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S.C. Dem chair: Palin primary qualification is she hasn't had an abortion

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Posted by tipper 2008-09-10 15:43|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 those white women are Republican women anyway."

Nothing racial there. Nope

Posted by Beavis 2008-09-10 15:47|| 2008-09-10 15:47|| Front Page Top

#2 Just anecdotally, I believe that those white women are Republican women anyway."

THOSE white women, not ALL white women. Unless he thinks the whole country is like South Carolina.

Posted by liberalhawk 2008-09-10 15:52|| 2008-09-10 15:52|| Front Page Top

#3 Carol Fowler's husband Don Fowler is the one who made the "Hurricane Gustav shows that God is on our side." comment coming home from Denver.

Are they typical of Dem activists. Naw. The typical Dem activist is actually more closed minded and would never have apologized like Don Fowler did or caveated her remark like Carol Fowler did.

Posted by mhw 2008-09-10 16:01|| 2008-09-10 16:01|| Front Page Top

#4 LH - your many many attempts to cover, rationalize, explain away, is not working. Your Dems are in meltdown

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2008-09-10 16:05|| 2008-09-10 16:05|| Front Page Top

#5 meltdown? A friggin two point lead for McCAin right after his convention bounce?

President Dukakis says "hi".

Posted by liberalhawk 2008-09-10 16:09|| 2008-09-10 16:09|| Front Page Top

#6 10 comments in the last half hour? meltdown.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2008-09-10 16:16|| 2008-09-10 16:16|| Front Page Top

#7 Just in case anyone wants to express themselves to Ms Fowler:

cfowler@scdp.org

Posted by Swamp Blondie in the Cornfields 2008-09-10 16:17|| 2008-09-10 16:17|| Front Page Top

#8 NS - Im responding to like a couple of dozen people here.

Go try hanging at a Dem blog.

Posted by liberalhawk 2008-09-10 16:19|| 2008-09-10 16:19|| Front Page Top

#9 You think a Trunk would get away with this? They would crucify him. The dhimocrats are in complete meltdown mode and alienating the majority of the independents. A 54-34% leaning toward McCain is an election winner.
Bambi is sliding in all demographic polls. McCain is up 2-5 points depending on the poll (which I still trust a little more than congress) and the gap is widening.
The fact I give some of these polls some salt is watching the dhimocrats scramble and REACT to what McCain's camp is doing. They are on the defensive, which means their internal polls are showing the same thing.
Bambi is gaff-tastic and inexperienced. Mr. Hairplugs is no change, a poster child of the establishment in Washington, and pisses everyone off while making gaffs. There is no real way to love the donk ticket this year. Kerry was Lurch, but he wasn't Bush and that rallied many. Bush isn't running this year and McCain has pretty much successfully separated himself from Bush, especially with the Palin pick.
The dhimocrats have nothing to run on besides "we ain't Bush!" this year besides "hope" since apparently there ain't much "change".

Posted by DarthVader 2008-09-10 16:21|| 2008-09-10 16:21|| Front Page Top

#10 NBC poll has Obama up by a point. But thats before this flap. No polls after this flap.

If axelrod is melting, then he should be fired, and real pros hired.

Posted by liberalhawk 2008-09-10 16:24|| 2008-09-10 16:24|| Front Page Top

#11 Within a week.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2008-09-10 16:26|| 2008-09-10 16:26|| Front Page Top

#12 Just my two cents -- I don't think it is Axelrod that is melting down... just watch The One in any of the tapes of the last two days. He's in a lot of hurt.

Posted by Sherry">Sherry 2008-09-10 16:30|| 2008-09-10 16:30|| Front Page Top

#13 NBC poll has Obama up by a point. But that's before this flap. No polls after this flap.

The National Bambi Cheerleaders are only one. This is a average of all polls.

McCain is up on average of 2.2 points.

Posted by DarthVader 2008-09-10 16:31|| 2008-09-10 16:31|| Front Page Top

#14 Yeah, but he can't be fired, so it's the manager who gets it. Sorta like a sports team.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2008-09-10 16:31|| 2008-09-10 16:31|| Front Page Top

#15 The pig remark . . . the goon squad tearing around greater Anchorage looking for scandal* . . . the fake pregnancy smear . . . the book-banning smear . . . the alleged affair smear . . . and now this. These people are vile--and Obama is not doing anything to distance himself from the frenzied excesses of the moonbat Left.

