I have found local coffee shops to be a pretty good barometer of community sentiment. Mine is in Hyde Park, New York just down the street from Franklin Roosevelt's house. Whether it's local or national, it all gets chewed over at my local coffee joint. If this morning's experience is any indication, Sarah Palin won big last night. People were buzzing about her speech and they weren't all republicans. Sarah Palin and her life narrative have struck a nerve unlike anything I've seen since the Ross Perot phenomenon of the early 90's. In this case though the groudswell of support and affection for Sarah Palin is 100% spontaneous unlike the contrived and heavily financed Perot flash.
Sarah Palin is going to be a rock star on the campaign trail and raise huge amounts of money for republicans accross the board. The McCain campaign was headed for Bob Dole land with McCain being afforded the same respect minus a plurality. Sarah Palin represents both the present and future of the Republican Party. She connects on the issues and proved last night she can mix it up. Look for democrats to savage her in the coming days. They need to kill her politically and can't afford to have the American people fall in love with her. Remember, there are only 61 days left in this campaign. Sarah Palin may feel like a teenage crush but it only has to last two months.
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Teenage crush, indeed. Apt phrase. Listening to her sly presentation of Mr. Scully’s carefully crafted speech made me think of the catty cruelty I had to endure from some of the cheerleaders at Roosevelt H.S. (Yonkers, NY).
Tight, narrow, shrewd, intolerant and smug, the Governor proved her worth to the GOP. To be the lip-sticked pit bull protecting the lip-sticked pig.
In our times our egalitarian inclination is to want to believe in an equality between the genders. The problem is that we are not androgynous. The genders are not equal but, instead, have similarities and differences. The factors involved in our make ups are a complex mixture of biological-psychological, cultural and individual that defy simple answers. In short we can not be gender blind but need to show respect for the individual with consideration of that individual’s gender. This is something that alert individuals of both genders intuitively understand.
I would like to see the choices of our leaders made in regard to their abilities to understand and to lead rather than whether or not they are like me. But I do not expect to see this. Our leaders have been claiming to be of humble roots since the nineteenth century when having been born in a log cabin was supposed to have proved the case.
Up to the time of her speech, the VP had been kept away from the press and thought to have been focused on the speech. Now that has passed and she still has been kept away from the press possibly to avoid any gaffs that could divert attention from the McCain speech.
But now it is time for both to get down to nuts and bolts. At least that is what I would like. Unfortunately many will make their decisions based on God, guns and abortion rather than the less understandable issue of leadership, policy and plan.
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