I wonder if Camille still feels this way after Palin whipped up a sicko in her crowd to shout “Kill him!” when she was excoriating Obama because he sat on the board of a charity with some guy who was never convicted of anything and has spent the last couple of decades as an education reformer.
And by the way, here are the words of a man Palin and her husband have far closer ties to:
“ . . . the fires of Hell are glaciers compared to my hate for the American Government, and I won’t be buried under their damn flag; I’ll be buried in Dawson and when Alaska is an independent nation they can bring my bones back to Alaska, back to my country.”
“At another point [in that interview] Volger advocated renouncing allegiance to the United States. In the course of denouncing Federal regulation over land, he said:
`And then you get mad. And you say, the hell with them. And you renounce allegiance, and you pledge your efforts, your effects, your honor, your life to Alaska.’
” . . . Palin has courted the group over the years.
“Three years after the controversial interview, in 1994, Palin attended the group’s annual convention, according to witnesses who spoke to ABC News’ Jake Tapper. The McCain campaign is disputing her presence there, but Tapper found two people to attest to it.
“The McCain campaign today produced Palin’s voting registration records, and said they proved she was never a member of the party.
“But she has repeatedly reached out to the group. The McCain campaign has confirmed she visited the group’s 2000 convention, and she addressed its convention THIS YEAR [telling them to keep up the good work], as an incumbent governor whose oath of office includes upholding the Constitution of the United States.
“Palin’s husband, Todd Palin, was a member of the party from 1995-2002 with a brief exception in 2000.”
http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com

Here’s a view from another feminist, Erica Jogn:
“Why are these debates so incredibly boring? Is it the questions framed by committee? Is it Tom Brokaw trying to exude gravitas? Is it John McCain telling us constantly he is our friend while he grimaces in a way that is friendly to no one? Or is it Barack Obama keeping his cool despite all the idiotic lies and provocations?
“My admiration for Obama has grown. Not only for his lucid intelligence, his excellent preparation, his understanding that eight years of deregulatin’ dudes (as Sarah Palin might put it) has accelerated this financial mess, but also his amazing ability not to grunt, sigh or punch his opponent. When McCain lies with a straight face and pretends he has never had anything to do with the GOP, I’d slug him. But Obama is a prince among debaters. He just smiles elegantly and awaits his chance for a reasonable response. His calm blows me away. I’d hate to debate him. I’d be raising my voice and tearing my hair (as we did at Jewish dinner tables on the Upper West Side when I was a kid) but he’d be cool as the proverbial cucumber. He will make a great president. His temperament is superb.
“McCain looks old and ill to me. He seems to have no circulation under his papery white skin. He always looks like he is suppressing a fart. He has no cool at all. Even though he tried to correct his curmudgeonly reputation tonight, he was unconvincing. It seemed as if he had taken a Valium and it was wearing off. I wouldn’t trust him to look into Vladimir Putin’s eyes anymore than I trusted George W. Bush. He’s the bomb-bomb King, no question. Erratic and rageful, condescending and insincere, he seemed to be auditioning to play Simon Legree in an antebellum bodice ripper.
“And why did he run from the stage while Michelle Obama and Barack greeted the folks? Was he afraid of retribution? Or possibly a hair transplant?”

Rather strange that Michele hasn’t posted about the debate yet. I guess she hasn’t received the daily GOP talking points yet, so she doesn’t know what she is supposed to think about the debate.

She didn’t post about the Couric interview when it happened and probably won’t post about the debate, unless there’s a youtube of Palin looking “cute and perky” last night. She completely ignores what’s actually happening in politics and the election on a daily basis.

