Posted by
Sapper on Thursday, September 04, 2008 3:17:00 PM
John McCain hit a home run when he selected Sarah Palin as his running-mate. But there's more to this running-mate than first meets the eye. Yes, she's a woman. OK, we said it, we acknowledged it, let's move on because she's so much more than that. Sarah Palin is EVERY-woman -- and forgive me, Sarah, for this is not a reference to your appearance -- she is every-MAN too.
You see, her appeal goes beyond what the [liberal] media elite fear about her, namely her appeal to liberal disgruntled female Hillary-backers. The true nature of her secret weapon-ness is that she appeals to the 290 million of us out here trying to live normal lives outside of Manhattan and Los Angeles. Of course not everyone is a conservative from Alaska but there is something about her that we can all recognize and identify with. She's raising a family, imperfectly like the rest of us, juggling work and home, actually living within a budget, living with a spouse that has his own job and hobbies that don't involve being a set-piece prop of a campaign and generally dealing with the things the 290 million of the "rest of us" have to deal with day-to-day. Will she make mistakes, amateur mistakes? I bet she will. But I'm willing to bet that the electorate will be behind her anyway.
And just as important as what she is is what she ISN'T. She isn't so rich she can't remember how many houses she owns. She doesn't rub elbows with ultra-liberal former terrorists in Chicago's Democrat power machine. She hasn't been in the Senate for two decades looking down her nose at the rest of us while stealing lines from other politicians to try to convince us she is one of us. And she is so alien to the cloistered media types that they have no idea how to attack her let alone comprehending the depth and breadth of her appeal.
The only question I have is this: How can we get her on the top of the ticket?
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Hugh is practically gleeful!)