As the left continues with their weird juvenile hatred of Sarah Palin with fantasies of infanticide and ignorant distortions, we get this great article on how Sarah Palin was the reason that McCain came as close as he did to Obama:
For all the tacky talk in media circles, where folks have extremely over-inflated opinions of themselves, one would think that Sarah Palin was the sole arbiter of Republican defeat this year.
What a pile of preposterous poppycock!
From the beginning of ‘08, the accepted wisdom was that no matter whom the Democrats nominated, they would deliver to the Republicans an ignominious defeat. But this year’s defeat was anything but the complete rout it was supposed to be.
And the person who nearly even saved the day — and the election — for Republicans was Sarah Palin.
This is not a minority opinion. When Rasmussen conducted detailed exit polling among Republicans, they found that a full 69% of respondents thought Sarah Palin helped — not hurt — McCain. Governor Palin has not garnered the status as America’s most highly regarded, most popular governor for nothing.
And how much do Republicans admire Sarah Palin? Far more than anyone else on our side of the aisle, according to more Rasmussen tidbits:
Ninety-one percent (91%) of Republicans have a favorable view of Palin, including 65% who say their view is very favorable. Only eight percent (8%) have an unfavorable view of her, including three percent (3%) very unfavorable.
When asked to choose among some of the GOP’s top names for their choice for the party’s 2012 presidential nominee, 64% say Palin. The next closest contenders are two former governors and unsuccessful challengers for the presidential nomination this year — Mike Huckabee of Arkansas with 12% support and Mitt Romney of Massachusetts with 11%.
And just how was it that the pitbull in lipstick upset the pundits and the prognosticators this year, at least in the matter of degree?
The woman, in my opinion, is a natural Patton. A fighter to the core. Palin seems to instinctively know that when one is hip-deep in a culture war and a fight for the survival of American exceptionalism, then one must do more than defend, defend, defend.
If one is not willing to attack in defense of one’s cause, then he ought to get out of the way at the very least — or consider joining the other side.
At least that’s my paraphrase of one of the Patton doctrines.
Sarah Palin came out fighting on her night in the convention spotlight. In her speech, she relied on the same line of attack that catapulted her from Wasilla mayor to governor of Alaska: plainspoken, honest convictions and a sense of humor.
And she debuted with some of the most memorable lines of this entire campaign:
I guess a small-town mayor is sort of like a “community organizer,” except that you have actual responsibilities.
I might add that in small towns, we don’t quite know what to make of a candidate who lavishes praise on working people when they are listening, and then talks about how bitterly they cling to their religion and guns when those people aren’t listening.
We tend to prefer candidates who don’t talk about us one way in Scranton and another way in San Francisco.
Sarah Palin’s appeal was her willingness to fight — and fight courageously — for the American taxpayers, the ones who actually pay the bills for all that bureaucratic largess and faux generosity.
The only reason many of us Republicans were able to vote for McCain without holding our noses was because of Sarah. If she is no threat why would the MSM and the left spend so much time trying to trash her? From her clothes to fake stories about Africa. Why? Because they know she is a political sensational. She came out of nowhere and in the final ten weeks pulled a loser of a campaign back into onto the race track.
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