Posted on 10/04/2008 1:37:53 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
LAGUNA NIGUEL The first "ooooh" from someone in an all women's audience came almost 45 minutes into the debate Thursday night between Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin and Delaware Sen. Joseph Biden.
It was when Palin told Biden that his and Barack Obama's plan in Iraq "is a white flag of surrender."
It was probably around this point in the closely-watched faceoff that the women gathered in front of a television here started to loosen up and begin to voice and show their emotions more freely.
It was probably around this point when some started to feel assured that Palin, new on the national political stage, would hold her own against a six-term senator. It was probably also around this time when at least some other women in the room started breathing a sigh of relief.
"I was hoping that she would do this good… he's been around for a long time. And I was a little fearful that she wouldn't be as good at foreign policy as she was, but she was fabulous," said Mary Young of Aliso Viejo, who sported a big button that read "Women for McCain."
Young was one of about a dozen women at a debate watch party at the gated Bear Brand Ranch community home of Julie Vandermost, California chair for San Juan Capistrano-based California Women for McCain-Palin.
According to its Website, the group is a grassroots effort that was inspired by the Republican National Convention speeches by Palin and Sen. John McCain to foster neighborhood discussions with the goal of sending the pair to the White House.
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well thank God for the internet, free republic and other sites that inform us that they are wrong.
Amen to that.
Even that miserable wretch Noonan had to admit Sarah won the debate.
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