Saturday, September 06, 2008

Palin’s Glasses

My son just called from the road and said he heard on the radio that optometrists all over the country are being inundated for requests for Palin frames. They can’t keep them in stock and reordering is near impossible because of the massive back orders.

McCain Campaign Recycling American Flags Trashed at Dem. Convention

Remember this picture I posted approximately a week ago of discarded American flags thrown into the garbage?

This is what the democrats think of the symbol of our country.

Well relax, they were rescued and are being recycled according to the Denver Post:

This morning, Republicans tell me that a worker at Invesco Field in Denver saved thousands of unused flags from the Democratic National Convention that were headed for the garbage. Guerrilla campaigning. They will use these flags at their own event today in Colorado Springs with John McCain and Sarah Palin.

Before McCain speaks today, veterans will haul these garbage bags filled with flags out onto the stage — with dramatic effect, no doubt — and tell the story.

“What you see in the picture I sent you is less than half of total flags,” a Republican official emailed. “We estimate the total number to be around 12,000 small flags and one full size 3×5 flag.”

I’m not sure what the DNC was supposed to do with unused hand-flags, frankly. But the Republicans are obviously questioning someone’s patriotism here.

But we are not supposed to question the patriotism of the left. Sorry, but I do. Remember this picture of Obama’s good friend and unrepentant terrorist and bomb maker, Bill Ayers:

And for those who are not “sure what the DNC was supposed to do with unused hand-flags” here for the umpteenth time is the answer:

Proper Flag Disposal:

Section 8k of the Flag Code states, “The flag, when it is in such condition that it is no longer a fitting emblem for display, should be destroyed in a dignified way, preferably by burning.” We recommend that you contact your local VFW Chapter and ask them for help properly disposing of your flag. And be sure to consider providing a small donation to them for their assistance. Or you can contact your local Elks Lodge (who created the idea of Flag Day, established officially by President Truman, himself a member of the Elks), the American Legion, or the Knights of Columbus. Some Boy Scout and Girl Scout troups also can provide this service.

The operative word is “dignified.” Trashing them in bags with all the other garbage is a far cry from dignified. In fact, it is despicable.

RELATED:

• McCain Camp ‘Rescues’ Flags From Obama Rally

Who is Sarah Palin? A View from Alaska

We have lots yet to learn about our Sarah’cuda. Let’s start with this description from Butch King, a pilot and guide at Wildman Lake Lodge:

When Sarah walked into the Governor’s Mansion, she promptly dismissed the State Trooper detachment assigned to the Governor and had her and her husband’s gun case brought in from Wasilla. Then, she got rid of the former Governor’s STATE jet and told legislators that there were no more free rides. They would have to fly Alaska Airlines if they wanted to travel, just like she and her family. Next came the nut cutting (the Barracuda part) and the heads that rolled were too numerous to name.  But when Sarah finished cleaning house, a number of our legislators ended up in jail on corruption convictions, or they tendered their resignations along with numerous department heads and others who had been riding the gravy train for far too long, AND THEN SHE HAD LUNCH. By the end of the day, Sarah Palin had saved the people of Alaska millions and has not yet slowed down.

Now that is “get ‘er done.”

He goes on to say:

She has truly brought CHANGE to Juneau. I personally know several people in the private sector in Alaska who hold her in high esteem. She surrounds herself with smart people, many from my hometown of Anchorage. She listens to them but ultimately makes her own decisions. Sarah Palin is a no “BS” politician. It is refreshing that there is such a thing anymore. You want to talk about CHANGE? You should see a “before” and “after” picture of the state government in Alaska. That’s CHANGE!

This is just the opinion of one Alaska bush pilot and guide who pays attention to national politics, watches the news, and is deathly afraid of the direction our nation is headed. I guarantee that if Sarah gets a chance to dig her spurs into the flanks of the liberal Washington types, they will know that she is in the saddle.

Works for me.

(H/T: California Conservative)

Friday, September 05, 2008

Sarah Palin and the Alaskan National Guard - Fit to Command (Video)

Greta Van Sustern interview Major General Craig Campbell of the Alskan National Guard on Gov. Palin’s roll as Commander-in-Chief of the Guard. Quite a different picture than the dismissive view we’ve been getting from the pundits and the Obama campaign and its surrogates:

Click image to view

McCain’s Speech Bests Obama’s Just Like Palin

Nielsen reports:

On Thursday night, John McCain’s acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention bested Barack Obama’s record-breaking viewership numbers from last week by 500,000 viewers.

More than 38.9 million people tuned in to coverage of the final night of the GOP convention.  In comparison, Obama’s acceptance speech at the Democratic convention drew 38.4 million viewers.

Palin got more than 40 million.

Pretty Pistol Packin’ Palin Pick

Say that 3 times fast. My son just came in and told me that a caller on Mark Levin’s show said it and Levin picked up on it. I like it - certainly more fun than Peter Piper, isn’t it?

