If you are a Conservative Republican, as I am, then you realized, from the word go, last night, during the Presidential Debate, that you do no matter much any more. On the other end of the spectrum, if you are a liberal Democrat, as misguided as you might be, you realize that you too, do not matter much any more. John McCain was as centrist as he has ever been. Barack Obama was even more centrist than he has been since the end of the primary season. He has even picked up the “cut spending” line from his opponent. Both candidates were going after the undecided centrist voters who will call the election this time around.

 

There were times when I had difficulty deciding whether I was listening to Barack Obama debating John McCain or Joe Lieberman debating John McCain. The only thing separating Lieberman from Obama is the war in Iraq. Obama has become more hawkish

( he will go after Pakistan to get Osama Bin Laden), he has become a fiscal conservative (he’s going to cut spending -- with a Democrat congress, no less), he has become a pro-nuclear energist as well. John McCain is going to create a $300 billion entitlement which will pay off bad mortgages. Wonderful! Obama is going to give 95% of the American people a tax cut which will be paid for not so much by taxing the greedy rich as by cutting spending.

 

On the whole Obama’s answers were too thought out and too studied. As usual one got a doctoral thesis for every question he was asked. McCain did not go deep enough into his answers, which left listeners wanting more details. McCain particularly missed the opportunity to explain how his health care plan will work and how it gets paid for.

 

The faux pax of the evening was Obama’s answer to the question about Israel. Here’s the scenario: Israel has been attacked by Iran. What would you do?

As usual we got a doctoral thesis.

A thesis which ended a few minutes later, with the line that military options were not off the table. Excuse me? Let’s get this clear: Israel has been attacked by Iran, and military options are not off the table. You mean you do not strike with everything you have to defend Israel against a rogue Islamic nation with nukes? I know now, who I want to be our next commander-in-chief.

 

In 27 days we will know, for certain. I hope that each man’s base, the faithful Republicans or Democrats, can get their minds off being let down, and vote for their candidate with the hope that their ideals are the ideals of candidate they elect to the highest office on the planet. Last night didn’t give any of us much hope of that.

While the electoral map looks more and more dismal for John McCain, both campaigns have started resorting to personal attacks. It was the McCain Campaign that started the shooting match. Sarah Palin said that Obama had had the habit of hanging around with accused terrorists. I wish she hadn’t. I wish that it had been the Obama Campaign that had started the dirty business.

The issues have been sidelined and now past associations and past scandals seem to be the order of the day. Frankly, I don’t care much whether John McCain was involved with the Keating bunch or if Barack Obama had a love-in with a terrorist. These past events and associations simply do not matter given the enormity of the problems facing our nation right now, today, in 2008!

Personally, as an American voter, I want to know what they are going to do about the current economic crisis. I want to hear specific plans. I want to hear what we are going to do to prevent this financial tsunami from ever plaguing us again. I also want to hear what they have learned in the past three weeks that will make a difference in the way they are going to handle the economic crisis. I want to hear that everyone to blame is being investigated by the FBI for the possibility of fraud. I need to hear what their penalties are if they are found guilty of fraud or gross mismanagement. I need to hear that the taxpayer is now a shareholder in every entity that was bailed out. I need to hear that taxpayers will be paid interest on their loan to these entities before a single shareholder gets a penny.

Given that the whole economic climate of America has changed, I don’t want to hear whether the other guy will raise my taxes or not. I don’t want to hear about whether the bailout was right or wrong, it done now and to quote the Bard, “it cannot be undone”. Please don’t let me hear about health care; that is perhaps the biggest pipe dream, today, that either candidate ever had. That isn’t happening for a long, long time. If we are so tuned in to national security, can you imagine what is going to be the state of our national security if we go headlong into a deep, deep depression which will take us five year to dig out of? How much more susceptible do you think we would be to terrorist attacks.

Let’s have answers and solutions and not accusations….

