EDITOR’S NOTE – THE STATE CRA HAS ENDORSED JOHN MCCAIN – THE REPUBLICAN NOMINEE FOR PRESIDENT. WE TOLERATE DISSENT AS SOME IN THE CRA REFUSE TO ACCEPT SOME GOP NOMINEES FOR OFFICE. HOWEVER, THE BELOW POST IS BY A MEMBER OF THE PLACER CRA AND IS NOT AN ENDORSEMENT OF BOB BARR OR ANY OTHER MARGINAL CANDIDATE BY THE PLACER CRA.

THE BY-LAWS OF THE CRA ARE CLEAR ON THIS ISSUE.

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“Democrats may be blasting Sarah Palin as a doctrinaire conservative, and Republicans may be embracing her for the same reason, but her husband and oldest son are independents.

Todd Palin, husband of the Alaska governor, hasn’t been affiliated with a party since he first registered to vote while he was in his early 20s, in 1989 — the year after he married Sarah Palin. And Track Palin, their 19-year-old son, registered as undeclared when he became eligible to vote last year.

Track Palin has yet to vote, according to the Division of Elections, while Bristol Palin, his 17-year-old sister, is not yet eligible to vote.”

So, I guess you “conservatives” now supporting the McCain ticket have got to ask yourselves, did McCain really do a good job in his background checking.

Sure, Gov. Palin is a plain speaking, hard nosed, Governor, but does being a “hockey mom” and having 5 kids really make you a good leader? Will taking on your kids PTA members going to qualify you to sit with the heads of state in North Korea, Russia and China? Condie Rice was basically laughed out of Europe as her role as Secretary of State and she’s a force to rekon with. What happens when Gov. Palin’s youngest kid gets sick in the middle of a major crisis, is she going to file for parental leave? Or will her union card carrying, oil drilling operator husband play nanny for the next 4-8 years? And what’s with the names of those kids, they sound more like the names of Jerry Brown’s kids than a “good family woman’s.”

All we hear from Sean Hannity and the other talking heads who read from the RNC talking points is that her experience is at the same level or better than Obamas. Does that really matter? Is that what they believe is going to get a solid Conservative voter to vote for McCain, a life long moderate who not only considered having a pro-abortion Governor on his ticket, but also a pro-abortion Democrat. McCain went so far (as I outlined in a previous post) as to change the GOP platform. He wanted to soften the party’s stand on border control and doesn’t want off shore drilling. Do you really believe Gov Palin will have any influence over stubborn McCain in trying to drill in ANWR?

We’ll see how well this plays out for McCain, but I would have rather seen a senior level statesperson with a solid conservative voting record fill out this ticket. But I don’t believe it would have convinced me to vote for McCain over Bob Barr, who does have a very good voting record on Second Amendment rights, illegal immigration, civil liberties and lower taxes.

Normally the AP is pathetically biased in their articles.

This article features touching picutres of Homosexual couples crying over being able to get married today. It is as if they have been emancipated or if this is some huge civil rights victory.

Of course, every socially progressive event usually occurs at the expense of religious freedom.

Read this article and note the theme – courts in the Northeast are furthering the discrimination against the Church in favor of homosexuals. It looks like we are right back to discriminating against one group to correct perceived wrongs against another…

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This is positively scary… the Church should now be on the endangered species list.

It should give everyone pause that the Homosexual community and their supporters need to advance their cause at the expense of the Church.

This is great news to those of us on the right who can’t stand voting for McCain in any election!

“Former US congressman Bob Barr on Monday announced plans to run for president on the Libertarian Party’s ticket, in a move some analysts say could hurt Republican presumptive nominee John McCain.
“My name is Bob Barr and I’m a candidate for the presidency of the United States of America,” said the former Republican lawmaker, who played a key role in the congressional impeachment of former president Bill Clinton.

Barr said he was running because there was not “currently or anywhere on the horizon” any candidate who understood the principles of fiscal conservatism and basic principles on which he said America was founded.”

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