Ray says it's time for the McCain campaign to take the shackles off of Sarah Palin, the campaign's "biggest weapon."
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Couldn't agree more.
Sooner the better for letting her speak out .
As you said Sarah Palin, from my perspective too,is the best thing that has happened to the GOP.
McCain should have let her fill in for him on Letterman.
The interview with Couric went so well for Gov Palin, she should do more.
I am really looking forward to the vp debate.
Especially the one on the next SNL.
Biden will have to be careful though, she is more fragile than Hillary and he doesn't want to offend Gov. palin by taking her to task on her claim of foreign experience because the Russians fly over AK on their way to the
U N. meetings.
By the way Obama is not from wealth either.
You're right Ray! I'm with you! 100% in agreement - let her loose!
She's been to the UN and met with various leaders. Her previous foreign policy experience assertions regarding living next to Russia and Canada have been broadened 1000%. So much so then now she agrees with Obama about US Troops going into Pakistan if a High Value Target presents himself. I'm sure that was just a slip. That's OK, she will make up for it with her knowledge of the Federal Reserve, Fannie and Freddie. She'll "letcha know on that". Well, at least what she lacks in knowledge, she makes up for in ethics and principals. After all, it is the McCain Campaign that is doing everything they can to stonewall the investigation into "Troopergate"!
GET SERIOUS!
When Tina Fay can take her words verbatim and have a generic audience in stitches, there's something pretty sad here. Her knowledge of national and world politics is frankly pathetic. Just because she sides with the "Christian Talaban" on human rights, matters to me like a snowflake on Mt. McKinley!
So, Russell, then you agree, let her loose.
Let's find out who is right. McCain for choosing her and giving us a principled running mate, or the media who has attempted from day one to destroy her like they did with Dan Quayle.
If Barack Obama had been subjected to the scrutiny that Sarah Palin has been, Americans would have a very different view of him.
Obama is a lightweight who got lucky and somehow toppled Hillary.
Back to the subject at hand ... Let her loose.
Let's find out.
I think she will do just fine. I have great confidence in her.
Let her loose and let's see what she is made of in an "un-edited" environment.
Go Sarah ...
By the way, can hardly wait for the "un-biased" Gwen Ifill to moderate this debate.
Fortunately, Palin is not afraid of liberal women.
Ray said
"By the way, can hardly wait for the "un-biased" Gwen Ifill to moderate this debate."
Me Too
Ray why are you so afraid of Gwen.
She is a professional like you and I am sure when given a task to perform she will do it professionally and as expected by the people who hire her.
I would hope that even you, if by some remote chance were hired to moderate a Presidential debate, or any debate, would try to step up to the plate and do what is expected of you by the people who appointed you and not let any personal feelings interfere with your job.
Of course if you are saying you and your bretheren in the world of media are not professionals.....
Absolutely Ray! Gee! we do have more in common than our waistline! :)
IF she pulls off the debate tomorrow night, it will quell a lot of critics. According to what I have heard on C-Span she bombed the first two trial runs and couldn't name one Supreme Court decision except Rowe v Wade
W pulled off the debates with equally shallow credentials, no reason why Sarah can't! My priority is to have the truth out, no matter who it pleases. In the '06 Alaskan Governor's debate the independent was clearly the most knowledgeable and articulate. It got him nowhere.
Watch the '06 Governor's debate online at the Wall Street Journal.
Palin did a great job.
She will be fine tonight.
Bruce, Ifill should disclose her bias and then move on.
Transparency is the key.
I think most thinking people would know her political leanings. She has never made them a secret when she has squared off with guys like Will.
There's the catch "thinking" that leaves out any of the Palin supporters.
We will see tonight how she does,away from Alaska, where they watch for Russians in the morning. I am not expecting anything great from either side.
Last weeks debate put me to sleep on the couch. Luckily I recorded it,but I almost fell asleep again when I watched it.
I am sure Gwenn will not ask her how old the earth is.
Actually i did watch that 3 way debate
I assume you mean the one where she said hypotheticaly that if an underage daughter of hers was raped, she would want her to have the baby instead of an abortion.
If I had been the moderator i would have gone further and asked if she would feel the same way if it was a rape involving incest. She has made it clear that her answer would be the same.
Only if the mother was near death would she allow the choice of who lives to be made. She was in her element in AK tonight she will not be.
Rush said
"So turn the lady loose"
Interesting choice of words for Rush. Must have picked it up from Ray.
If McCain dumps her maybe he can get Larry The Cable Guy as his runing mate
This is good Joe Six Pack
"But on a conservative radio talk show program on Tuesday Sarah Palin sounded a bit more like the Sarah Palin the public got to know at the Republican convention.
