Video: So, how’s the news about Palin’s daughter playing at the convention?
posted at 5:20 pm on September 1, 2008 by Allahpundit
Newsday columnist and possible amateur Scalia impersonator Larry Levy weighs in. Just one man’s observation, but it’s precisely what I’d expect given the palpable jolt of enthusiasm she’s thrown into the GOP and grassroots conservatives. As for his take on how working-class women might react, Althouse made a similar point about judgmentalism earlier. Let’s hope they’re right. The clip’s short but very savvy. Click the image to watch.
Update: The media’s dying for this unconventional pick to explode in McCain’s face. They can taste it: “I covered the Dan Quayle campaign. Is there no sense of panic over the love child issue or is there a belief that it shows that she is like a lot of American families?”
Update: I linked this in the last thread but it works here too. Fred Thompson today in Minneapolis:
Pushed by NEWSWEEK’s reporters and editors to say whether having a pregnant teenage daughter and five-month-old baby with Down syndrome at home will raise questions about Palin’s “priorities,” Thompson responded by questioning the questioners. “Would you be saying that about man running for office in her shoes?” he asked. “I really think you’re going to be surprised at how average people and women who are not necessarily political one way or another identify with her. I see nothing in this that will hurt Sarah Palin politically. I mean, I get that it’s a necessary part of the process to ask those questions. But we have to keep it fair. If we don’t keep it fair, it will redound to her benefit.” Judging by the reaction in the room–“I look around this table all these angry men, and I can’t believe they’re even asking this question,” quipped one female NEWSWEEKer–I have a feeling he’s right. Saying a woman can’t pursue her professional goals AND care for her children at the same time is never a political winner–whether it’s conservatives or liberals wagging their fingers.
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It just boggles my mind how multi-millionaires don’t mind spending millions to avoid taxes on their inheritance.
I understand it’s completely a “green eye shade” decision on their part.
But, who in holy red rosy can spend that kind of money in a lifetime and not feel the wrath of God…?
Beejeebus, at least Gates and the other billionaire are philanthropists…!
Wally’s kids, you’re jerks.
Your Father wouldn’t be proud…!
J_Gocht on September 1, 2008 at 7:18 PM
Then tell us about your open-minded Right.
FiveWays on September 1, 2008 at 7:18 PM
Big S:
McCain is not stupid, he did not get where he is by being a dumbass and I dare say he knows more about the whole Trooper thing than you do.
Terrye on September 1, 2008 at 7:19 PM
My 5 year old nephew is more mature than you are.
MB4 on September 1, 2008 at 7:19 PM
BigS:
John McCain is doing the Republican thing… advancing people. We had a civil war so Republicans could eliminate slavery. The Democrats put a “just for show” woman on their ticket when they were headed for a huge loss and knew it. John McCain sees that he has this election in the bag unless he slips and mentions a fondness for smegma. So, it’s now time to do the Republican thing again. He found an exceptional running mate in his list that happens to be a woman. If he doesn’t go for a 2nd term in 2012, then Palin is it. Otherwise, 2016 and Palin is it.
See my earlier comments on the need some people have for having some basis on which they feel superior to others. Democrats display that need to the extreme. A very, very large portion of Democrats are racist. “Racist” Republicans won’t beat Senator Obama… racist Democrats will keep it from even being a contest.
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CapedConservative on September 1, 2008 at 7:20 PM
My three year old niece has better acting skills than you do.
FiveWays on September 1, 2008 at 7:21 PM
Maybe when you mature more. A lot more.
MB4 on September 1, 2008 at 7:21 PM
Well, it worked for Murphy Brown didn’t it? …so the libs best be takin’ a dose of their medicine on this one lest it explodes right in their lap.
Wyznowski on September 1, 2008 at 7:22 PM
That may also be correct.
MB4 on September 1, 2008 at 7:23 PM
Sure, the trooper at the center of it was a scumbag – but the Palins have shown that they can be pretty scummy too. It does not look good, and it will be in the news for a while.
