Going Rogue...early:Palin's book is finished and will be in stills in a few weeks. It is certain to be a best seller. Here are my questions: How hard with the Palin haters insist that she did not write it? Will this stir up questions about the authorship of Dreams of My Father in response?
Many a blog is in a dither about a potential Federal investigation into Sarah Palin...cept there is one problem. The FBI says has no such investigation.
Despite rumors of a looming controversy after Palin's surprise announcement Friday that she will leave office this month, some of them published in the blogosphere, the FBI's Alaska spokesman said the bureau had no investigation into Palin for her activities as governor, as mayor or in any other capacity.
"There is absolutely no truth to those rumors, that we're investigating her or getting ready to indict her," Special Agent Eric Gonzalez said in a phone interview Saturday. "It's just not true."
Gonzalez added that there was "no wiggle room" in his comments that could exclude any kind of probe.
Wow. MS. publishes something that is NOT stupid, retro-sexist, and straight out of some 1977 Vassar Yearbook Editor's head. Check it out. Imagine MS. is admitting that the Left was vicious, sexist, and vulgar in its treatment of Palin. I wonder if vulgarians like Andrew Sullivan are within ear shot.
Carolyn at Make Them Accountable is taking a much deserved week off. I'd make a trip over to her site anyway as she is unique...a PUMA aggregator....
Responsiblame: I am dubbing Obama's double speak on responsibility "responsiblame" The latest appearance of BHO's responsiblame was in Europe. Check it out. It goes like this: I take responsibility, this is followed without pause with even if I wasn't even president at the time. Barry, the Magic Chicagoan, looks like an adult then passes the blame in one glorious, whispered for effect, moment.
Urge: Not sure what but I suddenly feel the impulse to simply type this: Shape Shifter
Ju-neau now she is serious: Check out - here - the wording of Palin's response to Obama's defense cuts and the North Korean missile launch. That, my friends, is a person who is seriously thinking about running for Prez.
Since I write about the President alot I use his name - this causes the google's magical big brother thingy to post ads that often contain his face - it annoys me to have to see the guy on my website so much. Since I will continue to write about the guy I need a new name for him to lessen the obama google attacks. I am perfectly willing to be offensive - as long as it is an egalitarian obnoxiousness. Vote here:
Music: Eva's Cassidy's style, skill, and talent defeat any introduction. Listen.
Comments on yesterday morning's post here suggesting that a third way must be found got me "to thinkin" on my daily walk to MacArthur Park. (No one has left a cake out in the rain there, though the spoiled, city ducks and bobbing syringes do suffer a downpour every blue moon.)
Kara rightly noted in the comments that the PUMA moniker has no value at this point. I feel no allegiance to it. Riverdaughter has a link across the top of the Confluence which is labeled "An invitation to Democrats in exile". This doesn't work for me either. I have left that party for good and do not consider myself "in exile" from it. I'm gone. Pelosi, Reid and the rest make it an untenable option, with or without the current President.
This has left me grasping. I looked into some libertarian sites and found them interesting - but, alas, in the end they are not my people. If a true collapse occurs I bet I'll throw my lot in with the libertarians - as the other voices that will gain traction in that scenario, I have no doubt, will be mortifying. We are not immune from despotism.
I felt a similar way last fall having scored a ticket to a Palin rally in Carson, California (I don't remember how now ???). I went out of an anthropological love of the process and to see if she was ,in fact, a star. She was almost a star - no Bill Clinton - but no pushover either. She electrified her people - they are just not my people.
The glorious mess that was the Democratic Party B.O. (before Obama) contained my people. No more.
What unnerves me about the current state of polarization - and we are polarized regardless of what the MSM says - is the lack of a viable third option. Not a perfect one - a viable one. Whether I, like Rush, hope "Obama fails" or not is beside the point. I believe he will fail - in a broad sense. That is to say he will fail those who loved him and set aside rationality to see him elected. Whether he fails those who paid for his election is another story and another post. We shall see. Just remember, those who paid for his installation are not you, me, or the most rabid Obama fanatics. The One has come to massage us into believing change has come while protecting the status quo - look no further than the banking plan for evidence of this. (By the time he gets to health care he'll be below 50% and unable to do anything but tweak the system. )
When Obama fails the alternative must be apparent. As it stands now the only alternative is a swift shift to the Right. The magnitude of his failure will dictate how far the pendulum swings. Cannonfire makes the point here. We are liable to breakdown into a 2 camps. Glen Beck type right wingers or Obama supporters. The prospect of having to choose between Newt Gingrich or worse- or to help re-elect Barack Obama in 2012 is not one I look forward to. I am glad I voted Green in 08 - but did it because I knew they were not viable and needed a place to land.
