You can't write this kind of stuff

Hidden amongst the wall-to-wall Gustav coverage is the disappointing news that 17 year old Bristol Palin is 5mos pregnant. I've been reading the comments from liberals on various websites this morning and most are difficult to argue with. Here's a smattering...

-Great, McCain picked Lynn Spears to be VP.
-Hey neo-cons, how's that abstinence-only and no-access-to-condoms-for-teens working out for ya?
-The hypocrisy of conservatives knows no bounds.
-And you conservatives are questioning Obama's judgement? What about McCain's judgement for picking for VP, a woman with a knocked-up teen?

I hate to admit it but, those are good points all. This is the problem when you set yourself up as the party of Christian morals, family values, and unquestioned ethics. Nobody can live up to those standards and when one of you fails, all you do is invite the hypocrisy charge. Liberals don't have the same problem with hypocrisy because they are proudly immoral to start with.

The democrats, and late night talk-show hosts, will make tons of hay off of this. And it might cost the GOP some values voters. I hope it's not the factor that costs McCain the election. So far, Obama has taken the high road, but you can bet all the rest of the liberals won't.

UPDATE: So I've been watching the reaction to this news from conservative commentators on FOX and other stations all day, and the consensus seems to be that, how the family handles news like this is far more telling about the morality of the family than the mistake by the daughter itself. And I have to agree with that. Teens will always do stupid things to screw up their lives and it has nothing to do with hypocrisy or morality or rearing. Bristol Palin is doing all the right things to deal with her mistake such as not aborting the baby and getting married to the father. As parents and as a society, what more can we ask? And the democrats can't say too much since Obama's mother was 17 when she conceived him.

I'd like to hear your thoughts in the comments thread.

Natural Disaster = political photo-op

As Gustav, now a category 3 hurricane, bears down on the ill-conceived city of New Orleans, and will probably make landfall as a cat-4 on Monday, national politicians of both parties are jockeying for the best photo-op. Why?

Clearly, Governor Bobby Jindal, Secretary Michael Chertoff, and even Mayor Ray Nagin seem to have the situation well in hand. Evacuations are going smoothly, the National Guard is present in large numbers to protect property from looting and enforce dusk-to-dawn curfews, and relief organizations are poised to leap into action the moment the danger has passed.

Given that, why does the Obamessiah and his faithful lapdog Joe Biden feel the need to be down there causing disruption? Why also do George Bush and Cheney feel the need to be down there causing further problems? That The One and Biden are going certainly explains why McCain will show up somewhere there are cameras but, what can they possibly think they are accomplishing other than posing with relief workers, National Guardsmen, or other VIP's for a photo-op to show America how concerned and personally involved they are.

National politicians don't need to be personally on site and involved with weather relief work. Things will go more smoothly if they stay out of the way and don't distract people from their tasks. Ever since Katrina I guess, no national politician will risk the political costs of not showing up to a natural disaster regardless of the uselessness of being there. Natural disasters happen. That doesn't mean the rest of the country should suspend life in solidarity with those affected. And it doesn't mean politicians should interrupt relief efforts to pose for campaign pictures.

Everybody's jazzed about Palin

Over at RightWingNews John Hawkins has a list(cross posted from GinaCobb) detailing 25 reasons to love Sarah Palin for VP.

Here's #25 to whet your appetite:

By her very existence she puts the lie to numerous liberal mantras, such as the notion that women cannot advance without affirmative action; Republicans are sexist; John McCain is out of touch; anyone who loves Alaska's beauty can't support drilling in ANWR; mothers of troops in harms' way want to cut and run from Iraq; and women need government programs to manage marriage, children and work simultaneously.

See, there are all these positives that will absolutely confound liberals' attempts to smear her or otherwise paint her as somehow undesirable as VP. Her 2 years of executive experience is 2 years more than the Obamessiah or Biden has. What's that you say? Experience in Alaska doesn't count for much as it only has 3 electoral votes? Guess how many electoral votes Biden's state of Delaware has......3. And playing obstruction politics on the Foreign Relations Committee doesn't exactly count for Biden as experience either.

