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…is getting much more than he bargained for tonight.<\/p>\n
Sarah Palin is on tonight. She is as comfortable in front of this crowd as she is at her son’s hockey game.<\/p>\n
This bodes well so far.<\/p>\n
…and now she’s going after Obama and Biden! Un bee leeeev a bull! She aint wastin’ no time!<\/p>\n
So much for the motherly image!<\/p>\n
I can guarantee you that Obama’s handlers are peeing their pants at this very moment. Sarah Palin is stealing this race before the paint dries on the yard signs.<\/p>\n
She does look like Tina Fey.<\/p>\n
…and she is abolutely crusifying Obama.<\/p>\n
Other highlights:<\/p>\n
I was just your average hockey mom, and signed up for the PTA because I wanted to make my kids’ public education better.<\/p>\n
When I ran for city council, I didn’t need focus groups and voter profiles because I knew those voters, and knew their families, too.<\/p>\n
Before I became governor of the great state of Alaska, I was mayor of my hometown.<\/p>\n
And since our opponents in this presidential election seem to look down on that experience, let me explain to them what the job involves.<\/p>\n
I guess a small-town mayor is sort of like a “community organizer,” except that you have actual responsibilities. I might add that in small towns, we don’t quite know what to make of a candidate who lavishes praise on working people when they are listening, and then talks about how bitterly they cling to their religion and guns when those people aren’t listening.<\/p>\n
We tend to prefer candidates who don’t talk about us one way in Scranton and another way in San Francisco.<\/p>\n
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Our opponents say, again and again, that drilling will not solve all of America’s energy problems – as if we all didn’t know that already.<\/p>\n
But the fact that drilling won’t solve every problem is no excuse to do nothing at all.<\/p>\n
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And there is much to like and admire about our opponent.<\/p>\n
But listening to him speak, it’s easy to forget that this is a man who has authored two memoirs but not a single major law or reform – not even in the state senate.<\/p>\n
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But when the cloud of rhetoric has passed … when the roar of the crowd fades away … when the stadium lights go out, and those Styrofoam Greek columns are hauled back to some studio lot – what exactly is our opponent’s plan? What does he actually seek to accomplish, after he’s done turning back the waters and healing the planet? The answer is to make government bigger … take more of your money … give you more orders from Washington … and to reduce the strength of America in a dangerous world. America needs more energy … our opponent is against producing it.<\/p>\n
Victory in Iraq is finally in sight … he wants to forfeit.<\/p>\n
Terrorist states are seeking new-clear weapons without delay … he wants to meet them without preconditions.<\/p>\n
Al Qaeda terrorists still plot to inflict catastrophic harm on America … he’s worried that someone won’t read them their rights? Government is too big … he wants to grow it.<\/p>\n
Congress spends too much … he promises more.<\/p>\n
Taxes are too high … he wants to raise them.<\/p>\n
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In politics, there are some candidates who use change to promote their careers.<\/p>\n
And then there are those, like John McCain, who use their careers to promote change.<\/p>\n
They’re the ones whose names appear on laws and landmark reforms, not just on buttons and banners, or on self-designed presidential seals.<\/p>\n
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A leader who’s not looking for a fight, but is not afraid of one either. Harry Reid, the Majority Leader of the current do-nothing Senate, not long ago summed up his feelings about our nominee.<\/p>\n
He said, quote, “I can’t stand John McCain.” Ladies and gentlemen, perhaps no accolade we hear this week is better proof that we’ve chosen the right man. Clearly what the Majority Leader was driving at is that he can’t stand up to John McCain.<\/p>\n
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My fellow citizens, the American presidency is not supposed to be a journey of “personal discovery.” This world of threats and dangers is not just a community, and it doesn’t just need an organizer.<\/p>\n
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To the most powerful office on earth, (Senator McCain)\u00a0would bring the compassion that comes from having once been powerless … the wisdom that comes even to the captives, by the grace of God … the special confidence of those who have seen evil, and seen how evil is overcome.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
She pulled it off. The crowd is absolutely electrified.<\/p>\n
Blitzer on CNN: She hit it out of the Park! Clearly a star has been born in the United States.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Anderson Cooper: if anyone is wondering why she is such a popular governor, they know now<\/p>\n
Campbell: John McCain got his attack dog!<\/p>\n
CNN: The most macho speech of the night was given by a woman<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
John McCain’s choice is so very justified…and he just walked onto stage…surprise!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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