The Election’s Most Important Issues

WHAT TO do about the war, what to do about the economy, what to do about those rimless glasses and that saucy updo? Style has never been more important than it is in this election.

–LA Times’ Booth Moore, “Sarah Palin’s style: the issue at hand”

She may be broke but she’s not flat busted! Governor Palin certainly has a distinct fashion sense, and thank God that she has avoided the pantsuits (which I maintain sounded the Hillary campaign’s death knell).

The media pretends that they have to magnify every irrelevant issue (her daughter’s pregnancy, her husband’s DUI, troopergate, and now her fashion sense) because they have no actual substance to investigate. But as we’ve shown, there’s plenty of substance to go around.

But whatever lack of substance the media manufactures is no excuse to tell lies about the Governor’s stance on sex education, censorship, etc.

“Dur, Alaska is Close to Russia” (and other discredited liberal taunts)

Liberals have been mocking the McCain campaign’s references to Governor Sarah Palin’s role in relations with Russia by pointing out their proximity. Well, it turns out that Governor Palin has been involved in trade and cooperative environmental/resource-gathering with Russia (source).

In addition to negotiating trade and cooperation with Russia, Governor Palin has been involved with negotiations with Japan, Korea, China, Canada and Germany (and those are just the top five! [source]).

I found these results by googling “alaska trade”. I didn’t have to log in to anything and required only an internet browser and Adobe Acorbat Reader (which is free), so I can certainly see why the media has been as yet unable to discover these obscure facts.

ABC Offered First Palin Interview

According to the Associated Press, Sarah Palin has offered her first televised interview to ABC. According to the story, the interview will take place later this week after Governor Palin returns to Alaska off the campaign trail. 

Stay tuned for details!

Martha Stewart, You’re Next: Oprah Faces Revolt

Let the peasants talk back and see how they repay the Queen of Daytime TV?

Oprah is facing an insurrection at her own website of hundreds of members of the community who are unhappy with her blacklisting of Sarah Palin from her show. 

While I haven’t read enough to say there’s a general consensus, the majority of what I have read supports the idea that Oprah’s base, white middle-class women in the flyover states, are pretty upset with Oprah’s judgement. 

The call for people to boycott Oprah’s show and her sponsors has gone up. Only time will tell whether anyone heeds the call. 

Note: to see the thread linked above, you must have an account and be logged in at Oprah.com.

Real Facts About Governor Palin

Earth to Journalists.

A fellow by the name of Charlie Martin has compiled a big list of the rumors flying around Sarah Palin as well as a brief discussion of which are true, which are false, and the details of those that are ambiguous.

I urge you to send this list to undecided voters, left-wing hate blogs, and the mainstream media. The undecided voters may take umbrage to the way Governor Palin is being mugged by the media, and there’s an off chance that the blogs and the media might have a passing interest in the truth after spending a week slamming her.

Sarah Palin vs. Hillary Clinton: the True Battle?

The New York Times has an interesting hypothesis: that the true battle this fall could very well be Sarah Palin vs. Hillary Clinton. 

This raises an interesting question for Hillary Clinton. Does she want to work very hard to elect Barack Obama? On the chance (however slight) that he doesn’t make a complete disaster out of his presidency, Hillary will be another 4 years away from running for President. But on the other hand, if Obama utterly fails and ends up damaging the nation even more, Hillary will be one of the people who put him there. There’s only so much that saying “I told you so” can help.

But to make matters more complicated for her ambitions, if Hillary doesn’t break her back to elect Obama and he loses, the far-leftists who make up Obama’s base won’t lift a finger to elect her in 2012. It’s a very interesting conondrum in an election where white working women (or “Wal-Mart moms” as Democrats condescendingly refer to them) could swing certain battleground states. 

But the true danger, I think, is Barack Obama running against Sarah Palin. The reasons for this are twofold: because it raises Governor Palin to an even higher level; and because more people find Sarah Palin favorable than find Obama or McCain or Biden favorable. The more people learn about Sarah Palin, the more they seem to like her (unless they’re liberals). If he tries to go after her, even if she goes after him, it will backfire–we’ve seen this already in the past week. I could go on for days about how people only find Governor Palin’s attacks on Obama’s smug self-worship to reaffirm their distaste for his antics, but that’s for another post. The long and short of it is that the usual tricks aren’t going to work against Governor Palin. 

But can Obama trust the Clintons to try to move against her, given the way he threw Hillary under the bus?

I don’t know Rachel Lucas, but I do know she’s awesome

Anyone who comes up with such gems as:

…must be without a doubt quite awesome. Go check out RachelLucas.com!

Ann Coulter Touts Palin as Only She Can

Ann Coulter, who has been outstripped as reigning diva of the right by our own Governor Palin, launched into a full-throated defense of the Vice Presidential nominee today as only she can.

The link above will take you to Ann Coulter’s webpage, which has the Palin article on the front page currently. But just to whet your appetite, here are a few of Ann Coulter’s nuggets of wisdom:

After drawing “Keith + Obama” hearts on their denim notebooks, Keith Olbermann and Chris Matthews stayed up all night last Thursday, writing jokes about Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty, the presumed vice presidential pick. Now they can’t use any of them.

So the media are taking it out on our brave Sarah and her 17-year-old daughter.

She went on to comment on Troopergate:

They tried to create a “Troopergate” for Palin, indignantly demanding to know why she wanted to get her ex-brother-in-law removed as a state trooper. Again, public corruption is not a good issue for someone like Obama, Chicago pol and noted friend of Syrian National/convicted felon Antonin Rezko.

For the cherry on top, then we found out Palin’s ex-brother-in-law had Tasered his own 10-year-old stepson. Defend that, Democrats.

And last but certainly not least:

When liberals start acting like they’re opposed to pre-marital sex and mothers having careers, you know McCain’s vice presidential choice has knocked them back on their heels.

Truer words have never been written.

Enjoy!

Good Commentary in the Post Intelligencer

The Seattle Post Intelligencer had a good article on the Bristol Palin media craze, which you can read in full here. While I don’t necessarily agree with her characterization of the switch in liberal and conservative roles, the columnist Monica Guzman cuts through the nonsense to the real issue: that Bristol Palin doesn’t matter to this election.

You can find the link to the article above but I found the following excerpts to be valuable:

If there’s a lesson here, it’s that liberals and conservatives are defined not so much by their dogma as by their need to use their differences against each other.

The debate about Bristol Palin isn’t really about Bristol Palin. It isn’t even about teenage pregnancy. The most angry exchanges in this conversation are about political consistency.

Most relevant, I think, is her plea that Republicans and Democrats put aside their partisanship for the greater good–and to finally put to death the inane arguments about flip-flopping. “I don’t often quote dead writers. But Ralph Waldo Emerson once wrote something that’s changed the way I look at politics: “A foolish consistency is the hobgobblin of little minds.”"

Amen to that, Monica. Thanks for the perspective.

Sarah Palin, Reigning Queen of the Internet

Who was the most searched-about figure on the Internet last week? Why, Governor Sarah Palin of course. In addition to being a political outsider and relatively unknown outside of Alaska, the search terms indicate that John McCain’s runningmate is more than just a candidate: she’s a phenomenon.

TIME had an article on on this, which you can find here.

Keep Sarah Palin at the head of the game: google Sarah Palin!