chiefeditor on October 9, 2008 at 11:32 AM

might no/would yes

She is being ignored by the MSM?

This may not be the most erudite definition of the word neoconservative, but I’m not a political scholar anyway. If any of you think I’m using the word incorrectly, tell me what you think it really means.

By the way, why do people here at Hotair dislike Ron Paul so much, other than the fact that he wants to pull out of Iraq?

One word: Spiders.
Bishop on October 8, 2008 at 4:29 PM

Pffft – spiders are nothing in Texas.

Snakes – different story. An occaisional scorpion.

Plus the weather is so much better (no offense, upinak, I personally HATE cold weather – that’s why I prefer the Southwest).

The one shining light in this otherwise dismal campaign.

Lord, look kindly upon our brother, John.

He is a good man, yet he is imperfect, as we all are.

Yet, he somehow found the courage to bring us Sarah.

Somehow, no matter how improbable it may seem to be today, things will turn out ok.

If Congress implemented strict, enforcable regulation then Wall Street could run wild within those defined parameters.

Instead the Congress is bought and paid for by those they regulate.

A brick wall needs to be thrown up between corporate America and those that set the rules.

Lifetime bans from lobbying in exchange for the privlege of serving the public should be the standard.

I’ve been studying Sarah for roughly 8 months now.

Believe me, she is very conscious of the vicious attacks, but just like the way she rose in Alaska, she rufuses to let it get her down. This is a strong woman who was brought up by a very loving but very tough father. Any other woman would of snapped easily by now. It was one of several reasons why I believed she may be a national figure: the toughness and optimism.

She is completely OPPOSITE of AllahPundit on the other extreme of optimism, strength as the world attempts to crush her. That’s who she is and why she is popular.

Nothing gets her down for long. She’s back up fiesty as before.

This campaign is nothing but Sarah’s “Long March”. It will toughen her like steel at the forge. The libs are creating a juggernaut and they don’t know it yet.

Oh what I would give for a slo-mo removal of those glasses and loosening of the hair. President MILF

Baphomet on October 8, 2008 at 6:02 PM

…pleeeeeeeeeease…I don’t need that picture in my head….

…get thee to the “dark side of the Internet”, where you sign in with a credit card, if you’re going to suggest that sort of thing…we’re sinners and mere mortals here…flesh can only take so much….

…”President MILF”….

*SCHWING!*

Grue in the Attic on October 8, 2008 at 5:15 PM

*PREEEEEEEEEEEEEEN!*

…harrumph…move along…nothing to see here…harrumph….

…right back at ya…then again, I’ve come to expect quality on this blog not only from the moderators but from the regulars…even some of the trolls write well…or copy from well written talking points leaflets….

…it’s not me, though…it’s just that I’ve been very lucky to have developed a respect for the language and, while I haven’t actually acquired any common sense myself, I have been blessed with having met and lived and served with folks who’ve had it in spades…so I’ve been spoiled by having had excellent examples….

*UNSOLICITED ADVICE FOLLOWS, WITH APOLOGIES FOR EXTENDING DISCUSSION OF THIS SELF-CELEBRATORY SUBJECT*

First, have a parent, mentor or friend whose eye for the ridiculous and disdain for the pompous is apparent and practiced. They might not get around to teaching you wrong from right, but they’ll teach you silly from sensible.

Second, (and schools nowadays DON’T teach this) acquire an admiration for a well-turned phrase. Read old books. Before about 1930, people considered themselves as being judged by their self-expression, and were careful about impressions. Even Mark Twain, talking down in his made-up vernacular, showed care in brevity (something I’ve never learned) and was always clear. The English language has twice the vocabulary of any other language…it was Churchill’s strength…it’s a sign of time spent thinking….

Third, learn to appreciate smart-asses. Read Dennis Miller. Read P. J. O’Rourke. Devour Ted Nugent. Mark Steyn is great. Watch anything written by Richard Curtis. Watch anything with Rowan Atkinson in it.

Fourth, keep an eye on folks who think that they’re smart. They usually aren’t, and are an inexhaustible source of material.

Fifth, know what you believe, why you believe it, and don’t ever expect anyone to agree with you. Don’t sell your point of view…simply state it. Agreement is gravy.

Sixth and finally, find an outlet where you can have your say, and don’t expect anyone to read it. Write for yourself.

* THE PRECEEDING WAS A TRIBUTE TO THE MANY PEOPLE WHO TRIED TO TEACH ME ABOUT THE WORLD AND GENERALLY FAILED…THAT I LEARNED ANYTHING IS A TRIBUTE TO THEIR TENACITY OR THEIR FAILURE TO RECOGNIZE WHEN TIME WAS BEING WASTED. *

…a good blog is a blessing…good bloggers are gravy….

