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RNC – Fired Up Over Governor Palin

By: Dan Spencer (Diary)  |  September 1st, 2008 at 11:26 AM  | 

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As Erick has noted, Josh Green says the Republican National Convention delegates are not enthusiastic about Governor Palin as McCain’s running mate.

That is nothing like the reaction I’ve experienced here at the RNC. Everyone I have spoken with about Palin here is unhesitatingly enthusiastic and fired up about Palin. No negative, all very positive.

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  • c17wife

    holds now that Sarah Palin has told the world that Bristol Palin is pregnant.
    For me, I couldn’t care less. It is a family matter.
    As for others, well, we’ll see.
    I know there are a lot of moms out there that will support her no matter what, but it does make me wonder how the undecided/independents will view this.
    Interesting dynamics we have here.

  • antioxymoron

    I know the story of Bristol Palin’s pregnancy must really “fire up” the Republican base. Lets see if you Ultra-Conservatives can now say F-O-R-N-I-C-A-T-I-O-N or A-B-S-T-I-N-E-N-C-E without vomiting in your own mouth first!

    Mr. McCain picked a winner, and to think that he actually had prior knowledge of this? Is he trying to throw the election, or is this just another display of his superior judgment?

    With all of the indiscriminate Obama bashing that I have seen on this site, this news should definitely be a moment of pause. Within that moment, everyone here should reflect upon the implications of “casting the first stone” or “throwing stones while living in glass houses”!

    Antioxymoron

    Pro-War + Pro-Life = Oxymoron!

  • tracycoyle

    I probably asked 20 delegates yesterday at the An American Carol event their opinion on Palin and the response was an unanimous approval. To those that were unhappy with McCain, they offered that the choice of Palin impressed and surprised them. It was a small sample, but consistent.

    • itrytobenice

      eats a person from the inside out? Yeah, that nasty nauseous taste in your mouth (when you keep throwing up a little) is the bile that you have allowed to build up.

      It makes you as nasty and undesirable as your words.

  • Molten

    She’s obviously eclipsed Obama in the “celebrity” department…she’s the most Googled, read about, and watched woman on the planet right now…She makes Britney and Paris look like Heckle and Jeckle..

    • Jaded

      nt

      • Vegas_Rick

        n/t

  • gaonmymind

    I like Palin and think she’s an upstanding woman. While there are a lot of positive things she brings, I think McCain could have done better with another VP choice. I wouldn’t say that she has any “bad” attributes, mostly that others would have been better.

    Gov. Palin is commendable for her stances on drilling, the right to bear arms, and abortion. But all of the people in the VP pool had strong stances on those issues? Heck, not even the dems are talking about gun control. They’ve lost so many elections because of gun control, and after the DC gun ban fell, it’s pretty obvious that no one is going to even try to regulate firearms this year.

    Likewise, she is to be commended for trying to trim the pork in Alaska. Still, Alaska gets more money per citizen from the federal government than any other state in the country. In other words, Alaska is the biggest welfare state in the US.

    The biggest deficiencies she brings is her lack of experience. It’s going to be harder to go after Obama when Palin’s a new governor in the most isolated state in the union and before that a mayor of a city of less than 10,000. McCain is 72, and it’s a real possibility he could die in office. He’ll get a lot of criticism over putting her 1st in the line of succession.

    The democrats better not dare go after her daughter. That would definitely cross a line. What they might say is that Bristol is an example of why abstinence only education doesn’t work. It doesn’t. Period. The biggest study ever conducted definitively said that abstinence only showed a slight increase in pregnancy and potentially in the transmission of STDs like HIV.

    My question for McCain is why make this choice? If you wanted to invigorate the values votes, why not Huckabee? He has more experience and is an ordained minister.

    Honestly, I would prefer it if our party left the Ralph Reeds behind. Instead of going for the financial conservatives and the middle of the road voters, McCain shored up evangelicals. The problem is that the moderates and financial conservatives outnumber the evangelicals, and they may now look at McCain more seriously.

    I really though McCain had this one in the bag before Palin. Now, I’m not so sure.

    • Putter

      I think your tag line says a lot = “Pro-War + Pro-Life = Oxymoron”. You see this as some type of inconsistency. We think of this as tolerance. We prefer to wait until the offspring have done something worthy of execution before the sentence is carried out. We take dead aim at murderers, terrorists and despots and lament any loss of innocent life that occurs in the process. You somehow equate this with the termination of human life as an inconvenience. Hell, Moe and Neil have given YOU more respect than that.

      • gaonmymind

        I meant to say middle of the roader and financial conservatives may give Obama a look now. It was a tight election between the dems/republicans when McCain could count on the centrist vote that he’s always received in every election.

        I didn’t even hit on the fact that McCain could’ve picked someone who was strong on the economy. Governor of Alaska?

        Again, there is nothing wrong with Sarah Palin and I’m sure I’d really enjoy meeting her. But the more I look, I wonder what — if anything of substance — she actually brings to the table.

        The future of our party will be lost unless we can figure out how to keep the moderate voters, and you don’t do that by putting evangelical issues in front of the economy.

