The next VP of the United States is making Harry Truman look like a nuclear-bomb piker. Some choice quotes from the speech that will launch a campaign:
“Being mayor of a small town, well, it’s kind of like being a community organiser… with actual responsibility.”
On the press’s smear campaign, to the Washington elite, the press insiders, and those who, under 10 pm CDT, thought quite a lot of themselves:
“I have a newsflash: I’m not going to Washington to seek their good opinion; I”m going to Washington to serve my country.”
Tomorrow morning will be payback time: payback for ruining their afterglow on Friday by taking the country by storm, and payback for giving less of a damn than Rhett Bulter about what they think. Let’s rewind to hear Rudy on whether Palin can be a mom and a VP:
“When do they ever ask a man that question? When?”
Anyway, Palin on energy:
“Take it form a gal who knows the North Slope of Alaska: we have more than enough of both [oil and natural gas].”
Did we also mention that she hunts? Now, for the sorry campaign that was Barack Obama’s attempt at the Presidency:
“We don’t want a candidate who tells us one thing in Scranton, Pennsylvania, and then another thing in San Francisco.”
Sorry, Barack, but our NRA-loving’ girl hasn’t forgotten your diss about “clinging to their guns and their religion.” Rudy hasn’t forgotten it either, which is why he gave us this gem:
“I’m sorry that Obama didn’t think [Palin’s] hometown was… cosmopolitan enough.”
Now, Palin on the Obama campaign:
“There are some who use change to promote their careers; there are some, like John McCain, who use their careers to promote change.”
Note to Obama: this woman sold Alaska’s governor’s jet on eBay to balance the budget. You tried painting Miss Caribou Hunter as a Washington insider, as if the K-street cronies go up to Georgetown for moose stew.
(I may have gotten this one wrong) “Barack Obama has written two memoirs, but not a single piece of memorable legislation, not even a reform!”
For the grand finale:
“My fellow citizens, the American Presidency is not supposed to be a journey of self-discovery.”
Woo-hoo! One of my friends, who was there, said that he is certain that he was looking at the first female President of the United States.
As always… feel free to leave some Sarah-love in the comments. (I would especially love the exact “moving the waters and healing the world” quote.)
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I don’t get the big deal about her being a hunter. So what? I know a bazillion girls in Northern Minnesota that hunt and field dress their own game. Many of them liberal, especially by Palin’s criteria.
If that’s a rock-solid Conservative credential, then I’m a Republican too!
On fact, does she process the entire animal herself including grinding the hamburger? ’cause if not, I’m obviously more conservative than she is.
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The speech was a home run.
As for the big deal about being a hunter, many Conservatives are too. I’m not a hunter, though of all the wild game, moose is the tastiest I’ve had.
The MSM did a great job at lowering America’s expectations of the Barracuda before the speech, which made it seem all the more awesome. I can hardly wait till she goes on The View and chews those ladies up and spits ‘em out.
Oh, congrats Teresa on becoming a Republican — I thought that speech would make a few converts.
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Teresa,
Even though I’ve been a vegetarian for ten years, I just think that it’s cool as heck when anyone, liberal or conservative, goes out, bonds with nature, and bags their own food. (Nothing against modern agriculture and the fact that we’re no longer hunter-gatherers, mind you - I just think it’s cool.)
The moose stew thing is, to this Boston-bred girl, cool. So I give my kudos, too, to your liberal friends in MN.
Sunflower,
Exactly right. It’s like telling people she’s a Little League player, then watching her hit one over the Green Monster.
Roxeanne and Tammi,
I also am in the process of canning home-made wild grape juice from grapes I picked myself…maybe Im actually a Libertarian?
As for her speech, I listened to it on the radio, and I’m afraid that the whole time, I was just working really hard to listen to her words because I found the tone of voice distracting. She had the exact same speech pattern and inflection as this one popular girl in my school used when she was giving me back-handed compliments about the size of my breasts while actually implying that haveing big breasts made you slut.
I will try to find a transcript and read it. I might have a better reaction then.
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Teresa,
Only if the grapes are neither red nor blue.
