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Reagan in high heels?

Posted on September 4, 2008 | Comments Off on Reagan in high heels?

Now there’s a thought. I will say that Sarah could, most definitely, give Hillary a run for her money.

UPDATE: Now, even Michael Reagan thinks his dad has been reincarnated as a woman from Alaska.

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Excerpts from Sarah’s speech

Posted on September 3, 2008 | Comments Off on Excerpts from Sarah’s speech

"Before I became governor of the great state of Alaska, I was mayor of my hometown. And since our opponents in this presidential election seem to look down on that experience, let me explain to them what the job involves. I guess a small-town mayor is sort of like a ‘community organizer,’ except that you have actual responsibilities."

Heh. Double heh. Should be well worth the watch tonight at 9:30 p.m. CDT.

UPDATE:  I thought she was great. The anti-Hillary. But, then, I’d seen her speeches before, on YouTube, from Alaska politics, so I knew she would do well. Her material was better this time. She’ll obviously have no trouble with blowhard Biden. Or "no experience" Barry, either. As long as she can keep her cool with the establishment media thugs, she’ll do fine. Our next vice president!

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The Left goes mad

Posted on September 3, 2008 | Comments Off on The Left goes mad

The loonatic day of the Lefties, and their ally the MSM, continues:

"The lofty intellectuals and putative friends of the common man are having a field day. Debates are raging among the champions of the proletariat, about whether to call the Palins ‘poor white trash,’ ‘Alaska rednecks,’ (not PC) or ‘trailer trash’ (non-racial and therefore more PC)."

Mac and Sarah are going to whoop their butts in November, and won’t it be fun to watch. Get ready for four years of McCain Derangement Syndrome.

Via Simply Jews.

MORE:  Though, as Roger Kimball says, Palin Hysteria Syndrome already is in progress. Fortunately, Peggy Noonan doesn’t have it. Or does she?

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Watching the RNC

Posted on September 3, 2008 | Comments Off on Watching the RNC

I said I might and sure enough I did. Couldn’t resist Pajamas TV, so I signed up for the cheapie subscription for three months and enjoyed the RNC dog-and-pony show with conservative/libertarian comment, for a change. Excellant video and audio with rare delays, only two I recall.

Especially liked Fred Thompson’s line about how Baby Barry will raise taxes, but not to worry, it won’t be your taxes, just business taxes. So, he continued, if you don’t buy bread, milk, or gasoline, or get a paycheck from a business, large or small, why, you have nothing to worry about. Heh.

But Lieberman was the best. Interesting wrinkle, having the passionate maverick Dem talk up his friend, the maverick Republican, and his maverick veep. I like the way he starts almost every sentence with "my friends," rather than "my fellow Americans," or some such. Or no salutation at all. Makes you feel like a friend.

Tonight, it’s Sarah’s turn, and I sure don’t want to miss her. I’ll be surprised if she doesn’t top BB’s reported forty million viewers for his Obamacles peroration.

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That enthralling voice

Posted on September 2, 2008 | Comments Off on That enthralling voice

Baby Barry as the corrupted wizard Saruman from LOTR? So says the Seablogger in what some might see as a stretch. But when it works, it works, and it sure works for me.

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Trig, the Down’s baby

Posted on September 2, 2008 | Comments Off on Trig, the Down’s baby

I commented the other day on a Pajama’s Media post to the effect that I couldn’t imagine anyone purposely aborting a Down’s Syndrome baby, such as Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin’s newborn. Yet, another commenter came back, it’s done about eighty percent of the time. It’s not my business to tell others what to do about such things, but the Down’s kids I have known, including the son of an editor I worked for years ago, were quite bright and curious and had sparkling personalities. In recent years, at least one such young man has written a book with help. Abortion, I think, should continue to be legal, and I have no doubt that it will. But we should not return to the past when children born with disabilities were slain. People should rethink their ability to practice eugenics, and consider, as Bridget Johnson does, what normal really is. The main tragedy of a Down’s child is that he often dies young. I well remember my old editor’s inconsolable grief when his son died before reaching high school.

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Is Mac inside Barry’s OODA Loop?

Posted on September 2, 2008 | Comments Off on Is Mac inside Barry’s OODA Loop?

Chet Richards, one of the guardians of the theories and memory of the late, great Air Force fighter-pilot and military strategist John Boyd questions this contention of Charlie Martin’s in American Thinker re Mac’s choice of Sarah Palin for veep. Martin uses the term too loosely, suggests CR who says it’s too early to tell. CR’s claim that the pick was predictable, however, is probably unique. No one else I know of expected Mac to pick a woman. I think the old Navy fighter pilot, indeed, has generally been inside Baby Barry’s OODA Loop for some time now with his sharp, quickly-produced teevee ads. Whether he can stay there remains to be seen.

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