Media whines and moans
Sarah Palin's speech at the Republican convention was stunning in its success. It roused the conservative base and struck just the right tone between serious discussion of issues that will face our nation in the next years and the humor used to puncture the balloon of the media and the Obama-Messiah. RealClearPolitics has the video and the full text here.
Meanwhile the Dinosaur media are back on their heels trying to figure out how to attack and smear Palin without driving away the dozen or so people who are still relying on them for their regular 10 minutes of "news". Thomas Lifson at The American Thinker quotes The Atlantic Monthly's Clive Crook (don't you just love the irony) trying to get to some sort of smear, any kind of smear, that might actually work to stop the American people from liking Sarah Palin. The results are hilarious.
The Democrats have a problem. They had a few days of calling her a clueless redneck, a stewardess, a nonentity, and she has hurled that back in their bleeding gums. (If I were Joe Biden, I'd start practising for October 2nd right now.) Even before tonight's speech, they had backed off the "no experience" strategy, because (as the Republicans intended) that was sending shrapnel in Obama's direction. Their line right now is their default mode, that McCain-Palin is four more years of George Bush. But this too is a completely untenable strategy, since the Republican ticket now looks stunningly fresh to voters, as fresh in fact as Obama-Biden. Where they will have to end up is obvious: McCain-Palin is an extreme right-wing ticket. It is a team that will prosecute the culture war against all that is decent and civilized in the United States: that must be the line.
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