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As if it wasn’t bad enough with the attacks from the liberal media and the leftist lemmings, now “anonymous sources” from within the failed McCain campaign are attacking Sarah Palin.  It sounds like a bunch of middle school bullies who are bitter because they were picked last for kick ball or something.  Losing sucks, but we’re supposed to leave the classless bullshit and juvenile attacks to the Kos kids and the rest of the left.  That’s not our MO… or it shouldn’t be.

And FoxNews… FoxNews?  After patting yourself on the back for being so balanced during the election… which you actually were… now you bring this junk out?  Supposed “anonymous sources” are throwing Sarah Palin under the bus and you are reporting every sexist nonsensical claim.  Come on.

Journalism really is dead in this country, and FoxNews drove the final nail.

I don’t mind criticism of policies or differences of opinion, but anything less than that better have someone with the courage to go on the record.  Failing that, then consider this garbage what it is… garbage, not worthy of your highest rated audience.

Let me give you a clue.  At the best these are people bitter they are lost.  Maybe they are ill that their guy wasn’t chosen for VP.  I wouldn’t put it past Romney or Huckabee backers to be sandbagging Palin now to keep her stock down for the 2012 fight.  Maybe Fox is just willfully playing along, already picking sides in the 2012 fight and eating the hand that fed it so well.

At least someone at Fox got it right… Greta is ticked, as she should be.  Unlike these other so-called journalists, Greta actually went to Alaska, knocked on doors, interviewed the Governor, her supporters and detractors.  Greta has reported on both positive and negative things about Sarah Palin and left this petty schoolyard crap to the sideline… primarily because it wasn’t there but also because the motivations for such nonsense are clear.  People are either bitter they lost or are posturing for the next campaign… either way there is a vested interest for some to make these ridiculous claims, so they threw the first punch.

Want to know why the American people have left the party in droves?  This might be the perfect case study.  We are supposed to be different than the other side… but lately we look anything but.

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Governor Palin, my wife and I drove over four hours to see you speak.  When John McCain was 45 minutes away, we stayed home.  I respect John McCain’s service a great deal and we would have been remarkably better off with him in the White House.  But, John McCain is not the voice of the Republican Party or the Conservative Movement.  That mantle could very well belong to you.  Stay strong, and when necessary stand up and fight.  Republicans and Conservatives need more voices like you as we start to refocus and rebuild our party.  God Bless you and your family for all you have endured.

Team Sarah fights back after sexist Obama ad.
h/t: HotAir

In light of Barack Obama’s latest sexist attack, the McCain-Palin campaign issued the following press release from Women for McCain and former Hillary Clinton supporters.
h/t: Maritime Sentry

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ARLINGTON, VA — McCain-Palin 2008 today released the following statements from former Hillary Clinton supporters and Women for McCain leadership in reaction to Barack Obama’s sexist attack ad “His Choice”:

VIRGINIA

Judy Black, National Co-Chair, Women for McCain: “Enough is enough! Senator Obama has stooped to a new low in his constant attacks on Governor Palin with his new ad titled, ‘His Choice.’ Barack Obama’s choice has been to attack, demean and ridicule women, first Sen. Clinton and now Gov. Palin. American women do not need any more of Obama’s sexist choices or attacks. John McCain made the choice to put a strong leader with a proven record forward as his running mate. As a woman, I am outraged by the over-the-top treatment of Gov. Palin and I urge all women to reject the double standard put forward by a man who was just a state senator in Illinois three years ago by voting McCain-Palin this Tuesday.”

Patty Denton, Washington County Republican Chairwoman: “We, as a country, should be past the days in which women were treated as inferior. Women are the backbone of this country. It’s disappointing for Senator Obama, who has proclaimed change’ as his mantra, to disregard the monumental progress women have made in this country. Governor Palin is an exceptional leader and has fought on the side of all Americans, regardless of race or gender. These types of ads show that the Obama campaign is willing to do anything to score a few political cheap shots at the expense of women. On November 4th, women will go to the polls and demand respect for themselves and their daughters from the type of negative attacks perpetrated by Senator Obama.”

MISSOURI

Representative Jo Ann Emerson: “With more executive experience than Barack Obama and Joe Biden combined, Governor Sarah Palin holds her own on the national scene and embodies the values that Americans want in those who will lead our country. This ad is just one more example of the constant attacks from the Obama-Biden campaign. With each attack, they attempt to dismiss the intelligent, qualified, and experienced woman who will soon become our next Vice-President of the United States.”