Soon enough, the exigencies of the current circumstances will place the political environment beyond the scope of the usual suspects of either party. A protest vote will not suffice in 2012.
PUMAs who blog from the edges have my respect and perform a valuable service. I will certainly continue to critique, make fun of, and lambaste for the duration. Nevertheless, a third way, perhaps more moderate than I would like, must emerge.
Added note - You'll notice that the Obamamedia is doing its duty and trashing Evan Bayh for having the gumption to do his job... Expect this type of thing to continue.
I want to take a moment to post my thoughts on the recent conversation about PUMAs here. I work best with lists so here goes.
1. I support the PUMA movement in general. I never got fully involved last summer for a number of reasons:
A. I listened in on a few conference calls and felt I did not have much to add, and further felt there was no particular focus.
B. My hunch was then that Obama was all but assured of both the nomination and the election. Not 100% - things could have broken another way. But the PUMA movement did not seem to be aware of the real power involved in anointing Obama. There was a lot of rat a tat tat about writing super delegates etc (which may not have come directly from PUMAs but it was out there.). This was - to me - self evidently a waste of time. The system did not "fail to work and demand correction" it was over run and blown up. Donna B. said it: "We don't need you" The cold truth is, come November, she was right. Because of the lack of focus, PUMAs either sucked it up and voted for Obama or, voted for Palin but not in numbers that made a difference.
Obama was decided on a long, long time ago and, frankly, the plan to install him, in retrospect, was only hampered by Clinton's refusal to leave the race. For this, and almost this alone, I went from being a supporter to a deeply loyal follower. She became a hero of mine by refusing to roll over. This refusal has worked out very well for her. It made her a political leader and raised her standing with all Americans. Though the powers that be refused to let her have the prize she clearly earned - she did, in fact, win in some ways.
At any rate, the PUMAs never seemed to come to terms with the actions that might have made a difference. That being: start a third party, or focus on states they might have swung, or create a concerted effort to go after the core problem: the media - which as we know pushed the myth of Obama at every turn and trashed Palin with the same sexist glee it had Hillary. By "going after" I mean protests. In the streets. Not letter writing or blogging.
So I supported the PUMAs from a distance. With some hope, but not much expectation.
2. My unsentimental education in 2008 was all about sexism. I knew it was real. I knew it to be a core problem. What I did not understand was its depth in American culture. I am sure many women did. I did not. It did not occur to me that Clinton being female was an issue before MSNBC and the rest visibly came unhinged. Naive, I know. Uppity posted a comment here last year I shall never forget. It was something to the effect that it is not that women can't have some jobs men do - it is that a woman can't have THAT job. It strips all the mediocre men who've been elevated unfairly of their cover. I pondered that for a long while - and began to see the coverage of Clinton - mostly by men - but not always - through that lens and much more made sense. Mathews and Olbermann were only the most obvious in their female terror.
I make this point about sexism because it was new to me. I did not learn anything new about power in 2008. I have always assumed we get a few choices that are limited and the game is to get behind the best of the predetermined choices. There is a reason why some people of equal intelligence are dismissed out of hand before they open their mouths. They are not in the pre chosen circle. (Ron Paul has very interesting ideas that many more people would agree with if he was ever heard. He's not. There is a reason he's not.) I sincerely thought - at the outset - that Clinton was the best of these and did not care about her gender and stupidly thought most others did not either. Wow, was I wrong. The Daily Kos was a cavalcade of misogyny for months.
The powers behind Obama did not become evident until later. Though Obama had a base, it was nowhere near the majority of Democrats until the power players kicked in. False racism accusations removed a large chunk of Clinton's natural base with Black voters. Florida, Michigan, etc. Even then, he did not win. Caucus fraud and the media pushed him to the finish. The subtext of most negative reporting on Clinton was sexism. And "liberals" were the lead dogs. Ambition for a man: good and strong. Ambition for a woman: bitchy. Etc. Etc. An unsentimental education for this liberal indeed.
What I came to understand is that sexism is potent. Much more potent that I understood. Sadly, sometimes it was women who offended the most. Randi "fucking whore" Rhodes for example. But the "liberal" males who joined in or stood by are the biggest moral criminals in my book. By October is was self evident that mainstream Conservatives were more open to strong women than left wing alleged feminists.
