Sarah Palin: Jan Brewer Has Something President Obama Doesn’t
**Written by Doug Powers
Sarah Palin was on Fox News this morning with Chris Wallace, and boiled down the battle over the Arizona immigration law in her own distinctive way:
Though the Obama administration this month will begin deploying 1,200 more National Guard troops to the southwest border, Palin said on “Fox News Sunday” that Brewer is tackling border security and putting her faith in legal immigration where Obama is not.
“Jan Brewer has the cojones that our president does not have,” she said. “If our own president will not enforce our federal law, more power to Jan Brewer.”
Here’s video of Palin’s segment. The money quote hits at about 3:35…
Unfortunately, all too often, the only balls to be found in Washington are the inaugural kind. The women of the right may soon change that.
(h/t to HAP for the video)
**Written by Doug Powers
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Loves me some brave wimmens…
You GO girl…!!!!
Ditto!
Rahm Emanuel: Mr. President, Sarah Palin just said that Jan Brewer has cajones and you don’t!
Obama: What?! How could this happen? Call the White House Chef immediately and have them put on my official menu!
Send out airplanes, North, South, East, and West. Find and bring back to me only the best cajones our nation can provide! I want them for dinner TONIGHT and with beans and rice!!!
Closet socialists don’t have cajones. They were redistributed back to We the People. Lies got bho into office and lies will get him evicted.
My friends of Mexican heritage generally say huevos, not cojones.
Sarah McPalin also endorsed Mr. McShamnesty himself. You can’t have it both ways. You can’t claim to be representing a break from establishment Republican politics after gaining entry into that very establishment by endorsing the man who embodies what is wrong with the party. Personal loyalty is NOT a good explanation. This is supposed to be politics not a country club membership.
McPalin is building the appearance of being popular by playing with statistics. By playing to a shrinking base of voters (Republicans have shrunk to under 23% of voters, only slightly larger than liberals), she is committing a fatal error. It’s basic marketing. Gaining market share in a shrinking market only delays the inevitable reality that you going out of business.
Those of us unaffiliated independents fled THIS big government, one-world-without-borders GOP to become don’t like her. Sarah’s negatives (people who say they will never voter for her) are more than 53% and she is very unpopular among independents, much worse than Hillary.
Her campaign is becoming more and more about “girl power”. It may be couched in the masculine imagery of “grizzly mamas” but it is just identity politics reheated.
McPalin could have rejected the GOP establishment when she launched her campaign but she endorsed McCain as her first official pronouncement to win their favor. Not the act of someone who wants to reform the party no less the country. Hillary will easily tie her to the very unpopular Bush legacy while running as a return to the successful Clinton years of growth, prosperity, balanced budgets and wiping out the budget deficit and sending us on our way to wiping out the national debt… until the Republicans won control of everything and flipped things around.
By continually changing the focus to 2012 instead of 2010, we are on our way to having Hillary Clinton in 2012. We need to take care of business THIS YEAR. If we return THIS Republican Party to power in November, we are going to lose in 2012 because people like me (the majority of voters who are fed up with the one-party ruling class establishment) are voting third party.
Many of you will be attacking people like me as racists, purists, and all of the other lies that the Dems are now hurling at all of us. It doesn’t have to be that way.
When Lincoln made his famous statement about fooling people all of the time, the most important part of that famous quote was “you can fool some of the people all of the time”. The magnitude of that truth is what keeps this ruling class in power. “Some” is just too large a number these days.
PP, don’t you have some “Re-Elect Boxer” signs to be putting up?
Conservative women are leading the charge against Obama style socialism: Kind of a cross between Trotskyism and incompetence. All of us need to develop a pair of cojones in support of what they are saying.
Phil:
Palin…right or wrong in supporting Brewer?
prendad#3,
I have had bovine, turkey, and pork. Bovine is the best, IMO. Me thinks this bho might not do the pork!
You can just imagine what the msm will be all over tomorrow after Sarah’s statement. Rush will probably put his two cents in also. I love this gal.
