[FlingWingFlyer]

Hence, the panic in Camp Obama. Soros wants a return on his investment and it just got a lot harder for Obama to deliver.

[Dilbert San Diego]

Interesting about the pro-choice voter and her pro-choice daughter being excited about Palin.

I think that the liberals pander to voters in some ways. For example, it’s an insulting simplistic pander to assume that women voters are concerned mainly or only with abortion rights. It’s a simplistic pander to assume that black voters are only concerned with race or affirmative action type programs.

So these women, who don’t agree with Sarah on the abortion question, will give her due consideration.

John Kerry said that women voters won’t be seduced by Sarah Palin on the Republican ticket. He’s right that LIBERAL DEMOCRAT women won’t vote for McCain/Palin in big numbers. But most women aren’t the rigid liberal / radical type.

And to think that Democratic operatives such as Mark Penn from Hillary’s campaign expected to get lots of support from Republican women if Hillary was the Democrat nominee. They would have expected Republican women to cross over and support the sisterhood of the traveling pantsuit in the person of Hillary, yet deny that anything of the sort could happen with Democrat women crossing over to vote McCain/Palin.

Will be intersting to see where this all goes.

[Question Liberal Authority]

John McCain has flummoxed the leaders of his Republican Party

The Republican Party has leaders? Well, they were certainly doing a bang-up job before the Palin pick.

[John Valentine]

The Democrats' great advantage is that they are not responsible for the pain and frustration that many voters have suffered in the Bush years.

Not responsible? Not responsible?

Run that by me again. Democrats are not responsible?

I suppose that's true in the sense that the Democrats are irresponsible. But in the sense that Broder unquestionably meant the remark, it is complete nonsense.

Democrats and their wrong-headed social engineering are almost solely responsible for virtually all the ills that beset us as a nation.

[Nick Danger]

How else Palin Could Help

I am stunned by the way that Governor Palin has sucked the oxygen out of the Obama campaign. Since Friday it's been all-Palin, all the time. Now comes Hurricane Gustav... but that's just one more thing that's blowing the O-man off the stage.

I'm sure that Obama and Whatsisname were out campaigning somewhere today; has anyone heard a word about it? Between the hurricane, the RNC, and noise about Palin, Obama can't get a word in edgewise.

[Question Liberal Authority]

"But Biden combines his working-class background with decades of experience in being completely wrong about foreign policy "

[JLS]

So David Broder join the refrain. Altogether now:

Lost in the Beltway again
Yes I’m lost in the Beltway again
I can no longer think
So that just leaves me drink
Oh I’m lost in the Beltway again

Seriously, Governor Palin as McCain’s VEEP pick was discussed almost to ad nauseum on the internet and even on some cable networks.

She was not necessarily the favorite, but her strengths and weaknesses we clearly known. Many recognized she was the best pick for McCain though we worried he would not see it. And I think the results since he picked her bear out that we and he were right.

So what is it about these Beltway pundits including some on the right? Do they not have the internet inside the Beltway? Are DirectTV/Dishnetwork and cable TV not available? Or do they just think they are so smart, they should not check out what the peons are thinking or talking about?

[Question Liberal Authority]

The Democrats' great advantage is that they are not responsible for the pain and frustration that many voters have suffered in the Bush years.

Where does he get this stuff? The problem with the Democrats is that they ARE responsible for the pain and frustration of the Bush years. They're the ones who made gas so expensive by sucking up to the eco-whackos, hoping to blame it on Republicans. They're the ones who turned Iraq into a quagmire, hoping to turn it into Bush's albatross.

Palin can effectively argue those points, and other Republicans might see her example and join the fight. Even Maverick John McCain.

[Vanders9]

I think Palin is a very clever choice as running mate. McCain really pulled that one out of left field (well, right field actually).

I worry somewhat that she might be too clever a choice, that she is so obviously an attempt to woo women voters; counter Obama’s youth; shore up conservative republican support; and so on, that it might be seen by the electorate as being manipulative.

[neverdem]

The Audacity of Hype (Barry's Overblown Acceptance Speech) Bill Safire

Barack Obama: International Man of Mystery - The lack of personal testimonials at the DNC coronation must leave Democrats uneasy.

Can You Cross Out ‘Hillary’ and Write ‘Sarah’?

D.C. v. Heller: The Court's Liberal Wing Shoots Itself In The Foot

From time to time, I’ll ping on noteworthy articles about politics, foreign and military affairs. FReepmail me if you want on or off my list.

[jonrick46]

I believe the Palin selection has energized the Republican base like nothing else. I have to give this account of my own experience today that illustrates what the Palin selection has done:

I was pumping gas and a SUV, which followed me into the station, stops at the pump behind me. Suddenly a woman jumps out and runs over to me like she wanted to kill me. Instead she reached out her hand and said, “I wanted to shake your hand because you are one of the few people I've seen with a McCain sticker.”

She then told me how pleased she was that McCain picked Palin and that it affected her so much that she stayed up all night watching Fox for all she could find out about Sarah Palin.

She told me that she was like many other women around the country that are just pumped about a woman like her. And the more they find out about her, the more excited they will get.

I think that McCain found that magic to take him to the White House.

