Posted on 08/31/2008 3:26:37 PM PDT by theothercheek
Washington Post columnist Eugene Robinson notes that Spike Lee has taken to “grandiloquently divid[ing] American history into two epochs, “B.B.” and “A.B.” - Before Barack and After Barack.” With John McCain’s selection of AK Gov. Sarah Palin as his running mate, Obama went from making history to being history in the span of 12 hours.
The announcement was like a giant fly swatter that killed Obama’s buzz. ...
A quarter century separates McCain and Obama, but the older man showed himself to be the more daring, unconventional and forward-thinking of the two. Significantly, only McCain was man enough to choose a woman – an impressive woman - to be his running mate. If Obama – who has not scrupled to refrain from engaging in sexism and ageism, even while hurling unfounded accusations of racism against opponents – thought this campaign was going to be about Red Bull vs. Geritol, McCain showed him he’s got another thing coming. ...
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Palin may be in retrospect a brilliant move, but I just don’t think the American people, particularly liberal women, will accept her.
Oy. You sellout of the soul of black Americans.
Behind the curve, champ.
Respectfully,
tih
I agree that liberal women won’t be too accepting of her. But for more moderate or non-political women, they may see this move as a solid step forward for women in general. And they may be impressed with her accomplishments. And she’s an exciting candidate to all conservatives, whether men or women.
I disagree - Liberal women are pissed about the way Hillary was treated and are just looking for a reason to vote for McCain - and he hit a grand slam and gave it to them...
“I just don’t think the American people, particularly liberal women, will accept her.”
$7M in online donations to the McCain/Palin campaign in just over a day says otherwise. The breakdown would be intersting, but I’d bet $5M of that came from first time donors, at least to that particular campaign.
Palin will not appeal to those disenchanted Hillary supporters who put their ‘right to choose’ above all else. That’s fine.
In choosing Palin, McCain brought in most of the Republican base, as you can see by reading through the FR threads. FReepers who swore up and down they could never, ever vote for McCain are now on board because of Palin. Not all, but @ 97%. Palin will help in CO, and with the blue collar folks in OH/PA/MI.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2071965/posts
I see her as being a Reaganesque figure in a minor way. I think she’s going to bring over moderate women to the Republican party. Her speech at the acceptance announcement reminded me of Reagan at times.
Did liberal women ever accept Ronald Reagan? George W. Bush? We don’t need universal adoration of Palin. It’s just fine if some folks don’t care for her. That’s life. It’ll be enough if a majority of the general population comes to like and respect her (and I believe that they will).
White suburban women who were pro-Hillary but are not pro-abortion zealots (i.e., they vote on other issues as well) are a major target here.
Also, those blue collar union guys that kept voting for Hillary after Edwards dropped out of the race. Palin’s husband is one of them - a steelworker, commercial fisherman, snowmobile racer, hunter. I mean, this couple is
right out of central casting!
Finally, the Dems no longer have the playing field to themselves on issues where McCain supposedly doesn’t “get it.” The Palins have a handicapped child so they also have insurance problems; they make a middle class living so they have to pay their bills, save money for college and for their own retirement so high taxes will cream them financially.
You are correct; left-wing women will not accept Palin. But working-class, blue collar woman will. And so will independent working-class woman.
But you forgot to mention one other group of women who will not accept her. Country-club Republican women will turn their noses up at this honorable woman. Palin is too red-neck for the delicate and refined tastes of those phony Republican woman in the club house who are too busy sipping white wine with other elitist Democrat woman. These elitist Democrat women are members of the same country club.
That is so good. That bears repeating. I'd love to hear the conservative pundits (like Bill Bennett on CNN) use that line everytime they're interviewed.
This is a kick a$$ blog post. Read it and rejoice!
Gov. Palin is also a union member.
That was a great blog posting! Thanks.
Theodore... read the posts of your fellow Freepers relaying antodoctal evidense that contrdicts your baseless fear. Go to the Hillary/Puma type blogs and read. ENOUGH OF THE WILL to make it Game Set, Match.
ENOUGH OF THE = ENOUGH OF THEM
Why?
Boy, if there is a way to bring this blog to the attention of Bennett, the Politico, Wall Street Journal’s Political Diary and other pundits I would like to know about it. Ideas?
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