Giuliani: Just give her a chance, for god’s sake
posted at 1:48 pm on September 3, 2008 by Allahpundit
In which Rudy voices to the second-most frequent reaction to the Palin pick by conservatives. Two clips for you here actually, the common thread being his very cynical suggestion that our caring media doesn’t really give a wet shinola about Palin’s kids being neglected while she’s on the trail or else they would have made the same point about Obama’s daughters once or twice during the past 18 months. (Maybe they’re just racist?) “Where are the feminists?” he asks in the second clip, a good question that can, thankfully, be ignored given that he’s both male and conservative(-ish) and therefore lacking — or almost lacking — the authenticity needed to challenge the sisterhood on this point. Although if he’s sincerely looking for lefty feminists willing to defend Palin, he can start right here.
Gotta say: I don’t know whether it’s something specific to Rudy or just my own doubts about whether Palin’s not ready, but the first two minutes or so of the ABC clip are singularly unconvincing. Especially the unblinking assertion about her being president on 9/11. Click the image to watch.
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Meanwhile Allah Gallup is out today and Obama is back under 50%. Its a slight slip but its there
William Amos on September 3, 2008 at 1:50 PM
Or the fact that Nancy Pelosi has 5 kids and left her house to run the house. Notice the GOP never attacked her for that.
William Amos on September 3, 2008 at 1:51 PM
Allah you need to post some more Rosie clips to get out of your slump
offroadaz on September 3, 2008 at 1:52 PM
What was Bush’s foreign policy experience. And how did he answer the bell after 9/11. Truth be told, I believe Rudy here. If there is steel in the spine, there is steel in the spine.
Spirit of 1776 on September 3, 2008 at 1:52 PM
OT: Are we going to break 25 pages on the Palin Speech tonight?
mad saint jack on September 3, 2008 at 1:53 PM
That’s the point, Rudy, the left does NOT want Sarah anywhere near the ticket because once America gets to know who she is… OBAMA LOSES !!!
stenwin77 on September 3, 2008 at 1:54 PM
What’s with the lower case g?
You capitalize Barack Hussein’s name but not God’s?
SaintOlaf on September 3, 2008 at 1:54 PM
You need to capitalize ‘god’ there AP. Like this: “God”.
kthnxbai
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carbon_footprint on September 3, 2008 at 1:55 PM
ACE wins post of the year
William Amos on September 3, 2008 at 1:55 PM
Well put, friend.
Patrick S on September 3, 2008 at 1:55 PM
Gov. Palin is more ready to be President (let alone VP) than Obama or Biden. Get over this already! She is a great pick for the Hillary/Women issue, and the energy issue. She is a strong conservative with good values and she is right on all the issues. She can also connect with regular Americans. What more do you want? She is as ready to be President as half the people in the Congress, maybe more.
virology76 on September 3, 2008 at 1:57 PM
Allah, you are being more a New Yorker then usual.
upinak on September 3, 2008 at 1:58 PM
why don’t they start pointing out:
She’s running for #2, and still has more experience than Obama and will have lots more after 8 yrs under McCain.
Obama has no experience and is running for #1 spot
jp on September 3, 2008 at 1:58 PM
– from the Women Count blog linked
We’ll be reminding the lefties of this as they continue their crusade to get get words like “mother” and “father” purged from childrens’ textbooks.
RushBaby on September 3, 2008 at 1:59 PM
where is the clip of Rudy spanking Skeletor last night ? It warmed my NY heart to see Rudy laugh in his boney face.
Well played sir!
DeweyWins on September 3, 2008 at 2:00 PM
I say again, the media blitz on Palin will backfire in a big big way. For once Republicans are actually going to stand up to the media and say “We’re mad as hell and we’re not gonna take it any more!!!”
It’s a glorious new day people. Get with the program.
t.ferg on September 3, 2008 at 2:00 PM
Wow. Seriously, go away, you sanctimonius whiner.
MadisonConservative on September 3, 2008 at 2:01 PM
Lucky for Joe Biden- his daughter’s perfect.
ExTex on September 3, 2008 at 2:01 PM
Some will quibble over the way he answered it, but I agree with you.
MadisonConservative on September 3, 2008 at 2:01 PM
I don’t recognize a single person in the right-hand column. But, I’ve been free (from TV) for a long, long time.
