Why They Hate Her

Sarah Palin cuts cap and trade off at the knees.

There is no denying that as the world becomes more industrialized, we need to reform our energy policy and become less dependent on foreign energy sources. But the answer doesn't lie in making energy scarcer and more expensive! Those who understand the issue know we can meet our energy needs and environmental challenges without destroying America's economy.

Job losses are so certain under this new cap-and-tax plan that it includes a provision accommodating newly unemployed workers from the resulting dried-up energy sector, to the tune of $4.2 billion over eight years. So much for creating jobs.

In addition to immediately increasing unemployment in the energy sector, even more American jobs will be threatened by the rising cost of doing business under the cap-and-tax plan. For example, the cost of farming will certainly increase, driving down farm incomes while driving up grocery prices. The costs of manufacturing, warehousing and transportation will also increase.

The ironic beauty in this plan? Soon, even the most ardent liberal will understand supply-side economics.

Journalism: The Real Loser In The 2008 Election

Carl Cannon casts a skeptical eye on his own profession and doesn't like what he sees.

In the 2008 election, we took sides, straight and simple, particularly with regard to the vice presidential race. I don't know that we played a decisive role in that campaign, and I'm not saying the better side lost. What I am saying is that we simply didn't hold Joe Biden to the same standard as Sarah Palin, and for me, the real loser in this sordid tale is my chosen profession.

And, Carl Canon gets to a point that I've been making for years. He acknowledges that newsrooms are liberal and that liberalism seeps into the news articles they produce. And this liberalism is contributing to the demise of newspapers.

If being "liberal" now meant sympathy for the Democratic Party, and being conservative implied sympathy for Republicans, all those liberal newsrooms across the country were gradually going to alienate themselves from about half their readers.

Read it all the way to the end. He chronicles newspaper history, then tells how the pretense of objectivity was abandoned last year and how the press was particularly venomous in its treatment of Sarah Palin.

Remember her callous decision as governor to cut Alaska's special education budget by 62 percent? After receiving emails to that effect, CNN's Soledad O'Brien cited the figure on-air. Oops. Palin actually tripled the state's spending on special needs kids.
Did you hear the one about her membership in the Alaska Independence Party, which favors secession from the union? That made The New York Times, and it was wrong, too.

Levi Johnston: Authoritative Source For the Associated Press

Back in the 1990's Gary Aldrich had been an FBI agent assigned to the Clinton White House. What he saw there appalled him and he wrote a book about it. He was called a liar by the mainstream media, simply based upon the Clintons' word.

Today, a tedious little high school dropout named Levi Johnston, whose sole claim to fame is that he impregnated Sarah Palin's daughter, is an authoritative source on what Sarah Palin is thinking.

In a way, this is a step up. We're still waiting for the Associated Press to produce Captain Jamil Hussein.

Joe Biden Learns What It's Like To Be A Republican

Actually, the media treats Republicans far worse. Here's a fair and balanced interview on CNN. The critical question about Palin being incompetent, corrupt, stupid, etc. was actually a bald faced lie on the part of the CNN interviewer. The article he references was actually about how the media distorts Palin.



Here's the actual quote that CNN distorted.

Watching press coverage of the Republican candidate for vice president, it’s sometimes hard to decide whether Sarah Palin is incompetent, stupid, unqualified, corrupt, backward, or — or, well, all of the above. Palin, the governor of Alaska, has faced more criticism than any vice-presidential candidate since 1988, when Democrats and the press tore into Dan Quayle. In fact, Palin may have it even worse than Quayle, since she’s taking flak not only from Democrats and the press but from some conservative opinion leaders as well….

Forbidden Campaign Issues, Sure Winners For Republicans

Voldemort! There, I said it! I have just named he who must not be named and was not smacked down by supernatural forces. And previously, I have even middle named Barack Obama without being cast screaming into the fiery pits of hell. So why is it that, in this political season, two of the greatest challenges facing our country cannot be honestly debated?

In one of his rare honest moments during the vice presidential debate, Democrat Joe Biden “accused” John McCain of voting against biofuel subsidies. If memory serves, the number of “no” votes tallied 21. Joe smugly believed he had won one. And he did, by forfeit. Sarah Palin, probably on orders from McCain, ignored the claim. What should have been a slam dunk win for McCain/Palin, ended up as a point for Obama/Biden. The ball was set up on the tee, and Sarah Palin, as all Republicans do these days, declined to hit it out of the park.

The biofuels that Obama and Biden tout is ethanol derived from corn. They claim that it will free us from foreign oil when they know for a fact that it cannot. Surely McCain and Palin know this as well, but they elect to keep the information to themselves.

