Fox News reports that Governor Palin’s motorcade (she has her own motorcade–I’m so proud) is en route to the convention center. I’m waiting with baited breath for Governor Palin to take to the podium. This will likely be my last update before the speech (and I won’t likely be updating during the speech) so if you want to share your comments on the speech, please do so.
Shocker: DailyKos Spreads Vicious Lies, Film at 11
I won’t like to the site, but suffice it to say that DailyKos is once against spreading its own brand of vicious, hateful slander about Governor Palin. The premise of the innuendo-filled story is that it was Governor Palin’s daughter, not the Governor herself, who gave birth to Trig Palin. But have no fear, certainly DailyKos wouldn’t allow such a thing to be posted without airtight evidence, right? Wrong.
DailyKos’ evidence for this slander includes: photographs in which Governor Palin isn’t showing. No, seriously. However, in every photo they cite there is either an obstruction of some kind (desk, table, other person), or the photo is taken from an angle that the viewer simply can’t see whether she’s showing, or she is wearing a bulky jacket that obstructs her torso. Other ‘evidence’: Bristol was chubby before leaving school for upwards of five months due to an infection of mono.
Needless to say, the unsupported innuendo is being revelled in by the lowlifes at DailyKos, save for the responsible few who call this post what it really is: dishonest, unhelpful, and dirty.
The left has had a cult of personality around Obama for so long that screaming crowds for anyone else are seen as a warning sign, and that person must be destroyed in the most brutal and personal way possible.
Nominating a Pair of Breasts?
Why Governor Palin?
If the answer to the above question is because she’s a woman, congratulations: you’re wrong.
Sarah Palin’s sex is incidental in this case. It’s wonderful to have a woman on the Republican ticket for the first time ever, of course, but anyone who thinks John McCain will pick a Vice Presidential candidate based on the presence of a uterus doesn’t know anything about John McCain or politics in general.
Palin is smart choice (and not just because she has more executive experience than the entire Obama/Biden ticket combined). A lot has been made of her being McCain’s second choice, but all of that is irrelevant because she was his last choice and the right choice.
On the matter of experience, who else was there? Romney, who exchanged blows with McCain during the primaries? Pawlenty, who’s a good governor but is as unknown as Palin and lacks the polish and flair that Palin has? Huckabee, who also slapped McCain around pretty well during the primary? No, certainly not.
Furthermore, for those Republicans (like myself) who have watched the Bush administration descend into the scandal-ridden corpse of its former self, Sarah Palin brings her no-nonsense, non-partisan anti-corruption credentials to the ticket. Whether the pervasive feeling that the Bush administration has done a lot of illegal things is justified or not (and that’s a matter for another day), to nominate Governor Palin to be Vice President shows that John McCain is making the most out of the fact that he wasn’t hand-picked by the gOP establishment. Palin has experience going after her own party when corruption is present, and that’s the most important part of her experience.
The prevailing wisdom (if you can call the talking points of the likes of Barbara Boxer and Barack Obama wisdom) that Palin is a pair of breasts to balance the ticket is not only insulting to the Governor, but also to all women. They’re saying that women can’t do valuable things, can’t be working professionals, can’t be excellent candidates for high national office; they’re just there to look pretty. This just goes to show that NOW represents women in the same way Jesse Jackson represents blacks.
All in all, Palin is an electrifying choice. Her gender adds to her already massive appeal and ensures that, no matter who wins, the United States takes an embarrassingly overdue step forward. And even if Barack Obama wins, Governor Palin will continue her meteoric rise–assuming Obama doesn’t get the country destroyed by February 2009.
