TAKE that, Barack. Put that in your pipe and smoke it, Hillary. Deal with it, Nancy - and Harry.
Get ready to sweat. Sarah Barracuda is here. And she's headed to a town near you.
On Wednesday night, the governor of Alaska showed the rest of America what John McCain already knew: She's definitely ready for prime time.
And how.
She talked about national security. She talked about energy. She talked about taxes.
Utterly knowledgeably.
But this isn't what we were listening for. Those of us who fervently hope that Team Obama won't be taking over the White House come January were looking for something else, something intangible. Something to convince us McCain hadn't made a mistake in choosing an unknown from the icy north to be his second in command.
She had us at hello.
Or rather, "Thank you."
Palin rose above all of the dirt and innuendo thrown at her by the liberal peanut gallery, nutroots and Obama surrogates and showed the kind of character that can't be supplied by campaign managers or conjured up in pretty speeches. Unlike the senator from Illinois, who has based his entire candidacy on dreams and ambiguity, the governor of Alaska spoke the language of real life. Fluently.
I'm not a person who likes to play identity politics. It doesn't matter to me what color you are, what gender, or with whom you're likely to fall in love. Substance matters more than the irrelevancies of race, sex and the color of your hair.
For once, I thought, I'm probably on the same page as the National Organization for Women. Girl Power!
Wrong.
How stupid of me to forget.
Feminists desperately want a woman in office, but only if she sounds like Hillary Clinton or Nancy Pelosi.
But no pro-life, moose-shooting NRA member who wins beauty pageants and has the audacity to bring a child with Down syndrome into this overpopulated world need apply.
It wasn't what they ordered.
Palin is an accomplished, intelligent, honest, compassionate and courageous woman. She has her flaws, as Daily Kos gleefully points out, updated hourly. But she is a compelling choice to stand beside McCain.
Still, this lipstick-wearing
She's a woman, sure. Just not "the right woman."
And just like Clarence Thomas, who was vilified by black activists because of his conservative views. They wanted a black man on the Supreme Court.
Just not that black man.
Well, ladies and gentleman of the Democratic Party, get ready.
There's a Revlon-wearing
excerpted from THE PALINATOR
by Christine M. Flowers
published Friday, Sept. 5, 2008
Philadelphia Daily News
related:
Weekly Conservative Commentary from sister publication, the Philadelphia Inquirer
GOP likes Palin: really, really does
"The delegates who arrived in Minnesota are not the same ones who will be leaving. If anything, they like Sarah Palin even more. Really, really like her. That's not just me."
excerpted from Back Channels
by Kevin Ferris
published Sept. 5, 2008