jparks1972 on September 2, 2008 at 8:57 AM

Here http://hotair.com/archives/2008/09/01/are-you-ready-for-fred-2012/comment-page-2/#comment-1367150

What’s annoying is the rampant hyperbolic cheerleading that’s taken place since Friday. This is amazing. Mac feeds everyone an excrement sandwich for the last several years, and then when he adds a little buttery corn to it, we burst into genuflecting adoration. Palin has been compared to everything from Mike Jordan to Ronald Reagan. We’re so quick to get our own Obama that we’re stampeding reason into the dirt. AP’s right to point out these things. Put your pants on people, and act like you’ve been here before.

Cold Steel on September 1, 2008 at 7:39 PM

+1

I want Sara to win this one, then in 2012 switch from Goose’s seat to Maverick’s and snipe Barry again. Fred getting in the ring would be like waiting for Iceman to take his shot.

We have the lock; get out of the way.

John will pick pretty conservative judges.

Like Breyer and Ginsburg, whom he voted to confirm?

I think it is a better system than the mulitparties that say France has.

This wouldn’t be a bad thing if we had a preferential voting system. If we could rank order the candidates, I’m quite sure McCain wouldn’t have won the nomination for the Republicans.

The three oldest judges are all liberal now. One more conservative and we could change the direction of the country much more than the President alone could.
petunia on September 1, 2008 at 10:25 PM

More so than the President or the judiciary, Congress is the key. The President can’t legislate. He can use executive orders to a certain extent (whose constitutionality I feel obligated to investigate but haven’t), as well as keep focus on this topic or that through his use of the microphone. The judiciary, yes, has great power, but I don’t foresee McCain helping much in that category, for the above reasons. His actions speak for him. What most are missing right now is that we have a tremendous opportunity in November to vote many of these incompetent legislators out. These legislators both write the laws and confirm/deny the judges that either Obama or McCain choose. This is the fight in which we need to engage, not the presidential race. In my eyes, the presidential race is lost, regardless if Obama or McCain win. To mitigate the effects of this loss, we need to affect Congress as much as possible, then work on the 2012 presidential election, which will be much easier to fight if Obama wins, to be frank. If McCain wins, he will “reach across party lines” and fail, hence making Republicans look bad, which will ensure a Democrat winning in 2012.
The Democrats aren’t focused on Congress either, which makes it more imperative that we fight now. Like I say, Congress is the key.

Yes, I’m ready, if Fred gets his energy level up and McCain’s health is not the best

Thompson / Palin 2012

Janos Hunyadi on September 1, 2008 at 5:00 PM

No surprise you would think this… Thompson will be hawking the little blue pill long before 2012.

Yeah? Read some Hot Air threads from early January. He sure sounded like the future then.

Allahpundit on September 1, 2008 at 4:58 PM

LOL just proof that ADD is possible on the internet.

Send_Me on September 1, 2008 at 10:09 PM

Coincidentally I have been renting the HBO videos of John Adams–I’m sort of a colonial history freak. I had already read the book a few years ago, when it came out…

And John Adams was also practical. He comprimised when nesscesary. Although he didn’t like it. And the country did split into two parties. I think it is a better system than the mulitparties that say France has.

But read my above post to Wasatchman. I think this is about the judges! And with someone as Palin putting in her two cents. John will pick pretty conservative judges. I have no independent knowledge of Palin’s positions but the ones that are talked about are more conservative than I am.

John might have the urge to compromise but Obama will just pick the most outrageous liberal judges he can find. Like 9th circuit… ‘

If you are thinking of going third party, remember Perot, and think–with Obama’s past associations, and law contacts, who might he choose.

The three oldest judges are all liberal now. One more conservative and we could change the direction of the country much more than the President alone could.

petunia, “you people” can get you into a lot of trouble these days. Within 10 minutes of correction I responded nearly an hour before your reaction:
maverick muse on September 1, 2008 at 8:06 PM

While I refuse to admit total failure I do stand corrected. I didn’t notice that you had made the correction. That was folly.

However, when I use the term “you people” you have my permission to feel insulted. Because most often that is the way I mean it. However, you are now out of the “you people” catagory.

