Trippi to Democrats: Don’t laugh off Palin
posted at 9:56 am on September 1, 2008 by Ed Morrissey
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Joe Trippi has had a couple of days to consider John McCain’s choice of Sarah Palin as running mate, and he has thought better of his initial response. The man who created the Howard Dean on-line phenomenon warns his fellow Democrats not to underestimate Palin as some hick-town rube. Instead, Trippi sees McCain’s real purpose:
McCain picked in Palin someone who has taken on the corruption in the GOP in Alaska, turned against her own party’s establishment, and fought for reform.
The McCain/Palin duo will challenge Barack Obama’s claim of “a new kind of politics” and chastise Obama and Democratic vice presidential Nominee, Joe Biden, for their “silence” in taking on corruption in their own party in Illinois, Delaware and Washington, DC.
The McCain campaign intends to claim that “more of the same” in Washington means Barack Obama and Joe Biden and will make the argument that if you want to “shake things up” then McCain and his reform minded running mate from Alaska will get the job done.
My initial reaction was that in picking Palin, McCain had taken away the argument that Barack Obama wasn’t ready to be president. I now think my initial assessment on that score was wrong. Over time, the McCain team will insinuate that if you think a first-term Governor isn’t ready for the number 2 slot, are your really sure that a first-term Senator is ready for the number 1 spot?
Maybe Trippi spent some time at Hot Air this weekend. After all, I explained this on Friday morning after her selection had been confirmed. While the Left continued to spin conspiracy theories about Palin’s children and laugh at her for winning a beauty contest as a teen, the mainstream media started to figure out McCain’s purpose the next day. By that time, we had already shown how Obama’s attacks on Palin’s experience boomerang against his own utter lack of executive, military, and diplomatic experience.
At any rate, this shows that reality has begun to dawn for the Left. The massive support for Palin on the campaign trail, the enormous fundraising boost, and the sinking poll numbers for Obama point to the conclusion that McCain made a wise choice. He will attack Obama at his supposed strength and point out what a pair of empty suits the Democratic nominees are on reform and change.
Trippi says that Democrats will make a mistake in ridiculing Palin. Unfortunately, just like his analysis, it comes at least a day late.
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hit by the Palin Clue Stick which looks suspiciously like a hockey stick.
sven10077 on September 1, 2008 at 9:59 AM
Make no mistake, despite the dissing and jokes, democrats are very worried about her.
whitetop on September 1, 2008 at 10:00 AM
flop sweat
TheCulturalist on September 1, 2008 at 10:03 AM
solutely that is why they went so psycho.
McCain pulled a helluva feint and is way inside their OODA loop.
with Palin:
1) he stifled their convention
2) he unified his base
3) he nailed the radical left feminists
4) he generated a burst of fundraising becuse of 2
5) he has cornered Obama on “change” and “well experience don’t matter holmes”
McCain is playing 3d chess Barry checkers…..the M$M fawning over him prevented O’bama from having to develop foresight and I think may just wind up costing Barry the election….
M$M goes 3 for 3 in the 21st century
sven10077 on September 1, 2008 at 10:03 AM
I’m was thinking Sarah’s 30-06 or 300 Win Mag.
TheSitRep on September 1, 2008 at 10:03 AM
Trippi drip, better late than never.
Fix the leaky DNC septic tank.
FACT CHECK
maverick muse on September 1, 2008 at 10:04 AM
Ambinder has a mildly disturbing article up about the vetting process, or lack thereof:
http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200808u/mccain-palin
I had assumed they had checked out the trooper story a little more thoroughly than he reports, since Ed had posted on it about a month ago, it wasn’t exactly a surprise. Still, they’re going to have to come up with more than one phone call by a surrogate saying “Sarah and Todd are scratching their heads as to why this guy is still representing the department” to show that she abused her power to get this guy canned (and offered another job).
Dudley Smith on September 1, 2008 at 10:04 AM
Well, duh. She’s in the slot for VP…if you continue to bring up experience as an issues, you destroy yourself.
It’s an argument the Dems lose no matter how it comes out.
Asher on September 1, 2008 at 10:05 AM
The more they trash Gov. Palin the more people will rally around her – especially women. The Dems would be really stupid to infuriate female voters more than they already have.
That said, I fully expect them to keep it up.
