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Advice For Sarah Palin: October 2 Debate

Author | joe | Posted on | September 27, 2008 | 54 Comments

Sarah,

You did really well in the Alaska gubernatorial debate because you were being yourself and talking about what you knew.

You are not going to know about some of the stuff they ask you about on October 2nd, but you should still just be yourself. If you truly don’t know about something that’s asked, just say “I don’t know much about that but here’s what I think …”

Don’t try to summon up a blizzard of words to fill in the space where a “correct” answer should go. Just talk about what you know about. America will love you for it.

Omniscience in our political candidates is way overrated. Most of them are talking crap, all the time. Take Barack last night: He was reaching for details and he got slapped down like a naughty puppy. I mean “Kissinger” of all things. How dumb was that?

You’ll be up against Joe Biden, whose wealth of knowledge was worth precisely less than one percent of the vote in the primaries. Nobody cares about what Joe knows or thinks. And by the time he’s finished talking, nobody will remember what the question was.

Joe is going to attempt to expertly fit the formulaic role for a debate which by definition all viewers hate. He will be talking the crap.

Your opening, your excellent opportunity, is to be yourself. Be authentic. Go off topic. If you are authentic, you will be far more attractive than Joe Biden on topic.

Keep this in mind: When Joe Biden is on topic, he is boring as hell. When Joe Biden is authentic, he is nutso crazy.

So don’t try to match Joe answer-for-answer, fact-for-fact. A lot of his facts are going to be blithering silliness. If you have the facts, use them. But much more important is that you face up against Joe person-to-person.

The viewing audience is going to be somewhat interested in the technicalities of both of your answers – but really, they won’t. No one cares what a vice president thinks about an issue.

What the viewers will be looking for is: Who is more interesting and authentic? Who represents me? The vast majority of the time in these instances, the answer is “no one so I will just vote for the less problematic person.”

Joe Biden is counting on that trend to continue. He will be the less problematic politician. And frankly, if you are going to go toe-to-toe you are probably going to lose out in the “politician” contest. When it comes to talking crap, you are not so great. You repeat your talking points too frequently and do not appear authentic at all when doing so.

Where you can break through is via your personality. Joe Biden, God love him, is generally not very interesting and on the few occasions he is interesting – when he is authentic – he tends to be weird.

You are not weird at all. You have a more widespread connection with the American people than anyone else on the national ticket, by a long shot. That is your strength.

We look at all of these guys running for office and say, “Who the hell are they?” We look at you and say “Maybe she is one of us.”

If you are one of us on October 2nd, John McCain will win the presidency.

You might miss an answer, you might mispronounce a foreign leader’s name, you might say “I don’t know,” but if you are, finally, someone going to Washington who we can identify with and trust, we will fall all over ourselves to make sure you get into office.

Sarah, you have been chewed up in the mainstream media meat grinder. No matter what you do in the debate, THEY are going to hate you. Their artillery is already aimed at you. The way you blast them out of the water is by appearing in the debate as an authentic American with your own ideas, rather than talking points. Yeah, it’s hard because the McCain people have all these talking points for you. But screw’em. Tell us what you think, about every question asked in the debate. If you do that, you win.

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54 Responses to “Advice For Sarah Palin: October 2 Debate”

  1. dans
    September 27th, 2008 @ 11:57 pm

    And, Sarah, when Biden wants to ramble, let him do so. This is where he hurts himself, every time.

  2. joe
    September 28th, 2008 @ 12:04 am

    Great point, letting Joe talk is a good thing. Sarah just has to sit there and look pretty.

  3. dans
    September 28th, 2008 @ 1:07 am

    She does have to make a strong showing for herself. she does need to show the undecideds that she is a better man for the job than stumbling Joe Biden..

  4. Ben Dover
    September 28th, 2008 @ 7:31 am

    Joe –

    I don’t disagree that if Palin has any chance in this debate, she will need to present herself in a more authentic, less-scripted manner.

    The bigger problem for her, to date, is that she actually lacks or at least fails to project the appearance of having anything that approaches a meaningful command of the issues at hand. Beyond the party faithful, there’s a wacky group of voters out there that are motivated to elect people who seem smart into high level office.

