Okay, I’m tired of writing about Sarah Palin. I’m tired of thinking about Sarah Palin. I want her to go away. But she won’t go away.
I don’t know what to make of her speech last night. She sure fired up the base. There’s no chance she’d leave the ticket now — she’s all in. Miers’s Supreme Court nomination tanked only because she lacked base support; the far right didn’t care a whit that she was unqualified to be on the Court. But Palin, they love her. And, of course, they don’t care a whit that she’s unqualified to take over the U.S. presidency.
Anyway, her speech seemed kinda… nasty. Negative. Snide. I don’t see how it wins over swing voters. I understand that sometimes the VP candidate is supposed to be the attack dog, but it didn’t sit right. It seemed like something from Fox News. I thought to myself, You’ve got some nerve, lady, giving a speech like this. Nobody knows anything about you except these tabloidesque revelations that have dribbled out over the last few days, and this is the speech you give?
She’s definitely got chutzpah. But that seems to be it.
And when you combine it with Nosferatu’s Giuliani’s speech, wasn’t last night all very Pat Buchanan 1992? And apparently Rudy’s speech ran long, so they had to cut out Palin’s biographical film in order to stay in prime time. But it went past prime time anyway.
I swear, I fear and loathe this woman. I don’t know what it is.
What could Palin’s bio film be about? Her accomplishments are a joke.
It’s simple. She is a frightening and loathesome person.
The major Democratic speeches contained criticism of Bush and McCain, but not the nastiness she let loose with.
Plus, she completely dissed and devalued community organizers everywhere.
The woman is slime.
Yeah…we’ll see. It’s obvious, though, that she was an electoral choice, not a governing choice, and the initial response to Palin in the polls shows a stampede of independents toward Obama. McCain announced he raised $7 million after picking her — and today Obama announced he got $8 million after her speech. I don’t think a reinvigorated evangelical vote will be enough to help McCain; let’s not forget that the war in Iraq is deeply, deeply unpopular — a majority of Americans think it was a mistake even to go in the first place — and McCain is its biggest cheerleader. I’m not saying we should underestimate Palin; she may well be the new Bill Clinton: plainspoken, appealing, hockey-mom next door, full of passion and charisma. She is talented. But let’s not overestimate her appeal, either.
Anyway, it’s all about the numbers. It would be a crazy, suicidal move to throw her overboard now, but if her selection continues to alienate moderates (and there are Republicans and Libertarians out there who accept evolution and want us out of Iraq and aren’t afraid of the homosexual menace) and McCain’s numbers continue to slide…well, I’m not sure we wouldn’t see her graciously bow out citing family needs. I suppose it also depends on what happens with her corruption probe; if she gets indicted in Alaska…?
And, here, here, to Daniel — when she mocked community organizers, my blood boiled.
Actually, come to think of it, the Republicans might have a better chance if they keep Palin and replace McCain.
Can I ask a grammar question that I’m too lazy to Google at the moment? Is it “hear, hear” or “here, here”? I’ve seen the latter twice in the last 24 hours, but I always thought it was the former.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hear_hear
It must be “hear” since one also encounters “Oyez, oyez.”
Thanks. Never imagined wikipedia would actually have a phrase… and so i didn’t check.
Your instincts are good. She is a homophobic religious extremist and a bloodthirsty warmonger.
Shit, and I even *knew* that. I have problems with homonyms. I’m always using the wrong whole. Ba-dum-pah.