Sarah Palin (Alaska Gov) McCain's VP

[ajmccarrell]

Originally Posted by BombaySapphire3

Welcome back AJM!And we actually agree on something !W is a lame ineffective President.I also agree that Palin has a bigger set than him and is just crazy and ruthless enough to try and push a far right agenda even though if she did end up Pres ,Congress and the Senate will not be Repub.I can understand why she is the evangelical right's wet dream with such nutty statement's as "God wants Alaska to have a pipeline" ..really that sounds like something Osama Bin Laden would say except substituting Alaska for Afghanistan or some such.As I was watching the RNC I could not help but notice that the vast majority of the delegates were middle aged or older white folks with a sparse smattering of strategically placed minorites.That party and the neo con movement's days are numbered and Palin just may well be their last best hope..A hope which I would love to see go down in flames.

I think what McCain did is pick a female Obama. I also find it tacky when people say that God wants them to do something or another. I wish people would keep stuff like that to themselves. If you believe God wants you to do something, that's all well and fine, but it just marginalizes you and leaves your statement up to moral equivocations like the one you pointed out.

I think what you're noticing is that conservatives have much less flexible work hours than their liberal counterparts, so you are more likely to see older retireees at the convention. It also depends on what network you were watching. CNN and Fox both displayed a nice mix of races, whereas MSNBC did everything they could to film old people or people that looked like wackos. I used to temp a lot for the first 3 or 4 years of my career in accounting and I would often be contracted to non-profits and other businesses that are left leaning. One thing that they all had in common was that their time-off policies were very flexible. I currently work for two Canadian liberals now and they wouldn't have a problem if I left for a convention, but I have to think that my conservative bretheren and "sisteren" would have a harder time leaving, as conservatives are more likely to be self-employed or are shift-workers, demographically. That's why there are few conservative protests besides retired vets, as most of us can't leave work. We even studied the phenomenon in my undergraduate Statistics course, as polls taken during the day swing left and polls taken at night are closer to reality. It's also no secret that minorities lean democratic, especially when the first minority nominee is running for president. The black community, according to the last statistics I heard were leaning Obama by some 91%.

I've always thought "Neo-Con" was a veiled racist term for "Jewish Conservative". I generally only hear that term from the people who call in Michael Medved's "Conspiracy Day" program every full-moon and allege that our country is really lead by the Protocalls of the Elders of Zion or some such nonsense, or I hear the term from terrorists themselves.