Would you believe that was the most popular search term last week? There are no real pictures of the future VP in a bikini. If you see any, they’re photo-shopped. (See snopes.com here)

Thanks to stories by the democrat operatives in the blogosphere that were immediately picked up by the likes of the NY Times and others, Governor Palin’s speech at the RNC was watched by 37.2 million Americans. Almost as many as Obama’s coronation at 38.3. Would you believe McCain was watched by 38.9 million beating Obama. The media must hate that, all the work they’ve done to bias and give more time to the chosen one and McCain is still in the race no matter what the media does.

A CEO for America!

McCain isn’t my first choice for President. I’ve always thought the government should be overhauled like any other failing business and a lot of Americans think the government should be run more like a business but we blew our chance at getting a CEO specializing in turning companies around. Mitt Romney is a proven businessman and a government executive and the Republicans choose McCain? (Thanks, Huck!) But the religion thing would have gotten in the way from the same people that still think Obama is a Muslim.

Third Parties have it tough

I’ve started following Bob Barr of the Libertarian party. But reading their updates, a third party has such a hard time even getting on the ballots in all 50 states, plus the trouble they have getting in the debates or getting serious time on TV, the two party system really locks out any other competition which is a shame. Except for waking up the establishment, I’m not sure a Libertarian White House could really get anything done. If they were more established in local and state governments it might be easier. I hate to say it’s a “wasted vote”, but unless you’re making a statement, I’m not sure what else would be accomplished.

Sara Palin

And now Sara Palin comes along. A social and financial conservative and has proven she’s willing to go after corruption and pork spending in her own party. It may be what the Republicans need to wake up and remember who they are. Everyone is hoping McCain will listen to her on a few issues, like energy! And hopefully she can keep the base energized enough to get out the vote in November, which will hopefully help out a few Congress members too.


America Doesn’t Need Changing

Obama’s wants to change America. Obama wants to change everything about America. There’s nothing wrong with America. American isn’t what needs changing, it’s the idiots in Washington that need changing. And Obama picks Biden for his message of change? Both McCain and Biden have been in Washington way too long and are probably part of the problem and not the solution. At least McCain has sort of a reputation of cutting spending and votes his mind instead of the party line all the time. I’m not sure his track record is much to brag about McCain-Feingold and McCain-Kennedy? What was he thinking?

Obama wants to soak the rich and give the tax breaks to the middle class. Sounds good, except when was the last time you were hired by someone in the middle class? The wealthy are the ones that can afford to move somewhere else and will not spend or invest in the USA if they are going to be taxed. The top 5% pay over 50% of the tax budget now and he wants them to pay more. What’s the incentive for anyone to get richer if they are only going to be taxed to death and even taxed to death after they die! Great idea! Plus he’s a politician making campaign promises. You think the top 5 or 10 percent of the country’s wealth can pay for all of his big ideas? Everyone will have to suffer for the common good of the country.

No matter what Obama says you can’t legislate jobs. If you push business too hard or tax too much, they leave or go out of business and what good does that do?

Change in Washington

Changing Washington and securing our country is on the top of the McCain - Palin agenda. If we were energy independent we could sit back and watch the Middle East blow themselves up and not worry about it. We know they are going to be great on the Military and hopefully McCain will take the border and immigration issues a little more seriously then he did before. Securing our border should be part of our Defense policy.

Now what?

There have been studies and polls that suggest Americans want someone for President they can relate to and would want to have a beer in their backyard with. That’s what Sara Palin’s appeal is. She seems real. Like the rest of us, she’s tired of the crap in politics and wants to do something about it. She has a real family with real problems and isn’t the elitist that Obama is. You can’t picture Sara Palin in Whole Foods shocked at the price of arugula. She went to a real college in Idaho instead of the Ivy League and cares about her small town. And so far doesn’t have a racist church, a terrorist friend or a crooked property developer in her background. Which adds another point in the elitist column for Obama. Who goes to a church like that? And who has Marxist criminal friends like that? No one can relate to either one of the Obama’s, unless they are part of the elitist crowd themselves.

I probably won’t really vote for Bob Barr, even though I still like the idea. I’m still not thrilled about McCain, but Palin is a heartbeat away from the Presidency and who knows how many more heartbeats McCain has left. In four years McCain really would be too old to run again and if they did their job right, she would be running for President. Obama wouldn’t run again because he would fall back down to earth and no one will hear from him again because he’ll have four years in the Senate and still won’t accomplish or vote on anything. Wouldn’t that be something? In four years we would have two women running for President.

Here’s her speech at the RNC in case you missed it.

And of course little Piper Palin grooming her little brother