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>Conservative women are leading the charge against Obama style socialism<
How true. Let's not forget Sharon Angle. She would likely become the most conservative U.S. Senator if she succeeeds in knocking off Reid. I hope to be partying as the returns come in this November and her victory would be a major highlight of the night, along with the defeat of Boxer and crossing the magic 51 seat threshold.
Obummer drives a Volt.
Sarah rides this.
Any questions?
tre/312,
This bho drives a golf cart also. About the size of a volt? About all he can handle. I can not in my wildest imagination see this bho on a bike.
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letget#13,
S/B tre#12
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The only true mistake I see Palin made was supporting McCain, but I think it was more out of a limited sense of loyalty for him putting her on the national stage. She has done her “duty” to him and appeared I believe only once and never again.
Overall, she is right more often than wrong which is more than I can say about any other Republican or Democrat out there. As far as I am concerned, she and Ron Paul still have my support financially and vote wise.
Obama is a biker.
http://media.photobucket.com/image/obama%20tricycle/skatedonthate12/obama-weed.jpg
This mama griz can’t be driven off with pepper spray. She’s circling the wagons and forcing our wimp in chief to do something, or speak out about what he’s really up to…don’t you just love it. ‘Ya sure, you betcha’!
Lead, follow, or get out of the danged way.
Of course, Jan Brewer also endorsed McCain. If we make opposition to McCain our litmus test 99.9% of those passing the test will be liberal democrats. Let’s not be that crazy.
HAHAHAHA!
Sarah Palin/Rand Paul 2012
>>Sarah Palin/Rand Paul 2012<<
Pretty good but how about either one of those with David Petraeus? With the national security mess we face, at home and all over the world, his kind of knowledge and experience would add a lot. We'd have to know more about his views on domestic issues but he sure has the security credentials.
That’s just the thing I’m talking about. Their is a name for those people who are fooled all of the time: Republicans.
And it’s not us independent Conservatives who will get Boxer
re-elected, it’s your McPalin liberals.
The litmus test is whether candidates are bought and paid for by the establishment Republicans. By endorsing McCain, all Gov. Brewer did was remind us about former Gov. Napolitano. Let’s make sure Brewer doesn’t get appointed to DHS.
PP, let me see if I have this straight. The people who vote for Carly will be responsible for Boxer winning and Palin supporters are liberals? Right? Wow. Who would have ever known?
Here it comes, the usual RINO/liberal attacks: “purist!!!”, “bigot!!!”. Just set the wayback machine to 2006 and 2008 and the attacks on conservatives haven’t changed. That’s why we have a one-party system. Those same people getting fooled all of the time. We have become a nation of mindless zombies.
Jan Brewer bought and paid for by the establishment? Good grief, man! Brewer has practically declared civil war on the establishment.
>>Here it comes, the usual RINO/liberal attacks: “purist!!!”, “bigot!!!”.<<
Hearing imaginary personal slurs is a symptom of being a democratic congressman.
That may be, but we of Italian heritage say cojones (pronounce koyones).
Beyond this, in the real political world – where everyone but Phil live – you often have to do things that go against your grain. In one sense, Palin would be arrogant and remiss had she failed to endorse him for Senate for the very reasons you cite. It’s about character, integrity, honor. Refusing the endorsement would be a knife in his back – making Palin just another political hack. For all intents and purposes McClown is a non issue anyway. Whether elected to another term or not he is no longer a key player on the Washington stage. I think my time is better spent focusing on getting libs unseated wherever we can – starting right here in Georgia 13.
Phil – FYI, you are not the majority. You are in the 20% hard right block. Though moving slightly right, the indies are still center right – and they will decide the election in ’10 and ’12. That’s why I don’t think Palin should run either. Even among conservatives she is divisive, and as you say she would certainly not carry a plurality of the indies needed.