TRR Poll Question

Well, if McCain didn't accomplish anything else by picking Alaska Governor, Sarah Palin, as his running mate, he got the Obamessiah off the front pages for a change, and that's quite an accomplishment since the sycophantic, liberal media are totally and completely in the tank for him. That brings us to the weekend TRR poll question. Jump in with your opinion and leave a comment about S.P. in the comments thread if you like....

What do you think of McCain's pick for VP, Sarah Palin?
	Not enough executive experience, it hurts the ticket
	It's a blatant and insulting pander to women
	She's terrific! An excellent pick by J.Mac
	Who cares if she's experienced? I dig those hottie librarian glasses
Free polls from Pollhost.com

McCain strikes Yukon gold!!!

By selecting Alaska governor Sarah Palin to be his running mate, John McCain has in one brilliant move, yanked the minority rug out from under the Obamessiah, trumped Obama on the female front, made the Obama campaign look like the insider campaign, and energized his otherwise run-of-the-mill campaign.

A few of my thoughts on Sarah Palin:

-Nothing ages a person like the presidency, which means John McCain will be like 103 after 4 years in office. That makes Sarah Palin the odds-on republican to run for the office.

-Hillary must be thinking that she can't buy votes in prison with a hand full of pardons. First the young, black upstart steals what has always been her birthright....the dem nomination. Then Sarah Palin comes along and becomes the nations most prominent female politician, displacing Hillary perilously close to irrelevant status. Hillary had assumed that if J.Mac wins this election and serves one term, it's her turn alone in 4 years to become president....but now she'll have to run against a prettier, younger, and far less corrupt female. Drats, drats, and double drats!!!

-The Obamessiah's handlers must be in a blind panic about how to attack Palin without coming across as bullies. I almost feel sorry for poor Joe Biden for having to debate her once....almost.

-The worst thing the dems can say about Sarah Palin is that she's a hunter and a lifelong NRA member.

-She's already come under attack by the hypocritical MSM for agreeing to tackle the VP job while being the mother of 5. Remember, these are the same people who have told women for 40 years to go out into the workforce, abandon their families for their careers, and reject the traditional notions of the patriarchal society in which men work and women care for families.

-Her credentials for president are stronger already than the Obamessiah himself. She has executive experience.

-When you do a side-by-side between Palin and Michelle Obama and Hillary Clinton, Hillary has so much baggage and skeletons by comparison it's ridiculous. And Michelle just comes across as a militant, angry black woman with a huge racial chip on her shoulder. Sarah Palin comes across as a reasonable, rational mother and wife without a lot of issues or axes to grind.

-Many in the MSM seem to already be more excited about Sarah Palin than the Obamessiah.

-I predict women by the tens of thousands, including many feminists, will abandon Obama to vote for John McCain and Sarah Palin. Only Geraldine Ferraro has come this far in American politics.

Bottom line.....I'm jazzed about this election where I wasn't so much yesterday.

It's Ann Coulter Thursday!

This week Ann reminds us of Joe Biden's plagiarism in speeches he gives regularly...something that if he were republican, the smug media would be clucking about incessantly, but because he's the VP to the Chosen One, he gets all the protection the MSM can give him. You can go over to HumanEvents and read the embarrassing details.

I Told You.....

As it now stands the Democratic Party leadership is blasting Elizabeth Edwards for her silence pertaining to the Breck Girl's extra-curricular romping. If you didn't know I was right previously, slide on over to FoxNews for a view of their take. Trouble in Demo-land. !!!

Too close to home

Gangland massacres, killings for hire, huge sums of cash, methamphetamines, cocaine, and marijuana, weapons, victims tortured with electricity to send a message, Columbian neckties, etc......

