Posted on 09/03/2008 4:24:55 AM PDT by Kaslin
Sarah Palin's selection will end up as a big win for John McCain. He has to stay with her and quell any talk of pulling an Eagleton (after the time when 1972 Democratic nominee George McGovern yanked the plug on Missouri Sen. Tom Eagleton, who had been his choice for vice president). McCain and Palin will confound their critics and gain good yardage in the presidential race.
None of the criticisms of Sarah Palin amounts to any misconduct on her part. Her daughter got pregnant. Her husband had a DWI 20 years ago. Her sister married a bum -- a state trooper -- who admits he shot a tazer gun at his 11-year-old son to instill discipline, and a lot of her friends and family badgered his boss to discharge him. Palin, acting without explanation, but with ample justification and within her authority, fired the trooper's boss. All this comes to a massive, so what?
The important thing about Sarah Palin is her public life. She has rooted out corruption and triggered scandals -- real financial scandals, not salacious personal gossip -- that led to the resignations of the State Republican Party chairman and the attorney general and the defeat of the governor. It is that commitment to exposing corruption, reforming ethics, cutting spending and smashing the insider lobbyist-legislator relationships that dominate Washington that will be on display when Palin speaks out on Wednesday. Voters, anxious to change Washington, will love every minute of it.
And then they will come to grasp the essential difference between McCain and George W. Bush. McCain is an outsider, and Bush, after three generations of Washington breeding, is an insider. McCain chose Palin. Bush chose Dick Cheney.
The attacks on Palin mirror the problems that tens of millions of American women find in their everyday life. To attack them would be to condemn themselves and their own choices in their own lives. Watching Palin standing strong and McCain backing her up will be inspiring to many of them. And the identification of the Democrats with the attacks on her will turn them off.
After Palin speaks, voters will give McCain huge credit for selecting her and standing by her despite the personal attacks. Women throughout the country will empathize with a person who has a difficult family. Single mothers will applaud her attitude toward her own daughter in distress. And the contrast between McCain's toleration and understanding and Barack Obama's refusal even to consider nominating a woman will be apparent to women voters. McCain and Palin will get great credit for being outsiders, not cut from the plastic mould fashioned by political consultants.
Combined with the good public sector performance in the face of Hurricane Gustav -- and the Republican willingness to suspend their convention while the battle raged -- the Palin episode shows the best in the Republican Party and sends a signal that it is under new management. The Republicans, McCain and Palin will come through this crisis in great shape.
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These ‘Stick with Sarah’ stories are stupid. The one, overiding element of John McCain’s character is loyalty.
If anything happens to Palin, he will go down with the ship, and at her side.
I think so.
Democrats are shooting themselves in the head.
Keep firing.
The husband’s dui from 20 years ago is just a ridiculous issue. Betty Ford was a full blown alcoholic (I believe when Ford was president) and was regarded as a hero for getting treatment.
John McCain doesn’t know a thing about CUT AND RUN!
GO SARAH
If the drive by media would spend one tenth the time on the “fake America's” terrorist associations, he would have to pull out.
After seeing Newt take apart the reporter on the convention floor, contrasting Palin's accomplishments with Obama's I see the media are overplaying their hand again and falling right into the Republican trap.
I would not be surprised to see an ad contrasting Palin and Obama's records.
If McCain dumps Palin, the race is over. Period.
God help McCain if he tries to dump Palin.
Stick with Sarah
OR
we will get a President with the resume of an events planner for a mid-sized corporation..
If you read Tim Russert’s book he tells of how his dad got tickets to the football game and his brother rode in the front seat (probably didn’t even buckle up!) and Tim sat in the back and passed fresh cold beer up to his dad on the way to the game because he liked his beer cold.
Yup.
Some light shed on our little Kenyan Kandidate would be welcome. And Kos want to get DNA and birth certificates from the Palin family. Kos can’t even post a decent forgery of a BC.
This election is coming down to a race between the latte sipping, arugula eating, political in-crowd and the beer drinking, hotdog and hamburger, average Americans.
This is such CRAP....McCain is NOT going to drop Palin......she’s been his biggest ASSET!!! Morris is trying to start trouble.
Funny stuff.
McCain isn’t getting rid of her.
It’s petty simple. She has been compared to Clarence Thomas, and there is truth to that. But as of right now, what we’re experiencing is similiar to what they did during Katrina. Throwing out rumors, smears and hysterics that had nothing to do with the truth on the ground. They hope to accomplish the same result here. Permanent damage of the characters of Palin, McCain and the party in the public’s eyes.
During Katrina Bush didn’t fight back and the members in the Party didn’t fight back. So it worked. So far the Party is holding strong behind her, the campaign is holding strong behind her. So WHEN Sarah comes out tonight and lays it down for everyone, we’ll have seen an entirely different response to the rumor mongering and smears of the Left and, I suspect, the public’s response will be different then the Left intended because of it.
The biggest reason Hurricane Gustav evacuation was such a success- we have a Republican governor in Louisiana, not Kathleen Blankstare (who, unless someone tells me otherwise, called DNC chair Howard Dean and Dean told her to not do anything so the situation would get worse). Just like Haley Barbour, and the other GOP governors in the Gulf States, this time everything was smoothly run.
What’s all this “Stick with Sarah” stuff I’m reading about? Can there be any question that she is the VP Candidate for the GOP this time ‘round?
Palin is a GENIUS SELECTION for the GOP, the one thing that will dash Obama’s Audacity of Hope, and the one thing that Beast-proofs the White House for the foreseeable future.
Bags I most of the calls for Palin to step down will bhe coming from the Democrats: they’re afraid of her!
Here in New Zealand, the left are howling with rage over Sarah. You see, they had already selected their boy Obama as your next President: you guys just hadn’t ratified it with your votes yet. Now Sarah comes along and spoils all their fun. You should hear their squeals of fury!
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