Cody1991 on September 1, 2008 at 10:05 AM
I´m just lovin´it. We win in November and, barring some catastrophic event, we won´t see a democrat in the white house for at least 16 years. Hell, I feel a tingle going up my leg.
http://web.me.com/jameshooker/Site_4/Sarah.html
james hooker on September 1, 2008 at 10:06 AM
Just the fact that Sarah Palin has the ability to speak successfully without a teleprompter, or sounding like the family drunk, (have you seen the latest Biden utube??) puts her WAY ahead in making her “experience” case.
anniekc on September 1, 2008 at 10:06 AM
I’m is an idiot.
TheSitRep on September 1, 2008 at 10:06 AM
Let’s hope not too many of them realize this.
Kronos on September 1, 2008 at 10:07 AM
All the Democrats know she’ll beat Obama in any rock-star competition (which was his *only* strength)…. Plus she has shown the substantive and principled leadership that Obama clearly has not shown (even though he talks a lot).
It’s an inning (game?) ending double play – simple as that.
dtestard on September 1, 2008 at 10:08 AM
The McCain/Palin duo will challenge Barack Obama’s claim of “a new kind of politics” …
Palin is the only thing new about this ticket. Mac made the right choice.
Tony737 on September 1, 2008 at 10:08 AM
If you check out the Flopping Aces blog there is an excellent investigative piece on this by Mata Harley that lays any doubts to rest. Go here:
Those of us grounded in reality know that there is nothing worth investigating, unless the Libs want to throw themselves into a briar patch. The longer they chase after this tar baby, the more they stay distracted and off their game.
ManlyRash on September 1, 2008 at 10:10 AM
Anyone know who this “Rick Rydell” guy is? I just heard him on LA radio 790 and it sounded like he was kinda trashing Palin.
TheCulturalist on September 1, 2008 at 10:11 AM
So Joe stopped drinking the kool-aid for a bit. Say it ain’t so, Joe!
Why does Hot Air waste so much space publicizing KOS in the headlines? I, for one, refuse to click on those links as I believe that much like supporting America’s enemies. Besides, we already know what to expect from those freedom hating, Jew hating, America hating fascists.
DannoJyd on September 1, 2008 at 10:13 AM
Yeah the Democrats are always trailing public opinion, they are out of touch with the majority of Americans. They put the Progressives in charge Dean,Pelosi,Reid. Big Mistake, these people are not Middle of America, down the Middle of the road and they have sold their souls to George Soros, so they can’t maneuver easily politically to counter punch the Palin pick.
Will the Democrat finally hit rock bottom so it can be rebuilt in the traditional Democrat Platform? Not as long as they are on the Soros juice.
Dr Evil on September 1, 2008 at 10:14 AM
As we watch the second coming of Jimmy Carter develop, WE have the chance to keep ourselves from the upcoming malaise that a Biden-Obama administration will give us (ranked in order of experience, not change).
Donate Now
Drill Now
Palin Now
Just say NO to Obama, No to Slow Joe, NO to Hillary and NO to Howard Dean.
Vote for a REAL woman,who did NOT get to her position by using her HUSBAND’s Fame to propel her career.
Hell, vote for a REAL union woman.
originalpechanga on September 1, 2008 at 10:15 AM
Somebody here said it first: You either are worried for the country that McCain will die or that Obama will live.
Blake on September 1, 2008 at 10:16 AM
The “TrooperGate” scandal is a complete and utter non-story. Even if they had pressured the guy to fire the Trooper it would have been completely justified considering what he’s been proven to have done. And the Governor is able to fire the Public Safety commissioner for whatever reason she wants. Add in the fact that it was many months have the entire issue had blown over that he was fired, the fact that he was offered another job, and the fact that Sarah Palin is completely cooperating with the investigation and it is a non-issue.
Oh and the tape that got the whole thing started in which an aide of Palin’s was released by Sarah Palin herself.
Kronos on September 1, 2008 at 10:16 AM
Change you can believe in.
(PS…why isn’t this video getting more exposure? It completely obliterates The One’s claim of standing against old style politics)
powerpro on September 1, 2008 at 10:16 AM
If the pundits read the posts on the Hillary Forum they would be very concerned.
iam7545 on September 1, 2008 at 10:17 AM
http://www.hillaryclintonforum.net/discussion/showthread.php?t=26279
iam7545 on September 1, 2008 at 10:18 AM
The Dems and liberals have and will continue to underestimate the McCain/Palin ticket until it eats their lunch. Then they will get even more vicious than we have already seen, if that is possible.
