Posted on 09/06/2008 7:46:37 PM PDT by markomalley
No apology is needed for dwelling on the person of Sarah Palin. Her nomination as the Republican's vice-presidential candidate, and then her extraordinary speech to their national convention, was easily the most important world event of a week in which there was significant breaking news from Georgia, North Korea, Libya, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Thailand, and elsewhere.
The speech was tremendously consequential. It drew a television audience about equal with Barack Obama's to the DNC, and the lady had her hour to speak, free of the intensely partisan Democrat "filtering" of the mainstream media. In that time she completely demolished the analysis they had presented of her. We had been told (by most American, and so far as I have seen, all Canadian media outlets) that McCain's selection of Palin was simply "a mistake," "a muff," "proof that he is old and out of touch," etc. We were led to expect a laughably inept performance by some wet-T-shirt queen of sub-normal IQ, backed by a family of drooling troglodytes.
And then we got what looked, sounded, and felt very like an American Margaret Thatcher.
Ms. Thatcher, incidentally, "the grocer's daughter," received exactly the same reception from the British Left when she first rose to prominence: the same sarcastic references to her class origins, the same suggestions that she was utterly unprepared, the same visceral misogyny, the same panicked search for domestic tabloid scandal, the same "why don't you go home, dear, and take care of your children" dismissals. And, likewise, this response played an important part in helping her flatten them.
(Excerpt) Read more at canada.com ...
good article
McCain's selection of Palin was simply "a mistake," "a muff,"The MSM called Palin a "muff"?
Alrighty, good press from England and now Canada.
BTTT
Interesting. I didn’t realize that Margaret Thatcher came from a fairly modest background, too.
If the standard is “Delivered goods not words” - and it should be - there’s no comparison.
"As I've argued before, the enemies of America and the West will tend to be cautious with John McCain, incautious with Barack Obama. (And with Palin behind him, they'll be toasting McCain's health.) It follows that a vote for McCain favours peace and stability, a vote for Obama, instability and worse."
We're called upon to put our country in the hands of a good steward. There can but be one choice.
"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
That's just plain funny writing.
But didn't the MSM think about the principle of lowered expectations. By unfairly savaging and demeaning this woman they only served to telegraph their own utter dishonesty and fear, while setting the stage for any good performance from Sarah ( or better yet...spectacular!) to smash the slander of their smears.
Thus making the MSM look like demented idiots and Sarah look like the daughter of Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan.
SO TRUE!!!
Great article!
The last part of this article bears repeating: What has Obama ever done for ANYONE but himself?
That was fun reading. :)
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