Ok, look… I think Sarah Palin is great. I was really impressed when I saw her in person, when I shook hands with her and Todd at a local rally, and many other times. This is one of those times. Why? Well, they say you should never learn how politics and sausage are made. I’d add to that any sort of butchery. Governor Palin? Well, she knows how politics are done, and she knows how a turkey goes from ugly feathery mess to golden and delicious. She doesn’t have a problem with it. Maybe it’s time we all did a gut check and accepted how politics, sausage, and turkey are prepared? At first this video seems like a gaffe. It’s not. She didn’t have a problem with it. She’s comfortable with some of the uglier things that weaker people just can’t stomach. To that end, my hat’s off to her!

Now enjoy, and be prepared to laugh!

EXIT QUESTION
-Can SNL actually do a better job than this? I mean really! This is fantastic! I guess they could relate it to Obama’s Universal Healthcare plan.

More here.

In the weeks before the election, I noticed a growing number of my fellow citizens wearing Obama’s face on their t-shirts, usually in the spirit of socialist realism art. There’s not a politician alive who I admire enough to the point of worshipful adoration that I’d sport his likeness on my clothing or plaster it all over the wordsmobile (I do, however, wear my FA t-shirts with pride and enthusiastically tell people it’s a right-wing website when asked).

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As the left continues with their weird juvenile hatred of Sarah Palin with fantasies of infanticide and ignorant distortions, we get this great article on how Sarah Palin was the reason that McCain came as close as he did to Obama:

For all the tacky talk in media circles, where folks have extremely over-inflated opinions of themselves, one would think that Sarah Palin was the sole arbiter of Republican defeat this year.

What a pile of preposterous poppycock!

From the beginning of ‘08, the accepted wisdom was that no matter whom the Democrats nominated, they would deliver to the Republicans an ignominious defeat. But this year’s defeat was anything but the complete rout it was supposed to be.

And the person who nearly even saved the day — and the election — for Republicans was Sarah Palin.

This is not a minority opinion. When Rasmussen conducted detailed exit polling among Republicans, they found that a full 69% of respondents thought Sarah Palin helped — not hurt — McCain. Governor Palin has not garnered the status as America’s most highly regarded, most popular governor for nothing.

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Her First Major Speech After the Campaign!

It seems this week that there has been almost more “news” media attention for Sarah Palin, the former GOP V.P. nominee, than for President-Elect Obama. Sarah has done a series of interviews including appearances on Larry King, The Today Show, Wolf Blitzer, and a two day special with Greta Van Susteren filmed with the Palin family in Alaska.

But today’s speech at the Republican Governor’s Association meeting in Miami Florida was the first time Governor Palin has had the opportunity to make a major address without the burden, some would say shackles, of speaking solely on behalf of the McCain campaign. Sarah can now be herself and no longer muzzled by campaign staff who may not always have had her best interests at heart.

Columnist Bill Kristol, who spoke during a panel discussion on Thursday described the RGA meeting as “The Republican presidential candidates association” noting that so many potential 2012 candidates were in attendance. Even with Bobby Jindal (LA), Tim Pawlenty (MN) and Mark Sanford (SC) in attendance all eyes seemed to be on Sarah.

A few excerpts from her speech:
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Jonn Lilyea of This Ain’t Hell, has decided to create his own take on the hysterical 52 to 48 photo thread that is floating around the intertube.

If you feel so inclined to contribute your photo response, Send yours to admin(at)thisainthell(dot)us and he will be happy to post your photo….or not.

Quite frankly, a photo thread thanking Sarah Palin is way over due!

UPDATED
True or not, this is exactly how it will happen; sketchy, uncertain reports backed by minimal scientific data, precluded by rhetoric from Iran and rhetoric from Israel, and at a time of maximum American political instability.

In any event, true or not, it seems abundantly clear that diplomacy has failed with Iran. Senator Obama says he’d talk to Iran, that more sanctions would work (as if even possible given Russian and China’s near lovefest w Iran). Well, if the good Senator really believed that, then he’d have already opened backdoor talks himself, or quietly met w an Iranian ambassador at a friendly, neutral embassy.

Iran is making nuclear bombs
Diplomacy has failed
If this report is true, then there are nukes near the Straits of Hormuz-ready to be used against 25% of the world’s oil shipping, against hundreds of thousands of Americans in the area, or to be put on a ship and sent to a target city.

Sober up people. America’s at war. Do we need a warrior or a lawyer? Do we need a man who can’t fit his the long list of resume accomplishments into a single book, or a man who has zero national accomplishments on his resume, and barely 100 y/n votes in his entire lifetime? You decide which wil deter Iran. Meanwhile, the bombs are near the ships, and they’re already in the shadows.

