Alaska - Gov. Sarah Palin's church is promoting a conference that promises to convert gays into heterosexuals through the power of prayer.  (   Palin church promotes converting gays -  )

You'll be encouraged by the power of God's love and His desire to transform the lives of those impacted by homosexuality," according to the insert in the bulletin of the Wasilla Bible Church, where Palin has prayed for about six years.

Palin's conservative Christian views have energized that part of the GOP electorate, which was lukewarm to John McCain's candidacy before he named her as his vice presidential choice. She is staunchly anti-abortion, opposing exceptions for rape and incest, and opposes gay marriage and spousal rights for gay couples.

 

(Here it comes attacking Gov. Palin because of her faith. Many of us who are Bible based Christians believe all siners if they  be gays or drunks can be changed. This doesn't mean we support killing them or hurting them. Why is it in America your faith is off limits if you run for office unless you are a Bible based Christian. Look for more of these attacks against the Gov. and others who share her faith.)

Below is a link to what the lady  who very well could be our  next First lady  said in MN. last week.


Remarks by Mrs. Cindy McCain

We are such hypocrites. When it was announced that Alaska governor and GOP vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin's 17-year-old daughter, Bristol, was five months pregnant, the media pounced. Did this damage Palin's preference for abstinence-only policies? Shouldn't she be staying home at this difficult time in her daughter's life? What about Palin's new baby, who has Down syndrome? Shouldn't he be getting much more of her time and attention? How can she be vice president and a good mother? Haven't critics forgotten that Palin has a husband to help?

Speaker Nancy Pelosi has five children. No one has asked her such questions.
(The above is part of a column  Cal Thomas  wrote. See more of what Cal wrote below.)
One female journalist said to me it makes a mockery out of the Republican Party's family values platform. No it doesn't.

Speaking with some personal experience on these matters - our daughter experienced a premarital pregnancy and I have a brother with Down syndrome - I am astounded at the rush to judgment by so many in the media, a media that promotes what it then quickly decries. So who are the real hypocrites?
Many in the media are now questioning whether Sarah Palin has allowed her career and a "lust for power" to interfere with her family responsibilities. This is laughable. These same people have promoted women who work 12-hour days and dump their preschool children .
(Cal is right those on the left who are now judging Sarah Palin for going after the  job  of VP. are the true hypocrites. Read the rest of Cal's column  What Standards?)

 
 

Did this damage Palin's preference for abstinence-only policies? Shouldn't she be staying home at this difficult time in her daughter's life? What about Palin's new baby, who has Down syndrome? Shouldn't he be getting much more of her time and attention? How can she be vice president and a good mother? Haven't critics forgotten that Palin has a husband to help?

One female journalist said to me it makes a mockery out of the Republican Party's family values platform. No it doesn't.

 I've been trying to convince my fellow conservatives that they have been wasting their time in a fruitless quest for a new Ronald Reagan to emerge and lead our party and our nation. I insisted that we'd never see his like again because he was one of a kind.

I was wrong!
(The above is part of a column written by Michael Reagan.  Read more of Reagan's column below.)

Wednesday night I watched the Republican National Convention on television and there, before my very eyes, I saw my Dad reborn; only this time he's a she.

And what a she!

In one blockbuster of a speech, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin resurrected my Dad's indomitable spirit and sent it soaring above the convention center, shooting shock waves through the cynical media's assigned spaces and electrifying the huge audience with the kind of inspiring rhetoric we haven't heard since my Dad left the scene.

This was Ronald Reagan at his best -- the same Ronald Reagan who made the address known now solely as "The Speech," which during the Goldwater campaign set the tone and the agenda for the rebirth of the traditional conservative movement that later sent him to the White House for eight years and revived the moribund GOP.

Like Ronald Reagan, Sarah Palin is one of us. She knows how most of us live because that's the way she lives. She shares our homespun values and our beliefs, and she glories in her status as a small-town woman who put her shoulder to the wheel and made life better for her neighbors.

Her astonishing rise up from the grass-roots, her total lack of self-importance, and her ordinary American values and modest lifestyle reveal her to be the kind of hard-working, optimistic, ordinary American who made this country the greatest, most powerful nation on the face of the earth.

