Could not have said it better myself!
I am mad as hell and I am not taking it anymore!

Could not have said it better myself!
I am mad as hell and I am not taking it anymore!

My thoughts exactly!

I’m quite positive that your exact feelings are echoed all across small town America. I know they are where I live, which is a really small town full of hard-working people whose children are their top priority and who find what the media and Obama’s campaign are doing to Bristol Palin and her mom to be revolting beyond belief.

It’s gonna blow up all over their faces and BOY! do they deserve it. Write more, you’re good at it!

I am whole-heartedly with you Mathew. I donated for the very first time today and am considering a sign in my yard as well as a bumper sticker too. The dems are going to overplay this because the Palin pick did wake the giant up but the dems and media have now made the giant ticked off. Not a good place to be for the dems just watch.

crowd anymore. Are you?

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I was luke warm about McCain and just didn’t feel energized enough to make a contribution, be it time or money. Now I can’t wait to get out there and help get him elected. I made my first donation to his campaign the night of Palin’s speech with more to come as money allows. I now have something to vote for rather than just against.

Especially your point:

We put Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, and George W. Bush in the White House. That isn’t a stretch. Had it not been for small town, rural, church going, gun carrying, conservative America, we would be talking about President’s Humphrey, Mondale, and Gore.

I love what you’re saying–100%.

But I think that a little caution is also in order regarding the significance of Palin, and I don’t think that we conservatives should make of her yet what liberals have made of Obama–the great hope that will lead us out of the wilderness.

I can’t believe I’m using this word after it’s been so abused by Obama, but I HOPE she’s what seems to be. She still needs to prove herself in many ways–the debates, her interactions with a hostile press, and (hopefully) her translation of what she seems to represent into meaningful government action.

I’m not trying to be a downer, but it’s just not in my conservative nature to latch onto heroes before I’ve been through some battles with them!

I’m another person in the pissed off Small Town America category.

I was in the lukewarm “McCain only because Obama is NOT a good choice” category. I am now in the red hot “McCain’s second in command is just like me and will get things done” category!

Media have made a blatant error in ticking us off! Sleeping giant indeed!

I never contributed money a presidental campaign before until now. This is a first for me… in fact, I’ve contributed twice already. Im from a small town of about 400 people in Pennsylvania, and its people like these all across this country that will put McCain Palin in the White House.

Somewhere on here I read the suggestion that when you see this rag US magazine (with a cover picture of Palin and the words “Babies, Lies and Scandals)while standing in the grocery store line, pick up all of the copies and put them in the toilet paper display. I proudly did just that yesterday at the grocery store! I also loved when Meghan Kelly interviewed the author of the article and literally ripped him a new one. All he could do was pick up the Democratic ploy and lie and stutter!

Great blog! I have never contributed money to a campaign up until now either. Now I plan on giving again and volunteering at my local McCain headquarters. I was going to vote for McCain already but his selection of Palin has really lit a fire and I have never felt so enthuastic about an election. Or letting my Conservative colors show even more than before.

I am from a small town. Small town values make up who I am… they led me to God. They carried me through college, through graduate school, throug the first seven years of my marriage, through the birth of my two sons. I don’t live in a small town anymore, but as the old saying goes, you can take the boy out of the small town…

I am America. Not the America you hear about on television, but the America that goes to work everyday, operates the crane, runs the small business, turns the wrench, goes to church, reads their kid a story every night, and wakes up every morning thanking God that she said yes. I believe the difference between right and wrong is a solid black line. I am a Christian, a conservative, a Republican. I am pro-life, pro-gun, pro-growth, and anti-taxes.

I have a question…you say “I am America,” implying that someone like you - Christian, conservative, from a small town, etc. represents the real America. Why do you say that you represent the real America rather than, say, someone living in NYC, or Los Angeles, or on a farm, or in the suburbs (or according to the media, a 58-year old Catholic woman living in the Philly suburbs in PA who was a big Hillary fan and lifelong Dem but has questions about Obama)…you say you have small town values, and I don’t doubt that, but people from other places have values from those places as well and I don’t see why one set of values should be better in some sense than another.

Also, as a liberal I must say that I don’t care about Sarah Palin’s family, beyond wishing them well like anyone else’s family…I do have questions about her, like trying to get earmarks for her city and supporting the Bridge to Nowhere and the Jews-for-Jesus guy coming to her church. Also the firing her brother in law thing. For all that stuff I need to hear more about it, and it is possible that when I hear all the facts she’ll be exonerated from most of that stuff, but I do wish the media would spend time on that stuff and not Bristol Palin.

“I have a question…you say “I am America,” implying that someone like you - Christian, conservative, from a small town, etc. represents the real America. Why do you say that you represent the real America rather than, say, someone living in NYC, or Los Angeles”

I read it as “I am America, too.” He does not state that he represents the “real” America. I went back and looked.