    Being a good politician can get you so far (i.e.: Governor of Alaska), but the Presidency/Vice Presidency is a different game. In terms of the VP candidates, I am not saying that Biden is a member of the intelligentsia, but I am saying that the likely outcome of Thursday’s debate will be that voters – particularly independent voters – will conclude that Biden has a far more facile command of the issues (and this is not to say that he is right on the issues – merely that his command of them is discernibly more comprehensive).

    Palin’s best chance to win over voters in this debate may be to do the old Sharon Stone “Basic Instinct” leg-crossing maneuver.

  5. Mr. Whiskers
    September 28th, 2008 @ 7:44 am

    Indeed, Ben Dover!

  6. Linda B
    September 28th, 2008 @ 8:14 am

    “… it’s hard because the McCain people have all these talking points for you.”

    Yep. What a bunch of idiots. They picked her because she’s a down-to-earth, likeable maverick who’s not afraid to speak her mind, but they’re doing their best to turn her into a mouthpiece who’s scared to death to open it.

    I hope somebody in that campaign comes to their senses before next week. Or reads your letter.

  7. Marcy
    September 28th, 2008 @ 8:17 am

    Best advise to Palin, stay home.

  8. Joe Budzinski
    September 28th, 2008 @ 8:23 am

    Go to CSPAN and watch old footage of Sarah in Alaska (you’ll have to dig because it’s all script-based and there’s no way to link to it). She absolutely does have command of the issues; but of course, those are state issues.

    You think John Edwards had anything like command of national issues when he was nominated for VP? Of course he didn’t. When Charlie the Clown interviewed Edwards, he asked things like “How does it feel to be nominated for Vice President?” Did not ask him about any “test” issues like “Bush doctrine” at all.

    Anyway, the proof is in the pudding and the debate will be here before we know it. Biden is one of the worst public speakers in all of American politics and he demonstrates extraordinarily bad judgment with regularity. I think Sarah Palin has a great opportunity to prove herself the type of person Americans prefer in the White House.

  9. Cathymac
    September 28th, 2008 @ 8:28 am

    I think Palin has to come across as competent, period. Nobody expects a candidate to know everything, but what they want to hear is that her judgement and principles can guide her through even unknown territory.

    If Obama can come across as having minimal command of the issues (which was the threshold), Palin can. Unfortunately the media and Democrat’s will unfairly heighten their expectations of Palin’s performance. Where they downplayed expectations for Obama, they will raise them for Palin making them unreachable.

  10. AFF
    September 28th, 2008 @ 9:52 am

    My advice to Sarah Palin would be to continue watching SNL with the sound turned off, as she claimed to have done last week.

  11. Kevin
    September 28th, 2008 @ 9:58 am

    “Unfortunately the media and Democrat’s will unfairly heighten their expectations of Palin’s performance.”

    I think, if anything, the repubs have heightened the expectations of the general public. Trying to sell her as dynamic, an exciting pick, “maverick”, attack dog (pit bull w/lipstick), etc. The problem is you sold an image that just doesn’t hold up, particularly when you sow the seeds of self-doubt in her about what to say when she opens her mouth. Those interviews with Couric were painful. Linda B got it right. Talk about clay feet!

  12. dans
    September 28th, 2008 @ 10:07 am

    Me thinks she is also trying to hard to appeal to the audience during the TV interviews I saw. In one interview, think it was the Hannity interview, she showed a glimpse of her tough side. That’s the side the voters need to see more frequently, particularly during the upcoming debate.

  13. dans
    September 28th, 2008 @ 10:10 am

    Sarah, also, rather than perfume, put a few drops of Jack Daniels behind your ears to distract Biden..

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZN5khF2i2ek

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NmRXH7RkCZQ

    Wonder if Obama new Biden was a lush when he picked him ?

  14. Leej
    September 28th, 2008 @ 10:30 am

    OH please the Hannity interview was all fluff and she looked like she was given the questions before hand so she could be prepared. Hannity is sickening and does no justice to the republican party. I cannot stand that guy.

  15. el jefe
    September 28th, 2008 @ 10:31 am

    i think qualin’s expectations are so low at this point she can’t do anything but shine. even if she looks worse than in those interviews people will feel sorry for her and think the “media” is treating her unfairly.

