Gustav

Hurricane Gustav will be getting close enough to me that I will be evacuating.  Not much, if any, access to the internet.

Last time I evacuated, (Hurricane Rita) I took me over 17 hours to get 200 miles.  My brother met me at the same place, it took him 34 hours.  And I had to drive down to bring him enough gas to make it.

Bad deal.  So, we are leaving as early as possible this time.

Hey, somebody take care of the superhighway for me!

Did Palin try to get ex-brother-in-law fired?

He seems like such a nice guy.  He tested his taser on his own child.

So did she try to get her ex-brother-in-law fired?  If she didn’t she should have.

John McCain selects Sarah Palin

From a John McCain campaign e-mail

My Friends,

I am honored to announce that I have chosen Governor Sarah Palin of Alaska as my choice for the Republican nominee for Vice President. As a father with three daughters, I can’t express how proud I am to choose the first female Republican Vice-Presidential nominee.

Sarah Palin is a trailblazer and a reformer. As the first female governor of Alaska, she challenged a corrupt system and has been a tireless advocate for reform – passing a landmark bill on ethics reform. She has taken on the old politics in Alaska and reformed the state’s energy industry. She rejects wasteful pork barrel spending. She’s fearless – exactly the type of leader I want at my side and the type of leadership we will bring to Washington.

My friends, together Sarah Palin and I make the strongest presidential ticket and I know that she joins me in asking for your support as we head into our Convention week in Minnesota. We’re shaking things up in this campaign – and Governor Palin and I are ready to bring real reform to Washington.

Nice Words from Mike Huckabee

From HuckPAC:

Sarah Palin is a pleasant surprise for those of us who had hoped that Senator McCain would pick a principled and authentic conservative pro-life leader.  Sarah Palin is both principled and authentic.  As a Governor, she also brings an important balance of understanding of the critical domestic issues that is needed and that the Democrats have ignored with their ticket.  Governor Palin is smart, authentic, tough, and a dynamic choice that will remind women that  they are not  welcome on the Democrat’s ticket, they have a place with Republicans.

Mike Huckabee

Obama Campaign on Palin pick

From the Politico:

the former mayor of a town of 9,000 with zero foreign policy experience a heartbeat away from the presidency.

So go back to thumping your bibles and oiling your guns you small town hicks.

If McCain/Palin ticket loses . . .

Does that mean America is full of male chauvinists?

kind of insulting isn’t it?

Sarah Palin?

The first time I wrote about Sarah Palin, I said I would be intrigued, but, that she wouldn’t pull many votes.

BUT, I think McCain may have made the first brilliant move in his campaign. Hillary’s women are still PO’d.

She’s a solid conservative with executive experience. Because of her governorship, she is more qualified than any of the candidates – especially Barack.

This may be fun.

But, if he doesn’t pick Palin, he will let the air out of the balloon.

A political observation

I drive 70 miles a day round trip.

I’ve only seen Obama bumper stickers.

I’ve only seen McCain yard signs.

What does that mean?

Some Straight Talk from Joe Biden

Ready for a little Pin Ball Action? Opinionated Catholic linked to Catholics Against Joe Biden. They linked to Catholic.org which had an editorial on Senator Obama’s choice for running mate, Joe Biden.

Here’s a passage from that article:

MR. RUSSERT: Let me talk—turn to abortion. The ban on partial-birth abortions or late-term abortions, you supported that ban.
SEN. BIDEN: I did and I do.
MR. RUSSERT: And the Supreme Court came and basically upheld that ban…
SEN. BIDEN: That’s right.
MR. RUSSERT: …and you criticized the Supreme Court.
SEN. BIDEN: I’ll tell you why I criticized the Supreme Court. They upheld the ban, and then they engaged in what we lawyers call dicta that is frightening. You had an intellectually dishonest rationale for an honest justification for upholding the ban, and that was this: They went further, and then they, in the language associated with the decision said, by the way, they blurred whether there is the first trimester and third trimester in how much—I know this is going to sound arcane to the listeners—but whether or not they blurred the distinction between the government’s role in being involved in the first day and the ninth month.

They blurred the role in terms of whether or not there is—they became paternalistic, talking about the court could consider the impact on the mother and keeping her from making a mistake. This is all code for saying, “Here we come to undo Roe v. Wade.” And it went on to say, by the way, that the life of the mother was, in fact, permissible exception, and it went on to say that even—that any woman could challenge, even if her health is at risk, could come back to the court to challenge that. So the bottom line here is, what they did is not so much the decision, the actual outcome of the decision, it’s what attended the decision that portends for a real hard move on the court to undo the right of privacy. That’s what I’m criticizing about the court’s decision.

What? Sounds like, “I actually did vote for the $87 billion before I voted against it.” – John Kerry.

Lying Liars

In case you missed it, we’re all lying liars.  I’m ok with that.

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