Sarah Palin on Twitter? You betcha! — Update: TV critic has PDS
Sarah Palin is now using Twitter (AKGovSarahPalin), and I see she’s increased about 100 followers just in the time to write this sentence.
Update: Maybe the governor will be doing some Tweeting about her upcoming appearance on American Chopper. I think I’ll go to the Sturgis rally this August… ya know, just in case.
Update II: Via Newsbusters — The Baltimore Sun’s pencil-necked TV critic put his Palin Derangement Syndrome out for all to see in his description of the American Chopper episode featuring Palin:
Move over, Kate Gosselin, a bigger hot dog than you is coming to The Learning Channel Thursday night when Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin appears on American Chopper.
Is this a marriage made in reality TV heaven or what?
Thursday’s episode featues Paul Teutul Sr., the father of the chopper building clan that stars in this series, journeying to Alaska to do research on a special bike that he and his posse are building to honor the 50th anniversary of the state.
And, of course, who better to be his new best biker mama friend than that moose hunting sharpshooter, who blew up any chance the Republicans had to make it to the White House last fall with her divisive rhetoric and disastrous TV interviews.
American Chooper airs at 9 Thursday night on TLC.
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That’s 100% incorrect, unless you’re playing with numbers, and simply typing about her numbers with “the base”.
I’m talking about McCain here, not “moderates”. He was the one who has demonstrated an utter lack of principle on fiscal issues, border security, and the First Amendment. It is YOU who are trying to label an unprincipled, crass opportunist as a “moderate.”
Nice try, though.
Just another reason to watch American Chopper.
There is no doubt in my mind that Sarah Palin’s VP selection was good for the Republican Party in the short term and long term, since she rallied so many who otherwise would have given up and stayed on the sidelines in the election. She gave millions of Republicans sincere cause for hope for the future of their party, as a party for principled and even youthfully invigorated conservatism.
Her continued leadership in the Republican Party bodes well for the part of the party that is actually energized — rather than tired and drifting — that is, energized to protect and promote the long-term well-being of this country.
The One’s electoral victory would have been an even worse trouncing, if some boring party hack rather than Palin had been chosen as the running-mate.
This “omg you cant win without the moderates and indepedents” shtick is lol-larious because it can easily be applied to any other VP candidate – Thompson, Huckabee, Romney, Tancredo, Hunter, or Palin.
To act like this “omg the GOP couldnt win over moderates and independents” is somehow unique to Palin as a VP is lolhardy.
Facebook? Twitter? Myspace? etc, etc, etc?
blechhh…
I was going to hold my nose and vote for McCain until Governor Palin was picked for his VP choice. THEN I was much happier about voting for the Republican ticket. At that time I had no clue that the McCain staffers were going to actively work to torpedo her*. McCain’s stopping his campaign to work on the “economic recovery crap” was a big mistake.
Any discussion about Governor Palin’s perceived lack of credentials by the lame stream media and Da One’s supporters always ignores his very real lack of credentials and experience.
Hope is not a plan; not all change is good. Chappy the law student is not qualified to judge Justice Clarence Thomas’ qualifications or performance. The resistance is here; the resistance is now. RESIST!!!
ECS
I wasn’t “trying” anything. Yes, I would say McCain is a right leaning moderate.
If that’s your opinion of McCain, that’s your opinion. I have no interest in agreeing or disagreeing wity your personal feelings about John McCain.
In all seriousness, you really try to out perform Lgm or IHateMyCountry. You come off sounding like the shrill, close-minded bigot that many Dems are. OMG, I just made a gross generalization like you, Swiss Mountain Flower.
Ummmm, by the way, your preciousness, if you say you’re as invested in this country as you claim, perhaps you’d realize that there are more INDEPENDENTS that decide elections than the constituencies that you cite.
Honestly, you look down your nose at people you neither agree with or understand, yet you’ve never walked a mile in their shoes because you’re too busy pretending that you’re American when for most of your existence you’ve sponged off your parents, the French government, French taxpayers, and the French education system. If I were a rational-thinking French person (if such a thing exists) I’d have a problem with an American using loose citizenship requirements to freely get education benefits.
