Posted on 08/30/2008 5:13:53 AM PDT by TheRedSoxWinThePennant
Let's face it. John McCain's a loner with a stern, "it's-a-dangerous-world" message and fairly cold eyes. He isn't charismatic. And no one can accuse him of being a sunny guy. In fact, he's better known for his short, hot temper.
So how's McCain going to overcome America's infatuation with Barack Obama - a man who has bewitched voters with his smile, enchanted youth with the novelty of his candidacy, and lured war-weary Americans with his message of "change" and promises of free, universal everything?
The answer is clear. McCain needs Alaska's Gov. Sarah Palin, who will connect with voters as an authentic American folk hero.
First, as a governor she passes the competence test. American voters have shown again and again they will vote governors into the White House. There's Clinton. Carter. Bush the Younger. Reagan.
So why not Palin, a heartbeat away from the aged McCain?
But more important, she's the governor of the state that captures the imagination and embodies the authentic American folk narrative. Alaska is our last frontier. Remember Horace Greeley's "Go west, young man, go west!"? Not to worry that this phrase is often wrongly attributed to Horatio Alger. Americans remember that the west is where freedom and opportunity still exist. The west is where optimism resides. Even if they don't think about it, Americans still feel it.
That's where Palin's personal biography will prevail. Palin is as continental west as west can be; and Alaska is a nice contrast to Obama's Hawaiian roots. Even better, Palin carries a gun! She hunts! I'll bet she can skin and process a deer in under 10 minutes. Take that al-Qaida!
Come to think of it, she might actually be able to hunt down Osama bin Laden. And America has loved hunters and deer slayers since at least 1823 when James Fenimore Cooper gave America its first universally accepted folk hero, the Deerslayer, in "The Pioneers."
And then, there's the obvious fact that she's a woman. If McCain was going to pull from the Democratic middle-age female base that fueled Hillary Clinton's candidacy, he needed to look beyond the white male. Think of all the Clinton voters who supported Clinton simply because they thought she could crack the highest glass ceiling. Palin will attract these disaffected voters who are looking for someone to vote for other than Obama.
And then there's the fact that Palin has five kids. Five. Including one who has Down syndrome. That shows voters she's for real and can actually relate to the lives of real voters, people who love, feel and suffer.
It was important for McCain to pick a running mate who makes people feel better. Palin is as compelling, youthful and charismatic as McCain is not. Her video clips remind you of Reagan's optimism. Her down-to-earth manner exudes the hope that Republicans need to win. We can almost imagine her on the cover of People magazine with her family gathered around her and her gun rack in the background.
Palin is the perfect complement for McCain and the perfect antidote to Obama.
“He isn’t charismatic. And no one can accuse him of being a sunny guy. In fact, he’s better known for his short, hot temper.”
BS. He’s extremely funny. This chick must not get out much. I’m guessing a man-hater in general. ;)
She’s a female Teddy Roosevelt
Come on ASA, you've never heard of the "Texas Triplets"?
It doesn't take a Sharp Dressed Man to know the Three Lads from Texas.
Source that. I don't think he ever said such a thing.
I stopped paying attention to music & groups in about 68.
As a participant in the South East Asia War Games My concerns then were much more basic than entertainment. By the time I got back to "the world," the music had died in a drug induced stupor.
Thank you. Reminded me a bit of those guys in the movie “Brother where art thou.”
Thanks for your service and sacrafice, I too am from that
era, but I was a music nut. Tried to play, but never got
out of the garage...LOL
These guys are good buds with elRushbo. Billy has been on
Rushs show several times, they’re the good guys.
McCain has recently inferred that he plans to serve two terms.
"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
I hope they run with the “fragile” argument, and when they are picking up the pieces of biden after she shreds him in the debate with that beaming beaming smile on her face the MSM will have that deer in headlights look, or should I say moose in a rifle sight
Hope you’re right.
Yes.....Obama’s associates are appalling.....his leftwing proclivities are distrubing.....but the MSM WILL NOT COVER THESE!
ABCNBCBSCNNMSNBCNPRPBS.......are all in the tank!
We know about him because we read diverse opinions....most people don’t.
Yesterday, my next door neighbor came to see me and asked who Joe Biden was....she had never heard of him....and said that what she saw on TV at the convention impressed her.
THAT’S WHAT WE ARE UP AGAINST.
Most voters are stupid, doorstops, who do not deserve suffurge.
Obama’s “change” theme died the moment he chose Biden as his Veep.
LOL! I like it. PRemature Barackulation is all the early KoolAid drinkers who believed that “Change” or “Hope” was actually has a man behind the curtain.
“The dems are shooting themselves in the foot as they always do, by criticizing her for the things that most of us are about.”
The reporters and reporterettes don’t get it. While they are busy babbling, REAL america is saying:
She she hunts? what does she use to go hunting?
The Obama Temple rally was akin to a creepy sceene from the invastion of the body snatchers where “u will be ONE OF US ONE OF US ONE OF US”.
The ONLY thing obama has is McCain voted 90% of the time with GWBush. Other than the whole amnesty debacle, not very negative. To Mr. and Mrs. America.
Palin is going to be Reid’s senate president. America will like that.
“The ONLY thing obama has is McCain voted 90% of the time with GWBush. Other than the whole amnesty debacle, not very negative. To Mr. and Mrs. America.”
And really - what the heck WAS that?
Coulter is right - the libs pull numbers out of the air randomly just to make a sound bite.
How can they justify this alleged 90% figure?
It isn’t like Bush is sitting down with the rest of the senators voting yes or no to this or that.
Once again - Obama lied - and because he looks good while he lies, no one calls him on it.
Obamas change theme died the moment he chose Biden as his Veep.
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It should be over for anyone who heard his acceptance speech! I watched the whole thing and it was absurd beyond belief and I don’t know why more people aren’t calling it absurd. He recycled every cliche we have heard from the Rats for fifty years plus he made promises that only God Almighty could fulfill. Did anyone else hear him say that he would defeat climate change? Scientists tell us that the climate has done nothing but change as long as there has been a climate but he is going to stop that nonsense! Not only that but he is going to defeat disease, poverty, hunger etc. etc. Oh, did I mention he will make us independent of foreign oil in ten years which is two years after he is barred from serving any longer? Either he really thinks he is God or he has America pegged as a nation of idiots. Judging from some of the praise he got for that speech he is right about a lot of us!
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