Great job, attack media: Palin more popular than McCain, Obama
posted at 11:03 am on September 5, 2008 by Ed Morrissey
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Rasmussen’s latest tracking poll has some good news for the McCain campaign. In the first tracking poll with post-Palin speech data, John McCain has begun his convention bounce, coming within two points of Barack Obama after being down as many as six this week. And in an ironic twist, Sarah Palin has better favorability numbers than either of them.
According to the internals, Palin now has solid favorable majorities from men (65%) and women (52%). Palin also has majority positive favorability ratings in all age demographics and in all income brackets. She also has majorities among conservatives and moderates, while trailing with liberals and black voters.
One embarrassing result for Obama comes from a comparison of their experience as a preparation for the Presidency. Obama only beats her by four points overall, only by nine points among women, and trails by three among men. She runs within the margin of error in all college-educated demographics, only trailing significantly among high-school graduates and drop-outs. And of course, she’s not running for President; Obama is. It looks like the attack on Governor Palin’s experience backfired on Obama, and as long as he keeps running against the GOP’s #2, he’ll continue to lose.
The final question is very interesting. Overwhelmingly, people believe that Sarah Palin has boosted McCain’s chances to win in November with her acceptance speech on Wednesday. Obviously, this could only get asked of the people in the final day of the rolling poll, and this should give an indication how far the bounce will get. By 58%-10%, respondents felt she helped, a wide margin that appears in every single demographic of the poll.
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BACKLASH!
JustTruth101 on September 5, 2008 at 11:04 AM
This put a smile on my ruggedly handsome, Marlboro Man-esque face.
Metro on September 5, 2008 at 11:05 AM
Barracuda.
digitalintrigue on September 5, 2008 at 11:06 AM
She should definetely wait a little bit before hitting any talk or news shows with the MSM and stick to going out around the country (specifically Wisconsin, Minnesota, Michigan, Ohio, and Pennslyvannia) meeting voters.
Let the MSM work themselves up into a rabid frenzy.
danking70 on September 5, 2008 at 11:06 AM
Just as Spengler outlined in his article, we are witnessing the fall of Barack Hussein Obama. When we roll into October you will see the Obama campaign go into “bunker mode” at which point it will all be over.
McCain and Palin will win in a landslide.
ManlyRash on September 5, 2008 at 11:06 AM
and 2/3’s of the tracking poll was pre-Palin speech, and all of it pre-McCain speech
jp on September 5, 2008 at 11:07 AM
The more you tighten your grip, Tarkin, the more star systems will slip through your fingers.
SkinnerVic on September 5, 2008 at 11:07 AM
The media’s transparent push for the Democrats in this election is definitely gong to hurt them. They all are already losing market share and, as the pUS Weekly brouhaha is showing, it won’t take much for their dwindling audience to leave.
rbj on September 5, 2008 at 11:07 AM
It wasn’t the media, it was the speech she gave. Everyone knew it rocked this country, even the liberals. That’s how good it was.
What Republicans should be -pissed- about is that Bush’s speech writers wrote some of that. If Bush could have owned his speeches like she did last night; we wouldn’t be in this mess in the first place.
lorien1973 on September 5, 2008 at 11:07 AM
I am an elated conservative.
jencab on September 5, 2008 at 11:07 AM
More bounce to the ounce!
McCain/Palin ‘08
Urban Infidel on September 5, 2008 at 11:08 AM
That’s gotta’ sting, a little.
yo on September 5, 2008 at 11:08 AM
Stand up!
carbon_footprint on September 5, 2008 at 11:09 AM
I am a strong, successful woman who has been attacked and smeared by my weaker, losing opponents because lies and smears is all they had against me.
The real story here that the media doesn’t get and is incapable of understanding is that there are MILLIONS of us who have had the same experience, ESPECIALLY women, but this happens to men, too.
When someone has unassailable character, the opposition HAS to lie and spin to win, because that’s all they can do.
The media CANNOT understand this because it has never happened to them, because they live in a world of lies and smears, they are the smear merchants.
But those of us who have experienced it, ESPECIALLY women, who our opponents try to rake over the coals for the very things that men are regaled for, every single one of us felt a close identification with the lady from Alaska standing up for all of us in Minnesooota. Ya, you becha!