Israel Insider exclusively reports that a seismic event this weekend in southern Iran may in fact have been a massive underground nuclear bomb test. According to the USGS, the tremor measuring 5.0 on the Richter scale took place Saturday night, October 25 just before midnight Iran time, with its epicenter at 26.70°N, 55.02°E, just north of the strategic straits of Hormuz, opposite Abu Dhabi.
Zoomable map source: Google Maps.

The claim that the tremor was in fact a nuclear test came from an Iranian nuclear scientist who claims to be working in uranium enrichment for the project. A report published by Israel Insider on Friday, October 24 included a captionless map that portrayed the area of the seismic event that occurred the following night, based on location information previously provided by the Iranian source.

Israel Insider’s source reports that the test is in fact the second in a series. A 4.8 Richter scale event occurred on October 21 with an epicenter (26.70N, 54.96E) within 5 km (3 miles) of the October 25 tremor

link

UPDATE
North Korea’s nuclear tests were actually announced just before they happened so as to prevent any military response. However, they were conducted in October of 2006 (just before a US election at a time of maximum American political instability), and they were confirmed by seismic data. They were also conducted relatively close to the coastline.

Whether the reports about Iran are true or not…the UN’s IAEA claims that Iran might already have a nuke. They at least have hundreds of ballistic missiles that could devastate any city in the Middle East, and they have enough radioactive matl to make those warheads dirty.

There is a very real threat from Iran-according to Senator Obama (who has also said there is no threat from Iran; duplicitous as usual). In a matter of hours, we’ll know how America will deal with them.

RedState’s server crashed with the amount of traffic that hit the site to read this exposé by a former Hillary supporte who went on to work with Obama. The campaign worker has opted to keep her/his identity secret. My instinct says female, but this is unknown. In the wake of the invasion of Joe the Plumber’s privacy, I’d count that wise. For if they do that to the opposition, what could they have in store for an inside traitor and former member of their campaign? I wouldn’t even dare to imagine.

This is a must read in it’s entirety. But I’ll post some excerpts here.

I’m going to let you in on a few secrets here, and this is not because I enjoy the gossip or the attention directed my way. I’m doing this because I doubt much of you know the true weaknesses of Obama. Another reason for my doing this is that I am lost faith in this campaign, and feel that this choice has been forced on many people in this country. Put simply, you are being manipulated. That was and is our job – to manipulate you (the electorate) and the media (we already had them months ago). Our goal is to create chaos with the other side, not hope. I’ve come to the realization (as the campaign already has) that if this comes to the issues, Barack Obama doesn’t have a chance.His only chance is to foster disorganization, chaos, despair, and a sense of inevitability among the Republicans. It has worked up until now. Joe the Plumber has put the focus on the issues again, and this scares us more than anything.

Interesting that Alinsky’s major thrust of campaign organizing is, and I quote, to “rub raw the sores of discontent”. The interesting twist is while Obama riles up the “have nots” with discontent, and then provides government giveaways to appease them, he attempts to do the opposite for the GOP. He merely hopes to “rub raw” and quit there.

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On Tuesday night whether Senator Obama wins, or Sen McCain wins, or no one clearly wins one thing is almost certain: Chris Matthews will surely cry. In the event of an Obama victory, Americans can easily expect the puny pundit to leave his set and sniffle away like he did after Senator Obama’s nomination acceptance speech. Given that he’s 100% in the tank for Senator Obama it’s not unreasonable to see him wailing, “I’m so happy. This is just a great day for America. BWAAAAAAAAA!” Conversely, if Senator McCain wins you can bet that thrill that goes up Matthews’ leg whenever he hears Senator Obama speak will turn to a warm and wet sensation running down his leg followed by perhaps fist pounding denial. He might even break into some slurred speech; sounds more like a raving Don Vito from Viva La Bam than someone who is supposed to be covering the election as a news item. Lastly, in the event that no clear winner is decided Tuesday Night is there anyone out there who doesn’t think that by 1 or 2 am when it’s still anyone’s game…Matthews will crack? Will he stand up (revealing the floral pattern Hawaiian short pants he wears under the desk), throw his talking point notes high into the air, begin speaking in tongues, and cry when his head spins around ala The Exorcist?
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This afternoon I had the distinct pleasure to talk with Lynn Forrester de Rothschild. A self made media mogul whom the New Yorker described endearingly as “practically, like a philosopher”.

It was a small, personal setting with Lynn speaking to 15 remarkable women in the elegant sitting room of Kathy Summerall.

Lynn described herself as a centrist democrat, one who stays away from the corrupting influence of partisan politics and puts the welfare of the nation ahead of politics. I quite agree with this stance.

