Sarah Palin and Maggie Thatcher

We saw something special tonight. Palin drew an arrow, took aim at her detractors, and hit her target. Win or lose in November, Sarah Palin and John McCain have changed the dynamic of the Republican Party.  I firmly believe that they will revive the challenge for leadership in the cultural tug of war in America.

Palin made direct challenges to Obama and shifted the Republican Party into a populist mode. She eviscerated the train wreck of the MSM. She brought respectability to normality. An iron lady, maybe so. It was fun to watch.

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Sarah Palin gets the spiteful Margaret Thatcher treatment
By Janet Daley Telegraph
Last Updated: 12:01am BST 04/09/2008

There are few sights more bloodcurdling than the liberal pack in full cry. The viciousness of the attacks on Sarah Palin is a testimony to the degree of panic her appointment has generated in Leftist circles.

It would seem that it is only sexist to trash a woman candidate if she is a Woman Candidate, which is to say a liberal.

It took about 20 minutes after John McCain announced her as his running mate for the attack machine to mobilise: woman candidate (bleep, bleep), no previous warning (nee-naw, nee-naw), exterminate, exterminate.

At first, it was pretty tenuous stuff: her husband had once been caught on a drink-drive charge - when he was 22 years old. You don't say. In blue-collar America, having only one drink-drive offence pretty much qualifies you as a Grade A wimp.

Then the piranhas got hold of a real prize (or so they thought): the 17-year-old daughter of this Christian Evangelical family was pregnant.

Yes, these things happen - and this particular thing happens quite a lot among the working-class American families that Mrs Palin personifies. She and her daughter are being true to their convictions: the girl will have her baby and marry her boyfriend. There will be no abortion or adoption.

The Palin family will offer them love, compassion and support. What's your problem? Christianity (even of the Evangelical sort) does not expect human beings to be faultless: it demands only that they make amends for their transgressions and accept responsibility for them.

The Evangelical churches have made it their particular mission in recent years to support teenage mothers and urge their families to stand by them. So where is the shame in this situation?

Now those who are not of the Palins' religious persuasion may well feel that it is wrong to allow a 17-year-old to marry and start a family. If one of my daughters had become pregnant at the age of 17, would I have advised her to have the baby and marry the father? No, I would not.

Do I respect the decision of another mother and daughter to make that choice based on their own values? Yes, I do. And that - as far as I am concerned - is what it means to be a "liberal". Which brings us to the subject of those hokey old redneck values that the Guardian and the blogosphere find so amusing (or pernicious, depending on their degree of dedication).

I personally am, and always have been, fervently pro-choice on abortion. I do not consider this to be the only sanctified Woman's point of view because I am aware that huge numbers of women disagree with me.

Whenever I touch on the subject, they write in and tell me so, often in eloquent and passionate terms. But according to the official feminist sisterhood (which was taken over by the totalitarian Marxist tendency long ago) you can represent the views of Women only if you accept the tenets of their ideology. Ergo, Mrs Palin is not a Woman Candidate.

She is a renegade, the gender equivalent of an Uncle Tom. In the US, her position is particularly incendiary because it is part of the culture war between metropolitan liberals and provincial America: that vast fly-over country where people (or "folks", as they call themselves) still live by the standards the Palin family embodies. Life is about hard work and hard play.

They hunt with guns from childhood. They talk about sin (and redemption) in ways that embarrass the urban elite, and they regard patriotism as a fundamental part of their moral code. (It is the liberals' ambivalence about patriotism that they detest most.)

Like Margaret Thatcher before her, Mrs Palin is coming in for both barrels of Left-wing contempt: misogyny and snobbery. Where Lady Thatcher was dismissed as a "grocer's daughter" by people who called themselves egalitarian, Mrs Palin is regarded as a small-town nobody by those who claim to represent "ordinary people".

What the metropolitan sophisticates failed to understand in the 1980s when Thatcher won election after election is even more the case in the US: most (and I do mean most) ordinary people actually believe in the basic decencies, the "small-town values", of family, marital fidelity, and personal responsibility. They believe in and honour them - even if they do not manage to uphold them.

Middle America - of which Alaska is spiritually, if not geographically, a part - builds its life around those ideals and regards commonplace moral lapses as part of the eternal struggle to be good.

The life of small-town USA is based on the principles of those Protestant colonial settlers who founded the nation: hard work, self-improvement, personal faith and family devotion. Mrs Palin speaks to and for them in a way that patronising "liberal" elitists find infuriating.

Sarah Palin Family Welcomed by McCain

"Nervous kid?"

Sarah Palin Can Change History Tonight

Palin is a big game hunter.

