Are you aware of her record in Alaska? Have you contrasted that to Barack Obama in Chicago?

No, John McCain did not put himself ahead of his country. He placed reform at the top of his agenda–and in the interest of his country.

She has acted the jilted lover ever since. Big time BDS.

And now she slams Palin for the same reasons she abandoned Bush. Her circle despises him. Peer pressure is intense on socialites. Its simply easier.

personally, I don’t think Reagan would approve of whats become of Peggy. When Character Was King, indeed. Peggy ought to take a page from her own.

This is not a leader, this is a follower, and she follows what she imagines is the base, which is in fact a vast and broken-hearted thing whose pain she cannot, actually, imagine. She could reinspire and reinspirit; she chooses merely to excite.

If this is true, that merely makes Palin just like the rest of the modern-day political class — including McCain! Just who could’ve been chosen as the Republican VP candidate who would have been a true leader? Noonan doesn’t say.

I think it was Rush last week who mentioned a story (true? not true?) about some GOP strategist with a focus group consisting of middle-age Reagan Democrats. One guy summed it up saying that he would hate Obama starting the moment he votes for Him – but vote for Him, he will.

Only time will tell whether or not W has been a success or failure… but for now, many people have had it with Bush (some for good reason; others for silly reasons) and plan to vent their anger at the polls.

The miracle is that Congress seems immune to punishment for its complicity.

By the way, Harry S. Truman did not have a middle name but gave himself the S ……………….. and, he put a period after the S.

10,000 in Pennsylvania.

20,000 in Indiana.

Those poor stupid hicks don’t realize how unpopular she is.

I have permission to tidy this up and move on.

Part of my caution is that I was saying the same type of things about GW.

“He is a governor – that makes him better qualified”

“He ran several businesses, Al Gore has never run anything”

“He can work across the isle to get things done”

Etc etc.

I know Palin is not Bush. Quite frankly, I think she is a much scrappier person than he is. She is a do’er. She has taken on the establishment and fought corruption, where as Bush is a consensus type guy – go along to get along.

Unlike many politicians, she ran, or participated in businesses, while raising a family, and for some reason you don’t see many on the national stage who have lived like the rest of us. I am in the same position. I just got my California teaching credential. Unlike most who end up in the education profession, I did not go right from high school into college, major in political science or inliberal studies, and go straight into the profession. I worked after high school, worked through college, and after that, ended up running my own business before I ever decided to become a teacher. Does this give me unique experience that most teachers don’t have? HELL YES. Will it make me a BETTER teacher??? Unknown. But after being in the classroom as a teacher, I won’t subscribe to that idea.

Now quickly, on Obama and experience. We all like to deride him because he was a community organizer. I shy away from discounting that experience, because unlike most politician, who’s greatest amount of contact with his or her constituents is knocking on their doors during election time and pleading for their votes, or hanging “I Was Here, Vote For Me!” placards on their doors. Obama has done more than simply canvass the neighborhood, he has been dealing directly with his constituents. That is why, unlike most here, I will not discount his experience as a community organizer.

I’m not going to re-re-re-re-re-hash Palin’s mayoral and governorship experience yet again. However, someone mentioned her stint on the city counsel as part of her qualifications. Nu Huh! If Obama’s time as a state legislature and U.S. Senator doesn’t make him qualified, then Palin’s time on the city counsel, also a legislative position, doesn’t count either. You Rules. Live by them.

That is the last I’m going to write on this subject. I swear it!

DC is full of Harvard and Yale grads and what have we got as a result?

Reminds me of the scene in Gettysburg when Gen. Longstreet introduces Gen. Pickett as having graduated “dead last” at West Point. He replied “The North got all the smart ones, and look where it’s got them.”