As Radical Left Attacks Palin, Moderate Women Will Shift Right

Here is an article from William Kristol that captures the essence of Sarah Palin. The democratic hard left is so frustrated that the fully expected smear campaign has already ramped up in all its most fecal glory. They will ironically smear themselves into being despised by moderates who will view McCain more so as a change agent who actually takes action selecting the first woman GOP VP than the change RHETORIC and SLOGAN creation that has been regurgitated ad nausium from Obama’s mouth and the DNC talking heads for the past two years. In the end actions do speak louder than words. When Obama had a chance to not only unite his party but make history himself selecting Hillary, he chose HIMSELF and HIS EGO over Hillary and the good of his party. Once again reinforcing that for Obama, it is always about me, myself and I.

A spectre is haunting the liberal elites of New York and Washington–the spectre of a young, attractive, unapologetic conservatism, rising out of the American countryside, free of the taint (fair or unfair) of the Bush administration and the recent Republican Congress, able to invigorate a McCain administration and to govern beyond it.

That spectre has a name–Sarah Palin, the 44-year-old governor of Alaska chosen by John McCain on Friday to be his running mate. There she is: a working woman who’s a proud wife and mother; a traditionalist in important matters who’s broken through all kinds of barriers; a reformer who’s a Republican; a challenger of a corrupt good-old-boy establishment who’s a conservative; a successful woman whose life is unapologetically grounded in religious belief; a lady who’s a leader.

So what we will see in the next days and weeks–what we have already seen in the hours after her nomination–is an effort by all the powers of the old liberalism, both in the Democratic party and the mainstream media, to exorcise this spectre. They will ridicule her and patronize her. They will distort her words and caricature her biography. They will appeal, sometimes explicitly, to anti-small town and anti-religious prejudice. All of this will be in the cause of trying to prevent the American people from arriving at their own judgment of Sarah Palin.

That’s why Palin’s spectacular performance in her introduction in Dayton was so important. Her remarks were cogent and compelling. Her presentation of herself was shrewd and savvy. I heard

from many who watched Palin–many of them not predisposed to support her–about how moved they were by her remarks, her composure, and her story. She will have a chance to shine again Wednesday night at the Republican convention.

But before and after that, she’ll be swimming in political waters infested with sharks. Her nickname when she was the starting point guard on an Alaska high school championship basketball team was “Sarah Barracuda.” I suspect she’ll take care of herself better than many expect.

But the McCain campaign can help. The choice of Palin was McCain’s own. Many of his staff expected, and favored, other more conventional candidates. The campaign may be tempted to overreact when one rash sentence or foolish comment by Palin from 10 or 15 years ago is dragged up by Democratic opposition research and magnified by a credulous and complicit media. More… — William Kristol

Let Palin Be Palin.

The left may just be underestimating Sarah Palin’s charisma ala B. Obama. It wasn’t long ago that the Illinois Senator was a virtual unknown — his speaking skills commanded attention, especially in a visual medium. Enter Sarah Palin with similar skills and more executive background. Sen. Obama spent the majority of his first term as U.S. Senator running for President, accomplishing next to nothing but speeches. While a State Senator he voted “present” for bills that were tatamount to infanticide while even his democratic friends voted no. America does not know these two political personalities as well as they know Senators Biden and McCain. Sarah Palin is entitled to be given her due and opportunity to present herself to the American people and from what we are hearing she can more than hold her own when attacked.

This country has lost its civility no thanks to the slanted and biased media reporting and their efforts to make history with the inauguration of the first Black President. Yet there is also history to be made with the swearing in of the First Woman Vice President and it will be interesting to see just how hard the mainstream Dems will be willing to push back on Sarah Palin for not having “experience” without alienating moderate female and male voters while at the same time not looking like hypocrites with respect to their selection for President. Especially after passing over Senator Hillary Clinton, who certainly had more real experience than Obama in the U.S. Senate and her time as First Lady married to a once former unknown Governor of Arkansas, Bill Clinton.

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