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Fri Sep 5 15:29:49 EDT 2008

Herb,

Here ya go, http://shop.cafepress.com/design/29867821.

Keep piling on her, MSM, your smears are really working!

http://news.yahoo.com/s/rasmussen/20080905/pl_rasmussen/palinpower20080905

Brad

On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 1:31 PM, Herb Parsons <hparsons at parsonsys.com> wrote:
> Isn't it amazing the different perspective of the foreign press (and the
> Times isn't exactly a conservative rag)? Here, she's being "bogged down"
> with controversy (yeah, if you consider a horse swatting a fly off his
> rump as "bogged down"), and there she gave a "thrilling convention speech"
>
> I'm sure it's because all those Brits are gun-toting NASCAR attending
> rednecks though...
>
> Oh, and didn't the Times slam it to our MSM?
> "chauvinist condescension and gutter-crawling journalistic intrusion"
>
> As soon as I can find a Palin/McCain sign (and no, it's not a typo) it's
> going up on my yard!
>
> Brad, you're an entrepreneur, order up some Palin/McCain (or even
> Palin/(who's McCain?)) bumper stickers, watch 'em sell.
>
> Brad Haslett wrote:
>> Robert,
>>
>> McCain had his first meeting with the SarahCuda back in February, so
>> if he gets upstaged, he has no one to blame but himself.  Murkowski
>> passed her over as the appointment to his Senate seat in favor of his
>> daughter and that bit him in the ass big time. She didn't just beat
>> him for Governor in the primaries, she smoked him, then took aim at
>> the former Democratic Governor candidate and put him away with a clean
>> kill.  Moose isn't the only thing she has a deadly aim for. They've
>> been trying to get that gas pipeline built in Alaska for years and
>> Sarah got tired of pussy-footing around with the oil executives and
>> put it out for bid, same as the Governors jet, and guess what, it's
>> being built.  There was a great line in her speech about her parents
>> raising her to believe there wasn't a door a woman couldn't walk
>> through.  Based on the 'good ole boys' experience in Alaska, you
>> better move out of the way of the door if Sarah wants to walk through
>> or you'll get flattened. If McCain makes it to the White House, I hope
>> he gives her this task as her first job, "Sarah, Pelosi hasn't done
>> jack about 'draining the swamp' in two years, go take of that and get
>> back to me next week for a new assignment"  I'm not quite sure if
>> she's the second coming of Ronald Reagan, Margaret Thatcher, or Teddy
>> Roosevelt, but she's a breath of fresh air.  Too bad you have to go
>> overseas to get a good media perspective but I'm attaching The Times
>> of London's take on things.
>>
>> Brad
>>
>> ------------------
>>
>> >From The Times
>> September 5, 2008
>> Sarah Palin: it's go west, towards the future of conservatism
>> Her thrilling convention speech showed that the Governor of Alaska is
>> a force to reckoned with. But she might be more than that
>> Gerard Baker
>>
>> The best line I heard about Sarah Palin during the frenzied orgy of
>> chauvinist condescension and gutter-crawling journalistic intrusion
>> that greeted her nomination for vice-president a week ago came from a
>> correspondent who knows a thing or two about Alaska.
>>
>> "What's the difference between Sarah Palin and Barack Obama?"
>>
>> "One is a well turned-out, good-looking, and let's be honest, pretty
>> sexy piece of eye-candy.
>>
>> "The other kills her own food."
>>
>> Now we know, thanks to her triumphant debut at the Republican
>> convention on Wednesday, that Mrs Palin not only slaughters her prey.
>> She impales its head on a stick and parades it around for her
>> followers to jeer at. For half an hour she eviscerated Mr Obama in
>> that hall and did it all without dropping her sweet schoolmarm smile,
>> as if she were handing out chocolates at the end of a history lesson.
>>
>> There's a powerful danger in the sheer thrill that has followed her
>> astonishing performance that we could get carried away with John
>> McCain's running-mate. Some of the coverage has a hyperbolic tone to
>> it. Not since Paris handed that apple to Aphrodite has a man's
>> selection of a woman had such implications for the future of our
>> civilisation.
>>
>> So let's stipulate one obvious and important piece of wisdom about US
>> elections. The choice of a vice-presidential candidate rarely makes
>> much of a difference. The pundit class waxes historical in the
>> excitement of the moment but usually the vice-presidential choices go
>> back to playing second banana. However mawkishly we dwell on the
>> mortality of the presidential contenders, it is they who determine the
>> voters' decision.
>>
>> This one, to be fair, could be different. For at least the next few
>> weeks the press will follow Mrs Palin's present and dig deeper into
>> her past, still hoping for some morsel of stupidity or evidence of
>> cupidity to doom her. But in the end, barring such a discovery, this
>> is still an Obama-McCain contest.
>>
>> But let me try to explain why Mrs Palin, whatever impact she might
>> have in November, may be a figure of real consequence in our lives.
>>
>> It's partly about what she represents and partly about what she has
