I love this woman.



Via Hot Air, where Allah takes some issue with Sarah's take on Barry's proposed great over-mountain invasion of Pakistan, but I'll let it slide because on the whole, it's so politically flavorful.

Sarah "Destroyer" Palin

about damn time. Obama's biggest problem is his ideology. Time to start pointing out where it comes from:

The Republican campaign, falling behind Obama in polls, plans to make attacks on Obama's character a centerpiece of presidential candidate John McCain's message with a month remaining before Election Day.

Palin told a group of donors at a private airport, "Our opponent ... is someone who sees America, it seems, as being so imperfect, imperfect enough, that he's palling around with terrorists who would target their own country." She also said, "This is not a man who sees America as you see America and as I see America."

Who gives a crap what the media says about this line of attack. It's the truth. Hit Obama hard; he deserves it.

Sarah Palin did very well last night, I think that much is clear. The Wall Street Journal has a fine editorial noting this fact, and also pointing out where McCain and Palin can improve their message when it comes to the financial crisis:

Maybe John McCain should fire the advisers who won't let Sarah Palin do more interviews. The Alaska Governor has faced two major campaign challenges -- her acceptance speech and last night's debate -- and each time she's shown herself worthy of the national stage. Let Mrs. Palin be herself, and then when she makes a mistake, as every candidate does, it won't be treated like some epic judgment on her fitness to be Vice President...

...Mr. Biden had his strongest moments on the economy, trying to link Mr. McCain to the current financial problems and "deregulation." On this point, neither Mrs. Palin nor Mr. McCain have yet offered Americans an adequate response. It isn't enough to denounce "greed and corruption" on Wall Street, as Mrs. Palin did every few minutes. If that's the problem, voters will elect the Democrats as more practiced class warriors.

On the second point: I think this isn't so much a Palin problem as it is one of McCain reacting to the crisis with populism rather than an appeal to the truth of the situation. Hopefully that changes soon.

Well this is pathetic:

In the meantime, by comparison, Gov. Palin was busy pursuing a career as a multi-term city councilman; then a multi-term city mayor and head of the Alaska Conference of Mayors; then an unsuccessful candidate for lieutenant governor; then the chair and ethics officer of the Alaska Oil & Gas Conservation Commission; then a private-citizen reformer who drove from state office first an ethically challenged fellow commissioner and then an ethically challenged attorney-general; then a successful candidate for governor who defeated, in succession, an ethically challenged incumbent and a popular former governor; and then a successful governor who, in less than two years, has helped enact comprehensive ethics reforms, completely revised her state's most important tax structure, and accomplished more than any single other American public servant of any rank or party to help bring us closer to national energy independence, all the while maintaining stratospheric public approval ratings among her home-state constituents.

Clearly she has no qualifications or accomplishments to her name.

Andrew Brietbart:

Not since Rosie O'Donnell & Co. manhandled Elizabeth Hasselbeck weekdays on "The View" have liberals been so gleeful to watch a bitter lesbian tear down a confident and beautiful conservative Republican woman. Unresolved high school lust and angst at well-adjusted cheerleaders and popular prom queens should be left for medical professionals, not for midmorning television gabfests.

For many, gay marriage is a key issue.

Yet none of these gilded-ghetto living haters point out that their savior, Mr. Obama, stands against gay marriage, too. Is that change Melissa Etheridge can believe in?

Like President Clinton, who supported regressive anti-gay-rights legislation such as "don't ask, don't tell" and the Defense of Marriage Act, Mr. Obama gets a massive pass from the activist gay left and their stenographers in the mainstream media.

The never-reported political reality is that both Mr. Clinton and Mr. Obama understand that key components of the Democratic Party - the black and Hispanic blocs - hold views that Brad Pitt would deem "homophobic."

For these minority groups, and for many other religious Democrats, gay marriage is a nonstarter.

Yet liberal celebrities and activist journalists never hurl epithets at these coddled groups no matter how retrograde their ideas. President Bush correctly pegged this phenomenon as "the soft bigotry of lowered expectations." Political correctness, the rigging of politics using different rules for different groups, and buttressed by the media, ensures that Democrats always have the upper hand.

SNL was good earlier this year on Obamamania in the Democrat Primary, and now they have this gem on Palin Derangement Syndrome in the big media:

There's been a lot of ridiculous speculation and stupid controversy surrounding Trig Palin, most of which deserves to be completely ignored. This bit of commentary, however, deserves to be highlighted for how monstrous it is:

...a senior Canadian doctor is now expressing concerns that such a prominent public role model as the governor of Alaska and potential vice president of the United States completing a Down syndrome pregnancy may prompt other women to make the same decision against abortion because of that genetic abnormality. And thereby reduce the number of abortions.

This "doctor" seems to have no concern whatsoever for the humanity of those with Down Syndrome. It never seems to cross his mind. His primary concern seems to be that Sarah Palin's example may cause other women to... choose to have their babies, rather than have abortions.

