Sarah ‘Sticks the Landing’
All day long, conservative pundits spoke in sports metaphors about the need for Sarah Palin to ’stick the landing’ like a gymnast needs to achieve a perfect 10. With the speech just finished minutes ago, I’m confident in saying that Gov. Palin didn’t just stick the landing. She also landed some pretty stong straight rights to Sen. Obama’s chin.
For instance, she landed this shot at Sen. Obama’s career as a community organizer:
“And since our opponents in this presidential election seem to look down on that experience, let me explain to them what the job involves. I guess, I guess a small-town mayor is sort of like a community organizer, except that you have actual responsibilities.”
That’s a straight right to Sen. Obama’s chin.
Tonight, America got to see that Gov. Palin isn’t just another pretty face. America didn’t just find out that Gov. Palin is proud of her lengthy and impressive list of accomplishments. America didn’t just find out that she cut wasteful spending. They also found out that she cut waste by putting the governor’s luxury airplane for sale on eBay.
They found out that, rather than spending the extra revenue that came pouring in when the oil companies started making the big profits, she sent the money back to the Alaskan citizens so they could afford to fill up their cars and heat their homes.
They also heard her in full pit bull mode tonight. This isn’t a lady who’s hoping to come to Washington to hear Washington’s elites speak glowingly of her. She’s hoping to come to Washington to make America work for the people again.
Aside for this being a well-written speech, it was a well-delivered speech, too. The only question I have left is about how many people watched the speech. If it was 30+ million people, which it had the chance to do, then Sarah Palin took a huge step in winning over the people.
Tonight she nailed the landing. For the rest of the campaign, I’m betting that she’ll be nailing Sen. Obama with lots of right-left combos. I’m betting that Sen. Obama will soon find out why her high school teammates nicknamed her Sarah Barracuda.
Tonight a new star was born in the Republican Party. Let there be no doubt but that Sarah Palin is the real deal.
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Cross-posted at LetFreedomRingBlog