Donny Deutsch on Sarah Palin

I saw this segment live last week on CNBC. Donny Deutsch, ad agency maven, speaks about Sarah Palin's raw, primal, sexual allure.

The reason I found this so interesting is that, when I happened to catch the audio in the room next to my office, and walked in to watch the segment, I was fully prepared for the extent of Donny's remarks.

Having been a marketing student in both undergraduate and graduate school, I am well aware of the sociological and psychological bases of many marketing and advertising themes and propositions.

In fact, Donny directly and explicitly addressed the sexual component of Sarah Palin's appeal that Erin Burnett only referred to obliquely, using the first and last letters of the acronym MILF.

But I was not at all surprised that Deutsch described Palin as a 'seminal moment' in American politics. Further, he finally explained, without mentioning her, why Hillary was unable to leverage her gender.

She's simply not attractive. And if a woman is going to be powerful, female, and successful in politics, she needs to be both of the first two. Hillary adopted male trappings.

Sarah Palin is unabashedly running as an attractive uber-woman. Physically attractive, organizationally powerful, professionally successful and a mother, too.

I love the fact that Deutsch, simply following his professional instincts and nature, addressed all the themes present in Sarah Palin's attractiveness without flinching, hiding anything, nor beating around the bush.

Biden's History of Wrong Foreign Policy Positions

Much has been made by Democrats of "Lying Joe" Biden's alleged experience on foreign policy.

A recent Wall Street Journal piece sets the record straight. Among the choice observations provided by the author, Peter Wehner, a former deputy assistant to President George W. Bush, and current senior fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center, are,

"Mrs. Palin's lack of mastery of national security issues is often contrasted with Mr. Obama's vice presidential pick, Joseph Biden Jr. Mr. Biden has served in the Senate since 1973, is currently chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, and is often described as a "statesman."

In fact, decade after decade and on important issue after important issue, Mr. Biden's judgment has been deeply flawed.

In the 1970s, Mr. Biden opposed giving aid to the South Vietnamese government in its war against the North. Congress's cut-off of funds contributed to the fall of an American ally, helped communism advance, and led to mass death throughout the region. Mr. Biden also advocated defense cuts so massive that both Edmund Muskie and Walter Mondale, both leading liberal Democrats at the time, opposed them.

In the early 1980s, the U.S. was engaged in a debate over funding the Contras, a group of Nicaraguan freedom fighters attempting to overthrow the Communist regime of Daniel Ortega. Mr. Biden was a leading opponent of President Ronald Reagan's efforts to fund the Contras.

Throughout his career, Mr. Biden has consistently opposed modernization of our strategic nuclear forces. He was a fierce opponent of Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative. Mr. Biden voted against funding SDI, saying, "The president's continued adherence to [SDI] constitutes one of the most reckless and irresponsible acts in the history of modern statecraft." Mr. Biden has remained a consistent critic of missile defense and even opposed the U.S. dropping out of the Antiballistic Missile Treaty after the collapse of the Soviet Union (which was the co-signatory to the ABM Treaty) and the end of the Cold War.

In 1990, Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait and, we later learned, was much closer to attaining a nuclear weapon than we had believed. President George H.W. Bush sought war authorization from Congress. Mr. Biden voted against the first Gulf War, asking: "What vital interests of the United States justify sending Americans to their deaths in the sands of Saudi Arabia?"

In 2006, after having voted three years earlier to authorize President George W. Bush's war to liberate Iraq, Mr. Biden argued for the partition of Iraq, which would have led to its crack-up. Then in 2007, Mr. Biden opposed President Bush's troop surge in Iraq, calling it a "tragic mistake." It turned out to be quite the opposite. Without the surge, the Iraq war would have been lost, giving jihadists their most important victory ever.

On many of the most important and controversial issues of the last four decades, Mr. Biden has built a record based on bad assumptions, misguided analyses and flawed judgments. If he had his way, America would be significantly weaker, allies under siege would routinely be cut loose, and the enemies of the U.S. would be stronger.

There are few members of Congress whose record on national security matters can be judged, with the benefit of hindsight, to be as consistently bad as Joseph Biden's."

It's difficult to add to Mr. Wehner's own piece, so powerful and complete is it in cataloging Joe Biden's misguided votes, words and deeds in the US foreign policy arena.

