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In defense of Ace et/al on Palin

Posted: July 6, 2009 by datechguy in opinion/news
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Hey it’s time to lay off Ace and Allahpundit over Sarah Palin.

There are times when Ace is a little too profane for my taste and being a solid Catholic there are times where Allahpundit drives me nuts but anyone who decides to throw them under the bus is forgetting that the only person who agrees with you every time is your clone and the moment you and the clone occupy two different spaces in space time differences begin. (yes that’s from Spock Must Die my geek is showing)

Let’s once again retell a Tip O’Neil story that I’ve told before:

Tip O’Neil is asked by Then Rep Tom Harkin to ask Labor to lay off of him on a vote that would hurt him in his district. O’Neil called the labor guys into the room with Harkin and talked how in 20 years he only voted against Labor three times. He then says the following:

Just think about it. In all those years there were only three times labor had it wrong.

Everybody laughed and got the point.

Sarah Palin in my opinion would make an awesome president and an even better neighbor, but she is not the Madonna. We are not Obama supporters and I am looking for a different president, not a different God. Republicans who disagree with us on Palin are our friends, not heretics to be burned.

Update: The Other McCain comments.

She’s just not into you, Sarah Palin edition

Posted: July 6, 2009 by datechguy in opinion/news
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If you are CNN, MSNBC, Jim Braude, Liz Trotta, the DNC, Maureen Dowd, Paul Begala, Kos etc etc etc… you have reached the conclusion that Sarah Palin is doomed Doomed DOOMED! and that anyone who supported her must be a total loon and loser and of course nobody will want to vote for her now since she’s a crazy quitter failure. (They’d like to call her ugly too but nature, physical exertion, and people’s own eyes preclude that attack from succeeding.)

If you are a person who takes all the media says as gospel you might buy that too.

Let me let you onto one little secret. She isn’t after and doesn’t need your vote. Sarah Palin could go to your grandmother’s grave lay hands on the stone and raise her from the dead and you wouldn’t support her. We know that and she knows that.

If she decides she wants to run she has to convince Republicans to nominate her, she already has a large support base, can raise ungodly sums of money and can attract bigger crowds than all the other potential candidates combined without priming the pump a la Mitt.

She has conservatives, she knows she doesn’t have liberals, all she needs to do if nominated is convince enough moderates, and if recent numbers are correct she just needs to convince just under 1/3 of them to go over the top.

She has years to do this all over the country if she chooses. Such action will draw huge crowds and attention and expose people to not the caricature of her that you paint but the actual person who exists.

To quote Robert Stacy McCain:

Just because you don’t know what Sarah Palin is doing doesn’t mean that she doesn’t know what she’s doing.

Bingo!

Palin Clue #1

Posted: July 6, 2009 by datechguy in opinion/news
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Buried VERY deep in Glenn’s long post concerning a 3rd “tea party” run for Sarah Palin and the debate on to go Perit or Goldwater is a letter from a person named Meryl Jefferson who knew something I didn’t:

She’s going to Simi Valley on August 8th to address the 50th Anniversary of the Simi Valley Women’s Republican Club. Seats are $150.00 a ticket for non-members. This is her roll-out speech. I bet the tickets are being snapped up so fast that not even Arnold can get one.

This is not the action of one who wants to go Ross Perot. It is the action of one who’s gone Galt on her own party and has decided to play the game her way.

Hmmmmm. This sounds familiar too.

A tale of two men…

Posted: July 5, 2009 by datechguy in opinion/news, war
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…who both died by the hand of the Taliban. One was a soldier Aaron Faibairn:

It appears that Aaron was one of the two soldiers killed in a large Taliban attack on a base in Paktika

This young man willing put his life on the line for his country and died on the 4th of July. Per his father’s request I will be using the tag thankyouaaron on this post.

Taken from his beheading video by Reuters.

Photo taken from his beheading video via Reuters.

The second person you likely haven’t heard of. His name was Piotr Stanczak and the Taliban beheaded him on film back in February. He wasn’t a soldier he was a geologist but died just as bravely:

Piotr Stanczak did not exhibit the slightest hint of hesitation when the Pakistani Taliban asked him to choose between execution and conversion to Islam.

Whether the Polish geologist acted out of pride or religious conviction, he decided to pay through his blood to save his faith, a choice that bewildered his killers and keep them talking about him with respect after his murder.

I would very much like to consider myself a faithful Catholic but I honestly can’t say if in the same situation I would have the same courage.

Via Tim Blair who notes:

An earlier item on Stanczak’s murder:

The video is so horrifying that some news wire agencies chose not to distribute the images.

If they’d been from Abu Ghraib, however …

For our own sakes these men need to be remembered. Both died defending beliefs and principles dear to Americans. Keep this in mind when people try to explain why radical Islam in general and the Taliban in particular should not be resisted.

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