So the best attacks the Democrats can muster against Sarah Palin’s epic speech is a twin version of the same spiel: 1) Sarah Palin did not write her speech. 2) Sarah Palin did not talk about education or health care in her speech. Ha-ha. /Nelson The first attack is just silly on its face. Every politician with national stature has speechwriters – every single one. | Read More »
Gov. Palin’s speech was directed not just at the audience in the chamber, but at the Clinton primary voters across the Midwest who could hear much in this speech that they could agree with. It did so by reframing, in powerful terms, the conservative reaction to the political tide of the sexual revolution and liberal feminism. Where Hillary Clinton framed her cracking of the glass | Read More »
Over at PalinFacts.com, Mike Turk is encouraging everyone on Twitter and elsewhere to engage in some running Sarah Palin facts during tonight’s speech. Feel free to jump on in.
Matt Scully is a long time speechwriter for a vast horde of politicians on the right, and he’s a very talented one. I had the good fortune to work alongside him at the White House, and wrote a little about him and his relationship with Mike Gerson here. It’s somewhat amusing to me that Matt has been tasked with writing Sarah Palin’s convention speech, according | Read More »
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