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Now that was a memorable speech!
Before I say anything further, allow me to direct you to this post by Ed Morrissey, both for his thoughts which echo my own as well as for his selection of money quotes, all of which I loved as well.
Just one extra line, though, which somehow doesn’t seem to be quoted near as much as it deserves to be. It is Governor Palin’s clear response to the upturned noses of the Obaminable one and his lackeys in the Obamedia who have no use for the bitter, gun and bible-clinging yokels of mainstream America (unless we’re called upon to vote, of course):
I grew up with those people.
They are the ones who do some of the hardest work in America … who grow our food, run our factories, and fight our wars.
They love their country, in good times and bad, and they’re always proud of America.
The sound you hear is from the snakes on Bridezilla’s head hissing. Yeah, Michelle, that’s right. Some of us out here are actually proud of our country whether or not our spouses get nominated for President. Imagine that. Some of us can actually see past our own noses and realize that, even when times are hard, this is still the greatest country on Earth. Because, among other things, nowhere else on Earth do we have a better opportunity to turn the bad times around and make them better.
I realize that our pride doesn’t help your children, nor does it make it any easier for you to pay their piano lessons out of your paltry million-dollar salary, but we’ll continue to cling to it, and not bitterly so, except when ungrateful shits like yourself piss all over it. Yes, it does foster some bitterness in us when that happens, and we make no apologies for it.
As to the speech: Great delivery, particularly since we hear that the trained monkey handling the teleprompter screwed up along the way, forcing the Sarahcuda to deliver from memory, which she accomplished without as much as a hiccup. We can only imagine what would have happened if the teleprompter at the Barackopolis had failed similarly. Actually no, we don’t have to imagine it, we’ve seen it in action and it is always hilarious.
Some will dismiss the speech as having been written with the help of a speechwriter. D’uh. That’s the way it’s done these days. At the very least, Governor Palin’s speech was a fresh one and not wholly lifted from the memoirs of Patrick Deval or Neil Kinnock. If you’re going to use somebody else’s words, at least have the decency to use words that we don’t already know by heart.
And then there’s delivery. Much has been said, and justifiably so, about the Obaminable one’s ability to deliver a rousing display of oratory. Let’s face it: He can warm up a crowd if he’s got the right text in front of him. But I still prefer Governor Palin’s delivery. Why? Because of the way she can combine warmth and humanity with a clenched jaw and a wry smile as she delivers her jabs at the opposition. I also love her optimism and her determination. As opposed to the Obaminable one’s constant blather about class struggles and sacrifices needed to get us out of “terrible, terrible times”, her speech was all about the greatness of our nation, how we are ALL Americans, and how we can not only meet and overcome the challenges ahead without emptying the wallets of working class Americans and “teaching us to think and work differently”, we can and will make America better, for everybody.
Because that’s what we do. Governor Palin’s idea of rolling up our sleeves and going to work isn’t about waiting for government to give us our marching orders “for our own good”, it’s about all of us doing what we do best, which is managing our own lives according to our own wishes, because nobody knows better how to do that than ourselves.
Governor Palin just put the Kostards and the MSM (but I repeat myself) on notice: “This pit bull with lipstick isn’t about to roll over. You told me to bring it. Consider it brung.”
Expect much whining and ever more desperate slime attacks from them in the weeks ahead.
It’s the only trick in their shallow little book.
Thatisall.
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I’m still no fan of McCain … but I do appreciate him for bringing this woman into history … as the first female VP of the United States and, eventually, the first female President of the United States. My friends, we are witnessing a great moment in the history of our nation.
September 4th, 2008 at 9:46 AMUsing
The Tone.
The Words.
The Attitude.
The Optimism.
I have been priveledged to hear that at a convention speach four times in my life. All from the same man,
Hints: The Keynote in 1964. The acceptance speach in 1980. The acceptance speach in 1984. The address to the convention in 1988.
This is the next Renauldus, and it’s Morning in America.
Now, we owe the World a follow through.
September 4th, 2008 at 9:50 AMUsing
After that great speech last night, what are the top three stories on the yahoo! front page this morning?
• Palin: U.S. sent troops to Iraq on a ‘task that is from God’
• Where are minorities on RNC’s prime-time stage?
• U.S. readies for Hanna; Category 4 Hurricane Ike close behind
The MSM on an immediate counter attack.
September 4th, 2008 at 9:55 AMUsing
The MSM know they are beginning to be recognized for the nut-nuzzling fifth column that they are. The chump from US Weakly’s response to the cover story on their latest attempt to pass off a rag of a publication when being interviewed by Megan Kelly was so weak and lame that he knew he royally fucked-up by showing up to defend it. Watch the vid over at Hotair. What a fucking limp-wristed chicken-shit chump. This is the beginning of the end for these tools and they realize it. They will get more shrill as the election nears for lack of anything substantive to say. It is raining like pouring piss from a boot here today, but the sun is shining brighter than ever and it is a glorious day. God bless Sarah Palin!
D’
September 4th, 2008 at 9:57 AMUsing
She certainly did not hold back any punches!
I think the collective has probably lost its mind.
There were some great lines in her speech, and she damn sure took it to the One! I don’t think the lefties were expecting the attack dog to come out. Hell, I really wasn’t either. Pleasant surprise for me.