With that I'll say: I'd put myself on the line as a feminist any day. I blogged repeatedly about how interesting the Palin phenom was - though I disagreed with most of her politics. Far from being an outlier - she was and is a superb example of feminism in action. No money, no family name - just determination and ambition.
3. And this is not contradictory in my book: I do not want PUMAs to become solely a "women's movement". I DO want it to focus a substantial amount of energy on the promotion of women's rights and to take the lead in addressing issues that many women are concerned with. But not to the exclusion of others.
I thought Tamerlane had some harsh but good points to make and I welcomed them. I also welcome a rebuttal. I am not of big fan of allegedly "polite society". Getting a bit rough is okay by me. Esp in the safe forum of a blog. We are not in a bar. No one can throw a real punch. One person's opinion that PUMAs may have become too focused in a certain direction should not scare anyone.
Yell back.
The "N" word, the "C" word, and death threats are off limits for ethical reasons. The drippiest pro Obama comments are too- but that is just my personal preference - it is my blog after all.
I did have some discomfort about the word "coven". In the end I found it no more insulting than my attacks on Olbermann's "mommy issues". It is insulting. I am insulting sometimes. This blog is not a tea party.
Tamerlane did start a conversation. A pretty unpleasant one apparently. But "pleasant" is not the goal. I am glad to report that people here are not cowards about sexism or racism.
I sincerely hope the PUMA movement becomes a large spring board. We are in trouble. Real trouble. Another way must be found. But it is not required. We could just sink. Country's do it rather often. Dems are taking us for a wild ride that I suspect we will live to regret. Soon. The GOP is utterly lost - and if they do revive I shudder at the prospect of their "ideas" and their leaders (except Palin, believe it or not. I don't agree with her, but I trust her). The prospect of a very negative "movement" erupting in the next few years is painfully real. We are not immune from demagogues that would make Obi's prancing and primping look quaint.
There is still an opportunity here. The PUMAs who are, lets be honest, cast offs, could - COULD be a group that emerges to lead. But if PUMAs get stuck in any victimology, all is lost.
Being rudely untethered from our "home" in the Democratic party is not a problem. It is an opportunity. Turns out the home was dysfunctional with a capital dys.
Poll: Obama below 60%. Revolt: Soldier says, "He's not my commander." Turd: Jindal clears way for Palin in 2012. No links, just thoughts: 1. Do you think stroking BHO's dainty ego is a job requirement for White House employment? It does seem as fragile as ever. 2. Do you think we will hear about W's drinking over the past few years? If W stayed sober the entire 8 years I would be stunned. Getting better: After President OBummer speaks market only drops 80 points the next day! Things are looking up! Keep Hope alive!
Wonderful Music: Steve Wonder gets The Gershwin Award for popular songwriting Thursday night. I love this man. I am seriously.
A friend told me I needed to watch the Palin turkey interview for the comedy value alone. It is painful AND funny. It almost feels like an SNL skit. Palin is, of course, charming, likable and poised. What she needed then and apparently needs now is a good P.R. person. Standing in front of a turkey insanguinater is not visually appealing to say the least. And unless one is a PETA member - it is also funny. People in Palin's position usually have aids whispering sweet nothings like "Governor lets move this interview over a few feet."
Palin is a smart, talented politician. She needs better "help" before 2012.
As for the PODs going loopy about this clip - their reaction says more about them than it does about her. Animal rights nuts are also apoplectic. I have no time for these types - unless they are vegan. Meat eaters who get sentimental about the animals we eat need to put up or shut up.
Turkeys, chickens, cows, and pigs are brutally and ruthlessly killed. They are fed, fattened and slaughtered in factories. It is a nasty business. Don't like it? Stop eating it.
I am posting the ad below not because I endorse Palin as a candidate. I don't. I am almost certainly going to vote Green. However, the shafting of Palin by a biased propaganda machine usually referred to as the "media" has been severe and harsh. The way both Hillary Clinton and Sarah Palin have been treated should be of concern to real liberals. The attempt to diminish Palin has been overt. This is classic sexism. Women are not taken as seriously as men. Hence the continuing difference in pay rates. Any way to exploit this lingering stereotype is amplified.
