tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11542449.post73082616858322574..comments2024-03-28T15:28:22.595-04:00Comments on Vital Remnants: Sarah Palin may or may not have beaten Biden, but she did beat Tina FeyMartin Cothranhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16452612266051351726noreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11542449.post-66380128815518209302008-10-05T23:01:00.000-04:002008-10-05T23:01:00.000-04:00Art, you may also want to explain to your kids tha...Art, you may also want to explain to your kids that you're willing to hand their future to a government that knows absolutely no bounds.<BR/><BR/>And, incidentally, wars are not illegal if Congress okays them.Leehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12974887002402743628noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11542449.post-29760336087147445482008-10-05T00:52:00.000-04:002008-10-05T00:52:00.000-04:00Well, lee, I guess that's the difference between y...Well, lee, I guess that's the difference between you and me. You can look your kids in the eye and tell them that you have no problems paying for your illegal wars with their kids' tax dollars. I am willing to shoulder my own burdens and pay for my own adventures, and not pass them on to future generations.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11542449.post-90540093977342190392008-10-04T20:28:00.000-04:002008-10-04T20:28:00.000-04:00> And yet all of our problems are because we el...> And yet all of our problems are because we elect liberals and not due to the appallingly low standards we have for electing politicians, of whatever stripe. If we continue to elect people who promise more benefits and lower taxes, what can we expect?<BR/><BR/>There are always appallingly stupid, venal, or incompetent politicians, and it always amazes me that so many people would like to giveLeehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12974887002402743628noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11542449.post-68636167211739311962008-10-04T20:16:00.000-04:002008-10-04T20:16:00.000-04:00jah, I'm fine with that. The perspective here tha...jah, I'm fine with that. The perspective here that I am countering, is the perspective that the military is the optional stuff and ruining the country with too much socialism is the necessary part.<BR/><BR/>It's the other way around.<BR/><BR/>If you're telling me we need to raise taxes to defend our country, come to me *after* we've cut out the optional stuff, and we'll talk about it then.<BR/><Leehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12974887002402743628noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11542449.post-30242928688436022802008-10-04T19:26:00.000-04:002008-10-04T19:26:00.000-04:00MC: This debate was about beating Tina Fey.Sarah P...MC: This debate was about beating Tina Fey.<BR/><BR/>Sarah Palin not only exceeded expectations, ... Debates like this come down, not to who has the better arguments ..., but to who is more appealing. <BR/>-----<BR/><BR/>So Palin won because she didn't make a complete fool of herself and because she was appealing.<BR/><BR/>And yet all of our problems are because we elect liberals and not due to Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11542449.post-19959969285871469442008-10-04T19:22:00.000-04:002008-10-04T19:22:00.000-04:00lee: As I have pointed out in other threads, it is...lee: As I have pointed out in other threads, it is not deficit spending which is the problem. It's *over* spending. Debt by itself isn't a bad thing; I'm quite positive you employ it yourself, or have -- unless you bought your first house with cash and buy all your cars with cash.<BR/><BR/>Going into debt for occasional emergencies/big events (houses for individuals, wars for countries) is okay; Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11542449.post-66149780154161583462008-10-04T16:41:00.000-04:002008-10-04T16:41:00.000-04:00Art, "getting elected" is not a strategy...Art, "getting elected" is not a strategy; it's a goal.<BR/><BR/>> Yet [conservatives] will vote for him...<BR/><BR/>Speak for yourself. Or someone else.<BR/><BR/><BR/>> it's conservatives who believe in a free lunch.<BR/><BR/>Baloney.<BR/><BR/>> Ask any conservative if he/she would support a war tax to pay for excursions such as Iraq as we go, rather than pass on a Leehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12974887002402743628noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11542449.post-49303920572371241432008-10-03T23:10:00.000-04:002008-10-03T23:10:00.000-04:00John McCain is a nasty fraud and a man with the mi...John McCain is a nasty fraud and a man with the middle name Hussein is going to beat him. Sad, but there you go.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11542449.post-80334656464276176322008-10-03T21:01:00.000-04:002008-10-03T21:01:00.000-04:00Hi Lee,McCain's "grand strategy" is to get elected...Hi Lee,<BR/><BR/>McCain's "grand strategy" is to get elected. Period. It should be obvious by now that he's not going to go the mat over abortion, gay marriage, or any of the things that seem to matter to conservatives. Yet they will vote for him, even though it's also clear that he's the candidate who will be more frivolous, wasteful, and careless with our money. He'd be great for the few Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11542449.post-49606950436835875382008-10-03T20:56:00.000-04:002008-10-03T20:56:00.000-04:00McCain's political epitaph will be, simply, "He ne...McCain's political epitaph will be, simply, "He never knew who his friends were." Or would have been, if he'd only thrown them a bone once in a while.<BR/><BR/>As far as I'm concerned, a liberal president can hurt the country very badly. But nobody can hurt the country worse than a RINO Republican. That's "Republican in Name Only."<BR/><BR/>With free-market defenders like GWB and John McCain, Leehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12974887002402743628noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11542449.post-34173615861821381582008-10-03T20:00:00.000-04:002008-10-03T20:00:00.000-04:00It's soooo over for McCain.It's soooo over for McCain.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11542449.post-41785367262056657712008-10-03T18:26:00.000-04:002008-10-03T18:26:00.000-04:00> I always thought that this would be a bad thi...> I always thought that this would be a bad thing, at least in conservative circles. But now I'm hearing that it isn't???<BR/><BR/>McCain's grand strategy since 2000 has been to acquiesce to liberalism and the liberal agenda -- he calls it "bipartisanship" -- and earn the love and respect of the news media.<BR/><BR/>Ask him how that's working out.<BR/><BR/>Palin was Leehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12974887002402743628noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11542449.post-36517737032974759132008-10-03T16:53:00.000-04:002008-10-03T16:53:00.000-04:00Hmm... someone help me out. Tina Fey hasn't (yet)...Hmm... someone help me out. Tina Fey hasn't (yet) bragged about imposing windfall profits taxes on oil companies. I believe that Palin did just that last night.<BR/><BR/>I always thought that this would be a bad thing, at least in conservative circles. But now I'm hearing that it isn't???<BR/><BR/>Then there's the debacle that is McCain's health care plan. Apparently (from the several Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11542449.post-10718324158155898942008-10-03T06:44:00.000-04:002008-10-03T06:44:00.000-04:00I hope some enterprising Republican with a camera ...I hope some enterprising Republican with a camera visits Home Depots in Delaware and in Washington D.C. to see if anyone can remember seeing Joe Biden there.<BR/><BR/>Somehow, like you, I doubt it.David Adamshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07868018032704003876noreply@blogger.com