RushBaby on September 3, 2008 at 2:01 PM
The Women Count group is actually a Hillary Clinton PAC. Very telling. Where’s Hillary?
CanadianGuy on September 3, 2008 at 2:02 PM
You learn a lot running a State, even a small one like Delaware. Much more than running your mouth with no accountability while being in the Senate or House.
I say we wait and see. We’ll have the answer in a few weeks.
Weird how liberals could nominate the ice cream man, and they would all close ranks and support the candidate. Hey, I didn’t know OBiden sold ice cream. Maybe we should be hearing a little about his families business dealings.
tarpon on September 3, 2008 at 2:03 PM
Since when does “traveling” constitute foreign policy experience? To answer my own question, since Obama’s only adult international experience consists of a couple of trips abroad.
Sawyers’ line of questioning is annoying and it’s elitist. I know quite a few people who have, for example, traveled through Europe, but they really didn’t learn much. They still don’t know the difference between Slovenia and Slovakia or Latvia and Lithuania. They don’t know the history of Europe or current events either.
Taking a freaking vacation doesn’t mean a thing. Those of us who don’t have the time and money to vacation in Europe because we have jobs and families are somehow inferior to the snobs who vacation abroad? Gimme a break.
forest on September 3, 2008 at 2:03 PM
Exactly. My theory is that Obama ran thinking he had little chance to become the Democrat nominee and just did it for experience. However, after the media went nuts for him he thought: “Dayum, maybe I have a shot.” and he become enamored with the idea-being the narcissist that he is.
And now, we have the most liberal and least experienced presidential nominee ever thanks to Barack’s ego and the love and devotion of the media.
carbon_footprint on September 3, 2008 at 2:03 PM
Its from the TC Show Battlestar Galactica.
The woman on the show is actually the President on the show.
William Amos on September 3, 2008 at 2:05 PM
Malor wins post of the year, Ace didn’t do that post.
doubleplusundead on September 3, 2008 at 2:05 PM
She’s an elected official that didnt let the oil companies or corrupt Republicans in office there do the same crap they’d been doing. She’s got a 80% approval rating. The state produces a ton of natural resources for the country. She knows energy policy, she knows how to run the state with over 24k employees. She has a budget of over 10 billion dollars.
Barack Obama, who is running for the goddamn President, not Vice President, runs his mouth and maybe his lawnmower when Michelle cracks the whip. His biggest budget concerns are how much Captain Crunch his kids are going through a week. He’s been a junior senator for not even 1 term, and half that has been running for president, the other half he voted on things. Sometimes.
Dash on September 3, 2008 at 2:05 PM
I have never heard this story! I wonder why?
carbon_footprint on September 3, 2008 at 2:05 PM
Also worth noting- McCain is up a point in both Gallup and Rasmussen again.
If the Obama bubble bursts this week, I am throwing a party and running naked in the street. If not, I will run naked in the street and throw buckets of urine at Democrats in a gesture of “Welcome”
Damiano on September 3, 2008 at 2:06 PM
If the media had put Obama through the wringer like they just did with Sarah, he would have never had a chance.
WisCon on September 3, 2008 at 2:06 PM
Diane Sawyer is off the charts Obama cheerleader. For the love of God.
MarcusBrody on September 3, 2008 at 2:07 PM
Bush’s lack of foreign policy experience probably manifested itself in his inability to resolve the differences between his DOD and State Department in the planning for Iraq. Bush, Powell, Rumsfeld, Franks and Bremmer weren’t on the same page with regard to Phase IV operations.
dedalus on September 3, 2008 at 2:07 PM
Exactly, or had the media put Obama through 40% of what they have put Palin through he would be through.
carbon_footprint on September 3, 2008 at 2:07 PM
Why isn’t this cutting both ways?
Sure, McCain has made experience a central point in his campaign. But Obama has made judgement a central part of his. Why aren’t all the questions about Palin’s judgement?
Better yet, why isn’t Biden being subjected to the judgement question. I mean, dude voted for the
evilstupidimperialalmost done with war in Iraq. Where was his judgment then?VolMagic on September 3, 2008 at 2:08 PM
I’m going with Cheney’s view on this.
Spirit of 1776 on September 3, 2008 at 2:08 PM
Ace’s post has found the goldmine of hypocrisy.
CanadianGuy on September 3, 2008 at 2:09 PM
Congratulations! You just reinforced your church lady image even more. I didn’t think it could be done.
a capella on September 3, 2008 at 2:09 PM
New criteria for the M$M’s foreign policy experience, being a world traveler.