Big S on September 1, 2008 at 7:07 PM
Well, I would think that everyone should be on the side of an armed trooper who’s a violent scumbag and child abuser.
Why not just let him keep his gun?
That’d make a good public safety commercial!
I somehow see this as another boomerang win for Palin.
Also, you obviously have never worked for a state government.
I used to work at the state capital in Austin back on my student days. It was a rat’s nest of Clintonian scuminess (and almost all Dems – that was before you’d even meet a Republican in Texas) An 18 year-old girl page was not safe around those people. One of the older reps (actually a distinguished state senator) even got one pregnant.
We had a governor here who underwent shock therapy while he was in office (he went nuts when his 80 year-old mommy died). The people here loved him.
It’s has changed, but not that much.
To me, Palin looks like a girl scout. And she’ll win this round..
TexasJew on September 1, 2008 at 7:23 PM
Gee MB4- a blunt dodge?
What? No parry and spin?
FiveWays on September 1, 2008 at 7:23 PM
I thought candidates for POTUS had to at least 17 1/2…
oldleprechaun on September 1, 2008 at 7:25 PM
Word.
Spirit of 1776 on September 1, 2008 at 7:27 PM
Big S:
You are making this just about the Palins and the Trooper, it was actually more complicated than that. This whole thing went on for years and began before Sarah Palin was even Governor. Considering the reforms she undertook in Alaska there might well be a balance here. I just don’t think that McCain would have taken her on if he believed these charges were going anywhere and I doubt if he would have taken her word for what happened. That is why they vet people.
Terrye on September 1, 2008 at 7:28 PM
Most Americans myself included, when they think of ‘troopergate’ see in their mind that picture from Denver of the officer using a chokehold on the ABC Producer. If Governor Palin said Hell no not in my state and demanded that the trooper be fired; Thank God. I wish all governors had that level of courage and decency.
meci on September 1, 2008 at 7:29 PM
FiveWays, isn’t there some blog with those more your own age that you could be acting out on? You and one other commenter seem to be engaging in a rather fevered contest for some kind of prize for the most immature commenter on this web site.
MB4 on September 1, 2008 at 7:29 PM
Best to lay off that late afternoon malted monastery Scotch…! :)
J_Gocht on September 1, 2008 at 7:29 PM
Spirit:
I read that quote, it seems he said that in the hearing of more than one person. The ex said that if his father in law got his wife a divorce attorney, he would put a f***ing bullet in his head.
Yeah, and the father in law wanted to help because the man was cheating on his daughter. A regular soap opera.
Terrye on September 1, 2008 at 7:31 PM
I heard Governor Palin wears those sneaky bifocals without the obvious line marking the two lens sections!
That does it!
I’m voting for the Obommunist!
profitsbeard on September 1, 2008 at 7:33 PM
I’m a 9-11 center-right person who’s always been registered independent. It’s less that I left the center-left and more that the center-left turned hard-left into glorifying revolutionary Marxism and accepting Stalinism as sometimes (read always) necessary.
Flipping cable channels I sometimes find the UHF-quality program where a fat old white man with bad vision and an ugly old suit mumbles passages from a bible he’s holding in trembling fingers. I see that and wonder if that’s A) What the Republican Party is in reality, or B) What the left insists the Republicans are to make them look bad.
Republicans can’t let the left and the media make politics a comparison of a benevolent Democratic Party and a Republican Party as imagined by Noam Chomsky and Michael Moore. I’m not “The Base” and the base may not like some of my opinions, but I know how important they are, to me, in my effort to defeat the victim-culture, race-revenge and vengeful Marxism of Obama and his mentors.
I hope the base acknowledges and appreciates that it takes more than themselves to win national elections. Us center-right people help prove the point that the right is not a monolith, and the stereotypical assumptions of who votes Republican today should not be tolerated.
I’m not saying to re-brand as the “New Republican Party” and force the right and the center-right into group hug photo sessions, but if the diversity of the right side coalition is brought to light and championed it’ll go a long way into changing the narrative where the media simply assumes we’re all hypocritical puritan hicks.
