Palin, the hockey-mom Governor of Alaska, and Republican VP nominee said in her convention acceptance speech,
“What’s the difference between a hockey mom and a pitbull? Lipstick.”
Well for those of you hoping to hear Sarah Palin is an above-the-fray, pure-as-the-wind-driven-snow, new type of politician, you’ll be slightly disappointed. She claims she opposed the “Bridge to Nowhere” but at one point she supported it. She switched positions on an issue after the fact for political reasons, just like every politician before her. But I still have a prediction…
Sarah Palin will run for President some day, and, barring a huge political setback or a very strong female Democrat opponent, will probably be our first female President.
Liberals, take a breath. I’m not at this time rooting for her to become President. I frankly haven’t learned enough about her. I’ve been too busy studying Obama and his Nutjob Brady Bunch of radical friends. My opinion is based on watching the coverage on both Fox and CNN. Wolf Blitzer and Anderson Cooper, hardly conservatives, said it best tonight when they said her speech was a “grand slam.” Her speech was the right balance of positive for Republicans and negative for Democrats. When she attacked Dems, she did it confidently and calmly. Her temperament is less “shrill” than Hillary’s, and the crowd loved her. I’ll be surprised if McCain’s speech will come close to being as good.
She’s not a hit because she’s new or fresh or whatever cockamamie reason both political parties use occasionally to dupe voters. Republicans have been BEGGING for a reason to vote for RINO John McCain, and the choice of Palin delivers that. It doesn’t matter WHY they’ll accept her; they just will.
On top of that, she’s a woman, and they will be more likely to vote for her and McCain than if he had picked a man. I’m not saying all women are ignorant about politics, or that liberal women are just gonna drop their “principles” and vote for a conservative, but a small, substantial percentage are politically ignorant and will vote for her accordingly. I’m also not saying you have to be politically ignorant to vote for Sarah Palin. Just those that switch parties based on the existence of a woman in one and noth the other. Most people are not political junkies; both men and women vote based on identity and emotion. Men are perfectly capable of voting for someone purely on identity, but only women are gonna identify with Sarah Palin. The women that I am talking about are not reading this post, so lighten up if you’re offended; I’m not talking about you.
And some women are PISSED. They feel Hillary was thrown aside for another man, another man in a long history of women being passed over. They’re pissed off, and politics be damned. They’ll vote for McCain just to spite the Democrats. How many votes this adds up to, I have no idea. Hell hath no fury…
Becoming the first female American President
A lot of things have to happen for her to become President. I do not believe John McCain winning in November is one of them, but it wouldn’t hurt. She needs to avoid any other 17-year-old-daughter-like scandals, but as long as she remains the first universally likable female candidate who is also regarded as tough enough, she will continue on that path to the Oval office. She either needs a moderately acceptable 8 years as Vice President, or a continued successful record governing Alaska for the next 4 years.
The key here is being likable and tough.
Sexism as a serious problem in America is dead. Hillary Clinton won the Democrat nomination, but for the inexplicable Obama candidacy. If the Jeremiah Wright story had broke right after Obama won Iowa, you think he wins a single state on Super Tuesday? Not a chance. Obama barely won anyway, and if the superdelegates had any brains or balls, they would have pushed Hillary over the top. The most successful personality in TV is Oprah, the house majority leader is Nancy Pelosi, multiple governors and senators, etc… women are not prevented from reaching the top.
Liberal responses to the speech
I’m reading Google News results for Sarah Palin, and the Obama campaign quickly responded to her acceptance speech. Judging by previous use of the Democrat playbook, I’m guessing they’ll compare her to Bush and the last “8 years of failure.” Let’s take a look…
“It was written by George Bush’s speechwriter and sounds exactly like the same divisive, partisan attacks we’ve heard from George Bush for the last eight years,” Obama spokesman Bill Burton said.
They managed to get Bush’s name in the response TWICE! Liberals, I ask you, are you capable of criticizing anyone without mentioning George W. Bush?
Another review criticizes the Associated Press for throwing “cold water on the Obama address” but calling Palin’s speech “star-turning.” (Let’s not get distracted by the amazing fact that someone other than conservative radio criticized Obama while complimenting a Republican.) Later in the article, the editorandpublisher.com writer states,
One speech does not a campaign make.
Uh, E&P staff, ever heard of Barack Obama?