Just a quick observation on our previous post. By mid day yesterday, the New York Times had peeled off the Palin family stories one at a time. Even MSNBC criticised their total lapse of decency. The paper is a disgraced rag.

Truth is no longer relevant to most people in the United States. Image and propaganda rule. The New York Times is just another pamphlet of the left with a mission to sell their agenda.

The United States of 2008 is a torn country equally split between two very different views on society and government. The entitlement mentality has spread to the point that blacks are even threatening riot if Obama loses the election. The Republicans, for their part have done a discreditable job in their last eight years of rule. By any measure they should be thrown out of office. The problem is the offerings of Obama and Michelle are unappealing to nearly half the country.

As odd and improbable as it sounds, Sarah Palin finds herself in a pivotal historical position. It will begin or end tonight. I wish her luck.

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September 03, 2008
McCain Pick is Paying Off Big Time
By Patrick Buchanan Real Clear Politics

The risk John McCain took last Friday is comparable to the 72-year-old ex-fighter pilot knocking back two shots and flying his F-16 under the Golden Gate Bridge.

McCain's choice of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin to be his co-pilot was the biggest gamble in presidential history. As of now, it is paying off, big-time.

The sensational selection in Dayton, Ohio, stepped all over the big story from Denver -- Barack Obama's powerful address to 85,000 cheering folks in Mile High Stadium, and 35 million nationally, a speech that vaulted him from a 2-point deficit early in the week to an 8-point margin. Barack had never before reached 49 percent against McCain.

As the Democrats were being rudely stepped on, however, Palin ignited an explosion of enthusiasm among conservatives, Evangelicals, traditional Catholics, gun owners and Right to Lifers not seen in decades.

By passing over his friends Joe Lieberman and Tom Ridge, and picking Palin, McCain has given himself a fighting chance of winning the White House that, before Friday morning, seemed to be slipping away. Indeed, the bristling reaction on the left testifies to Democratic fears that the choice of Palin could indeed be a game-changer in 2008.

Liberals howl that Palin has no experience, no qualifications to be president of the United States. But the lady has more executive experience than McCain, Joe Biden and Obama put together.

None of them has ever started or run a business as Palin did. None of them has run a giant state like Alaska, which is larger than California and Texas put together. And though Alaska is not populous, Gov. Palin has as many constituents as Nancy Pelosi or Biden.

She has no foreign policy experience, we are told. And though Alaska's neighbors are Canada and Russia, the point is valid. But from the day she takes office, Palin will get daily briefings and sit on the National Security Council with the president and secretaries of state, treasury and defense.

She will be up to speed in her first year.

And her experience as governor of Alaska, dealing with the oil industry and pipeline agreements with Canada, certainly compares favorably with that of Barack Obama, a community organizer who dealt in the mommy issues of food stamps and rent subsidies.

Where Obama has poodled along with the Daley Machine, Palin routed the Republican establishment, challenging and ousting a sitting GOP governor before defeating a former Democratic governor to become the first female and youngest governor in state history.

For his boldness in choosing Palin, McCain deserves enormous credit. He has made an extraordinary gesture to conservatives and the party base, offering his old antagonists a partner's share in his presidency. And his decision is likely to be rewarded with a massive and enthusiastic turnout for the McCain-Palin ticket. Rarely has this writer encountered such an outburst of enthusiasm on the right.

In choosing Palin, McCain may also have changed the course of history as much as Ike did with his choice of Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan did with his choice of George H.W. Bush. For should this ticket win, Palin will eclipse every other Republican as heir apparent to the presidency and will have her own power base among Lifers, Evangelicals, gun folks and conservatives -- wholly independent of President McCain.

A traditional conservative on social issues, Palin has become, overnight, the most priceless political asset the movement has. Look for the neocons to move with all deliberate speed to take her into their camp by pressing upon her advisers and staff, and steering her into the AEI-Weekly Standard-War Party orbit.

Indeed, if McCain defeats Barack, 2012 could see women on both national tickets, and given McCain's age and the possibility he intends to serve a single term, women at the top of both -- Sarah vs. Hillary.

The arrival of Palin on the national scene, with her youth, charisma and vitality, probably also portends a changing of the guard in Washington.

With Republicans having zero chance of capturing either House, and but a slim chance of avoiding losses in both, a Vice President Palin, with her reputation as a rebel and reformer, would surely inspire similar revolts in the Republican caucuses.

As Thomas Jefferson said, from time to time, a little rebellion in the political world is as necessary as storms in the physical.

The Palin nomination could backfire, but it is hard to see how. She has passed her first test, her introduction to the nation, with wit and grace. And the Obama-Biden ticket, having already alienated millions of women with the disrespecting of Hillary, is unlikely to start attacking another woman whose sole offense is that she had just been given the chance to break the glass ceiling at the national level.

