Empire of the Iguanadons

So. It's been awhile since I posted election stuff. So I may as well do that now that I was reminded of it.

As I'm sure everyone knows by now, Obama picked his running mate earlier this week. None other than supreme liberal gas bag himself, Joe Biden. Joe who I hear many of you saying? Yeah, before this election the only other thing I could have told you about him was his looney toons stance on Iraq. He's been one of the leading supporters of the surrender now policy of the hardcore Democratic left. As far as I'm concerned, that's enough to disqualify him outright. His being a tax and spend liberal is less than useful to us as well. But he fits Obama's policies perfectly and since Obama doesn't have clue #1 what he's doing, he needed to bring in someone he thinks does. Sorry, no pictures of Biden. That's just too scary to think about :)

McCain made his pick earlier today in Sarah Palin. Current governor of the state of Alaska. Why her? She's a pro-life, fiscal conservative with solid hard core true Republican values. Exactly what we need to bring the Republican party back to where it should be. A lot of us were looking at Romney, but it became clear this week that he was no longer in the running. The only other name I've heard at all is Tim Pawlenty and I haven't got the first clue who he even is. I've heard of Sarah Palin before because her name has come up as the one who finally put a stop to the infamous "Bridge to Nowhere" pork project up in Alaska soon after she took office. A lot of people were mighty pissed off about that but she stood her ground and dealt with it. Obama, apparently scared to death of her, tried to launch an attack calling her a nobody mayor of a town of 9,000 people. Funny, I thought state governorship was something more myself. Then of course in classic liberal style he backpedaled from it when it blew up in his face. Her fiscal experience combined with her conservative base appeal makes her a good compliment to McCain. I can see only good things coming from this.

One way or another, history will be made this election. There's no doubt about that.
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"It is pointless to resist, my son." -- Darth Vader
"Resistance is futile." -- The Borg
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Well. I guess that's that then.

Sure I expect anti-Christian pro-aborts and Christian pro-lifers don't have a lot of room for agreement or even discussion on those issues.

Not sure what you "think" you're proving on budget/corruption issues. I see no evidence that the lady isn't squeaky clean herself, and quite a lot of evidence she's knocked quite a few not so squeaky clean people out of public office in her wake. Looks to me like she slashed a lot of waste out of the state budget there, lowered taxes and had a surplus returned to the tax payers to boot.

Vetting? She's a popular governor. She's been vetted. I suspect the "establishment media" don't like the idea that she slipped below their radar.

Is she sympathic to the AIP, Constitution Party, Buchanan brigade? Gee I hope so. That only strengthens her Conservative bonafides. Exciting and chewy stuff for the Conservative Christian GOP wing. I'm already reading some Palin 2012 comments on my favorite websites. The liberal senator from Arizona might well regret launching this lady into the national spotlight. :-)

In deference to our host, I'll decline to argue my points here - I think I've made it clear enough that I don't think Palin has the relevant experience, and while I do agree that she's done some good things on corruption, fiscally she's throwing stones in glass houses, going back to her time as mayor. And never mind the vetting issue, which I think has been made flatly obvious.

But, y'all seem to like her, and that's great for you. Glad you're loving your politicians. For my part as an independent, I don't particularly like her all that much at all. So.

Today has been... um... yeah. Lets say interesting. So I'd be all over the map trying to even fathom a decent response to your last two posts there Dwip, but Tyche summed it up nicely and in far better words than I am apparently capable of delivering even on a good day. So I'll leave it there. Can we please just drop it now as it's clear we're never going to see eye to eye on Palin?