Let us know how you feel after reading the transcript.
I’ve got the transcript on my blog. Pretty cool how when the guy at the teleprompter controls fell asleep (or got so jazzed he forgot his duties), Gov. Palin kept rollin’ right along!
Roxanne, is the the quote you were looking for:
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Roxeanne,
The speech was better without her voice in it (for me. I’m sure she has a pleasant voice, it’s just I associate the characteristics of her speaking style with passive-agressive cattiness, and it rubs me the wrong way.)
Generally, I think it’s the usual “getting-to-know-me” speech…setting up the image she wants to project. Her characterizations of herself and Obama were simplistic and while not entierly true, they were also not entierly false, from what I can tell (for instance, the “Bridge to Nowhere” thing. She was for it before she was against it, but since she was against it last, that’s fair enough I guess. People can change their minds. If she had claimed to have opposed it from the beginning, that would have been a problem.)
Another example is Obama’s supposed plan to raise the long list of different taxes when actually his plan calls for a reorganization of the tax burden, shifting some of the middle-class burden to the upper tax brackets. His projection is a 5% decrease in taxes for the middle class and a 3% increase in family incomes over $250,000.
It is arguable if his numbers were computed correctly, or if the shift is wise…but the way she said it was not terribly accurate.
Not that big of a deal, its normal to pull that sort of thing, and frankly, the audience demands it. Kerry tried to not do stuff like that, and he just ended up making things so complicated that it was easy to misrepresent him, and he ended up fumbeling his speech a lot. Politicians have to keep it simple in order to get the sharp-sounding sound-bites, and they sacrifice accuracy to do it.
Her description of McCain sounds more like the McCain I grew up respecting and liking…but doesn’t really sound much like the guy I’ve seen on TV in the past decade.
Her jabs at community organizers seems gratuitous and petty. there are conservative community organizers too. Although I’m sure that the organizer for our local Taxpayers of America Chapter don’t think of himself that way.
She seemed to be demeaning service that helps people work with the political system to bring their issues forward. Which is a weird attitude for someone to have when they are trying to paint her opposition elitist and herself as not.
Especially with the history of certain promenant Republicans outright saying that eliminationist and stealth tactics were the best and most effective way to move the conservative agenda forward.
It seems if you want to be a candidate “of the people” you would distance yourself from elminationist attitudes and at least make a nod at community organizing as being worhtwhile rather than mocking a job that focuses on informing and motivating people to bring their issues forward.
That stood out to me as a strange choice, but it doesn’t seem to have hurt her with the base.
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It didn’t really explain to me why the Bob-Jones types are so ecstatic over her that suddenly the people who were ready to vote for Hillary rather than McCain because of the social conservative issues suddenly have stars in their eyes for McCain. I can imagine…but she didn’t give any hints.
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Teresa,
Thanks for your (as always) thoughtful comments.
As for the tax thing: I know that Barack says that he will rearrange the tax burden, so I was surprised to hear her say what she did say. However, I’ve heard that the actual proposed system would result in a net increase for more than the top 5% of earners. It would also increase corporate taxes, which are generally passed through to the consumer via increased prices and, of course, job loss (especially to overseas companies that don’t have our tax system - but that’s another blog post for another time, and it takes an international tax specialist to properly explain it).
That, of course, assumes that Barack increases spending and decreases taxes. In reality, to pay for the programmes that he is suggesting, there would need to be a massive increase in taxes.
Now, from my perspective, I don’t equate income with wealth. Y’all are lucky to have gone to school in a time when a year of school cost about 500 times the minimum wage (for an hour of work). For us, six figures of student loan debt is the norm. You can earn $150,000/year and not be remotely well-off. Comfortable, yes, but once the government is done with taxes, and once you’ve spent your post-tax $$ on $20,000/year of student loans, there’s not much left. So, to me, this whole “tax the rich” thing is irksome - from either party.
I have HUGE problems with Presidential candidates who make promises about taxes. See, thing is, the Executive branch does not make the tax structure. It may propose bills in Congress to change it, but it may not, by itself (or even through its own branch) do so. IMHO, pisses me off when either side does it.
