Comments on: Update V: Sarah Who?

By: Barbara Grant

Barbara Grant — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 23:45:41 +0000

Ilana,

I’ve not read this site in detail for several days and am only now finding your Update II, with which I heartily agree. It must be remembered that Palin is not only a social conservative, but a Christian conservative. Sexual relations outside marriage are called “immorality” in the Bible.

So I wonder, based on what standard is Palin “proud” of her daughter? Would she be similarly proud if her daughter had revealed that she is a homosexual (the practice of which is also called “immorality” in the Bible) and preparing to elope to California with a lesbian partner when she turns 18? Would socially conservative Christians be as wildly supportive of Palin in this circumstance as they are today?

I doubt it, but I think the point is that the same standards should apply to all. If one touts biblical standards, one should be judged by those standards. If people–by that I mean conservative Christians–can’t do that, they should just shut up about morals and values.

By: Myron Pauli

Myron Pauli — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 15:57:18 +0000

Well, Barack’s mom Stanley Ann Dunham, was pregnant from an overseas married Kenyan before they got briefly married for a year – plus ca change, c’est la meme chose. Mama Michelle’s rival for first lady inherited a fortune selling a product forbidden for people under 21, broke up the marriage of a returning POW 18 years her senior, and was addicted to pain medication. Our caribou hunting VP (can she harpoon that senile warmonger and take over the office?) was apparently a member of the Alaskan Independence Party – but this, like being pro-Buchanan, is embarrassing to the “Bomb-Bomb-Iran” campaign organization. It’s also interesting also to have a baby named Trig – (even worse than Myron) – who is he going to marry – Algebra?.. and name their baby Calculus! American elections are not about ideology and principles but about soap operas and sound bites so we are going to have a raucous 90 more days. BONUS Question – if Stanley Ann Dunham’s boyfriend was a Norwegian hockey student named Barry Amundsen instead of a Kenyan named Barack Obama, would he have been the Democratic nominee and Messiah?

By: TRincon

TRincon — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 13:39:01 +0000

Bristol is no Murphy Brown. She and her baby’s father are going to marry and take responsibility for their actions. People married and started families as teenagers for centuries. Obama, on the other hand, would have his grandbaby aborted.

By: nobama

nobama — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 06:31:42 +0000

I don’t know much about Palin yet. What I do know so far tells me she is more of a man than the other candidates in this race for President and VP. I still don’t plan on voting for McCain, but at least Palin makes Obama and Biden look like the sissies they actually are.

By: Alex

Alex — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 03:45:10 +0000

Pat is great when it comes to common sense stuff regarding the nation.

Bring economics into the picture, and he’s awful. He literally has not much of any idea of how the world works.

I find this kind of ignorance in spite of good theory and facts to be scary. I used to think that if people were subjected to good theory and facts, they would change. Pat Buchanan shows that this is not true, and it’s one of the reasons why I don’t argue about political economy anymore.

Humans are not reasonable or rational beings. Buchanan, an economic barbarian, shows this to be true.

By: Mark

Mark — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 01:48:52 +0000

Ilana:

I’m wondering what you think Palin should have said regarding her teenaged daughter’s pregnancy.

By: Conan the CImmerian

Conan the CImmerian — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 15:08:03 +0000

I do not know that Bob Barr is trustworthy. Paul is.

By: Myron Pauli

Myron Pauli — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 04:37:44 +0000

Biography equals American democracy. We started this road to popular democracy with Indian killers Andy Jackson and William Henry Harrison, raised in "log cabins" and went on to "rail splittin' Honest Abe", "Roughriding" Teddy Roosevelt,"World feeder" Herbert Hoover etc. Now we have Tortured P.O.W. Hero McCain with Caribou Hunting Beauty Pageant Palin facing off against Multiracial Raised Overseas by Abandoned Mother Obama with Wife and Kids Killed in Auto Accident Biden. I am looking forward to the day when we nominate a trangendered, cloned, raised-underwater -by-squid, NFL linebacker, opera-singer, one-legged rabbi for President - use your imagination for VP! {P.S. - please ignore that fanatic Ron Paul character, he is actually running on the Constitution and limited government}

By: Aaron

Aaron — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 19:51:00 +0000

Chief neo-conservative Bill Kristol urged McCain to pick Palin

http://www.rlc.org/2008/08/30/bill-kristol/

By: GeoPal

GeoPal — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 12:14:13 +0000

Damn! I wish I’d said that!