JustTruth101 on September 5, 2008 at 11:09 AM
Team McCain’s mantra:
It’s the economy stupidLet Sarah be SarahMr_Magoo on September 5, 2008 at 11:09 AM
Nope. This guy is man enough to take it.
clnurnberg on September 5, 2008 at 11:09 AM
Let’s not forget that the tracking poll was before McCain’s speech last night and , if I’m reading it right, two thirds were before palin’s speech..it’s a moving average as we call it in the securities business..if I were a betting man McCain will have the lead in polls sometime over the weekend
galtg on September 5, 2008 at 11:09 AM
Not to be so optimistic (anti-AP) but we are doing this well 60 days before the election, and anything can happen, but when has there been such good news for Republicans this far out of an election? Keep it going!
carbon_footprint on September 5, 2008 at 11:10 AM
Well said.
Mr_Magoo on September 5, 2008 at 11:11 AM
SARAH PALIN IS A NATIONAL TREASURE !!!
It took a WOMAN to bring down the Main STream Media – Im-PAL-IN Sarah.
stenwin77 on September 5, 2008 at 11:11 AM
MSM = Epic fail
Dr.Cwac.Cwac on September 5, 2008 at 11:11 AM
What a great way for us to go into the weekend. I’m loving this race again.
Geronimo on September 5, 2008 at 11:12 AM
How do you think she got 37 million to watch?
Way to whip up the populace, Downstream Media.
Where’s my Barracuda bumper sticker?!
John the Libertarian on September 5, 2008 at 11:12 AM
FLIP THE TICKET!!
lan astaslem on September 5, 2008 at 11:12 AM
Plus, the one who this really helps is Mitt Romney!
Tengripundit on September 5, 2008 at 11:12 AM
Making
Sarah
Mightier
Jim Treacher on September 5, 2008 at 11:12 AM
Ramped up racism rhetoric in 5…4…3…2…
Dr.Cwac.Cwac on September 5, 2008 at 11:13 AM
The MSM is lying now about the lies they have already commited. Megyn Kelly’s interview with the stooge editor from Us is the perfect example of how intellectually dishonest these liars will go to twist the truth. They make reality a joke that never quits. In a way it suggests an iqnorance of what perdceptions really are.
To Lorien1973. If George Bush could come close to communicating on the level this novice from Alaska can, then he wouldn’t be recognized for the bozo he is. Words don’t make a leader, a leader gives meaning to the words.
volsense on September 5, 2008 at 11:13 AM
The real media story of the past 3 weeks has been how poorly Obama plays the media game.
After Obama’s speech on Thursday. McCain announced his pick for VP. Obama didn’t have any media response for 3 days. 100% McCain coverage.
Palin’s “controversies” start up and Obama’s camp does nothing but issue mild statements.
All this week, Obama’s camp has barely responded to the convention. Their response to the Palin speech was just awful – even the commentators said “he’d better come up with something better than that.”
What happened to Obama, that’s the question? He turned himself from the One, Jesus, the Messiah; and into John Kerry. Why?
Did you see his interview with O’Reilly last night? He was leaning forward in the chair – terrible body language. He was defensive on the most simple questions. Refused to admit he was wrong; even when he acknowledged that he was, in fact, wrong.
It’s an implosion, pure and simple.
lorien1973 on September 5, 2008 at 11:13 AM
Mr_Magoo on September 5, 2008 at 11:14 AM
Don’t look now, Krauthammer, but she’s turning into Obama. In all the right ways.
Tengripundit on September 5, 2008 at 11:15 AM
That’s exactly my point. Imagine Bush giving Palin’s speech. All those great and memorable lines would have been drown out with ummmmms and ahhhhs and stupid smirks or a corny laugh. Bush’s complete inability to communicate a complete thought has been a rock sitting on the chest of this party for 8 years.
lorien1973 on September 5, 2008 at 11:15 AM
Only 52% favorability among women? Wow, kool-aid must be much more effective on females.
Grafted on September 5, 2008 at 11:17 AM
You would think that knowing that telling the media to go pound sand sways voters would cause the media to re-evaluate their terrible behavior.
Blake on September 5, 2008 at 11:17 AM
Reminds me of a classic Twisted Sister song…….