[jonrick46]

I believe the Palin selection has energized the Republican base like nothing else. I have to give this account of my own experience today that illustrates what the Palin selection has done:

I was pumping gas and a SUV, which followed me into the station, stops at the pump behind me. Suddenly a woman jumps out and runs over to me like she wanted to kill me. Instead she reached out her hand and said, “I wanted to shake your hand because you are one of the few people I've seen with a McCain sticker.”

She then told me how pleased she was that McCain picked Palin and that it affected her so much that she stayed up all night watching Fox for all she could find out about Sarah Palin.

She told me that she was like many other women around the country that are just pumped about a woman like her. And the more they find out about her, the more excited they will get.

I think that McCain found that magic to take him to the White House.

[Finalapproach29er]

Biden wanted to segregate Iraq and quit;what the heck good is experience if your wrong and have a weak stomach?

And Obama is even worse!

[paudio]

The Democrats' great advantage is that they are not responsible for the pain and frustration that many voters have suffered in the Bush years.

Huh? Does it mean Bush is the only who has been mean to everybody which created the partisan warfare?

[uncbob]

That's the reaction McCain is counting on, not just among Republicans but, importantly, among independents and women, where most of the undecided votes are

And he also shored up the GOP base which was not that enthralled with McCain ---just look at all the new $$$$ flowing in --it isn't coming from Hillary democrats

[ReleaseTheHounds]

Mr. Broder, did you ever consider that maybe McCain wanted a true reformer on his side to help him reform all of the awfulness of your “inside the beltway” mentality? And that maybe he thought that this would appeal to a majority of Americans (male, female, black, white, Hispannic)? Wow, imagine that... making a choice based on principle. Oh, and how does this compare with the selection of “Scrappy Joe from Scranton” — you know: change you can believe in!

[uncbob]

The Democrats' great advantage is that they are not responsible for the pain and frustration that many voters have suffered in the Bush years.

The democrats great advantage was the KICK ME SIGN that Bush has worn for 8 years --headlined by taking blame for NOLA during Katrina rather than having his spokespeople take on the incompetency of the dem governor and mayor

[Matchett-PI]

“...a typical McCain gamble, unpredictable in its consequences.” ~ David Broder

Sorry, but I stopped reading right there as I reject his premise.

McCain’s pick is neither a gamble nor does it have unpredictible consequences.

Read it and weep, ‘RATS:

Strategic Vision Pollster Predicted Palin VP Pick last year
newxmax ^ http://www.newsmax.com/insidecover/Pollster_Predicted_Palin_/2008/08/30/126415.html?utm_medium=RSS

David E. Johnson, CEO of Strategic Vision, LLC accurately predicted the presidential nomination of Arizona Senator John McCain in 2007 on POTUS Radio when all political experts had written McCain’s obituary.

Johnson also predicted that Alaska Governor Sarah Palin would be McCain’s running mate in March 2007.

Johnson reiterated that Palin would be the candidate following Barack Obama’s selection of Joseph Biden as his running mate.

Johnson based his predictions upon polling done by Strategic Vision, LLC in key battleground states and his own political expertise of over twenty years.

“Based upon our polling in key battleground states in 2007 and early 2008, all indicators pointed to John McCain as the only plausible Republican presidential nominee,” said David E. Johnson, CEO of Strategic Vision, LLC. “Our polling showed that McCain was the second choice of the other candidate’s supporters particularly in Florida which really made McCain’s nomination possible.

Our polling in 2008 have shown that Barack Obama underperforms among female voters particularly in the states of Ohio, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin that provides an opening for Senator McCain,” continued Johnson.

“Additionally, John McCain has a unique opportunity to present the future of the Republican Party in his vice presidential selection.

All of this indicated a strong dedicated conservative that would be outside of the box and Sarah Palin headed that list along with her appeal to social and fiscal conservatives and her moving life story.

Strategic Vision polling in the key battleground states of Ohio, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Florida, and non-traditional battleground states such as New Jersey indicate that 25% to 35% of Hillary Clinton supporters will not vote for Barack Obama and might consider voting for John McCain based upon his running mate.

(Excerpt) Read more at newsmax.com ...

[editor-surveyor]

Sarah Palin, a well qualified choice:

"Four presidents generally ranked in the top fifteen by historians have had experience comparable to Governor Palin’s prior to assuming office:
Franklin Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, and Grover Cleveland.

Sarah Palin spent four years as a City Council Member for Wasilla, Alaska, six years as Mayor of Wasilla, and two years as Governor of Alaska.

FDR spent just over two years in the New York State Senate, eight years as Assistant Secretary of the Navy, and four years as Governor of New York.

Theodore Roosevelt three years in the New York State Assembly, two years as Governor of New York, one year as Assistant Secretary of the Navy, and less than one year as Vice President of the United States.

Woodrow Wilson spent eight years as President of Princeton University and two years as Governor of New Jersey.

Grover Cleveland spent two years as Sheriff of Erie County, two years as Mayor of Buffalo, and two years as Governor of New York.

Overall, I’d say that Palin’s background is comparable with that of several presidents considered highly successful, even considering that her state has a smaller population than the other two states on the list.

While Obama has been running for office for as long as Palin has been running a state...

By: Freeper RogerD

An excellent analysis Roger!