Well, Sarah Palin has done it. She's taken a hell of a beating in the past few days, and she came out tonight and returned fire with astonishing poise and good cheer, and took the fight hard to her opponents. I cannot recall being so impressed by the promise of a politician's speech since Barack Obama's debut at the 2004 Democratic Convention. After this week, it's hard to speak with serene confidence, but as of tonight, Sarah Palin made it clear that she is a superstar. The Republicans have found their Obama. Game on.
Palin: Yes, she can!
Wednesday September 3, 2008
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I can picture Palin both giving this speech with sincerity and raising her hands in worship at church with equal sincerity.
Obama or Biden or Hillary doing the same? NEVER.
Then count me with Obama, Biden, and Hillary. I've never liked all that overly emotional crap in church.
But I thank you for making me realize just what it was made me uncomfortable watching the convention last night (and much of the Democratic convention as well, to be fair): in many ways it was more like an old-time tent revival than anything else. Elmer Gantry lives.
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Roland, I love reading your posts if only for your vocabulary! Seriously!
"phallacy". Oh, my goodness! That's just breathtaking! :-)
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"I find it rather insulting to reduce the role of the Son of God to that of a paid political agitator, which is what a community organizer does."
Wouldn't want folks to get "uppity", now would we?
I don't care if folks get "uppity", Octopus, but I do care whether they're historically accurate. ;-)
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Besides, given the image of Pilate washing the blood of the innocent off of his hands, I don't think the supporters of the most extreme pro-abortion presidential candidate ever, Barack Obama, should bring up the name of that particular Roman procurator. It isn't wise, all things considered.
"Let [their] blood be upon us and upon our children."
As governor of Alaska, Sarah Palin took on the entrenched special interests and brought about real reforms. Obama, instead, "grew up" in the cogs of the Chicago political machine. He didn't challenge it. He did its bidding.
I don't look to Obama for any change in Washington. Palin is the one with guts. Obama is the one pretending to be a change agent when in reality he is practicing the same old politics.
That's all I wanted to add. Now back to yer bubble.
Well, it's a pretty darn big bubble. Survey USA poll just released shows that independent/unaffiliated voters who watched Palin now approve of her by more than 2:1 (56% to 27%). The speech was watched by nearly as many Americans as watched Obama last week. Overall, 60% of voters give the Palin speech a grade of "A."
Most Americans also now consider Gov. Palin an asset to the McCain ticket, with only strongly Democratic voters dissenting from that view.
So the whole Palin-is-a-far-right-freak-with-a-weird-family thing is over. Palin won, the Nutroots lost. Deal with it.
And a fun little bonus: Andrew Sullivan's obsessive lies have managed to help generate broad public sympathy for Palin while destroying the last thin vestiges of Sullivan's reputation. Rod, it's time to permanently de-link!
Loudon @ 5:24 PM writes:
"I'm a bit surprised at the TAC reaction (other than that of Michael Brendan Dougherty), and maybe it highlights a subtle difference between the TAC crowd and the traditionalist/paleo right. I will be interested to see the reaction of Fleming, Piatak, Williamson, et al. to Palin."
Dr. Fleming's reaction is set forth in the thread "The Suburbs of Hell"
on the Chronicles website.
Let's just say he is less than impressed with Sarah Palin.
Your servant,
Lord Karth
No, not even close to an Obama. There's a key difference between "Yes We Can" and "Yes, She Can". You may not get it.
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