“I Will Vote for Sarah Palin…”
September 5th, 2008 at 09:43am Mark Noonan
Suann Therese Maier over at First Things explains:
…I will vote for Sarah Palin because I don’t need the Democratic platform’s belated affirmation of motherhood. Thanks, but I already know that motherhood is good, several times over. Moreover, the party’s rediscovery of motherhood seems rather cynical in the current news cycle, while Democratic-friendly bloggers and media types bash Palin about her daughter’s pregnancy and her own busy schedule while bringing up children. How can a real sympathy for motherhood come from the same people who wrote a platform that hardens the party’s addiction to a phony right to kill the unborn?
I will vote for Sarah Palin because she has guts. We’ve never met, but I suspect I know something about her life, and so do a great many other women. I know what it means to have a son with Down syndrome. I know what it means to talk a good line about religious faith and then be asked to prove it. I know what it means to have a daughter pregnant and unmarried.
In fact, while we’re on the subject, I also know what it means to have two grandchildren born out of wedlock, a son struggling with alcohol, two grandchildren with serious disabilities, putting myself through graduate school while simultaneously caring for a husband and children and teaching full time—and a whole lot more. This is the stuff of real human love; this is the raw material of family life. And those who think that Palin’s beliefs and family struggles are funny or worth jeering at, simply reveal the venality of their own hearts.
I will vote for Sarah Palin because she is intelligent, tenacious and talented. Nobody made her rise easy, and no one is making it easy now. And—is it only moms who notice this?—unlike Senator Biden, she does seem to act consistently on her beliefs about the sanctity of life, at considerable personal cost.
I will vote for Sarah Palin because she doesn’t come from Washington or New York or Chicago or anywhere else the political and media aristoi like to hang out. In fact, I especially like the idea that the state she governs actually produces something—like some of the oil that powers the hair dryers and klieg lights at MSNBC.
I will vote for Sarah Palin because Roe v. Wade is bad law, and it needs to fall. I don’t doubt the intelligence and character of men like Doug Kmiec, the younger Bob Casey, and others who sympathize with the Obama campaign. But I do doubt their judgment. At the end of the day, the Democratic party in 2008 has conceded nothing to pro-life Democrats. The fact that Sen. Obama listens respectfully to pro-lifers without calling them reactionary dunces does not constitute progress. Results and behavior are what matter. On both those counts, the party has again failed to show any real sensitivity to pro-life concerns. In that light, high profile Catholics who support Obama are simply rationalizing their surrender on Roe.
Finally, I will vote for Sarah Palin, not because I’ve left the Democratic party of my youth and young adulthood, but because that party has left me. In fact, it no longer exists. And no amount of elegant speaking, exciting choreography, and moral alibis will bring it back.
That’s the real tragedy of this election.
A century or so ago, Theodore Roosevelt - one of McCain’s political icons - spoke against the “malefactors of great wealth”. He was referring to those monied interests who distorted the American political and economic system; back then it was captains of industry and finance who felt the wrath of a Republican who believed in business, but not in big business; who believed that government had a role, but must not be a master; who believed - ultimately - in the power and determination of the American people, individual and collective, to overcome all obstacles. John McCain is such a man, and Sarah Palin is such a woman - but added to the titans of industry and finance are the titans of government…people like Barack Obama and Joe Biden who use the money of government to distort the American political and economic system. Last night, the captains of industry, finance and government all felt the wrath of a Republican - and the righteous wrath of a Republican determined that the government of the United States shall be of, by and for the people.
Glued together by the liberal sacrament of abortion, confident of an innate superiority over their fellow Americans, the malefactors of Big Government seek the levers of power so that they can use the government’s money to shape and change our society into something they feel is best for us, because they know better than us. I, too, will vote for Sarah Palin - and, of course, John McCain - because in this entity, McCain/Palin, is the challenge to the status quo…the challenge to those who for too long have power and privilege are theirs by right of their superiority over the common man. John McCain and I have not agreed on all issues, but I am confident that when he is sworn in as President he will daily do battle against the establishment on my behalf…and right next to him will be Vice President Palin, learning the sorry ropes of Washington politics so that she, too, can in her turn know where to dig to get the filth out of politics.
