Leaving site open upon request

A number have requested that I leave the site open as there are previously posted articles of interest I am told. 

I am more than happy to do so although I have ceased blogging at this site. 

I have the occasional post at the
Palin4President2016 site.

Regards,
MJS

The Worst Election Campaign Ever-88 More Days Of Partisan Negativity? No Thanks

It's not too  late to bring back the McCain/Palin team which makes the current effort look sad.

I have been very involved with producing a fund raising concert for the charity I volunteer for. Dealing with a team, artists, the theater owners/sound systems,media is a time consuming all encompassing thing as anyone who has undertaken such a project would testify (if they have any brain cells left when it is all over). 

Delighted to advise all costs were covered and there was enough left over to cure one person of leprosy, which was the aim of the project

This hiatus also enabled me to stand back from the political fray. Viewed from not having a dog in the race I can honestly say this is the most boring, negative, destructive, off the issues, puerile election I have ever seen.

I have been watching/participating in presidential campaigns since the rarefied intellectual campaigns of Adlai Stevenson, but watching Biden's gaffe stricken performance and Romney's efforts suggested to me that to spend three months listening to more of the same is beyond my capacity for self-inflicted pain.

I am switching off blogging till after the election,not having Palin as a major speaker at Tampa was the last straw and a major insult to her mass of supporters.Frankly I just can't stand the pathetic partisanship and media distortion,and at this point I hope to be able to support Sarah as she progresses, hopefully to 2016, after November..

PPP (D.Kos) Polling Gets Wisconsin Wrong-One Flop After Another

Here's PPP (D) Polling (the Daily Kos) pollster's final poll for the GOP Wisconsin Senate primary.They said their poll had elements which "bode well for Hovde"

PPP's final poll on the Republican primary for Senate in Wisconsin continues to find a three way toss up: Eric Hovde's at 27%, Tommy Thompson's at 25%, Mark Neumann's at 24%, and even Jeff Fitzgerald isn't that far behind the rest of the pack at 15%.

And here's the result from Politico which has declared Thompson the winner with over 97% reporting


Thompson 34.2
Hovde       30.7
Neumann  22.7
Fitzgerald  15.0

They got the winner, Thompson's result wrong by 9 points-way beyond the margin of error and way beyond any excuses except incompetence. This is the outfit which wrote that "Perry's candidate (Dewhurst) will defeat Palin's candidate (Cruz).Their final poll had Cruz at 52% and he went on to win with 57%

Outstanding Analysis:"After Trashing Sarah Palin, GOP Establishment Uses Palin to Defend Ryan"

A site I had not discovered before
"Bungalow Bill's Conservative Wisdom" more than lives up to the blog's title with this insightful post which deserves wide dissemination.It is a site to bookmark
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Sunday, August 12, 2012

After Trashing Sarah Palin, GOP Establishment Uses Palin to Defend Ryan

Do you remember the days after John McCain lost? Remember how the Republican establishment treated Sarah Palin? They criticized her clothes. They accused her of spending too much on clothes with campaign funds and then accused her of trying to take those clothes despite them being lent to her to wear on the campaign trail as they suggested she was a white-trash dresser. Remember who the establishment working for the McCain camp accused her of destroying the campaign and outed her on many of the things she had done putting a twist on it to make her look even worse?

Well, think about that and then read how the Republican establishment is using Sarah Palin to defend Paul Ryan.

The LA Times writes:


Longtime friends and campaign workers for Arizona Sen. John McCain have been talking to Vanity Fair about what Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's candidacy as vice president did for the GOP ticket in 2008.

"A Little Shop of Horrors," said one unnamed aide.

Perhaps they want to keep the governor -- still a hot-button favorite among social conservatives -- off the ticket in 2012?

In a just-published piece by Todd Purdum in the August Vanity Fair, McCain aides said they still suffer a kind of survivor's guilt. (An earlier version of this post misspelled the author's last name as Purdam.)

"They can't quite believe that for two frantic months last fall, caught in a Bermuda Triangle of a campaign, they worked their tails off to try to elect as vice president of the United States someone who, by mid-October, they believed for certain was nowhere near ready for the job, and might never be," Purdam writes.

A former reporter for the New York Times and husband of former Clinton press secretary Dee Dee Myers, Purdam has a few nuggets of news. Reports of tension between Palin and McCain are, well, true.

She maintained "only the barest level of civil discourse" with Tucker Eskew, the operative assigned to be her chief minder, Purdam reports. Mark McKinnon, a longtime McCain admirer and a former Democrat who told insiders he would never work against Barack Obama in the general election, signed on to be Palin's "whisperer," the calming influence. And Obama, on learning of Palin's selection, said Palin would never have time to get up to speed. "I don't care how talented she is, this is really a leap," said Obama, telling aides it had taken him four months to learn how to be a national candidate.

But for the most, the piece reads more like juicy political speculation than news. Many of the quotes are from aides who would rather not be named. And it's hard to read the title -- "It Came From Wasilla" -- as anything but an insult, at least to anyone who's a person who came from somewhere.

