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Roger Kimball muses today on an old WFB line: In the early 1960s, Bill Buckley famously observed that he would rather be governed by the first two thousand names in the Boston phone book than the two thousand faculty members of Harvard University. After my post last weekend re Governor Palin, a number of readers modified the thought along the following: I would rather be governed by the first 500* names in the Wasilla, AK phone book than by the editors of The Harvard Law Review. (*Presumably reduced from 2,000 because, what with all those five-kid households, there probably aren't...

Let me begin with a big caveat: the McCain campaign still faces big structural obstacles. The Republican base is shrunken like a week old tomato on a sunlit window sill. Obama still has a bit of a lead in most recent polls, and despite the fact that his lead has always been narrow, and despite the fact that, on paper, his lead ought to be a lot larger, it is still better to hold a lead than to lose it. Nor did McCain's choice of a much younger running mate make him any younger, and his age remains his most...

John McCain and Sarah Palin have received a rousing welcome in Democratic-leaning Michigan. As they made their post-convention debut they stressed a strong America and the economy. Big crowds cheered the Arizona senator and Alaska governor as they arrived at Freedom Hill Amphitheater in Michigan's Macomb County, the home to a multitude of working-class union members. Republicans hope to win the blue collar vote with conservative positions on cultural and social issues. Senator McCain told the crowd: "These are tough times for many of you, in the state of Michigan, times are tough. Many people here were worried about keeping...

September 5, 2008 ~ ISSUE 3View archives of the Newswire @http://palinpingers.libertyrocks.us/archive/Today at FReeRepublic.com:McCain/Palin Rally Report - Sterling Heights, MI - netmilsmom - http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2075716/posts UPCOMING CAMPAIGN EVENTS:September 6, 2008 - WHAT: Road to Victory Rally: Join Senator John McCain, Cindy McCain and the Vice Presidential Nominee for a Road to Victory Rally WHEN: September 6, 2008 - Doors Open at 9:00 a.m.WHERE: Colorado Jet Center, 1575 Aviation Way, Colorado Springs, CO 80916For More Information and a map - CLICK HERESeptember 6, 2008 - WHAT: Road to Victory Rally: Join Senator McCain, Cindy McCain, and the Vice Presidential Nominee, Sarah Palin.WHEN:...

I think the PUMAs are the most objective political presence in this election cycle. Sure, they supported Hillary Clinton, but they were able to break out of party shackles and objectively see that Obama points their party in the wrong direction. One interesting observation is their surprise at how Democratic party leaders allowed Hillary to be maligned while the Republican party stood by Sarah Palin, even in her darkest hour. Some of those attacks against Hillary were harsh and frequently sexist. Such as Obama's comment about Hillary and "periodic" rage. (VIDEO AT LINK) Of course, one can argue that this...

After watching the presidential nomination acceptance speeches, I have a few comments to make. First for Obama. The guy has no clue what he is talking about. He spent almost the entire 45 minutes saying how terrible McCain is and was misinformed on almost every account. And on the rare occasion where he actually talked about himself, he was not able to convince me that any of his ideas are possible without costing me an arm and a leg. At one point he actually said that the republicans want for people born into poverty to pull themselves out of it....

Has anyone had their credit card hit twice for the same donation to McCain? This just happened to me. The correct one was about a month ago, then they hit me for a duplicate amount at the end of August. I've made a few phone calls, but still have not received a refund. I suspect this is not an isolated event, but something that may have happened to hundreds or even thousands of donors.

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September 4, 2008 - ISSUE 2(View archives of the Newswire @ http://palinpingers.libertyrocks.us/archive/) TODAY AT FreeRepublic.com: GOP Convention LIVE THREAD - DAY 4 - http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2074584/posts UPCOMING EVENTS: September 5, 2008 - What: McCain Street U.S.A. in Cedarburg, Wisconsin When: 9/5/08 @ 8:00 a.m. Where: The corner of Washington Ave. & Columbia Rd. in Cedarburg, WI For more information - CLICK HERE September 5, 2008 - What: Road to Victory Rally When: 9/5/08 @ 5:00 p.m. Where: Freedom Hill Ampitheatre, 1400 Metro Parkway, Sterling Heights, MI For more information & a Map - CLICK HERE September 6, 2008 - What: Road to...

Ordinarily, I would never recommend MSNBC viewing to anyone. After all, when I'm not hosting my radio show or writing for Townhall.com, I work at Fox News Channel as a contributor. But if you happened to be Tivo'ing MSNBC last night after Sarah Palin's home run speech, you MUST check out poor Keith Olbermann. After fawning and gushing and salivating over the Democrats during their convention in Denver, Keith looked and acted last night like he had swallowed a fish bone. I mean, this guy was mad. Pathetically trying to use words like "condescending" and "saracastic", he did his best...

