It is unimaginable to this writer that any government would compel a conscientiously objecting physician, nurse or pharmacist to participate in the abortion of an unborn child, even when the government in question were under the control of pro-choice leadership. (more…)
This brief article, which you can quite safely skip, offers no deep or especially noteworthy commentary today. It merely remarks briefly on the latest presidential debate.
I told you that Joe Biden was good. Sister Sarah unfortunately was not so good. Is it too early to report the quick end of Sarah Palin’s meteoric national career?
And is it too early confidently to forecast Barack Obama’s elevation to the presidency January 20, 2009?
HJH
Candor compels one to admit that Sarah Palin has not yet nearly measured up to the hopes we conservative American traditionalists have wanted to invest in her. Mrs. Palin still has time. It may be that her poor recent national interview performances reflect little more than her unfamiliarity with and consequent discomfort with her new political role. However—if we are candid—we will admit that though Mrs. Palin has not done much to damage our trust she also has not yet done much to vindicate it.
Barack Obama, the new, improved George McGovern, won yesterday evening’s Mississippi debate against John McCain. Mr. Obama won comfortably. It was not even close. (more…)
Like many of you, this writer has unexpectedly strong and favorable feelings toward the national advent of Sarah Palin. We shall now see whether she lives up to her promise but—it must be said—hers has been a smashing debut, has it not?
So much interesting commentary on Mrs. Palin however has flooded the Web from every possible perspective in recent days that it seems superfluous for this writer now to add his own views, which are, essentially, that Mrs. Palin seems to be one of us, and that this is something to celebrate. I will say this, however: after a decade of unremitting national slide, things are finally turning our way. We beat that juggernaut of an immigration bill so unexpectedly last year. The U.S. Supreme Court now has four justices of such excellence that even our nation’s founders would approve. And now comes Alaska’s finest, the Blast from the North, Sarah Barracuda.
The planets are lining up. God still loves this country. He seems to be giving us one last chance.
HJH
Did you watch or listen to Sarah Palin’s acceptance speech Wednesday evening? If so, then—while the impression is still fresh on your mind—would you please tell me and other readers what you thought?
The question has two parts: (a) how do you feel about the speech and the woman that gave it? (b) how effective do you think the speech and candidate will be electorally? Part (a) interests me the more, but feel free to comment on part (b), too, if you wish.
The Economic Nationalist publishes too irregularly to hold a large audience, so I expect that the conversation here will be relatively intimate, but I very much want to find out how the kind of conservatives that read a blog like this feel about the speech, before the several days of media spin coming have muddled our true first impressions. (I remember Pat Buchanan’s convention speech in 1992. Folks’ reactions the next day did not resemble their media-spun recollections two weeks later.)
Thanks for taking the time to comment below. It is too easy to make unfounded assumptions about what people think. I would rather not do that in this case.
Howard
Sarah Palin? Outside Alaska, we do not know much about her as yet. Internet rumor (which this blog now irresponsibly repeats) has it that she might actually be a paleoconservative disciple of The Economic Nationalist’s hero Pat Buchanan. (more…)
The Democratic party on display in Denver is a shambles and a disgrace, a tattered shadow of the once great party of Harry S. Truman and John F. Kennedy. Look at it. What has it to offer normal Americans except mere opposition to the Republicans? (more…)
I am listening to live audio of the Democratic convention. What a party of narcissists, peddling little but phony despair. (Rush Limbaugh ought to have fun with this audio tomorrow.) —HJH—