Palin is a better man then Obama.Sep 5th, 2008 - 06:42:57

By DICK MORRIS

Sarah Palin does not simply represent an opportunity to appeal to women voters and to add a new, charismatic presence to the ticket. Her selection signals the rebirth of John McCain, the courageous, independent senator who seemed to have been anesthetized during the long primary process.

Beaten down psychologically - as the Vietnamese could never do - by the drubbing he took in South Carolina's Republican primary in 2000, he seemed to pull his punches in this campaign. The crusading maverick, the take-no-guff independent, seemed to have been left behind in the Senate Office Building as a different McCain took to the campaign trail in 2008. Conscious of the discipline and uniformity of the GOP primary electorate, he seemed to morph into what he never was in the Senate (but Barack Obama accuses him of having been, anyway) - a Bush clone.

But Palin is McCain's kind of governor. She took on the corrupt establishment of the Republican hierarchy in Alaska and defeated incumbent Gov. Frank Murkowski in a GOP primary. The Murkowski family and the family of Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens have run the state for decades. Frank served as senator and then gave it up to run for governor. And into the Senate seat slid his daughter Lisa Murkowski, whom Alaska voters dutifully elected. To give you a gauge of how hard it was for Sarah to beat Murkowski for governor in a Republican primary, Stevens has just won his primary for re-election even though he is under indictment!

But Palin uncovered Republican corruption in the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission, which she had been appointed to lead. She reported the violations of ethical regulations by her co-commissioner (who also happened to be the Republican Party state chairman). Barred by state law from going public with her charges, she quit and revealed her accusations. She was vindicated when her co-commissioner agreed to pay a $12,000 fine for breaking the state ethics law.

Then, in true McCain style, she took on the state attorney general over his corruption and forced him to resign. Finally, she challenged Gov. Murkowski himself in a primary and won 51 percent of the vote in a three-way contest. Since then, she has line-item-vetoed huge parts of the state budget that she found wasteful and has cleaned house from top to bottom.

Her appointment demonstrates the crucial flaw in the Democratic attack on McCain: the accusation that he is another George W. Bush. Bush chose Cheney. McCain chose Palin. That's emblematic of the difference between them.[...]

The entire edifice Obama and Biden built in the Denver convention hinges on the supposed similarity between Bush and McCain. Every speaker hewed to his suggested talking points in calling a McCain presidency a third Bush term. As proof, Obama cited the fact that McCain voted with Bush 90 percent of the time. But most Senate votes are unanimous! They praise high school sports teams or American heroes for their accomplishments or rename post offices or courthouses. It's likely Obama and McCain voted together most of the time, too.

Once McCain rebuts the supposed similarity between himself and the man he ran against in the bitter primaries of 2000, there is not a whole lot Obama can do to besmirch McCain's reputation.

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Obama can't say anything not given to him...Sep 5th, 2008 - 06:49:49

Sarah Palin electrified the Republican convention Wednesday, all the while reading off a faulty teleprompter and an outdated draft, John McCain officials told FOX News on Thursday.

The Alaska governor overcame several glitches and technical problems to deliver her speech without getting flustered, impressing McCain and his staff and allowing them to breathe a sigh of relief.

Foremost of the obstacles, Palin’s teleprompter was not working properly. When she took the podium, the machine rolled so quickly, it often skipped the first line or two of every paragraph on screen. The operator said he had new equipment and wasn’t sure how it would work.

During one part of her speech, she couldn’t see the teleprompter because signs were blocking it. That was when she ad-libbed a line about the difference between a hockey mom and a pit bull — “lipstick.”

The line was a hit with the audience.

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SP4: well ProfessorSep 5th, 2008 - 14:39:23

...America has been doing this for 225 years, while our friends over the ponds have played with every other kind of government before we exported the democracy to them that they now enjoy.

We've had some pretty un-proud moments, but we've never hearded a whole ethnic group into machines to kill them, or invaded and conquered our neighbors into forced occupation, who now have the most envious postion of being next to newighbors who would run to their side in a heartbeat..and have. We dealt with slavery, something that still exists in the world today, conquered racial bias...as you can plainly see... and fastidiously pursued the rights of our citizens, and the citizens of other nations as well.

So, when you offer up your idea of an american embarassment to us..stick it up your ass. These two candidates, educated in the best schools in the world, and served in the most free, best government in the world would be an improvement to ANY other nations leadership on their worst day.

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Jon B.Sep 5th, 2008 - 15:01:12

Don't just take her cute words for what she's accomplished, look at the records. They don't show exactly the same thing. And we DO need to pay attention to this candidate in case she would be leading the country.

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SP4: Go ahead JonSep 5th, 2008 - 15:09:25

..she ahs a record and, if you wish by my guest. It's a pretty damn good record, for any Governor, and curiously, it has some wealth redistribution aspect that are awfully...liberal...but I'm sure that is wasted on a lot of folks here.

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Get usedSep 5th, 2008 - 15:10:10

to calling her Madam President.

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???Sep 5th, 2008 - 19:06:18

Seems that Ms. Palin is saying do as I say, but not as I do. She says that sex education encourages sex and opposes school sex-ed or condom distribution, saying that parents alone should control what their children have access to. Good job, Palin!! Perhaps there should be a combination of both?? Palin says sex before marriage is wrong, but her daughter didn't listen. John McCain has opposed funding programs for teen moms, but he warmly greeted the man who got his running mate's teen daughter pregnant. What are we supposed to believe, how these leaders say families should live or how their own families live - the moral principles they broadcast, or the exceptions they are willing to make for their own?

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steve007Sep 5th, 2008 - 20:25:26

What's the difference between Sarah Palin and Barack Obama?

One is a well-dressed empty-headed turned-out, good-looking, and, let's be honest, pretty sexy piece of eye-candy.

The other kills her own food.

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LynnSep 6th, 2008 - 01:40:11

Hockey mom, now absent mom!

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Fastrack itSep 7th, 2008 - 20:39:33

The oil execs are getting the drill rigs prepped, we need to drill Alaska. NOW!!!!!

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joeSep 10th, 2008 - 03:49:29

i hope she wins and going by her record of winning everything she contests and her high aproval rating in her last job the win will be easy.her charm is irresistable.

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