That said, I’m not even thinking about ’12. We have business at hand here and now. Barry Care needs to be cut off at the knees by denying the funding if repealing it is not feasible – and Cap and Tax and Shamnesty must never come to life. Period. Winning back Congress will make Barry a harmless, fading phenom. Watch for it. Work for it!
Pasadena Phil, just curious, right now assuming you had your choice who would you support for DHS? Who for 2012 President and VP?
And with no disrespect, please don’t say ‘nobody’. Give us the closest to your principles.
Back to Palin/Brewer. I respect both of them. And I agree with what Random63 said: #15 re: McCain. After all, it was McCain who brought us Palin (now I cringe with what the antiSarahs will say to that.)
Thats why I would like to see McPain defeated. I don’t think JD can do it but we can hope for change.
And can anyone pass me what it is that Phil is smoking?
Let’s face it – there is no perfect candidate. I’m lucky if I can agree with 60% of what a candidate says he/she stands for. Most of the time I don’t think they stand for anything except themselves. The political elites have no core principles in common with the average citizen. I want the incumbents out. For someone like McCain, is it better to get him out and then replace his replacement in the next cycle or is it better that he retain his seat to have more of a republican voting block?
Look at Scott Brown. For whatever reason, he has come under the dem’s spell for some votes. What happened there? There is something about the DC swamp that taints the newly elected. The game has to change and change completely. How do we get those who are elected to return to representing us instead of shifting toward party loyalty? Does being a member of a party demand more loyalty so that we only have the illusion of representation? The political elites have created a system within a system whereby certain individuals are placed on committees and get chairmanships which bypasses qualifications for the committees in favor of a warped party merit system. That same system has the next in line mindset for presidential candidates. This system has such sway with the politicians that it renders us useless. Letters to congress to protest anything simply amounts to sending them junk mail. We protested and they passed the bills anyway. They told us it didn’t matter to them. So what does matter to them? What gets their attention so that they understand that we mean it and we won’t forget by the time voting happens? Screaming at them at town hall meetings worked for a while, but now they can not hold them. The anger on the left has bordered on the absurd and the now or never for socialism has made them desperate. There is a tipping point coming. We have to make sure it tips toward renewing the Constitution.
Maybe “right, but not forgiven”?
I have aggressively disagreed with PP more than once in this venue, but I agree with his quoted words here.
If Palin wants to show her own “cojones,” which she clearly does, she would have done better by distancing herself from sugardaddy McCain rather than using intemperate, unpresidential language. I may use it and others here may use it, but that is one of the (few) perks that comes with being an anonymous nobody…you can say pretty much anything you please.
Increasingly, I see Palin as nothing but hot air. I think her political instincts have a lot in common with Washington state’s Patty Murray, except that they have tilted to the right. But neither of them know squat that they didn’t learn at the PTA. Not to knock grass-roots experience, but it is not a sufficient substitute for education and grounding in history, economics, and conservative political philosophy.
And her family is looking more and more like a candidate for the Jerry Springer show. (If Bristol is determined to marry this bum, she should have the decency to slip off with him and do it in Las Vegas or Bali. But she seems tacky enough to think that she is still entitled to be a blushing bride in a ceremony that would be a HUGE embarrassment to her mother. I was slow to come around to it, but these are not classy or sophisticated people.)
I really do wish she had endorsed J.D. Hayworth. We have got to re-take the Republican party before we can re-take the government. A Congress full of RINO’s is useless.
But she is teh awesome.
That reminds me of something I thought about last night. What if he has been bribed to marry Bristol? Bought off to leak info on the family and Sarah’s plans…I sure hope SP is watching out for herself…
On August 1st, 2010 at 4:42 pm, BOB said:
Well, that may be as close to an answer to my PP question as I’ll get today.
Phil is a puritan, and it hurts him from time to time. Humanity must constantly disappoint…
I’d reconsider that, if I were you. If I’m not mistaken, Ron Paul recently co-sponsored a bill with Barney Frank.