She not only bitch slapped BO, but nailed his bitch of a wife and his bitch of a VP candidate as well. Nicely done. :em04:
September 4th, 2008 at 10:09 AMUsing
It strikes me as this … The
DemocratsSocialists are the party of the “glass is half empty”, while the Republicans are the party of the “glass is half full”.And the more I see it, the more I realize that the differences have become so profound that in this election the fate of the nation hangs in the balance. It is the difference in whether we continue to be a democracy, or change our governmental model to one of outright socialism.
I also believe that the depth of the differences make internal strife damn near inevitable. It is a shame. But the house needs to be cleaned, we cannot allow a media to continue to purposely undermine our country all day every day. We cannot allow politicians to speak untruths and not be held accountable.. (Harry Reid … the war is lost). We cannot allow one person… one person to block the will of the people (Pelousi not allowing drilling to be tabled) I know,… all easier said than done concepts. Lets start with a basic reform.. TERM LIMITS!
September 4th, 2008 at 10:17 AMUsing
Obambi is just jealous because his speech writer eats bananas, picks fleas off of him and flings poo every time Bambi says “Uh”. :em99:
What politician DOESN’T use a speech writer?? Besides that..she started on that speech at 9 am in the morning and worked on it side by side with the writer until after 1 am. I guarandamntee you that 97% of those words were hers….the speech writer just put them in the right working order.
Bambi uses a speech writer. Biden Bin Hair-Club-For-Men uses a speech writer. Hillary uses a speech writer. Since when is it a freaking crime to use a speech writer?
Oh…when you are a Republican…never mind. :em41:
Guess they missed Michael Steel’s speech.
September 4th, 2008 at 10:23 AMUsing
Rudy got it right in his speech when he said that in choosing Palin, McCain is choosing for the future. I think we got a sneak preview last night of the first female POTUS.
Palin-Jindal 2012!
September 4th, 2008 at 10:26 AMUsing
And that, my brother, is the thought that is congealing in my mind as I continue to wrestle with my opposition to whassisface against my full-throated support of Governor Palin.
As it were, it made no damned difference whether we elected Comrade Obambi or Comrade whassisface, we were screwed either way from a conservative perspective. Even more so with Comrade whassisface because it would have fucked up the hopes of conservatism’s comeback for a decade or two, at the very least.
The Supreme Court issue was a non-starter since, either way, we’d be replacing liberals with other liberals. The Long War wasn’t nearly as much of an issue as some, most notably Comrade whassisface, would like us to see it since a trained monkey could handle that one by now without too horribly disastrous results. Granted, Comrade whassisface was and is the best of the two on that issue, no argument there, but let’s face it: We’re not facing von Clausewitz and the Prussian Army here.
Then the situation in Gruziya happened. Now THIS one is an entirely different matter. Unlike the Long War, we don’t even have a playbook for that one. That playbook will have to be written mainly by the next Administration and, unlike the confused raghead splodeydopes, in Putin’s Russia we ARE facing a potential enemy that can hurt us, BAD, if we don’t play our cards right. How this one plays out is going to define the 21st century, mark my words, and THAT is something that is so far above Comrade Community Organizer Obambi’s pay grade that it gives me cold sweats thinking about him fucking around with it.
The stakes changed literally overnight. Having Comrade Obambi fool around playing Commander-in-Chief while we’re facing an army of disorganized sheetheads on their last ropes, while far from ideal, is hardly something that will prove catastrophic. My dog can handle that. Facing that wily old KGB son-of-a-bitch Putin? Now THAT’S a completely different kettle of fish.
And, to bring it full circle, with Governor Palin’s appointment we’ve got something to look forward to: An incumbent CONSERVATIVE Vice President in 2012 when McCain, most likely, will not seek re-election. Suddenly 2012 DOES matter.
Anyway, just my thoughts.
September 4th, 2008 at 10:41 AMUsing
Don’t forget Bobby Jindal waiting in the wings Sire. Plus after seeing Michael Steele on stage last night, I can’t help but remember how he got the shaft from Blacks a few years ago. Branded an Uncle Tom, and he’s blacker than Obambi. He deserves a chance to show the country what he can do. Plus, I didn’t see her speech, but apparently Hawaii Governor Linda Lingle made quite an impression. There’s another woman on our list.
I kept telling people to think long ball. We have a bench full of star players….just gotta give em time to warm up.
September 4th, 2008 at 11:05 AMUsing
What scares me the most of having all three houses of government controlled by the Demonrats is that The Annointed One will quite happily sign any tax increase handed him by Pelosi/Ried. The last time the ‘rats had that kind of control were the Carter years…stagnant economy, high unemployment, gas lines, and an onerous tax burden. Bambi’s tax policies are a mirror-image of the failed policies that slid this country into years of depression back in the 20s.
To quote Rudy again, change is not a destination, and hope is not a strategy.
September 4th, 2008 at 11:09 AMUsing
Mihsa,
I’m going through the same thing. My family, my wife, and my friends are now definitely voting for McCain, and Palin made it certain. I am the lone holdout.
