How Palin Power Has Shaken Up This Campaign
September 8th, 2008 at 10:13am Kevin Patrick
Jennifer Rubin has good piece on The Top Ten Ways Sarah Palin Has Shaken Up the Race:
* The Republican base is now energized and enthusiastic like never before
* Palin offers geographic appeal and help in key swing states
* Palin revived McCain’s maverick, outside the Beltway message
* Expect more attacks on Obama’s own history of accommodation with the Daley machine in Chicago
* The problem with Hillary Clinton’s disaffected voters is back
* Palin has engaged the community of families with special needs children
* Palin will keep the energy issue front and center and pound home the message that the GOP is in favor of an all-out, multi-front effort to develop domestic sources of energy including oil and natural gas
* She dealt a blow, a big blow, to the credibility of the MSM
* Palin has made Joe Biden a greater liability.
* Palin allows many voters to “make history”
These are just 10 of the increasingly numerous ways Sarah Palin has been that “game changer” Republicans sorely needed. Read the whole thing.
Entry Filed under: Campaign 2008, Corruption, Democrats, Energy Issues, Grassroots, Local Issues, Media, Nominations, RNC08, Republicans
20 Comments
1. hermie | September 8th, 2008 at 10:36 am
Push Obama’s ‘Go Along’ history with the corrupt Illinois Dem Machine, and his ‘Do Nothing’ record (or lack thereof) for actually fighting corruption. That’ll make his ‘Change’ mantra even more hollow.
Don’t forget Biden…he’s gone along with Dems even to the point that he abandoned his supposed moral aversion to abortion, for the sake of getting re-elected.
Both men have shown themselves to be frauds…
2. kimberly4victory | September 8th, 2008 at 10:43 am
Headlines for Obama:
Obama’s verbal slip fuels his critics: ‘My Muslim faith’… (oops!)
Says he considered joining military after high school… (A-10 has already exposed this to be a lie)
Says could delay rescinding tax cuts… (So, the Bush economic policy does work, eh Obama?)
Says was too flip on abortion question… (backtracking as fast as he can …)
Headline for McCain:
USATODAY POLL: MCCAIN TAKES 10-POINT LEAD OVER OBAMA IN LIKELY VOTERS…
Gotta love it!
3. hermie | September 8th, 2008 at 11:01 am
Remember, Pelosi and Reid pushed the “Culture of Corruption” theme…Show what real corruption is like and show Obama’s lack of desire to fight it, and his willingness to endorse it.
Show the players behind the scene in Obama’s campaign. Show the Daleys, the ones who run the Machine in Chicago. Show that Obama is far from the agent of ‘Change’ that he claims to be.
4. kimberly4victory | September 8th, 2008 at 11:25 am
Too funny … cab driver and vet kicks code pink out of his cab:
http://www.ffxblog.com/2008/09/06/cab-driver-veteran-kicks-code-pink-out-of-his-cab/
Never mess with a Vet!!
BTW, where’s the MSM on how Code Pink managed to get into the convention? Zip, zero, nadda coverage. But … of course.
5. rich | September 8th, 2008 at 1:10 pm
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2008/president/us/general_election_mccain_vs_obama-225.html
For you libs that have bragging about Obamas lead have some crow. The internals in these polls are horrible from dems. Women are jumping on board the McCain- Palin ticket at lightning speed. Independents too. Enthusiasm gap closed. Oh, and paln’s speech was higher rated than Obama’s. I guess it wasn’t the most amazing thing of all time after all, despite what Oprah said. i said Palin was a game changer. You libs laughed at me. Enjoy the eating that crow.
Polling Data
Poll Date Sample McCain (R) Obama (D) Spread
RCP Average 09/01 - 09/07 — 47.3 45.0 McCain +2.3
CNN 09/05 - 09/07 942 RV 48 48 Tie
USA Today/Gallup 09/05 - 09/07 LV 54 44 McCain +10
Hotline/FD Tracking 09/05 - 09/07 924 RV 44 44 Tie
Rasmussen Tracking 09/05 - 09/07 3000 LV 48 47 McCain +1
Gallup Tracking 09/04 - 09/06 2765 RV 48 45 McCain +3
CBS News 09/01 - 09/03 734 RV 42 42 Tie
See All General Election: McCain vs. Obama Polling Data
6. Sunny | September 8th, 2008 at 1:16 pm
“She dealt a blow, a big blow, to the credibility of the MSM”
I disagree - any new comer would have gotten the same scrutiny. Sarah Palin must get out and talk to the media and answer the questions that we as Americans need answered. She is a big girl, (or as she put it, a pit bull with lipstick) has been in this business long enough to know that she will be expected to explain her views on the issues. Those of you who want her to hide for the media are giving her very little credit for being compentent enough to handle herself. If she can hold herself with big oil she will do just fine with the media. It sounds like the McCain campaign and most of you here are afraid that she will do something awful. Have a little faith in her folks - everyone knows she will have to be brought up to speed on some issues but that is to be expected with anyone who might have been a governor and not in the senate for years.