Perhaps the thinking on the issue is different in Canada, but here in the US, the pro-choice side generally tends to try to appear as though they want abortion to be safe, legal, and rare. This is a nod to the fact that no matter how you slice it, abortion is morally problematic. This "doctor," on the other hand, appears to be more concerned about the bottom line of the abortion industry than with looking at those tough moral questions in an honest manner. Ed Morrisey at Hot Air had this to say:

This sounds more like the abortion industry worrying over a declining demand than a physician caring for a patient. Parents of DS children manage to have fulfilling lives, and they would say because of their child and not despite the decision to give birth. The Palins do provide a role model in that manner, as do the millions of other parents with such children who get no special attention for their love and sacrifice.

What kind of doctor looks at this situation and says, “The worry is that this will have an implication for abortion issues in Canada”? Does the sight of a strong family represent that great a threat to the abortion industry in Canada or elsewhere?

Apparently so.

Well, nightmares, actually:

When I mentioned my Palin dreams to Slate colleagues, they volunteered their own. One Obama-supporting colleague dreamed she had urged her young son to kill Palin with a string bean. Another dreamed she was at a fashion show and Palin served her crème fraîche on little scooped corn chips. A third says, "In the Sarah Palin dream I keep having, she has superhuman powers but is not really a person at all. In fact, she is more like the weather with glasses and an up-do, pushing clouds around and pitching lightning bolts."

You know, that last one isn't a dream. Palin is a force of nature.

Via Hot Air

Sarah Palin was accused of making her first big gaffe on the campaign trail yesterday when she said that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac had gotten "too big and too expensive." The Huffington Post jumped all over this, arguing that no taxpayer money has been spent to bail out the businesses to date. But isn't a $200 billion blank check... big and expensive?

The Palin comment is well within the margin of error on the campaign trail. There is no "gaffe" here. Congress earlier this summer -- in the housing bill that both John McCain and Barack Obama supported but didn't bother to vote on -- gave Treasury Secretary Henry M. Paulson Jr. a blank check* to invest in Fannie or Freddie. It OKd a big bailout. Perhaps in your book a blank check freshly signed by Congress is not "too expensive." Perhaps you trust the government not to spend a blank check. Perhaps pigs have wings. Palin was right: The very existence of a blank check means that Fannie and Freddie are too expensive to taxpayers.

*In a comforting bedtime story that several members of Congress actually believed, Paulson said the blank check was so big and powerful (a bazooka of cash!) he would never have to use it. By the time Palin spoke, it was clear that Paulson's attempt at "verbal intervention" had failed and that real taxpayer money will be spent to prop up Fannie and Freddie. No one knows how much, but the Treasury has signed contracts to invest up to $100 billion in each company. Oh, and loan them money too. Oh, and buy their mortgage-backed securities. Do you really want to argue that she made a mistake by saying the two companies are "too big and too expensive to the taxpayers"?

Point: Palin.

Awesome.

Sarah Palin kicked oil company tail (in addition to corrupt, lazy Republican tail) in Alaska:

Once again, we have an example of Palin’s willingness to take on her own party to do what’s right for Alaska — and in this case, the entire US. Rather than being some clone of Dick Cheney, as Democrats have begun to deride her, she opposed Cheney on this plan and beat the man who supported it. She opted for a free-market approach and became a tough negotiator, getting a much better commitment to build the pipeline and generate massive new revenues for Alaskans.

McCain truly earned the nickname "Maverick." Sarah Palin is a maverick in her own right. Barack Obama is... a Chicago machine politician with good PR:

Not only does Obama have absolutely no record of risk-taking on reform, he chose a running mate who practically embodies everything Obama supposedly wants to change in Washington. Obama came out of one of the most corrupt political machines in the nation, and did absolutely nothing while in Illinois to reform it. Meanwhile, both McCain and Palin have battled their own parties to clean up politics.

Jim Treacher:

Did you guys see Hancock? Remember when Will Smith just stood there while the train hit him, and it derailed all over the place? Sarah Palin's kind of like that, except happier.

Jonathan V. Last has an excellent post at First Things blog on why the Left doesn't just oppose, but viscerally hates Sarah Palin. Well worth a read in full, but here's a taste:

It isn’t any of Palin’s specific policies or ideological beliefs which have so antagonized the liberals (although they surely dislike her for policy reasons, too). They simply hate her for who she is.

"It's been quite a week." Understatement of the year:

Palin, who is new to the national spotlight, explained in a soft spoken tone that the experience is "unbelievable" and said with a smile, "Is it just me or do things move quick around here? Just a few nights ago I was on the north slope working the night shift and here I am today."

"I don't have to tell you that the Palin family has had quite a week," Palin added. "You never know what the future has in store for you."

"I should've asked a few more questions when Sarah joined the PTA," Palin joked. "When my wife starts talking about reform, corruption and making government work for the American people, it's best to just move out of the way."

All the best to you, Todd. You're in for a hell of a ride, methinks.