The Central Santa Rosa Republican Club is meeting tonight at the Red Barn Bar-B-Que @ 5887 U.S. 90 in Milton, FL! Dinner starts at 1730 and the program starts at 1900!! The featured speaker will be the Honorable Greg Evers, State Representative of District 1. Topics will be taxes, growth, constitutional amendments and other legislative affairs and how they impact the community and you! Come and join us!!

John McCain harkens back to a different era in America. Cue "Mr. Sandman" and let's take a trip back to good ole 1955. A time when America was safe and sound because the White House was occupied by a humble, plain speaking citizen soldier from Kansas. That man was Dwight D. Eisenhower. Ike is back on the scene with a vengance and I'm not talking about the hurricane steaming across the Atlantic. Reform. Prosperity. Peace. Sound familiar? It's not a coincidence that the McCain campaign is playing straight from Ike's playbook... Click here to read the full article

Is Sarah Palin helping or hurting John McCain? Helping 28% 1525 Hurting 72% 3918 Total Votes: 5443

WHERE IS SECURITY?!! I can't believe this so-called "journalist" creep can just waltz up to Senator McCain's mother and daughter!!

Dave Kralik has been nominated as one of ten web people most influencing politics. Let's vote for him - and get ready for American Solutions Day II on September 27th

Get ready folks, in just a few hours we are about to watch heads exploding from the hate filled moonbat left. Leading that charge might just be Portland's own Jack Bogdanski. Remember he is the creepy guy who bought, hook line and sinker, the story about Governor Palin faking her pregnancy (Que Twilight Zone music now). I checked out some of Jack's comments from his hate filled anti-Palin thread and found a few of these morsels that were posted on Sunday, August 31st. Check them out and get yourself a little chuckle. Doris, don't worry. By this time Tuesday, she...

It all began with Hillary Clinton and her eighteen million votes. Democrats said, “thanks, but no thanks,” when they hung Hillary Clinton and her supporters out to dry during the Democratic primary this year. Think about that - Democrats told the entire population of 27 congressional districts that they’re vote doesn’t count. This was a very bold, and ironically, Clintonesque move on the part of Barack Obama and the Democratic Party. In addition to the all important female voters who supported Hillary, the Clinton’s other top two minority groups were victims of Obama’s vice presidential selection process and the Democratic...

A fantastic article appeared in the New York Post today entitled The Time-Warped Sexist Assault on Sarah Palin, by columnist Andrea Peyser. The article highlights all the hypocrisies currently being dished out by the good ol' liberal left and their partners in crime the Media. Gov. Palin has been on VP campaign for less than a week and already she is being demonized by the MSM as a horrible mother figure for her career choices (among other things). Peyser writes: "When Joe Biden tragically lost his wife and infant daughter in a car wreck in 1972, not a single colleague,...

PLEASE JOIN JOHN McCAIN & SARAH PALIN For McCain Street USA!! This Friday! September 5th 2008 Doors Open at 8:00 a.m. Programming Starts at 10:00 a.m. Downtown Cedarburg At the corner of Washington Ave and Columbia Rd Please RSVP by calling (414) 326-4235, or clicking here.

If Barack Obama was born on August 14, 1961 - then his mother was likely pregnant sometime in October of 1960. Since Obama's mother was born on November 29th, 1942 that would make her pregnant at 17. Last time I checked... Barack Obama had enormous respect for his maternal grandmother, even though this woman raised a child who got pregnant at age 17.

Barack Obama has inserted himself into the debate as to who has the most experience: he, or Sarah Palin. As the head of the Democrats’ ticket, he should view himself above such a question, and focus only on his credentials to lead. Instead, he has again made the issue of experience the campaign meme, which is a factor he is going to lose time and time again, especially since he is not running against Sarah Palin for president. This is playing out like I envisioned, and opposite to how the punditry on a sordid series of cable news shows predicted....

The Corporate Mainstream Media has just received word that they have ANOTHER gang-rape to attend. Just when they thought that they could take a break from their rampant bias, sexism and utter contempt for the concept of journalistic integrity, John McCain has given them another woman to deal with: Sarah Palin. Yesterday, the ‘New Democrats’ didn’t even know what to do with themselves. They were utterly stunned at the fact that they had just been outplayed and outmaneuvered by the Republicans (AGAIN!) by placing the only candidate with Executive experience on both tickets, and who “just happens” to be a...

