Not all evangelical Christians are pleased by John McCain’s choice of Sarah Palin as the GOP candidate for Vice-President, says demoinesdem, writing on MyDD. The critical line crossed by Palin’s nomination is Scripture:
“That they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children, [To be] discreet, chaste, keepers […]

Update below
I had planned to do my final post about what the choice of Vice Presidential nominees revealed about each of the candidates, but that seems to have been overtaken by events. Instead this will be about the Republicans using another tragedy for their own selfish interests.
Tomorrow the Republican National Convention will gavel […]

I have begun seeing some reason in this bizarre choice by Senator McCain. I have been up since 3 a.m. in Tokyo pounding my keyboard, and now I am sipping my coffee while perusing my morning The Japan Times. There was an analysis of the Palin choice on page 11, titled “Palin pick […]

To those who say Photoshop, I say: “Prove it.”

Please understand. I am not knocking Wasilla. I have never been to Alaska, in many ways it perhaps still the place where the American frontier still exists. And I think Alaskans in general must be a very self reliant, tough people. I grew up in the snows of Wisconsin, but still […]

Tokenism? Vice in Go-Go Boots? The new daughter-in-law? VPILF?
I posted twice the comment I wish my enemies won by cunning rather than Teh Stoopid, so here, a theory on the rationale behind the Palin pick: It’s a win if it works, a bigger win if it explodes.
Say Democrats, the media, crush her - and she […]

Since I enjoy tennis, the fact that the US Open is drawing some of us away from that other event, it was great sport last night watching Japanese teenager Kei Nichikori upset the #4 seed in a back-and-forth five-setter. How was it watching him play from Japan? Will he be John McCain’s Secretary of State?

 This New York Times piece by Gail Collins is far and away the best response to McCain’s choice of Sarah Palin for VP that I have read today.This one, I kid you not, is worth copying and making a flyer of to send to everyone you know. Why use a bludgeon when the […]

All true. For some idiots, plumbing is everything.
I have faith most women who aren’t Cracker-Americans or Christer-Americans won’t vote their daughters’ and daughters’ daughters’ hard won rights away because John McCrusty nominated a Vaginal-American. Smart women aren’t that selfish, that stupid.
Holy War, mofos, Holy War versus fags and dykes and niggers and the Liberals who […]

Now is when I start paying attention to the national polls, especially the Gallup daily tracking poll. Obama got an 8 point bounce. The average for Democrats since 1964 has been 6.2. And as you may recall, Kerry lost a point. With 38 million watching the Obama speech, that’s not a typo, it is no wonder. […]