Posted on 09/18/2010 7:42:19 AM PDT by maggief
Des Moines, Iowa
Event: Sarah Palin speaks to the Republican Party
Traveling Companion: Victoria Klein
"What's the big deal?" Victoria said after we listened to Mama Grizzly. "She sounds like a PTA president." And it was true. I expected, at the very least, to be entertained by Sarah Palin--she has been known to give a good speech--but last night's performance was weird and underwhelming, especially given an atmosphere dripping with presidentiality. Iowa. Two years out. A large crowd, itching to be blown away.
But no. There seemed no purpose to Palin's speech, unless the point was to lacerate members of the media and Republican establishment (like Karl Rove) who have been slagging Palin 2.0 surrogate Christine O'Donnell in Delaware. There was also no fun to it: Palin seemed testy, her delivery rushed. There was also not much of substance. There were constant repeated paeans to patriots (definition: people who agree with her), the military (definition: people who are out there for the right of journalists to lie--really, she said this) and the constitution, about which she seems profoundly ill-informed. She said several times that Republicans were going to provide Constitutional solutions to America's problems--as if the Obama Administration were providing unconstitutional remedies. (It's not enough to merely disagree with the President; you have to make him sound unAmerican in Palin's twisted little world.)
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Joe Klein, on the road to inanity and insignificance......
... and, hopefully, unemployment.
I saw it. The crowd seemed to be a bunch of deadheads. Sarah did not seem comfortable with them. More like a McRomney crowd.
Joe Klein needs to pen a quasi-fictional, docu-tainment tome from the 2008 run-up to Barry’s victory called either “Primarily Colored” or “Wag the Wagyu”. It might sell better than “Primary Colors”.
Joe is giving a bad name to bitter never-wases
She certainly has the right enemies.
“Primarily Colored” or “Wag the Wagyu”
Priceless.
No....it's Iowa........
:-)
I thought what she said was an extraordinary call to all of us (not just Iowans) to get involved in this election.
“There were constant repeated paeans to patriots (definition: people who agree with her)”
I am proud to be a patriot! What’s WRONG with these people? (I mean the writers of this garbage.) Thanks, by the way, for electrifying our base for us.
Unconstitutional remedies are the Democrats' métier, their special gift. It's been that way for over 75 years, and this current bunch in charge are the most extreme ever.
Joe Klein needs to drink a Red Bull once in awhile & wake up his brain cells.
She's got you pegged, Joe...
http://www.conservatives4palin.com/2010/07/bombshell-journalist-e-mails-show.html
Thursday, July 22, 2010
Bombshell: E-Mails Show Coordinated Attack on Governor Palin from the Media On the Day She Was Announced as McCain’s VP Pick
Hey Victoria, then why did you and 50 other news outlets from around the world (The Most EVER For The Reagan Dinner) show up?
I know. They were pretty lame.
I’m a huge Palin fan, but thought the speech was just OK. And the crowd WAS dead. There were a few times she tried to tell a joke and the C-Span cameras focused on people who looked like they would rather be anywhere else.
One more thing we need to do in the Republican primary is to move some more conservative state in the front of Iowa presidential primary.
Uh...many in the crowd were “establishment” types and many Iowans are not known to be the rambunctious kinds that get all excited, it was well received according to the interviews of those who attended, Carl Cameron of Foxnews reported that as well as the Des Moina paper that talked to people....it was a good speech, it was different than other speeches she had giving, but it was a much needed speech on coming together as one, Joe Klein is a hack that tries to stir up things.
Beating the Left is “entertaining”. That just goes over the heads of some “journalists”.
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