OK … consider this … that Palin would be endorsing McCain was a no-brainer … after all he put her out on the national stage for us so that was a simple payback for that … so we should probably be thankful that McCain introduced her to America … otherwise we would not even be having this conversation about her …
BUT … to my knowledge … other than the weekend she was in Arizona to give that endorsement she has not been actively campaigning with or for McCain …
Anyone out there have any verifiable proof otherwise? …
>>If I’m not mistaken, Ron Paul recently co-sponsored a bill with Barney Frank.<<
That's just a bill to re-legalize the growing of industrial hemp.
Given what I know about JD Hayworth now, if I only had two choices, I would go with McCain. McCain can be flat wrong, as we know. Hayworth is demonstably a hypocrite.
If McCain is a RINO, Hayworth is an OPAC, Opportunist Posing as Conservative.
Phil would vote for any Republican instead of McCain, simply because he’s running against McCain. They could be a Satan worshiper or belive the Earth was flat, Phil would not care.
Same is true with Sarah Palin. Since she is not 100% alligned with Phil she’s worthless, evil, and anenemy of the state. Forget the fact she goes after Obama more effectively than any other member of the GOP.
Phil quoted Linclon. So will I. Lincoln said of Gen. Grant, “I need this man. He fights.” The same can be said about Palin. We need her. She fights.
@Madam President
He might have, I am unsure, but I am sure that Ron Paul hasn’t lowered his standards or ethics. If co-sponsored a bill with Frank, it’s because Ron Paul believed in it and really doesn’t care who the co-sponsor is in my humble opinion.
On his radio show last week, Rush Limbaugh said Eisenhower left Obama an illegal immigration road map. Limbaugh would not use the term “Operation Wetback” because he’d get hammered by the PC Police, so he said to Google “Eisenhower, immigration and operation” to get the name of Eisenhower’s operation. Re-reading about Operation Wetback is worthwhile when cojones and illegal immigrants are placed in a news story by a woman.
How does Sara propose to retake the party when she supports the biggest RINO of all…IMO this “loyalty” business was a support for exactly what we have now and have had in the RNC, I fail to see where that is “taking back the party.”
I like her and what she says, it what she does that has me wondering.
Actually I like that better with Palin on top of the ticket; not necessarily because I think Petraeus is better ideologically, but because I think he would be more politically attractive than Paul, who would be demagogued to death by the lib media.
McCain may be the most inviting target as a RINO, but he’s far, far, far from being the biggest one. I would place the senator from SC, the governor of CA, the governor of FL, and both Senators from ME will ahead of McCain. We also have Congressman Cao.
Trivia question: which of the two people running for Senate in AZ voted for the Bush prescription drug benefit in 2003?
oooooops
Now if what is said here that Sara has only actually campaigned one time that being the day of endorsement, I see that and let it slide to an extent, but still it was an act of supporting the Good Old Pals, RNC montra.
What worries me more than Capt. McCain is the rehabilitation of Newt Gingrich.
Hannity kisses his stern quarter every week on his show. I know that if Jimmah Cawdder can be politically rehabilitated, Newt could be seen as the Right’s elder statesman.
{Shiver}
Palin has endorsed NHAG Kelly Ayotte for the seat being vacated by Judd Gregg. In my opinion she is another status quo GOP candidate. I think the last thing we need is another lawyer in congress.
I’ll tell you what breaks my heart: the ease with which Graham was able to get re-elected in SC in 2008. We were so much closer, then, to the anger against him and McCain over the amnesty fight, and we did not perceive, as acutely as we do now, how critical every last senate seat would be.
In spite of these things, Graham won another six years without every breaking a sweat. I am not in SC, but I am not aware that he had any credible primary competition. It sickened me.
Obama doesn’t have me living in his same state….
“Given what I know about JD Hayworth now”
I’ve been taking heat for pointing out JD is not a great alternative to McCain for a couple of weeks now.
Been called all sorts of interesting things.