This morning, after the Vice Presidential Debate of last evening, if I were a veteran Senator of 35 years, I would be feeling really bad for myself. After all, he has been in this campaigning/debating game since Sarah Palin was probably in forth grade. Yet, he came of stuttering, unsure of himself, he was repetitive and he kept throwing out memorized statistics like a junior in high school trembling his way through his first confrontational experience for the debating society. Quoting the Good Book and this is not something that Progressives like to do, "To whom much is given, much is expected." Thus it was with Joe Biden. On the contrary we all expected this of his opponent Sarah Palin. The print media had all but written her off, and perhaps justifiably so, after the Couric and the Gibson interviews. She was expected to regurgitate memorized talking points, statistics and pearls of wisdom about her running mate's excellent qualifications for Chief Executive. She certainly did some of this, but she also spoke from the heart in many places. The group of people, mostly conservative women I have to admit, with whom I watched the debate,  were electrified when Palin asked the American people to be responsible with credit card debt and diligent in taking responsibility for their own lives.She positively established herself as a complete Washington outsider. She said she didn't "understand you guys in Washington." She was able to explain John McCain's energy policy better than the venerable Senator has ever done it himself. For me, she came out on the right side of global warming. She was not prepared to believe that all the negative effects we are experiencing, were being caused by human activity and that China and India had to take some responsibility for cleaning up the planet as well as our country.

At the point where the potential Veeps were asked about gay marriage, Sarah Palin sounded a great deal more honest and believable than did Biden. Both were against same sex marriage, but Palin was careful to say that while she is tolerant of people making up their own minds about partners in life, she wanted to be careful of the crawling, insidious effects that gay-partner rights might have on the only definition of marriage; that of being a contract between one man and one woman. No "ifs', "ands", or "buts".

In spite of everything, Palin won last night, especially with the middle class kitchen table crowd, which will make the winning hit in November. I am a little disappointed that she did not take the many opportunities she was given( much to Gwen Iliff's credit) to say that winning in Iraq is fundamental to our entering into any conversation with Iran or North Korea or Hamas in Lebanon.  That winning in Iraq will give us the position of strength we need to negotiate and discuss with those who hate us and want to destroy us. It will put teeth into our diplomacy. And that is the only way to sit down and talk to rogue dictators who may or may not have nuclear weapons. Otherwise, our diplomacy will simply be another weak attempt at Chamberlain-esque appeasement; something that leaves you a lot weaker and in a lot more precarious position than your were in the first place.

It wasn’t big news.

The economic crisis was much bigger. All credit has been shut down.

Money isn’t flowing as it should. So, it is fairly safe to say that most Americans

did not watch Larry King’s interview with Iranian President Mahmoud Achmedinajad.

This was tantamount to Martin Bormann’s coming to Washington D.C in 1938 and being interviewed by Edward R. Murrow. Bormann was Hitler’s henchman who helped with the engineering of one of the greatest genocidal exercises in our planet’s history. I wonder if the greatest generation would have tolerated an interview of that kind? Would your grandfather or mine have allowed this to happen? Would they have given credence to a network which perpetrated an outrage of that magnitude? Things have changed, haven’t they? Here in America, CNN was allowed to let one of their best known talk show hosts to interview a man who hours before had predicted the demise of the American way of life and the American nation.  How much of a nasty joke is that in regard to freedom of speech.

The content of the interview was even more offensive. There were many questions this monster should have been asked. King should have asked exactly what kind of research was required to establish that the systematic murder of 6 million Jewish Europeans actually did take place. He should have asked how he rated the whole Third Reich era in Germany in the 30s and 40s. He should have asked the exact reasoning behind defying the world in regard to nuclear proliferation. King also should have asked him how the plans to wipe the State of Israel of the face of the planet are coming. Perhaps King should have said that he himself was a Jew, just to see how Achmedinajad reacted to being in close proximity to one of those people he so despises.

Instead, King asked really warm and cuddly questions.

