Thanks to Sarah Palin Conservatives Are Falling Out of the Closet – It’s Raining Republicans – Hallelujah!

Finally, some conservatives and Republicans are starting to peak out of the closets and into the streets about what they really think of Sarah Palin.  

Lovely Spouse and I are on a trip (Lesbian Jewish Wedding Reception) that I intend to blog about but had to drop in a post about Palin’s horrible diction. 

I’m from an area of the country where sometimes you can barely tell that we’re speaking English so I get the idea of having relaxed speech on my blog & among friends and family.  I drop my “ings,” repeatedly say the word “cool,” and have to catch myself so I don’t say I-talian. 

But when I’m talking to an applicant for a job, or talking to a client, I do my very best not to show where I came from because it makes a person sound less than intelligent.  In addition, the forcefullness of the message is diluted.   Of course, Sarah Palin doesn’t have a message but that’s another post.

On our drive yesterday this subject came up and the first thing I said was, “Sarah Palin’s manner of speaking is appauling.”  She sounds like she’s down at the corner diner having coffee with “the Elite 6.”  Does the woman have no common sense?   Is she ignorant of the correct way to pronounce words?  Does she not care?  Does she think it makes her more appealing as a candidate for VP? 

Anyway . . . finally some conservatives and Reblicans are coming out of the closet about Sarah Palin.

Here’s one example:

But apparently much of America is willing to vote for her based on her looks. The GOP better hope so. She sure isn’t going to win based on her brains.

We got a hint of that during her supposedly brilliant acceptance speech at the GOP convention. In the midst of the predictable diatribe at the media, Palin denounced pundits. That’s fine, but she pronounced the word “pundints,” adding a nonexistent “n” to the second syllable.

My fellow conservatives made fun of Sean Penn last year when he employed that same mispronunciation as part of a tirade against the Bush administration. And deservedly so. We conservatives are smart. People who can’t pronounce simple, two-syllable words aren’t.

That goes for simple three-syllable words as well. In a televised interview with Fox News last week, Palin was served a softball question by Sean Hannity about the economy. In her response, she twice attacked the “verbiage” of her opponents. And in both cases, she pronounced it “verbage,” leaving out the second syllable. 

Again this is the sort of thing that, if done by a Sean Penn or some other Hollywood airhead, would be held up as evidence of inferior intelligence.

Read the rest at:  http://blog.nj.com/njv_paul_mulshine/2008/09/this_pundint_is_appalled_by_pa.html

Sarah Palin Kenyan Witchhunter Connection

UPDATE:  September 23, 2008 – Video Found of WitchHunter Praying Over Palin Click Here

Palin linked electoral success to prayer of Kenyan witchhunter

The pastor whose prayer Sarah Palin says helped her to become governor of Alaska founded his ministry with a witchhunt against a Kenyan woman who he accused of causing car accidents through demonic spells.

At a speech at the Wasilla Assembly of God on June 8 this year, Mrs Palin described how Thomas Muthee had laid his hands on her when he visited the church as a guest preacher in late 2005, prior to her successful gubernatorial bid.

In video footage of the speech, she is seen saying: “As I was mayor and Pastor Muthee was here and he was praying over me, and you know how he speaks and he’s so bold. And he was praying “Lord make a way, Lord make a way.”

“And I’m thinking, this guy’s really bold, he doesn’t even know what I’m going to do, he doesn’t know what my plans are. And he’s praying not “oh Lord if it be your will may she become governor,” no, he just prayed for it. He said “Lord make a way and let her do this next step. And that’s exactly what happened.”

She then adds: “So, again, very very powerful, coming from this church,” before the presiding pastor comments on the “prophetic power” of the event.

An African evangelist, Pastor Muthee has given guest sermons at the Wasilla Assembly of God on at least 10 occasions in his role as the founder of the Word of Faith Church, also known as the Prayer Cave.

Pastor Muthee founded the Prayer Cave in 1989 in Kiambu, Kenya after “God spoke” to him and his late wife Margaret and called him to the country, according to the church’s website.

The pastor speaks of his offensive against a demonic presence in the town in a trailer for the evangelical video “Transformations”, made by Sentinel Group, a Christian research and information agency.

