Iowa voters’ enthusiasm for Sarah Palin
September 20, 2008 1 Comment
Oh the delight to find something positive about Sarah Palin on the front page of The D.M. Register! It was worth my 75 cents to read an article by John Carlson. Mr. Carlson had been to the McCain/Palin campaign stop in Cedar Rapids on Thursday. In quotes are his words.
“Voters’ enthusiasm for Palin confounds opposition, media”…
I had thought that I was keeping pretty good tabs on N.Y. Times columnist Maureen Dowd but I had missed out on her comment that Palin is “Napoleon in bunny boots.” Also, because Chris Matthews gives me such indigestion, I did not know that he had described Palin as an “empty vessel.”
On the other hand, I did hear and see the lady introducing Biden – the undear soul that said Palin is a “bucket of fluff.” So already, first thing in the article, I had new learning in 2 of 3 quotes. Yes!!!
But, just in case you did not have the opportunity to see the Friday edition of The D.M. Register, let me be the one to tell you that it was the paragraphs on Page 4A that made my day!
…the “see Sarah crowd. These people…uneducated dopes who can’t grasp the fact the governor of Alaska is not qualified – is not fit- to be vice president.
These poor, misguided, uninformed, and scariest of all, likely voters, are reminded eight times a day on the news and in the papers that Palin is no Biden. What don’t they get?….”
The article gave me a clear picture of who was there to see this event- parents with their children, women, even middle aged people like me. The photo with the crowd with large American flags on display said a lot about the event! Awesome.
The article closed with these words: “Democrats and the swells in the press keep throwing punches. The average folks, so many of them women, keep cheering. They relate to this mother of five, who diapers a kid with one hand and runs a state with the other.
The critics don’t understand the excitement, and it’s driving them crazy. It’s why Palin scares the fluff out of every last one of them.”
Voters- did you know we were poor, misguided, uniformed, uneducated dopes?
I bet you did know this- we can hardly turn on cable TV without getting the big picture that the media and the experts who come on after the candidates speak to tell us what we heard, even try to tell us what to think, believe what Mr. Carlson has written. Perhaps you are like me and find all of this somewhere between amusing and just plain despicable.
While I did not get to go to Cedar Rapids I enjoyed reading this article so much that I have attempted to share it with you.
One woman quoted in the article says it best about Sarah: “She has character.”
Which is more than I can say for the media, pundits, and other candidates…. well, except John Carlson. He had character to write it the way he saw it and got his opinion on the front page of The D.M. Register. Way to go Mr. Carlson!!!!!
I’m one of those average folks who will “keep cheering”!
Have been listening to MSNBC tonight- the pundits they have had on have reached fever pitch with their spin against Palin.
They are all in a snit over her- can’t get the mean and nasty works out fast enough. Several said that Palin is not as popular with women voters who are starting to see her for the real person that she is.
Obviously from the turn out in Iowa- women – and men- have not gotten that liberal memo.
Oh- I forgot- we are too dumb and uneducated to think for ourselves. It is like if the liberals screech and talk loud enough we will finally see things their way.
Yelling to get my attention is not going to work.