Well, I might keep my lip zipped too if my candidate had announced to the world that he wants another $300 billion dollar bailout and said of Social Security that:
“My friends, we are not going to be able to provide the same benefit for present-day workers that we are going — that present-day retirees have today.”
And then went to have what appears to be–putting it kindly–a very bad senior moment in the middle of an answer to the question of “what will you work on first”:
I know how to do that. I have a clear record of reaching across the aisle, whether it be Joe Lieberman or Russ Feingold or Ted Kennedy or others. That’s my clear record.
“We can work on nuclear power plants. Build a whole bunch of them, create millions of new jobs. We have to have all of the above, alternative fuels, wind, tide, solar, natural gas, clean coal technology. All of these things we can do as Americans and we can take on this mission and we can overcome it.
“MY FRIENDS, SOME OF THIS $700 BILLION ENDS UP IN HANDS OF TERRORIST ORGANIZATIONS. [Emphasis mine]
“As far as health care is concerned, obviously, everyone is struggling to make sure that they can afford their premiums and that they can have affordable and available health care. That’s the next issue.”
What on earth?!? Get that man to a nice assisted living facility.

Lord have mercy on the hatemongers, and those who admire them.

Less than four weeks to go!
Will any of us actually live that long? I don’t care who wins any more. I just want it to end!

They hate her because she doesn’t bow to their abortion altar.
It isn’t that for me, obviously … and maybe I’m not much of a feminist, but I’m still leery of the tokenism of her candidacy. I don’t want to be played on that.
‘Though I admit that there’s similar tokenism in Biden’s Catholicism … I believe there’s less emotion involved in me picking a Catholic VP over a woman VP; the former option is, for me, less of a novelty.
Besides, nobody expects too much from a Catholic VP. IOW, Palin puts alot on the line if she wins.
My two cents …

I am a retiree. John McCain has all but promised to cut my Medicare, lower my SS benefits and curtail or freeze any payout for further federal assistance. WHY IN THE WORLD WOULD I VOTE TO CUT MY OWN THROAT?
Sarah Palin refused to answer questions, mocked tax cuts for the middle class and has not proven anything but that she is a pit bull. Of all the Women in Power, she is the least qualified to lead this Nation. WHY WOULD I VOTE FOR HER? We need a Shepard, not a mongrel, we need a leader, not a anger management dropout. Sarah Palin reminds me of a dog I had to put down who seemed to be friendly but when my back was turned, she killed my kittens and chickens.

Pardon me, but have you read some of Camille Paglia’s other views? Such as siding with the Andrew Dworkin viewpoint that marital relations between a husband and a wife is rape? (That is basically the default viewpoint of the avant garde homosexual feminism that she represents.) Or her endorsing NAMBLA? (Again, the cutting edge avant garde homosexual agenda.)
Listen, if you want to back McCain – Palin, that is fine. (As I have stated in my past visits, I support neither, because after having been grotesquely burned by George W. Bush I am not going to cast my lot in with yet another person that I will spend the next 4 – 8 years alternating between defending and being disappointed by their wickedness.) But in the course of doing so, please remember that this is a Christian site! How does endorsing the views of someone so revoltingly aggressively flamboyantly evil and wicked like Camille Paglia advance the cause of Jesus Christ? What part of the Body of Jesus Christ are you being by endorsing Paglia? His hands? His eyes? His feet? His ears?
Am I judging you? Why yes, of course I am, and with good reason to.

Michele, You’re so reliably outrageous that I can always be sure that I strongly disagree with you.
Perhaps you’re really an double agent who works for the left a strawman/women conservative who we can point to successfully as an example of a right wing religious nutcasae. Your posts often elicit well written responses from your many readers who have love and empathy for others (bleeding heart liberals in Limbaughese) and are appalled by your feigned lack of same. Come on Michele ‘fess up -You’re a double agent!
Katie Couric is hardly a “viper” for asking what sarah palin reads – after all our idiot in chief doesn’t read and the public elected him for a second term.

Gerald,
This is not a Xian site. This site is for all faiths.
Perhaps this blog purports to be Xian, but you won’t see much Xian behavior (or anything else) from Michele to demonstrate that she is one.