It is a tragedy in this election there is no real Democratic party to contest the election with the Republican party. Once upon a time we had two parties imbued with a love of country - and a basic understanding of common human morality - who could fight like cats and dogs, but who also understood one another, respected each other and, ultimately, fought the good fight for the benefit of all Americans. Instead of a Democratic party, we’ve got Obama and his Democrats - elitist socialists who bear nothing but ill will for the America we know and love…people whom many Democrats will be unable to vote for because their allegedly Democratic platform is nothing but a blueprint for the triumph of the Culture of Death and the enslavement of the American people to an European-style welfare State.
It is, on the other hand, the triumph of this election that we have now got two tickets which clearly show the difference, and will allow the American people to make a clear choice - for me, the issue is not in doubt; we will win, in the end…because truth always overcomes lies, and true Americanism will always rise above the petty, leftist ideologies which periodically wash up, unwelcome, upon our shores.
Entry Filed under: Campaign 2008, Democrats, Republicans
33 Comments
1. FmrMarine | September 5th, 2008 at 10:08 am
http://www.tysknews.com/Depts/pcism/sad_history.htm
2. CanadianObserver | September 5th, 2008 at 10:17 am
“I will vote for Sarah Palin because she has guts.”
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Excellent!
Can’t wait for her to take on the press. When will that be, exactly? She shouldn’t wait too long or else the ‘guts’ part will lose its edge.
She needs to show, as soon as possible, that she does not fear the press and as her supporters say…She has the experience and ability to become leader of the free world if need be.
The longer she waits, the harder it will be to show the world that ‘barracuda’ spirit.
3. yekepyt | September 5th, 2008 at 10:45 am
She’s got your vote after one speech, and one that was devoid of substance? You must have been a ripe target already, if snide remarks and fight-picking have convinced you that she’s the right candidate for vice president.
Many voters will wait until Palin comes back out of hiding and faces the press (and Joe Biden) before making up their minds.
4. Obama08 | September 5th, 2008 at 11:05 am
The GOP criticized Obama for just giving great speeches, and nothing else.
Well once again we see hypocrisy.
5. FmrMarine | September 5th, 2008 at 11:17 am
excuuuuuse me
She is selected as the VICE president.
oBOMBa is running for the PRESIDENCY.
She has executive experience, HE has none.
oBOMBa will be the first AA president if elected.
very simple.
6. kimberly4victory | September 5th, 2008 at 11:31 am
Am I the only one being monitored for comments?
7. Sunny | September 5th, 2008 at 11:45 am
“Once upon a time we had two parties imbued with a love of country - and a basic understanding of common human morality - who could fight like cats and dogs, but who also understood one another, respected each other and, ultimately, fought the good fight for the benefit of all Americans. ” Mark Noonan
And we still have two parties imbued with the love of country, basic understanding of common human morality, and respect each other and do the good fight for the good of all Americans. For you not to recognize this is consistent with the majority of statements you have posted for the past few years. It is a shame that you continue to look at the differences of the parties and not understand that is what it means to be American. We are all entitled to freedom of speech, to each determine what is right for us and our families without losing our rights as Americans. As John McCain stated last night - we have more in common than in differences. However, there are those such as you with the extreme right wing opinions who will never respect the opinions or ideals of those who do not agree with your positions. That is why the Bush administration has been such a dismissal failure for the past eight years - it has been their way or the highway. There has been no compromise, on respect, no reaching out to those who have different views and opinions. And yet, this is the party of the “Christians”??? John McCain pretty much threw George Bush and his administration under the bus last night in his acceptance speech. For you and those who always agree with everything you post here - you are going to hate John McCain’s presidency if he is elected because he does have a history of reaching across the isle which is worse than death to the right wing Republicans. Our country is in trouble at this time because it is so divided, but that means nothing to you and those who think like you. You would rather see this country fail than to come together with compromise and mutual respect. None of us will ever get everything we want but they way things have gone for the past few years with the bickering and gridlock we are getting nothing. Your idols, Ann Coulter, Karl Rove, Rush Limbaugh, Glen Beck, Laura Ingraham, Hanity, etc. spew their hate everyday. Then you are outraged (as was I) when Sarah Palin and her family were attacked. Family is off limits in my opinion. However, that also includes the families of the opposition party. I remember awful things said about Chelsea Clinton. Ugly things have been said about Michele Obama - completely taken out of context. Remember, what goes around comes around. All civility has left the political arena. And frankly, much of the continual noise about Governor Palin is coming from the right wing radio talk - why don’t they just shut up and move on to the issues! They continue to keep the stories alive and need to stop!
