It would never occur to a liberal that GOVERNOR Sarah Palin might actually have achievements that would attract conservatives to her, and that THOSE were the voters she is meant to appease.

sad little liberals

Palin’s biggest strengths in electoral terms are:

• conservatives of all kind and flavor. Heck, paleo-cons are happy, even Buchanan praises here.

• not only women voted for Hillary. There were millions of moderates, Reagan Democrats, working class. You know, those nuts from small towns who cling to guns and God. Palin is a working woman. Her husband is a proud member of the Steelworks Union. They hunt, they raise a family and they come from a… small town. They ate mooseburguers, not blisnis.

Quoting the WSJ:

In office, Gov. Palin set an earthier style than her predecessors. She sold the private jet Mr. Murkowski used to get around Alaska, relying instead on commercial airlines and her family’s Jetta and a state-issued black Suburban. “I love to drive,” she says. She also waved off a security escort, driving herself to and from work every day from Wasilla.

Biden and Obama are two liberals who spent most of their life doing politics.

Palin is refreshing, down to earth, and many Clinton working-class voters will like that.

He cannot accept funds from donors after that date, and will then be up against the Obama campaign’s significant resources.

Give early, give often, give more than you usually do because its now or never.

Over the course of this very political campaign, I believe that a lot of people will move to the right on life issues – from pro-choice to middle of the road, from middle of the road to pro-life, or from functionally pro-choice to functionally pro-life.

And that’s just one day, the Friday of a holiday weekend. $50 of that is mine.

Happy Labor Day everybody!

They know that I’m generally a Republican, but sometimes I think that they misread my strident libertarian-conservative streak that causes me to dislike some Republicans very much – including our governor, Rick Perry.

I was just sure that it was down to Mitt Romney and Tim Pawlenty, and so I was really pulling hard to Romney and was very sour about the prospect of Tim Pawlenty. For some reason they thought very approvingly of that.

This morning when Palin was announced my grandmother just knew that she was one of these Republicans that I didn’t like for some reason. So she called me thinking that we could share a rare moment of political agreement in badmouthing Sarah Palin.

I must admit that after listening to her rant that Palin was “nothing more than a bimbo” who would be just a heartbeat away from the presidency under the presidency of a cancer-riddled old man and that if McCain thinks Hillary supporters like her are stupid enough vote for him just because he put a ‘bimbo’ on the ticket then he was sadly mistaken.

I was surprised at the vociferous defense that welled up inside me for McCain for the first time EVER and the discussion proceeded to get VERY heated.

I told her that both Sarah Palin and Barack Obama were qualified to be president; that she was designed to attract real conservatives and independent women – not confirmed liberal women like herself; that McCain didn’t have cancer but that if Palin had to serve I would be very comfortable with that; that Palin had a very compelling reform story to tell as a crusader against powerful corrupt politicians in Alaska; and a powerful pro-life story to tell as the mother of a new baby with Down syndrome.

My grandmother insisted that she “knew what she had and that was her choice.”

I told her, “no…there is a term for slaughtering an innocent unborn baby and it’s not ‘choice.’”

She said she was very disappointed in me and that she was hanging up.

I felt remarkably cleansed.

This of course is giving them a bit of joy to revel in the false sense that McCain made a misstep in the VP selection.

Yet I have no doubt that the leadership and strategists are quaking in their boots because I have been hearing noting but positives from people I know.

Beckel looked like he swallowed a lemon. Not a smile and no humor. He gave the “Palin=Quayle” talking point, while a female GOP talking head chided him for being condescending threw it back at him.

No, they are not happy. You take Obama’s best lines from Thursday night, the stuff about shaking up washingto and bringing change to Washington, cutting programs, etc. and Palin could deliver it and say:

“Obama said these things as well… But there’s a difference. The difference is that he has no accomplishments to back up his words, whereas I mean it and I have the track record to prove it!”

His ads over the past couple weeks have been razor sharp and professional. His ad praising the accomplishment of Obama gaining the nom. was classy and at the same time positioned McCain as a statesman.

And the Palin pick was brilliant on so many levels.

Can’t wait til the Convention!

All of the Republican women I know were just tickled pink about Palin – even those who didn’t know much about her.

Those political animals in the know like me could only be expected to be excited, of course.

In the end, Palin does two very important things for McCain – galvanizes the GOP base behind him and simultaneously makes a play for female independents.

I think their statements about their happiness that a woman is on the ticket are about as truthful as their constant claims that they support the troops.

This was a hit right to the solar plexus of the Party of the Donkey, but they’re trying not to let McCain know it. Too bad the Obama campaign’s first press release screamed it from every bitter, petty word.

No, Dems are not happy about this. They’re scared right down to their pink socks.

The Democrats who are happy about this are happy because they are mostly netrooters and progressives who think that they can manage beating up on a woman. They won’t be relieved to be wrong.

I enjoy your cool, snarky posts immensely!