“She didn’t even have a passport until she went to Kuwait”.
“How terribly uncivilized can this small town commoner be”?
/sarc
1GooDDaDDy on September 3, 2008 at 2:10 PM
Breathe, Allah…
D2Boston on September 3, 2008 at 2:10 PM
OK. I’m not familiar with it.
dedalus on September 3, 2008 at 2:10 PM
Just in short, I don’t expect the administration to agree all the time, that’s fine. Cheney basically just said that the Provisional government was a mistake. I believe that, it was mistake and they learned and moved on. But their resolve didn’t change.
Spirit of 1776 on September 3, 2008 at 2:12 PM
I Love Rudy!
Rudy, Rudy, Rudy!
Chakra Hammer on September 3, 2008 at 2:13 PM
Haha, Tigh and President Roslyn too.
I’m off to cuss up a blue streak Ace’s comment section – having a hard time keeping my comments clean today for some reason.
forest on September 3, 2008 at 2:13 PM
Just where does one go to get experience being president?
MarkTheGreat on September 3, 2008 at 2:13 PM
William Amos on September 3, 2008 at 2:14 PM
Guys, go to the MSNBC front page, they have a video talking about Troopergate with some interviews – the trooper is a lunatic, and that guy Monegan seems to be as dumb as a doornail.
I am starting to think that even if she loses this battle, this will still be a net win for her with America!
WisCon on September 3, 2008 at 2:15 PM
Thanks
dedalus on September 3, 2008 at 2:16 PM
Just where does one go to get experience being president?
MarkTheGreat on September 3, 2008 at 2:13 PM
Being elected as a governor is a good place to start.
coldwarrior on September 3, 2008 at 2:16 PM
Allah, STOP Whining and change your diapers!
Chakra Hammer on September 3, 2008 at 2:16 PM
Good. This is a start. I want to see a Stalingrad-scale counter attack today.
forest on September 3, 2008 at 2:16 PM
Biden’s first wife and daughter were killed in a car accident right after he won his first Senate election in 1972. No one asked him if he could be Senator and raise two young sons (who were seriously injured in the accident) and that he should resign his newly won seat.
albill on September 3, 2008 at 2:17 PM
Chakra Hammer, STOP Reading and close your browser!
MadisonConservative on September 3, 2008 at 2:17 PM
William Amos on September 3, 2008 at 1:55 PM
That pic of BO with the cig hanging out of his mouth is great. I keep hearing about McCain and his health. I’d say BO’s dirty smoking habit is a real health risk, too. Do you know where this Brokaw Rudy interview is?
bloggless on September 3, 2008 at 2:18 PM
i sincerely thought the “almost lacking” link was going straight here.
locke on September 3, 2008 at 2:19 PM
The Vice-Presidential office.
Spirit of 1776 on September 3, 2008 at 2:19 PM
These citified pansies in the press do not seem to know what happens to people who mess with bear cubs when their mother in nearby.
Elizabetty on September 3, 2008 at 2:19 PM
Over to William Ayer’s house?
bloggless on September 3, 2008 at 2:20 PM
Well tis getting worse Liberal Radio host Shultz just said that Palin sets off his “Bimbo” alert.
Fireworks to ensue
William Amos on September 3, 2008 at 2:21 PM
Ed Schultz needs to be wrapped up in Japanese bondage rope and dressed like a newly gutted moose.
Sakaki on September 3, 2008 at 2:21 PM
Give her a chance to be a heartbeat away from being CinC?
Not on your life.
philnewkirk on September 3, 2008 at 2:22 PM
Eeyore is so saaad on Wednesdays….
xyzzy on September 3, 2008 at 2:24 PM
schwing!
outta the park…
sven10077 on September 3, 2008 at 2:25 PM
Capital letters are for nouns referring to real entities, not imaginary abstractions.
LimeyGeek on September 3, 2008 at 2:25 PM
Meanwhile Barack “Gilligain” O’bama is totally ready despite his alliegence to William “Skipper” Ayers….
yeah funny how that works for you Philo….
sven10077 on September 3, 2008 at 2:27 PM
There, fixed it for you godless cretins.
kirkill on September 3, 2008 at 2:27 PM
Fox News just interviewed Carly Fiorina and they showed GOP women who met today to rally support around Sarah. A rep from PA basically said “we will get with you” (and not in a good way) if you don’t back off. THIS is the best thing to happen! The men won’t hold sway but the women of the GOP will send a BIG, BIG message to the public.