So Mark, for you to question anyone’s morality, love of country and respect for each other is pretty hypocritical. You have little if any respect for others with differing opinions, are not qualified to judge others moral values and their love for their country. Those who serve this country do not do so with a R or D or I on their backs to indicate their party affiliations. We are all Americans who love our country despite our different opinions.
8. FmrMarine | September 5th, 2008 at 11:45 am
oBOMBa 08
UH HUH sure!
you want THIS guy as POTUS?
line up for the kool aid……..
Before graduating from Columbia University in 1983, Mr. Obama had written to civil rights organizations and to black elected officials looking for work. No one wrote back.
He worked brief stints at two different jobs, but unemployed two years later, Mr. Obama answered an advertisement for a Chicago grass-roots organizer. With the devastating demise of the steel industry, Mr. Kellman was trying to work with blacks in the city and whites in the suburbs to salvage manufacturing jobs. Mr. Kellman, who is white, was looking for a black organizer to assist him.
9. FmrMarine | September 5th, 2008 at 11:51 am
sonny
>>>So Mark, for you to question anyone’s morality, love of country and respect for each other is pretty hypocritical. You have little if any respect for others with differing opinions, are not qualified to judge others moral values>>>
Sorry but THIS party is your choice.
We chose a much higher road.
http://www.tysknews.com/Depts/pcism/sad_history.htm
Read it if you dare.
10. kimberly4victory | September 5th, 2008 at 12:01 pm
Why are my comments awaiting moderation?
That’s it … I’m leaving this blog. Never coming back. If you don’t like my comments, then I am outta here.
Just kidding.
Wow, Sunny … too much coffee this morning? LOL. I guess you missed McCain’s first few sentences of his speech, thanking GWB and GHWB?
I do agree we are Americans first. Unfortunately, the far left is so completely unhinged, and I can’t speak for Mark, but I honestly believe that is the reason for some of the threads on this blog and the widening division of our country.
Those kooks have taken over your party and are destroying it little by little. Case in point, the protestors who crashed the Republicans party last night. Totally classless. The demonstrators who threatened to use weapons, urine, etc. The demonstrators who didn’t march peacefully, but instead broke windows, slashed tires, started fires. The demonstrators who threatened to kidnap Delegates. I mean, come on. Where is the outrage from your party?
I have plenty of friends who are moderate Dems and they are voting for McCain. Why? Because they are thoroughly disgusted with their party leaders bowing down to dailykos. And, I know they are not the only Dems saying this.
Not only do your party leaders do that, but now the MSM is looking to those kooks for headlines, without checking for facts. Outrageous!
11. yekepyt | September 5th, 2008 at 12:02 pm
Hi FmrMarine,
You obsess over affirmative action the way A-10 obsesses over cocaine. It’s in every post of yours. What is up with that? It’s easy to ignore the childish taunts that characterize a typical FmrMarine rant, but I really am curious about your obsession with affirmative action. Did something happen to you as a child (did your dad got passed over for a promotion that you later discovered went to a black woman, or something)? Such vitriol!
Have you considered that McCain, who graduated near the bottom of his class at Annapolis with “marginal” grades, may have gotten a little “affirmative action” help in the Navy? His father and grandfather were four-star admirals.
12. Sunny | September 5th, 2008 at 12:06 pm
FmrMarine - in the future please do not address anything to me. Your writing/grammer is deplorable - you make absolutely no sense and I strongly urge you to go back to school. It is never to late to get an education and since you served in the military I would think you would qualify for some financial assistance.