    “Nobody expects a candidate to know everything, but what they want to hear is that her [or his] judgement and principles can guide her through even unknown territory.”

    nice quote c-mac, i should remind you of this everytime experience or command of an issue is brought up as a reason not to vote for obama. how do you guys resolve this contradiction in your mind? it’s trully fascinating.

    “When Charlie the Clown interviewed Edwards, he asked things like “How does it feel to be nominated for Vice President?””

    joe, didn’t edwards go through a primary before his selection? it wasn’t as if the gibson interview were the first time he were tested by the media. palin get’s picked out of nowhere, attacks the media and the dems for being unfair to her at the rnc, and finally does an interview after weeks in hiding; what was she expecting?

  16. Cathymac
    September 28th, 2008 @ 10:41 am

    Kevin, Palin is and was an exciting pick, that she has been toned down is a major error. No one tried to sell her as an expert on foreign policy, but they did and continue to sell her as a reformer. I seem to recall the Democrats doing the same with Obama – “change you can believe in” – only he has no resume to back it up, Palin does.

    As for interviews, let’s look at some of Obama’s early interviews and how well he was “handled” – he refused to do an interview with Fox NEws for over 18 months. After 1.5 years of practice he gives a passable interview to Bill O’Reilly. Palin goes directly to the belly of the beast, CBS and ABC, and gets snearing treatment. I suspect if she had 18 months to hone her skills she too could give a passable interview. Once again I am comparing the #1 to the #2 on the ticket – hopefully this will resonate across the country.

    There are a different set of rules for Palin – period.

    Dans, is that really Biden singing drunk? I thought he said he didn’t drink?

  17. Kevin
    September 28th, 2008 @ 10:59 am

    Cmack, lets just revisit that logic for a second, is it Obama’s fault or McCain’s fault that McCain picked someone who was not seasoned? Is it Obama’s fault or McCain’s fault that McCain picked someone with no experience interviewing? This is a race. If McCain was concerned that someone with no experience would come off looking like they had, well, no experience, then why did he pick her? You can’t just say, “I’m going to pick someone who is going to need another 18 mos before we can get her making any sense”, and then expect to everyone to suspend the campaign while she catches up!!

    If Obama came to the table giving interviews like she is giving, he never would have made it INTO the primaries to begin with. There are no different rules “period”, there are different candidates who have chosen to run this race differently. Your guy picked Palin, not Obama. The wisdom of doing so, for the long run and not just for an expedient jump in polls, remains to be seen. But don’t go crying to anyone but John McCain that she isn’t quite ready yet. This is a race for the presidency and it’s pretty self-important to suggest everything be placed on hold until she can get up to speed.

    The truth is, the Obama campaign is just plain run better.

  18. Cathymac
    September 28th, 2008 @ 11:19 am

    Kevim, If you put all your stock in a “seasoned candidate” rather than someone who has the capacity to run the country, you get what you deserve – Obama. I’ll take McCain and Palin, regardless of their interview ratings.

    Once again, style over substance. It does not surprise me that you missed this point once again. McCain is my candidate and I’ll put him up against Obama any day of the week.

    I’m not “cryin” to anyone, I’m merely correcting your assertion that being a good interviewee makes you qualified to (help as VP) lead the country.

    I have my concerns over the Lunch Pail Joe being a heartbeat away from the Presidency, but my intention is to keep Obama out of the first place job to begin with.

  19. Cathymac
    September 28th, 2008 @ 11:20 am

    Kevin, BTW, look at Obama in the primary debates – it IS shocking he made it through the primaries.

  20. zimzo
    September 28th, 2008 @ 1:39 pm

    Palin was being herself in the Katie Couric interview. For anyone who missed it, here is Tina Fey’s brilliant re-creation, which actually uses Palins real words at one point, which is even funnier than the made up stuff:

    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/27/tina-fey-as-sarah-palin-k_n_129956.html

  21. Joe Budzinski
    September 28th, 2008 @ 2:06 pm

    No, from older clips of Palin I definitely can say in these recent interviews she is NOT being herself. Pre- and Post-VP are like two different people. Thus the “advice” column.

  22. zimzo
    September 28th, 2008 @ 2:09 pm

    In older clips of Palin she didn’t have to talk about foreign policy or economics, two subjects that she had better know something about if she thinks she deserves to be Vice President or even President, which is very possible considering the age and health of McCain.