If BO gets in, I probably won’t be able to afford my ISP any more. So it might not matter.

PaKeystoner on October 8, 2008 at 4:15 PM

Quote of the Day

Yeah, I guess I was thinking along the lines of what Hollywood considers a neocon (religious, pro-life, pro-gun etc.). This is why I said that Palin personified neocon in response to MedSchoolCatholic on October 8, 2008 at 4:06 PM.

I see how I dug myself a hole here so I’ll just say that I have been a supporter of Palin since before she got picked for VP and I still am.

Sorry, after clarification of neocon I retract my statement. It gets thrown around so much I guess I was thinking in terms of being very staunchly conservative.

thevastlane on October 8, 2008 at 5:05 PM

…the term is, as in the Ed Koch bit posted above (I always loved Koch, that self-promoting little hamster), rather like “the Bush doctrine”…can anybody, even Mr. Bush, define it…it’s been so hijacked by so many half-informed but fully-ideologically-enslaved folks that it means little besides “guys we don’t like”…or, on the Left, “guys who aren’t like us”….

…it’s sort of like “social-Darwinist” used as a label by the Left to describe people who didn’t buy into their statist party line…or, as Annie Coulter observes, like “racist”, taken to mean “anyone who wins an argument with a liberal”….

Did so-called “neo-cons” ever actually use it to describe themselves? Dave Horowitz was a raging lefty, and now is sort of a “con”…does that make him a “neo-con”? Or is he just a wacko?

Beware of labels…be especially wary of who’s using ‘em, and who they’re hung on…”fascist” is a label which’s pretty freely thrown around, so much so that it has no real meaning anymore in current, non-scholarly (and most scholarly) conversation….

Gov. Palin, in the meantime, looks pretty solidly conservative (lower-case “c”), meaning not eager leave the tried and true for the merely popular or apparently (and hopefully) salutary….

…but then, as a hunter, it’s the tried and proven which brings home the deer….

Puritan1648 on October 8, 2008 at 5:06 PM

You sir are a great boon to this site. Your insight and your ability to put into words what I’m sure most of us are thinking is sheer genius. Can’t thank you enough. +1 simply will not suffice.

*eats*

Yeah! What he said!

dakine on October 8, 2008 at 4:19 PM

FIFY

in spite of having been tasked with being the bad guy in bringing out the brass knuckles against The One. Is she resolutely optimistic? Expecting defeat but putting on a brave face? Just enjoying the attention and the rush of campaigning?

Let’s face it–in Alaska she was the bad “guy” with the brass knuckles against the sitting Governor in her own party! She’s good at that!

Besides, she knows she has a great future ahead of her, even if the McCain/Palin loses. She’ll go back to Alaska, either get re-elected Governor or run for Congress in 2010, be a major draw on talk shows and GOP fundraisers, and after Obama takes us down the path of Carter II, she’ll come roaring back in 2012 as more experienced and media-savvy GOP leader at the ripe old age of 48, with a resounding “I told you so!” She’s got nothing to lose, everything to gain, and she knows it!

David Brooks sees someone too studiously ignorant to care what’s going on around her

…one of the party approved points of view, I don’t doubt…scribblers and collectivist ideologues….

Palin’s a vacuous phony…A low point for the conservative movement. Hard to believe the love struck hero worship going on among a number of otherwise serious conservatives…embarrassing.

dakine on October 8, 2008 at 4:19 PM

…repeated here…she’s somehow stupid because, until five weeks ago or so she was rarely on any sort of TV, and she’s still a bit raw when confronted by the slick, the ruthless and those niggardly with the truth…

…I once heard Dennis Miller comment on Jim Stockdale’s unease in a debate, stating that this good man committed the ultimate crime in our celebrity culture: he was bad on TV. Mr. Miller was bitter about Mr. Stockdale’s treatment, and I heard that Mr. Stockdale’s son cautioned Gov. Palin in print that she shouldn’t be taken in by those who deride her performance….

…then, again, there’s:

That’s right. Public service and courage is now denigrated as attention seeking and delusional behavior. Glad I live in the real world.

Blake on October 8, 2008 at 4:15 PM

…a bit closer to the mark.

The Lefty fascists have seen their ruin in Gov. Palin from the start. She’s one of the folks who’s somehow gotten into the limelight…without their consent.

The insiders — those so fired up about her “qualifications” — already consider the electorate ignorant and unworthy of notice (except every four years, when they prostitute themselves in public), so their like opinion of her I present that as evidence that she’s one of the folks.

If these statist morons didn’t try so hard, so regularly to interpose themselves between the public and prosperity, nobody’d care what they think or what they do. I heard it said recently that, prior to the New Deal, in the absence of a war the general electorate’s only contact with the federal government was when they went to the Post Office.

…oh, for those days again….