Category Archives: John McCain

UPDATED II**: The Contradictions Of Palin

Barack Obama, IMMIGRATION, John McCain, Sarah Palin

She jumped on the opportunity to run on a ticket that supported legalizing 20 million of “God’s children,” John McCain’s misty-eyed moniker for illegal immigrants. While campaigning in 2008, Sarah Palin parroted the McCain position on immigration, still does in many respects.

Now, “Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin said Sunday that Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer (R) has ‘the cojones’ that President Obama ‘does not have’ to take on illegal immigration.”

This is, first, a stupid statement, because untrue: Obama doesn’t lack for political audacity to pass his legislative agenda. This he has proven. Moreover, a lack of courage is more forgivable than an ideological, intentional refusal to allow the enforcement of immigration laws, which is Obama’s stance. BHO is purposefully preventing Arizona from doing the work he doesn’t want done.

That was the position Palin’s running mate held, before he got religion on enforcement and befriended the fabulous Sheriff Paul Babeu from Pinal County.

And for cowardice and cunning on the border look no further than Bush. Palin has had kind words to say about Genghis B.

UPDATE I ** (Aug. 4): (This update was written on the 2th, but did not update, for some reason. Read it.) A COUPLE OF POINTS: The fact that Palin picks winners matters not. The Flo-trained chimp from the Progressive Insurance ads produces winning combination too. What we need to look at is whether Palin picks principled candidates for office. Carly Fiorina and McCain may have been polite picks, but they were no good. She did well to endorse Rand Paul. So Sarah, a feminist by any other name, was calling BHO a metrosexual. Yes, BHO is not manly; he definitely qualifies as androgynous, a quality not many black men have assimilated, other than Don Lemon of CNN. Come to think of it, good for black men: they have certainly retained their secondary male characteristics: deep voices, confident stride, loud laugh, etc. Black men do not sound like the feminine, younger, white boys of the TV commentariat—liberal and conservative—with their high-pitched voices, fussy cadence, and fancy eye-wear. In their defense, a loss of testosterone is, partly, involuntary. Perhaps women like BHO b/c he is so soft and unmanly. But I digress. Myron was right all along about Sarah being political “cotton candy.” She’s a great personality as a mom, hunter, runner, oil and gas ace (expertise she has never “tapped”). But for the rest: nothing much at all.

UPDATE II (Aug. 4) : In my opinion, Nora makes a good point; Palin’s cojones coinage is tacky. But it goes with the Reality-show flavor her personal life is taking, what with the two, on-again; off again dimwit betrothed; and the neighbor she is always huffing about. Her silent steely husband (I like him); I still think he’s behind the laudable secessionist sentiments Sarah has disavowed. The Dude, btw, does not belong to the Party of Dumb Dames.

UPDATED: Gold Is Bad For Government Health (Remember Executive Order 6102)

Business, Debt, Economy, History, Individual Rights, Inflation, John McCain, Regulation, Rights, Socialism, The State

The health scare bill is the gift that just keeps giving—giving-up individual freedoms to government. From a “TAX ON INDIVIDUALS WITHOUT ACCEPTABLE HEALTH CARE COVERAGE” to a “SURCHARGE ON HIGH INCOME INDIVIDUALS” to “STUDENT LOAN REFORM”; it’s all there, designed to leave little room for voluntary, peaceful exchanges. But we missed another provision among the thousands of sections the H.R.4872 Reconciliation Act of 2010 sports:

A “tack-on provision to the law that puts gold coin buyers and sellers under closer government scrutiny.”

Gold is a necessary financial hedge in the survival on the road to serfdom.

UPDATE (July 24): Gold Confiscation coming? FDR, idolized by BHO and McMussolini alike—by almost all offshoots of the duopoly, in fact—forbade “the Hoarding of Gold Coin, Gold Bullion and Gold Certificates” at pains of punishment: a fine of “not more than $10,000, or “imprisoned for not more than ten years or both.”

Updated: Palin’s Fiorina Frivoloty

Conservatism, Elections, John McCain, Military, Republicans, Sarah Palin

Perhaps Palin could not abide the fact that Chuck DeVore tempers his pro-military position with skepticism about intervention around the world. Perhaps, as a raving feminist, Palin feels obliged to support a woman over a man. And perhaps her endorsement of Carly Florina “in the GOP contest for the California Senate nomination” is just a bit of the same polite politics she played when campaigning for McMussolini:
 Palin knows Fiorina, “a top surrogate to Sen. John McCain’s (R-Ariz.) presidential campaign.”

Politico says “Fiorina recently warned against the ‘racist’ tone that has taken over the debate of Arizona’s new immigration law.” That’s the kind of Republican she is.

Whatever Palin is playing at, it is clear she goes with some mysterious flow—menstrual maybe?

DeVore has been called a “Tea Party darling” and a “most reliably Reaganesque representative.”

Update (May 10): The allusion to hormonal fluctuations was humor; meant not to be taken literally, but as a metaphor for Palin’s unreliable nature when it comes to liberty.

Palin's Polite Politics

Elections, John McCain, Political Philosophy, Sarah Palin

What is National Rifle Association Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre doing with the Senator from Nevada, Harry Reid? More importantly, what is Sarah Palin doing campaigning for Sen. John McCain? How like a people-pleasing woman! Isn’t it time Palin stuck to a principled set of political prescriptions, and got over her gratitude to McCain for supposedly turning her into a supernova?

Palin rushed to McMussolini’s rescue in Tuscon, Arizona, mouthing the offal she repeated on their first campaign trail: “‘Before there were protests on Main Street and marches on Capitol Hill, there was the maverick of the Senate, fighting for us.'”

On the other hand, McCain’s primary challenger, J.D. Hayworth, is a run-of-the-mill Republican, only slightly better than McCain is some respects, and worse in others.

Perhaps because there is not much of a philosophical divide between the man she supposedly owes and his challenger that Palin is doing the friendly thing for a friend. Still, the effect of endorsing Rand Paul this year, Doug Hoffman last year, and now McCain again—makes Palin seem a little flaky.

The media loves McCain (and his mindless daughter) too much to fault Palin for stumping for him.