Entries Tagged as 'Palin'

John McCut

Excellent blog post by Hugh Hewitt on what McCain should do after the Palin debate win:

His simple, closing message ought to be that the world is threatened by terrorism, and the global economy is threatened by rising taxes, chains on productivity, pressure on trade, and corrupt, self-dealing political elites at home and abroad.

McCain needs to declare that he’s been around a long time, and he’s seen all the big mistakes made and all the costs paid, and that he isn’t going to stand for it now.

McCain should pledge to be John McCut from day one in the White House:

He’ll cut taxes on new businesses and construction to jump start a flat economy and invigorate employment;

He’ll cut federal spending to make sure we have the resources for those that need it and not those who have gotten fat off of subsidies;

He’ll cut the chains that government has put on productivity, allowing builders to build and energy companies to explore and producers to make;

He’ll cut every trade barrier he can find and commit to an export economy that will surge the growth in American production of the goods and services demanded around the globe;

He’ll cut the corrupt culture of self-dealing that allowed Freddie and Fannie to pump hundreds of billions of bad loans to over-their-head borrowers and into the economy and thereby infect our financial system to the point of collapse;

And finally, he’ll cut the MSM down to size, calling them on their ridiculous double standard that sought to impale Palin while protecting Obama from his past. McCain should demand a MSM that serves that common interest, not the interest of Beltway-Manhattan elites and which holds all elected officials, not just conservative ones, to the fire. McCain should particularly demand that big media look at Fannie and Freddie and who turned them into Frankensteins and who profited thereby.

Bring Back Rove

The smartest thing that John McCain could do is to fly to wherever Karl Rove is, get down on both knees and beg Rove to manage his campaign for the next month.

The last Republican presidential campaign that was this bad was run by Bob Dole, another aging war hero. In the late stages of Dole’s horrible 1996 campaign, Dennis Miller commented, “You know, this wouldn’t happen if Bob Dole was still alive.”

Like McCain, Dole was a long-standing senate incumbent who hadn’t had a serious opponent in decades. Like McCain, Dole ran his presidential campaign as someone who had never been an insider in a successful national campaign. Like McCain, Dole acted like candidates had acted twenty years earlier.

What would Rove understand?

  1. The main-stream press is completely committed to the election of Obama. The good old days of fawning Straight Talk Express coverage are gone and they’re not coming back.
  2. Given that the majority of voting Americans don’t trust the reliability of the MSM, openly treating the network broadcasters and major papers as the enemy and as hopelessly biased will be extremely effective. The old time adage about not picking fights with people who buy ink by the barrel and paper by the roll no longer applies in a world where newspaper circulation is plunging, Rush Limbaugh’s audience is four times the size of Katie Couric’s and Drudge gets more viewers in a week than all the network news programs will get in a month.
  3. Rather than trying to reach the independent voters with watered-down talking points that may or may not make it through the MSM, find the non-MSM communications channels that independent voters use and give them a straight McCainian message.
  4. Ridicule Obama. Over and over. The Britney/Paris commercial hit a nerve. Do that kind of thing all the time. Pick up the best YouTube ideas and turn them into commercials. When Obama fanatics go over the top with things like the Hitler Youth songs celebrating Obama (sorry for no link, the Obama campaign took it down) and prayers that end “in the name of Obama, Amen,” highlight that weirdness and tie it to Obama’s arrogance and air-head celebrity style.
  5. Start hitting Obama hard on his radical left-wing past and his deep ties to corrupt Chicago machine politics. Demonstrate that Wright and Ayers were not exceptions, but part of an overall pattern of close cooperation with people who hate America. Show Obama’s ties to ACORN, a lawless radical organization that has faced voter fraud charges in a dozen states. Pound home that Obama filed suit against Citibank to force it to make subprime loans that are exactly the same loans that caused the credit meltdown.
  6. Get Sarah Palin out for lots of press interviews – with interviewers who are not dedicated to stabbing her in the back. Have her become the new best friend of Rush, Sean, Glenn, Hugh, Instapundit, Powerline, NRO, Mark Steyn, etc., etc.   Let her take shouted-out questions from reporters and tell her to answer the Jeopardy questions a la Couric and Gibson with, “What did Senator Obama say when you asked him that question?”  The MSM’s goal has been to make Sarah look bad.  For the rest of the campaign, Sarah’s job is to make the MSM look bad.

Senator McCain – Call Karl Rove and beg. Otherwise, like Bob Dole, you’ll be remembered more for your Viagra commercials than for any of your political accomplishments.

VP Debates - The Deck is Stacked Against Palin

New information on the moderator of the VP debates from Hot Air.

Gwen Ifill, the PBS host and author of an upcoming book on Barack Obama scheduled for publication on Inauguration Day

The book is entitled, “Breakthrough: Politics and Race in the Age of Obama.”