Sharon Barnes, Missouri State Chair Women for McCain: “These attacks on Governor Sarah Palin show the desperation of the Democratic Party to try to stem the overwhelming support for the maverick Republican team of John McCain and Governor Sarah Palin - a team dedicated to bringing about the right kind of change for the people of this country. The voters of this great nation will not be fooled. Gov. Palin is a proven leader and serious reformer with experience in economics, defense and foreign policy that the Democratic candidate for president can only wish he had.”

CALIFORNIA

Shelly Mandell, President of Los Angeles chapter of the National Organization for Women: “I am outraged by the new ad put out by Barack Obama. It is sexist and demeaning to women. These tactics started with Hillary Clinton and continue, growing even more disgusting with Gov. Palin. I was a Hillstar for Hillary and an avid supporter. Trashing two women clearly in a sexist manner in one election is an outrage and must be identified and stopped. There must be consequences. Let female Obama supporters take a good look at this and still believe their candidate supports women’s rights and women’s dignity.”

Prameela Bartholomeusz, DNC Platform Committee Member: “I am once again stunned at the personal and sexist attacks by the Obama campaign against Gov. Palin. This latest ad is sexist and offensive. The Gov. of Alaska has been managing and balancing a budget of $10 billion; I think she knows a bit about economics. Sen. Obama never spoke up against sexism during the primary season, and is not speaking out against misogyny during this phase of the election season — he is contributing to it. I have no confidence that Sen. Obama will fight for women’s issues if elected. This sets women back decades.”

PENNSYLVANIA

Christine J. Toretti, PA Women For McCain Co-Chair, PA National Committeewoman: “Vice presidential running mate, Sarah Palin, is an experienced public servant. As governor of Alaska and as mayor of Wasilla she proved to be an effective leader and businesswoman. Senator Obama’s baseless attack on Governor Palin is preposterous. God forbid a leader is not only competent, but beautiful and wears a skirt!”

Bernie Comfort, Pennsylvania Women for McCain State Chair: “Senator Obama’s ad simply mocks Governor Palin. The real truth is Gov. Palin has experience dealing with the economy as an executive running the state of Alaska and as a business owner. She is the experienced leader we need to lead this country with John McCain.”

Stephanie Bressler, Ph.D, Hillary Clinton supporter, University of Scranton women and politics professor: “It’s a sexist example of reducing a woman to an object - a wink - and denying her a voice. Her lips are actually moving, but she’s not allowed to be heard.”

OHIO

Barbara Rosier-Tryon, Member of the Warren Republican Women’s Club: “This is yet another sexist cheap shot on Gov. Palin’s image from the Obama-Biden campaign. Sarah Palin’s record of reform and experience as governor of Alaska and commander of the state’s National Guard is more distinguished than Barack Obama’s one and only term in the U.S. Senate.”

NORTH CAROLINA

Martha Jenkins, North Carolina Women for McCain State Chairman: “Barack Obama chose Joe Biden to make up for his own lack of foreign policy expertise. He has absolutely no reason to criticize McCain’s pick of Palin. Gov. Palin is infinitely more qualified than Barack Obama. In running this ad, Obama is acknowledging that Gov. Palin is an effective and a positive part of John McCain’s candidacy; otherwise, why focus on her at all? Barack Obama is using this ad to divert attention from the fact that the American public is realizing that Obama is just as radical as his associates, and that he lacks the experience and judgment to be President of the United States.”

FLORIDA

Albert Chang, Regional Director of Citizens for McCain, a group that includes Democrats and Independents: “We look forward to winning Tampa and the surrounding counties for McCain-Palin. This ad is a distracting personal attack on an experienced executive and the voters of Florida will see through it. This campaign will remain focused on issues impacting the everyday lives of Floridians and Americans.”

Mary Calderon, Tampa, former Senator Clinton supporter: “I’m disappointed that Senator Obama has resorted to personal attacks at this point in the campaign. Would any male candidate for vice president of the United States be afforded similar treatment by the Obama campaign? I would say not.”