As to the capabilities of Sarah Palin, I borrow and paraphase a comment from a poster at Small Dead Animals: Unlike VP Cheney, if Sarah Palin shoots somebody they will stay down.
IOW, figuratively, Biden is toast.
Yoop on September 1, 2008 at 10:18 AM
The penny drops. Although maybe Mr. Trippi had the benefit of a Jesuit education, and so could reason out logically that if an 8-year [?] mayor and 2-year governor is inexperienced, then it also follows that a first-year senator is inexperienced. Who cares about a “heartbeat away” compared with the actual heartbeat?
He also left out that Palin’s experience is in the executive branch, and didn’t consist of voting ‘present’, and so is more applicable; and that it’s better for her as the GOP’s No.2 to be ‘learning on the job’ and less dangerous to the country than for their No.1 to be ‘learning on the job’.
andycanuck on September 1, 2008 at 10:18 AM
Obama is a victim of an overly long campaign. The guy’s been running for president now for two years and the novelty is wearing off. Ironically, rather than being seen as the new voice and the candidate of change, he’s increasingly being seen as part of the status quo!
So along comes the fresh face of Sarah Palin and the public looks at her and thinks, “well, here’s something NEW and novel. Wouldn’t it be a nice change to have HER in office?”
As Palin gets introduced this week at the convention, expect one of the topics discussed by the pundits to be how Palin has taken some of the glamour from Obama’s candidacy.
And really, w/out the glamour, what exactly is Obama running on?
PackerBronco on September 1, 2008 at 10:19 AM
I’ve been telling people since Friday that the left is scared of this woman. This bolsters my argument.
RWLA on September 1, 2008 at 10:20 AM
Did the Dems never see the absurdity of running a politician out of the Daley political machine? Saying Richard J Daley (Sr or Jr) or Cook County to any adult (over 40, at least), and the usual connection is corruption, not change.
The GOP should portray Obama as a product of the Cook County Daley political machine every time the Dems try to connect McCain to Bush.
Wethal on September 1, 2008 at 10:20 AM
Carville on CNN this morning:
He said it twice and each time held up a photo of the city hall at exactly the same time CNN cut away to video of some palm tree swaying in the storm in Louisiana. Both times his stupid gambit failed. And I really wanted to see it. Hell, maybe city hall/donut shop is a good business plan.
capitano on September 1, 2008 at 10:24 AM
We’re especially concerned about the revisionist historical record that’s being written.
YoungTrigg, buffs up Sarah’s Wiki page, just in time.
You have to register at the New York Times to read the grizzly details, no pun intended..!
J_Gocht on September 1, 2008 at 10:27 AM
All these people dissing Palin now will be embarrassed in 20 years. She’s really going to be a superstar of American politics for a long time. I’m sick and tired of Washingtonians thinking they are ‘better than everyone’ because they live in Washington. Palin is no dumber than anyone else who might have been living in DC as an elected official for the last 40 years (Biden, Pelosi, Reid, and Clinton I’m talking to you).
ThackerAgency on September 1, 2008 at 10:27 AM
Palin has something that the democrats have no conception of…..integrity. This is compounded by the fact that Obama, being a brainwashed Daly lap dog, sold his “call for change” out by brnging a dinosaur with 36 years of political corruption to his team. Obama may be right that Congress is broken, but Biden removes all doubt that it is just TALK.
volsense on September 1, 2008 at 10:29 AM
Covering both options with a back-handed compliment:
It’s an overstated projection to either whine or wish “McCain is toast” over whatever the national media dumps of its own onto Palin.
McCain was already inching ahead of Obama before EITHER announced their VP.
To presume that McCain will simply burn to ashes because the MSM wills it so via ugly smears up front and personal televising Palin live at a news conference ambush? Not Palin nor McCain nor McCain/Palin are gonna turn to toast for ubertard consumption.
maverick muse on September 1, 2008 at 10:31 AM
He’s alive? wow… i just figured… u know. wow.
Only if they put the cop shop in back. Then you have a winner.