As a Virginian, my knowledge of New Hampshire politics is limited but from what I read Ayotte is the only pro-life candidate, opposes gay marriage, opposes Obamacare and supports the second ammendment. Unfortunately, she supported Sotomayor for the Supreme Court but still seem the best of those running.
Huevos, cojones… better yet valente esferas, but not cajones which means boxes or containers.
Sarah Palin is gutsy. She lays it on the line. Those who are critical of her because she does not fit their “ideal, perfect Conservative” are doing a Peggy Noonan/Kathleen Parker number. They would even endorse an Obama because “at least” he is pure. Purity counts so much so that pure evil gets a nod!
I’m with you DesertLover, GladzKravtz, and Flyoverman!
A birth certificate?
Flyover, your objections to my post about McCain are slanted as before, where you and McCain were/are military brothers. You side with him.
Why would you question my assertion of McAmnesty as # 1 RINO when you know well and good he leads all the reachers in the senate. Don’t forget his moniker “Maverick” or McCain/Feigold or maybe McCain/Kennedy comprehensive immigration bill.
Leslie Graham is a follower of McAmnesty, you know that, now that McCain is campaigning Leslie has to do all the dirty work himself…until McShame is re-elected which he probably will and watch how fast he changes back himself, #1 RINO.
The Rino sisters of Me. are no worse than Juan, they are bad, the type we need to get rid of, just like McShame.
Re: Newt
Sure, Newt has had some really bad moments in recent year, like seeming chummy with Pelosi. And Newt is a bit of a know-all, whose cockiness in the White House would undoubtedly grow and make us all squirm. And Newt is little scary in that he is a “big thinker.” And, of course, we know now that Newt has a led a less than perfect personal life.
BUT, those who are very young may not even remember when Newt was a backbencher in the House standing up everyday on C-Span during Special Orders and giving absolute hell to liberalism and the Democrats. He was an amazing spokesman for conservatism, an intellectual who absolutely kicked butt. Only Bill Buckley, Barry Goldwater, and Ronald Reagan are comparable figures in the modern history of conservatism.
Of course, Newt’s revolution ultimately got rolled by the Clinton machine, which is no shame. I think it is worthwhile to reflect on Newt’s body of work. I don’t see any unflawed prospects out there. Newt would have a lot of lifting to overcome doubts both within the party and among independents, but I could certainly live with him as our candidate. In spite of being an imperfect person, Newt was something of the original Tea Partyer, an absolute firebrand revolutionary who came from outside the party structure. He’s got a lot of baggage, but he ain’t no RINO. He made his bones moving to the right of the GOP rather than sucking up to the media and to moderates.
I’ve been trying for weeks to get Phil to explain why he thinks that it’s better to have Boxer (ACU rating: 6.97) than Fiorina, or Governor Moonbeam rather than Whitman. He just screams “RINO!!” and flees the room.
Valley, Ayotte would be much better than the idiot dem Hodes but so would Elmer Fudd. I prefer Bill Binnie in the primary. He has real life business experience something few in congress have.
I have never met a conservative I agreed with 100%. Ronaldus Magnus even did a few things I didn’t agree with 1) Simspon/Mazzolli, 2) The tax Reform Act of 1986, which caused the Savings and Loan Crisis. But would I have rather had Jimmay 2nd term or Walter Mondale, absolutely not.
The McShamnesty’s, Grahmnesty’s, & RINO’s put their finger in the wind on the most controversial issues and vote based on public opinion. If the Republican party had leaders with Cajones/huevos/or just plan balls they could sway public opinion and the RINO’s would fall in line. Moderates blow in the wind like trash and hope nobody notices.
With liberals like Barney Frank/Dodd/Rangel/Waters etc. you know what you are getting and you can neutralize them because they are really not mainstream and show what crackpots they are to everybody, but the idiots who keep re-electing them.
Why yes! That and more.
“flees the room.”
I’m pretty sure the room he is in tx, he can’t just flee…..
Way overstated, Tuesday, IMO.