13. Obama08 | September 5th, 2008 at 12:16 pm
I was happy to hear that as many people viewed “Pit Bull” Palin’s speech as did watched Obama’s.
This will provide the needed contrast between the two parties.
One is all but bark, chained to the failure of the last 8 years of the party from which they themselves are trying to run
The other party, the Democrats, have the true bite to solve the nation’s problems, all of which Bush and McCain created.
Fabulous!
14. kimberly4victory | September 5th, 2008 at 12:17 pm
Obama Is Losing Support Among Moderate Evangelicals:
http://blogs.wsj.com/politicalperceptions/2008/09/05/obama-is-losing-support-among-moderate-evangelicals/?mod=googlenews_wsj
15. kimberly4victory | September 5th, 2008 at 12:20 pm
I wish I could ignore the static in the room, but alas. OB, and yours is all TALK (evident in your candidate’s voting record). Hey, if you can’t walk, the walk ……
16. FactCheck | September 5th, 2008 at 12:32 pm
elitist socialists who bear nothing but ill will for the America we know and love
You really should stop confusing your hatred with reality. It just makes you lake worse than usual.
Or, if you prefer: Just because you hate them doesn’t mean they hate you.
17. FmrMarine | September 5th, 2008 at 12:46 pm
sonny-kyjellykept
sooo this is your choice for America……get real!
Wednesday, September 3, 2008 5:58 PM
By: Kenneth R. Timmerman Article Font Size
New evidence has emerged that Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama was closely associated as early as age 25 to a key adviser to a Saudi billionaire who had mentored the founding members of the Black Panthers
The New York Times described how transformative his Harvard experience became for the young Obama: “He arrived there as an unknown, Afro-wearing community organizer who had spent years searching for his identity; by the time he left, he had his first national news media exposure, a book contract
Less known are the reasons al-Mansour, an activist African-American Muslim, would be a key backer for a young man from Hawaii seeking to attend the most Ivy of the Ivy League law schools.
Although many Americans have never heard of Khalid Abdullah Tariq al-Mansour (his full name), he is well known within the black community as a lawyer, an orthodox Muslim, a black nationalist, an author, an international deal-maker, an educator, and an outspoken enemy of Israel.
According to the Social Activism Project at the University of California at Berkley, Warden, a.k.a. Khalid al-Mansour, was the mentor of Black Panther Party founder Huey Newton and his cohort, Bobby Seale.
18. Sunny | September 5th, 2008 at 12:51 pm
“Those kooks have taken over your party and are destroying it little by little. Case in point, the protestors who crashed the Republicans party last night. ” kimberly
There you go Kimberly, making assumptions you have no evidence to back up. First, let me enlighten you my dear, I was a registered Republican for almost 40 years - until 2004. At this time I have not decided who I will vote for and have problems with platform issues of both parties. I do plan to watch all of the debates before making my decision. As exciting Sarah Palin is as a new comer and VP candidate, I have serious differences with her on some of the issues, especially those dealing with religious ideals, education and a woman’s right to choice. But she is a dynamic woman.
19. FmrMarine | September 5th, 2008 at 12:55 pm
sonny
been there have a degree in Bus. mgt.
I earned it, not AA like hussein oBOMBa
oops there is that silly mis spelling of oBOMBa’a name again.
from oBOMBa’a own mouth in an interview some years ago
“. I have no way of knowing whether I was a beneficiary of affirmative action either in my admission to Harvard or my initial election to the Review. If I was, then I certainly am not ashamed of the fact,”
20. Mark Noonan | September 5th, 2008 at 1:14 pm
Sunny,
No, those who argued for an American withdrawal from Iraq short of victory do not love their country; those who harp endlessly upon America’s sins - real and imagined - and hardly have a kind word to say about America’s past do not love their country; anyone who would dare say they were never proud of America until one man rose high do not love their country…
John McCain has extended the olive branch to those who disagree, but who also love America…you think (and, perhaps, even McCain thinks, generous man that he is) that it includes those who hate this country…but it doesn’t; not in reality.
