Posted by
Cary Wesberry on Saturday, August 30, 2008 3:55:12 PM
Attractive, smart, pro-gun, pro-God, pro-life independent conservative executive vs. some old blubbering lapsed-Catholic liberal.
Put a strong conservative against a liberal, and they run screaming every single time. Team Obama continues dive right into the debates over Sarah Palin that I for one am ready to have any day any time. Obama's initial knee-jerk reaction was to fumble and attack Governor Palin's experience. The audacity of suicidal politics. Jim Geraghty at Nation Review Online reported yesterday:
Team Obama cannot even say, "Congratulations, Governor Palin, we look forward to a spirited race." Nope, first thing they do is attack, attack, attack:
Barack Obama's campaign is blasting John McCain for putting "the former mayor of a town of 9,000 with zero foreign policy experience a heartbeat away from the presidency."
The scathing description of Sarah Palin, from Obama spokesman Bill Burton, comes as Democrats scramble to gather a response to a selection that nobody in the political world expected.
"Governor Palin shares John McCain's commitment to overturning Roe v. Wade, the agenda of Big Oil and continuing George Bush's failed economic policies — that's not the change we need, it's just more of the same," added Burton.
Democrats will likely push the inexperience line against Palin as they race to comb oppo files from Wasilla to Juneau.
First, after spending the entire campaign talking about how experience isn't everything, Barack Obama, who's never held a full-time job for four years, cannot start hitting her on inexperience.
Rove just called the response "petty and small," and boy, this is going to just further convince the Pumas that sexism drives the Obama campaign.
UPDATE: The guys on Fox News note that the Obama campaign can't even bring themselves to call her "Governor Palin." That response is going to blow up in their faces.
ANOTHER UPDATE: To clarify, in the release, they call her "governor", but they don't even deal with it, calling her "the former mayor of a town of 9,000 with zero foreign policy experience a heartbeat away from the presidency."
By the way, mocking the size of the town — I guess that town is full of bitter clingers, clutching guns, religion, xenophobia, opposition to trade deals...
Of course sexism drives the Obama campaign. Barack Obama, instead of picking the most qualified candidate who is also a woman as his VP, he chose the old white guy who defines sexism in America. On the Republican side, our old white guy picked a young woman who has more executive experience than any of the candidates running for President today. So, who is the sexist here?
Speaking of experience, Barack Obama is a Senator who has done nothing but run for President since taking office. Sarah Palin has been running an entire state for two years that borders two foreign countries, before that she was a mayor, and among her extremely long list of accomplishments and responsible positions she was a commercial fisherman with her husband. I'm scraping the bottom of the barrel over here to think of an actual job that either Obama or Biden has ever held in their lives... and for Joe Biden that's a Hell-of-a-lot of years of not holding down a job other than blowhard. As Geraghty notes above, the Obama campaign cannot even bring themselves to call Sarah Palin "Governor", and when they do Obama's minions in no way address her current job.
To attack Governor Sarah Palin on experience when she is the only one of the four candidates running for President who actually executive experience was the second dumbest move Barack Obama has made in this race. The first being to chose Joe Biden as his running-mate. The reality is that Team Obama is scrambling to find anything negative they can throw at Sarah Palin which does not count ten fold for their own candidate, and so far they are failing miserably. For John McCain, choosing Sarah Palin was the second smartest decision he's made in his entire career as a Senator. The first of course being to fight for the Surge in Iraq.
For some insight into Governor Palin's foreign policy experience let's turn to Tom Gross writing at National Review Online:
Critics are already trying to damn Sarah Palin for her perceived lack of foreign-policy experience, but what they are not allowing for is something more important — that she has the right basic attitudes and sense of priorities. She understands that aggression has to be resisted and commitments have to be honored.
Certainly there is every sign that she will be better for at least one of America’s closest friends and allies, Israel, than Joe Biden.
It is true that Biden talks of his support for Israel in principle, but the reality is that he has done his utmost to thwart keeping the possibility of a military option open to stop Iran acquiring nuclear weapons. As a result he was even praised recently on the Iranian regime’s official propaganda arm, Press TV.
It is no accident that Biden was dubbed “Tehran’s favorite senator” in an article in the Washington Post last week.
By contrast, the very first reference to foreign policy that Palin made in her acceptance speech after being chosen as John McCain’s vice-presidential candidate Friday was that Iran must be stopped from getting nuclear weapons. She mentioned this even before she mentioned the issues of Iraq and Russia.
Palin has a record for integrity and for getting the job done matched by very few politicians, as shown by her success in tackling the corrupt Republican-party establishment in Alaska, and her highly effective economic program there.
The U.S. and Israel can have every confidence that, like McCain, she is a doer who means what she says — not someone like Joe Biden who may come out with fine sentiments but seems unwilling to get to grips with fundamental problems posed by Iran and Syria.
So yet again, we have the executive experience and amazing accomplishments of Governor Sarah Palin versus "Tehran's Favorite Senator" Joe Biden. The Democrats have a failing duo in Joe Biden and Barack Obama, who has been hailed as the best choice for President by every declared enemy of this country from around the world including Hamas, Hezbollah, Iran, Syria, and Russia. I think I know who my vote is going to, and it won't be the guy who beloved by the Palestinian terrorists.
It is not however only executive and practical foreign policy experience which makes Governor Palin the best choice. The fact that Palin has fought unethical Republicans and literally thrown them in jail while Biden and Obama have protected ethics violators throughout their entire careers. Neither Barack Obama or Joe Biden can cite one instance where they have gone against their own party. Both are classic Washington, D.C. Democrats with the resume to prove it. Govenor Palin? She has been as far away from Washington, D.C. as an executive can get and still be in the country.
Where is Joe Biden and Barack Obama on fuel prices and energy independence? Those two lunatics want to raise taxes on the fuel that gets you back and forth to work while Governor Palin has been fighting for increased domestic fuel and energy production for every American. The woman has been running the state we brought into the Union for the explicit purpose of increased domestic production of fuel and energy! Joe Biden and Barack Obama have said "no" every step of the way on domestic production and supported Congress taking a five weeks vacation while the GOP Reps in the House continue to protest on the Floor and fight for America's right to its own natural resources. Where do you think Sarah Palin rests on this issue? I can tell you with absolute certainty that Governor Sarah Palin will not be taking vacations while the American People are demanding increased production and relief from hysterically absurd high gasoline prices.
John McCain has a son who just returned from serving two years in Iraq while Governor Palin is sending her oldest son to serve in the Infantry in Iraq to defend America and our allies on this anniversary of 9/11. America's candidates have a personal stake in winning the War while the candidates of Hamas, Hezbollah, Iran, and Russia have no personal stake in winning the War. All Obama and Biden have is the instinct to protect their own backsides and towe the party line of retreat from our enemies. Interesting how the two candidates who have children that serve in Iraq want to stay and win the War while the two candidates who will never sacrifice for their country want to retreat as soon as possible. Anyone think Michelle Obama will be encouraging either of her two precious little girls to even join the ROTC in high school? No sacrifice, no victory; that is the modern Democrat Party and that is all you are going to get out of Barack Obama and Joe Biden.