“Oh, I think they’re [critics] just not used to someone coming in from the outside saying you know what? It’s time that a normal Joe Six-Pack American is finally represented in the position of vice presidency, and I think that that’s kind of taken some people off guard, and they’re out of sorts, and they’re ticked off about it,” she said. ( Joe six pack is drinking belgium beer now)
When Sean hannity "interviewed" her I thought he needed a napkin to wipe the drool from his chin. He never asked her a substantive question. It was all"how do you feel about being characterised..."
I don't listen to Rush Bruce, he is on a competitor's station, however, why is it hard to think that "thinking" people who have similar beliefs would come up with the same answers.
If you like Palin and I do, you want her to be allowed to go out and do her thing, not be handcuff by handlers.
Why are you listening to Rush?
So tell me, thinking one, and don't use the words Bush, McCain or Palin or Republican or conservative.
Why, specifically, is Barack Obama qualified to be President and what specifically has he done to suggest that he is up to and capable of having the judgement to make the right decision about important issues?
I do not want to hear about why the others guys are wrong. I want to know specifically why you or anyone else here believes he is the right guy.
By the way, are you against strong, principled, self-aware women? Do you believe women have a place and that place is in the bedroom and the kitchen?
You seem to denigrate Palin and her accomplishments. Are you threatened by the fact that this woman knows who she is and is confident in what she believes?
Its okay to disagree with her about issues, but to suggest she is dumb or non-thinking is nothing but typical liberal garbage that comes from those who think murdering innocent babies is okay, but putting murders to death as punishment is un-just.
Obama made four million dollars last year. He may not be from money, but he sure has it now.
Get real.
Well, the soccer/hockey mom proved last night that she can also play softball. If she couldn't, I'm sure we would have heard how Gwen Ifill was so unfair and in the tank for Obama. When she needed to duck a question she just seemed to spew out whatever talking point drilled into her over the past week came to mind. If the McCain campaign didn't insist on the format and it was a real debate instead of a talking points infomercial, she would have shone as competent as she did with Katy Kouric or Charlie Gibson.
As a recent listener (until you went to AM):( I really don't know you Ray, but I am starting to get a handle on how you think.
Sometimes you actually come out with some pretty logical opinions. In my estimation, where you go off the deep end is where you're right wing Christian views conflict with the Constitution. You don't want the United States to be a free country. When freedom conflicts with the bible, you almost always want the bible to win. I say almost because you seem to be OK with the death penalty.
Let me state that Obama is qualified to be President because he is over 35, lived in the US for 14 years and is a natural born citizen. What has he done? He is the first black person in the history of the United States to be a viable Presidential candidate. He has instilled more people to register to vote than any single person in recent memory, if not ever. He has had the judgment to choose the right people to mount the most impressive Presidential campaign since Regan, I say ever. He never bought in to the present administrations (I didn't say Bush!) false premise to go to war in Iraq, even though it was the politically correct thing to do at the time. Eighteen plus million people cast a vote confirming their endorsement of him.
Ray: Can you answer the following truthfully, YES or NO?
As for Sarah Palin, imagine the day is 9/11/2001. The President of the United States is held airborne in Air Force One by the Secret Service because no one knows the situation. Is Sarah Palin the person you want in the White House Bunker during that time? As of today, NO ONE in the country has ever voted for her to be in that position. Nor, has she ever demonstrated she is capable of handling the situation.
Should someone who voted for McCain - Palin because of pro life/ anti gay / pro death penalty views have second thoughts at that time? Sad commentary, I really wonder.
Ray said
"So tell me, thinking one, and don't use the words Bush, McCain or Palin or Republican or conservative".
Short answer
He is over 35 and a native born american.Why, specifically, is Barack Obama qualified to be President and what specifically has he done to suggest that he is up to and capable of having the judgement to make the right decision about important issues?
We don't know for sure if anyone can make the "right" decision on on an important issue until it comes up. I believe his accomplishments at Harvard and the work he did as a community organizer, which the right denigrates by the way. I guess encouraging young americans to go into Peace Corp etc is probably not a good thing either., show me that he has qulaiies that I admire in a leader. He wasn't at the bottom of his class as some politicians were.
Now why do i want him as president.
Because I am a liberal and agree with him for the most part on the issues I feel are important. although I wish he would commit to national single payer health and disability for all.
Dif subject so I won't be accused of using the word Palin in the above
Show me where I have said Palin is not "qualified" Being ignorant is curable if one is not stupid.
