If You Can’t Take the Heat…
September 3rd, 2008 | by Cranky Liberal |This is priceless. After 18 months of takign every cheap shot at Obama they could, now McSame wants special treatment for little Sarah Palin.
“Governor Sarah Palin is an exceptional governor with a record of accomplishment that exceeds, by far, the governing accomplishments of Senator Obama,” wrote senior adviser Steve Schmidt in a memo sent to reporters Wednesday morning. “Her selection came after a six-month long rigorous vetting process where her extraordinary credentials and exceptionalism became clear.”
“This vetting controversy is a faux media scandal designed to destroy the first female Republican nominee for Vice President of the United States who has never been a part of the old boys’ network that has come to dominate the news establishment in this country.”
A ‘faux media scandal designed to destroy the first f email Republican nominee for Vice President?” It’s called politics baby. How insulting it is to Palin and every other femail politician like HIllary Clinton that the old men in the GOP need to hide behind her vagina instead of answering questions. Whaaaa. Maybe next they will using the POW excuse. I swear I think John McCain is a bigger whimp than any of these women. If you want to play in the big leagues, then play. If not, go home. If you don’t think your VP chioce can stand up to an election cycle, how can we EVER trust her to play hard ball with all of those big bad meanies you keep talking about?
Oh, and while I’m on the subject of this stupid quote, by McCain’s own standards Palin has more experience than he does in governing. By his own definition John McCain isn’t fit to serve as President. I say we elect Sarah Palin as President. After all how much different can it be running the country that it was being the mayor of Mayberry?
13 Responses to “If You Can’t Take the Heat…”
By mr bigstuff on Sep 3, 2008 | Reply
how can this sad bunch of alaskan abstinence preachin’, child sex havin’, secessionist hillbillies be allowed anywhere near the once proud white house after the fumigation is complete? is there anything NOT dysfunctional about republican’t family values?
By Papamoka on Sep 3, 2008 | Reply
Well written piece and all I can say is Amen!
By Lisa on Sep 3, 2008 | Reply
Hey Tom maybe you will blast her right out of the running then mayBE McCain can choose Romney but of course the dems 2 picks are picture perfect as always. No flaws,love America,compassionate,blah,blah,blah.
Speaking of Big Leagues I find it amazing how we never hear about your 2 candidates all over the place especially Obama who has the biggest defense team ever. Talk about not being ready for the pressure,the media doesn’t even put any on him.It’s like you are saying he can’t stand on his own without help. This is what you’re making it seem like before you go calling me a racist.
By Cranky Liberal on Sep 3, 2008 | Reply
Did you say something Lisa, I couldn’t hear it over the propaganda and lies
By Cranky Liberal on Sep 3, 2008 | Reply
Oh and for the record Obama has answered every question, stood in front of the Nation over Rev Wright and all the other nonsense you idiots dish out and hasn’t dodged a question. He’s not hiding behind a vagina like John McCain.
Loser.
By Lisa on Sep 3, 2008 | Reply
He’s not hiding behind a vagina that is so out of character for you Tom or maybe it really isn’t. No different tha hiding behind race now is it?.
Obama spoke about it yes but all he said was nothing….. “Just Words”
Maeningless words what was that he said his grandmother was a typical white person?
How long did that take him to do before he read his script.
You want Palin to answer to the democrats? To who? To you? Obviously she means oh so much to you. She was piced a week ago take a deep breath and chill out for a day or so. Geez.
By steve on Sep 3, 2008 | Reply
I personally hide in vaginas…
By Lisa on Sep 3, 2008 | Reply
wow Steve good for you!
By admin on Sep 3, 2008 | Reply
Why is out of character to say exactly whats going on. They want her to be a VP candidate and play hard ball, but oh if you question her FAILINGS, LIES, and DISTORTIONS…you’re being sexist. That’s hiding behind the vagina Lisa.
By Craig R. Harmon on Sep 4, 2008 | Reply
From what I hear, Sarah Palin doesn’t need a man to fight her battles for her.
