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The only reason I hesitate to donate again is that I would very likely be fired from my job (any more and I trip the disclosure limits) . . .

I don’t want to donate for picking Palin. I want to donate again because Huck said that McCain never even vetted him.

Daryl Herbert (4ecd4c) — 8/29/2008 @ 8:43 pm

On substance and virtue:

I recall hearing in the Palin introduction something very specific–she would ensure as McCain would that Iran would not get nuclear weapons. This is a very serious and immediate promise–very significant and impossible to avoid as opposed to Bush’s promise in which he appears to be running out the clock of his presidency.

Obama makes many–something that sounds like a promise or a position but is really not–like the position on abortion for “health” of the woman (antimother). “Safe” nuclear, etc. always the hedges which mean “I am BSing you and you like it”. With Palin, this about Iran was something different because it could be turned into an indictment without mitagation if McCain fails in this respect.

Thought and Feeling–virtues in the GOP combination but inverted in the Dem combination with Biden (partition Iraq) as the junior partner and feeling Obama as the senior partner. Hillary the anti-mother v. Palin the mother. McCain the honorable serviceman v. Obama the anti-serviceman (failure in Iraq, cloistered on campus with Ayers).

In the GOP ticket we have virtues, in the Dem ticket only a twisted appearance of what they think might pass for virtue, but which deeply shows that they rather walk a crooked path. In Palin, virtue shines through transparently. In Biden and Obama it is a fabrication made for the illusion and delusion of the audience in a show on a stage with fake corinthian columns.

PashaG (3de24f) — 8/29/2008 @ 8:44 pm

I contributed half of it. Oh wait, that would be illegal…just kidding!

Seriously, that is great news, and we did max-out our contributions to McCain/Palin (sounds SO much better than McCain-Feingold) today.

driver (56cdca) — 8/29/2008 @ 8:49 pm

The choice to voters now is “Why settle for something fake when I can have something real?”

The GOP will win this race. They have decided rightly.

PashaG (3de24f) — 8/29/2008 @ 8:51 pm

K-Lo just posted this from a reader and said she’s getting lots of similar email from women. I think this reader expressed what a lot of women may be feeling about Palin:

K-Lo –

I am absolutely thrilled with McCain’s choice in Palin. Her conservative values, her reform efforts, the way she worked up from being in the PTA to a governor all show that she has what it takes. She is the commander of the Alaska National Guard. She is a mom, a member of the PTA, an athlete, has worked for a living in non-political jobs. She seems like one of us. She seems like one tough cookie, yet is still incredibly likable. That is something that Hillary could never pull off. I am so excited that I sent $500 to the McCain campaign today. I would send more, but I think that is all my budget can handle right now. I am happy he picked a woman. But, I am thrilled it is this woman!

Dana (084de8) — 8/29/2008 @ 8:55 pm

It was nothing like $500 but I made my first ever donation to the McCain campaign today (now McCain-Palin). I have had very serious issues with McCain, but NOT TODAY. Today he did it right. I couldn’t agree more with the women writing to K-Lo.

Peg C. (48175e) — 8/29/2008 @ 9:17 pm

I too donated to the McCain-Palin team, 3 times what I’d planned before the announcement, well under the $500 above though. McCain needed a fighter who could stand up to the Biden bluster, bullying and off the cuff lies. If she’s already taken on corruption in Alaska, she’s had a taste how dirty it can get, and, with her values, I think the contrast will be very stark between the VPs over the next two months. She may lack some credentials, but, I suspect her boning up on foreign affairs was already well underway. With Alaska adjacent to Russia and Canada, and, with her son deploying to Iraq, she had a reason to. Regarding diplomacy, if she was involved in fishing rights negotiations… she would need skills in that area as well. McCain needed someone who was a fighter and who played the game straight, and it looks like she meets that bill.

HChambers (d329ec) — 8/29/2008 @ 9:44 pm

I will add one final thought.

Just as our fight in Iraq, we have entered a new era in our domestic battles. With the separation of the peoples into red and blue comes a clarification of thought and purpose.

Risk has increased as do the nuclear ambitions of Iran and proliferation of the Khan network. There is something very unavoidable about this march of a new age. We are now up against hilly terrain that we sought to avoid. It is good v. evil. Lies v. truth. More stark than ever. Even the fog cannot fully enshroud. There is no turning back.

A fork in the path. Shall we take the well travelled road?

Or narrower and more difficult path? We know the difficulty of this mountain–it is somewhat familiar. And on it now, an edelweiss appears.

Fragile, yet a certain sign to the experienced climber of the correct path.

PashaG (3de24f) — 8/29/2008 @ 9:57 pm

McCain had already earned my first donation when I learned that he did not even vet Fuckabee. VP choices not named Lindsey, Mitt, and Pawlenty were likely going to do well too. Gov. Palin was a wonderful added bonus, and Better Half is going to kick my ass.

JD (5f0e11) — 8/29/2008 @ 9:57 pm

And justifiably so, I might add.

Another Drew (e24867) — 8/29/2008 @ 10:12 pm

“I don’t want to donate for picking Palin. I want to donate again because Huck said that McCain never even vetted him.”

LOL…

There’s any point on the board for McCain’s judgment over Obama.

Freedoms Truth (cfa2f1) — 8/29/2008 @ 10:17 pm

any => ‘another’

Freedoms Truth (cfa2f1) — 8/29/2008 @ 10:17 pm

Ka-CHING! Per Fred Barnes at the Weekly Standard:

McCain couldn’t mobilize the Republican base, but Palin can. Indeed, she already has. By 10 P.M. Friday, the day her selection was announced, the McCain campaign had raised $4 million online–more than six times its previous daily record.

Read the whole thing. He thinks this is BIG — “providential” for the entire party, win or lose — and I agree.

Beldar (00a6c7) — 8/30/2008 @ 3:16 am

AD – Of that, there is no doubt.

Beldar – Kudos for being way out in front of this one.

JD (5f0e11) — 8/30/2008 @ 4:26 am

See-Dubya at Michelle Malkin’s place has the best explanation of why McCain got a flood of donations yesterday (yes, including mine).

It’s nice to see McCain poke someone in the eye besides his conservative base, ya know?

Robert (67674c) — 8/30/2008 @ 12:15 pm

“Read the whole thing. He thinks this is BIG — “providential” for the entire party, win or lose — and I agree.”..Comment by Beldar — 8/30/2008 @ 3:16 am

Thanks for the link, Beldar, and I heartily agree. This sentence from the linked article stood out to me:

“She’s a conservative reformer who, somewhat like McCain but more like Ronald Reagan, is forever poised to challenge the sluggish (or corrupt) Republican establishment and shake up the status quo.”

I would like to think so. She will either be only a footnote in history, or make a lot of her own. I donated (invested?) for the latter!

C. Norris (70443e) — 8/30/2008 @ 12:31 pm

McCain-Palin Ticket Draws $6.8 Million in Record One-Day Haul

By Lorraine Woellert

Aug. 31 (Bloomberg) — Republican presidential candidate John McCain took in $6.8 million in donations yesterday, when he named Alaska Governor Sarah Palin his running mate.

The amount was a single-day record, McCain spokeswoman Brooke Buchanan said last night. The amount is more than the Arizona senator raised during the entire fourth quarter of 2007.

The campaign raised $4.5 million in Internet donations, and has taken in $2.3 million so far by telephone and mail, Buchanan told reporters.

Hazy (d671ab) — 8/31/2008 @ 1:35 am

8/29/2008

Palin = $

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