Comments on: The weird turn pro

By: Berend de Boer

Berend de Boer — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 22:54:42 +0000

danylmc: Peggy Noonan and David Frum … two of the biggest guns in the GOP

Not sure, is this a joke? That’s a laughable statement, do you know anything about US politics?

By: ZenTiger

ZenTiger — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 03:43:19 +0000

And Hillary was a big gun taking shots at Obama. A much bigger gun than an ex speech writer Frum, who is busy selling a “tell all” book that mainly Democrats will buy.

Peggy Noonan has made some comments off mike that are being taken out of context. She sees this as a strategy that may pay of big, or fail big. I suspect she is thinking more of the politics of the situation.

In short, it’s early days yet, and if the Republicans can weather the manufactured media storm, I suspect Sarah Palin will prove to be a great vote catcher for them.

By: lyndon

lyndon — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 22:33:24 +0000

overdue library books

The ones she tried to ban?

By: danylmc

danylmc — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 22:30:17 +0000

This ‘train wreck’ is mainly in the minds of Democrats, and they don’t vote Republican.

I’m pretty sure Peggy Noonan and David Frum vote Republican – its pretty hard to argue that this is all the minds of democrats when you have two of the biggest guns in the GOP taking shots at Palin.

By: David

David — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 21:46:35 +0000

Ha, The war hero/politician and the soccer mum. Got a lot of bases covered there. Methinks the Democrats are shitting themselves hence their attack drones in the media are at full blast. They expected a Biden clone from the Republicans, but instead got someone pretty much every mother in America can relate to. And theres a huge number of small towns in the US just like where she came from. It aint all like LA
ZT is right. Its going to be a fascinating contest. Obama definitely not a shoe in. The left backed off real quick slagging her lack of experience in politics when they realised Obamas wasnt that great either!

By: Berend de Boer

Berend de Boer — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 21:44:22 +0000

Imagine if we were back in 2004 and out of nowhere John Kerry announced Barack Obama as his Vice Presidential nominee: in a couple of days the public would hear about Ayers, Rezko, Michelle’s thesis, Reverend Wright and the whole stealth Muslim, birth certificate idiocy.

Yeah right.

Just like they all heard about Edward’s love child?

Don’t you even realise that there’s a bit of difference between a daughter having a baby and choosing a pastor that says: God damn America?

By: Will de Cleene

Will de Cleene — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 21:41:13 +0000

Ahhh Alaska, the Deep South of the Far North.

By: ZenTiger

ZenTiger — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 21:20:31 +0000

Amazing what a different pair of glasses can do. This ‘train wreck’ is mainly in the minds of Democrats, and they don’t vote Republican.

Well, except for a few ex-Hillary supporters who might try changing lanes.

And that is the ‘problem’ – just because a few political pundits, and most of the American Main Stream Media see this as a fantastic disaster, they will ultimately have to face the Republican voters, who don’t need to think, they just need to vote. Accordingly, Palin just needs to encourage them to tick the right box on the day.

The more the media go on about a 22 year old’s 22 years old DUI, overdue library books, being a mayor, living in Alaska and other unpardonable sins, the more the Republicans who weren’t going to vote might vote.

This is a great selection. It’s made the elections interesting. I’m no longer sure Obama will get the landslide victory he was standing under.