>> already done, but mostly about where she and her ilk might take the
>> Republicans - and possibly America.
>>
>> It never ceases to amaze me how the Left falls again and again into
>> the old trap of underestimating politicians whom they don't
>> understand. From Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher to George Bush
>> and Mrs Palin, they do it every time. Because these characters talk a
>> bit funny and have ridiculously antiquated views about faith, family
>> and nation, because they haven't spent time bending the knee to the
>> intellectual metropolitan elites, they can't be taken seriously.
>>
>> So the general expectation was that Mrs Palin would stumble on to the
>> stage in high heels, clutching her sprawling, slightly odd family
>> (five children! how weird), mispronounce the name of the Russian Prime
>> Minister, mutter a few platitudes about God, and disappear for ever to
>> a deafening chorus of sniggers.
>>
>> No one paid much attention to the fact that she had been elected
>> governor of a state. Or that she got to that office not because,
>> unlike some politicians I could mention, her husband had been there
>> before her, or because she bleated continuously about glass ceilings,
>> but by challenging the entrenched interests in her own party and
>> beating them. In almost two years as Governor she has cleaned out the
>> Augean stables of Alaskan Government. You don't win a statewide
>> election and enjoy approval ratings of more than 80 per cent without
>> real political talent.
>>
>> Never mind all that. She didn't have a passport! She was a former
>> beauty queen! It was so axiomatic that she was a disaster that I was
>> told by lots of savvy men - with deliciously unconscious sexism - that
>> the real problem was what the choice said about Mr McCain and his
>> judgment: cynical, irresponsible, clueless. It was as if Mrs Palin
>> wasn't really a human being at all, but an article of Mr McCain's
>> clothing that showed his poor taste, like wearing brown shoes with a
>> charcoal suit.
>>
>> So here's why she matters.
>>
>> First of all she offers an opportunity for an ailing Republican party
>> to reconnect with ordinary Americans. She's conservative, but her
>> conservatism is not that of the intolerant, uncomprehending white male
>> sort that has so hurt the party in recent years. She is much closer to
>> a model of the lives of ordinary Americans - working mother,
>> plainspoken everywoman juggling home and office - than any Republican
>> leader in memory.
>>
>> The contrast with Mr Obama is especially powerful. The very fact that
>> Mrs Palin didn't go to elite schools but succeeded nonetheless - the
>> very ordinariness with which she so piquantly jabbed Mr Obama on
>> Wednesday - is what will make her so appealing to Americans. And as a
>> pro-life conservative she debunks in one swoop the enduring myth that
>> all women subscribe to the obligatory nostrums of radical feminism.
>>
>> But there's more to it than that.
>>
>> The Republicans have decided that they are not going to make the
>> mistake Hillary Clinton made and run against the effervescent Mr Obama
>> on the premise of experience.
>>
>> Experience hasn't got Americans into a very comfortable place. They
>> want change. Before he signed up to some of the less attractive
>> Republican attitudes this year, Mr McCain's career had embodied that
>> change - the anti-establishment candidate running against his own
>> party. Now he is joined by a woman who, in her short career, has done
>> the same thing.
>>
>> Democrats think that Mr McCain, with the social conservative Mrs
>> Palin, will launch an old-fashioned culture war at them, using her
>> appealing manner to drive a populist assault on the familiar
>> Republican issues of God, guns and gays.
>>
>> Perhaps this Manichean interpretation will prove true. But I suspect
>> that it misses the real appeal of the Republican team. The opportunity
>> for McCain-Palin is not reaction, but reform - a reform rooted in a
>> distant conservatism that could be due for a comeback
>>
>> Hailing from Arizona and Alaska, the Republican ticket has a chance to
>> rekindle a western conservatism different from the old Yankee
>> paternalist sort or the Bible Belt version. They like their guns out
>> there (some still kill their own food) and they are pro-life and
>> deeply pro-America, of course. But at a time of grave challenges, the
>> themes of economic freedom and opportunity, the resistance to the idea
>> that government holds all the answers, could resonate with voters.
>>
>> This is an election, as the Democrats have realised all along, about
>> an America on the cusp of change. With the moose-hunting,
>> establishment-taunting Mrs Palin at his side, Mr McCain might
>> represent a bigger change than the one that his opponents are
>> offering.
>>
>> On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 11:47 AM, Robert Skinner
>> <Robert at squirrelhaven.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Figured I'd clean up the pic a little, and guess what I found?
>>>
>>> Tootle wrote:
>>>
>>>> http://www.nabble.com/file/p19332637/Trophy.tif Trophy.tif
>>>>
>>>> Ed K
>>>> Greenville, SC, USA
>>>>
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