INDIANA

Judy Singleton, Indiana Women for McCain Co-Chair: “Obama seems to have a problem with strong, smart women. Ask Hillary. Running an ad like this is an affront to talented women everywhere. To imply that Gov. Palin doesn’t understand economics because she’s pretty and winks is ridiculous. As a governor, she’s proved she understands the economy better than Barack Obama, who hasn’t completed his first term in the Senate, does. All one has to do is look at her record of leadership on economic development and then look at his.”

NEW YORK

Amy Siskind, Ambassador for Hillary: “When Senator Hillary Clinton was demeaned and degraded during the Presidential Primary, many of us of, myself included, vowed ‘never again’. The treatment of Governor Palin by both the main stream media, and now the Obama Campaign, shows that the misogyny fest is alive and well in our country. There has been a complete and utter smear job of our fellow citizen, Sarah Palin, who is only trying to serve her country.”

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I wrote earlier about the long wait to see Sarah this past Sunday.  There were crazy protesters, zombies, and supporters that lined at least three blocks of downtown Asheville.  It was difficult to get in and delayed by at least an hour.  And it was worth every minute.

Gretchen Wilson played three songs, the final one being “Barracuda”.  Then the lights dropped, the spotlights scanned the crowd, and to the “We will Rock You” part of Queen’s “We Are the Champions” Sarah Palin walked on stage.  The crowd was ecstatic.  Many of them had waited since noon to see Sarah.  Eight hours later when she walked on stage they were still full of energy and excitement.

Palin said everyone had waited too long in line for just a political speech, so she asked Gretchen Wilson to play one more song.  To the roar of the crowd, Governor Palin sang along as Gretchen Wilson sang “Redneck Woman.”

After that song, Sarah continued her speech.  The attacks about Ayers were gone, but the attacks on Barack Obama’s socialist ideas of “spreading the wealth” were ratcheted up.  Governor Palin talked about the middle class, about creating jobs and encouraging growth.  She talked about energy independence and the need for an “all of the above” approach which included drilling here and now.  She talked about the benefits of John McCain’s health care plan as opposed to Obama’s government focused system, and the idea that raising taxes on anyone at this crucial time would be devastating to all Americans.

Another issue Governor Palin discussed in length was her desire to help families with children who have special needs.  We noticed one couple with two children, both in wheelchairs, who waited hours in line with everyone else to see Sarah.  After her speech, Sara apparently spoke with both of them.  I’ve never seen someone so touched or excited after meeting a politician.  But it made sense.  Someone who understood their challenges was finally talking about their needs and giving them a voice on the national stage.

And that is the epitome of Sarah Palin and what she means to the McCain/Palin campaign.  From Joe the Plumber to Small Business Owners and the children with special needs… Sarah Palin understands the needs of real Americans and the real struggles that face our country.  From losing health care, to juggling two incomes while raising a family, Sarah Palin has lived the lives that real Americans live, and gone on to fight for us.  She has run a business, worked on the PTA, brought real reform to a corrupt government and fought the big oil companies.  She understands the sacrifices of our military and the need for energy independence.  She exemplifies the idea of a citizen servant who is not so removed from real life that she can’t properly represent real Americans.  Sarah Palin is one of us who is capable and experienced enough to change Washington without being corrupted by it.

I was honored to hear her spe

Contrary to made up stories by the liberal left, no one yelled anything hateful about Barack Obama that we could hear.  The only nastiness came from the protestors outside or the the few lemmings inside who tried to interrupt Governor Palin’s speech.  The rest of us were their in support and were invigorated by her words.

Governor Palin is a rock star, and unlike Obama she is more than just words.  If she is the future of our party, then we still have hope.  Intelligence, Charisma and Conservativism.  We’ve needed that for a long time.

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Don’t let the press fool you.  If the excitement at the rally or the thousands that were turned away is any indication… Sarah Barracuda might very well be our next Vice President.  “The One” is not the only one who draws crowds or offers hope… and unlike “The One” Sarah Palin can actually back it up.

Hang an empty noose and you are committing a hate crime.  Place the picture of a noose on the cover of a magazine, in order to start dialogue, and you will be criticized by Barack Obama and fired.  Show a noose with a mock hanging of Barack Obama, and you certainly will get the attention of the Secret Service.

But hanging Sarah Palin in effigy is art?

