SARAH PALIN ARCHIVES
INITIAL REACTIONS TO JOHN MCCAIN'S CHOICE OF VP
Here are some choice viewer reactions from the Caffertyfile blog:
"It was a bold move by John McCain to reach out to the Eskimo vote, which has been totally ignored by the media."--Glenn
"I think John McCain just wants Sara Palin available for CPR"
--Mike
"Good choice, John. What, was Paris Hilton too busy? Let's
see....1. No foreign policy experience admittedly on her own page;
2. Her husband works for the oil industry;
3. She's anti-abortion; 4. She's a trophy wife.
No. 3. Oh, yeah!!!! That's why he picked her." --Tom
"I am a true-blue Hillary supporter, but I am sure Hillary did not mean to put 18 million cracks in the glass ceiling so that a pro-life, pro-gun, home-schooling nobody from the frozen tundra of Alaska could slide in."--Dave
And one gem to this website:
"My Daddy would have said, "John McCain has shit in his Easter bonnet and
pulled it down over his ears." --Bob
"Sarah Palin is the only candidate to know how to field-dress a moose." --Fred Thompson
"The Times had it right. The McCain
campaign's claims of a 'full vetting process' for Palin were as much a lie
as the biographical details they've invented for her. There was no
F.B.I background check. The Times found no evidence that a
McCain representative spoke to anyone in the State legislature or
business community. Not did anyone talk with the fired state public
safety commissioner....
'Often my haste is a mistake,' McCain conceded in
his 2002 memoir, 'but I live with the consequences without complaint.'
Well, maybe it's fine if he wants to live with the consequences, but what
about his country? " Frank Rich
"John McCain has lost all credibility as someone
who wants to end partisan rancor in Washington. His policies and
decisions belie those words. Is that why he chose a 'pit bull
in lipstick' who represents the extreme right wing and is so far from the
mainstream in her policies and positions as his running mate? Is
that why he presided over a convention unprecedented in the level of
vicious and baseless attacks on his opponent?"
--Harriet Mayer, letter to the editor.
"What a hilarious sight to watch the Republican Party in St. Paul repudiating the nearly eight-year record of the Republican Party in Washington, and then asking us to trust the Republican Party to extricate the nation from the mess the Republican Party has created." --Leonard Boasberg letter to the editor.
"Until this week I had respect for John McCain....That he could claim that he will end the divisive politics of the last eight years after a convention of uncivil vitriol is as cynical and hypocritical as politics can get." --Ed Early, letter to the editor
"We were told that the Republicans were thrown a lot of 'red meat.' Isn't red meat what zoos feed wild, dangerous animals?" ----Will C. Justice
MEDIA COVERAGE OF OBAMA AND MCCAIN
A study released this week by George Mason University's Center
for Media and Public Affairs reported that ABC, NBC and CBS have been
tougher on Obama than on John McCain during the general election campaign.
Statements about Obama were 72% negative, compared with 57% for McCain.
Also, countless examples of McCain's confusion on foreign policy and other
issues have gone unreported by the media. Can you imagine what the
numbers would look like if Fox News had been included in the sample?
WILL THE REAL JOHN
MCCAIN PLEASE STAND
"McCain opposed the Bush tax cuts as skewed toward the rich and
unsustainable; now he wants to extend them forever. He co-sponsored
a relatively humane immigration bill; now he disowns it. He deplored
the torture of detainees at Guantanamo; now he attacks the Supreme Court's
decision granting them the constitutional right to challenge in federal
court their continued detention as 'one of the worst decisions in the
history of this country.'" --Dorothy Wickenden
GENERAL WESLEY
CLARK ON JOHN MCCAIN
"I don't think riding in a fighter plane and getting shot
down is a qualification to be president." --General Wesley Clark,
"Face The Nation"
Howtotalkback: "For the life of me, I can't
understand what all the fuss is about. Flying a fighter plane and
becoming a prisoner of war is an act of sacrifice, but it is not in and of
itself a qualification to be president." --Will C. Justice
"Wesley Clark didn't impugn John McCain's military service. What
Wesley Clark actually said was that Mr. McCain's war service, though
heroic, didn't necessarily constitute a qualification for the presidency.
It was a blunt but truthful remark, and not at all outrageous--especially
given the fact that General Clark is himself a bona fide war hero....
If this campaign isn't dominated by faux outrage over fake scandals, it
will have to be about things that really did happen, like a failed
economic policy and a disastrous war--both of which Mr. McCain promises
will continue if he wins.--Paul Krugman
GUNS
Points to make in discussing the 5-4 U.S. Supreme Court decision
striking down the District of Columbia's gun-control law.
Ask gun supporters, "Is there any restriction the government can legally
place on the right to bear arms?" If the answer is No, then ask if
they are comfortable with any American being able to own their own AK-47,
rocket launcher, nuclear weapon?
Few sensible people will reply Yes to these questions.
Yet the Court's decision opens the door to this possibility.
Visit any well-stocked gun store in many states for confirmation of your
worst fears.
Ask the right-to-bear-arms enthusiast if he/she is comfortable with
criminals possessing powerful weapons. The mentally ill? Ask
if he/she is comfortable with law enforcement agencies being overmatched
in fire-power.
Most sensible Americans know that freedoms require restrictions. The
Second Amendment guarantees free speech, but it does not guarantee the
right to slander or to incite to riot. Will C. Justice
Howtotalkback: One reason the upcoming
election is crucial is because the next president will be able to name
one/several appointees to the US Supreme Court. Senator John McCain
has already described the kind of person/s he will appoint. McCain
has already told us that he will choose justices like Alito and Roberts,
both of whom supported this radical ruling, along with Scalia, Kennedy,
and Thomas.
"On the very same day that Senator McCain was calling for the
harshest penalties against Iran* and denouncing Senator Obama for being
willing to talk with Iran, Iraq's prime minister, whom the U.S. put in
place, announced that he's traveling to Tehran in a few days to
discuss closer ties between Iran and Iraq. If you can't see the
irony in that development, it's because you're blind."
--Will C. Justice (*before the American Israel Public Affairs
Committee--AIPAC)
"McCain's willingness to keep the nation in Iraq for, say, 100 years is a sign that for all his war hero posturing Mc Cain has truly forgotten the young people we've damned to this folly we call Iraq." --Junot Diaz