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Focus Group: Palin Was (Alarmingly) Strong
The National Review ^
| Wednesday, September 03, 2008 11:13 PM
| -Michael Crowley
Posted on 09/03/2008 11:34:39 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
Several moderate-Democrat friends of mine have been emailing--few if any would ever vote for McCain--but all agree that Palin was very strong. The more liberal among them are a little panicked.
I completely misjudged how negative she would be. Her lines about Obama were brutally cutting and possibly over the top in places. But she's a far better messenger than an angry white man.
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TOPICS: Extended News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2008; hatinpalin; mccain; mccainpalin; palin; palinattacks; rncconvention
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To: LibertyRocks; PhilDragoo; Grampa Dave; Mike Darancette; MeekOneGOP; devolve; potlatch; y'all; ...
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Muck about with a bear’s cubs and this is what you get,
and rightfully so.
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posted on
09/03/2008 11:36:49 PM PDT
by
tet68
( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Uh, this is The New Republic, not National Review.
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posted on
09/03/2008 11:37:14 PM PDT
by
xjcsa
(McWhatshisname-Palin 2008)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
One only need look at DU. They are overflowing with obscenities.
They misjudged her plain and simple. They thought she was a pushover. She’s disturbingly [to them] effective.
Screw’em.
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posted on
09/03/2008 11:37:34 PM PDT
by
BunnySlippers
(McCain/Palin '08)
To: Roscoe Karns
ROFLMAO. Cracked me up again!
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posted on
09/03/2008 11:37:49 PM PDT
by
sofaman
(Moses dragged us through the desert for 40 years to the one place in the ME with no oil - Golda Meir)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
From the comments:
No she wasn't - her speech was red meat for the Republicans but will probably come off as too fire-breathing for independents. And she didn't show any evidence of a keen mind or sizable intellect that she'd need to be qualified to be vice president [Biden comes to mind, here] with so few other qualifications. And her ad hominem attacks on Obama are just license for reprisals on her.
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posted on
09/03/2008 11:39:09 PM PDT
by
hsalaw
To: xjcsa; Sidebar Moderator
Damn I screwed that up...wonder if a Moderator can fix my mistake?
I hate that!....Thanks...
To: xjcsa
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posted on
09/03/2008 11:39:28 PM PDT
by
BunnySlippers
(McCain/Palin '08)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
yipee! it does seem to be "The night of exploding heads"
Bless you Sarah, you rock!
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posted on
09/03/2008 11:39:37 PM PDT
by
Not now, Not ever!
(The devil made me do it!,.......................................................( well, not really.)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
I think there are a whole lot of Democrats who are unable to focus tonight. They just got a swift kick in their empty skulls.
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posted on
09/03/2008 11:40:01 PM PDT
by
FlingWingFlyer
(McCain/Palin '08! Real change you won't have to "believe in." You'll be able to see it!!!)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
The libs are reduced to whining. Oh man, this is too good to be true! (laughing)
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
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posted on
09/03/2008 11:40:02 PM PDT
by
goldstategop
(In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
The Liberals are just literally schizophrenic right now. They have collectively lost their minds, they have no CLUE what to do about Sarah Palin, none what so ever.... she scares them absolutely blind. Its a thing of beauty I tell you!
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posted on
09/03/2008 11:40:04 PM PDT
by
Danae
(A Taxpayer voting for Obama is like a Chicken voting for Colonel Sanders)
To: BunnySlippers
From the comments:
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Eos said:
Palin is a genuine original. She is of a type not seen before in our politics, more resonant of Mr. Smith Goes to Washington than of any politician in living memory. Her speech was directed at an unarticulated and underrepresented mainstream current in the country. She was tough, charming, poised, confident, unbeholden and unbespoke, a maverick, a reformer and non-doctrinnaire.. McCain and Palin just became to ticket of change in this election. Obama and Biden now seem ordinary and over-famiiar. The Left of the Democratic Party should be very afraid. The rest of us really enjoyed the speech.
To: hsalaw
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posted on
09/03/2008 11:41:01 PM PDT
by
ari-freedom
(You better think think about what you're trying to do to me)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
I bet right now Putin is quaking in his boots and cursing the day the Russkies sold us Alaska.
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posted on
09/03/2008 11:41:07 PM PDT
by
dfwgator
(After Saturday, the Miami Hurricanes will be downgraded to a tropical depression)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
I think we just won the center.
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posted on
09/03/2008 11:41:55 PM PDT
by
dfwgator
(After Saturday, the Miami Hurricanes will be downgraded to a tropical depression)
To: hsalaw
They're beyond stupid, living in that alternative universe of theirs. They don't know that the ground has shifted underneath them! Let them nurse their delusions about Sarah!
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
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posted on
09/03/2008 11:41:56 PM PDT
by
goldstategop
(In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
To: BunnySlippers
They are going NUTS! (((Sarah Barracuda)))
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