This is a pure example of why so-called “hate crime” legislation is wrong, as it affords special status and privileges to one set of the population over another.  Why is an empty noose or the symbolic hanging of a black man worth being fired over or arrested, while the symbolic hanging of a white woman is considered nothing but Halloween fun?

Displaying a noose is a symbolic threat.  At best it is an attempt to shock and start dialogue, at worst it is an expression of violence and hate.  Hanging someone in effigy is even worse.  It doesn’t matter what color they are, no one should encourage or participate in such speech.  But it is still speech, and unless accompanied by some other threatening language or action… as disgusting as it is… it should be considered free.

Those who are excusing this symbolic hanging of Sarah Palin best understand the precedent they are setting.  If hanging one person in effigy is an expression of art and considered free, then the hanging of any person in effigy must also be considered free.  Justice is supposed to be equal and blind.

This is the line around 4:30, going away from the building. See the people on the sidewalk (to the right), that is the same line after wrapping a few blocks. The Civic Center is in the distance, across from the church.

Waiting patiently to see Sarah Palin, a block or two away.

After waiting for a couple hours, the line becomes more of a mob and makes it back towards the civic center.

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Melanie and I traveled to the mountains yesterday to see Governor Palin at the Asheville Civic Center.   I’ll write about the rally itself tomorrow, but tonight I want to comment on the experience before the rally.

Amazed was an understatement.  I was touched, appalled, thrilled, disappointed, exhilarated and at times irate.  Imagine a character-rich small downtown with the fall colored mountains in the background, and southerners of all ages waiting patiently to see a great American speak.  Now set all of that in Berkley California, complete with Code Pink crazies and a few hundred hippie-zombies… and you have some idea what the pre-rally experience was like.

Melanie and I arrived around 4:15.  By that time, the line had already wrapped three blocks.  Thousands of people had been waiting for hours by the time we arrived, and countless more got in line behind us.  Each of us were in for a treat.

There were homemade signs, t-shirts, and hats of all designs.  People with their parents, grandparents and kids.  From near and far, including neighboring states, thousands of people showed up to support Sarah Palin and John McCain.  There were a few enterprising capitalists selling buttons by the wagon full, and a slew of Asheville liberals encouraging us all to get out of town.

For the most part we just waited patiently in line and took it all in.  What a remarkably American experience this was, and quite certainly a brief part of this moment in history.

In front of us in line were two lovely retired ladies.  Over the hours we waited together, we learned they live in Florida and were heading back this week in time to vote.  They were thrilled to see Sarah Palin and very concerned over Barack Obama and the threat he poses to our country and its liberties.  I was touched how engaged and informed these lovely women were, and honored to spend our time with them in line.  They understood an Obama administration poses a greater threat to my future than theirs, but they were adamant about opposing him nonetheless.  This is an America they had spent a lifetime contributing to, and they were not about to sit idly by and watch it lost for the next generation.

In stark contrast to the women in front of us were the teenagers behind.  Not old enough to vote, not experienced enough to understand paying taxes or making payroll, but nonetheless convinced that Barack Obama was the answer to all ills.  They had fallen hard into the Lemming Groupthink that pervades the youth, the media, and the left.  To them Barack Obama was the savior of the world.  They wondered loudly how stupid Palin must be, or how much the black guy selling Palin buttons must have been paid to sell Palin gear instead of protesting against her.

Other than their obvious naivete, the teens seemed mostly respectful and waited patiently in line.  They claimed they were there to listen and learn, but the Obama shirts and stickers they were wearing and the comments they were making proved their minds were already made up.  It was cool to support Obama and even cooler to hate Sarah Palin… and if anything, these kids wanted to be cool.  As we got closer to the door, their true purpose started to come out.  They started zipping up their coats and turning their shirts inside out because they wanted to go into the rally in disguise and then cause some chaos once things began.

Overhearing all of this, I had to turn and interject.  “Why hide your support,” I asked.  “If that is what you believe, then be proud of it.  You shouldn’t have to hide what you believe in or go in disguise.”  This seemed to stun them a bit, and they didn’t know how to respond.  Finally, one guy said he didn’t want the cops to prevent him from getting inside.  I told him it wasn’t an Obama rally and Conservatives don’t bar free speech.  He chuckled a little, but had no reply, and we left it at that.  I don’t know if they got inside or not, but I do hope they learned something from the day.  Conservatives and Republicans are not the racist rich fat cats that they thought, and most everyone was respectful and cordial to them, even though they were clearly looking for more.

