Remember the "New Republic" is a very left leaning magazine.
Things seem to be going badly right now, but I think Palin will end up being a great choice.
Lets face it, Palin is not a trained lawyer, and even better an ivy league trained lawyer, therefore she is incapable of leading the country. Thus says the MSM.
If they leaned anymore left they'd fall over in the Kremlin.............
I doubt that Murkowski had Alaska’s media doing his gutter work for him.
I doubt that Murkowski had Alaska’s media doing his gutter work for him.
Sarah Palin is ANYTHING but a lightweight or political diletante. She is a quick study on practically everything, and as the old adage says, you can hire people to do all the clever thinking for you.
Look who the other side is putting on the field, for cat’s sake. The controlling political power teams in this country have drummed up the notion that the operators of the levers of power have to have some kind of special expertise, gained only at certain institutions and granted permission to practice that exertion of power only when a certain level of ‘gravitas’ has been attained.
Well, news flash. Having a law degree does not confer some mysterious insight or exalted status immune to being exposed for a fraud. And that the law degree is issued by some elitist university that has NO connection with the roots of Middle America at all, is even more a perpetuation of this haughty and undeserved status for a limited few.
America was founded on NOT having immutable levels of social classes, and many of those who assume the mantle of superiority are in no way deserving or even defensibly entitled to claim it.
The new populism stands to remake the structure that has come to be an impediment, and not a means to make an equitable adjustment between the access to the means of wealth, and the application of the wealth generated.
The Dems and their free media friends are Borking and Linching (Thomas) Palin and her family.
Are we going to sit by and just watch it happen, or do we get down and dirty and act like it’s the WAR we are in?
Going badly? For whom? It hasn't even been a week and in my time here at Free Republic, I've never seen such fear and agitation from the left over an individual, even for Bush 43. In fact, their reactions are similar to those expressed at the thought of an actor best known for acting with a chimp becoming president...and all of this for a vice presidential nominee! They are worried, afraid and utterly perplexed by her and what to do about her. Their predictable reaction is every bit as natural as that of conservatives who donated $10 million since she was announced.
There are still some surprises ahead. I thought Obama would clean house at Rick Warren's pseudo-debate. He didn't. I thought Obama would get a tremendous bounce from the DNC convention and Hillary's call for party unity. He didn't. Next we have the RNC and the vice presidential debates, so there will be plenty more surprises. But, what is most surprising to me, is my own reaction to voting in November. I went from vowing to NEVER vote for McCain again to actually looking forward to it and all thanks to his picking someone I can relate to and respect. And, $10 million in a couple of days says I'm not alone.
In what way? In a week the base has gone from a tepid, I guess I'll vote for the guy, to the most enthusiasm I've seen in years.
The Dims and MSM spitting nails means they know this pick will hurt them and, among other things, expose the split in their own party.
Remember, Palin didn't get the nickname "Barracuda" for nothing. She knocked off two very established Alaska names.
She's also not just a hockey mom - she has a degree in journalism and worked for two years as a TV journalist. Biden's in a bind. CW will expect him to dance rings around her in a debate, but the reality is she will be formidable.
Appointing his own daughter as a replacement for his own bad self didn't help much. Sara stomped him but good.