Dr.Cwac.Cwac on September 5, 2008 at 11:17 AM
Can we get some more Code Pink nuts to crash the party? They can only help on national tv!
Mr_Magoo on September 5, 2008 at 11:17 AM
politically, and in speech making terms, she’s a female Reagan.
jp on September 5, 2008 at 11:17 AM
But… but ..but the Democrats are saying McCain is going to dump Palin just like the Democrats dumped Eagleton.
Maxx on September 5, 2008 at 11:18 AM
The hilarious thing is had Barry and or Biden came out and started naming the moonbat blogs that were spreading filth about her they would have gained credibility with the middle…
instead they reflexively busted out the lawyerese “not in our campaign”….
well good job boys you ceded the moral highground…
all it would have taken would have been on camera:”Daily KOS your suggestion that Trig Palin is a product of incest is extremely vile and exactly what led me to say “new politcs” if you support me don’t I do not need your “help”…”
and the middle would have swooned for it would have been real lightworking.
Again Good Job Barry keep firing.
sven10077 on September 5, 2008 at 11:18 AM
“Palin now has solid favorable majorities from men (65%)”
Excellent. And not at all surprising. :))
Cody1991 on September 5, 2008 at 11:18 AM
I love the smell of Obamamoose in the morning!
econavenger on September 5, 2008 at 11:19 AM
No that message will come in november….
the last poll is the one that matters, In November we meet at dawn.
sven10077 on September 5, 2008 at 11:19 AM
The press and democrats underestimate how tired and weary small town, main street America is of hearing about Obama, whining/angry Michelle, their “try to pretend we are white, middle class American” lives and his soup-thin, no substance, pop celebrity fame story.
The majority of middle class America want to put someone in the White House who they can identify with, understand and trust and that is now Sarah Palin and John McCain.
———-
Obama’s biggest strategic mistake was not choosing Hillary for VP; instead picking Joe “foot-in-the-mouth” Biden.
If Obama had picked Hillary, McCain could not have picked the very popular and likeable Palin.
albill on September 5, 2008 at 11:19 AM
McCain’s popularity is still very low with Republicans. Palin has removed the smell of having to hold your nose when you vote for him. Juan is just as out of touch with Americans as the looney left, but with Palin there is a semblance of hope that these corrupt politicians have no clue is out there. A politician with integrity? Palin is only breath of fresh air in years.
volsense on September 5, 2008 at 11:19 AM
You think? I thought O’Reilly let him off the hook too early. Obama may be an egomaniac, but he’s no fool. He knows that Bill has a time frame and can’t get into a protracted argument.
fossten on September 5, 2008 at 11:19 AM
I forgot to add that Biden saying that Bush should be tried for war crimes or whatever isn’t going to play well anywhere but the moonbat left.
Bush may have a 30% approval rating, but no sane person thinks he should be tried and prosecuted.
What are they doing out there?
lorien1973 on September 5, 2008 at 11:19 AM
I guess the only question now is: when is Obama going to Eagleton himself off the ticket?
My kitty says:
Et tu Brute on September 5, 2008 at 11:20 AM
The Lefty feminists are going to be in a high dudgeon when they see that Palin is so popular with men.
Anyhoo, the awful truth is that Palin is more popular than Obama and Bush is more popular than Pelosi or Reid, but far be it for me to discourage Team Barry from betting their entire campaign on a desperate attempt to tie McCain/Palin to the eevil chimperor…
Buy Danish on September 5, 2008 at 11:20 AM
They were told not to dood it,
but, they dood it, They FIRED UP TEH CUDA
stlpatriot on September 5, 2008 at 11:20 AM
He did. O’Reilly tried to make the point that if Obama was president, the surge wouldn’t have happened and we would have lost. Barry deflected though and O’Reilly didn’t push it.
But, I’m sure they had a limited time frame to talk and he had a lot of stuff cover.
I’ll give O’Reilly credit; his interview with Hillary sucked. He didn’t push her at all – that interview was clearly meant to prop her up during the primaries. Looks like he is actually trying against Obama.
lorien1973 on September 5, 2008 at 11:21 AM
Careful….. Heart is watching!!