He is stating that there are lots of us out here that live in flyover country. We are a usually happy and content bunch because of how we live (even if we no longer live in a small town) but the press is attacking one of our own, mostly for being one of our own, and we don’t like that.

I was raised in a small town and now live in a Midwestern city. I will be putting a McCain/Palin bumper sticker on my new hybrid car and a sign in my yard at my peril. I fully expect the sign to be stolen but I don’t care.

I have also sent in a donation to the McCain/Palin website. Something I wouldn’t have done if Governor Sarah Palin hadn’t been added to the ticket.

I spent last night at a charity rock concert talking politics and sharing my views. I think I may have persuaded a few of my friends who were fence sitting. That’s what I will be doing from now until November 4th. I had been planning to sheepishly vote for Obama but now I am proudly voting for McCain/Palin.

Piss me off and I don’t get mad, I get busy.

Oh, I’m an agnostic, independent, but as I said, I grew up in a small town. The things you worry about Governor Palin pale in comparison to issues that have been raised about Obama, but as a former, though weak, supporter, I know how easy it is to push all of that out of your mind. I did it for a while but then it hit me, he’s hiding more than he’s sharing. That’s not what I want in a president.

America First! You said it all, about who american’s are, they way we feel, the way we think, and the hard work we do to be part of this country. So many of us are You!

Thank you.

An excellent post identifying those values that have made America great. I would like to add that small town values are not just found in small towns. I was born and raised in Chicago, and although I no longer live there, I have family and friends who do. They also share those values and will be voting Republican (even though it won’t be enough to change Illinois from blue to red).

There are many such people in large cities. We need to find ways to increase those numbers, to show those who are not wedded to the extreme left that what has made America great will benefit them, not the patriarchical policies of the left.

“Sarah Palin means something to me. For the first time I relate to a candidate on the national ticket.”
This poster nailed it.
I live almost in the absolute center of the USA. My Post Office has a Zip Code dead center.
The Local Democrats here, blush when the Republicans mention Sarah. They get it.
The Far Left Coasts, both East and West will continue to wallow in their self delusionment, except for New Hampshire, they get it. Lo and behold, even Latte Liberals in Vermont are getting it.
Hillary gets it. She won’t touch Sara with a ten foot pole of rhetoric.
Every little town from Michigan to Florida, gets it. Yes, there will be diehards who get it, but still vote as thier Fathers did.
Sadly, these diehards will be the first to get it, in the neck, when the Four Freedoms are blatantly discarded by the Obama Oval Office Sofa Sitters, if he should be elected.
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A friend who’s an Obama supporter likes to remind me that Sarah Palin was a mayor of a city of “only” 9000 and she’s the governor of a state with one of the smallest populations in America, so therefore she’s no real leader. I love reminding him of how our VP nominee is still more qualified than his presidential nominee who’s never led ANYTHING except his own campaign.

n/t.

{…although he did have a point about the site being sluggish. Believe us, we know. - Moe Lane}

I too am thrilled with the pick and energized. Moreover, now that I understand the trials and tribulations of John McCain, I have grown to respect and admire him. The giant you talk about, however, resides all over America, in big towns and small. It’s the American spirit that pioneered a continent, gained independence from tyranny, survived a bloody civil war, spilled its blood on foreign soils, and who sent men to the moon. This is the spirit of quiet resilience, deep humility, overwhelming generosity, self-sacrifice, and an abiding unfaltering faith. Yes the giant slumbers, but it appears to have been awakened by a modern day Esther, and with her Mordecai.

Well said Sir.

I’m waiting for my stickers and yard sign myself!

rules the world. And she’s a true conservative to boot. Thanks Matthew.

Well said Mathew. You speak to the heart of many of us in small town America.

McCain’s pick of Sarah Palin has made me proud to be a Republican again…not just a conservative.

Thank God for small town America, being from California it is a lil tough, its as if we are a given for the dems. Well for what its worth, just about every person I come in contact with, and breach the subject, are pro McCain/Palin. I want to know where all the Obama supporters are in CA, and then say to them, “wake up” !! I think John McCain has the best chance of helping this country become truly UNITED like we are supposed to be! I feel like its the Divided States of America! I see more democrats and independants who are starting to wake up thank I see Republicans saying, “Oh, yeah Obama” It was a trip seeing the “democrat” Lieberman speak at the RNC, thats what Im talking about, lets try and become UNITED again! like we were for a short period of time after 9/11, remember? Or like we were after WWII for a longer period of time!

savesarahpalin.com - Children First.

The base loves Sarah, and that is certainly not going to change between now and election day. She has brought the base back home.

But this won’t win the election for McCain-Palin. They need more.

The real question is, how will independents react to Palin? Right now independents have either given Gov. Palin their tentative approval, or they are still undecided- waiting to learn more about her record. So, the jury is still out.

The base is not giant enough to win the election for McCain-Palin. Again, the real question over time will be, how will independents react to Palin?