Sarah Palin is starting to remind me of Roseanne Barr. Her snarky performance while reading a speech penned by a George W. Bush script writer was like fingernails on a blackboard.
Her recent exchange with a war protester was even worse. For all those folks that would hang military service over my head at this point, post Iraq invasion/NO WMDs, I say you’re kids are tragically ignorant or willfully so for enlisting. Iraq posed no threats to any freedoms I enjoy. Iraq doesn’t border our country and Bush appointee, David McKay said they had no WMD programs, pre-invasion, whatsoever.
It gets even better, Sarah Palin was on the verge of inciting a race riot in northern Florida yesterday. At her rallies, Republicans hurled a racial epitaph at a black sound man, and screamed “kill him” and “treason!” at Barack Obama.
Sarah Palin may get the tragically retarded GOPers to the polls, but the data suggests she’s become a drag on the GOP brand.
As for conservative women, McCain had plenty of good ones to pick from for VP. He screwed up and will ultimately screw our country.

Michele ‘fess up -You’re a double agent!
from Michele to demonstrate that she is one.
Such wishful thinking … she’s the real McCoy. (And that goes ditto for Scott R.)

Ditto for me what? I’m a Republican?
God forbid! I’d rather have a skin disease.

Yeah, Scott R., my words weren’t clear, sorry. God forbid that you be a Republican or have a skin disease. Amen.

“Palin puts alot on the line if she wins.”
care to elaborate your ideas, moonshadow?

here’s “mavericky” for ya – mccain continues to ignore copyright laws and abuse intellectual property rights.
from the foo fighters:

This isn’t the first time the McCain campaign has used a song without making any attempt to get approval or permission from the artist. It’s frustrating and infuriating that someone who claims to speak for the American people would repeatedly show such little respect for creativity and intellectual property.

The saddest thing about this is that My Hero was written as a celebration of the common man and his extraordinary potential. To have it appropriated without our knowledge and used in a manner that perverts the original sentiment of the lyric just tarnishes the song. We hope that the McCain campaign will do the right thing and stop using our song — and start asking artists’ permission in general!

from van halen:

The band had no idea McCain was planning on using “Right Now” during his big entrance in Ohio telling us, “Permission was not sought or granted nor would it have been given.”

from counsel for jackson browne:

Not only have Senator McCain and his agents plainly infringed Mr. Browne’s copyright in Running On Empty, but the Federal Courts have long held that the unauthorized use of a famous singer’s voice in a commercial constitutes a false endorsement and a violation of the singer’s right of publicity.

john mellencamp:

At some recent John McCain campaign rallies, John Mellencamp’s “Our Country” and “Pink Houses” have been booming out over the speakers. Mellencamp hasn’t yet made a public response, but his reps are quietly reaching out to McCain and asking him to stop playing his tunes.

from actor mike meyers:

Mike Myers, insisted that the Arizona Republican take down a web ad that used a clip from his movie Wayne’s World.

heart (ann and nancy wilson):

Heart sent a cease-and-desist notice to the McCain-Palin campaign Thursday afternoon after their hit “Barracuda” was used – twice – without permission as the official rallying cry for the vice presidential candidate after her nomination acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention. McCain campaign officials failed to ask either the group, Universal Music Publishing or Sony BMG whether the song was fair game to use. It wasn’t.

from the band, orleans:

“This is yet another example of John McCain not learning anything from George Bush’s mistakes. First, McCain adopted Bush’s failed policy of an open-ended war in Iraq, then he wrapped his arms around the failed Bush economic policies that have put the squeeze on middle class families. Now, he’s making the same mistake George Bush made illegally using a copyrighted song without asking either the writers or the performers for permission.”

from warner music group:

Warner Music Group demanded that YouTube remove a video, set to Frankie Valli’s “Can’t Take My Eyes Off You” that had been posted on Sen. John McCain’s official YouTube channel. the video has been replaced with the message, “This video is no longer available due to a copyright claim by Warner Music Group”

source: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/05/heart-van-halen-orleans-j_n_124264.html