*Our very own Alaska Paul is on the ground in Anchortown and IIRC has some direct (or at least semi-direct) experience with some of the goon squad members. If you've got a chance Paul, feel free to post about it.

Posted by Mike 2008-09-10 16:38|| 2008-09-10 16:38|| Front Page Top

#16 Axelrod is doing what Axelrod has always done: urban agitation; racial politics; and the two Americas meme. I don't think that's a winner on a national scale, he'll be gone in a week.

Posted by AzCat 2008-09-10 17:05|| 2008-09-10 17:05|| Front Page Top

#17 As long as the polls are close, McCain/Palin will win.

McCain voters aren't the type to answer polls, Obambi's are.

Posted by Parabellum 2008-09-10 17:28|| 2008-09-10 17:28|| Front Page Top

#18

Posted by Bushlover 2008-09-10 17:40|| 2008-09-10 17:40|| Front Page Top

#19 Moby alert

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2008-09-10 17:44|| 2008-09-10 17:44|| Front Page Top

#20 Words escape me regarding this latest comment from the donk chair in SC. It is just simply astounding. This is not the fringe of the donk party; this is the mainstream donk party. They drank the kool-aid and are just goofy. They are not qualified to run the country.

Posted by JohnQC 2008-09-10 17:48|| 2008-09-10 17:48|| Front Page Top

#21 the goon squad tearing around greater Anchorage looking for scandal*

Is it true Palin is a muslim? And gay?

. . . the fake pregnancy smear . . . the book-banning smear

The book thing aint all that clear. the list floating around is bogus, but the librarian says she did come in to discuss removing books. Palin says it was routine asking of what the policy was. IIUC someone else who was present dispute the wording. The librarian cant be reached for comment.
alleged affair smear

i havent heard that one.

Posted by liberalhawk 2008-09-10 17:48|| 2008-09-10 17:48|| Front Page Top

#22 librarian cant be reached for further comment, of course

Posted by liberalhawk 2008-09-10 17:50|| 2008-09-10 17:50|| Front Page Top

#23 I came down with a cold today so headed to my doctors. Just as I was leaving this Fox report came on TV. I almost forgot to go to the docs... My mouth was definitely in the floor.

At the doc's I apologized for being a min. late and explained what happened to the office staff, nurses and doc. These are mainly good democrats. Their faces went white with shock. I told them Obama needed to regroup and figure out a saner strategy. They agreed. They hadn't heard the "pig" comment either. I am betting the whole office votes for Sarah.

Posted by 3dc 2008-09-10 17:53|| 2008-09-10 17:53|| Front Page Top

#24 LH olde buddy, you're rolling towards the edge. You has the bad FearSweats. Relax, not the end of the world one way or the other.

Posted by .5MT 2008-09-10 18:08|| www.cybernations.net]">[www.cybernations.net] 2008-09-10 18:08|| Front Page Top

#25 Note that even Newsweek says that no books were ever banned. They also say the list circulating on the internet includes books that weren't even published yet when Palin became mayor.

