September 1st, 2008 at 11:46 am
I really like Palin. I also worry she will steal the spot light from Hillary in 20012.
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Hillary will be ok if she shows political courage now.

September 1st, 2008 at 12:22 pm
I am worried about Hillary’s current situation. The vile Obama thugs seem determined to drag her down with them for their failures. If she puts up a fight, it will be to their benefit and they seem to be making sure that she pays for it. If she seems too compliant in their vile scheme, she loses the pride and self-respect of her beloved supporters and will be difficult to resurrect the hard won support she has garnered in future elections. The only reasonable solution is for her to see how she can achieve her own political agenda while she appears to fulfill their demands holding her hostage — that will take every genius in her and Bill Clinton but I see her as confused and not know what to do right now. We are so fucked and I will rue the day when Obama and his cabal entered the Dem politics. (sorry to be so pessimistic
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You are not pessimistic at all. You are realistic. I do not give a goddam what they have on her there must come a point where she steps back and refuses to do their bidding. If she fails to do that she will lose her self respect. To me it is real simple. She tells them that if they ask her to get involved then she will spend half her time deploring the sexism directed at Palin by Obama and his supporters. Otherwise, Axelrod back the fuck off. I am not going to go down in flames for your. I cannot sell you to this audience–that is something you must do yourself. I can talk about the issues, but this is no longer about issues it is about the obama and biden and whether they are trusted. They have to sell themselves.

The pregnancy of Palin’s daughter will remind people of Obama’s comment in regards to his daughters: “I am going to teach them first of all about values and morals. But if they make a mistake, I don’t want them punished with a baby.”

Conservatives could counter that if it were Obama’s 17 year old daughter who was pregnant he would advise them to have an abortion based on his comments above.

I think it would be wise for the Democrats not to make an issue of this situation…stuff happens…

You cannot determine where a 17 yr old girl is 24 hrs a day.

She’s pregnant, the girl is going to marry the father and the girl is not having an abortion, wheres the problem.

To be honest, she’ll become even more of a poster mother for evangelicals. She did the right thing. If they try to attack her on this, tell them to look around the country. This is not 1908.

Wow she went up even more in my estimation.

althouse.blogspot.com/2008/09/sarah-palin-craze-continues.html

Here’s a site highlighting the craziness of some in the blogosphere.

The “tribute to admin” is up!!

zealfortruth.org/2008/09/palin-makes-election-mccains-to-lose/

Monday, September 1, 2008 10:39 AM
By: John L. Perry Article Font Size

Most Americans don’t live in big cities, and they’ll not fall for Barack Obama’s sneering dismissal of Sarah Palin for having been a small-town mayor.

Running a small town takes more of what’s sorely needed in Washington, D.C., than any legislator with zero executive experience can possibly bring to the job.

Senators have the luxury to cherry-pick the most-politically correct issues as their brand and to duck and dodge those they find politically disadvantageous.

As chief executive in any level government, you must deal with every prickly pear of an issue that comes down the pike. Indeed, the happy-choice issues are resolved most often by department heads down the ladder.

The smaller the government, the closer you are as chief executive with all, not just a portion, of your electorate.

Each day, you run into them — at the post office, at the grocery store, at the neighborhood movie, at the PTA meeting, on the sidewalk, at the library, when a water main bursts, when a child is injured in a car wreck, at church, at service club luncheons, at just about every funeral in town, at the gas station, at city council meetings, at chamber of commerce events, at Fourth of July celebrations, at Christmas tree lightings, at weddings . . . it never ends.

Your office phone is always lit, your cell phone’s battery is forever dying, your home phone gives you no peace — day or night. The whole town is after you.

It seems anyone you’ve ever met in the good, ol’ hometown has an unemployed, no-neck cousin who wants “to get on at the city.” There’s not an intersection where someone of political importance doesn’t own land ideal for a strip mall. Sometimes you think everyone who calls or drops by the office is selling insurance. No one is content with tax assessments or trash removal.

In a disaster, you’re the commander in chief of the very first of first responders.

As mayor of a small town, you cannot breathe in or breathe out, sign or refuse to sign an official document, take a stand for or against something where you aren’t making an enemy or being accused of favoring a friend.

Small-town newspapers are afflicted by the same curse. Just print the name of a reader who got pinched for drunk driving and see what happens.

The editor of the huge Atlanta newspaper once told the editor of a small Georgia daily: “Your job is a lot tougher than mine. My dance floor is many times larger. I can dance and dance and never step on a toe. Your dance floor is so small you can’t dance for long without stepping on the corns of every toe in town.”

A native of that small town told a newcomer, “Be careful driving around here. We don’t use turn-indicator lights.” Why not? “Don’t need to. Everyone in town knows where everyone else is going.”

Same goes for what Sarah Palin had to have experienced in Alaska as mayor of Wasilla (pop. 9,780 last year, even smaller when she was there).

The closed-ness of small towns is almost beyond telling, as is well known by millions upon millions of Americans who live, work, worship, and send their children to school in small towns. You are face-to-face with everyone in town.

When you buck the local political establishment and stand up for honesty in government, people know what you’re doing. In Alaska, they remember and adore Wasilla Mayor Sarah Palin for that. They know her job was a lot harder than being mayor of a big city where you are a stranger to most constituents.

Those qualities do qualify this strong woman to be a heartbeat away from the presidency — a condescending Barack Obama to the contrary notwithstanding.

By the way, Alaska, where Sarah Palin has been the same kind of governor as she was a mayor, is the largest state in the Union. The second-smallest is Delaware, where Joe Biden returns after putting in a day helping run Congress.

So, in politics, as all of life, it’s how you do what you do, not where you do it. Sarah Palin has done it, very well. Others talk of doing what they’ve not done.

In comparison, who’s big time, who’s small time?

http://www.newsmax.com/john_perry/sarah_palin_alaska/2008/09/01/126669.html
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I knew Team Obambi and the Dems where going to alienate voters with all that “bitter small town” and demeaning and dismissive comments on small town mayors and backwood states.

These bunch in the Democratic? Taliban Party make me ashamed to say I’m a Democrat.