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By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  August 29th, 2008 at 08:02 PM  | 

RESIZE: AAA

First off: bring it, Democrats. Contribute to McCain Victory 2008 (UPDATE: as I understand it, that link still works after Thursday: it’s the same sort of shared-fundraising system that the DNC is using to inflate its monthly totals.)

Second: It’s a fascinating thing, really. For the last few months, the overwhelming theme that we’ve heard from the Democrats is that we are lost: that we are not what we once were; and that our lives have somehow been bound to an almost inevitable downward spiral. And that all of this is due to… depends on who you ask. A civic and political philosophy subscribed to by millions of Americans. A political party. A secret cabal of faceless men. A few men. One of many “one man”s. And that the only way that we may all be saved is to vote for their candidate.

And yet: today is the day where, for the first time, an African-American has been nominated for President by one of the two major parties… and the other major party has nominated the second woman for Vice-President. I want all of you to think of how that news would have been received in 1808.

Or 1868.
Or 1928.
Or 1948.
Or 1968.
Or even 1988, really.

Be wary of those eager to grasp your arm and insist that you have lost your way. There’s always the possibility that they merely think that it will be profitable for them for you to travel along theirs.

Everyone, please enjoy your weekend.

Moe Lane

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  • RandomGuy

    wouldn’t it be better to give money to the RNC, a 527, or another local candidate?

    Wouldn’t he have to spend the money by Thursday?

  • cordpt

    A few months ago, it was Beldar who sold me on this pick. Congrats to him for the call. Like him, I thought it was a long shot and I was ready to support some other guy, but now I’m really fired up.

    Here’s a post where he links all his posts about

    http://beldar.blogs.com/beldarblog/2008/08/yay-its-palin.html#comments

    Read the whole thing. It’s a must.

  • Moe_Lane

    Still works after Thursday, as I understand it.

  • gamecock

    Thank God me and Erick are suing people so the USA world still turns..

    and Adam, this is a compliment, but the numbers re intra-convention poll reading reminds me of the young chicken on Foghorn Leghorn that pitches a baseball via calculus equations!

    I’m not worthy Boy!

  • Magrooder

    {“Make the Scary Bad Woman go away.” – Moe Lane}

  • David_Hinz

    this must be terrible for you libs…certain that you had The One.

    Finally, your time had come.

    Hope and Change!

    And then, Sen McCain just pulled the rug right out from under your feet.

    Sad, truly sad. But then, if you had a candidate YOU could be proud of, maybe you wouldn’t be in such a sad state.

  • MCM

    and yet still more qualified than Barack. How does that sit with you?

    Oh, and cleanup on aisle 7 Moe.

  • Pentagon16

    that our Vice Presidential candidate is MORE qualified for her position than your Presidential candidate is qualified for his!!

    We can smell the desperation and fear from you libtards all the way across the internet. Time to go cry in the corner of your mom’s basement now..

  • gamecock

    1

  • aaronbg

    n/t

  • Moe_Lane

    And next week isn’t going to be a vacation. :)

  • pointguard

    …the vast majority of Democrats and Republicans are happy with Palin being McCain’s VP? I bring this up here and now because I respect the opinions of most of you here at RS. Especially you, Moe Lane. Shouldn’t one party be disappointed or “frightened” by this VP pick?

  • QueenOfCups

    I was waiting all day to see what you would have to say.

    I enjoy your cool, snarky posts immensely!

  • Moe_Lane

    The Republicans who are happy about this are happy because they are mostly conservative activists who wanted a solid conservative pick for VP, and were worried that McCain wouldn’t give it to them. they’re relieved to be wrong.

    The Democrats who are happy about this are happy because they are mostly netrooters and progressives who think that they can manage beating up on a woman. They won’t be relieved to be wrong.

  • gamecock

    Hawaii

  • ConservaGeek

    I don’t think the Dems are happy at all.

    I think their statements about their happiness that a woman is on the ticket are about as truthful as their constant claims that they support the troops.

