The Game Has Changed: Why Experience No Longer Matters
Let’s just admit it, Sarah Palin doesn’t have much experience in government, at any level. Trying to argue that her scant experience is more substantive than Barack Obama’s is a non-starter and a loser of an argument for the GOP. Why? Because with a brilliant speech last night, Sarah Palin changed this election.
Following a great outing by Rudy Giuliani that was as much comedy as it was politics, Palin recast this election and ended the Democrats’ glee over not having to answer the experience question any more. How did she do it? By pointing out that Obama’s biggest weakness has never been his lack of experience, but his lack of accomplishment.
By pointing out that Barack Obama’s career has been long on ambition and short on achievement, Gov. Palin set in stone what should be her ticket’s refrain from now until November: Obama-Biden talk about changing Washington, McCain-Palin will change Washington.
In picking Gov. Palin, John McCain gambled. He gambled that Obama had actually tapped into something bigger than left-wing hysteria during the primaries by talking about bringing real change to Washington politics. Last night proved him right beyond all doubt. By picking Sarah Palin, John McCain showed the country exactly which party is willing to defy convention and bring them the change they so desperately desire, and which one is only willing to talk about it.
And Palin has done her part. By standing up to the vicious left-wing media and going right at Obama’s underbelly she showed Americans (37 million of them) that McCain-Palin is the only ticket that will deliver real change. She filleted Obama’s preposterous chattering about unity and bipartisanship by pointing out that he’s done nothing to further them in his entire career.
By pointing out that John McCain is the only candidate that has actually fought for Americans, she demolished Obama’s ridiculous moral equivalencies and exposed him for the phony he is. Highlighting that Obama has produced two books about himself yet zero change for America brilliantly exposed Obama’s sermonizing as pretentious and hollow.
Last night Sarah Palin turned this race on its head and proved once again that John McCain and the Republican Party are still what’s right for America.
This post was written by Archimedes on September 4th, 2008.
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Comment from J. Tyler Ballance
Time: September 4, 2008, 9:34 pm
Any citizen could have read that speech from the teleprompter. It was a basic, look at me, I have a family, including kids and parents, introduction speech. It was not intended to be anything more than an introduction to “Tammy Faye” Palin. Lots of Republicans have been elected by peddling those tired platitudes about how they have families and therefore, “family values.” It is repugnant the way that some Republican bloggers have been hyperventilating with praise over that boiler plate, intro speech. Their over-compensation only accentuates the concern and worry of our citizens about her viability, quality and ability to add value to the McCain ticket.
What most of us hope to hear in the coming months is for the GOP side to push forward something really substantial, like Newt’s Contract for America, so real policy ideas and proposed solutions can be discussed. The GOP must make the case for the American People to return the Republican side to the White House, in spite of having just endured eight years under the Imperial Bush Presidency.
Palin’s involvement in “Wooten Gate” (see YouTube) is a terrible drag on the ticket, and will continue to drag McCain down, no matter how much the dirty old men want to have sex with Palin.
It is now clear that she abused her power as Governor in a pathetic act of vengeance directed at her ex brother-in-law.
For the good of the ticket, the Party, and our Nation, Palin MUST withdraw. Otherwise, start practicing saying, “President Obama.”
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