TheCulturalist on September 1, 2008 at 10:31 AM
capitano on September 1, 2008 at 10:24 AM
——–
Pushing the “small town = not ready” meme, James?
Won’t wash.
And the nice part is, a big wind other than Carville is going to dominate the news cycle for the next 2-3 days. McCain doesn’t *need* the Repub convention – other than to be legally nominated – so this is fine with him.
McCain pops up on radar, launches devastating strike, and drops back out of sight.
Mew
acat on September 1, 2008 at 10:35 AM
His shelf life is getting close to expiration date. He’s been running too long. You could see it in his nomination acceptance speech. Same old vacuous pap. Palin offers specific answers and a record of accomplishing goals. I think the donks are also looking ahead a bit and see her in the Oval Office next election. That’s another reason they are squealing.
a capella on September 1, 2008 at 10:35 AM
Pretty it up any way you want, but you inadvertently point out the lousy, dare I say ridiculous, choices we face.
JiangxiDad on September 1, 2008 at 10:35 AM
Recap Obama’s experience and ethics: how to further political corruption and steal multi-millions of tax dollars “because I could” torment the indigent and elderly, and kill the babies to buy my mansion.
maverick muse on September 1, 2008 at 10:37 AM
As I posted earlier Thacker…
J_Gocht on September 1, 2008 at 10:37 AM
I read the Flopping Aces timeline, and it was reassuring, thanks. My only concern is that she has pissed off a lot of people in the establishment of Alaska, and they could use the timing of the investigation report (Friday before the election) to issue some trumped up findings that won’t hold up to closer scrutiny, but by the time they get worked out it will be too late. Kind of like the BS indictment of Tom Delay.
Dudley Smith on September 1, 2008 at 10:38 AM
Classic Wild Weasel style Anti-SAM run…..
Maverick to base I have the star….
sven10077 on September 1, 2008 at 10:40 AM
now SP has to kick butt on the campaign trail and in debates or the media and the dems will be vindicated should she stumble with damaging cringe inducing quotes. She has to be stellar every minute of the next 60+ days for her to be the asset we all want her to be in defeating the “toxic twins”
schlomo_tutu on September 1, 2008 at 10:41 AM
OMG, it took them this long to see that trap? Wow. How can it be so immediately obvious to us and not so obvious to them? Have they stopped thinking critically of Obama and so his obvious weaknesses are no long apparent to them? Have they created mental images of him that bare little resemblances to reality?
Regardless of why, they have a huge blind-spot when it comes to Obama and that’s going to continue to hurt them down the stretch.
The Palin pick has brought out the absolute worst in the Left. A lot of people who lean to their side are listening and don’t like what they are hearing.
TheBigOldDog on September 1, 2008 at 10:41 AM
Trippi gets it. But asking the nutroots to act rationally is futile.
petefrt on September 1, 2008 at 10:43 AM
All she needs to be is genuine and likable. If they attack her for petty things it will only draw people for the majority of the political spectrum closer to her. The same thing happened with Reagan. Every time the Left and media attacked him unfairly his popularity went up. She has that same q-factor based on what I have seen thus far – which, I fully admit, isn’t a lot.
TheBigOldDog on September 1, 2008 at 10:45 AM
Interesting Times we live in.
A presidential election where the results will rest as much if not more on the V.P. choices than on the actualy main candidates.
Crazy.
Lawrence on September 1, 2008 at 10:45 AM
Obama’s idea of changing a “broken Congress” is picking someone who has been involved in “breaking it” for 36 years. Obama is so shallow, he is embarrassing. Palin took on GOP corruption and Obama is a puppet to the democratic corruption that is irrefutable in Cook County. He is just the latest version of a Daly lap dog.
volsense on September 1, 2008 at 10:47 AM
Joe Trippi is a trip! The guy is acting like some cartoon character who has just discovered the evil villian’s master plan! Only thing missing is the dialogue balloon over his head with the word AHA! printed in it.
pilamaye on September 1, 2008 at 10:49 AM
They should listen. If anybody knows about how elections are lost, it’s Trippi. But will they? Oh my goodness, I get a kick out of silly questions.
Jim Treacher on September 1, 2008 at 10:49 AM
Check out the Hot Air headlines:
http://www.nypost.com/seven/09012008/postopinion/opedcolumnists/bringing_the_gop_back_to_life_126978.htm
Except for the second-to-the-last paragraph, if I didn’t know any better, Kirsten Powers (an Alaska native) may be putting her pitcher of Kool-Aid back in the refrigerator.
