But really quickly: I’m juggling baby and last-minute travel stuff.
On the Right: McCain’s pick has energized and pleased Republicans, particularly conservative ones. Yes, yes, there’s all sorts of people trying to say otherwise, usually by reading off emails purporting to be from disgruntled members of the GOP. Alas for them, McCain’s people reported that they received $3 million dollars in six hours yesterday, with a total haul for the day of $4.49 million.
I think that we need to take the money more seriously than the emails.
On the Left: Did you think that the netroots were contemptibly nasty to Senator Clinton (believe me or not - I don’t care either way - but I do)? Just wait. They’re already starting in on Palin, and it will not get any better, and the media will merely be slightly more genteel about it. The netroots can’t help themselves, of course: they’ve been well-conditioned by now to automatically hate all who oppose them, and they are woefully unaccustomed to having to be accountable for it. But don’t get mad at them: they’re just… unwell, really. Instead, just point and say “Hey, look. An Obama supporter.”
Just make sure that you do it in as loud, as clear, and as public a fashion as possible.
Gov. Palin Changes Everything
ggross56 Saturday, August 30th at 12:49PM EDT (link)That’s my final opinion in this post. Gov. Palin has a record of reform that Sen. Obama would drool about if he cared about reform (which he doesn’t).
I am really shocked by this....
Susannah Saturday, August 30th at 1:35PM EDT (link)I was literally shocked yesterday that the only Democrats that had anything nice to say about Sarah Palin were Hillary Clinton and Geraldine Ferraro (oh, and Bill Clinton didn’t say anything). Literally, every other Democrat that I heard on TV yesterday was spewing condescending and/or sexist garbage about her.
Last night, Bill Maher went on a sexist rant against Palin calling her a “stewardess”, and Tim Kaine was babbling on about her lack of experience. One of the guests on Maher’s panel had enough sense to point out that Palin has the same amount of experience as Tim Kaine, who was being considered for Obama’s VP, but I digress.
Anyway, Jim Geraghty points out here exactly how sexist Obama and his media acolytes were to Hillary Clinton during the Democratic primary. One would think that they would have learned their lesson by now, considering how badly Obama did with women during the last couple of months of the primaries (and considering the whole PUMA thing), but it looks like they are about to make the same mistakes again by starting up with the sexist attacks on Gov. Palin. I guess I really shouldn’t be surprised.
Ah, Sweetie, this is the dilemma of The One!
streetwise Saturday, August 30th at 1:51PM EDT (link)As Obamopolis mobilizes to ostracize Palin via defamation, women voters get reminded of the vanity and condescension of Obama.
Sweet! :>)
A new kind of feminism
VA_mom Saturday, August 30th at 4:39PM EDT (link)I love this!!! The McCain/Palin ticket was not on the radar for most people, and they are still STUNNED that this happened (never mind the fact that her name has always been on the list and MANY people have been arguing for and against her this summer). Feminists who only care about the abortion issue are angry and offended right now. But they are only going to make every woman who actually balances family AND work or who has made sacrifices for her children extremely upset with their obnoxious comments. Crazy liberal women were always going to go for Obama- for goodness sake he got NARAL’s endorsement over Hilary. But Palin is a true example of feminism and the more liberals try to say (without really saying it of course) that she is disqualified because she has kids and because she was “just a hockey mom,” the more pro-life, independent women are going to flock to the McCain/Palin ticket. She represents a brand of feminism that has NEVER been represented before.