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her speech was sneering and self-satisfying. it will be a huge hit with the gop base -and i expect mccain/palin to be up by 8-10 points in most polls by early next week. but drip, drip, drip - the flop sweat is there. look for it. be patient.
-- fair play for cuba committee
Hmmm...is it me or is it the fact that Obama's fan club is attacking her and Mack relentlessly mean they are full of flop sweat? A little bit of history for the overly complacent, smug, snot-nosed crowd: as Dems act more snide and obnoxious, it has the opposite effect on most voters beyond the college campuses, the latte counters and the urban centers where Obama has garnered his cult following. As a CNN commentator pointed out, George Bush didn't win in 2000 or 2004 because of the type of base Obama or Gore or Kerry had...he won among all the small towns Obama's fans love to label as hick and bitter and backward and antediluvian. Sarah Palin has shored up that winning base for Mack bigtime...the media and the liberal blogs unwittingly have sealed Obama's fate in just a few days...if they had shut their mouths, maybe Ms. Palin would have hoisted herself on her own petard and proven that she is just a right wing whacko...that didn't happen. Since they didn't, they have blowback to deal with, and most Repubs are itching for a fight...McCain had an uneasy relationship with the Republican base, but the press' and liberal bloggers' attacks only managed to galvanize an otherwise dispirited Repub core...liberals laugh at her proclamations and slams against Obama, but remember how much everyone thought Reagan (god help us) was a joke, as well as Dan Quayle...they both went on to winning tickets...we very well may have seen the exact day when the Obama campaign was done in.