Stereotypes should be thrown back into peoples’ faces every time. When conservatives are asked leading questions assuming they’re all intolerant hypocrites, they should ask back if it’s fair to assume all liberals are serial-aborting, heroin-shooting welfare moms with eight illegitimate children. Or something like that yet more civil. Change the narrative!
emerson7 on September 1, 2008 at 7:33 PM
Gee MB4- Don’t you feel like giving us a little demonstration of your open-minded Right?
My, that was an immature request on my part- wasn’t it!
FiveWays on September 1, 2008 at 7:36 PM
So now we’ll have a GILF in the office of VP?
The DNC will leave this alone… because they know they have nuts on the internet and cable news who will make snide comments and harsh criticisms. They can keep their hands clean because they have henchmen. It will probably just be a circle jerk among the libs though. It will just generate mean spirited hateful comments from libtards for libtards. It will really damage her brand on the Daily Kos and among the Olbermann watchers… In other words in places where they already hated her, they just needed a reason to voice their hate.
twoarmman on September 1, 2008 at 7:36 PM
Just trying to level the playing field ;)
Spirit of 1776 on September 1, 2008 at 7:36 PM
When I first read of Governor Palin’s selection as VP, I knew nothing of her, so I researched and was very favorably impressed with what I read.
However, I quickly became concerned about the Monegan firing (“Troopergate”), so I read as much as I could about that. I have yet to find anything but rumor and innuendo from political opponents stating that Palin fired the Public Safety Commissioner for inappropriate personal reasons. I see no evidence of a cover-up. So far, I don’t think that there is a “there” there.
However, politics is often a very dirty game, full of rumors, innuendos and false claims. (Remember Rather’s “false but accurate” report just before the 2000 election?) So, it does concern me that the investigator’s report is scheduled for release the week before the election. If it is fair and thorough, I believe it will absolve Governor Palin of any wrongdoing. But, I am prone to worry.
Loxodonta on September 1, 2008 at 7:37 PM
Don’t forget almost complete loss of both short and long term memory, earlier in Iraq with Senator Liebermann and then the very confused questioning of General Petraeus in the Senate hearings….
We now, may be experiencing a “slap dash” example of really poor judgment on the “spur of the moment” decision while selecting Sarah…?
Would you like YouTube, examples…?
J_Gocht on September 1, 2008 at 7:40 PM
MB4 the “ox that was getting gored” was Palin’s. And I do take offense to it. Remember the line. “A fella gets in the habit of goring oxes maybe he comes over and gores yours next”
Extra credit if you can tell me the movie that line comes from.
conservnut on September 1, 2008 at 7:42 PM
Your name has a very “romantic ring” too it…!
J_Gocht on September 1, 2008 at 7:44 PM
John Wayne’s “The Alamo”?
FiveWays on September 1, 2008 at 7:45 PM
Oh, please. I was a part of the Buchanan Brigade back in the 90′s – back when we thought Pat was sane. He has since fallen into dementia and is more to be pitied than scorned.
ManlyRash on September 1, 2008 at 7:46 PM
Davy Crockett responds with a classic line that many of our more appeasement minded countrymen would do well to reflect on.
He responds by stating:
“Talking about whose ox gets gored- figure this, fellow gets in the habit of goring oxes, wets his appetite. He may come up north and gore yours.”
FiveWays on September 1, 2008 at 7:49 PM
Is that a proposal?
If so, of the several sexes available these days, which are you?
Loxodonta on September 1, 2008 at 7:49 PM
Is his condition reversible?
Loxodonta on September 1, 2008 at 7:51 PM
Trouble is…the tropper involved is a Class A scumbag. He tasered his stepson. He poached moose. He was caught drinking in his police cruiser. He verbally threatened the life of her father. If anything, people will want to know: why didn’t she bag his ass sooner? Not gonna fly, Big S – especially when these salacious little details hit the mainstream media newsdesks.
