I need to take a moment here and disagree with my associate, Mr. Nolan, on the topic of the victor on Election Day.  In a prior posting, he indicated that McCain has given Palin that extra thrust she needed to get onto the national stage and prepare for the 2012 election, but that defeat was inevitable, and I came away pondering whether my new title of comrade would suit me or not. Click past the jump to read more.

My friends, it does not.

Victory is not inevitable, but neither is defeat.  We have many reasons to be concerned about our opponent, as we would about anyone who allows and encourages people to treat him as a deity and is not locked away in a mental institution.  That does not mean, by any stretch of the imagination, that we should start getting the lifeboats ready.  There are still three full weeks until the election is over and done with – and we need to get out there and take the fight to the enemy.

Talk with your friends and neighbors.  Ask them, if they do support Obama, why?  Don’t get into their face, but don’t take crap from them either.  Give as good as you get.  Show them clips, from this site and from our partner sites, about the dangers of an Obama presidency and the importance of victory for our party, our nation, and the world.

Contrary to Obama’s supporters collective belief, he is just one man, and it is easy to defeat one man.

Northern Exposure Star: “Supporting Governor Palin with pride”

The Case for Palin 2012

VIDEO: The obligatory “Newsweek is a bunch of partisan schmucks” clip

Feds indict son Of Dem Congressman for Palin e-mail hacking

On a lighter note…

VIDEO: Sarah defends attacks on Obama over Ayers

VIDEO: Sarah takes on hecklers with a smile

VIDEO: Keith Olbermann is incapable of opening his mouth without attacking Republicans

VIDEO: Palin quotes Albright’s “special place in hell” for women who don’t support women

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VIDEO: Palin slams Obama over Ayers connection

VIDEO: Dick Morris says we haven’t seen someone like Palin since Reagan

VIDEO: Peggy Noonan says Sarah Palin ‘killed’ at the debate

VIDEO: Fred Thompson ‘blown away’ by Palin performance

VIDEO: Highlights from the Palin-Biden debate

VIDEO: Focus group reacts to Palin’s debate performance

The obligatory “What Sarah and Joe need to do tonight” post

VIDEO: Pre-debate ad mocks Biden

Palin overload! What’s the latest Sarah scoop?

AUDIO: Palin talks taxes with Hannity

VIDEO: Sarah Palin goes after Biden as she readies for debate

VIDEO: McCain and Palin spar with Katie Couric

The financial crisis and why we need Sarah Palin

VIDEO: Palin’s parents slam the media

VIDEO: Sarah Palin already bringing Bush-level protesters

Video flashback: Sarah Palin defends her pro-life, pro-family values in 2006 debate

Campaign suicide not the answer to Sarah Palin’s mediocre interviews

VIDEO: Celebrity for women’s rights doesn’t like women thinking for themselves

Loony left discovers a new way to attack Sarah Palin

VIDEO: Palin talks to reporters at Ground Zero

No, McCain shouldn’t have picked Jindal.

At least she’s not Joe Biden!

Sarah Palin: VP Perfection

VIDEO: Michelle Malkin on astroturf smearing of Palin

VIDEO: Looking like Sarah Palin might get you harassed

VIDEO: Bill Clinton doesn’t want us to judge Hillary supporters voting for Palin

Please, please keep reminding us that Palin is “unqualified”

VIDEO: Sarah Palin addresses crowd of 60,000

VIDEO: Palin nails Obama over taxes and empty words

Sarah Palin refuses to play the victim card

I want to take the chance here to say that I am, every day, surprised by how many more of these actors and actresses are coming out in support of conservative causes and ideals, and how happy at how much my previous opinions on major actors and actresses are being proven quite wrong.

I don’t consider it defeatism that I think this election is all but over. Republicans were never meant to win this one and McCain gave it a good try, but conservatives all need to take a deep breath and get used to President Obama for at least the next 4 years. Click past the jump to read what we need to do now.

First things first: Playing the blame game is not going to help us secure the White House in 2012 or even pick up some seats in 2010. Yes, McCain isn’t a very strong candidate and yes he hasn’t run a great campaign – but McCain was chosen because he was the best of the worst. Does anyone think that Romney’s economic prowess would save him from the anti-Mormon, anti-Wall Street Elite label he carries? Does anyone think that people would look at Mike Huckabee – someone who is whimpier than Obama is on foriegn policy and elect him our commander-in-chief? Fred Thompson would have bored everyone but the grassroots and Giuliani would spur the lowest voter turnout in the evangelical south that we’ve probably ever seen. As far as winning this election, Republicans had a lousy lot to choose from and McCain was the least lousiest of them all. But we knew that going in.

