Posted by
Cary Wesberry on Saturday, September 06, 2008 4:21:54 PM
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.
The speech was wonderfully crafted by Matt Scully, a Bush White House veteran, but the scene afterwards was the emobodiment of what an extraordinary country America is. Having put to rest any doubts that she is a very tough lady not afraid of a fight, many males in the audience - when not giving her a standing ovation - were instinctively crossing their legs. She was joined by her family, and it was not your normal Republican convention line up.
To an almost primal roar from the Republican delegates, who had just been treated to a barnstorming attack on the Washington media, Barack Obama, and eloquent defence of what it takes to be a mayor and governor, Mrs Palin greeted on stage her 17-year-old pregnant daughter, the father of their baby, Levi Johnston the high school ice hockey hunk who arrived in Minnesota yesterday, her snow-mobiling champion husband Todd, their son Trig born with Down's Syndrome in April, their two other daughters, and eldest son Track, who is to be deployed to Iraq in a week's time.
We are in interesting times.
Continue reading by hitting the link above. Well-written from Tim Reid for the Times Online. Of special note for those of you who did not know; Sarah Palin's teleprompter went down some minutes into the speech. Gov. Palin continued without missing a beat. Unlike her opponents, Palin does not need someone elses words force fed to her on a video screen in order to give a speech.
After scaping the bottom of the sewer for every nasty and dishonest attack they could throw at Sarah Palin, the media is still struggling to find something that sticks. It's doubtful at this point the liberals will succeed in bringing her down. Palin has so far proven to the country that her own will is much more formidable than the media drive to smear her credentials and character. Every attack from the left has backfired and shown the American People what the modern Democrat Party is all about.
Gov. Sarah Palin succeeds where Barack Obama's contempt for Hillary Clinton failed. Obama chose the epitomy of what is wrong with Washington, D.C. as his running-mate, John McCain went as far away from Washington as you can get to bring real change to the White House. The Republican Party now offers change you can believe in versus Obama's platform of no change at all. He completely undercut his own message by choosing Joe Biden whereas McCain picked a strong successful conservative woman with a record for throwing corrupt politicians from her own party in jail. When did Obama or Biden ever once stand up to the Democrats? McCain and Palin have spent their lives fighting both political parties. Barack Obama has flat out lied to his supporters about "change" with the Biden pick. Knowing that now, what else has he lied to the country about? Are any of his policies in fact honest?
I've known Palin's record for months now due to research into domestic drilling. I agree with her on values and policy almost 100 percent of the time. Not so much with John McCain, but at least I know where he stands and that he will always stand-up for America. What has Obama stood-up for other than agitating communities and skipping votes in the state and U.S. Senate? There could not be a more clear distinction between the two campaigns in this election. We'll see in November just how divided our country really is.
Governor Sarah Palin as our Margaret Thatcher? I'll take that comparison graciously any day over Team Obama's likeness to the Marx-inspired movement of Lenin which created the Soviet Union.