Here's the John McCain event today at Fairfax, Virginia
Posted on 09/10/2008 9:06:48 PM PDT by library user
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So here are a few thoughts on Palinmania and how it has lifted McCain:
1. It's not just about Palin - it's about what McCain's picking her tells voters about McCain. Again and again, people in Lancaster praised him for his astuteness and his willingness to do something daring.
2. Palin has been successfully presented as the ultimate outsider - and the more she's derided by the mainstream press, the more this helps McCain. He's reclaimed the "maverick" label, first given to him by the press.
3. Palin exceeded expectations with her accomplished speech at the convention. Frankly, the media-driven expectations were so low that she could have strung two sentences together and she's have exceeded expectations. The same thing could happen with the ABC Charlie Gibson interview. Her son Track, 19, goes to Iraq on Thursday, the seventh anniversary of 9/11. That's a pretty nice coincidence for the McCain campaign - and a good hook (from the McCain campaign's point of view) for the ABC interview.
4. Again on the expectations theme, Joe Biden is planning some big-time debate prep for October 2nd. My hunch is she could be very, very difficult for him to debate. He'll be bursting to display his knowledge of the minutiae of foreign policy. She'll have a few peppy soundbites and sharp retorts ready. There's a danger he'll talk and talk - or be condescending.
5. Palin's reading from the teleprompter and not giving interviews just yet is not only about being unprepared (though obviously that's a factor). It's also about staying on message, which Obama and Biden are not doing.
6. One of the best things for McCain about the Palin pick was that it re-opened the wounds for Hillary Clinton supporters. Biden then played right into it by saying this.
(Excerpt) Read more at blogs.telegraph.co.uk ...
I strongly disagree with this, but most of the rest of what the author says is on target.
The funniest thing is watching the left go apoplectic and tie itself in knots over this. Obama could still win, especially if they dig up an October surprise on Palin, but it is so very entertaining right now to watch the so-called progressives spitting chips.
PALIN-MANIA ... I haz it!
Low expectations... yeah, right!
Toby, is your memory getting a little hazy?
The teleprompter misfired halfway through her speech and she had to wing it. Only the pros notices, and some of them only ex post facto.
Here's the John McCain event today at Fairfax, Virginia
Oops I forgot to credit the source, http://wizbangblog.com.
Adding to the thread of unlikely events in the trainwreck that used to be Obama, THAT loss of the teleprompter, which as you was (deliberately ignored by the MSM) was what got her “off-track” so she had to stop and fill in her thoughts with the “Hockey Mom and a Pit Bull” joke she used the night before with a McCain aide.
It still “smells” to high holy heaven that 12 MSM different announcers on 4 different networks were IMMEDIATELY ready with their “teleprompter” and “reading somebody else's speech” whining .... And the applause from the floor was still underway.
Something was not right: DNC talking points already issued and rehearsed before the speech?
Ha! I missed that.
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