The Appeal of Sarah Palin
Thursday, September 4th, 2008 at
10:24 am
As I was watching Alaska Governor Sarah Palin accept the Republican vice-presidential nomination last night, I kept asking myself what it is about her that makes her so appealing? Yes, she’s attractive. But there is more to it than that.
She’s authentic.
She tells you exactly what she thinks and you don’t have to guess.
You don’t have to read and re-read her speeches to try to figure out the meaning of her words.
Even if you disagree with her politically, you can’t help but like her. I mean, really like her.
She’s the kind of person that many people will be able to identify with. Her family has many of the same ups and downs that the average family experiences.
The Left, with an assist from their enablers in the mainstream media have done everything they can in the days leading up to this speech to try to demonize her.
Sarah Palin showed last night why those attacks won’t work on her.
Democrats are afraid this morning. They should be.
John McCain took a huge risk in selecting Sarah Palin. Last night, Sarah Palin showed America exactly why she was selected and demonstrated he made the right choice.
If the Republicans go on to win the election this November, it will be because it was won last night with Governor Palin’s speech.
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Well, as somebody in “flyover country,” I feel she gets me. She is one of us and doesn’t have the sneering attitude that Obama and Biden has.
But as a Republican, I hope the Dems keep up their “she’s a small town mayor” meme, since it ends up uniting the small town folks here in “the sicks.”
You really should read Daniel Larison’s post on the American Conservitave website.
I agree with him here:
“conservatives are reacting deliriously to a speech whose ultimate purpose is to co-opt them into backing a presidential candidate whose policies on vital national questions are antithetical to everything they value”
Monk,
Link please? The Larison’s article doesn’t seem to be clickable from the front page.
I’d agree that I disagree profoundly on some issues vs. McCain. So I should, what, vote Obama instead? That would be more likely to advance what I think is right?
McCain might be mollifying the base, or he might be realizing he needs the base and so is modifying his positions. The Palin pick, as well as statements he’s made during the campaign, suggests the latter. Sarah Palin does not sound like a shrinking violet.
Donnie,
Try this, I didn’t know if I should post links here, but hopefully this works.
http://www.amconmag.com/larison/2008/09/03/dont-walk-into-the-trap/
Democrats are afraid this morning.
? Really?
No one I know is. They’re mostly laughing at what a big goof McCain made.
Don’t believe everything you hear or see at a partisan convention.
Monk,
Well, I still feel the same way I did earlier today. Lesser of two evils (just like every election), and McCain is less evil than Obama. Besides, even if they lose, Palin will run for President in 2012.
?
You think?
You think if, next week and in the following weeks, we go from Obama having a 3-5 point lead in the polls (as he has for a few months now, up and down), McCain/Palin begin trailing by 8-15 points consistently, and then lose in November, you think THEN she’d have a serious shot at the presidency?
It’s just my opinion but it sure seems like because the Religious Right have found someone they really like, that they think everyone else must like her, too, and I think it’s just too soon to tell, but I’m having my doubts.
Isn’t there a consideration of making a political party responsible for it’s mistakes? Send them to the electoral woodshed for 4 years?
Not afraid, just amazed that she lies so easily:
Lie #1:
Palin: But listening to him speak, it’s easy to forget that this is a man who has authored two memoirs but not a single major law or even a reform, not even in the state Senate.
FACTS :Well I don’t see how Palin who says she is so big on ethics doesn’t consider Obama’s Ill State Bill on Ethics Reform not major or his 2007 Reform Law supported by the bulk of the GOP not major. But you be the judge of that one.
Lie #2:
Palin: And let me be specific: The Democratic nominee for president supports plans to raise income taxes, and raise payroll taxes, and raise investment income taxes, and raise the death tax, and raise business taxes, and increase the tax burden on the American people by hundreds of billions of dollars. … How are you – how are you going to be better off if our opponent adds a massive tax burden to the American economy?
FACT: Taxes you say The Economicist and TPC all agree that Obama tax cuts would benefit 81.3% of Americans.
Lie #3, #4, #5:
Palin: America needs more energy; our opponent is against producing it. Victory in Iraq is finally in sight, and he wants to forfeit. Terrorist states are seeking nuclear weapons without delay; he wants to meet them without preconditions. Al Qaida terrorists still plot to inflict catastrophic harm on America, and he’s worried that someone won’t read them their rights.
FACTS, FACTS and MORE FACTS:
#3: He has a $150 billion clean energy program and says that he wants to develop clean coal technology, advance the next generation of biofuels, prioritize construction of the Alaska gas pipeline (a Palin agrees with) and take a host of other steps to both conserve energy and produce it, in various forms.
#4:Funny I thought Reagan met with our enemies, ie, the USSR regularly. In addition, in recent months, the Bush Administration has met with what he deemed the “axis of evil.” In July, the Bush Administration sit in on nuclear talks with Iran and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice was authorized to speak with N. Korean regarding ending that nation’s nuclear weapons program. Funny thing to is that Obama advocated speaking with Iran in Nov/Dec 07 and in May 08 Secretary Robert Gates said that we should “sit down and talk” with Iran. Let’s also image if JFK hadn’t been in talks with Russia how the Cuba Missle Crisis would have ended. So maybe Palin’s information was dated, or maybe they just don’t have history books in Alaska or National Newspapers for that matter. I don’t know…
#5. Obama concerned about terrorist being read their rights, hmmm that’s funny too because the very conservative US Sup. Court had the same fear recently in their ruling on Boumediene v. Bush
#6. Palin: I fought to bring about the largest private-sector infrastructure project in North American history. And when that deal was struck, we began a nearly $40 billion natural gas pipeline to help lead America to energy independence
I’ll give her credit for pushing for the deal and speeding up the process, but the deal has not been finalized, nor has construction began.
In fact, ConocoPhillips and BP have their own gas pipeline ideas that would compete with the state-backed project.
Sorry for the long post, but how many out right incorrect facts, can one person give in a single speech.