Now there have been two head-to-head matchups between John McCain and Barack Obama. The first was the Saddleback Forum on August 16, which gave each candidate a fair opportunity to answer questions about the Presidency; the second was the naming of a Vice-presidential choice. McCain has done better in both instances. McCain 2, Obama 0.
Oh, I know, the Obamatrons are going to comment madly about the acceptance speech. But that matchup is not yet complete; Obama went first, McCain goes next week. I’m going to withhold judgment. In my opinion, John McCain is smarter than Barack Obama, by 10 IQ points, give or take, and it’s starting to show. Obama likes to act like some kind of deep thinker, but all he really thinks about is himself. McCain is a savvy, intelligent guy, and he’s in this race to win it. I won’t be surprised if John comes up with a good acceptance speech – - at least, he’ll say something that people remember the next day.
Back to Sarah Palin – - she was such a good choice, the Obama campaign people reacted with mindless fury, saying things they will regret. Now they’re making the mistake of believing that McCain picked Palin as a sop to the Clinton folks. That’s what McCain wants them to think. They’re too self-involved to know that Palin was being talked up and promoted long ago, well before Obama wrapped up the nomination, long before he sh*t-canned Hillary as Democratic VP.
Back in mid-July, I blogged that Palin “is a very attractive candidate in every sense of the word – - she’s a governor, and Americans like to see governors in or, in the case of the VP, near the White House; she has impeccable credentials; she is articulate; and – - forgive me, ladies, but there’s no other word for it: Sarah Palin is a babe – - who better to best Barack’s rock-star image?” Not a word about Hillary Clinton. But the Obamites want to believe that Sarah Palin is some kind of faux-Clinton, chosen only because she’s a woman.
They’re not going to see it coming; they may not even know what hit them.
What they will learn is that Sarah Palin is a tough, determined campaigner who unseated a Governor of her own party in the primary and then blew away the opposition in the gubernatorial election. What they will learn is that she knows a lot about energy policy, and more than enough about polar bears. Some fool said today that Biden will “tear Palin apart” in the VP debate. I sincerely hope that “Boring Joe” Biden believes that. I hope, I pray that Biden challenges her to talk about polar bears. Or oil. Or ANWR. Or caribou. Or Iraq, for that matter.
Give ‘em Hell, Sarah!
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August 30, 2008 at 12:45 am
I’m just loving all the shrill screams from the Obots about Palin not having enough experience, when all we’ve been hearing for months is that experience doesn’t matter. I also love how they’ve been trying to portray Obama as some great reformer, when his record shows nothing but corruption and status quo. Whereas Palin is a REAL reformer who took on her own party at great political risk to herself. I would just love to see Biden step unwittingly into one of those areas. I think she’ll eat him up. Especially if he’s as overconfident as the Obama camp sounds.
What a delightful day! Here I thought we were now going to have a boring, ho-hum campaign from here on out and McCain – sly fox that he is – plays the Palin card. How refreshing she will be!
August 30, 2008 at 5:47 am
I was already starting to feel confident (especially compared to my mood during the dark days of March), but yesterday morning I was exultant.
August 30, 2008 at 8:21 am
Those who think Palin undermines McCain’s experience argument don’t get it. Experience is not quantity, it’s quality. McCain has been reaching across the aisle, making tough principled choices, and tirelessly working for things that work (e.g. the surge)–if he had only a tenth the experience doing this, it would still count. Obama has been talking about change, spending other people’s money with little result, voting “present,” and trying to take credit for legislation he hasn’t worked on. If he had ten times the experience doing this, it would still equal no experience. Palin, with roughly the same QUANTITY of experience as Obama, has shown the sort of leadership and REFORM that Obama may never equal even after decades. That’s why he loses for those who care about the record instead of the rhetoric.
August 30, 2008 at 9:55 am
Hey OBOTS — i THOUGHT EXPERIENCE DIDN’T MATTER — WHAT WAS IT? OH — JUDGMENT! THE DEMS RIGHT NOW ARE A SHIP OF FOOLS.
PUMA
August 30, 2008 at 10:11 am
Yesterday, for the first time in my life, I cried while watching a political candidate make a speech. How amazing is it that I can tell my 2 daughters that they can be strong women of faith with good moral values and finally have a respected voice in our government? Thank you Sarah Palin for that! You may just be the key to stopping this Obama madness.
August 30, 2008 at 10:19 am
So much for “country before political considerations”. She’s a creationist who believes the world is 10k years old, so much for judgment. Her choice seems like a desperate attempt to energize a tired campaign that has wore out his prisoner-of-war story.
August 30, 2008 at 10:37 am
The biggest political stunt in the history of this country!
August 30, 2008 at 10:38 am
Lisa Bucaro: I teared up a bit myself. Along with a few million others, I suspect. We will start to see the results in the tracking polls very soon – - Obama-Biden will plateau today, then drop tomorrow, I think. McCain-Palin is a good team.
August 30, 2008 at 10:45 am
luckysjoint: Astute observation! And let’s all come together and pray that it works, how about it? Actually, the biggest political stunt in the history of this country was the 6 MILLION dollar ($6,000,000.00), over-hyped, over-produced, disgustingly narcissistic Obama acceptance speech on August 28, 2008. So how good is McCain, huh? He knocked Barack out of the Guiness Book is less than 24 hours!
August 31, 2008 at 8:45 pm
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