I cannot believe McCain and the neocons were aware of the fact that Sarah Palin supported Pat Buchanan’s bid for the presidency.  I have noticed that several left-wing blogs have already argued that Palin’s support for Buchanan is evidence of her anti-Semitism.  And to the neoconservatives, anyone associated with Pat Buchanan is a sign of moral depravity.  I suspect that if this becomes an issue in the campaign, Palin will disassociate herself from Buchanan and begin to mouth neocon talking-points.

Mr. Taldone has shown brilliant insight into the problem that could face Sarah, who
really is a sweetheart and may be too decent and naive for what lies ahead.

She’s either changing diapers, vacuuming in pearls and repairing Alaska’s infrastructure, or she’s a Red State Evita a heartbeat away from stowing nail polish in an Oval Office credenza. It seems like show-biz and sop for recalcitrant Democrat PUMA’s, but the choice sure has dimmed the spotlight on Obama’s Big Night in Denver. Whether the hullaballoo lasts more that a 72-hour news cycle is up in the air. At least cable has more to yap about and feed off than the sad Caylee Anthony tragedy in Florida.

This post didn’t really have a point… did it?

Prof.Gottfried:

The lady has moral courage: witness her conscious decision not to abort her-soon-to-be-born Downs Syndome child.

It’s proabably too much to expect that she will have a like amount of politiclal courage (winess her cave-in on her previous support for Pat), but she definitely is an American Original. For that much we should be grateful.

Dan

P.S. Despite her possible faults, I would definitley vote for her for the presidency, but never as second banana to “Invade The World, Invite The World, In Hock To The World, Adopt The World” Mad-Dog McCain!

Sure, it’s ridiculous to describe Patrick Buchanan as a “Nazi sympathizer.” But now is not the time for Sarah Palin to make that case. She must not let herself be dragged into a public argument where *everything* is fixed against her.

Some important Jewish supporters of Obama(they are many and very influential)are trying to smear Palin with her association with my hero Pat Bucanan.Typical Stalinist tactics.Wexler’s odious tactics are exactly why we should vote for McCain-Palin.

I’m envisioning a scenario where the Buchanan ties force her to resign as the left and the neocons tag team her.  Then McCain picks Lieberman.

Alaska is not like the lower 48.  Contending for the vice presidency of an empire in decline will not be nearly as much fun as being governor and mom in an oil and gas rich north country enclave.

This whole thing is a non-issue.

Palin is a model candidate and so was Buchanan, they are conservatives for the people.

All this other stuff is insignificant nonsense the left is going to drag out to defend their WEAK candidates… ahahha. Obama is COOKED.

Stick a fork in him folks, and welcome the Hillary voters who see who really respects women of accomplishment.

Yet another excellent piece, Dr. Gottfried. 

I think her strength and message is simply in who she is.  Her presence and the facts of her life and commitments and relationships make an impression that speaks for itself.  By attacking her, Wexler helps the cause by highlighting the difference between the Democratic base and humanity. 

There is one other factor here that my political instincts tell me will be potent all the more for being novel.  Palin’s husband appears to be what most women voters of both parties would consider “A Hunk.” Remember what people were whispering about in anticipation of Hillary as President; the role of the first gentleman? With an attractive, virile man standing by the VP candidate, there will be a whole new sexual dynamic in this campaign.  Of course this is all in the realm of unconsious voter motivation.  But it WILL be a factor, and I suspect, our favor.  Now if we can just keep him from slugging anyone during the campaign we may be all right. By thew way, his part Indian background only amplifies the positive.  If we’re really lucky he’ll have an artistic side, carving duck decoys, that sort of thing. 

And someone, please get her a good speech writer and vocal coach.

Behavioral indications of alcoholism include gross intellectual dishonesty.

Wexler has been on my radar as a likely alcoholic for years.

Anyone having the inside scoop on Wexler is welcome to email me.

DougThorburn"at"mindspring.com

Those who are interested in my take on why understanding alcoholism is important
may wish to take a peek at my online addictionreport.com.

It is my understanding she worked to elect Steve Forbes, not Buchanan.

I would certainly agree, Wexler is a vile leftist idiot.

