you can read the transcript of jmac’s speech here. i have to say there were moments that were very compelling.
though i had heard it from others many times, i cried like a baby as he told his own POW story. when he explained his life of service and that it was while there in a 6×4 ft box - broken teeth, broken limbs, beaten, scarred, tortured - that he fell in love with his country because “my country saved me,” that did it for me. he may be an old guy but he’s my old guy.
gov. sarah palin rocked the house last night at the republican convention. after all she and her family have been through - ridiculed unmercifully as white trash, a hick, a small-town beauty queen nobody - i was in awe at her composure, wit, confidence, knowledge and presence.
sarah did a beautiful job and made it very clear that “barracuda” means something. she called out the media and the leftists for their smears. she called out obama and biden for their utter hypocrisy. she championed mccain as a servant leader and the greatness of our country.
she was not shrill nor angry. she simply delivered. she was indeed a breath of fresh air from the stuffy campaign of mccain and outrageously presumptuous campaign of obama. i can say she was what i needed to be energized from merely a protest vote of obama to a full fledged support of the mccain/palin ticket.
“The first political convention I ever attended was when my mom was pregnant with me in 1984 and the Republican Party nominated Ronald Reagan for a second term as President,” Meghan McCain writes. “I have been on political stages and in campaigns since before I could walk or talk. If there is one thing I have learned, it is that it is difficult to establish your identity and independence as the son or daughter of a politician.
“When I was 14 years old,” she continues, “a reporter questioned my father about me having a hypothetical abortion, had I been pregnant at 14. This reporter’s question single-handedly changed my life. This story comes up in almost every profile written about me and in almost every interview.
“It’s a rough go being the son or daughter of a politician,” she writes. “I have not known Bristol Palin very long, but there is a certain kinship I feel to her as I do other political daughters such as Chelsea Clinton, Jenna and Barbara Bush and Mary Cheney. You can’t fully understand it unless you have lived it. So I just wanted to let it be known that I support Bristol and the entire Palin family.”
it’s the sound of the air being sucked right out of the obamamessiah’s campaign. after just a few hours on the “mountaintop” his campaign is literally yesterday’s news. this morning jmac chose gov. sarah palin of alaska (nicknamed “barracuda” on the high school bball team) as his running mate. she is a reformer, a maverick, a patriot.
a mccain/palin ticket is exactly what the gop needs. you can go here to read a bio i did on sarah for rightpundits.com. and team obama? putting down middle americans again by saying this and more:
“the former mayor of a town of 9,000 with zero foreign policy experience a heartbeat away from the presidency.”
since when did the obama camp value experience? obama’s foreign experience consists of living in indonesia for 4 years and a child and visiting pakistan for 3 weeks in college.
during the entire primary campaign, obambi kept telling us that his judgment overruled his lack of experience. but now, all of a suddenly, it doesn’t? sarah palin has the executive experience that obama lacks. she has spent her time in politics actually accomplishing reform and challenging the political machine in her own party. did obama do that? no. in fact there’s very little evidence that shows obama did much of anything but prepare to run for national office.
for a political machine that values “nuance,” this was a really dumb statement put out by team obambi. they look petty and childish. but then we knew that about them didn’t we?
h/t for the nifty mccain/palin button on the top to my cotillion sister,caltechgirl.
UPDATE: you knew i had to add this! thanks for the tip lisab!
this ad is from the sc gop. it not only defends jmac and his family on the “houses” issue, it jumps obama for his class warfare antics. i like it.
team obama’s criticism is that jmac can’t possibly understand the concerns of normal folk because he is just too rich. this ludacris and flies in the face of the whole concept of the american dream: coming up from nothing; doing well in this country; prospering. the dems also seem to ignore the fact that barack obama does pretty well for himself too and that their party’s last nominee had also married a wealthy woman and enjoyed the lifestyle that went with the marriage.
so as mitt romney said when asked how many houses he owns, ” one less the john kerry.”
photo: sweasle