That aside, I’m trying to restrain myself, but Palin has Sheriff Andy Taylor written all over her. David and Goliath, N.C. State-Houston (1983), Hoosiers, Georgetown-Villanova (1986), U.S.-U.S.S.R. 1980 Olympic hockey, you name the successful underdog scenario.
Some are rolling out the Bentsen-Quayle debate comparisons, but Bentsen was a senatorial giant. Biden largely has tenure granted by a small-state. More important, Biden has a delightful penchant for stepping into it all too often. Palin will likely fumble a pronunciation or two along the way, but I cannot resist thinking that this turns out like Rambo in First Blood. Biden and Obama won’t know what hit them.
BuckeyeSam on September 1, 2008 at 10:49 AM
I wouldn’t be too concerned Dudley. Releasing the evidence of Dubyah’s DUI arrest the week before the election didn’t cause any hangover for him.
I wouldn’t be too concerned.
J_Gocht on September 1, 2008 at 10:50 AM
Lots of hysteria on the left re: Palin. Some hysterical memes:
- This is a transparent attempt by McCain to take away Dem votes from Hillary supporters and IT WON’T WORK BECAUSE WOMEN ARE SMARTER THAN THAT! (getting red and shaking)
- She’s a beauty queen with no experience YOU SAY SHE HAS AS MUCH EXPERIENCE AS OBAMA, DON’T GO THERE, I SAID SHE WAS A BEAUTY QUEEN YOU DON’T LISTEN
- This is an insult
- She’s too busy as a new mother, she can’t handle the job
- *gasp gasp gasp*
Would it kill them to make one thoughtful and measured criticism.
Paul-Cincy on September 1, 2008 at 10:50 AM
Photo of the Day:
You Are What You Eat
Bumpersticker of the Day:
Obamamania is…
capitano on September 1, 2008 at 10:50 AM
Unfortunate for who? Not the Navy pilot and the Moose slayer.
tgharris on September 1, 2008 at 10:52 AM
A City Hall donut shop? Well at least we know where all the cops would be hanging out.
If even the rabid lefties at the Kossackstan realize that McCain/Palin is the true reform ticket and that Obama/Biden never met a corrupt democrat they didn’t embrace and support, this will be event changing for the general election.
eaglewingz08 on September 1, 2008 at 10:57 AM
What took him so long?
We knew all this on Friday.
INC on September 1, 2008 at 10:57 AM
Not quite, dimbulb. In the future you would do well to actually read the primary source – in this case, the Business Week article – instead of gleefully parroting the spin that a secondary source has put on a single sentence excerpted from the context.
Here is the full text of Palin’s response:
Basically this is the same message McCain is relaying, so yes, they really do think alike. For your part you need to actually start THINKING. It’s difficult, I know, but if you have any problems perhaps Alphie can help you.
ManlyRash on September 1, 2008 at 10:57 AM
Something nobody has recognized about Sarah Palin: There is another candidate on the ballot for “Right-Wingers” to contemplate. His name is Ron Paul. It sure wouldn’t hurt McCain to capture those Ron Paul votes. Now then: Compare many of Sarah’s positions and actions with those of Ron Paul. Ahhhhhhhh!
Nostradamus on September 1, 2008 at 10:59 AM
There you have it, Dudley. A rare moment of lucidity from JG.
ManlyRash on September 1, 2008 at 11:00 AM
Thanks for the belly laugh! That’s great.
TheBigOldDog on September 1, 2008 at 11:01 AM
J_Gocht
Do they mean like how John Edward’s wiki page got locked so no one could add anything or change it?
This is all the left has, this is so weak, it is like they are pitching balls straight over the plate, and they keep getting hit.
Don’t Like Palin’s Wikipedia Story? Change It
The Republicans showing the Democrats up for what they really are- all cheap talk.
Dr Evil on September 1, 2008 at 11:04 AM
Compare and contrast:
One is an elegant, attractive, dare I say sexy piece of eye-candy.
The other one kills her own food.
Jim Treacher on September 1, 2008 at 11:06 AM
You have to change your name to something like Pittbull.
It’s nice having some quality new blood….
