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Palin Closes Gender Gap
Sarah may do more than any person in modern history to close the gender gap, not only for Republicans but for conservatives. Unlike Hillary, who rode into Washington on the back of her husband, Sarah Palin created her own career. Unlike Hillary, who dwells within a small family focused on politics, Sarah has a big family and focuses on life. As a conservative, Sarah Palin sees life as more than politics, election campaigns and litigation. Her husband has a real job in the real economy. Sarah is athletic, animated, alive. Her family seems very real to us. She seems very real to us. Bruce Walker, American Thinker
The words authentic and genuine are being applied in large dollops. Sarah Palin is a strong, capable, personnuff said.
Experience Counts! McCain Votes with His VP Choice…
Critics from both political parties having doubts about Sarah Palin have seized upon her limited experience. But what kind of experience are they talking about? Normally level headed pundits like Mort Kondracke and former Clintonites like Dee Dee Myers both seriously believe the experience that matters is time-in-grade accompanied by appearances on Meet-the-Press and face-offs with the Washington DC press corps. *** And the Obama campaign asserts with a straight face that Joe Biden’s experience, nearly 40 years of Amtrak round trip ticket punching from Union Station to Wilmington, Delaware is of vice presidential grade, if not fully Oval Office timbre itself. *** Fortunately John McCain knows experience that matters means achieving something noteworthy, if not remarkable, requiring fearless leadership in execution. Traditionally a leader has been defined as someone who could harness the energy of people around him or her in order to do something monumental, undertaking considerable risk, where the outcome was uncertain: for example launch a new company, eradicate a disease, build a canal or a railroad, lead an expedition to and from Antarctica, land a man on the moon and return him safely to earth, win a battle or a war, or found a new nation. – Geoffrey P. Hunt, American Thinker
Apres Palin, Campaign Cash Rolls In
THE gamble of putting a former small-town mayor with zero national security experience on the Republicans’ US presidential ticket has paid off. The move has begun paying dividends by immediately re-energising the party’s fundraising. Senator McCain’s senior adviser, Steve Schmidt, said that on the day Governor Sarah Palin’s selection was announced, the campaign had raised more than $US4 million over the internet in 24 hours, and since then… – Herald Sun [Melbourne, AU]
So far the cash thing isnt even in the US papers but it is positive evidence that her experience matters to Republican voters and others who appreciate her addition to the ticket…call it the Palin effect.