“He has made an extraordinary gesture to conservatives and the party base, offering his old antagonists a partner’s share in his presidency.”

Poppycock! The VP is not a partner of the president and has little or no say in policies promulgated by the latter.  McCain has put one over on the gullible souls who now want to rush over the cliff with McCain and his neocon gang.  Buchanan’s judgement here is more impaired than I’ve ever seen it.

Oooopsss…

too late.

they got her.

I withdraw my earlier comment and sadly acknowledge patrick c.’s prescience.

From BLOOMBERG NEWS

Sept. 3 (Bloomberg) “Palin, who has been criticized by Democrats for her lack of foreign policy experience, yesterday skipped a scheduled appearance with an anti-abortion group, meeting instead with leaders of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee at her Minneapolis hotel.”

Palin Steps Forward to Fill In Blanks as National Candidate By Ken Fireman and Kristin Jensen

I gotta say, I don’t see where pat is coming from on this one.  what polls is he looking at?  He is obviously writing this from within the stadium there and not privy to what’s going on in the real world.  take a step back Mr Buchanan.

*SIGHS*

They got to her already! (Palin) NY Sun: ”Palin Speech is Abruptly Cancelled.” by Eli Lake

http://www.nysun.com/national/palin-speech-is-abruptly-canceled/85106/

“The organizers of the Republican National Coalition for Life’s cocktail-buffet reception told The New York Sun that the McCain campaign called them late Monday evening to cancel the appearance of the Alaska governor. Mrs. Palin did meet behind closed doors with leaders of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee.”

May I ask you all please for a moratorium on such names as “McAmnesty” and “McKerry,” etc.?
I ask this not because these names are undeserved, but rather because they are not
funny.  “Obamanation” makes sense, as it is based on the actual sound of his name. 
“McLame” doesn’t even rhyme with “McCain.” The distortion of the other guy’s name should
make you look witty, not dull and immature.

Thank you for the courteous reply, Dr. Phillips.  I regret that it was a post of yours
that prompted me to go off on my rant—your writings are always above board.

Pat must have missed the enthusiasm for Ron Paul.

Palin is not going to single-handedly save McCain or the Republican party. How on earth could she or any one person do that with the hundreds of neo-con zombies that have infested Washington and keep cranking out memos, articles, journals, books, etc. by the minute not to mention the billios flowing in and out of our elected representatives’s pockets to represent interests that are not of this country.

Either she will become a phenomenal neo-con weapon after she’s done meeting with the mobsters, or, if she’s true to herself, will step back from the candidacy due to family reasons.

So far the McCain’s neo-con handlers have succeeded in tricking the old Republicans into believing that the McCain-Palin ticket is anything but the greatest danger this country faces.

Pat, and the rest of McCain fans and Palin fans...you’ve been had.

Democrat or Republican ? Pick your executioner. Jomentum Lieberman has already squired Governor Palin over to a benediction at AIPAC. The pregnant daughter is now to be joined by the young hockey Stud for a public roll out. Perhaps they will have a Budweiser Sponsored Bikini Skeet Shooting Contest and then cap it all with an Abstinence Education , Intelligent Design Bible Study Breakfast.

The Establishment loves how easy it is to bamboozle the Rube Class, our largest and growing political constituency. For something as august as Christianity, it sure is easy to pull bait and switches on it.

“Mavericks” my ass. It will be mildly humorous when the NRA and Anti-Abortion forces are standing around double-crossed but again.

Personally, I’m all for immigration controls. It’s just that I think we’ be better served if and when Congress convenes after next January’s oath of office, that we build a wall around the Washington Beltway and throw away the key.

Mr. Buchanan, as musical as his commentary sometimes is, can only be described as another mercenary in the Military Entertainment Complex. He’s part of the dancing monkey brigade, the dutiful crew trotted out to say a few contrarian words before being led back to their gilded cage for another feast of bananas.

That strange sound you might be wondering about is your brain leaking out your left ear because some goof is screaming fairy tales in your right ear, causing everything inside to liquify.

“Conservative”.........what a lark.

Mabe this wondergirl can bring US to being The Americans we once were.
For now, I will till my row of potatoes and tend to the chicken coop. Oh yes, and vote out all incumbents too.

“FACT:
He tipped his hat in favor of Tancredo and Romney, not in favor of Paul, as far as I
can see/remember.  Buchanan is not a Paulite.  Repeat to yourself:  Buchanan is not
a Paulite.  Nor is for Baldwin.  He is not a Constitution Party supporter.  Get over it.”