I like everything about Palin except for the fact that I think children are better served by a full time mom, rather than a part time mom. If that is sexist, so be it. But when it comes to mothers “balancing” career and work, that cat’s been out of the bag a long time. I still feel for her kids, but having a full time dad at home is far better than having two working parents, so I can get over that, and Palin does feel like someone the nation really needs in the spotlight. I want to promote that.
But McCain is still McCain and he is still at the top of the ticket. He will be making the big decisions and given his history, I think he still has some use for that stick he pokes in the eyes of conservatives.
September 4th, 2008 at 11:24 AMUsing
Some of my favorite moments:
I absolutely love this woman.
- MuscleDaddy
September 4th, 2008 at 11:29 AMUsing
Oh - and here-and-there, I’ve been hearing a lot of ‘Don’t-cut-Palin-any-slack-’cause-she’s-a-hottie’.
Pay attention, here…
Same goes for Soledad O’Brien.
- MD
September 4th, 2008 at 11:33 AMUsing
Oh shit. OT but I just heard on Fox that our SF carried out a raid in Pakistan WITHOUT Pakistan’s knowledge or approval and they are PISSED!!!
September 4th, 2008 at 11:43 AMUsing
Saracuda ROCKS THE HOUSE! (Updating with new links all day)…
I was afraid to get my hopes up last night - I mean, I adore Sarah Palin, I think she’s a breath of sorely-needed fresh air, and I think she’s a brilliant choice to the Republican nominee for Vice-President, but I’ve had high hopes dashed before….
September 4th, 2008 at 11:57 AMUsing Unknown browser
This morning, Odildo woke up with a concussion and Biden was seen donning a skirt and a purse so he could get into one of the lifeboats. Like Dougie Houser in Starship Troopers, touching the brain bug, we can proudly proclaim “It is afraid. IT IS AFRAID!!!”
September 4th, 2008 at 12:04 PMUsing
Hey guys,
I’ve been waiting to see what sort of oily pap Keith Overbite was going to drool out after Palin’s speech -
Found it, but it’s a video & I can’t watch videos @ work.
Could someone watch this and see if he isn’t choking on his own tongue?
Thanks,
- MD
September 4th, 2008 at 12:09 PMUsing
Last night I spent some time putting this little item together. My husband quiller suggested I post it here.
September 4th, 2008 at 12:12 PMHosted on Fotki
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After Palin’s speech last night, I called an old college bud (gunsmithing dept.,
TSJC,Trinidad,Co.),who lives in Nenana,Ak. to get his take on things. He didn’t see the speech–doesn’t have TV–but was interested on the Palin take “down there”.
It seems folks in Alaska are sort of ambivilant about it.(Perhaps they know her better?–Or maybe aren’t politically savvy enough to getit on the larger political arena?)
We also discussed the now rather defunct separatist party,and agreed we kinda sympathize, but grim truth be told, Alaska couldn’t stand as an independent nation, primarily in the Defence arena, and with Russia and China looming large, that just wouldn’t do. Seems cooler heads up there figured that out, too, and the independece thing is pretty much a dead issue.
Then the converstion drifted to more interesting things, like dogs and hunting,
and cutting wood,–you know–our kinda stuff. :em93:
For. a. long. time.–I’m gonna hate getting that phone bill next month. :em38:
P.s.
He told me Palin’s high-school basketball nickname was–wait for it–
September 4th, 2008 at 12:20 PMTHE BARRACUDA :em01:
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Oh come on Boid. You know better than that. There are millions of children out there growing up with no father period. Where’s the outrage for that? Why is it that no one ever asks a man running for office if they will have time to help raise their children? How many times have you heard stories of problem teens complaining that they never knew or seldom saw their fathers? Women have always had to carry the burden of caring for and raising their children. Men seem to think that simply keeping a paycheck coming in is more than enough for them to contribute to their children’s lives.
Sarah has held public office for several years now and her children are just fine. They are used to this lifestyle and I don’t think it’s going to make one bit of difference whether she’s in the Governor’s home in Juno, or in Washington DC. It’s not like she’s going to have to haul them to daycare every day for heaven’s sake.
September 4th, 2008 at 12:23 PMUsing
Muscledaddy:
Keith looks like someone put a triple dose of ex-lax in his brownies.
Chris Matthews looks like he has a hungry gerbil gnawing on his testicles.
September 4th, 2008 at 12:50 PMUsing
Overall, I don’t think there is a better arrangement for young children than to have a full time mother at home (and this implies there is a father present becasue how else could a mother be at home full time unless there was a lot of money). Individual families may be different and smart parents can adapt to a lot of different arrangements as the Palin’s have, but on the whole, I think kids are better served by having a full time mother rather than a full time father.
Believing as I do that a full time mom is best for kids (and to me this is not a small thing), I want society to promote full time momhood. And as great as the Palin pick is, it does not further the cause of having more full time moms at home.
Dad’s need to arrange their lives so they have enough time with their kids too and I don’t excuse dad’s who are so involved with other things that they aren’t there personally for their kids. Any dad who thinks bringing home a paycheck is enough is wrong.
September 4th, 2008 at 1:04 PMUsing
Sarah Palin was great! I knew she’d pull it off after watching some of her interviews. I’m guessing that most of the speech was hers, she does have a degree in journalism and politics you know. We picked up on the “proud of America” quote too.
