Watch Rush in a few minutes tonight on Fox News replayed on ON THE RECORD at 2:47 am.
Posted on 09/05/2008 12:33:40 AM PDT by nickcarraway
This afternoon, a packed ballroom at a Twin Cities Hilton got a glimpse of the answer to the question everyone’s been asking. What is Todd Palin — the First Dude of Alaska — really like?
The husband of Alaska governor and now Republican vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin was introduced as “the future first Second Man” by View host Elisabeth Hasselbeck, and he was continually surrounded by the women who make up the majority of the attendees at this GOP fundraiser.
Palin’s remarks were brief but enthusiastically received. He started making the best of a tumultuous week: “Is it just me or do things move quick around here?” he observed, to empathetic laughs. “It feels like just a few days ago I was working at the North Slope on the night shift.”
“The Palin family has had quite a week,” Palin announced, in a gentle but masculine voice. “You just never know what the future has before you,” he said.
He joked that had he known where his wife’s civic involvement would lead, “I would have had a few more questions when Sarah decided to join the PTA.”
And as if to issue a warning to Joe Biden, the proud husband and father said: “When my wife starts talking about reform and corruption. It’s best to get out of the way.”
Appealing to the snowmobile champion’s competitive spirit, Hasselbeck had announced Palin with praise of his wife: “She knocked the cover off the ball last night. She knocked the wind out of the liberal smear machine,” she said. “America fell in love with your wife last night.”
If my e-mails last night from NRO readers about Piper are any indication, they may have room in their hearts for Todd and all the rest of the Palins, too.
Ping!
Knocked the cover off the ball? Anybody know what Elisabeth was talking about?
You’re obviously not a sports fan.
This family is making a huge sacrifice for the country and their wife/mother/daughter's efforts, and their lives are going to be changed forever whether McCain wins or not. It is not going to be appreciated by a significant part of the country. I've never seen a family raked over the coals on the world stage, mind you, such as this family has been on such short notice.
I agree with you, and couldn’t have put it better myself.
Jeff’s gonna need to watch it. Team Obama will probably try to send some skanks his way, who’ll offer to to do to him what most oil-field workers only see in the movie room during their off shift. The left would love nothing better than to put him or his sons on DVD doing the nasty.
Very handsome man. The Palins are the most attractive couple Washington has ever seen.
Tailgate parties, night fishing on the Potomac and pit ox roasts....:))
[and maybe a couple of biker bashes?]
"She's something else, and her husband is very good looking."
You two crack me up! (Hmmm. Think of the bonfire possibilities.)
I’m thinking a few rock concerts in the Rose Garden are a good idea, too.
[I would LOVE to see Alice Cooper rocking the White House]....LOL
It's a baseball expression, meaning "to exceed all expectations." Possibly derived from the 1888 poem, Casey at the Bat. (Apparently in those days, the cover did sometimes come off the ball)
A straggling few got up to go in deep despair. The rest
Clung to that hope which springs eternal in the human breast;
They thought, if only Casey could get but a whack at that -
We'd put up even money, now, with Casey at the bat.
But Flynn preceded Casey, as did also Jimmy Blake,
And the former was a lulu and the latter was a cake;
So upon that stricken multitude grim melancholy sat,
For there seemed but little chance of Casey's getting to the bat.But Flynn let drive a single, to the wonderment of all,
And Blake, the much despis-ed, tore the cover off the ball
; And when the dust had lifted, and the men saw what had occurred,
There was Jimmy safe at second and Flynn a-hugging third.
I watched him on CSPIN. He was nervous, very nervous, but he melted my heart much as his little girl Piper melted my heart.
These are real people, with no artifice, no subterfuge,and no need to be anything but who they are.
Filled with love and determination, and patriotism. We are so lucky to have them working for us.
Thanks for the pic. I’m afraid we’re going to have to institute Rules relating to Todd threads.
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