Pat’s blog was saturated with pro- Ron Paul links, with nary a mention of Tancredo or Romney.  Pat’s magazine, the American Conservative, endorsed Ron Paul. Buchanan frequently praised Paul and did everything short of explicitly endorsing him, probably because he was astute enough to know that Paul never had a chance. (Disclosure, I voted for Paul.) As for the Constitution Party, Pat believes, with personal experience to back it, that third party runs are a waste of time.

I agree with Pat’s analysis and I share his excitement.  A pro-life, gun-packing mother of five as VP, an elderly McCain in uncertain health.  I’m taking the bait!

I have great admiration for Pat Buchanan.  However, his enthusiasm for the McCain-Palin team is misplaced.  Ms. Palin has already repudiated her support for the Buchanan campaigns of 1996 and 2000.  We are to believe that she really endorsed Steve Forbes!  And she just completed the reprehensible political ritual of pledging loyalty to AIPAC.  Sarah Palin is not unlike George Bush in that she is an ignorant political hack waiting to be exploited by the neocons.

vv

I can’t help but feel that if mcain had chosen pawlenty or romney he’d be neck and neck with obama instead of 8 points down.

Pat:

Drink no more coffee for two days, avoid Joe S, Mika and, especially, Chris Matthews for 72 hours. Take two percosets (but only two) get a good nights sleep and you will recover in good time.

uh oh

PALIN WAR: TEEN PREGO CRISIS

Republican Vice Presidential nominee Sarah Palin attempted to quietly have her daughter Bristol get married before news of her pregnancy leaked out, the NATIONAL ENQUIRER is reporting exclusively in its new issue.

Palin planned for the wedding to take place right after the Republican National Convention and then she was going to announce the pregnancy.

But Bristol, 17, refused to go along with the plan and that sparked a mother-daughter showdown over the failed coverup.

The ultra-conservative governor’s announcement about her daughter’s pregnancy came hours after The ENQUIRER informed her representatives and family members of Levi Johnston, the father of Bristol’s child, that we were aware of the pregnancy and were going to break the news.

In a preemptive strike Palin released the news, creating political shockwaves.

The ENQUIRER has also learned that Palin’s family is embroiled in a vicious war that is now exposing her darkest secrets, threatening to destroy her political career.

Palin’s ongoing war with her ex brother-in-law Mike Wooten, a state trooper, has caused multiple sources to come forward with shocking allegations about the governor.

Details of those allegations, the family feud, and Palin’s attempt to cover up her teen daughter’s pregnancy are in the new issue of The ENQUIRER.

“the biggest gamble in presidential history” indeed.

Which is curious because you would think that running against the first black major-party presidential nominee ever, and a liberal one at that, that McCain would want to “play it safe.”

Italic text

Yeah… Johnny’s got a new gal - and he’s showing her off to the old gang:

“‘U.S. Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin told the pro-Israel lobby AIPAC on Tuesday that she would “work to expand and deepen the strategic partnership between U.S. and Israel,’ the group’s spokesman told the Wall Street Journal on Wednesday.”

According to a story at MSNBC, she met with the board of directors of the American Israeli Public Affairs committe in her hotel room yesterday. Something tells me AARP isn’t next on her call list…

Palin is the governor of Alaska, with that state’s business on her desk; she’s being coached by a squad of foreign policy specialists who want to make sure she knows the Berlin Wall is long gone; and she’s defending herself in a legislative probe back home. And don’t forget: She’s got a few household, domestic problems and a husband who thinks Alaska needs its own seat at the UN, evidently as some sort of para-fascist caribou republic.

Nevertheless, Palin somehow finds time to meet with AIPAC, the lobbying group of whose power we dare not speak. Oh… and the one with two officials under indictment for espionage. In gladhanding AIPAC she’s in crowded - if not good - company.

“Stronger ties to Israel” is AIPAC’s unofficial mantra, and is always a shared theme for all the guests at the group’s annual conclave. It certainly was at this year’s meeting in early June, when just about everyone who is anyone in Washington showed up to play toastmaster to the lion of the Levant - although it’s difficult to imagine how much stronger and tighter those ties could be without sawing in half either one or both countries. As it is, there are some serious friction burns.

Both Barack Obama and John McCain were among the featured speakers, with Obama evidently given a chance to “prove himself” as a traditional Beltway Israel-booster. In its pledges of fealty, his speech was virtually indiscernable from that of the event’s other guests - a who’s who of Capitol Hill and Pennsylvania Avenue power-hitters.

