Let Palin Be Palin (Why the left is scared to death...)

Weekly Standard ^ | 09/08/2008 | William Kristol

[SolidWood]

A spectre is haunting the liberal elites of New York and Washington--the spectre of a young, attractive, unapologetic conservatism, rising out of the American countryside, free of the taint (fair or unfair) of the Bush administration and the recent Republican Congress, able to invigorate a McCain administration and to govern beyond it.

That spectre has a name--Sarah Palin, the 44-year-old governor of Alaska chosen by John McCain on Friday to be his running mate. There she is: a working woman who's a proud wife and mother; a traditionalist in important matters who's broken through all kinds of barriers; a reformer who's a Republican; a challenger of a corrupt good-old-boy establishment who's a conservative; a successful woman whose life is unapologetically grounded in religious belief; a lady who's a leader.

So what we will see in the next days and weeks--what we have already seen in the hours after her nomination--is an effort by all the powers of the old liberalism, both in the Democratic party and the mainstream media, to exorcise this spectre. They will ridicule her and patronize her. They will distort her words and caricature her biography. They will appeal, sometimes explicitly, to anti-small town and anti-religious prejudice. All of this will be in the cause of trying to prevent the American people from arriving at their own judgment of Sarah Palin.

[The Great RJ]

Palin is more than a pretty face. She comes across as sincere in her conservative beliefs, is articulate and very intelligent. Above all she is not a Washington insider and resonates well with average Americans.

[BooksForTheRight.com]

Very energizing. Conservatism is alive again.

[Domangart]

John Rothman for one. He is in high drama all the time.

[TigersEye]

I was referring to the same person's Bill Kristol was in his opening words.

A spectre is haunting the liberal elites of New York and Washington-...

I'm sorry if staying in context confused you. ;^)

[rightinthemiddle]

I guess Bill Kristol reads FreeRepublic...I posted this as the intro to the Hannity Thread Friday:

Note to John McCain: Cut the populist drivel. Let Sarah Palin be Sarah Palin. She’ll bring you money, volunteers and votes.
1 posted on 08/29/2008 11:38:57 AM PDT by rightinthemiddle