@ Tom Meehan

I should hope Mr. Palin does sock someone.. It would be soo refreshing.  There’s such a long list of oleaginous muggs he could plant his fist in.  Charles Shumer’s gob, say.. or Henry Wexler’s..  Or maybe even Joe Biden’s or Bill Clinton’s (though I suppose the Secret Service might take unfortunate exception to these last two..)

Could send him a list of some of the most unctuous boobs worthy of a good smack.  Like when Preston Brooks took his cane and knocked Charles Sumner senseless on the floor of Congress.. 

Ah, but weren’t those the days?

Dr. Gottfried needs to learn to read more carefully.  As vile as Wexler is, he did not smear Palin with an association with Pat Buchanan.  The author of the piece at Politico is the one who brings Buchanan into it, and he specifically notes that Wexler did not.

So Palin supported Pat Buchanan (horrors!), or was she only “welcoming all the Republican candidates?” Does it matter?  She’s a woman.  Women change their minds.  Women can say anything and get away with anything (like Shrub, for different reasons), ‘cause...they’re women.  I still like her.  But remember, she will be the VICE-presidential nominee. I’m not voting for McCain.  Sorry, Sarah.

My apologies--I see from the second link (the one to Free Republic) that Wexler issued a second statement which does mention Buchanan.  However, Palin’s statement about welcoming all candidates as mayor was made in 1999, in a letter to the editor in response to an article that suggested that she was a Buchanan supporter.

So if Mrs. Palin is denying Pat now, it’s nothing new--she was denying him nine years ago.

This is the second time I’ve seen it mentioned in passing that Sarah Palin was a supporter of libertarian-leaning Conservative and Ron Paul backer Steve Forbes for President in 2000. 

Can someone please confirm this? 

If so, it adds to Ms. Palin’s already impressive libertarian credentials.

Ms Palin is to Buchanan as a flee is to a giant. Moral courage to have a Downs
syndrome child? Planned and in her middle forties right? Thats not moral courage
that’s outright stupidity, were four children not enough? I have 3 kids and I would
have liked to have had 10 but I was not that irresponsible. She sets a good example
for 3rd world countries too doesn’t she?  She’s a kook.

To bob above acidents happen: Sarah Palin took responsibility and didn’t kil her child, sorry if that offends you. Sarah gets my vote.

Eric?  Eric?!

Where are you? 

And why won’t you let me out of this jar in your basement?!  It’s stuffy in here!

The neocons using antisemitism charges against anyone who disagrees with their interventualist foreign policy is now going to bite them in the ass.

“If we’re really lucky he’ll have an artistic side, carving duck decoys, that sort of thing.”

C’mon, man. Too funny.

Btw, I watched a CSPAN rebroadcast of Palin last night. Originally aired from February, she was asked if there was any “trivia” about her worth sharing.

Bemused and stupefied, she quietly said no but not before sharing a cuddlesome fact ‘bout her hubby. Seems he’s won some Alaskan dog-sled race like four years in a row. Her eyes nearly beamed from the especial pride.

(I guess it doesn’t take much in Alaska.)

She quickly added, however, in a moment of false embarrassment, that he lost this year’s race and was no longer the champion.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/8/30/121350/137/486/580223

Too bad Sarah Palin is about to be swift-boated! Apparently, Sarah Palin is not the mother of the Down’s syndrome baby; rather, her teenage daughter is the mother. Check it out.

Never underestimate the power of a good looking woman.

Joe,
The idea that Palin is not the mother is ludicrous.  So all of the doctors, nurses, and orderlies are in on the conspiracy too?  If any of the major news media pick up that story, Palin could simply be DNA tested and sue for defamation of character.

The execrable Alan Colmes claimed that the child’s Down Syndrome was caused by stress during the pregnancy.  Don’t the Democratics claim to be the party of science and reason?

That Alan Colmes would say such a thing only confirms how truly bereft of humanity and judgement he is.  He is a poster child for any number of societal shortcomings.
By the way, I was walking down the streets of Manhattan recently and Alan Colmes bumped into me.  Indignantly he said, “Why don’t you look where you’re going?” To which I responded, “Mr. Colmes, why don’t you go where you’re looking?”
And for our folks at the Daily Kos, I believe every syllable that floats from John Edwards mouth.

