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Originally posted by Missing Blue Sky
reply to post by Fathom
I am not a liberal.
I was thrilled when I heard Palin was the choice. But not anymore.
I am a catholic, pro-life conservative. I teach my children the difference between lust and love. I teach them they are free to choose. I teach them to consider the consequences of choosing lust and living a life out of order.
If you live out of order you cause a chaotic chain of problems. Lust is impatient and selfish.
But I hope my children will choose Love-which is patient. If you use wisdom and strength of character you can control yourself and keep your goals ahead of you. Yes, if you live your life in a intelligent and orderly way: education before dating, marriage before children, you will have the building blocks to a stable and happy family.
This is what I consider common sense wisdom, which I expect in my national leaders.
I also love politics and have considered running for office. If this happened to my family, I would step down, so as to protect my daughter. I do not want to live in an America where it is ok to have babies out of marriage, look, everybody's doing it. No! Everybody does not do it!
Originally posted by vor78
The only people that it will hurt her with are the big city elites, liberals, etc...people who look down their noses at the thousands of rural and semi-rural towns all across this country.
McCain did not make this pick in order to appeal to the segment of the left that thinks that way.
I think that blue collar and working class people will view them very positively.
It will be a signal that finally, we may get a government that is of the people, for the people and by the people. I think she'll go over very, very well with the average, everyday American once they start getting to know her, hear about her background, and realize that she's actually a very strong, intelligent woman who has worked hard and come a very long way in life. It'll be a very big plus, I believe.
Originally posted by saturnine_sweet
Don't you find it a bit silly to put so much emphasis on experience, when the "experienced" politicians we have, have terrible policies, like our current foreign policy, our current taxation policies, our current economic policies, etc etc?
I could care less if someone had NEVER been a politician and they were running for president, as long as they can show me a clear, workable plan to make this country better.
Lest you forget, we have something called a constitution. It provides all necessary guidelines for governing. All a candidate needs is respect for that guidance and the intelligence to apply it. And we have mountains of proof that most "experienced" politicians have neither of those attributes.
she has every conservative in the nation in love with her.
she is the reason McCain wll be president.
Originally posted by Andrew E. Wiggin
Every conservative in the nation isnt what is going to get mccain elected.
If that were the case, then a democratic president would NEVER exist.
Palin is not what McCain needs to draw in the swing voters
Originally posted by Andrew E. Wiggin
reply to post by Fathom
she has every conservative in the nation in love with her.
she is the reason McCain wll be president.
Every conservative in the nation isnt what is going to get mccain elected.
If that were the case, then a democratic president would NEVER exist.
Palin is not what McCain needs to draw in the swing voters
especially when she's anti-rights for women and homosexuals
not really going to win a few hundred million fans there...