How many children do you have?

Are they married?

Any grandchildren?

King then makes a really “The View” type of comment about Achmedinajad not looking old enough to be a grand father.

Really nice. CNN came off as being a very fair and balanced cable news network. After all even mosters should have a worldwide voice. Does anybody know what ratings they garnered during this time slot? Were there any Americans who actually cared to learn how many grandchildren the murderer of many of our American troops in Iraq, actually has? 

As we speak, John McCain is twisting arms in our Nation’s Capital.

Republican arms, Democrat arms and Independent arms.

He’s trying to get them to pass this bail-out bill without the usual hassles and power-mongering and grand-standing. Of course, if they turn off the TV cameras in the House and the Senate they will certainly reduce the grand-standing.

John McCain is going to succeed. He will get this Bill passed by Midnight Thursday.

You see, the best way to get our good-for-nothing Congress to do something positive for the American people is to wait for September in an election year; then ask! When the founders put this phenomenal federal system in place, they failed in one respect. They did not consider the basic human need for self-gratification and greed. Jefferson, Adams, Hamilton, Jay and Washington obviously never met the likes of Reid, Pelosi, Murtha and Schumer.

Now back to the bail-out bill. It essentially, asks congress to loan $700 billion to some errant companies run by financial bottom feeders that destroyed their institutions and then ran away with very large severance packages. It is just a loan. Like the loan the Feds made to the Chrysler Corporation in the 80s.  Everyone is hoping that the Feds and thereby, the taxpayer, eventually gets paid back.

In the interim credit will loosen up, money will start flowing again, people will be able to borrow to buy cars and homes and, more importantly, businesses will be able to buy inventory and make payroll next Friday. Jobs won’t be lost. Manufacturing won’t close down for lack of raw material. Services wont be curtailed bringing vast layoffs as a result. In short we won’t see the soup kitchens and the long ration lines of the 1930s. This is a good thing. It is a great thing. It’s not a conservative thing nor is it a Republican thing and it certainly not a Reaganite thing. It’s like bailing your seventeen year old son out of jail after he gets arrested for drunk driving, instead of letting him sit in there for the night. You don’t teach him a lesson, but you don’t risk his getting emotionally scarred by exposure to the erotic practices of the average prison population for twelve hours. It’s the better choice. Reagan made the better choice when he bailed Chrysler out and then let Lee Iacocca build Chrysler up to be independent again. So bail-out worked; with over-sight! This one will work, too.

John McCain will take credit for getting things done in the midst of a busy campaign.  He will become the true leader during a national crisis. The old guy with the funny jaw line, the bald pate, the skin cancer scars, who cannot use a keyboard because of Vietcong calisthenics, the guy could drop dead anytime because he is 72 years old and the guy who is going to cut taxes for the contemptible  rich, will come through for the American people.

When you need something to really work for you, it is always best to use the tried and true rather than the new product that promises much on the label and has never really been tried by anyone.

Reaganite - Glenn J. D'Abreo

Reaganite@hangright.org

www.hangright.org

All the arugula eating, brie nibbling, chardonnay sipping snobbish liberals from elitist schools will tell you that it is all about age. The chronologically challenged candidates in the race have a memory deficiency. They cite a distinct hesitancy in choosing someone who cannot remember facts. Are we able to trust someone who, like John McCain couldn’t remember where Spain was last week?  Remember the time he wasn’t sure what the difference was between a Sunni and a Shiite? He was in Iraq at the time and his good friend Joe Lieberman stepped forward and whispered the facts into his ear. From my point of view all Arab Muslim Terrorists look alike and are best viewed through the sights of a M16 assault rifle, but for a future President, well, that isn’t good enough. Age appears to be a real problem.

