Sister Toldjah!
9/4/2008 - 8:48 am

While The Usual Suspects are (predictably) panning Gov. Sarah Palin’s acceptance speech last night before the GOP convention, I’d just like to say one thing:

Thanks, Senator McCain.

McCain, whether he knows it or not, has given a great gift to the Republican party in the form of Gov. Sarah Palin.  Of course, she’s been in public service for a while and the people of Alaska already know her and know her well,  but this year we’ve all gotten the chance to get to know her better - and not just over the last few days.  Many of us poljunkies were reading about Gov. Palin way before she ever became the veep nominee.  And now she’s in the national spotlight, and Americans - Republican and Democrat alike - are getting a chance to see why the Republican base loves her so much.  She has energized this party in a way that few “big name” Republicans today ever could at a time when we need it most: Two months before the general election, where we face an uphill battle from the most inexperienced presidential nominee in modern history.  Some of the same Republicans who were considering (or who had already made the decision to)  staying at home in November are saying now they won’t.  Many are contributing to the McCain campaign for the first time.

This party is pumped up, revved up, and ready to rumble. 

Whatever happens in November, even if we lose, in the end the future of the Republican party wins, in part, because of strong, assertive, competent, intelligent, charismatic voices like Gov. Sarah Palin’s (and Gov. Bobby Jindal’s) that we will be hearing in the  years to come.   That will be the gift that keeps on giving beyond November, even if Team O’Biden takes the White House.

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Comments

  1. Long live the Saracuda! :d

    Comment by Tregonsee @ 9/4/2008 - 9:42 am

  2. This week it seems I’d rather blog than work….

    Did anybody notice that McCain planned his speech during the first night of football season…. I can’t imagine he’ll get a good audience in Virginia.

    Comment by alchemist @ 9/4/2008 - 10:14 am

  3. From the Boston Herald:

    Yes, Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin has a lot on her plate: a pregnant teen daughter, a son on his way to Iraq, an infant with Down syndrome and a looming national election.

    But must her hair suffer? With her long, straight, often pinned-up locks, Palin looks one humid day away from fronting a Kiss cover band.

    “It’s about 20 years out of date,” said Boston stylist Mario Russo of the Alaska governor’s ’do. “Which goes to show how off she might be on current events.”

    Are you “F’ing” Kidding Me!! Do these bb brains have nothing better to attack her with than a perceived correlation between her hair and current events?? Yet later this newspaper will want me to take it serious. Such idiots, these guys are so dense that they do not realize this is the very reason most Americans believe they are not relevant. - Lorica

    Comment by Lorica @ 9/4/2008 - 10:34 am

  4. She went out there a hockey mom and she came back a star.

    For sheer political theatre, I give her a standing O.

    Aside to Alchemist: fear not! I see from the TV listings that tonight’s game begins at 7:00. Sen. McCain will appear at 10:00 p.m. Assuming the football game doesn’t go into OT, we’ll be able to see both events.

    Comment by Leslie @ 9/4/2008 - 10:35 am

  5. But must her hair suffer?

    case closed .. definitely not an insider

    Comment by Neo @ 9/4/2008 - 11:17 am

  6. I said this yesterday afternoon….

    but Mark Steyn says it sooooo much better today! ;)

    I would like to thank the US media for doing such a grand job this last week of lowering expectations by portraying Governor Palin - whoops, I mean Hick-Burg Mayor Palin - as a hillbilly know-nothing permapregnant ditz, half of whose 27 kids are the spawn of a stump-toothed uncle who hasn’t worked since he was an extra in Deliverance.

    How’s that narrative holding up, geniuses? Almost as good as your “devoted husband John Edwards” routine?

    Comment by Great White Rat @ 9/4/2008 - 5:10 pm

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