Palin & McCain: The Dynamic Duo Back Together Again

PHOENIX — Sarah Palin and Sen. John McCain plan to campaign together again.

The Arizona Republican announced Wednesday that the former Alaska governor and 2008 vice presidential candidate will join him in Phoenix on March 26 to help campaign for his re-election to the U.S. Senate.

Palin is scheduled to attend a private fundraising event that evening. The next day, she and McCain will appear together at a public event, likely a rally, according to McCain spokeswoman Brooke Buchanan.

“I’m looking forward to getting back on the campaign trail with my former running mate, and I know my fellow Arizonans will welcome her, as well,” McCain said in a statement. “Sarah energized our nation and remains a leading voice in the Republican Party.”

Since their failed bid for the White House, McCain and Palin have had a couple of public appearances together, including a dinner in Washington. But the March events will mark the first time the pair will be on the campaign trail together since 2008, Buchanan said.

Palin has criticized McCain’s campaign since their loss, saying in her book “Going Rogue” that there was substantial tension between her advisers and McCain’s. She also details how she was prevented from delivering a concession speech in Phoenix on Election Night, and how she’d been kept “bottled up” from reporters during the campaign.

Palin hasn’t criticized McCain himself, and the senator has stood by his decision to choose Palin as his running mate and has staunchly defended her.

Earlier this month, McCain refused to discuss material in “Game Change,” a book that says Palin’s vetting was “hasty and haphazard.”

“I wouldn’t know,” McCain said on NBC’s “Today” show. “The fact is, I’m proud of Sarah Palin and I’m proud of the campaign she waged. She energized our party.”

During the interview, McCain predicted Palin will be a “major player” in GOP affairs.

Who will lead us out of economic ruin?

In the last week or so, watching the U.S. economy implode, I came to the decision that I would vote for president based on which party and which candidate put forth a plan and took the leadership role to lead the country out of the crisis. Well, that was a bad plan. It appears nobody has much of an answer…..except for Senator Clinton who unfortunately isn’t a candidate. (See her plan HERE.)

On September 17, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid stunned me and probably a few other people with his declaration that nobody knows what to do. ¿Para qué? Seriously, Sen. Reid, nobody knows what to do? Aren’t you all the people who assured us when you were running for office that you knew how to handle these tough problems ?

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, asked today what new regulatory actions Congress can take, said, bluntly, “No one knows what to do. We are in new territory here. This is a different game. We’re not here playing soccer, basketball or football, this is a new game and we’re going to have to figure out how to do it.”SOURCE

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545 People Out of 300 Million

FYI, at the time this was posted the US National debt, was $9,683,319,152,145.35

Politicians are the only people in the world who create problems and then campaign against them.

Have you ever wondered why, if both the Democrats and the Republicans are against deficits, WHY do we have deficits?
Have you ever wondered why, if all the politicians are against inflation and high taxes, WHY do we have inflation and high taxes?

• You and I don’t propose a federal budget. The president does.
• You and I don’t have the Constitutional authority to vote on appropriations. The House of Representatives does.
• You and I don’t write the tax code, Congress does.
• You and I don’t set fiscal policy, Congress does.
• You and I don’t control monetary policy, the Federal Reserve Bank does.
• One hundred senators, 435 congressmen, one president, and nine Supreme Court justices -

545 human beings out of the 300 million

- are directly, legally, morally, and individually responsible for the domestic problems that plague this country.

I excluded the members of the Federal Reserve Board because that problem was created by the Congress. In 1913, Congress delegated its Constitutional duty to provide a sound currency to a federally chartered, but private, central bank.

I excluded all the special interests and lobbyists for a sound reason. They have no legal authority. They have no ability to coerce a senator, a congressman, or a president to do one cotton-picking thing. I don’t care if they offer a politician $1 million dollars in cash. The politician has the power to accept or reject it. No matter what the lobbyist promises, it is the legislator’s responsibility to determine how he votes.

Those 545 human beings spend much of their energy convincing you that what they did is not their fault. They cooperate in this common con regardless of party.

What separates a politician from a normal human being is an excessive amount of gall. No normal human being would have the gall of a Speaker, who stood up and criticized the President for creating deficits. The president can only propose a budget. He cannot force the Congress to accept it.

