Sure, large parts of the speech were clearly not hers. And she usually didn’t lean forward like that when she made a point. But that pursed lip thing? Where her lower jaw juts out a little when she’s looking tough?
“Oh, this is so Sarah,” he said. “When she twists her mouth that way that’s her.”
“That’s just like her mother Sally,” said Ms. Morgan.
All in all, what America saw Wednesday night was just the beginning, her friends said.
“That’s why we’re so excited,” said Mrs. Peek. “She doesn’t change. I just keep picturing her at lunches and meetings. They’re going to be shocked because this is who she is.”
“All this stuff is definitely from her heart,” said Ms. Morgan, including all the smack talk about Senator Barack Obama.
“She can be very, what should we say, fierce?” she said.
I knew I liked her when I saw her trying out an M-16 with the Alaskan National Guard. Reminds me of women of the early west who knew how to defend their home and family, no faint hearts who shrike, “Oh no, it’s a gun!”
And she knows how to use it!