Posted by
dolfinwriter on Wednesday, October 01, 2008 3:51:04 AM
I'm worried about this campaign, and therefore I am worried about my country.
Sarah hasn't done well in her interviews with the MSM piranhas--depending whom you ask, anyway. In any event, I'm sure Katie Couric got a nice fat bonus for making Sarah squirm in that first one. WE know it was an ambush and pure "Gotcha!" journalism, but the left is laughing hysterically, and what worries me is whether John McCain knows that.
Remember that McCain wasn't our first choice for a number of reasons. For one thing, he seems always to have been enamored with the MSM hacks who are now trying their level best to destroy Sarah Palin. I'm not so sure he gets that they absolutely freaking HATE her! Maybe he thought his previous sucking up to them would endear Sarah to them or something.
FINALLY today she went on Hugh Hewitt for about ten minutes. I hope to see more of that in the next month plus. There wasn't much we didn't already know, but there are millions who still don't know much about her and need to hear her voice and see her face on every outlet possible--not just on PBS and John McCain's favorite leftie shows like Letterman! Please don't put her on Michael Savage though. The guy is often right, but he's so over the top, and I've already heard his rant about Sarah. There's no convincing that guy. He'll just call her a communist rat and scream at her. I'm sorry, but he gives conservatives a bad name.
I'm reading her bio, Sarah. I just got to the point where she won the Alaska GOP primary for governor, and she and her much more experienced running mate for Lt. Governor are out of money, out of ideas, and they are getting no help from the GOP because she has basically dumped in all their Wheaties. There's something that really touched me.
On page 102, "What Sarah and Parnell shared from the beginning was a sense that they were part of something more profound than personal politics or campaign strategy. That realization forged the beginning of trust between them."
"'It wasn't about Sarah, and it wasn't about me. It was about something bigger. We knew that for this to work, it would have to be through hands greater than ours' Parnell said."
I felt this the night that John McCain announced her and she gave that awesome speech at the Convention. I pray that that something more profound is destined to continue to Washington. I pray for God to guide John McCain because I'm not so sure he will get there the way he's been going. There's a great piece over at Fox News, The Mishandling Of Sarah Palin.
On another note, our leaders are failing us at every level. Ironically, the very party who constantly lectures us about our "World Standing" seems not to be the slightest bit concerned about this "World Standing"!
Someone in a leadership position needs to get on national TV and address the nation and explain this financial debacle and the necessary rescue in terms that "Joe six-pack" can understand. Then they need to lay out a plan to phase out the corrupt pseudo government entities that perpetuated this mess, repeal the Community Reinvestment Act, repeal Sarbanes-Oxley and replace it with something more reasonable and realistic. I'd love to see a few people go to jail too.
If that were done, not only would the Dems currently playing politics with our security and our livelihoods be forced to do serious work for a change and get this done, but the necessary legislation would get all the support it needs, and just maybe we would get a Democrat rout in Congress in the November election.
Unfortunately that is one of my main complaints about the man who SHOULD be giving that talk, George W. Bush.
Mr. President, I acknowledge that you tried to warn Congress to take action before it came to this, but you have failed miserably to communicate the situation to we the people. You have failed to communicate and make the case that you could have and should have on a number of issues, from oil and gas exploration and drilling to Social Security to the Iraq War. Only if Obama is elected will I even miss you on January 21st.
And the Dems are right about one thing. If McCain is elected, in a way it WILL be four more years of the same. More of the same incompetent communication, because McCain is no better at making the case he should than Bush is.