Or maybe not. Hillary Clinton had trouble remembering the facts about her landing in Bosnia. Barack Obama was positive he had visited every one of our United States; All 57 of them! Then he couldn’t remember whether he was Christian or Muslim on TV with George Stephanopoulos. Barack is a Baptist, perhaps the most vocal and visible Christians around today. If you think “Alleluia” shouting and hand clapping Christianity, you think Baptist!

Hillary and Barack are spring chickens compared to John McCain and Joe Biden. So my hypothesis is that it is not age that diminishes memory.  It is the act of running for President that damages the memory. Add Joe Biden as the latest clinical proof, and my belief will be vindicated. Yesterday, Biden said that the President ought to do what FDR did during the Wall Street Fall of 1929. Biden says that FDR simply went on Television and calmed the American people’s fears. Uhhhhh….FDR was elected in 1932! Herbert Hoover was the poor man in the Oval Office presiding over the Great Crash. Television was first commercially available in 1931. FDR used the good old Marconi for his fireside chats. Now, you see what I mean. The moment you start running for the Presidency, you start loosing your memory. It a gradual process. It starts about the time one create an exploratory committee. It ends the minute you say, “So help me God…” at the end of the Presidential Oath.

For myself, I am looking forward to real change. I am enthusiastically looking forward to a Chief Executive who can say “new-clear” correctly. That’s the kind of change which will really make a difference. After all if Georgia and Uzbekistan are admitted to NATO and Russia invades them again and we have to reduce Moscow to a mass of molten ruble, I want a command-in-chief who can correctly pronounce the name of device he used to melt the Kremlin.
Real Change!
Change we can believe in.
Yes we can!

George Will, in today’s Washington Post, sounds much like the forth grade elderly, spinster, teacher I had, who loved to be sanctimonious. She also loved to torture young boys; but that is subject matter for another post. George Will also knows his Lewis Carroll; the subject matter for still another post. Here’s the crux of the article. Being angry that Wall Street is such a mess, and speaking out plainly about the unworthiness of the man who is entrusted with the oversight of the whole shooting match on the street and saying that he would fire this individual, is un-presidential. Will was, perhaps, looking for one of those doctoral theses that Barack Obama spouts when asked about anything more complicated than the time of day.

On the one side we have millions of hard working Americans who are watching their retirement funds swirling down the tubes and on the other side we have one man, who admittedly, has done a lousy job of the responsibility with which he was entrusted. John McCain was angry and he said that because of this very apparent betrayal of the public trust, he would, were he president, fire Cox. Big Deal! My heart bleeds for Cox. But not quite as much as it’s bleeding for most of us hard working Americans who are watching our 401Ks shrinking like the wicked witch of the East after the bucket of water incident on the way to Oz. I am sure Cox’s feelings are hurt.

Will seems to be insinuating that McCain might one day, in a fit of grand pique, press that terrible button and two thirds of Russia will disintegrate, but not before Chicago, Los Angeles, Manhattan and Houston all suffer the same fate at the reciprocal hands of a Russian button-pushing megalomaniac on the other side of the world. Has George Will lost his mind? Just because McCain got mad and wanted to fire Cox, he is suddenly not worthy of making presidential decisions. Someone has to be joking.

There is an upside to this, however. Most Americans would do exactly the same thing. We love revenge. Sometime we get the wrong guy in our enthusiasm. Sometimes, we try and get the right guy, for something totally unrelated. O.J. Simpson springs immediately to mind. We would all love to fire Cox and send him home to his pig farm or whatever he was doing before he got his current job. So John McCain is on our side. He too, wants to fire someone for this mess. You go John and when you become President, fire most of them.

Now the liberals will make hay while this sun shines. They will exploit the whole uncontrollable anger defect. Can someone with this kind of unhealthy, impulsive temper be trusted to run the country? I’ll bet there will be a few campaign ads before the week is over. Watch out America. A man can be Presidential without a shred of experience and a few dimples, but not with a volcanic temper.