Unlike our misguided friends in line, some real crazies and vile individuals were out.  There was a guy in a Dolphins jersey across the street yelling that Sarah Palin was a witch (or its more profane cousin), and a woman dressed like Palin carrying a sign asking to be saved from herself.  Another young woman walked down the street with a sign and chanting “Don’t be stupid. Vote your brain not your gender,” however her vulgar t-shirt comparing President Bush to a part of her anatomy short-circuited her argument. There was a guy carrying around a MILF poster that said “Moron I’d Like to Forget”, and some much more profane signs and posters I won’t care to repeat.  Some of the protesters were respectful but most were not and virtually all of them needed a bath.

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Isn’t it great that Sarah Palin’s son is overseas fighting for the rights of these misguided people to protest against her?  Free speech is great, maybe they should look at the Obama campaign’s attempts at stifling speech to understand if he is elected this may be the last chance they get to take a stand.

I’m at once both worried about our future and relieved by the extent of our freedoms.  Dear God I hope it lasts.

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We finally got in the rally at 7:30 or so.  We were 9 and 10 of the last 30 people they let inside before the fire marshall barred the door. More on the rally itself tomorrow.

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Mad props to Sarah Palin for appearing on SNL last night.

You gotta give up to Palin for appearing on a show that has completely trashed her the past few weeks. She did a great job, and the cast members seemed to have a good time joking with her. Let’s hope she’ll be raising the roof at One Conservatory Circle come January 20.

Cross posted by Melanie on A Coffee To Go

In a president, character is everything. A president doesn’t have to be brilliant; Harry Truman wasn’t brilliant, and he helped save Western Europe from Stalin. He doesn’t have to be clever; you can hire clever. White Houses are always full of quick-witted people with ready advice on how to flip a senator or implement a strategy. You can hire pragmatic, and you can buy and bring in policy wonks.

But you can’t buy courage and decency, you can’t rent a strong moral sense. A president must bring those things with him. If he does, they will give meaning and animation to the great practical requirement of the presidency: He must know why he’s there and what he wants to do. He has to have thought it through. He needs to have, in that much maligned word, but a good one nontheless, a vision of the future he wishes to create. This is a function of thinking, of the mind, the brain.

Those are words penned by Peggy Noonan.  Very few would apply those three necessary tenants to Barack Obama.  Courage, decency, strong moral sense?  Voting present 130 times or lying about their record doesn’t make someone courageous.  Throwing the race card around doesn’t make one decent.  And palling around with America-hating racist Jeremiah Wright for 20 years, unrepentant terrorist William Ayers who wished he bombed more, or a convicted felon named Tony Rezko doesn’t usually accompany someone with a strong moral sense.  Courage, decency and a strong moral sense do accurately describe both John McCain and Sarah Palin… but Ms. Noonan has besmirched them and seems to endorse what they are not.  While we fight Islamic terrorism abroad and a socialist rebuilding of America at home, Ms. Noonan has abandoned her tenants of “courage, decency, and strong moral sense” to wage an attack on Mrs. Palin and the rest of us real conservatives in America… from her lofty perch we are nothing but the new “vulgarization in American politics.”

And Ms. Noonan isn’t the only one.  In light of McCain’s deficit in the polls, many so-called “Conservative Elites” are jumping ship and hitching themselves to the Obama Train.  Ronald Reagan might be rolling over in his grave.  Forgetting his 11th commandment, these so-called Conservatives are eating the party alive and abandoning whatever is left.

They don’t like Sarah Palin, or that Ayers was brought up, or whatever… maybe they are just charmed by Obama’s ability to deliver a speech, or are afraid they too will be tagged as a racist.  So they abandon any conservative ideals they have held over the years and hang their hats with a liberal extremist who seeks to reconstruct American in the vein of Karl Marx.

And I say good riddance.  I respect Ms. Noonan’s eloquence as much as anyone… but we are rebuilding this Republican party after the election, regardless of the outcome.  And we only need the faithful being part of the process.  I’ll trade you one elitist columnist like Peggy Noonan for a liberal statesman like Joe Lieberman any day.  At least Senator Lieberman has convictions.  It takes courage to have convictions.  Those who think values can be changed like an old pair of shoes need not apply.