“The idea that Palin is not the mother is ludicrous.  So all of the doctors, nurses, and orderlies are in on the conspiracy too?  If any of the major news media pick up that story, Palin could simply be DNA tested and sue for defamation of character.

The execrable Alan Colmes claimed that the child’s Down Syndrome was caused by stress during the pregnancy.  Don’t the Democratics claim to be the party of science and reason?”

The despicable nature of these attacks is probably just going to make people like her better when they see through it, and hopefully may expose to more people the myth of leftists as “friends to women.” Of all the things leftists present themselves as, that is among the most insidious, the most dangerous, the most in need of exposing.  My biggest concern is that she appears to be unprepared for this important task.

I actually like Sarah Palin and was even thinking of voting for McCain just because of her! But photos don’t lie. The daughter has a very definite baby-bump and all the photos of Sarah at the time show her looking very svelte. I hope more than anyone that’s it’s not true, but i think it is. It’s a shame that she would lie about this instead of just admitting that her daughter got pregnant and that they chose life.

That does NOT look like a “baby bump.” It looks like a normal teenaged girl who is about 5-10 pounds overweight.  The fact that it is written anonymously on a website like Daily Kos should raise doubts about whether it is true—I’d hesitate to get too exited even about something that website “revealed” about Bill Kristol.

Let me comment further on this.  I said “It looks like a normal teenaged girl who is about 5-10 pounds overweight.” Besides the possibilities I mentioned above, another good thing that could come out of this is warning girls that age against wearing those obnoxious low-cut pants that do make their stomachs stick out.

If Ms. Palin is the mother (rather
than the tabloids’ buzz) she
needs to sue ASAP.

I hope and pray that she didn’t try to pull a fast one to protect her daughter from shame. I know that pro-life people would still applaud her for not aborting her son/grandson(?)

BUT, a lie is a lie. And, there is also Palin’s “Troopergate” scandal.  Palin claims that someone like her former BIL shouldn’t be a state trooper.

(Rumor has it that the BIL tasered his 13 year old and that he was convicted of beating Palin’s sister.)

If Palin (and McCain) have messed up on this one....

*sighs*

Hello socalism!

:o(

‘Hello socalism!’

The cute thing is that you assume that if McCain and Palin get elected, they will stop this.

I find the rumor to be somewhat credible but, so what?  If the rumor turns out credible, I think it only adds a sense of a higher morality, and, it’s none of our business.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/8/30/121350/137/486/580223

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=132&topic_id=6847357

Here are a couple of more troubling photos. In the first link is another photo of the daughter with her baby bump. In the second is a photo of Sara Palin when she was pregnant with her 4th child compared to this last “pregnancy.” Hopefully, the MSM won’t touch this, assuming the RNC has a tape of Michelle Obama calling white people “whitey.” This is not good though.

>"My apologies--I see from the second link (the one to Free Republic) that Wexler issued a second statement which does mention Buchanan."</i

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Does this mean Buchanan has too much credibility to sneeze off with the “anti-Semitic” charge? Has he become fully rehabilitated by our Stalin-like, lockstep media? Or has the anti-Semitic charge lost some of its cache’ - a victim of “crying ‘wolf’” overuse?

That would be wonderful. It takes a lot of power to close all debate with a single accusation. And we can’t even bring up that fact - about the power - without attracting the accusation. It’s a rondelet proof of the power whose name we dare not speak.

There’s nothing wrong with power, and using it. But it grows - dangerously - when its very existence can’t be openly debated.
Any hint it’s losing its dread significance is encouraging.

For the life of me, I don’t understand why the Taki writers are gaga over the Palin woman.Please go back to being good Obamacons.

SP seems to be a real woman and a real conservative. Very likeable, competent, energetic. Now, if only McCain would have the decency to drop dead, the Republican Party would easily win this election.

“I’m envisioning a scenario where the Buchanan ties force her to resign as the left and the neocons tag team her.  Then McCain picks Lieberman.”

My thoughts precisely.  The Likudnik neocons control both parties and are having fun putting on their third rate puppet show for the booboisie, using their indistinguishable frontrunners as sockpuppets.

Today’s TV addicted American public will get what they deserve in the upcoming election.  Unfortunately, the rest of us will get what the boobs deserve as well.