She expressed her great admiration of Sarah Palin, describing her as an incredibly intelligent woman and accomplished politician. Everyone who has spent any time with Sarah admits the same. I suspect even Couric has the same opinion, although she would NEVER admit it!

To recap the coffee talk with Lady Lynne:

Her first choice for president was Hilary, McCain and then….

Obama is left, of well, the left.

His economic disaster plan is really a massive transfer in wealth, not a sound economic plan. Using clever wordsmithing, Obama has fooled people into believing a tax rebate program is a tax cut.

What is not known about Obama is scary; his connection to Ayers, ACORN, and Rev. Wright have never been thas closely scrutinzed by the media as Sarah Palin’s wardrobe. Would you marry someone without an idea of their character or history? Why vote for someone without exploring their past to elucidate who they are today?

The evidence does not support her belief in the US being the largest greenhouse gas offender. As much as I admire Lynn, we part ways on this issue.

Lynn sent a thank you note to Campbell Brown after the interview posted below, and included a t-shirt emblazoned with the word ‘bitter’. She yet to recieve word if Cambell has worn the shirt.

Campbell Brown on her soapbox while interviewing Lady Lynn:

Mike blogged on this Monday morning. Yesterday, before work, I decided to go out and see this for myself.

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I thought it might be fun to provide a list of cabinet level positions (slightly expanded), and we could discuss who might hold what job in either a McCain or Obama Administration.

Who is your nominee for
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Another example of how the left controls free expression to outlaw anything of which it does not approve!

In West Hollywood, California an effigy of Sarah Palin hangs from a roof of a residential home. “I know if we had done it with Barack Obama, people would’ve probably thrown things through our windows,” said the homeowner.

So why is it O.K. to hang Republicans like Sarah Palin (President Bush and U.S. soldiers have also been targets)?

How many days of media outrage did we see ginned up over the phony report that someone at a McCain rally shouted “kill him” in regard to Obama? Obama even brought it up in the debates. And yet violence towards Republicans is treated as a joke… something to laugh at.

It was wrong when someone hung a cardboard Obama in effigy in Oregon. But it’s equally wrong when someone hangs Sarah Palin in California. But if the left can’t see that, then they have no right to get all worked up about it when someone does it to Obama.

Either the standards condemning violent displays towards one group are applied to all or they don’t apply at all.

Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama’s big speech on Thursday night will be delivered from an elaborate columned stage resembling a miniature Greek temple.

He will stride out to a raised platform to a podium that can be raised from beneath the floor.
Reuters

I’m not seeing a whole lot of coverage about Obama spending over five million bucks to satisfy his ego.

Convention expenses paid by the committee included $14.1 million for construction costs, including the stage and lighting, at the Pepsi Center and $5.3 million at Invesco Field.

Five million bucks to build the Barackopolis at Invesco rather then doing it at the Pepsi Center where they had already built the stage and lighting. Democrats were worried about it then:

From the elaborate stagecraft to the teeming crowd of 80,000 cheering partisans, the vagaries of the weather to the unpredictable audience reaction, the optics surrounding the stadium event have heightened worries that the Obama campaign is engaging in a high-risk endeavor in an uncontrollable environment.

A common concern: that the stadium appearance plays against Obama’s convention goal of lowering his star wattage and connecting with average Americans and that it gives Republicans a chance to drive home their message that the Democratic nominee is a narcissistic celebrity candidate.

“We already know he is a rock star, we already know he can bring 85,000 people together in a stadium. He has done it multiple times. He needs to talk to people who haven’t made up their minds yet,” said Tennessee Gov. Phil Bredesen.

But hey, it all worked right?

The question is where is the MSM on this? Probably digging up some dirt on the RNC spending 150 grand on clothes. What a waste of money…..frivolous I tell ya!

Sigh….

Recently Celebrity funnyman and half assed political pundit, Jon Stewart of The Daily Show, took it personally and was offended when Gov Sarah Palin remarked that she was happy to be in a small town where REAL AMERICANS can be found. Stewart and other liberals were offended because they saw that as a claim that they are less patriotic, that big city dwellers are less patriotic, and that they as individuals were less patriotic. Turns out, statistics back of Gov Palin’s claim (though I doubt we’ll see an apology from Stewart, Biden, Obama, or other faux liberals).

Naturally, how to measure patriotism is a matter of argument. One way is to look at differences in military involvement: Rural and small-town families are more likely to see their children go off into combat, and return in body bags. Or, we can turn to one of the few recent non-partisan surveys on the matter, the American National Election Study from the University of Michigan. It’s produced every election year, and the most recent data is from 2004.

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