Because she jumbles up so many cultural categories, because she is a feminist not in the Yale Gender Studies sense but the How Do I Reload This Thang way, because she is a woman who in style, history, moxie and femininity is exactly like a normal American feminist and not an Abstract Theory feminist; because she wears makeup and heels and eats mooseburgers and is Alaska Tough, as Time magazine put it; because she is conservative, and pro-2nd Amendment and pro-life; and because conservatives can smell this sort of thing — who is really one of them and who is not — and will fight to the death for one of their beleaguered own; because of all of this she is a real and present danger to the American left, and to the Obama candidacy.
She could become a transformative political presence.
So they are going to have to kill her, and kill her quick.
And it’s going to be brutal. It’s already getting there.
OK. Early days. Missed first half hour of her speech. From what I saw, though – holy s**t that was a good speech.
She took all the crap from the angry Mooreians and threw it right back in their faces. When CNN gushes about a speech from a Republican, it’s got to be good, and it was.
She exceeded my expectations, and I likely wouldn’t have watched any of her speech, except the Dems got me curious.
First impressions are just that, but I believe she is the real deal.
She speaks nearly as well as, dare I say it, Bill Clinton (hated his politics and conduct, but a superb speaker and communicator of ideas).
For a first major speech with huge national exposure, this was an outstanding performance. She gave the Dems the metaphorical finger and her colleagues, and many others I think, loved it.
This lady has charisma, and hope for an exciting new breed of modern politicians. Our understated PM is another. So much for James Traver’s argument that the conservatives are in retreat (oh, did you mean conservatism; yeah whatever).
Biden will have his hands full in the VP debate. Methinks the dems, if they are smart that is, will turn their guns back towards McCain.
I thought McCain would be next president before Palin’s speech. Now I would be willing to bet on it.
I wondered what bothered the dems so much about Palin. Now I know.
Zilla at 6:17PM
Exactly! If Sarah Palin really were a hapless nobody, the Dems and their nutroots would be doing handsprings of pure elation. But because she is anything but an empty suit, the knives are out, and the venom is spraying. In their blackest hearts, they know that Obama and Biden are the empty suits, so they feel compelled to attack John McCain’s choice of running-mate.
It’s so friggin’ transparent, I can’t believe they really think they will fool anybody. Nothing more than the temper tantrum of the spoiled child, thwarted.
So, there was my first attempt at live blogging. it is difficult. Especially late at night 🙂
“Stupid bitch slashed that funding by -200%. Send her back to the kitchen where she belongs.”
Moron…
Posted by: Jared at September 3, 2008 7:46 PM
That quote, if you can call it quote, is entirely your’s Jared. I don’t appreciate the dishonest suggestion that those are somehow my words or thoughts.
The point is she reduced the money voted by the Legislature. If it’s still an increase over the previous year, fine.
Since you and other posters claim to know the fundamental truth about Gov Sarah Palin’s record in areas of reproductive choice, perhaps you can answer this question. Did she terminate sex education in Alaska schools, other than abstinence based programs?
Jared: “Cut proposed funding??? What the hell kind of standard is that? If an agency asks for a 800% increase in funding and the politician making the final decision gives them a 200% increase that counts as cutting???!!!”
Geez, Jared, don’t you understand lefty math? Spending for education and health care *ROSE* every single year that Mike Harris was Premier of Ontario, but what did the lefties chant? “He cut spending, he cut spending” because he didn’t raise spending as much as they wanted. You see, once a lefty asks for something, he assumes it’s already his, and if he doesn’t get it, it’s because some big, bad righty took it away from him.
By the way, 2+2 = 5, War is Peace, Freedom is Slavery, and Ignorance is Strength.