Is David Letterman a Pervert?

Is Letterman a pervert, or merely fighting for attention?

Just asking, is all…

Sometimes, with Hollywood has-beens it's a little hard to tell.

Speak, Sarah, Speak!

Sarah Palin is the most effective spokesperson the McCain campaign has. The camera loves her, even more so than it does Senator Obama.

The campaign should immediately purchase 30 minutes of network time to allow Gov. Palin to speak to America directly. She's guaranteed an enormous audience, to which she can speak without interference from media gatekeepers, without filters, without film on the cutting room floor.

Sarah Palin can do more, reach more people in one 30-minute shot on the networks than in skipping around from airport to airport from now until election day.

She is a transformative communicator, let Sarah speak.

Let her reach out, touch America.

Smart Money: The Best Campaign Expenditure Ever

There are thousands of ways to spend campaign dollars. Most have no discernible effect. A very few, fewer than a handful, have made history and are remembered long after the yard signs have faded into shredding pastels.

The decision by the RNC to invest $150,000 in Sarah Palin's wardrobe was the smartest expenditure of the Republican campaign.

Photo courtesy of RightFighter at Free Republic.

Governor Palin is a thoughtful, assertive and articulate spokesperson for John McCain's campaign, the Republican party and conservatism. She generates excitement with every appearance and is easily as attractive a speaker as Senator Obama, who once spent more than $5 million on atmospherics for a single forgettable and already forgottent speech. Whatever funds are spent packaging Gov. Palin for the media are dollars well spent. She need not apologize, most especially not to members of the legacy media whose every pose is supported by roomfuls of pollsters, analysts and cosmetic artists.

Whoever is responsible for the decision to spend money on Sarah Palin deserves a promotion for helping to save McCain's campaign at a time when it needed real help.

Catholic One Day a Week

Whether politicians are Catholic or Jew, Hindu, Buddhist, Muslim or Mormon, Baptist or Anabaptist matters to me less than the number of days a week they practice their religion.

Selective faith, convenient faith, faith that minds the clock and the calendar is less than no faith at all.


Faith doesn't fit the person, the person attempts to fit the faith.

More politicians need to learn that the goal is not to claim God for one's own, but to claim one's own for God.

This is a Pig, That's a Pit Bull

Senator Obama, we know you're a long ways from country roads. It's understandable that you might not have the clearest understanding of animal life. You're obviously a little confused between a couple of them. Here's a basic course to help you along.

Senator, this is a pig. He's a cute little thing, but will eventually grow into a couple hundred pounds of bacon and ribs.
You might enjoy him for breakfast or dinner.

This, on the other hand, is a pit bull. But be careful.


Sarah might enjoy you for breakfast or dinner.

UPDATE: And Senator, this is the hockey mom who can act like a pit bull.



So don't you be sayin' nasties 'bout her no more, ya hear?

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By the way, be careful what you say about the lipstick. She likes to wear a bit from time to time.

Glass Ceiling or Glass Jaw, They Both Shatter

The prospect of Sarah Palin breaking a glass ceiling is interesting, of course, but should have been fully anticipated. The odds that Americans would avoid electing a qualified woman to one or more of the two highest offices in government have been decreasing for nearly 30 years.

The actual deed has only been awaiting the right woman.

The presumption among the chattering class has all along been that the first would be one of their own. Mrs. Clinton came close but it will be Mrs. Palin, she of Wal-Mart, the PTA and NRA, who accomplishes the task. When it is done, nearly all the pundits will say "no big deal," and in a sense they'll be right. What the most elite of them will miss is that it really isn't gender that makes the difference; it's not the gender in the candidate but the quality in the gender.

Mrs. Palin will be elected not because she is a woman but because she is the first woman qualified to lead to have scrambled up from the political farm teams, the governorships. She is more qualified for leadership than Senator Clinton. She is more qualified than Senators Obama and Biden. More qualified than the other short-list Republicans.

She is in fact, to coin a phrase, the best man for the job.

The shards of glass falling from the ceiling are less noteworthy than the shards falling from Senator Obama's shattered jaw. As I wrote in March, Barack Obama cannot take hits. He really cannot see himself making errors. He cannot learn. He is frozen in charismatic victimology. Once Governor Palin pointed out that the wizard's voice from behind the curtain was enhanced, that the man who would be emperor had no clothes, the course of history became defined.

The Democratic party has nominated a fantasy for its candidate. Sarah Palin pointed that out. She swung with a right cross and connected. Her opponent may stagger around the ring for a bit, but the match is over and it really wasn't much of a match. One swing from an all-American woman.

Unfortunately, Mrs. Palin will in future years receive less credit than she will deserve. Leftists will comment on the weaknesses of their candidate, the aberrations of the longest political contest in modern memory and wonder how such an unqualified candidate survived so completely unvetted by the process.

They will talk of reforms, but they won't make any.

Geraldine Ferraro, the Democratic candidate for vice president 24 years ago, says that no major political candidate has ever mentioned her historic role until Sarah Palin thanked her and Mrs. Clinton in last week's acceptance speech.