    This was a hit right to the solar plexus of the Party of the Donkey, but they’re trying not to let McCain know it. Too bad the Obama campaign’s first press release screamed it from every bitter, petty word.

    No, Dems are not happy about this. They’re scared right down to their pink socks.

  • LoneStarLibertarian

    I donated $50 today to the McCain campagin. After swearing that I’d never put a McCain bumper sticker on my car when I took Mitt Romney’s off the day he dropped out, I now can’t wait to get a McCain/Palin sticker!

    All of the Republican women I know were just tickled pink about Palin – even those who didn’t know much about her.

    Those political animals in the know like me could only be expected to be excited, of course.

    In the end, Palin does two very important things for McCain – galvanizes the GOP base behind him and simultaneously makes a play for female independents.

  • gamecock

    5

  • Ezekiel

    He absolutely owned Saddleback. Obama’s been reeling ever since. He recaptured the interest of SoCons like me with his forthright and unequivocal defense of life there.

    His ads over the past couple weeks have been razor sharp and professional. His ad praising the accomplishment of Obama gaining the nom. was classy and at the same time positioned McCain as a statesman.

    And the Palin pick was brilliant on so many levels.

    Can’t wait til the Convention!

  • WOSG

    I told my wife while watching H&C to look at the face of Bob Beckel, that was the real indicator of what they were thinking, and ignore their words.

    Beckel looked like he swallowed a lemon. Not a smile and no humor. He gave the “Palin=Quayle” talking point, while a female GOP talking head chided him for being condescending threw it back at him.

    No, they are not happy. You take Obama’s best lines from Thursday night, the stuff about shaking up washingto and bringing change to Washington, cutting programs, etc. and Palin could deliver it and say:

    “Obama said these things as well… But there’s a difference. The difference is that he has no accomplishments to back up his words, whereas I mean it and I have the track record to prove it!”

  • PhxG

    Although I would say that there are many of the average leftys that are believing, falsely I might add, that Palin really is a flawed (that whole trooper thing) babe in the woods compared to Obama.

    This of course is giving them a bit of joy to revel in the false sense that McCain made a misstep in the VP selection.

    Yet I have no doubt that the leadership and strategists are quaking in their boots because I have been hearing noting but positives from people I know.

  • LoneStarLibertarian

    I have a kind of a funny story in that I had had dinner with my uber-liberal grandmother and her daughter the night of Barack Obama’s acceptance speech.

    They know that I’m generally a Republican, but sometimes I think that they misread my strident libertarian-conservative streak that causes me to dislike some Republicans very much – including our governor, Rick Perry.

    I was just sure that it was down to Mitt Romney and Tim Pawlenty, and so I was really pulling hard to Romney and was very sour about the prospect of Tim Pawlenty. For some reason they thought very approvingly of that.

    This morning when Palin was announced my grandmother just knew that she was one of these Republicans that I didn’t like for some reason. So she called me thinking that we could share a rare moment of political agreement in badmouthing Sarah Palin.

    I must admit that after listening to her rant that Palin was “nothing more than a bimbo” who would be just a heartbeat away from the presidency under the presidency of a cancer-riddled old man and that if McCain thinks Hillary supporters like her are stupid enough vote for him just because he put a ‘bimbo’ on the ticket then he was sadly mistaken.

    I was surprised at the vociferous defense that welled up inside me for McCain for the first time EVER and the discussion proceeded to get VERY heated.

    I told her that both Sarah Palin and Barack Obama were qualified to be president; that she was designed to attract real conservatives and independent women – not confirmed liberal women like herself; that McCain didn’t have cancer but that if Palin had to serve I would be very comfortable with that; that Palin had a very compelling reform story to tell as a crusader against powerful corrupt politicians in Alaska; and a powerful pro-life story to tell as the mother of a new baby with Down syndrome.

    My grandmother insisted that she “knew what she had and that was her choice.”

    I told her, “no…there is a term for slaughtering an innocent unborn baby and it’s not ‘choice.’”

