Rivals underestimate Palin at their peril

Financial Times ^ | September 1 2008 19:11 | Kevin Allison in Wasilla, Alaska

[papasmurf]

Oh, you forgot to mention that she has enjoyed enormously high approval ratings, never dropping below 80%, and was re-elected both times by a landslide.

Guess you just kinda’ forgot that, huh?

[BOBTHENAILER]

The obvious does not haunt the musty halls of the left wing of the mansion. They were hootin’ and hollerin’ here in Denver, thinking rhetoric would carry the day.

Then they get hit with real weight and are left breathless.

[Tanniker Smith]

the gun-toting former beauty queen

hmmmmmm .... Maybe MTV should dig up Julie Brown (not the "Downtown" one, the other one) from whatever oblivion she's been buried in so she can do a reprisal of "Everybody Run! The Homecoming Queen's Got a Gun!"

But I'll settle for Tina Fey appearing on SNL as a beauty pageant contestant, in swimwear and high heels ...

[Tanniker Smith]

"Gun toting beauty queen” sounds like a bad B movie, lol."

Agreed! See post #23.

[2ndDivisionVet]

Also Golda Meir, Prime Minister of Israel: She was the world’s third woman prime minister, but the first to hold this office without any prior family connection. Meir was often portrayed as the “strong-willed, straight-talking, gray-bunned grandmother of the Jewish people.”

[ASOC]

THe articale fails to point out Lisa was the Elected head of the House in Alaska - elected to the House, elected BY the house - and as such would have been a natural pick.

The fact that Daddy knew his little girl would do a good jobs was just a bonus - and one the bigger reason he failed so utterly in his re-election bid.

[autumnraine]

Now that does change everything. Thanks for that information.

[noname07718]

I feel that will not be true when referring to our adversaries when they come up against her. Think of Golda Meir, The Iron Lady and even Merkel today. All of these have proven that the right woman is 1,000 times better than the wrong man.

[noname07718]

Mee too!

[Oatka]

It may be tempting for Democrats to dismiss Sarah Palin,. . . as a political lightweight unprepared for the national stage.

IMO, they know EXACTLY what a tough comeptitor she will be and are scared spitless -- hence these vile attacks on her. They see a slam-dunk accession to power slipping away.

[USFRIENDINVICTORIA]

"“Gun toting beauty queen” sounds like a bad B movie, lol."

Or a pretty good A movie:

[VideoDoctor]

Then they get hit with real weight and are left breathless.

You're so right! You hit the nail SQUARELY on the head.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

“I think the whole world is going to fall in love with her.”

Well said! And even moreso after today’s media mud-slinging, feeding-frenzy about her pregnant daughter. ;)

I keep noticing that she’s similar to EVERY Conservative, outdoorsy, take-no-prisoners, git ‘er done, woman that I know; myself included.

And as for the pregnancy? There but for the Grace of God go ANY of us that have teenagers...male or female!

[UCANSEE2]

Wish I knew. The TV program didn’t say where to get them.

[reg45]

Rats! There are at least two potential customers out here.

[PhilDragoo]

Another chorus from their voices as six watertight compartments flood.

Newt Gingrich told Sean Hannity the Left is desperate to destroy the greatest threat yet to their legitimacy to tell us what to think.

[UCANSEE2]

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