I don’t have a picture of pretty pick Palin packin’ a pistol, so this will have to do.

Olympics: 2 out of 3, Any Way You Look at It, This is a Great Big Wow!

I find this statistic to be absolutely amazing. Mindboggling actually.

• 2 out of 3 people worldwide tuned in for Olympics...

NEW YORK (AP) - More than two out of three people worldwide tuned in for the Beijing Olympics.

Nielsen Media Research says 4.7 billion viewers globally saw at least some of the 17 days of TV coverage last month. This audience was one-fifth larger than the 3.9 billion who watched the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens.

Host nation China claimed more viewers than any other nation, Nielsen said Friday, logging an audience reach of 94 percent among its population of 1.3 billion.

In the U.S., where NBC and several sister networks aired extensive coverage, the 2008 Olympics took the record as the most-viewed event in American television history.

A Boycott Underway of US Weekly and Their Advertisers

If you are upset about the hit job that US Weekly magazine has done in this week’s issue of the magazine, add your voice. Details are at Michelle Malkin’s Blog. Or you can go directly to Boycott US Weekly where you will also find a list of advertisers. I am not posting a picture of their cover since I figure why given them even that much more publicity. Check it out and add your own voice if you feel strongly about this issue.

Is Oprah Afraid of Our Sarah’cuda?

This supposedly great advocate for women disses Sarah Palin and according to Drudge Oprah Winfrey will not invite the first woman on a Republican ticket to be a guest on her show.

“Half of her staff really wants Sarah Palin on,” an insider explains. “Oprah’s website is getting tons of requests to put her on, but Oprah and a couple of her top people are adamantly against it because of Obama.”

One executive close to Winfrey is warning any Palin ban could ignite a dramatic backlash!

So add one more skirt to the list that Obama wants to hide behind.

A picture IS worth a thousand words:

The picture points out just hypocritical Oprah’s response is:

“The item in today’s Drudge Report is categorically untrue. There has been absolutely no discussion about having Sarah Palin on my show. At the beginning of this Presidential campaign when I decided that I was going to take my first public stance in support of a candidate, I made the decision not to use my show as a platform for any of the candidates. I agree that Sarah Palin would be a fantastic interview, and I would love to have her on after the campaign is over.”

Palin More Favorable than Obama

Rasmussen reported:

A week ago, most Americans had never heard of Alaska Governor Sarah Palin. Now, following a Vice Presidential acceptance speech viewed live by more than 40 million people, Palin is viewed favorably by 58% of American voters. The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 37% hold an unfavorable view of the self-described hockey mom.

...Perhaps most stunning is the fact that Palin’s favorable ratings are now a point higher than either man at the top of the Presidential tickets this year. As of Friday morning, Obama and McCain are each viewed favorably by 57% of voters. Biden is viewed favorably by 48%.

Thursday, September 04, 2008

Gal Power and Girly-boy Tattletales

Real women will get this. I pity those of you who won’t.

Via The Anchoress, the most real woman in the blogosphere:

Sen. Obama does not get it: He’s hauling out the women (including Clinton) to counter Palin. He doesn’t get the fact that Palin’s gender is secondary or even tertiary to why she has the GOP energized out of its collective mind. It’s what she IS, and what she DOES and what she BELIEVES and what she SAYS, and how she doesn’t just talk it, she WALKS it.

Hiding behind 1000 women standing behind you and saying you’re great (while ripping her apart) cannot counterbalance that. It will preach to the choir, and the media will sing along, but that’s all. They really are working off of an outdated template. They do not, in the least, understand modern conservative women.

Refusing to engage Palin, except through these women, which seems to be the plan is a bit cowardly, don’t you think? It suggests that even if he’s not afraid of Palin, per se, he is afraid of her femininity. Because there is nothing more powerful than a smart, beautiful woman who knows precisely who she is, nothing is more powerful than authentic femininity.

...

Bill Clinton would never make this mistake. He and Gov. Palin would be able to go at each other freely, because they would both completely understand each other. Clinton would know Palin was an alpha-female grizzly, and he’d tease her. She’d know he was a bad boy willing to be endure a few scars and swipes for the fun of engagement.

Also, just a thought…if you want to be CIC, you can’t hide behind a bunch of girls. We hate it when Al Qaeda does that.

President Bush wouldn’t hide behind a bunch of women’s skirts either. He is married to a real woman, and calls another one mother.

RELATED:

On the same note, Kyle-Ann Shiver writing at American Thinker, makes a similar point from a slightly different perspective:

It is time for Barack Obama to grow up and demonstrate to this Country that he is not missing a vital piece of male equipment—his fortitude.

Nearly every single day, Barack Obama’s campaign issues his latest tattle on whoever it is that has last offended his feelings.