21. Mark Noonan | September 5th, 2008 at 1:16 pm
CO,
Where do you guys go to get your memes? Now its that she hasn’t had a press conference?
You’re getting rather pathetic in your attacks…
22. kimberly4victory | September 5th, 2008 at 1:28 pm
My apologies, Sunny.
Although, I have already made my decision (because both Obama and Biden are just too far left for me), I am very excited about the debates.
May I ask, Sunny, what are your thoughts concerning Obama’s relationship with Ayres and Rezko? Do you have a problem with that or not?
23. FactCheck | September 5th, 2008 at 2:20 pm
No, those who argued for an American withdrawal from Iraq short of victory do not love their country; those who harp endlessly upon America’s sins - real and imagined - and hardly have a kind word to say about America’s past do not love their country; anyone who would dare say they were never proud of America until one man rose high do not love their country
Where do you guys go to get your memes?
You’re getting rather pathetic in your attacks
Ahhh, that was easy.
24. Sunny | September 5th, 2008 at 2:48 pm
Well Mark, you never disappoint!
Kimberly, I will be watching Bill O’Riley’s interview with Obama this next week and see how he addresses the issues regarding these relationships. I would do the same with a Republican candidate.
25. CanadianObserver | September 5th, 2008 at 4:17 pm
21. Mark Noonan | September 5th, 2008 at 1:16 pm
CO,
Where do you guys go to get your memes? Now its that she hasn’t had a press conference?
You’re getting rather pathetic in your attacks…
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Mark, I would have thought due to Palin’s history of destroying corruption wherever she found it she would be chomping at the bit to talk to the press. To show what a gutsy girl she is and to elaborate on her vast experience. To put the press in their place.
Instead she is hiding from them. Why?
She should be showing them all that Barracuda spirit she has. She should be able to demolish them.
26. Michael David | September 5th, 2008 at 5:25 pm
“Glued together by the liberal sacrament of abortion, confident of an innate superiority over their fellow Americans, the malefactors of Big Government seek the levers of power so that they can use the government’s money to shape and change our society into something they feel is best for us, because they know better than us.”
WOW! Poetry, Mark, poetry. I had a lot of things to say today, but that just sucked the wind right out of me. Sometimes you get it SO right, and this is one of those times. All the claptrap that others offered in rebuttal, particularly Sunny and her blustered, pretend indignance: “We are all Americans who love our country despite our different opinions.” Oh, if that only were true. Instead, you hit the nail on the head when you said “Democratic platform is nothing but a blueprint for the triumph of the Culture of Death and the enslavement of the American people to an European-style welfare State.”
And to Sunny’s lies, “I remember awful things said about Chelsea Clinton. Ugly things have been said about Michele Obama”… PLEASE! The only things ever said about Chelsea were by uncouth comedians, and Michele has been given such pampered treatment by the media, it got hard to tell MSNBC et. al. from a Malibu spa. There has NEVER been the kind of vicious, sexist, base attacks on a candidate and their family as Palin has endured before her first week of McCain’s running mate has even ENDED.
Anyway, just wanted to bow at your eloquence my friend. Not just for your concise and articulate prose, but as well for your scary sharp analysis and deadly accurate indictment of the party of Obamanots.
27. Jeremiah | September 5th, 2008 at 6:04 pm
We know you’re faithless, CO, you needn’t tell us.
Sarah Palin will do just fine. So stop already.
28. Steamroller | September 5th, 2008 at 10:15 pm
Don’t care if Maier want to vote for Palin, question is will she vote for McCain? Unemployment at 6.1 we are running out of time to take this country back.
29. Steamroller | September 5th, 2008 at 10:21 pm
25. CanadianObserver | September 5th, 2008 at 4:17 pm
I have to agree. You would think Repugs would have this national gem on all the nightly news channels, Meet the Press, Face the Nation, Countdown. I hope Palin is not hunkered down learning foreign policy from Condi Rice and Cheney. Oh my God.
