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The Brussels Journal - The Voice of Conservatism in Europe —
There is the Sarah Palin you saw on television, and there is the Sarah Palin I saw in the XCel Center here in St Paul, Minnesota. I don’t know how it played on TV. I don’t know what the news media said. I don’t know how the pundits assessed the speech. I don’t know what narratives the blogs are spinning. I only know what I saw. I only know what I felt. I only know what effect Sarah Palin had on the thousands of men, women and children assembled to hear her accept the Republican nomination for Vice President of the United States. I only know what word describes all that best.
The word is electric. It is difficult to express how ...
Rudy and Sarah, Hot Video Action
The Sundries Shack —
Ah, videos from last night. Rare, bloody red meat from Rudy G as an appetizer and a spicy-sweet main course from Sarah Palin.
The “Nightmare World” Of Tom Moe
Pat Dollard | Young Americans —
Last night’s speech by Gov. Sarah Palin had many solid points and answers, even if the MSM the day after is refusing to recognize them. She also had several “kisses” she blew at the American people.
The one ‘kiss’ you all probably thought stuck the hardest hockey mom lipstick print with me was the one where she looked directly into the TV camera … directly into mine and my husband’s eyes … and vowed to us that ‘if’ she and John McCain get into the White House we, as families of special needs children, WILL have a friend and an advocate. Yeah, that one pulled a bit of moisture ...
The Promise and the Peril of Sarah Palin
The Next Right —
Less than a week ago Sarah Palin was introduced to America and many conservatives for the first time. In the intervening week, the GOP vice presidential nominee has endured a liberal smear campaign, ruthless media criticism and the biggest speech of her life. She emerged unscathed and more respected. In the process she united the right. What now for Sarah Palin? As Jon Henke wrote yesterday, there is a fundamental misunderstanding by liberals and journalists why people on the right are excited about her. But what is it that gives conservatives so much hope? From a purely partisan perspective, Henke argues she will reform the ...
'This is a fight for the future.'
Daily Kos —
Tuesday, August 26, 2008 It was the second day of the 2008 Democratic National Convention, and I was still getting used to having a press pass and being part of "the new media", instead of being "just a blogger". In fact, I was getting used to everything. It was the first time I had ever attended a large political convention, much less the most important meeting for our party. ...
Lipstick Jungle
Pundits Blog —
Lipstick Jungle ( Doug Heye ) The reports that Barack Obama said John McCain and Sarah Palin are "just calling the same thing something different. You can put lipstick on a pig, but it's still a pig" demonstrate the challenges Obama and Joe Biden face when criticizing Palin. After all, it was Palin who famously ad-libbed in her speech accepting the vice presidential nomination, "You know the difference between a hockey mom and a pit bull? Lipstick." If anything, Palin's speech should have taken the word "lipstick" out of the Democrats' lexicon. Instead, Obama's comment will put the campaign on the defensive and open itself up to charges of ...
No More Mister Nice Blog — APPARENTLY, LYING RUNS IN THE McCAIN FAMILY Immediately after Sarah Palin's convention speech, right-wingers floated a story -- soon picked up by Drudge -- that her teleprompter broke down midway through the speech and the gutsy gal was reciting the speech from memory. Politico's Jonathan Martin -- who was there and could see the teleprompter -- shot that story down immediately. He said flatly, "The teleprompter did not break." That should have been the end of that. But hey, when has the McCain campaign let the truth stand in the way of a good story? Now Rupert Murdoch's Australian newspaper has published a piece under ...
VP Nomination Flashback
The LLama Butchers —
VP Nomination Flashback because you need to hear it. Younger, smarter, and better looking. Posted by LMC at November 1, 2008 10:03 AM | TrackBack
Sarah Palin destined to be 'the white Oprah'?
Top of the Ticket —
According to veteran TV newswoman Cokie Roberts, Americans should get ready for a whole lot more of Alaska's Republican Gov. Sarah Palin.
Speaking to the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce Tuesday, the veteran ABC and NPR reporter and commentator said, "There's more of Sarah Palin in our future."
Roberts, herself the daughter of two successful Democratic politicians, suggested, in fact, that the 44-year-old mother of five and unsuccessful Republican vice presidential candidate could be "the white Oprah" in the near future.
"The camera loves her," added Roberts. ...
The Saving Remnant
The LLama Butchers —
The Saving Remnant Sarah Palin's convention speech: Posted by LMC at January 19, 2009 01:00 PM | TrackBack
The GOP countdown to 2012: Sarah Palin forms a PAC
Top of the Ticket —
The surest sign yet that Alaska's Republican Gov. Sarah Palin intends at least to be in position for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination contest.
