Speaking of the vice presidential nominee, what a breath of fresh air Governor Sarah Palin is.
She is from a small town, with small town values, but that’s not good enough for those folks who are attacking her and her family.
Some Washington pundits and media big shots are in a frenzy over the selection of a woman who has actually governed rather than just talked a good game on the Sunday talk shows and hit the Washington cocktail circuit. Well, give me a tough Alaskan Governor who has taken on the political establishment in the largest state in the Union — and won — over the beltway business-as-usual crowd any day of the week.
Let’s be clear … the selection of Governor Palin has the other side and their friends in the media in a state of panic. She is a courageous, successful, reformer, who is not afraid to take on the establishment.
Sound like anyone else we know?
She has run a municipality and she has run a state.
And I can say without fear of contradiction that she is the only nominee in the history of either party who knows how to properly field dress a moose … with the possible exception of Teddy Roosevelt.
She and John McCain are not going to care how much the alligators get irritated when they get to Washington, they’re going to drain that swamp.
But tonight, I’d like to talk to you about the remarkable story of John McCain…
Amen, Fred!
It was a brilliant speech, brilliantly delivered.
I am extremely proud of my fellow Tennessean!
The line about her knowing how to field dress a moose is my favorite of the week. I wouldn’t have minded Thompson as VP, let me tell you.
What I found interesting was that the cable news channels were showing Thompson’s speech live, but only ABC was showing it among the networks, and that with a 3-4 minute delay. NBC (Brokaw) and CBS (Fox wasn’t showing the convention at all) had their talking heads on telling us what Thompson was saying and why he was saying it, in their overblown, smug manners. What arrogance! Then all the networks covered Lieberman’s speech, ABC even in real time. The bias of the news media is becoming so obvious that it’s hardly worth watching … and I suspect few people are.
Billy, I watched it on C-SPAN, which had NO blithering commentary. And I cheered through much of Thompson’s speech.
The networks are reducing their audience with this behavior to those who don’t have cable or satelite. Who on earth would want to watch such abysmal coverage?