The biggest problem with corn ethanol is that it takes about as much energy to make ethanol as one gets back from burning ethanol. When one takes into account the petroleum required to plow the fields, harvest the corn, manufacture the fertilizer, transport the corn to the distillery and distill the ethanol, you’re just about breaking even. But because ethanol is so corrosive, it cannot be delivered through pipelines and must be delivered by trucks and trains. More oil burned. Using the most optimistic calculations, if we were to sow every available acre in corn and convert it to ethanol, it would reduce our current oil imports by no more than 10%. Some actually estimate that we actually have a negative energy yield in corn ethanol.

Corn ethanol has the secondary effect of causing food prices to soar. Not only is corn more expensive, but so is beef, pork, poultry and dairy products, as feed is the number one expense for the producers. In addition, the prices of other starchy crops, such as wheat and rice, will follow corn. And because so many more acres are being planted in corn for ethanol production these days, fewer acres are planted in soybeans and other staple crops. The prices of these crops have soared as well. Burning corn is creating severe food shortages in other countries. The United Nations recently cited the diversion of food to fuel as the primary contributor to a worsening worldwide food crisis.

McCain and Palin should be proud that McCain has not voted for ethanol subsidies. And in a sane world, they could hang that albatross around their opponents’ necks and win handily this November. But alas, the corn ethanol is the boondoggle that must not be named.

The same goes for the financial crisis. In an honest world, McCain and Palin should be able to hang that one around their opponents’ necks as well, and not just because Obama accepted so much money from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac or because Obama has disgraced former Fannie Mae CEO’s as advisors.

Using nothing but the New York Times’ archives, one can follow the whole mortgage meltdown from its origins in 1999 in Clinton Administration directives to its fruition in 2008. And you will find Democratic Party fingerprints all over it.

But Republicans so fear being called racists that they won’t take it on directly. Indeed they have already been called racists for even mentioning Bill Clinton’s over interpretation of the 1977 Community Reinvestment Act in regards to the crisis. Never mind that it is easily traced back. Intending to increase home ownership among minorities, the Clinton Administration enacted rules that forced banks to give loans to people with poor credit. Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac then purchased those mortgages and are now stuck with loans that will never be repaid. It’s as simple as that. But Republicans tremble in fear as Democrats blame George Bush and free markets. A free market would never have made those loans.

What better opportunity is there to speak right past mainstream media filters than during a debate? Seventy million people watched Sarah Palin and Joe Biden. Nearly as many watched Obama and McCain Tuesday.

Republicans might need a visit with the Wizard of Oz to ask for some courage.

Update: Are Republicans figuring this out?

John McCain and his Republican allies have elevated an unlikely pair of political villains to deflect blame for the slumping economy.

During a town hall in Wisconsin on Thursday, McCain called Senate Banking Chairman Christopher J. Dodd (Conn.) and House Financial Services Chairman Barney Frank (Mass.) “willing co-conspirators” in the current financial collapse.

This comes as conservative talk radio hosts and an outside group aligned with the GOP accuse the duo of similar crimes against the economy, particularly an allegation that congressional Democrats blocked legislation to increase regulations and oversight for mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

This latest back-and-forth shows how political the economic crisis has become after party leaders on both sides of the aisle helped usher legislation through Congress last week granting the Department of the Treasury historic authority to buy up to $700 billion in distressed mortgage-related assets.

Republicans and Democrats observed a tentative truce during negotiations over that bill. But this week they were back at one another’s throats, and Republicans decided that targeting Dodd and Frank – not terribly well known outside the Beltway — might make for good campaign rhetoric.

Obama's America

Sarah Palin - The New Reagan?

Does McCain Know Who His Constituency Is?

If John McCain should bumble his way to victory in November, he might have the New York Times to thank. This last February, after it became clear that McCain was the default nominee of the Republicans, the Times published on its front page a poorly sourced story intimating that McCain was involved in an affair with an attractive lady lobbyist. The story was untrue and John McCain was justifiably outraged. And from that moment on, McCain, a man who forgives slowly, finally grasped that the mainstream media, whose good opinions he had cultivated for years, were not his friends.

All politicians are flawed. The single greatest defect in our political system is that we can only choose our leaders from those who consider themselves worthy of the job. William F. Buckley once opined that he would rather be governed by 100 people chosen randomly from a phone book than by the faculty of the Harvard law school. And the higher the political office, the more distrustful we should be of the candidate. Anyone who thinks that he should be president surely suffers from one or more profound personality disorders. But it is from among these people whom we must choose to give the authority to launch nuclear weapons.

