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And this isn't 2004...W was one of the most unlikable Presidents in US history...there is no way he should have been re-elected...and it was the Democrats that got him re-elected. I cannot emphasize this enough.
#1. Palin is 25 billion times more likeable than Biden or Bush. She's in Bill Clinton or Ronald Reagan's league.
#2. Biden has been wrong a lot. The surge is going to be stuck up his ass.
A. Even Obama says it was a success now.
B. Palin supported it.
C. So did McCain.
D. Most Americans consider it a success.
Please do not delude yourself into believing Biden is any kind of a positive in this election...he is dead weight.
Was a mistake to give Biden the VP.
And this isn't 2004...W was one of the most unlikable Presidents in US history...there is no way he should have been re-elected...and it was the Democrats that got him re-elected. I cannot emphasize this enough.
Dude, you wankers were so ALL OVER George W. Bush FOR YEARS, you wore Bush Underoos to bed.
Wow, she's been a national figure all of 2 weeks and has been sequestered from the press. Of course, she's "likeable," so is "Mom's Apple Pie," "July 4th" and "youth soccer."
I don't think that's quite right. I think is position is that Iraq was a mistake from the start and any tactical success from the surge is totally divorced from the strategic disaster in Iraq. Truth is the Iraqi govt and the Bush Admin. reached an agreement on a troop withdrawal after Obama called for it. Truth is, violence in Iraq is down is because we're paying off the Iraqis. We could've saved some money by just leaving. The "surge" didn't suddenly make the war popular.A. Even Obama says it was a success now.
If the GOP wants to talk up an unpopular war, I would be delighted.D. Most Americans consider it a success.
September 11, 2008
The Sarah Surge in Black and White
By Lawrence Kudlow
It's so much fun reading the newspapers these days. The Sarah surge continues to dominate all the political news while the Palin-McCain -- er, McCain-Palin -- ticket is forging ahead in the polls.
But let's be fair. Even though Sen. McCain is now riding Gov. Palin's skirt tails, he was the one who made the brilliant decision to put her on the ticket. And the louder the Left screams the better Sarah seems to do. So much better that for the first time the Intrade pay-to-play prediction market -- which long has had Obama winning by 20 to 25 points in November -- now shows a McCain lead. Unbelievable.
And look at all these headlines. The Washington Post has "Palin Energizing Women from All Walks of Life." In particular, white women with children at home give Palin a favorable rating of 80 percent.
Then there's this lead story in the Wall Street Journal: "Palin Lifts McCain's Support." A WSJ/NBC poll now has the presidential race even, and it's the Palin effect that explains the shift.
One-in-four Hillary Clinton voters now say the Palin pick makes them more likely to vote for McCain. And traditional Republican states like Georgia, Montana, North Carolina, and Alaska -- which Obama thought he'd fight for -- are now safely back in the McCain camp.
A Bloomberg news article is led, "McCain Poll Surge, Fundraising Give Democrats Election Jitters." It talks about how Democrats now worry they'll lose the election. Rep. Arthur Davis, the Alabama Democrat who was Obama's Harvard Law classmate, says the GOP just had its best week in four years.
And Obama & Co. are completely flummoxed as to what to do about the Palin phenomenon. The normally unflappable Sen. Obama actually says, "You can put lipstick on a pig, but it's still a pig." Whew. That one will add several points to the McCain-Palin column. "Holy Sow!" reads the New York Post headline, hammering home the mistake.
Even Camille Paglia, a strong Obama supporter, is waxing rhapsodic over Sarah Palin. Paglia calls her "a new style of muscular American feminism"; a "brash ambassador from America's pioneer past"; an "optimistic pragmatist like Ronald Reagan." Following Palin's GOP convention speech, I compared the governor to a Western pioneer version of Margaret Thatcher. I'm glad to see Ms. Paglia pick up on that.
A story by Sen. Jim DeMint (R., S.C.) in the Wall Street Journal is led, "Yes, Palin Did Stop that Bridge." The senator says Palin may once have supported the infamous Bridge to Nowhere, but she then killed it. And let's not get into the flip-flop argument. Both Obama and McCain have flip-flopped this year. And anyway, who cares if you flip-flop if you land in the right place? Sen. DeMint notes that Palin cut nearly 10 percent of Alaska's budget. And he should have reminded folks that Obama voted for the pork-barrel farm bill -- chock full of earmarks and waste -- and then voted again to overturn President Bush's veto of the bill.
A USA Today headline says "Palin Did Not Ban Books in Wasilla as Mayor." After interviewing a bunch of local folks, the author simply could not confirm the charge made by left-wing bloggers.
