That’s her problem right there:

Bel-Air ( RICH and and totally out of touch)
Los Angeles (no explanation there)
secular private schools (HUGE warning sign)

Toss this one out.

Check out her page at the Manhattan Institute. She clerked for the devil himself, Stephen Reinhardt, at the 9th Circuit. She worked in Washington for the EPA and volunteers at the National Resources Defense Council. She’s a Green Mole in the conservative movement. Laura’s been deluded by her immigration stance into thinking she’s conservative. There is a Green faction that detests the enviro impact of illegal immigration. I’d bet that’s where her “conservative” views are coming from.

They’re both confident that Obama has a first-rate intellect and a first-rate temperament, to borrow a phrase that’s been circulating, and so they’re both trusting somewhat blindly that he’ll take an intellectual, pragmatic approach to problem-solving rather than a nakedly ideological one. The bet, quite simply, is that events will pull him to the center. That’s some bet.

A major reason why I cannot support Obama is that I have only the fact that he seems unable or ashamed to tout in a completely transparent manner his past. He continues to lack any candor about his college years, his time in New York and Boston, and in Chicago prior to formally entering politics. He also has lacked candor about much of his time in Illinois politics except when confronted with irrefutable evidence that he was lying about the abortion bills in the Illinois Senate. He appears to be running at full speed away from his spiritual mentor of 20 years, his fellow CAC and Woods Foundation board member who also happens to be an unrepentant terrorist bomber as well as radical anti-capitalist not to mention the so-called nonpartisan, but radical left organization ACORN which is under investigation in at least 11 states (or is it up to 12, now?).

How is it that I am supposed to feel comfortable with a person who seems to have only associated with some of the most radical, most left-leaning people, who has never stood up to them or for that matter perhaps the most corrupt political machine in the country?

Obama’s campaign words and rhetoric are diametrically opposite those with whom he has associated for the better part of his adult life. He has not shown any inclination to oppose anyone he is with nor to admit his mistakes. He has shown instead that he “goes with the flow.”

Clearly, he has given me absolutely no reason to believe he is the type of leader needed in the White House. Therefore, I cannot in good conscience vote for him to be President of the United States of America.

If you can’t vote McCain for your own sakes, then do the rest of the world a favour folks and vote him for us. Because if America tanks – as it will under Obama – she takes the rest of her allies down with her.

saint on October 15, 2008 at 5:40 PM

Gee, thanks. Now I want Obama to win.

People, we have a ton of purging needed in this party, and not just the Repubs. in Congress, but the entire Repub. establishment.

Don’t worry about purging, in the coming fascist state there will be plenty of purging; purging conservatives from government, from the media, from the workplace. Got a liberal working for you who doesn’t like you and wants your job? The table is being set for those people and all the other looters we’ve been warned about but decided not to do anything about.

Considering that I have drilled Laura Ingraham more often than not, and also considering I’m not ready to post anything just now, I’ve got to give the big L some props for …

They’re both confident that Obama has a first-rate intellect and a first-rate temperament, to borrow a phrase that’s been circulating, and so they’re both trusting somewhat blindly that he’ll take an intellectual, pragmatic approach to problem-solving rather than a nakedly ideological one. The bet, quite simply, is that events will pull him to the center. That’s some bet.

Especially since his only executive experience as chair of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge was a big fat waste of philanthropic cash, and he consulted with (if not blindly followed) the lead of William Ayers, whose reason for living since getting off on a technicality is trying to turn public schools into radical runt factories. I’m disappointed that McCain didn’t crush Obama on that final question from Schieffer — B.O. was given tens of millions to improve education, and FAILED because the basics were NOT emphasized.

In addition, I believe Buckley, Brooks, Parker, et al are so enthralled with Barry’s vaunted brain that they think, “He smarter than Iam, and he will do something even better than I would do if I were him!” What they don’t consider is that Obama — who doesn’t flinch when he is lauded with Messianic fervor — may himself be thinking, “I AM smarter than you. And I don’t care that socialism has not worked anywhere ever, I can make it work!”

She would never say that. She would dig me and I could probably get her to leave that redneck hubby of hers. Then, I could show her a newspaper and stuff.

Roger Waters on October 15, 2008 at 6:24 PM

You prepared to change Trig’s daiper big guy?

If Heather is the heart of intellectual conservativism…
Sapwolf on October 15, 2008 at 11:39 PM

Well, not quite the heart; more like the spleen, maybe.

People, we have a ton of purging needed in this party, and not just the Repubs. in Congress, but the entire Repub. establishment.

And when we do, we are gonna need a fleet of buses and we are gonna break some axles, so get ready.

Then I found this quote off an interview question to Heather:

“I grew up in Bel Air, Los Angeles and my father was a business consultant. I went to secular private schools – John Thomas Dye and two years at Westlake”

That’s her problem right there:

Bel-Air ( RICH and and totally out of touch)
Los Angeles (no explanation there)
secular private schools (HUGE warning sign)

Toss this one out.

This woman is SSSSSSOOOOOOOO jealous of Palin. No doubt about it.

WHERE’S THE F’ING BUS TO THROW HER UNDER?

You never know, there might be a shortage of toilet paper some day.

neuquenguy on October 15, 2008 at 6:41 PM

And as we wait in line to by some, kathleen parker and peggy noonan will drive by in a limo and marvel at barry’s intellect.

Hmm… Whine like little babie girls much? Yeah, I guess you do!

logis on October 15, 2008 at 7:43 PM

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Heather MacDonald has to be a very stupid person. How can anyone goes against his political principles just because he thinks that the 2nd tier candidate has less than perfect experience and judgment. Her premise is not even correct….
scrubjay on October 15, 2008 at 7:40 PM

Did you read the “explanations” that Hitchens and Baby Buckley gave for their snit fits. The diatribes they sat down and thought through made Heather MacDonalds’ gibbering rationalizations sound downright brilliant.

Seriously, there are individuals who work for me who’re roughly as articulate as any of these clowns – and more intelligent than all three of them put together.

Remind me once again: WHO, exactly, is it who keeps telling us these are the most brilliant and wise conservative intellects the world has ever seen? ‘Cause if it were up to me, I’d be handing out termination notices.

As I understand it, Nixon’s enemies list wasn’t people he disliked, but people (usually media) that had shown that they considered Nixon their enemy.
Count to 10 on October 15, 2008 at 7:35 PM

Nixon never even called it an ‘enemies list.’ It was just a list of people he didn’t want at one of his White House parties. The liberal media (back then, that was the only kind) came up with the name.

Hmm… Whine like little babie girls much? Yeah, I guess you do!

Even if Gov. Palin was less than able to be president I would still rather have someone who agrees with me than someone who doesn’t. MacDonald may have some pointy head principle for picking conservative candidates but it fails the reality test. Obama would be a disaster. Palin, even granting the idea that she was less than capable, would be at worst a less than perfect execution of the correct policies.

For the first time in my life, I understand why Nixon made an enemies list and am working on one of my own. At the top of it are cretins like Parker, Noonan, Buckley and Mac Donald.

Kensington on October 15, 2008 at 4:25 PM

As I understand it, Nixon’s enemies list wasn’t people he disliked, but people (usually media) that had shown that they considered Nixon their enemy.