7. rich | September 8th, 2008 at 1:24 pm
Sunny- Do you really believe any newcomer would have had the rumors and lies thrown at them like Palin did? A male being asked if he was really the father of his child? Laughable. Fifty percent of American’s believe the media was out to get her for good reason. Her daughter getting attacked on MTV by that duschbag from britain last night is only going to add to it. Americans believe in a fair playing ground, and when they don’t get it they revolt. The MSM has proven through their own acts they will not give her a fair shake. We will choose our own battleground now, and we will win. cry all you want about her not being accessible. Sounds like a losing argument at this point in time. P.S. Its not the job of the MSM to vet candidates and spread rumors.
8. hermie | September 8th, 2008 at 1:31 pm
‘Talk to the Media’
Is that the same media which broadcast lies about her, and made snide remarks about how she should be staying at home and raising her kids, instead of being in public office?
9. JS | September 8th, 2008 at 1:53 pm
nobody can ever wonder if the journalistic ethics of reporting the news was influenced by the filthy rich owners who control huge corporations that benefit from the DNC’s corruption…because it is so blatant…but the indefensible smear against palin is direct and negative publicity in favor of one party…
we need to balance the laws that require equal exposure and force the MSM out of politic’s…if we are ever to find the integrity that american journalism once had…
10. Sunny | September 8th, 2008 at 1:56 pm
“BTW, where’s the MSM on how Code Pink managed to get into the convention? Zip, zero, nadda coverage. But … of course.” Kimberly
Since when is it the MSM job to determine how Pink Code got into the convention? Isn’t that the job of the convention organizers and their security to make sure only those with proper passes get into the building? Looks like a lack in proper planning by the convention committee to me rather than putting it of on the media to control the crowds at the conventions.
11. Sunny | September 8th, 2008 at 1:58 pm
Rich - it is not the MSM that has attacked Palin - it has been the far left media. Big difference pal.
12. JS | September 8th, 2008 at 2:00 pm
there went another mental midget moment!!
13. Observer20 | September 8th, 2008 at 2:10 pm
Sunny,
Really, you shouldn’t argue media scrutiny here. Even I, who will admit that sometimes the Republican constant partisan bashing of anything unfavorable to them, can see that this has been unfair coverage.
He nominates Palin, the media didn’t expect it, and so what do they do? You see Troopergate, you see burning books, you see the Bridge-to-Nowhere, you see smearing her family, you see practically EVERYTHING they could find on her all thrown on the prime time news networks pretty much the day after her nomination was announced.
What did they do to Biden? Where are the announcements about his lobbyist funding? What did they do to Obama? I can think of at least FOUR major controversies about Obama that have scarcely even been touched upon by the media!
Biden has been in Congress for longer than McCain and they can’t find ANY noteworthy bad news to report about him? Palin is announced and they were in such a rush to dig up all of the dirt that now they have no further controversies that haven’t been mentioned. When it comes to the media, they’ve vepped Palin three times as much as Biden and a hundred times more than Obama. I can’t think of something the media hasn’t done to vep Palin short of coming straight out and asking to her face, “Why is your daughter a skank and why are you making her keep that child?!” And, honestly, once the interviews start, I wouldn’t be very surprised if someone actually did ask that.
Do you honestly think people won’t turn to independant, increasingly more-reliable-than-TV options to learn the truth?
14. Timestar | September 8th, 2008 at 2:12 pm
She is a star bigger than McCain and Obama. Oh my God she is now a celebrity elitist. My kids will now want little Palin dolls. Next, McDonalds will be offering the whole Palin family with their happy meals.
15. neocon | September 8th, 2008 at 2:23 pm
Olberman and Matthews have been replaced at the anchor desk on MSNBC.
That is a blow to the Obama campaign.
Finally.
16. kimberly4victory | September 8th, 2008 at 2:31 pm
“Since when is it the MSM job to determine how Pink Code got into the convention?”
Well, they seem to think it’s their job to get someone nominated and to vet someone, so why not? Actually, I was being somewhat sarcastic. There are many questions on how they were able to get in and some of the answers point to MSNBC. Hmmm. Maybe that’s why they’re not checking into it.
17. kimberly4victory | September 8th, 2008 at 2:43 pm
Have you ever seen this site, neocon?
http://www.olbermannwatch.com/
18. David B. Schmidt | September 8th, 2008 at 3:05 pm
Got to love how Palin has been on the scene for a week and they hammer on about “When will she talk to the media?” When it took Sen. Obama over a year to talk with a truly “fair & balanced” new outlet.
Where was Sen. Obama for all of them town halls where he could be asked questions by the voters–I remember “anytime, anywhere” — guess he meant “anytime it is favorable with pre-determined questions and anywhere there is a teleprompter with my pre-recorded answers.”
Looks like Sen. McCain is the first to break the 50% favorable margin outside the margin of error. Obama Who?????
19. neocon | September 8th, 2008 at 3:52 pm
Great site Kimberly.
20. kimberly4victory | September 8th, 2008 at 10:25 pm
They are also saying she keeps giving the same speech. Well, from what I recall, Obama gave the same speech for weeks. Did they say that about him? Nope.
My cousin says she is excellent interviewee … she’s never seen her look flustered and she gives straight, honest answers.
I’m looking forward to her interviews with the mean, nasty press. I hope they bring a bullet proof vest with them.
j/k :-)