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How to Tell That McCain Made the Correct Choice (UPDATED)

All Moonbattery is screeching in protest and in...something else.

Can you smell that? I can. There's not enough Right Guard in the world to hide it.

I can't even begin to put down all of the unhinged vitriol that John McCain's choice of running mate has provoked in the hard doctrinaire right-to-death Leftists. And, fortunately for me, I don't have to since Jeff Goldstein has done it. Who knew that the prospect of a normal, principled woman politician with a normal family becoming vice president could arouse such fear? And the two things about Governor Sarah Palin which seem to bring out the most foaming at the mouth? Her physical attractiveness and the fact that she chose not to abort her youngest son--she knew that the baby had Down Syndrome long before he was born.

Leftists say that a woman has the choice to decide whether to allow her baby to be born and tell us that looks don't matter. Well I'm guessing that they forgot to add a couple of standard caveats: their axioms only apply to ugly Democrat women who make the "correct" choice. (Actually that last part is sort of incorrect; to Leftists, any choice made by a Republican is a wrong choice regardless of whether that choice coincides with Left ideology or not.)

I just may vote in November.

AN EVEN BETTER INDICATION: One thing that I haven't seen mentioned: won't it be great to see how much the Islamists just hate Palin? It certainly wouldn't be the first time that the Jihadists and the moonbats had an identical opinion.

Brilliant (UPDATED)

Senator McCain has picked 44-year-old Sarah Palin, Governor of Alaska, as his running mate.

UPDATE: Watching the Palin introduction. The young, attractive Palin looks like her running mate's daughter. :-) She does need a voice coach though. That high pitch is...disturbing.

The governor's eldest is in the Army. With McCain's sons being in the military also, one wonders which cudgel the anti-warriors will use now that the "Chickenhawk" weapon is off of the table.

Bravo to McCain for so quickly wresting attention away from his opponent.

UPDATE: Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY):

Certainly the choice of Palin puts to rest any argument about inexperience on the Democratic team and while Palin is a fine person, her lack of experience makes the thought of her assuming the presidency troubling.

Tee hee! Oh, the Democrats are scared. And anyone who has never been the head of an organization (a group of people) existing to met an objective is inexperienced in the executive arena. That makes Senator Biden the most inexperienced person of the four.

UPDATE: The Obama Campaign stepping on its...tongue again:

Today, John McCain put the former mayor of a town of 9,000 with zero foreign policy experience a heartbeat away from the presidency.

How dare the McCain Campaign pick one of those Bitter Clingers!

(Thanks to Instapundit)

UPDATE: Neither Palin nor McCain are lawyers. Hmmm.

Fausta's Show

I made my third "appearance" on Fausta's BlogTalkRadio show today. It will be up for your listening pleasure tomorrow at 8AM PDT/11 EDT.

It was the first time that I forced myself to listen critically to my speaking and I must say that my public speaking skills have gone down the tubes. That will have to be remedied.

Waiting for the Man

Invesco Stadium, right now.

(Click to enlarge.)

Failing to Think Through the Propanganda

I've been pretty busy today but I had to laugh at this. CNN:

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has accused the United States of orchestrating the conflict in Georgia to benefit one of its presidential election candidates.

In an exclusive interview with CNN's Matthew Chance in the Black Sea city of Sochi on Thursday, Putin said the U.S. had encouraged Georgia to attack the autonomous* region of South Ossetia.

So, Vlad, are you going to tell us which candidate you have in mind? Perhaps the one who said that he looked in your eyes and saw the letters 'K,' 'G' and 'B?' Spill it, Komrad!

See, Putin has McCain in mind, of course, but the Tsar is just yapping for the benefit of the home crowd. What he might not have suspected when he decided to float that ridiculous assertion, however, is that, were he to name McCain, it would make it more likely that McCain would become president and not less. And you know that Putin would prefer to deal with Obama.

Keeping talking, Vlad.

*Was the region autonomous when Georgia went in? Or was it still located within the internationally recognized borders of Georgia?