Of course, in siding with Cox and against McCain, the liberals are agreeing with their all time favorite nemesis, the man they love to hate – George W. Bush. When asked if he would fire Cox (the guy he hired in the first place) President Bush replied with an extremely emphatic “No!”  One more thing. By saying he would fire Cox, has McCain distanced himself, even further, from the man whose eight years, the liberals have been claiming, was the blue print for John McCain’s administration?

I do believe that George Will just did John McCain and the GOP a giant favor. How about doing another op-ed next week, George? McCain can use all the help he can get.

Let's talk about Universal Health Care.

We’ve all heard the liberal, open borders crowd say that we need illegal aliens here in our country to do the jobs that Americans will not do. Somehow that is supposed to quell our concerns about health care costs and anchor babies and non-tax paying earners who ship vast quantities of cash back to Mexico, and emergency medical facilities closing down because of rising numbers of illegals seeking care. Somehow that is supposed to justify Barack Obama’s plan to give health insurance to 45 million Americans, 12 million of whom are illegally in the United States. Someone, and I cannot cite the source of this, once said that 12 million illegals shipping even as little as twenty dollars a week to Mexico would mean 12.5 BILLION dollars a year going out of the US without ever having been taxed. How much revenue is being lost there? But, as usual, the question of illegal immigration and open borders leads me astray.

This post started out because I had always believed that I had to hire an illegal alien to clean up my back yard or my garage or anything else, that Americans” would not do, because the pay was too low. I never did pick up an alien. It was always too much trouble. I was afraid of getting arrested by ICE. It was breaking the law. I cannot speak Spanish, how would I communicate? And deep down, I was letting America a down. Besides, how could I whine and complain if I was contributing to the problem myself.

Last week I decided to get a shed in my back yard cleaned out. I had been throwing stuff into it, haphazardly, for years. My family, teasingly, referred to the shed as “The Black Hole”. Things went in there, never to see the light of day again. A suburban prefabricated Bermuda Triangle, with a door and shingle roof, if you will. As a congenital pack rat, I cannot get rid of anything. I hoard everything. Old LPs, notebooks from college, National Geographic Magazines and odd stuff I have bought at different garage sales which I will surely have a use for some day. But, I stray again. I decided that I would advertise on Craig’s List. I decided that all I could afford was $8 an hour. My ad explained that this wasn’t heavy work, but it was tedious and boring and might take as much as ten hours. It might be dirty work, involving wading through industrial strength cobwebs. I put my ad in on a Monday morning and waited.

Ads on Craig’s List show up immediately. I got, within 24 hours, sixteen replies to my ad, applying for this job. I received answers form students, single mothers, handymen, one musician tying to supplement his income, a couple of grand parents taking care of two grandkids (the real parents of these poor kids might be the subject of another one of my rants about procreation and the concomitant responsibilities) and even one teacher waiting for California to fix its budget, so she could get paid. Here were 16 Americans trying to get a lousy $8 an hour job that would bring in, at the very most, something in the region of $100. An interesting aside to this is that when I inquired of an acquaintance, about how much illegal help would cost at the Home Depot, I was told that you couldn’t pick up help for less than $20 an hour. Imagine paying $20 an hour and then having to communicate with your help by signs, grunts and a few shouted and completely mangled Spanish words?

This experience was an eye-opener for me. The African American gentleman who finally accepted my clean-up job works from 7:00AM to 3:00PM and then comes to my place. He has already worked five hours for me. He’s coming back for a few days. I have never seen a harder worker in my life. I have never seen a more methodical worker ever. I wonder how he stays so cheerful, all the time. Could it be that he likes working. Working odd jobs just to pay his bills. Saving some money to buy a computer?

Don’t ever tell me that there is work AMERICANS won’t do….and if you want proof, I’ll introduce you to Joseph. A gentleman with a real All American Work Ethic! Someone who doesn’t think the sky is going to fall in tomorrow morning because a few cowards on Wall Street fly into a new panic every morning and the duds in Congress have no clue about what to do about it?