Every woman in my family relates to her. We are the football, hockey and ballet moms. We drive ourselves to work after dropping the kids at school. We juggle schedules with our husbands (or are single moms) and kids to make it work. We all have teenagers who disappoint us at times and do stupid things. Some of us have kids with learning disabilities or medical conditions that make us worry. Sarah Palin represents every working mother out there.
Michael Steele, Mitt Romney, and Guiliani were all terrific too. I look forward to seeing more of Michael Steele. As for “minorities on stage” did they miss the small business owners and Senator Abel Maldonado in addition to Michael Steele?
September 4th, 2008 at 1:19 PMUsing
Gonz,
Thanks - exactly what I had envisioned (which is disturbing on some levels).
(BTW - still interested to know which kingdom?)
Boid,
Sure, I’ll buy that as an ideal - but families and kids are resilient and the Palins seem to have worked it out well enough - kids seem quite well adjusted - and in any case, it’s NO kind of mark against voting for her. (which is what I’ll be doing - her & whassisname)
Finally, I gift you with the wrap-up of a most excellent parody of the Lib-Media I found over @ NRO:
- MuscleDaddy
September 4th, 2008 at 1:28 PMUsing
I just figured out the Canadian flag thing - I think. I’m at work at my client (it’s lunchtime) and my client is a Canadian company. I bet if I post from home, through Comcast, it will show the US flag - right?
BTW, TheBoid, I would love to be a stay-at-home mom. That’s not how it worked out for us. Although my husband works full-time, I am the main bread-winner in our household and almost always have been for the 24 years of our marriage. And we still struggle from paycheck to paycheck. I happen to have more education and got into a higher-paying field than he did. And even though I work a lot of hours fairly frequently, I’m still at home most of the time my kids are at home and I still do most of the parenting. I’m lucky to be in IT and have the flexibility to be there for my kids, a lot of parents don’t.
As for Sarah Palin, she keeps the baby with her (she is nursing and that’s how it works) and the other kids are in school. So I’m guessing that she and her husband juggle things similarly to the way we do.
September 4th, 2008 at 1:33 PMUsing
I love a great musical analogy, and since all of the good hunting, shooting, gutting, fishing, and hurricane rhetoric seems to be used up by a thoroughly-chastised MSM, I’ll create my own.
Sarah Palin played O and Joe and the the entire Democratic Party (an oxymoron if there ever was one) platform like a great big set of bongos. Yes, perhaps any well-trained, well-dressed, well-coiffed chimp CAN play the bongos with enthusiasm, but not by beating them both rythymically and musically in a way we haven’t heard since Sir Reagan of Olde last tickled the skins. She played them like war drums. She played them like the rythym section of the Boston Philharmoic Orchestra, and in doing so she roused the Party Faithfully like the War Hymn of the Republic! She took all of the poo flung her way by the entire chorus of trained chimps in the MSM, forged a pair of mallets, and wailed away on those skins with relish and a charming smile. When she lifted her chin and grinned in response to the applause occasionally, it was as if she actually was channeling the spirit of Ronald Reagan. Too many people heard her music for the MSM to deny it. It was devastatingly effective.
Today, we’re hearing “But she was a SPORTSCASTER!” They panned Reagan as just a “B-Movie Actor” once upon a time. We’ve been told “But she hunts!” Yeah, so did Teddy Roosevelt. It’s been insinuated that she should spend more time with her family. Excuse me, what do you think actually happens in Alaska during the long dark winter months? I’m sure her family has seen more of her in the last two years than Senator Obama’s kids have!
On Michelle Malkin’s website, one poster suggested that we shouldn’t try to protect her from attacks because it’ll make her appear weak. WTF? Right now, the MSM has gone into “protection overload” for Saint O and Joe. Who looks weak now? :em99:
They don’t make body armor thick enough to protect Obama from Sarah Palin!
September 4th, 2008 at 1:46 PMUsing
I am sort of an oddity in this group, being from NYC and holding liberal views on social issues, and I wish Rudy was the candidate BUT: I LOVED this woman! She didn’t say one thing in her speech about her religion or her beliefs about abortion. She didn’t say anything about changing laws on social issues. She just stated the FACTS, with humor, and that is something the Democrats are going nuts about. When you take away the tone of the speech, was there one incorrect thing in what she or Guiliani said?
Was Barack Obama unable to decide and voted “Present” 120 times? Does he have any experience running ANYTHING - including having a job? If you look at his resume, does he have anything to put there? Has he authored one piece of legislation? And I’ll add what they were too kind to say: Has he ACCOMPLISHED ONE THING?? If there’s one thing Americans should have learned by now, it’s “Judge by deeds, not by words.”
Here’s how the NY Times spun it last night:
Oh, I get it. A leftist, do-nothing Senator who never votes and has no foreign policy (or any other kind of) experience is a MUCH, MUCH better choice for president than an inexperienced in foreign policy VICE PRESIDENT.
2 other things: Mrs. MITT Sniper, I totally agree with you. Most women I know would love to be able to stay home and nurture their kids before they go to school, but they HAVE to work. It’s an economic issue for the middle and lower class. That’s the reality of life today.
And it’s Juneau (not Juno).