Here’s a video of the non-partisan, purely neutral debate moderator talking about Barack:

American Exceptionalism and Liberal Projection

In psychology, psychological projection (or projection bias) is a defense mechanism in which one attributes one’s own unacceptable or unwanted thoughts or/and emotions to others. Projection reduces anxiety by allowing the expression of the unwanted subconscious impulses/desires without letting the conscious mind recognize them.

See Psychological Projection for more detail.

In today’s New York Times, Roger Cohen has an op-ed entitled Palin’s American Exception which is a classic example of liberal psychological projection.

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39% Say Palin More Qualified than Obama

In a Rasmussen poll taken before the Palin speech at the RNC,

Thirty-nine percent (39%) [of respondents] believe the GOP vice presidential nominee has better experience to be president of the United States than Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama.

49% said Obama had better experience to be president.

I’ll look forward to the poll results on the same question asked after the speech.

See Rasmussen Reports for details.

UPDATE: I missed the following detail:

Survey of 1,000 Likely Voters
September 3, 2008

Are most reporters trying to help Sarah Palin, hurt Sarah Palin, or provide unbiased coverage of Sarah Palin?
Help 5%
Hurt 51%
Provide Unbiased Coverage 35%
Not Sure 10%

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Palinfacts.com

A great website - http://www.palinfacts.com/ - celebrating little-known facts about Sarah Palin.

Sample entries:

Sarah Palin is the reason compasses point North.

When Sarah Palin booked a flight to Europe, the French immediately surrendered.

Sarah Palin got Tom Brady pregnant, and then left him.

Iran’s nuclear program is a response to Sarah Palin.

Palin-Obama Job Approval Ratings

The MSM are full of all sorts of supposed scandals and discontent among the people of Alaska regarding their governor, Sara Palin.

Let’s look at a more objective measure (all data from Job Approval Ratings, compiled by The University of Rochester, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill & George Washington University):

Here are Palin’s Approval/Disapproval stats:

Positive Percentage Negative Percentage Date of Survey
83 7 4/4/2007
81 5 6/14/2007
82 6 9/17/2007
83 11 10/19/2007
81 9 11/9/2007
85 12 3/10/2008
86 9 5/6/2008
82 10 5/6/2008

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What about Obama’s ratings as a US Senator?  (remember, he’s been a celebrity since his 2004 convention speech and his status as the only African-American senator)

Positive Percentage Negative Percentage Date of Survey
67 22 5/6/2005
72 21 6/10/2005
71 20 8/12/2005
72 10 10/5/2005
73 21 10/14/2005
69 23 12/9/2005
72 20 1/13/2006
71 23 2/10/2006
65 28 3/6/2006
70 25 3/10/2006
70 23 4/7/2006
70 25 5/12/2006
71 25 6/9/2006
72 22 7/14/2006
73 24 8/11/2006
69 25 9/14/2006
72 23 10/12/2006
71 22 11/8/2006
73 17 5/15/2007

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For comparison purposes, let’s look at the job approval ratings for John Warner, a highly-popular Virginia Democrat governor.

Positive Percentage Negative Percentage Date of Survey
60 40 7/8/2002
56 44 20/8/2002
74 24 7/19/2005
55 31 5/6/2005
58 32 6/10/2005
63 25 7/8/2005
63 28 8/12/2005
76 22 9/6/2005
66 26 9/16/2005
64 29 10/14/2005
67 27 11/11/2005
66 26 12/9/2005
72 22 1/13/2006

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The numbers speak for themselves, but let’s hit the highlights:

  1. Palin has never had a job approval rating of less than 80%.
  2. Neither Obama nor Warner has ever had a job approval rating of 80% or more.  Obama’s highest rating was 74%, Warner’s was 76%.
  3. Palin has incredibly low negative approval marks.  Her highest negative was 12%, her lowest 5%.
  4. Obama’s lowest negative was 10%, but I suspect that number because all of his other negatives except one were 20% or more.
  5. Warner’s lowest negative was 22%, with several negatives over 30%.

So, according to the residents of their states, who was doing the best job as an elected public servant? Sara Palin is the champ.

Hockey Mom vs. Pit Bull

During the vetting process, a nervous young McCain staffer took it upon himself to explain to Palin the facts of life in a national campaign, the intense scrutiny she’d be under from the media, the viciousness of the assault that she’d be facing, etc.:

Palin: “Thanks for the warning. By the way, do you know what they say the difference is between a hockey mom and a Pit Bull?”

McCain aide: “No, Governor.”

Palin: “A hockey mom wears lipstick.”

from Bill Kristol

Is Obama Sexist?

The Obama has spent two years trying to keep a woman from becoming president and now he’s spending two months trying to keep a woman from becoming vice-president.