"YOU PUT YOUR LEFT FOOT IN, AND YOU SHAKE IT ALL ABOUT"...
Was that a straight answer, or "the Hokey Pokey"? In late August we listened to Terry McAuliffe, big Hillary Clinton supporter [and former chair of the Democratic National Committee], jawing with the host of a news program, trying to avoid answering a very pointed question. In the heat of last spring’s nomination battle, Hillary said that Obama didn’t have "experience," but at the Democrat’s convention that August night she talked about experience being "important." The question from the host was, "so what experience does Obama have now that he didn’t have in the spring?"

McAuliffe didn’t look real thrilled over being asked. In fairness to him, he certainly wanted his candidate at the top of that ticket, and was now in a position of having to fall into line for the sake of "party unity." But, he said the Democrats "say things in a primary race to get the nomination" or something to that effect...but that "now" they are "unified." Excuse our bluntness, Terry, but which of her statements is true? Both can’t be!

He also said that "any" Democrat is better than John McCain. Oh, really? The same John McCain that John Kerry tried to get to serve as his running mate? The same John McCain that Joe Biden said would make a good running mate, had he secured the nomination? If "any" Democrat is better than John McCain, then why did Kerry and Biden think he was such a good choice for their VP?

McAuliffe continued on with the "new party line" of this season for Democrats, that electing McCain would be just a "third term" of Bush. What an absurd claim. If John McCain is anything, he is an independent-minded person–that’s why he made some Republicans nervous.

Democrats, you can’t have it both ways. John McCain can’t be that independent-minded, maverick Republican who has drawn the ire of some of the more conservative members of his own party, having been asked to be the VP nominee of your party, and also be the second coming of George W. Bush. Anyone who tries to say McCain is not independent-minded and is simply a stooge of the Bush administration is ignoring reality and has no credibility in our book.

Further evidence of this is John McCain’s selection of Sarah Palin as his running mate. Once again, McCain does the unpredictable, and picks a reformer who probably reminds him of himself in that regard, and someone who is an "outsider" to Washington–which, come to think of it, almost all of us are, also. How nice to have someone much more like us on the ticket, which explains a lot of what you are seeing from Big Media and the Left in terms of trying to ridicule her. They think she is stupid. Well, they think we are stupid, also. They thought Reagan was stupid, too. She’s not "intellectual" enough for them, and didn’t go to the "right" schools. Neither did most of us, and we aren’t going to apologize to the Left or Big Media for any lack of intelligence due to geography or where we were educated.

In our estimation there are plenty of Hillary Clinton supporters who have much more in common with Sarah Palin and John McCain than they do with either Barack Obama or Joe Biden–and, no, we are not talking about race. Senator Clinton is not free to say that, but her supporters are, and several have and have also endorsed McCain/Palin.

Nice try, Terry, but instead of giving us a reason to vote for "your" ticket, all we heard were reasons to vote for the other one–particularly since it’s nominee is that guy your party tried to get on your ticket four years ago.

"And that’s what it’s all about..."