Comments on: Palin fed up? (8)

By: Mac

Mac — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 20:29:57 +0000

One of the cardinal rules of peaceful existence: happy wife, happy life.

I travel a fair amount for work but shoot me an email if you’re headed this way.

By: Cyanpse

Cyanpse — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 04:47:22 +0000

Ottawa is a more frequent destination for us (on the way to Mtl) so again … may have to oblige. Actually Ms.Cynapse is pushing for a more permanent visit and I’ve been holding her off … but Toronto is really losing appeal quickly so who knows.

By: Mac

Mac — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 03:42:43 +0000

I don’t normally have beer at the house, Cynapse, but if you end up in the nation’s capital, I’ll buy you a mug of java and bend your ear…

By: Cynapse

Cynapse — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 01:05:29 +0000

Careful now, I might make good on that.

Regardless, in summation – Palin is a niche market candidate with far too many enemies to be viable on the national stage. She’ll have to undergo a major image overhaul to become a mainstream candidate as opposed to a reality tv curiosity. Even that wouldn’t win me over.

That said, the press ignored her many obvious flaws in favour of making a mockery of her family. Having grown up in a middle class town, I know you can find all kinds of dirt on nearly any family. That wasn’t news, that was a hit. There, I said it. May this not come back to haunt …

By: UV

UV — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 00:43:02 +0000

Where do you put them, Mac. I could name a few places like Iran, Pakistan, China, Afghanistan, Sibera

By: Mac

Mac — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 23:46:35 +0000

The only problem with draining the swamp is… where do you put ‘em?

By: beentheredonethat

beentheredonethat — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 21:39:17 +0000

It’s not just getting their act together for a leader, other than perhaps a few exceptions the whole lot of them need to be put out to pasture. Then again, the same can be said about the Dems, heck even the Canadian Liberals, Conservatives, NDP, BLOC…….heck the whole darn swamp needs draining. Frankly I’ve had it ‘up to here’ with politics and politicians. I’m going out to my garage and crack a cold one. Come’on over Cynapse.

By: Cunctator

Cunctator — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 21:28:58 +0000

It is probably a good thing that a political party loses an election after a number of years in office. It allows the party to reconnect with voters, to clean its house of any corruption, and to select new leaders. So, Bush’s presidency probably did bring Obama in its wake but that it is not, on one level, a bad development for the Republican Party. A breathing space for renewal can now begin.

However, what is sad is that the Republicans’ setbacks led to the election of a president like Obama. It is difficult to describe just how terrible a leader that guy is, and how much has been sewpt under the carpet in order to make him acceptable to the people who voted for him. “Hope and change” should be every thinking person’s motto now — let’s hope that Americans change their mind about Obama by the mid-term Congressional elections in 2010, and elect a Congress that will put an end to the Obama agenda before tossing him out in 2012.

By: Cynapse

Cynapse — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 18:19:47 +0000

If a polarizing SoCon is their best bet, then the GOP still has a problem.

By: beentheredonethat

beentheredonethat — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 18:12:11 +0000

Nobody can ever say that for sure seeing as how the Republicans didn’t have a contender to run against Obama and yes, the MSM unquestionably played a huge part in the O’s success. Pitting lame duck John McCain against Obama coupled with an adoring MSM guaranteed Obama the win. The doddering old guard in the GOP didn’t know what hit them, but now they sure do and they still don’t know what to do about it. They had better get their act together, and soon.

By: Cynapse

Cynapse — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 17:13:02 +0000

No way the successor to Bush was getting elected, regardless.

By: beentheredonethat

beentheredonethat — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 16:46:26 +0000

No……you can thank the MSM for Obama being in power.

By: UV

UV — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 16:24:04 +0000

Well, you can thank Bush for Obama being in power as many Americans ‘had it up to here’ as the saying goes with his administration.

By: Brian S

Brian S — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 15:28:18 +0000

We can only hope that Sarah Palin will no longer provide much of a distraction for the left to deflect from the real problem they elected, so whatever her intentions are, at this point in time we should only wish her well and move on to criticize those who do have the immediate relevance of actually being in power. Of course, by every measure so far, Obama should follow Palin’s lead and quit the Presidency. He could then pick up a book or two about foreign policy himself, and perhaps even find a way to push past the kindergarten level economics wall that so confounds the left. Alas, like all lefties, Obama will never be able to trust his own judgment, as Sarah Palin is now doing, and therefore will remain dependent on the left wing collective to do all of his thinking for him.

Being dependent on the left wing collective for his every move, Obama will continue to leave the USA’s foreign and economic policy to the Clinton era hacks in his administration who previously, through both the Clinton and Bush administrations, failed to bring in the market regulations required to police the new investment vehicles demanded by the same vacuous Democrats in Congress and the Senate who pushed so foolhardily for the failed housing policies that eventually helped to bring down the global economy. Add to the collective mix, the starry-eyed left wing of the MSM, the UN with all of its dictators, despots, and shady bureaucrats, and the nutroots who helped to get Obama elected, and the left wing collective’s policies will no doubt remain as clear as mud to anyone with any common sense at all.

By: nomdeblog

nomdeblog — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 15:27:24 +0000

She is not ready. She has potential, if she bones up on some prerequisites. But we do not want another President who is not ready.

If we are lucky we will scrape through the disaster of Obama, but we can’t do 2 trainees in a row.