city-journal.org - 8/31/2008
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Plain-spoken, gun-toting Sarah Palin is the antithesis of the liberal woman politician.
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Stubborn Facts —
Amba links to this piece by Harry Stein. Read the whole thing. Here's a taste:
My initial reaction to the news that Sarah Palin was John McCain’s choice for number two on the ticket was incredulity. What the blazes was he thinking? ... Liberals are the ones who pander that way, in the name of “diversity”—seeing people not as individuals but as members of this or that group. Conservatives recognize it as the scam it almost always is.
Then, at noon, I tuned in to see Palin in Dayton. I suppose I’d half expected a female Dan Quayle, the ...
Best Speech Ever by an American Woman Politician
GayPatriot —
... for my dissertation, in order to prepare for my trip to the GOP Convention in St. Paul.
And while I’ve read some criticism of the Palin pick this evening, notably Amy Alkon’s hard-hitting, “Palin by Comparison,” the more I read, the more I realize that she hasn’t been called Sarah Barracuda for nothing.
Blogger Peg Kaplan at What If? links Harry Stein’s must-read post on the pick. Like Paglia, he was impressed with Palin’s speech on Friday in Dayton:
the moment she strode on ...
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