No, don’t let that worry you. You’d rather be a hapless follower of a president you think should have 4 terms rather than somebody who can think for themselves. Do they teach real life in those European schools? From where I’m sitting, a lot of the graduates that French universities produce don’t have the skill set to find jobs in the private sector. That’s why they make the perfect anarchists or better yet, public workers.
Somebody’s European specialness and condescension is at odds with what’s unique about America. Perhaps, you’re not quite as empathetic and selfless as you let on.
Oh yeah, that’s what we were talking about! Guess I’m going to lose some more sleep tonight.
undresiege, your stuck on “moderate” and “independent”…which is the old republican country club mantra, we’ve seen how well that works over the years. Look back at ’80 and ’84 elections…Reagan received your “moderates” and “independents”, he was no moderate himself, very conservative. now that’s what wins elections for the Republicans, not tossing out the next inline old guard candidate.
Gots to run, later.
Fine. Just don’t move the goalposts.
Your original post was an attempt to interpret my personal opinion of McCain as a smear to “moderates.”
With the exception of Tancredo, I’d say that all of those gentleman would have more of the skill and savvy to win over “the middle” than Sarah Palin.
If you don’t think independents and moderates are crucial to win a national election, you can have the satisfaction of knowing that you are a true maverick. Your opinion flies in the face of any sound, common, and rational political analysis.
This is agree with. It was precisely the pick of Sarah Palin as VP that drove me to vote for a 3rd party.
*This *I* agree with. Sorry Tucking Fypos.
Miss, sometimes, misunderstandings happen on blogs. Okay. Let me do something that’s rarely seen on this blog:
My bad, I misunderstood your post concerning moderates and their convictions. You clarified that you were discussing McCain only. My bad.
Okay.
I hope this bike has a gunrack, and a long chain used to drag Levi Johnson around just for laughs…
Right. But he was able to win over the moderates and independents. You don’t have to become one to win them over. No way. That’s the key. That’s all I’m saying. Palin couldn’t do it.
You mean like our esteemed Dem VP Joe Biden? Seeing the way Biden operates I’m beginning to think an amoeba would do just as well.
Have fun telling yourself that a couple of botched interviews and twisted Dem PR interpretation adds up to one’s potential as a VP candidate, sport.
Frankly, I’d rather she just run for the Senate and purge Murkowski from the RINO herd meself.
Exactly. The definition of “deflection.”
Your real worry I would think, is not that Sarah Palin will suddenly becoming President, but that she will energize conservative (and many moderate) voters around the country and help get people elected.
Apology accepted.
Thank you, David Brooks.
BTW: Just what is the “Palin issue?” McCain lost because he couldn’t show expressive leadership during the onset of the economic downturn. Palin had nothing to do with his loss; in fact, she is the reason he got has far as he did.
Palin actually looked conservative next to “lukewarm” McCain. She was the only reason why I voted R. McCain might as well have a D behind his name.
In retospect, anyone can look conservative next to McCain. I’ve been unimpressed with her since the election.
Contract With America II – 2010
Gingrich – 2012
Gingrich – 2012
Are you kidding me, we have to be able to find some that is not part of the old guard and hasn’t decided that global warming exists and the gov must stop it.
Gingrich needs to fade away, he had his time and it needs to be over.
I’m honestly not worried about Sarah Palin right now, but I love debating about her.
You do make a good point, that could become a concern. If she were able to energize conservatives in local and state-wide elections from state to state where conservatives often lose elections to “conservative” democrats, that could become a problem for my side. We’ll have to see how that plays out on ’10 and ’12. For now, I think Booshh has tainted the GOP brand pretty good.
Neither, just disappointed that this is what we’ve come to in this present day society.
Not as bad as Obama-Biden will have Democrats, once unemployment hits double digits and all of this outrageous spending proves useless!
