Talk about a no-brainer for casting

Apparently Saturday Night Live will ask Tina Fey to come back to play some Sarah Palin skits. That's about the most obvious casting choice ever...

McCain / Palin Support New Mexico Green Chile!

At our local Chuy's restaurants in Austin, they're having a green chile festival celebrating the Hatch, NM, green chiles. My wife and I have been eating there several times the last couple of weeks, and we bought lots of chile to freeze and have for the next few months. I have a new bottle of Hornitos in my pantry now steeping with not one, but two green chiles for margaritas. See previous blog entry ( http://20thhole.blogspot.com/2008/08/new-mexico-hatch-green-chili-season.html ) for recipe.

As part of Chuy's green chile promotion, they have t-shirts that promote supporting the "Green Chile Party '08", complete with a humorous "platform" consisting of a list of bullet points basically telling you to eat lots of chile.

I was thinking of their humorous linking of chile and politics when I saw the below photo of McCain / Palin buying salsa from El Pinto, a pretty well-known restaurant in Albuquerque, NM. Just more confirmation I'm supporting the right candidates! 8^)

Caption from AP reads, "Sunday: John McCain picks up his change after purchasing jars of salsa at El Pinto restaurant in Albequerque, N.M., for himself and his vice presidential running mate, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin. (AP Photo)"

Great Rush transcript on Palin's speech

A great Rush Limbaugh article here (it's really a transcript of a portion of his radio show) about Palin's speech and some of my conservative ideals ... a caller also mentions the cute moment where Palin's daughter was fixing her little brother's hair:

Screw VP -- Palin for President!

OK -- Finally. This is what happens when you excite your conservative base (which according to the bi-partisan Battleground poll is about 57%-60% of the country who self-identify as very conservative or somewhat conservative -- a result that has remained consistent the last several years). I hadn't heard too much about Sarah Palin before, but I'm definitely excited by her. I hadn't been too enthused by McCain before, but this really helped. They seem to be peaking at the right time.

Both she and Guiliani actually talked about issues and finally hammered Obama on ISSUES where conservatives feel he's weak. I have a bit of a beef with McCain in that he's somewhat refused to hammer on some issues like I think he should.

I still think they should switch places on the ticket. My wife made an excellent comment this morning about how if she does become VP, she'll give our daughter an excellent role model to look up to in politics.

Pretty cute moment during the speech when the camera cut to her daughter (maybe 6-7 yrs old?) holding their little baby Trig (that can't be short for Trigonometry, can it?) -- she was licking her hand then smoothing down his hair...

Oh, and libs? You're screwed.

McCain picks Alaska governor Sarah Palin for VP

This is pretty cool. While I would rather the actual nominee for President (not just VP) be a real conservative (and not someone, say, who's been duped by the gore-bull warming crap), this VP choice is great from my standpoint. One of the things libs always wrongly accuse conservatives of is being racist and sexist -- by just assigning labels and calling names they don't have to address the actual issues and arguments with intellectual debate. So it's pretty ironic that the GOP could end up with the first woman in the White House that's not a First Lady. She supports drilling in ANWR (which, unfortunately, McCain does not). See link here: http://apnews.myway.com/article/20080830/D92SIC400.html

It's funny how the media / libs wanted McCain to pick Leiberman and be a "maverick". But if the libs are who we're trying to defeat in the election, why should McCain pick a VP candidate that said libs would PREFER?

Personally, I wouldn't mind if Palin and McCain switched spots on the ticket...