Brutally Honest

Leftist sexism (continued)

It's absolute... just ask Freeman Hunt (who goes on the blogroll):

A comment I left today on Althouse sums it up:

I am getting extremely offended by this liberal meme that attractive women are nothing more than beauty queens regardless of their accomplishments. Palin has accomplished more in her short time in office than most accomplish over entire careers. But none of that matters; she's pretty, so that's all she is.

Absolute sexism.

I mean, what the hell?  Reading the Dowd column Althouse links would lead one to believe that the only thing Palin has ever done is enter beauty contests. And Dowd's hardly alone; her commentary is par for the course.

Democrats, champions of feminism? Bull. Oh right, the fact that they want to ensure we have the right to kill our own children, half of them women, in the womb is supposed to trump all.  Give me a break.

Seems to be a Brutally Honest consensus.

With a hat tip to Matteo.

They're so loving and compassionate...

... and quick to remind us.  Don Surber brings us their latest manifestations:

Lefty Bloggers Go After Palin’s Daughter.

My initial reaction to the lefty rumor that Trig Palin is her grandson and not her son was that it is so absurd that it is a sign of desperation by Democratic Sen. Barack Obama’s fellow Chicagoan, Markos Moulitsas, to discredit the campaign of Republican Sen. John McCain by attacking the daughter of his running mate, Republican Gov. Sarah Palin.

But her honor is at stake and we should not allow loathsome critters like Markos Moulitsas to go unchallenged.

The odds are high against the mainstream media (and I am a small tributary to that flow of conventional wisdom) breaking this story without the aid of Drudge or Rush.

Most reporters like to think of the world as perfect except for that Republican Attack Machine which brings up inconvenient truths about Obama hanging out with unrepentant terrorists, Iraqi- and Syrian-born corrupt millionaires, and whack-job preachers from the pulpit of hate.

Amanda Carpenter at Townhall: “Shortly after Palin was announced McCain’s VP, bloggers at the Kos started ginning up the rumor Palin faked her pregnancy, allegedly to cover for an illegitimate grandchild, because she looked so fit and trim in a photo taken a few months before giving birth.”

Two facts: Women over 40 have an increased risk of Down Syndrom children. Nursing loses weight.

Hat tip: Lucianne, who is fighting the good fight.

I look forward to reading Religious Leftists across the country as they speak against this sort of behavior.

I just can't wait to post their comments.

Can't wait.

I'm waiting.

Still. Waiting.

RedState's Travis and Jonathan on Sarah Palin

The Bullwinkle appearance had a ring of familiarity to it:

Palin is:

1) extremely pro life, even in cases of incest or rape.
2) card carrying member of the NRA.
3.) in favor of drilling in Alaska in the wildlife refuge areas.

Something tells me that the women Hillary supporters will not come near her simply because of her being female.

-Rev. "Bullwinkle" in Ca.

Helluva a vice to be called 'extremely pro-life' isn't it?

 

With kudos to Gerard Vanderleun for the video find.

Palin's husband is no metrosexual

Even more reason to be enthused about her selection:

He's known as a doting, blue-collar husband who stands on the sidelines as his wife blazes a historic trail in politics.

But Todd Mitchell Palin can claim accomplishments beyond his marriage to Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, the surprise running mate of Republican presidential hopeful John McCain.

Todd Palin is a veteran oil-field worker and commercial fisherman affectionately dubbed Alaska's "first dude." He's a man who took college courses but does not have a degree, yet can hold his own in sophisticated circles, even hosting a reception for five former Alaska first ladies earlier this month.

A father of five, he's also a four-time winner of the world's longest snowmobile race, billed as the most grueling. It's a sport the 43-year-old lifelong Alaskan is so passionate about that he's continued to compete even after his wife took office in December 2006.

In this year's 2,000-mile Tesoro Iron Dog contest, Palin and racing partner Scott Davis were trying to defend their 2007 championship when Palin broke his arm in a crash. It was 400 miles from the finish line, but he refused to quit, coming in fourth, cheered on by the parka-clad governor waving a checkered flag.

