Posted on 09/10/2008 11:41:49 PM PDT by nickcarraway
The music is familiar, an old refrain best summed up as "The Long and Whining Road." Every four years, as the weather turns cooler, Democrats start crying that Republicans are playing dirty and that the American people are falling for the trick.
How stupid can the voters be? Why, they even like Gov. Moose.
But just wait till Big Media gets hold of Sarah Palin. The hick will be on a Swift boat to history.
The waiting is over. Tonight's the night. But if I were a betting man, I wouldn't wager the ranch that ABC's Charlie Gibson will expose Palin as the nincompoop, gun-toting, too-fertile tart Democrats say she is.
First of all, here's a bulletin: being pro-life and pro-gun doesn't automatically make her look stupid to most Americans. Second, she's no rookie at the politics/media game, as her record, convention speech and stump appearances prove.
Third, well, do we need a third reason to prove the Dems are way off course in expecting the media to destroy Palin? If anything, there is a backlash against ganging up on an underdog.
The line about insanity being a case of doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result applies to the Barack Obama camp. Underestimating Palin before her debut last week was a big mistake, but they're so sure they're right they're doing it again.
Someone said Obama has had a bad few days. Actually, he's had a bad few months. He peaked before Hillary Clinton got out of the race in June and, with a few exceptions, has stagnated or trended lower in most polls ever since.
Yet he might have had enough money and charisma to pull it off in a Democratic year against the admirable-but-beatable John McCain. The 72-year-old McCain knew as much, which is why he reached into his maverick bag and pulled out Palin.
Bingo. Palin has energized Republicans, attracted independent voters and white women to the McCain ticket and replaced Obama as the fresh face.
To say Dems haven't figured her out understates their cultural disconnect. They still haven't figured out why Ronald Reagan beat Walter Mondale and President Bush beat John Kerry.
And Obama is falling into the trap of whining that everything that goes against him is a "distraction." That's what he called his pastor, Jeremiah Wright, too. A distraction.
He makes a careless statement about putting "lipstick on a pig" a week after Palin made the lipstick joke heard 'round the world, and he wonders why everybody is picking on him.
It's very possible Palin will yet destruct by making some killer gaffe that shows she's not up to the job. Or maybe ABC will come up with a video of her talking in tongues or beating her children or something else that will make her an overnight disaster.
But just in case Santa Claus doesn't hand them the election, the Obama-bots ought to stop feeling sorry for themselves and start feeling the pain and hopes of ordinary Americans. Maybe then they'd understand the remarkable appeal of Sarah Palin.
Sarah Palin interview on 20-20 is Friday night @ 9:00 Central, 10:00 Eastern
Hear, hear!
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