Knuckledragger on September 5, 2008 at 11:22 AM
I’m glad to read someone else noticed that, too — I thought Obama looked like he was trying to actually strike O’Reilly toward the close of that Part One Interview. Obama was leaning forward in increments as the time passed until toward the closing minutes, he was slapping out at O’Reilly with his hand, like he was going to strike O’Reilly or was trying to “swat” him.
Weird to say the least, very, very weird body language by Obama. O’Reilly did incredibly well, though. Looking forward to seeing the rest of that Interview next week.
S on September 5, 2008 at 11:23 AM
If O’Reilly doesn’t ask Obama some serious, pointed questions about Ayers, he’s failed. Utterly.
As far as I am concerned that association ALONE should have had Obama out of this race as soon as he stepped into it.
benjamin on September 5, 2008 at 11:23 AM
Very good news. The American people cannot be fooled by propaganda and smears.
CanadianGuy on September 5, 2008 at 11:24 AM
part of the reason for changing it to: SARAH’CUDA
ManlyRash on September 5, 2008 at 11:24 AM
What happened to Obama, that’s the question? He turned himself from the One, Jesus, the Messiah; and into John Kerry. Why?
lorien1973 on September 5, 2008 at 11:13 AM
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My guess is his bean counters haven’t figured out exactly where the chips are going to fall, and he doesn’t want to risk alienating any more of the base than he has to.
A few points.
Barry did not consolidate in the center well. He’s stayed too far left for too long, to drive HIllary under.
Barry did not close the deal with the Hillary supporters. Picking her as veep, assuming she’d have said yes, would have been enough.
Barry never could stand up to questioning. We’ve seen the “he’s off the script” gaffemaster moments all through the campaign – but now that Team Palin (erm, McCain) is in high gear and gaining, he’s going to have to answer them.
Were I running Team Barry, I’d have him out giving a revised, more pointed anti-McCain (pro America, pro baseball, pro apple pie but anti McCain) speech. The media still love Barry – so would cover it and cover the lack of question and answer time.
Of course, his skin seems to have thinned in his years in the Senate – there’s no reason he shouldn’t be able to let the Palin attacks slide and go back into God Mode, but … he doesn’t seem willing to let the attacks pass.
Of course, it is 60 some odd days out, and *anything* could happen.
Mew
acat on September 5, 2008 at 11:26 AM
I know this is off-topic and riduculous, but I still have my picture of Nancy Wilson behind my computer and those right-wing creeps will have to pry it from my cold dead bulletin board. And that goes for me too.
mymanpotsandpans on September 5, 2008 at 11:26 AM
Hey Ed, I just read The Boss’s NRO article from your HA Headlines on “The Community Organizer Really is a Joke“. Excellent stuff by Michelle. Hope you will move it to the thread column, especially since Obama himself commented on it yesterday, saying, “they keep harping on that when I did all this other cool stuff, too.” (paraphrased, of course)
Mr_Magoo on September 5, 2008 at 11:27 AM
I hear ya. I completely relate.
The Left has tried to derail Palin by doing everything within their considerable power to destroy her family. Frankly, I am amazed and gratified by the backlash, and it renews my faith in my fellow Americans.
It’s the one reason I haven’t gotten into politics myself (and only worked for politicians). I have a redheaded temper, and I could not stand to see my family attacked and lied about. It just sends me into mama bear mode and I’m pretty sure I wouldn’t last too long before slugging somebody. Think of how well that would play out…
So I content myself with working in the background.
Redhead Infidel on September 5, 2008 at 11:29 AM
Within the margin of error, Ed. It’s a statistical dead heat. Don’t lie.
cornfedbubba on September 5, 2008 at 11:29 AM
Yeah, the longer they keep whining about access, the more points we score by indirectly reminding them of unintended consequences resulting from their very obvious bias. McCain’s slapdown was perfect.
a capella on September 5, 2008 at 11:30 AM
Yeah, agreed, that Michelle Malkin NRO article is an excellent one. The whole ACORN-Obama-Organizer issue really, really needs an “in-depth” television investigative thing and not by CBS, CNN or NBC.