September 4th, 2008 at 1:56 PMUsing
Oh, I don’t think that any of us disagree that moms are the ideal when it comes to hanging with the kids. And I say that as a dad who has been lucky enough to spend a lot of time with his kids as a result of the nature of his work. I think I’m pretty good at being “Mr. Mom” and I have no doubts that others like me are at least as good if not better. It’s just that I have to work at it. Moms do it by instinct.
Seriously. I never cease to be amazed by you ladies. I don’t know any man, I’m certainly not one of them, who can do stuff around the house, deal with everything that a household demands of you and, at the same time, intuitively know where each kid in the house is and what they’re doing, no matter where they are. And all without breaking a sweat. And this isn’t just talk either. An example: My own mom didn’t have the option of staying at home, it just wasn’t in the cards for my family, at least not if we wanted to eat. One day, while she was away, her wayward son (6 at the time, as I recall) behaved as stupidly as kids of that age are wont to do from time to time, particularly if they’re male, got into an accident and got himself hurt. As in “I was out cold.” My mom, miles and miles away from me at the time, immediately said “something’s happened to my son, I need to go home, right NOW.” And she did. A regiment of Marines wouldn’t have been able to stop her. You can call that anything you like, but if that’s not a psychic connection with your offspring, then I don’t know what it is.
Anyway, we all ALSO know that it’s not always an option to have mom at home. We all ALSO know that moms sometimes want to do other things than being at home, and that’s my bottom line: The careers, dreams and aspirations of women are every bit as important as that of males. If a particular male has a problem with that, then perhaps he’d be better off looking for another mate. I’m not saying that there’s something “wrong” with looking for something else, just as I’m not saying that there’s something “wrong” with having a preference for brunettes, blondes or redheads, I’m just saying that we all are given one life and one life only, and we all have the right and, indeed, responsibility to make the most of it.
If a woman feels comfortable with juggling a career and being a mom at the same time, who am I to say that her decision is worth less because she’s not a man? Who am I to say that my Y chromosome makes me more worthy of taking on that challenge? I may question the situation from time to time, but I will never, ever sneeringly condescend to a woman willing to take on that challenge. Not just out of fairness, but also because that’s one heck of a row to hoe, and I respect that. And, in the case of Sarah Palin specifically, I dare say that she has already proven, through at least a decade of public service, that she and her family is up to the task. In spades.
Who the fuck am I, or anybody else, to question whether she can “handle” the job of VP considering all that she’s proven that she can handle already?
We all have our limits. We haven’t even caught a glimpse of Sarahcuda’s yet.
September 4th, 2008 at 2:00 PMUsing
Most of the time it is. My brother was a much better “mom” than my former sister-in-law was.
September 4th, 2008 at 2:09 PMUsing
TheBoid: Coupla thoughts.
(1) There’s no way in hell a stay-at-home-mom society will work until taxes are much lower than they are now, because one paycheck, unless it is spectacular, will not pay both taxes and bills. It just won’t.
(2) Who says that what you want is good for everybody?
September 4th, 2008 at 2:23 PMUsing
I love the nickname ‘Sarahcuda’ and I thought I’d jump in with my own interpretation.
September 4th, 2008 at 2:24 PMUsing
In a perfect scenario society that might be possible. Low (very low) taxes. Plentiful jobs for everyone. Affordable housing for everyone…etc. Yeah it would be possible to do that, but that’s not a viable view anymore. I’m sure there are millions of women out there that would love to stay home full time, while the man of the house brings home the bacon. It’s not feasible any longer.
PLUS….to say that women should stay home with the kids simply because they are moms, leaves millions of women out of the loop in contributing to society, other than as breeders and child raisers. We have a stake in making our Country as productive, safe, and competitive on the world market as men do. We have ways of seeing ideas and situations differently than men and to leave our view points out….leaves a gap that men are not capable of filling. We have our dreams as Misha stated that rival the aspirations of men. We can do far more than just dishes, laundry and soccer games, dinner and homework.
Now don’t go thinking that I’m a closet NOW member. I don’t think a woman should start shoving her way up the corporate ladder just because she has a uterus. She should do it because she has the ability, the intelligence and the drive to see a job done and done well. She should have a dream bigger than just her gender. To use the talents and abilities she has to make things work for everyone, and yes to make the world a better place for her children.
Yeah I know I flubbed it…but I didn’t catch it till the edit time was gone.
September 4th, 2008 at 2:26 PMUsing
The world is full of less than ideal situations. Smart people make the best of it and it works great for all involved, like the Palin’s have, like Rainy has, like Misha’s mom did, and like millions of other mothers do each day. But I do believe in promoting ideals, even knowing they will never be fully lived up to. That’s all.
I don’t mean to distract from how great Palin Sarah Palin is. My wife, who pays almost no attention to politics (three kids are a handfull!), watched her speak last night, fell in love and is looking for the perfect Palin bumper sticker.
September 4th, 2008 at 2:27 PMUsing
So now can we get away from the side issue of whether Sarah Palin should stay at home with her kids?
Did she say ONE THING in her speech that was not true?
That’s what the Democrats can’t handle.
September 4th, 2008 at 2:37 PMUsing
I think I would have to disagree with this. I suppose a lot of it depends on where you live. My ex was enlisted military. I was a stay-at-home mom until they went to school. We made do. We had a smallish house, with two kids and assorted pets. We sacrificed, scrimped, and saved. We were able to put our kids through private school. All that and living in a state with the highest real estate taxes in the country.
