Pit Bulls & Hockey Moms
Bill Kristol has posted the best short post of the morning. The post deals with the difference, from Sarah Palin’s perspective between a pit bull and a hockey mom. Here’s the key difference:
McCain aides whose judgment I trust are impressed by Sarah Palin. One was particularly amused by this exchange: A nervous young McCain staffer took it upon himself to explain to Palin the facts of life in a national campaign, the intense scrutiny she’d be under from the media, the viciousness of the assault that she’d be facing, etc.:
Palin: “Thanks for the warning. By the way, do you know what they say the difference is between a hockey mom and a Pit Bull?”
McCain aide: “No, Governor.”
Palin: “A hockey mom wears lipstick.”
I’d simply add that, in this case, that hockey mom wears it well. BTW, there’s a reason why her teammates nicknamed her Sarah Barracuda in high school.
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September 2nd, 2008 at 2:11 pm
Since Palin became governor about two years ago, no Russian invasion force has come across the Bering Strait, maybe because she was in charge of the Guard, maybe because she herself is a hunter and an athlete.
McCain/What’s-her-name ‘08!
September 3rd, 2008 at 10:12 pm
FYI, the Alaska National Guard, far from being another bunch of weekend warriors is the only one with a 24/7 active duty assignment. They are in command of the former DEW Line charged with detecting, tracking, evaluating, and if need be, countering any long range missile threat coming at us from accross Siberia, Manchuria, N Korea. Granted thats not a serious threat at present, it does mean however, that the Governor of Alaska as their Commander in Chief, is equally privy to the same secret and top secret military info about Iran, Russia, China and N Korea that Joe Biden is.
There is also fisheries enforcement done under her jurisdiction by the Coast Guard against poaching and other illegal catches and whaling by Japan, Taiwan, China, N and S Korea, Russia, etc.
State of Alaska also operates its own railroad and ship line.
So the Obama’s smirky comment about Alaska being a small state is ill informed.