Palin did not help her cause by bumbling at least 3 interviews. But this is a matter of style not substance. Handling a confrontational interview is a learned skill. Given her new appearance on the national scene it should have been expected that she would not be good at it. The fact is Biden is a routinely a disaster in this context. His idiocies are ignored by the media. (When asked about ACORN yesterday Biden lied at least 3 times within a minute.)
The mocking of Palin is analogous to Amos and Andy in the 1930' and 40's. A riff on a stereotype meant to play off the degradation an entire group of second class citizens.
Palin is a relatively new Governor, but she is accomplished and daring. She is more accomplished than BHO by a large margin. I may not agree with some of what she has promoted but she is an effective Executive.
I will not vote for her ticket for policy reasons. Still, it is clear her treatment by the media has been bigoted and nasty.
"Mark my words," the Democratic vice presidential nominee warned at the second of his two Seattle fundraisers Sunday. "It will not be six months before the world tests Barack Obama..."
From Cannonfire: I don't think I've ever heard such a bizarre prediction from a Vice Presidential candidate. This statement does not strike me as blue-sky conjecture. Something is up. Something specific. Something that will harm or destroy the popularity of a new Obama presidency.
How does this statement not argue for John McCain being elected? If the "world" is going to throw something at us - why not have the guy who has already been tested in office?
Wow an honest reporter at CNN. He said, in essence, "Yes, we are biased" - and then he smiled and moved on.
Finally - why the HELLL is a major candidate suspending his campaign two weeks out to go to Hawaii to see his Grandmother? He's not. Granny is a front. Something is up with the lawsuit in Hawaii regarding his birth records.
A PUMA pointed me toward a ticket to a Palin rally in LA today. USC did not start until five so I went. Or rather I lolly gagged my way to the Home Depot Center - how big could this rally be??? - this is LA - ???
Bad idea. She packed the tennis stadium (10,000) and the over flow sat and watched the jumbo tron where the LA Galaxy Soccer team plays. But I got in. That little green dot in the middle of the pic is Palin. It was fascinating. 2 immediate thoughts: 1. She was introduced by a President of a NOW chapter - wow. 2. She brought up Bill Ayres. I have not decided who I will vote for. I did not go as a supporter of this ticket. I went to see Palin. Anyone who has every been in the same room as Bill Clinton - however big - knows what a "star" is. I wanted to see if she was a "star". I can say without question she is a "new star". The idea of her is clearly electric to her party. She owns the stage like Bill Clinton does. She has not quite mastered the relationship between herself and the crowd. 2 pods made themselves known. One she dropped the house on with a line about fighting for the first amendment. The other she handled by ignoring - which I rarely think works.
A few important take aways for me:
1. The difference between the role of women in the circa 1988 GOP and the 2008 version is something to behold. To say I was flabbergasted that former President of a NOW chapter, talking about equal pay and Geraldine Ferarro, introduced Palin at a large GOP rally is an understatement. This is not the GOP I remember - the one with shrinking, smiling wives off to the side. Think Nancy Reagan. Women were front and center. The code words were "working moms" - but what they were talking about was "robust women as equal partners." "Family Values" as a sledge hammer is out - "Women as a very valuable and equal partner in a family" is in.
2. If she wants it, Palin has a future in her party regardless of the outcome in November. They LOVE this woman - like they LOVED Reagen.
3. The crowd was younger and more racially diverse than I expected it to be. Including more than a few Black Americans.
4. A group of about 40 Obama people demonstrated outside. The chant was "Hey, hey ho, ho Sarah Palin has got to go." This is the most tired chant one can imagine. It is like hippies have taken a page from civil war re-enactors. Dress up as if it is 40 years ago and do a historical play.
5. Of the four people on the ticket, Palin is the only one who is not a member of the "elite." This is true even during her stump speech. When she talked about her father growing up in North Hollywood it feelsentirely sincere and middle class. Even Clinton's talk of being from Hope, Arkansas had the sheen of being canned.It is not that "I want to have a beer" with her. It's that I would not be surprised in the least if I saw her in line at the grocery store. The closest antecedent I can conjure is Harry Truman. Still, even Truman doesn't quite work. She is a mom, not a dad. This feels entirely new in American politics.
6. Having been to Democratic rallies over the years I must say: Republicans are nicer and more respectful. At least the ones I saw today. Everyone picked up their trash. A small, but telling, fact. Plus, is was organized. People stood in line and waited their turn to get in. I know that only an old school Democrat would find this worthy of note.