I’ve gotten critical of Palin over the last year, but I was wildly enthusiastic for her in 08. And I have still not forgiven Noonan and Parker and Colin Powell and Chris Buckley and other alleged conservatives who found Obama more acceptable. I will never forgive them for that; I ~despise~ them for that.
As unenthusiastic as I am now on Palin, I would be “cautiously ecstatic” to see her about to succeed Obama. First and foremost though, my lack of enthusiasm for her is based on the fact that I don’t think she can win.
I urge you to reconsider lumping everyone who is not jumping for joy over Sarah into the same category as the 08 traitors whom you mentioned. This is the season for looking over and discussing our potential candidates. Most of us who are not leaning Palin right now, will be there for the Republican ticket or, at the very least, will vote against Obama and the Dems. There really are no traitors among fervent conservatives…a few might veer off to a third-party candidate but that is bad judgment, not the treachery of Parker, et. al. Those people were always squishes, not the kind of conservatives who frequent this site, for the most part.
Lets have an open discussion of conservatives who might challenge Obama without insulting each other.
“A birth certificate?”
I’m pretty sure the answer is me living in the same state.
“I’m agree”
Honest, English is my first language. I meant “I’ll agree.”
If there is anything worse than a liberal Democrat, it’s a liberal Assistant Democrat. You can’t tell them apart. They attack us conservatives exactly the same way, with the same logic and arguments, the same insults and when their candidate gets elected, that candidate takes to the same place as the liberal Democrat.
Nothing has changed. There will be no need to attack Democrats until we first rid the GOP of the Assistant Democrats that lots of commenters here defend and support. McPalin may attack Obama for his amnesty plan but she is 100% behind McCain’s amnesty plan. She belongs to the same country club (getting in by endorsing McCain as her first act and thus gaining popularity among Republicans at the expense of conservatives like me) and will take us to the same place as Bush/Obama.
“conservatives like me”
Phil, you are a libetarian. Embrace it. Denial takes so much effort and wasted of energy.
So, to boil it down, you’re going to vote for Boxer and Moonbeam?
Phil, that philosophy played out very clearly in 2008. How’s that hopey changey stuff working out for California?
Puritan I tells ya…
She only said “cojones” because she couldn’t say “patriotism”, which is the real reason. He’s trying to hold protection of America’s borders hostage to his own agenda, in violation of his oath of office.
*You Chevy Volt Slogan-Mania freak!
*In regards to J.D., I’ve been sending him coin because he will be a reliable NO vote on amnesty; McCain will vote yes on some form of it, mark my words; Amnesty is “Death to America”!
*MO carries the cajones in that family!; Does that make P-BO a teabagger?
Okay Phil, this confirms you have been in a coma the last 20 months. It’s either that or dementia.
Well, it’s a good thing she was addressing re-blooded Americans then instead of Mexicans. I guarentee everyone she was speaking to understood what she meant by “cajones”.
I hate the idea of voting for Whitman or Fiorina but the alternative is too much for me….I’m literally sick and tired of “lesser of two evils” although, when I received a hit from California Republicans, asking for cash, I wrote on the slip “Meg Whitman? Carly Fiorina? Deedee Scozzafava?? Mark Kirk?? Give me conservatives and I’ll give you my money! Not until!!”
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AN AWESOME PERFORMANCE by the Sarah’Cuda. On target with her no cojones comment on Comrade Obama’s (PBUH) pro ILLEGAL ALIEN policies.
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Then a smooth transition to the economic damage The One’s tax policies will cause the U.S.A. And she got Chris Wallace to ask about the CudaPrompter writing on her hand–13.8 TRILLION tax hike.
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Without missing a beat–her “We’re in the Afghan war to win”–or we tell the people we are going to needlessly throw away more brave military lives–Vietnam style comment.
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Anyone who thinks she is not ready to lead and to become president is nuts. She has “taken point” against The One and his ilk for over a year as our RINO candidates hide out. She will murder The Messiah or our smartest Secretary of State evah–Hillary Clinton–in any fair debate.
