[Rhodes22-list] Political Cartoon ...

[Herb Parsons]

Isn't it amazing the different perspective of the foreign press (and the 
Times isn't exactly a conservative rag)? Here, she's being "bogged down" 
with controversy (yeah, if you consider a horse swatting a fly off his 
rump as "bogged down"), and there she gave a "thrilling convention speech"

I'm sure it's because all those Brits are gun-toting NASCAR attending 
rednecks though...

Oh, and didn't the Times slam it to our MSM?
"chauvinist condescension and gutter-crawling journalistic intrusion"

As soon as I can find a Palin/McCain sign (and no, it's not a typo) it's 
going up on my yard!

Brad, you're an entrepreneur, order up some Palin/McCain (or even 
Palin/(who's McCain?)) bumper stickers, watch 'em sell.
 
Brad Haslett wrote:
> Robert,
>
> McCain had his first meeting with the SarahCuda back in February, so
> if he gets upstaged, he has no one to blame but himself.  Murkowski
> passed her over as the appointment to his Senate seat in favor of his
> daughter and that bit him in the ass big time. She didn't just beat
> him for Governor in the primaries, she smoked him, then took aim at
> the former Democratic Governor candidate and put him away with a clean
> kill.  Moose isn't the only thing she has a deadly aim for. They've
> been trying to get that gas pipeline built in Alaska for years and
> Sarah got tired of pussy-footing around with the oil executives and
> put it out for bid, same as the Governors jet, and guess what, it's
> being built.  There was a great line in her speech about her parents
> raising her to believe there wasn't a door a woman couldn't walk
> through.  Based on the 'good ole boys' experience in Alaska, you
> better move out of the way of the door if Sarah wants to walk through
> or you'll get flattened. If McCain makes it to the White House, I hope
> he gives her this task as her first job, "Sarah, Pelosi hasn't done
> jack about 'draining the swamp' in two years, go take of that and get
> back to me next week for a new assignment"  I'm not quite sure if
> she's the second coming of Ronald Reagan, Margaret Thatcher, or Teddy
> Roosevelt, but she's a breath of fresh air.  Too bad you have to go
> overseas to get a good media perspective but I'm attaching The Times
> of London's take on things.
>
> Brad
>
> ------------------
>
> >From The Times
> September 5, 2008
> Sarah Palin: it's go west, towards the future of conservatism
> Her thrilling convention speech showed that the Governor of Alaska is
> a force to reckoned with. But she might be more than that
> Gerard Baker
>
> The best line I heard about Sarah Palin during the frenzied orgy of
> chauvinist condescension and gutter-crawling journalistic intrusion
> that greeted her nomination for vice-president a week ago came from a
> correspondent who knows a thing or two about Alaska.
>
> "What's the difference between Sarah Palin and Barack Obama?"
>
> "One is a well turned-out, good-looking, and let's be honest, pretty
> sexy piece of eye-candy.
>
> "The other kills her own food."
>
> Now we know, thanks to her triumphant debut at the Republican
> convention on Wednesday, that Mrs Palin not only slaughters her prey.
> She impales its head on a stick and parades it around for her
> followers to jeer at. For half an hour she eviscerated Mr Obama in
> that hall and did it all without dropping her sweet schoolmarm smile,
> as if she were handing out chocolates at the end of a history lesson.
>
> There's a powerful danger in the sheer thrill that has followed her
> astonishing performance that we could get carried away with John
> McCain's running-mate. Some of the coverage has a hyperbolic tone to
> it. Not since Paris handed that apple to Aphrodite has a man's
> selection of a woman had such implications for the future of our
> civilisation.
>
> So let's stipulate one obvious and important piece of wisdom about US
> elections. The choice of a vice-presidential candidate rarely makes
> much of a difference. The pundit class waxes historical in the
> excitement of the moment but usually the vice-presidential choices go
> back to playing second banana. However mawkishly we dwell on the
> mortality of the presidential contenders, it is they who determine the
> voters' decision.
>
> This one, to be fair, could be different. For at least the next few
> weeks the press will follow Mrs Palin's present and dig deeper into
> her past, still hoping for some morsel of stupidity or evidence of
> cupidity to doom her. But in the end, barring such a discovery, this
> is still an Obama-McCain contest.
>
> But let me try to explain why Mrs Palin, whatever impact she might
> have in November, may be a figure of real consequence in our lives.
>
> It's partly about what she represents and partly about what she has
> already done, but mostly about where she and her ilk might take the
> Republicans - and possibly America.
>
> It never ceases to amaze me how the Left falls again and again into
