Although I'm strictly conservative in my ideologies, I am politically independent. I do not belong to either party, and vote for both. In 2006, I voted a straight Democrat ballot. In 2004, I voted half and half.
But if the Democratic Party keeps up its shameless personal attacks against Sarah Palin, I will never vote for another Democrat again. It's a shame that the Democrats feel so threatened by this woman that they have to try to tear down her family because they perceive that as a weakness. She has by far a higher approval rating than any other governor in the nation, and her state is one of the most fiscally successful states in the nation. Since they can't find a gap in her political armor to jab their fingers through, they go after her family.
This entire election cycle, we've heard from the Democrats and the news media about how the Republicans were going to use 527 organizations to go after Barack Obama. The New York Times even wrote an editorial saying that it was obvious that John McCain was going to resort to these kinds of tactics. So far, it hasn't happened. The attacking didn't commence until Palin was named the Republican veep candidate on Friday, and it is all coming from the left. Sure, there have been the ridiculous chain e-mails claiming that Obama is a Muslim and that he wasn't legally born in the United States, among other such nonsense. No doubt, they were put into circulation by Republicans. Both sides, after all, love to try to tear down their opponent. But those emails haven't been linked to any reputable Republican organization. Unlike the oft-quoted DailyKOS, which has wholly endorsed the personal attacks on Palin.
And those attacks on Obama that come from a few anonymous sources, they're just that: Attacks on Obama. Not on his family. We heard Obama demand respect for his wife after she was criticized for a comment that she made, and it was made in a political realm. Obama's right: Family should be off-limits. Sarah Palin's 17-year-old daughter should not have to answer questions about her pregnancy. And the DailyKOS's claims that Palin's Down's Syndrome infant son, Trig, was actually her teenage daughter's son that Palin was claiming as her own in order to protect her daughter and for her own political gain, that is without question the most despicable personal attack I have seen since I started following politics.
If you listen to the liberals at the DailyKOS and elsewhere, you'd think that women's rights, a cause that the Democratic Party supposedly championed, only go so far. We've been preached to for years that a woman's place isn't necessarily in the home as a homemaker. If she wants to hold down a job, it's her right to do so. Now that Sarah Palin is on the vice presidential ticket, we hear liberals complaining that she's neglecting her family. A woman with 5 children, one of which is handicapped, has no business running for vice president, they say. These are the same people who praised John Edwards for continuing his busy presidential campaign after his wife's cancer returned. These are the same people who praised Hillary Clinton for taking an active role in her husband's presidency when she had her own child at home.
The reality is that Sarah Palin's family is not the weakness that some Democrats make it out to be. In fact, it tells us that she's more like us than we thought to begin with. We knew she was an unconventional politician. She snowmobiles, she fishes, and -- as Fred Thompson says -- she knows how to field dress a moose. Both John McCain and Barack Obama have been accused of being out of touch with common Americans. In her daughter's pregnancy, we see that Sarah Palin is not on some plane above the rest of us. She and her family face the same problems that families all over the country face. The liberals who are making this 17-year-old's pregnancy an issue are the same people who told us that Jamie Lynn Spears' pregnancy shouldn't interfere with her ability to be a role model to millions of young girls. Yet they would have us believe that Bristol Palin's pregnancy makes her <i>mother</i> incapable of being an effective vice president.
Although I'm not a fan of Obama by any means and would never vote for him, I'm also not a fan of McCain's, and have been undecided as to whether I would vote for him. But these relentless attacks on Sarah Palin and her family are nothing but an attempt at character assassination. They're despicable, shameless, and until some Democrats start standing up and saying, "Stop it," I'm washing my hands of that party.
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I was done with the dummycraps once the old Dixiecrats were no longer a stabilizing influence on the party, after the liberals took control of the party it went straight down the sheitter.
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I was done with the dummycraps once the old Dixiecrats were no longer a stabilizing influence on the party, after the liberals took control of the party it went straight down the sheitter.
No kidding. The Democrats are no longer democrats, although that's what they like to call themselves. They are Socialists.
And, the Republicans are no longer republicans. They've moved so far to the center that they are now, on a significant number of issues, the functional equivalent of Kennedy-era democrats (JFK, not Teddy). So, democrats, if you want a return to "Camelot", you should be pulling for McCain, not for the Leninists/Marxists topping your party's ticket...
No kidding. The Democrats are no longer democrats, although that's what they like to call themselves. They are Socialists.
And, the Republicans are no longer republicans. They've moved so far to the center that they are now, on a significant number of issues, the functional equivalent of Kennedy-era democrats (JFK, not Teddy). So, democrats, if you want a return to "Camelot", you should be pulling for McCain, not for the Leninists/Marxists topping your party's ticket...
Both my Parents are Democrats and I have voted democrat with the exception of Reagan and both Bushes and usually vote a split ticket. That is not going to happen until both parties redo themselves. RIght now voting for McCain is a no brainer . I have seen European socialism at work and that is exactly what this underqualified clown wants us to emulate and evidently he has a lot of coolaid drinking voters thinking they want that too. The reality is most European countries are moving to the right after they found out what a failure socialism is.
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Just another in the list of viscious, vile, animal behavior that defines them. Their hate for republicans and love of power trumps any ethical or moral consideration, period.
I'm just about through with the Democrats
