Whiplash for Wolf Blitzer

within the first few minutes of palin's speech my phone started to light up with text messages. I could instantly tell that my liberal friends (and there are many) were nervous. palin the future president and next vice-president of the United States had something to say. the messages started with simple admissions like "she's doing well." As the humored filled speech unfolded my text messages increased. "she's doing well" became "wow." The evening ended with scared muses and hostile phrases like "we still have 2 more months" and "but how many hockey moms could there actually be in america." the liberals were scared.

How could one speech completely change their mind and make them go from laughing at Palin to fearing her? Palin was confident, funny, real and 100% American. Their whiplash over the last 48 hours was made more evident by the media's simplicity and their group think about Palin. Wolf Blitzer's bias came out like I've never seen.....he and CNN gambled that Palin was going down so they piled on her all day over the last several days. They questioned the "vetting process" and her qualifications -- they decided she wasn't up to the job. They reported on each other reporting about the rumors. It was a media circus made for CNN television. As US Weekly stories became worthy of political commentating, the frenzy about Palin's pro-life stance became straight-faced diatribes that questioned her parental skills. Grown feminists were asking if a woman with young children should be able to be VP. it was totally out of hand and the liberals were living in their own world as Wolf kept talking. was this the party of Hillary? Nope, it was the new Democratic Party of Obama where the radical left is in control.

Enter Palin -- the hockey mom and beauty queen knows what to do when her enemies are distracted by their own frenzy. she clearly knows how to take the pressure. but the media actually helped Palin out. they lowered expectations for themselves and their viewers and forced a "crisis" for McCain. reading the graphics on CNN and MSNBC earlier this morning led viewers to believe there was a crisis. my liberal friends were ecstatic: "she's a joke" one said. Liberals and their media friends had decided that Palin wasn't qualified to be a mom let alone the next VP. the media fed itself -- every outlet trying to pile on even more -- with little individual reporting. reporters told me that Palin would be out by friday.

But Palin came on strong and proved that small town American values are not hokey. She showed that her sound judgment and real world experience had more in common with regular people than obama's radical left. she gave voice to the parents of special needs children, economically struggling families, women who work because they have to, career women who choose to work, parents who don't miss their children's sporting events and rural America. she demonstrated that her appeal should not be underestimated as it was over the last couple of days. she proved you can be simple and strong, loving and ready to fight, a woman and a proud republican. as the east coast media elites and their liberal friends try and dismiss her as unqualified, Palin proved she understands America more than Obama. she is proud of her country even as she tries to improve it. and at the end of the day, she proved that her selection not only energized the base of the republican voters but extended a hand to the independents too.

the same reporter who first told me that "she'd be toast by Friday" told me after tonight's speech that Obama must be wishing that McCcain had picked Pawlenty.

What a country!

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Comments

[wingman1]

Richard if you believe Palin's speech you're wearing ear muffs.

[MzTexas]

She should be toast . . . she said nothing last night. She was sarcastic, arrogant and divisive. After 8 years of this crap, most people are SICK of it.

BTW, I'm from "small town America," and I don't see that she shares any of my values.

[bugscuffle]

Oooh. Sarcasm. That's not at all fair.

[youngbodhisattva]

Is this a joke?

Same stale tactics of bashing the opponent instead of offering policy ideas, same platform of national security and anti-women's right to chose, same ole GOP...

Americans wants change. They want discussions on the economy and healthcare (or lack thereof): 2 things, which feel more threatening than any terrorists after the past 8 years. How much has the GOP focused on the economy? Have they even said the word "healthcare"?

Something is stirring... the GOP should be afraid. Obama/Biden '08

[grendl]

Palin is like one of those women in the movies that cries during a fistfight, that you're not supposed to hit a lady, then turns around and wallops you in the jaw and flattens you.

She sucker punched Barack Obama, who thought his not addressing the hypocrisy of her pregnant teen daughter was the decent , dignified thing to do. She's a pit bull, Barack, she obviously can take a punch and openly mocks you and the rest of the Dems for being unwilling to fight.

Its time for you Mr. Obama to play the role of dogcatcher, rounding up all these rabid pit bulls that have overrun the White House, and Washington. It's time to put a muzzle on someone who doesn't even know how to define what a victory would be in Iraq, yet scorns you for wanting to leave. She doesn't have solutions, only sit com quips meant to humiliate her detractors.

Don't take it easy on these people. They have shown themselves to be tough as nails.

Barack for Dogcatcher.

[JesustheLiberal]

And I know you speak those words but in the dark you are just as mad as every decent republic that McCain would choose a novice with sooo much baggage. I find it odd that you fail to mention anything about the baggage.

It's almost as if you're saying ' It's all about the packaging, not the product"
.....is that what I am hearing