7. Based on the number of Hilary stickers in the parking lot - PUMA's were represented.
All in all - it is clear to me that the GOP is not my party. But it was a compelling afternoon. Palin is a fascinating figure. Whatever McCain's motives were in choosing her - the choice changed the game. Whether she wins or loses, Palin will be around for a while.
The Obama Left's and the media's lynching of Sarah Palin is obscene. That is pretty much all I really want to say here. But I'll keep going. I am not referring to arguments about policy - that is always fair, and it would be nice to hear Obama yappers stick to policy arguments. Their candidate either says nothing of note or flip flops so this is admittedly difficult for them.
A series of out right lies have been spread about Palin by Obama Pods. These lies have been repeated in the MSM so widely that they now pass as fact.
Palin did not cut funding for special needs education in Alaska by 62 percent. She did't cut it at all. In fact, she tripled per-pupil funding over just three years.
She did not demand that books be banned from the Wasilla library. Some of the books on a widely circulated list were not even in print at the time. The librarian has said Palin asked a "What if?" question, but the librarian continued in her job through most of Palin's first term.
She was never a member of the Alaskan Independence Party, a group that wants Alaskans to vote on whether they wish to secede from the United States. She's been registered as a Republican since May 1982.
Palin never endorsed or supported Pat Buchanan for president. She once wore a Buchanan button as a "courtesy" when he visited Wasilla, but shortly afterward she was appointed to co-chair of the campaign of Steve Forbes in the state.
Palin has not pushed for teaching creationism in Alaska's schools. She has said that students should be allowed to "debate both sides" of the evolution question, but she also said creationism "doesn't have to be part of the curriculum."
Palin never required victims to pay for their own rape kits.
Palin has also been attacked by the Obama Left in the same way they attacked Clinton in the spring. This bullshit has also been widely reported on by the MSM - having the effect of giving propaganda the weight of fact.
Her pregnant 17 year old daughter was vivisected by the Obama Left.
Andrew Sullivan called for a paternity test on her youngest son.
Hypocritical statements about her presumed inability to work and maintain a family came from LIBERALS. Or rather alleged liberals.
In one month her entire life has been dug up, examined, and trashed. Yet, almost anything that questions Obama's narrative is off limits. Even connecting Obama to Fannie Mae's former President is called "racist".
Echoing Randie Rhodes last Spring (who called Clinton a "fucking whore") Sandra Bernhart gleefully called for the gang rape of Palin.
If the MSM had ripped into Biden's numorous idiocies and corrupt familial and credit card company ties I might call this a case of ugly politics as usual.
If the MSM had ever questioned Obama the way Gibson did Palin, I might call this part of the game that must be played.
If the MSM had forcefully reported on the failings of Trinity or Biden's Catholic church I might call this nasty, but fair.
None of this has occurred. The Obama Left and the media have set out to destroy Palin.
I really love the readers here. I had a meeting in Pasadena Saturday and checked in when I got home after 3 - a funny email I posted as a "place holder" had generated some great conversation. I felt so pleased and honored - really I mean that. No B.S.
A reader in Cody, Wyoming sent the pics in for the Sunday "snapshot of your location" section. I love them for a couple of reasons:
1. There are the opposite of L.A. images in so many ways. 2. Wyoming is the "equality" state. Wyoming was the first state to give women the right to vote. They were first to allow women to serve on juries and hold public office. This is a strand of progressive American frontier liberalism that is routinely dismissed by the effete lefty pricks in the Obama/Whole Foods Nation - who often barely conceal their contempt for strong women as anyone who watches Hardball, or reads Andrew Sullivan knows. Despite her conservative politics, Palin emerges from this "Wyoming liberal" tradition. Camille Paglia seems to be the only feminist east coast commentator who has noticed this: Palin represents an explosion of a brand new style of muscular American feminism.
The media is subjecting Palin to a high tech lynching. (guess what tonight's post is called? Yes you are correct..."The lynching of Sarah Palin")
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Quote from a regular here I just saw - paraphrased - Telling me how much Sarah Palin and I may disagree on some issues, does not, through some medieval alchemy, morph Obama into a man of character, integrity or experience.
Great point. I have noticed this - the PODS suddenly want to talk about issues when they realize the smoke is drifting and the mirrors have cracked. Policy is not the issue with BHO for most recent ex-Democrats. BHO's mysterious character, toxic associations, lack of judgement and integrity are the issue.
Palin has more experience than Obama. It is a shock to realize this. But it is true.
