I’ll give our president-elect some time and see whether he attempts to recreate this country as a repressive socialist welfare state. If he marches down that road, he’ll only make it easier for Gov Palin in the next election cycle.
Oct 31 2008
A Public Endorsement
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.
Oct 29 2008
The Fringe Has Spoken
Not that it’s a surprise, but…
Mmmkay. And the reason we should pay any attention to Grace Jones is because … ?
(HT: Drudge)
Oct 15 2008
I See a Pattern Here…
People come here looking for a lot of different things, but I’m beginning to see a pattern here. These are the searches that brought people here in the last hour and a half…
Oct 14 2008
You Can Help Stop PDS
Gov. Sarah Palin during a news conference in Anchorage
The more I watch the news and read political blogs, the more I am convinced that a significant portion of the population suffers from PDS – Palin Derangement Syndrome. It’s a painfully debilitating disease that prevents coherent thought and causes its sufferers to babble like psychopathic monkeys.
The thing that saddens me the most is that suffers don’t come to their position based on a sober analysis of her background or even of her advocacy for John McCain, but from a mindless visceral hatred. PDS is infectious and spreads rapidly among like-minded individuals.
Some of the most bitter examples I’ve seen have been in response to one of my posts from May 2008 (long before John McCain picked her as his running mate). It was entitled Sarah Palin for President, because I suggested that even a then-unknown governor from Alaska was a better conservative choice for president than John McCain. [That said, he's our candidate and you have 'dance with the one who brung ya', so I will hold my nose and vote for him.]
If McCain manages to get elected, it will be because Gov Palin and other conservatives will have dragged him across the finish line against his will. Sarah Palin is definitely the right VP candidate. Now if we only had a presidential candidate who was interested in winning in November…
Oct 02 2008
Palin/Biden Debate
If there was a winner in the VP candidates‘ debate tonight, it was probably Gov Palin, but I don’t think she hit it out of the park as many hoped. Biden tried not to step on himself and did a reasonable job of that, but came across sounding like a standard DC party hack. Palin seemed to fluster Biden several times, and maintained the ‘aww shucks’ small-town middle-America persona that she does so well. We’ll see if it all translates to a poll bounce for Palin-McCain.
AP Photo
Sep 29 2008
Vote for Palin (and That Other Guy)
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 23 2008
Upcoming Smears of Sarah Palin
Sisyphus at Nihilist in Golf Pants got a hot tip on the scheduled smears of Sarah Palin by the MSM:
11. She once shot a man in Reno just to watch him die
10. She refuses to use Susan B. Anthony dollars
9. She cut off Ted Kennedy and forced his car off the Chappaquiddick Bridge
8. She has a violently insane son chained up in her basement
7. She had an affair with her teenage gardener
6. She shot a guy in the face while bird hunting and then blackmailed Dick Cheney into taking the blame
5. She convinced Carl Pohlad that there was no need to shore up the Twins bullpen
4. She founded the Crab Orchard, West Virginia branch of the KKK
3. She piloted one of the planes that was crashed into the World Trade Center
2. She thinks there are only 50 states in the union
1. She has never read a single book in the Oprah book club
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