        • tracycoyle

          I think Palin was a great choice and completely unexpected by me. I assumed that McCain would ignore the base.

          • dbecraft

            Too many are aghast that he could pick such a wonderful choice! Hince the uncommon enthusiasm.

            Well, it does help that she is unknown and the Democrats are busy searching the web for dirt constantly… That is the reason for the high google marks…(as I’m sure you know already since you’ve probably been there).

            The reason: Honesty and Integrity in politics – wow, that’s hard to find you know… You should be very thankful!

          • Vegas_Rick

            Or have you not heard the reports from all across the country of the positive response from conservatives and the Republican base? From women?

            Did you not hear about the $10 million in the three days since she was announced? or the $47 million in August?

            This response to this wonderful conservative woman shows that Republicans don’t need to hide their conservatism or drift to the left to get elected and stay in power.

            Damn it! Most Americans are conservative in their values, if not in their politics. If that were not true, how did Dubya do it? Twice?

          • Putter

            The prescient Joe Biden? I think McCain just did that. We have a couple of big drags on the economy, deficit spending and energy costs. I think Sarah can handle that pretty well. I just heard Mitt Romney endorse the pick.

          • Putter

            The prescient Joe Biden? I think McCain just did that. We have a couple of big drags on the economy, deficit spending and energy costs. I think Sarah can handle that pretty well. I just heard Mitt Romney endorse the pick.

          • dbecraft

            If the Republicans are ever to regain a foothold in politics, it will be with honesty and action. Both are requirements to advance.

            We now have Sarah Palin and John McCain (sorry, can’t put him first) as rebellious counter Washington pols. If you want to actually change things, you have to take a chance that the voting public actually do understand the issues and how government has been working.

            Now if they want more of the same, then we have lost…but, if they really want change (as the polls suggest), then this team is the best hope. You can wish for another grand politician on the VP side for McCain, but what is that really worth?

            Most have endured the political crap from Washington for far too long…time for a change. That change is reflected in the Sarah Palin choice – maybe more than McCain wanted!

          • Vegas_Rick

            I’ve read a lot of your comments and was curious. :)

          • gbp872

            Through stupidity. Too many conservatives just refuse to vote for anyone except a REpublican. They don’t care if they have a brain or not. Or if they took cocaine, had DUI’s, flucked out of WU three times (Cheney).

          • Vegas_Rick

            How’s it feel to be on the wrong side of life?

          • Jaded

            We Americans like to live and the pansied Democrat party who would watch this beautiful country go down in flames because they wussified from years of liberalism is the reason the majority voted for the President in 04….the reason they voted for him in 00 is because Al Gore is an idiot much like yourself.

          • Vegas_Rick

            n/t

          • Molten

            “Honesty and Integrity in politics”

            funny guy…

          • Putter

            do you think you are accomplishing here? You are merely reinforcing every negative “stereotype” that we have of liberals. If you think you have better policy ideas, go sell them on the open market. You are a trespasser here, so this is probably the last semi-polite response you are going to get.

  • gaonmymind

    I try to put up a thought-provoking post and I get assaulted with names. For the record, I also do not listen to Rush, watch O’Reilly, or listen to Neil Boortz. I read the WSJ and the National Review and I was a conservative before you folks co-opted that term and made it mean hurling insults and the opposition.

    There is a real value to being a conservative and you diminish it with your lack of reasoned arguments. If you want to attack my ideas, attack them.

    And don’t tell me that Palin is “change”. First of all, she isn’t. She supports many of the same values as W. That’s why people are delighted. It isn’t that she’s different, it’s that she’s the same. Second of all, who says we want “change”. Yes, Washington is broken, and that means we need less of it, not more.

    Unfortunately, W has been the one who’s swelled the deficit. The democrats have only had the Congress since January 2007. We can’t blame the medicare bill and war spending on them. W is the one spending money faster than any Kennedy ever did and borrowing it from the Chinese, the Saudis, and the Russians.

    This country is not for sale. Conservatism has always been about personal property, small government first, and the protection of values since the beginning of this country. It’s about better leadership and more freedoms. It’s not about insults, and it’s not about “change”. Conservative means lack of change. It means going back to when things were good. That’s what “conservative” means.

    • Moe_Lane

      Quickly, before you get boring.

      Moe

      PS: Master Reply to This while you’re at it.

      • Moe_Lane

        I mean, look at the keyboard. You have to use the wrong hand.

        • bs

          Sorry Sparky, but your postings are nothing more than a laundry list of Leftist talking points. Every single thing you said is a point that’s been pimped by the Kos Kidz that have infiltrated this site in the last 48 hours. So cry me a river.

          • dbecraft

            Honesty and Integrity… or have you been watching the Democratic Convention…?

            Well, if you can’t take on the challenge of a few Conservatives, you may be a Democrat.

            Yes, This country is not for sale… Unless you look at the last 50 years of politics!

            Now what – heh?

          • blooch

            he could be ketstroking with one hand…don’t want to think about how he hits the caps and parentheses in his Cheney happy ending.