I have no idea whether this is true or not, but someone on NPR the other day said that McCain’s inner circle was divided into two camps, Romney vs. Lieberman, so McCain chose Palin.

How stupid could they be to really be considering Lieberman. The base would have revolted. Too bad for Baldwin he didn’t pick Lieberman. McCain is either stupid or arogant or both to think he could pull that off.

The party bosses told McCain do as we say or we’ll pull all support. Now his run has been hijacked by Palin who is a pretty neo-con. He is going to be as much a non-entity as Bush. He can’t misgovern without the party apparatchiks and better get a food taster.

I’ve heard that Romney was under consideration, but that would have been an insane choice, since he made his money at Bain mainly by outsourcing American jobs. What an easy target in today’s environment!

I am interested to see who Palin plays. She has some ethics problems of her own, and she may herself be a bridge to nowhere on the earmarks question.

‘Palin got picked “chosen” like I select all of my starlets - for CONSUMPTION,’ said the Hollywood producer. ‘DUH? And if female that’s how they pick their male actor material whether they admit it (to themselves?) or not. Women have less elevated up to consciousness about themselves than they do about men. HA-HA-HA...(can’t blame them). But the media is *determinative of which Hollywood is a part, so who cares about these politicians. HA-HA-HA.’ (sorry, humor… only the truth is funny.) Vote, Hollywood. ‘HA-HA-HA!’

Somebody needs to remind the McCain/Palin campaign that Jesus was a community organizer and not a governor as Pontius Pilate was.

The desire to feel politically powerless is one of the most powerful ideological motivators.

I wonder if experiencing being powerless is the materialistic mask covering the soul’s absence of Sanctifying Grace and hiding that reality from our intellect.

Does experiencing such political powerlessness seduce the will and intellect into recasting that emotional response into the self-judgment of innocence?

Abounding amongst the Paleos is what appears to me to be a race to be the first to put the boot on the face of any positive political news. 

While Sarah Palin is not the sun of man, she is a ray of hope. And how delighted appear to be those write-backers who wickedly trash her or predict she will be co-opted. (and forget about The Jews. There are nine Jews in America and they are not responsible for the state in which we find ourselves. All of these rotten laws and crackpot policies were implemented by white male Christians).

It does not even appear to be possible (in Paleo-ideology) that the establishment could blunder and hand Christian Conservatives an unexpected gift they might capitalise on.

No. The Paleo Ideology appears to be firmly concretised into defeatism.

The left must laugh at how easily they have y’all cowed and submissive. They didn’t have to build a single prison cell. They didn’t have to send you to one re-education camp. You surrendered your intellectual liberty without being thrown into chains - just the opposite of what real Christian men do when they are in chains.

Sad.

“The left must laugh at how easily they have y’all cowed and submissive.”

I am not Spartacus, why aren’t the cowed and submissive ones those who think it is just fine and dandy that the supposed new hope of paleos everywhere canceled a meeting with pro-lifers so she could go “reassure” AIPAC, because maybe, just maybe, she had at one time had positive thoughts about Buchanan. If she or McCain had any spine they would have told AIPAC to get in line for a meeting just like everyone else.

Palin is good in the same way Huckabee was, she is not one of us but she pisses off the right people. That makes her better than Romney, but not much else.

You may think we reflexively naysay good news, but I actually find all this hope being invested in Palin by some paleos a little pathetic.

Mr. Phillips. A very much qualified positive outlook about the possibilities presented by Palin does not, to me at least, appear to qualify as “all this hope,” But I highly regard your opinion and I am sure you’ve read more than have I in the Universe of Paleoconservatism.

I compare how Paleos have responded to Palin versus how they have responded to Obama and their positive response to a known phony (I assume most of us read the great Sailer and his well-documented exposes of the Chicago Machine Puppet) and so I have a different take.

As for the meeting with AIPAC, I have no problems with that. That is just a recognition of political reality.