S on September 5, 2008 at 11:30 AM
We havent seen the whole O’Reilly interview so I am withholding judgment until I do. Next week he questions Obama about his associates…and Bill says it gets heated. haha
Some Howard Gutzman was on Laura Ingraham and has pissed off a ton of women. He pretty much called Sarah Palin a bad mother because she is running for office. The women all calling in has now decided to vote for McCain/Palin!
woohoo..Obama’s camp will drive his women voters to McCain!
becki51758 on September 5, 2008 at 11:30 AM
Love it! Go Sarahcuda!
boom007 on September 5, 2008 at 11:32 AM
“Sarah Palin is the emblem of what feminism was supposed to be all about: an unafraid, independent, audacious woman, who soared on her own merits without the aid of a patriarchal jumpstart, high-brow matrimonial tutelage and capital, and old-boy liaisons and networking.
Instead this entire sorry episode of personal invective against, and jealousy toward, Sarah Palin is surreal. Given the rising backlash, Palin Derangement Syndrome may prove to be the one thing, fairly or not, that sinks Barack Obama.”
Victor Davis Hanson: http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=NjY4ODg3ZjA2ZDQwZjI3NTM1MGY3ZGE0YmM3NmJmN2Y=
Bring it on Obama!
Cody1991 on September 5, 2008 at 11:32 AM
Didn’t see the interview with O’Reilly, wasn’t going to allow the Obamanation to gate crash McCain’s party. If he had done commercials, fine that’s fair game, but not free publicity on McCain’s big night. Indeed, there wasn’t even a commercial congratulating Palin on her big night, as McCain did on Obama’s big night the week before. Sour grapes if you ask me.
Gov Palin is gonna be a grandma by XMas, so it seems the song should be changed to Obama’s reign dear, was run ovah by grandma!
eaglewingz08 on September 5, 2008 at 11:32 AM
Obama has gone from savior of the Democratic party and the planet last week to a hot toxic mess headed kicking and screaming for the landfill of history this week.
What just happened?
econavenger on September 5, 2008 at 11:33 AM
I know this is off-topic and riduculous, but I still have my picture of Nancy Wilson behind my computer and those right-wing creeps will have to pry it from my cold dead bulletin board. And that goes for me too.
mymanpotsandpans on September 5, 2008 at 11:26 AM
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Not this right-wing cat. Those girls can sing!
I don’t agree with their politics, mind you… but they’re on my iPod.
(along with Jefferson Starship, Alannah Myles, Buffalo Springfield, Led Zeppelin, The Tubes, Willie King, and Warren Zevon)
Mew
acat on September 5, 2008 at 11:33 AM
From Allah’s 3:54 post yesterday, in light of the positive news and yet the hysteria of the press, I loved these parts:
(emphasis mine)
Allah’s line about “the left [going] around stamping its feet about the Palin pick” is too good not to repeat.
BuckeyeSam on September 5, 2008 at 11:34 AM
LMAO, you guys gotta see the Daily Kos!
They’re pushing that biased ABC poll but people are bringing up Ras and Intrade in the comments, they’re crying their eyes out!
lodge on September 5, 2008 at 11:34 AM
Committed liberals are simply too full of themselves and too naive to realize they are only hurting their cause.
ReaganConservative3 on September 5, 2008 at 11:34 AM
This doesn’t help Michelle’s children.
: )
catmman on September 5, 2008 at 11:35 AM
Or to riff on what you wrote, you could call her the ImPALINator.
It ain’t a Shakespearean sonnet, but I get your point.
Awesome, Sven. That nails it. And Obama is going to be as nervous as Jimmy Stewart’s character going up against Liberty Valance, with a pop-gun against a Colt Peacemaker. (The MSM will be John Wayne sitting off camera with the shot-gun. Except, unlike the Duke, they won’t be able to save him because they can’t shoot straight.) If you don’t know this movie–The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance–WATCH IT! It’s not just about good and evil, it’s about good and evil AND democracy.
smellthecoffee on September 5, 2008 at 11:35 AM
If Howard Gutzman is who I think he is, I have no idea why he gets any airtime at all. He is an angry, ridiculous parody of a “traditional conservative” man. I think that Fox has had him on opposite Margaret Hoover, another fairly worthless member of their stable of B list pundits.
Buy Danish on September 5, 2008 at 11:35 AM
Obama has gone from savior of the Democratic party and the planet last week to a hot toxic mess headed kicking and screaming for the landfill of history this week.