I should add that after he retired, he went to work as a civilian contractor and was able to earn better money, then.
Looking back on it, it wasn’t ideal, but it paid off for me in BIG dividends when he and I divorced in January. :em93:
September 4th, 2008 at 3:00 PMUsing
I’m speechless, so I’ll offer this:
September 4th, 2008 at 3:07 PMUsing
I’m posting through a cell-phone data connection right now. Last time I checked, Sprint was an American company…so I don’t know why my posts are getting the maple leaf instead of the Stars and Stripes.
September 4th, 2008 at 3:07 PMUsing
Trying now from the mini at home, connected by cable modem…let’s see what flag pops up.
Edit: That’s more like it.
September 4th, 2008 at 3:12 PMUsing
Well here’s a observation….. I have seen talking heads the past couple of days respond to the Obama has no experience line (and Im not shittin ya) with …. “well he’s run a successful campaign with 2500 people to achieve his parties nomination.”
Now, …last I checked his title was candidate… and somebody else had the title “Campaign Manager”…… am I right?
September 4th, 2008 at 3:14 PMUsing
Wow. Living on the UWS with family all over Middle America I can take the pulse of America fairly well. I don’t hang out online much, but use this site as the most blunt source of real information when things are in the air. My word, the Right had a trick up its sleeve didn’t it! Obama himself, upon losing will be unlike all the other forgotten “also rans” of history, since he will be remembered. To put it rudely I’d even say while burning most of the Left’s “race card” by merely getting nominated without the help of racial activist groups, that unlike the Right, Obama and his acting vice president wife, just strike people as uppity nouveau riche, just as the Clinton’s had a vibe of their own (morality lacking ex-hippies whose first lady referred to as “we are the president”). Suddenly, various protest votes will be cast for instead of against McCain. It’s a chess game at best, but just as the Climate doomsday religion is suffering a real backlash in a few years, the potential first woman candidate will be a sassy Reaganite with a chance for a second term. Superwoman beats a black superman any day. It’s suddenly a race between Obama and Sarah, with youthfully empty Orwellian slogans and yes-men on one side, and a cabinet-to-be that actually serves whiskey.
September 4th, 2008 at 3:25 PMUsing
That’s a good one, NevadaDailySteve. And very true, if last night’s speech was any indicator. :em69:
September 4th, 2008 at 3:43 PMUsing
That nails it, Mrs. M-ITT, at least as far as I’m concerned.
My issue with NOW and their like is that they, for too long, have brayed far and wide that a woman isn’t “good enough” unless she’s put on a suit and gone hunting for a career in the corporate world. That is bullshit.
“Good enough” means doing what you want to do, doing what you feel called to doing, and only because you want to do it and believe that you’d do a great job doing it. The Hell with the Sisterhood of Eternal Grievance telling women that they’re “failures” if they decide that they’d rather be full-time mothers than CEOs. The Hell with anybody telling anyone what’s “best for them”, as a matter of fact. If a woman has a knack for leadership and wants to pursue it, then she should bloody well do it. I hate seeing resources wasted. Can you imagine what a loss it would be to our nation in this election season if Sarahcuda had decided that “she wasn’t good enough to be a leader?” Yes you can, because that’s what we were looking at until she was picked: Another halfway competent, boring mainstream Beltway Bandit.
Or what if Todd Palin had decided that “the Hell with it, little lady, you ain’t standing in the way of my ambitions, so get back to the bloody kitchen” which, ironically enough, is what “feminists” are now saying that he should have done since she has the “wrong” letter after her name. Is Todd Palin “less of a man” because he chose to support his life’s love and take the brunt of the child rearing upon himself, the way that NOW are saying (to any woman who isn’t a political threat to the Democrat “men” whose cocks they would happily slurp 24/7 while ironing their shirts) that women who choose motherhood aren’t “real womyn?”
The fuck he is. What he, and they, are is a loving couple who figured out how to make it work in a world that isn’t designed to make it work. What they did was to find a way that would make both of them happy and use both of their potentials in a way that would work for both of them.
I could care less what the fuck is between your legs. If you’re the right person for the job and you’re happy doing it, then you need to be the one holding it. And whatever the outcome, that doesn’t make you “less of a woman” or “less of a man”, what it does is make you a person living up to your potential, and I respect that.
And TheBoid, just so we’re clear on this and you don’t think that I’m slamming on you: I got you loud and clear. You weren’t “telling anybody what to do”, you were merely expressing an opinion, namely that women are, naturally and instinctively, more easily fitted to the nurturing role of homemaker, an opinion which I, nature and nature’s G-d share.
But that doesn’t mean that there aren’t exceptions or other solutions that work better for everybody involved, nor did I for a second get the impression that you were saying that.
September 4th, 2008 at 3:57 PMUsing
Holy shiite. Chris Matthews (of the “thrill going up my leg” fame) is on CSpan talking about Sarah, saying “I think we are looking at a future President of the United States.” And he went on to say he watched her speech, and “for an hour, I didn’t think once of Hillary Clinton.” And that he was glad not to: “they’ve [the Clintons] had their time, and they’re done.”
This is going to be miiighty interesting.
