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| 2008-11-07 |
| Michelle Malkin, National Review . . . The finks turned to Newsweek and Fox News to spread petty rumors about Palin’s intellect and character. The magazine peddled anecdotes from sources horrified that Palin greeted top advisers at her hotel room — gasp! — “wearing nothing but a towel” and “wet hair.” Fox News reporter Carl Cameron breathlessly reported that his unnamed McCain sources told him Palin lacked “a degree of knowledgeability necessary to be a running mate” because, they claimed, she didn’t know which countries were parties to the North American Free Trade Agreement and “didn’t understand that Africa was a continent, rather than a series, a country just in itself.” Let’s assume for a moment that the McCain rumormongers are telling the truth about Palin (and I don’t believe they are). Who would it damn more: Palin, or McCain and his vetters, who greenlighted her for the vice-presidential nomination? Don’t need a fancy Ivy League degree to figure that one out. In introducing her to America, McCain praised her independence and backbone: She “stands up for what’s right, and she doesn’t let anyone tell her to sit down.” The inside snipers are now roasting her for that very attribute — redefined as “going rogue” — because she had the nerve to try to schedule media interviews on her own. The nerve of her! Palin’s response to the campaign fragging? At a late Wednesday night airport press conference in Anchorage, immediately upon landing home after the election defeat, she smiled cheerfully. The Alaska governor shrugged off the “foolish things” said by the McCain saboteurs, and simply said, “It’s politics. … It’s rough and tumble and you’ve got to have a thick skin just like I’ve got.” Hollywood savaged Palin. Journalists mocked her. Liberal blogs slimed her. Opponents cursed her, Photoshopped her, hacked her e-mail, hanged her in effigy, called her bigot, Bible-thumper and bimbo, and attacked her husband and children. But nothing Palin endured during the election season compares to the treatment she’s receiving from these backstabbing blabbermouths who worked on the same campaign she poured herself into over the last three months. Sarah Palin worked her heart out. She energized tens of thousands to come out when they would have otherwise stayed home. She touched countless families. I didn’t agree with everything she said on the campaign trail. But she vigorously defended the Second Amendment and the sanctity of life more eloquently in practice than any of the educated conservative aristocracy. And she did it all with a tirelessness and an infectious optimism that defied the shameless, bottomless attempts by elites in both parties to bring her and her family down. Liberty needs a virtuous people to survive; self-governance requires virtuous leaders. “Knowledgeability” is a necessary trait in political life, but it is not sufficient. The elitist critics of Palin, so blindly enamored of Barack Obama’s ability to hold forth for hours on theologian Reinhold Niebuhr, ignored the Founding Fathers’ counsel: Character counts. In times of adversity and crisis, it counts more than IQ points, instant trivia recall and bloviation skills. . . . |
| Posted by:Mike |
| #9 Wel-l-l, POPULAR HOLLYWEIRD STEREOTYPES > in most of the 'Wood's History, African-AMericans have tended to be closely linked wid various types of pan-societal negative controversies, and base criminal andor corruptive, pervertive influences. * POST-ELECTION > IT STRONGLY APPEARS THAT POTUS-ELECT OBAMA + NEW ADMIN WILL BE NO EXCEPTION, AS PER MYRIAD MSM-NET NEWS ARTICLES ON AMER'S LOOMING ECONOMIC AND GEOPOL PROBS = WOES DISRUPTIONS + CHAOSES AFTER JAN. 2009 THRU 2012. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2008-11-07 18:38 |
| #8 If I were to knock on Governor Palin's hotel room door and she were to come to the door wearing nothing but a towel and wet hair, I expect my thought processes would go something like this: Stage 1: Yes! Yesssss! The atheists are wrong. There is a God, and he wants us to be happy! He hath shown me a vision of Heaven-- Stage 2: You fool! Stop looking! Avert your eyes, AVERT YOUR EYES! I hope Todd didn't see me looking at her like that, he'll kill me! I really hope she can't read minds! I humbly ask the intercession of St. Dismas, patron saint of prisoners and the condemned, . . . . |
| Posted by: Mike 2008-11-07 13:08 |
| #7 Palin more closely represents the original concept of political leadership envisioned by our Founders. Unfortunately our country no longer much represents the concept of our Founders. |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2008-11-07 11:23 |
| #6 A Romney supporter, I once said I would vote for Hillary before I would McCain because of his stance on immigration. Palin Power gave me hope. I think McCain's out-of-touch handlers were jealous of her appeal to Joe the Plumbers. |
| Posted by: Danielle 2008-11-07 11:15 |
| #5 “wearing nothing but a towel” and “wet hair.” Here, let me hold that towel for you while you dress - we wouldn't want to water-mark the furniture. |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2008-11-07 11:15 |
| #4 “It’s politics. … It’s rough and tumble and you’ve got to have a thick skin just like I’ve got.” She'll be just fine. I think she learned a lot then last few months. Like somebody said yesterday, politics is blood sport. And you better play it that way. |
| Posted by: tu3031 2008-11-07 10:26 |
| #3 I can speak from personal experience that many who I deal with during the course of our activism were less than enthusiastic with John McCain, myself included and many veterans among that number. Sarah Palin joining the ticket was the one thing that allowed me to cajole most of them back into the fight. She was the Hope in this election. A hope for a rebirth of conservatism. That hope has been delayed, but it is not dead. I wouldn't blame her if she decides not to subject herself and her family to more abuse by the media in the future, but I wouldn't bet that she will take that route. I think she is a fighter. I think we will see more of her again soon. |
| Posted by: DanNY 2008-11-07 09:09 |
| #2 With anyone other than Palin on the ticket, the election would have been the blowout that everyone was predicting and these carping weasels would have been drowned in the Democrat tsunami. Hopefully their identities will be noted and their new careers in the fast food industry dutifully chronicled. |
| Posted by: RWV 2008-11-07 08:57 |
| #1 Sarah Palin is absolutely wonderful. The question is whether we, as a nation, deserve to have such a good candidate. The answer to that question right now isn't known. |
| Posted by: Jolutch Mussolini7800 2008-11-07 08:33 |