  23. Linda B
    September 28th, 2008 @ 2:27 pm

    What did W know about foreign policy? or Clinton? or Reagan? or Carter?

    Sure, as governor you need to have some level of knowledge about it, and I’m sure Palin does. But you mostly have to be able to learn quickly and surround yourself with people who do know it and whose advice you trust.

    It’s a fair question, but it has not historically been a litmus test for president (luckily for Obama, BTW), much less for VP.

  24. zimzo
    September 28th, 2008 @ 2:35 pm

    Clinton, Reagan and even Bush all knew more about foreign policy before they were elected than Palin demonstrated she knows. Unlike Palin, they had all at least been out of the country more than once and had passports for more than a year before they ran; they had all met foreign leaders; they had all read newspapers and books.

    And Palin has not even demonstrated that she is a quick learner. The McCain people have been briefing her for weeks and she still can’t answer simple questions about foreign and domestic issues.

  25. Cathymac
    September 28th, 2008 @ 2:52 pm

    Clinton, Reagan and Bush were #1 on the ticket, and I am not so sure Clinton read anything but girlie mags, but that is a different story.

  26. Jack
    September 28th, 2008 @ 2:56 pm

    True enough, zimzo, but she STILL has more experience than O’Bama. If Biden were at the top of the ticket, fine. O’Bama would have time as VP to gain experience. So will Palin. If, God forbid, McCain dies in office, Palin will have gained more experience by then, and she can, as O’Bama has, chose a VP who has more foreign policy experience. She would also have the same advisers as McCain, and she will have been in the discussions as VP.

    In the end, well before she is likely to have to take over, she will have FAR more foreign policy experience than O’Bama has now. As things stand now, O’Bama cannot hold a candle to McCain on foreign policy — or anything else for that matter. So you are trying to compare O’Bama to Palin, instead. Even against her, he does not compare well.

  27. Linda B
    September 28th, 2008 @ 3:14 pm

    I’m sure she had to learn a lot of things very quickly to be successful as a city council member, mayor, energy commissioner and governor. And, you don’t have to leave the country to learn. From the recently published biography of Palin:

    ***

    From the time she was in elementary school, she consumed newspapers with a passion. “She read the paper from the very top left hand corner to the bottom right corner to the very last page,” said Molly. “She didn’t want to miss a word. She didn’t just read it—she knew every word she had read and analyzed it.”

    Sarah preferred nonfiction to the Nancy Drew books that her classmates were reading. In junior high school, Heather— a year older in school—often enlisted Sarah’s help with book reports. “She was such a bookworm. Whenever I was assigned to read a book, she’d already read it,” Heather said.

    ***

    These interviews have her rattled. Both Charlie and Katie took such a condescending approach and I think she was just overeager to impress and not to make any missteps. She really does need to be herself, admit if she doesn’t know something, and turn those types of questions into a discussion of the things that really matter to her, right here, right now. Which are the same things that matter to the public right here, right now.

  28. Ben Dover
    September 28th, 2008 @ 4:09 pm

    Linda B –

    To become Governor of anywhere, you must be politically astute, and I don’t doubt that she is shrewd, smart – a quick study. Right now, Palin is cramming for the test of her life. On Thursday, much will be revealed about her intellectual heft, or lack thereof.

    You don’t have to like the media treatment of Palin, but in selecting someone who has zero exposure to the national spotlight, McCain pretty much served up a platter of raw meat to a pack of ravenous dogs. Being an unknown comes with a price tag. She had better well expect to be grilled – fairly or unfairly – until she is able to demonstrate conversational fluency on a spectrum of domestic and foreign policy issues.

    The fact that she has been so cloistered, for all intents and purposes, speaks volumes about the extent to which her handlers (McCain’s campaign) feel confident about her ability to speak about the issues. Speaking candidly about what she knows (and what she doesn’t know), is acceptable – but only to an extent. As voters, we tend to like candor, and we really like honesty. But, we also like leaders who at least appear to be knowledgeable. So the debate is like a test – if you know the subject matter, you pass the test. Actually, if she does well, I think that the media will back off to some extent. If not…..she’s toast.

  29. Wolverine
    September 28th, 2008 @ 7:23 pm

    I would suggest one question for Palin to ask Biden: “Where were you, Senator, when proposals were made over the past few years by Bush, McCain, and others for a revision of the accounting rules and re-establishment of accountability for Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae?”