And before you think I’m going off in left field, let’s remember why Ronald Reagan, the standard bearer of the modern Republican Party, joined the party in the first place.

When Ronald Reagan was an actor in Hollywood, like most other actor-types, he was a Democrat.  But once he turned down a movie roll he was offered after figuring out that it would bump him up to the next tax bracket.  If that happened, he would only take home 10 cents on every dollar he earned, the other ninety cents going to pay taxes.  Why should he work for only 10% of his salary?  It was that realization that caused him to drift towards the Republican party, and he became a case study on the “progressive tax system” and how it discourages success.

Yet that very idea of penalizing and thus marginalizing success is the “spread the wealth around” socialist fight we are seeing in Obama’s campaign today.  This election has lasted too-long and President Reagan’s name has been mentioned too often.  But this time it fits.  This was one of Reagan’s causes… his very purpose for becoming a Republican.  And Ms. Noonan and other so-called “Conservative Elites” have defected from that very crucial fight.

So be it.  This is supposed to be a country of citizen servants, not career politicians.  If the Washington intelligentsia have lost all precepts of “we the people” than the Sarah Palins and Joe Plumbers of the world need to stand up.  Its time we take our country back.

This is the greatest country in the world not because people like Peggy Noonan tell us it is, but because people like Sarah Palin make it so.  They rise from the PTA to take on big oil and shake things up.  Its the way the founders intended.  Don’t let the Noonan’s of the world fool you.  Their inner beltline cocktail parties or Ivy League educations don’t make them more apt to deal with America’s problems, it just makes them arrogant enough to think no one else can.  And that is why they have failed us all.

It is ironic that the Washington Post editorial board disparaged John McCain for picking a Vice Presidential candidate not ready to lead while proclaiming Barack Obama somehow is.  Put their educations and passports aside and what do you have?  A Governor who has real accomplishments, who has achieved more than her resume would suggest… or a Senator who has never achieved anything, whose only accomplishment has been the nomination itself.  I’ll take the person who strives for greatness and gets results over the empty suit who thus far has failed to earn the sacrifices of those who paved his way.

Greatness is not eloquence or an Ivy League education.  Greatness is showing up and having the courage to fight.  Greatness is having values and ideals that you hold through difficult times instead of philosophies that change whenever the winds of hope blow.

This is not a leader, this is a follower, and she follows what she imagines is the base, which is in fact a vast and broken-hearted thing whose pain she cannot, actually, imagine. She could reinspire and reinspirit; she chooses merely to excite. She doesn’t seem to understand the implications of her own thoughts.

Those are words Ms. Noonan wrote about Sarah Palin, yet those are words she need apply to herself and not the Governor from Alaska.  Sarah Palin has been without healthcare, has worked her way up, has juggled two family incomes and raising kids while making a real difference in America.  Since leaving the speechwriters circle, all Ms. Noonan has done is write about those things.  Ms. Noonan “cannot, actually, imagine” the pain and difficulty of real Americans who she considers “vulgar”.  Nor is Ms. Noonan a leader of the Conservative movement.  She is just another snobbish elite who thinks she is knows better than the rest of us.  That, my dear, is the first step towards socialism.  So I guess its fitting she seems to follow what she imagines is the hope for America in Barack Obama… too bad the rest of us see him for what he really is, the harbinger of Marxist change.

Good bye Ms. Noonan, the Republican Party didn’t leave you… you left us, just when it was time to fight.  Ms. Noonan used to cherish character above all.  Or were those just words?

Maybe Gwen Ifill should retitle her book.  Could Sarah Palin have just short circuited the “Age of Obama”?  Time will tell, but I think Governor Palin connected with the American people in a way that Joe Biden, Barack Obama or even John McCain cannot.

Sarah Palin knows what its like to lose her family’s health care when her husband lost his job.  She knows what its like to run a family business.  She knows what its like to deal with the local issues in a PTA, Town Council or Mayor’s office as well as broader issues on a state wide level.  She knows how to deal with the CEO’s of the multi-billion dollar oil companies and bring down the party establishment and corrupt politicians.  She knows what its like to cut a budget, veto spending measures and bring real reform.  She knows what its like to have a special needs child and deal with the issues that every other family in America deals with on a daily basis.