AIPAC’s lobbying is decidedly non-partisan. Last year, as Mr. Buchanan has previously noted, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi quietly stripped out of a $100 billion funding bill for Iraq a provision that would have required President Bush to seek congressional approval before launching any new war on Iran. Buchanan quotes Rep. Shelley Berkley, D-Nev., said in an interview there is a widespread fear in Israel about Iran: “It would take away perhaps the most important tool the U.S. has when it comes to Iran.”

Somehow, I can’t imagine Finland’s lobby group punching up a few phone numbers and making something like that happen.

There’s a lot of unexplored wilderness in McCain’s atlas of political geography. He can pull a big surprise, as he did with his choice of Palin as running mate. Few saw that coming - just ask Tim Pawlenty. But for all his “trailblazing”, one reliable certainty in McCain’s modus operandi is paying homage to groups like AIPAC, who can do him the most good. Or the most bad.

To back up its congenial, pat-on-the-back approach, AIPAC has never shied away from negative campaigning, as well. It was instrumental in Howard Dean’s demolition in 2004, and well-remembered is then-AIPAC president Thomas Dine’s chilling “message” to other American politicians after the organization helped defeat longtime Illinois Senator Charles Percy in the mid-’80s.

If you want accurate cartography of power in modern-day Washington, you can’t ask for a better relief map than this tale of customary, fawning pliability. The MSNBC story wraps up with:

“We had a good productive discussion on the importance of the U.S.-Israel relationship, and we were pleased that Gov. Palin expressed her deep, personal, and lifelong commitment to the safety and well-being of Israel,” AIPAC spokesman Josh Block said. “Like Sen. McCain, the vice presidential nominee understands and believes in the special friendship between the two democracies and would work to expand and deepen the strategic partnership in a McCain/Palin Administration.”

Any bets on whether she duplicates that kind of commitment - even to the National Rifle Association?

Sorry Pat. I disagree with you on this one. If elected president, this country will be in for a lot of McPain!

John Noble:  What the contributors to Pat’s website do and what he does are two different
things.  Pat’s sister—a Mormon, like Romney—was an advisor to that man.  Pat
frequently made references to Mitt and wanted him to take a stand on gay “marriage” in
Mass. several years ago so he would be the Republican nominee this year.  Buchanan also
supported Tancredo’s stance on the border.  I remember reading *very* few posts in which
Pat referred to Paul, and I don’t remember him ever coming close to saying anything like
an endorsement.  Also, the “American Conservative” is hardly “Pat’s magazine.” If you
recall, there was a bit of a brouhaha when Pat endorsed Bush back in 2004.  As I understand
it, Buchanan does not exercise much editorial control at the magazine these days.

The fastest thing in the universe is:

A. Light

B. A neuron firing.

C. Paleos putting a boot on the face of anything even potentially positive.

Hey Pat, I heard she denied you three times before the cock crowed. Some supporter.

So, does it bother anyone in the least that Buchanan refers to a woman in her forties, a
mother of five and now a grandmother, the sitting governor of Alaska and Republican
candidate for VP, as a “girl”?  This is not a matter of political correctness, it is a
matter of respect.  Call her a woman, call her a lady, but “girl”?

For the Pro-Life and Pro-2nd Amendment conservatives, Palin is the best we could have hoped for from the Republicans. She is going to have a big megaphone, and I expect she’ll stand true to her convictions while keeping a smile on her face. The family stuff will maker her seem even more “real” to the average Joe, and it will go a long way toward embarassing the crowd that thinks baby-killing is an acceptable solution to sticky situations.

Look closely at the little lapel flag pin Sarah Palin wears, it’s an Israeli flag.

Is anyone besides me having trouble taking Sarah Palin seriously?

Shortly after she was chosen, I looked at her on TV and it dawned on me: McCain had picked as his running mate Mary Ann from “Gilligan’s Island.”

From that start, a friend and I quickly cast “Gilligan’s Convention.” Here are the other Dramatis Personae:

McCain as the Skipper
Cindy as Ginger
Ron Paul as the Professor
Poppy and Bar as the Howells

and

W as Gilligan

Pat tells us that “from the day she takes office, Palin will get daily briefings and sit on the National Security Council with the president and secretaries of state, treasury and defense.  She will be up to speed in her first year.” Apparently foreign policy is easier to master than medicine, law, physics or engineering, the study of which takes the very best and brightest much, much longer.  Case in point: Condi Rice.

Fwiw, Fred Barnes just said Palin had a standing policy that no Lobbyists were allowed to set foot in her office.