"There are racers who throw in the towel pretty quick, without broken arms, with just a head cold," executive race director Laura Bedard said Friday. "This speaks highly of his character."

...

Todd Palin is a highly aggressive competitor but will stop to assist a rival in trouble, according to Bedard. She said that in last year's Iron Dog, Palin and Davis helped a racer with broken ribs reach the next checkpoint before heading on to victory.

Davis, a seven-time Iron Dog winner, could not be reached Friday, but a worker at his family's concrete block manufacturing business in Soldotna said Palin often comes into the office during race preparations. The worker, Vickie Aber, described Todd Palin as a quiet, unassuming family man not in the least intimidated by his wife's meteoric rise.

He's not one to boast about his Iron Dog wins, either, Aber said.

There'd be swooning if the man were liberal but since he's married to a conservative now known as the Vice Presidential nominee, he'll be viewed as an impregnating misogynist ne'er-do-well Neanderthal.

Guaranteed.

"Put not your trust in princes nor in any child of man."

But.

Should a Category 3 or better hurricane come barreling down on New Orleans and her surrounding areas at about the same time the Republican convention is about to start, then consider that to be the hand of God:

The Democrats, who had been able to portray Republicans for their poor response to Hurricane Katrina, may be in a world of hurt as former Chairman of the DNC Don Fowler seemed to find delight in the fact that Hurricane Gustav is heading towards New Orleans on the day that the GOP is set to start their National Convention and formally elect John McCain their candidate for the general election.

Fowler, who was Charmain of the Democratic National Committee from 1995-1997, stated on camera

"The hurricane’s going to hit New Orleans about the time they start. [Chuckle] The timing is — at least it appears now that it’ll be there Monday. That just demonstrates that God’s on our side. [Laughter] Everything’s cool."

Hurricane Gustav is currently a category 4 Hurricane with winds as high as 140 miles per hour being currently reported. The path is heading towards Louisiana and many fear the same type of disaster that happened in 2005 which ravaged the city of New Orleans because cities poor levies and the fact that the city sits below sea level.

Needless to say, the vast majority of the electorate will probably take pleasure at a party looking for political gain from a national disaster that has the potential to be deadly for many in its path.

This mirroring that other leftist prophet, Michael Moore:

Academy Award-winning filmmaker Michael Moore, best-known for his documentaries "Roger and Me" and "Fahrenheit 9/11" told MSNBC commentator Keith Olbermann on Friday that projections that Hurricane Gustav could hit near New Orleans on the opening night of the Republican National Convention "is proof that there is a God in heaven."

...

Moore responded: "I was just thinking, this Gustav is proof that there is a God in heaven. To just have it ... planned at the same time, that it would actually be on its way to New Orleans for Day One of the Republican convention, up in the Twin Cities, at the top of the Mississippi River."

These events will, of course, be covered as widely and broadcast as often by our beloved MSM as if some evangelical preacher had said it about the Democratic convention.

Of course.

Clueless

I too was wondering if McCain thinks the Hillary Clinton women are really going to vote for Palin? Simply because she is a woman? NOT! Her conservative views are not going to change their vote, except for move them closer to Obama, which is fine with me.

Rev. Susan in Ca.

Meanwhile, over at HillaryClintonForum.net:

MANY OF US ARE NOW VOTING FOR MAC AND PALIN!!! IT IS WORKING!!!!
Obama and the DNC are going down this November!

the  Democratic Party is going to be railroaded on Election Day by it's own party base -- that they disowned!!! LOL
Keep using our posts for reference
The Clintons and the DLC are COMING BACK

my family and i are life long democrats and we are voting for mccain/palin 12 of us anyway

I've been a Democrat all my life and I now support McCain and Palin 100%.

I am as far left as you can get, and I am voting McCain and Palin!

I too am a lifelong democrat that got thrown under the bus by my party of 22 yrs and by Barack Obama and his merry band of 12yr old followers.I will be voting McCain/Palin and am damn proud to do so!!!! It is not "God D**n America" it has become "God D**n the Democrats,for they know not what they did".