(Now I don't believe  Reagan  or anyone can change our major ills because no man or woman can change the human heart that is God's job. Still I am excited to see a possible VP. who embraces the  values those of us from the right believe in. There is now no reason for those on the right not to vote and support McCain. Read Reagan's whole column Welcome Back, Dad.)

 I am getting tired of the outright lies -- which are being said and written about the lady who may become the next VP. John Ham writing in the Carolina Journal, describes below a case in point committed by three of the perennially pernicious offenders, the Washington Post, the New York Times and CNN.

I wrote the other day about two reporters for the Politico Web site breaking a rule you should learn in Journalism 101. Now, two other news outlets have made the kind of mistake that, in a normal world, would send a beginning reporter to duty on the nighttime obit desk.

Yesterday, Paul Kane of The Washington Post reported that Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin had “slashed funding for teen moms.” Kane based his story on a page from Alaska’s budget, which had hand-written line-item changes showing the amount going to Covenant House had been changed from $5 million to $3.9 million.

You can probably tell where this is going. It turns out that $5 million is the highball request for Covenant House and the $3.9 million is what Palin felt the agency deserved. As it happens, the $3.9 million actually represented a three-fold increase over the previous year. It was not, by any stretch of the imagination, a “slash” in the budget.

The Washington Post has not yet corrected this mistake, which resulted in The New York Times running the same mistake today

(This is an outrage. It is my hope this will all back-fire and  see Gov. Sarah Palin  become the first woman VP in our history.)

 (Below is part of report which was posted on the Drudge Report.)

OPRAH'S STATEMENT: "The item in today's Drudge Report is categorically untrue. There has been absolutely no discussion about having Sarah Palin on my show. At the beginning of this Presidential campaign when I decided that I was going to take my first public stance in support of a candidate, I made the decision not to use my show as a platform for any of the candidates. I agree that Sarah Palin would be a fantastic interview, and I would love to have her on after the campaign is over."

Oprah Winfrey may have introduced Democrat Barack Obama to the women of America -- but the talkshow queen is not rushing to embrace the first woman on a Republican presidential ticket!

Oprah's staff is sharply divided on the merits of booking Sarah Palin, sources tell the DRUDGE REPORT.

"Half of her staff really wants Sarah Palin on," an insider explains. "Oprah's website is getting tons of requests to put her on, but Oprah and a couple of her top people are adamantly against it because of Obama."

(Oprah has a right to put on her show whoever she wants to. However I had to laugh at her remark that  she was not  going to  let her show be used   as a platform for any of the candidates. What did she do when she had Obama on? Did they give sport scores?  Does this mean she will fight the fairness doctrine with those of us from the right? Don't bank on it.Read more on this news item   right here.)

 

 

I am extremely disappointed in the choice of Sarah Palin as the Vice Presidential candidate of the Republican Party. 

(Who wrote the above? Someone from the left? Nope sit down for this it was radio talk host Dr. Laura. Read more of what Dr. Laura wrote below.)

 I will still vote for Senator McCain, because I am very concerned about having a fundamental leftist, especially one who is a marvelous orator, as President.

At first, I thought it amusing that McCain picked a pretty, smart, and tough female to counter the racist/sexist accusations going back and forth between parties.  I remember how Oprah Winfrey got caught in the cross-fire as she stepped up to the political table to support Obama with pride that a black man could rise to such heights in the USA, only to get slammed by feminists who told her it was gender, not race, that she should back.  Understandably, Ms. Winfrey pulled back from it all.

I’m stunned - couldn’t the Republican Party find one competent female with adult children to run for Vice President with McCain?   I realize his advisors probably didn’t want a “mature” woman, as the Democrats keep harping on his age.  But really, what kind of role model is a woman whose fifth child was recently born with a serious issue, Down Syndrome, and then goes back to the job of Governor within days of the birth?

(I very much respect Dr. Laura. I even listen to her radio program from time to time.  Her love for children does bless my socks off. However this time Dr. Laura is wrong. I agree with Dr. Laura for the most part mothers should stay home with young children but there are times when that is not possible. If I understand things right Sarah Palin's husband is able to spend a lot of time at home with the children.  Perhaps politics is like the church world where we shoot our own. If you like to read the whole blog posting by Dr. Laura go here.   )