John McCain’s most obvious disorder is that he constantly needs approval. And for the last decade or so, he has pursued the approval of the mainstream media. He wanted to read favorable editorials about himself in the Washington Post and the New York Times. He sought as many invitations to “Meet the Press” as he could gain. In both cases, like a trained seal desirous of a fish, he learned that he could earn his reward by pursuing goals contrary to the Republican Party and conservatism.

This need for approval from Washington’s Brahman caste and his own moral vanity would drive him to push the McCain campaign finance reform bill through Congress. Not only did the liberal pundits love it, but he believed that it also helped him wash away his greatest stain – the Keating Five scandal.

Just about two decades ago, John McCain was scolded by the Senate for intervening on behalf of his close friend, Charles Keating. Under Keating’s leadership, Lincoln Savings and Loan had invested recklessly and he found himself in difficulty with bank regulators. He asked his close personal friend, John McCain, along with four others to whom he had donated generously, to intervene on his behalf. Ultimately, McCain received the gentlest of scoldings, while others were censured and three lost their seats in the Senate.

McCain could never accept full responsibility for his choices and blamed “the system” for his embarrassment. And so he set about to change the system. The result was the McCain-Feingold campaign finance reform act, which was very popular in mainstream media newsrooms and editorial boards. McCain probably thought that he had finally won the approval of those whose opinions mattered most to him. The New York Times showed him that he was mistaken. All those years of thumbing his nose at conservatism and his own party had earned him nothing. And it was this revelation that drove him to win back the conservative base. And his campaign has prospered ever since.

His new embrace of conservatism certainly contributed to his selection of Sarah Palin as his vice presidential nominee. The John McCain whose greatest ambition was the approval of the New York Time’s editorial board would never have chosen Sarah Palin. A candidate who lusted for favorable treatment by the Washington Post newsroom would never have embraced Newt Gingrich’s “Drill Here, Drill Now” campaign.

Not only did McCain’s sudden conservatism solidify his base, but it has thrown the opposition off its game. The left has descended into all manner of slur in its attempt to damage Sarah Palin, even to the point of attacking her children. Barack Obama has been exposed as a man who cannot handle adversity well. Faced with a genuine challenge for the first time in his political career, he seems unable to gain his footing.

Now Obama is reduced to complaining that too much attention is being paid to his remark about “lipstick on a pig,” and is trying to refocus attention on issues that really matter, such as how many homes John McCain’s wife owns.

It remains to be seen if McCain can be trusted after November 5th. But thanks to the reprehensible behavior of the left-leaning mainstream media, perhaps John McCain will remember who his real constituency is.

Sarah Palin and Barack Hussein Obama's Wolves

A Liberal Media Puppet Harasses Sarah Palin

Matt Damon Gets Deep On Palin

Yes, Matt Damon imparts his informed wisdom on the perils of Sarah Palin.



Undoubtedly his most enlightened comments since "Team America."

Not Only is Sarah Palin a Pig

But John McCain is old!



With the help of former South Carolina Democratic Party Chairman Dick Harpootlian, the Democrats offend another demographic.

Obama Criticizes Palin On Earmarks?

Does Barack Obama really want to go there?

It's not as though Obama's hands are clean. But let it be known to all that Barack Hussein Obama isn't asking for any earmarks NEXT YEAR!!!!!!!! That's really sticking you neck out, isn't he?

Community Organizers Are Pissed At Sarah Palin

Somehow, I think she's going to get through this okay.

Community organizers across America, taken aback by a series of attacks from Republican leaders at the GOP convention in St. Paul, came together today to defend their work organizing Americans who have been left behind by unemployment, lack of health insurance and the national housing crisis. The organizers demanded an apology from Alaska Governor Sarah Palin for her statement that community organizers have no “actual responsibilities” and launched a web site, http://organizersfightback.wordpress.com, to defend themselves against Republican attacks.

No doubt Sarah is quaking in her mukluks.

Hat tip: Charles Johnson

When Candidates' Families Matter

On the day when the United States hand the Iraq's formerly lost Anbar province over to Iraqi administration, CNN concentrated its Labor Day coverage on Sarah Palin's daughter. So far as I could determine, CNN deemed Britol Palin's pregnancy even more important than the disappointing Hurricane Gustav.

Meanwhile, if anybody's family needs investigation, it's Joe Biden's. It seems that the financial giant MBNA was fattening Hunter Biden's bank accounts at the same time that Joe Biden was helping push through a bankruptcy reform sought my MBNA, but widely opposed by Democrats.