I wouldn’t vote Gingrich for dogcatcher. I’m with Hunter, Gingrich really needs to just go away.
I have seen at least one post on this thread today, and one on another thread yesterday, that some of you are pledging to never buy another American car.
Please, please remember that Ford told Obama to take a flying leap and did not accept any money from him.
Not to mention the boat-loads of cash she is already bringing in to GOP candidates everywhere (I think FNC.com had a story about this several weeks back).
Hence the man in the White House right now. There was no truth in advertising there. His election proves your theory.
OK, so how does Obama with less experience qualify him for the top job?
Interesting NO ONE can actually come up with a legitimate excuse for that one.
Ever.
A community organizer and a freshman senator, yeah right. That’s qualifications. It’s like me saying I’m a doctor because my dad happened to be one.
Well that’s why every major campaign has folks that specialize in controlling the media narrative and coaching the candidates to deal with them. I think it’s always been that way, but it’s much more crucial in today’s age. Campaign 2008 was nothing more than a reality show. These are the times in which we live.
ITT: requiring a teleprompter, uhhh-ing and ummm-ing are Newspeak’d into “media savvy”
BlameAmericaLast:
Is it possible to be of the opinoin that neither qualified? Of course it is.
Palin wasn’t running for president, the aisle reaching old man was, he lost the election, not Gov. Palin. As I said above she carried the rino as far as she could, a job well done at that.
And how did he win them over, with liberal. moderate ideas? I don’t think so. He won with confidence, strength in himself and conservative ideas. Reagan was no mush mouth, maverick that you never knew which way he was going to squirm.
Lets not debate this. I am certain neither side is going to convince the other of Obama’s qualifications or lack thereof.
You can tell the forum is about Sarah Palin—look how many posts from undresiege…
I was going to comment likewise, so I’ll just chime in with “ditto.”
If I could have voted for Palin for VP and left the President slot blank, I would have.
In 2012, I will write her in for POTUS. She’d be better than anyone that will be nominated. No more LOTE for me.
This said by someone who despises Conservatives and won’t hear them out. Yet, Republicans are told by these same people that they need to be more like Dems.
Calling McCain a “right leaning moderate” is like saying that Rosie O’Donnell is a heterosexual. The label just doesn’t pass the smell test. McCain is a disengenuous, lying scumbag of a hypocrite politician who, like Bush, thought he could sacrifice capitalist ideals to SAVE CAPITALISM. C’mon! McCain is no moderate or doesn’t even lean to the Right. He’s a liberal just like Spector who was a Dem who changed to a Republican then changed his mind again to be a Dem to win an election.
I have no trouble with moderates. Yet, calling either McCain or Obummer moderates is disengenuous and misleading. You cannot govern middle of the road yet put into place LIBERAL policies like Shamnesty and Cap and Trade like either McCain or Obummer would’ve done.
My husband is a moderate on social issues like abortion and we disagree all the time. Yet he is conservative on most other things. McCain- well, he just seems to blow in the wind, the sort of waffling we’re seeing Obummer do to satisfy his internal polls.
This kind of pretentious misidentified rhetoric regarding moderates is again why I’ve become an independent. I don’t trust either political party who says one thing and does another. This goes for Bush, McCain, and Obummer.
I didn’t think you believed there could be a moderate position on abortion.
One thing people forget is that Sarah Palin wasn’t running for president, yet, the libtards pitted her against Obama.
My questions is…why?
I’d like to know the answer to that one myself.
Palin was duly elected to her state’s top office, knows all the ends and outs of energy production and associated costs, and has unprecedented approval ratings for any governor in the nation; yet the media claimed she was unqualified to be VP while at the same time pronouncing Obama, a first term senator, to be uniquely qualified for the presidency?!
Unreal…
I won’t argue with you there. Education is the key. That’s a shout out for you Bear 1909.
Until we take away the education reins that the unions are holding onto, we will continue to elect American Idols.