Sarah Palin did more than hold her own tonight.  She reminded Americans that the government is of the people and not of the elite.  The elites in Washington have stolen the government from us, and with John McCain and Sarah Palin we have a chance to take it back.

Sarah Palin is the link from Main Street to Wall Street that the American people have been missing for years.  If you want to change Washington you have to bring in people who are not hyper-partisans, and no ticket exemplifies that better than John McCain and Sarah Palin.

In less than 2.5 hours, Gwen Ifill will try to appear unbiased and welcome Governor Palin and Joe Biden to the one and only Vice Presidential Debate.

I can’t wait.

Sarah Palin needs to let the pit bull out and and go after Obama and Biden. She’ll probably have some slip ups, but I’m not too worried. There is something to be said for someone without the polish of a regular guest on Meet the Press or a history of bloviating on Capitol Hill. Sarah Palin’s story (other than her gender maybe) is the very story the founders had in mind when our Representative Republic was formed. A citizen servant who comes from everyday life to serve the greater good. That is a stark contrast to even Barack Obama who has done remarkably little other than prepare his resume for a Presidential run since his first day at Harvard.

Governor Palin has to remind everyone that she is one of us. She was a PTA Mom and Town Council Member when Barack Obama was teaching ACORN workers how to threaten banks into making subprime loans. She was a Hockey Mom and effective Mayor when Obama was on a beach in Bali writing his memoir. She was a Governor reforming Alaska and working for energy independence when Barack Obama was voting against our troops and playing the race card to silence Hillary Clinton.

And while Governor Palin was doing all of that, Joe Biden was doing what Joe Biden always does… plagiarizing stump speeches, lying about the horrible death of his wife, making up stories about being shot down in a helicopter or attacking America’s coal industry.

But the debate isn’t about Biden… and it likely won’t even be a debate. Instead it will be Sarah’s night… where she will be re-introduced to the American populous and her picture will be forever set in stone. However she is seen after tonight will be how she is seen throughout history. She can triumph and be a bright star for the GOP regardless of the election’s outcome, or she will be tagged as a lightweight and fade into the cold Alaskan air.

Unless Joe Biden walks over and asks for Governor Palin’s autograph (a la Rick Lazio), Joe Biden can’t really lose. It will be up to Palin to win.

Grab the popcorn and something cold to drink. It’s going to be an interesting night.

Watch the entire foreign policy segment of Governor Palin’s interview with Katie Couric.

The Governor gets a little tongue tied when asked about her comment that Alaska is close in proximity with Russia.  I think Sarah Palin is being a little too handled by the McCain campaign and that’s causing her to parse and stumble.  The point she was trying to make with Charlie Gibson originally is that it is a small world and like it or not, our national interests are often global interests.  We can not let the Russian Bear spread its claws again without countering it every step of the way.  That may seem abstract for us in the continential United States who are far removed from the Russians… but when you can litterally see Russian soil from your home state you have a different perspective on the threat an aggressive Russia poses.

As for the last little bit about Israel.  What the heck is Couric trying to do?  Of course we are not going to prevent Israel from defending itself and we would never publicly tell them what they can or cannot do.  Doing so with an ally would jeopardize our own sovereignty and we should not be interferring with their own self defense unless we would accept the same interference if the roles were reversed.  Nonetheless, as an ally, of course we work with them to strengthen their position and thus strengthen our own.  Of course we seek to find a common point to counter the spread of evil.  But if Israel ever feels the threat from Iran is immediate and imminent, you can bet we neither could nor would stand in their way.  Nor should we.

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Anyone have Charlie Gibson’s e-mail address?  I’d sure like to send him a copy of this.  After framing Sarah Palin as a relgious zealot and misquoting her in his interview, it would be nice to set the record straight and frame Governor Palin’s response AND prayer in the proper context.

Excellent video.  H/T: Instapundit

Are we fighting a Holy War?  Against the media?  Maybe So.

Governor Palin was in Colorado yesterday.  Our chances for real reform and the restoration of integrity in our markets and in Washington are much better with Sarah Palin and John McCain.  The video starts with her talking about the bank crisis.  She was relatively specific in the problems that a McCain/Palin administration would seek to fix.

Our economy in crisis. Only proven reformers John McCain and Sarah Palin can fix it. This sure is timely.