YET ANOTHER REASON FOR PALIN NOT TO SUPPORT MCCAIN

While throwing red meat to conservatives in the form of a keynote speech at the Tea Party convention, Sarah Palin is also preparing to stump for John McCain against J.D. Hayworth in the run-up to the August 24th primary. Hayworth is undoubtedly the preferred candidate among the Tea Party movement, an awkward position for Palin to be in but it's of her own making.

It could be getting even more awkward for the former Alaska Governor in light of John McCain's daughter, Meghan going after the Tea Parties while seeming to imply that her book - due out on August 3rd - is not going to be kind to Palin. I expect the book will be more favorable to her dad than to Palin. One of those indicators is her appearance on ABC's The View.

While being very well received by the table of liberal ladies, Meghan laughed when asked by Barbara Walters what her father would think of Sarah Palin's behavior at the Tea Party convention and told Walters she'd have to wait until her book is released.

Then later in the exchange, daughter McCain basically called Tom Tancredo, who spoke at the convention, a racist. She says that the former congressman's words are indicative of why the younger demographic is "turned off" by the tea party movement. Tancredo was asked to speak at the convention for a reason. His views are aligned with those of the Tea Partiers. By Meghan going after Tancredo, she's also going after the Tea Party movement by extension; those who watched Tancredo did applaud him.

Meghan McCain had access to the campaign in 2008 that she otherwise wouldn't have had if not the daughter of the Arizona senator. She very well could exploit that access to damage a person in Palin who is going to attempt to help Meghan's dad defeat the Tea Party candidate.

VIDEO: WHAT SARAH PALIN SHOULD HAVE SAID

First off, I am not an apologist for Sarah Palin. I have been much more critical and skeptical of her as of late. Until recently, she has been at the top of my short list for 2012. She's no longer there and is increasingly losing stock with me. The biggest burr under my saddle has been her decision to stump for progressive John McCain in the Arizona primary against J.D. Hayworth. In so doing, she has pitted herself against conservatives in that state as well as Sheriff Joe Arpaio in Maricopa county, who is on record as saying he will support Hayworth.

Arpaio and McCain aren't the best of friends and the latter's views on immigration no doubt serve as quite the wedge in that relationship.

I've already written about Palin and McCain in the Arizona primary so I won't go into it here.

With that out of the way.... While appearing on Fox News Sunday, Palin told Chris Wallace that Obama is telling his political opponents - to include the Tea Party movement - to "sit down and shut up". Wallace responded by challenging Palin to point to an example of when he said that.

Via Politico

Pressed by host Chris Wallace to explain where the president is telling Americans to sit down and shut up, Palin said: "Just kind of his general persona, I think, that he has when he's up there at, I'll call it a lectern.

Levying that kind of charge and then not backing it up with specifics made Palin look foolish in my view. That doesn't mean she wasn't right.

She SHOULD have pointed to this....

VIDEO: MUST SEE VIDEO FROM MARINE IN IRAQ

Armed with a .50 Calibur, U.S. sniper Steve Reichert notices that his men are in danger and out-numbered by Islamist whack jobs. Riechert spots a potential IED through his scope and then later discovers that Islamists come out of the wood work until finally, three whack jobs take their position behind a brick wall.

Perhaps the wall should have been made of something else.........



h/t to New Zeal Blog

VIDEO: FORMER KGB AGENT LAYS IT ALL OUT IN 1985

Trevor Loudon of New Zeal Blog is all over the commies. He has come up with some doosies regarding Obama's childhood mentor, Frank Marshall Davis, Van Jones, and the relationship between Valerie Jarrett's father-in-law and Davis. This time he's unearthed a video from 1985 in which a former KGB agent actually lays everything out, leaving no doubt that those conspiratorial notions about a socialist takeover are quite real.

Judge for yourselves.



Via New Zeal Blog

UPDATE ON GEERT WILDERS TRIAL

Geert Wilders is a Dutch member of parliament and he is being prosecuted for exercising his first amendment right of free speech. He has been critical of Islam and was very involved in the making of the film, "FITNA". Now his own country is putting him on trial.

I'm not sure about Dutch law but here in the United States, politicians have more freedom to speak than do the citizens, which makes this trial particularly disturbing.

The pre-trial proceedings opened on January 20th. Wilders' attorney, Bram Moszkowicz, raised objections about the court's jurisdiction due to Wilders' place of residence. He also requested 18 witnesses, consisting of five freedom of speech experts, 8 Islam experts, and 5 experiential experts (practicing Islamists). On February 3rd, when the court re-convened, the judges announced that only three of the requested experts would be permitted. None of the three were allowed were freedom of speech experts or practicing Islamists.

Two very telling things about that for me. On its face, the court not permitting one expert on freedom of speech would seem to indicate they know this entire trial would be shredded with the truth. As for the lack of Islamists themselves, isn't it curious that those making the charges against Wilders won't even defend their position?

The good news? One of the three witnesses that WILL be giving her testimony is none other than Wafa Sultan, whose anti-islamic rant went viral a few short years ago. Here it is:



Another red flag is that Sultan, along with the other two witnesses, Jansen and Admiraal, are going to have to give their testimony behind closed doors. According to a website Wilders' people have put together and are keeping updated, Wilders himself is going to be examined behind closed doors as well.

Click Here for more information and the list of 18 requested witnesses.

Here's a video from another familiar face to those who follow the Islamization of Europe, Pat Condell.