On the anniversary of 9/11 we were treated to a "Service to the Nation" forum hosted by Columbia University. This liberal, military-hating, bastion of America bashing ideology was probably one of the worst arenas for something like this. The applause greeting John McCain was lukewarm, at best, while the applause that Senator Obama got for so much as flexing a dimple was thunderous. It was easy to choose the favorite there that night.  I was amused to watch the camera pan the audience after John McCain fired a volley at the school for banning the ROTC from its campus. All the cerebral purveyors of knowledge in the first two rows, sat sullen faced and solemn. There was no reaction. They had a complete, while temporary hearing loss during this admonition by Senator McCain, while regular Americans, the ones in the back end of the auditorium, who do not have PHDs by the bushel, applauded wildly. As usual John McCain's answers were spontaneous. They appeared to come from the heart while Obama's answers were all mini-doctoral theses, requiring deep cogitation and a visible correlation of thoughts. They all sounded rehearsed. The most amusing was the response by the Democrat Messiah to the question about what he would have told the American to do immediately following 9/11, instead of telling them to travel and go shopping. Obama's answer was one of the most ridiculous I have ever heard. He said he would say that this was an opportunity for America to have a real energy policy. Excuse me? We have just been attacked on American soil by a foreign enemy and 3000 Americans have been killed in cold blood. And he is far-sighted enough to be thinking about energy policy? It was the epitome of rehearsed, briefed and pre-calculated answers. What a sham!!!

The memories are forever etched in my mind.

My family had buried my only brother the morning before and the whole family was numb. My brother had dropped dead of a first and only heart attack a week before. Numb was not the word!

We had experienced something we had never even imagined could happen to our happy family circle. Our family was invincible. America was about to experience a similar horror in a few hours. That Tuesday morning, American too, in the minds of her people, was similarly invincible. When the phone rang at 7:05 AM Pacific Time, it jarred me into a consciousness that was necessary but completely unwelcome. It was my niece asking me to turn on television. Curiosity kept me watching for the next few hours. Self-preservation kept me mentally reducing the gravity of what was happening in Manhattan. Reality was to horrible to accept.

About an hour later, I realized how bad things were. I realized how terrifyingly determined our enemies were then. I realize, this morning, how determined they are to destroy us, today. I realize that I have not moved past the "angry" stage. I don't think I ever want to. I pray that the American people never will. Anger, when it is gone, is usually replaced by complacency. And...complacency is our greatest, worst enemy. 

I realize that political correctness prevents us from speaking out loudly about the threat to our freedoms and our way of life and Judeo-Christians practices and beliefs. Political Correctness keeps us from admitting, out loud, that the war we are in, is with Islam. 

A violent religion. A religion that preaches violence against all non-believers.

I pray that one day we will realize. I pray one day we will see the light, and thus be more capable of protecting ourselves.

