[Q] - There are three reasons for McCain’s sudden surge apart from a successful convention. (In this regard, I think the effectiveness of Giuliani’s comically savage attack on Obama have not been fully appreciated.)
.....Second, Palin deflated the Democratic convention bounce. Her charisma and youth sort of out-hoped and hyper-changed Obama. More importantly, she energized and redefined McCain’s stale maverick image into a new “change” tandem—as both he and Palin were now seen as fellow outsiders who bucked the party establishment and would do the same together in Washington. That was a brilliant reconfiguration that was worth at least 1 or 2 points in the polls. She also brought a Zen sort of irony: the more Team Obama talked of her inexperience as a Vice Presidential nominee, the more renewed attention turned to whether Obama himself was any more experienced for the top spot on the ticket. And the more elite feminists attacked her as unqualified, the more we wondered whether they had made it, as did Palin, without patriarchal jumpstarting or matrimonial insider assistance; the more they go berserk over Palin, the more Biden is marginalized. Third, the liberal media’s attack on Palin was an unforeseen gift and ripped the scab off the old cultural-war wound that usually favors conservatives. Liberal hypocrisy and hysteria were such that the more the likes of a Sally Quinn, Gloria Steinem, Chris Matthews, or Gail Collins went after Sarah, in ways not commensurate with the examination of Biden or other liberal women politicians of the past, the more the public sympathized with a fellow blue-collar victim of predictable elite disdain. There is a deer-in-the-headlights look to CNN/MSNBC reporters in the field as they try to report their Sarah hit pieces—sort of like “I know I look hopelessly biased, and am—but what else am I supposed to do?”... - http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=NjMwOTFjZDViMWQ0NzU4YjJjYjkxZDlhNTRhYzllOGU= --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ * It's active and moderated. Register and vote in our polls. * Read the latest breaking news, and more. -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
