Sep 08 2008
A Palin/McCain Speech Update - and the Liberal Response
Well, we tried to get to the McCain-Palin event at the Colorado Springs airport this weekend, but the fire marshall shut the doors before we got in. We ended up catching both Palin’s and McCain’s speeches on the radio. McCain’s was pretty good, while Palin’s was mostly a retread of what she said at the RNC (”I sold the plane on ebay”, etc.) Both were good stump speeches designed to fire up the base, which was something that I didn’t think McCain had in him. It’s comforting to see the huge bounce in the polls (USA Today, Zogby, Gallup).
While I wasn’t overwhelmed by her speech, Gov Palin is very clearly turning this race around. The title of a recent MSNBC article speaks for itself (McCain-Palin becoming Palin-McCain). Already there are Palin for President: 2012 websites popping up. That’s a good thing for McCain, but I’d like to see how she handles the rough-and-tumble world of presidential campaigning and then the day-to-day politics of life in DC. I’m confident that she will rise to the occasion, but Washington, DC isn’t Juneau.
An interesting side note is that several of my posts on Sarah Palin are getting notice from the fringe left, including the Daily Kos. If we’re stirring these guys up, that’s probably a good thing. One of my favorites is this one, which for some reason gives me credit for this graphic. It’s not mine, and I’ll reserve judgment on the good governor before I decide whether she’s presidential material, but it’s pretty cool, nonetheless. [UPDATE: see attribution in picture caption.]
Palin 2012 Graphic created by J Wilhide, Liberally Beautiful Blogs (http://www.liberallybeautiful.blogspot.com) For fair use, it is not to be reproduced in any fashion without permission of the author.
September 8th, 2008 at 21:09 pm
Hailing from the “Left Fringe.” Glad to hear you like my graphic. I actually was not giving you credit for the graphic but for the article you published about Palin for President which supports my post about Palin’s instant celebrity status. I designed the graphic myself. This is the first time I have been dubbed as a “fringe” so that is pretty interesting as well.
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September 21st, 2008 at 11:40 am
Hello Steve,
Please put a credit line as follows on the Palin 2012 graphic which I designed: Palin 2012 Graphic created by J Wilhide, Liberally Beautiful Blogs (http://www.liberallybeautiful.blogspot.com) For fair use, it is not to be reproduced in any fashion without permission of the author.
If you do not want to add the credit line, I ask that you please remove it from your website. It was designed by me to be used exclusively on my website and not as public domain art to be copied and used on other websites or blogs.
Thanks, Joy
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