And there's more over there like that one. 

Rev. Susan in California... best representing what an Obama supporter is.

Public Service Announcement for liberals

Just doing my part to educate the masses:

Via RedPlanetCartoons.

"...it is Palin’s character that has us just smitten with her"

Bill Whittle, brilliantly, on a leftist blog:

... it is Palin’s character that has us just smitten with her. She had a problem at school one day so she went to a PTA meeting. She didn’t like the way things were going so she ran for the PTA and won. Then she ran for mayor of her hometown — where she played basketball and met her husband — and won. Then she got disgusted by Alaska politics and GOP corruption, and as a Republican ran against the corruption in her own party — and won. And she never whined or complained. She’s happily married, she’s a tough lady married to a tougher man, and she got there through hard work and sheer determination.

She’s the conservative success story, and that is why men and women on the right just LOVE this pick. Not because she’s a woman, but because she’s Joe, uh, make that JANE Citizen, and she played by the rules and beat corruption.

For Conservatives, Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens and his Bridge to Nowhere pork project are the absolute DEATH of conservative principles. These guys have ruined the Republican party. Sarah Palin went right at them and beat them senseless.

So it is a mistake to think of her as a token choice designed to woo Hillary voters. (I’ll think she’ll do some of that too, mind you.) But McCain is serious about corruption and reform. He has paid a heavy price in his own party for it — I was there, and I saw the resentment leveled against him. And I think he chose Palin because he plans to not only run against Obama, but against the 9% approval-rating Congress. She is the Real Deal in that regard.

So as someone who you undoubtedly disagree with on just about everything, let me close with something from the heart. I don’t like Hillary, because I don’t like her policies. But just about every conservative I know thinks she was robbed by the DNC, and that Obama’s nomination was gamed by the Democratic leadership. So since Hillary is off the ticket in ‘08, I would ask you to consider this…

There are two nuclear issues in American politics, and they are The Right to Bear Arms and Abortion rights. They are the only two issues that cause one side, or the other, to actually go out and riot in the streets. You can twiddle with them a little (partial birth bans, assault rifle bans) but there is no way that Conservatives will EVER be able to make abortion illegal, and no way for the Liberals to EVER confiscate a private citizen’s guns.

With that said, I would encourage you to look at Sarah Palin as what we all hope for: a self-made person who seems to want to do the right thing. She’s not a Woman VP — she’s an anti-corruption VP. That’s how we see her. That’s how she deserves to be seen. She has the enthiastic — actually, incandescant support of every conservative I know — not because she is a politcal missile aimed at Hillary voters, but because she embodies the American dream of the citizen who decided to make a difference.

One of the earlier posters wondered who would be more misogynistic: McCain or Obama. Is that a joke? McCain picked her because she is the best person for the job he has in mind: go clean out Washington from the inside. The democrats passed on Hillary Clinton — who had been part of the White House team for eight years and was married to the President of the United States. The Republicans chose a woman who is married to a commercial fisherman, because she has shown character, and did what she set out to do. We’re going to back this woman all the way to the wall. She’s earned it.

I would hope that would make any woman proud. It certainly made me proud, and I’m a knuckle-dragging, war-mongering Neanderthal.

Good luck in November, and may the best side win.

Bingo!

H/T Matteo.

"Who are you going to vote for?"

Locutisprime can now answer the question:

As I watched and listened to Sarah Palin's speech a few minutes ago, I was watching and listening intently to what she had to say. But I was also watching my wife. And within mere minutes of Sarah Palin speaking, I could see the tears welling up and the barest hint of a smile crossing my wife's lips, as she remained focused on Sarah Palin and her words.

My wife frequently looked over at me during the acceptance speech. Not to simply seek either confirmation or validation from my eyes, but more so to see if I had noticed her previous considerations and sentiments slipping more and more as Sarah Palin continued speaking. By the time that the speech had ended, my wife was visibly teary eyed and as the pundits immediately began to dissect what they had just witnessed in Dayton, I looked over at my wife and asked her a simple question. "Who are you going to vote for?"

