Posted on 08/30/2008 11:29:49 PM PDT by Schnucki
When Sarah Palin stepped into the spotlight as John McCain’s running mate in Dayton, Ohio, and promised that women could “shatter that glass ceiling once and for all”, it was an electrifying moment in a presidential election that had already produced its share of upsets and surprises.
History was on the march again the morning after Barack Obama became the first African-American to accept his party’s White House nomination. After the fireworks, the 80,000-strong crowd who had cheered Obama to the skies at the Mile High stadium in Denver woke up with a hangover.
“We may be seeing the first woman president. As a Democrat, I am reeling,” said Camille Paglia, the cultural critic. “That was the best political speech I have ever seen delivered by an American woman politician. Palin is as tough as nails.”
With her beehive hairdo and retro specs, Palin, 44, has a “naughty librarian vibe”, according to Craig Ferguson, the Scottish comedian who stars on late-night US television. However, the selection of Palin, the governor of Alaska and a mother of five, as the first female Republican vice-presidential nominee is no joke for the Democrats.
Rush Limbaugh, the conservative radio chat show host, exulted, “We’re the ones with a babe on the ticket” — one, moreover, with a reputation as a tax-cutter and corruption buster in her job as the first woman governor of Alaska.
Palin’s selection on the eve of the Republican convention in St Paul, Minnesota, has set the stage for an epic battle for the votes of women, African-Americans, evangelical Christians and the young. The demographic wars that dominated the contest between Obama and Hillary Clinton are now set to be replicated in the national election.
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I wish she was top of the ticket as well :-(
Just read this over on Jerry Pournell’s site.
http://www.jerrypournelle.com/view/2008/Q3/view533.html
“Of course Obama will triangulate to the center as quickly as possible. McCain doesn’t need to do that; the country club Republicans of which he is a prime example have always tried to claim the political center, to the dismay of the conservative Republicans. Palin will undoubtedly stay where she has always been, conservative personally and libertarian-republican politically. Were matters left to her, she would leave a great number of issues to the states — as would I. I’d rather see her President than McCain, but we live with the choices we have.
Mr. Heinlein once speculated that we ought to reserve high political office for women with children because they tend to see things a bit more realistically. While I didn’t necessarily agree with him, I never won the argument with him. On the other hand, Robert used to take positions for the sheer fun of it. (Actually I think he’d have preferred that anyone elected be a woman with children who could solve quadratic equations in her head, but he never went quite that far in public statements. Ginny never had children, but she could certainly do the math....)”
That’s good (and true), thanks for sharing it with me.
Arugula vs. Caribou.
Sort of sums it up.
I planned to skip voting booth to avoid choosing the "better one than two evils"; but Friday's pick of Palin news caused me to spent a lot of time researching her bio, careers, background, I can't help but plan to vote for McPalin. She's Lady Di on the outside and Reagan in the inside!
She may turn out to be OUR "Margaret Thatcher".
And, unlike shrillary, Sarah can be tough, without being a b*tch.
I have been looking at video interviews with and about Palin for the past couple of hours. This woman is dynamite. With this selection of her as his running mate, McCain has just laid the foundations of the future of the Republican party.
A fresh and reviving wind has just blow through the stuffy and corrupt corridors of Washington, D.C. I would imagine that some of the politicians that lurk in those stale corridors fail understand what has happened. All they will know is that all of a sudden they feel quite dizzy from this sudden rush of oxygen. Either they will have to learn how to breath this new rush of air, or they will be blown away.
What Palin has unleashed is unstoppable. There will of course be a great deal of work ahead. The opposition will put as many obstacles as possible in the way of this reform movement of the Republican party. Part of the opposition with be the country club Republicans that are the source of the corruption of the party. But it is time to clean out the club house. It stinks in there.
Amen!
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