Of Interest, August 27, 2008

• Chris Muir's Day by Day needs your assistance. I don't think that the pay-off it too obscure.

• La Shawn Barber, who did a great deal of work to chronicle the Duke Lacrosse Saga, notes that Crystal Mangum—the woman who falsely accused three Duke University lacrosse players of raping her—has a book coming out on October 1. My comment: it seems that everyone involved in that case has paid for Mangum’s lies except Mangum herself.

• The Donovan does the DNC by proxy: Different women, same politics.

• Mocking the Left: Who better to identify the art of Bravo Sierra than a former Soviet agitprop pooper? And it most certainly is art.

• What is it with Obama fans and Classic Star Trek imagery? (See the other example here.) VDH isn’t laughing.

• Amanda Carpenter posts three lecture videos featuring a Khalid al Mansour—an apparent adherent to the Nation of Islam creed. But is he the same Khalid al Mansour who civil rights icon Percy Sutton says helped Barack Obama get into Harvard Law School? Richard Fernandez investigates.

• And Matty O’Blackfive, Jimbo, Marc Danziger, NZ Bear and Mary Katharine Ham visit that deep, dark place that is the HQ and genesis of every Right-Wing Plot--Blackwater—and they don’t invite me.

'I am the Surge'

Vets for Freedom produces an ad demanding that the Democratic Party--specifically its leader, Barack Obama--acknowledge the success of Iraq Surge and, therefore, its authors, the United States Armed Forces:

Senate Resolution 636

(Thanks to Hot Air)

Georgia and Russia: Who Started What

Michael Totten:

Virtually everyone believes Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili foolishly provoked a Russian invasion on August 7, 2008, when he sent troops into the breakaway district of South Ossetia. “The warfare began Aug. 7 when Georgia launched a barrage targeting South Ossetia,” the Associated Press reported over the weekend in typical fashion.

Virtually everyone is wrong. [SNIP]

Michael talks to two regional experts who state what those who have looked a little deeper into the cause of this situation could figure out: Russia has followed in the steps of the old USSR in that it tries to keep ethnic conflicts stoked in the independent countries which used to be its vassal states. The experts that Michael talked to point out that, since the break up of the Soviet Union, Russia has tried this over and over again, starting with the Baltics.

Go ahead and read the rest.

UPDATE: Just wanted to post one of Michael's excellent photos; this one was taken in Tbilisi.

UPDATE: US delivering "devilish" aid to Georgia. Pravda.

Day-Dreaming

Consider this scenario.

1. Illegal Mexican nationals inhabit, say, Arizona to the point of being a majority; the US government does nothing about it.

2. The Mexican government allows them to retain their citizenship.

3. The Mexican Nationals try to chase all the Americans who are not of Mexican descent out of the state--aka cleansing ethnically.

4. The Americans fight back.

(Yes, I know. Some of this isn't make believe.)

What do you think the US would do if Mexico came to the aid of their countrymen?

What would it do if Arizona declared its independence from the US?

And, forgetting the fact that the US has Mexico overwhelmingly outgunned--the fact that might usually makes right--who would be morally in the right?

UPDATE: Reality mirrors fiction and turns it on its side.

Security is being heightened along the southern U.S. border because of a threat that warring Mexican cartels may send hit men into the United States, authorities said Monday.

Law enforcement officials would not discuss specific security measures being taken at the ports of entry, along the border or in the city of El Paso, Texas.

"We received credible information that drug cartels in Mexico have given permission to hit targets on the U.S. side of the border," El Paso police spokesman Officer Chris Mears said.

You don't think what has happened in the Republic of Georgia could happen here? Think again.

Heard Today

On FoxNews' Hannity and Colmes:

ALAN COLMES: You're not on McCain's VP list, are you Michael?

FORMER MARYLAND LT. GOVERNOR MICHAEL STEELE: (laughs knowingly) Naw man, I'm just a brutha looking for work.

Hmmm.