Naughty librarian vibe - Too much!
Posted on 08/30/2008 4:42:45 AM PDT by Renfield
Over in the Frumistan province of the NR caliphate, our pal David is not happy about the Palin pick. I am - for several reasons.
First, Governor Palin is not merely, as Jay describes her, "all-American", but hyper-American. What other country in the developed world produces beauty queens who hunt caribou and serve up a terrific moose stew? As an immigrant, I'm not saying I came to the United States purely to meet chicks like that, but it was certainly high on my list of priorities. And for the gun-totin' Miss Wasilla then to go on to become Governor while having five kids makes it an even more uniquely American story. Next to her resume, a guy who's done nothing but serve in the phony-baloney job of "community organizer" and write multiple autobiographies looks like just another creepily self-absorbed lifelong member of the full-time political class that infests every advanced democracy.
Second, it can't be in Senator Obama's interest for the punditocracy to spends its time arguing about whether the Republicans' vice-presidential pick is "even more" inexperienced than the Democrats' presidential one.
Third, real people don't define "experience" as appearing on unwatched Sunday-morning talk shows every week for 35 years and having been around long enough to have got both the War on Terror and the Cold War wrong. (On the first point, at the Gun Owners of New Hampshire dinner in the 2000 campaign, I remember Orrin Hatch telling me sadly that he was stunned to discover how few Granite State voters knew who he was.) Sarah Palin and Barack Obama are more or less the same age, but Governor Palin has run a state and a town and a commercial fishing operation, whereas (to reprise a famous line on the Rev Jackson) Senator Obama ain't run nothin' but his mouth. She's done the stuff he's merely a poseur about. Post-partisan? She took on her own party's corrupt political culture directly while Obama was sucking up to Wright and Ayers and being just another get-along Chicago machine pol (see his campaign's thuggish attempt to throttle Stanley Kurtz and Milt Rosenberg on WGN the other night).
Fourth, Governor Palin has what the British Labour Party politician Denis Healy likes to call a "hinterland" - a life beyond politics. Whenever Senator Obama attempts anything non-political (such as bowling), he comes over like a visiting dignitary to a foreign country getting shanghaied into some impenetrable local folk ritual. Sarah Palin isn't just on the right side of the issues intellectually. She won't need the usual stage-managed "hunting" trip to reassure gun owners: she's lived the Second Amendment all her life. Likewise, on abortion, we're often told it's easy to be against it in principle but what if you were a woman facing a difficult birth or a handicapped child? Been there, done that.
Fifth, she complicates all the laziest Democrat pieties. Energy? Unlike Biden and Obama, she's been to ANWR and, like most Alaskans, supports drilling there.
Superb; I’m so glad you found this Steyn snippet and posted it! And, as usual, Steyn NAILS it in his incredible style and wit! Thanks!
I was so excited about this pick, I donated money last night! (I wonder, does anybody know how much they’ve raised since the announcement? It was $3m in six hours, but it sounds like it’s been pouring in since that time, too.)
He already has dissed her for her “inexperience”, which is a TOTAL laugh riot. Me, I’m actually giddy with this choice. This is truly a game-changer to have Palin as the face of Republican women versus the stereotype the Dems have always forced on us.
Does anybody truly think that if she didn’t have an “R” behine her name, the old media wouldn’t be having orgasms about her? (I may have put too many negatives in there, but hopefully you get the point, LOL!)
Man, this thread is just full of potential bumper sticker slogans......
No, but she has had to deal with Russian ships in “her” waters.
Nothing big, just fishing ships, but still better than Barry.
Palin may not have foreign diplomatic experience but her people-reading assets seem to be fine-tuned and she is not afraid to speak up and get to the core of an issue.
This is not expected so much in women - especially ones new to office and she may surprise a lot of people with her quick study abilities.
No fool this woman. She is plucking a wealth of living out of her time on earth. More power to her! More good fortune for us.
Sarah Palin is such a strong and beautiful free-range 'politician' (in the good sense of the word) compared to Biden/Obama, both of whom are warehouse-raised, stuffed with horomones and dyes....
Her thoughts... her personna are crisp and clean and original, compared to the canned responses and platitudes of Biden/Obama.
I don't mind admitting how wrong I was in not pushing for Palin as McCain's VP.... mainly because I never even knew much about her and didn't take the time to check.
After reading the latest article in Alaska Magazine, I am thinking of moving to Alaska!!!
She is much more interesting than McCain and is a good #2.
Did you catch Alaska Magazine's article about Sarah?
http://www.alaskamagazine.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=876&Itemid=141
Oh! That's nice.
Naughty librarian vibe - Too much!
They are running scared she'll make mincemeat out of both of them.
GREAT line!
Now...just who else do we know, who was like that?
"..Kin I buy me a huntin' license here?..."
I suspect that the election will end up the same.
I agree, but it ain’t mine. The article credits the Rev-er-end Jack-son for the original line - probably about some conservative. In any case, it rings true.
The original line is none other than Marion Barry’s. There was talk in the early 90s of Jesse running for mayor of DC. Barry’s comment was “Jesse don’t wanna run nothing but his mouth.” Priceless.
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