Mrs. Ferraro, a lifelong Democrat, is not commenting on her vote this year.

Obama Cries "Mercy"

We had a bully or two in my eighth grade more than half a lifetime ago, guys who were bigger and stronger and meaner than most, and ill-tempered. To get their way among their classmates or those younger, they used intimidation when possible, force when necessary. There were two ways other students could respond to Mike and Tim: win a fight with one of them, or cry "Mercy" loud enough for all around to hear. Those who fought were not bothered further, while those who caved would have to go through it all over again and again.

Yesterday, while enjoying a $30,000 per plate lunch with 100 of his working class friends at Bon Jovi's house, Barack Obama made a few comments to his companions before sitting down to the delicious arugula salad. He prompted my memories of Mike and Tim swaggering through St. Elizabeth's playground when he promised his audience, "We're not going to be bullied!"

The senator is reputed to be quite a wordsmith and a speaker without peer, but what kind of candidate, what sort of president promises not to be bullied? For Pete's sake, his election opponents are a 72-year man who can't lift his arms above his own shoulders and a 44-year old mother of five. He's a Chicago pol, the leader of the largest political party in the country, his wife is forged steel and he's surrounded 24/7 by Secret Service agents.

"We're not going to be bullied." Not exactly the language of a profile in courage.

If there are no deeds, then man must live or die by his words alone.

Sarah Palin Turns The World On With Her Smile

A political star is born as Sarah Palin Turns On The World With Her Smile




This is the magic that will change the election, the party and the future of conservatism.

Is Sarah Palin America's Margaret Thatcher?

We were fortunate once to spend the evening of her birthday with Lady Margaret Thatcher, with quiet cocktails after a rousing speech. I'm afraid we may have offended her with our rendition of the birthday ditty when we closed with, "Happy birthday dear Maggie, happy birthday to you." She looked more than a little shocked, her single security agent looked as though he might faint at the too-easy familiarity. Be that as it may, it was my first exposure to a line she apparently repeated frequently:

In politics, if you want anything said, ask a man; if you want anything done, ask a woman.

I can easily imagine her saying something similar about Sarah Palin. While the pundits, the beltway's political paparazzi and elites chatter over what they call her lack of experience and tut-tut over Palin's failure to meet their exacting standards—I hear she's never even been invited on Meet the Press, don't you know!—Governor Palin stands out from the crowd for actually having done while others talked.

She's been Ginger Rogers, dancing in step in high heels for ten years, while Barack Obama was sitting off stage, humming the tune and telling all who might listen that he is Fred Astaire.

H/T to Donald Rumsfeld Fan at Free Republic for the photo.

Or, as Lady Thatcher might have observed of the Democrat candidate

If you just set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.

First Photo: Sarah Palin with Joe Biden

Here's the very first photo of Governor Sarah Palin together with Senator Joe Biden, taken immediately after their first debate.

Biden's the one hanging on the back of the sofa.

The little guy in front? A crab called Messiah. Just an appetizer for the Barracuda.

On the East Coast, they define "mean" as the way you talk.

Westerners have a little take on the meaning of the word.

Alaska: Coldest State, Hottest Governor

There's been much discussion of the female voters who might find the Republican ticket more attractive with the addition of Alaska Governor Sarah Palin to the team.

Less well covered is her potential for attracting men who, faced with a choice of listening to (and looking at) Joe Biden or Sarah Palin, will vote with their eyes and hope that in her new role she spends little time in undisclosed secure locations and plenty of time on TV.

The mysogynists among us, who seem over-concentrated in New York media and liberal elites, will object that she obviously can't be smart enough or tough enough to play with the boys on an equal basis. This is where they make the error that keeps on giving. Whether with women or with minorities, they presume that skills and abilities are not enough to explain success.

This is where Barack Obama and Joe Biden are particularly at risk. Their arrogance drives them to believe much of themselves and less of everyone else, especially those they define as disadvantaged. By selecting Governor Sarah Palin, John McCain will attract the attention of voters to the McCain-Palin ticket, a team populated by real people with real accomplishments.

If I were John McCain, I'd make an effort to have her standing alongside for every major media event.

The Barracuda Empties The Pool

There's plenty of reason for Senator Obama to be upset. He delivers the speech of his life in a setting that cost millions of dollars to build and took months to plan and prepare in front of 80,000 cheering fans.

Then, in less than 12 hours, he's old news. All the air has been sucked from the room, TV correspondents left slack-jawed, newspaper publishers wishing they hadn't laid off quite so many reporters.

Sarah "The Barracuda" Palin, Governor of Alaska, has set the news cycle, not just for the day but, in conjunction with the convention in St. Paul, for the next week.

I haven't particularly cared for John McCain as a prospective president but the brilliance of his selection is impossible to overstate. In one fell swoop he has electrified his base, garnered real attention from Hillary supporters, solidified his reputation as an agent of real change in Washington, steered the Republican Party in a truly new direction and generated millions of dollars of free publicity.

Wow. Just wow.