Unlike the sheer electric joy I felt and all of my contacts on the Right seemed to experience at the announcement of John McCain's veep pick, the folks at Powerline are dissapointed in Sarah Palin. They love Governor Pawlenty and you can feel it in their posts.
However, in comparing McCain and Palin to Rooster Cogburn and Maddie Ross they have made a tremendous contribution. Peggy Noonan had a column where she compared old America to new America and contrasted McCain and Obama on this. I supported McCain the last time and this time because he strikes me as a carrier of the old American virtues of visceral anti-communism, disdain of effete foreigners and their ways, taciturn indifference to pain and set backs and a loathing of smooth rent seeking hangers on. The comparison to the only movie that got John Wayne an Oscar sealed it for me.
And if you complain about it I will refer it to my lawyer Mr. Lloyd Dogget.
Strangely, Ned Pepper is supporting McCain!
http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/015/473ldzno.asp
Lord, I have to go watch True Grit again.
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That "sheer electric joy" you and your buddies on the the Right experienced upon seeing/hearing McCain's VP pick, former pageant contestant, and fortysomething babe Sarah Palin is called a boner, JJV. Puh-lease. A good-looking woman who can shoot and fish -- and not chip her French manicure?! And tells the world her husband is the man she most admires?! My friend, you have gone to GOP/Conservative heaven.
If she was a dog and came across as shrill, and couldn't shoot straight, though, I doubt you boys would be so "electrified."
What, McCain pander?! A most interesting choice...
J, I believe that portion most excited (so to speak) by the Palin selection could be termed "schwing!" voters.
[does victory lap]
Nope, no smooth rent-seeking hangers-on for McCain, no siree. Outside of most of his staff, anyway.
Once you get your fax from the VWRC I'd be interested in hearing your reasons why, of everyone in the lower 48, upper left 1 and way-out-in-the-Pacific 1, Palin is McCain's best choice for VP. Better hurry before she becomes "former VP pick."
Well, Jeb Bush was unavailable. Actually, given who the swing voters are Palin is one of the best choices. I liked Kasich but he was just a Congressman. Pawlenty does nothing to excite the party or swing voters. Palin unites the Reagan coalition.She is from outside Washington (way outside). She's fought the Republican machine in Alaska which reinforces McCain's image and the full throated roar of the MSM against her is a perfect example of what we Republicans say about them.
Sarah Palin is going to drive the liberals nuts and attacks on her will be attacks on "working moms" by the Democrats. The liberals see the danger but can't help themselves.
My favorite joke on this is they should have spread the rumor it was John Edwards baby and the MSM wouldn't have covered it.
"She fought the Republican machine in Alaska" has already been debunked now several times, including by many Republicans. She ran against a corrupt old Republican who everyone was sick of -- and then became just another pol out to get millions in earmarks for her city and then her state. And yes, Democrats are guilty of that too. What she's got over the other guys/VP candidates is she's more attractive -- and a better shot -- and says all the things you Conservatives want to hear. Give me Joe Biden any day. At least we know about all of his mistakes and miscues.
It has only been "debunked" by left-wingers, in the same breath that they say her 5th child isn't hers, she belonged to a separatist party and backed Pat Buchanan in 2000 (all demonstrably false). She backed the challenger to Rep. Young and he still might prevail. And again, Americans tend to elect Governors to the Presidency because they make decisions every day. Senators talk and vote.
Nice pettifogging with the family trash stuff again - blame the media for the HuffPost garbage, and the rest of it all falls away? Well, the campaign only has to draw it out for 60 days, so maybe it works.
The crazy thing is, she does have some limited reformer cred, but the McCain campaign can't help but go for the big lie, and that undermines their whole point.
JCC
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