Last evening while leaving for home from work, I got into a lively discussion with two gentlemen with whom I work. I would describe both of them as moderately liberal ideologically and one is extremely enthusiastic about the much hoped for positive change that the Democrat Candidate could bring with him in November. I wish him much luck, and I am not being facetious. The memory of the enthusiasm of the younger generation for Senator Obama's campaign will do much to assuage the pain for me if he wins in November. 
While the discussion originally centered on the economy, national security, foreign policy and energy, it quickly moved into the realm of morals and traditional conservative values. I was told, during our discussion, that the GOP has the attitude that they are the party of the moral high ground and of unblemished patriotism. This probably stems from our attitude about life beginning at conception, the value of life, our sometimes hawkish foreign policy and our unbridled support for our fighting men and women.
  As a traditional conservative I am voluble about the value of guilt and shame. I think that guilt keeps us on the straight and narrow. I think that shame keeps us from exposing unacceptable behavior and the consequences thereof, to a society wherein the "anything goes" attitude is the norm today. This is very much what most traditional conservatives feel is missing in our country right now. As a traditional conservative I suppose I could summarize my values as being the values my parents were brought up with and the values of the United States in the 40s and 50s.The moment I mentioned this, in our discussion, I realized that we Republicans, of that calling, have a chink in our armor. A chink provided by our Vice-Presidential candidate. It is the plank in our eye that we are conveniently ignoring while pointing out the speck in our liberal brother's eye. 
Sixty years ago, a non-married pregnant teenager would have been sent to some convent, paid for by her parents, where she would have had her child and given it quietly up for adoption, and then returned to her family.
The irresponsible and priapic young man who fathered the child, who at 18 years isn't old enough to adequately take care of a hamster, would have been encouraged to go on with his life plans, or perhaps enlist in the army, where they could implant in his immature mind the illusive concept of anticipating the consequences of one's selfish actions.
Instead, the young pregnant lady and the friend with whom, she erred, were paraded before an enormous crowd of adoring thousands in an arena and millions more on TV. An announcement made by the Palin folks talked about the unrestrained support her parents are going to offer the girl. It also aired the tragic decision that the young people are engaged and intend to marry. They are  17 and 18 years old, respectively, so help us, God! Let's see if they are still married by the time the mother, should she win in November, is out of office four years from now. To my utter amazement Sarah Palin said nothing about the girl having done something wrong. She said nothing about this being a selfish mistake. She said nothing about the misfortune of a forced marriage of two young people too immature to create a family. After all, they were immature enough to have unprotected sex without a thought about the consequences for themselves or for the unfortunate child who will probably grow up in a broken home and will have to be taken care of by her grand parents.
Are Traditional Conservatives going the way of the Tyrannosaurus Rex and the others of his species?

All my life I have worked for the private sector. No Government jobs for me, ever. I've been fired, laid-off, I've resigned and I've also just not showed up for work one morning because my boss was the ultimate jerk. This is pretty common place in my industry; everyone goes through it a few times. So, it is comes as no surprise that I've been down the job hunt route. It's a painful exercise but something one has to go through after loosing one's job.

Last night during his speech Rudy Giuliani used the job hunt and resumes as the subject of an analogy. Naturally I could relate.

He asked us to imagine trying to hire someone for an important job. He asked us to imagine having two resumes before us. You know where this is going. So I decided that my post today would be about experience.

Rewind back to the height of the primary season. Remember how every Democrat running for the Nominee position was taking pot-shots at Obama for his lack of experience. Now, they are all trying to sweep their charges under the rug. Biden, who was the most voluble about Obama's lack of experience and who said that the Presidency was not an "on-the-job-training" position, pretends he never said anything about the subject. What else can he do? The inexperienced guy is now his boss.

Another thing that the other side is trying to do is to bring up the fact that Sarah Palin is as inexperienced as Obama. There are two things wrong with this argument. First, by merely bringing up the point, they are admitting that Honorable Senator from Illinois is, ipso facto, inexperienced. Second it is just plain wrong. Neither Biden nor Obama have any of the executive experience that Palin has.

Neither Biden nor Obama have ever reviewed a budget and vetoed it.

Neither Biden nor Obama has ever commanded a State National Guard.

Neither Biden nor Palin has signed legislation into law.

Neither Biden nor Obama has ever vetoed a bill.

Neither Biden nor Obama has ever presided over energy creation or mining.

Neither Biden nor Obama has ever led a State full of people in a time of crisis.

Neither Biden nor Obama has ever challenged their own party over ethics and won.

I could go on and on. But let me end this line of thought with this....both Biden and Obama are members of a Congress which has the lowest approval rating in our country's history. Right after the Declaration of Independence was signed and most Americans didn't agree with the Continental Congress, even then Congress was not held in as much disdain as it is now. Sarah Palin, on the other hand, has an approval rating in her State which hovers around 80%. Enough said.

 Do I want Sarah Palin to be a heart beat away from the hot seat or do I want someone less experienced in the hot seat from the word go? That...is  a question not even worth considering.