The context is that Barack Obama parades his credentials for the Presidency, which include being a community organiser. He then took quite a few shots at Palin for being mayor of a small town (omitting her gubernatorial experience and her work with Alaska Oil & Gas). Her shots at “community organisers” were pure revenge - and were really shots at Obama, whom she rarely mentioned by name when making shots at (i.e. the Styrofoam columns).
First of all, I was a McCain Supporter … until he chose Sarah Palin as his running mate. My reservations about Sarah Palin have nothing to do with the fact that she has young kids. I admire the fact that she is doing her bit to populate Alaska :-). My real problem with Sarah Palin is that she is a hypocrite. On the one hand, she appeals to Christian conservatives with her “family values” pitch but on the other.. she seems to be running a marathon to break most of the 10 commandments over and over and over again. She has admitted to smoking dope, she had her first child 8 months after she got married - you do the math, she has used the powers of her political office to settle personal scores with members of her extended family, she is using state funds to pay someone who is essentially her family lawyer to represent her in court, she wants to defile Alaskan wilderness with by allowing her friends in the oil lobby to drill oil wells there (showing her total lack of regard for God’s will for us to protect and preserve tha habitat that He has blessed us with), and she lies through her teeth when it comes to throwing unfounded accusations against her opponents - republicans and democrats alike. Some of my friends from church think she sets a very bad role model for young women - by engaging in premarital sex herself and celebrating her young daughter’s choice to do the same; and by choosing to bring a child with Down Syndrome into this world by choosing to have unprotected sex while in in her 40’s when she ought to know better!
“by choosing to bring a child with Down Syndrome into this world by choosing to have unprotected sex while in in her 40’s when she ought to know better!”
I don’t see how that breaks any commandment. I suppose she could have destroyed Trig in utero, but that doesn’t seem Biblical either.
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Lol Jill! That’s funny. Funny that you’re the only one coming across as a self righteous hypocrite. You’re really that disturbed by her supposed premarital sex over 20 years ago? That’s hilarious.
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Neil,
Good point.
Tammi,
Haemet has the cutest bunch of trolls around these days. Did I inadvertently summon them by reading too much Terry Pratchett?!?
Anyway, the Ten Commandments (Roxy’s abbreviated version):
1. You shall not have no other gods before me
2. No graven images
3. Don’t take the Lord’s name in vain
4. Keep the Sabbath holy
5. Honour your father and mother
6. Do not murder
7. No adultery
8. No stealing
9. No false witness against your neighbour
10. No coveting your neighbour’s wife, house, or cows
Ya know, I heard about this one time that Sarah Palin carved a graven image of a caribou into ice… with her teeth. And named it “Momma Heath.”
Hi Roxeanne,
You apparently left out the Thou shalt not have unprotected sex after the age of 40 with thou husband.
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Well, Tammi, I have an American Standard Bible, a NIV, and KJV.
Could you kindly point me to that place? I’ll tell my mum to repent for having my brother after age 40. Gosh, sin comes in the cutest packages.
I love how quick self-righteous, self-labeled “former Republicans” are to believe any rumor that comes around and to judge Sarah Palin and her family. As if anyone on earth is absolutely flawless and does everything right the first time? As if the media has provided any solid evidence on ANY of their claims against the Palins?
As fun as the Palin Facts are, I do not worship Sarah Palin as if she is some immortal holy being (like say, Chuck Norris or Obama). Rather, I appreciate her honesty and her down-to-earth nature and her VALUES that she has a record of upholding in elected office. And I admire and am inspired by her success as a working mother, an up-and-coming conservative woman.
Forget teenage pregnancy and mooseburgers, the working mother stint is what really has the liberals pissed.
Tieki Rae, aka The Baby Whisperer,
It’s the working mother part - running the world and having enough kids running around to field a basketball team - that makes you say, “I want to be her in 20 years!”
I need to get married in the next 11 1/2 years, lest I turn 40 before having any children!
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Well, Tieki and I will just have to play matchmaker, then.
fuck all you conservatives
Are you a conservative in disguise, trying to make the Left look worse?