Posted on 09/04/2008 11:11:50 PM PDT by neverdem
Her thrilling convention speech showed that the Governor of Alaska is a force to reckoned with. But she might be more than that
The best line I heard about Sarah Palin during the frenzied orgy of chauvinist condescension and gutter-crawling journalistic intrusion that greeted her nomination for vice-president a week ago came from a correspondent who knows a thing or two about Alaska.
“What's the difference between Sarah Palin and Barack Obama?”
“One is a well turned-out, good-looking, and let's be honest, pretty sexy piece of eye-candy.
“The other kills her own food.”
Now we know, thanks to her triumphant debut at the Republican convention on Wednesday, that Mrs Palin not only slaughters her prey. She impales its head on a stick and parades it around for her followers to jeer at. For half...
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Perhaps this Manichean interpretation will prove true. But I suspect that it misses the real appeal of the Republican team. The opportunity for McCain-Palin is not reaction, but reform - a reform rooted in a distant conservatism that could be due for a comeback
Hailing from Arizona and Alaska, the Republican ticket has a chance to rekindle a western conservatism different from the old Yankee paternalist sort or the Bible Belt version. They like their guns out there (some still kill their own food) and they are pro-life and deeply pro-America, of course. But at a time of grave challenges, the themes of economic freedom and opportunity, the resistance to the idea that government holds all the answers, could resonate with voters.
This is an election, as the Democrats have realised all along, about an America on the cusp of change. With the moose-hunting, establishment-taunting Mrs Palin at his side, Mr McCain might represent a bigger change than the one that his opponents are offering.
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Ronnie came from California, the West.
Palin hails from Alaska, the West.
There’s just something about the West. It’s too bad California has forgotten what made it great.
Since parts of Alaska cross the line opposite the Prime Meridian, why not call it the easternmost state as well as the westernmost?
Regarding the British you have to appreciate the fact that it is their language.
Yo! Schwartz! Do ya read Free Republic????
rom, I'VE not forgetten.....I LOVE the "attitude" of the west and WANT IT BACK!!!!!
I love Sarah Palin!!!
We got rich and then we got stupid. It makes me fear for places that are just now getting rich, like Alabama.
Let’s git on with some Thrillin’ Drillin,’ boys!!!!
Give her a Ginzu knife and watch her slice and dice her way to Washington.
The O-man and MSM gave her five days of biased broadsides, stooping to new lows, and now that she is connecting to America they must be in a total panic.
Watched John McCain earlier and really think the GOP is poised to keep the White House. Now let's get to work!
"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
I just got a shiver up my leg.
I really have to agree with Rush. McCain has turned into McBrilliant. The left has thrown everything but the kitchen sink at the Palin family and all they’ve managed to do is tick America off.
The West consistently went with Romney and gave Hunter and Thompson their only real delegates, as well.
Meanwhile, the south and the rest of the country seemed intent on McCain or Huckabee.
Call me whatever you like, but I wish the West had a bigger say in a lot of things. It amazes me the way Wyoming and Nevada were all but ignored in the primary season. And how is Alaska somehow some meaningless state when you’ve got a guy like Biden from Delaware? Granted, there are a number of banks who call Delaware home, but Alaska is of chief economic importance to the US. That somehow gets overlooked.
Seems Republicans seem to overlook the West, as well, which frankly has been even more loyal than the southern states in recent elections. Utah and Wyoming are safer Republican strongholds than the likes of Tennessee (my home state) and Mississippi, though you couldn’t tell it by the way some talk about them.
Yuppers! We are still out here in Cali...hangin’ on against the hordes! The attitude is here, it’s a seed lying dormant in the soil like a weed and they will never eradicate it.
what I like about being born and raised in the west is many of us do not even know an establishment exist or we just do not care.
Obama came to the knife fight with a gun.
Sarah Palin came with a nuke.
"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
bttt
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