Posted on 09/06/2008 3:13:43 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
She spoke directly to the hearts and minds of everyday Americans, sick of self-perpetuating, self-aggrandizing elitists. The fly-over folk have lost patience, not only with a paralyzed and inept Congress, but also those who cannot see beyond the margins of conventional wisdom.
Pundits on the left and right are having a conniption-fit. This severe cranial cramping is the result of over-thinking, over-analyzing, and trying to cram the Palin phenomenon into the square holes of inside-the-beltway thinking.
I have news for former speech writers, congressional insiders, lawyers-turned-journalists, and think-tankers who find themselves adrift in a new alien landscape. Excitement for the McCain-Palin ticket is a weather-rounded peg that cannot fit into the old square holes. The peg has been weathered and worn, because folks have been subjected to a derelict government for years; term after term, election after election, no matter which Party holds or gains control.
Permanent fixtures in the House and Senate have adopted a two-task job description. Run for re-election, and hold meaningless, never-ending hearings designed primarily for political payback. It is quite nauseating, and unfortunately, old-guard pundits play right in and simply become enablers.
John McCain got under my skin on some issues over the years, but I believe he did so in a well-intentioned effort to jam a wrench into the status quo. He came across as too eager to bend over on some issues. On reflection, I can see his motivation and empathize with his desire to kick through some carcasses on the road in the hope of moving forward.
Sarah Palin brings back to John McCain a sense of conservative boundaries that I believe he will respect and use. As President, there will be no need to bend over as far as seemed necessary in the Senate for McCain, but we must also stop this absurd pundit notion that divided government is a good thing. Conservatives must reclaim a working majority in Congress, a task that is up to us to accomplish.
But back to these mental gymnastics the talking heads have been trying to accomplish regarding Sarah Palin. It is absurd to say that the McCain campaign cannot honestly use experience as an argument against Obama. As has been pointed out, Palin has real executive experience. Obama has none.
On Election Day one of two realities will be upon us. We will have elected a Vice President with a measurable quantity of Executive, Commander-in-Chief Experience or we will have elected a President who has absolutely none.
John McCain is unlikely to pass on to his rewards the day after taking the oath of office, but if he happened to do so, we will be in a far better position with Sarah Palin after the fact, than with Obama on day one.
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Phil Harris is a software engineer, author of Cry for the Shadows and blogs at Citizen Phil.
So, you're willing to accept Sarah's sacrifice, for your benefit, but unwilling for your own daughter to do the same for others? BTW, I hate to be the one to break it to ya, but when your daughter is grown, and she marries, you no longer have a choice in her life as it will be her own. I only hope she is more selfless than you you seem to be.
Sarah Palin is a fine role model for men and women, particularly today’s younger females re her fierce prolife stance. She is proof that one can be a woman of faith and succeed, and use that success to make a positive difference in the world.
I would like to add that there was a certain lady who led a country, and came to visit and confer with King Solomon (The Queen of Sheba). She was known as one of the wisest women of her time! Oh yeah, there was another one, Lydia, the lady that sold purple dye (or cloth). She was a community leader mentioned in the NT, who became a Christian, and welcomed the Christian missionaries. I would say that these ladies were not only traditional women, but also in non-tradional roles or positions!
Oops, that is “traditional” roles or positions in the last sentence!
I would have preferred "People's Palin Passion Perplexes Pundits."
"Won't"? Nope: mustn't. My wife takes advantage of the same dynamic and it derives directly from misdirected feminism, the kind that Sarah guerillistically undermines by being a pro-life feminist (as is my wife). Amusingly, it's the same dynamic that is keeping either Obama or Biden from coming up with anything remotely effective in countering her punches: they don't want to be seen hitting a girl (which is, you've got to admit, self-imposed sexism right there). So they inhibit themselves and seen the rag-hags outs to speak for them. How in the world Hillary or Eleanor are supposed to compete with Sarah is beyond me, especially when they're going to come across not as dowagers, as is their intent, but as crones cackling and stirring their pot of potions.
Note something else: once Sarah says it, many men are freed to say it, because then they're only quoting her. Her diction is letter-perfect and once said, these things will neither go away nor be twisted without proving the twister to be a bigot. Men have got to love this new situation.
I know I do.
I am incredibly sorry to say that that's not going to happen soon.
Yours is definitely better.
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