30. Steamroller | September 5th, 2008 at 10:25 pm
No, those who argued for an American withdrawal from Iraq short of victory20. Mark Noonan | September 5th, 2008 at 1:14 pm
Mark,so now after five years of asking you are ready to tell us what victory in Iraq means?
Blah, Blah, Blah I already know the answer.
31. j | September 6th, 2008 at 4:02 am
I find it interesting, and sad, at how some conservatives think. No wonder our nation is losing its edge.
* So only pro-lifers can have sympathy for motherhood??? Our planet has 6+ billion people. I’m sure there are more people with sympathy for motherhood than right to lifers. Pro-lifers don’t have any kind of monopoly on ‘motherhood sympathy’.
“How can a real sympathy for motherhood come from the same people who wrote a platform that hardens the party’s addiction to a phony right to kill the unborn?”
* And by ‘proving’ you mean having the same belief as you? So the rest of the 80-90% of Americans are ineligible to run for office?
“I know what it means to talk a good line about religious faith and then be asked to prove it.”
* Umm… did we forget that oil is NOT an unlimited resource? You know what? Let’s Drill, Drill, Drill… now now now! Yes, please let’s again elect oil industry beholders. The sooner we run low on oil the sooner the nut jobs will come to their senses.
“I especially like the idea that the state she governs actually produces something—like some of the oil that powers the hair dryers and klieg lights at MSNBC.”
* If ‘progress’ means forcing one’s views on other people, then may lightening strike me down now! Our nation isn’t about forcing one’s views on others. You’re pro-life, so be it! Don’t force your view on the entire nation. Obama at least listens and doesn’t demean pro-lifers; isn’t that progress if we can talk and listen to each other in a civil manner? He has even gone so far as to say ‘we disagree on the abortion issue, but let’s at least discuss prevention of teen pregnancies both sides agree is a big issue’; preventing is better than abortion, isn’t it? Why not work together on this point instead of the ‘my way or the highway’ stance.
“the Democratic party in 2008 has conceded nothing to pro-life Democrats. The fact that Sen. Obama listens respectfully to pro-lifers without calling them reactionary dunces does not constitute progress.”
* Why is abortion front and center for conservatives over all other issues? If it is a ‘tax dollar’ or ‘moral’ issue, then the Iraq war meets both those criteria to a much larger degree. Why aren’t conservatives outraged at the lies Americans were told, about the 4000+ American casualties, about the 100,000+ Iraqi casualties, about the $300+ Million being spent EVERY DAY, to fight a war where there were no terrorists before the invasion, where there were no WMDs. “Don’t lie, don’t steal, don’t murder”… aren’t these moral teachings most conservatives understand? Then why isn’t the Iraq war higher on the radar? More money being stolen from us, more people dying, more propaganda being told (lies) about some ‘notion’ of ‘victory’ in Iraq.
* Wow… what an accusation! So military adventurism, selling assault weapons to criminals, and selling hundreds of billions in arms to other countries isn’t a ‘Culture of Death’? Ok, let’s Bomb, Bomb, Bomb Iran and spend additional BILLIONS a month getting further into debt. Yes, let’s get into more wars sooner so we can feel the economic pain sooner. Then we’ll be worried about putting food on the table and not what side of abortion debate we’re on.
“their allegedly Democratic platform is nothing but a blueprint for the triumph of the Culture of Death”
32. Danish Artist | September 6th, 2008 at 9:55 am
Steamroller is another liberal lemming talking point Obamaton.
The Iraq war question has been asked and answered. That still has no bearing on the FACT that the surge is working and your candidate was WRONG.
Shows his naivete and inexperience in leadership.
Here’s a question for you:
When has Obama exhibited leadership?
IF he is a leader, then why vote “present” on issues of importance, why is he afraid of taking a stand and show true leadership?
33. FactCheck | September 6th, 2008 at 5:35 pm
confident of an innate superiority over their fellow Americans..seek the levers of power so that they can use the government’s money to shape and change our society into something they feel is best for us, because they know better than us
Yeah, that bugs me about fundies, too.