    She said she was very disappointed in me and that she was hanging up.

    I felt remarkably cleansed. :-)

  • neum432

    Palin as VP will help gather support of (married women with children) who in previous elections cancel out the vote of their husbands and vote democratic. Liberal women however will see the Palin pick as a political stunt. They will see it as McCain trying to participate in the identity politics that the Democrats are famous for. McCain needs to trounce Obama in the debates to close the deal in November.

  • Raven

    What he said before Moe got to him…

  • septembergurl

    that’s three million dollars in contributions today due to palin.

    And that’s just one day, the Friday of a holiday weekend. $50 of that is mine.

    Happy Labor Day everybody!

  • CK_MacLeod

    …thanks for the story!

    Over the course of this very political campaign, I believe that a lot of people will move to the right on life issues – from pro-choice to middle of the road, from middle of the road to pro-life, or from functionally pro-choice to functionally pro-life.

  • han_solo

    *Remember, if you plan on donating to McCain’s campaign, he kept his promise of public financing – so you must donate by Aug. 31st!
    *

    He cannot accept funds from donors after that date, and will then be up against the Obama campaign’s significant resources.

    Give early, give often, give more than you usually do because its now or never.

  • Whitehorse

    Palin is a wonderful pick, definitely not what the Dems expected. I am happy that McCain picked her because of her work rooting out corruption in the Republican party. Supporting Parnell takes guts & she has those in quantity! We have needed to address those like Don Young who are part of the Washington problem, & she does this. This sucked all the oxygen away from the Democrat “bounce.” McCain has done a wonderful job with this pick.

  • Neil_Stevens

    Do you know if money from it will be reallocated to aid Congressional or other races as needed?

  • cordpt

    And not even about woman.

    Palin’s biggest strengths in electoral terms are:

    • conservatives of all kind and flavor. Heck, paleo-cons are happy, even Buchanan praises here.

    • not only women voted for Hillary. There were millions of moderates, Reagan Democrats, working class. You know, those nuts from small towns who cling to guns and God. Palin is a working woman. Her husband is a proud member of the Steelworks Union. They hunt, they raise a family and they come from a… small town. They ate mooseburguers, not blisnis.

    Quoting the WSJ:

    In office, Gov. Palin set an earthier style than her predecessors. She sold the private jet Mr. Murkowski used to get around Alaska, relying instead on commercial airlines and her family’s Jetta and a state-issued black Suburban. “I love to drive,” she says. She also waved off a security escort, driving herself to and from work every day from Wasilla.

    Biden and Obama are two liberals who spent most of their life doing politics.

    Palin is refreshing, down to earth, and many Clinton working-class voters will like that.

  • rick554

    While working in an obscure suburb of Cleveland yesterday, I observed some of my fellow construction-things doing the high 5. It was because of Sarah Palin! I immediately exited my machine and joined the festivities! In the land of Dennis Kucinich and the late, departed socialist, S. Tubbs-Jones, you would think that union construction workers celebrating a Republican woman’s elevation to the ticket would be an anomaly, but I’m not too sure. I’ve witnessed union crews openly laugh at a business agent for advocating Barry Hussein Obama. Frankly , here in the “economically ravaged” State of Ohio, I believe we have had our fill of the DNC, the MSM and Barry and his gang of gun-grabbers and abortionists.
    For all the grief that MAVERICK has given the Republicans, I consider the slate wiped clean with his pick of Sarah Palin. This is a winning team and I am proud to say I’ve donated to John McCain, I fully expect him to be the next President and Dick Cheny will be proud and pleased to hand over his keys to Sarah Palin! Get to work People, we have a Country to defend!!

  • David_Hinz

    They look at Gov Sarah Palin, a beautiful woman and they see someone as vacuous and shallow as themselves. Because she is a woman, they assume that she is that shiny object placed to attract their limited attention spam.

    It would never occur to a liberal that GOVERNOR Sarah Palin might actually have achievements that would attract conservatives to her, and that THOSE were the voters she is meant to appease.

    sad little liberals