TheBigOldDog on September 1, 2008 at 11:06 AM
In other news: Yah! Hurricane Gustav misses New Orleans. Better news: a runaway barge is in the Industrial Canal heading for a levy!
Looks like the Rethug’s convention might be next week.
Oh, and oil and gas areas hit hard. Gas should be up t $4.50 again soon. Thanks George Bush!!!111!!!
carbon_footprint on September 1, 2008 at 11:06 AM
McCain wishes that his ride, that so long ago, had been a Stealth Bomber.
To remedy that situation now he asked that one be sent down from Alaska… ;-)
Yoop on September 1, 2008 at 11:07 AM
McCain is showing that he still have his Naval Aviator persona on top condition and for our friends in the left, a well intentionated warning.
As a Naval Aviator, he started and ended his mission from the pitching deck of a carrier in all weather and light conditions. Someone with that kind of job qualifications have a strong intestinal fortitude.
You cross him at your own peril.
With Palin as his backseater, Maverick is once again in the hunt.
El Coqui on September 1, 2008 at 11:07 AM
I’m beginning to get really irritated by the way these pundits are dealing with the Palin nomination. This week we’ve learned that:
1. The only experience that counts in life occurs within the DC Beltway. You can be the most intelligent and succuessful person in the world but if you did it outside the shadow of the Capitol, then you are woefully unprepared to be in public office.
2. Republican women can’t be mothers and politicians at the same time. Presumably because Republican women actually raise their children unlike “mothers” like Hillary Clinton who essentially dropped her child off at the village on the way to the pants suit shop.
3. Apparently Alaskans are too backwards and remote from America to lead but multi-racial candidates raised in Hawaii and God knows where else should be handed the Presidency by acclamaition.
highhopes on September 1, 2008 at 11:07 AM
Note that slaying the moose is never the hard part. Getting it all cut up, back home, and stored away is the really hard part.
RBMN on September 1, 2008 at 11:07 AM
(Oops, that one was for Paul-Cincy on September 1, 2008 at 10:50 AM)
Jim Treacher on September 1, 2008 at 11:07 AM
Someone may have posted this, but I’ll add it anyway:
A Fix for Palinoholics
Can’t get enough of Alaska Governor Sarah Palin? The Anchorage Daily News has kindly posted a photo gallery here.
http://www.weeklystandard.com/Weblogs/TWSFP/TWSFPView.asp
Cody1991 on September 1, 2008 at 11:08 AM
I prefer ManlyRash. It makes them think of Ashley Wilkes. By the time they realize their miscalculation, much their throat has already been torn out.
ManlyRash on September 1, 2008 at 11:09 AM
Who?
highhopes on September 1, 2008 at 11:09 AM
Ewwww!
carbon_footprint on September 1, 2008 at 11:10 AM
Not to mention eating all of it. At one sitting.
*burps and pounds chest*
I need a Prilosec.
ManlyRash on September 1, 2008 at 11:11 AM
Just because you bring your own crayon to the voting booth doesn’t mean he’s “on the ballot.”
Jim Treacher on September 1, 2008 at 11:11 AM
The Dems problem is that while Palin is at risk to stumble in her one debate with Biden, Obama has to debate McCain three times (without a teleprompter). The potential for more bad soundbites coming from the top of the Dem’s ticket is greater than for the bottom of the GOP’s. And the presidential debates will probably pull in larger live audiences, too.
Wethal on September 1, 2008 at 11:11 AM
Exactly Sarah, we are a nation at war over sources of energy.
Sarah if you do become Vice President; I implore you to fight long and hard for the “Green Revolution” with both the moral and monetary support you can provide; for all the necessary forms of alternative energy that will eventually wean our great country away from the “piggy teats” of Big Oil.
Thanks, Hon…!
J_Gocht on September 1, 2008 at 11:12 AM
I wouldn’t worry about it. Even Cokie Roberts was playing that down on This Week with George Snuffaluffagous.
carbon_footprint on September 1, 2008 at 11:14 AM
Sigh. More of the “America is addicted to oil” baloney canard.
You are so ill-informed.
fossten on September 1, 2008 at 11:14 AM
Trippi may have gotten his analysis right, but the problem is the great majority of the Democratic Party — including the man he worked for in 2004 — will never acknowledge what he’s saying.
