Sarah America!
Posted on 10/02/2008 8:55:39 PM PDT by GVnana
Quick Take: Palin's debate performance could shift spotlight
10:04 PM CDT on Thursday, October 2, 2008
Amid GOP fears she would bomb and take the ticket with her, Sarah Palin turned in a strong performance Thursday night. And that could return voters’ focus back to the candidates who really matter: Barack Obama and John McCain.
It’s been a tough couple of weeks for the McCain team: the sagging economy, the Wall Street bailout and Ms. Palin’s gaffe-filled TV interviews. Some conservatives even questioned whether Mr McCain should have picked her. But her folksy manner and ability to navigate the debate format gave Americans prone to like her a reason — you betcha — to keep on doing so.
She also was good enough to help rally a Republican base that had lost some of its energy after the party’s convention.
Democrat Joe Biden was good as well, showing a command of the issues and facts and staying away from major mistakes. So as the race enters its final weeks, it’s back on the shoulders of Mr. Obama and Mr. McCain, who meet in two more debates.
As with previous elections, the vice presidential candidates probably will move to the background. That’s unless Ms. Palin makes more missteps, which recent history shows us could happen again.
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Sarah America!
Butthead gets a pass but not Sarah Palin? Can we see the sexism in this election?
Gov Palin was brilliant tonight, I was reminded of all of the reasons why I liked her at the RNC.
K Parker owes Gov Palin an apology.
The thing about this loving lady, Sarah Palin the Main Street Gal, is that she brings equity into the men-women equity debate – what she brings is the strength to STAND UP FOR FREEDOM FROM BIAS, freedom that is really freedom and not about favoritism.
Americans can see in Sarah that gender equity is so narrow a debate as abortion – it exists where it can because of social values which do not want to invite women into camaraderie – but the quality of Sarah and why we love her is that she bring CAMARADERIE into EVERYTHING and that is why NO ONE CAN STOP HER not even gender inequity.
With her around, we all want to participate in that camaraderie, we are stimulated by her, and we ENJOY being in the company of strong women who make the difference.
I am so proud of the women of America who can bring forth such a wonderful example of their creed and strength.
If she gets another debate before the election, I hope she goes on the attack and gives Biden a run for his money. But the tyranny of low expectations is not helping her. Quite the opposite.
Sorry, I’m so excited I did a typo!
should have typed:
Americans can see in Sarah that gender equity ISN’T so narrow a debate as abortion
That will be the key from tonight.
Biden bloviated all over the place and will be shown to have made glaring misrepresentations on McCain's record and his own.
But all of that pales in comparison to Sarah's ability, even when cheerleading for McCain, to connect with the American people in her style, in her wording, and in her demeanor.
Common Americans are naturally drawn to her. She speaks to them...speaks for them. All of the MSM attempts to the contrary, that is what she does and she McCain campaign needs to have her constalntly out in front of the people doing just that.
McCain needs to turn her loose for the next 4 weeks. She is a winner!
President Palin has a wonderful ring to it. Reagan would love her!
She is definitely a gamechanger!
Why are there only one veep debates???
I thought it funny that Biden often talked as though HE were the nominee and Obama his second.
We need to get Sarah to coach McCain for the next Pres. debate, because she does better than he does.
Boy is that the truth. McCain better get with it. I believe he’ll do much better at the townhall though.
That speaks volumes and needs to get some play.
There has never been a candidate on a national ticket whose voice is so totally colloquial. Biden wisely tried to run against John McCain rather than try to discredit her, because if he had it would have been perceived as an attack on many and American in the street. This is how ordinary,well informed Americans speak.
it’s not sexism it’s just they give leftists a pass on gaffes
if Palin gaffed like Biden, she be Quayled
another unfair mocking btw
Bush is stupid.
Reagan was senile.
Ford was bumbling though he’d been a star athlete
Nixon was a paranoid deusional.
Goldwater was mean and wanted to blow up the world.
they mock folks and repeat it enopugh and it becomes short term conventional wisdom
Amid NRO Romney supporters is more like it.
I have read somewhere that McCain has his warface on. When that happens he tends to drop ten years or more off of his age. As someone his age, I am amazed at his energy. HOW does he do it?
have read somewhere that McCain has his warface on. When that happens he tends to drop ten years or more off of his age. As someone his age, I am amazed at his energy. HOW does he do it?
Its impossible to for me to get my mind around what it takes to be the man he is.
“As with previous elections, the vice presidential candidates probably will move to the background. That’s unless Ms. Palin makes more missteps, which recent history shows us could happen again.”
The missteps belong to the McCain campaign’s inept handling of Governor Palin in the weeks after the convention. They should never have allowed the long, drawn out interviews with Gibson and Couric as her first press interviews.
Now she has probably given the campaign a boost again, and the campaign needs to shape up and not again squander what she’s been able to add.
What Gov. Palins handlers have learned is to “contractually” allow only interviews WITHOUT edits.
Gov. Sarah eluded to that tonight. You can make someone sound like anything you want with editing! (A person come across as a bimbo perhaps?) America knows better than that now though, don’t they!
A footnote: Governor Palin is known for writing most of her own speeches. She is extremely learned and intelligent. The speech she did at the Republican Convention was largely injected with her own idea’s and subject matter! Par for the course for Governor Palin when doing speeches in Alaska.
Tonight ought to show people WHO the real Governor Palin is. She wasn’t rattled once. She wasn’t in Alaska either when facing down the incumbent Governor (who was also previously a Senator. Senator Murkowski.) People mistakenly are underestimating her. She’s taken a state that had a deficit and turned it into a half billion surplus. Not to mention the bi-partisanship that took place. Or the ethics that were implemented in ever area of Government she’s worked in.
No, we NEED Governor Palin and Senator McCain. It’s been a long time coming! Too long!
FRegards, VH&W
To his credit, that was his only choice (and he lied abit, but we'll hear more about that later).
Prior to the debate I happened to cruise MSNBC with Chrissy Matthews working the tape-line much the way Lauer and others do on the Today show, asking what people were expecting from the debate. Invariably (9 out of 10) the desire was to see if Sarah would Gaffe as they had seen on the Couric Show.
These were young people, people. These were voters who might be voting for the first time in their lives. I found myself looking not at young Americans, but perhaps tomorrow's brownshirt brigade.
Were these young people for Barack because the media was, and SNL is, and it's 'cool'? I don't know. But I have seen a desire to 'belong' to a group and these 'kids' demonstrated it in spades. I now wonder if our lives have become so comfortable and lacking in meaning that identity with some 'movement' serves to 'fulfill' something missing in our lives. Does Brown candidate + Green zealot = Modern American idiot?
Sarah quoted Reagan with (paraphrase) 'freedom can be lost in one generation'. I never would have thought it to be so delicate, but looking at this crowd I have to agree. What I saw tonight was really scary. I think we've already lost it- that this generation has already arrived.
Being funny is often seen as being 'cool' and we have many shows where comedians poke fun at our president and other institutions so much so that an erosion is occurring right before our eyes that seriously undermines our culture.
I've enjoyed watching those late night politcally 'incorrect' shows for entertainment and never gave one thought to the possibility that they were cultivating a marxist army in our midst. But they have been and we are about to see the results.
Don't get me wrong, there are a lot of reasons to be critical of, and make fun of America for comedic effect. However, when taken to the heights that we have been subjected to over the years, is it any wonder we may have produced a generation of 'America Haters' to the extent we have? What was once funny is now cool.
"Houston, we have a problem."
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