  30. Joe Budzinski
    September 28th, 2008 @ 7:50 pm

    Ah, ok, here is a great example: This interview with Sarah Palin was conducted several days before she was announced as VP candidate. Compare and contrast.

    http://www.cnbc.com/id/26462569?

    Sort of a mundane topic but I think anyone would rather listen to her talk about energy policy than listen to Biden talk about anything.

    Great sound bite on Biden about halfway through and on Obama/Biden towards the end.

  31. jacob
    September 28th, 2008 @ 8:34 pm

    MSM is doing a great job of turning Palin into a moron. They are playing gotchya with her. We need a new media because the s.o.b. socialists in MSM are beyond the pale. It is getting ridiculous.

  32. Kevin
    September 28th, 2008 @ 8:53 pm

    Jacob, if the MSM is so evil and biased, where were they the past 8 years? How is it Bush, of all idiots, was elected 2x?

    Blaming the MSM for goofball repubs losing a race can only go so far. Even your own peers here understand that her performance has been sub-par of late, possibly even as a direct result of a vote of “no confidence” from none other than her own campaign!

    It’s always something with you guys, I swear.

  33. Jack
    September 28th, 2008 @ 9:18 pm

    Because the MSM is no as powerful as they used to be. They are in the tank for O’Bama nonetheless, just as they were for Kerry, Gore, Clinton, etc.

  34. el jefe
    September 28th, 2008 @ 9:40 pm

    even someone that has reported on liberal bias found more negative statements about obama than mccain this summer. of course what happens, he immediately gets attacked.

    http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=media-bias-presidential-election

    besides, isn’t 95% of talk radio conservative.

  35. Joe Budzinski
    September 28th, 2008 @ 9:45 pm

    100% of talk radio that turns a profit is conservative.

  36. dans
    September 28th, 2008 @ 10:23 pm

    “How is it Bush, of all idiots, was elected 2x?”

    Because he ran against even bigger idiots, Gore and Kerry that’s how.

  37. el jefe
    September 28th, 2008 @ 11:05 pm

    then how is there a liberal bias in the media?

  38. jacob
    September 29th, 2008 @ 6:52 am

    el jefe,
    you are confusing causality with coincidence. Bush won despite the media, not because of it. One NBC taking head actually said, “if it where not for us, Bush would be ahead 15 points”, during the Kerry campaign.

    The reason he one is because the Democrats found two guys who had lower GPA’s and made less sense than Bush.

  39. G. Stone
    September 29th, 2008 @ 8:57 am

    Joe is correct.
    When they cram her full of “facts ” and ask her to spew the stuff that makes most of our eyes glaze over , she looses her appeal.
    They are on the verge of over coaching her to lose.

    By the way, any of you remember the first Reagan / Mondale debate ? It was the exact same thing. They tried to make Ronald Reagan a policy wonk and it failed. It was when they let Reagan be Reagan he smoked Mondale and cruised to victory.

  40. dans
    September 29th, 2008 @ 9:09 am

    G, I also think she is trying too hard to sell herself. If you look at the earlier interviews she seems very relaxed, as she did in her convention speech.

    She just needs to be herself, expect a few hardballs that do not need to be hit out of the park. She just needs to get a piece of them..

  41. jacob
    September 29th, 2008 @ 9:19 am

    I think she go to the conservative talk show circuit. Laura I., Ruch, Hannity, Miller etc. peole who arer not out to kill her. She needs to get interviewed by a fairer, and lass hostile crowd

  42. Jack
    September 29th, 2008 @ 11:05 am

    When she debates Biden, she needs to not come off as having been stuffed with recently acquired facts. She is an intelligent, middle-america-type person with a good head on her shoulders. If she just says, here’s what I know, and here’s how things look to me, most Americans will watch her and say, “Yeah, that’s exactly what I was thinking!”

  43. Leej
    September 29th, 2008 @ 11:53 am

    My advice is she should get some kind of illness and totally drop out of the race.

  44. dans
    September 29th, 2008 @ 12:19 pm

    as always, you’re right lee..