When this do-nothing windbag from Delaware has expressed any opinions on foreign affairs, he has uniformly been wrong.

And this is the rookie Illinois Senator's new bulwark and resource for foreign policy on the Democratic Presidential ticket?

Lord, save us if these clowns win in November.

The Liberal Media Attempts To Crucify Sarah Palin

In the scant few days since Sarah Palin was announced as John McCain's VP choice for the Republican party Presidential ticket, the liberal media has exploded in an orgy of outrage that conservatives would dare to nominate a woman to the GOP ticket.

Rather than celebrate Palin's multi-tasking accomplishments as wife, mother and governor of Alaska, as they unquestionably would, the liberal media is now questioning whether the mother of a Down's syndrome infant can effectively serve as VP.

Rather than focus on Palin's accomplishments in moving up the governing ladder in Alaska, while unseating corrupt Republican politicians and elected office-holders, they castigate her for being so, well, normal.

Maybe what the left meant when they celebrated Hillary Clinton's candidacy was that only elitist women from prominent East Coast colleges, with law degrees and Washington pedigrees, are acceptable female candidates for our nation's highest offices.

Working her way up as mayor of her hometown, then governor of her home state, as Sarah Palin has, is not acceptable in the liberal Democratic playbook. It simply doesn't count.

Like the rookie Illinois Senator, style and form are infinitely more important than the fact that you haven't actually accomplished anything while in the public sector. Neither Obama nor Hillary have actually made a difference to Americans with their work in the Senate. The freshman from Illinois didn't do much for his state's citizens, either. Nor for his constituents in the manner of protecting them from the graft and corruption of the Chicago machine which he tolerated and accommodated.

Seeing an actual example of a successful woman in government, the liberal media is simply enraged that she is Republican, a reformer, and possessing a fairly normal life and family.

It's as if, though they won't actually print or say this, the liberal and their media lapdogs mean,

"How can a non-elitist woman from a state outside the lower 48, i.e., a bumpkin from the hinterlands, possibly be a serious candidate for VP, and, if necessary, ready to be President?

As Dick Armey said on CNBC this morning, I'd take a two-year sitting governor and former town mayor over a windbage Senator- or two- any day.

It takes a lot of skill to successfully operate a city as mayor. Governors have to make things work. They can't get away with merely punching in on the Senate floor, making a few speeches for the cameras, and ducking off to fundraisers. And maybe, occasionally, even showing up to vote on typically dead-end legislation.

In my opinion, the outraged squawking you hear from the liberal Democrats and their media allies are evidence of just how good Sarah Palin is as McCain's choice for VP. I think the liberals are running scared. Very scared.

That women might vote for another women, regardless of party. When it was Hillary, that was okay. Now, with Palin, it's not.

That independent and swing Democrat voters might vote for a proven reformer with a track record of accomplishments in real governing jobs, rather than a freshman windbag Senator.

Yes, the noise you hear in the media is of anguish and fear. They rightly worry that McCain has outmaneuvered Obama in selecting a much more competent, experienced and capable running mate than "Lying Joe" Biden.

One that will actually attract more voters to his ticket in November.

Biden As VP?

My worst fear is coming true. Word has it that Delaware's- and perhaps the world's- greatest plagiarist, Joe Biden, is the leading candidate to be the junior Illinois Senator's pick for VP.

What has the world come to? A totally inexperienced, empty-suited Democratic candidate for President and a confirmed plagiarist and general idiot as his running mate?

I knew Peggy Noonan had finally gone around the bend when I read her approval of Biden as VP in her Wall Street Journal editorial this past weekend. She actually thinks he has 'foreign policy experience.' Really?

How so? Sitting on a Senate committee means little. Look at Biden's prospective boss, Obama. He's chair of a Senate foreign policy committee and hasn't even held a hearing. He's been too busy climbing the political ladder before the magic dust wears off of voters and they see him for the fraud that he is.

Perhaps, though, Biden as candidate for VP on the Democratic ticket is actually a good thing. Maybe with him on the lower half of the ticket, voters will see the Democrats as clearly offering inexperience, lies and bad ideas for the White House and our country.

As long as McCain doesn't pick a complete bozo, he's probably got the edge.

I mean, between barely-intelligible sound bites from Biden, and his rich and acknowledged history of stealing other peoples' words, how can he possibly be an asset to any ticket?