Posted on 09/08/2008 2:30:59 PM PDT by pissant
In the heady atmosphere of last week's Republican convention -- electrified by Sarah Palin's barnstorming speech as the vice-presidential candidate -- a curious fact seems to have been overlooked. On paper, the new darling of Christian conservatives ticks all the right boxes as only a media-taunting, oil-drilling, gun-toting, abortion-hating, creationist mother of five could. Equally at home posing for photographs with her children and dead animals, she sends out an irresistible mating call to evangelical voters who suspect that John McCain is secretly too secular for their taste.
Did his team carry out sufficient checks before selecting an inexperienced state governor no one outside Alaska had heard of until 10 days ago? Who cares, when everyone is talking about this thrilling new player in the presidential contest.
But two months of hard campaigning lie ahead, and it's already beginning to dawn on smarter commentators that Palin is a terrible ad for conservative values. Last week, the Democratic candidate, Barack Obama, responded to the news that Palin's 17-year-old daughter was pregnant with an instruction to his supporters that the subject is off-limits, and a reminder that his own mother was only 18 when he was born.
Palin insisted it was a private matter, although she was quite happy to parade her children, including the pregnant Bristol and her deeply uncomfortable boyfriend, at the convention in Minneapolis-St Paul.
Both candidates got it wrong: Palin, by exposing a troubled teenager to the world's media; and Obama, for failing to raise a legitimate and important issue.
(Excerpt) Read more at seattlepi.nwsource.com ...
If you follow the "Dinosaur Media DeathWatch(r)", the answer is "not for much longer".
Another foreigner that doesn’t understand America. Shocking.
That’s a lot of flak.
Sarah’s bombing run scored many direct hits!
Look at ‘em squirm, Ma!
“Joan Smith is a columnist for The Independent in Britain”
The P-I had to go all the way to the UK for a hit piece!!!! Where will they go next? Al-jazeera?
We’re unenlightened? Gosh, who knew?
Deepak Chopra is against her too. They’ve got all the heavy thinkers on their side.
> Look at ‘em squirm, Ma!
Like maggots in a garbage pit.
MSM...PLEASE KEEP UP YOUR ATTACKS!
LOL!
Snippy remarks from tired old hags isn’t going to save this election for Dems.
Enlightened voters?
Must be another Oprah watcher.
An inexperienced State governor? As opposed to an inexperienced absentee Senator? A guy who has basically done nothing but run for President since he got to the Senate? His one piece of legislation (that he touts as his big accomplishment) was basically him tacking his name on to Senator Lugar’s non-proliferation bill. This guy is an Ivy league education in an empty suit who has been nourished all his life by the liberal establishment. Sarah is a real person—that was very apparent last week.
Yes.
Next question...
I would expect nothing less from this lib rag.
The All American woman next door.
Can you send me your recipe for moose burgers? Thank you
Go Sarah!!!!
I really, really wish I had a clicking chicken gif. for this reporter. Because these liberal women remind me of a hen about to lay an egg.
BARF ALERT tag missing
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