[Fred]

Sarah Palin - Obambi Raider

[Radl]

I really felt sorry for the girl. This is going to backfire big time on the Left. The kid looked pathetic...scared on tv. Most decent people will realize some very vicious animals from the MSM are filth. I wonder what they would have said a few years ago if Chelsea was with child.

[jokyfo]

Mark my words.

This will ALL blow over.

The Left and the MSM are taking their best shots at her and they will not be able to knock her out. This is their last and best chance and they will fail. Then it is on to the real campaign.

I can hear Plain on the stump now:

“The media and the Liberals tried to pick your candidate for you...are you going to let that happen?”

I know the kind of woman and person Sarah Palin is and I would not want to tangle with her.

Obama is already responding to the claim of her having more executive experience then he does. He is doing that because he is afraid, not because he is confident.

She is more than a fine pick.

[CatOwner]

Morris obviously hasn't seen the polls numbers from the weekend showing Obama moving up to hit 50% and McCain dropping to 42% in Gallup's latest poll. The issues with Palin definitely have affected this race. It remains to be seen whether the McCain campaign can overcome them.

[clee1]

In this case I think Morris is right; because this time the adults are in charge.

[jazusamo]

Though I’m often skeptical of Dick Morris I believe he’s right on this and makes a good point about McCain taking Palin on even knowing about her daughter.

[CharlesWayneCT]

In the short term, Gustav hurt — it gave Obama the bounce that he didn’t get from his convention, and it cut the momentum McCain got from the Palin pick.

For 3 days the media was able to replay the Katrina story again and again, reminding people of how “bad” it was handled.

Since Katrina was the seminal event that triggered the Democrat takeover of DC, it was not surprising that Obama has gotten a bounce in the polls the last few days.

One could hope that everything going well would mitigate the bounce, but the media pretty much put an embargo on ANY story that points out that the REpublican governor of LA did things correctly.

[Burma Jones]

Obama was supposed to have a solid lead going into his convention, then expand it with a “bounce.” He didn’t have much if any pre-convention lead, and for a couple of days it was looking like he wouldn’t even get a bounce. Now that it looks like he did, some of us are disappointed. But McCain is still in a better position than he expected to be going into his convention. Steve Schmidt presumably had a plan to win this election even if McCain was down 12-16 points heading into the RNC — I suppose he still has a plan.