Oooooh, Sarah-Cuda!
Poor liberals. Days of relentless attacks and rumor-mongering by Obama's blog surrogates and media pals -- swept away by the inspired words of Sarah Palin's uncompromisingly exceptional, flawlessly delivered electrifying tour de force of a speech tonight. Anyone wondering why the Obama camp finds itself in full panic mode over the pistol-packin' mama from Alaska, madly obsessing over the sex life of her teenage daughter Bristol (who isn't running for anything), only need experience the charm and potent eloquence which flowed freely like rivers of living water from that podium and into the homes of millions of real Americans, who won't easily forget the experience. Her speech was 40 solid minutes of sheer magnificence, its impact reverberating far beyond the halls of the aptly-named Xcel Energy Center.
Palin, Alaska governor, mother of five, moose hunter, hockey mom, card-carrying NRA member with the librarian eyeglasses and beehive hairdo, tonight didn't just demonstrate she's 'in touch' with average Americans, she showed she's intensely and in every sense 'one of us', her personal life story exemplifying in every detail what it means to be genuinely American and proud of it. A self-made woman, Palin's no scion of some well-connected family. She's the real deal. But with no background in Marxist community organizing or of paling around with unrepentant terrorists, Palin has liberals throwing conniption fits, their panties in a wad, particularly since she disarmingly exudes in Reaganesque fashion the small-town values of 'gun-clinging' flyover country, rather than that of Manhattan's Upper East Side or Hussein's Hyde Park.
On the Thick-Skin/Tough-as-Nails/True Grit scale, Palin's a maximum strength Category 5. Democrats had dreaded tonight, this no-punches pulled, take-no-prisoners par-excellence presentation, having banked over the weekend on a levee-breaching Katrina reprise along the Gulf coast, with massive drownings in New Orleans as the sweat icing on the cake. But with incompetent governor Blank-o safely in retirement, and GOP governor Bobby Jindal firmly in charge, it wasn't going to happen. Instead, while Democrats were busy investigating Bristol's libido, voters got a lesson in the efficacy of effective Republican governance and management, unhindered by the rampant Democrat obstructionism and corruption of three years ago, almost to the day.
In the lead-up to tonight, Democrats -- flummoxed, bewildered, clueless -- had been furiously hurling, Palin-ward, everything and anything not nailed down: That Palin's mother-in-law planned to vote for Hussein; that Palin had supported Pat Buchanan for president; that Palin had fired a police chief illegally; that Palin had cut funding for pregnant teens; that Palin must have faked a pregnancy to cover up for her daughter Bristol, allegedly the mother of four-month-old Trig, based on a photo dating back to '06 -- all since discredited. Another allegation is that Palin had been a member of a fringe political group, but it turns out she was never a Democrat. So libbies are left arguing that Obama's more qualified to be president because Bristol is still pregnant. Or that Palin should insist that Bristol abort her unborn baby so Palin can do her vice-presidenting without 'distractions'.
But tonight she showed Obama's army of blog smear artists and TV pundits are no match for Sarah-Cuda. Referring to those 'bitter' folks in small-towns who cling to their guns and God, Palin rightly noted that she "grew up with those people. They are the ones who do some of the hardest work in America . . . who grow our food, run our factories, and fight our wars. They love their country, in good times and bad, and they're always proud of America." Take that, Michelle!
She added that "since our opponents in this presidential election seem to look down on" small-town mayors, "let me explain to them what the job involves. I guess a small-town mayor is sort of like a 'community organizer,' except that you have actual responsibilities." Take that, Barack!
"I might add that in small towns, we don't quite know what to make of a candidate who lavishes praise on working people when they are listening, and then talks about how bitterly they cling to their religion and guns when those people aren't listening."
Palin then goes for the kill: "We tend to prefer candidates who don't talk about us one way in Scranton and another way in San Francisco."
When it was all over, the TV talking-heads were speechless. The folks at ABC "News" were glum. CNN's Wolf Blitzer appeared stunned -- they knew Sarah-Cuda had won. Palin likely drew more viewers than the messiah and his vice-messiah combined.
By picking Sarah Palin as his running mate, the honorable John McCain showed he's in it to win it. In fact, not merely to win it, but win it in a landslide. And with Palin at his side, win it he will.
Anyway, that's...
My Two Cents...
"JohnHuang2"