September 4th, 2008 at 4:03 PMUsing
More Matthews: “I think that comment — ‘It’s been 20 years, and he’s [Todd] still my guy’ — was brilliant. Haven’t heard that from the Clintons in a long time.” [the others laugh]
And “Men like women that like men. It ain’t complicated.” [laughter]
“Rudy: he was funnier than Jackie Mason last night.”
Lots of comparisons with Norma Rae. THIS IS GOOD, PEOPLE. Because there are a LOT of folks out there who aren’t going to see any conservative blogs or watch Fox News [might get cooties!], and we need her to breach the media barrier. This is good. Yes, Matthews is a peckerhead, but if she can get to a guy who had the tingles for Obama, she can get through to our fellow citizens even more.
She’s a diamond. That’s what occurred to me as I watched her last week. She has the quality of character, and the charisma –which is crucial in a leader — to put the ideas across to the people.
September 4th, 2008 at 4:11 PMUsing
Nor I Boid. I guess maybe I did come across like that…but I was in a bad mood when I read your post.
I understand your point. Yes, it would be great if women could just stay home and raise mentally, emotionally, and physically healthy and well adjusted children. Things started going downhill in our society back in the 60’s because of the “Women’s Movement” and our homes started falling apart…..BUT…that was mainly a result of the underlying reasons they were touting for their agenda. Had they gone about it in a much more reasonable and socially compatible way, I think that women would have had a much more sensible view of how to make work and home meld much more smoothly. Men would not have had to go on the defensive, and children would not have been left out in the cold so to speak to further Mom’s flaming ambitions to elbow anyone with a penis.
My one suggestion to your wanting to further an ideal for stay-at-home Mothers……you can’t further such an ideal until you foster the ideal of responsible, mature, strong, hands-on Fathers as well. One doesn’t work without the other.
September 4th, 2008 at 4:19 PMUsing
I respectfully disagree, Sire.
Remember Obama’s promise to negotiate without preconditions. Hell, we could be looking at sharia law, burkas, and female mutilation.
Not to mention a few cities in smoking ruin.
Communism, Islamism, not much difference there, if you think about it.
September 4th, 2008 at 4:28 PMUsing
I’m with purple’s respectful disagreement with the caveat that the if the Emporer was speaking on purely military aspects he is correct. The problem as I see it is this is 4th gen warfare (or mutli-dimensional). The enemies recognition that they can use our own rules and ethics against us, and our allowance of same will be the biggest true threat. The encroachment will be on the same levels as the socialists here have used. Our society has been systematically infiltrated… media, higher education, politics, and those avenues are open to the islamists. Granted they will have to be more subtle and take a longer term approach, but the doors are open all the same. I cannot take my enemy for granted and underestimate them, such thinking leads to complacency. :em04:
September 4th, 2008 at 4:47 PMUsing
Mrs. M-ITT,
*raises hand*
Umm … that’s…. not entirely true - the MuscleHouse actually runs that way - we watch things and make decisions carefully, but if you decide that it’s a priority over others, it can be done.
I’m reminded of a scene from an otherwise forgettable show, “Mad About You”:
Jaime: Oh! So I’m the one who has to dial back the career?!? Because “I’m the Mommy”?!?
Paul: Welllll……
Jaime: I’m expected to make personal sacrifices, because “I’m the Mommy”?!?
Paul: Um…. Checking…. …Yes.
Jaime: Oh! Because “I’m the Mommy”…. Sure, because “I’m… OH MY GOD, I’M THE MOMMY!!!
Once was a time when people didn’t think of “breeders and child-raisers” as a status to be surrounded by invisible sneer-quotes (they can be invisible because the choice of the word ‘breeders’ covers it nicely) - a time when people saw being “The Mommy” as one of the most important jobs contributing to society…
Then the Worst Generation took control and, still trying to ’stick-it-to-the-man’, chose to “Cast Off Those Chains Of Oppression”….
…but to do it properly, they had to societally de-value the role of “Mommy”, so that it wouldn’t seem like they were shirking anything - you know - important.
Has anyone really looked around lately at the latest crop of kids - being “raised” (those are sneer quotes) by the largely-aimless children of the WG?
Nothing against Palin - that’s a strong family and she’s a dream-come-true for us - but the reason that the Libs are jumping to the panicked, Duty-of-the-Mother shots is because, in their shriveled, black little hearts
… they know that we know - that all that WG crap was smoke-and-mirrors in the first place - and they know that admitting it is the only way they have even a shot of getting us to hear them.
- Not that it’ll work this late in the game - but the whole thing still seemed worth mentioning.
- MuscleDaddy
September 4th, 2008 at 5:07 PMUsing
I’m not saying that they can’t hurt us, because they can. I’m saying that a bunch of disorganized, 7th century savages aren’t near as much of a threat to us as a 21st century nation with a huge nuclear arsenal.
The former have high aspirations, but they have no means of implementing them. If our own government won’t deal with them, as would be the case under an Obamination administration, then we the people would be more than adequate to do so while making sure that he and his idiots were booted from office in seconds flat if his imbecility got too dangerously pronounced.
Yes, our pisslamic enemy has lofty aspirations, but they don’t have the means.
Russia does.
September 4th, 2008 at 5:12 PMUsing
I was.