What just happened?
econavenger on September 5, 2008 at 11:33 AM
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Overconfidence? (grin)
Be careful – “Community Organizers” tend to be the smarter thugs on the Chicago street, Barry is now a cornered rat. Once he figures out how to not *look* like a cornered rat, and once the media start covering for him and portraying him as the Second Coming again (figure 2-7 days) instead of trying to bash Palin, it may turn back around.
Mew
acat on September 5, 2008 at 11:35 AM
hahaha Good one!
becki51758 on September 5, 2008 at 11:36 AM
I’d love to be a fly on the wall around Mrs. O’bama.
I bet her hair is standing on end about now. And that menacing frown….
Priceless.
tru2tx on September 5, 2008 at 11:36 AM
Kudos to the MSM. It was their outrageous attacks on Palin that allowed her to give the speech of her life. By their offensive and depraved ranting, they gave her a free pass; without the MSM blitzkrieg, Palin’s remarks would have come off as snarky and excessive. They handed it to her, which is what makes all of this so rich.
labwriter on September 5, 2008 at 11:37 AM
Our ticket combined trumps theirs….
PALIN 3:16
Our Veep
Just kicked
your Presidential’s
A**
sven10077 on September 5, 2008 at 11:37 AM
Screw you MSM propagandists!
ronsfi on September 5, 2008 at 11:37 AM
I think he works for Obama’s campaign. Laura Ingraham probably just wanted to bust his chops…and she did.
becki51758 on September 5, 2008 at 11:38 AM
Awwwww . . . Did the little baby fall down and get a boo boo?
Poor Senator Obama.
Beaten by a country bumpkin from Wasilla.
That must hurt.
Loxodonta on September 5, 2008 at 11:40 AM
Ouch.
Bishop on September 5, 2008 at 11:40 AM
The MSM just don’t understand we Americans.
DerKrieger on September 5, 2008 at 11:41 AM
Couldn’t agree more. You gotta remember the internet has a disproportionate amount of liberals so you forget the situation on the ground for a minute.
lodge on September 5, 2008 at 11:44 AM
Ok, when I just read this the hair on my neck stood up because I realized that yes, this could actually happen, that Mac could win and put female Palin in the WH and what a giant step for this nation that would be.
I see it as far bigger than Baracky’s ‘moment’ because women are still too often dismissed and derided across all fronts, including race.
Mac’s best line of the night: “I can’t wait to introduce her to Washington”.
Bishop on September 5, 2008 at 11:45 AM
Howard Gutzman does work for Obama. He’s a steaming pile and one of the most partisan idiots around.
He needs to be De-Gutzmanned.
Sakaki on September 5, 2008 at 11:45 AM
Of all the media commentary I’ve read, Victor Davis Hanson has what I think is the most accurate insight into the Palin situation. Probably need to go to NRO or RCP.
One stumbling block I see, among the “conservative” pundits is that the Krauthammer, NRO editor and Powerline types (all of whom I read and most of whom I like very much)is that they just don’t want want to believe she might be up to the job. Whether this is because she is female, not Ivy League or not a Washington insider, I don’t know. At this point, given her showing at the convention, I find it hard to believe that if she were either 1) male 2) Ivy League or 3) had spent some time in Washington in any capacity, they would not have granted her the benefit of the doubt by now.
And I write this as one for whom Palin was not my first choice.
BigD on September 5, 2008 at 11:47 AM
Putting the established median in their place (and that means O’Reilly and Hannity also) is the best move.
I stated months ago after McCain slapped the silly kid around for mentioning his age, that the first candidates that take on the media, slap them around a little will win the ticket.
We are tired of having the “media” control what we hear and when we hear it.
I want to hear from the candidates what they really feel, grammatical errors, geo errors, family mistakes and all…I want to hear the candidates, not some two bit foolish pundit begging for ratings on a radio, cable, or network show…bunch of freakin beggers.