“We prayed, we fasted, the Lord showed us a spirit of witchcraft resting over the place,” Pastor Muthee says.

After the spirit was broken, the crime rate dropped to almost zero and there was “explosive church growth” while almost every bar in the town closed down, the video says.

The full Transformations video featuring Pastor Muthee’s story has recently been removed from YouTube but the rest of the story is detailed in a 1999 article in the Christian Science Monitor, as well as on numerous evangelical websites.

According to the Christian Science Monitor, six months of fervent prayer and research identified the source of the witchcraft as a local woman called Mama Jane, who ran a “divination” centre called the Emmanuel Clinic.

Her alleged involvement in fortune-telling and the fact that she lived near the site of a number of fatal car accidents led Pastor Muthee to publicly declare her a witch responsible for the town’s ills, and order her to offer her up her soul for salvation or leave Kiambu.

Says the Monitor, “Muthee held a crusade that “brought about 200 people to Christ”.” They set up round-the-clock prayer intercession in the basement of a grocery store and eventually, says the pastor “the demonic influence – the ‘principality’ over Kiambu –was broken”, and Mama Jane fled the town.

According to accounts of the witchhunt circulated on evangelical websites such as Prayer Links Ministries, after Pastor Muthee declared Mama Jane a witch, the townspeople became suspicious and began to turn on her, demanding that she be stoned. Public outrage eventually led the police to raid her home, where they fired gunshots, killing a pet python which they believed to be a demon.

After Mama Jane was questioned by police – and released – she decided it was time to leave town, the account says.

Pastor Muthee has frequently referred to this witchhunt in his sermons as an example of the power of “spiritual warfare”. In October 2005, he delivered ten sermons at the Wasilla Assembly of God, the audio of which was available on the church’s website until it was removed around the time Mrs Palin’s candidacy was announced. The blog Irregular Times has listings and screen grabs of the sermons.

It was during that these sermons that Mrs Palin, who was then preparing for her gubernatorial run, was anointed by Pastor Muthee. His intercession, she says, was “awesome”.

Her June 8 speech was to mark the graduation of students from the Wasilla Assembly of God’s Masters’ Commission, which, as Pastor Ed Kalins explains, believes Alaska will be the refuge for American evangelicals upon the coming “End of Days”. After her speech, Mrs Palin was presented with an honorary Masters’ Commission diploma.

Video Ben Stein – Republican – Nixon Speech Writer – Sarah Palin Oddest Choice in History of Presidential Politics

Transcript provided – “She should have Henry Kissinger babysitting her.”

BEN STEIN, AUTHOR, FMR. NIXON SPEECHWRITER: Thank you so much.

O’BRIEN: My pleasure.

You have been a speech writer and a lawyer for President Nixon. Let’s talk first about Governor Palin’s speech. What do you think she needs to get across? And as a speech writer yourself, how do you navigate some of those tricky things, the controversy, with specifics that some people said they want to hear?

STEIN: I don’t think she has to do much. I think as one of your previous guests said, expectations are so low, if she basically can put one word in front of the other, people will be impressed. I don’t think anybody is going to be picking on her about her daughter, I don’t think anybody is going to be picking on her about a 22-year-old DUI for her husband. People want to know if she is a down to earth, pro-family, pro-life conservative. And I’m sure she’ll hit that one right out of the park.

Video Sarah Palin at Church – Part 1 – Iraq War a Task from God

A must see video of Sarah Palin. June 8, 2008 – Wasilla Assembly of God Church.   Iraq war is a task that is from God.

It’s video of Palin speaking as the Governor this summer at the Wasilla Assembly of God, where she once attended:

“Pray for our military men and women who are striving to do what is right. Also, for this country, that our leaders, our national leaders, are sending (U.S. soldiers) out on a task that is from God. That’s what we have to make sure that we’re praying for, that there is a plan and that that plan is God’s plan.”

She also asks for prayers for the gas pipeline.

“I think God’s will has to be done in unifying people and companies to get that gas line built, so pray for that.”

Huffington Post says the video “underscores the notion that her world view is deeply impacted by religion. In turn, her remarks raise important questions: mainly, what is Palin’s faith and how exactly has it influenced her policies?”