Agreed. That’s why I say:
A veep candidate can absolutely win or lose a campaign. It reflects on the prez candidate’s leadership and decision making. Most importantly, we’re dealing with the issue of “one heartbeat away”. McCain was 72 years old and went through a great deal of physical trauma in his life. If Palin were able to motivate and win over the middle, like she did “the base”, I think there’s a very good chance McCain would be the POTUS. I wouldn’t disagree that McCain’s mishandling of the economic crisis was the main problem, but the Palin pick was major problem. Just look at her numbers slide. If one wants to own her numbers right after the GOP convention, you gotta own her numbers at the end.
Isn’t it more appropriate to compare Palin to Biden and not Obama?
Biden is proving over and again that he’s unqualified for public speaking, much less being vice-president. The radical left that seems so intent on continuously pounding on Palin seem to turn a blind eye and a deaf ear to “Serious Joe”.
Snowfire, I stand corrected, your absolutely right about Ford, never been a Ford fan possible reason for my error and lumping them with Chrysler and Giverment Motors. But Ford still has the union albatross around it’s neck. Why pay $1000 to $1500 more for a car only because of the union label?
Because there is a difference between “experience” and “qualification.” You will note I did not use the word “experience” once.
If the number of years you have under your belt were the only qualification for presidency, we could just promote the president pro tempore every four years and dispense of the silly presidential elections altogether.
Just answer the question, Chap. What qualifies him to be president?
Then please be so kind as to elaborate on why you feel his qualifications trump her experience, because I do not see it.
You can’t possible still be typing his qualifications, can you Chap?
Fun with words.
How does a person qualify himself for a role without having a history of experience? Or are you just referring to the Constitutional requirements for qualification: e.g. Natural born citizen, 35 years old, etc.
Unless, of course, you believe the Presidency should be an entry level position?
And beyond a warm body and a pulse, what were Obama’s ‘qualifications’? (we’ll dispense with the eligibility issue for the moment)
Then what are his qulifications?
If that was the case, Joe “JOBS is a 3-letter word” Gaffetastic Biden would’ve cost Obama the election. It simply isn’t true. The media fawning and their refusal to do their “investigative” jobs and the non-stop adulation (appearing on Time’s cover what, 5000 times? is what got him elected. It was a plain and simple marketing and PR campaign. Forget the issues, forget his backgroun, forget his refusal to open up his Harvard files, etc., that didn’t matter. The media wanted their cool, hip, black man to be elected.
And what did the media do to Palin? Let’s not forget that horrid gossip magazine which I will not name…just cranked it up with the attacks. Nothing but vile attacks against her, her children (Andrew Sullivan’s math problem with pregnancy timing, etc.) Nonstop 24/7 mud slinging, trash talking, etc. And you’d have to be a complete moron not to notice. So STOP DENYING.
I’m still waiting for obama’s qualifications.
Let’s begin by examining his college transcripts.
Key word there is can, Juan had way too many negatives to overcome, for anyone. Do you honestly, believe there was a better Republican VP candidate than Gov. Plain. Something we’ll never know, but I say McShame garnered more votes with Gov. Palin that he would have with any other VP candidate. I said honestly, and don’t throw back that “moderate” “independent” nonsense either.
Myself, I voted for Palin, not Juan, I also did not vote for my incumbent rino senator, who lost to a dark blue lib. imagine that…I have morals, values and guns and will never vote again for LOTE.
BlameAmericaLast:
You are asking the wrong person.
I used to feel the way you did, Snowfire. I grew up with American made cars only to see that they didn’t perform in a pinch. I can remember an incident in my childhood where my mother drove her Chevy into an intersection, it overheated, the AC blew and the car stopped operating. Not a happy memory. After this occurred, she never touched a Chevy again.
Ironically, she swears by Oldsmobiles and look where they are now.
My first car was a used Chevy and the AC went out and would overheat in stop and go traffic. I was done after that.