The Constitution, which is the supreme law of the land, gives sole responsibility to the House of Representatives for originating and approving appropriations and taxes. Who is the speaker of the House? She is the leader of the majority party. She and fellow House members, not the president, can approve any budget they want. If the president vetoes it, they can pass it over his veto if they agree to.

It seems inconceivable to me that a nation of 300 million can not replace 545 people who stand convicted — by present facts — of incompetence and irresponsibility. I can’t think of a single domestic problem that is not traceable directly to those 545 people. When you fully grasp the plain truth that 545 people exercise the power of the federal government, then it must follow that what exists is what they want to exist.

• If the tax code is unfair, it’s because they want it unfair.
• If the budget is in the red, it’s because they want it in the red.
• If the Army & Marines are in IRAQ , it’s because they want them in IRAQ .
• If they do not receive social security but are on an elite retirement plan not available to the people, it’s because they want it that way.

There are no insoluble government problems.

Do not let these 545 people shift the blame to bureaucrats, whom they hire and whose jobs they can abolish; to lobbyists, whose gifts and advice they can reject; to regulators, to whom they give the power to regulate and from whom they can take this power. Above all, do not let them con you into the belief that there exists disembodied mystical forces like “the economy,” “inflation,” or “politics” that prevent them from doing what they take an oath to do.

• Those 545 people, and they alone, are responsible.
• They, and they alone, have the power.
• They, and they alone, should be held accountable by the people who are their bosses – provided the voters have the gumption to manage their own employees.

We should vote all of them out of office and clean up their mess!
What you do with this article now that you have read it is up to you, though you appear to have several choices.

You can agree to “vote against” everyone that is currently in office, knowing that the process will take several years.

You can decide to “run for office” yourself and agree to do the job properly.

Lastly, you can sit back and do nothing, or re-elect the current bunch.

(Charlie Reese, a former columnist of the Orlando Sentinel Newspaper.)

Round and round it goes….

Usually by this time in an election year I know exactly who I’m going to vote for. Sometimes I’ve had to hold my nose to do it but I’m a pretty definitive person. But, not this time around.

All the contradictions and conflicts are giving me a headache. In the past I felt certain the Democrats were indeed pro-choice…not any more. As I posted in another post here at Mountain Sage, the Democrats started their convention with an inter-faith meeting that featured Bishop Charles Blake suggesting it’s time for the Democratic Party to embrace an anti-choice agenda. Notice I don’t call it pro-life because I don’t believe it is a pro-life stance….not when the proponents of “pro-life” are also the proponents of the death penalty and preemptive war. Anti-choice or pro-fetus is a more accurate description of the position.

I wasn’t real reassured by Obama’s present votes in the Illinois Senate on abortion issues or his recent comment that the question of when life begins is above his pay grade. Wow, that’s really taking a stand Senator.

I also believed that the Democrats were champions of a separation of religion and politics. But no, not any more. Not since Howard Dean, Nancy Pelosi, Donna Brazile and Barack Obama got a hold on the party. As a matter of fact, the head of the Democratic National Convention, Leah Daughtry is a pentecostal preacher who believes she’s a modern day Jonah and on a mission from God. Oh great, the left has it’s very own religious crackpot.

Just as the Republican Party panders to the religious, not to be outdone, the Democratic Party has hit new levels of pandering to the religious community. One reason religion is playing such a prominent role at this week’s convention is that Obama has made faith outreach prominent in his campaign.

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Howard Dean Insults Republican Party By Calling Them “White Party”, Again!

Once again Howard Dean, leader of the Democratic Party, has shoved yet another foot in his mouth. Dean referred to the Republican Party as the “White” Party, again.

“If you look at folks of color, even women, they’re more successful in the Democratic Party than they are in the white, uh, excuse me, in the Republican Party,” Dean said, chuckling, “because we just give more opportunity to folks who are hard-working people who are immigrants and come from members of minority groups.”

The GOP jumped on the comments. “Howard Dean’s comments on race and gender today are disappointing and wrong,” said Republican National Committee chairman Mike Duncan in a statement. “His efforts to divide Americans are an insult to all our nation’s citizens and have absolutely no place in the national dialogue.”

It wasn’t the first time he’s made a similar charge. Speaking to a forum in June 2005 in San Francisco Dean said that Republicans are “a pretty monolithic party. They all behave the same. They all look the same. It’s pretty much a white Christian party.”
I am waiting to see what McCain and Obama have to say…