I agree with all of them. I love her tenacity too!
Posted on 09/12/2008 11:48:02 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
When Sarah Palin was selected as John McCain's VP pick, it caught the mainstream media completely flatfooted. Most of them acted as if they'd never even heard of her, despite the fact that conservative bloggers had already selected her and Mitt Romney (they tied) as their most desired VP picks for John McCain.
Moreover, the reaction of conservatives to Sarah Palin, while not quite as rapturous as the liberal reaction to Barack Obama, is surprisingly strong and positive -- and again, the press seems puzzled. Why in the world are conservatives so enthused about someone who has never done Meet the Press or been to a single Washington cocktail party?
So, in an effort to help out our elitist liberal brethren who've been trying in vain to figure out what's so appealing about Sarah Palin, I decided to put together a little list that explains why conservatives love Sarah Palin so much.
#1) She's conservative: John McCain is more of a moderate than a conservative and there were genuine concerns that he might take someone like Joe Lieberman as his VP. So, getting a rock-ribbed conservative like Palin instead was like expecting a pile of horse flop for Christmas and actually getting the pony instead.
#2) She's a reformer: In a time where people are sick to death of the corruption and waste in D.C., an Alaska governor with a reputation for slashing wasteful spending and taking on corruption -- even in her own party -- is very appealing and has the added benefit of doubling down on McCain's strengths.
Just to give one great example of what she brings to the ticket, Barack Obama and Joe Biden both voted more than once to support the ultimate wasteful earmark, the Bridge to Nowhere, even after that bridge had become a national symbol of wasteful spending. On the other hand, despite what some liberals are now claiming, it was Sarah Palin who finally sent the Bridge to Nowhere tumbling down.
#3) She is the right person at the right time: You could make an argument -- and a fair one -- that Sarah Palin doesn't have enough experience to be the VP. However, what you cannot do is make a fair argument that Sarah Palin isn't qualified to be VP -- while claiming that Barack Obama, who is less qualified to be in the White House than Palin, is ready to handle the presidency. In other words, if Barack Obama were a little better qualified, he'd almost be ready to handle the Vice-Presidency in a McCain administration.
That being said, it doesn't really matter how much experience the VP has if the ticket doesn't get into office. On that score, Sarah Palin appears to be the single best person John McCain could have picked to improve his chances of getting elected. In one fell swoop, McCain energized conservatives, perked up Republican fundraising, increased his appeal to disaffected Hillary voters, got more moderates on board, and burnished his "maverick" credentials.
Compare that to Obama who chose...wait, has he chosen a VP yet? I don't remember...oh, yes, he took Joe Biden who was last seen telling people Hillary may have been a better pick for Obama. Awww, say it ain't so, Joe!
#4) A lot of people can relate to Palin: Americans tend to like politicians who they think are "like them." Given that most D.C. pols tend to be rich Ivy League lawyers who've spent most of their life in a bubble surrounded by other political junkies, they don't really fit the bill.
On the other hand, Palin comes across as much more of a self-actualized version of a regular person than most politicians. She isn't a lawyer, she didn't go to Yale, and she isn't rich. However, she's an attractive woman with a big family and a cool husband. She's a hunter and she started out as a PTA mom and worked her way up to the governorship of Alaska. I think for the average person, that's a much more comforting picture than, say -- got a law degree, served as a community organizer, hung around with Jeremiah Wright, Bill Ayers, and Tony Rezko -- then voted the liberal line in the Senate for two years before starting a run at the presidency.
#5) She is from outside of Washington: Given that the American people are deeply unhappy with the performance of Congress, it's ironic that 3 of the 4 candidates in the race serve in that same unpopular Congress. So, is it really surprising that a governor who hasn't been serving in the D.C. cesspool seems like a breath of fresh air?
#6) She's our chance to be "first:" Liberals love nothing better than to play identity politics and have attempted to define womanhood in a way that makes it impossible for conservative women to be feminists. Along the same lines, they regularly claim that conservatives are sexists almost by default.
So conservatives -- who don't believe we're sexist at all and think Sarah Palin is much closer to the feminine ideal than Gloria Steinem or Naomi Wolf -- love the idea of walking the walk on this issue while liberals only talk the talk. Hillary may have gotten 18 million votes, but that apparently wasn't even enough to qualify her to be vetted by Barack Obama while it's the Republicans, whom Democrats mocked as a straight white male party, that have a woman on the ticket.
Just as conservatives love to be able to say that Colin Powell was the first black Secretary of State and Condi Rice was the first black woman to be Secretary of State, we'd also love to be able to throw "Vice-President Sarah Palin" back in the faces of liberals who falsely claim we're sexists.
#7) The Left’s hate and fear of Sarah Palin: From practically the moment John McCain selected Sarah Palin, the American Left (the mainstream media included) went absolutely insane and began an unprecedented smear campaign against her. Dozens of bizarre rumors sprang up overnight. Liberals launched crude, condescending, sexist attacks against her; they went after her children. Numerous lies and fake scandals sprouted up each day; there were false pregnancy rumors, faked bikini shots. The venom was almost unbelievable, even after hearing comparisons between George Bush and Hitler for eight years.
Conservatives were outraged to see an avalanche of blatantly unfair attacks launched not just at one of their own, but at a conservative woman, and it caused the Right to rally behind her. There are undoubtedly countless voters, myself included, who will be voting for the Republican ticket in November as their own personal way of paying back the Left for their over-the-top attacks.
I agree with all of them. I love her tenacity too!
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
Me too!
Not like THAT.
Not that there’s anything wrong with that...
She’s a babe? At the risk of being sexist, it can’t be ignored that she is easy on the eyes and ears.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
That is a great description of what I expected. The best I hoped for was a picture of a pony like Romney. Not great, but not awful. I feared Tom Ridge or even Lieberman. Lieberman is a nice guy, but other than the War and Mid East policies he is a liberal as they come. The party might not have survived to 2012. But instead we got a miracle in Governor Palin.
I’m looking forward to a Palin-Jindal ticket in 4 or 8 years.
No. 8: like any good hockey mom, she knows a good power play when she sees it.
I know what you mean. I meant it in an admiring kind of way!
Yeah, me too. And we’ll have John McCain to thank for that. I wouldn’t have believed that would ever be said a month ago.
Well, let’s not forget that she also is a life member of the NRA. ;-)
She is
Pro-Life
Woman
with a family,
Christian
Pro Guns
Pro Wuppin moslem terrs butts
and a Good Lookin LADY
She isn’t a whining girl like Obambi.
Sarah Palin also succeeded in bringing some life back into the entire U.S. conservative movement! Socialism within the entire U.S. may actually be delayed for awhile if not longer. Let’s also see exactly how much does McCain truly behave like a conservative politician on all of the issues and exactly how much does McCain truly behave like a maverick politician on all of the issues while he is POTUS, again if he truly does become the next POTUS. I also agree that it will be interesting to see how Sarah Palin behaves politically after four years have passed as McCain’s VP from inside the beltway, that is if the McCain/Palin ticket does win on November 4 and if McCain is still alive after four years have passed. Exactly how does Sarah Palin truly plan to succeed in not being “changed” politically in a “negative way” from inside the beltway?
She’s as fresh as the view from their dock.
It must be like heaven for her, going home to Wasilla.
#1 and 2 are the reasons I would elect her. The rest are icing on the cake.
I love my wife, don’t tell Sarah Palin!
Amen!
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