Lazy time - & in the wrong direction? Well, who has the media then one must ask? And where do they ‘believe’ they are going? Since they’re ‘taking’ the rest of us. ‘Which way you going Billy, can I go too?’

“So long as government is merely reflecting society, there is probably some good it can do–at the lowest conceivable level–in encouraging good manners, morals, music. However, this should not be read as a justification for the NEA or NPR, state agencies that make war on local traditions. This was a point on which the late WFB was quite misled by a kind of do-gooding elitism.” -Thomas Fleming

Never will happen again since as Chilton W. pointed out in his article last month in Chronicles (re: Pat’s book) what made great Western Civlization again after/&including;the Greeks & Romans was xianity…Which was/is the subtlest and thus most potent form of tradition and up to the minute intuition about all of us i.e. our Providential human condition & has not been replaced and perhaps cannot be at this point. -?- Without some important tweaks… maybe it got a tad stale?

What do I know except we MUST know also how to appreciate and hook up with too (since we can) even if only from time to time temporarily in our imperfect lives - that which does *stand just above the lesser and conflicting verities of the world.

Amen. For in this regard and only in it has God also put us at his holy fountain at the center and entrance burning every way in a land of drought. /// Not likely in the near future? -?- I’m sculpting my gargoyles now?! When weren’t they useful?

Bottom line it will now take a joiningng together -and- it would be helpful when and if today’s all powerful jews became at least *less Christophobic. Otherwise, let’s face it ‘my friends’ who else is it on?

Which way you going Billy - can we go too? - If the answer is ‘no.’ Then I for one laugh.

Let us assume that this story in KOS is true. People with some knowledge of working class and rural Americans know, as no liberal ever seems to, that such people regularly take the children of such pregnancies to their bosoms to raise as full members of their families.  I’ve known several such from from growing up in Northern New Jersey. 

So let’s consider the impact.  First, KOS’s little snitch would cause real harm to both an innocent child and a young woman.  The secret’s out, the scarlet letter now applied and all for meer political reasons.

Second.  Governor Palin will be branded a hypocrite by the sniggering anti-family left, but she will look like a loving Mother doing her best for both her daughter and baby to every normal woman in America.

The under story here is that if you DON’T abort all unplanned children the new ruling class will hold you up to shame. 

All in all I think the Obama campaign must be praying that no one on their staff planted this.  If one of their campaign gremlins did plant it, Obama is all but crippled.  Of course the possibility exists that one of or “friends” among ther Neocon’s planted it. 

Finally, If, as is likely, this is just a vile lie, McCain/Palin needs to take to the courts immediatly. Palin may be a public figure but her daughter and baby are not. The KOS/Soros crowd will have overstepped so monsterously with this smeer that we may be able to render them as bankrupt in capital as they are in morals

Oh, come on, Mr. Gottfried.
Wexler a member of the “Israeli far right”? You are too smart for this relativistic garbage.
Firstly, Wexler supports the Peace Process (or rather piece process, wherein the Arabs and Islamists murder Jews and get Israel one piece at a time.) Wexler is just a leftist liar.
Secondly, you know what “far right” infers. The Far Right in Israel supports expelling Arabs, and perhaps Israeli-Arabs. (Not that this is all that extreme. Everyone short of the one-state leftists believe in population transfer, mostly Jews from some, most, or all of the disputed territories tied to some movement of Arab population.)

As for baby with Downs syndrome being Palin’s grand daughter, the affliction strongly suggests otherwise. 16 or 17 year-old adolescents are statistically very unlikely to have a baby with Downs syndrome. I believe the figure is about 1 in 1000. Compare that to the baby of a 43 year old, who runs a 4% chance of having downs syndrome.
Downs syndrome is normally a factor of older eggs. Both Colmes and the demented denizens of Daily Kos are scientifically illiterate.

While risk numbers are as per RonL, 80% of babies with Down’s are born to women aged less than 35, just because of the sheer number of babies born to this age group.

Paul Gottfried; definitely a Righteous Jew.

Don’t let that go to your Yiddish Kopf Paul, you’ve got a ways to go yet.  ;)

Sarah Palin is being intervieed on MSNBC as I write (11:42PM).  The Show is a business one and the questions are “Soft Ball” in general.  That to one side, she is articulate, well spoken and at least on the issues of energy, federalism and similar topics quite impressive. 

