Friday the political world was shocked by the surprise choice of Republican Presidential nominee John McCain in naming Alaska Governor Sarah Palin to the number two spot on the 2008 GOP ticket. The Democrat attack machine immediately began hitting Palin on the issue of experience and as the weekend progressed the left has actually been reaching in their attacks which shows that the choice of Palin was not only unexpected but a choice that sparks fear in Democrat circles.

Attacks ranging from the ,”inexperienced on foreign relations,” attacks that began on Friday to trying to portray her as, ” not as conservative,” as she says because her husband and oldest son are registered Independents. An attack that appeared late on Saturday even moves into the ridiculous questioning the mother of five on her family values because when she went into labor in April for the birth of her son she was at a conference in Texas.

Her water broke and she still gave her scheduled speech then boarded a plane to head home to Alaska. Because she did not go to a Texas hospital and did not ask her doctors permission to fly home, the left are claiming that she has low family values and was not concerned about the life of ,”an unborn child !” This coming from the hypocrites that believe aborting the unborn in no big deal. The Dems are reaching and show their fear with Palin on the ticket.

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He has picked his running mate. Joe Biden from Delaware. A Senator who like Obama himself is an obvious flip flopper. While running for the Democrat Nomination Biden considered is a ,”tragic mistake, ” for the Democrats to nominate a candidate without ,”unimpeachable credentials on national security and foreign policy.” Now he is not only running with that candidate but considers the same inexperienced candidate he criticized to be qualified for the Presidency.

But in this world of politics there is one individual who calls for Obama in a way that should mean much more than it does to the Democrats and the media. A person who is not chanting ,”change,” like the minions who are mesmerized by the liberal Senator from Illinois. A person who shares not only a name but blood with Barack Hussein Obama.

In a shanty town in Huruma near Nairobi, Kenya lives George Hussein Obama, the 26 year old half brother of Barack Obama. Both the sons of Barack Hussein Obama Sr. A brother that Barack the candidate has met once when a child, and then the year before becoming a United States Senator he traveled to Nairobi to visit other family there and met with his half brother again.

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“LAY OFF MY WIFE,” Barack Obama in May 2008. During the Saddleback Forum Obama was asked in whom he receives advise when Rick Warren asked this question , ” Who are you going to rely heavily on in your administration ?” Obama’s first response was, “You mentioned one person I’d be listening to and that’s Michelle.”

Obama has made it very clear that his wife Michelle is off limits when it concerns his run for the Presidency. He emphatically stated in May after a GOP ad in Tennessee targeted his wife because of several controversial statements that she has made on the campaign trail, that he deemed it , “unacceptable, ” and that his wife was off limits.

Setting aside the controversial statements that she has made like being , “proud ,” of America for the first time in her,” adult life,” because her husband is running for President, Barack Obama in his response to Rick Warren’s question on who he will depend upon for advice as President has now left the door wide open for Michelle Obama to be scrutinized and questioned during the remainder of the campaign.

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Barack Obama is dangerous. That is a well known fact that conservatives understand and why we are so adamant in our opposition to this liberal candidate whose inexperience and lack of substance have no business even running for President much less sitting in the Oval Office.

In our zeal to defeat Obama though, we have neglected something that we as conservatives have always been consistent with when it concerns our politics. Conservatives have not only been able to articulate why we are opposed to an issue or a candidate but also why we support an issue or a candidate.

A fellow blogger, Gayle at the Dragon Lady’s Den during my Blog Talk Radio show brought to my attention the fact that we bloggers are spending a considerable amount of time writing against Obama and very little time in why we support John McCain, other than he is NOT Obama.

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Setting the world of politics aside for a day, I want to give kudos to a true athletic genius, Michael Phelps. Yesterday in Beijing Phelps won his eleventh Gold Medal placing him above Olympic icons Carl Lewis and Mark Spitz as the athlete who has won the most Gold Medals in Olympic history. He is also well on his way to winning eight Gold Medals during the Games, surpassing the record held by America’s Mark Spitz at seven.

Not only does Phelps win but he does so in dominating fashion. In each of the five events that he has competed in to this point he has not only won individually or in relay competition, but has shattered the World Record while leaving the rest of the athletes in the pool literally in his wake.

Many had suggested before this Olympics started that The United States should boycott the Games because of the Human Rights violations of the Chinese. This is a country that still has Communism as its form of government and has one of the if not the worst Human Rights records in history.

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The arrogance continues in the campaign of king Barack Obama. Not only is he a, “citizen of the world,” and is the, “symbol of our best traditions,” informing the people of the world that, “this is our moment,” because, “we are the change we have been waiting for,” but now the messiah is directly responsible for a cease fire by the Russian Republic in the attacks against Georgia.