Romney has a lot of options, and a life outside of politics. After what Huck and the haters did to him and the Mormons this year, he should re-evaluate his loyalty to the Republicans–as should all LDS conservatives.

WasatchMan on September 1, 2008 at 8:28 PM

I have Wasatch–and I came to the sad conclusion that there is no where else to run. Obama is simply too liberal. I actually got on his lists and get his emails. And I could so vote for a good moderate Dem if one was available…

But–There are likely to be 3 Supreme Court judges in the next few years and it is more than Roe that is at stake. There is nothing in it for us to have liberal judges. The make up of the judiciary is so important to preserving religous freedom. As long as we don’t get some power hungry nut like Huck who thinks the executive can over rule them.

I really believe that same sex marriage is headed to the courts. Arizona is going to get a constitutional amendment this year and others have them. And with an issue as basic as Marriage someone is going to want to force Arizona and other states to accept those marriages…national issue…goes to the Supremes.

I don’t think we can afford to hold a grudge. We need to put the country and the society our children live in ahead of our hurt feelings.

And come on it’s not like this prejudice is anything new. Okay–honestly I’m really bugged by the whole thing and if I thought it wouldn’t be worse in the long run I’d be with you.

Fred! can serve and I am sure he will…as a Cabinet Secretary [AG is best, but SecState would be good, too] or as one of the elders of the Party, helping the Jindal’s, and Steele’s, and Pawlenty’s and all the rest of the younger “kids” take back the Party, and take back America, too.

-Aslan’s Girl

Many see the character in Palin that they want their next leader to have. Palin has herself learned to focus positive energy to accomplish big improvements against great odds, the very thing that Obama claims but in fact lacks.

Palin loves the American values that I love, our Founding Principles and the preservation of our Constitution as original text infers.

McCain’s general constitution enjoys a bill of good health. There’s as much a chance that Obama, a life long addicted chain smoker, would die in office of a stroke or heart attack as McCain might suffer a health tragedy. If sprinting up some steps to the German podium and a light work-out in the gym sent Obama immediately to his orthopedic surgeon with a hurt hip, Obama has no body strength to covet. There’s the HUGE chance that double aneurysm Joe Biden will die without notice when pressure spikes. Of them all, Palin has the best health, and she just bore her fifth child.

What Palin already has is a sound mind, good perspective, good footing for the VP journey, and the support of great leaders including Fred Thompson to help and advise. I’m supporting her as McCain’s complement.

McCain was not my choice for POTUS, but I’d have McCain lead us rather than Obama the incompetent and malleable Marxist.

for pete’s sake there is just no way Romney can get a break from you people.

petunia on September 1, 2008 at 7:26 PM

I Googled Romney and Palin Sunday morning, and only found the one sentence expressed. I’ve followed the conservative blogsites and Drudge to find Romney’s endorsement, and didn’t find it.

petunia, “you people” can get you into a lot of trouble these days. Within 10 minutes of correction I responded nearly an hour before your reaction:

I missed the coverage. I’m glad to hear it, because I didn’t want to think he’d snookered the improved impression I got over time.

As per Fred Thompson, read the Senator’s documents and opinions to realize the statesman before assuming he has but one talent as per your own exposure. The man is brilliant and the sort of conservative I’d trust with our nation’s future, hands down. Unlike other, Fred never pandered for either popularity or votes with empty promises and hype.

Just expressing a mutual understanding.

I want to add a poll to the post but I’m not sure what question to poll. Palin will win going away no matter what the question is.

Here’s a good poll: Most attractive, Jeri Thompson or Sarah Palin?

Pictures of Jeri and Sarah to help you make up your mind.

If McCain wanted true reform, he would call Mitt in as a fixer. He could go in and downsize many of the bureaucratic sinkholes we have in DC. Use some of that corporate experience to turn some of these organizations into profitable organs, or better yet, close some of these redundancies all together. One thing I hope is that he stays viable somewhere. We’ll need executives, legislators, and officials like him to help us fix our economic issues once the populist and the greenies are done cratering things.