A Star is Born
I don't have enough superlatives to describe Sarah Palin's speech tonight. She was brilliant, forceful, energetic, focused, engaging, charismatic, and almost perfect in every way. She hit a home run. The lead-ins by Romney and Guiliani were just an appetizer as Palin delivered an excellent main course.

She put her experience out there front and center and almost dared Obama to try and claim she doesn't have what it takes to lead. Rudy got the crowd thinking about just what a "community organizer" does for a living. Sarah delivered the punch line:

Nice. She also took a mean jab at Obama's styrofoam Greek columns saying there were on their way back to some Hollywood warehouse while he set out to "turn back the waters, or heal the planet, or..." Then she got pretty specific about what an Obama administration would do to our economy -- tax everybody. Her sister and brother-in-law just opened a new service station. As small business owners they'd be direct targets for Obama's new taxes. How will small businesses grow and thrive if Obama is elected?

Her foray into energy policy was well thought out and specific enough to allay any notion that she is a lightweight. Alaska is one of the frontiers of domestic energy production and having Sarah Palin to take the lead on energy issues seems like a good move.

And she can deliver a joke too (no easy trick, that). "What's the difference between a hockey mom and a pit bull? -- Lipstick!". Delicious.

She brought out the whole family, even her daughter's fiance. The MSM might still keep harping on the unwed mother meme but the Palins (and John McCain who joined them on stage) have clearly put paid to any doubt about their intentions regarding this baby. She has a beautiful family; her youngest daughter is just too precious, and the way she kept asking McCain questions so he had to bend down to talk to her was touchingly cute.

Clearly she wowed the crowd and showed America what she's made of. She stepped right up and confronted the Democrats and their cheerleaders in the media and almost dared them to come at her again. Hers was a masterful political performance. Tonight Sarah Palin brought excitement back into presidential politics.

Posted at 00:50 by Chris   [/election]   | | | Email | del.icio.us | Digg | Stumble It! | Reddit | Link