When McCain loses (because he will lose) we’re going to hear a lot of Republicans trying to blame him or his candidacy for the loss. This type of thinking is both wrong and unproductive. We need to coalesce around fixing the damaged Republican image and reminding voters why we need common sense conservatism in Washington.

Enter Sarah Palin. We have a great lot of Republicans coming up through the ranks including Sarah, Bobby Jindal, Mark Sanford and others who inspire confidence in the future image of the GOP. But out of all them, John McCain has helped position Sarah to take the Republican mantle and rebrand it for the future.

(Side note: Sarah Palin is the number one reason that Republicans should leave McCain alone after November 4th. In an election that seemed almost inevitably disastrous, McCain gets full credit for launching her national career.)

Sarah speaks to heartland Americans like no politician has in years. This is what Palin fans have been saying for the last month and a half and it is why Palin critics have come out so quickly in full force. She is a smart conservative who is frighteningly political savvy that has no doggoned problem conving those beer-drinking swing voters that she understands them. This is the case for Sarah that has been made over and over on Palinmania.com and so I won’t say much more.

What’s important here is that the GOP is a badly bruised brand. We’re looked at as corrupt, elite, politicians and it is going to be a hard label to overcome when Obama starts dolling out entitlements. As inspiring and savvy as someone like Bobby Jindal is, we will need someone like Sarah Palin to reconnect with voters who view conservatives as compeltely out of touch.

One day I hope to be writing about a President Jindal or a President Sanford, but that’s not going to happen if a President Palin doesn’t first remind voters which party has their interests at heart. This absolutely has to be the goal of the 2012 presidential campaign – and if it’s not, we might find ourselves thrown into decades of defeat.

Crime doesn’t pay, especially not when you’ve left your fingerprints and big shiny pictures that point to your computer all over the crime scene. Click past the jump to read more.

David Christopher Kernell walked into federal court this morning in handcuffs, shackles and tennis shoes to plead not guilty to hacking Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin’s personal e-mail account.

He can stay out of jail for now as long as he stays off his computer.

The University of Tennessee student, who is the son of state Rep. Mike Kernell, D-Memphis, turned himself in today after being indicted by a federal grand jury.

Throwing up screenshots of your deliberate intrusion into someone’s private affairs is just plain stupid.  Doing this when you’re hacking the Vice Presidential candidate’s e-mail address is even more stupid.  Trying to do any of this in the first place when your dad is a congressman for the opposing party and not expecting anyone to think he was involved just invites every insult in the book.

H/T: Michelle Malkin, who’s done a fabulous job covering Gov. Palin and who continues to rally the conservative troops in this election.  Keep up the good work, Michelle!

Click the picture below to watch the video:

Today, right now, let’s take a step back and consider what’s really important: what am I having for dinner?

Sarah Palin, as on almost every other topic, now has the answer for this question as well.

H/T: K-Lo at the Corner.

For those of you that missed it, Sarah spent all weekend going after Obama for kicking off his political career in the living room of known domestic terrorist Bill Ayers. The Associated Press, in another example of objective journalism, said that Sarah talking about Obama’s close friendship with a terrorist is racist. Click through the jump to read more and watch the video.

As if the AP calling Palin a racist wasn’t bad enough, a reporter actually has the nerve to ask Sarah if she stands by her comments. Why wouldn’t she? Does the reporter think that she’s a racist for mentioning that Obama likes to hang out with terrorists? Terrorists who are white by the way.

Sean Hannity often says that 2008 is the year that traditional journalism died. You know what? He’s right. This is absurdity.

Video is kind of hard to hear, sorry about that. Crank your volume up.

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In case you all were wondering about just how much of a partisan hack Keith Olbermann really is, he’s recently shown that he’s incapable of talking about anything without taking a knock at Sarah. Here he is talking football and he still manages to make a joke about her. Click past the jump to watch the video.

Why in the world did anyone at MSNBC think this man was capable of non-partisan election coverage? I guess they deserve props for finally taking him off the desk, but why in the world did it take so long? He can’t even talk about sports without flaring up, and they let him pretend he was able to talk politics objectively?