Many of you have commented on how does one merit a Christmas card from the White House. Some of you have commened upon how do you get involved in the campaign. A few of FR readers have commented upon you lack of enthusiasm for the candidates we have. Let me report my experience after eight and a half hours in the hot Missouri sun from one of the greatest outpourings of support for the GOP I have witnessed in approximately 50 years of being involved in politics. I know many who might comment that I was a slacker for the...

Hi everyone. I used the search function, and couldn't find reference to an "official" FR Sarah Palin ping list. So, I thought I'd post something and ask everyone if they've seen one anywhere? If there isn't one that is already started, I would be happy to put one together. Seeing as we have only 10 weeks to go till the election, I thought it may be a good idea to put together a group here at FR that will get pings to articles and posts featuring; Releases from the Palin for Vice-President part of the McCain/Palin campaign, "MUST-READ" articles, videos,...

Ferraro Happy About Palin, Won't Reveal for Whom She's Voting (Jake Tapper, August 31, 2008, POLITICAL PUNCH) Former vice presidential nominee Geraldine Ferraro told National Public Radio's Jacki Lyden that she was happy to see Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin -- who mentioned Ferraro in her remarks Friday -- on the GOP ticket. "For 24 years I've been saying, 'It's great to be the first, but y'know, I don't want to be the only,'" Ferraro said. "And so now it is wonderful to see a woman on a national ticket." [...] As for whom Ferraro will vote, the former congresswoman from...

Democrat Bobby Bright leads Republican Jay Love in the race for the 2nd congressional district seat being vacated by retiring U.S. Rep. Terry Everett, R-Rehobeth, according to a poll released Tuesday by the Capital Survey Research Center. Bright, the mayor of Montgomery, was the choice of 47.1 percent of the district voters surveyed. Love, a state representative from Montgomery, was the choice of 37.4 percent. Another 15.5 percent of voters surveyed said they didn't know or didn't reply when asked for whom they would vote in the congressional race.

Beautifully done. If you are supporting this ticket, please get this out to everyone you know.

Leave it to the solipsistic, dead tree media to get it wrong once again. They are trying to come to terms with McCain's selection of Sarah Palin and what a masterstroke it was. They buy into the Obama "hope and change" B.S. then defend his choice of Joe Biden as V.P, yet when a true example of change smacks them upside the dome, they bash it. What the media can't understand is that Palin has reinvigorated a GOP that sorely needed it. During the primaries, there was excitement and drama as Obama caught and then overtook Hillary Clinton. It was...

Did anyone see this footage from Sarah Palin's stint as a sportscaster in March, 1988, shortly before she got married?

John Stewart gives a surprisingly witty and back-handed review of Obama's speech in Denver.

A few weeks back, I wrote a column.., "Who Wrote 'Dreams From My Father'?" My research led me to the conclusion that a literary neophyte like Obama could not have written the memoir... snip ...publishers had sought him out (he was a college student)...still unknown, contract in hand. I doubted... snip "The whole story smells of purposeful intervention," I wrote. snip ..."who did the intervening and why?" snip ...Percy Sutton,...sheds light on the question of who this godfather might be. snip Dr. Khalid Abdullah Tariq al-Mansour, "the principle adviser to one of the world's richest men", a guest lecturer at...

Rasmussen’s daily tracking poll today shows the same four-point lead Barack Obama held yesterday over John McCain. This poll, the first to show reaction from Obama’s speech, indicates that Obama didn’t get any more bounce out of his Invesco Field appearance than he received from the Democratic convention as a whole: The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Saturday is the first to include reaction to both Barack Obama’s acceptance speech and John McCain’s selection of Sarah Palin to be his running mate. The numbers are little changed since yesterday and show Barack Obama attracting 47% of the vote...

Hey DNC....We're Over It. Now You Get Over It! We watched in horror as you told your base that they were no longer needed and that we could just "stay home". We watched in stunned outrage when you were silent on sexism and propelled the race card. You called us uneducated, old, blue collar, gun toters, clingers, not urban, souless, clueless, and basically threw us to the dogs. You told us to shut up, get over it and fall in line. Many of us have donated, worked hard for the DNC for years if not decades. We have been true...

N B C the "New Barack Channel" The Peacock and Barack Obama by Bill O'Reilly

There’s been a lot of talk about Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin over the last several weeks as people are weighing in on who they think McCain should pick as his VP running mate. While I think she is short on experience at this stage in her political career, I believe she has a bright future in politics, and perhaps we may one day see her on the national stage. Last July, while the primary campaign season was just warming up and way before any talk of VP selections, the Weekly Standard’s Fred Barnes wrote a good piece on who Palin...

