I had a long workday yesterday and went straight from the office to my local watering hole for food, fun, and karaoke with friends, so I didn't get the chance to watch the RNC until after midnight. But upon viewing the re-broadcast and watching Sarah Palin's speeches, I must admit I was impressed. She was absolutely terrific.
And Obama's handlers must be absolutely terrified.
The Alaska governor took the stage last night at the RNC and knocked one out of the proverbial park. And it didn't even take 5 minutes for the establishment to pat her on the head and say, "Aww, isn't she cute? I bet someone wrote that for you, didn't they?"
But the patronizing didn't end with the mainstream media. The Obama camp, whose leader can't seem to speak without a teleprompter, sharpened their knives and started in on Palin as well.
News flash: all politicians have professional speech writers.
What they don't all have is the poise, humor, and character that has made this firebrand the darling of the Republican party, and the bane of the liberal left.
Whatever happened to that meme of the "strong woman" that we're all supposed to respect? Oh, I forgot, they probably meant to say "strong LIBERAL woman".
Pam Meister noticed the same thing:
It’s funny how Hillary Clinton was lauded for her lack of baking skills, but Sarah Palin’s dedication to her career is questioned by self-annointed elitist feminists like Sally Quinn because Palin has lots of children, one with special needs, and a pregnant teenaged daughter. It’s amazing what a difference the capital “R” after your name can make.Pam really did a yeoman's job of annotating Palin's speech, do yourself a favor and check it out.
(By the way, I was gonna write a LOT more about the speech, but today has just been crazy busy for me. So check out these fine folks who did a much better job saying what I was going to say.)
Flopping Aces did the same, with plenty of "greatest hits" quotes.
"Here’s a little news flash for all those reporters and commentators: I’m not going to Washington to seek their good opinion - I’m going to Washington to serve the people of this country."Powerline elaborated on what Newt Gingrich pointed out yesterday:
"In politics, there are some candidates who use change to promote their careers.
And then there are those, like John McCain, who use their careers to promote change."
"This world of threats and dangers is not just a community, and it doesn’t just need an organizer."
The Associated Press, a solidly Democratic institution, can't deny that Sarah Palin socked it to the Dems tonight, as they headline: "Palin delivers star-turning performance at RNC." The AP begins: "Sarah Palin delivered." From there, they go on to do all they can to mitigate the basic point, describing Palin as "embattled," and a "novice" who "lacked the soaring oratory skills of Obama."The Wall Street Journal picks up on what's causing all the anti-Palin animosity from the left: fear.
Which raises an interesting point: I really don't believe the Republicans are smart enough to pull this off, but how can it be bad that our Vice-Presidential candidate is constantly being compared to the Dems' Presidential candidate?
Even as the Obama camp ponders how best to handle John McCain’s veep pick of Sarah Palin, the high priests and priestesses of the media have marked her as an apostate. The Beltway class is in full-throated rebellion against a nondomesticated conservative who might pose a threat to their coronation of Barack Obama and the return of Camelot-on-the-Potomac...Ed Morrissey gets right down to the reason for the left's anxiety over Palin.
They want a VP to be a kind of parliamentary choice, someone they have already vetted, someone who’s made them laugh with insider jokes at the Gridiron dinner. The Beltway class whines constantly about how it wants fresh voices in politics, but we guess this means a first-term Democratic Senator rather than a first-term Republican Governor from some godforsaken U.S. state few of them have ever been to.
We are instructed that Mrs. Palin isn’t qualified, because she lacks Washington experience. But until recently that was said to be a virtue in Mr. Obama, who is at the top of his ticket. Meanwhile, there’s hardly a peep of media notice that the Obama campaign is preposterously trying to remake Joe Biden into a poor scrapper from Scranton when he’s been in the Senate for 36 years. They all know Joe. But when Mr. McCain picks an authentic middle-class mother who is also a Governor, we are told she’s not up to the job.
The outrage has little to do with experience, and almost everything to do with being outfoxed by McCain. The media expected a staid, boring, safe white man that they could pigeonhole. Instead, they got a dynamic, successful, smart conservative "hockey mom" with a record of reform that Barack Obama cannot match and that is the antithesis of Joe Biden. They got knocked out of their lane, and now they have to figure out how to explain how they could possibly have overlooked Palin in their calculations. Presto! They overlooked her because she's so inexperienced!
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