Unless a Christian Conservative is willing to shake hands, kiss babies, and deliver some boilerplate rhetoric to AIPAC they’d be signaling they do not want the job.

Christian Conservatives have to trim their sails until they get control of the Stupid Party. Standing outside the hall, refusing the VEEP position because there are some hoops ya don’t wanna crawl through, or, worse, holding a “convention” while the real one is going on is, well, retarded and self-defeating.

Third Parties ain’t ever gonna cut it in America.

Mr. Phillips. What also does not cut it is a site like Chronicles. I called the haughty one for being naughty, quit the site, and he deleted my posts where I responded to a gentleman who called me Beezlebub. (post 122)

Of course, I copied and saved my posts knowing that is precisely what he’d do :)

I suspected the intellectual bully would act the coward when called out on the public playground. He didn’t disappoint. He deleted my response and kept the comments by a man I think is a judge. Yikes!!

Dr. Fleming began, in post #66, writing he had nothing bad to say about Palin but his descent into the, routine for him, haughty small-minded mean-spirited attacks against anyone not of his ilk was so rapid that I had to read that thread from an Iron Lung.

And men like Dr. Fleming, are going to attract whom to a political movement?

In any event, I just brought this up FYI because I know you post there and might have wondered why I didn’t respond to being called Beezlebub.

“Somebody needs to remind the McCain/Palin campaign that Jesus was a community organizer and not a governor as Pontius Pilate was.”

SERIOUSLY.  During Giuliani’s speech last night, the biggest laugh line came when the Republican yobs laughed at the word “community organizer” while Giuliani was ticking off items from Obama’s bio.  Giuliani had to stop til the laughter and cat-calls died down.  It was NOT written as a laugh line.  See http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6843160788468891144&hl=en

Go Sarah Barracuda!  Go mccain-PALIN ‘08!

May I ask “I am not Spartacus” to spend a few paragraphs explaining why he seems so Gung-ho about Ms. Palin’s selection and what specifically he finds appealing about her.

I would appreciate keeping bromides and ‘happy talk’ to a very minimum.

respectfully,

Why can’t the Amerikan sheeple see through all of this staged nonsense?

Neither “candidate” is going to do anything significant. Both are owned by powers most people cannot comprehend. The U.S. is finished as a nation unless we re-instate the Constitution and abide by it. Don’t you sheeple understand theater when you see it? None of these people care about the US!!

I have to say that I find this fawning over this woman utterly redundant thus far. She seemed pretty cool til I found out the day after she got the VP nod, she went right to AIPAC and basically kissed their ass like McBama did. Constant warfare is going to negate any tax cuts with massive borrowing, meaning massive infaltion to pay back our creditors. Also, this woman is only going to be the VP, only good for breaking Senatorial deadlocks and going to State funerals. THis chick isn’t going anywhere after that. And as for 2012? Whoever is the next pres is going to be overseeing some nasty economic downturns and more foreign adventures. Palin is going to be toast by then, tagged with being part of a crappy regime.

Sarah Palin (R-Diversity)

http://www.city-journal.org/2008/eon0830hm.html

“Somebody needs to remind the McCain/Palin campaign that Jesus was a community organizer and not a governor as Pontius Pilate was.”

You’ve got to be kiddin!

I suspect that if it were up to McCain, Lieberman would be his running mate. Otherwise McCain is at a loss of words. But the party administrators, whoever they are, managed to make him see that he can’t put a Democrat on the ticket.
Romney was somewhat of an obvious choice, young, rich, but his problem is that he is as dislikable and McCain, morever those two wouldn’t get along.
They needed someone to balance the ticket, McCain being a liberal with an insane war mentality, they needed a traditional conservative. Palin satisfies the interior politics of the party (in appearance at least), McCain satisfies AIPAC in foreign dogma of war against all. Palin has also the plus of being a woman since Hillary will keep running until she wins.