Posted by
Cary Wesberry on Saturday, August 30, 2008 6:44:36 PM
"Bring on the debate" says Elisabeth Meinecke writing at Human Events. I could not agree more! The most amusing part of the Palin pick for me has been watching the liberal Democrat attacks which are providing focus not on Sarah Palin, but their own failures and inadequacies. Every time the Democrats mention what is supposed to be a negative about Palin, it shines the light on Obama and Biden's own miserable record. There is not one issue the liberals dig up for the purpose of attacking Governor Palin that does not expose both Democrat candidates' inexperience and disqualification for the Presidency.
If McCain can stun the Middle East as well as he stunned Democrats with his VP choice of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, get ready to rock the White House. How shocking is the Palin pick? Just ask the liberal bloggers, who seem to have been tased.
The leftist blogs are still scrambling, trying to find the proper dirt – or, uh, reaction – to McCain’s pick. Huffington Post and Daily Kos haven’t come up with anything better than the “experience card” – the very experience Obama poked fun at McCain for having in his acceptance speech Thursday.
This is doubly hard for the Obama camp to react against because – if you look at it objectively – Palin (commander of the Alaska National Guard, the chief executive of the state) is more experienced and qualified than Obama.
McCain’s choice of Palin destroys every neat campaign slogan the Democrats worked so hard to indoctrinate America with during Obamafest this past week -- Palin is not “four more years” of the same. In fact, she’s about as far removed from Washington, D.C. as you can get, and definitely farther away than, say, Delaware or Chicago.
The most compelling part of McCain’s masterful triangulation: Palin is really the change Obama pretends to. Not once -- in the Illinois legislature or the US Senate -- has Obama actually produced change to anything.
That cannot be said of Palin. Her record of legislating against corruption and reducing state spending will be parsed out in detail. But she at least has a record to parse.
Continue reading Elisabeth Meinecke's column by following the link above. John McCain's choice of Governor Sarah Palin as his running-mate has destroyed the Obama campaign's attack plan.