Yes the messiah called for a cease fire and the Russians and the Georgian President realized that the ,”one,” had spoken and in the best interest of all citizens of the world the best course of action would be to have an immediate cease fire.

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Since the days of Reagan and especially after the Contract With America Republican members of the Congress, mostly the Senate have had a habit of shooting themselves in the foot. After taking control of the Congress in 1994GOP lawmakers had a run of success for awhile during the first Clinton term then began stumbling over true GOP values of limited government and reducing spending until their spend thrift ways brought back a Democrat majority in 2006.

Since the birth of the Pelosi/Reid Congress and the absolute failure of Democrats in doing anything , Republicans have failed to take advantage of these failings and the dismal Democrat record setting low approval numbers even in the single digits.

GOP lawmakers seem to have been satisfied with mediocrity and bowing to the whims of the failed liberal leadership claiming that they had no power to do anything because the votes just were not there. That combined with a group of RINO Republicans who sided with Democrats more often than not have made the GOP in Congress rather spineless.

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REPUBLICAN REVOLT AN ENERGY REVOLUTION

House Republicans continue the revolt against Speaker Pelosi and her irresponsible decision to not allow any energy legislation to come to the House floor for a vote and leave for the August recess. The revolt which began last Friday and continues today with former Speaker Newt Gingrich speaking along with many House Republicans, is to demand Congress reconvene and debate and vote on energy legislation.

Republicans are calling for drilling as well as alternatives forms of energy to decrease the stranglehold that we have from our dependence on foreign sources of oil. Pelosi shut down the House on Friday yet Republicans stayed to do the people’s business in the People’s House demanding that the House pass an energy bill to provide relief at the pumps for the American people.

While any drilling will not have an immediate effect on supply passing legislation to allow that drilling will have an immediate effect on the market as futures speculators will see that supply will increase and as such will adjust prices to meet with the increase of supply in the future.

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Democrat nominee Barack Obama delivered yet another address on energy. This time he is in favor of tapping the strategic oil reserve and maybe, just maybe looking at the possibility of thinking about considering to review some thoughts about off shore drilling.

His energy plan still consists mainly of alternatives that are YEARS in the future if the research were to begin today. He and other Democrats refuse to accept that though oil prices have been sky rocketing the problem is NOT a shortage of oil but the perception by the oil futures market that there MAY be a shortage if additional supplies are not found to meet an ever expanding demand.

Does Obama and the entire Democrat leadership think that the President, who has the authority to release oil from the strategic reserve, would if it was possible to curb the market for the long term rather than just a temporary drop that may last a week or possibly two release millions of barrels to ease the pain at the pump?

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Before many of you have an attack because of reading the title of this post read on a little further in order to fully understand the title. This particular title is a 2008 similarity to a newspaper headline from the Chicago Tribune made famous in 1948.

Election day in 1948 fell on November second placing President Harry Truman against New York Governor Thomas Dewey. The 1948 campaign had been a hard fought campaign between Dewey a well known liberal, (yes liberal), Republican who had the eyes and ears of the media, ( sound familiar ?), and incumbent President Harry Truman who took office after the death of FDR and had not been very popular as shown in the polls.

Governor Dewey was a charismatic campaigner who had the ability to excite an audience, (again sound familiar ?), and had led in the polls from the beginning of the campaign. Truman had ruffled a lot of feathers in addition to following in the shadow of a very popular President in FDR. He was also not a strong campaigner. In fact his campaign, though consistent, never really had much energy unlike that of Thomas Dewey, (hmmm another familiarity).

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Before many of you have an attack because of reading the title of this post read on a little further in order to fully understand the title. This particular title is a 2008 similarity to a newspaper headline from the Chicago Tribune made famous in 1948.

Election day in 1948 fell on November second placing President Harry Truman against New York Governor Thomas Dewey. The 1948 campaign had been a hard fought campaign between Dewey a well known liberal, (yes liberal), Republican who had the eyes and ears of the media, ( sound familiar ?), and incumbent President Harry Truman who took office after the death of FDR and had not been very popular as shown in the polls.

Governor Dewey was a charismatic campaigner who had the ability to excite an audience, (again sound familiar ?), and had led in the polls from the beginning of the campaign. Truman had ruffled a lot of feathers in addition to following in the shadow of a very popular President in FDR. He was also not a strong campaigner. In fact his campaign, though consistent, never really had much energy unlike that of Thomas Dewey, (hmmm another familiarity).

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