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Oh boy. I don’t know what is going to happen next in the Sarah Palin story, but one thing is now for sure: John McCain has picked an Alaskan Margaret Thatcher to be his running mate.
She spoke for 36 pugnacious, stilleto-heeled, in your face, Barack Obama is a limp-wristed cover boy minutes. She blew the roof off. Sarah Palin has now shaken up a presidential race like no other nominee in modern times.
She took to the stage to the back-drop of a breaking National Enquirer story, flatly denied in a press release by the John McCain campaign, that she had had an affair with her husband’s former business partner. If I were the editor of the Enquirer tonight, I might be locking my front door. Who knows what will transpire from Alaska in coming days, but Mrs Palin delivered one of the most mesmerising vice-presidential nights in convention history. (more…)
Gerard Baker, in his usual entertaining style, writes an excellent column on Gov. Sarah Palin in the Times Online:
The best line I heard about Sarah Palin during the frenzied orgy of chauvinist condescension and gutter-crawling journalistic intrusion that greeted her nomination for vice-president a week ago came from a correspondent who knows a thing or two about Alaska.
“What’s the difference between Sarah Palin and Barack Obama?”
“One is a well turned-out, good-looking, and let’s be honest, pretty sexy piece of eye-candy.
“The other kills her own food.”
Now we know, thanks to her triumphant debut at the Republican convention on Wednesday, that Mrs Palin not only slaughters her prey. She impales its head on a stick and parades it around for her followers to jeer at. For half an hour she eviscerated Mr Obama in that hall and did it all without dropping her sweet schoolmarm smile, as if she were handing out chocolates at the end of a history lesson. (more…)
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I’m sorry, John McCain’s speech was a wet blanket on some long awaited excitement for conservatives.
The babble about ending “partisan rancor’ just means that he’s not going to fight for conservative values. “Reaching out” to democrats means GIVING IN. We’ve seen it all for the last 8 years. In this way, McCain IS Bush. It’s also clear that he doesn’t care about illegal immigration, beyond finally securing amnesty for 20 million criminals. I hate to feel this way, but I can’t help it. The only thing keeping me “clinging” to the McCain bandwagon is…Sarah Palin.
She actually drew more viewers to her speech than Barack Obama. Absolutely amazing for someone we’d never heard of 8 days ago. She is our own “rock star”.
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The liberal media has never been this frightened before about their ‘chosen one’ losing. That is the reason they’ve opened up on Sarah Palin and her family with everything they’ve got. They’ve even been willing to abandon their supposed “feminist” ideology in order to try to discredit her. But all the attacks, on her 17 year old daughter, her husband from a DWI incident 22 years ago, her precious down-syndrome baby, her prenatal care, her competence as a mother…all seemed to fade to oblivion under the brilliant glow of her speech last night.
Now, we’re hearing from her people this morning, that she pulled it off, even as her teleprompter went down right before the speech! That’s extraordinary. She still managed to hit nearly every base. The over-the-top Democrat spectacle last week, with the “styrofoam Greek columns” line; the mayor vs community organizer dig; she hit Obama’s hypocritical back-stabbing of “small-town America”…saying one thing when he knows they’re listening, and another when he doesn’t think they are. She brilliantly observed his lack of ever speaking of America’s ultimate victory in the wars we’re fighting, despite giving numerous speeches devoted to the topic, yet speaks of his campaigns victory. Not to mention how she pointed out that Obama’s managed to write two memoires already, but hasn’t authored a SINGLE piece of meaningful legislation. I mean, it’s hard to over-estimate the impact of that powerful speech last night.
Meanwhile the attacks from the media continue. Meagan Kelly from Fox interviewed the Us Magazine weasel who wrote the article headlined on the cover of that rag, titled: “Babies, Lies and Scandals”. Kelly actually became red-faced as she challenged this little worm on the one-sidedness of the piece, pointing out all the inaccuracies and ommissions. His only response was that “it was a huge story, and he didn’t have time to fit everything in.” Yet, it’s Fox News that is always presented as one-sided and biased? There is nothing more frustrating than watching the propaganda done for the democrats by CNN, CBS, NBC, ABC, MSNBC, most major newspapers and magazines…but Fox is the problem. Fox…and talk radio.
That’s a remark that came out today on Lone Star Times while discussing the topic of Sarah Palin’s qualities. I contrasted her accomplishments to Obama’s. “Change that happened” is found in post # 21, point number 2. It kind of caught on to others as a nice campaign slogan. I like it too. (more…)
However, their plans are being defeated it’s a great day in the U.S.A.Tonight’s schedule at the Republican National Convention from Townhall.com:
8-9pm CST Speaker: GOPAC Chairman Michael Steele
Speaker: Former Gov. Mitt Romney (Mass.)