Also, I think much of what has passed for vetting in the press and on the blogs has been crap. Half of what they’ve come up with is just simply untrue (”Sarah Palin was a member of the Alaska Independence Party” from people who loath and despise McCarthy and McCarthyism and anything that smacks of “Are you now or have you ever been a member of the Alaskan Independence Party?”; “Sarah Palin was faking being the mother of their youngest child, whose real mother is Sarah’s daughter” from those think teens should be both sexually active and thoroughly educated in sex and protected but if they nevertheless get pregnant, don’t anyone dare deny them the right to abort their little accident); much of what they’ve come up with is laughably idiotic (”Sarah’s 17 year old daughter is — shock and dismay all around — pregnant out of wedlock” from people who champion unmarried women having, keeping and raising children on their own; “How can a woman with a family even THINK of running for Vice President” from people whom, if a conservative said this of a liberal female v-p pick, would be screaming “Male chauvanist pig!” or whatever the current epithet is for such misogynistic drivel these days).
Lies and distortions are de rigeur for pols and Obama/Biden are far from innocent on that count, although it is, of course, fair game to point them out. However, in my opinion, the real danger is from trooper-gate. Sarah Palin might show herself a quick study on national and international policy issues but if she nevertheless gets nailed on troopergate, she and McCain are toast.
By Paul Watson on Sep 4, 2008 | Reply
Craig,
Regarding the little skreed about unmarried teenage mothers. The reason we go on about it is thsat the Republican party has, for years, been incredibly harsh in its condemnation of the teenagers and their parents. What about Sarah Palin makes her different from all the other feckless, irresponsible parents who allow their teenage daughters to get pregnant?
By Craig R. Harmon on Sep 4, 2008 | Reply
Absolutely nothing. But what on earth does that have to do with liberals, who as a whole are not harshly condemnatory of unwed teen mothers and who do not, as a rule, consider a parent of such a teen unfit for governance? Liberals are much more likely to blame sexual activity and unwanted pregnancy upon raging hormones that the dears just cannot help but indulge than to blame it on irresponsibility of parents, don’t you think? So then, what’s up?
And furthermore, considering premarital sex a sin and worthy of condemnation is not quite the same as considering those who have engaged in the same unworthy of love and support, not only by the child’s parents but by the community of faith. Trust me, I was a pastor of several very conservative Lutheran congregations.
What this is really about, all this going on about it is a silly game of gotcha. It’s the same game that’s played when a Christian pastor is exposed as a drug taking, male prostitute patronizing hypocrite. It’s schadenfreude. It’s certainly not principled argument against the activity of taking drugs or patronizing male prostitutes.
I, for one, am enlightened enough to a) feel compassion for the unwed Palin teen and the family. Do I think what the young couple did was a sin? Sure. That would make them sinners no different from me, condemned by the same law from the hand of the same God and the same mercy, grace and forgiveness that I believe that I enjoy is available to and for them. Gone, for me, are the days of scarlet letters and banishment.
I am therefore b) in a position to find it fascinating and farcical to read liberals going on as they are as if THEY THEMSELVES were the one’s who routinely sewed on scarlet letters and banished forever young teens who give into hormones. I understand the schadenfreude, believe me and I feel no small amount of it in pointing out the heaping helpings of liberal hypocrisy that I read now directed at Palin and family.
You see, taking the liberals’ own argument, that kids cannot be expected to keep hormones at bay until they marry, sometimes in their twenties and thirties, is both unnatural and, in an age where reasonably reliable birth control methods are legal and readily available, unnecessary. Fine. That’s what you think and believe.
So how about you act like that’s what you believe instead of acting like you were living in a Nathaniel Hawthorn novel and y’all were the Puritans.
And I, as a fairly enlightened Republican and conservative Christian will join you in trying to enlighten my fellow Republicans about compassion toward unwed, pregnant teens.
Deal? We’re supposed to be grown ups here. Let’s start acting, and arguing like that’s what we are.