> the old trap of underestimating politicians whom they don't
> understand. From Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher to George Bush
> and Mrs Palin, they do it every time. Because these characters talk a
> bit funny and have ridiculously antiquated views about faith, family
> and nation, because they haven't spent time bending the knee to the
> intellectual metropolitan elites, they can't be taken seriously.
>
> So the general expectation was that Mrs Palin would stumble on to the
> stage in high heels, clutching her sprawling, slightly odd family
> (five children! how weird), mispronounce the name of the Russian Prime
> Minister, mutter a few platitudes about God, and disappear for ever to
> a deafening chorus of sniggers.
>
> No one paid much attention to the fact that she had been elected
> governor of a state. Or that she got to that office not because,
> unlike some politicians I could mention, her husband had been there
> before her, or because she bleated continuously about glass ceilings,
> but by challenging the entrenched interests in her own party and
> beating them. In almost two years as Governor she has cleaned out the
> Augean stables of Alaskan Government. You don't win a statewide
> election and enjoy approval ratings of more than 80 per cent without
> real political talent.
>
> Never mind all that. She didn't have a passport! She was a former
> beauty queen! It was so axiomatic that she was a disaster that I was
> told by lots of savvy men - with deliciously unconscious sexism - that
> the real problem was what the choice said about Mr McCain and his
> judgment: cynical, irresponsible, clueless. It was as if Mrs Palin
> wasn't really a human being at all, but an article of Mr McCain's
> clothing that showed his poor taste, like wearing brown shoes with a
> charcoal suit.
>
> So here's why she matters.
>
> First of all she offers an opportunity for an ailing Republican party
> to reconnect with ordinary Americans. She's conservative, but her
> conservatism is not that of the intolerant, uncomprehending white male
> sort that has so hurt the party in recent years. She is much closer to
> a model of the lives of ordinary Americans - working mother,
> plainspoken everywoman juggling home and office - than any Republican
> leader in memory.
>
> The contrast with Mr Obama is especially powerful. The very fact that
> Mrs Palin didn't go to elite schools but succeeded nonetheless - the
> very ordinariness with which she so piquantly jabbed Mr Obama on
> Wednesday - is what will make her so appealing to Americans. And as a
> pro-life conservative she debunks in one swoop the enduring myth that
> all women subscribe to the obligatory nostrums of radical feminism.
>
> But there's more to it than that.
>
> The Republicans have decided that they are not going to make the
> mistake Hillary Clinton made and run against the effervescent Mr Obama
> on the premise of experience.
>
> Experience hasn't got Americans into a very comfortable place. They
> want change. Before he signed up to some of the less attractive
> Republican attitudes this year, Mr McCain's career had embodied that
> change - the anti-establishment candidate running against his own
> party. Now he is joined by a woman who, in her short career, has done
> the same thing.
>
> Democrats think that Mr McCain, with the social conservative Mrs
> Palin, will launch an old-fashioned culture war at them, using her
> appealing manner to drive a populist assault on the familiar
> Republican issues of God, guns and gays.
>
> Perhaps this Manichean interpretation will prove true. But I suspect
> that it misses the real appeal of the Republican team. The opportunity
> for McCain-Palin is not reaction, but reform - a reform rooted in a
> distant conservatism that could be due for a comeback
>
> Hailing from Arizona and Alaska, the Republican ticket has a chance to
> rekindle a western conservatism different from the old Yankee
> paternalist sort or the Bible Belt version. They like their guns out
> there (some still kill their own food) and they are pro-life and
> deeply pro-America, of course. But at a time of grave challenges, the
> themes of economic freedom and opportunity, the resistance to the idea
> that government holds all the answers, could resonate with voters.
>
> This is an election, as the Democrats have realised all along, about
> an America on the cusp of change. With the moose-hunting,
> establishment-taunting Mrs Palin at his side, Mr McCain might
> represent a bigger change than the one that his opponents are
> offering.
>
> On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 11:47 AM, Robert Skinner
> <Robert at squirrelhaven.com> wrote:
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>> Figured I'd clean up the pic a little, and guess what I found?
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>> Tootle wrote:
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>>> Ed K
>>> Greenville, SC, USA
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