No One does oratory anymore.  She is a coherent, focused speaker.  She speaks in a fast but unhurried tempo. I’m impressed at her performance.  I suggest that McCain make the point that if she can master the complexities and challenges of a vast and rough state like Alaska she will be up to speed on the lower Fourty Eight in the time it takes for Joe Biden to get four new hair plugs.

My suggested tag line for the VP debate would run something like this.  “Senator, I run a state so big Delaware would be just somebody’s back yard, And not a very big one at that. Senator when you actually run something, come talk to me about experience.”

Of course if elected she will have no ability to restrain McCain and his dubious advisers.  She may be appealing but it’s McCain who makes or breaks out choice in this election cycle.

If in fact Palin continues to deny Buchanan and somehow concedes that he is some kind of Nazi lover she is no friend to paleos or, any other decent human being. That kind of garbage needs to be taken care of quickly by both McCain and Palin.  To let nonsense about Buchanan be passed of as somewhat legitimate is outrageous. Thanks Dr. Gottfried. These two so-called conservatives need to do the same and call these dirtbags out.

Come on guys, aren’t we all past being worried about being labled antisemetic? So who gives a damn
what some Jews say about Sarah Palin? After all, she’s joining the neo-cons who are making the
Middle East safe for Israel. But in case you are confused, Obama has the Weather Underground types
of Jews promoting him, whereas McCain has the Norman Podoretz Jews directing him. We Americans have
no one--save Pat Buchanan--advocating for us.

Did I miss something?  Is Pat B. a bad man now?  When did this happen?  And when did anti-zionism become anti-semitism?

Apologies if this response goes slightly off-topic but bob d’s comment, which I presume is suggesting that having more than three children is somehow irresponsible, is a terrible commentary on the sad state we are in.

Religious and moral considerations completely aside it is astounding that in the obvious face of the demographic demise of European culture now in full throttle and for all to see, where we are aborting and contracepting ourselves to death with grand insouciance, that someone could apply the term “irresponsible” to having large and happy families.  Neither is there any longer an excuse for such ignorance, an ignorance that would equate large families with some sort of cataclysmic disaster.

If bob d’s thinking is the common thinking among the “good guys” these days I’m very much afraid we are in deep, deep trouble.

The neocons only attack people of character, people they’re afraid of. We’re so used to it now that hearing
someone accused of “vile anti-Semitism” simply raises our eyebrows, and perhaps increases that person’s stature in in our eyes. My only worry about Ms Palin stems from a lifestyle perhaps too remote from East Coast policits to appreciate neocon ruthlessness. Leaving Alaska may be like stepping out of OCS directly into a Tet Offensive. Let’s see how she copes.

Palin will bow to AIPAC, just like McCain, Romney, Lieberman, Obama and the rest.

Hide and watch.

Palin will be neo-connized. Does her hubby make duck decoy’s? I could use a few more for the upcoming season.
Who cares which group of neo-cons runs the empire into the ground. I got ducks to kill!

I’m almost sorry for my crack about duck decoys.  Let’s remember these are living, bleeding human beings.  I got home too late to hear the speeches tonight but I sense that the GOP lost the thread already. 

The personal life of a teenage girl has been sacrificed in the cause of partisan politics by the party that claims to represent Women’s rights and interests! If the Republicans cannot recognize that this is a historic moment to attack and define, then truly they are as doomed to extinction as the Duck Billed Dinosaur.

Yes, It’s all really about McCain and his neocon buddys.  But the cheap underhanded attack on Palin is such a disgrace and such a tactical blunder by the left that not to turn this to advantage would be unforgivable.

While I don’t take issue with the general thrust of your comments, I do disagree that VP choice Palin looks solidly “American.” Far from it--definitely she looks ethnic:  possibly Greek, Raquel Welch type Bolivian (cruzena), or maybe Slavic Balkan.  I don’t think we have the full heritage on the table at this point.

Oh dear, are you infer that there was a Monte Negrin in the woodpile? 

Seriously, who cares? My mother had high cheekbones and a similar facial physiognomy.  She was 100% Irish.