Focus Group: Palin Was (Alarmingly) Strong

The National Review ^ | Wednesday, September 03, 2008 11:13 PM | -Michael Crowley

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Several moderate-Democrat friends of mine have been emailing--few if any would ever vote for McCain--but all agree that Palin was very strong. The more liberal among them are a little panicked. 

I completely misjudged how negative she would be. Her lines about Obama were brutally cutting and possibly over the top in places. But she's a far better messenger than an angry white man.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

HEHE!

[tet68]

Muck about with a bear’s cubs and this is what you get,
and rightfully so.

[Roscoe Karns]

[xjcsa]

Uh, this is The New Republic, not National Review.

[BunnySlippers]

One only need look at DU. They are overflowing with obscenities.

They misjudged her plain and simple. They thought she was a pushover. She’s disturbingly [to them] effective.

Screw’em.

[sofaman]

ROFLMAO. Cracked me up again!

[hsalaw]

From the comments:

No she wasn't - her speech was red meat for the Republicans but will probably come off as too fire-breathing for independents. And she didn't show any evidence of a keen mind or sizable intellect that she'd need to be qualified to be vice president [Biden comes to mind, here] with so few other qualifications. And her ad hominem attacks on Obama are just license for reprisals on her.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Damn I screwed that up...wonder if a Moderator can fix my mistake?

I hate that!....Thanks...

[BunnySlippers]

Big difference.

[Not now, Not ever!]

yipee! it does seem to be "The night of exploding heads"

Bless you Sarah, you rock!

[FlingWingFlyer]

I think there are a whole lot of Democrats who are unable to focus tonight. They just got a swift kick in their empty skulls.

[goldstategop]

The libs are reduced to whining. Oh man, this is too good to be true! (laughing)

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

[Danae]

The Liberals are just literally schizophrenic right now. They have collectively lost their minds, they have no CLUE what to do about Sarah Palin, none what so ever.... she scares them absolutely blind. Its a thing of beauty I tell you!

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

From the comments:

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Eos said:

Palin is a genuine original. She is of a type not seen before in our politics, more resonant of Mr. Smith Goes to Washington than of any politician in living memory. Her speech was directed at an unarticulated and underrepresented mainstream current in the country. She was tough, charming, poised, confident, unbeholden and unbespoke, a maverick, a reformer and non-doctrinnaire.. McCain and Palin just became to ticket of change in this election. Obama and Biden now seem ordinary and over-famiiar. The Left of the Democratic Party should be very afraid. The rest of us really enjoyed the speech.

September 3, 2008 11:53 PM

[ari-freedom]

[dfwgator]

I bet right now Putin is quaking in his boots and cursing the day the Russkies sold us Alaska.

[dfwgator]

I think we just won the center.

[goldstategop]

They're beyond stupid, living in that alternative universe of theirs. They don't know that the ground has shifted underneath them! Let them nurse their delusions about Sarah!

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

[Roscoe Karns]

They are going NUTS! (((Sarah Barracuda)))