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Sarah Palin for POTUS, John Bolton for V.P. REMEMBER IN NOVEMBER–choose well.
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John Bibb
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Rocketman ….
I’ll agree with Sarah but I would like Bolton to be Secretary of State … then give me Jindal @ VP, Romney @ Treasury and Petraeus @ Defense for starters … maybe put Congressman Ryan in charge of the FED … I think he and Romney would make a pretty strong economic team …
I am rather concerned at all this enthusiasm for Petraeus. It reminds me that the GOP — in 2000 — was ready to nominate the careerist RINO Colin Powell by acclimation. And, there was a budding enthusiasm for the Perfumed Prince (Wesley Clark) before he finally made the opportunistic discovery that he was a Democrat.
Not that I don’t like David Petraeus…I certainly do, FROM WHAT I HAVE SEEN. But how much do we really know? Being an American patriot and a competent warrior comprise an excellent starting point for potentially becoming a political leader. But until we really know something about his ideology outside of military affairs, I think we should be more than a little cautious.
(In general, the GOP is made a little more stupid by the presence of a lot of opinionated military and ex-military people. They gave us John McCain, for example. Military service is a very honorable thing, but it does not necessarily correspond to political conservatism. For the record, I was a young, junior-grade officer in the Army in 1967-69, although I did not serve in Viet Nam. I am proud to have served.)
GREAT
A bit of saltiness from the conservative side is refreshing. The left has no compunction about abusing every body and using any and every means available. Palin is driving the socialists nuts, and the react like stuck pigs on a daily or even minute by minute basis.
>>In general, the GOP is made a little more stupid by the presence of a lot of opinionated military and ex-military people.<<
Ridiculous statement. The opposite is true. The lack of anyone with meaningful military knowledge among the democrats is one of their chief weaknesses. The Republican Party can be proud that a majority of veterans see them as superiour to the anti-military dems.
There’s a name for people who think everybody’s out to get them.
Jsmiddleton4
What is wrong with being a libertarian?
Concur. Obummer and the dems may be unpopular now but it’s nothing that amnesty can’t fix.
Hayworth is far from perfect but on the illegal immigration issue he’s much better than Mcreachacrosstheaisle
Good question.
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HI DESERTLOVER–#82. Good choices for some of the top spots. I liked the job Condi Rice did as SOS. I hope President Palin will put in the best and most competent people she can find for her administration!
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Most presidents put in too many political hacks–we need real competence in all areas to get out of the ditch Comrade Obama (PBUH) and his socialist / marxist ilk have driven our country into.
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John Bibb
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I wouldn’t be surprised if Obama is gay…and a teabagger to boot!
This is what happens when our head of state subjugates himself and by default the country to every other world leader he meets by bowing to them. He even bowed to the Governor of New Jersey.
He has the audacity to bring forth a supremacy clause case against Arizona?
Is it any wonder that North Korea, Iran,and every other hostile country views us as stupid and weak?
It’s entirely possible that our Sarah’s opinion of immigration reform will take an about face after her crisscrossing the U.S. and seeing for herself how messed up we really are as a nation. The sheer numbers of illegals, no matter the ethnicity, is so out of whack none of them will ever assimilate. They don’t have to and will continue to choose to stay in their own sequestered parts of town.
Spine
Principles
Integrity
Love of Country
Respect for the Constitution
there’s a lot…
Phil’s right. Palin didn’t have the “cojones” to talk turkey about immigration until John McCain gave her permission to by making that part of his campaign shtick.
As for her performance in this clip, it was OK, but I really have to wonder how convincing she’d come across to voters who don’t already agree with her. I’m more interested in seeing how someone like Bachmann or DeMint would do.
On August 2nd, 2010 at 2:33 pm, max said:
Those in the know (the gay guys at HillBuzz) know that Obama and Rahm both frequented a gay men’s bathouse. They are not the first gay men to have married and had children, but still maintain gay relationships.
Take note of Obama’s relationship with his “body man” Reggie Love.