In "The Hunt for Sarah October," the Wall Street Journal's John Fund writes about a 30-lawyer S.W.A.T. team of Obama Democrats descending on Alaska in search of dirt related to "Palin's troopergate." They found nothing that hasn't already aired about Palin's alcoholic ex-brother-in-law who tasered his stepson.
Over in the Journal's Political Diary, Steve Moore says GOP House members back from vacation are actually talking about picking up seats in November, with a recent USA Today poll putting GOP members up four points on the question: Who do you support, the Republican or the Democrat for Congress in your district?
Even the financial pages are looking better. Oil is about to drop under $100 a barrel. Gold is plunging. And the greenback continues to rally in true King Dollar fashion. Is there a Sarah Palin effect here, too?
On the campaign trail, Gov. Palin says, "We're going to drill now to make this nation energy independent." And she adds that she's "ready to help John McCain bring tax relief to all Americans." That's the disciplined Sarah on message. She signaled this in St. Paul when she said the difference between a hockey mom and a pitbull is lipstick. Obama picked up on the dark side of that metaphor. But Palin's really saying: Don't tread on me. Don't try to intimidate me. I am a strong, tough mom who is determined to succeed in politics.
That's just what she's doing.
Can't argue with that but she was NOT his first choice he was persuaded to choose Palin. It was his best flip flop yet.
Enjoy it now....
yep! All the way to the White House!
Yeah, Lawrence Kudlow and John Fund are such unbiased journalists. And he has a good slip here:
That's McCain's biggest problem, she's the VP nominee, not the head of the ticket.The Sarah surge continues to dominate all the political news while the Palin-McCain -- er, McCain-Palin -- ticket is forging ahead in the polls.
False...I voted for Bush in 2004 because the Democrats had a far stupider war stance than Bush did and were running on a UN/Europe asskisser appeasement ticket.
That is the only reason I voted for Bush in 2004.
I did not vote for Bush in 2000, I voted for Gore, and before that I voted for Clinton twice. In fact I was saying a lot of the things about Bush before he was elected in 2000 than liberals have been saying every since.
The main difference is I have never thought Bush would deliberately do anything to hurt Amierica. The guy genuinely loves this country and if you read beyond the smears this much is obvious.
That said...not for one second have I ever thought he had the diplomatic skills or leadership abilities we really need in a President, but what he had to offer was better than what Kerry had to offer.
Realy the only postive thing about Bush skill as President is that I knew he would be stubborn and not back down to those politicizing the war. Something we couldn't afford to do once we went into Iraq. And he didn't. No matter how brutal and ugly it got.
I have more respect for Bush than I did in 2000 when I voted against him, and in hindsight it was probably for the best that he beat Gore. I've learned a lot about him since then and I like him better now than I did in 2000...that said, I wish we'd had better options on both sides of the ticket the past 8 years. We needed someone with diplomatic and communication skills...who wasn't an asskisser.
It's not a problem at all....
that's a problem for the dems, because it doesn't seem they can beat the #2 much less the #1.
I don't think so at all, "Sarah Mania" is because she's the latest chew toy. She can't carry him to the Presidency.
And it's all part of a briar patch that McCain wants the Dems to enter. Turn this election into a referendum on Sarah Palin as a person. That's the only way McCain can win this thing. He's not GWB, but they're both Republicans, and Obama can credibly claim that he will continue the bulk of Bush's policies. Turn this into whether or not Obama called her a pig, or she's a good mother, or some other bull and the Dems lose. Obama and his campaign are too smart for that.
Not for Obama it's not.
Looks like her little mishap has shrunk this lead some.......
http://blogs.usatoday.com/onpolitics...#uslPageReturn
Looks like it's been withered down to one point again as of today.....
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com...poll-of-polls/
I'm willing to bet by next week it will be tied or Obama will be up again.
Some convention bounce.........
And as stupid as Palin looked on televison the other night, I can only imagine how's she going to look when she debates Biden on the 26th. Better start cramming her head now.....I love it!!
Except it will be LIVE and can't be edited to make her look bad.Looks like it's been withered down to one point again as of today.....
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com...poll-of-polls/
I'm willing to bet by next week it will be tied or Obama will be up again.
Some convention bounce.........
And as stupid as Palin looked on televison the other night, I can only imagine how's she going to look when she debates Biden on the 26th. Better start cramming her head now.....
Edit: Check out DarrinS' post at the bottom of the page. He has a portion of the transcript from the ABC interview. The parts that were edited out are in bold print.
http://www.spurstalk.com/forums/show...104677&page=11
Do you really think it was edited to make her look bad?
Check out my comment right above yours. I went back and added a link.
Yes. Well, edited in an attempt to make her look bad.
To the degree that a lot of people are going to call for Charlie Gibson to be fired. He is dishonest.
Do you really think people will be calling for him to be fired? Or will they ask for a public apology followed by airing the interview in its entirety?
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