And I must say, with appropriate solicitude, that it grieves me to witness a man who seeks to be the leader of the free world, a man who proclaims his fitness for the highest duty in the land, make a habit of whining and tattling every time he gets his wittle feelings hurt.

One shudders to think how our IslamoFascist enemies would deal with such girly-boy tirades.

Let’s not even go there.

Let’s just let that thought rest in peace, shall we.

Truly, it was bad enough when candidate Obama issued his string of complaints against the other man in this contest, John McCain.  It was bad enough when candidate Obama whined over how the words of his opponent’s surrogates were breaking his fragile bones.  One could nearly be brought to the brink of empathy for the city-boy, Barack, when his tormenters were men.

But late Wednesday night, within minutes of the lovely lady, Mrs. Sarah Palin’s speech in Minneapolis, the tattletale struck once again.  I could nearly hear the girly-boy tantrum all the way over here in Atlanta. 

Read more

I’ve been telling you for months he’s a self-centered woos, now he is proving it to the world. Pathetic. It seems to me that men will have to check their manhood at the door to vote for this girly-boy. For the gals, if you think you are going to vote for him, I ask you, do you really want a man who is supposed to be in charge of protecting you and instead hides behind your skirts?

RELATED #2:

And Investor’s Business Daily tackles the worn out “identity politics” based on one issue that isn’t even a woman’s issue, per se. Abortion has never been an issue for me, although I chose for life a quarter century ago and now, at my age, is a moot issue. It has angered me over the years that Pro-Choice always means murdering the unborn and never seems to include those who have made the choice not to murder their own. Sarah Palin is an example and IBD lays it out well:

Based on the 1900s-style offerings included in their agenda of identity politics, it’s almost as if Democrats regard women as the dim bulbs of their coalition.

Change with the times they do not. It may be 2008, but Democrats still think that abortion, along with a Big Labor-inspired “Pay Equity Act,” are about all it takes to satisfy female voters.

“Barack Obama has been a consistent champion of reproductive choice; he received 100% ratings from choice groups throughout his career,” one of Obama’s flyers begins.

On the empowerment front, however, it’s another story. Despite the claims to represent women, Democrats still didn’t put Hillary Clinton on the Democratic presidential ticket. Despite a strong performance in the primaries, Clinton wasn’t even considered.

No wonder then that Sarah Palin, the new face on the Republican ticket, resonates so powerfully with women. Palin presents an authentic picture of women’s empowerment, yet owes nothing to the Democrats’ feminist agenda. She was named by John McCain to be his running mate solely on her own merit and political skills as governor of Alaska, all things she earned herself.

That’s what makes the Democratic offerings to women look like such thin gruel. Regardless of how one feels about abortion, abortion rights have been around since 1972 and empower no one. There’s even reason to question why it’s exclusively a women’s issue to Democrats, because they ghettoize it as that.

At the Democratic Convention’s Women’s Caucus, most speeches revolved around abortion and little else. Rep. Louise Slaughter of New York vowed that a President Obama and a Democratic Congress would ensure that doctors who invoke conscience clauses against performing abortions would be forced to perform them.

The intensity of focus on this single issue, alongside a goody bag of other government programs, looked fairly tired to many women. Instead of walking the walk by naming a living, breathing female to the ticket, Democrats sent the message that only government programs, especially the right to abortion, are of interest to women.

Democrats seem to realize how hollow this was — which explains their distracting offerings like movie star Eva Longoria on the podium last week, hardly a model for the average woman. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, a Democrat of actual power who wrote a book called “Know Your Power,” had better things to do that day.

Meanwhile, Palin is now as close as anyone before to winning real power as a flesh and blood woman. No wonder she resonates among women — as Democrats’ government programs do not.

Palin, a mother of five, didn’t actually have much use for abortion, a right many Democrats think she should have reflexively made use of when she learned her fifth child would be born with Down syndrome. Her beloved son Trig not only brought her joy, but didn’t require her to step down from power. Maybe you can have it all.

That brings up the second problem Palin brings to the Democratic feminist agenda — the canard that a woman cannot succeed in the world with the “drag” of children. The left has been fast to question whether she can be a good mother while in public service.

Although Michelle Obama loudly spoke out against that attitude at the Women’s Caucus last Thursday, the Democratic party line since Palin arrived has been to tell her to go home and take care of kids and leave the careers to the big boys — and childless feminists.

But the fact is Palin was chosen for McCain’s vice presidential spot while Democrats fell down on the job at naming a woman to a real position of power. This exposes the lie behind their agenda.

Palin’s no show-pony. She will bring critical expertise on energy to the Republican ticket. She will be the embodiment of how far a woman can go, not based on a package of rights or a list of government programs, but on her own merit.

McCain gave her the No. 2 spot because of what she adds as a political leader, not as a woman. That just might resonate with women more than anything government can give. That makes her a real revolutionary — and a threat to the outdated feminist agenda.

Vote Accordingly

Credit goes to