My husband swore by his Ford Probe until the constant freezing and unfreezing of consecutive North Dakota winters did it in. He had a heating block but the electrical system was shot. When we were dating, the thing wouldn’t shut off. It actually could turn itself on… it was the freakiest thing. We were told by many mechanics it would suck more money away to fix and maintain it than to just buy a new one.
Then we became a Saturn family. My husband swore by them but he didn’t like how they handled and the overly “plastic” squeekiness of the interior. After his 2nd Saturn, he switched over to Nissan and never looked back.
I swear by Saturn myself. I love my Vue but I even admit that there’s squeeking noises that annoy me. I’m hoping that Saturn operates on its own and just leaves the GM fold. I hate GM as a whole- we had a buddy who got a new GM SUV and it just died one day. No explanation until a mechanic explained to him that his electrical system was on the fritz. Thank God for warranties I guess.
This, in a nutshell, is what has given companies like Chrysler, GM, and even Ford black eyes. When you pay a lot for a product like a car, you expect it to work. When it doesn’t, your concern grows that all their products are like that.
Until the Big 3 can convince more Americans that it’s worth paying for exhorbitant cars that have labor/pension/healthcare costs built into their cars, they won’t buy them. Sad to say.
Now, then…. enough about me…
It always is isn’t it?
Well, except for Grover Cleveland.
Oops! Continued:
In fact the daily misfires he experienced a few months back, could be wholly attributable to his lack of the type of administrative experience Gov Palin has earned as head of state in Alaska.
Yes, of course, because Baltimore, MD, is doing soooo well under Democratic governance.
Never mind the fact that Baltimore had roughly the same number of murders as Houston, TX last year, despite the former being less than 1/3 the size of the latter. Never mind the fact that under Democratic governance that Baltimore has been hemorrhaging jobs and population for decades (although the narcotics industry is quite the growth industry there). Never mind that the once thriving city is nothing more now than a negative growth cesspool of drugs and violence under Democratic governance … let’s take a shot a Republican governor who’s quite popular. Stones in glass houses, anyone?
Or birth certificate and multiple passports…and I’m not even a conspiracy theorist. Well, depends on the conspiracy…
If I gave you the impression that I believed there could NEVER be a moderate position on abortion then my apologies. I don’t agree with it but acknowledge it nonetheless.
Here’s an example. My husband believes that there will always be abortions because there are stupid people out there who don’t know how to practice birth control, even though they are taught in schools and the healthcare industry has every kind of birth control device, and umpteen versions of The Pill on the market. I just say that people like to live on the edge and don’t know how to plan (or don’t have a plan period).
So, you see, my husband agrees with the reality of abortion whereas I feel that with our modern society there’s no excuse for it. Yet, he also says that partial birth abortion is disgusting and shouldn’t be tolerated. He also doesn’t like that young girls can get an abortion without parental consent.
So, you see that’s why I believe that there can be moderate positions on abortion. I don’t agree with it but you get my drift.
Yeah, and so is NY and IL.
Oh yeah, and so are Spitzer and Blago. Oops, forgot, those two are gone now. Two in one year…something about criminal investigations or indictments or something???
This from buzzworthy. I just spat cashew nuts across the room in laughter!
Justoneminute:
“Now Ask Him If Stupidity Is Contagious”
They told me that if I voted for McCain we’d have a Vice President who was a moron… and they were right!
nyuk, nyuk nyuk. gonna remember that one!
I heard there was this Minister of Equal Opportunity that was appointed only because she slept with Berlusconi.
You’ll get another hand here as well. I was weighing my voting options until her. I’d never thought about voting third party until McCain came along. My husband loved him because of his military record. Too bad that kind of military integrity didn’t stay with him.
Plus, I hated how he yucked it up with Vietnam and made “peace” with them. Ick. He’s as much a patsy and squishy vermin as Murtha.
(snort) Did he come up for air during that sentence?
My first, last, and only reason for my McVain vote was Sarah Palin. Put a snoozer on the ticket like Pawlenty or Crist and McVain gets one less vote (actually two, since I don’t drag my wife to the polls that day either).