Speaker: Former Gov. Mike Huckabee (Ark.)
Musical Performance: John Rich, Gretchen Wilson, and Cowboy Troy
9-10pm CST Speaker: Former Mayor Rudy Giuliani (N.Y.)
Speaker: Gov. Linda Lingle (Hawaii)
Video: Sarah Palin
Speaker: Vice Presidential Nominee Sarah Palin
Personally, I prefer CSPAN1 for watching the Convention. Mainly because there’s no commentary from the news anchors and assorted stupunditry! Don’t miss this historic nominee for Vice President accept the nomination tonight. Governor Sarah Palin is one of us. Her record is unimpeachable, her life story one to look up to, and her character above and beyond that of her opponents.
Now, for some red meat before the Convention. Here’s Ann Coulter writing at Human Events!
John McCain’s choice of Sarah Palin, governor of Alaska, as his running mate finally gave Republicans a reason to vote for him — a reason, that is, other than B. Hussein Obama.
The media are hopping mad about McCain’s vice presidential selection, but they’re really furious over at MSNBC. After drawing “Keith (plus) Obama” hearts on their denim notebooks, Keith Olbermann and Chris Matthews stayed up all night last Thursday, writing jokes about Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty, the presumed vice presidential pick. Now they can’t use any of them.
So the media are taking it out on our brave Sarah and her 17-year-old daughter. They claimed Palin was chosen only because she’s a woman. In fact, Palin was chosen because she’s pro-life, pro-gun, pro-drilling and pro-tax cuts. She’s fought both Republicans and Democrats on public corruption and does not have hair plugs like some other vice presidential candidate I could mention. In other words, she’s a “Republican.”
As a right-winger, Palin will appeal to the narrow 59 percent of Americans who voted for another former small-market sportscaster: Ronald Reagan. Our motto: Sarah Palin is only a heartbeat away! (more…)
Let the liberal bloggers attack!
Talk about an issue that will blow up right in their face!?!?! This attack on Sarah Palin and her daughter is a no-win situation for the left. Even Barack Obama knows that, which is why he’s denouncing it. That, and he wants to spin it to his own advantage…to say that all family members are off limits.
Well, that’s not exactly right. If a family member (let’s just say a wife) is out CAMPAIGNING for her husband, complaining about America, she then becomes fair game. A 17 year old girl who has simply made bad choices in her life…is NOT fair game.
But the extreme left wing is again proving that how full of hatred and vitriol they are. Yet, come the next democrat in the White House, the first group they’ll try to silence is talk radio.
When putting Governor Sarah Palin and all her amazing accomplishments next to Joe Biden it becomes difficult to compare the two. Probably because there is no comparison. Joe Biden has done absolutely nothing with his life for 30 years except for exploit American voters for the purpose of forcing socialism on the country.
On the other hand we have Governor Sarah Palin of Alaska who is only 44-years old and has taken more action and accomplished more as a public servant and executive than any of the candidates running for President today. She nearly overshadows even John McCain, and frankly makes Joe Biden look like the jackass and baffoon that he is.
From A. W. R. Hawkins writing at Human Events (first link in excerpt mine):
When Democrat Barack Obama brought Sen. Joe Biden on board, pundits of every stripe referred to it as a move to add gravitas to the ticket. This theory was not disputed, and it appeared Obama was indeed betting on the foreign policy experience of the “great statesman” to lift his campaign above the arguments about Obama’s own inexperience. As the public waited for Biden to give his convention speech in Denver last week, they anticipated being wowed by the knowledge and insight he would bring to the table.
But it was not to be. Biden gave his speech, and while the public was still digesting it and the spin doctors were still spinning it, Republican John McCain announced Governor Sarah Palin as his running mate and crashed Biden’s party. As a matter of fact, now that McCain has named Palin as his V.P., I can’t even remember what Biden said in his speech. And I bet most other Americans don’t, either. (more…)
From Jim Kouri at Family Security Matters:
While GOP Presidential hopeful John McCain introduced his new running-mate, Gov. Sarah Palin, American Issues Project wrapped up its first phase of a television advertising and issue campaign, which called into question the long-standing relationship between Barack Obama and unrepentant 1960s domestic terrorist, William Ayers.
“American Issues Project clearly has struck a nerve inside the Obama campaign, but even more important is the reaction of the American people, who are starting to question why Sen. Obama would have such a close relationship with an unrepentant domestic terrorist,” said Ed Martin, American Issues Project president.
“The heavy-handed response of the Obama campaign definitely misfired. The more the Obama campaign has tried to bully the ad off the air with its spurious legal threats and intimidation, the more voters have wondered what he has to hide,” he said. (more…)