Hahaha I so love this. The media is reduced to old films and clips and the people of AK to illustrate Sarah. The biggest thing to hit politics in years and they can't even get an interview. Just think how the Brits and Europe must be laughing at the media too. I so love this. Thank you John McCain and crew.
What a speech it was awesome and unforgettable, almost every line a work of art.
“Just think how the Brits and Europe must be laughing at the media too.”
There have been several threads on articles in the UK - most are very pro-Sarah:
I liked this one in particular:
A pistol-packin’ Looby Loo: the Left’s worst nightmare
Daily Mail ^ | 05th September 2008 | Richard Littlejohn
Posted on 09/06/2008 11:23:47 AM PDT by Lorianne
Frank Sinatra would have got the joke. In the words of the great political philosopher, they all laughed at Christopher Columbus when he said the world was round.
They’re all laughing, too, at John McCain for choosing Sarah Palin as his running mate. The usual suspects took one look at this pistol-packin’ momma and reacted like John McEnroe to a disputed line call: you cannot be serious!
Certainly, the pick came, as the Americans say, out of left field. But Sarah Palin is centre stage now, and suddenly it’s game on.
At the very least, McCain has got a wonderful sense of mischief - a quality sadly lacking in most politicians.
The way the Left, both here and in America, are contorting themselves is a joy to behold. Sarah Palin is every Guardianista’s worst nightmare.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2076183/posts
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Another especially good one:
Sarah Palin: It’s Go West, Towards The Future Of Conservatism
London Times ^ | 09/05/08 | Gerard Baker
Posted on 09/05/2008 6:27:03 PM PDT by BunnySlippers
“What’s the difference between Sarah Palin and Barack Obama?”
“One is a well turned-out, good-looking, and let’s be honest, pretty sexy piece of eye-candy.
“The other kills her own food.”
Now we know, thanks to her triumphant debut at the Republican convention on Wednesday, that Mrs Palin not only slaughters her prey. She impales its head on a stick and parades it around for her followers to jeer at. For half an hour she eviscerated Mr Obama in that hall and did it all without dropping her sweet schoolmarm smile, as if she were handing out chocolates at the end of a history lesson.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2075749/posts
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An ordinary, extraordinary woman......(Sarah, I so wish her well)
Globe & Mail ^ | September 6, 2008 | Christie Blatchford
Posted on Saturday, September 06, 2008 8:09:22 AM by IrishMike
I hope Sarah Palin got a few minutes to savour her splendid performance at the Republican convention the other night.
God knows, she wouldn’t have had much longer. In the all-blogs-all-the-time-world in which we live, the spontaneous reaction (”She hit it out of the park,” CNN’s Wolf Blitzer burbled immediately afterward, before he could collect himself) is about as common as spontaneous combustion.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2076049/posts
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Palin Is Catapulted Into Starring Role (A Star Is Born Alert)
Financial Times ^ | 9/05/2008 | Edward Luce And Andrew Ward
Posted on Friday, September 05, 2008 11:27:44 PM by goldstategop
It was the loudest and most prolonged cheer since Barack Obama appeared on the podium last week in Denver. Very few people had heard of Sarah Palin when Mr Obama delivered his acceptance speech eight days ago. One vice-presidential announcement, several news cycles and countless debates about sexism later, Ms Palin had been catapulted into starring role at a rejuvenated Republican Convention.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2075884/posts
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When Barack’s berserkers lost the plot
Gaurdian (UK) ^ | Sunday September 7 2008 (in UK) | Nick Cohen
Posted on Saturday, September 06, 2008 4:26:50 PM by Vision Thing
(snip) Hatred is the most powerful emotion in politics. At present, American liberals are not fighting for an Obama presidency. I suspect that most have only the haziest idea of what it would mean for their country. The slogans that move their hearts and stir their souls are directed against their enemies: Bush, the neo-cons, the religious right.
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When a hate campaign goes wrong, however, disaster follows. And everything that could go wrong with the campaign against Palin did. American liberals forgot that the public did not know her. By the time she spoke at the Republican convention, journalists had so lowered expectations that a run-of-the-mill speech would have been enough to win the evening.
As it was, her family appeared on stage without a goitre or a club foot between them, and Palin made a fighting speech that appealed over the heads of reporters to the public we claim to represent. ‘I’m not going to Washington to seek their good opinion,’ she said as she deftly detached journalists from their readers and viewers. ‘I’m going to Washington to serve the people of this country.’
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In an age when politics is choreographed, voters watch out for the moments when the public-relations facade breaks down and venom pours through the cracks. Their judgment is rarely favourable when it does. Barack Obama knows it. All last week, he was warning American liberals to stay away from the Palin family. He understands better than his supporters that it is not a politician’s enemies who lose elections, but his friends.
(Excerpt) Read more at guardian.co.uk ...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2076349/posts
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Sarah Palin: John McCain’s secret weapon to win over the Reagan Democrats
Telegraph, UK ^ | September 6, 2008 | Tim Shipman
Posted on Saturday, September 06, 2008 3:16:27 PM by Clairity
John McCain has launched an audacious bid to rebuild the political coalition that Ronald Reagan rode to the White House, tapping the mania accompanying his running mate Sarah Palin to win over small town America, and with it the White House.
The Republican presidential candidate signalled his intentions by using his first weekend of campaigning since his party’s convention to launch a political raid into the heart of Reagan-Democrat country, home of the fabled blue collar voters who Mr Reagan captured from the Democrats in the 1980s.
Mr McCain, and particularly Mrs Palin, met with a rapturous reception as they held a rally in Macomb County, Michigan, where pollsters first identified the breed of patriotic conservative, blue collar workers who the McCain camp now believes hold the key to victory in November.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2076318/posts
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Sarah Palin: northern star injects new life into lumbering campaign
Times of London ^ | 09/07/08 | Sarah Baxter
Posted on Saturday, September 06, 2008 2:54:33 PM by TigerLikesRooster
Sarah Palin: northern star injects new life into lumbering campaign
An extraordinary display of raw political talent could trump Obama’s ‘pretty speeches’ and rally the religious right
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2076300/posts
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Sarah Palin brings the Hillary Clinton era to an end
Telegraph.co.uk ^ | 6 Sept 2008 | Anne Applebaum
Posted on Saturday, September 06, 2008 12:36:51 PM by CaraM
Whether or not Sarah Palin wins, for American women, politics will never be the same again, says Anne Applebaum.
.....The interest in her (Palin) and her life story is no fluke, either. Following the failure of Hillary Clinton’s campaign, Palin is suddenly, and flamboyantly, the most prominent female politician in the country. At age 44, she is also the most prominent representative of her generation of women – a generation which already looks set to be different, in important ways, from its predecessors.
Unlike Hillary and her contemporaries, the women of Palin’s generation are not feminists, but rather post-feminist. Born at the very tail end of the baby boom or after it had ended, the post-feminists grew up in a world in which the revolutions of the Sixties – sexual as well as political – were already taken for granted....
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2076227/posts