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NmRXH7RkCZQ

  45. el jefe
    September 29th, 2008 @ 5:15 pm

    jacob “el jefe, you are confusing causality with coincidence. Bush won despite the media, not because of it.”

    you confused me with mr. whiskers! the fact repubs have won elections suggests it, but it’s more the fact that almost every talk radio show is right-wing that shows if anything there is a conservative bias in the media.

  46. Kevin
    September 29th, 2008 @ 5:28 pm

    Jacob, dude, your penmanship today has been absolutely deplorable.

  47. jacob
    September 29th, 2008 @ 5:35 pm

    el jefe,
    Talk radio is one wavelength on the spectrum. The large news papers are owned by, run by and staffed by the left. Same thing goes for the magazines like Time, Newsweek, The Nation, The new Yourker Atlantic Monthly etc. Total left wing domination there as well. The thee is CBS, NBC, and ABC. The staffs of the above are 90% Democrat and left wing Democrat at that.

    You want to say WSJ, National Reveiew, The Weekly Standard, and Talk radio counters all that I will laugh at you, loudly. That is a farce.

    It used to be mainstream journalist came from all walks of life. Some started selling papers on the corner, and worked their way up, others where businessmen who dabbled, some where English majors with a taste for writing about reality. Now, they are almost invariably journalism majors. Go check it out. You WILL find exceptions, but the culture in the newsroom is invariably LEFT.

  48. jacob
    September 29th, 2008 @ 5:38 pm

    el jefe,
    one more thing, yes, I think I ascribed to you what Kevin wrote. He and I have discussed causality and coincidence before. Since he is a shrink, he ain’t to swift. ;-)

  49. Wolverine
    September 29th, 2008 @ 5:42 pm

    As I surf around the net reading various political articles in the media, I invariably go down to look at the public commentary section for each one. The amount of absolutely vicious, nonsensical commentary one sees there often goes far beyond the pale of civil discourse on any subject. We seem to be becoming, at least in part, a pack of rabid political dogs whose vitriol knows no bounds or reason.

    I have seen Sarah Palin in particular so ravaged by blogger and media nonsense that it borders on political rape. This country ought to hang its collective head in shame for what we have allowed ourselves to become.

    I know that some will claim that political battles were even more fierce a century or more ago; but, for the love of God, have we not learned anything over the ensuing years? We cheapen the very offices to which our candidates aspire. George Washington would have taken one look at us, given the country the finger, and gone back even quicker to Mt. Vernon. Except for the fact that she is critical to her party’s ticket, I am sometimes tempted to advise Sarah to do that very thing and go back to Alaska, where at least the air is clean. No one should have to put up with the kind of verbal grief she and her family have suffered just because she wishes to serve her country.

    If our current level of highly personalized political discourse can be used as a yardstick, this country appears to be increasingly sick unto death. We have become a mob of political goons and bullies with scarcely a decent, charitable thought in our heads. And I will admit that I sometimes catch myself going in that same sick direction. The only thing that checkmates my own wanderings is to remember what France became in the late 18th century, when hateful political discourse devolved into street barricades, bloodshed, and summary executions virtually every day of the week. It was almost inevitable that the chaos was followed by a seizure of power by a man on the proverbial “white horse.” We damn well better start looking at ourselves real quick. Whatever comity we once had as Americans appears to be dissipating very fast. We are getting increasingly ripe for our own downfall.

  50. jacob
    September 29th, 2008 @ 6:16 pm

    Kevin,
    I am operating sleep deprived. Sorry if I am goobering up the grammar.

  51. Kevin
    September 29th, 2008 @ 6:32 pm

    Jacob, Sorry man. Hope you get some rest soon. Being sleep deprived is being in the dismal hollow.

  52. Wolverine
    September 29th, 2008 @ 9:16 pm

    That’s nice. Goodnight, Jacob. Goodnight, Kevin. I think I’ll crawl back into my own den too and gnaw on a few bones left over from the rooster who used to reside in the zoned residential yard of my illegal alien neighbor. Oh, crap, there I go again!!!

  53. el jefe
    September 29th, 2008 @ 9:36 pm

    laugh if you will, but i think they are equal. the so-called liberal media does critique both parties, not the right leaning, with the exception of fox. and after hearing all the “obama=muslim” and “palin has more experience” arguments, i think the so-called left-wing media does a better job attacking dems than right wingers do.

    oh, and he is a social worker, not a shrink. thats even worse. get some sleep man!

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