Her nomination, which will bring the Republican right home, also frees up McCain to appeal to moderates and liberals, which has long been his stock in trade.

With his selection of Sarah Palin, John McCain has not only shaken up this election, he may have helped shape the future of the United States -- and much for the better.

Sarah Palin and the New York Times, The Real Bastards and Whores

So many years, so much sanctimony, and all the time the "Gray Lady" was nothing but a duplicitous bitch. The lectures, the indignation, the snide insinuations, the double standards, the pious "All the news that's fit to print.", the averted eyes of a smirking trollop, now so obvious, now so vile.

Her journalistic styles and integrity best exemplified by the rouged drag queen Frank Rich. Expensive perfume on an unclean body and filthy sheets her new signature. There is no gutter smelly enough nor sewer fowl enough for the New York Times. The New York Times exposes, with glee and on page one, above the fold and far to the left, the repeated tale of an unwed pregnant seventeen year old girl. The seventeen year old, picked by fate and the New York Times to be the subject of scrutiny and barely repressed delight.

God damn them all.
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The top three stains on the Ho's sheets:

Disclosures on Palin Raise Questions on Vetting Process
By ELISABETH BUMILLER
The disclosure that Gov. Sarah Palin’s daughter was pregnant was one of several revelations that called into question how thoroughly Senator John McCain had screened her.

NEWS ANALYSIS
In Political Realm, ‘Family Problem’ Emerges as Test
By ADAM NAGOURNEY
Republicans rallied around Gov. Sarah Palin, but the disclosure of her teenage daughter’s pregnancy brought uncertainty.

Palin Daughter’s Pregnancy Interrupts Script
By MONICA DAVEY
As people began learning about Gov. Sarah Palin, they were piecing together a portrait of her family life. it helps prolong life or prevent heart attacks.
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This is not Francisco Pizarro

A list of 20 famous illegitimate children including poets, actors, authors, popes, and statesmen whose parents were not married.

20 Illegitimate Children

1. Guillaume Apollinaire. Poet.

2. Sarah Bernhardt. Actress.

3. Giovanni Boccaccio. Author.

4. Cesare Borgia. Catholic cardinal.

5. Aleksandr Borodin. Composer.

6. Pope Clement VII. Spiritual head of the Catholic Church.

7. Leonardo da Vinci. Artist.

8. Josephine de Beauharnais. Napoleon's wife.

9. Frederick Douglass. Abolitionist.

10. Alexandre Dumas, fils. Novelist and playwright.

11. Desiderius Erasmus. Scholar and author.

12. Alexander Hamilton. U.S. Secretary of the Treasury.

13. Jenny Lind. Singer.

14. Marilyn Monroe. Actress.

15. Bernardo O'Higgins. Dictator.

16. Francisco Pizarro. Conqueror of Peru.

17. James Smithson. Chemist and inceptor of Smithsonian Institution.

18. August Strindberg. Playwright.

19. Richard Wagner. Composer.

20. William the Conqueror. First Norman ruler.

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Progressives Reveal Their Motivation and Agenda for Obama

Do not do anything to endanger the candidacy. Win first. Things the Democrats kept from the dopey American public:



The power and wisdom of the Palin choice for vice-president is that hopefully, there are still enough Americans that can see with their own eyes what the genuine article looks like.

The facade created by the Democrats is to cover there decisions to go on the offense in radically changing America. It is a radical revolution conducted with an evolutionary strategy. So far it has worked. The Left has captured the American education system and owns the federalization of social services. No conventional Republican has been able to roll back a single progressive or leftist program. The progressives sense danger in Palin.

Maybe I am reading too much into her, but based on the rising vitriol against her there is a real fear factor about her ability to swing this election. The black callers on c-span, who now dominate the call-ins, are almost hysterical seeing this white woman as taking away their savior.

McCain Has Kerry Unhinged

MSM on the Early Hunt to Take Down Palin

White Republican Conservative Woman Need Not Apply

The Process Begins. All the usual suspects are falling into formation to do their skullduggery. When the Divine One appeared they sought a magical garden in Kenya, but Palin being a white woman, a regular American from a real ordinary decent family, they are looking for Palin's dirty thongs. Here are the coordinated efforts of their weekend work:


Palin relied on earmark system she now opposes
-Los Angeles Times - 2 hours ago

The governor's past practice on earmarks stands in contrast to the views of her running mate, a researcher at a watchdog group says.

Account of a Bridge’s Death Slightly Exaggerated -New York Times

Palin "bridge to nowhere" line angers many Alaskans -Reuters
--Washington Post - USA Today - The Associated Press - CBS News