Sarah Palin is not shrill, she is not hysterical. She knows how to stand in front of a camera and a crowd and deliver a speech written by other professionals. The camera panning to her husband holding the Down's Syndrome baby was a bit much for me. As was the allusion to John Kennedy, calling McCain “a profile in courage.”
So what do we know about Sarah Palin now: she is telegenic, she claims to be a populist, she can deliver a snappy line, and she is very ambitious.
The difference between a hockey mom and a pit bull: lipstick.
There was something smug and mean spirited about the tone of Palin’s speech. And cynical, too. Suddenly, John McCain’s war record and suffering becomes relevant, yet just four years ago, John Kerry’s record was disparaged by the Republican party, by Fox Cable, and by those wicked Swiftboat vets.
The way it was set up in Palin's bizarre world is that the Democrats are in charge of Washington and that Palin and McCain are fighting their way into the city to take care of ordinary people.
The double speak was sensational in its pure chutzpah!
No matter where the cameras moved, there were no Black people in sight. The Republican Convention is truly a white people’s convention. The sheer number of women scared me. But I just read that the Republicans placed women in the hall to make it look more inviting to viewers, that this was her base. She has no base. She is no one, but I suspect she will be a serious campaigner, because she is so ambitious.
To read her speech in its entirety: click here.
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Merci for this post & for calling it like you see it, Hazel. No one needs to hold back on commenting around this outrageously transparent & entertaining manipulation of voter opinion.
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