“Strateegery.”
Mr_Magoo on September 3, 2008 at 2:27 PM
Translation the “A” in Allah gets capitalized because the big Mo’s followers will cuty your head off over it.
sven10077 on September 3, 2008 at 2:28 PM
I suppose Baraaackk is going to be a better POTUS than Palin “could” be, and how is that?
kirkill on September 3, 2008 at 2:29 PM
Beam me up Scotty!
Mr_Magoo on September 3, 2008 at 2:29 PM
You’re missing the point about Palin’s experience and judgement. Barack Obama has extensive experience writing biographies of Barack Obama, giving speeches about the greatness of Barack Obama, raising money for Barack Obama, and securing high salaries for Michelle Obama. What has Sarah Palin ever done for Barack or Michelle Obama? Zip. She’s got no experience at all. She might as well have been born yesterday – and if she had been, Barack Obama would have no problem with terminating her.
As for judgement, she’s a Republican. That automatically indicates a complete lack of judgement, and makes every member of her family a legitimate military target for the media.
Please refer any further questions to the mainstream media control center at http://www.dailykos.com.
Doctor Zero on September 3, 2008 at 2:29 PM
Fred hits back:
http://www.fredpac.com/
upinak on September 3, 2008 at 2:30 PM
Reading comments in some of the foreign papers is fun. Here’s one from the UK Times:
“Estrogens will spew from Palin’s axilla and US electorate spell bounded vote for Republicans, with fresh hope, let us cheer MaCain.”
M. R . Rambler, Karachi, Pakistan
Interesting…. I’m with ya brutha! :)
Cody1991 on September 3, 2008 at 2:30 PM
“Heartbeat Away” ALERT Number 6,389 so far.
I’ve been counting them since Friday.
Translation: “I can’t wait for the old man to just die”.
1GooDDaDDy on September 3, 2008 at 2:30 PM
Our friend phil has been determined to be a troll. He can not even answer my question: Is Barack Obama’s character in question since he affiliates with William Ayers, a former and unrepentant terrorist?
That, and he has already received his final warning from Allahpundit from being banned.
carbon_footprint on September 3, 2008 at 2:31 PM
Capital letters are for nouns referring to real entities, not imaginary abstractions.
LimeyGeek on September 3, 2008 at 2:25 PM
so, then it’d be “limeygeek” right?
A proper noun gets capitalized. A Name gets capitalized.
But, you are a product of over 40 years of NEA-sponsored education.
And how’d ya do on your verbals on the SAT?
coldwarrior on September 3, 2008 at 2:31 PM
There. Now maybe people will shut the hell up about Allah’s capitalization, dreariness, criticisms, doubts, and every other possible attack they seem to be levying upon him.
Rather ironic that people are expressing rage over the way the media is treating Palin, while treating AllahP(And now Ed too) in much the same fashion.
MadisonConservative on September 3, 2008 at 2:31 PM
Has anyone else noticed that the media ALWAYS frames the argument in relation to national security experience. Every time… watch for it. They will start talking about experience, then quickly reframe it into a question about national security.
Gotta love the media towing the line for The One. They frame everything in terms of the only experience where she has any partial weakness.
Sure, Palin’s national security/ foreign relations experience has been limited to dealing with Canada and the National Guard. She’s no John McCain.
When will someone ask Obama the same question? Or ask Biden how he can claim the mantle of foreign policy experience when everyone, including Obama, says he has been wrong in every judgment he’s made?
Damiano on September 3, 2008 at 2:32 PM
Like Zeus, Thor, Athena, et al. Proper nouns are capitalized imaginary or not. Also, this constitutes a misquoting of Rudy.
Valiant on September 3, 2008 at 2:34 PM
One of the things I don’t understand about people like Fred Thompson or Rudy Giuliani is when they argue about if Gov. Palin can fulfill the duties of Vice President and a family. Why they don’t argue from the standpoint of women in the military. The military is a demanding job, should all the single mothers or mothers married to civilian men be barred from military service? If the American Media is so concerned about Gov. Palin being distracted from the job because of family matters, then bar female military pilots just in case they get distracted by family matters during a combat sortie.
