Posted on 09/05/2008 11:27:44 PM PDT by goldstategop
It was the loudest and most prolonged cheer since Barack Obama appeared on the podium last week in Denver. Very few people had heard of Sarah Palin when Mr Obama delivered his acceptance speech eight days ago. One vice-presidential announcement, several news cycles and countless debates about sexism later, Ms Palin had been catapulted into starring role at a rejuvenated Republican Convention.
Given the fluid nature of this presidential race, most analysts say it is much too early to pronounce whether Ms Palin's widely praised acceptance speech was the "game changer" that some Republicans claimed on Wednesday night. But in the near term Ms Palin's "hockey mom" address has already accomplished three things. First it has energised the Republican Party's conservative base.
(Excerpt) Read more at ft.com ...
"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
The whole world is fascinated with the Alaskan hockey mom and she didn’t even have to go to Germany to get their attention. The world came to her.
What a load. "Some Republicans"? "Most analysts"? "Much too early"?
Geeez, Sarah Palin just rocked the entire world, and these guys are sitting around cautiously studying whether or not Sarah Palin's speech was a (sneering quote marks) "game changer"?
Who on earth are they talking to? The committed barking moonbats? The Democrat party machine?
They certainly can't be talking to anyone who reads The Financial Times. Those folks are keenly aware of the significance of what happened this week.
Numbskulls...
“several news cycles”
I wonder what he considers a “news cycle”? Is there a scientific consensus? Some people seem to think that it can be as short as a day. I’d say there were five news cycles since Obama’s speech:
1) Palin announcement and the mad “Who’s Palin?” rush for news,
2)Hurricane Gustav and the delay of Republican Convention,
3) The Palin smear campaign,
4) Palin’s acceptance speech/Oh my God, Palin is actually good/continued smear campaign, and
5) McCain was ho-hum, but the POW part was riveting/continuing smear campaign.
For the next two months I expect each news cycle to consist at least in part of “Obama is Great” and “continued smear campaign”.
She is more than the Washington Elite. She is real. They have eight weeks to change that. It will be hard on her but she embodies everything the true left hates. FREEDOM
well, she is fascinating....a loving mother...the public loves to see that....yet smart and articulate and FUNNY and can deliver a message.....
Apparently, initial estimates were about half of current count- Otherwise, a very well written account. It seems that Great Britain is very interested in this election, and Sarah Palin.
Your analysis of the news cycles is exactly right—and I didn’t even really have the chance to pay real attention until Tuesday; our son had a baseball tournament over the weekend.
One of the best things about it is how effectively it stole the thunder away from Mr. Styrofoam Pillar’s speech.
And how the MSM made themselves look even stupider than usual.
On top of it all, we have a star player for the next 4, 8, even 16 years!
Self-declared evangelicals make up roughly a third of the Republican vote and a high turnout can make the important difference be-tween victory and defeat in swing states such as Ohio. Until recently, many social conservatives offered only lukewarm support for John McCain and some remained hostile. But Mr McCain's unequivocal pronouncement last month that human life begins at conception and his selection of Ms Palin, a staunch opponent of abortion, have enthused the religious block to an extent few anticipated.
"He's given energy and excitement to this ticket that wasn't there before and that is going to be crucial to getting the work done on the ground that you need to win elections," says Whit Ayres, a Republican pollster and strategist.
Second, Ms Palin's selection caught the Obama campaign off-guard. In her speech, Ms Palin mocked Mr Obama's set-piece speech at the Mile High Stadium in Denver last week. "When the cloud of rhetoric has pass-ed . . . when the roar of the crowd fades away . . . when the stadium lights go out, and those Styrofoam Greek columns are hauled back to some studio lot - what exactly is our opponent's plan?" she said.
As a young, reform-minded governor, who rose to prominence in Alaska by taking on the state's corruption-scarred Republican establishment, she threatens to undercut Mr Obama's monopoly on "change" and reinvigorate Mr McCain's maverick reputation. "In politics, there are some candidates who use change to promote their careers. And then there are those, like John McCain, who use their careers to promote change," she said.
For almost the first time since the presidential race started more than a year ago, the media fascination surrounding Ms Palin has allowed the McCain campaign to dominate the news agenda. The effect has been to rob Mr Obama of the momentum he hoped to take from the successful Democratic convention.
Full article HERE:
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/39ac6cfe-7ae1-11dd-adbe-000077b07658.html?nclick_check=1
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Ping! Ping! Ping a few others here!
” . . . when the stadium lights go out, and those Styrofoam Greek columns are hauled back to some studio lot - what exactly is our opponent’s plan?”
Smack! Like I told another FReeper, I’d love a Saturday Night Live kind of skit of Obama tripping over styrofoam columns. I suppose it could be a radio skit too.
“Here we have Obama with a grander, larger Greek column display ... “
Sarah Palin rocks!
bump!
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