Can you hear them? Those deafening screams coming from the media and political operatives.
“Get me the file on that Palin woman!”
“No file???”
“What do you mean there’s no file…she’s the Governor of Moosejaw or something.”
Clearly, the selection of Sarah Palin has blind-sided both the Democrats and the MSM. If the old adage is true–that “if you’re catching flak, you must be over the target”–the media must expect Palin and McCain to parachute into the White House at any moment.
She is an extremely attractive candidate (more so than their hand-picked messiah) and can lead those like her–red-blooded Americans–in a frontal assault against the left wing coup-d’etat supported by the media, academia, and other assorted arugula-chomping, latte-sipping liberals.
The lefties are howling because they suspect they have been thwarted. And I think they are correct.
Listen to what Thomas Lifson has to say about Sarah in today’s American Thinker and Real Clear Politics (read the whole story at link)…
Sarah Palin is the ultimate All-American Girl, beautiful but not glamorous, powerful but unpretentious, high-powered but down-to-earth, a reformer who speaks up while others cower in fear of rocking the boat. Like Ronald Reagan, she can reach right through the television camera into people’s minds and hearts. We recognize one of us.
The left, so wrapped in artifice and fakery, are driven crazy by this. Her behavior appears bizarre, inexplicable. In their minds, she is a disaster and they pretend to be gleeful, asking when McCain will dump her. All while panicking, because they can see the energized GOP base and the failure of Barack Obama to garner the ten-to-fifteen point post-convention bounce to be expected after his speech before the multimillion-dollar Greek temple set and fireworks at Invesco Field only 5 days ago. Those who planned the classical Greek theatrical stage never for second contemplated the possibility of a deus ex machina named Sarah.
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And this from the Wall Street Journal…
What’s really going on here is that the Beltway class can see how popular the Palin pick is with Republicans outside Washington, and especially with middle-class conservatives. As Richard Land, a leader with the Southern Baptist Convention, said Monday, John McCain’s selection of Sarah Palin closed the “enthusiasm gap” between the two parties.
There is nothing more dangerous to entrenched Washington power than a populist conservative who looks unlikely to buy into Washington’s creature comforts. Take a close look at Governor Palin’s record on ethics and energy in Alaska, and it becomes clear what this Beltway outburst is actually about. The irony is that while Senator Obama is running on change, his acceptance speech made explicit that he’s promising only more power and money for Washington. Sarah Palin’s history of taking on the career politicians of a corrupt Alaskan GOP machine — her own party — shows that she’s the more authentic change agent.
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