ManlyRash on September 1, 2008 at 7:53 PM
No, I am very sad to say. Pat Buchanan was once a great man who stood for and defended great things. But he has fallen and fallen very far. In many respects he has become the bosom buddy of Jimmy Carter. Heartache.
ManlyRash on September 1, 2008 at 7:55 PM
I am afraid I agree with you, his recent writings seem way over the deep end.
Loxodonta on September 1, 2008 at 7:57 PM
God invented whiskey to keep the Irish from ruling the world.
- Ed McMahon
MB4 on September 1, 2008 at 7:58 PM
You will find some excellent reporting here: http://www.floppingaces.net/2008/08/29/palins-troopergate-beating-msm-distortions-to-the-truth/
ManlyRash on September 1, 2008 at 8:00 PM
Yeh, that’s the guy who never served one damn minute in any man or women’s; Army, Navy, Marine, Air Force or Coast Guard…
At least Ronald Reagan made movies on the value and use of contraception for the troops…!
J_Gocht on September 1, 2008 at 8:00 PM
Thanks. I think I’ve read all of that, and that’s why I am not concerned about Palin’s actions. My worry is about her opponents’ actions from now through the election. Her anti-corruption activities have made some powerful enemies in Alaska.
Loxodonta on September 1, 2008 at 8:05 PM
GUUUD GRIEF!!!
You are demonstrating self-importance, to the point of out-doing Obama!!
At least Obama doesn’t pretend to hide his self-importance.
You on the other hand, attempt to sublimely embed it in an unbiased, concerned perspective.
Bunk. PURE unadulterated horse shit!!
Just as *Rush Limbaugh has pooh-pawed you centrists 100,000 million times…. you are far too obsessed with your “intelligent” middle-of-the-road-important-”judgement”… so as not to offend the KP’s of the world!!
*Yeah, I know you don’t like Rush Limbaugh.. which is just so revealing in so many ways, not the least of which he makes millions per year pontificating and you suck at commentating.
Granted, independents may swing elections, but, you, because you listen to the MSM and your libtards friends religiously, to make SURE YOU DIDN’T MISS a possible little nugget worth mentioning, are on the wrong and non-winning side of this debate, with the above comments.
Just as an example, from your guote:
The Palin pregnancy is exactly what Obama didn’t want!
And, it forces the conversation and highlights Obama’s support for infanticide.
Inexperience? So if their greatest concern is that something happens to McCain, then, our, greatest concern is that nothing happens to Obama, if elected. No?
Connections to extreme characters? Like what, moose in heat?
I know, I know.. anything that is not centrist is extreme to you centrists.
Duh.
Let’s try this…. If you were in *charge of a company and the supervisor you hired, refuses to fire an employee that goes over bounds, on numerous occasions, what would you do?
…Insult your supervisor and fire the employee yourself?!
*Yea I know, you pessimists are too scared to actually run anything and be accountable for your decisions, unlike Barracudas with an extra alpha chromosome.
What you pessimists DO NOT understand, is, what’s really going on here…. every tough issue that Obama never wanted to boomerang in his face, has just been given a shuttle launching pad to go into the stratosphere.
The more Obama – or the libtard minions – fights it, the more it highlights all his extreme issues.
And I say, bring it on…. The libtards can take these issues as high into the stratosphere as they want to.
They will NOT go away!!
Mcguyver on September 1, 2008 at 8:06 PM
My dog, Fred, the pug says:
Fred is a democrat, if you hadn’t guessed.
turfmann on September 1, 2008 at 8:07 PM
At least he didn’t spend time in Oxford, England agitating against his own country during wartime.
Dick.
ManlyRash on September 1, 2008 at 8:10 PM
Both a fool and a brigand am I, I actually enjoyed Pirates of the Caribbean, immensely.
Sorta reminded me of day’s gone bye and olde memories…!
J_Gocht on September 1, 2008 at 8:12 PM
My golden retriever eats pugs, although he considers Democrat pugs to be junk food.
