Thursday, September 04, 2008
A pit bull with lipstick
Anyone who watched Sarah Palin's speech last night must surely agree with Rich Galen: "We needn't have worried. She was great." Here's more from Galen:
Sarah, on the other hand had two burdens: One, her speech last Friday from Dayton was so good that she had set the personal speech bar pretty high. Two, the ferocity of the attacks against her by the Democrats and their allies in the media might have put her on the defensive. ...
She came right out of the box talking about her family - all of them - in terms which any mom, proud of her brood, would have recognized.
That out of the way, she described her life as a small town mayor. "It's sort of like being a community organizer," she said, (a clear reference to Sen. Barack Obama's claim to fame that he was a community organizer in Chicago) "except that you have actual responsibilities," she concluded.
In politics we know that major candidates do not write their own speeches. But major candidates have to deliver their own speeches.
There was some question as to whether she should sustain a line of attacks against Obama which is typical of the role of the Vice Presidential candidate.
We needn't have worried. She was great.
One of my favorite lines in the speech was this:
In politics, there are some candidates who use change to promote their careers.
And then there are those, like John McCain, who use their careers to promote change.
I don't know who wrote it. But I know who delivered it. With exactly the right pacing.
Sarah Palin.
The line which got the biggest roar of approval was an ad lib. The speech text reads:
I was just your average hockey mom, and signed up for the PTA because I wanted to make my kids' public education better.
Palin, paused, looked around the hall, and said: "You know what the difference is between a pit bull and a hockey mom? - beat - Lipstick.
We needed have worried. She was great.
"It's sort of like being a community organizer, except that you have actual responsibilities." That has to be the best line thus far from campaign 2008!
Sarah, on the other hand had two burdens: One, her speech last Friday from Dayton was so good that she had set the personal speech bar pretty high. Two, the ferocity of the attacks against her by the Democrats and their allies in the media might have put her on the defensive. ...
She came right out of the box talking about her family - all of them - in terms which any mom, proud of her brood, would have recognized.
That out of the way, she described her life as a small town mayor. "It's sort of like being a community organizer," she said, (a clear reference to Sen. Barack Obama's claim to fame that he was a community organizer in Chicago) "except that you have actual responsibilities," she concluded.
In politics we know that major candidates do not write their own speeches. But major candidates have to deliver their own speeches.
There was some question as to whether she should sustain a line of attacks against Obama which is typical of the role of the Vice Presidential candidate.
We needn't have worried. She was great.
One of my favorite lines in the speech was this:
In politics, there are some candidates who use change to promote their careers.
And then there are those, like John McCain, who use their careers to promote change.
I don't know who wrote it. But I know who delivered it. With exactly the right pacing.
Sarah Palin.
The line which got the biggest roar of approval was an ad lib. The speech text reads:
I was just your average hockey mom, and signed up for the PTA because I wanted to make my kids' public education better.
Palin, paused, looked around the hall, and said: "You know what the difference is between a pit bull and a hockey mom? - beat - Lipstick.
We needed have worried. She was great.
"It's sort of like being a community organizer, except that you have actual responsibilities." That has to be the best line thus far from campaign 2008!
# posted by Joltin' Django @ Thursday, September 04, 2008 
