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?

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.

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!

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

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.

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.

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.

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!

*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.

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.

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!!