She is driving them nuts!

Sarah Palin is pro life, pro gun and pro tax reform. Some say a governor without Washington experience is not qualified for president. I say that governors are where we find our presidents.

Carter, Reagan, Clinton and Bush were all governors.

Johnson, Nixon and Bush (41) were all vice presidents.

JFK was the last senator. However, JFK led men into combat. That certainly counts for some executive experience.

I would suggest that Sarah Palin is eminently qualified to be president. I think one of the problems with recent presents is the Ivy league, policy wonkish attitude towards so many things. The idea that someone with down home common sense might come to be a heart beat away from the presidency has to scare the willies out of the establishment.

And it is the established interests and biases that have brought this country to huge national debts and the social mores of the common alley cat. America is better than that, and with the right leadership she can rise to greater heights.

Zeus!

Maybe it is just me, but I think it is a bad sign when people are photoshopping you into a toga on the eve of your acceptance speech for the Democratic nomination for the presidency.

It might be the Greek Temple or the open air stadium. It could be the unrelenting Messiah complex that Barry Obama continues to encourage.

Barry continues to be confused about when life begins and nuclear arms control. I guess both must be above his pay grade.

People with a God complex have come to bad ends. You see the Most High God is not amused when men place themselves above the throne of heaven. Their fall is sudden, sharp and perilous.

Biden?

I saw the early stories last night and muttered, the idiot (eh, the Anointed One) picked Joe Biden - Mr. Plagiarism! In 1987, Joe got caught plagiarizing a speech by Neil Kinnock (then head of the British Labour Party). The incident blew Biden out of the presidential sweep stakes. We also discovered shortly there after that during his first year at law school he plagiarized a law review article.

Biden has been on the Senate Judiciary Committee forever. I am not sure what qualifies this hack to be there, but we heard him during the Judge Bork lynching (hearings) and the Justice Clarence Thomas smear campaign (no, those were confirmation hearings too).

The Obama/Biden ticket embodies two arrogant political hacks that love to hear themselves speak. Unfortunately, what gushes forth is a babble of nonsensical crap that parades about as stilted, intellectual gobbly-gook.

To paraphrase Rush from yesterday, "We do not pray very often here at the EIB network, but please God let it be Biden."

In all seriousness, this is a disastrous pick. Obama should have picked a Governor. Two senators with zero (or below) experience as executives generally do not make it to the White House. The last duo to achieve this was Kennedy/Johnson. However, JFK lead men in combat, and LBJ had been senator Majority Leader. They had oodles more experience than these two empty suits.

The Obama/Biden ticket embodies one man who befriends domestic terrorists and another that only knows how to follow.

More Consequences

Sometimes the best guy on your team is the guy you oppose. Vlad Putin, Czar of Russia, Conqueror of Georgia, all around not-nice-guy is accomplishing things that have stymied the Bush administration for years.

Now the Ukraine wants American missiles (and with it American troops). They see the benefits of foreign troops on their soil like their neighbors in Poland.

Why? Because there is no other country that will stand up to the Russians, the Chinese and the whacko Islamists. America represents freedom and security in a troubled world. And we have a track record (one that led directly to Polish and Ukrainian freedom) of standing up to Russian imperialism.

The other consequence is the surging dollar. Money is flowing back into the dollar, because where else does the economic security for the free world exist. The dollar is up sharply against the Euro and Pound Sterling. This helps the US economy and hurts the Russian economy, since their wealth is based on oil exports.

Oh, and did anyone notice how inaccurate and primitive the Russian weapons worked. Granted they maimed and killed, but they had to be deployed with blind lethality.

Vlad, do you really want to face down super accurate, stealth based weapons? Are you really up to taking on Uncle Sam? Think carefully before you answer.

Consequences!

The Soviet Invasion (darn, I keep making that mistake - Russian invasion) of Georgia produced outcomes that Vlad did not count on.

One: Poland agreed to the basing of American SDI missiles on its territory. This was deal that was all but dead, then Russian armor crossed the Russian/Georgia border. In the last century was overrun by Nazi Germany, then the Soviet Union barged in on the other side. The process a terrible scar was ripped across the whole of Poland. These people know and remember what invaders look and sound like. Russians and Germans are not embraced with open arms.

Two: Barack, the anointed one has no clue as to what to do. At one point, he urged the UN to pass a Security Council Resolution condemning Russia. EH, doesn't Russian have veto power on the Security Council - oops I guess the messiah missed that little detail.

Three: McCain instinctively understood what was going on and blasted Vlad (the Czar) Putin for empire building.

The Russians are the bad guys. The Russian Government is not a democracy, it is a dictatorship. Nothing has changed except faces and titles. Out of Bush, McCain and Obama, only McCain understood immediately what was going on, and he reacted accordingly.

That's presidential.

Russian Empire

Soviet (eh, I mean Russian) armor rolled over an international border this week. They invaded Georgia (no not next to Alabama) on the Black Sea.

Then the Russians declared a truce that was not a truce. They lied about provocations. They timed their invasion to catch the Bush administration flat footed.

I was reminded of Hungary in 1956, Czechoslovakia in 1968 and Afghanistan in 1980. Are we shocked the Vlad Putin wants to Czar? These are Russians and they will kill, rape and maim because that is how they have andled things for hundreds of years.

The important thing here is to recognize that Russia remains an adversary, not an ally.

The Amazon Referendum

The publication of a new book is an exciting moment. Believe me, you get a tingle as you wait and see what others think of your effort. Usually a process that began 12 to 18 months earlier with a blank screen on your word processor.

Or it could be a nighmare as in the case of Nancy Pelosi's just penned bomb.

I think it is indicative of her tenure as speaker that out of the 232 reviews on Amazon, a whopping 214 are 1 star reviews. I am sure most of these people would have gone lower (much lower) if they could.

Timing is critical in the publishing world, and whoever brought this mess to press should have considered that the leader of the 9% Congress and the most avid opponent of off shore oil drilling when gas is $5 a gallon might catch some flak.

Right now Nancy and company think they are going to pick up 30 seats in the house, a 60 plus seat majority in the senate and the Oval Office. Granted they are running against republicans, but I think there is a chance that all of those predictions fall short.

And Nancy it is a long long drop from House Speaker to ordinary Congressman.