A large part of what makes up the mindset of the Democratic Party’s hardcore is that they are smarter than 99 percent of Republicans, who are morons like George W. Bush, and are led by the 1 percent of the GOP who are intelligent and more evil than Hitler, like Dick Cheney. To think of Palin as anything other than a dumb small-town rube too stupid to come in out of the rain or a scheming fascist murderer who wants to enslave the nation and destroy America’s freedoms would be to call into question their own sense of self-esteem.
They HAVE to be smarter than Sarah Palin because the left obvious is home to human beings of superior intellect and moral character. And if Sarah’s smart, she must be evil, and even the left is smart enough not to go there (yet) with accusations like that to the voting public at large.
jon1979 on September 1, 2008 at 11:16 AM
Gosh it took two days to see what was staring Trippi right in the face. Now the GOP has Obama running against not only Bush but the bottom of the GOP ticket and still looking weak.
These people have two speeds: slow and dead slow
clnurnberg on September 1, 2008 at 11:18 AM
Already taken care of. Pelosi has it all under control. Just back your car up to the wind tower and fill ‘er up.
a capella on September 1, 2008 at 11:19 AM
I’m considering whether or not to bring out the Troll Hammer. I still haven’t cleaned off the blood and clumps of hair after the last time I used it on Alphie.
Fossten? BigOldDog? What say you?
ManlyRash on September 1, 2008 at 11:25 AM
serving time as Senator or a Congressman should disqualify you from running for the executive branch.
TheSitRep on September 1, 2008 at 11:25 AM
I donnoe Manly…. As I recall, most of the team used to see the medic post haste; at the first sign of any rash.
That was the jungle then, your sofa may be bacteria free now, I hope!
J_Gocht on September 1, 2008 at 11:27 AM
That’s quite convenient a_c; another physical location to recharge your batteries…!
J_Gocht on September 1, 2008 at 11:28 AM
BTW, wasn’t Recognition and Dawn a 1970’s musical act?
andycanuck on September 1, 2008 at 11:28 AM
Do tell. What significant percentage of each paycheck are you donating to the development of alternative energies? Huh, cupcake?
Patrick S on September 1, 2008 at 11:31 AM
I’m not so sure. To be afraid of something means that you have assessed it, understood it, perceived its strengths versus your weaknesses. That is a rational process that I don’t think they have done yet.
Their are attacks are not well considered objections but instinctive lunges at something that didn’t hatch within their own seething, wriggling brood. Hence the ridiculous pregnancy speculation and their inability to grasp that if Mrs Palin is too inexperienced then their beloved Mr Obama even more so.
Not scared, not worried, possibly rabid.
YiZhangZhe on September 1, 2008 at 11:32 AM
Aw shucks Manly, you’re big and definitely broad enough to handle an olde geezer like me; by your own self.
You can leave the A Team frolicking in the hay barn…!
J_Gocht on September 1, 2008 at 11:35 AM
Gerard Baker, Real Clear Politics, 9/1/08, Bravo!
Obama, Inc. responds, “White Paper Ethics Racists!”
maverick muse on September 1, 2008 at 11:35 AM
Golly gee- I recognized this strategy two days ago, and McCain stated as much over the weekend.
Boy! The Left sure is sharp! It only took them 3 days to realize the McCain Camps talking points- and just HOW EFFECTIVE THEY WILL BE.
I’ve said it before and I will repeat it again:
Barry O is playin’ checkers-
Maverick is playing CHESS-
Check-Mate my friends- Check-Mate!
FiveWays on September 1, 2008 at 11:40 AM
Not worth the effort.
ManlyRash on September 1, 2008 at 11:40 AM
Will the Democrat finally hit rock bottom so it can be rebuilt in the traditional Democrat Platform?
Dr Evil on September 1, 2008 at 10:14 AM
Us Moderate Democrats are waiting for that day…still waiting…
DfDeportation on September 1, 2008 at 11:41 AM
Looks like we have our new too-clever-by-half lib troll (J_Grocht)….rofl….what a tool.
Welcome.
ex-Democrat on September 1, 2008 at 11:43 AM
Hey sven, how is the weather down there now? Hopefully you’re not bailing out the house right now.
Bishop on September 1, 2008 at 11:45 AM
Careful highhopes; them’s fightin’ words in some quarters…!
J_Gocht on September 1, 2008 at 11:46 AM
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