Posted by
Sanity 102 on Friday, June 15, 2007 2:45:44 AM
I think most of the Right has about had it with this entire illegal immigration issue. It makes both sides angry and feeling pretty depressed about the future of the GOP.
Tancredo and Ron Paul are beginning to look like the unelectable twins.
In an effort to prove that a fence can work, people looked into Hunter's San Diego fence and learned that it's bogged down in environmental lawsuits spanning a decade and it's only 14 miles!
Romney's speech writers don't know what to say about the 12 million that the absolutes want deported and business don't.
Rudy is stuck on "Reagan said this and Reagan taught me that" like an old time broken record player.
The other candidates are awfully glad NOT to be in the limelight and in line of fire.
In fact the only guy that is looking pretty good right now is McCain.
EVERY blogger that called for calm and reason during this hysteria, FINALLY understands the courage and strength it has taken McCain to not go with popular sentiment.
And now you have bloggers asking themselves if their dislike of McCain is because the RINO press disliked him and painted him as "traitor" to conservatives (an accusation many of them were facing).
We are a House divided and for once, instead of the extremes wanting to take their marbles and go home...the main stream base is saying "If this is conservatism, I want no part of it."
Enter Sarah Palin.
She's young, pretty with an upbeat outlook on life. The fact that she also happens to be bright and seriously conservative will be "forgiven" by an American Idol loving public. They will eat up her old fashion work ethic...in occupying the Governor's mansion, she said the hardest thing she had to get "use to" was having someone pick her up "I can drive" and someone cooking for her and her family "I'm a pretty decent cook". She said she hated "imposing" on people when she can do all that herself.
Her children don't have issues like Reagan's nor are they bigger than life like McCain's and Hunter's sons serving in Iraq and Afghanistan. These are kids that most Americans have--or would like to have and you'll have grandparents rooting for Palin to win the VP and then the WH to turn those kids loose on a bigger mansion.
Shades of JFK--except the spouse won't try to make the WH the "prettiest house in the nation."
I once said that "Star Wars, the original movie" worked because it was a duplication of all the best scenes of old movies made by Errol Flynn and John Wayne.
Sarah Palin is all those old time sitcoms updated but fresh and full of hope...when we could laugh at a clean joke and bad luck always worked itself out.
If the absolutes have made the GOP--and the Independents and C/PL Dems that want to cross party lines--bury themselves in the book of memories past, Sarah Palin has the rare ability to make them want to turn the page.