Like others presumed to have their eye on the party nod -- former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney and Arkansas ex-Gov. Mike Huckabee -- she has set up a PAC -- SarahPAC.
The creation of such a financial entity commits her to nothing. But such a political action committee will allow Palin to position herself to compete by legally collecting donations to travel and speak on her own behalf (Iowa is a ...
Damn! I miss Sarah Palin
Sister Toldjah —
Wouldn’t it kick a** right now if it were Sarah Palin sitting in the veep’s chair and not Joe “Gaffetastic” Biden?
2012, maybe?
Related: Obama and Palin attending same weekend dinner
Future National Holiday
The LLama Butchers —
Future National Holiday Today Sarah Palin is 45. Here is The 'Cuda back at the convention: and here is the linky to SarahPAC so that you may do her homage as well. Posted by LMC at February 11, 2009 07:20 AM | TrackBack
Compare and Contrast
Ace of Spades HQ —
Compare and Contrast I'm relinking the best day of the entire campaign season. Now -- who got it right? David Brooks Brothers or "Caribou Barbie"? Perhaps the grassroots wouldn't distrust and actively hate ostensible intellectuals if the supposed intellectuals could get over their hubris in believing "This time, we've got the right team of sharpies to finally make socialism work. " Hey, Swells, want to know why we like Palin and distrust you? Pretty simple -- she gets it right and you get it wrong. The fact that you are eminently well-credentialed in your great errors is no mitigation at all. It adds to the crime, in fact.
New study suggests hot Sarah Palin should dowdy-down for 2012
Top of the Ticket —
Newly-released academic research suggests that Sarah Palin's sexiness, while great for selling copies of Vogue magazine and political buttons about the hottest governor from the coldest state last fall, may actually have hurt her vote-getting ability, which seems to be what elections are about.
Of course, standing next to John McCain is bound to make pretty much anyone look pretty much prettier. Which may be one reason the crowds often chanted "Sar-RAH! Sa-RAH!" when the Republican governor and Republican senator appeared together as the GOP presidential ticket.
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Nice Work on Palin From Vanity Fair's Resident Cartoonist
Politics Daily —
WomanUp's beach reading recommendation for Independence Day weekend is the August issue of Vanity Fair, in particular Todd S. Purdum's devastating portrait of the most media-savvy figure on the GOP bench. Sarah Palin may have been the wrong choice to round out Sen. John McCain's presidential ticket (nicknamed "Little Shop of Horrors" by an unidentified "longtime ...
The "Far Right" Sarah Palin?
Ace of Spades HQ —
The "Far Right" Sarah Palin? In Allah's Quotes the Day, he featured two: One an attack on the self-styled elites who do nothing to advance anything at all except their own outsized sense of self-importance, and the other the elites ragging on the "far right" Sarah Palin: The "elites," incidentally, seem to have a confused definition of "far right." Sometimes they speak of the "far right" as if it is a programmatic, ideological thing. But they mostly seem to speak of it as purely tonal in nature, as applies to Sarah Palin. But elites are so smart they tend to be confused by how much brilliance is crackling up in their big brains. I am a bit perplexed at how either confused ...
The Head Says Romney, But The Heart Says Palin
The Atlantic Politics Channel —
That's what Matt Lewis suggests in a column today at Politics Daily: that conservatives' heads will tell them to vote for Mitt Romney in the 2012 primary, but that their hearts will tell them to vote for Sarah Palin. It might feel better for conservatives to vote for Palin as an emotional favorite, and, since it's historically difficult to take down an incumbent president, Lewis asks the philosophical question: "If you're going to lose anyway, is it better to lose atop the horse you really want to ride?" It's a different question altogether who conservatives would actually want to be president; emotionally, even, and putting aside their respective chances of winning, Palin might ...
Sarah Palin's roguish book tour: The details seep out
Top of the Ticket —
It starts in Michigan.
Our good buddy Josh Painter over at the Texas for Salin Palin blog, a must-bookmark for SP fans, has assembled the schedule for the ex-gov's upcoming book sales/autographing tour and we have some of it below.
You'll note that the tour starts in Michigan. Get it? Oh, c'mon, sure you do!
Longtime Ticket readers will recall it was the stumbling McCain campaign's decision to, in effect, forfeit Michigan to the Obama Democrats a year ago and stop campaigning there.
Which caused McCain's Republican pitbull partner to grumble about giving up anywhere so easily.
Which caused those brave ...