Posted by DoDo 2008-09-10 18:44|| 2008-09-10 18:44|| Front Page Top

#26 LH, here is the incident according to According to the Anchorage Daily News: Around the time Sarah Palin first assumed the mayorship of Wasilla back in 1996, she initiated some speculative discussions with the city's librarian about the possibility of removing some "objectionable" books from the public library:
In December 1996, [city librarian Mary Ellen] Emmons told her hometown newspaper, the Frontiersman, that Palin three times asked her starting before
she was sworn in about possibly removing objectionable books from the library if the need arose.
When the matter came up for the second time in October 1996, during a City Council meeting, Anne Kilkenny, a Wasilla housewife who often attends council meetings, was there.
Like many Alaskans, Kilkenny calls the governor by her first name.
"Sarah said to Mary Ellen, 'What would your response be if I asked you to remove some books from the collection?" Kilkenny said.
"I was shocked. Mary Ellen sat up straight and said something along the line of, 'The books in the Wasilla Library collection were selected on the basis of national selection criteria for libraries of this size, and I would absolutely resist all efforts to ban books.'"
Palin didn't mention specific books at that meeting, Kilkenny said.
Palin herself, questioned at the time, called her inquiries rhetorical and simply part of a policy discussion with a department head "about understanding and following administration agendas," according to the Frontiersman article.
According to that same article, no evidence has been uncovered that any books were actually censored or removed from Wasilla's library as a result of these discussions:
Were any books censored [or] banned? June Pinell-Stephens, chairwoman of the Alaska Library Association's Intellectual Freedom Committee since 1984, checked her files and came up empty-handed.
Pinell-Stephens also had no record of any phone conversations with Emmons about the issue back then. Emmons was president of the Alaska Library Association at the time.
Given that, as yet, there is no documentation of any books having been banished from the Wasilla library by Mayor Palin, or even of which books she may have had in mind when she broached the subject, whence comes the considerable register of tomes now being circulated as "the list of books Palin tried to have banned"? The purging of the selections enumerated here from a public library would surely outrage any educator or book lover, with the listing including classics of literature by authors from William Shakespeare to William Faulkner, works by popular contemporary writers such as Stephen King and J.K. Rowling, and even such seemingly bland reference works as Webster's Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary.

Posted by Deacon Blues">Deacon Blues 2008-09-10 18:45|| 2008-09-10 18:45|| Front Page Top

#27 Any youtube on this comment?

Posted by DoDo 2008-09-10 18:45|| 2008-09-10 18:45|| Front Page Top

#28 The left is really clinging to Ann K email. I got it with a personal note attached that said, I know you are a conservative and since you I know that you don't want to be are a bad mother or person who hates bunnies you should know this about Sarah... or something like that.

She hid her pregnancy for 7 months
seeing the bull she's put up with in the last week it seems like that was a good decision on her part.

She threw things out to see what sticks.
Isn't she is a politician. Isn't that what they do?

She fired a trooper
yeah, and he physically abused her sister in law, threatened to kill her father in law and who tazed his son. Seems prudent to me. Besides, if I recall correctly libs were none too upset when Hillary fired Billy Dale, an honest man after trumping up charges of embezzelment and then fired all of the travel office staff.

Seriously, if this is the best they have got, Obama is really in trouble.

Posted by Betty Grating2215 2008-09-10 19:29|| 2008-09-10 19:29|| Front Page Top

#29 "apology" from Mrs. Fow (HT to Gateway/Hotair):

I personally admire and respect the difficult choices that women make everyday, and I apologize to anyone who finds my comment offensive. I clumsily was making a point about people in South Carolina who may vote based on a single issue. Whether it's the environment, the economy, the war or a woman's right to choose, there are people who will cast their vote based on a single issue. That was the only point I was attempting to make.

Ummmmm no. That doesn't cut it. ou and your husband are exiled to asshole island, population: 2

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2008-09-10 19:49|| 2008-09-10 19:49|| Front Page Top

#30 hmmmmm what happened to the Fowler name? Perhaps Mr already filed for divorce?

/I like that better than a keyboard FUBAR story, which is actually the truth. PIMF

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2008-09-10 19:51|| 2008-09-10 19:51|| Front Page Top

#31 meltdown? A friggin two point lead for McCAin right after his convention bounce?

President Dukakis says "hi".

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At this point LH - McCain shouldn't be in the lead at all..........

Posted by anonymous2u 2008-09-10 20:25|| 2008-09-10 20:25|| Front Page Top

#32 who may vote based on a single issue.

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Abortion has really been a single issue for decades and now they disown it.

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rumor is one can go to the Wasilla website and the ban policy is listed - nothing since 1980, IIRC.

Posted by anonymous2u 2008-09-10 20:29|| 2008-09-10 20:29|| Front Page Top

#33 Via Powerline and they have the vid:

Here is Rep. Steve Cohen of Tennessee on the floor of the House today. Barack Obama is Jesus , and Sarah Palin is Pontius Pilate:

Posted by anonymous2u 2008-09-10 21:02|| 2008-09-10 21:02|| Front Page Top

#34 There is no way that Karl Rove can keep up this psyops until election day. I think.

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