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Senior officials from McCain Camp have confirmed that Alaskan Gov. Sarah Palin will be McCain's running mate. Considered to be a Republican Maverick (much like McCain), Pawlin defeated incumbent Gov. Frank Murkowski to claim her current position, which she has held for the last two years. She is the states first female Governor and will be the country's first female Vice-President. At age 44 Palin is younger than both Obama and Biden and is the mother of five children. Foxnews reportso n Palin's family and work ethic stating: "Sarah and Todd Palin have five children: boys Track, 19, and Trig,...

Barack Obama in his speech:You don't protect Israel and deter Iran just by talking tough in Washington.http://www.nbc4.com/politics/17329645/detail.html Does this mean that if you talk less tough [like Obamanation] you get better "results" in protecting Israel from Islamists' genocide?

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Despite the hoopla of the Democratic National Convention and the great publicity for Democratic nominee Barack Obama this week, he has not received much of a boost in the public opinion polls. In fact, his poll numbers have declined slightly. The pick of U.S. Senator Joseph Biden has been a big failure and has not helped the ticket at all. According to the National Journal, Barack Obama is the most liberal member of the U.S. Senate, while Biden is the third most liberal member. Since this ticket is so liberal and the American people are starting to focus on the...

TOP 10 REASONS McCAIN’S VP SHOULD BE ALASKA GOVERNOR SARAH PALIN Laurie Morrow • August 28, 2008 0:57am • Uncategorized Edit This REASON #10: PALIN’S YOUTH COMPLEMENTS McCAIN’S EXPERIENCE For months, Obama’s supporters have touted the Senator’s youthfulness as one of his qualifications for office (a strategy they’re apt to scale back on, given their selection of a Vice President nearly as old as McCain). If youth is seen as a plus by voters, then Alaska Governor Sarah Palin fits the bill. At 44, she is 3 years younger than Barack Obama, and the youngest person ever to be elected...

Senator McCain takes Senator Obama to the woodshed (again) using clips of Senators Biden, Clinton, Dodd, Obama, et al and President Clinton describing Obama's inexperience, with the backdrop of scenes from the Russian/Georgian war. GREAT AD!

In a brilliant attempt to capitalize and steal the spotlight from yet another one of Obamessiah's speeches, Camp McCain has decided to release an ad in battleground states tonight while Obama delivers his speech at the Democratic Convention. Reports out of Politico and DrudgeReport indicate that there may even be an early leak from Camp McCain in order to draw the attention away from Obama's sermon, I mean speech, and shift the focus of attention back to Camp McCain. Individuals close to the campaign state that the running mate choices are and continue to be : "Governor Mitt Romney of...

Now that it is convention time he is taking a central approach, but will Pelosi let him stay there?

While the Democrats play out the Billary –Obama Saga. The Republicans are at work finalizing their platform.

I made the mistake of watching the whole of Joe Biden's keynote DNC speech at the gym tonight. How underwhelming! Forgiving the inadvertent (and repeated) stumbling and bumbling, the substance of the speech itself was just painfully awkward. First, the theme of the evening was national security. CQ reports that one of the Democrat talking points was "stewardship of the armed forces." In line with this, I'm guessing, Biden threw in minor, trite, awkward mentions of the troops. The first was sandwiched, awkwardly disconnected, between his fawning adoration of Hillary Clinton and before the typical pandering to his home state...

The theme of tonight's Democrat Convention follies will be "Securing America's Future", or in dem language "abandoning your friends and kissing your enemies." In honor of this event, John McCain has released his latest ad called "Tiny", using Barry's own words against him. Here is the original clip, which I really wish they would have used in the ad. Barack also turned around the very next day and called Iran a "grave threat", something I believe should also be in the ad. Those video clips played back to back would not only strike at how naive and, frankly, stupid Barack...

The Democrats kicked off their convention to less than stellar poll results. After "President" Obama announced his VP choice, today polls shifted in favor of McCain. ((Side note / rant: I thought it was hysterical that former Messiah to the people John Kerry kept referring to Obama as PRESIDENT Obama, guess he hasn't been paying attention to public reactions or polls. )) Evidently the ads that were released by the RNC and McCain Camp showing Biden's distrust of Obama's experience regarding his White House Bid have struck a cord with voters... and rightfully so. Granted the Gallup poll showing McCain...

If you missed Hillary's speech tonight, let me summarize it for you: Obama is the Democrat nominee so I will support him, since he is the Democrat and I am a Democrat. She also talked about her campaign and how her candidacy inspired women and little girls. She looked great and her video was great. She just didn't make the case for Obama. She didn't talk about how he is qualified to lead. She said his name plenty of times, but she really didn't talk about him. Tomorrow night Bill Clinton will speak. We all know what he will talk...