As far as their “worldwide caliphate” goes, they’d have to convince a nation of 300 million first, 80 million of whom (conservative low-ball estimate) are armed. Good luck with that, ragheads. You’ll be forcefed Admiral Yamamoto’s words if you try, and any, ANY President as much as thinking about caving in to your demands would be dangling from the nearest tree five minutes after his first conciliatory message to you, Obamessiah or not.
September 4th, 2008 at 5:17 PMUsing
May I - as example - point to the complete lack of stories of their mechanized forces breaking down during the current conflict?
Since they got their flat-tax working, they’ve been raking in the dough - and the days of “Will-the-Soviets-make-it-to-the-battle” are well behind them…
- MuscleDaddy
September 4th, 2008 at 5:24 PMUsing
I believed wholeheartedly in the notion that women should stay at home and raise the kids, and I practiced it religiously, right up until the time that my husband decided that he was tired of a family and left town. Then it really didn’t matter what the hell I thought about staying home to raise my kids. I was a single parent for some time, and the kids turned out okay….all in their late teens and twenties, the majority in college (paying their own way), no pregnancies, no purple hair and piercings, no tattoos, no bailing anyone out of jail at any time. The attitude that single parents raise worthless children is a myth. I can name three two-parent families in my neighborhood right off the bat who are having huge legal and moral problems with their children. Two of them are already raising their own grandkids.
Women staying at home to raise the family is like eating a balanced, healthy diet. An ideal everyone tries to pursue but not everyone can enact.
And as for the whole Sarah issue….Forget Whassisname! Palin for President! I might not actually feel slimy in the voting booth in November!
September 4th, 2008 at 6:14 PMUsing
And remember her other prize quote. The one my wife was laughing so hard she almost cried.
September 4th, 2008 at 6:46 PM“You know the difference between a Hockey Mom and a Pitt Bull? Lipstick.”
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I realize it doesn’t always work and it requires sacrifice to make it work. My first child was 9 months old when I started grad school and since he was born (6 years ago, and now we have three beautiful children) my wife has been a full time mom. Doing this through 3 years of grad school for me and then the dues paying portion of my career and dealing with student loans has not been easy, let alone doing it on one income (except for a short time when my wife worked part-time also) in southern California with the high cost of living and California tax burden, but it is a sacrifice we have chosen to make.
No one. I like black licorice and horseradish too, but not everyone goes for that. I’m not offensed.
No offense taken whatsoever.
September 4th, 2008 at 7:00 PMUsing
photomunkey
Were you aware that The beloved Ronald also started as a sportscaster? Being an atheist I can’t use sainted.
TerribleTroy
You are indeed right, his name is David Plouffe.
And as for being able to mange with a single income, it can indeed be done. It just isn’t easy.
September 5th, 2008 at 12:39 AMUsing
The book: “Sarah: How a Hockey Mom Turned Alaska’s Political Establishment on Its Ear” is now #12 on Amazon’s Bestseller list:
http://www.amazon.co.....ref=sv_b_3
Rock it, Sarah.
September 5th, 2008 at 1:02 AMUsing
We have a State election here tomorrow. I am sorely tempted to cross out all the names on the ballot paper and write in Sarah Palin since we seem to have nothing but goombas on the list - at least in my electorate.
Not that it will count but it will make me feel better :em58:
September 5th, 2008 at 7:13 AMUsing
The Nuge rocks on Sara!
September 5th, 2008 at 10:55 AMFoller th’ linkSara Palin Is My Girl–Ted Nugent
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Just made these up:
The movie Jaws would have lasted ten minutes if Sarah Palin had been in it. She would have bitten the shark to death.
Sarah Palin is Alaska’s missile defense shield.
Whenever Sarah Palin sings, mariners sailing in Alaskan waters have to stop their ears so they want ground their ships onto the shore. Now you know what caused the Exxon Valdez disaster.
September 5th, 2008 at 12:23 PMUsing
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(going all the way back to #28)
As President or Vice President, they really are moot points. At this point in the election, we had better be somewhat comfortable with our choice for president, at least on these issues or we’re screwed.
Religion: Neither flaunts it, but doesn’t shy away from it. (Just mentioning G-d doesn’t count as flaunting)
Abortion: I think I can take a good guess by the families actions about that. And the POTUS or VPOTUS have little to do with it now. It would take a Constitutional Amendment to overturn Roe v Wade which would have to come through Congress.
Social Issues: So much territory and not nearly enough space. A wide ranging subject that goes from something like workers comp to guaranteed income for life. Got a point to start at?
September 5th, 2008 at 1:48 PMUsing
Unfortunately, when you find out you’re wrong it’s too late. There IS that Creator of the Universe. I could go in to my philosophy, but it would take a bit. Listen, I’ve BEEN dead. I know what’s on the other side, even if I can’t put it into words exactly. Almost all religions have some bits right, none of them have it all.
September 7th, 2008 at 11:20 PMBut Christianity comes as close as any. If you must follow one, that’s absolutely as good as any. Seriously, don’t believe me. Read the works of the Bible, the Dalai Lama, on and on. See what sings to your heart. Just know ther IS more than us.
Me? ChristianZenWiccanNeoPaganTaoistNativeAmericanOfLatterDaySaints.com
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