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Much has been written why Palin both brings strength to the McCain ticket and is a gamble at the same time. Why then the growing wave of popular sentiment in her favor?
Various reasons, but one I think is that millions of Americans are simply tired of being lectured at by smug elites. Jetting Al Gore made tens of millions finger-pointing at us about our global warming. Obama's America, apparently unlike Rev. Wright's Trinity Church, is a cruel, downright mean and dysfunctional place. John Kerry's United States is one of the half-educated in need of Ivy-League enlightenment and tutorials.
So along comes someone (unlike Biden's vastly inflated middle-class biography) who really is from the working class. She likes it—and finds snowmobiling, hunting, fishing and living in small-town America not as a wasteful use of carbon-emitting fuels, cruelty to animals, gratuitous depletion of our resources, or proof of parochial yokelism. Instead it is a life of action in an often harsh natural landscape, where physical strength is married to intelligence to bring us food, fuel, and progress.
Palin's symbolism is the antithesis of the metrosexual wind- or body- surfing politican, and hair-plugged, neurotic TV pundit So at this time, right now, millions apparently like Palin's atypical 19th-century profile. Again, it's a pleasant change of pace from Harvard Law School, DC politics, "community organizing" and the can't-do, 'they raised the bar on me' collective complaint.
If she can beat off the frothing Newsweek/MSNBC/New York Times inbred rabid wolves, and do it with the grace she has shown so far, she will fill a deep yearning among Americans for someone like her. A lot of Americans, if they watch reality shows, prefer truckers on ice or Bering Sea crab fishing to endless psychodramas of thirty-something suburban whiners.
So apparently they are eager to see a rare politican who is unapologetic about America's past achievements (cf. Obama's "tragic history" and need for more "oppression studies"), and who reminds us with pride that a muscular world of action, not community organizing, creates the bounty that others use and take for granted but so often sneer at the methods of its acquisition.
Right now, there are millions rooting for her in a way not true of Biden—and many who are criticizing her don't have a clue why that it is so.
The NRO article is brilliant,and worth posting at all the liberal forums.
As she was doing the walk-through on stage this morning, CNN was demeaning her in the same way. They were so condecending from "oh, she must be so nervous begin on stage", to "she has to have the podium lowered or she'll be another talking hat like little Queen Elizabeth", to "what will happen if the teleprompter quits in front of all these people" to "to the RNC isn't sending the audio feed because they certainly don't want us hearing anything to this young woman". Never mind she appeared totally at ease, confident, and smiling.
This line was especially memorable
In short, Sarah Palin in just a few days has proved to be a sort of nightmarish liberal banshee.
Libs should be heartened by the fact that the Cóiste Bodha doesn't burn fossil fuels.
McCain has given us a real choice for the future. And now the country has to choose whether they want to go the way of "socialism" or to return to the goals of the 55 Men who wrote the Constitution.
Because she’s like us!! And she got there because she worked for it.
I can only say “wow”. He really gets it.
I Love VDH.
What we have in this race is two real people, one a warrior-senator, and one a hockey mom-governor, versus two lawyer-senators. In Obama we see a young Biden: someone who loves to talk, and loves the power and adulation that comes with office. In Biden we see what Obama will become: a professional politician who will have little to show for his life within the beltway, even if he manages to become president. Biden is the living picture of Dorian Hussein Gray.
This was one of those times that I am GLAD to be on your ping list.
Great article!
The interesting quote: “We won’t have to worry, in other words, that she will put on spandex”
Todd Palin is a very fortunate man..........(wink)
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Good to hear this from VDH. Now we need to get Steyn back from hiatus. One Steyn article is not enough. VDH will hold up his end of the log; come on, Mark, we’re counting on you!
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“Instead it is a life of action in an often harsh natural landscape, where physical strength is married to intelligence to bring us food, fuel, and progress.”
He’s amazing.