Sarah Barracuda

You must read this great essay by Elaine Lafferty:

Now by “smart,” I don't refer to a person who is wily or calculating or nimble in the way of certain talented athletes who we admire but suspect don't really have serious brains in their skulls. I mean, instead, a mind that is thoughtful, curious, with a discernable pattern of associative thinking and insight. [Sarah] Palin asks questions, and probes linkages and logic that bring to mind a quirky law professor I once had. Palin is more than a “quick study”; I'd heard rumors around the campaign of her photographic memory and, frankly, I watched it in action. She sees. She processes. She questions, and only then, she acts. What is often called her “confidence” is actually a rarity in national politics: I saw a woman who knows exactly who she is.

For all those old enough to remember Senator Sam Ervin, the brilliant strict constitutional constructionist and chairman of the Senate Watergate Committee whose patois included “I'm just a country lawyer”… Yup, Palin is that smart.

There's a terrific article in the Philadelphia Inquirer today about the hostile reception Sarah Palin has faced:

I cannot predict who will win the presidential campaign, but I already know who will lose big: all women.

I realized this when I saw a 20-something male student who attends a class in the community college where I teach, wearing a T-shirt that read, "Sarah Palin is a C-." He wore it in public, in broad daylight, and without shame or even consciousness of what he was doing.

McCaffrey doesn't mention it, but what's really taken me by surprise is that the people who seem to hate Palin the most are women. I've ended a 17-year friendship with a woman I went to college with over her frothing, boundless rage and disgusting remarks about Sarah Palin. Seeing all the hate come rushing out of her, I realized that I never really knew her at all.

[Palin deserves our respect - Philadelphia Inquirer]

Obamunism!

Ever since Senator Obama admitted to "Joe the Plumber" that he wanted to "spread the wealth around", a lot of people have been beating the socialism drum. And not without justification!

People who pay a lot of attention to political movements know that "progressive" is a codeword for "socialist" adopted by movement Marxists such as Bill Ayers. (Barack Obama fully admits to being a "progressive.") So it's fitting that people are altering the Obama logo to reflect his Marxist groundings, in this case with the hammer and sickle symbol of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), another political group inspired by Marx.

Anyway, there's a whole line of apparel emblazoned with this symbol at my store and at Obamunism.

This is hilarious and must-see. Hat-tip to Red State/

This makes me so happy. I'm glad somebody finally stood up to that ridiculous cretin Sarah Silverman.

I read this Howard Kurtz piece and wanted to barf. I am just disgusted with Chris Buckley, who has turned out to be a self-aggrandizing drama queen.

Last year I saw him speak at the Competitive Enterprise Institute banquet and I thought at the time that he was just a little bit over-polished in his delivery. I found out later that he has one speech he gives, over and over, and that he doesn't allow it to be televised because then he'd have to write a new one lest the audience be familiar with it. So he's very familiar with that speech.

My favorite GOP candidate - never mind who it was - didn't win the nomination. John McCain did. So I'm supporting John McCain. It's that simple. And I am delighted to see that McCain has granted a boon to the right by giving us a Sarah Palin VP nomination.

If I wasn't delighted with any of this, I would keep my mouth shut. Because it's not about me. Chris Buckley thinks it is about him, and he should pipe down.

A lady in Texas was ratted out to the Secret Service for telling an Obama campaign phone volunteer that she didn't like the candidate. The volunteer invented a story that the woman threatened Obama's life, and the woman received a visit from Secret Service agents.

One more reason - of a thousand or so - not to vote for the One.

All summer long I wrote off the Barack Obama birth certificate issues as being conspiracy theories. And yet here we are in mid-October and Obama has still not released a birth certificate. What's going on?

It was Sarah Palin's responsibility to get this clown fired from the Alaska State Police. "Abused her power" is what the mainstream media is saying. I don't think so - she was fulfilling her responsibility to the people of Alaska by removing a loose cannon from the highways.

Is John McCain the only Republican in America who hasn't read Corsi's The Obama Nation? Our Sarah is fighting tooth and nail but McCain is actually defending Obama in some appearances. On Fox, I saw a woman get up and suggest that Obama is "an Arab", and McCain took the microphone away from her in disgust. I expect what she meant is that Obama is a Muslim, and while I'm sure Obama is not currently a Muslim, despite his assurances to the contrary he clearly was raised Muslim.

This goes to the point that Obama has lied about or concealed much of his background, and instead of snatching microphones away from people pointing out that the man is a cypher, McCain ought to be explaining the real gaps in that background. Like Jack Kemp in 1996, McCain may not want to get his hands dirty, but the alternative is a far-left socialist being elected president. It's bigger than McCain and as the GOP nominee he has an obligation to take off the gloves and hit hard.

Thank God for Governor Palin, who is fearless when it comes to smacking Obama around.