Throw Palin to the Lions

I get tee-ed off when I hear democrats say that the pregnancy of Sarah Palin’s daughter, Bristol (named after a ship or something) is off limits. To hell it is. Bristol’s pregnancy goes to the heart of Palin ‘s - a right wing Christian, family first, head of the PTA, gun toting Republican - values and beliefs. Everybody should be paying attention. Obviously, Palin did not have time to sit down at the dinner table with her five kids and take the time to listen to what was going on in their lives, to figure out Bristol was heading in the wrong direction. Maybe she was too busy republicanzing the town of Wasilla to pay attention. Everything including a politician’s family is fair game in politics. Ever since the ‘Swift-boat’ incident, there is absolutely nothing off limits when it comes to bashing politicians. If you can outright lie like in the ‘Swift-boat’ incident, then the ‘values’ issue that republican’s gloat on is also an issue. What sort of values did Sarah Palin teach her own daughter? Should we trust her values should she become vice president?

Sarah Palin is a hypocrite and the values she exposes, the values she believes everybody else should live by, are not the values she communicated at home. Values like abstinence and respect.

It should be interesting to see Palin speak at the republican convention tonight. Today, everybody is talking about Freddie Thompson’s speech last night at the republican convention. The senator, turned actor - someone who could not convince himself he wanted to be president never mind anybody else – pumped up the crowd with his explaination for why John McCain was ready to be president. According to Thompson, McCain’s years spent in jail as a prisoner of war 40 years ago, is reason enough to elect him the next president of the United States. I think its reason enough for John McCain to take it easy at 72-years old. He should not take on the stress of putting humpty-humpty back together again.

In a rousing speech last night, Bush, in a vain attempt to separate himself from his republican protégé, told the crowd that McCain was his ‘own man’. An independent republican as it were. I assume Bush meant that McCain was an independent republican like Joe Lieberman is an independent democrat.

Bush gave his reasons for a McCain presidency, returning to the old martra - America is under attack – the national security issue that worked so well for Bush in 2004. According to Bush, John McCain is the man to baton-down the hatches and keep us all safe from further harm. If the British, in their war with the IRA, had adopted the same philosophy as the Bush/McCain presidency then there would be bombs going off in London even today.