if ann coulter stays away and does NOT endorse her she may just hang on to a lot of that support.
On Sep 9, 2:50 pm, "d.b.baker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [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=NjMwOTFjZDViMWQ0NzU4YjJjYjkx... --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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. -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
