Hell freezes over

The Eugene Register Guard published 8 (out of a total of 9) pro-Palin letters to the editor:

Given choice, Palin chooses life

What a contrast: The Sept. 2 Register-Guard tells us that Bristol, the 17-year-old daughter of Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin, is five months pregnant. She is giving her child life.

By contrast, Barack Obama has let it be known that should this happen to one of his daughters, he would not “punish” her by making her have the baby. Obviously, he has no qualms about “punishing” his grandchild by killing him or her by abortion.

Palin is a perfect fit for America

I’ve been watching with great interest the Democrats’ criticisms of Sarah Palin.

Aren’t these the same people who gleefully elected a peanut farmer who had no more experience than as governor of Georgia to the higher office of president? He was never even a senator or a congressman! Democrats didn’t seem to have a problem with him. I guess it was because he was male.

Palin’s critics seem desperate

A little bit better than 22 years ago, vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin’s husband, Todd, was ticketed and punished for driving under the influence of alcohol.

At about the same time, Barack Obama was hanging in the ’hood and snorting cocaine. It appears to me that we have two glass houses here, and people should be careful about throwing stones.

Give Obama the same treatment

The Sept. 3 Register-Guard was a classic in left-wing bias. I didn’t see one single particle of fairness in the entire editorial section. It was all John McCain/Sarah Palin bashing.

Why not at least try to give the impression of fairness? How about giving Barack Obama and Joe Biden the same treatment?

The newspaper could start off by letting your readers know how Obama went to a racist church for over 20 years and only left when the radical, anti-American rhetoric of the pastor, Rev. Jeremiah Wright, was made public. How about his getting a $300,000 break on his home from a convicted criminal, Tony Rezko, or his close association with an unrepentant American terrorist, Bill Ayers?

Liberals are afraid of Palin

Wow! The liberals must really be scared of Sarah Palin.

Nine of the 10 letters in the Sept. 3 Mailbag were against her. Headlines across the country tried to make her out to be a bad mom and inexperienced politician.

Talking points from most network news outlets were trying to destroy this woman’s credibility. When I first heard Governor Palin speak, I was incredibly moved and felt a sense of pride that I haven’t felt for some time.

Republicans are energized

I read my paper Sept. 3 and saw all the negative letters concerning John McCain’s choice for his vice president. Only one of the letters was positive about Sarah Palin.

I and many of my fellow Republicans are so energized because of her being on the ticket. The rhetoric that she isn’t qualified to run our country doesn’t wash. First, she isn’t running for president, McCain is.

Palin should be disqualified

The New York Times and other sources report that in the 1990s, Sarah Palin’s husband, Todd, was a member for two years of the Alaskan Independence Party, a secessionist party. If true, this means that she’s married to someone who made the choice, as a mature adult, that he would be willing to renounce his citizenship in the United States of America. For this alone, she should be disqualified from serving as vice president.

Palin stands up for the little guy

The speed and viciousness of the attacks against Sarah Palin, a virtual unknown a week ago, make my head spin.

Here is a woman who is the chief executive of one of our biggest states, has successfully taken on corruption in Big Oil and Alaskan politics, has been married for 20 years, and is the mother of five. She will soon say goodbye to her son who is to be deployed to Iraq.

All families fall short sometimes

Perhaps Todd Messenger (letters, Sept. 3) does not realize that some years ago in Hawaii another unwed mother gave birth to a son and she named him Barack Obama. How many of us can say that this has never happened to anyone in our family? We all fall short.

Oregon may give the Democrats a surprise this year. Many of the people I know here have friends or family in Alaska or spent time there working in the oil-fields. There is a shared culture in small towns all throughout the Northwest.