Plugs has proven himself to be a gaffe goldmine in just the last two weeks.
Posted on 09/07/2008 1:02:16 AM PDT by nickcarraway
The 1979 UK general election was the first I followed with the attention of an adult voter. One thing I recall clearly was a certainty within the British media that the Tory election campaign would run aground through the agency of something called 'Maggie's Gaffe'.
They waited and speculated endlessly and, of course, in the end it never came.
That's come back to me more than once during the frenzy since last Friday to find something nasty in the Alaskan woodshed that would somehow knock Ms Palin out of the race. Whatever they find, it will need to be a good deal more corporeal than a 'Sarah's Gaffe'.
Janet Daley notes:
What the metropolitan sophisticates failed to understand in the 1980s when Thatcher won election after election is even more the case in the US: most (and I do mean most) ordinary people actually believe in the basic decencies, the "small-town values", of family, marital fidelity, and personal responsibility. They believe in and honour them - even if they do not manage to uphold them.
The numbers have been clocking up for Obama all through the early part of this Convention. But Ms Palin seems at last to have brought it to life with a classy performance in her own very direct ('pitbull with lipstick') style. The fact that some Washington insiders don't rate her chances won't have done her any harm with the base.
It now comes down to Mr McCain to make the ticket competitive. In the view of last week's Economist leader that's because he has become less his own man and more a continuation of the Bush regime:
Mr McCain used to be a passionate believer in limited government and sound public finances; a man with some distaste for conservative Republicanism and its obsession with reproductive
(Excerpt) Read more at blogs.telegraph.co.uk ...
Plugs has proven himself to be a gaffe goldmine in just the last two weeks.
Joe Biden : the Gaffe ( Gift ) that keeps on Gaffing ( Giving ).
"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'm not even going to comment on this asinine cliche.
they are both going to make overtures to the dumb undecideds
it wasn’t an accident that extremely pro-life Palin doid not mention it at the RNC speech Wednesday nite
And Obama isn’t far behind, what with him announcing himself as THE PRESIDENT to a rally in Indiana the other day... I think these two are only going to bury themselves, really. Palin has simply made that happen at a much quicker rate! They are so petrified of her that their nerves really are getting the better of them, IMHO.
“And Obama isn’t far behind, what with him announcing himself as THE PRESIDENT to a rally in Indiana the other day...”
I’ve heard him use the phrase...”when I was a senator” several times lately.
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