Palin needs to say one thing at the GOP convention: I expect to be held to the highest standard. I expect to be held to the same standard as Senator Obama. In fact, I welcome it.
During the Democratic primaries Senator Soetoro/Obama played hardball identity politics. Michelle Obama stated simply and directly early on that black voters "would come around." BHO's people then played the race card against the Clintons in one of the more morally depraved moves in recent memory. Insisting the Clinton's are racist is akin to insisting the pope is Jewish. But it worked. Black Democrats voted for BHO at a 90% rate through out the primaries. Obama is "black", after all. This happened despite the fact that both Clintons are better than BHO on issues most Black Americans care about. Obama was able to keep it close because of Black voters - who traditionally have gone with the "blue collar" candidate - this year that candidate was Clinton. His coalition "arugula" voters and Black voters, plus help from the media and cheating in the caucuses - equaled his nomination.
Identity politics got Obama anointed.
Fast forward to Palin. There is no doubt Palin's gender was the deciding factor for McCain.
So what.
The possibility of the first female vice President should excite women. Women should think long and hard about voting for a "sister". Black Americans did exactly that - they voted for a "brother."
The hair pulling and rants on faux liberal blogs is hilarious and pathetic. For over a generation "social justice" liberals have incorporated identity politics into every move they made. "Social justice" - which means nothing in the end - has always been code for "victimhood". True liberals may have used this meme - but the were always out doing the heavy lifting. Cesar Chavez, Dr,. King, and, late in his life, Bobby Kennedy, are examples of liberals who understood that cajoling people to vote solely based on their racial identity was a fools errand. These men were not after "social justice" - they were after justice, period. The pollution of the true American Left by the "social justice" victimhood entrepreneurs has stunted the real progressive agenda for a generation. It is a virus. It has worked against people of color attaining equality. It is anti- progressive. Asians who did not fall victim to identity politics have moved rapidly up the ladder. What White arugula "liberals" can't abide is the fact that racism has lessened. A lot. Without a subculture of victims arugulas have no power.
The "experience" horse crap coming from the arugula left is just hilarious. It will also become clearly sexist in short order. The female Palin is already being held to a different standard than the male Obama. The bigotry against women will be exploited by Kos, Avarosis, and the rest for the next 2 months. Pelosi, who finds any woman with power other than herself, dangerous is no doubt cringing.
In classic Arugula "liberal" form they refuse to accept that both sides can play identity politics.
Well, John McCain just did. Get over it. Live by identity politics, die by identity politics.
The brain dead aspect of the arugulas that I have hammered at here is on full display right now. It goes to a core belief that people like Huffington, Olbermann, and Obama carry just below the surface: "We know better than the unwashed masses." I believe this comes directly from attaining unearned wealth and/or unearned positions. Huffington has forced her opinions on us by virtue of marrying well. Olbermann talks nonsense and makes 6 figures. Obama has risen and risen while accomplishing exactly nothing. Michelle Obama made millions sitting on the board of a Wal Mart supplier. These people jet from Aspen to Brentwood never dirtying their fingers - all the while opining to real workers and dismissing them at the same time.
Mrs. Palin lives in a REAL union household. Damn right, that appeals to this liberal. While Obama caved to Exelon, Mrs. Palin took on her own party's corruption in Alaska. Damn right, that appeals to this liberal. Obama let poor people freeze in his district, while pal Rezko made millions. There is nothing "liberal" about this.
As a feminist, the fact that McCain's campaign has an equal pay for equal work policy and Obama's does not matters to me. And, damn right, as a liberal, shattering the glass ceiling the DNC refused to break appeals to me.
Obama has never appealed based on policy. He appealed to liberal guilt, delusion and based on his self created persona.
If women decide to look past policy differences and vote for a female vice president based solely on her gender - it should not surprise Obama. Arugulas have exploited identity politics for a very long time, after all.
Seriously, the DEMS should be embarrassed, except they are too stupid and delusional to feel shame and embarrassment at their asinine anointment of the BRAT from Chicago.
Check out the comparrison between the GOP V.P. nominee and the DEM Prez. nominee. here
PALIN IS VEEP! If so this is the FIRST GOP WOMAN ON the PARTY TICKET! Bloomberg is reporting Palin is the one. Wow, McCain is going after it. If Palin can hold up under pressure - she is a game changer. I was not going to vote for McCain or that other what's his name from Chicago - but Palin gives me pause. A vibrant, corruption, fighting mom on a Harley...damn right I'll give THAT a closer look.
