> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Bob Calco > Sent: Friday, August 29, 2008 10:14 PM > To: 'ProFox Email List' > Subject: RE: [OT] Any comments on Sarah Palin? > > > > > You love the Republican party like only a mother can love her son. > In > > your eyes the Republican party can do not wrong, and that's never > going > > to change. > > > > You obviously pay no attention to my posts. I don't worship the > Republican > party--in fact lately I've been quite down on it. > > I've been very clear about several things about the Republican party I > don't > like. > > * It's dogmatic embrace of free trade, which I find ludicrous > * more recently, the adding of a plank about Global Warming to its > platform > * selection of McCain for Prez
I should clarify that I don't think you have much to worry about with respect to McCain's neo-con connections, though he is a free trader (that much he does have in common with the neo-cons; but then, so does Al Gore and Bill Clinton). The idea that he is some kind of carbon copy of Bush though is ludicrous, it always was ludicrous, and everybody knows it, which is why I was kind of amazed to see the Democrats invest so heavily in that particular piece of partisan nonsense. Nobody will believe it a week from today. Biden, with all his supposed gravitas on foreign affairs and self-certainty on matters of war an peace, has more in common with Cheney than Palin does, personality-wise for sure, and that's a truth that will become self-evident soon. McCain is not quite the most anchored guy I've ever seen, and he spent a lot of time cultivating what he thought was a good relationship with the media and the Democrats which will do him not a whit of good trying to get elected, let alone governing. But he has a survivalist instinct. I sense he's figured it out though (i.e., the ugly truth about his "friends" in the media and Dem party), and I hold up Palin as evidence that this is so. Palin is both conservative and a reformer. She's somebody I think can help the Republican party stay rooted to its principles without getting obsessed with identity politics, even though she will be celebrated for her gender. Identity politics is the Dem Party's sole orienting principle, because their whole platform and philosophy of power revolves around hyphenating people and appealing to their sense of victimhood and entitlement based on their particular hyphens to buy votes. It's nice when Republicans chip away at their monopoly on self-righteousness on race and gender. With Palin you have a real WOMAN, with real grit and guts and core values that resonate with people on a basis other than how much this country sucks. She will no doubt be treated like Clarence Thomas, which is why I think it's wonderfully ironic she'll face blowhard Biden in the debates. And similarly acquit herself. Actually I think she'll do better because she doesn't have to suck up to him for his vote, and can lay waste to his arguments without worrying whether he'll vote for or against her, like Thomas had to. Anyway, she's not perfect, and certainly will make mistakes--after all she's human. But at least she comes from a philosophy of government that puts laws above cult-of-personality, and people above party. She has, by the way, pissed of the Republican Party in Alaska like no one in recent memory, which is good. Whenever a party starts getting corrupt, it's great when our process brings it to light and fixes it. Palin represents that kind of change, which is a good kind of change. Obama, by contrast, represents something much more troubling, not because of his race, but because of his ideas, which are not the same as the lofty-sounding cliché's that emanate from his lips (via a teleprompter). His associations are as scary as his ideas, and his explanations and rationalizations about them are not convincing on any level. So I'm really happy today that a real alternative kind of change was made "manifest" today in McCain's selection of Sarah Palin. We'll see what happens now, but Mr. Inevitable sure seems quite beatable today, thanks to Gov. Palin joining the McCain ticket. I go today from voting against Obama/Biden to voting for McCain/Palin. And I feel better too. :) - Bob _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
