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Mark Steyn

Over in the Frumistan province of the NR caliphate, our pal David is not happy about the Palin pick. I am - for several reasons.

First, Governor Palin is not merely, as Jay describes her, "all-American", but hyper-American. What other country in the developed world produces beauty queens who hunt caribou and serve up a terrific moose stew? As an immigrant, I'm not saying I came to the United States purely to meet chicks like that, but it was certainly high on my list of priorities. And for the gun-totin' Miss Wasilla then to go on to become Governor while having five kids makes it an even more uniquely American story. Next to her resume, a guy who's done nothing but serve in the phony-baloney job of "community organizer" and write multiple autobiographies looks like just another creepily self-absorbed lifelong member of the full-time political class that infests every advanced democracy.

Second, it can't be in Senator Obama's interest for the punditocracy to spends its time arguing about whether the Republicans' vice-presidential pick is "even more" inexperienced than the Democrats' presidential one.

Third, real people don't define "experience" as appearing on unwatched Sunday-morning talk shows every week for 35 years and having been around long enough to have got both the War on Terror and the Cold War wrong. (On the first point, at the Gun Owners of New Hampshire dinner in the 2000 campaign, I remember Orrin Hatch telling me sadly that he was stunned to discover how few Granite State voters knew who he was.) Sarah Palin and Barack Obama are more or less the same age, but Governor Palin has run a state and a town and a commercial fishing operation, whereas (to reprise a famous line on the Rev Jackson) Senator Obama ain't run nothin' but his mouth. She's done the stuff he's merely a poseur about. Post-partisan? She took on her own party's corrupt political culture directly while Obama was sucking up to Wright and Ayers and being just another get-along Chicago machine pol (see his campaign's thuggish attempt to throttle Stanley Kurtz and Milt Rosenberg on WGN the other night).

Fourth, Governor Palin has what the British Labour Party politician Denis Healy likes to call a "hinterland" - a life beyond politics. Whenever Senator Obama attempts anything non-political (such as bowling), he comes over like a visiting dignitary to a foreign country getting shanghaied into some impenetrable local folk ritual. Sarah Palin isn't just on the right side of the issues intellectually. She won't need the usual stage-managed "hunting" trip to reassure gun owners: she's lived the Second Amendment all her life. Likewise, on abortion, we're often told it's easy to be against it in principle but what if you were a woman facing a difficult birth or a handicapped child? Been there, done that.

Fifth, she complicates all the laziest Democrat pieties. Energy? Unlike Biden and Obama, she's been to ANWR and, like most Alaskans, supports drilling there.

Sixth, I kinda like the whole naughty librarian vibe.



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Good stuff.

Totem

I would put my ***** in any of her orifices, but that has nothing to do with who I vote for.

I prefer "balloon knot".

Allow me to illuminate the landscape you are standing on, Dame.

http://www.audacityofhypocrisy.com/2008/08/30/sarah-palin-vs-barack-obama/

Totem

Facts being facts are one thing, Ducky, but "enough experience in a lot of minds to do the job sufficiently," counts as opinion, regardless how much you'd like it to be God's-honest, unshakable truth. Once again, jut sayin'.

Totem

Anyone that has their name in a bill or two has been doing their job in Congress.

That said, the second pic is photoshopped.

My fiance: "I'd hit it, but only if she let me tape her mouth shut first. She squeaks."

(I'm a lyric mezzo, he loves my nice low voice <3)

Little known facts about Miz Palin.

http://search.twitter.com/search?max_id=903255401&page=2&q=little+known+fact+palin

Totem

'Nuther one:

http://bp2.blogger.com/_5QejQ4yGcos/R8a_bnwMEqI/AAAAAAAABGY/XzY0Q9ytsFA/s400/Palin+gams.jpg

And you homos want to see a jug earred community organizer in office? You might as well go pick out a bra and matching panties for yourself.

Totem

/sigh

I'd explain how it was a joke, but that'd ruin the whole... nevermind. Tell me you knew.

Totem

Totem, exactly how is Palin leaps and bounds more experienced than Obama? I guess being the mayor of a small town in Alaska and being governor for 1.5 years is soooooo much better than the time Obama spent in the United States Senate.

If you're gonna throw out the time he spent running for President, we'll call it even and throw out the time Palin spent abusing her powers as governor to get a state trooper fired, k?

She spent time abusing her power to get a state trooper fired? Really, Dame? Where did you see that? I haven't seen a shred of evidence that that is what happened. But go on now, don't let reality keep you from smearing a woman's good name in your desperation to bolster your candidate's chances in November.

Totem

Just check out the numerous Palin threads, all the evidence and sources are there somewhere.

"my" candidates chances? The fact that you think Palin is actually extremely qualified for the VP spot is proof enough of your extreme partisanism. I was actually pretty undecided about who I was going to vote for, but after McCain picked his VP solely for looks and to "shake things up", I honestly don't think I want him making the big decisions.

McCain stupidly picked an inexperienced VP because she has a @#%^...deal with it.

Just admit that if you looked at Obama's resume/record and Palin's without knowing who they were (or if Palin was a democrat and not a republican), you would be saying the same thing I am, but no, you're choosing to be blinded by party politics. Put it this way..if the election was Biden vs. McCain and McCain had Obama as his VP and Biden had Palin (if their parties were switched obviously), you KNOW you'd be toeing the party line and talking about how great Obama was and "how can some dumb ***** who was mayor of like a 9000 person town be better than a Senator who's served on the Foreign Affairs Committee"



What a sheep; your title is very appropriate

Edited, Sep 1st 2008 2:49am by DaimenKain