Palin refused to talk to Vanity Fair for the piece. At work on her own book about her life -- to be published jointly by HarperCollins and the Bible-publishing house Zondervan -- the self-described pit bull-with-lipstick  from Alaska will get plenty of ink for her rebuttal.

In the meantime, here come the knives.


This e-mail is from the Republican establishment after trashing Palin after McCain lost:

Dear Conservative,


If you're like me, you were both stunned and pleased to see Mitt Romney choose a running mate as bold and conservative as Paul Ryan. Paul Ryan is one of the leading lights in the conservative movement and has done great service for our cause.

Now the real battle begins. We know exactly what the Radical Left has in store for Paul Ryan--they'll do exactly what they did to Sarah Palin. The Left (aided by the Liberal Media) will throw everything but the kitchen sink at Paul Ryan in the most relentless, vicious, personal way possible. They will try to smear his name, his family, and his record in order to strangle his candidacy before it gets off the ground. We can't let that happen. Not this time. We need your help.

You remember what they did to Sarah Palin: trying to find everything they could on her, attacking her family, calling her the most vile names imaginable, even questioning if she was the mother of her own child. If you don't think the same thing is being planned for Paul Ryan even as we speak, well, you're in for a big surprise on Monday.
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The liberal group Act Blue has already launched a "Stop Paul Ryan" fund dedicated to running ads smearing Ryan's record. And the Obama campaign has been putting out assaults on Ryan all weekend, accusing him of not caring about women. And trust me, they've got a lot more bile where that came from.

Here's the thing--we shouldn't be surprised by any of this. Whether you're talking about Dan Quayle, Robert Bork, Clarence Thomas, or Sarah Palin, this is what the Left always does to conservatives when they appear on the scene!

Here at DefendPaulRyan.com, we are committed to fighting back. Our plan is to run TV and online ads in battleground states where funds allow, introducing Paul Ryan on OUR terms, not on the Democrats' terms or those of their buddies in the liberal media.
We will respond to every single charge with FACTS, we will disseminate the truth to a growing email list, and we will run the online and TV ads in battleground states where funds allow. We are not just going to sit around and watch another conservative get slimed while we sit idly by, wringing our hands like there's nothing we can do.

There is A LOT that we can do to fight back. Donate $35, $50, or even $100 right now to join us.

I don’t know about you, but I swelled with pride yesterday when Paul Ryan walked out on the deck of that aircraft carrier and told his story. That’s what a leader looks like, and that’s what the American people are looking for. Barack Obama and the Democrats do not have a record that they can run on, and they know it. The only way for them to win up to this point has been to smear Romney, and now Paul Ryan.

That cannot be allowed. We must defend this good man.

Just so you know, I've been a mayor, an ambassador, a HUD undersecretary under Jack Kemp, State Treasurer, Ohio Secretary of State and a successful businessman, author and educator. I’ve been through a lot of campaigns.

I know exactly what’s coming for Paul Ryan and Mitt Romney. We cannot sit back and wait for the Left to attack. The time to act is now.

I’m ready to go to battle. Will you join me?

Sincerely,
Ken Blackwell
Chairman, DefendPaulRyan.com

Posted by Bungalow Bill

Video;Palin Shows Class & Dignity;Supporting Ryan After He Dissed Her Twice

Here is Sarah Palin showing true class and dignity in an interview with Shannon Bream where she is asked about Paul Ryan and supporting the new team..

Contrast this with the stab in the back attacks from the ex-McCain team with the "Game Change" hatchet job. Contrast this with Romney hiring Kevin Madden who has been another Palin attacker. Contrast this with Paul Ryan
attending the premier of the game Change movie with      and his silence when Palin was viciously attacked by being unfairly linked with the Tucson tragedy.

The election period will pass and there may well be a new team required for 2016, if that were the case it would be foolish to, once again, run with a Beltway candidate and people who don't support their colleagues, unlike Palin who in this video declares  her "100% support for Romney/Ryan.

These are the views of a prominent conservative about VP nominee Paul Ryan as backed by linked references.

They are not necessarily my views as, with this ticket, and the opposition I don't have a dog in the race-for the first time since I have been voting actually. However, if Romney loses then these may have been contributing factors and it will be interesting, if that happens, to see which may have been the most influential and which to avoid  in 2016.

Here's another view;
"The attendance at the Premiere of "Game Change" may not be a "Game-Changer" but it is one that Ryan should put to bed at once.  It was a foolish thing to do, but if there is any way to graciously put it aside, they should do so.  If left unanswered, this will haunt Romney and Ryan as Obama's people use this during Sept and Oct to sow discord and push the meme of the GOP and Romney hating women."

And another;

"Way more important then attending the smear movie is why both men stayed silent during Tucson? For that matter, why did 99% of Republicans? 

They never had to answer for that. The truth is that they liked that she was blamed for murder. They wanted her destroyed and out of the way, and this helped to achieve that goal.

But they are honorable men, we are told."

Just remember @RepPaulRyan attended DC Sarah Palin HateFest) &Game Change Premiere

http://www.mediabistro.com/

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He was there with Kevin Madden no less. This after Sarah defended him when no one else would