Comments on: The Guys Doth Protest Too Much

By: MikeH

MikeH — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 08:10:53 +0000

It seems that she had the only spine in the entire campaign. When her erstwhile boss started trashing her, I realized that she struck the conservative note that he had been trying to drown out.

By: DSmith

DSmith — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 20:57:38 +0000

Sorry for the truncated post…got 44:1 in above. To keep it crisp, I’ll just add 44:9-10:

“9 And some there be, which have no memorial;
who are perished, as though they
had never been, and are become as though
they had never been born;
and their children after them.

10 But these were merciful men,
whose righteousness hath not been forgotten.”

By: DSmith

DSmith — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 20:51:52 +0000

“Let us now praise famous men and our fathers who begat us.”
Ecclesiasticus 44:1-15

By: Robert

Robert — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 19:18:22 +0000

As I said before in my comment to the thread about renaming Reagan airport, we, as Americans, should not base our politics on heroes. Our country, was founded on a proposition, not on a person. Our politics should be about ideas not personalities.

Let the liberals search for their anointed, the Won, who is the embodiment of their desire. Let them wake in the morning disillusioned, bitter, and wondering who is the rube*.

“Put not your trust in princes, in the sons of men, in whom there is no help. When his breath departs he returns to his earth; on that very day his plans perish.”**

Our standard must be Our Country, Our Constitution, and the American people.

*If you have to ask who the rube is …

**Ps 146:3-4

By: DSmith

DSmith — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 14:51:18 +0000

“If you have an anti-mainstream-media and anti-GOP-establishment bone in your body, it’s hard not to root for her at least a bit.”

I don’t always agree with Mr. Kristol, but I’d say he’s bang on with this. I believe that there’s a substantial “None of the Above” vote for whom poking both the GOP leadership and the Punditry in the eye is a priority.

Every report I saw of her speech last Friday was edited with sufficient art that they all supported the notion that her decision was irrational. Reading a transcript showed that to be misleading. It was an honest, straightforward, logical response to the real world situation, which of course would disqualify her continued role in Federal politics in many peoples’ eyes.

She’s still on my short list.

By: TSAlfabet

TSAlfabet — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 13:10:02 +0000

One of the strongest appeals of conservatism is its down-to-earth, common sense simplicity. Take the economy, for example. It is embarrassingly obvious that the problem of soaring deficits cannot be solved by spending MORE money. Fiscal discipline is a conservative tenet, true, but it is also a simple reality for most people. Hence the outrage by Americans who see the elites in D.C. — including Republicans, shame on them– voting for vast expansions of public debt (and spending for things that benefit no one except politicians and their cronies).

And here is the great appeal of Sarah Palin. Like most of us, she does not need an Ivy League education to see common sense solutions staring her in the face. Stop the spending. Cut waste. Reduce government. Eliminate corruption. She has done more than just talk about it, she has done it as a governor. So she has some credibility when she speaks. Americans are fed up with “nuance” and politically correct excuses for what seems like obvious insanity. If Palin can find a way to shun the handlers and image makers and just advocate the common sense solutions that most of us know are there, she will have no lack of support. The GOP elite need to wake up from their D.C. stupor or get out of the way.