Her ignorance of the world around us is amazing to me though. But I am heartened by the fact that she reads "all" the news magazines even if she couldn't remember the name of one. That "gotcha" journalism should be outlawed. We should give the candidates at least 24 hours to come up with answers to questions.
As for being against strong principled women. That's your deal not mine. I don't refer to women as "great gals" and I believe they should be able to make all their own choices regarding their bodies.
Hillary was my first choice for president( I mentioned that months ago).Just as McCain was not your first choice. You never seemed to mind attacks on Hillary though. She is so much less fragile than those tough Alaskan women I guess.
From the washington post
"It was a campaign button with the words "Thanks, W" across the top and photos of Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. and Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. beneath the letters.
Conservative legal activists view the two men as remarkable successes in Bush's quest to move the court to the right, and that is part of the reason that, as the court begins its work anew today, public attention is focused less on the cases at hand than on the court's future.
It is a future entirely dependent on whether Sen. John McCain or Sen. Barack Obama prevails in November".
From Bruce now
And yes Ray I think Obama regarding his choice for scotus justices, will make better picks for my values than McCain would.
We do not live in a theocracy here in the good ole U S of A and I do not want your group to make it one.
I remember having to pray every morning in elementary school and I do not want to see that forced on kids again.
Ray said
"By the way, are you against strong, principled, self-aware women? Do you believe women have a place and that place is in the bedroom and the kitchen?"
Ray since you hold women in such high esteem, answer this question.
This morning on your show you mentioned Pat laMarche and the casino no ladie coming on tomorrow to debat. You said maybe they would "mud wrestle"
I know Pat has a sense of humor. I don't know about the other lady
My question. If two men were coming on to debate would you have said maybe they would "mud wrestle" Yes or no.
media people always get angry when they ask a politician to give them a yes or no answer and they get a longinded explanation instead. le's see how you do.
Mud wrestling as far as I know is connected with women generally and is conidered a big turn on for the men who go watch. You wouldn't be one of them would you.
I did in fact say the same thing about Dennis Bailey and Pat LaMarche so yes, I guess I would say it.
It wasn't a sexist comment, it was a "get ready to rumble" comment, but for those who are always looking to find negativity where it does not exist, I certainly understand your comment.
Also, you must keep in mind, LaMarche and I are very close personally. We talk often and although I disagree with her about important issues, I admire her passion, her fight and her willingness to jump in the fray for things that are important to her.
Yes, I would be very comfortable with Palin in that situation (9=11=2008). Those situations requirement judgement. I have followed her for 4 or 5 years and I believe she has sound judgement.
Your answer Bruce on Obama was a good one. He supports your world view.
That is the reason anyone should support a candidate. Being qualified to be President, other than the Constitutional requirements, is a joke. It is the most unique job in the world and no one who has not held the job can actually claim they are qualified.
Personally, I think Barack Obama is a media creation and if he were white, he would not be in this situation. If you will re-call, when Oprah stuck her neck out for him .... I said on-air and in print that this would be a big deal.
I did think Hillary would win the nomination and if she had, I would have certainly considered voting for her ... especially if McCain had chosen Lieberman, Lindsay Graham or Chuch Hagel for VP.
By choosing Palin, he sealed the deal for me because Palin believes in the things that I believe in. We have similar values.
That is what this fight should be about. Passionately supporting those who support your world view.
It's just amazing Ray, how you fly in the face of any logic. 70% of the US thinks she is NOT qualified for VP, while 95% thinks Joe Biden is.
She pleased McCains BASE but a month later seems to have alienated the independents.
She abused her power by trying to get her sister's X fired by a commission composed of 2/3 R, 1/3 D.
She has been called the least qualified VP candidate since Arthur Sewall in 1896 OOPS! Maybe you think he was "ACES" too! :)
The US average for state spending on a citizen is just over $300, in Alaska over $2500. She gets the money from taxing the oil companies. On oil coming down to the lower 48, gee who pays that?
She left Wasilla with a deficit due to a huge public project, the skating rink.
The Nation's economy is in the worst shape since the thirties, BUT she shares your "values". You ducked mentioning what values for the second time.
I am left to assume it is your financial values and your Christian values.
Even though the economy was not run by conservative values per Ray, it was certainly not run by Liberals over the last eight years.
Sadly, I am left to think your Christian values override all others. If a candidate is savvy enough to be pro life and anti gay, they must think logically enough to make other decisions about the country. Once the country is moral, everything else will fall in place.
I really don't see where Hillary could be considered seriously in lieu of McCain/Graham. You would have to believe Liberman and Hagel would be as influential as Cheney to consider Hillary over those. Hillary shares NO values with you. Me thinks that is a bit of a smokescreen OR an indication you really do not value your vote.
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