O’s qualifications:
Class? (DVDs, iPod)
Humility? (I won)
Empathy? (72 deg WH, fancy steak)
Judgement? (Richardson, Geithner, Daschle…)
Sensitivity? (ignore Tea Party protestors)
Thick skinned? (attack Rush, Fox News)
Honesty? (17 “exceptions” to ‘No Lobbiests’ rule, …)
Patriotism? (bash-America European trip)
Work Ethic? (rush legislation- to take 3 days off, Wednesday party nights, …)
Thriftiness? (Most expensive inauguration ever, Fly jumbo-jet full of entourage to Denver to sign a paper, …)
I’m sure there’s more. Help me out, here…
A moderate is just somebody waitng for somebody else (usually the MSM) to tell them what to do or think. Moderates can kiss my angry old white man’s wrinkly patoot!
The fact they keep bashing Moose Slayer betrays the sheer terror she strikes in their dark hearts. Why else would they be constantly offering conservatives the “advice” that the only hope the GOP has is to purge her and her ilk from their ranks? If someone is an anchor on your foes, why would you want them gone and your opponents stronger for it? Gawd, liberals are retarded for all their arrogance.
Would you rather give speach on the state of the nation or the state of Alaska?
I was never a strong abortion opponent. I don’t think the government has any place dictating morals. I believed abortion was wrong but the people involved in the act were the sinners, and that’s their fate, not mine. Besides, it should be up to the states, not the federal government.
Given their inch, the left needed their mile and decided that parental consent was wrong, informing parents was wrong, partial birth and late term abortions were just fine, and the more they pushed, the more conservative I became.
Total disagreement. See emjem24′s post about abortion:
This is almost 100% my stance on abortion too. I daresay this is a “moderate” stance on abortion. It is neither the far right’s “NO ABORTIONS EVER AT ALL FOR ANY REASON WHATSOEVER NO NO NO!” nor the far left’s “ABORTIONS FOR ANYONE WHO WANTS ONE AND YOUNG GIRLS DONT NEED TO TELL THEIR PARENTS ANYTHING ALSO LET’S FUND PLANNED PARENTHOOD WITH TAXPAYER FUNDING”.
Both emjem24′s husband and myself have taken a stance on the issue of abortion that is neither far left, nor far right – and nobody had to tell us to do so, either.
Like they say, a liberal is just a conservative who hasn’t been mugged yet!
Speaking of Sarah Palin, a few months ago I had mentioned on MM’s site that some loser out of LA had put up an inflammatory and despicable “bio” of Sarah Palin on the professional social media website http://www.linkedin.com. I sent in a complaint about it saying it was inappropriate content and they sent an email back to me saying they had removed the offending “bio” within a week.
See how loony (and juveline) the left is? They’ll stop at nothing to defame this woman. And yet, she keeps her composure. Not sure if I could’ve done that.
*I also voted for McCain simply because of Sarah Palin; Learned about her many months prior to November; She was the only one who could make the race tight, but still in a losing effort; The GOP can’t ever again put a colossaly defective candidate like McCain on the ticket and remain credible as a party.
*The Tea Parties are a reflection of real American Values(not Nazi Pelosi San Francisco Values), and Sarah Palin is capable of leading a rebirth of those values, but only if she has the desire; We need that, not the remaking of the USA with socialist policies as proposed by P-BO and his Clown Cluster.
Well, maybe you came to the middle of the road all by youself, but still too wish washy for me. Here’s some realities for you, thievery, rape, murder. People will always do one or more of these. So I guess by your logic we should come to some moderate position on these things, but what would that be?
I blame the McCain staffers for undercutting Governor Palin from the very beginning because she wasn’t their “kind.” I blame the media for piling on when the McCain “Campaign” leaked “information” about Governor Palin like a sieve.