I have almost always enjoyed Patrick Buchanan’s commentary, I pulled for him in ‘92 and ‘96, and I voted for him in 2000.  One characteristic of Mr. Buchanan is the “Buchananism,” a word, a phrase, or maybe a whole article, such as the above, which seems to issue from some erratic stream of adrenalin.  Mr. Buchanan shows his more relective side when he acknowledges that the neocons will lose no time in exerting their considerable pressure on her, and one can reasonably conclude that since she accepted partnership with McCain, she is entirely open to such influence.  I does not surprise me that she has already met with AIPAC, but I am sorely disappointed that she canceled a scheduled meeting with an anti-abortion group to do so.  In fact, I’m hoping against hope that this isn’t even true.  In any case, I plan to vote for Chuck Baldwin (unless I write in Ron Paul), which is not a waste of time as someone above said.  It is an admittedly small, but positive, step in the right direction.  As these steps accumulate we’ll be getting somewhere.

As usual, Not Spartacus hits the nail onm th head.  The rest of you are morons.  And Xman, I hope you’re willing to meet Mr. Palin in public after calling his daughter a “whore”.  In fact, I think Mrs. Paling would kick your sorry ass.  The only thing worse than armchair generals is anonymous pundits who call young ladies names.

@ All, Seriously, Why would anyone vote for Obama, unless it’s a one issue (i.e.  We need to get out of Iraq today, not tomorrow, not next week).  Other than that goal, which Obama has now run away from, there is NOTHING to recommend him and the grotesque Biden over McCain/Palin.

Apologies to E. Caesar, If it’s a protest vote, knock yourself out. 

Curious/nonsensical pseudonym--Caesar wouldn’t have responded to ANY ghosts--he was warned of going to the Senate, and went anyway).

For the record...She’s wearing a Blue Star Pin, not an Izzy flag.

http://media.hoover.org/images/sarah_palin.jpg

I think the Israeli flag in her office is actually a fancy toothpick she plucked from the kosher moose rueben she had for lunch one day. 

http://hotair.com/archives/2008/09/01/video-hey-are-we-totally-sure-palins-a-supporter-of-israel/

Did you saps see her speech? she is terrific and tough as nails. They will never be able to control her if she gets elected. I as life long troublemaker give her my personal seal of aproval.

Re: Sarah Palin’s “Izzie Flag” lapel pin. What is the significance of a blue star pin? That’s a pretty large tooth pick flag in her office! LOL.

On her speech: very impressive, if a tad bit snarky, but she was under tremendous pressure. She probably was also royally pizzed at the way the media has gone after her family too.

Larry King’s show just had 3 Obama supporters critiquing her performance. Yeah, they loved it! Not! The media hate her so they must perceive her as a threat somehow. That’s always a good sign.

Joe,

Her lapel pin was the source of some conjecture, some wondering or claiming it was an Israeli flag.  However, it appears to be a standard symbol of someone who has a family member on active duty in the war.  A Blue Star Pin.  You can actually see a large version of it hanging in her window in the video clip linked to in my post above.

Personally, I love ruebens.  No doubt.  Even turkey ruebens are fantastic.  However, the Polish Dill Spear has got it all over the Kosher Dill, imho.

Shortly after she was chosen, I looked at her on TV and it dawned on me: McCain had picked as his running mate Mary Ann from “Gilligan’s Island.”

That comment is so wildly wrong about who Sarah Palin is and what she has accomplished that I have decided that as a write-backer, you ought be played by “Green Acres,” County Extension Agent, Hank Kimball.

So much energy, thought, time, and virtual ink wasted .....wasted! worrying over a “choice” that won’t make a fart’s worth of difference.

Whichever of the ruling duopoly candidates wins ....

1) the Fed will continue to print funny money

2) the military will continue to enforce worldwide acceptance of said funny money

3) any foreign leader who dares to put the interests of his own people ahead of those of western coprorations will risk being assassinated in the middle of the night by CIA funded operatives of “special” ops mercenaries

4) millions of the most innocent and defenceless will be murdered through legally sanctioned abortion

5) jobs will continue to flow out of america because none of these guys gives a damn about middle class americans

etc., etc. etc. ad nauseum!

It’s all just bread and circuses.

she’s the new george bush, nothing more.  she has zero intellectual depth, it’s all let me show you my personality and jokes and so forth.  the GOP convention was abomination.