ManlyRash on September 1, 2008 at 8:12 PM
Thanks MB…me dear Mother told me I might be half Irish…?
J_Gocht on September 1, 2008 at 8:13 PM
I can recommend 2 articles I read today that compare Palin’s & Obama’s experience:
Sarah Palin vs. Barack Obama
Obama, Palin, and Their Sixteen Years of Experience
Loxodonta on September 1, 2008 at 8:14 PM
No doubt when the British Navy hanged the likes of you whenever they caught them.
ManlyRash on September 1, 2008 at 8:14 PM
Read them both…and passed them on to friends. Much appreciated.
ManlyRash on September 1, 2008 at 8:15 PM
Let’s not insult the Hibernians. I’ll settle for half idiot and half blowhard.
ManlyRash on September 1, 2008 at 8:16 PM
The same ass-hats who always whine about “women’s rights” always seem to be the ones to ask these kinds of questions.
Kinda ironic isn’t it?
GarandFan on September 1, 2008 at 8:21 PM
Is that a reference to a Disney park, or one of the movies (2003 & 2006)?
However, as I’ve never been to any Disney park, nor seen either movie, perhaps it doesn’t matter.
Loxodonta on September 1, 2008 at 8:21 PM
On a blog, Mcguyver; “brevity is the soul of wit”…!
If you’re giving a class on demolitions to the team it does require a long lesson plan, no doubt.
Brevity when bloggin’ me lad…!
J_Gocht on September 1, 2008 at 8:23 PM
Damn Manly, you and the “rotund sweaty guy” just can’t give it up…can you…?
It’s goin’ on eight years now since he left us with the only budget surplus since before the Civil War and enough military where-with-all to be squandered in one fell swoop of despicable “shock and awe” by Bush, Cheney, Rummy and Franks in Iraq…!
Get over it…!
J_Gocht on September 1, 2008 at 8:35 PM
Actually I served with some damn fine Brits from the SAS in Vietnam.
I, actually participated in the “Dance of the Flaming Assholes” on a table on Tudo Street in Saigon at Madame Capriccio’s Bistro.
J_Gocht on September 1, 2008 at 8:59 PM
If you decided to look up “the dance” on YouTube folks; I’ll have you know we didn’t do a wimpy dance with toilet paper.
We had to stand there with three pages of the Saigon Times, tightly wrapped or we bought the Bah Moi Bah[s] or the Tegre La Rue…
Special Air Service, baby…!
J_Gocht on September 1, 2008 at 9:36 PM
Larry King did a piece on Palin’s daughter’s pregnancy. It was sick to watch. Sick that it would be fodder for any talk show. Really sick.
Paul-Cincy on September 2, 2008 at 12:29 AM
Two segments on Palin’s daughter’s pregnancy. Maybe 3 segments. Lost count.
Paul-Cincy on September 2, 2008 at 12:45 AM
By the way, what makes you think I have a problem with the rich? I simply believe in Gates or Warren Buffet on this issue- you have to collect adequate taxes from the rich in order to balance the budget.
bayam on September 1, 2008 at 6:19 PM
I should have known it, those whacked out Republican instructors in Econ class kept telling us that a budget was what you worked “within” with the money at hand. I didn’t know that you create the budget and then went out and got the money you need to fullfill it. If the government were a ligiament business you could do it by increasing goods and or services rendered. Since the US government is not a “ligimate” business, it cannot. It just redistributes taxes to satisfy political needs. It operates far beyond the scope of the Constitution, but alas, there is not a politician out there with the cajones to chalange this.
Besides, the so called rich pay the majority of the taxes allready.
N4646W on September 2, 2008 at 2:32 AM
Trash? Because they keep the baby? Got pregnant? Go to church? Hunt? I am lost here … my moral compass must be broken.
Benjamin9 on September 2, 2008 at 2:42 AM
The hypocrisy of the left strikes, again. Just imagine the discussion if it were Gov. Palin-D., Alaska.
Wildcatter1980 on September 2, 2008 at 11:47 AM
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