She misspeaks, and the media goes nuts. Lyin’ Joe Biden “misspeaks” and the media says, “Well, he’s just the VP candidate,” or “His experience adds ‘gravitas’ to the Democratic ticket.” The media was and is in the Democratic Party’s pocket.
ECS
Amen to that, brother. But supposedly, Obama is so much more qualified. Not sure exactly how, but that’s what we’re told…
It’s not nonsense. Palin alienated a large number of independents and moderates. Look at the poll numbers EQ referred to earlier. You need those folks to win the White House. She’s not the sole reason, but I think she’s a major reason for the loss. I also don’t believe that “base” voters would have handed the White House over to a so-called, “far-left, radical, terrorist sympathizing, inexeperienced, Wright church attending, Hussein named” fella if McCain chose a veep a little smoother around the edges, savvy and middle of the road. I don’t believe and I’ll never believe it. MM, Limbaugh,Hannity et.al. and their followers would have done everything they could to keep “B. Hussein Obama” out of the White House, even if it meant LOTE. I can see this all turning into a repetitive loop, so I’ll bounce. My prior posts express my opinions rather clearly, and I’d rather avoid the circle.
Go check out Spaceycakes at the bottom of the initial Swagga column. It’ll “blow” your minds.
Oh no. Not another abortion debate.
I’m going back to my “other” favorite blog.
LOL. Jealous.
Uh, don’t worry. What Obama and Biden are now doing is all we need for 2012.
If we even have a recognizable country by then…
Thievery, rape and murder are not abortion. There are plenty on the far right who want to attribute abortion to murder, but as abortion is currently legal and murder is still illegal, the law – including the Constitution – does not make abortion and murder equivalent.
And I’ve taken a stance on abortion and I stand by my convictions – that’s not “wishy washy” by the definition of the term.
EJECT! EJECT! EJECT!
rightisright #148
Sorry to be so long in coming back on… working you know. One of the reasons I buy Ford is because it is an American company and there are not many left. The other reason is that I’ve bought Fords for many years and have been totally happy with the quality, service, and longevity of the product.
Also, I find their price to be considerably lower than a comparable foreign car.
Hitler.
Okay, now you can go.
In muslim countries stoning your 8 year old wife is legal for not covering her face…by your reasoning, that doesn’t equate to murder either.
Everyone:
I did not intend to threadjack. I was responding to something that Chaps had said. I know that abortion is a particularly sensitive and touchy subject among many here. EQ, Zero, and I can all attest to that.
Again, I didn’t mean to change the subject. Does anybody like pugs?
Oh, and Zero, you know that MM is your favorite blog, you just won’t admit it.
There is a slight problem: the USA is not “muslim countries” and these Muslim countries do not have the US Constitution.
So yeah, no – not so much “my reasoning” as the stark difference in government and culture between the USA and “muslim countries.”
But his OTHER favorite one is
christianhatingbabyeatingevilathiests.blogspot.com
emjem24 #160
Whew!! If I’d had those problems, I might not be a Ford purchaser either. I appreciate your point of view. I just hope we can keep at least one American company of any kind operating.
There’s no real threadjack. Part of the discussion swung to moderates and, for whatever reason, moderates are apparently people who cant hold/maintain a political conviction, not people who maintain political convictions that are outside by the far left and far right spectrums. Abortion is a good, if heated, exmaple of one these convictions.
Also: rat terriers – is this not the most adorable of beasts?
Jeddite, you bailed out!
is abortion equate to murder in the Dominican Republic?
John:
LOL. It was about time for a Reductio ad Hitlerum, wasn’t it?
emjem24:
I was just a tad surprised. I remember you being one of the more vocal pro-life folks. I have to admit I did not expect to hear that your husband has more or less identical views to me on the matter. Does he also support ESCR? Why or why not?
(Might as well threadjack, it’s past the point of no return anyhow. I’ll be sure and bring up evolution and maybe even god later).
PS. Awww cute doggie!
chapoutier:
LOL. Actaully, it’s richarddawkins.net, so, depending on who you ask, what you say isn’t wholly inaccurate.