John  McCain has already established his maverick status. He has bucked the system several times, even by George Bush's own admission. Palin is deffinitely a maverick in her own right. Putting them together may be the weapon of mass destruction we need in DC. Both are earmark ending, corruption crushing go-getters who will attempt to end the business as usual in the  Washington DC scene. Giuliani yelled, "Watch Out! Watch Out!" several times during his speech. It reminded me of the Christmas song which sounds like this ( they should be  playing it in Washington DC).... "You better watch out, you better not cry; You better not pout, I'm telling you why...McCain and Palin are coming to town....!"

 

The time has come to re-tract. Probably the first time I have ever done this on this website. Opinionated egotists like I am, rarely take anything back. Perhaps I'm maturing...could it be? My Mother said it would happen, someday.

I said yesterday that Sarah Palin could turn down the Veep stop. That it might be a good thing. I said that it would let John McCain off the hook. It said it would give him a chance to choose someone else, like Romney, perhaps.

I was wrong, and I totally retract that unsophisticated and immature statement. I suppose I allowed the Liberal Progressive Cretins to get to me. Not wanting to admit of a chink in our Republican armor, I succumbed to poor judgment and I made a fevered and delirious call.

Sarah Palin will make a good VEEP. Ask any war time flier; you catch the most anti-aircraft fire when you are directly over the target. The left wing lunatics are ranting because Palin is the right choice. This choice marks the most dramatic departure from any Bush control or legacy that John McCain has ever made. It is a departure from all things customarily Republican. It repaints the country-club image of the GOP. It shakes the image of the old white, cigar-smoking  guys party, where women are not welcome. John McCain is establishing, once again, the fact that he is his own man. It says that he is, indeed, a Maverick, determined to shake things up in the center of our Republic.

The scandals are out. She has a Down syndrome child. Some one else will take care of this child, most probably his Dad. Her teenage daughter is pregnant. This is a shameful thing. But the family has established, by their own personal example, that they are pro-life. The only choice here is to have the child, within a loving family, and care for it to maturity. We know about the State Trooper and Palin's sister. So what - big deal. If that is all the Progressive Liberals can find, then there couldn't be much there. Remember George Soros is funding the back ground check on Palin and her family. Money is of no concern.

In his column today Dick Morris says: "Palin has an extensive public record - with more executive experience than Barack Obama or Joe Biden (or McCain, for that matter). She should be judged on her record, same as a man. If she is, she'll survive these charges in great style."

When she speaks tonight, women of all colors and ideologies will resonate with her life and what she has been through as a working mother. How many American mothers have lived the awful horror of learning that they would give birth to a less than normal child. How many American mothers and fathers have lived the concern for a pregnant minor daughter. How many women have realized the helplessness of knowing that all of the crooks you are trying to topple are powerful men in high places ( think Erin Brockovich, Norma Rae and Karen Silkwood as examples). Yet she fought the tough guys and won. The result is a 90% approval rating in her State.

Talk about destroying a glass ceiling. Hillary and her achievements pale by comparison. This lady was not always a Governor with staff to wash the dishes. She wasn't born a mayor, with people to wash and iron the clothes. There was a time when she was a PTA Mom who cooked dinner and then sat down at the kitchen table to eat with her family, and her husband, who is as blue collar as they get. But she isn't just that anymore. I would really like my daughter, if I had one, to know about this lady. I would want my girl to emulate this woman. Like the bumper stickers say in Alaska: Cold State - Hot Governor.

After tonight, we will need to check the polls. We will need to watch for a Republican bounce. I predict it will be a bounce greater than the Democrat Messiah got after his Lincolnesque speech last Thursday.

If I were a Democrat; right about now, I would start being afraid.....and tomorrow morning, I would pull the covers over my head and refuse to get out of bed. Or as Ann Coulter suggests, I'd grow some brains and become a Republican.