BDU-33 on September 3, 2008 at 2:35 PM
You forget Russia, and North Korea and China.
Hmmm think about where Alaska is, look at a map if you have too. Canada isn’t the Only Nation that is around this “island”.
upinak on September 3, 2008 at 2:35 PM
I saw that the other night.
And here I thought all along that “it” just might be Allah working everyone up.
1GooDDaDDy on September 3, 2008 at 2:35 PM
Did anyone look at Puffy’s racist video “dissing” Alaska? Posted on ABC’s website?
Frozen Tex on September 3, 2008 at 2:36 PM
I miss your “over”.
Going to bring it back?
carbon_footprint on September 3, 2008 at 2:36 PM
/Joke
1GooDDaDDy on September 3, 2008 at 2:37 PM
Seems like the push back from the GOP against the media is going to be no-holds barred.
http://www.redstate.com/diaries/redstate/2008/sep/03/i-have-a-question-for-campbell-brown/
CanadianGuy on September 3, 2008 at 2:37 PM
LMFAO Yeah at are there ANY Black People in Alaska! HAHAHAHHAAAAAAAAA!
I bet my best friend would love to see that and see how ignorant Iddiyiot actually is. BTW .. the Best Friend is BLACK! WHOA!
upinak on September 3, 2008 at 2:38 PM
over.
and over again.
1GooDDaDDy on September 3, 2008 at 2:38 PM
You asked. It’s your doubts.
Oh yes. And you’re becoming tiresome. Find something else to beat other than your dead horse and move the freak on.
Loser.
pabarge on September 3, 2008 at 2:39 PM
Unless I miss my guess cant North Korean Missiles hit Alaska ? Sarah could say she lives under the threat of a missile strike from North Korea and thats why she backs Missile defense.
William Amos on September 3, 2008 at 2:40 PM
Allah,
Are you really a liberal feminist in a conservative blogger costume? You have insight into yourself, you are a real downer.
EyesOpen on September 3, 2008 at 2:40 PM
On the front page of the New York Times.
fogw on September 3, 2008 at 2:40 PM
True dat, Upinak. All the northern leaders regularly deal with other “northern” governments, in conferences, etc., that include the US, Canada, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Iceland, Denmark, and Russia… Circumpolar stuff.
Frozen Tex on September 3, 2008 at 2:41 PM
Can we list the smears?
Gov Palin not the mother of the special needs childGov Palin a former member of AIPGov Palin cut funds for teenage momsGov Palin banned certain booksGov Palin pushed creationismGov Palin’s mom-in-law won’t be voting for Palin/McCainI’ll give them credit for trying to destroy this woman’s life in less than a day, but wich each passing hour, we learn that these smears were works of fiction.
Gov Palin fished illegallyjtorres138 on September 3, 2008 at 2:41 PM
Here’s a question I saw at Ace’s.
How is it that Barry has a Security Clearance when he’s buddies with an unrepetant terrorist who seeks the violent overthrow of the United States Government?
Guarantee, some mid-level flunky lists “William Ayers” as an associate, and he will not get a Top Secret security clearance.
How is it that Barry has one? Is that not more of a story than poking around in a 17 year old’s sex life, MSM “journalists”?
NoDonkey on September 3, 2008 at 2:41 PM
Yes William that they can. As Can China, and Russia.
But hey, who am I but a “dumb alaskan hick”, right?
upinak on September 3, 2008 at 2:41 PM
Better.
carbon_footprint on September 3, 2008 at 2:43 PM
And why do we continuously have those beurocrates running the country? Aren’t they supposed to support the top WH executive decisions? Serve the President, not the other way around?
Sir Napsalot on September 3, 2008 at 2:45 PM
or just my own doubts about whether Palin’s not ready,
Allahpundit
+++++++++++++
Geez, why don’t you just go on over and write directly for dKos?
fabrexe on September 3, 2008 at 2:45 PM
One more try
_____________________________________________
Can we list the smears?
Gov Palin not the mother of the special needs childGov Palin a former member of AIPGov Palin cut funds for teenage momsGov Palin banned certain booksGov Palin pushed creationismGov Palin’s mom-in-law won’t be voting for Palin/McCainGov Palin fished illegallyI’ll give them credit for trying to destroy this woman’s life in less than a day, but with each passing hour, we learn that these smears were works of fiction.
jtorres138 on September 3, 2008 at 2:45 PM
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