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Stick With Sarah
Dick Morris
Sarah Palin's selection will end up as a big win for John McCain. He
has to stay with her and quell any talk of pulling an Eagleton (after
the time when 1972 Democratic nominee George McGovern yanked the plug
on Missouri Sen. Tom Eagleton, who had been his choice for vice
president). McCain and Palin will confound their critics and gain good
yardage in the presidential race.
None of the criticisms of Sarah Palin amounts to any misconduct on her part. Her daughter got pregnant. Her husband had a DWI 20 years ago. Her sister married a bum -- a state trooper -- who admits he shot a tazer gun at his 11-year-old son to instill discipline, and a lot of her friends and family badgered his boss to discharge him. Palin, acting without explanation, but with ample justification and within her authority, fired the trooper's boss. All this comes to a massive, so what?
The important thing about Sarah Palin is her public life. She has rooted out corruption and triggered scandals -- real financial scandals, not salacious personal gossip -- that led to the resignations of the State Republican Party chairman and the attorney general and the defeat of the governor. It is that commitment to exposing corruption, reforming ethics, cutting spending and smashing the insider lobbyist-legislator relationships that dominate Washington that will be on display when Palin speaks out on Wednesday. Voters, anxious to change Washington, will love every minute of it.
And then they will come to grasp the essential difference between McCain and George W. Bush. McCain is an outsider, and Bush, after three generations of Washington breeding, is an insider. McCain chose Palin. Bush chose Dick Cheney.
The attacks on Palin mirror the problems that tens of millions of American women find in their everyday life. To attack them would be to condemn themselves and their own choices in their own lives. Watching Palin standing strong and McCain backing her up will be inspiring to many of them. And the identification of the Democrats with the attacks on her will turn them off.
After Palin speaks, voters will give McCain huge credit for selecting her and standing by her despite the personal attacks. Women throughout the country will empathize with a person who has a difficult family. Single mothers will applaud her attitude toward her own daughter in distress. And the contrast between McCain's toleration and understanding and Barack Obama's refusal even to consider nominating a woman will be apparent to women voters. McCain and Palin will get great credit for being outsiders, not cut from the plastic mould fashioned by political consultants.
Combined with the good public sector performance in the face of Hurricane Gustav -- and the Republican willingness to suspend their convention while the battle raged -- the Palin episode shows the best in the Republican Party and sends a signal that it is under new management. The Republicans, McCain and Palin will come through this crisis in great shape.
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This news arrived on: 09/03/2008
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09-05-2008 04:52
Sunshine49 wrote:
To Gumboboy
You are wrong about the reason they are not drilling here. The real reason is because the EPA and the government have banned the drilling in over half of America for the past 30 years. That's why they didn't build any new refineries. Why build when they had no intention of allowing the drilling. The reason they put a ban on drilling is because they used the mineral rights on all that land as collateral for the money they borrowed. If we start to drill, the countries that hold those loans will demand immediate payment for default. The politicians on both sides have sold out the American public for almost a hundred years -- starting with the Federal Reserve and the IRS. The "unconstitutional" CENTRAL government has to go if the people want the Republic of the United States back again. I will never vote for more taxes and MORE government control under Obama/Biden.
09-05-2008 04:43
Pittbull wrote:
Gumboboy the genius
Gumboboy: I will try to use small words. I do not doubt that the figures for Obama's "tax cut plan" are accurate.
I AM SAYING OBAMA HAS NO INTENTION OF EVEN TRYING TO PUT A TAX CUT THROUGH IF ELECTED.
I base this not on "Republican Bull" but on history. NO DEMOCRAT SINCE JFK has cut taxes. Maybe you'd like to tell us how the democratic congress will support this great tax cut you claim Obama supports.
Your arguements about energy policy are all wrong & easily disproved. You say the oil companies drill overseas because of cheap labor when the news is FULL of the debate over domestic drilling.
THE OIL COMPANIES WANT TO DRILL HERE. THE DEMOCRAPS WON"T LET THEM. Can you not even read about what's going on?
You STILL haven't answered how taxes on oil won't devastate the working poor & middle class since they will certainly be passed on to us at the pump.
Since the dems are against nuclear power & have even opposed windmills in new england, what new twit ideas do you suggest these taxes pay for? Remember, you expect us to believe there will also be money for universal health insurance & we are already bankrupt. (Both parties are at fault but since FDR, the dems have squandered twenty times more national wealth than the GOP).
SOCIALISM DOESN'T WORK. Even if Obama does it! This is too easy gumboboy.
I AM SAYING OBAMA HAS NO INTENTION OF EVEN TRYING TO PUT A TAX CUT THROUGH IF ELECTED.
I base this not on "Republican Bull" but on history. NO DEMOCRAT SINCE JFK has cut taxes. Maybe you'd like to tell us how the democratic congress will support this great tax cut you claim Obama supports.
Your arguements about energy policy are all wrong & easily disproved. You say the oil companies drill overseas because of cheap labor when the news is FULL of the debate over domestic drilling.
THE OIL COMPANIES WANT TO DRILL HERE. THE DEMOCRAPS WON"T LET THEM. Can you not even read about what's going on?
You STILL haven't answered how taxes on oil won't devastate the working poor & middle class since they will certainly be passed on to us at the pump.
Since the dems are against nuclear power & have even opposed windmills in new england, what new twit ideas do you suggest these taxes pay for? Remember, you expect us to believe there will also be money for universal health insurance & we are already bankrupt. (Both parties are at fault but since FDR, the dems have squandered twenty times more national wealth than the GOP).
SOCIALISM DOESN'T WORK. Even if Obama does it! This is too easy gumboboy.
09-04-2008 16:30
Kal wrote:
Palin
Palin is obviously able to handle her job and family at the same time. I don't know what the fuss is about that. My problem with her selection as MCCain's VP pick is that she is simply being used in his desperate attempt to ride into the white house on a veiled attempt to attract female clinton voters who are just rabid at the belief that they have been disrepected by Obama and the DNC. While Palin's accomplishments are to be admired, she is definitely not in the league with Hillary CLinton, who has been advocating for many worthy social causes, social justice, and health care for the underserved and all who need it since her college days. I wish Palin well, but Hillary she is not. Also I am sick to death of the POW story. My dad and MANY MANY OTHERS suffered during the various wars, with multiple injuries and some never came home. My own father lost his leg at the age of 19 during the war, and he didn't TALK ABOUT IT AD NASEAU. I respect McCain's service, but HE IS NOT THE ONLY PERSON WHO EVER SERVED IN THE MILITARY!!!!!!!!!!!
09-04-2008 15:40
Phyllis Lindblade wrote:
Palin is a tool
Palin is being used as a tool to win the campaign without consideration for the position she might be in if elected. She is a great slap in the face of Obama and the DNC who engineered the primary election to make sure Hillary couldn't win the nomination. She is a great slap in the face for Obama's inability to work with a powerful woman as his vice presidential selection. The Republicans have virtually swiftboated the Democrats again, but the Democrats made it possible. Our whole party system needs to be revised so this kind of garbage isn't how we choose the leader of the free world.
09-04-2008 13:16
gumboboy wrote:
TO Anne Pi
You are incorrect about Obama's liberal policies. Fact: The Tax Policy Center concluded that Obama's plan would increase after tax income for middle income tax payers by 5% by 2012, that's $2,200. John McCain's plan which cuts taxes across all income levels, would raise after tax incomes for middle income taxpayers by 3%. Now, two percent may not seem like much for you but for me it is, especially with gas prices as they are now.
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