Very interesting!
Gooooood. How very Rovian. Since he is the left’s boogyman, they fear whatever he says so they will likely do the opposite of what he says to do...which means more of the same. :)
Rove’s taunting the Rock Star!
How I wish I’d been the proverbial fly on the wall watching the changing expressions on Barack Obama’s face as Sarah Palin delivered her already-legendary speech at the Republican convention last Wednesday.
I imagine his pre-speech expression as alert, but relaxed paternalism, like a chief surgeon set to supervise a lowly resident’s clumsy initial attempt at an appendectomy. Then puzzlement as the surgeon realizes that he’s to be the patient, and finally horror as, strapped to the table and, before a nation of fascinated onlookers, he is subjected to ... a palinoscopy!
Oh, she got through to him all right. For eight months critics haven’t really laid more than glancing blows on Obama, because they were jabbing away at his exterior. Sarah got him right in the gut.
Humour is permitted entry to dark cavities closed to straight criticism, so Palin used steady-handed wit as her probe. As every comedian and experienced public speaker knows, failed on-stage humour is first cousin to death. Factor in the supreme importance of the occasion, an audience of 39 million voters, the greedy gaze of slavering media hyenas and the enormous additional risk of “dissing” an African-American saint: What we witnessed on that Minnesota stage, my friends, was an awesome demonstration of raw courage.
Palin’s mockery tickled Obama’s worrisome polyps of swollen self-regard (the “styrofoam pillars”), his history of words over action (”two memoirs, but no major bills”), his curious pattern of risk avoidance (unlike community organizers, mayors have “actual responsibilities”) and his tendency to solipsism(presidential journeys are not “voyages of personal discovery”).
Peggy Noonan, doyenne of American political-trends commentary, was galvanized by Palin’s performance: “It is starting to look to me like a nation-defining election ... This campaign is about to become: epic,” she wrote in the weekend Wall Street Journal.
I agree. But win or lose the election, Sarah Palin has already altered the cultural landscape of America, possibly of the Western world. In years to come, social archeologists will mark her speech as the official beginning of an end to the gender wars, and, one hopes, a return to trust and collaboration between the sexes.
Because Palin proved you don’t need the Sisterhood to pierce the glass ceiling. In her single calculated comment about women, she said, “This is America, and every woman can walk through every door of opportunity.”
Got that? It wasn’t Gloria Steinem that put me on this podium. It was my made-in-small-town-America traditional social values combined with old-fashioned patriotism and Alaska-instilled pioneerism.
Palin isn’t “redefin[ing] the feminist ideal,” as Jonathan Kay put it yesterday in his column’s misguided paean to Palin as a kind of multi-function iFeminist for the postmodern woman. Ideologybased behaviour of any kind is irrelevant to Palin, and millions of other small-town women — and always was. Love of family, community, country — not conspiracy theories — is what guides their political compass.
The ultimate American individual, Palin wasn’t ever committed to any collectivity but America itself. She was never “I am Woman, hear me roar.” She was always, “I am Sarah, watch me act.” Palin represents what would have happened to American women without a feminist revolution. For legal and social equity for women was bound to arise organically through political and cultural reform, as more and more women entered university and the work force, a process well underway before feminism became an organized movement.
more.....
bttt
the liberals are even having strange dreams and fantasies about her.
http://www.slate.com/id/2199661/?from=rss
Ever since the announcement of Sarah Palin as the VP nominee, Obama has said practically nothing about John McCain. That is TWO FULL WEEKS of dead time only 2 months before the presidential election.
In the meantime, Palin has been hammering Obama mercilessly and, BTW, said nothing about Joe Biden.
Whoever is running McCains campaign is doing a MASTERFUL job the past 2 weeks.
Rove nails the situation perfectly.
"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
Lets see... Obama vs. Palin.
Palin likes guns. Obama doesn’t like guns. Palin brings gun to fight, Obama brings knife.
Advantage: Palin.
Yep
Sarah can do in the Midwest what Lyndon Johnson did for JFK in the south. Kind of run as the regional candidate and shovel in critical electoral college votes.
“And Mr. Obama is not running his campaign’s day-to-day operation. His manager, David Plouffe, assisted by others, makes the decisions about the $335 million the campaign has spent. Even if Mr. Obama is his own campaign manager, does that qualify him for president?”
not only that but they are blowing money like crazy. All that $$$ on greek columns only for it to be used as a nice little zinger by Palin.
It seems to me that as long as Palin, McCain and the Republican party stay the course, there is nothing Obama can do to stop his fall and ultimate political demise. I pray.....
Dennis Miller made much the same observation tonight on O'Reilly when he said that Obama is off his message because Gov. Palin had "gotten into Obama's melon".
More than likely McCain/Palin will win and the real question is by how much. What will interesting to watch is how the RATS dismantle Obama after Nov.
The McCain/Palin people have framed the arguement and Obama goons know it. They are in the ol catch 22 situation and unless omething really weird happens they will continue to play catch up......a losing stratagy.
Early Obama crowds were impressive and the momentum seemed real but something happened. Some have suggested the college crowd is back at school. Now they plan tightly controlled events...well staged. The bloom is off.
McCain/Palin are drawing huge crowds and not organized by special groups...just folks. Neighbors and friends sharing a ride to the event type stuff. Conservatives and/or Republicans never manage to get big crowds. Never. They are too busy with work and family. This is the key.
There is a equation used by pollsters/bean counters that takes a crowd size and turns it into actual support. I dont know how well these numbers pan out but if a crowd of 1000 RATS equates a support of 10,000 surely a crowd of 1000 conservatives/Republicans equates to a much larger number of supporters.
Thats my take on it and Im sticking to it!
The Palin factor has has folks wound up like Ive never seen....not even Reagan.
Don't listen to him, Barry. It's a Karl Rove trick! Keep attacking and running against Sarah. ; )
Oh HOPE BONG! Tell me what to do!
Palin is in zer-0s head like some voodoo curse. He can’t rest until she’s destroyed, and in the meantime he’s destroying himself. It’s really rather fun to watch.
Just like Patton was in the German high command's collective minds in the weeks leading up to Normandy.