For those of you who think Palin is going to heroically confront the GOP establishment and energetically pursue the pro-life cause, I give you two pieces of evidence that suggest otherwise,

(1) Not even a mention of abortion or important social issues in last night’s speech; not a peep

(2) She apparently refused to make abortion an issue while running for Gov
http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/101906/sta_20061019031.shtml

That leaves eating moose burgers and her subjective enjoyment of hunting as the last two reasons to vote for McCain.

Lester & Joseph, your intemperate responses are proof that Sarah’s speech was a resounding success.  You need to curb your antipathy toward people not like yourselves.  You just got a moose pie in your face.  It could have been much worse.

</i>Ah, but who cares that she didn’t mention abortion?  It’s a singular moment, a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity!  We all know that she was a Buchanan supporter--what more do we need to know?

Her very presence on stage was the strongest antiabortion statement that could possibly be made!  Look, people--policy positions are nothing compared with the genuine person of Sarah Palin!

Likewise, we should just ignore all those parts of the speech that we didn’t like!  Her militarism, support of the war in Iraq--all of that doesn’t matter, because we know she’s really one of us!  These are just the things she needs to say to get elected, so that she can infiltrate the White House and fill it up with paleos!

Same with canceling an appearance at a right-to-life rally in order to meet with AIPAC!  Anyone who thinks that she means it when she says that she’s felt a special personal attachment to Israel since she was a little girl doesn’t understand how the game is played!

I’m tired of you political Donatists!  This is the most exciting moment of my political life, and the fact that Sarah Palin uttered nothing more than platitudes and neocon talking points in her speech just makes it even more exciting!  That’s how we know she’s the real deal!

Sarah Palin met with pro-Israel lobbyists to express her support for U.S.-Israel ties. Palin, the Alaska governor who was tapped last week by Sen. John McCain to be his vice-presidential running mate, met for 45 minutes Tuesday in the Minneapolis area with several leaders of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee. Also in attendance at the AIPAC meeting was U.S. Sen. Joseph Lieberman (I-Conn.), the McCain campaign’s most prominent Jewish backer…

Didnt take long did it?

“The risk John McCain took last Friday is comparable to the 72-year-old ex-fighter pilot knocking back two shots and flying his F-16 under the Golden Gate Bridge.” el Pat

In McIncompetent’s case he didn’t need the shots for that to have been deadly. When will we, the taxpayers berepaid for the record 5 jets mcCan’t lost while attempting to learn to fly on our dime… before losing the 6th to the enemy? Inquiring taxpayers want to know! John never saw a cute broad he didn’t like nor a control panel he did. Seriously did they finally teach him how to send e-Mail? Computers remind him too much of jets.

All I have to say is…

“I am heterosexual ... and I vote”.

Sarah never looked better in any photo ever taken age 18 to 44 than she did last night.  W-O-W.  She was on fire with beauty, eloquence and intelligence.  If she is even 1/8 paleo, I am voting for her.  What a colossally beautiful woman.  C’mon ... give it up for Miss Sarah, guys!  So what if she is not favor of a return to the Articles of Confederation?

“That comment is so wildly wrong about who Sarah Palin is and what she has accomplished that I have decided that as a write-backer, you ought be played by “Green Acres,” County Extension Agent, Hank Kimball.”

I grant that we both have seen Gilligan’s Island.  But, honestly, I haven’t a clue as to who Hank Kimball is or why I should be insulted to be identified with him.  It appears that my critic is a more accomplished consumer of junk TV than I am.  No wonder he writes under a pseudonym.

To all those eternal optimists who actually think that McCain’s choice as veep will make ANY difference to the general trajectory.....Good Luck with that.

The ADD electorate will likely pull the same levers it always has and give the Executive to the McCain Palin ticket because it wants to be “safe” or “protected” and counter that by giving the Democrat party more seats in Congress to “balance” the Executive.  This might work if both parties were not bereft of any economic sense or possessed any clue as to the rapidly diminishing returns of our renewed Cold War projection. The ressentiment that dogs identity politics will have it’s fullest flowering in the coming years and everyone can rest assured that whether its McCain’s continuance of the jejune and idiotic “Compassionate Conservativism” or Obamas wholly contradictory “Free Market Socialism” that your government will spend like a low rent gambling addict at a remote Indian Casino somewhere outside Modesto.

In Guns, God and a safe trip to the Mall We Trust.
Voting , in this election , will be simply a validation of business as usual. Palin will be sitting between a smoothly polished K Street lobbyist and a Kazak Oligarch before you can say “Arctic Coastal Plain”.

