Mary Mitchell at the Chicago Sun-Times makes the by-now ever-more-obligatory nod to the power of Sarah Palin’s speech last night…
…but calls it “mean-spirited”.
“I love those hockey moms. You know what they say the difference is between a hockey mom and a pit bull — lipstick,” Palin said.
And then she showed us what she means:
“In small towns, we don’t heap praise on working people when they are listening and talk about how bitter they are and they cling to their religions and guns when those people aren’t listening,” she said.
“We prefer candidates who don’t talk to us one way in Scranton and another way in San Francisco.”
Those are the kinds of jabs the Obama campaign will have a difficult time dealing with simply because Palin is a female, and the campaign will not want to appear to be sexist.
No, Mary Mitchell. The Obama campaign will have a difficult time dealing with those jabs because they use Barack Obama’s own words against him.
Which, I suspect, will soon be called “racist”.
I know some folks liked the pitbull comments better. I liked her two-faces-of-Obama comments.
Absolutely right on the mark.
Much better to have John McCain insult them directly to their faces, saying they are not tough enough to pick lettuce for $50 an hour.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWOZKeOauNI
Someone’s getting a-scared… of a woman!
lol
Much better to have John McCain insult them directly to their faces, saying they are not tough enough to pick lettuce for $50 an hour.
Nice slice-n-dice.
Context?
Don’t ask him for context. He’s on a roll.
At least he’s starting to link to supporting documents.
At least McCain wasn’t asking Iowans how much arugula cost at the Whole Foods.
What the heck is arugula anyway?
New theme song for McCain Palin.
Heart’s Barracuda.
Palin is the first GOP candidate in a while that really stands a chance to peel away more of those old “Reagan Democrats.” And that scares the hell out of the Democrats.
In her governing she was even more restrained than Reagan since she had the government controlled by her own party in AK and didn’t go hog wild with the socially conservative agenda, and that says something. Reagan had an overwhelmingly Democratic Congress to deal with, but even though it would have made his base happier didn’t bother doing much other than jawboning on social conservative issues.
Consider that while she’s socially conservative, she’s not pushy about it. You don’t see her pushing Intelligent Design, instead she’s for letting parents choose how to educate their kids. She’s against gay marriage, yet allows same sex benefits.
She’s a libertarian conservative. Personally conservative and thinks those values should be promoted and celebrated, but libertarian enough to not legislate those values and allow folks to go to hell in their own way. I can live with that. I just wish the top of the ticket was as libertarian; he’s got issues with freedom of speech.
At least he’s starting to link to supporting documents.
Assuming you consider a ten-second contextless clip “supporting documentation.”
Fer Gawd’s sake stop tweaking RickDFL about supplying supporting links.
I’d prefer not to read the entire wikipedia in one sitting.