What's that you say? Has the Italian Mob found it's way to southern states? Why no, it hasn't. THESE ARE ILLEGAL MEXICAN ALIENS!!!! Right here in my town, 5 illegal aliens were tortured and then massacred by other illegal aliens, police think to make a statement to others not to cross the drug pushers.

"But Ed", you whine, "these kinds of crimes happen all the time among American drug gangs. This isn't an illegal alien problem, it's a drug culture problem."

Wrong you are, ignorant reader. But for the shocking dereliction by what passes for our leaders in Washington, on enforcing the immigration laws, none of these illegal-alien drug gangs would be operating here. Sure, there might be a different gang in their place but, you don't know that. The only fact is this: this gang is here now, selling illicit drugs, and murdering each other and who knows who else? If Bush-43, Clinton, Bush-41, Reagan, Carter, all the way back, had even pretended to care about this immigration problem, the Mexican drug gangs wouldn't feel the freedom to operate here today. And based on the article I read, disappointingly, the deputies who found and arrested the murders didn't shoot them on the spot. Now my tax dollars will go to provide for their defense and an interpreter because they don't speak a lick of English.

No, because our cops are wasting time chasing illegal alien crime, the domestic criminals have less to worry about too. If there were no illegal alien drug gangs, the cops could concentrate on arresting our own criminal gangs. Your argument is as stupid as Geraldo's argument about drunk driving crimes committed by illegal aliens not being an immigration problem but an alcohol abuse problem.

The ad the Messiah doesn't want you to see

Over on Moonbattery Van Helsing has a link to this ad produced by AmericanIssuesProject that links with convincing finality the ascendancy of Barack Obama to American terrorist and FOB(friend of Barack) William Ayers...



You may remember Bill Ayers as one of the leaders of the Weathermen, a.k.a. Weather Underground, a socialist, domestic terrorist group who in the early 70's declared war on the US and instigated riots in Chicago, bombed federal buildings and police precincts, and killed policemen. Ever since, Bill Ayers has bragged about his crimes, exclaiming that he didn't do enough bombing. It was in Bill Ayers suburban Chicago home that BHO made the transition from harmless community organizer to radical liberal politician. Predictably, the Obama campaign goons are trying mightily to suppress this ad, as it sort of makes Obama look pretty bad. They are threatening successfully, any TV network that airs it and trying to use the courts to stop it's dissemination. Even FoxNews has bowed to the will of the Messiah and won't run it. Well, that ban would last about as long at TRR, as a Hostess Twinkie at Rosie O'Donnel's house. We'll keep it up as long as the link remains active.

Prease speak Engrish

I saw something like this coming a couple of years ago.....

Golfweek magazine reported on its Web site Monday that speaking English will be a requirement starting in 2009, with players who have been LPGA members for two years facing suspension if they can’t pass an oral evaluation of English skills.

The tour held a mandatory meeting with South Koreans last Wednesday at the Safeway Classic to inform them of the new policy.

“Hopefully, what we’re talking about is something that will not happen,” deputy commissioner Libba Galloway told Golfweek. “If it does, we wouldn’t just say, ’Come back next year.’ What we would do is work with them on where they fell short, provide them the resources they need, the tutoring ... and when we feel like they need to be evaluated again, we would evaluate.”

There are 121 international players from 26 countries on the LPGA Tour, including 45 players from South Korea.

The ACLU or somebody will protest about this but, the LPGA is a private organization who can make it's own rules. When you have sponsors who, in return for funding events and purses, want access to the athletes for commercials and other endorsements, it's only natural that they would be expected to be able to communicate in English, thier love of Diet Coke, Titleist golf balls, or Massengil Douches.

Critics of the policy will say that it's about American-centrism and that it is a thinly veiled effort to get foreigners out of the sport so more popular and commercially appealing Americans can win. But that's not it. I honestly don't think anybody cares who wins each week on the LPGA as long as they are capable of fulfilling their contractual responsibilities to support the sponsors, and that means doing commercials if asked, make personal appearances, and communicating with potential consumers of sponsor goods.