I hate the established media…and I am not alone.
right2bright on September 5, 2008 at 11:47 AM
This is NOT helping Michelle’s children bwahahahaha!!
tee866 on September 5, 2008 at 11:48 AM
Another area of disappointment in the MSM – all the crap about Cindy McCain coming from a very wealthy family, being “out-of-touch”, etc. No context of how they got their wealth; no mention of the fact that she taught handicapped children in the public school system, or of her work with medical assistance programs in the third world. It would be interesting to see an “experience” comparison between her and Michelle Obama.
exhelodrvr on September 5, 2008 at 11:49 AM
Sorry, I couldn’t resist this, because this poll is the proof that Krauthammer turned the truth on its head. Palin exposed Obama. The Republicans could have never stressed how utterly unqualified Obama is without Obama himself making it an issue when he attacked Palin.
The Good Ship Obama: … Glug … Glug … Glug, is about to go under.
Maxx on September 5, 2008 at 11:50 AM
Here is proof (from The Atlantic) that the Obama campaign has no clue on how to handle Palin:
I hope Sarah answers this “A you going to drop out” question planted by Obama-thugs with a resounding “No, that is not even a question, but I wonder how did you get press credentials while working as a delivery boy for Obama campaign talking points?”
Right_of_Attila on September 5, 2008 at 11:52 AM
The irony, and I know you know this, is that if she was Ivy or insider she wouldn’t have the appeal.
That’s why Kraut can’t grasp her, just like they couldn’t grasp Reagan at first.
If she remains fairly “untainted”, then she will be the first woman president, she has the “it” factor that can’t be defined or duplicated…she just is.
That is what will drive the media crazy, they won’t be able to define it, they will try but you can’t define something like that (they tried with Reagan and ended up looking foolish)…they don’t realize sometime in life, people just have that certain chemistry that others are attracted too.
right2bright on September 5, 2008 at 11:53 AM
A lot of us were saying even before I mean right before he picked Sarah how smart it would be….
Barry plays checkers…John 3d Chess…
McCain should have been an Admiral and that is the highest praise I can give the man….
http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/events/wwii-pac/midway/midway.htm
McCain was trained in factoring in multiple potential variables and brooking chaos to outcome…
I don’t care that he damn near flunked out of Annapolis because even a 5% brilliant strategisy is worth more than a guy whose idea of long term strategic thinking is “um uh uh we need to buy a new uh alderman”….
GO SARAH!
sven10077 on September 5, 2008 at 11:54 AM
This is NOT helping Michelle’s children bwahahahaha!!
tee866 on September 5, 2008 at 11:48 AM
Sure it is, it’s helping them reach the point where their daddy will have more time to spend with them.
Bishop on September 5, 2008 at 11:56 AM
I and several others who repeatedly stated our refusal to support McCain in the comment section of this blog were told that we should get behind McCain to stop Obama and when we said that wasn’t good enough we were told that no hero like Reagan is coming. You were wrong. There are “heroes” that excite conservatives and Palin is one, but did our reluctance to support McCain produce Palin, or was she inevitable.
I don’t know and I don’t care, because I’m just happy to get her, and I hope that she will live up to the hype. I am now considering voting for McCain, but I’m still having a hard time with it, so things might go better if he promised not to seek a second term. I could give him his presidency in the hope that in four years a true conservative gains the presidency.
DFCtomm on September 5, 2008 at 11:57 AM
You are not alone. But Hannity? HANNITY? Established media? You can’t be serious.
ManlyRash on September 5, 2008 at 11:58 AM
Patton had to repeat his first year at the USMA.
Concentrate on the result, not the road taken to get there.
Bishop on September 5, 2008 at 11:58 AM
OT, I confess.
Can McCain’s campaign get someone other than The Three Stooges to handle the cosmetics of the campaign? Browbeat Heart for complaining about the use of Barracuda, but can’t someone in the campaign look into this stuff…in advance?
Far more important than that, I just about died when I saw McCain’s head against a green background at the start of the speech last night. It was that New Orleans speech all over again. But when the cameras pulled back, it looked like some kind of residence…but whose? I thought to myself, “After the seven-residences fiasco, do we need a picture of one of his big residences?”
But no, it was reported later that it was a picture of Walter Reed Middle School in North Hollywood, California. “Okay, I thought, “the significance isn’t self-evident, but I don’t know McCain’s biography.”
Well, now, it appears that one of the stooges in charge of finding pictures off the internet was sent to find a picture of Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, DC.
From the HA headlines:
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/213806.php
Sigh! Can someone finally fire The Three Stooges?
BuckeyeSam on September 5, 2008 at 11:59 AM
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