There I was, my interest in politics on life support, and me ready to pull the plug. McCain pandering for liberal support, and authentic conservatism getting kicked to the curb.
Suddenly, the once-terminal patient has leapt off the table, yanked out the wires, and is singing, dancing and skipping around the room.
What a surprise- what a choice- what a speech- what a day! This (as they say) changes everything.
What are the Democrats’ oppo researchers going to find on Sarah Palin? “Troopergate“. That’s it, and that ain’t much. As usual, it’s wound up making her critics look worse. Once you know Trooper Wooten’s record, the glaringly obvious question immediately becomes “How on earth has a bad apple like this been allowed to stay on the force?” It will appear even more humorously inconsequential in contrast to the manifest thuggery of Obama’s Chicago machine.
This utterly destroys the liability of the tainted Republican “brand”. This woman won the governorship campaigning against the corrupt “old boy” cronyism of the Alaska Republican Party.
A partisan for Big Oil? She tore up the deal that had been reached with Big Oil by the same corrupt incumbents and insisted on starting over again.
Her affiliation with the Bush administration? She ordered her attorney general to bring a lawsuit against the Bush administration!
I ask you again… is there anybody, anywhere, that can name me just ONE example of an occasion when Obama bucked the Democrats hardline radical-left party line? One?
Did you know that her nickname on her high school basketball team (State champions) was “Sarah Barracuda”? They are SO going to underestimate her… and she will SO make them regret it. It will be SO sweet.
I am SO enthusiastic about this… can you tell? I’ve got Gene Kelly in my head singing “Dancing in the Rain”. This is just so great. God bless her, strengthen, encourage, comfort, and guide her, as she faces the inevitable onslaught of unhinged liberal hatred. The masks will come off, and true colors will be seen.
Lord have mercy.
Good initial assessment of the pros and cons by Ed Morrissey here.
Here is the YouTube copy of her acceptance speech, if you haven’t seen it already. Do you think the Dems will try to make her out to be just a “Barbie doll”? After watching this, and any other media appearance she has made, do you think that is at all plausible? Hasn’t Obama already spent enough time accusing his opponents of being against him just because he “doesn’t look like the other Presidents”?
McCain has effectively turned every one of their weapons against them- there is not one that they can pick up without causing self-inflicted wounds. Delicious!
THIS is change we really CAN believe in. NOW there really is hope.
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I would say that ability has been proven by Palin, and that counts for much. She obviously is intelligent because she has enough sense to know that only an intelligent being could father intelligence, and Darwin went out with Hitler, Eugenics, racism(he was a total racist).
Democrats are long on talk, short on real solutions, destructive in their pursuit of “caretaker state” a very socialist and utopian unreality. I hope McCain Palin will chop the pork-barrelers to ground pork
and certainly Obama’s pick of a traditional pork man shows he does not mean “much reform”.
“…long on talk, short on real solutions”. I agree… as even the MoveOn.org, Code Pink, and their like-minded ilk would have to agree.
Ed Morrissey, in the column linked to above, has the correct response to the charge of “inexperience”. The first reaction of Democrats was “Well, this totally removes the experience issue from the discussion”. And too many Republicans begin by shrugging their shoulders and conceding the point.
There is no need to concede anything. Our response should be to smile and say “Don’t you just wish! By all means, let’s DO talk about experience!”
When is the last time politics was this exciting, eh?
Good to meet you! I just stumbled on your blog today. I’m a native of Chicago (though I’ve spent a lot of time away from the place as well) and I am absolutely thrilled with Sen. McCain’s pick of Sarah Palin. Granted, I didn’t know who she was a week and a half ago, but this has really, really gotten me excited. *L* I even ordered a sign to put in my window – we’ll see if I get any flack for that from all the Democrats around here!
Welcome Katja! Good to meet you, too. Thanks for jumping in with an intro and comment… and, be careful out there!