On the Chance that Obama and Biden are elected....ditto.......squared.

Unfortunately, both political parties need a punishing blow but there is no way to pull that required lesson off....short of the train wreck they both will guide us gaily into.

Topkat,

My vote for Chuck Baldwin won’t be a protest vote.  The intent is positive. I hope I am helping to lay a foundation for future success. And no, thank you, I won’t knock myself out.

Regarding my name, since you brought it up (what follows will be of interest only to Topkat), how do you know it is a pseudonym?  Maybe I am the son of the comedian, Sid Caesar.  OK, I confess, it’s a pseudonym.  I don’t really know what you’re talking about, but I’ll surmise that Ebenezer for you is a reference to Ebenezer Scrooge who had such fateful associations with ghosts. Casear, by whom you mean Julius Caesar, did not take such things at all seriously, and so the conjunction of the two names seems “curious/nonsensical” to you.  The word, Ebenezer, goes back to 1 Kings 7:12, and it became the name for the hamlet in which I reside.  I use Caesar as a title of high rank (think of Kaiser or Czar).  Ebenezer Caesar literally means King of Ebenezer, the imputation of royalty being a relief for an ego bruised by playing golf on weekends. Such self-coronation is an exercise in autotherapy in which I no doubt should not indulge.

Buffy The Muslim Slayer.

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This is the key part of Sarah Barracuda’s speech which I believe gives us an indication of why she has ditched overt Buchananism:

“Politics isn’t just a game of clashing parties and competing interests.

The right reason is to challenge the status quo, to serve the common good, and to leave this nation better than we found it.

No one expects us to agree on everything.

But we are expected to govern with integrity, good will, clear convictions, and ... a servant’s heart.”

TRANSLATION: “Listen paleos, I do *not* agree with McCain or the neocons on everything.  I repeat, I do NOT.  It’s not about that.  It’s about having a servant’s heart and leaving the country better than I found it.  I am willing to stop being just a ‘clashing party’ in order to accomplish something worthwhile. 

Here is why I decided to stop being a ‘clashing party’: I realized my unique attractiveness as a candidate to a hard-pressed McCain campaign and that no paleo would ever be in this position for another 100 years.  If I had said to McCain, ‘Well you know I am not for Israel’ I would have been back on the first plane to Alaska so fast it would make your head spin.”

Tobais,

I think that at Pat’s age, he’s in the clear calling any female under sixty a girl if he wants to.

-jcr

But we’d be getting John, not Sarah!

</i>
Sir,

please have a look at David Lindorff’s article over at counterpunch. Granted, he’s a leftist (a man you, for reasons unclear to anyone outside your country, might insist on calling a liberal).

http://www.counterpunch.org/lindorff09052008.html

Ever since I had the pleasure of getting to know M Le Pen and his daughter at a friend’s wedding, I am amazed at what one can get away with in conservative circles as long as one caters to their anti-leftist gut feelings.

And of course, anyone with political leanings even slightly to the left of orthodoxy get’s the “elitist” treatment if he dares to invoke any standards (at all) of morality in private life - or table manners for that matter - in commenting on the conservative’s pet policians du jour.

This, I admit, I sometimes find insufferable.

Sincerely

P.

There some serious differences between McCain and Palin and these will be highlighted after the “honeymoon period” is over. Palin has already been asked about her Buchanan history, which is about 10 years ago, but it would be much more difficult for her to distance herself from Ron Paul, based on her MTV remarks on him in February 2008. Judge Andrew Napolitano does not seem to be convinced about her foreign policy AND security experience and made wise remarks: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RDQQyYEVnzk Palin will be simply a pawn in a McCain administration, where Liberman, Ridge etc. will have a dominant role. Palin’s role will be reduced to seremonies in senate as well as overseas. I am greatly sceptical that she would be a GOP presidential candidate in 2012, they will simply not allow it. The best way to get rid of the neocons in the GOP would be a loss in November, and this could set up the stage for a 2010 revolution, whereby the Ron Paul revolution could sweep into power, taking control of house and senate like in 1994. Palin can fulfill a better role as governor of Alaska and be free for a conservative philosophy. In 4-8 years she could be a viable candidate as VP or president. If McCain-Palin wins, the general public will be biased against the GOP by that time and want a change, which would mean even if Palin is a candidate in 2012, Clinton will probably have the best chance to win then. You seldom have a presidential dominance for one party for an unlimited amount of time. People will also be well served by listened to Jack Hunter’s wise remarks on the Palin-factor: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BcPWEtVlgyc