My wife is 47 years old and in 25 years of marriage, I have acquired the ability to read her thoughts from her facial expressions and she knows this. Just as she knows both her own and my thoughts on politics, Americanism and the world. My wife looked back at me and tried to couch her reply...."well I am far more inclined to vote for him now than I was." Which told me instantly, that she has now made her decision.

And in all honesty, I have to admit that after seeing and hearing Sarah Palin, I have also made mine. I find myself now in the unique position of at last having something and someone to vote for in this election, but more importantly I am now able to look past the immediate present and see the future that is on the horizon. Those who remember honestly my remarks of the last several months concerning John McCain, know that I have held a number of opposing issues with the man and I have maintained that while I would not vote for Obama, I could not bring myself to vote for McCain. I am a conservative, not a republican loyalist. I don't vote party. I vote my principles first and foremost and the two parties can be damned after that IMO.

But what John McCain did by choosing Sarah Palin over the likes of Romney and others today, was to finally reach out to those of us, who like so many of those on the other side, felt that we had been left behind by both party's parade into November. And you can bet, that the same thing was felt by millions of supporters of Hillary Clinton and those on the other side of the isle, who also felt that they were being railroaded into supporting a party platform and candidate who was not their own preference and who does not represent the best of their own ideals and principles.

Good stuff.  Very good stuff.

Palin: Yes She Can

 

To say that McCain's choice for VP has conservatives panting is little like saying Al Gore's slightly bent.  The buzz is enormous and you're guaranteed to read more about her, certainly here, in the days leading up to the election.  Seems the more I read about her, the more appreciative I'm becoming.  Beyond doubt, she is worthy.

Others think she's pretty fab too including this web-site devoted to Sarah Palin facts:

• Sarah Palin isn’t allowed to wield the gavel at the convention because they’re afraid she’ll use it to kill liberals.
• Sarah Palin once won a competitive eating contest by devouring three live caribou.
• Sarah Palin once carved a perfect likeness of the Mona Lisa in a block of ice using only her teeth.
• Sarah Palin will pry your Klondike bar from your cold dead fingers.
• Sarah Palin pick retroactively makes the theme of #DNC08 “Things To Do In Denver When You’re Dead”
• Sarah Palin doesn’t need a gun to hunt.  She has been known to throw a bullet through an adult bull elk.

Tons more where that came from and there's also an edgily named site called VPilf.com with more.

Gerard brings us the "Best Palin Reaction Line of the Day":

"The smart liberals are worried. The dumb ones think they've won."

Lots of dumb to choose from too, whether it be here, here or here on this blog or, of course, over at the Daily Kos:

So it's official - John McCain has thrown a Hail Mary and tapped Alaska Governor Sarah Palin as his running mate. The trad med types are ga-ga about what a game-changing choice Palin is.  And they're right. It is a game-changer. The Palin pick takes a race already leaning toward Obama and pushes it further into his corner.

Why? Because Sarah Palin is the most unqualified VP nominee in modern history, with the possible exception of Admiral Stockdale.

She's worse than Quayle.

After his selection in 1988, Dan Quayle was rightly lambasted as a dim, inexperienced lightweight with no real pertinent experience who was named by George H. W. Bush as a gimmick - a case of an old, out-of touch candidate trying to appear relevant by teaming up with a much younger pol.  Now, Palin's not Quayle - by all accounts, she's quite bright. But she's fantastically inexperienced, far more so than Quayle was when he was tapped. And she possesses an attribute far worse than Quayle's stupidity - she's a big corrupt wheel in Alaska's big corrupt Republican Party, arguably the most corrupt political apparatus in the United States.

It seems all the more boneheaded to bring up Dan Quayle when Obama makes him look like William F. Buckley.

Nevertheless, there'll be much more about Palin here, you can betcher britches on that... in fact, I've created a new category called Plainly Palincredible so that we can keep track.

H/T for the image to Rachel Lucas.