Palin Calls The Democrats Out.
By dlaw
Wed Sep 03, 2008 at 08:56:38 PM PST
Section: Diary
Topic: Alternative and Community Media
I'm watching Palin right now.
She's doing extremely well, falling back on the Republicans' core rhetorical competency. She's sharp and glib and looks good on camera.
As for the speech itself, she's doing the only dance the Republicans can do - Limbaugh Low. She's a country music Anne Coulter. She's a hick Sean Hannity in hair extensions. She's Bill O'Reilly in a bra.
Governor Sarah Palin of Alaska, the corrupt pawn of the most-corrupt Republican state party in America, is showing that you can take the gunslinging, redneck girl out of the biker bar (and maybe even get her to put her shirt back on), but you can't take the stink off her.
She's no maverick, but she is a wolverine, by which I mean a vindictive weasel in a big, fur coat. This namby-pamby bullshit about questioning her time scheduling commitments between kids and job or some such silliness is worthless against thugs like this. These are not people who care about decency or facts. This is not the time for Progressives to be a bunch of geeks giggling to themselves over half-clever snark.
These people have insulted you and you are better than them.
So you have to stay high-minded, cool and sure of yourself when talking to and about this filth for the most part. But when it's time to get mean, you have to get mean - not giggly or hystrionic, but nasty.
We all know instinctively how to deal with animals like this.
"Hockey Mom,"indeed.
She's a...ehem...c-word.