All this bruhaha is being orchestrated by the Republican party, probably to take attention away from the many real bad things about Palin.

lgm, you know, there are medicines that can help you with your condition… and just to show you that I’m sincere, I take those kinds of medications myself. Seriously, as one human being to another, get help. I did and my wife did. It really works.

On September 3rd, 2008 at 12:23 pm, Rusty said:
Speaking of Obama, if one of his daughters got pregnant, do you really think that there would be a respectful response from this site? Of course not. It would be about how the Obamas don’t have values and how it’s another black single mother.

Don’t hurt yourself getting off your high horses.

Going by what Obama has said so far we probably wouldn’t know about it. But if the teenage daughter of anyone at all got pregnant, anyone – friend, foe, politician, whatever – my response would be, “Congratulations. I’m sure there will be some tough times ahead, but there will be far, far more joyful ones.”

So you can get off your own high horse, mister.

I pray you’re right. I’ve heard a lot of misconceptions on who actually pays most of the taxes and who doesn’t. This from my own mother who I’ve encouraged to actually get a computer. Ironically, she’s a computer programmer who doesn’t actually have her own computer.

Unfortunately, there is a segment of people out there (ahem, liberal women and minorities) who cannot think for themselves. Then, there are the one issue voters like my sisters-in-law who always vote for Dems because of abortion or gun control. Research will not impact these voters.

Another worrying trend is the youth of our country, the segment of our country who has just recently graduated from our public schools. It is hard to rebut indoctrination if it’s the only source of information you have, as a kid, and it’s not being refuted at home. These are kids who are the most vulnerable about the direction of our country, who see their parents and families struggling, and are told if they and said relatives just rely on the guvmint, everything will be okey dokey.

It doesn’t take much to got to a public library and surf the net. However, it takes a lot of nerve and effort to open your mind and look at what the other side is saying. Believe me, I know what it’s like to give the other side the benefit of the doubt, having grown up in a college town where the liberal mindset was the norm not the exception.

I just don’t think many Americans are up for more “self-reliance” anymore. This presidential election has become more about style than substance. McCain has even asked Obummer to accompany him on a townhall tour with little success. That’s the type of intransigence that the country will get with Obummer. If he can’t show up for a townhall debate tour, how likely will he be to dialogue with the other side?

I hope you’re right and I’m wrong. Unfortunately, given the increasing breakdown of the family (I’ve seen this as a teacher) and the lack of parenting in childrens’ lives these days, young people are being told that self-reliance is old school and that Bid Daddy Government is the real power in their lives. You can’t trust that other fuddy duddy party, or your own family, but you can trust the state.

We are becoming increasingly like Chavez’ socialist dicatorship where the lemmings would rather get a handout in exchange for not thinking for themselves. We have millions of Americans with this mentality and all the independent research in the world won’t blunt this reality.

Ever wonder what the reaction of the MSM and Dems would be if it had been made public that Ms. Palin had an abortion, rather than choosing life? Honestly, it wouldn’t matter. This is a no win situation as far as the privacy of the Palin family goes. I do think it will seriously backfire on the media, though. I suspect the McCain campaign and Palin’s believe that, as well. It has to be hard on Bristol, to have this made so public, but in the long run— she and her family will come out of this stronger, and the Dems will have been irreparably harmed for allowing it to get out of hand, particularly after the fuss made over respecting Michelle O’s privacy. Sarah Palin wouldn’t be where she is today if she turned into a whining, defensive little brat when someone try to call her out on something… only a Democrat with the media still fawning over a ‘fist-bump’ with the spouse can get away with something like that.

Hmmm. I just realized something. I spent the better part of the past 8 years sticking up for GW Bush by telling colleagues, friends, family members, and students that one can’t make it to the highest office in the land without at least some intelligence and integrity. Apparently, one can, with enough backing from the media and enough people who get their news from the ‘Daily Show’ or ‘The View’ going to the polls in November. The only way Obama has made it into any office is by media hype and underhanded slighting of his opponents… will be interesting to see how that works against folks with as much backbone and resilience as his opponents in this race.

Isn’t it ironic… that children who don’t fit into the life plans of liberals are discarded as easily as original ideas by the Obamesiah?

On September 3rd, 2008 at 4:19 pm, LarryD said:

I think Rusty et al need to read this:

Dare to dream LarryD. Having observed “Rusty” for at least six months, I can attest that he lacks the capacity to reason. His only motivation in life is getting a little as much consequence-free sumpn’, sumpn’ for Rusty as possible.

Don’t stand between him and his caveman impulses.

So as an atheist, let me take you on a tour of Christianity, OK? Christians believe in sin, confession, penance, forgiveness, and redemption. Christians don’t cast out sinners, they cast out sinners who do not repent. And in fact they don’t even do that.

Let me speak as a Jesuit-educated athiest.

He’s right.